I have a fortune book

Chapter 139

When Emperor Xiangxing fell ill, even his brothers who had been imprisoned in the palace with his own hands were released as regents. Obviously, the time limit was approaching.

The last time the Jin army invaded, it was still possible to hold a big court. Now Dongtai Nao attended the rebellion in dozens of counties in three states, but he didn't show his face.

It's true that he doesn't have any strength at all, but it's not necessarily true, but the vitality maintained by the imperial doctor and the secret method of the inner circle cannot be wasted at all.

Emperor Xiangxing had already retreated a few steps in the face of the royal clan elders, and used King Rui's condition as regent in exchange for him being able to arrange the funeral calmly. Even the most favored prince did not lead the country.

The aftermath is how to arrange for my children, whether the mausoleum matters are comprehensive, and whether the merits and demerits recorded in the history books have been repaired in place...

Otherwise, Emperor Xiangxing actually wanted to die quickly, so that he might still have a good ranking in Longting. He was afraid that the peaceful world that had been maintained for more than 40 years would collapse under his nose.

In the imperial palace, before and after the pavilion where Emperor Xiangxing recuperates, there are many guards and guards are extremely strict, and all kinds of dark and powerful auras are everywhere.

There are thousands of purple qi inside, and an old dragon is dying, but it is still closely connected with Daxu Tianzhu and holds great power.

"How is my elder son's transfer to Dongtai going?" The haggard old emperor asked weakly on the sick bed.

Beside the bed, the chief eunuch Liu Zhen and the first assistant Zhang Xu were listening to the hadith respectfully and playing the strategy of the opponent.

Hearing the emperor's question, Zhang Xu hurriedly stepped forward and whispered: "Your Majesty, the clan has agreed that the king of Ruyang County should be transferred to Dongtai, and the royal family will take over the town. But including the regent, they do not agree to be promoted to the princes. The prince is a prince, and it is said that the luck of the court cannot be lost at will."

"It doesn't matter, the prince and the county king are princes. It is up to them whether they can grasp their lineage. As long as they agree to transfer the title, it will be logical for the remaining princes to sit in the town." The old emperor breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this result can be done. accept.

"All my daughters have found husbands?"

At this time, it was the turn of the eunuch Liu Zhen to answer: "Your Majesty, there are suitable candidates for the princesses, we just need to be finalized by you, they are..."

"No Jinshi is willing to take my daughter. It's very good. I want to see how many of them can live forever." The old emperor's face was a little ugly. He intended to find some heavenly beings to take care of his descendants. I didn't expect one of them to fail.

"Your Majesty, I heard that there are several daughters of world kings who can practice Taoism, and they have the idea of ​​marrying this class of Jinshi, do you think?"

The king of the world, that is, the meritorious prince who was entrusted to the internal territory when Daxu founded the country, the side of the world town, rests with the country.

In today's 48 states, only the king can stay.

Even Emperor Xiangxing took advantage of the turmoil in the country to reach an exchange condition. The mission of continuing the Daxu Ancestral Temple outside was carried out by the previous emperors, and his sons did not have to go out to found the country.

The old emperor's mind flashed through those palaces, and he frowned and said, "Don't intervene, this is something that my younger brother is worried about. Whether the prince can be the emperor again depends on fate."

"The ministers will definitely do their best not to shift the imperial line!"

"Dynasty reincarnation is the destiny! As for those old guys who want to take advantage of the great changes and forcefully continue the national destiny for a hundred years, it is nothing more than a dream."

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Zhou Bai returned home like an arrow, but there were not many people who saw him, and he received hundreds of invitations just from the inner city to the outer city.

These ministers, Uncle So-and-so's invitations are easy to talk about, and they can all evade them.

But now in Shenjing City, the news that the eldest prince Ruyang Junwang will leave the town of Dongtai has spread, and many princes can no longer hold back and recruit their team with great fanfare.

And Zhou Bai, who is a heavenly man, is even more popular.

If you don't want to be an official in the imperial court, you can become their guest minister and enjoy a lot of resources such as spiritual stones and elixir, so you won't violate any taboos.

In the past, many Jinshi, when they did not have the resources to practice, apart from traveling and practicing, many of them were recruited by noble people.

After all, most of the time, you only need to have a name, and there will be extra rewards for completing tasks, and there will be no punishment for ignoring them.

Originally offending a sixth prince, Zhou Bai didn't take it seriously, because sooner or later he would be entrusted to the wilderness to found a country, which would not interfere with what he was going to do.

But now the imperial court has made it clear that the princes of this generation will no longer be sent out to expand, but will be entrusted to act as guards.

From the perspective of luck, this is to suppress the early rise of the local Qianlong with the orthodox dragon spirit, and try to extend Daxu's life as much as possible.

If you don't even do superficial flattery now, then if any prince sits in Dingzhou or a nearby state, it will definitely disrupt his grand strategy.

Of course, there are only eleven princes in total, and there are so many wealthy and important states, so Dingzhou, a frontier state, should not be considered in general.

There was no other way, Zhou Bai could only stay in Shenjing City for another five days, did not eat a few meals, but still went out of courtesy and visited them one by one.

During this period, no matter how many ministers and dignitaries wanted to marry their daughters, no matter how superior the princes offered to solicit their daughters, they were all declined by Zhou Bai in the name of seeking Taoism.

If you don't accept any of the conditions, it means that no one will be offended.

Moreover, when Zhou Bai visited the exchange room, he pointed out some small problems to the princes by relying on the method of hopefulness.

In addition, he chatted from the perspective of local management and guarding, and many of his views were sophisticated and mature, which won the great favor of the princes, and they wished to invite him to talk at night by candlelight.

After walking through all the palaces, Zhou Bai already had a lot of tokens in his hands, a gesture of welcome at any time.

However, these were others who wanted to befriend Zhou Bai, and only one was invited by him on his own initiative.

That was Wang Xiu, the eunuch who announced the decree to him earlier, and the Zhou family has never cut off contact with him in the past year.

To be precise, it was a special allocation from the inner government, and people were sent to Shenjing to give gifts to Wang Xiu every year and festival.

Today, when the political situation in the upper echelons of the imperial court is unpredictable, if someone in the imperial palace speaks out, Zhou Bai, who is far away in Dingzhou, will not be caught off guard.

For the gold master, Wang Xiu will not show off at will.

Especially when the imperial examination is the king and the previous dynasty is in charge, there are not many nobles who really look up to eunuchs, and even the whole society does not value eunuchs.

Wang Xiu has now climbed to the sixth rank to serve as an eunuch, serving the emperor in shifts, and knows a lot of turbulent inside stories.

The more he knew, the more worried he was about his future. Now Zhou Bai, a newly promoted Jinshi, clearly offered an olive branch, and he immediately accepted it.

A celestial being, or a restless celestial being, might be able to be his backing.

So Wang Xiu reached an alliance with Zhou Bai very frankly, and established a more covert and more frequent contact with Xuan Yiwei in Shenjing City.

On April [-]rd, Zhou Bai took care of everything in Shenjing City and left the capital on horseback.

Looking back, the National Fortune Tianzhu in the middle of Shenjing City still stands tall, with a five-clawed red dragon clinging to it.

Most people who have practiced the method of watching Qi will think that Daxu's national fortune is prosperous after taking a look at it.

But those methods of watching luck are castration or incomplete methods, which can look at the surface but not the essence.

Even if there is an ancestor of any great sect who has the true method of observing the original destiny, he will not directly observe the essence of the country's destiny, otherwise the backlash will be too great.

Zhou Bai is different, even if his qi gazing technique is not perfect, he can't observe the Daxu dragon's veins and the fate of the country, but when he roughly observes the fate of the country, he will not suffer backlash.

At that moment, in Zhou Bai's field of vision, a scene different from that of other qi watchers appeared.

He saw the lucky dragon elephant representing Daxu. It was indeed a five-clawed red dragon. It was the only real humane dragon in the whole world, including other foreign countries.

But there are still different things, such as the dragon scales that are falling off the red dragon's belly, and the fifth toe on the dragon's claws is obviously much smaller, which seems to be fading.

In addition, in the depths of the Tianzhu of National Fortune, the dense gray and black spots are clearly revealed for a moment, which means that Daxu's foundation is broken.

However, the red dragon seems to have the support of the dragon court, the dragon scales have fallen off, but the spirit is still uplifted, and the dragon spirit is not much depressed.

Coupled with the vast sea of ​​luck, this old empire is still supported, and it will not fall easily.

It's a pity that Zhou Bai didn't dare to take a closer look, otherwise he might be able to judge what Daxu's royal family was doing and how long Daxu had to live.

Of course, now that Zhou Bai has sufficient mana to support him, the completion of the Qi Wang technique can also allow him to spy on a lot of things.

Generally speaking, Emperor Xiangxing will collapse within a year.

Also, although the foundation of Daxu is decayed, the overall luck is still there, and the hearts of the people have not been lost, so he cannot easily raise the flag of rebellion.

The means after going back should pay attention to the combination of rigidity and softness, and should not be too eager, just wait and see the changes.

Rigorous is to strive for the interests of one's status, soft is to build high walls, accumulate food widely, and become king slowly.

Xiaojing Jiaoma has digested all the spiritual food fed earlier, and his body has grown further. In addition, Zhou Bai continued to feed the spiritual fruit brought out by Jinting Dongtian, which greatly increased his speed.

Galloping in the starry night, from Shenjing City to Tianjiang Dadu, it only takes less than a month.

During this period, nearly a dozen large prefectures, hundreds of counties and counties reported disaster warnings, and the situation in various places became increasingly unstable. The imperial court officially ordered the coastal people to move inward.

On May [-]st, Zhou Bai crossed the Tianjiang River in a dragon boat.

There was no accident on the Tianjiang River, and there was no incident where the ancestors of Longgong found out that he was ranked first in the second class and wanted to forcibly marry him to a dragon girl.

But Zhou Bai still sensed that something was wrong with the Tianjiang River, it wasn't anything else, but the water level was wrong.

The direction of the Tianjiang River is from west to east. The so-called rushing to the sea and never returning, like other smaller rivers, it also flows into the boundless ocean.

The mouth of the Tianjiang River is the East China Sea. Zhou Bai discovered that the water level of the Tianjiang River had risen by at least a hundred feet, and after he dived into the water, he found a hidden countercurrent.

It's the water of the East China Sea, and the East China Sea is actually pouring into the Tianjiang River!

He was pretty sure it was sea water, because the salt content exceeded the standard.

Even if the water level rose by a hundred feet, it would not threaten the embankments on both sides, but it was still an obvious omen.

In less than three months, the adjacent counties north and south of the Tianjiang River may suffer irresistible floods.

The Tianjiang River broke its embankment?Zhou Bai didn't even dare to think about it.

He is not a saint, and he does not want to see such a devastating disaster happen.

So after changing to the dragon boat and entering the Ningjiang section of Tongzhou, every time the dragon boat slowed down or stopped at the shore, Zhou Bai would take out the young dragon horn left by Ao Lin Aoxia.

"Water from any river poured into the dragon's horn, if they are nearby, they will come to help."

At night, Zhou Bai came to the unoccupied deck, cast a spell to pick up two balls of water from the river, and then poured them into Longjiao.

Half an hour, an hour, just when he thought the two little dragons were still not there, two children with red lips and white teeth silently jumped onto the deck from the water.

Their eyes were full of joy and excitement, and they still respectfully saluted first: "Master."

"Congratulations to Fuzi for being number one in the second grade of high school, ranking among heavenly beings!"

Zhou Bai stepped forward to help the two children up, and said with a smile: "As a teacher, I also want to congratulate you. I haven't seen you for the past two months, but you have officially received your vocation."

"Master, I'm just laughing. The Ninth Grade Water Envoy just wanders around all day long, so it's not worth mentioning." Ao Lin seemed to have matured a lot, and when he heard Zhou Bai's praise, he was humbled first.

Ao Xia, who was more calm in the painting scene, is now more lively and lively, she said softly: "Hmph, if it weren't for the vocation of finding water envoys, how could we have received a letter from Master so coincidentally."

"That's right, the First Class of our class is also awarded the vocation of the ninth rank. You are better than me, a grassroots."

"Master, I don't want to run on people like you."

"You'd better tell us first if you need our help, otherwise we won't dare to please you."

Zhou Bai was taken aback when he heard this, and immediately laughed, and then took out two gourd fruit wine from the storage ring and said, "I almost forgot, this is a congratulatory gift for my master, it can be used to restore mana, so it's good to drink without getting drunk."

Uh, in order to eliminate the so-called risk of exposure, Zhou Bai reprocessed all the spiritual objects in the cave.

He couldn't bring too many spirit fruits, so he brewed spirit fruit wine according to the records in Baiyi of Cultivating Immortals.

The two children couldn't wait to uncover the gourd, and the rich fruity aroma and spiritual energy came out, only a small part of it was wine.

Zhou Bai continued at this time: "I called you here just to see where you are appointed, but I didn't expect to travel around.

"I also want to ask, the river is rising and the boats are rising, and the water vapor is stagnant in all directions. It seems that hundreds of millions of innocent lives will be flooded. I wonder if there is a plan in heaven?"

The two boys put away the gourd, looked at each other, and Ao Lin said solemnly: "Ao Xia and I are carrying out the decree of the Heavenly Court, checking the water situation near the Tianjiang River, and the Heavenly Court is prepared."

Ao Xia then added: "The excess water vapor will probably be transferred to other places by the dragon gods. This year's rainy season may be a bit longer..."

Zhou Bai nodded slowly, understanding Tianting's approach, spreading the water vapor evenly, and letting the rainy season of Tianjiang cover the whole world.

As long as the Heavenly Court is in action, it proves that this is feasible. I still remember that there was no extinction event such as the Tianjiang River breaking its embankment in the previous life.

For the Zhou clan who repaired the drainage facilities early, it should not have much impact, but it will become an opportunity to seize the dominance in Pingcang.

Afterwards, there was another chat. During the conversation, some boat passengers were already getting up early.

The two little ones reluctantly bid farewell, and at the same time found Xiao Jing who was in the stable, as if he was lying in the ear of the flood horse and taught some method.

In their words, the master is among heaven and man, and there is nothing to give, but he can teach him something so that he can be a better horse in the future.

In the next two months, the continuous rainy season came, and the sunny days were almost a handful.

Because he was worried about the situation at home, Zhou Bai did not accept the banquet from the officials of the states and counties along the way, but only sent a letter to explain.

However, he obviously underestimated the reputation of a Jinshi, and there were countless "big talents" who recommended himself to join him. It was not until mid-August that he rushed back to his hometown in the rain.

After walking for more than half a year, when I return, I have already returned home in brocade clothes, honoring my ancestors.

(End of this chapter)