In truth, at the very beginning, Wang Shouzhe had only known that in the capital of the Great Qian Kingdom, Guilong City, there was a Great Qian Wang Clan. Later, after interacting more with the Longzuo Wang Clan and gaining a clearer grasp of the world's structure, he learned that there was also a Wang Clan in Monan.
That, too, was a collateral branch of the Wang Clan that had split off from Great Qian—and one that had done so as a Celestial branch more than a thousand years ago. It was just that this branch had developed quite well and remained fairly close to the main Great Qian line. As early as seven hundred years ago, it had already become a Purple Mansion Aristocratic Clan.
Now, the Monan Wang Clan had long since completed its second Purple Mansion succession and was in the midst of its third, making it a steady and secure fifth-rank aristocratic clan.
In earlier years, when the Longzuo Wang Clan had still been a Purple Mansion Aristocratic Clan, it had also maintained contact with the Monan Wang Clan.
Only later, the Longzuo Wang Clan failed to complete its Purple Mansion succession, and the clan never recovered from that blow, gradually declining. As time passed, contact between the two sides grew increasingly sparse, and their old ties slowly faded.
Especially in the past century or two, the Monan Wang Clan and the Longzuo Wang Clan had had very little interaction. And most of that had been people from the Monan Wang Clan stopping by for a visit while passing through Longzuo Prefecture on business.
As for the Longzuo Wang Clan, because its strength had declined so severely and its sphere of activity had shrunk, it naturally had fewer and fewer dealings with the Monan Wang Clan,