Lu Zhiwei was as wealthy as the country. In order to protect the family business, her father made a marriage contract with the royal family in her early years for her to marry the prince. The prince died young, and the regent Xie Tingyun assumed the monarchy on his behalf. In order to get rid of the shackles of the royal family and focus on business, Lu Zhiwei directly wrote to the regent to request an end of the engagement. Xie Tingyun was struggling with the military pay for the war in the north. He took a fancy to the Lu family's great wealth. Not only did he refuse to cancel the engagement, but he also forced the Lu family to bear huge military expenses on the grounds that "the future mother of the country needs to share the country's worries." Lu Zhiwei sneered: "Your Highness, do you know that the money to raise an army is enough for me to buy three vassal states?" The two started a top-notch struggle around money and power, and Lu Zhiwei even discovered that behind Xie Tingyun's urgent need for military pay, there was a shocking plan to subvert Chao Gang.
