Before the sky broke and the bright moon shone brightly, Lan Changqing was standing on the top of Cuilan Peak, looking at the sky expectantly.
The Lan family is a small and medium-sized family in Yuzhou City. The ancestors once served in the army and fought with underground evil spirits to earn the title of eighth-grade uncle.
Third Duke, Sixth Marquis, and Ninth-Rank Uncle. In the title system of the Great Jin Kingdom, Eighth-Rank Uncle is considered the lowest level of title, but it is still a title after all.
Relying on the title of Eighth Grade Earl, the Lan family has maintained a very impressive small situation in Yuzhou City. Just southeast of Yuzhou City, in a land of twelve thousand miles, the Lan family has a thousand-mile fiefdom, tens of millions of citizens, and hundreds of various mines and medicinal fields. What's even better is that the core of the Lan family's fiefdom There is actually a small spiritual cave blessed place.
Relying on the inheritance earned by their ancestors, generations of heads of the Lan family are cautious and conscientious. Generation after generation of clan members take care of the family business conscientiously, making friends with wealthy families from all over the world, and restraining the direct descendants. The Lan family's family business is prosperous. Not worthy of his ancestors.
Especially after Lan Changqing took over the position of the head of the family three hundred years ago, he used the method of "hiding a needle in the cotton" and through several successful marriage operations, the Lan family's influence and tentacles spread throughout Yuzhou. One-third of the territory.
Lan Changqing even selected dozens of elite tribesmen and took half of the family's private army to join the Divine Power Army, heading to the frontier to open up territory for the Kingdom of Jin and accumulate military merit. Lan Changqing is quite ambitious, but not ambitious at all. His goal is to have the Lan family in his hands. A slight improvement of two or three grades from the eighth grade uncle is enough.
A fifth-grade or fourth-grade uncle can roughly double the family's territory, which is enough to accommodate more and more members of the family, and the resources provided are enough to supply more and more family monks.
A small but definite goal.
Therefore, Lan Changqing is very cautious and careful, and never gets involved in so-called important affairs of the country.
He even learned the sage's famous saying, "Only villains and women are difficult to raise" from a certain broken classic. Therefore, he would never get involved in anything related to Princess Jingsheng before. And he did.
Therefore, when the new Yuzhou Duke Huo Xiong arrived with his army, he was the first to send a messenger to deliver a letter of surrender.
Therefore, when the wealthy families in Yuzhou rebelled, he restrained his people and did not get involved in the chaos.
Perhaps because of the letter of surrender, when the Duke of Yuzhou ordered the wealthy families in Yuzhou to hand over their private armies and reorganize them into the Dongyuan Forbidden Army, he did not touch a hair of the Lan family, and Mrs. Lan lived in peace. It was a turbulent period in Yuzhou.
What happened next made the Lan family members, who were a little dissatisfied with Lan Changqing's conservatism and caution, completely convinced of him.
I didn't expect, I really didn't expect that the Duke of Yuzhou would be so cruel and ruthless. He actually slaughtered the remaining legions loyal to the previous dynasty under the First Army in one battle, killing countless generals, and even four of his own men. All the Twelve Imperial Guards of the Garden also took the poisonous action.
Horrible, terrible, really terrible.
The former Duke of Yuzhou, now the 'Prince An', is truly a terrifying and dangerous person.
However, when King An led his people back to Yuzhou, Lan Changqing was the first to ask all the elders of the family to come forward in person and send letters of allegiance with fear.
"The subsequent changes are unknown, but at least... King An has the Black Sky Cauldron in his hands, and he also controls thirty-six Four Spirit Battleships. With such combat power, even the current His Majesty must show some mercy."
Standing on the top of Cuilan Peak, Lan Changqing commented on the situation Wutie was facing today with the usual caution and carefulness of successive heads of the Lan family.
"To put it more seriously, as long as King An is not daring to act arbitrarily and resort to military force in his own country, and show that the military is too strong and threatens Qingqiu City, the current imperial capital, Your Majesty will keep King An safe and sound. of."
"Let's talk about it..." Lan Changqing looked at the young leaders of the clan standing behind him, and said with a smile: "If Gong Yang, the current grand master, is not afraid of death, the position of King An will be as stable as Mount Tai. And how powerful is the current grand master? Character? It is very difficult, extremely difficult, very difficult to have anything happen to him... Unless His Majesty wants to give up his martial arts, nothing will happen to the Grand Master."
"Prince An, who is holding the Black Sky Cauldron and the Four Spirit Battleships in his hands, who else in the world is more suitable to influence the power of the Grand Master?"
"After all, King An appeared in front of the people with the face of betraying the First Army and betraying the loyal ministers of the previous dynasty. He cannot form a party in the court, and it is impossible for him to have too many vassals."
"A prince who has lost his reputation but has great strength, is cruel, ruthless, treacherous, and shameless... Haha, as long as His Majesty provokes him a little bit, he can become an enemy of the Grand Master, and they will be as powerful as water. Huo, Master Taishi, I'm afraid I'm in trouble."
"Such a method... tsk tsk..." Lan Changqing pondered for a while, nodded, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty should give a lighter reward... If he wants to compete with the Grand Master, King An must at least become the master of the first palace. Okay, deputy master of the Demon Suppression Hall, this position is not enough."
Several young people from the Lan family listened carefully to Lan Changqing's comments.
"However, that's right. After all, he is a minister of the former court who has just surrendered. A knighthood from King An is prestigious enough." Lan Changqing smiled and said: "Especially, now that King An's strength is greatly weakened, he has stabilized it first. Only after your family has established a kingdom and accumulated enough strength can you be qualified to become the master of a palace."
Holding each other's hands, lightly tapping the back of his hands with his fingers, Lan Changqing calculated: "To be treasonous, if I were your Majesty... Well, our Qingqiu Kingdom inherited the four powers of the previous dynasty: Divine Power, Divine Martial Power, Suppressing Demons, and Killing Demons. The responsibilities of these four palaces have been formed, and it is not appropriate for Prince An to go to any palace."
"Nowadays, Qingqiu Divine Kingdom is facing severe foreign invasion. If two new temples are established, one is responsible for suppressing the prefectures and counties within the territory, and the other is dedicated to fighting foreign enemies... This may become a permanent institution of Qingqiu Divine Kingdom in the future. It will be better than the invasion of Dawu Divine Kingdom. , it’s reasonable to hurriedly set up a temporary military-killing army.”
Several young men from the Lan family nodded thoughtfully.
A young man complimented: "Uncle, with your vision and ability as well as the abilities of the clan elders, if you become an official in the dynasty, you will be a good minister."
Lan Changqing waved his hand and smiled faintly: "Join the court and become an official? That's all. With my small body of the Lan family, I can naturally live a happy and comfortable life as a small local snake in Yuzhou... On weekdays... You can enjoy yourself by thinking about some things that you don’t have.”
"When you enter the court as an official, look at the first family, and then think about Zhao Xiu of the Zhao family who died in the southwest... What a big man, his death must be miserable."
"The Lan family is too small and cannot withstand the stormy waves. As it is now, it is enough."
Lan Changqing smiled and sighed contentedly.
Not being greedy is good.
He smiled softly and said: "Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan... These sentences are waiting for you to figure out. Alas, it is hard to imagine what kind of ancient sage he was who wrote such exquisite but philosophical poems. appearance?"
Shaking his head, Lan Changqing said leisurely: "Sometimes, contentment is a blessing... Look at how many of our neighbors have fallen in recent years? How many families have been exiled? Their land, their forest , Their mines, their yards, and houses now belong to our family, haven’t we? Did we spend any effort? No... "
Turning around, Lan Changqing reached out and patted the young man who just spoke on the forehead.
"Also, when Duke Yuzhou ordered the whole family to ransack their homes and exiled them to serve in the Da Zezhou Army, didn't you spend a lot of money to buy out the several female young masters of their family?"
"Hey!" Lan Changqing sighed heavily: "Uncle, I personally came forward to propose marriage to several female young masters of the Xia family for you, but what was the result? People looked down upon us, a little eighth-rank uncle... Isn't that right? The Xia family is a fifth-grade uncle... He has his eyes on Gao Zhi'er."
"But what's the result? At first, I didn't want to be the eldest wife of my Lan family, and I even sneered at you and said you were a toad... But now, I have become your first-in-law girl with no status at all, and I can't even be considered a concubine. Come on, I’d like to thank you profusely…”
"So, pick chrysanthemums under the eastern fence... As long as you are not greedy, you can pick more and more chrysanthemums, more and more, more and more..."
"Youran Jian Nanshan... Nanshan is good, but we just need to look at it from a distance. A little further, further away, you can see Nanshan, but don't get close to it, lest the mountain collapses and pins you down. .”
"Today in Yuzhou and the surrounding Jiuzhou, King An is the Nanshan Mountain. We only need to look up, look at it from a distance, look at it respectfully, and say a few words of praise for the majestic appearance of Nanshan Mountain from time to time. That is enough. La."
Lan Changqing smiled and glanced at the eighteen-story building suspended on the top of Cuilan Peak. Each floor has eight corners. The whole body is densely covered with wisps of extremely fine avenue patterns, faintly emitting powerful fluctuations. The glazed pagoda.
Unlike other families, the Lan family is only a small to medium-sized family.
Other aristocratic families, and the senior masters in their clans, if they have achieved enough cultivation, they will extract the light dragon of the Great Dao that they have comprehended and condensed, and condense it into a divine weapon of heaven. The Heavenly Divine Weapon that he forged himself is undoubtedly his most handy weapon.
When the monks in the womb realm exhaust their lifespan, or are unable to withstand the catastrophe, and eventually fall, this heavenly weapon can still be passed down from generation to generation. Relying on the nourishment of the same blood, the heavenly weapon will become more and more beautiful. Being powerful has become the foundation of the clan.
The Lan family thinks differently from these big families.
Why are generations of masters required to sacrifice and forge a divine weapon of heaven
Does it make sense? Those scattered heavenly weapons can only enhance the individual combat effectiveness of the masters in the clan.
But the Lan family has never been aggressive or aggressive, and they have never been prone to conflicts with others.
Instead of consuming a huge amount of resources, manpower and energy to forge a handful of heavenly weapons, it is better to concentrate the power of generations of tribesmen to forge a weapon that is far more powerful than ordinary heavenly weapons and can be called a 'clan-suppressing artifact'. come out.
Starting from the ancestor who was awarded the title of Eighth Grade Duke, every generation of the Lan family has only three or five Tibetan monks, each of whom forges a divine weapon of heaven and passes it on to future generations. In addition to these three or five carefully selected tribesmen, all the other masters of the womb realm, all their energy, all their cultivation, are used to worship this eighteen-story glazed pagoda.
All the power of the Lan family is gathered here.
The Lan family has also tried it before. This glazed pagoda has condensed the essence, blood and cultivation of countless clan members and countless senior masters. Its current power is no longer inferior to ordinary innate spiritual treasures.
Over the years, this glazed pagoda has been refined by the essence of star power many times.
This time, the gods gifted them with seven consecutive nights of star power essence that was far more powerful than in previous years. Lan Changqing and a group of clan elders had calculated that this glazed pagoda could really turn the acquired into the innate, directly transforming the acquired into the innate. After being promoted to a true innate spiritual treasure, by then, it may actually have some power as a country-ruling artifact.
By then, the Lan family's heritage... haha.
Lan Changqing smiled and said: "Remember, the reason why other wealthy families have difficulty in cultivating this kind of family treasure is because their character is not as good as our Lan family."
"Those members of their wealthy families are all high-spirited and heroic. Their magic power and soul are all powerful and fierce, and they are stern and fierce... Even the members of each of their tribes practice different techniques. The attributes are very mixed.”
"Where can we find our Lan family, where everyone is indifferent, and all members of the clan love each other, and there is no division between the main family and the sidelines?"
"And in our Lan family, everyone's skills are the same as the "Sword Dan Qin Xin Lu", which nourishes the literary heart, accumulates literary energy, hides needles in the cotton, and is gentle and harmonious... Only in this way can generations of ancestors continue to bless this glazed pagoda. , that’s why we have what we have today.”
"So, you must remember that everything will be prosperous if the family is harmonious... Our Lan family is not good at fighting. The only word 'harmony' is the foundation of our Lan family."
All the young men of the Lan family nodded one after another, with smiles on their faces, and their demeanor was as elegant and indifferent as Lanzhi.
Lan Changqing's words convinced them.
They also understood the general situation of King An and Qingqiu Divine Kingdom today, which gave them greater confidence and longing for the future of their family.
They turned their heads one after another, carefully used their secret techniques, and looked at Anyi City, which was more than ten thousand miles away.
In the sky above the former Lanzhou City and the current Anyi City, thirty-six four-spirit warships were so huge, and the military formation of the five-element elves was even more huge and terrifying. Even though they are thousands of miles away, they can still be clearly seen through secret techniques.
"However, after all, King An is the current lord of Yuzhou, and we, the Lan family, can't help but express our opinions at all." Lan Changqing said leisurely: "So, I have discussed with all the elders. In a few days, among you, the young people of this generation will Choose a dozen of them and go to Prince An's Mansion to serve."
"We don't require any high-ranking officials to show their positions. It's enough for you to be small officials at the middle and lower levels and do some specific official documents."
"First of all, it seems that our Lan family respects King An."
"Secondly, if uncle, my analysis just now is wrong, and one day Prince An is confiscated and his family is exterminated, you will not be implicated."
"Remember, under King An, don't be too good, too smart, or too capable. It's enough to just be a small official and hang around. The bigger the official, the greater the risk. This is a wise saying."
"However, King An is actually quite a good person." Lan Changqing said with a smile: "Uncle, I have carefully observed what King An has done along the way. Sometimes his methods are a bit cruel, but in fact Yes, as long as you don’t provoke him, he really can’t be considered a bad person.”
"He may be a selfish person, but he is definitely not a bad person."
"As long as you pay attention to the propriety in dealing with him, he can even be a very cute person who can be a friend."
Lan Changqing is here to comment on Wu Tie.
At this moment, the sky suddenly opened, and the sky was filled with moonlight and starlight.
Lan Changqing waved his hands cheerfully, and many masters of the Lan family worked together to raise the glazed pagoda into the sky.
At this moment, the sky suddenly turned dark, and the Black Sky Cauldron spewed out billowing black gas, quickly flowing in all directions. The Lan family was only over ten thousand miles away from Anyi City, and black clouds rolled past at the snap of a finger, completely blocking the sky.
Lan Changqing was stunned, and then cursed subconsciously: "Huo Xiong, I'm in your mother's arms..."