The old Ford engine roared, driving the wheels to run through two clear ruts on the California highway in late summer, and the clear lines on the ruts indicated that the car had just been replaced with new tires, and the car slowly drove out of the parking lot and gradually accelerated along the highway towards the city.

California is actually one of the most contradictory states among the many territorial administrative regions of the United States.

Geographically, the southern desert areas of California are arid, and the northern coastal areas tend to be flooded in the winter due to excessive rain and snow. Less than 140 kilometers apart, Mount Whitney at 4,418 meters above sea level and Death Valley at 86 meters above sea level are the highest and lowest points in the 48 contiguous states, respectively.

In terms of California's industrial layout, it is also very interesting: California is the most developed agricultural state in the United States, mainly for irrigated agriculture. There are hundreds of agricultural and animal husbandry products. The output of sugarcane, vegetables and fruits occupies a prominent position in the country, and the output of cotton ranks second; second in rice production; It is an important milk, egg and meat producing area in the country; The Central Valley is the richest agricultural region. The forestry industry is well developed, and it is one of the three major timber producing states in the country. In addition, the Los Angeles area of California is also the largest manufacturing center in the western United States, dominated by the aerospace and oil extraction industries, which means that whether it is geographically, economically or climatically, in California, you can easily see all kinds of developed country elements in just one state.

The music slowly drifted out of the stereo, soothing and full of country rock western music, which was the famous "Hotel California".

It is recorded in the history books that California experienced an unprecedented drought period from 1987 to 1992, in this short period of time, not only agriculture, forestry and fishery were seriously affected, but the economy declined rapidly, and many local related industries, especially the service industry, were affected by a lot of hardship, and the unemployment rate was rising.

Brown and Jack are a pair of cousins, and their actual age is much younger than they seem, and after a careful look, Zhao Yili found out that although Jack seems to be older than Brown, in fact, Jack is the younger brother.

Brown's father and Jack's father are brothers, and Brown is a relatively pure American, but Jack's mother is a girl from Italy, when his father because of work, running between the United States and Italy all the year round, perhaps God's favor, at a charity reception, old Jack and the Italian girl who was temporarily invited to play the piano at the reception met and fell in love at first sight, and since then a vigorous exotic romance has begun.

The personality traits of Italians are divided into north and south. On the surface, Southern Italians are giggling, informal, and easy to fall into, but in fact they also have a deep and delicate side. They value their relationship with their families, which can be difficult even if they are both Italians. If you want to get married, without full communication and tacit understanding between families, it is difficult to get married.

On the contrary, many Italians in the north are self-motivated, ambitious, hardworking and hardworking. They are not as fun-loving, unrestrained and measured as the southerners, and are more urban. The majority of working women in the North have the idea of equality between men and women.

Jack's mother is a typical southern Italian girl, enthusiastic, unrestrained, unrestrained, casual, pay attention to appearance, and the creative character has also been inherited to her son.

Brown, on the other hand, raised his hand worriedly to stop his brother Jack's aimless tirade, so that he could not talk about the key issues until dark, so Brown intervened at the right time and interrupted Jack.

The root of the two brothers' problems came from a piece of land that had been passed down from family to two brothers.

In California, the inheritance tax is a heavy tax, so the land has always been in the name of the grandfather, and even the fathers of Brown and Jack have not been transferred.

Due to the famous gold rush in the western United States in the 40s of the last century, it greatly promoted the development of California's economy, and also allowed Brown and Jack's great-grandfather George to seize the opportunity to become a famous local rich man from a poor local poor.

George was also busy with the gold rush crowd, but he still found nothing for a long time, and a chance event made George's view of the gold panning business change dramatically.

The place where the gold was first found was already overcrowded, and the lesser places had long since been overrun by able-bodied, ferocious outlanders, George had to go alone and try to find a place where he thought it would be blessed by God.

One day, George was washing the sand by the river using his own homemade rudimentary sand panning tools, hoping for good luck and gold mining, when a man who seemed to have a lot of money at hand came to him, hoping that he could help him prepare some water and food that would last for three days, and of course, this man was also very generous.

In this way, George earned that he had worked hard in the past month, but he had not made so much money, and the acquisition of this pot of gold suddenly opened up old George.

Since then, California's gold rush has seen one less ragged gold digger and one more waiter who specializes in catering for gold diggers.

Soon, George could afford to hire people to provide more attentive service to more prospectors.

Years later, the enthusiasm of the gold rush army was gradually cooled by reality, and most people came full of hope and left empty-handed, but George, because of the other way, made a very considerable fortune, and since then it has developed out of control.

It is also strange to say, the first half of his life was poor and drunk like a life, and after becoming rich overnight in the second half of his life, he suddenly changed his personality, this old man actually concentrated on the development of the family business, and when his son took over the control of the family from him, this small family that has only developed for a few decades has almost a wealth comparable to that of a small country, which cannot but say that this old man who has created a miracle is an authentic business wizard.

However, the curse of "rich for three generations" is not only for Orientals, the speed of wealth accumulation is too fast, this rapidly increasing explosive family has not had time to form the strength to defend their family wealth, but countless pairs of greedy eyes around her have already been staring at her, the first to be hit is Brown's father, a young American new generation of financial elites, after protesting against a political marriage arranged by his father, rebelled and fled from his hometown, and his favorite college classmates with ordinary family backgrounds came together, Soon there was the crystallization of love, but the "unfortunate" blows continued to happen, first the customer investment under their own management failed one after another at the most critical node, and then the boss no longer trusted himself, young and full of ideals, and did not have the habit of saving by himself, and soon the savings were spent, the situation became more and more unfavorable, and later, not only himself, rebelled against the family, and constantly had negative information to himself as a breakthrough, pointing to the family behind him.

The second must be Jack's father, Jack has been supported by his father, and he has been barely supported by the pressure of the surrounding enemy forces, hoping to survive the past, but the enemy with an increasing advantage, how can he let the fat in his mouth fly away?

More and more hostile forces came one after another, gathering armpits into furs, and finally the family, which had only been inflated for decades, collapsed, the brand was swallowed up, the wealth was divided, the company was taken away, and the glory of George Sr. finally became a past legend of that era.

The glory of the past can only be a manual.

Today's people can't just rely on a manual to create the future.