At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the country was in a state of misfortune and the nation was weak and in danger. A riot in Beijing kicked off the story. Yuan Shikai took office as the president in Beijing, but he was unwilling to take office in the south. Even though his subordinates deliberately disturbed public order, one night, a group of chaotic soldiers began to rob shops. Because they hid a lot of treasures, the pawnshops were the first to be hit. Seeing that the chaotic soldiers were coming, the Deheng Pawnshop and Juyuan Pawnshop, which were closely related, had their own troubles: in the autumn of the turbulent times, the second wife Rui Yunxiang, the head of Juyuan Pawnshop, You Guangyao, was about to give birth, but You Guangyao didn't know where he went. The eldest wife He Xishi, who had been unable to have children, even colluded with her lover, the inspector Yu Wanquan, to deliberately abandon the child born by Rui Yunxiang as a dead baby; and He and Yu had an ulterior motive; the child who was still on the garbage dump was accidentally taken in by Wu Liufang, the head of Deheng Pawnshop, who was You Guangyao and Rui Yunxiang's senior brother. Deheng Pawnshop is in a mess. It is robbed by soldiers and civilians. Not only the property is lost, but also the account book, the lifeblood of the pawnshop, is lost. At this time, Tan Fengxiang, who wants to save his son's life, comes to pawn a unique ancestral gem. The mysterious antique dealer Xia Dehai also happens to visit overnight and delivers a shocking list of jewelry. What follows Xia Dehai is the soldiers and civilians, bandits and hooligans. Mr. Li, the "accountant" of the pawnshop, is shot dead in the chaos. And Wu Liufang's rural His wife Kang Fuzi rushed to Beijing at this critical moment... The shopkeeper of Deheng Pawnshop, who adheres to the business creed of "seeking trust with truth and doing business with virtue", felt that a storm was coming... After the riot, Wu Liufang was unwilling to break the rules of the pawn industry. He would rather offend the police chief Fang Liren than falsely report the loss. He was repeatedly arrested by Fang Liren. Some people secretly colluded with ruffians and habitual thieves to take advantage of the loss of the verified account book of Deheng Pawnshop when Wu Liufang opened his business, and deliberately cheated, faked, and pawned. The person who stole the account book secretly came to the door with the intention of blackmailing... Facing a series of blows, Wu Liufang relied on his wisdom and a broken copper basin of his good friend Huang Ye to get through the difficulties. Fang Liren had to award Wu Liufang the gold medal of exemption from inspection for reputable merchants... The gold medal of exemption from inspection brought new troubles. You Guangyao, who had been secretly harming Wu Liufang, surfaced. He instructed the bandit De Lehe to force Wu Liufang to accept the stolen goods. Wu Liufang insisted on the rules and would rather die than surrender. De Lehe tried to kidnap Wu Liufang's family, but mistakenly kidnapped Rui Yunxiang, Wu Liufang's childhood sweetheart. Unexpectedly, You Guangyao, in order to drag his senior brother Wu Liufang into the water, actually instigated De Lehe to torture his wife behind his back. In order to protect Rui Yunxiang, Wu Liufang had to pretend to be submissive. Although he escaped a disaster, his apprentice Da Suozi was forced to be imprisoned. Rui Yunxiang gradually saw the true face of her husband You Guangyao in the repeated encirclement and suppression of Wu Liufang... He Xishi once again used Rui Yunxiang's child to frame Wu Liufang and Rui Yunxiang's innocence, and even threw the child at the door of Deheng Pawnshop; Da Suozi was severely tortured in prison The mysterious businessman Xia Dehai, who had a good deal with Wu Liufang, suddenly became the thief of the "Jianfu Palace Treasure Theft Case" and was hunted by bandits and wanted by the military and police. Wu Liufang also dug out spies planted by his opponents in the dark at home again and again... Wu Liufang gradually realized that it was Xia Dehai's insistence on doing business with her that led her to the brink of destruction time and time again, and Xia Dehai's mysterious identity made Wu Liufang suspicious... At the same time, bigger black hands such as the greedy Ma Dujun, the imperialist invaders, the traitor and comprador Gao Yunshan gradually surfaced. They instigated their minions - the greedy pawn industry scum You Guangyao, the bandit De Lehe, and the police chief Fang Liren and others to start a joint stranglehold on Wu Liufang again and again... Wu Liufang gradually realized that Xia Dehai's treasures were precisely the treasures passed down by the Chinese nation to this day. Wu Liufang joined forces with the patriotic old man Duo Ye, the notorious Xia Dehai who endured humiliation and bore a bad reputation, the folk knight Jing Ye and other righteous people who had a sincere heart to serve the country, and dealt with the military and police, bandits, ruffians, hooligans, traitors and imperialist invaders who coveted the treasures, and resisted the repeated provocations and pressures from this group of greedy people. Wu Liufang and his people were forced into desperate situations time and time again, but they relied on the backbone, faith, integrity, courage and wisdom of the Chinese people to overcome difficulties, protect this batch of precious national treasures, support the development of China's national industry in the south, and expose the crimes of a group of pawn industry scums such as You Guangyao who were greedy for money, betrayed their ancestors, killed people and took the pawns to the world. He also united all patriotic pawnshops to form the "Patriotic and Chinese Cabinet", resisted the bribery and strangulation of the imperialists, recognized their sinister intentions to seize Chinese treasures and open up China's financial channels, and led the pawn industry on the road of national independence and awakening and revitalization of "rather go bankrupt than unite"... The work uses the clever perspective of China's unique traditional pawn industry to narrate the story. Through the words and deeds of Wu Liufang, the head of Deheng Pawnshop, the traditional Chinese culture and national integrity condensed in the pawn industry are vividly displayed, highlighting the traditional Chinese wisdom and beliefs condensed in the pawn industry, and the unique persistence and pursuit of the Chinese people. It shows the integrity and style of the outstanding sons and daughters of the Chinese people who "cannot be bent by power, cannot be moved by poverty, and cannot be corrupted by wealth"...