Cultivating the Tao: Beginning with Meditation and Liver Experience

Chapter 91 The helplessness of the emperor, handle it with care! (seeking subscription)
Qianming Palace, Huawen Palace!
Dagan Emperor Yang An sat on the throne with a gloomy expression, without saying a word.

On the side, the eunuch Xiao Rang, the supervisor of ceremonies, looked at his nose with his eyes, his mouth with his nose, and his heart with his mouth. Like a wooden man, he tried his best to reduce his sense of existence to the extreme.

Similar to Xiao Rang are the servants and female officials on duty in the hall.

The entire hall was plunged into an incomparably dull and silent state, extremely oppressive.

We are all smart people, so naturally we will not attract the attention of the emperor when the emperor is in a bad mood, and act as a punching bag for the emperor.

Because... this is deadly.

"Tap Tap!"

Suddenly, a rush of footsteps sounded from outside the hall, causing the emperor to raise his head and look towards the door.

"Qizou Your Majesty, Li Changjie, the Young Superintendent of the Yuqian Division, asks to see you!"

An accompanying eunuch walked lightly into the hall, knelt on the ground and reported respectfully to the Emperor Dagan.

"Young Superintendent of the Imperial Division, Li Changjie?"

The emperor frowned and muttered something, it took a while before he remembered who this Li Changjie was.

The prince's brother-in-law!
However, his complexion soon became ugly, and he said coldly: "Let him in, I just want to go to him, and I want to ask him how he became the supervisor of the Imperial Commander."

After finishing speaking, the emperor seemed to have thought of something, and ordered to Xiao Rang who was at the side: "You send people to go to Yinhu District, and give the Yuqian Si Xiaowei, Duwei, etc. who are in charge of the defense of Yinhu District I'll bring it here."

Thinking of a scene I saw when I mobilized the Luck Golden Dragon to investigate the situation of the palace.

The anger in Dagan Tianzi's heart rose in an instant, like a volcano about to erupt, and the suppressed anger in his words shocked the eunuch Xiao Rang, the supervisor of ceremonies at the side.

Good guy.

Really good guy.

The emperor was extremely angry.

Now there just happened to be some punching bags who didn't open their eyes and came to him. Didn't they grab the offerings on the king's table and send them to their own death?
Involuntarily, Xiao Rang felt silent mourning for Li Changjie, the prince's brother-in-law, and the head of the Yuqian Department in Yinhu District.

Yinhu District, which is the area where Donghua Palace is located, is located in the northeast of Qianming Palace.

The entire Daqian Imperial Palace formation is constructed according to the arrangement of the five elements and the 12th Yuanchen, and the twelve school lieutenants of the Yuqian Division guard the key nodes of the 12th Yuanchen formation.

"The slave obeys the order!"

Xiao Rang mourned in silence for Li Changjie and Yuqiansi Xiaowei of Yinhu District, but he replied respectfully without any hesitation.

After finishing speaking, he walked lightly towards the outside of the Huawen Hall, just happened to meet Li Changjie who entered the hall, and gave this guy a pitiful look.

Xiao Rang's sympathetic gaze.

It made Li Changjie feel a little inexplicable.

However, he was not stupid. The moment he entered the Huawen Hall, he had already sensed the strong and oppressive atmosphere in the hall, and hurriedly paid his respects: "My minister Li Changjie, see Your Majesty, Long live Your Majesty, Long live, Long live!"

"You are Li Changjie?"

Emperor Dagan looked at Li Changjie with a scrutinizing gaze, and asked indifferently.

It can only be said that every qualified emperor is a born movie king, even if he wants to kill his whole family and cut him into pieces, he still has a smile on his face, which is elusive.

"Return to Your Majesty, this humble minister is Li Changjie!"

Although Li Changjie felt puzzled, he had to answer cautiously when faced with the emperor's question.

"Why did you come to see me?"

The Son of Heaven asked without joy or sorrow, and directly questioned the crime without coming up.

Because there is something particular about questioning guilt.

As the saying goes: to catch a thief, you need to get stolen goods, and to catch a traitor, you need to be double.

If you can't come up with real evidence, if you ask someone to question you, they won't admit it.

So the emperor Yang An has already ordered people to arrest him, in order to get all the stolen goods and not give Li Changjie a chance to argue.

"Return to Your Majesty, the humble minister is guilty, please punish him!"

Suddenly, Li Changjie fell to his knees on the ground with a thump, and pleaded guilty to Emperor Dagan.

"guilty?"

"What are you guilty of?"

Li Changjie's unreasonable playing of cards made the emperor Yang An feel a little confused in an instant.

Although he had already thought about how to punish Li Changjie, he hadn't spoken and acted yet. Why did Li Changjie suddenly plead guilty?
Did this guy do something else?

Emperor Yang An frowned, greatly surprised.

"I also ask your majesty to punish the weak ministers for lax punishment."

"Lieutenant Hong Hao, Du Bo Wei Chao, Wang Lin, and others of the Yuqian Division of Yinhu District neglected their duties and joined forces. They violated the system and violated the law. Conspiracy to murder his superior, Xu Yan, the captain of Yuqian Division."

"If Xu Yan, the captain of the Imperial Division, hadn't discovered something was wrong in time and sent someone to inform the minister, the minister still didn't know that Hong Hao and the others would be so bold and reckless that they would almost cause a catastrophe."

"When I learned about this, I hurriedly led people to take Hong Hao and the others down. I wanted to report it to the Imperial Office, but I was afraid that the forces behind Hong Hao and the others would find out, so I had to risk my life to report it to Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty, please punish me!"

Li Changjie opened his mouth in a deep voice, although it was an apology, but his words were sonorous and forceful. After taking himself and Xu Yan out, he explained the reason why he came here to inform without going through the Imperial Office.

The focus is on two things.

That is the audacity and recklessness of Hong Hao and others, as well as their strong background background.

Otherwise, Li Changjie, a dignified fourth-rank official of the imperial court, would not use the word "risking his death" to describe him.

Yang An, the Son of Heaven, was stunned when he heard Li Changjie's plea.

He never expected that what Li Changjie reported was this matter, which he wanted to punish him.

Of course, after being confused, there was endless anger.

A small captain, during his on-duty duty, arrogatedly held a spiritual feast in the Enrong Palace to link up with his subordinate officials in an attempt to murder the superior.

What is this trying to do?
Do you still take him, the emperor of Daqian, and the imperial court of Dagan into your eyes?

Did this group of people even regard the imperial palace as their own home?

The most important thing is that this incident happened in Yuqiansi, one of his pro-military guards, so it is even more intolerable.

Think about it too.

Yuqiansi is his own bodyguard department.

Those people like Hong Hao dared to plan and plot to murder their boss today, maybe one day they would dare to directly conspire to rebel and give him a king assassination.

It's about his own safety, can the Emperor Dagan not blow his hair?

"Hong Hao?"

"Who is Hong Hao, what is his identity, and who is behind it?"

"Not to mention being so lawless, Li Aiqing was forced to risk her life to report."

The emperor Yang An took a deep breath, trying to calm down the anger that wanted to kill someone in his heart, staring at Li Changjie with a pair of long eyes, and asked without a trace of emotion.

"Returning to Your Majesty, Hong Hao, the captain of the Yuqian Division of Yinhu District, is the eldest grandson of Duke Cheng, and he participated in His Majesty's ten-day birthday ceremony not long ago."

Before Li Changjie could answer, the eunuch Xiao Rang, who had just returned, hurriedly opened his mouth and said, fulfilling his duties as the chief executive of the palace.

This is also Xiao Rang's ability.

Whether it is civil and military officials, or people of all sizes in the palace.

As long as anyone has a grade, he can tell all about his identity and background as long as he says his name.

Of course, with Xiao Rang's Martial Saint-level cultivation, it is not difficult to achieve this, the main thing is to focus on being attentive and careful.

If not, he would not be able to become the true confidant of Emperor Yang An, who can always be by Emperor Yang An's side, and no one can replace him.

Hear Hong Hao's identity.

Emperor Yang An's brows were instantly wrinkled, and he couldn't help looking at Li Changjie with a scrutinizing gaze, feeling very troubled.

Because every duke's mansion is the backbone of Daqian, and there have been immortals or other immortals in the ancestors, which is not comparable to the ordinary marquis' mansion and earl's mansion.

Even if it is a large-scale royal family, it is a very difficult thing to target a duke's mansion, because you don't know what kind of cards these dukes have, and whether they are connected with other gods and gods.

Not to mention that Cheng Guogong's mansion is still an important supporter of King Jin, and he specially arranged it for King Jin.

And Li Changjie is the prince's brother-in-law.

This made Emperor Yang An have to seriously think about the causal connection of this matter, wondering whether he deliberately designed and targeted Hong Hao, and took the opportunity to point the finger at Cheng Guogong's mansion and Jin Wang's mansion.

Emperor Yang An thought of this, spoke again, and asked, "Who is Xu Yan, the captain of the Yuqian Division in Yinhu District?"

"Your Majesty, Xu Yan, the captain of the Yuqian Division of Yinhu District, is the grandson of Ding Yuanhou. More than half a year ago, because he made great contributions to preventing the theft of the emperor's seal, His Majesty was extra merciful and promoted him from the Habayashi Guard Baihu to the Imperial Division. Captain."

"His father, Xu Jing, is Zhan Shi, the young master of Prince Zeng's residence, and currently he is at home with leisure."

Xiao Rang replied without thinking, not only telling Xu Yan's situation, but also pointing out his connection with the Prince's Mansion, and even Li Changjie in front of him.

"Oh, it's that little guy!"

Hearing this answer, Emperor Yang An finally remembered who Xu Yan was, and made a comment with a smile.

Of course, this can't be blamed on Yang An, saying that he is a nobleman who forgets things too much.

Because although he also practiced martial arts, he was only a great master of martial arts, and he was already seventy years old. A great master of martial arts whose blood had already withered could not be like Xiao Rang, who could clearly write down all the civil and military affairs of the imperial court. Officials, as well as the names of all the personnel in the palace.

70 is old.

For people in this era, it is definitely a long life.

This is an age that may die at any time.

Even if there are gods and demons, the emperor enjoys the benefits that ordinary people cannot enjoy, but he is bound by the human nature, making him live, grow old, sick and die, just like ordinary people, unable to practice life extension and longevity.

Dragon Qi protects the royal family and nobles in the harem, and they are invulnerable to all magic, so they don't have to worry about being attacked by Taoist spells. It also shackles them and prevents them from living forever.

The emperor, in particular, was bound by human nature and dragon spirit, so that almost every generation of emperors would die of normal aging and disease, and almost no one lived more than a hundred years.

The most important thing is, because of Taoism and immortals.

Basic medicine in this world has not been developed much.

Even if there is a special medical sect in the practice world, their main research direction is alchemy and restorative Taoist spells, etc. They don't study how to deal with common people's cold and fever, or how to use common herbs to prolong life cure.

Amulet water can cure diseases, why do you study the bacteria in the focus of the disease?
Taoism can lead to longevity and immortality, so who would go out of their way to study the causes of common people's fevers and colds, to study traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine?

At most, I will tell you that Yin and Yang are out of balance, vitality is insufficient, disease and evil enter the body, go to a Taoist temple or a temple to ask for a talisman, burn it and drink it with water, there are so many things.

Ever since, the birth, old age, sickness and death of the emperor are nothing.

Anyway, after leaving this world, anyone can turn around. The emperor died, and the crown prince ascended the throne and became the next emperor. What impact would it have on real gods and monks?
Even the Son of Heaven cannot force the gods to serve him.

Immortal gods' Taoism and supernatural powers cannot be used in Tianjing City, and they cannot be aimed at the emperor on earth.

Then it’s fine if they don’t come to Tianjing City?

Can't afford to offend you, can I still hide?
Therefore, don't look at the Dagan emperor who controls the Yangshi, Jiangshan and Sheji, who can destroy mountains and temples with one word, and order ghosts, gods and monks with one order.

But they have nothing to do about birth, old age, sickness and death.

It is impossible for humanity to allow an immortal emperor to exist.

Therefore, even if the emperor in the world can order ghosts and gods with a single sentence, and can decide the life and death of a monk in the yang world, he cannot make the monk refine the elixir for him to prolong his life and live a hundred years.

The elixir that can prolong life and cure diseases is a panacea in the mouths of other people, but it is poison in the mouths of the emperor.

I don't know how many emperors in the past dynasties were poisoned to death because of taking panacea.

Therefore, after the age of 70, it is completely normal for the Son of Heaven to have withered qi and blood, old eyesight, memory decline, and lack of energy.

No fuss at all.

Under Xiao Rang's reminder, Emperor Yang An quickly recalled who Xu Yan was, and at the same time had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

For Hong Hao and others, punishment must be punished.

But how to punish, how to punish, then you need to think carefully.

Because he needs to consider the thoughts of Duke Cheng and the balance between the crown prince and King Jin, and he can't just kill people regardless.

Otherwise, the entire court will be in chaos.

Similarly, Xu Yan, the victim, cannot be punished.

Instead of being punished, he had to be appeased.

Because he still needs to wait for Xu Chong to take someone to explore a certain forbidden place, go to a certain forbidden place, and find something for him that will allow him to live and make him live forever.

Therefore, the best ending is to severely punish Hong Hao and the others, and let Cheng Guogong's government bleed some blood to compensate Xu Yan, the victim.

Cheng Guogong's mansion!
That is a family of immortals and gods. There are people who have produced immortals in their ancestors, and the family has a profound heritage.

Even the emperor Yang An knew that there was more than one magic weapon in Duke Cheng's mansion, there were many good things, and several treasures.

It's a pity, for these aristocratic families, the weight of an eldest grandson is too light after all.

If it were the eldest son, he might really be able to knock out some good things.

The eldest grandson?
just forget it.

Don't talk about magical weapons and fairy weapons, I'm afraid that even some ordinary spiritual treasures, Cheng Guogong may not be willing to take them out.

At most, you can knock out some money, elixir and the like.

Thinking of this, the emperor Yang An couldn't help but sighed, and said: "I will pass on my order, the Imperial Commander, Lieutenant Hong Hao, etc., during the period of duty, neglected their duties, gathered people to drink in the Enrong Hall privately, and temporarily sent them to the prison to wait for their punishment."

Take it lightly, never mentioning "violating the system" and "conspiracy to murder the superior".

(End of this chapter)