From the look of it, after years of "education" from the Wang Clan, that fellow Wei Wenxun had already begun to grasp the true essence of the rules of the world.
A powerful overlord entrenched in its own domain like the Wang Clan was no longer something any city governor could casually handle, much less oppose. Once the Wang Clan got serious, the policy orders of Lord City Governor Wei Wenxun might not even make it out of the City Governor's Office.
The reason was simple. The local eighth- and ninth-rank, and even unranked, Profound Martial Family Clans were not fools. A city governor had to be replaced every twenty or thirty years, but the Changning Wang Clan had been rooted here generation after generation.
What was more, the Changning Wang Clan was different from the mighty aristocratic clans of the other cities and guards. The Changning Wang Clan had grown by earning profits externally; not only did it not suck the blood of the local aristocratic clans, it led them along to earn and develop together.
In today's Changning Guard, as long as a Ninth-Rank Aristocratic Clan could stand on the same side as the Wang Clan, there was basically no one still living in poverty. In fact, quite a few salted-fish-style Ninth-Rank Aristocratic Clans were already accumulating resources and strength, ambitiously planning how to advance to the eighth rank.
As for the original Eighth-Rank Aristocratic Clans of Changning Guard, they were all charging toward becoming Seventh-Rank Aristocratic Clans, and some had even succeeded already.
For example, Ancestor Ruhong of the Donggang Chen Clan had entered the Celestial Realm more than ten years ago. By relying on this, the Donggang Chen Clan had also changed its lintel and become a Seventh-Rank Aristocratic Clan, becoming the unquestioned overlord of Donggang.