It is getting dusk, the capital, the imperial palace, and the Maode Hall.
Two rows of large candles that were blown out by the wind were relit by several pretty palace ladies, reflecting Wei Zhongxian's gloomy old face.
He looked at the young man lying motionless on the bed, his face sallow and a little swollen.
Wei Zhongxian sighed feebly.
These days, he uses any method.
But the emperor's condition was like a wild horse running wild, getting worse day by day.
For eight years, he has held great power, all of which came from the emperor. If the emperor is gone, he will be finished.
"Can we just wait to die?"
Wei Zhongxian murmured to himself.
The hands in the fat robe clenched subconsciously, and he was unwilling to end like this.
At this moment, a young eunuch appeared at the door of the hall and coughed lightly.
Wei Zhongxian frowned, walked up to the young eunuch, and spoke in an unpleasant drake voice: "What's the matter?"
The young eunuch lowered his head and said softly in a high-pitched voice: "Ning Guo Gong wants to see you."
Wei Zhongxian's frown deepened. He didn't like this honest and honest nephew.
"not see"
Wei Zhongxian refused.
Then, he returned to the palace.
The little eunuch didn't dare to talk nonsense, lowered his head and walked away with small steps.
Wei Zhongxian returned to Tianqi's bed and sat down. Looking at Tianqi's bloodless face, he felt even more depressed.
After an unknown amount of time, another light cough interrupted him.
"snort"
Wei Zhongxian turned his head suddenly, his eyes sharper than those of an eagle.
The young eunuch who was a long way away was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and whispered tremblingly: "Long live the cure Ning Guo Gong said there is a way to cure."
The murderous aura in Wei Zhongxian's eyes immediately dissipated, he stood up suddenly, took two steps in three steps, came to the young eunuch, grabbed him up, and said excitedly: "He really said that?"
"yes"
The little eunuch nodded like a chicken eating rice.
Wei Zhongxian threw the little eunuch away like rags and walked out quickly.
In an antique room, Wei Liangqing was sitting at the table, holding a porcelain cup in his hand and frowning slightly.
Not long after, the door was pushed open, and a huge shadow enveloped him.
Wei Liangqing looked up and immediately stood up, "Uncle"
Wei Zhongxian stepped in.
Although they both come from poor backgrounds, Wei Zhongxian is taller than his nephew, who is over 1.6 meters tall, at nearly 1.78 meters.
"What can you do?"
Wei Zhongxian asked straightforwardly.
Wei Liangqing told what happened when he met Cao Yi.
Wei Zhongxian was dubious, narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "Really?"
He didn't believe that this honest nephew dared to lie to him, it was too bizarre.
He asked himself that after eight years of holding power, Ming Dynasty had no secrets in front of him.
But he had never heard of gods or anything like that.
"My nephew swears to God, if I tell any lies, I will be struck to death by lightning."
Wei Liangqing pointed to the sky and said.
Wei Zhongxian walked back and forth for a few steps, stopped and said, "You can find Tian Ergeng later and take five hundred, no, two thousand people, to Yanshan to find the immortal leader."
"yes"
Wei Liangqing bowed.
"Go ahead"
Wei Zhongxian waved his hand.
Wei Liangqing bowed his hands to Wei Zhongxian and strode out.
Wei Zhongxian was silent for a long time, and suddenly said to himself uncertainly: "Are there really immortals in the world?"
In the Yanshan Mountains, within the Yuxu Temple, which is surrounded by dense forests, bursts of fragrance float.
Xiaotian and Xiaoxueyuan are happily roasting vegetables.
Cao Yi sat at the stone table, using his fiery eyes instead of the alchemy furnace to refine the elixir directly.
Xiaotian cast envious glances from time to time.
I don't know how long it will take to achieve this kind of ability.
As time passed, pills exuding a strange fragrance appeared in the air one after another.
Little Snow Monkey, who was in charge of the chores, took the initiative to pack the elixirs in small bottles without Cao Yi's instructions.
In a flash, it was the next day.
Cao Yi finished refining alchemy.
"Taoist Master, have a cup of tea"
Little Snow Monkey came over holding a cup of spiritual tea.
Cao Yi took it with a smile.
"Taoist Priest, is it difficult to refine the fourth-grade elixir?"
Little Snow Monkey asked curiously.
"Why do you ask this?"
Cao Yi was surprised.
"I have never seen you refine a fourth-grade elixir."
Little Snow Monkey tilted his head and said.
Cao Yi reached out and touched the little snow ape's little head, and said with a smile: "The world I've been to before is not of a high level, and there are no advanced materials. I can't practice even if I want to."
Little Snow Monkey suddenly thought, "What kind of coincidence is this?"
"Make bricks without straw"
Cao Yi said.
"Yeah"
Little Snow Monkey nodded repeatedly.
After breakfast, Cao Yi did not continue refining elixirs, but looked at the fourth-grade elixir prescriptions in the "Wangpin Alchemy Sutra".
After looking at it for a while, one of the fourth-grade elixir recipes called Qixing Dan aroused great interest in Cao Yi.
The Seven Star Pill, to put it simply, is to take part of the origins of seven living beings with the same roots but different origins, and add dozens of heavenly materials and earthly treasures to refine them together. It is extremely effective in condensing the soul.
"Well, seven creatures with the same origin but different origins?"
Cao Yi thought of a world.
"Taoist Priest, the Ning Guozheng you saved yesterday is searching the mountain"
Xiaotian, who had gone wild again, flew in like lightning.
Interrupting Cao Yi's thoughts.
"Don't worry about him"
Cao Yi didn't even raise his head.
He now understands that as long as he takes action, endless trouble will come to his door.
One day, two days...many days.
Wei Liangqing, who had turned over Yanshan several times, was filled with disappointment.
Just as he was about to return home, a piece of desperate news came to him.
The emperor died.
"It is better to die in the green mountains and green waters than to be killed by others."
Wei Liangqing left the accompanying officers and soldiers behind and came to the edge of a hundred-meter-high cliff alone.
Close your eyes and jump.
The wind whistled in my ears.
dying.
He didn't know why, but he didn't feel scared at all.
Suddenly, a gentle voice sounded: "Why is the Duke so confused?"
Wei Liangqing opened his eyes and found himself in a courtyard.
The immortal who saved his life that day was sitting at the stone table, playing chess with a handsome young man.
"immortal"
Wei Liangqing quickly bowed down.
Cao Yi had a thought, and Wei Liangqing stood up uncontrollably.
"Here are a Soul-Reviving Pill and a Yuan-Building Pill. Take them back to your Majesty."
Two elixirs with a strange fragrance appeared in front of Wei Liangqing.
"Thank you, Immortal, thank you Immortal..."
Wei Liangqing thanked him repeatedly.
Cao Yi waved his hand.
Wei Liangqing left the Taoist temple with Dan Yao.
"You say you don't care but you don't care"
Xiao Tiandu muttered.
Cao Yi glanced.
Xiaotian immediately lowered his head.
The next day, a shocking news spread throughout the capital.
Emperor Tianqi, who had just passed away, received the elixir given by the immortal. Not only did he come back to life, he also gained strange powers.
A few days later, Tianqi visited Yanshan in person. The mountains and forests were still there, but the immortal disappeared.
Tianqi returned with regret.
Because Chongzhen did not come to power, business taxes were not exempted and mine supervisors were not removed.
There was no serious financial crisis in Ming Dynasty.
Because the station was not abolished, the courier boy named Li did not rebel.
Later, with the arrival of the Little Ice Age and the war with the Boar Skin Group, finances were tight. Apocalypse learned from the Southern Song Dynasty and levied tariffs amidst the insults from gentlemen.
Under the suggestion of Wei Zhongxian, who had brought disaster to the country and the people, he started to do what the gentlemen said was the king of subjugation, and launched the sale of officials and titles (also used by the Qing Dynasty, which survived the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom), and atonement silver (both Han Wu and Qianlong did this).
Miraculously survived the crisis of national subjugation!
Due to the process of imposing tariffs, the horrific profits of overseas trade became known.
The foolish emperor Tianqi, instigated by the treacherous minister Wei Zhongxian, ushered in the Age of Discovery.
There are rumors that Wei Zhongxian was jealous of the prosperous business of the kind-hearted gentry in the south and serious maritime merchants along the coast. He colluded with the pirates, intercepted them halfway, and participated in dividing the spoils afterwards. Some even said that Tianqi also had a share.
In the last few years of his life, Wei Zhongxian intensified his efforts. On the grounds of saving money, he drove hundreds of thousands of Zhu family's sons and grandsons to the northwest, Ryukyu, Luzon, Java and other barbaric places.
"The emperor was involved in dividing the spoils, and I couldn't find another one in the history books."
"Hunjun"
"Wei Zhongxian, I and you are irreconcilable."
"Grandfather Taizu, please open your eyes and see how Tianqi's son treats us, the sons and grandsons of dragons."
…
Gentlemen lamented, princes and nobles cursed.
It was such a combination of a foolish king and a traitorous minister who fed and clothed half of the people of the Ming Dynasty in just twenty years.
The number of scholars has also increased several times.
The strange thing is that more people criticize them.
