In the Imperial City, This Country Bumpkin Truly Had Seen Too Little

After dealing with the experimental subjects at hand, Lu Xingshi prepared to head to the Imperial City to capture the Source of Corruption Mother and search for the Otherworld Demon's true body.

As for Federation affairs, Lu Xingshi appointed several senators as acting presidents. In truth, whether the Federation had one appointed or none at all made no difference.

But Lu Xingshi had appointed several of them, so the Federation was surely in for unrest.

He had done it deliberately. Once they began fighting among themselves, the efficiency of amassing wealth would rise dramatically.

Zheng Xiang's earlier practice of wielding a feather as an imperial decree had benefited Lu Xingshi immensely. If he had not killed off a batch of senators, he would never have known they were so rich.

Though they had agreed on a ninety-ten split, Lu Xingshi could be certain Zheng Xiang had skimmed off a portion. It had not reached ninety-ten; conservatively, it had probably been closer to seventy-thirty. Lu Xingshi simply turned a blind eye. He had indeed lost some benefits, but it encouraged crooked practices.

If the Federation kept developing like this, it might very well perish in its second generation. When the Yan Army moved in afterward, the takeover would be even easier.

It did not matter if the upper ranks rotted away. What he valued was the lower class. After all, how many people could there be in the Federation's upper ranks? Put together, they did not even amount to a fraction of the common folk.

The harder they squeezed them, the faster the Yan Army would take over once it arrived.

Still, while the Federation's upper echelons fought among themselves, they understood the bigger picture and continued steadily advancing against the Da Ci Dynasty.

Lu Xingshi could not yet estimate how