The Second Prince spent half an hour before he understood what had happened in recent days.
He didn't even know that Murong Jiu was so wealthy as to casually produce tens of thousands of taels of silver for business ventures.
In the social hierarchy of scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants, merchants are considered the lowest.
Yet in reality, those nobles and high-ranking officials in Capital City all held some form of private businesses.
Distributing gifts at festivals and maintaining household expenses cannot be covered by mere official salaries alone.
Jun Haoze himself also secretly owned many enterprises in Capital City, having a hand in all the highly profitable businesses such as grain shops, jade stores, fabric shops, spice shops, tea shops, and so forth.
Among these, the fastest money came from the spice shop, jade store, and the fabric shop.
Following these, were the grain and tea shops.
