Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

”The younger generation is aware, which is why I hope Senior Shang can help reach out to the major cloth merchants in Jing’an City!” Wu Zhan said.

”Is that so! Haha, easy to say!” Shang Mingde immediately felt relieved. It was just a matter of making an introduction, which was easy to handle.

Shang Mingde was very eager to help with anything involving Yang Zhenshan.

Yang Zhenshan, personally appointed by the Emperor as the Standard Third Rank Tenglong Guard Commander, was considered a big shot in the eyes of the Shang family.

More importantly, Yang Zhenshan was also from Jing’an Prefecture, a fellow townsman of the Shang family.

Actually, Shang Mingde had long wanted to establish a connection with Yang Zhenshan, but he had never found the right opportunity, and now that the opportunity had come to him, naturally there was no reason to decline.

Without another word, Shang Mingde took Wu Zhan out to visit several major cloth merchants in Jing’an City.

Despite his carefree Jianghu wanderer appearance, Wu Zhan was a man with firm ideas.

Without specific orders from Yang Zhenshan, he didn’t become timid and wait for instructions; instead, he took the initiative to negotiate a good price with several major cloth merchants.

In terms of price, the Luo family had supplied cotton cloth to the Tenglong Guard at market rates, so Wu Zhan also negotiated with the major cloth merchants based on the price provided by the Luo family.

Initially, the major cloth merchants wanted to raise the price since such a large batch of cotton cloth going to the Tenglong Guard would surely increase the price of cotton cloth in Jing’an City, and they wanted to take this opportunity to hike up the price.

However, with Shang Mingde mediating in between, and knowing that they would be selling to Yang Zhenshan, they gave up on the idea of raising the price.

The Shang family was a Martial Arts Family in Jing’an Prefecture, but the Yang family was also an official family of Jing’an Prefecture. If there were to be a family ranking in Jing’an Prefecture at the moment, the Lu family would undoubtedly be the first, but the second must be the Anning Yang family.

Shang Mingde’s influence was considerable, but the Yang family’s influence couldn’t be disregarded.

Moreover, these major cloth merchants all knew that Yu Qingyi was supported by Yang Zhenshan, and the Luo family had become wealthy merchants in Chongshan Town because of Yang Zhenshan’s support.

They also wanted to use this chance to build a relationship with Yang Zhenshan.

In just two days, several major cloth merchants gathered ten thousand bolts of cotton cloth and sent them off to the Tenglong Guard.

At this moment, Yang Zhenshan had no idea about what Wu Zhan had done in Jing’an City; if he knew, he would certainly praise Wu Zhan heartily.

The heavy snow had been falling intermittently for three days, and today it finally stopped.

Even though Yang Zhenshan had early on ordered each household to reinforce their houses, and had Xie Yuan inspect the fortifications, many military households’ homes were still collapsed under the weight of the snow.

A foot-thick layer of snow was a disaster for the entire Tenglong Guard.

The impoverished military households simply did not have the ability to cope with such a natural disaster.

The collapse of houses brought problems that weren’t as simple as just needing a place to live.