Land of Wealth (匯通天下) is TVB costume drama released and aired in 2006 starring Moses Chan, Steven Ma, Sonija Kwok & Tavia Yeung. Pop Hong Kong singer Eason Chan sings the theme song of the series. Eason Chan Yik-Shun (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Born July 27, 1974 in Hong Kong) is a prominent male singer and is considered to be a part of the skilled class (實力派) in Hong Kongs music industry. ...

Although this series is a highly anticipated big production with strong casts, it is not well received by the audiences. TVB aired this series with hopes to save the ratings but it ended up being one of the lowest rating series in 2006.

Cast

• Moses Chan
• Tavia Yeung
• Sonija Kwok
• Steven Ma
• John Chiang
• Lau Dan
• Lai Lok Yi
• Chan Hung Lit
• Claire Yiu
• Kenny Wong

Moses Chan (陳豪) (b. ... Tavia Yeung (楊怡, Yeung Yi) (born August 30, 1979 in Hong Kong, China) is an actress. ... Sonija Kwok (born 22 July 1974), or Kwok Sin-Nei (or Kwok Sin-Lei) (郭羨妮) in Cantonese (Mandarin Pinyin: Guo Xianni), is a Hong Kong-born actress. ... Steven Ma is a TVB actor and also a singer. ... John Hsiao-yen Chiang (Chinese: 蔣孝嚴, pinyin: Jiǎng Xiàoyán) (born May 2, 1941), formerly John Hsiao-yen Chang (章孝嚴, Zhāng Xiàoyán), is a Kuomintang politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan. ... Lau Dan（Traditional Chinese: 劉丹, born 18 November 1944） is a TVB actor in Hong Kong. ...

Synopsis

During the Quin dynasty in Beijing, a powerful queen took over the throne, and ordered to kill everyone that could possibly take over the throne, including all of the former king's wives. One of the wives was trying to escape, and was hiding inside a well. One of innocent official (from the Chai family, Chai Hok Yan) witnessed her going into the well, and accidentally led the people that were chasing her to her. She thought he did it on purpose, and said that there is not a good person of all the officials. This quote stayed in his head until he grew old.

The story focus on four different families. The Chai family, Chai Hok Yan, who witnessed the the queen jumping into the the well, was wrongfully framed for stealing the government's money. It reminded him of what the woman said, and found out that it was true, because he was betrayed by other officials and the whole family was sentenced to death. Pak Tsun (Moses Chan) was the only survivor in the Chai family because a loyal assistant of his switched identities with him. Pak Tsun changed his name to Fan Chi Chai and traveled to a different city to start a new life. That's when he met the Kiu family. Kiu Bun Yip(John Chiang), the head of the Kiu family is a successful business banker, however, he also has enemies, including the Cho family, who betrayed John Chiang. Moses went to the Kiu family and began to learn about banking. At the same time, he met Cheung Shung Man(Steven Ma) (Cheung family), the two of them became best friends.

As for the love relationship, Moses met Sonija, the two of them were in love, but because of a little misunderstanding, Sonija married to John Chiang instead. Steven and Tavia were also in loved, however Steven's family disapprove the marriage. Tavia married Moses instead.

Later on, Moses became more and more successful in the business of banking, John Chiang asked Moses to lead the banking business. At the same time, Moses is also seeking revenge for his family, and trying to find who was behind the whole scheme. As the story goes on, the family goes through many hardships and obstacles in life. It's about betreyal, and corruption in business and in the government around a world of good, innocent people.

The story also revolves around China's first banks and problems that they had to face.

Ratings

• Week 1 (Ep01-05): 29 points
• Week 2 (Ep06-10): 27 points
• Week 3 (Ep11-15): 26 points
• Week 4 (Ep16-20): 26 points
• Week 5 (Ep21-25): 26 points
• Week 6 (Ep26-30): 28 points
• Finale (Ep31-32): 29 points

External links and references

• Land of Wealth Official Website