"Moreover, they have already started to expand their business for a while. It’s just only recently that their business become bigger, especially because they took over various people’s business because these people moved away from Cheng City."
Long Qian Xing nodded in understanding.
When Emperor Yang Zhou moved the capital city away, he also brought a lot of people who used to live in Cheng City. As the result, those people who moved away would have to sell most of their stores for travel funds.
After all, they didn’t have much money in hand and they have to start a new life in the new city.
For the sake of their future, many of them sold their previous stores.
And this Shangguan Family started to buy these stores.
This made Long Qian Xing thought that a few years ago, the Shangguan Family was leaving and Shangguan Xiao sold most of their stores under his father’s name. This was because Shangguan Xiao was not interested in these properties and didn’t want to stay there any longer.
But later on, Shangguan Xian suffered a lot and the city he built with his older brother was breached.
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There were many people who died.
From that moment on, it was clear that their city was not very good. While Shangguan Xiao would not abandon the entire city directly, but he had no intention to stay there all the time. He might have been thinking about moving back to Cheng City.
What finally made him decide to do so might be Shangguan Yu’s decision to hand over the Shangguan Family’s token for him.
If not because Shangguan Xiao was still a general on the frontline, he might have long decided to go back to Cheng City and no longer roam around on the battlefield. But Fei Yang Kingdom still needed a general, so it was impossible for Emperor Yang Zhou to give direct order for Shangguan Xiao to return.
’The situation should stabilize recently and Shangguan Xiao will also come back.’
When Long Qian Xing thought about this, he felt that he should have a talk with Shangguan Xiao in the near future.
It was no wonder that Song Chuan categorized Shangguan Family to be on the same rank as the Long Family. Considering the fact that Shangguan Xiao’s title is the same as Long Qian Xing’s father and the prestige of the Shangguan Family over the years, it was not an exaggeration to call the Shangguan Family to be a big and noble family.
Unfortunately, there were not many people left in the Shangguan Family by now.
Most of them were also scattered around all over the world.
They have their own reasons why they didn’t want to go back to Cheng City anymore. And Long Qian Xing was not in any position to talk to them about this matter. He was not that close to the Shangguan Family and no matter where they wanted to live, it was not his business.
He had no interest to be a busybody.
"Did they do anything else aside from taking over the stores?" Long Qian Xing asked.
Song Chuan shook his head. "They didn’t make any move so far, but if they do want to move through this muddy water, then I’m prepared."
There were many people who wanted a piece of this big cake and Song Chuan also knew that it was impossible for him to eat it all alone.
But he would not hand over what was already in his hand so easily to others.
They have to fight for it.
"Alright." Long Qian Xing was not surprised at Song Chuan’s answer. Even though Song Chuan looked like he was willing to stay in lower position, Long Qian Xing knew that there was still ambitions deep in Song Chuan’s heart that he hid.
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Now that he had the control over Cheng City, it was estimated that this ambition will slowly grow and resurfaced.
Not that it mattered, though.
For Long Qian Xing, it would be good that Song Chuan could have a good life and achieved his dream.
"About the Mu Family," Long Qian Xing changed the conversation and then asked, "Is it General Mu?"
Long Qian Xing knew about General Mu’s situation quite well. After all, General Mu’s retirement back then was not a secret. After that, he sent one of his sons to the frontline while the other one was sent to become an official.
If he was not wrong, Young Commander Mu, Mu Sheng Xi, was already a 5000 men commander. Mu Sheng Xi seemed to suffer disastrous defeats several times and thus stagnated as 5000 men commander.
Moreover, Mu Sheng Xi was not selected to participate in any of the big wars.
He had to rely on defeating the smaller bandits and so on to make his name on the battlefield.
General Mu’s hope of reviving the Mu Family through Mu Sheng Xi was a bit failure.
Even though Mu Sheng Xi’s career looked pretty good, it was far below compared to many other people who had made their achievements.
Long Qian Xing remembered discussing about Mu Sheng Xi with Emperor Yang Zhou some time ago.
While this man was considered to had the potential to become a general, Emperor Yang Zhou was not very optimistic about him and planned to watch him first.
Long Qian Xing didn’t care too much about it, though.
What he was thinking was Mu Sheng Xi’s half brother, Mu Sheng Shuang. Unlike Mu Sheng Xi who was following his father’s footsteps on the frontline, Mu Sheng Shuang became an official and forged his own path forward.
But Long Qian Xing was not very clear about his situation.
After all, Long Qian Xing didn’t pay attention to all officials in Fei Yang Kingdom. There were too many people for him to keep track of.
"Yes." Song Chuan glanced at Long Qian Xing and then said, "The Mu Family had suffered a bit in the hands of Feng Ao Kuai some time ago, but Mu Sheng Shuang seems to be quite capable."