The Wang Family had ambitions!
The Wang Family wanted to establish a vassal state!
Wang Ren had spoken so casually about founding a state, but the shock it caused everyone was indescribable.
The words echoed through everyone's minds like a thunderclap. While they trembled with excitement, they also felt Wang Ren's domineering confidence.
It had not yet been several hundred or thousand years later. Only a little over four hundred years had passed since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. The influence of the era when vassal states had stood everywhere had not completely faded. Aristocratic clans and powerful families were still at the height of their influence, and the glory of the ancestors of the family heads present had not yet passed. That was also why this era placed such great emphasis on one's birth.
How could they not feel envious and yearn for it? Their suppressed desire to restore their ancestors' glory had been fiercely rekindled, and once ignited, it could not be stopped.
After a silence that had been oppressive to the extreme, the hall suddenly grew noisy. The commotion created by more than a dozen family heads who normally cared most about their image and manners made the empty hall seem as though countless flies had flown inside, buzzing without end.
Wang Ren sat in the host's seat, smiling as he watched the family heads below argue heatedly over how feasible the idea was. His unruffled bearing filled the two grandsons standing behind him with utter admiration. For a moment, they did not know how to describe the feeling in their hearts.
If the two of them had known the profound meaning of the phrase "king of pretentious kings," they would certainly have applied it to their grandfather.
It took quite a while before