Some days later.
Changning Guard, outskirts of the Citadel City.
There were countless mature farms and branch residences here.
Most aristocratic clans of Changning Guard would acquire farms and branch residences both inside and outside the Citadel City. They could serve as commercial assets as well as fixed investments, expanding the clan's foundation.
Should a clan urgently need money, these investment assets could either be sold or mortgaged to raise funds and tide them over a difficult time.
The famed Longzuo Qian Clan possessed an exceptionally deep and abundant foundation.
In Changning Guard alone, it owned no small number of fixed assets. Among them was an enormous estate known as "Jucai Manor."
This Jucai Manor was also the Qian Clan Trading Firm's largest asset in Changning Guard.
Jucai Manor covered an immense area. It was not only one of the Qian Clan Trading Firm's branch residences in Changning Guard, but also handled logistics and storage. It was itself a colossal warehouse.
Back then, when Wang Shouzhe and Qian Xue'an had joined hands to cheat the Qian Clan out of a batch of grain, it had been transported away from Jucai Manor.
That windfall had also become the capital Wang Shouzhe used to build his fortune. Even now, Wang Shouzhe still remembered those days with gratitude.
The strength of the Longzuo Qian Clan's foundation was apparent from this alone.
Throughout Longzuo Prefecture, and even in some Citadel Cities beyond the prefecture, they possessed similar large warehouses. Combined with their enormous overland transport convoys, these formed an incomparably vast trade network. This was the true foundation of the Longzuo Qian Clan as a commercial behemoth.
This day.
Within Jucai Manor, the workers went about their usual tasks.
After so many years of inheritance, the Qian Clan had long since established a mature