Song Daliang was neither willing to divide the family branch nor willing to leave the clan. But with the clan elders of the Song Family before him, Eunuch Wan behind him, and Song Tao having persuaded Madam Wang, who also felt splitting the branch was better, no matter how unwilling and dissatisfied Song Daliang was, the kiln factory still depended on Madam Wang's dowry to operate. After much thought, he ultimately chose to divide the family branch.
However, for the dignity of the Song family, they would wait until after the forty-ninth day following Song Youliang's death before opening the ancestral hall to formally separate Song Daliang's branch.
Song Daliang was so suffocated with frustration that after sending off Eleventh Grand Master Song and others, he ran out to drink and indulge in pleasure.
