Fengxi Country is not far from Feiyu Immortal Palace.
But... this is for monks.
The two places are separated by seven kingdoms including Baoxiang Kingdom, Lanyue Kingdom, and Liuguang Kingdom. After reaching Baoxiang Kingdom in the north, we have to cross a vast water area of thousands of miles to reach the Lingnan Road of Fengxi Kingdom.
For ordinary people, these journeys, even if they are riding a thousand-mile horse, will take a lifetime of energy.
Xu Xing stopped and stopped along the way, experiencing the customs of various countries.
Cultivation also requires relaxation and moderation.
Being as tight as a bowstring all the time is not a good thing for spiritual practice.
About five days passed.
Xu Xingxing crossed Lingnan Road, Jiangnan South Road, and Luonan Road, and arrived at the Shenjing City of Fengxi Kingdom. He stood on the watchtower standing next to the green and black city wall, stepped on one of its cornices, and looked at the inner and outer cities in the distance.
One hundred and eight squares of the city are in good order.
The east and west cities are bustling with traffic and pedestrians, creating a scene of flourishing flowers and brocades.
"Gongyang has his own way of governing the country."
Xu Xing secretly praised him.
Don't look at how Gong Yangyi always suffered defeats when he was his enemy. But before he went to Siming Mountain, Gong Yangyi was the mastermind of the monk, basically doing everything to his disadvantage.
Heyang Mountain is the leader of the Eighteen Route Princes!
It can be said that Gong Yangyi's internal affairs methods are definitely among the best.
"Go to Prince Kun's Mansion first."
"My third brother, King Kun, is the most sincere and sincere. He is also my sworn brother and the one who values brotherly love the most."
After getting off the watchtower, he casually cast a breath-containing technique on himself, and Xu Xing went straight to Prince Kun's Mansion in Shengkangfang.
He had no intention of heading directly to the palace.
Twelve years gone.
Although the world has not changed, things have changed, but twelve years have been enough to change a lot of things. Especially since he claimed that he was ill and had not been able to meet the officials before the court.
Even though close ministers like Gong Yangyi and Chang Ji knew that Emperor Tiande was not seriously ill, he went to Feiyu Immortal Palace to seek immortality. But he didn't show up for too long. Who knows if there would be anyone after such a long time?
Hundreds of officials or vassal kings from various places had different intentions...
"He is a dignified prince..."
"Why is it so deserted in front of the door?"
After a while, Xu Xing arrived at a tall mansion.
The mansion he gave to Kuntian King Chang Kunyu was the palace of King Yong, the former prince of Chongming Emperor.
This palace covers an area of about one hundred acres. It has a painted vermilion door with bright copper animal head rings nailed on the door. Two majestic white jade lions sit on the door pillow. Through the blue bricks and black tiles that are as tall as two people,
You can see the various attics with high eaves in the palace, which shows the grandeur of the palace.
It's just that the front door of this mansion is quite deserted.
Whether it's the front entrance or the side entrance.
The main door was closed and not opened, while two burly servants in blue stood at the side door, guarding the door. Beside the side door, near the horse-fastening stone, there was little fresh soil, and there was a thin layer of dust on the ground.
Take a peek and know the whole thing.
If King Kun had many guests, there should be no empty tethering stones, not even a single horse.
"Go in and have a look."
Xu Xing dodged, crossed the two guard courtyards, and entered the palace.
Entering without warning is inconsistent with etiquette.
But he was the founding emperor, so this small courtesy could not restrict him.
In an instant.
Xu Xing found the king of Kun, Chang Kun, from an ice room in the back house.
Chang Kun was half lying on an Arhat bed, squinting his eyes and snoring. He had his chest open, and two concubines beside him were fanning him hard with cattail fans. In the ice room, there were two large buckets of cold air.
ice.
A bit of cool air spread to Chang Kun due to the fanning of the cattail leaf fan.
See this.
Xu Xing was not surprised either.
At this time, Fengxi Country was experiencing a scorching summer, and it was common for dignitaries to take ice from the ice cellar to build icehouses to cool off the heat. Chang Kun's behavior was not considered arrogant or extravagant.
"Third brother..."
"I haven't seen you for many years. The third brother's cheeks are raw and his life is much more comfortable than the fourth brother's. I am really envious of my fourth brother."
Not long after, Xu Xing revealed himself and looked at Chang Kun, who had white hair on his temples, with a smile on his face.
The two concubines who were holding cattail fans for Chang Kun suddenly saw Xu Xing revealing himself, and mistakenly thought he was an assassin. They almost shouted at the top of their lungs and called the guards outside to escort him inside. But when they heard Xu Xing's self-identification, they immediately
He forcefully suppressed the words that came out of his mouth so as not to offend the emperor.
King Kun's fourth brother is none other than Emperor Tiande.
"The maids have seen the emperor..."
The two concubines knelt on the ground, their delicate bodies trembling slightly.
The person in front of them is the Emperor of Heavenly Virtue who can take them life and death. How dare they be disrespectful?
Such a noise instantly woke up Chang Kun, who was dozing soundly. He quickly stood up from the Arhat bed. Then, in front of his eyes, Xu Xing's figure stood in the room with a calm expression.
"Chang Kun has met your Majesty."
Chang Kun was stunned for a few breaths, rubbed his eyes again, and after confirming that he was not blinded, he immediately lifted up the front of his robe and prepared to kneel down to pay homage to Xu Xing.
The righteousness of the monarch and his ministers is at the top, and the brotherhood is at the bottom.
Having been a minister for a long time, Chang Kun knows what to do.
"Third brother, why are you so polite?"
Xu Xing came to Chang Kun in an instant, bent down slightly, and stopped Chang Kun from bowing down with his arms.
Then, he shook his head and said: "Third brother, you and I are all brothers who worship the master, and the etiquette of the emperor and his ministers is nothing. Besides, I have entered the path of immortality now, so I can avoid some common etiquette if I can."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Chang Kun did not insist on bowing down, but he did not change his title either. He still addressed Xu Xing as "Your Majesty" instead of "Fourth Brother".
Some common rituals may be waived.
But if he really doesn't know what to do, Xu Xing will be okay at first, but over time, he will definitely be dissatisfied.
Chang Kun knows everything about the roughness and the subtlety.
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The ice room was restored as a living room.
The maid pours spiritual tea.
The aroma fills the whole room and makes people salivate.
Xu Xing took a seat at the main seat. Chang Kun accompanied him at the second seat. After each of them took a sip of the tea soaked in Huan Wu Ling Tea, Xu Xing pointed out the purpose of his visit to Prince Kun's Mansion this time.
Find out about the current situation of the imperial court.
"Chaozhong..."
Chang Kun touched his head.
Although he was deeply moved, his fourth brother did not treat him as an outsider.
But some words had to be said truthfully, so he sneered and said: "Your Majesty, you know that I am fine with fighting, but I don't care much about the affairs of the court, and I can't manage them well. So.
As early as the second year after your Majesty left, I simply closed the gate of the palace to prevent visitors..."
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In fact, the reason why he closed the palace and saw no outsiders was that besides the fact that he was not greedy for power, the more reason was that the vassal king with a foreign surname attracted attention...
In the fourth year of Tiande's reign, someone impeached him, King Kun, for taking bribes and lining his own pockets. Chang Kun was furious at first. He hated corrupt officials most in his life. How could he be corrupt? In addition, Xu Xing rewarded their sworn brothers endlessly, and he couldn't
If you are short of money, how can you commit corruption and accept bribes?
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After being impeached by all the officials in the court, he realized belatedly that it was his own surname that caused the trouble.
So Chang Kun rushed to Gong Yangyi's mansion overnight and asked Gong Yangyi what he should do next. Gong Yangyi gave him this advice and asked him to delegate his power and become a wealthy prince.
"Then now...who has the most power in the DPRK..."
"Third brother, you should know about this."
Xu Xing's words became slightly colder.
He finally understood that Chang Kun was afraid of offending others, so he was fooling around.
But after he thought about it for a moment, he felt relieved.
He can just leave, but Chang Kun still has to find a career for himself and a future for his descendants. Now, it is not terrible to offend him, the great ancestor, because he is not in power, and he will not kill him just because of this matter.
, severed the previous kindness.
But if Chang Kun offends the forces in the court, then his future and that of his descendants will be uncertain.
"Yes... the queen and the chief minister Gong Yangyi are in power together."
Chang Kun hesitated for a moment and said.
This matter cannot be hidden from Xu Xing. As long as Xu Xing makes some inquiries in Shenjing, he will know who is in power in Shenjing now. Everyone knows it, and the people in the market also know it.
If he really pretends that he doesn't know anything, then he will really offend Xu Xing to death.
But after he finished speaking, Chang Kun added, "Your Majesty, you also know that you claimed to be ill and did not see any officials. Even though we ministers knew that you were seeking immortality. But the middle-level and lower-level officials
, and the people in the world don’t know, the queen is also helpless..."
"The prince is young, if the queen does not get involved in politics."
"The power of the Heavenly Family is hard to survive!"
He said something from the bottom of his heart.
"This matter...I understand."
After a moment of silence, Xu Xing nodded, looking calm.
Zhao Yunniang's harem intervened in the government affairs and took over the power. In fact, it was his deliberate arrangement when he left. If he really wanted to limit the power of the harem, as the founder of the country, he could decide it with one word.
Just leave an edict.
No matter how clever Zhao Yunniang is, she can't change the situation.
"The official who impeached Third Brother..."
"Is this the queen's trick?"
Xu Xing glanced at Chang Kun and smiled.
Among the two people who gained power in the court, they were Queen Zhao Yunniang and Gong Yangyi, the chief minister of the cabinet. The former was the queen and her mother was responsible for the world. She nominally had the power to intervene in politics when the emperor was not in power. The latter, the chief minister of the cabinet, had
The natural political power to command hundreds of officials….
However, vassal kings with foreign surnames such as Kuntian King Chang Kun fell.
Obviously, it was a political maneuver by Gong Yangyi and Zhao Yunniang to return power to the central government. After all, external vassal turmoil affected the government.
This kind of thing is a general trend.
Anyone sitting in the seats of Gong Yangyi and Zhao Yunniang would do the same thing.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the heroes were divided among themselves, so they had to delegate the power of the central government to outsiders. However, the later rulers obviously did not have the prestige of the founding ancestor, so the central government would inevitably continue to gather power to fight against the "vassal kings" and "heroes" who were cutting off their flesh.
", in order to achieve the effect of stabilizing central power.
"Son of a bitch..."
"It turns out it was Gong Yangyi who came up with the idea."
"It's a shame that I keep blaming the queen and go to him for help..."
Hearing this, Chang Kun, the king of Kun, suddenly showed an angry look on his face. He cursed, "From the time we started the army, I knew that Gong Yangyi was a bad guy. I thought I had a comradeship with him, but I didn't expect that he
The plot is on me."
He thought about the first level.
She thought it was Queen Zhao Yunniang who wanted to gain power and consolidate the power of the Heavenly Family so that the Heavenly Family's power would not fall by the wayside, so she willingly became a wealthy and virtuous king.
But he never expected that there was actually a plan by Gong Yangyi.
"Where's eldest brother?"
"how is he……"
"Are you willing to be a wealthy and wise king?"
Xu Xing asked again.
When he was on the Guanxi Road, in order to build his reputation, he left a thousand Buyanqi to Yao Dang, the king of mourning.
Later, when he unified the world, his position was taken from Yao Dang, so Yao Dang had the most real titles. It can be said that Yao Dang was the most powerful vassal king among the vassal kings with other surnames, with at least more than 10,000 troops under his command.
Of course, he was also on guard against Yao Dang.
When the people of the Xu clan were granted wings, they deliberately put the Xu clan's fiefs and Yao Dang's together to restrain each other.
"Brother's words..."
Chang Kun let out a long sigh, "My eldest brother passed away suddenly two years ago. Some of the guards at Prince Mourning Palace said that before my eldest brother passed away, he met my second brother once..."
Among the three heavenly kings in Siming Mountain, King Mourning and King Wei have the best relationship.
Neither is he.
"King Weitian?"
Xu Xing frowned.
He intuitively felt that there was something fishy about the death of King Yao Dang.
In the second fate deduction, he was beheaded by Ye Jiming with a sword, and then turned into an underground master whose remnant soul is immortal. It was King Wei Tian who used means to destroy his remnant soul.
Then it is obvious that King Weitian, who split his troops in Daoliang Mountain and left, will have some opportunities afterwards.
Maybe King Weitian is also a monk now.
This is also something that cannot be said for sure.
"Although I usurped Yao Dang's power, I never felt sorry for Yao Dang afterwards. King Wei Tian will not hate me. Besides, no matter how powerful King Wei Tian is, is he as good as me?"
Xu Xing calmed down and put aside the matter of King Weitian for the time being.
The road to immortality is cruel.
There were only a few people who could get to the back.
If King Wei Tian really had hatred for him, he would have taken revenge on Zhao Yunniang and Xu Zhang long ago. Besides, looking at King Wei, he did not think that this person was a narrow-minded person.
then.
Chang Kun followed Xu Xing's instructions and recounted what happened to the "Xu family" and the ministers in the court during the past twelve years.
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"Third brother can have this realization..."
"Among the ministers, the one who can defeat Third Brother is no more than the number of two palms."
After listening, Xu Xing was not angry about Chang Kun's handling of things, but instead praised him.
Know the pros and cons, know how to advance and retreat.
can do this.
That's enough to be called a wise man.
"Thank you for your compliment, Your Majesty."
Chang Kun breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He pretended to be stupid, scratching his head first, and then bowing to Xu Xing.
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Walk out of Prince Kun's Mansion.
Xu Xing's face showed a hint of confusion.
Although he praised Chang Kun's decent handling of things, Chang Kun's decent handling of things was not a sign of his affinity. Several years after the uprising, he and Chang Kun got to know each other, first in a false relationship, and then after four years of getting along, they also became more and more affectionate.
I felt sincere, but I never thought that twelve years later, everything would be the same as before.
"By the way, King Xingtian flicked his sleeves, and two yellow snakes came out of his sleeves."
"On that day, the sacred capital was majestic and the immortals stood in the sky..."
"King Xing Tian cut off the immortal's arm, laughed several times, grabbed the immortal's arm, and bit it with his mouth... The immortal energy escaped, and bits of blood fell below the south city, allowing the dead cypress trees to spring again."
"The immortal was furious and cursed: How dare a mere mortal dare to attack the immortal?"
"At this time, King Xingtian bent his bow and arrow again, and shot an arrow into the eye of the immortal. The immortal was afraid that his eyes would be taken away by King Xingtian again, so he said, 'The essence and blood of your parents should not be discarded,' and swallowed his own eyes."
"And this time the battle to kill the immortals..."
"The body of King Xingtian was also cursed, and his age was unknown. He had no choice but to rest in the palace."
"For the welfare of all people, King Xingtian is willing to accept the punishment of heaven for one person..."
"We, the common people, must share in the punishment of King Xing."
Not long after he left Shengkangfang, Xu Xing met a storyteller in a big coat and holding a white paper folding fan at the entrance of the square, talking under a big locust tree, surrounded by a group of people listening to the book.
The book in question is nothing else.
It was the battle between him and Ye Jiming outside Shenjing in the first year of Tiande.
It's just that three people became tigers, and this story becomes more and more outrageous the more you tell it.
"It doesn't have to be outrageous..."
"It's also possible that the imperial court deliberately let the storyteller speak like this, so as to establish my authority and promote the imperial court's orthodoxy... After all, I have already killed an immortal. With such difficulty, no one in the world will dare to rebel after listening to this."
Xu Xing shook his head and thought to himself.
In order to promote Taizu's righteousness in winning the country, later generations compiled legends about Taizu without being polite at all. There are stories about being born with a strange fragrance that fills the house, a dragon entering the mother's body in her mother's dream, the red emperor's son killing the white emperor's son, having three breasts... etc. Wait, what are you writing about? It’s just that stupid people still do this.
In comparison, his Immortal Killing was relatively normal.
"etc……"
"This storyteller..."
"Scholar Su?"
Just when Xu Xing was about to leave, he subconsciously glanced back at the storyteller.
It didn't matter before I scanned it, but after I scanned it, I was suddenly surprised.
At this time, although Scholar Su had shaved off his beard, his face looked a little older.
However, Xu Xing and Su Xueshi had been in prison for a long time. In addition, he had extraordinary spiritual awareness at this time, so with just one glance, he could tell that this storyteller was none other than Su Xue, who dominated the Fengxi Chinese literary world at that time. Scholar - Suche.
"Emperor Tiande..."
"Oh, no..., Mr. Xu..."
Scholar Su, who had just drank tea to soothe his throat, also noticed Xu Xing. He almost couldn't hold back and let the tea in his mouth spurt out from his throat.
However, he was also briefly hit by the tea a few times.
So he quickly put the tea cup down, wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, and stood up to salute Xu Xing.
Today is different from the past.
Xu Xing has become emperor.
However, Xu Xingshi, a former official, also knew that it was not appropriate to reveal Xu Xing's identity at this time, so before he could say the words "Emperor Tiande", he quickly changed his name to "Master Xu".
"Let's chat at the roadside teahouse."
Xu Xing became interested.
He didn't expect that the storyteller who arranged for him on the roadside was actually Su Xueshi, who was a fellow prisoner with him.
"please."
Scholar Su put the reward money in the large porcelain bowl into his pocket, then inserted the white paper fan into his waist, then followed Xu Xing into the teahouse on the roadside with his hands clasped behind his back, where he called for a seat and a pot of high-quality tea.
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Drink some tea.
Seeing his old friend, Xuexian Su opened his heart and said, "I will no longer be an official. In the first year of Tiande, you took over the world and invited me to serve as an official in the court. I deliberately avoided the imperial envoys you sent and hid outside the house. I waited for three days and three nights until the imperial envoy left, and then I returned home."
"Later, I came to Shenjing and saw that storytelling was interesting, so I started talking about books."
"It's not fun to be an official."
"The big hermit hides in the city, the small hermit hides in the wild."
He smiled generously, with bitterness in his smile.
After several consecutive disappointments in officialdom, he also understood that he was not the material to be an official.
After entering the court, he could only write poems and lyrics for the new emperor.
Instead of being a prime minister and serving the country and the people.
He understands that to serve the country and the people is to harm the people and help the country. He really has no such ability.
When Emperor Chongming was in power, he could still scold the emperor for being in power, but it was difficult for him to realize his ambitions.
But after Xu Xing punished the people and established a new dynasty... Xu Xing, who was familiar with him, sent an imperial envoy to grant him an official position, which was also a idle position.
He immediately understood his own worth.
From then on, he never thought of becoming an official in the court.
"storytelling……"
Seeing that the tea was gone, Xu Xing took out the Huanwu Ling tea from the storage bag, twisted a few tea leaves and threw them in. Then he cast a spell to attract living water and began to cook tea quietly.
While using magic to keep the heat of the tea brewing, he advised: "Storytelling is something that most scribes cannot do. Poetry is the proper way to do it. Storytelling cannot be refined. Scholar Su, why are you doing this?"
Storytelling is a low-class job.
Not to mention Su Xueshi, a former Hanlin scholar, ordinary scholars who have no fame are not willing to humble themselves and go to the streets to tell books. At most, they sell calligraphy.
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"Master Xu..."
"What about poetry? What about storytelling?"
Academician Su looked longingly at the teapot suspended on the table. The tea leaves he was twisting just now, if he guessed correctly, should be the fairy tea drank by the immortals. He had nothing to do in his life, he just wanted to have some appetite.
He wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and said disdainfully: "It's all a job of showing off words. What's the difference between high and low?"
"My surname is Su, I no longer write poetry!"
He hummed a few times.
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No more poetry?
Xu Xing looked at Xuexianshi Su silently.
He didn't know whether what Xuexue Su said was out of anger or the truth. But he thought that the reason why Xuexue Su didn't write poetry was probably inseparable from the poem Princess Anren asked for.
The character of a scholar may seem invisible, but sometimes it can actually be touched.
Emperor Chongming lost his country because of his stupidity.
But this is also closely related to Emperor Chongming's refusal to give them dignity when dealing with his ministers.
Treat your ministers as your own private slaves!
"Master Xu..."
"Are you really sick and recuperating in the palace? Or... have you gone to seek immortality?"
After a moment of silence, Academician Su took the initiative to change the topic.
Asked about the thing he cared about most.
In his view, Xu Xing was not a mediocre ruler. Xu Xing, who was an official, not only understood how to survive in the officialdom, but also understood that a country cannot live without a king for a day.
He will not be dismissed easily.
Especially not long after the founding of the country.
Now that he saw Xu Xing's casual skill, he had some guesses about Xu Xing's behavior in the past twelve years. But he was not sure, so he wanted to get an answer from Xu Xing.
"Seeking immortality..."
Xu Xing remained calm, glanced at Academician Su, and replied.
Although Feiyu Immortal Palace allows immortals not to interfere with each other, this commandment is not so strict. If he hadn't been with the human king body and the Ming King body at that time, he would have been killed by Ye Jiming with a sword, and he would not have entered Shenjing at all.
An opportunity to replace the Song family.
Therefore, revealing a few things is not considered a violation of the sect's precepts.