If you were to call the landlord's foolish son an emerging nouveau riche, then Su Malie would be the homegrown tycoon from a local gentry family, a fifth-generation scion of wealth.
Wu City, located in the Northwest of Huaxia, is known for its extensive lands and abundance of resources, especially natural gas, coal mines, and oil. Natural gas there is famous for the West-to-East Gas Transmission project. This project starts from Lun Nan in the Tarim Basin and extends to Modu, covering the Central Plains, East China, and the Yangtze River Delta. It provides natural gas to 400 million people in Huaxia. The region contains more than 30% of Huaxia's oil and gas resources.
The Su Malie family is in the natural gas business, holding an unshakeable position in Wu City's natural gas sector. For the construction of the Artificial Sun, the required resources, besides oil, are primarily natural gas, followed by coal.
