And so, with Japan encouraging Taiwanese to open up more gold mines, the Yen family broke free of government restrictions--a striking exception to the rule among Taiwanese industrialists of the era.
在此時勢潮流下，三代採煤、佔有地利的顏家才有機會突破日人對台灣人的種種限制，成為日據時代台灣實業界的鳳毛麟角。