Facing the pure and innocent eyes of those little wolf cubs, as if they could be beaten if they wanted, Emperor Longchang raised his hand several times, but was never willing to fight.
"That's all, I made a mistake this time." Emperor Longchang sighed, and the anger on his face disappeared, "Since you five little ones are so naughty, I decided to give you a small punishment to teach you a lesson.
"
"Come here, lock them in a cage, set up a small isolation space formation, and find two more, no, ten eunuchs to take turns guarding them. They must not be out of sight for a moment." Emperor Longchang ordered, "Starve them for five days.
, it won’t take more than three days.”
"Yes, Your Majesty." The eunuchs immediately bent down to accept the order and began to look for cages that met the requirements, carrying out Emperor Longchang's order.
"The water in the cage must not be cut off, and it must be covered with soft silk and satin." Emperor Longchang gave another warning, and then drove to the Humble Administrator's Pavilion with a dark face.
He could no longer stay in this devastated imperial garden.
I feel distressed, heartbroken, and uncomfortable to watch.
After two full days, Emperor Longchang's depressed mood recovered a lot, his anger towards the little wolf cub also subsided a lot, and he began to miss him again.
You've been hungry for two days, so you should be much better behaved, right?
Early that morning, Emperor Longchang once again set up his garden to visit the wolf cubs.
"See Your Majesty."
Seeing Emperor Longchang, the eunuchs on duty hurriedly saluted.
"Are the five little ones still good?" Emperor Longchang asked with his hands behind his back.
As he spoke, he glanced at the specially built wolf nest and saw that the railings were intact and the small space isolating formation was in good condition, and he felt a lot more at ease.
The five little ones also stayed in the wolf den obediently, sitting on the mat with their backs straight, their eyes not squinting, and their movements uniform.
When they saw Emperor Longchang, their eyes showed longing and excitement, they stuck out their tongues and said "ha ha woo woo", and even the silver gray wolf fur fluttered happily.
"Your Majesty." The eunuchs replied hurriedly, "We followed your Majesty's orders and did not take our eyes away for a moment. The five wolf cubs were all well-behaved and never left the wolf den."
As soon as these words came out, Emperor Longchang suddenly became elated. He looked at Old Yao with a bit of embarrassment and said: "Old Yao, what are you talking about? These little ones are still good at heart, but they are just a little naughty and need to be carefully trained.
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"Come here, let them out. They are still young and are at their most lively age. They have been locked up for two days and may be bored." Emperor Longchang said with some distress, "I will take them out for a walk."
Take a walk and relax."
The imperial craftsmen were very fast. In just two days, most of the dilapidated imperial garden was repaired. At least on the surface, it looked almost the same as before. It was just that the precious exotic flowers and exotic species looked "lost" a lot.
, it won’t grow back in a short time.
Emperor Longchang took five little ones for a walk in the imperial garden, and from time to time taught them to identify some expensive varieties. At the same time, he taught them verbosely: "You can play as you like in the garden, but if you want to cause damage, you will have to do it again."
It’s hard work.”
He looks so patient, really like a kind old grandfather.
The five little ones were also well-behaved. They listened attentively and nodded repeatedly. They also peed from time to time to irrigate the exotic flowers and plants, as if to apologize for their past wrongdoings.
"Okay, okay, you really lived up to my teachings." Emperor Longchang was very relieved and very satisfied.
After taking the five little ones to relax, he simply took them to the Humble Administrator's Pavilion. There were still some government affairs to deal with today, and having the five little ones with him made him feel better.
In the evening, Emperor Longchang had dealt with some difficult matters in the government affairs. He looked up and saw the five little ones in the Humble Administrator's Pavilion.
They were lying, sitting, or simply sleeping on the emperor's legs, and none of them caused trouble.
For a moment, Emperor Longchang felt warm in his heart, feeling that his training of the five little ones was quite effective.
If he had known that the Silver Moon Wolf was so fun and so healing, he would have ordered the Mobei barbarians to donate a few of them.
In this warm atmosphere, time flies by. Before we know it, dinner time has arrived.
The eunuchs went to the imperial dining room and brought the emperor's dinner.
Emperor Longchang is the Emperor Lingxu, and his body functions are naturally extremely powerful. He can move mountains and rivers with one kick and collapse mountains with one punch. To maintain such powerful body functions, daily consumption will naturally be considerable.
Even though he is old, he no longer pursues breakthroughs in strength. The requirements for replenishing qi, blood and spiritual energy are still very high. In addition to needing to eat high-level spiritual meat and spiritual food to replenish qi, blood and nourish the body, he also needs to regularly
Take and refine the sixth-grade Ling Yuan Bao Dan, which is made from heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to maintain his strong strength just by meditating and absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered around him.
After all, the stronger the physical body, the faster the metabolism, and the greater the daily consumption of qi, blood and spiritual energy. If you don't get enough replenishment, there will certainly be no problem in the short term, and you can rely on the energy stored in the body.
It can be sustained for a long time, but if it is not replenished for a long time, the Xuanwu monk's body will gradually decline until it is exhausted.
An ordinary dinner like Emperor Longchang's today requires the use of leg meat and backbone meat from a fifth-level snow-patterned beef cattle.
This kind of spiritual beef cattle is raised in a special way in the royal family's large pasture. It is a special breed that has been domesticated and improved over a long period of time. It eats spiritual grain, spiritual grass and other formula feeds every day. The meat is tender and nutritious.
abundant.
This kind of snow-patterned spiritual beef unique to the royal family can grow up to the fifth or sixth level. It grows quickly and has low intelligence. The spiritual beef it produces is also tender in texture and has an excellent taste, making it extremely popular with the outside world.
In the royal ranch, some snow-patterned cattle will be sold at high prices from time to time to subsidize the ranch's losses.
The emperor usually eats six to seven hundred kilograms of spiritual beef for his dinner, which according to the market price, already exceeds tens of thousands of gold.
In addition to the snow-patterned spiritual ox, the emperor also liked to eat some high-level spiritual fish, some spiritual melons and spiritual fruits, and he would also drink some spiritual wine when he was happy.
This dinner often costs more than thirteen thousand gold.
In terms of food supplements, Emperor Longchang's annual expenses would reach about 7 million dry gold. In addition, one million Ling Yuan Bao Dan would be taken and refined into twelve pills every year.
In this way, the emperor's basic annual consumption is 19 million dry gold.
And this is the result of Emperor Longchang having already given up on upgrading, greatly reducing his own supply specifications, and only maintaining the most basic consumption.
Otherwise, if it were based on his consumption when he was in his prime, or the ration specifications when he was on a military expedition, the consumption would have doubled.
From this we can see how staggering the annual consumption is to feed an emperor with Lingxu Realm strength.
"You five little ones, let's have some together." Emperor Longchang said with a smile, "If you like snow-patterned spiritual cattle, I will ask the imperial kitchen to prepare more bone-in meat of spiritual cattle later."
The five little ones' eyes lit up and they nodded in unison.
Grandpa, you are such a good man, your words made their mouths water.
While he was talking, the serving eunuch had already opened the large lid of the food box, revealing a large pile of roasted snow-patterned spirit cattle inside.
It can be seen that the heat of these spiritual beef is well controlled when roasted. Each piece is charred on the outside and tender on the inside. It exudes a strong aroma of barbecue, which makes people very appetizing at first sight.
However, Emperor Longchang's face turned gloomy just after he took a bite, and he said dissatisfied: "Why weren't these spiritual beef marinated in advance? They tasted completely tasteless. Did the chef's head get caught in the door?"
He has lived for thousands of years and has been pampered for most of his life. Naturally, he has become more picky as he lives and has extremely high requirements for the taste of food.
The eunuchs were trembling with fear.
It was Lao Yao who bravely stepped forward and explained in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the royal chefs in the imperial dining room opened the kitchen early this morning and found that all the spiritual beef marinated in advance yesterday was missing."
"As a last resort, the spirit beef cooked in a hurry is indeed not as tasty as before. This case is already under investigation, Your Majesty, please make do with it today."
"Hmph~" Emperor Longchang said in a displeased mood, "Those imperial chefs are really becoming less and less attentive, and they even lose the ingredients. Forget it this time, if there is another time, I will let them move their heads."
But as a result, Emperor Longchang, who had always been picky, lost his appetite. He only ate half of the spiritual beef and lost his appetite. He ate some more spiritual melons and seventy or eighty kilograms of spiritual rice and stopped using his chopsticks.
In this way, the five little ones were actually cheaper, and they "clop, clatter, clatter" and ate happily.
What kind of owners do they really have, what kind of pets do they keep? Although they are not yet adults, their food intake and appetite are already quite amazing.
Soon, the five little ones ate up all the remaining food, and their bellies became round.
After eating, they did not forget to act cute and serve Emperor Longchang. They were very skilled at this trick.
This actually made Emperor Longchang feel much better.
The next day.
Emperor Longchang took them for a walk just like yesterday. After handling some government affairs, it was dinner time again.
As a result, the food served this time made Emperor Longchang even more dissatisfied. The ingredients seemed to have been prepared in a hurry. Not only were they not as meticulous as usual, but the quality had also declined.
"Old Yao." Emperor Longchang said angrily, "What did you do? Can't you catch even a small kitchen thief?"
"Back to Your Majesty." Old Yao Leng replied with sweat dripping. "There was no sign that the formation in the imperial dining room had been touched. The old slave arranged for guards to be on guard duty at night, and he did not see anyone coming in or out. But strangely, early this morning,
All the ingredients that were just processed and marinated last night are gone."
"Interesting, interesting." Emperor Longchang sneered, "I don't know how long there haven't been thieves in my palace, but they still steal my food. Old Yao, after you find out, bring him to me. I'm sorry.
We want to see who he is who has such ability."
As a result, his appetite was naturally bad, and he ended up losing five small ones, almost eating them to the point where they couldn't even walk.
The five little ones opened their blue eyes and were very excited.
Woohoo, the amiable grandpa is such a good person~~~
The third day.
Because of what happened two days ago, Emperor Longchang was not in the mood to go for a walk early in the morning, so he went directly to the Humble Administrator's Pavilion.
Lao Yao personally stayed on duty all night last night, and I think the results will come out today.
Sure enough, as soon as he arrived at the Humble Administrator's Pavilion, Lao Yao came over to see him and reported: "Your Majesty, in order to prevent the enemy from being disturbed, the old slave only secretly stared at the imperial dining room from a distance. But all night long, the formations in the imperial dining room were all gone.
There was no sign of being touched. In the morning, when the old slave went in again, he found that the ingredients had been stolen again."
"After that, the old slave carefully checked every corner of the imperial dining room, and finally found a small cave in a very hidden place, and found this tuft of hair next to the cave."
At this point, Lao Yao took out the small handful of hair, with a wry smile on his face: "Does the texture and color of this hair seem familiar to Your Majesty?"
"This..." Emperor Longchang's eyes widened, with a look of disbelief on his face, "That's impossible. My five cubs are all staying obediently in the wolf den. There are people on duty at night to keep an eye on it. It's impossible.
It’s plagiarism…”
Having said this, Emperor Longchang no longer had the confidence to continue. He took the handful of hair and went straight to the back garden.
In the imperial garden, the exquisite wolf nest, the dedicated eunuchs, and the five well-behaved little wolves were all as before.
After the eunuch opened the fence of the wolf nest, the five little wolves immediately ran out and circled around Emperor Longchang. Such warm attachment and well-behaved appearance made Emperor Longchang feel warm in his heart, and he even couldn't help but feel suspicious.
own inference.
How could the five little ones steal food when they are so good? Did I wrong the five little ones again? Maybe it was done by other spiritual beasts with similar fur colors...
"Did you behave well at night?" Emperor Longchang knelt down and touched their heads one by one, his voice sounded gentle.
"Ah ah ah ah~~" The five little ones ah ah in unison, nodding incessantly.
"Then which one of you left this tuft of hair?" Emperor Longchang took out the tuft of hair and began to interrogate, "Second brother, you are usually the liveliest, is it something bad you did? Fifth brother, you
You're sneaking around and hiding behind, isn't that you?"
The five little ones squatted on the ground, you looked at me, I looked at you, and then looked at the emperor with pure and innocent eyes.
Kind and lovely grandpa, what are you talking about? We can’t understand you no matter how hard you listen?
"Your Majesty, we follow your will. As long as the five cubs are in the wolf den, we will have someone watching them the whole time." The eunuch in charge of guarding helped. "We will keep two people watching at all times to make sure that the five cubs are not
Left."
"Check the wolf's den." By this time, Emperor Longchang was already half-convinced, "The main thing is to check if there is a cave."
The eunuchs immediately took the order and went to inspect the wolf's lair.
At first, they didn't notice anything wrong, until a eunuch lifted up the soft blanket specially laid in the wolf's lair.
In the corner, there is a small cave, only big enough for a little wolf cub to pass through.
"How is that possible?" The eunuchs were all shocked.
The five little ones are always under their noses. When did they dig the hole?
Emperor Longchang took a look and suddenly felt dizzy while holding his head.
It was as if the child he trusted so deeply had suddenly turned into a lawless criminal, full of disbelief, complex emotions of being deceived and betrayed.
His face was as dark as water, and he stared at the five little ones: "Tell me honestly, how did you do it?"
"Woooooo~"
Seeing that his deeds were exposed, Wuxiao knew that he could not escape. He immediately lowered his head and put his ears to his head, with a look of regret on his face, as if "I was wrong and I will definitely repent."
At the same time, they pushed each other back and forth, pushing Lao Wu out.
The droopy Lao Wu reluctantly moved out and started his performance pitifully in front of the emperor.
I saw it squatting on the spot, shaking its fur, and then retreating.
Something magical happened.
The original one old five suddenly turned into two, and the extra one could blink and stick out its tongue. It looked very lifelike. The Xuanwu monks who were slightly less powerful could not tell where they were.
Question. If it is under the moonlight, it can be even more fake.
Then Lao Wu took another step back and created a second phantom, a third phantom...
"Moonlight Phantom Technique? How many trump cards do you five have hiding?" The corner of Emperor Longchang's mouth twitched.
I never expected that each of these little wolf cubs had great magical powers. Not only did they have the ability to become invisible and invisible, but they also had space abilities. They even had the ability to phantom?
He is also very smart and knows how to use his phantom ability to confuse the eunuchs, and then secretly dig holes!
Although these abilities are nothing more than superficial tricks to the dignified Emperor Longchang, if they dare to use them in front of him, they will definitely be seen through in minutes.
But these little wolf cubs are still young, they haven’t even reached the fifth level yet~~ Where did they learn this shit?
Even though Emperor Longchang was well-informed, he was shocked by them for a while.
It's not unusual for Silver Moon Wolf to be able to awaken moonlight phantom abilities, but what's surprising is that they have already awakened them at this level and can use them skillfully. Moreover, they actually deceived the guarding eunuch.
You must know that the bloodline of the Silver Moon Wolf is very ancient and its bloodline is relatively noble. Before the fifth level, it can only be regarded as a cub. Among its tribe, the wolf king who enjoys the best resources can even be promoted to the ninth level.
Generally speaking, the cubs of the Silver Moon Wolf are considered to be teenagers only after they reach the fifth level and can officially participate in hunting. At that time, it will not be easy to tame them.
This is also the reason why Wang Lizi wants to express them back as soon as possible. The strength of these five cubs has reached the middle of the fourth level, and they will be promoted to the fifth level in at least ten years.
"You five little ones are so naughty and dare to deceive me." Emperor Longchang reprimanded with a dark face, "Huh~ I don't believe it anymore. I can't even deal with you five little ones."
"Come here, seal the hole, and cover the entire wolf lair with Chi-Ji iron floors."
"The fences have also been replaced with arm-thick Chi Jing iron, and the locks have been replaced with Tianji locks!"
Emperor Longchang seemed to be at odds with the five little ones. He stared and gnashed his teeth: "I would like to see what tricks you brats can do. By the way, the hematite spirits are too hard and cold. They are still there after all.
If you have a long body, you still need to prepare a good goose down cushion."
Old Yao on the side twitched his mouth when he heard it, and stopped talking.
Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you are getting deeper and deeper~~Do you still remember that this is someone else's wolf cub?
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At the same time that Emperor Longchang was competing with the five little ones.
In order to pretend to be pitiful, Taishi Ankang, who lived in the government post station, was in trouble.
In the simple inn room, he drank the bitter spiritual tea and pondered endlessly.
Something is wrong, something is wrong. According to Shouzhe's previous planning, now that His Majesty hears about my miserable state, he should be very happy to see me and ridicule me a few words.
"Could it be that something happened?"
There is no other reason. According to the original plan, after Taishi Ankang's "pleading for mercy" everywhere failed, he should implement the second step of the plan "to meet Emperor Longchang".
After the other party's comfort level is increased again and pleading to no avail, the third step of the plan can be implemented.
But now, he went to see His Majesty twice, but was blocked both times.
He couldn't figure it out, so he secretly handed some gold to the eunuch who summoned him, and then he got a strange news, saying that His Majesty was very busy recently and was not in the mood to deal with government affairs for the time being.
"Have you no intention of dealing with government affairs?" The more Taishi Ankang thought about it, the more he felt it was uncomfortable. He suddenly slapped his thigh and suddenly realized, "I see, that's it. Your Majesty must have a new love, and he was obsessed with it for a while, so he got tired of political affairs."
This is not the first time His Majesty has done this. He has a criminal record.
According to unofficial rumors, in the more than three thousand years since His Majesty ascended the throne, there have been no less than five times when His Majesty was idle for many years because of his infatuation with a certain concubine. However, the last time was eight hundred years ago!
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Taishi Ankang felt bitter in his heart and sighed secretly, "You are already very old, how can you be so good at this? Could it be that... Prince Kang and his group are plotting in secret?"
"Now we are in trouble~ It seems that this matter can only be solved by Shouzhe taking action."
As soon as he thought of this, Taishi Ankang immediately spread out his letter paper and began to write a letter to summon someone.
…
After some time.
An exclusive flying chariot cut through the sky and entered the airspace of Guilong City.
Guilong City is called a city, but it actually covers a large area and is surrounded by thirty-six military garrison guards.
Through the glass portholes of the flying chariot, one can see large tracts of farmland and pasture. They are extremely large in scale and cover an astonishing area. Among them, those places with the most fertile land and the richest spiritual veins all belong to the legendary Imperial Manor.
.
"Huangzhuang", as the name suggests, is the royal village.
They are one of the main properties of the royal family. They are planted, raised, or run some kind of industry. They may even be a large and precious spiritual stone mine.
It was also the huge and continuous wealth born from these imperial mansions that supported the royal family's considerable expenses.
The Imperial Village was not limited to the vicinity of Guilong City, but spread throughout every county. Basically, part of the most fertile land in each county was the private property of the royal family.
"Speaking of which, the royal family is generally very wealthy." Wang Shouzhe couldn't help but sigh with emotion on the chariot, "It's just that the family has a big business, and the expenses are also very huge. Just to feed an Emperor Lingxu, the annual expenses
It’s an astronomical number, not to mention there are so many princes in the magical power realm and princes in the purple mansion realm.”
"Grandpa, I heard that His Majesty is going to increase the taxation of our Longzuo County this time." Wang Anye, who had grown slightly taller beside him, blinked and said, "Is His Majesty Longchang too good at eating, and the royal family has no money?
?”
"Silly boy." Wang Shouzhe patted his head fondly, "National taxes will not directly enter the royal family's private treasury, and are not even allowed to enter the royal family's private treasury. The main purpose of national taxes is to maintain the entire imperial court.
Operation, reasonable adjustment of imbalances among counties, and use for disaster relief, military pay, land reclamation, etc. Part of His Majesty’s expenses does come from state support, but a considerable part of it comes from the royal family’s own subsidies.
"
"But after all, Your Majesty is the great emperor and the pillar of a country, and the amount of state tribute he enjoys every year is not small. Other princes, princes, princes and other titles will all receive part of the state tribute income."
"Part of this part of the money expenditure comes from national taxes, and part comes from state-owned industries. Therefore, although our Daqian Kingdom is controlled by the royal family, it does not mean that Daqian Kingdom is privately owned by the royal family."
While Wang Shouzhe explained all this to Wang Anye, he secretly sighed in his heart.
This is the difference between the feudal system of Daqian Kingdom and ancient China. Many emperors of ancient China emphasized "family world" and said that "the whole world is not the king's land", and those courtiers and nobles can only be regarded as "the king's land". "Workers", life and death depended on the emperor's thoughts.
But Daqian is composed of aristocratic families, and the royal family can only be regarded as the most powerful family in Daqian.
Strictly speaking, Daqian is common to all aristocratic families and is somewhat similar to a share responsibility system.
The stronger a family develops, the more shares it holds in the "country" enterprise, the more responsibilities it needs to assume, and the more say it has.
The Daqian Zhao family and the Daqian Wang family were the two partners of the Wu family when they started their business. They were not simply vassal families.
To use a popular saying in Wang Shouzhe's previous life, it was called "co-founder".
Because of this, the Zhao family and the Wang family had a very high status and enjoyed considerable power in the court.
While Wang Shouzhe was watching the flowers in the flying chariot, the flying chariot had already arrived at the junction of areas outside Guilong City.
If you go inside, you can't fly casually.
Feijian needs to stop at Feijian Inn.
Under the control of the coachman, the flying chariot circled and slowly landed on the square in front of the flying chariot station.
After a while, the flying chariot was stable, and Wang Shouzhe stepped out of the flying chariot with his great-grandson Wang Anye, granddaughter Wang Yingxuan, daughter Wang Lilong and others.
In the distance, Guilong City is in sight.
The sky is high and the clouds are wide, and the sky is as clear as water.
Under the high sky, Guilong City without city walls is majestic and majestic. Through its huge outline, it seems that one can glimpse the rich history silent under the giant city, as well as the authority and vast power it represents.
Looking at all this, Wang Shouzhe's heart couldn't help but surge slightly.
He, Wang Shouzhe, is finally going to enter the imperial capital.