Jie teaches the Immortal Sweeping Heaven’s Cultivation of All Heavens

Zhu Houzhao gave the leader a list.

The cult leader dispatched experts from the Sun Moon Cult to infiltrate the homes of those on the list and slip secret drugs into their food.

The imperial palace certainly trains experts, but their numbers are not as large as those in the martial arts world.

Moreover, these experts were to stay by Zhu Houzhao's side to protect him.

There were reasons why Zhu Houzhao cooperated with the Sun Moon Cult.

As a member of the royal family, Zhu Houzhao was aware of the relationship between the Sun Moon Sect and the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, before Zhu Qiyu, the Sun Moon Cult had connections with the royal family.

If the Ming Dynasty imperial family faced a crisis, they could seek help from the Sun Moon Cult, which would then be obligated to assist them.

This was an agreement between Zhu Yuanzhang and Yang Xiao, the leader of the Ming Cult at the time.

It was because of this agreement that Zhu Yuanzhang did not exterminate the Ming Cult, but only allowed it to change its name.

After the Tumu Crisis, the Sun Moon Cult stepped in to help Zhu Qiyu ascend the throne, suppressing other members of the royal family and enabling Zhu Qiyu to quickly seize control of the court.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen deeply hated the Sun Moon Cult.

After his restoration and ascension to the throne, he severed ties with the Sun Moon Sect and secretly supported the Five Mountains Sword Sect in suppressing the Sun Moon Sect.

The transformation of the Sun Moon Sect into a demonic sect in everyone's eyes was the work of Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Houzhao was not in a position to comment on his ancestors' actions, but he genuinely felt that his ancestors had made mistakes.

The Sun Moon Cult is protecting the Zhu family's empire. Suppressing them is like cutting off your own arm.
Whether it was Zhu Qizhen or Zhu Qiyu who became emperor, it was always a member of the Zhu family who ruled.

The meat will remain in the pot and won't benefit anyone else.

As a result, Zhu Qizhen's actions caused the royal family to lose its greatest support, and almost caused his descendant to die at the hands of the civil official group.

Zhu Houzhao was so open-minded because the throne, whether it belonged to Zhu Qizhen or Zhu Qiyu, would ultimately be inherited by his grandfather.

After all, Zhu Qiyu's own son did not survive, so even if he remained emperor, the throne could only be passed on to his nephew in the future.

The cult leader was naturally aware of the history of the Sun Moon Cult and its relationship with the royal family, and he was happy to see the re-establishment of contact with the royal family.

The leader was eager to know how the Five Mountains Sword Sects would continue to cause trouble now that the imperial court had endorsed the Sun Moon Sect.

In the warm spring of March, the day Emperor Wuzong of Ming died, Zhu Houzhao was still alive and well.

Zhu Houzhao appeared in the court, but many civil officials were unable to attend court.

They were all sick and unable to get up.

The imperial physicians treated these civil officials, saying they were weak from typhoid fever and needed proper recuperation.

These civil officials had something to hide, and they were even more concerned when they saw the emperor appear in court unharmed, not dead.

Is there anything they still don't understand?

The emperor discovered their trickery.

They immediately sought out the person who had produced the secret medicine and asked him to provide the antidote.

The man could only take out the antidote and distribute it to the civil officials.

The emperor's secret guards used this opportunity to find out who this person was.

Zhu Houzhao was ruthless; he first found a pretext to demote the person out of the capital.

Ostensibly, the person was demoted to a local post, but Zhu Houzhao had no intention of keeping the person alive.

This family was attacked by bandits on the way and all of them were killed; not a single one survived.

As for the civil officials, they thought that by taking the antidote, their lives would be saved.

Little did they know that what they were consuming was not the original secret medicine at all, and no amount of antidote would have helped. They were consuming a poison specially developed by Ping Yizhi, far more potent than the previous secret medicine.

That secret medicine would take six months to kill, but the secret medicine developed by Ping Yizhi killed these civil officials in just three months.

These high-ranking civil officials died one after another, leaving many positions in the court vacant.

Zhu Houzhao took the opportunity to arrange for his own people to take over.

The interest groups formed by those civil officials are showing signs of disintegration because their leaders are gone.

Zhu Houzhao took the opportunity to suppress these civil officials.

He supports new forces, even though he knows that new interest groups will emerge in a decade or two. But right now, he does need new people to suppress the old ones.

The cult leader used his points to exchange for high-yield potato and corn seeds in the system shop and gave them to Zhu Houzhao.

By this time, sweet potatoes had already spread to the Ming Dynasty, but they were not valued and were only cultivated by poor people along the coast.

The leader told Zhu Houzhao about the sweet potatoes, and Zhu Houzhao immediately sent people to find sweet potato seeds and promote the cultivation of corn and potatoes.

Needless to say, the yields of the two crops caused a sensation throughout the land.

Emperor Zhu Houzhao's reputation was unprecedented. The people praised him as a wise ruler and erected a longevity tablet for him.

The remaining forces of those civil officials no longer dared to easily step forward to smear Zhu Houzhao. If they did, they would definitely be attacked by the people and pelted to death with rotten eggs and vegetable leaves.

Zhu Houzhao declared that these high-yield grain seeds were presented by Dongfang Bubai, the leader of the Sun Moon Sect, and therefore conferred a noble title upon Dongfang Bubai in accordance with his merits.

Although the Sun Moon Cult was not officially recognized as the state religion, it was lavishly praised.

When this news spread, all the people believed that the Sun Moon Cult was a good sect and that its members were all good people.

Anyone who dares to speak ill of the Sun Moon Cult will be dealt with severely.

The Five Mountains Sword Sects were extremely frustrated. They couldn't easily take action against the common people who spoke well of the Sun Moon Sect, otherwise, their sect's reputation would be ruined.

The Five Mountains Sword Sect members could only constantly perform chivalrous deeds and accumulate a good reputation outside, and take the opportunity to say bad things about the Sun Moon Sect to ruin its reputation.

Zuo Lengchan had a plan to wipe out a village chief and his entire family and frame the Sun Moon Cult for it.

But the leader knew these old adversaries very well, and knew what kind of villain Zuo Lengchan was.

The cult leader sent people to keep a close eye on the Songshan Sect.

When Zuo Lengchan sent people to kill and frame someone, the Sun Moon Sect intervened and saved them, exposing the true nature of the Songshan Sect.

The reputation of the Songshan Sect plummeted. If it weren't for the great master Zuo Lengchan, the Songshan Sect might have fallen apart.

Zuo Lengchan was also decisive, directly killing those direct descendants he had sent out, indicating that it was their private matter and had nothing to do with the Songshan Sect.

This does preserve some of the reputation of the Songshan School.

In the years that followed, four of the Five Mountains Sword Sects remained law-abiding and did not cause any further trouble for the Sun Moon Sect.

The martial arts world has become much calmer.

Neither Liu Dong nor Dongfang Bubai stayed in the capital.

Dongfang Bubai returned to Blackwood Cliff, while Liu Dong went south.

He was going to provide technical guidance to Zhu Houzhao's newly established shipyard.

Dongfang Bubai exchanged a world map from the system and gave it to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao drooled over the sights of North and South America, eager to seize such a vast territory for himself.

Zhu Houzhao not only established a shipyard, but also created a navy, which is currently undergoing training.

Once the large ships are built, the navy will set off to search for new continents. (End of Chapter)