Charitable Stories of Shanxi Merchants

Charitable Stories of Shanxi Merchants authored by Xi Bo is a full-length novel telling a story of Shanxi Merchants that implemented righteousness and saved the vulnerable. The newly-wedded master couple and Heizi led the Xiban Pack Train to carry goods. At that time when the Chinese nation was in the middle of domestic strife and foreign aggression and at a point where its very existence was at stake, Shanxi Merchants joined together to donate money and materials for the Chinese War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. The successors of Tianchegnxi Business House continued the oath of alliance made by the predecessors that by no means they should "e;value material gains above justice"e;, earning them a resounding reputation in folk. On the occasion that warfare took place frequently and the masses had no means to live, Tianchengxi offered porridge tents to relief the hungry, letting the people who rose in revolt against oppression by officials and acted as bandits in the mountains admire. They successfully escorted the pack train to the destination.