Just as Quan Yuxun was hesitating over whether to keep investigating, the Deputy Director of Urban Construction Department, in order to forge ties with the Tan Tai Royal Family, actually connected heaven and earth.
He found the Little Follower by the side of the Zongren Bureau Chief of the Tan Tai Royal Family and asked whether the person carrying out large-scale construction in the Exotic Beast Forest of Mulan City was some member of the Imperial Family.
The Zongren Bureau Chief of the Tan Tai Royal Family oversaw all imperial bloodlines and assets.
These assets belonged to all members of the Tantai Clan, not merely the branch that sat on the throne.
After all, in theory, every descendant of the Tan Tai Royal Family had the possibility of ascending the throne. It was only a matter of rank and closeness of relation.
Sometimes, the main branch that ascended the throne could produce no heirs at all. In that case, the throne naturally had to pass to a collateral branch with descendants.
Over the ten thousand years of Tantai Clan history, this had happened three times.
But no matter what, every member of the Imperial Family surnamed Tantai was a descendant of Tantai Lin, the Founding Emperor.
Back then, emperors could have an Empress and imperial consorts, enjoying all the beauties of the realm alone. With lifespans of a thousand years, they produced countless descendants, resulting in the Tantai Clan's imperial bloodline that had endured to this day.
The current Zongren Bureau Chief of the Tan Tai Royal Family was the Late Emperor's uncle and the current Empress's great-granduncle.
Yet he was only around forty years old, more than ten years younger than the Late Emperor.
That was because he had been born to a young Empress whom Tantai Hongyuan's imperial