Having children earns benefit, start competing for dominance in the world by marrying a wife

Chapter 509 - 297: Prince, It's Still Early_1

After leaving Dongfang Longyue's room, Lu Chen went to the Wind Cloud Court for breakfast. While sipping the nutrient-rich medicinal porridge personally prepared by Mu Zixuan, he reviewed the system notifications from the previous night.

"[Congratulations, host, for obtaining a wife or concubine. As a reward, you have received oil exploration, mining, and production-related technical blueprints.]

[For each time the host cultivates affection with a wife or concubine, Qi Refinement Mantra experience points increase by ten thousand, Rejuvenating Skill experience points increase by...]

Seeing the prompt before him, Lu Chen thought, Oil? With the current conditions in the North Country, it would probably be impossible to use the extracted oil for the production of chemical products.

The North Country was still an agricultural nation and did not possess the conditions for large-scale industrial production, so it was best not to mine oil for the time being.

Of course, even if mining was not to begin immediately, the work of oil exploration had to be carried out. He needed to understand what kind of resources resided in which parts of the North Country. That way, when the day would come for the North Country to evolve from an agricultural to an industrial nation, oil would play a significant role.

With his lifespan as a grandmaster, he would live for several hundred years without issue, and he might break through to the Heavenly Human Realm someday. After breaking through the Heavenly Human Realm, living for a thousand years was even a possibility. Anyway, during his lifetime, he was certain to witness the transformation of this world from an agricultural to an industrial one.

At this moment, Mu Zixuan noticed that Lu Chen was lost in thought and asked curiously, "Prince, what are you thinking about?"

Hearing Mu Zixuan's words, Lu Chen snapped back to reality and said with a smile, "Nothing much. By the way, I'm planning to establish a newspaper agency with the North Prince Mansion as its main body."

Upon hearing this, Mu Zixuan was briefly startled, but she soon understood. Dongfang Longyue was currently leading the Eastern Newspaper Agency, and now that Dongfang Longyue had become Lu Chen's woman, perhaps he was finding something for her to do.

However, the official already had a newspaper agency.

With this in mind, Mu Zixuan asked, "Prince, there's already a North Country Times within the Prince's Mansion. Isn't it redundant to create another newspaper agency?"

Lu Chen smiled and said, "The current North Country Times is the Small Court's newspaper agency. The one I want to create next will be completely controlled by the North Prince Mansion."

Mu Zixuan replied, "I understand. I will help you set up the newspaper agency right away, Prince. Could you name the newspaper?"

Lu Chen pondered for a moment, "Let's call it the Wind Cloud Times."

Hearing this name, Mu Zixuan was startled once again. This name...

"Wind Cloud" seemed more appropriate for a formal occasion than for the name of a courtyard. As a newspaper title, it was indeed most fitting.

But for some reason, when Mu Zixuan thought about Lu Chen's words from yesterday about stirring up wind and clouds at night, she felt that the name was somewhat odd.

...

Time flew by, and soon, the day Lu Chen was to take a concubine arrived.

In the end, Dongfang Longyue decided to stay at the Eastern Newspaper Agency for a while longer. Considering she was now the North Prince's woman, whether she had an official status or not wasn't so important. What mattered now was to manage the Eastern Newspaper Agency well and to guide public opinion in favor of the North Prince.

Naturally, Dongfang Longyue was aware that the North Prince Mansion had established a paper called Wind Cloud Times, and she understood that she would likely manage it in the future.

However, compared to a paper closely related to the North Prince Mansion, a civilian newspaper could guide public opinion more effectively.

In the eyes of the common people, although the Eastern Newspaper Agency had been approved for establishment, it was, after all, a paper of the Dongfang Clan and did not have official attributes. In reality, some common people simply do not trust the court or the Prince's Mansion.

In Dongfang Longyue's view, she could maximize her value by remaining at the Eastern Newspaper Agency, so there was no need to rush for that status.

Compared to seeking official status, it was better to demonstrate her value more, which would also make her more valued by the North Prince.

Although Dongfang Longyue hadn't agreed to seek that status right away, the Prince's Mansion still went ahead with the marriage ceremony, after all, Wang Qingci, the concubine, had to be welcomed.

The wedding preparations for Wang Qingci were handled entirely by Mu Zixuan. Even though Wang Qingci was marrying into the North Prince Mansion as a concubine, she still wore a red bridal gown, the standard almost similar to that of a principal wife.

Sitting in the bridal chamber, Wang Qingci appeared somewhat dazed. She hadn't expected this day to come.

She had worked for the Wang Family previously, thinking she would always just be a tool for them and be discarded at a certain time, yet she met the North Prince, this bad thing, in North City, who made her leave the Wang Family ahead of time.

Each time she thought about what had happened between her and Lu Chen, Wang Qingci felt it was surreal. She had initially been an enemy of the North Prince but was captivated by him, becoming his female slave. What was crucial was that in the end, she was thoroughly conquered by the North Prince.

Wang Qingci couldn't help but ridicule herself for being such a shameless woman. She had been captivated by Lu Chen yet ended up falling in love with this bad thing and became hopelessly enamored.

As Wang Qingci was immersed in her myriad thoughts, the voice of a maid came from the doorway, "Greeting to the Prince!"

Hearing this, Wang Qingci became nervous all at once. She had served Lu Chen countless times, but she had never been as nervous as she was today.

The next moment, the sound of the door opening resonated, and Lu Chen entered the room.