Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 462: Chapter 432 Snow Plain Hu Clan Snow Spirit Palace_2

He casually said.

The Crown Prince had sent Wang An for the glass workshop craftsmen.

The market for glass ornaments and utensils was too large, so Yang Zhenshan planned to enter this business with the Crown Prince from the start.

Why the Crown Prince, and not the court?

If it were the court, Yang Zhenshan feared he wouldn’t be able to keep even a single hair.

If it was the Crown Prince, then he could at least keep the glass workshop in Chongshan Town.

Of course, he had to pay a price.

He had to send half of the skilled craftsmen from the glass workshop to Capital City for the Crown Prince, allowing the Crown Prince to build a new glass workshop there as well.

Making glass was not an easy thing; it wasn’t just about having the glassmaking techniques. Without a group of skilled craftsmen, even if Yang Zhenshan gave the making techniques to the Crown Prince, the Crown Prince would need at least a year to produce qualified glass products.

But with skilled craftsmen, as long as they had a furnace and materials ready, it wouldn’t take them a month to start producing glass products.

Naturally, Yang Zhenshan could not afford to make the Crown Prince wait a year; the Crown Prince could afford to wait, but he could not.

He could drink this soup alone, but he must share the first bite of meat with the Crown Prince.

So, he had to quickly let the Crown Prince see the benefits that glass could bring, and for this, he was willing to divide his craftsmen and give half to the Crown Prince.

While Yang Zhenshan arranged accommodations for Wang An and his accompanying personal army, he had Zhu Dahai select the craftsmen.

After Zhu Dahai submitted the list, Yang Zhenshan granted a sum to the craftsmen for their relocation expenses, then gave them three days off to say goodbye to their families.

Later, Yang Zhenshan would also send their families to Capital City; from then on, they would become residents of Capital City.

As for whether they would be mistreated, unless the Crown Prince didn’t want to earn silver, they definitely would not be ill-treated.

Five days quickly passed, and early in the morning, Yang Zhenshan sent Wang An and three hundred personal army troops out of the city, including over a hundred craftsmen.

Standing in front of the city gates, watching the long procession depart, Yang Zhenshan mounted his horse and said, ”Send out the invitations we prepared before!”

Now that this issue with the Crown Prince was settled, Yang Zhenshan had no more concerns and could start mass production.

The glass ornaments Luo Shang had taken before had already been transported to Jiangnan, but sales hadn’t started yet.

And for several other merchants, Yang Zhenshan had yet to negotiate terms with them.

Now that the time was ripe, Yang Zhenshan was ready to fully commit and make a big splash.

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The day after Wang An left Chongshan Pass, people from the Snow Spirit Palace arrived at Chongshan Pass.

There were six people in total, led by an old and a young person. The elder appeared to be over sixty, looking somewhat frail but with very clean and whitish skin, and his white hair meticulously combed, not like the barbaric Hu Clan, but more like a distinguished nobleman.

The person standing in front of the elder was a young girl wrapped in a red cloak, sixteen or seventeen years old, with deep-set eyes and a high nose bridge, giving her both the innocence of a young girl and a stunning allure.

Yang Zhenshan had seen beautiful women before.

Yu Qingyi was the kind of beauty that grows on you, the women of the Yang family weren’t too ugly either; Ms. Wang was just fat, not ugly, and when she was younger, she was also the village belle of Wang Family Village, it’s just that she had gotten fat now, reducing her beauty level.

But speaking of the most stunning woman Yang Zhenshan had ever seen, that would naturally be Miss Yu Lu, who is now Ms. Wu Han.

Back then, Yang Zhenshan almost couldn’t control himself in the face of her graceful dance.

Now, the girl standing in front of him possessed a beauty that was not inferior to Yu Lu’s. As for her figure!

Yang Zhenshan stroked his beard, smiling cheerily as he watched the girl.

Her chest is quite large!

Even dressed in a thick Luo skirt and wearing a cloak, her impressive figure was hard to conceal.

If there were children, they would definitely not let them go hungry!

”Snow Plain Hu Clan’s Xue Zhongjin pays respects to Marquis Jing’an of Da Rong!”

Although the girl was in front, it was the elder who spoke.

Upon seeing this, a flicker of surprise crossed Yang Zhenshan’s eyes.

The four attendants behind them all paid their respects, but the girl standing at the front did not bow; instead, she looked at Yang Zhenshan with great interest.

Her large eyes were incredibly clear, clearer than the ice and snow of the Northern lands.

”Never mind, you are not subjects of Da Rong, there is no need for you to pay respects to me!”

”Thank you, Marquis!” Xue Zhongjin stood up.

”I am not very familiar with the forces in the Snow Plain region. What is this Snow Spirit Palace of yours?” Yang Zhenshan asked directly.

Xue Zhongjin bowed slightly, ”Blessed by the Holy Spirit, our Snow Spirit Palace is one of the three palaces under the Spiritual Grace Holy Sect, dedicated to the Ice and Snow Holy Spirit. For thousands of years, we have resided on the Snow Spirit Sacred Mountain.”

”Uh, it is a high mountain in the northern part of the Haciwen Mountain Range. From the Cold Ice Valley, looking north, the highest peak is the Snow Spirit Sacred Mountain!”

He probably knew that Yang Zhenshan was not very familiar with the Northern lands, so he specifically explained the location of the Snow Spirit Sacred Mountain.

Cold Ice Valley, Yang Zhenshan actually knew about it; initially, when annihilating the Beihai Hu Clan, there was a clan living outside Cold Ice Valley.

This Cold Ice Valley is actually a lake. Due to the perennial cold in the Snow Plane, the lake is frozen most of the year, and anyone entering would think it is a valley, not a lake, hence the name Cold Ice Valley.

In Cold Ice Valley, one can walk on it in winter and boat on it in summer.

Now being summer, these people must have come by boat.

Xue Zhongjin continued to speak, ”Our Snow Spirit Palace rules over thirty-six valleys and seventy-two clans, and is the biggest force within the Haciwen Mountain Range!”

”Uh, how many people?”

Yang Zhenshan really had no clear idea about these thirty-six valleys and seventy-two clans.

It sounds very impressive.

”Our Snow Spirit Palace has three thousand church members and eight hundred thousand followers,” Xue Zhongjin said.

Yang Zhenshan nodded slightly; eight hundred thousand people also constituted a not-so-small force. The previous East Sea Hu Clan had only three to four million people, and the largest among them, the Gorcin clan, had just over three hundred thousand people.

Compared to that, this Snow Spirit Palace was even larger than the Gorcin, and its strength should not be considered weak.

Just how strong is their Martial Arts?

Yang Zhenshan glanced at Xue Zhongjin, who seemed to have considerable cultivation.

Postnatal Ninth Layer or Half-step Innate?

Xue Zhongjin continued to speak, ”We previously traded with the Gorcin, exchanging unique herbs and fur from the Snow Plain for their grain, tea leaves, iron, and porcelain.”

”However, the Gorcin were destroyed six years ago, so we now need to trade with the Marquis, and hope the Marquis can allow it!”

The growth of herbs is geographically restricted; herbs growing in Liaodong can hardly be found in Jiangnan, and their price would be extremely high.

Though it’s perennially cold and inhospitable for vegetation in the Snow Plain, it also harbors many very precious herbs.

For example, the Ice Heart Yellow Lotus is not a Treasure Medicine but a single plant is worth over a hundred silver.

Some Martial Artists occasionally find Ice Heart Yellow Lotus near Black Cloud Mountain; ever since Chongshan Town occupied Black Cloud Mountain, many have gone there searching for Ice Heart Yellow Lotus.

And surely, the Ice Heart Yellow Lotus grown in the Haciwen Mountain Range would be more abundant than those in the Black Cloud Mountain.

As for fur, animals in the Snow Plain nearly all have thick fur, and due to environmental factors, it’s mostly pure white without a trace of any other color.

Such fur enjoys a good market in Da Rong.