#this should be in the chapter where we re-meet wen qing and the flower banquet happens

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I could have sworn you had a post about how wealthy the Jiang clan was after the war.

I remember them getting a lot of the spoils of war afterwards, but forgot which chapter or chapters mention it.

I don’t think I’ve ever personally made this argument, though I know a few of my mutuals like @jiangwanyinscatmom probably have some years back that I reblogged once upon a time. I no longer believe in it as a piece of textual evidence (as opposed to, say, a logical assumption based off the commonly understood context of “to the winners go the spoils” and also that the clans would obviously take back at least their stolen wealth), because I don’t think there’s a place where this is explicitly stated in the text. What we do get directly from the text is that 1) Lotus Pier was never destroyed and thus did not need to be rebuilt, 2) Jiang Cheng is no longer frantically recruiting disciples like during the war because (partly due to Wei Wuxian’s popularity) the sect had gotten an influx of disciples, and 3) the Jiang sect remained an untouchable sect entirely due to Wei Wuxian’s existence as a loyal one-man army, necessitating the splintering of his relationship with Jiang Cheng by the Jin in order to undermine the Jiang’s power amongst the other clans. Whether or not they were oh so wealthy immediately post-war, where that wealth came from, or if that “wealth” even translated into real power (seeing as, again, Wei Wuxian was the surviving sect’s backbone) is not explicitly stated, but they are, in fact, wealthy enough that 13 years later Jiang Cheng has remodeled the whole of Lotus Pier to imitate the Jin’s display of wealth despite the original place being perfectly habitable.