Fortunately, the Patriarch Wang Shouzhe was open-minded and spent a great deal of effort privately investigating the family of that independent cultivator girl, discovering that the loose cultivator family was relatively clean and without any major disreputable marks.

Only then did he take some efforts to persuade the rather stubborn Wang Shou Lian, allowing Wang Zongping to marry a loose cultivator girl. After marriage, things were peaceful and stable, and Zongping also achieved some success in the military ranks.

However, Wang Yingdie’s innate talent was not particularly high, but the Wang Family had always been generous to their family members. With a series of elixirs like the Spirit Awakening Pill, Blood Tempering Pill, and Bone Marrow Purify Pill, her talent improved to a Middle Grade C level, becoming a Little Celestial Pride.

Now at twenty-five years old, her strength had reached the Seventh Layer of the Qi Refining Realm, and she had gained considerable experience in handling affairs, completely capable of independently managing ordinary matters.

This time, Wang Shicheng brought her along because her bloodline talent made her extremely sensitive to plantation growth, often able to detect issues invisible to the naked eye. With her presence, information gathering became much more efficient.

The data collected now would also become an essential basis for developing the next generation of quality alfalfa seeds.

Junior Prince Wu Shengjun, after exchanging a few pleasant words with the Village Chief Sun Nianxiang, looked around to see everyone performing their duties, feeling very gratified.

After several months of adaptation, not only had the relocated commoners become accustomed to life in the Anbei Guard, but the officials of the Prince’s Mansion had gradually adjusted to this new working method.

Everything was developing in a positive direction.

Sometimes, even though he himself had deployed and implemented many plans personally, he often marveled at the changes brought to the Anbei Guard. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

His gaze unconsciously turned southeast, a trace of concern in his eyes.

According to the plans set by his father and Zong An, the development of the Anbei Guard was just a beginning, with a series of grand plans yet to be implemented.

His father and Zong An had been in the capital city for a while now; whether they would succeed in raising sufficient funds remained unknown.

It was an astronomical final amount, challenging for any single entity to bear alone.

Hoping all goes smoothly so the conquest of the Dara Desert could be plausible.

...

Daqian Capital, Gui Long City.

The past couple of years in Gui Long City had indeed been bustling, first with Liyao the Great Celestial Pride breaking into the "Top Ten Outstanding Youth" list. Before the aftermath settled, Prince Anjun and the Young Clan Leader of the Wang Family, Wang Zong’an, jointly arrived in Gui Long City, extravagantly promoting the Dara Desert development plans.

Alongside, another shocking piece of news spread.

It was that Changning Wang Family’s Young Clan Leader Wang Zong’an, was also endowed with the potential of a Great Celestial Pride, similar to his sister. Such surprising news quickly triggered a chain reaction within Gui Long City, making the Dara Desert development plan widely known.

Meanwhile, in the most popular tavern in Gui Long City — White Cloud Tower.

The area around the Obsidian Iron Arena was hung with banners, written in bold and enlarged font saying "Daqian’s rarely seen great opportunity in ten thousand years," "Quasi-crown prince guides your exploration through the Great Desert," "Centennial investment, enjoy for millennia," "Leave a foundation for your descendants," "Royal credibility worth billions of gold," "Business prodigy Prince Heng’s only recommended project," "Liyao the Great Celestial Pride mortgages Divine Power Spirit Treasure for full investment," "Strive for Daqian’s rise," "Benefit generations," "Regret for thousands of generations if you miss this excellent opportunity"... and so forth with strongly persuasive texts.

Beneath the densely packed banners, one of the consistently low-profile and mysterious quasi-crown princes — Prince Anjun, together with Wang Family’s Great Celestial Pride, Young Clan Leader Zong’an, rolled up their sleeves, passionately introducing their grand plans and goals.

In the private room were the heads of Fourth-Grade and Fifth-Grade noble families. In the free seats, a great many of the Sixth-Grade and Seventh-Grade family patriarchs or ancestors sat, keenly digesting the outcomes presented by Prince Anjun and Wang Zong’an, astonished by the generous and ambitious grand blueprint.

Compared to Prince Anjun’s initial plan, this plan was not just more detailed and precise, but it even specified how much funding, manpower, and materials each stage required, along with a lot of new content, such as expected benefits upon completion of each stage, and so on.

Don’t underestimate these details.

It is precisely because of these details that an original seeming castle in the air, seemingly impossible to complete grand project, became a systematic endeavor that, as long as pursued steadfastly, progressing step by step, it would be certain to accomplish.

These noble family ancestors are knowledgeable, and lofty blueprints cannot deceive them; they naturally have their own judgment on whether a project has the potential for completion.

Instead of telling them how grand the project is, how beneficial it is for Daqian, and the profound impact on the future, it is better to provide them with solid data showing this is a guaranteed and profitable business deal.

Below the arena.

A group of officials under the command of the Prince’s Mansion of Anjun had long set up office desks on site, for subscription contracts and such.

Unlike the general posture of government officials being somewhat fawning to the high and dismissive to the low, the officials of Prince Anjun, although not widely reputed, were all quite enthusiastic and very young.

They were standing while conducting their duties, systematically introducing the noble family members who came to inquire about the "Dara Pioneer Joint Department" shareholding plan, their due obligations, and the future yields and risks.