On the balcony, Zhang Tie put away the remote-sensing crystal and raised his head toward the eastern sky. The bright Fairy Dragon Star had already appeared, radiating dazzling light...
It was deep into the night now—already past midnight...
Thinking of how his elder brother back in Great Xia had spent the entire night relaying messages and was probably exhausted, Zhang Tie smiled, turned from the balcony, and returned to his room.
This was a special New Year's Eve. Using the remote-sensing crystal in his hand, Zhang Tie sent message after message, welcoming the arrival of Black Iron Calendar Year 896 together with his family far away in Great Xia.
The last message from his elder brother said that his three sons had played all day and simply could not stay awake any longer. Unable to keep vigil through the night, they had gone back to their rooms one after another, snoring away at their mother's insistence.
Thinking of his three sons, whom he had never met, and his family's happy life and future in Great Xia, Zhang Tie's heart filled with warmth.
His elder brother had already decided to buy shares in Jinhai City of You Province. This was a historic leap for Zhang Tie's family. It would allow one foot of the Zhang family to officially step into the ranks of Huaiyuan Hall's great clans and begin carrying real weight.
Although, with Zhang Tie's current accumulation of wealth, building another city in Great Xia would not be difficult, building a city was easy; running it, turning it into his family's territory and wealth, was not something that could be achieved merely by throwing money at it. It required accumulation—power, connections, relationships, wealth. Not one could be lacking. In this regard, Zhang Tie's family, having only recently arrived in Great