Martial Arts of Longevity: Starting from the prison guards

Chapter 112 The Three Poisons, the Lord of the White Cloud Temple, and the Mind? (seeking subscription)
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Lu Ning looked at the Empress with a speechless face, "Going to court, you are so distracted by me?"

The female emperor blinked her phoenix eyes, and waved slightly to Lu Ning.

Only then did Lu Ning realize that in the court hall, Qin Zhong and the others stopped arguing and stared at him quietly.

Seeing this, Lu Ning didn't feel embarrassed, he straightened his chest, turned around and walked down the Golden Dragon Terrace.

"Your Majesty, the veteran believes that the internal troubles should be eliminated first, and then the external troubles be resolved."

After Qin Zhong glanced at Lu Ning, his old eyes flashed slightly, he stepped forward and said.

Seeing that the empress was silent, he continued:

"At the enthronement ceremony, if the King of Yongshan does not come, he has no heart to bow his head and proclaim himself a minister."

"And since last month, he has recruited a large number of soldiers and horses without the permission of the court. Everyone knows his disobedience."

"The old minister suggests that Your Majesty remove all the military power of Yongshan King and recommend Zhenbei Hou Xu Kaishi to take over to relieve His Majesty!"

Hearing this, Pei Tong, Gu Fengtang, Zhang Juming, Kou Shize and others frowned.

This old fox actually recommended Xu Kaishi?
Xu Kaishi, Marquis of Zhenbei, was very excited when he heard the words, but there was no change on his face, and he lined up with an ivory wat in his hand: "Your Majesty, I am willing to go to Yongzhou to take over all the military power from King Yongshan and guard the demons in the southern border. family, to suppress the unrest in Sangzhou."

The female emperor's phoenix eyes flickered slightly, and she glanced at Xu Kaishi.

He looked at Qin Zhong again.

"The king of Yongshan is my sixth emperor's uncle. He guards Yongzhou and has a heavy responsibility. It is understandable that he did not come to Beijing and Zhou to participate in my enthronement ceremony. Don't mention this matter again."

"It's the countries from the Western Regions who came to mourn my father and emperor. No matter what their intentions are, Da Zhou, as a superior country, should receive them first. Let's arrange this first."

"Other small matters will be reviewed by the cabinet, and the six departments will properly handle them, and the Zhenmagic Division will be responsible for supervision."

Less than Chen.

The Empress retreated from the Tai Chi Hall.

Qin Zhong and the others saluted, and they didn't raise their heads until the empress completely disappeared in the Tai Chi Hall.

For more than half an hour, the empress did not deal with a mountain of memorials.

Watching Eunuch Liu lead people to carry the memorial away.

Qin Zhong's old eyes flickered. He originally thought that the first day the Empress would go to court, she would definitely punish Yongshan King, or at least remove all of Yongshan King's military power.

But I didn't expect that the empress would care about the mourning of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty by the countries in the Western Regions. Although this matter is not a trivial matter, it is not an urgent matter. Li Hongmao, Minister of Rites, will personally receive it.

It must be that Lu Ning said something in the ear of the empress, and the empress changed her mind.

Thinking about it, a gloomy look flashed across Qin Zhong's eyes.

Lu Ning's official position is not high, and there are thousands of households in the fifth-rank town of magic, but he has a gold medal for avoiding death and is favored by the empress. He is a person who cannot be offended.

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Yongle Palace.

Only Bai Wei, Bai Xue, Lu Ning and Pei Tianbei were left behind by the Empress. She looked at Lu Ning and asked, "Above the court, why do you suggest that I receive the envoys from the Western Regions to express their condolences first?"

Lu Ning slightly lowered his brows and said: "Your Majesty has just established, the foundation is not stable, and the Great Zhou Dynasty has internal and external troubles. According to the current situation, it is not realistic to make peace inside, so we can only make peace outside."

"Securing the outside and removing the inside, or in other words, close contact and close attack."

"Only by stabilizing the external situation, can we eliminate the internal troubles little by little. Otherwise, the internal troubles and the foreign troubles will help each other, and it will be very difficult for His Majesty to deal with it."

"As for King Yongshan, there won't be any big moves for a while."

"Besides, His Majesty really wants to get rid of King Yongshan. Now is not the time. Only when he really rebels will His Majesty have a reason to send troops to suppress the rebellion. At that time, even King Anshan will help His Majesty."

"What your majesty has to do now is to use Qin Zhong and others to change the impression of the aristocratic family on your majesty."

"As long as they believe in His Majesty, then King Yongshan will rebel, and the aristocratic family will stand behind His Majesty and contribute money and efforts."

Having said that, Lu Ning paused for a moment and continued:

"As for the northern barbarians, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Beimang guarding them, and they will not pose any threat to the Great Zhou Dynasty for a while."

"If Your Majesty is worried, you can send envoys to the barbarians in the north, mainly to make friends and appease the barbarians first."

"The demon clan in the southern border is a big disaster. What I fear most now is that King Yongshan recruited troops not to guard the demon clan in southern border, but to have more confidence to collude with the demon clan and bring disaster to Zhou."

"As for the turmoil in Sangzhou, His Majesty issued an edict to ask King Yongshan to suppress Sangzhou. Firstly, King Yongshan believed that His Majesty had trust in him, and secondly, it also distracted King Yongshan."

"There is a riot in Xiliang, let Zhenxihou send troops to suppress it."

"As for the famine in Qingzhou, Elder Qin Ge is not only wealthy but also loyal to the country. Why don't His Majesty let him solve this problem, under the supervision of Master Sizheng from the Department of Magic, and I believe that Elder Qin Ge will fulfill his mission."

"Gyeongju bandits robbing, you can ask the local government to post a notice and pay money to ask Jianghu masters to cooperate with the officers and soldiers to solve it."

The four empresses nodded frequently and looked at Lu Ning in surprise.

Lu Ning has been in the sky prison before, and he has a good analysis of the world's affairs.

I don't know if he figured it out after seeing too many repeat criminals in the sky prison, or some expert gave advice to Lu Ning, and Lu Ning told them. In short, at Lu Ning's age, it is very important to be able to analyze and say these words. amazing.

Lu Ning said: "At present, the biggest crisis in the Great Zhou Dynasty is King Yongshan, but if you want to solve King Yongshan, you have to wait for him to rebel and not let him rely on the power of the Western Regions."

"So, Your Majesty will first deal with the issue of condolences from the countries of the Western Regions. Maybe there will be princes and princesses who will come. If they can make friends with each other, they can stabilize the countries of the Western Regions for a year or two. After King Yongshan is settled, the countries of the Western Regions will be dealt with at that time. It's not too late."

The Empress nodded and said, "What if the King of Yongshan has colluded with the countries of the Western Regions?"

Lu Ning said with a blank expression: "There must be, but the countries in the Western Regions don't fully trust King Yongshan, otherwise they wouldn't think of coming to express their condolences."

"So when the envoys of condolence come, His Majesty must not only meet them in person, but also behave friendly, and interact with civil and military officials, and show that the monarch and ministers are of one mind."

"Only in this way will the countries of the Western Regions be afraid."

The Empress nodded secretly, glanced at the sundial outside the main hall, got up and said, "Get up and go to Baiyun Taoist Temple."

heard.

Lu Ning was slightly taken aback, is this going to see the Lord Baiyun?

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Baiyun Taoist Temple.

In the northwest of Beijing and Zhou, between the Baiyun Mountains.

It is only ten kilometers away from the Jingzhou Imperial City, and it is about the same distance from the Jingzhou Imperial City as the East Sacred Mountains of the Confucius Institute.

When the empress went out, Su Liuqi, the commander of the forbidden army, and Fang Xuewu, the commander of the bodyguards, each accompanied their escorts.

Except for Zhenmagic, there are only Lu Ning and Pei Tianbei.

The empress rode on a dragon, and the rest rode on horses.

It took half a stick of incense to arrive at the foot of the Baiyun Mountains.

Lu Ning reined in his horse and raised his eyebrows to stare at a tall building deep in the Baiyun Mountains. The building was extremely magnificent.

Among the twelfth floors in the world, Jingzhou occupies the third.

Tianxing Building, Baiyun Mountain Building, Library Building.

Walking along the mountain road into the mountain, a forbidden army is on duty ten meters away.

After a while, Long Lun arrived in front of the mountain gate of Baiyun Taoist Temple.

Meng Nanzhu brought out the true disciples from Baiyun Taoist Temple to welcome them, and first performed the ceremony of the emperor, and then the ceremony of teachers and sisters.

"Congratulations, Junior Sister, Master has been waiting in the temple for a long time." Meng Nanzhu said with a smile while holding the Empress's hand.

"Master is really good at predicting things like a god!" The empress exclaimed.

At the side, Lu Ning was very surprised. He always thought that Baiyun Taoist Temple had only female disciples, so it turned out that there were also male disciples!
It's just the prosperity of yin and the decline of yang.

After half an hour.

When everyone came to the highest tower of the Taoist Temple, they saw four large characters on the golden plaque: Baiyun Mountain Tower.

The Empress glanced at Lu Ning and the others and said:
"You all wait below."

After finishing speaking, he and Meng Nanzhu walked into the building of Baiyun Mountain.

Lu Ning and the others could only stand on the Yushi Square in front of the mountain tower, looking around at the Baiyun Taoist Temple.

The pavilions and palaces are all built on the top of the hill, and there are some pavilions.

In the cold winter season, there is snow on some mountain peaks that has not melted, and the wind blows and the chill hits people.

Going higher, the clouds are misty, lingering on the top of the mountain, giving people a fairy-like scene.

Lu Ning activated the "Xuan Yang Gong" a little bit, and the rich aura between heaven and earth was sucked into the body, purified, and turned into pure energy.

"As expected of a treasured place in the fairy mountain, the aura is really strong!" Lu Ning nodded secretly, feeling a sigh in his heart.

Looking back at Baiyun Mountain Tower, there are thirteen floors in total.

Each floor is three feet high, and the total height is 39 feet, which is six feet higher than the Tianxing Building.

With a sweep of his consciousness, he bumped into the formation on the ninth floor.

Lu Ning put away his consciousness.

The top floor of the mountain building looks like a huge pavilion.

The eight red lacquered pillars are arranged according to the eight trigrams, and each pillar requires two people to hug each other.

The empress followed Meng Nanzhu to the top floor, and saw a woman in a white Taoist robe with black hair simply pulled up beside a large pillar.

Judging from the back, the woman should be very young.

The Empress stepped forward and was about to salute.

The master of the Baiyun temple turned around, she was a woman in her 30s with a lingering charm, and there was a very obvious small red mole on her left cheek.

"Disciple Zhou Yan, pay homage to Master!"

The Lord Baiyun smiled and stretched out his hand to support the empress, saying: "Now that you are the empress of the Great Zhou Dynasty, you should salute you first as a teacher."

The empress shook her head and said: "Master is a master of the immortal family, you don't need to care about the worldly etiquette, and you don't need to salute your disciples."

Master Baiyun secretly nodded and smiled, and said, "Yan'er, come and sit."

The Empress nodded, and followed the Lord Baiyun to the round table on the top floor and sat down.

Meng Nanzhu is in charge of making and pouring tea.

Lord Baiyun took a sip of tea, looked at the empress and said:
"The poison in your father's body has been found out by the teacher. It is a mixed poison, a mixture of three types of poison."

The empress looked at Baiyun Guanzhu earnestly and said, "Master, what are the three types of poison?"

The Lord Baiyun lowered his eyebrows and said, "The five-colored snow cicada from the Xuanyin sect, the blood poison of the devil's scorpion from the eighteen demons outside the sky, and the sand moon night flower from the Shaluo Kingdom in the Western Regions."

"Five-Colored Snow Cicada, my teacher and senior Jianzun tried to get rid of your father in the early years, but it was not completely removed, and there was still a small amount of venom in your body, but your father has cultivation, can completely suppress it, and threatens it at all. less than life."

"However, in the last ten years, he has been poisoned by the blood poison of the devil's scorpion. This poison is also colorless and tasteless, and it is not obvious in a small amount, but if it is ingested by mistake for a long time, it is impossible for a god to save it."

"Combined with the venom of the colorless and odorless Shayue Yehua, it is simply the most poisonous in the world."

"The person who poisoned the poison is really well-intentioned. It is difficult for these three poisons to blend together at the same time, but they enter the body in stages, using human flesh and blood as a vessel, and they will form a brand new poison, like tarsus. Bone maggots cannot be expelled from the body, and those who are poisoned can only wait for death slowly."

"Prince Yong'an, your prince and brother died because of this."

"As for who poisoned it, we can investigate it bit by bit, from the Chengxuan Division, the Harem, the Prince Taifu, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, the Imperial Army, and the guards, and don't let the maids go."

"Because the person who poisons does not necessarily have to be a master. An ordinary person who obtains this poison can also quietly put it in food, and the silver needle cannot detect it."

"But those who can obtain these three kinds of poisons are not masters, but also people with great ability."

The empress nodded again and again, and said, "Does Master have these three poisons in his hands?"

Master Baiyun took out three thumb-thick white jade bottles from his sleeves, and each jade bottle had a logo on it.

"These three bottles of poison are fed to any ordinary person, and a small amount can cause death."

"It can last for three days if the cultivation base reaches the seventh rank or above."

"Five grades and above can last for seven days."

"If you don't get rid of it and treat it, you will also die from poison."

"If it is staged and fed a little bit into the human body, although it can be suppressed, it will not last for ten years, and it will undoubtedly die."

She came forward to help suppress the poison in Emperor Ming Wu's body for almost ten years, but she still couldn't stop the death of Emperor Ming Wu.

Perhaps super first-rank powerhouses can completely expel the poison, but such powerhouses are rare in the world.

Even if you are standing in front of you, you may not be able to recognize it.

"As for who the murderer is, I can't help you anymore as a teacher. You need to find out slowly by yourself."

"The disciple understands."

The empress nodded and asked, "What do you think, Master, about the current situation in the world?"

The Master Baiyun smiled and said, "You already know everything in your mind, so why bother asking about being a teacher?"

The Empress also smiled and said, "I just want to hear Master's opinion."

The Lord Baiyun lowered his brows for a moment and said: "The King of Yongshan is sinister and cruel, and he does things by any means. If he wants to rebel, he will definitely rely on the power of the monsters in the southern border, the countries of the Western Regions, and the two men, King Mang and King Anshan."

"From the current point of view, the Northern Mang King will not help him, and Anshan King is hard to say. The same is true for the countries in the Western Regions, but the Southern Border Monster Clan will definitely help Anshan King."

"Because the temperament of the Yaozu people in Southern Border is the same as that of King Yongshan, ruthless and unscrupulous in doing things, the Yaozu people can't wait for the collapse of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

"However, King Yongshan is hesitating. Cooperating with the Yaozu people is undoubtedly seeking skin from a tiger. Maybe even himself will be eaten by the Yaozu people in the end."

"At this time, the countries of the Western Regions are his most ideal partners, but in the Yunlu Battle that year, King Yongshan often slaughtered the soldiers of the countries of the Western Regions."

"That's why the countries in the Western Regions hate and fear King Yongshan."

As he said that, Master Baiyun got up slowly, and said while pacing: "Master, I heard that the countries in the Western Regions already know about your father's death, and they want to come to Jingzhou to express their condolences."

The Lord Baiyun turned to stare at the Empress, and said seriously:

"This is a good time to form an alliance with the countries of the Western Regions. If you seize it, King Yongshan will rebel in the future, not to mention counting on the countries of the Western Regions to help you from behind."

"As long as they don't help King Yongshan, they are helping you."

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(End of this chapter)