Besides there sult of underground resources being exhausted to the point where the gold wasn't worth the cost of extracting it, the family's decline was also due to other, people-related factors, such as the younger Yens 'unwillingness to curry favor with the powers that-be. Perhaps the small and mid-sized companies Yen's grandchildren manage are not in the same league with some of the new financial consortiums.
這除了地下資源開發殆盡之外，還有其他人為的因素，例如金價管制、不敷開採成本，不善結交當朝權，以及新興事業大都沒有接上線等等。屈指算來，也許現在經營一些中小型企業的顏家第三代，已經無法與新興的財團相提並論了。