Every item is extremely costly, and coupled with the fact that he basically cannot produce anything for the family, he often sells off family assets for his hobbies. So after selling them off, only a few ancestral lands are left, just enough for the family to live on.
He is reserved by nature and originally did not want to come to Luoyang. However, Zhao Hanzhang sent people to invite him several times. He Xun also personally wrote a letter asking him to come to Luoyang to meet Zhao Hanzhang, and Zhou Qi also took the time to visit him personally.
But what truly moved Ji Zhan and prompted him to start his journey to Luoyang was the gazette predicting the solar eclipse on the first of February.
Ji Zhan packed his bags immediately upon seeing the gazette that same day and embarked on his journey the next day. He missed the total solar eclipse in Luoyang but saw the annular eclipse in Yu State.
