Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 339 Nine Turns
After the court meeting, many officials wrote letters to the emperor, pointing out that Li Qiang's large-scale purchase of land was too idealistic.

These memorials were intentionally sent to the Daming Palace by Tian Daxueshi of the cabinet so that Li Qiang could see them.

Li Qiang gave the simplest solution to these memorials. He wrote "read" on the last page of these memorials and sent them all back to the cabinet.

"Jin Dong, send all these memorials away!" It took Li Qiang no more than an incense stick of time to review all the memorials.

If his predecessor, Emperor Jingwen, saw this, he would probably jump up and criticize.

You should know that when Emperor Jingwen was in power, he was busy from morning to night every day, and most of his time was spent reviewing memorials.

Li Qiang was different. Lin Ruhai was in the cabinet, which meant that he controlled half of the cabinet.

With Lin Ruhai in charge, there will be no problems with the memorials approved by the cabinet.

Of course, the most important point is that Li Qiang has absolute control over the army, and he is not afraid of any trouble caused by the civil servants.

He also has the most complete intelligence system, and he will be informed in advance of any large-scale use of silver, money or grain, which can ensure that he can delegate power in government affairs.

Jin Dong went out with a stack of memorials, found a eunuch and asked him to send the memorials to the cabinet.

Before he turned around, he saw Li Qiang coming out of the main hall.

"Master, are you planning to return to the bedroom?" Jin Dong hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"Let's go to the bedroom and see the child first!" Li Qiang replied as she walked.

Arriving at the bedroom, Jin Dong stayed obediently outside the palace gate.

Li Qiang entered the bedroom and saw Lin Daiyu holding her child and watching a palace maid perform.

The maid grabbed the table with one hand and lifted it above her head.

When the palace maid saw Li Qiang, she quickly put down the table.

"Your Majesty, I greet you!" The palace maid knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Get up!" Li Qiang said with a smile.

This palace maid is his new experimental subject. After three rounds of practicing the 'Jia's Hundred Revolutions Refining Technique', she has become a third-turn warrior.

Although the table in front of him was made of nanmu wood and was quite heavy, the third-level warrior could still lift it easily.

The palace maids selected by Li Qiang were all bound by their loyalty using the "Mirror of Love and Lust", so he placed this palace maid by Lin Daiyu's side first.

If something really happened, although this palace maid's fighting skills were not very strong, fortunately she could protect Lin Daiyu from harm at any time.

"It was me who asked Yonglan to perform just now. It's amazing that such a weak little girl can have such powerful strength!" Lin Daiyu explained with a smile.

When she looked at Li Qiang, there was a gleam in her eyes.

Li Qiang understood that she was tempted and wanted to acquire this ability.

"We have to wait a little longer. She is the only experimental subject right now. I am going to wait until at least fifty women have successfully practiced before I will consider letting you practice the general's body-building technique!" Li Qiang shook her head.

After discovering that ordinary people could practice the generals' body-building techniques, he planned to train some female warriors so that they could closely protect Lin Daiyu and the concubines.

If he had to say his weaknesses now, they would be Lin Daiyu and the concubines.

Only when a large amount of data proves that there is no problem for women to practice the generals' body-building techniques, will he consider letting Lin Daiyu start practicing.

There was a light laugh from outside, and then Miaoyu, Yinglian, Xing Xiuyan, Yunfei, Zhujun, Sanchun and Feicui came in from outside.

"It's time for dinner, and they all come one by one!" Lin Daiyu said somewhat dissatisfiedly.

"Good sister, we asked you to go to the theater, but you left first!" Miaoyu retorted, hugging Lin Daiyu's arm.

Lin Daiyu would not really say anything. She came back today just for the palace maid Yonglan.

"Give me the child!" Li Qiang reached out and took the child.

He teased the child, who laughed from time to time.

Tenderness and envy flashed in Yun Fei's eyes. She touched her belly gently. Her belly was not doing well and she had never conceived a dragon seed.

She is getting old and wants to have her own children.

Lin Daiyu was so smart that she guessed what Yun Fei was thinking just by looking at Yun Fei's eyes.

She had no choice. She had originally planned to have the second child herself, so she let the other concubines get pregnant as well.

Although Li Qiang can control the women from getting pregnant, there is really no good way to make them pregnant. Everything depends on fate.

"Brother Qiang, in a few years, will Yunfei and Zhujun's age affect their fertility?" Lin Daiyu asked Li Qiang.

Yun Fei and Zhu Jun were attracted by this question and looked at Li Qiang, waiting for his answer.

"Even after another thirty years, you will have no problem having children. I have used special abilities on you to ensure that your bodies remain in the most youthful condition!" Li Qiang explained with a smile.

"Does that mean we can live forever?" Miaoyu asked.

Although she was still young, human beings' innate pursuit of immortality made her expect an answer.

"I'm not sure about immortality. For now, I can only guarantee that you and I will remain young until the end of our lives!" Li Qiang replied with a smile.

Although his 'Healing Technique [Advanced]' can restore the body's vitality and cure all injuries and diseases, it is really hard to say how long a person can live. This is a world where immortals exist.

He will not know the true result until the end of his life.

"What a pity!" Miaoyu shook her head and said.

"How old are you, and you're already thinking about immortality!" Lin Daiyu said with a chuckle.

"I want to stay with His Majesty and all my sisters forever!" Miaoyu said softly.

Her words made Lin Daiyu's eyes flash with tenderness, and also made the other concubines silent.

Among the women here, there are many who have no home like Miaoyu.

The same is true for Yunfei, Zhujun, Yingchun, Tanchun, Xichun and Feicui. For example, Miaoyu has been homeless since childhood and has lived in a nunnery.

It was then that she met Li Qiang, who gave her a home and made her feel the warmth of home.

In the original novel of "Dream of Red Mansions", Miaoyu is a cold and mysophobic woman, but Miaoyu, who has followed Li Qiang since childhood, has always maintained the naivety and straightforwardness of a girl because she has always had a close friend like Lin Daiyu and the love of Li Qiang.

What Li Qiang has to do is to protect these women and prevent them from being harmed by the hardships of the world.

"Today it's your turn to accompany Yunfei, so just send Yunfei back!" After finishing dinner, Lin Daiyu gently pushed Li Qiang and said.

Lin Daiyu and the other concubines made a timetable and agreed on which palace Li Qiang would rest in every day. Li Qiang also let them do as they pleased. After hearing what Lin Daiyu said, he smiled and hugged Lin Daiyu, and then left with Yun Fei.

"Your Majesty, could you walk with me for a while longer?" Yun Fei asked instead of sitting in the sedan chair.

"I also want to take a walk!" Li Qiang agreed with a smile.

The distance from the Daming Palace to Yunfei's palace is not far, but it will still take some time if you walk slowly.

Li Qiang and Yun Fei walked side by side, and the palace maids behind them kept a distance from them for fear of disturbing them.

"I am very happy today. I have always been worried that I would not be able to have children due to my old age. I am sorry, Your Majesty!" Yun Fei said softly.

At this point, she laughed.

Li Qiang looked at her face, which was just like when they first met. The 'Healing Technique [Advanced]' had not changed her at all after all these years.

"Don't let your imagination run wild. You will have many children in the future!" Li Qiang replied with a smile. He changed the subject and said, "I wonder if Slender West Lake has changed in all these years?"

Yun Fei thought of Slender West Lake. It was at Slender West Lake that she and Li Qiang met for the first time.

"I really want to go back and take a look!" she said softly.

She also knew that this was almost impossible.

Once you enter the palace, even leaving the palace is a luxury, not to mention going to the farther Jiangnan area.

"Wait a few years, and I will take you to Jiangnan again!" Li Qiang said casually without thinking much.

Nowadays, the cabinet is handling government affairs more and more smoothly, and the number of memorials sent to him is very small. Many times, there is not a single memorial sent to him for many days.

One of the reasons was Li Qiang. It was Li Qiang who built the Daqian army into an extremely powerful one and defeated the joint army of Tatar and Oirat with a huge advantage, which reduced the border disputes in Daqian.

Today, all of Daqian’s neighbors are very honest, for fear that they might accidentally offend Daqian and be attacked at home by Daqian’s terrifying army.

Without major events at the border, the rest of the government affairs seem ordinary. Even if a disaster occurs, the cabinet has mature ways to deal with it.

Therefore, it is not impossible for Li Qiang to really leave Beijing.

Of course, it is impossible to do so now. It will take at least a few years until he has completely stabilized the court and the 100% loyal ministers he has trained have occupied a part of the power in the court. Only then will he be able to leave Beijing with peace of mind.

"Can we really go to Jiangnan? I want to go to Yangzhou to see the Slender West Lake, and also go to Nanjing!" Yun Fei was so happy that she said excitedly.

Although Li Qiang did not give a specific time, just the hope made her satisfied.

The two of them talked in low voices and before they knew it they had arrived at Yun Fei's bedroom.

After a long time, Li Qiang saw Yun Fei fell asleep, and her figure flashed out of the door.

He did not go through the palace gate, but climbed over the wall and came to the military camp next to the palace.

Half of the military camp has now been converted into an environment for practicing the military's physical training techniques, and the weights have been adjusted according to each person, waiting for Li Qiang's arrival.

"Don't force yourself. If it doesn't work, stop!" Li Qiang reminded slowly.

Those who are preparing to train in the military camp this time are the five hundred fifth-turn warriors of the artillery battalion.

They came here to improve their own strength. In Li Qiang's opinion, with the assistance of 'Ghost Shield' and 'Holy Armor Technique', the fifth transformation will definitely not be their end.

There are dangers beyond the fifth level, but as long as they don't force their way through and cause their spirit and body to collapse, Li Qiang is able to save them.

The five hundred warriors were all ready. Since they were carrying heavy loads on their bodies, they could not salute and even had to be careful when they spoke.

As Li Qiang used the 'Ghost Shield' and 'Holy Armor Technique', and then the 'Group Healing Technique', large amounts of healing energy fell on the five hundred warriors, and their training began.

Just as Li Qiang judged, during the process of upgrading from fifth to sixth level, the five hundred fifth level warriors did not encounter any trouble and were promoted successfully with ease.

At the sixth level, even if Li Qiang used the 'Healing Technique [Advanced]' as an aid, there were only a very small number of them among the more than 20,000 warriors in the entire Daqian.

However, just by adding the 'Ghost Shield' and 'Holy Armor Technique', all five hundred fifth-turn warriors were successfully promoted.

"You take a day off and continue tomorrow!" Li Qiang said, and left in a flash.

All five hundred and sixty warriors knelt down in the direction where Li Qiang disappeared. Even in the dark, the fanaticism in their eyes could not be concealed.

Li Qiang returned along the same route and came back to Yun Fei's side.

He did not intentionally hide many things from the people around him, but the people around him did not need to know too much. Knowing too much would only add to their troubles.

A few days later at night, Li Qiang came to the military camp again.

Yesterday, all 550 rank warriors were promoted to rank eight warriors, which almost broke the record of Daqian. At least in the more than 100 years of Daqian's history, there has never been an rank eight warrior.

Even the Seventh Revolution Warrior had only appeared in legends, and no one had ever actually seen a Seventh Revolution Warrior.

The sixth-level general is the strongest general that can be seen in reality. The top generals when Daqian was founded were generals of this level.

Li Qiang just wanted to see today whether this group of 500 warriors could be promoted to the ninth level.

He knew that the limit of any sect's body-refining technique was the ninth level.

The strength of a Nine-turn Warrior is about one ton. If the Warrior himself is born with supernatural powers, this number will be even higher.

Jia Jingang was the first summoned creature that Li Qiang refined. His previous incarnation practiced the horizontal training technique of the Jianghu, and he was also a person with natural supernatural powers, otherwise he would not have possessed such power.

The ninth-turn warrior should be the limit that humans can achieve. I just don’t know if these eighth-turn warriors can have the opportunity to be promoted.

As usual, the five hundred eighth-turn warriors were carrying heavy loads. Since their strength was inhuman, even if they used iron sand to carry the weight, the weight bags on their bodies were particularly heavy.

"I have reminded you all that I should have. Although I hope you succeed, you can only work for me if you survive!" Li Qiang said in a deep voice.

His voice reached the ears of all the rank eight warriors, and they became extremely excited.

Li Qiang shook his head. He cast a talisman, which turned into a huge "magic" character. This was the "Ghost Shield". Then he cast another talisman, which turned into a huge "thing". This was the "Holy Armor Technique".

Afterwards, he continuously cast the "Group Healing Technique" and even intentionally repeated it several times, just to allow each rank eight warrior to have at least three healing energies.

Roars were heard from the field. These were the sounds made by the warriors trying to fight against the energy impact in their bodies.

Even though the pain in their bodies was far greater than any other time, none of them voluntarily withdrew.

The 100% loyalty bound by the 'Mirror of Love and Lust', coupled with their own fanatical worship of Li Qiang, made them like fanatics, and at this moment, they exerted abilities beyond their own capabilities.

A few hours later, five hundred forces of pressure appeared from the void. This was a warning from heaven and earth about touching the limits of heaven and earth.

(End of this chapter)