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A year later, the two sisters also had their own sons.

What pleased Wang Zhong was that although he was a mouse spirit, he had children with humans, and the children he gave birth were all in human form.

Wang Zhong understood that after he cultivated, he also changed his genes. Strictly speaking, he is a practitioner, but his strength is very weak.

And what made him helpless was that he couldn't teach the relatives around him, and it was useless to drink the Lingquan for his relatives. He finally guessed that the thing might only be useful if animals drank it.

In a blink of an eye, Su Xiaolan was 28 years old.

In these years, everyone has lived happily, and Wang Zhong's family has become the richest and most powerful family in this area.

Lu Bai is old and unable to manage anymore, so he handed over the power to his son Lu Niucheng, but Wang Zhong is actually taking care of it.

For the position of city lord, Wang Zhong actually didn't take it seriously.

At first, everyone thought that this day would be so happy, but what they didn't expect was that the former emperor passed away.

This country is called Wenlai Country, and the original emperor was very old. When there was him, although the eunuchs at the bottom took power and made the court a mess, at least there was no problem on the surface.

But with the death of the emperor, two factions emerged in the court.

The first faction is the people headed by the great eunuch Li Yi'an. These people want to support the crown prince, because the prince was raised by Li Yi'an since he was a child, and he has a good relationship, especially Li Yi'an is also a fellow of the prince's mother.

Li Yi'an's ability to do so well is actually due to the crown prince's mother.

The other faction is headed by the queen. The queen did not give birth to a son in the early years, but finally gave birth to him. The youngest is the emperor's youngest son.

The queen's older brothers and younger brothers are all important officials of the court, and she has been managing her own power over the years, so she has a lot of power.

The two factions can be said to be in the same situation. This time the emperor died, and the two sides seemed to be completely tearing their skins apart.

Originally, no matter how ruthless the imperial court was fighting, it was no match for Wang Zhong who was thousands of miles away.

But in the past two or three days, the two factions sent troops over to look for Wang Zhong.

The reason for looking for him is simple, hoping to get his support.

Of course, these two factions not only sought Wang Zhong, but also went to other cities to seek the support of those city lords.

After all, the two parties are evenly matched, and if they can get the support of other city lords, this balance can be broken immediately.

Wang Zhong had also been in the palace before, so he naturally knew the truth inside, so when facing the envoys, he was all polite, but he just didn't let go of saying that he supported these two words.

At present, there is no sign of a winner between the two factions, and rashly saying who to support is tantamount to offending the other side, which is not very good.

Although he himself is not afraid, it is very troublesome to have such a huge family here.

"Brother-in-law, this is a treasure sent by the prince. The prince is with the eunuch Li Yi'an. It is absolutely right for us to support him."

Lu Niucheng said solemnly.

That's right, this is a lobbyist who directly became the prince.

I'm afraid the imperial court already knew that Lu Niucheng was the city lord on the surface, but Wang Zhong was actually in charge.

"Niu Cheng, did you take something from the prince?" Wang Zhong stared at Lu Niucheng and asked.

For no reason, Lu Niucheng would not speak for the prince and Li Yi'an.

A panic flashed in Lu Niucheng's eyes: "I... what did I confiscate..."

"Niu Cheng, tell me the truth, did you accept it?"

Lu Shang stared at the side and asked hastily.

Chapter 546 Standing in Line Randomly (Please Subscribe)

"Sister, what are you talking about? How could I accept other people's things? I just think that the crown prince and Li Yi'an have the upper hand, so I feel..."

Seeing the flustered look in the eyes of this disappointing younger brother, Lu Shang suddenly became angry, "Don't lie to me, I don't know what your character is, you have never cared about the affairs of the court, how come this time? Concerned?"

Lu Niucheng was suddenly stopped talking, he hesitated and couldn't speak.

"Lu Niucheng, if you don't tell the truth, I'll tell your father!" Wang Zhong said with a frown.

"Ah, don't..."

The main reason why Lu Niucheng was taught to be so timid is because of his father Lu Bai's strictness.

Lu Bai's education method is strict, beat people who are not obedient, don't learn how to beat them, and beat them if they are wrong.

This also caused Lu Niucheng to be afraid of doing everything. Lu Bai was not so strict with Lu Shang. In his words, it is enough for her daughter to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, as long as she can read and write. excellent.

Ever since he was a child, the person Lu Niucheng feared the most was his father, Lu Bai. When he heard what his sister said, he went to tell his father about it, and he suddenly became anxious.

"Then you are not telling the truth." Lu Shang said angrily.

"It's… okay."

Lu Niucheng had no choice but to tell the truth.

Sure enough, Lu Niucheng took advantage of the prince.

Just recently, someone gave him a whole box of gold and silver, plus two women specially trained in the palace to serve men.

Lu Niubi didn't care much about this box of gold and silver, but after seeing the two women, he was suddenly excited.

So in a moment of confusion, he accepted these gifts.

"Hey, you you...you tell me what to say!" Hearing what his younger brother said, Lu Shang blushed with anger.

"You asked me to tell you what's good about you. It's not easy to stand in line with this kind of thing, but you actually..."

"Sister, brother-in-law, in fact, the crown prince is the first heir. Moreover, the most powerful eunuch Li Yi'an still helped him. The crown prince will definitely win. If we help him in advance, we can get benefits at that time!" Lu Niucheng anxiously Yes, quickly explain.

After explaining, Lu Niucheng even felt a little complacent in his heart.

He was right in thinking, although standing in line slowly can better see who is stronger and who is weaker between the two factions, but standing in line ahead of time, as long as the prince wins, they will be regarded as great contributors, and they will have more benefits.

He used to think that his brother-in-law Su San was very powerful and capable, but why was he so timid when it came to this matter?

Wang Zhong sneered after hearing this: "At this time, you still want to be greedy! Yes, when the former emperor was still alive, it was true that Li Yi'an was very powerful and solved many enemies, but he also made many enemies. At this time, the two factions In the fight, it seems that the two factions are evenly matched, but Li Yi'an's opponents will definitely take advantage of his illness to kill him at this time, have you thought about this?"

Wang Zhong's words made Lu Niucheng feel cold in his heart.

Yes, everyone in the world knows that Li Yi'an, relying on the favor of the late emperor, would unscrupulously search for the people's fat and anointment, and attack dissidents, harming many people, and many people hated him to the bone.

Now that the late emperor had passed away, no one was covering him anymore.

Most of the power is concentrated on the queen, if those opponents of Li Yi'an don't support the queen at this time, then they don't have to mess around, they can just go home and farm.

"Sister... brother-in-law, what should I do now?"

After thinking about this, Lu Niucheng was terrified.

"Don't worry. Fortunately, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. They can't control this place for the time being, and they can't order us. However, Li Yi'an will definitely publicize that we are with them in order to show that there are many people who support them. When the time comes, we will be with them." The queen's side is the enemy, so we have to accept things from the queen's side."

"Uh... take both ends?" Lu Niucheng was taken aback.

"That's right. After taking it, we directly publicized it to thank them for their gift, and returned the gift with the same specification."

"The Xianggong's method is really good. In this way, we will clearly tell them that we will not help each other, and we will not take advantage of them. No matter who succeeds at that time, it will be difficult to say anything."

Lu Shang figured this out all of a sudden, and said in surprise.

"Well, but we must also be careful that people in the imperial court take power afterwards and trouble us, so the top priority is to strengthen our own strength."

Wang Zhong said lightly, it can be said that he now has the absolute capital to start a rebellion.

He has guns and cannons in his hands, and a lot of silver. Although he doesn't have many soldiers, he has hot weapons in his hands. The number of troops has never been a problem.

It can be said that once he rebels, there will be no pressure.

But he doesn't want to.

Now the life of their family is very good, there is no need to fight for power and profit, it is better to spend more time with their family.

Afterwards, under Wang Zhong's arrangement, he accepted the gift from the queen.

A day later, Wang Zhong prepared a heavy gift in return.

These two factions have their own eyeliners, knowing that Wang Zhong has returned the salute, and after knowing this, they both analyze that Wang Zhong does not want to stand in line.

That being the case, they agreed that it was not good to persecute, lest Wang Zhong be forced into an enemy.

A month later, Li Yi'an was killed by a killer while he was outside.

Although the killer was caught, it is said that after Zhongliang was murdered by Li Yi'an before, he came looking for revenge.

Once Li Yi'an died, the prince lost his right hand and right arm, and his power was greatly reduced. Ten days later, the prince was given poisoned wine by the queen and died suddenly.

As for the prince's mother, she was also thrown into the cold palace, and it is said that she hanged herself in the end.

When the news reached Micheng, Lu Niucheng was so frightened that he tossed and turned all night.

Think back then, if it wasn't for Wang Zhong, he would have accepted the heavy gift from the prince, and became the lackey of the prince, right?

Now that the crown prince's strength has collapsed, he will definitely not be able to escape the end of liquidation.

Fortunately, Wang Zhong ended this trouble for him, thinking about it makes him afraid.

Subconsciously, he hugged the two girls sent by the prince: "Don't be afraid, I will protect you from now on."

"Yeah, thank you, Master Lu."

The two girls said Jiao Didi.

Lu Niu was in a good mood on purpose, and from then on, he didn't care about the things in the city, and lived with all his heart in his arms.

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The happy days didn't last long, and what people didn't expect was that the newly appointed emperor hadn't gained a firm foothold, and was harassed by neighboring countries at the border, and two cities were suddenly captured.

Ever since, the imperial court could only recruit soldiers to support them.

In the case of the illness, Wang Zhong's side was too far away, so it didn't matter for the time being, but just in case, Wang Zhong began to expand his troops.

Now, using Micheng as his base, he recruits people from surrounding cities to come and work. In just a few years, Micheng has become the top three big cities in the country, and its development momentum faintly surpasses that of the imperial capital.

But at this moment, the imperial court clearly had no time to take Wang Zhong into consideration, and was trying its best to eliminate the troubles on the border.

Three years later, the imperial court is still going all out to fight against the enemy country, but in Micheng, Lu Bai can't do it anymore.

"Father, father..."

Lu Shang and Lu Niucheng knelt on the bed, weeping bitterly.

"I can't do it anymore. Remember, this city of Mi is the root of our Lu family. We must manage it well, especially you, Niu Cheng. Listen to your brother-in-law's words..."

Lu Bai spoke with difficulty, and when he finished speaking, he glanced at Wang Zhong beside him.

"Father-in-law." Wang Zhong walked over.

"Su San..."

Lu Bai looked at Wang Zhong complicatedly, and murmured: "You have worked hard."

"You're welcome." Wang Zhong sighed.

"My son Niu Cheng, please take care of him. What's wrong with him, you must educate him well."

Lu Bai is a smart man, he knows that his son is not good enough, and he will cause big trouble sooner or later when he manages Micheng.

Now that Wang Zhong is the king here, if Lu Niucheng offended Wang Zhong, he would be looking for death.

Even if Lu Shang is Wang Zhong's wife, in Lu Bai's view, compared with women, normal people would choose power, right?

"I know, you have a good rest."

Wang Zhong nodded silently, it was hard for him to say anything at the moment.

Lu Bai calmed down, and slowly lowered his arms.

Lu Bai left.

After Lu Bai left, the current Holy Majesty came to mourn in person.

Originally, as Lu Bai, he was not qualified, but who made Micheng so powerful now?

And when the saint came over, there was also an important matter to discuss.

After finishing the funeral, Emperor Sun Ce approached Wang Zhong for financial support.

In the past few years, there have been years of wars, the treasury has been empty, and internal friction has been serious, so it can no longer support it for a long time.