During the following week, Yan Yueqing remained in her room, quietly immersed in the Jiang Family history, finally piecing together a general idea.
As a millennia-old family in Hua Country, the Jiang Family has survived numerous dynastic changes without collapse, naturally experiencing several near-calamitous times.
The key to their repeated endurance through crises lies in a unique system—
Each retiring Family Head secretly stores one percent of the family's assets before stepping down.
The core purpose of this "treasure" is to leave the successor a reserve of capital for the family to rise again should they face obliteration.
Thus, during a normal transition between the old and new Family Heads, this secret is one of the essential pieces of information to be passed down.
