Guessing the Reason

The Murong Family was a large family in Tonghua County, but it was nothing in the scale of the entire Great Chang Nation.

Because of Old Master Qiu, ordinary nobles were still considerably polite to their family, but those old nobles would not befriend them.

Their family were imperial merchants. As the saying went, merchants, farmers, and businessmen had extremely low statuses. Moreover, the first three generations of merchants would not be allowed to take the Imperial Examination. It was not easy to enter the business world, let alone leave the business world.

As long as a family earned a certain amount of money and had a certain social status, they would become a merchant family.

If they only operated a small stall on the street, they would be considered as ordinary people. But if they wanted to do large-scale business, they had to go to the government and sign some documents. Then, their status would be changed to merchants.