原作简介: 小说以1930年5月至7月的上海为背景,描写纺织工业资本家吴荪甫用尽心计,吞噬大批中小企业,以图摆脱帝国主义资本的控制,建造自己的实业“王国”。但军阀混战,产品销路断绝,苦心经营的“益中信托公司”也无力扭转这种局面,最后,终在买办金融资本家赵伯韬的大规模经济封锁下以公债投机市场的失利而宣告彻底破产。 Brief introduction of the original work: In the context of Shanghai, from May to July 1930, the novel describes the textile industry capitalist Wu Yi, who has exhausted his plans and consumed a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises to escape the control of imperialist capital and build his own industrial “kingdom”. However, the warlords scrambled and the sales of products were cut off. The “Yizhong Trust Company”, which was painstakingly operating, was unable to reverse this situation. Eventually, it finally declared bankruptcy under the large-scale economic blockade of comprador financial capitalist Zhao Bojun in the public debt speculation market.