"By the last sentence, the tone of Zuoqiu Guanyu had also hardened. After all, a Grade Four Prominent Family is always a Grade Four Prominent Family, they have their dignity and pride."
Wang Shouzhe noticed it as well, that buying the cultivation and sales rights for the grains in Qing'an Prefecture was indeed the bottom line for the Zuoqiu family.
Otherwise, for the Wang family only to withdraw from the Qing'an market, not to mention whether the other prominent families of Qing'an who have tasted sweet success would agree, who knows if the Wang Clan, once becoming powerful, wouldn't strike back?
It is true that obtaining the cultivation and sales rights was the bottom line, but the price was not.
Wang Shouzhe had already made an estimate of this, and also investigated the financial power of the Zuoqiu clan.