Nanhua City, Xishan Pavilion

In the depths of the overlapping pavilions, there is a spacious courtyard, with carved railings and jade pillars in the courtyard, rockery and jade ponds, which blend with the surrounding scenery and form a picturesque scenery.

In the center of the courtyard, under the osmanthus tree, is a small white jade table, and four jade benches are placed in front of the table.

There is a delicate purple clay pot on the table, but now, the tea in the pot has cooled through, the tea in the cup has bottomed out, and the maid has already been sent far away, so no one refills the cup, and no one refills the water.

"Third son, Yicheng is too important to us, it is an important source of wealth for us, we can't just throw it away!"

"I still underestimate Xiao Fourteen!!" The third prince sighed softly, this third son is tall, handsome, with a good skin, five or six years older than Wang Guanlan, wearing a white auspicious cloud brocade robe, and his tone is deep, "Zihan, you have been in contact with him, how do you feel about him?!"

"It's weird!" Hou Zihan groaned slightly and made a judgment.

"Weird? This perception is beyond my expectations, why do you feel like this?!"

"He's too confident, self-confident makes people desperate, such people are either crazy and ignorant, or they have unexpected hole cards, I tend to the second one, but he doesn't feel like it, so, I think it's weird!"

"Hole cards, he is now a formation mage, as the only warlock formation mage of our generation, his current status is no longer below our few generations, so he has reason to be confident!" the third prince shook his head, "However, he should also know very well that this can only allow him to stand at the same starting point as the four of us, but compared to the forces we have been operating for many years, he is too weak, and he has no capital to fight against us at all, so he shouldn't have so much confidence!"

"Maybe he thinks that as long as he reveals his identity as a formation mage, the palace will not allow others to touch him?!" This time, it was Wang Guanchao who spoke, because of the festival with Wang Guanlan, this time, he had a very difficult time in the mansion, and in the end, he chose to completely fall to the third son, and he naturally hated Wang Guanlan.

"He won't be so naïve, the identity of the formation mage only represents a potential and possible surname, even if the palace wants to protect him, the scope of protection is only his life, to ensure that he does not die, that's all, as for the rest, it is not within the protection range of the palace!"

"Maybe he doesn't know!"

"Maybe his surname is not big, I see that he looks confident, and he doesn't look like the kind of confidence that belongs to someone who is sheltered!" Hou Zihan shook his head, "So I think he is very weird and makes me feel uneasy!"

"Hou Gongzi, you were scared by Wang Guanlan, right?!" Wang Guanchao said sarcastically, although he completely fell to the third son, but his status is very embarrassing, the third son of a series, operating for many years, can be said to be a radish and a pit, everyone has their own fixed position and interests, if it is an ordinary person to take refuge in the third son, it is better to arrange some, but he is different, even if he loses power in the house, he is also the brother of the third son, the son of the palace, in terms of status, it is naturally a lot higher than ordinary people, which is not easy to arrange.

Similarly, in Wang Guanchao's eyes, he naturally will not look down on those inconspicuous positions, if he can't get a position of sufficient weight, he is sorry for his natural identity, and among all the people around the third son, what he wants to replace the most is Hou Zihan.

Maybe Hou Zihan is not the No. 2 person under the third son, but he is definitely a heavyweight, not only one of the people in charge of the third son's financial resources, but also has such a transcendent identity as the young master, he also wants to be like this, now, what happened in Yicheng has given him such a chance to replace Hou Zihan, of course, this needs to be grasped by his heart.

Hou Zihan glanced at Wang Guanchao, and seemed to understand his intentions, but he was not annoyed, just smiled faintly.

"In this way, the fourteenth young man is confident, in this case, Zihan is willing to abdicate and make way for Xian!"

"Zihan ......" The third prince's expression moved, and he was about to speak, but he saw Hou Zihan shaking his head slightly, and saluted him, "Zihan is incompetent, he is ashamed of his trust in the prince, and he has made a major mistake in Yicheng, and he should be punished!" After finishing speaking, he retreated backwards.

"Alas!!" Looking at Hou Zihan's back, the third prince just sighed after all, and did not stop it, but moved his gaze to Wang Guanchao, "Fourteenth brother, listening to your words, it seems that there is already a way to deal with him?!"

"It's just an idea!" Hearing the third prince's inquiry, Wang Guanchao suddenly had a flattering smile on his face, leaned in front of the third prince, and whispered.

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"Yicheng, it's even if you got it!" Pushing open the window and looking at the sparse starry sky, Wang Guanlan took a deep breath, Hou Zihan left, three of the ten shopkeepers chose to leave, and the remaining seven all stayed, but in the end, they would keep a few, and Wang Guanlan himself couldn't be sure.

There was no lamp in the room, the incense was half burned, and the bright red spark showed no sign of burning the prairie and, of course, no extinguishing it.

The white moonlight shone in through the window, blending with the smoke curling in the room, and it became more and more cold.

The furnishings in the house are very simple, a table of eight immortals is placed in the center, there are four chairs around, there is a wooden bed next to the wall, and a desk is placed next to the bed.

But Wang Guanlan felt very comfortable and comfortable.

Because, everything here belongs to him.

is his private property.

Since coming to this strange world, Wang Guanlan has never been so comfortable and comfortable as he is now.

In Ning Wangfu, even if he didn't know the existence of the Secret Array Mirror World at the beginning, he also had a feeling of being under the fence, and in the Fog Hidden Canyon, it was even more dangerous, and he didn't know how to die, how to be at ease, until now, in this Yicheng, he had a legal identity, status and property, and he gradually settled down, and he was relieved to be able to relax.

Of course, this kind of reassurance, this peace of mind, is only psychological, in reality, he still has a lot of things to do, if he wants to really master Yicheng and become the master of this small county, it is not just to drive the original ruler away, he also has to effectively establish his rule, only in this way, Yicheng can completely belong to him.

When he put tremendous pressure on the original rulers of Yicheng and drove them away, the problem he faced was how to really receive Yicheng into his hands and generate benefits for him, which was what he was most concerned about.

For Yicheng, he didn't know much else, except for knowing that this place was rich in anchovies, it could be said that he didn't know anything, and after a few days of understanding, he found that he still underestimated the value and status of Yicheng.

In other words, the value and status of anchovies are underestimated.

Originally, Yicheng was just a small remote county, with not much business and not many people, it was remote, backward, and had nothing to do.

Until the southwest of Yongzhen, the king of Daqining, the situation has changed, and in the past six hundred years, with the relationship of phoenix grass, it has gradually developed into a prosperous county, and phoenix grass is the only industry in this county.

Anchovy grass, Wang Guanlan's perception of it before is a good herb, but now I know that the value of this thing is far above his imagination, to use an analogy, the status of anchovy grass in various pills is like the status of salt in various foods.

The most important thing is that in the entire three southwestern states, it seems that only this place is suitable for the survival of anchovy, that is to say, for six hundred years, the anchovy grass in the entire southwest three states has been supplied by Yicheng.

In the three southwestern states, it is precisely because of the continuous supply of anchovy grass in Yicheng that the price of various cultivation pills will remain in a stable state, and six hundred years ago, before the founding of the Great Qi State, in the three southwestern states, the price of various pills was ten times that of now, because at that time, anchovy grass had to be transported from thousands of miles away.

Now, things get more delicate.

Yicheng's status has become delicate, and the environment in which Wang Guanlan is located has also become subtle.

"Monopoly surname management, and it is an indispensable thing, the annual net profit is only 500,000 taels, is the third pig ?!"

After Wang Guanlan figured out the situation of the phoenix grass, he couldn't help but despise the ability of the third son.

"The price of anchovy grass is too low, to raise the price, those damn merchants, a pound of three dollars of silver, they dare to open such a price, Hou Zihan even dares to accept it, damn, the brain is fucking in water, right?!" Thinking of the accounts he had seen, Wang Guanlan felt that his heart was dripping blood, it was all money, it was all silver, in Wang Guanlan's eyes, looking at those account books, it was like watching countless thousands of taels of snowflakes and silver flowing out of his fingers like flowing water, which made people feel distressed.

"If you want to increase the price, you must increase the price, but how to increase the method, it takes a lot of thought!" Wang Guanlan thought to himself, indeed, the price of anchovy grass is really too low now, and the price must be increased, but the problem is that such a price has been going on for many years, and it can even be said that it is not Hou Zihan's responsibility, because since the harvest of anchovy grass in Yicheng fifty years ago, this price has never gone up, plus this anchovy can be said to involve the interests of almost all the warriors in the three southwestern states, if it rebounds, his situation will be worrying.

"Forget it, I don't want to think so much for the time being, the annual net profit is 400,000 taels, pay 100,000 taels to the palace, and there are 300,000 taels left, which is enough for me to use, and I don't want to fight for the throne, wait until I completely master Yicheng, and then find an excuse to increase the price!" After thinking about it, Wang Guanlan completely let go of the matter of phoenix grass, Yicheng was in charge for the first time, and things were complicated, so he had to figure out an idea.

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