December 19th. Imperial City, Fu'an Palace.
The imperial doctor no longer dared to give the emperor medicine. The medicine inside is too strong, and the toxicity of the medicine is greater than the efficacy. It is not an exaggeration to call this medicine a poison.
Prescribe poison to the emperor? The imperial doctor does not have the courage.
But the imperial doctor doesn't dare, there are always people who dare. For example, Yang Xiusheng.
According to the imperial doctor's previous prescription, Yang Xiusheng improved it, and then increased the potency of the medicine according to the emperor's current condition. The purpose was to force out the emperor's remaining energy so that he would not be bedridden or fall into confusion before his death.
Of course, this comes at the cost of reduced lifespan. Originally he was supposed to have three to five years to live, but now he is considered lucky if he can survive for one year.
"Uncle, there is no need to be sad, time is destiny. Isn't this the case for generations of my royal family? Rather than dying of torture on the hospital bed, it is better to be sober and finish things like now, and it is not in vain that the father selected him back then. I."
The decoction was prepared by Yang Xiu Sheng, and he was also responsible for cooking it. He even brought it to the emperor with his own hands. It's hard for outsiders to understand how complicated the mood is.
"I know." Yang Yansi didn't say much. He stood by and watched the emperor drink the medicine, and then burned the remaining medicine residue with a ball of fire with his own hands.
After the emperor drank the medicine, he walked back into the warm soup behind the side hall and soaked in it.
"Uncle, what's so special about this warm soup? Why can it relieve the pain caused by the Heart-Eating Curse?" The emperor leaned on the soft cushion, feeling the pain on his body slowly subside in the warm soup. Although the effect is not as good as before, it is definitely much better than outside the warm soup.
The royal family had asked the Golden Sword monks to study the mystery of this pool of warm soup a long time ago, but there has been no progress.
"I don't know. No special place has been found under the pond or in this pond. If you really want to find out, you still have to dig. Maybe we can solve the mystery here."
"Forget it. I'm afraid every emperor of every generation has heard your opinion. Who dares to agree to dig this pond? What if the water in the pond no longer has this effect after digging? That would be unacceptable." Yang Jian shook his head. He wouldn't dare to do such a thing anyway. The emperors behind the Yang family were still counting on this pool of warm soup to relieve the pain of the curse.
Yang Yansi shook his head, this was the crux of the matter. Each generation of emperors of the Yang family will also be cruelly cursed when they succeed to the throne. It cannot be relieved, cannot be removed, and cannot be treated, it can only be resisted. While gaining the power of the world, he had to endure the most cruel torture in the world until he died.
The only thing that can alleviate the pain of the curse is this warm soup that the ancestors of the Yang family accidentally found. Later, they moved the capital here and built Fu'an Palace.
Everyone thought that the emperors of the Yang family liked to take warm baths, because each generation of emperors spent the longest time in Fu'an Palace. Therefore, Fu'an Palace has always been regarded as the emperor's benevolent place and has always had a special status.
Generation after generation, each generation almost wants to figure out why the warm soup here can alleviate the pain of the curse, but they all have the same concerns. They are worried that the water will leak after digging, or that something will be damaged that will cause the magical effect of the warm soup to disappear. If that were the case, it would be a disaster for the emperors who followed, and it would be a disaster for future generations, and no one would dare to do it.
But the emperor is also generous, at least he is very tolerant on this matter. He himself has suffered from the curse for most of his life, and now that he is about to die, he doesn't care if he suffers for a few more days. As for future generations, they will naturally consider and make choices.
"Forget it, leave it to future generations to worry about. Maybe they will have some different methods."
Yang Xiu Sheng heard the emotion in the emperor's words and asked with a smile: "Oh? Did those boys do anything? Did it surprise you?"
Yang Xiu Sheng never asked about important matters in the court, and even if the emperor wanted to say something, he would sometimes choose not to listen. But Yang Xiu Sheng never shied away from matters in the royal family. Because he is the leader of the Golden Sword monks, suppressing the foundation of the old Jing Dynasty and the general trend of the Yang family, he must understand in detail the "big test" that is crucial to the royal family until the emperor dies and the new emperor ascends the throne. Only then could he retire and continue his cultivation in Fenghong Villa.
The emperor did not hide anything from Yang Xiu Sheng. The only person in the world who can be trusted by the emperor is Yang Xiu Sheng.
"Remember my youngest son?"
"Seventh Prince? Shu?"
"That's right, it's that boy Yang Shu. He is the youngest and has been out of the palace for the shortest time. When he was in the palace, he had a bad temper and looked like a loser. After leaving the palace and building a palace, his temperament changed drastically and he wandered into the market. , full of businessman spirit. Originally I didn’t like him, and I have never liked him. But this time he was beyond my expectation.
It's an unexpected surprise. "
Yang Xiu Sheng was surprised at what situation made the emperor look like this. So he asked: "Could it be that Ling Wang Shu is hiding some great trump card?"
"No, his card has always been in his hand. Everyone can see it but ignore it. In other words, including me, I think he is holding a bad hand. That's why I just said The power of the country's money and food will be delegated to him, hoping that he can use this power to catch up with the gap between him and his other brothers as soon as possible, at least not without the ability to resist.
But I soon discovered that I was wrong. Yang Shu is not the weakest at all, at least not as weak as I thought. The huge business system he controls can already threaten the power from the bottom to the top. "
Yang Xiu Sheng was also born as a prince. After that, he did not become an emperor and went to Fenghong Villa to become a Golden Sword monk. He had never really been to the market in his personal experience. Naturally, he would not understand what was wrong with an unlearned and unskilled prince who spent all his time among merchants and minor nobles. Ability can use the power of the lower level to threaten the upper level.
"Haha, I didn't quite understand it at first, but then I thought about it and finally understood it. The reason is just one word: money!"
"Money? What do you mean?"
"There's a war going on in the south. Although it depends on the generals' strategies, in the end it's still about national strength. And what is national strength? Isn't it just population and money?
Haha, that kid took a path that we ignored. From the bottom up, he grasped the power of businessmen and emerging nobles who were not recognized and taken seriously by the upper class. Like the darkness under the lamp, when all of us were staring at those ancient powerful forces and powerful men, he had already I got a lot of money for myself.
Do you know that Yang Shu recently used the power of merchants in his hands to destroy all the properties of the left prime minister Ye Lansheng and the Minister of Justice Ma Xuanlin's family? "
"Smashed? This... How dare he attack those two people directly?" Yang Xiu Sheng was really shocked when he heard this.
"No, no, no, we didn't do it directly, but we used merchant-to-business tactics to ruin the other party's business, and made the other party owe a large sum of money."
"Why is this the Spirit King?"
