Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

The Marquis Suning Mansion was not far from the Yang family’s Marquis Jing’an Mansion, located right behind it. Exiting the western back door of Marquis Jing’an Mansion and walking few steps would lead right to the front door of Marquis Suning Mansion.

Today, Marquis Suning Mansion was bustling; nearing the New Year, many relatives and friends came to deliver gifts and New Year greetings. However, Marquis Suning Sun Yunbo was not in residence, for he was always stationed in Da Rong’s western Wusi Town, and the head of the household was his eldest son, Sun Decang.

The Sun family of Marquis Suning Mansion represented a typical case of ’great father, mediocre son, and useless grandson.’ Sun Yunbo was considered a hero of his generation, having established distinguished military achievements for Da Rong, primarily active during the initial period of peaceful years, roughly emerging around the same time as Zhang Luan.

Back then, the western part of Da Rong was unstable, and both Zhang Luan and Sun Yunbo became fierce generals through the battles they fought.

Sun Yunbo had two legitimate sons and three illegitimate children. Except for his eldest son, Sun Decang, who was somewhat intelligent, the other four sons were muddle-headed, lacking in responsibility, and none even held a military post.

Even Sun Decang only held a nominal post in the Front Army Commander’s Mansion. As for the Sun family’s younger generation, they were even less promising.

Among the dozens of grandsons, not one was successful.

In contrast, Zhang Luan’s three sons were all military officers in the western border forts, if not a Guerrilla General, then an Assistant General. Zhang Luan also had two grandsons in the Martial Arts Pavilion.

Being a disciple of the Martial Arts Pavilion was definitely an indicator of the crème de la crème of the younger generation.

Despite having over two thousand disciples now, these disciples came from many of Da Rong’s noble families, Martial Arts Families, and worldly society factions, essentially gathering nearly half of Da Rong’s Martial Arts talents in the Martial Arts Pavilion.

Take the Sky Blue Sword Sect, for example, the sect had flourished in recent years, but only two disciples had joined the Martial Arts Pavilion.