Bring some shock to the world of cultivating immortals

Zhou Li did not answer.

From beginning to end, he just looked at the emperor.

The emperor did not make any other movements. He just looked at Zhou Li nervously, with only the purest desire for knowledge on his honest face.

The King of Han was standing by, and he felt very strange, very strange. This feeling was like being exposed to the sun on a hot day and then lying directly on the bed, making people feel uncomfortable.

He didn't understand why his elder brother asked such a question. He really wanted to sneer at it and tell his elder brother that the emperor could never disappear.

But he couldn't say it, not at all.

Because he had never seen Zhu Gaochi like this before.

Nervous, expectant, but with a hint of unspeakable fear. This kind of expression had never been seen on the Emperor Zhu Gaochi before. Ever since he could remember, the image of Zhu Gaochi was always that of a man with an innocent smile, in control of everything.

But now, Zhu Gaochi truly exposed his "curiosity" in front of Zhou Li.

Leaving no room for doubt, exposing without covering up.

The emperor shouldn't be like this.

The King of Han felt a little dizzy at this time, because he suddenly realized a problem. If his elder brother lost his composure and temporarily lost his mind in front of this question, it would prove a very terrible fact.

Zhou Li, has really seen a world without an emperor.

How can it be?

"Your Majesty, let's talk about the Prime Minister."

Zhou Li's voice was a little dry, and he began to cheer up. He found that the emperor might be more powerful than he thought, and even...

radical.

"Prime Minister...Yes, Prime Minister."

As if noticing that he was a little agitated, the emperor calmed down, picked up his chopsticks, and said, "Zhou Li, how much do you know about the prime minister?"

After a pause, the emperor shook his head and said, "I am old and don't remember much. I guess Liu Gong and Li Kuan should have told you everything about him, right?"

Zhou Li nodded, "Most of them are said."

"Do you have any questions for me?"

The emperor asked.

Zhou Li did not answer immediately, he just stared at the mutton in the pot. Tang Wan, who was standing by, was eating hard, saying nothing, just quietly performing his duties. The King of Han had just come out of his shock, and the look he gave Zhou Li was particularly strange.

"Beiliang Lizi Class, is this your plan?"

After a long time, Zhou Li asked this question.

The King of Han's body stiffened, and then the dragon and tiger energy gathered in his eyes.

The emperor reached out his hand and held the King of Han's arm. Then he looked at Zhou Li, who was looking serious, and said with a smile, "You are braver than I thought."

"You could also say it's reckless."

Zhou Li naturally knew how serious his question was. In fact, this question would be the beginning of a falling out between him and the emperor.

"It's my plan, but it's not the plan you think."

The emperor took a piece of tofu with his chopsticks and put it in his bowl without eating it. "You seventeen are indeed the seventeen people I envisioned to succeed the prime minister."

Zhou Li said nothing and his expression was calm.

"The prime minister has taken away too much dragon and tiger energy. Li Kuan should have told you that he has one-third of the dragon and tiger energy of the Ming Dynasty."

After a pause, the emperor slowly said:

"wrong."

"It's two-thirds."

Zhou Li was stunned for a moment.

"In fact, the dragon and tiger energy in the hands of the royal family has long been less than that in the hands of the prime minister."

After taking a sip of the wine in the glass, the emperor continued, "If the prime minister dies, two-thirds of the dragon and tiger energy in the Ming Dynasty will riot instantly. Not to mention me, even if my father or grandfather were alive again, they wouldn't be able to withstand it."

"So, from the beginning I thought about letting seventeen people take over as prime minister, to replace this monster with seventeen hearts."

"That's why the Vizier wants to kill us, right?"

Zhou Li asked.

"It shouldn't be like this."

The emperor looked at Zhou Li and said calmly, "In the beginning, there were twenty-four [Li Classes] in the entire Ming Dynasty. They all had seventeen people, and they were all gifted children."

"So, you also chose Beiliang?"

Zhou Li said.

"Do not."

Shaking his head, the emperor sighed and said, "I have chosen seventeen of you."

Zhou Li was stunned.

"In fact, the other twenty-three classes are all your cover, all to cover up my true intentions and give you a false impression so that you can hide."

The emperor's next words revealed the truth about the Li Zi class.

From the very beginning, the emperor's plan was to let the seventeen people from the Li class take over the power of the prime minister, and let them jointly control the dragon and tiger energy in the prime minister's hands.

Face reading, speculation, and stargazing.

After recovering, the emperor realized that the prime minister had become uncontrollable. Something went wrong with the secret technique, and the prime minister, who was supposed to obey the royal family, became an out-of-control engine, causing the Ming Dynasty, an old car with some hidden dangers, to deviate from its track.

In order to prevent all this, the emperor began to deal with the prime minister. But he soon realized that the prime minister who possessed two-thirds of the dragon and tiger energy could not be killed, at least before finding someone to replace him.

Once the prime minister was killed, the Ming Dynasty would immediately fall apart.

The emperor also clearly realized that it would be extremely difficult to find 17 people who could succeed the prime minister, because it was a time of transition between the old and the new. The older generation had the ability, but they were not old enough. The new generation had not yet appeared, and the ministers in the court were all lackeys of the prime minister, and no one could be used.

Therefore, the emperor chose to cultivate seventeen seeds and let them grow into towering trees to succeed the prime minister.

The seventeen people of Beiliang are these seventeen seeds.

"Why were we discovered?"

Zhou Li asked, "Ye Chong's death was planned by the Prime Minister, right?"

"Someone has leaked your existence."

The emperor sat in his chair, his thoughts pulled back to a distant past. He sighed particularly heavily, "I don't know what went wrong. The seventeen of you were discovered by the prime minister."

At the beginning, the prime minister did very little, and he didn't even take these seventeen people seriously. In the eyes of the prime minister, this was the emperor's wishful thinking. He didn't think these seventeen people would become his successors, because he felt that these people could not grow to the point where they could be compared with him.

But he was wrong.

In the second year after the Lizi class was established, the prime minister who was always paying attention to the class realized that something was wrong. He found that the development of all the people in this class was completely different from what he had deduced.

In his deduction, although these people have extremely high talents and can become strong or even the strongest in their fields, that does not mean they can replace him.

Because the prime minister is one person, and they are seventeen people.

These seventeen people should have been hostile to each other and formed cliques. Internal competition would consume most of their energy. Because geniuses would never be willing to be inferior to others, and their personalities also determined that they could not become a united existence like the prime minister.

However, the prime minister soon noticed the changes in these people.

Perhaps they still had internal competition, and no one had ever submitted to the other. However, they became a group of people who were separated from each other, twisted into a rope that made the prime minister feel suffocated. He was shocked to find that these seventeen people had already shown signs of being able to ban him. They were no longer loose geniuses, but a closed fist.

After realizing this, the prime minister chose to take action.

He is the most terrible enemy in the world and also the most self-righteous enemy.

He did not choose to kill the seventeen people in the Li Zi class. He just let his "son" go to Beiliang to perform a farce and get rid of one person.

"Ye Chong."

The emperor sighed lightly, his words full of regret, "At the beginning, I didn't have the idea of ​​forming a class of seventeen people, because that was too far-fetched. Geniuses are often lonely, this sentence is always true, and it is too difficult to unite seventeen people. I never thought of doing this until..."

Looking up, the emperor's eyes saw Zhou Li's figure, as well as the gentle and elegant young man with a heart of gold.

"I met Ye Chong."

"Ye Chong found you."

Zhou Li was speechless.

"This is the luckiest thing that has ever happened to me in my life. I never thought that two people with completely different personalities could work together to make seventeen geniuses into one."

Stretch out your hand and hold it, and it becomes a fist.

"I sense the potential in Ye Chong and you, and so does the Prime Minister."

The prime minister's son is a perfect abandoned child, a death warrior who always pretends to be a dude, and is the best weapon.

He killed Ye Chong and forced Zhou Li to kill him, causing all the meridians in Zhou Li's body to be destroyed.

The Lizi class was in pieces.

Zhou Li felt his mouth a little dry. He didn't expect that Ye Chong's death was not as accidental as he initially thought.

This is a political struggle, a political stranglehold.

So disgusting...
Old Ye, your death is really not worth it.

Picking up a cup of tea, Zhou Li looked at the tea leaves in the cup and asked;
“Why doesn’t he kill us all?”

If all seventeen people died, the plan would be completely over.

"He did not want."

At this point, the emperor's expression was particularly complicated. "He told me that these seventeen people would be the most perfect helpers for the Ming Dynasty. They would be stronger than those officials in terms of ability, mind and will. He would not kill them, nor would he restrict them."

Zhou Li was speechless.

He finally understood why the other people in the Li class were not treated with hostility, and they were still able to serve as officials, study, and practice Taoism.

This is the arrogance of the prime minister.

He would kill Ye Chong and depose Zhou Li. In his eyes, doing so would perfectly disintegrate the Lizi Class and undermine the emperor's plan.

He didn't kill the others because the other people in the Li class were the future pillars of the Ming Dynasty. He cherished these talents, so he didn't want to kill them.

Even if they hated him, he didn't care.

"Does he know we're coming?"

Zhou Li asked.

"He noticed it after your sister unveiled Beiliang's veil."

The emperor looked at Zhou Li and said, "He is not a kind person, nor is he a person who would leave any room for maneuver. He wanted to kill you directly because in his eyes, you are more important than Ye Chong and more difficult to kill. So he used his son's life to exchange for an opportunity to kill you."

"But he didn't expect that General Huang would rather use his life's honor and merit, and everything he had, in exchange for your life. He saved you, and the prime minister couldn't kill you. But this doesn't mean that the prime minister would let it go, so your sister melted Beiliang into his property, and you were completely hidden."

It turned out to be the case.

"No wonder it's Beiliang."

Zhou Li chuckled, then asked, "My sister is included in your plan, right?"

"No."

What Zhou Li didn't expect was that the emperor gave the answer right away. He shook his head and said, "Fairy Taoyao has never been in my plan, and I won't plot anything against her. This is the blood oath that our Zhu family has sworn."

Zhou Li didn't expect the emperor to give this answer. He was a little surprised, but the emotion in his eyes also calmed down a lot.

"So, what do you want us to do?"

Tang Wan raised her head and looked at the emperor coldly, without much respect in her words, "What can you do?"

"Do you know why I chose you two?"

The emperor looked at Tang Wan and asked, "Or rather, do you know why I came to you, Master Tang Cen?"

"do not know."

Tang Wan said stiffly: "I don't understand."

"Because you are not in the plan."

What neither Zhou Li nor Tang Wan expected was that the emperor told an even more shocking truth.

"In fact, you shouldn't be one of the 17 people in the Lizi class. You should be a little girl from Zhejiang."

"Clouds in white?"

Zhou Li immediately thought of this name. He said in disbelief, "She is nine years younger than us."

Looking at Tang Wan, the emperor whispered, "Yes, the youngest soul in the prime minister's body is nine years younger than the other souls."

Zhou Li stared at the emperor in a daze.

"You were not planned, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing."

Looking at Tang Wan, the emperor said slowly:

"When the prime minister destroyed the Lizi class, I thought that the sixteen of you would be scattered all over the place and would never have the chance to reunite. Ye Chong is dead, Zhou Li has become a useless person, and even I think that the Lizi class will never reunite."

"But, Tang Wan, you gave me a big surprise."

When the emperor learned of Zhou Li's whereabouts from Liu Gong, he felt something unusual.

Why did he show up?
He knew about Taoyao's veil, and he also knew that Zhou Li would never leave Beiliang's protection. Even if he was not in Beiliang, no one involved in that incident would notice it.

Including everyone in the Li Zi class.

but.

Tang Wan was from the Li class, but he was not. He was supposed to be a man, but he appeared in front of Zhou Li as a girl.

This incident, which could not be any smaller, reshaped the Li Zi class.

"Zhou Li, Daming needs a Li character class."

The emperor's voice was a little hoarse, "You are their bones. The fact that you haven't been broken yet proves that the Lizi class will never fall apart like this."

"Help me, help me..."

"Rebuilding the Ming Dynasty." (End of this chapter)