Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

"Without me fighting for power, how could you have been granted the title of Duke? Have you seen a few princesses' sons who were granted the title of Duke without any achievements? And a few princesses' sons who were granted the title of Prince like your brother? If I hadn't fought for power, it's hard to say whether any of you would have survived, let alone enjoyed your current status."

"Now put down your bowl and curse your mother!"

Princess Taiping used to like her second son very much. After all, she and her first prince consort could barely be considered true love, at least they truly loved each other.

And this second son was Xue Shao's posthumous son.

He was implicated by his brother and was beaten with a stick 100 times. He starved to death in prison. This second son was still in her belly, so Princess Taiping inevitably placed some of her nostalgia for Xue Shao on this second son.

This child was actually quite obedient before, but since he started hanging out with his cousin Li Longji in the past two years, he has had more and more disagreements with him on political views.

In recent months, she has even been advised to give up power.

Haha, giving up power. More than a decade ago, she had never thought of being so attached to power as she is now. She just wanted to be a free and happy princess, but what was the final result? Her husband was starved to death, but she could do nothing about it. Although he was starved to death by her mother, if she had held power at that time, perhaps the situation would have been better.

At least he could be sentenced to exile.

Or they might be demoted to commoners, forced to divorce, etc.

But even so, her mother seemed somewhat dissatisfied with her and felt that she was not qualified to inherit the throne. Otherwise, the ministers in the court should have discussed the issue of whether to make a princess the crown prince, instead of simply ignoring her like in previous years. All the officials and her mother only considered whether to make Li Xian or Li Dan the crown prince.

Why? Apparently she is not strong enough!

Apparently her power is still not strong enough!
"Brother, you are so unfilial. You are unworthy of being my son. Mother, please don't be angry. We will always support you. I believe that father will also support you."

Wu Chongmin was actively adding insult to injury.

Princess Taiping married her second time to her mother Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Youji, who is now the Prince of Anding. After all, it is the Wu Zhou Dynasty, and the Wu family is considered to be an orthodox royal family.

There shouldn't be too many people who can be crowned kings.

Wu Chongmin is young, but he is very perceptive.

"Chong Jian is still too young. With our current status, we can't just give up power. Let alone the officials and poor families who depend on us, how will they cope with it if we give up power? Who can guarantee our safety after we give up power? It's too naive.

His Majesty has not given up his power, he has just been a little slack.

I was seriously ill for some time.

The result was this incident of forcing the emperor to abdicate. Do you think that after we give up power, we can live in peace and contentment?

I'm afraid he was buried directly in Nanshan.

You can’t rely on the kindness of others for your life.”

Wu Youji would not go so far as to suppress his stepson. He was just telling the truth at this time. If the family members are not united, how can they resist outsiders?
After all, he is just a child, too young.

Power cannot be given up just like that!
The Lu family handed over the military token, but what was the result? Did they escape safely? No, they were annihilated!
There are many similar examples in later history.

With so many precedents, who would dare?
"Mothers are women. As long as they give up their power, the situation will naturally be different from that of men. Without threats, there will be no danger!"

Xue Chongjian does have the personality of a young man.

That means never turning back until you hit the wall.

He is stubborn and the stubborn principles here do not refer to the truth, but to the principles that he believes to be reasonable. He is quite firm in this!
"How ridiculous! Your grandmother has already been crowned emperor, so how come your mother is not a threat? Don't think that your grandmother has never thought of making your mother the crown princess.

And even if your mother gives up power, what about me?

Do you think my Wu family is as stupid as the Lu family? "

Wu Youji was very disappointed with his stepson. He only considered his biological mother and not his stepfather. Could the Wu family give up power? Did they dare to give up power?
They then argued for a while.

No one can convince anyone.

So the final result was that Princess Taiping took out her whip, beat Xue Chongjian, and then locked him in a small dark room, which is commonly known as solitary confinement.

"Don't let him come to important events at home in the future."

"Will it make the children feel heartbroken?"

"How could he be more disappointed than I am? Who knows who he is supporting right now? Don't turn around and let him reveal any secrets we are discussing."

"Well, I'll listen to you then."

"Tell me, why did mother suddenly become so kind this time? Could it be that mother's health is really very bad, and she is afraid that something will happen to the deposed crown prince at this time, which will cause chaos in the government, so she has to endure it to facilitate a smooth transition of power?"

"It's possible, but I can't guarantee it."

"What you said is no different from not saying anything. Tomorrow I will visit my mother in the palace and see if I can find a chance to talk to Shangguan Wan'er alone. Shangguan Wan'er should be very clear about my mother's physical condition."

"Isn't that a bit too hasty?"

"How can I not be anxious? If my mother can live another ten or twenty years, I will not be anxious. But if she really doesn't have much time left, how can I not make some preparations in advance, just in case? I don't believe that my good nephew Li Longji will not have any ideas about the throne.

If my mother is indeed in poor health, or even dying, then the day she dies is the best time to seize power. Once you miss this opportunity, it will be hard to find another one."

The average life expectancy these days was not long. Emperor Gaozu was 69 years old, Emperor Taizong was 52 years old, and Emperor Gaozong was 56 years old. Now her mother is already 82 years old. It would not be surprising if she suddenly died of an accident one day.

So it is not outrageous for Princess Taiping to have this idea.

Wu Youji couldn't persuade her, so he had to agree to let her enter the palace tomorrow to get more and more detailed information from Shangguan Wan'er to determine the current emperor's physical condition, and then consider what to do specifically.

Although these three parties are the most active and powerful forces in the Tang Dynasty, the royal family of Li Tang, as well as the noble families and aristocratic families, should not be underestimated. They are also privately struggling with the health of the current emperor, whether it is a last gasp or he has really found a good doctor. They have never been so disgusted with a person's longevity as they are now. If the current emperor died in his early sixties, how much trouble would it save?
Therefore, the primary purpose, or core direction, of most forces in the entire Divine City was to find ways to find out Bai Sheng’s physical condition.

……

As the saying goes, once you are alive, twice you are ripe.

This is not the first time that Bai Sheng has breathed with her own portable dimension, and her portable dimension will not change its breathing frequency just because she has changed the world.

Therefore, it is extremely quick to get started.

It took only a few seconds to successfully achieve the same frequency. Soon, strands of innate spiritual energy entered Bai Sheng's body to cleanse her foundation and improve her cultivation. However, this time she was quite restrained and did not allow herself to rejuvenate.

If he could directly rejuvenate, wouldn't that make many people despair instantly? What if they impulsively did something irreversible? So Bai Sheng's plan was not to rejuvenate, but to maintain his current appearance, so that many people would think they still had hope.

There is hope that Bai Sheng can be outlasted.

And then it’s interesting that you can’t die.

Because this world has neither spiritual energy nor martial arts masters, and she has so many bionic bodyguard robots protecting her, Bai Sheng did not raise her cultivation to a high level. After condensing some liquid true essence, she stopped practicing. After all, this level of cultivation is...

It should be enough to deal with most dangers. It is unlikely that a nuclear bomb will appear in this world and bomb her.

But as she exited the cultivation state, Bai Sheng soon discovered that something was wrong. She seemed to have underestimated the degree of spiritual power in this world. How to describe it? Even if she did nothing after she stopped cultivating, the liquid true essence in her body was constantly disintegrating and disappearing. The restrictions in this world were so great that it seemed that spiritual energy could not exist.

Judging from the speed at which the spiritual energy is dissipating.

If she did nothing, the liquid true energy that had accumulated in half of her dantian would completely dissipate in a month at most. It was fortunate that she had a portable dimension.

It can also absorb some of the innate spiritual energy by breathing with the accompanying plane and replenish the true essence in the body at any time.

Otherwise, there would be no possibility for her to live for five hundred years.

Based on this, Bai Sheng quickly began to experiment, or to be more precise, to test the various restrictions of this world on spiritual energy and practitioners. The results were not optimistic.

This world has the greatest restrictions on spiritual energy among all the worlds she has experienced so far. It can also be said that this world is the most hostile to practitioners. When internal force, or energy is stored in the body, it only slowly dissipates outwards, but once it leaves the body, it dissipates rapidly.

In Jin Yong's world, Bai Sheng could really produce dragon-shaped true qi with just one of his Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.

But the same amount of true energy is used here.

What is the result?

It just stirred up a gust of wind, and it was a gentle breeze, not a strong gale.

The internal energy will dissipate immediately once it leaves the body.

I guess it would be about the same if converted into mana.

In addition, the efficiency of body refining is also very poor. In theory, using energy to temper the body is applicable in any world, but in this world, due to the restrictions of the world rules, the body refining effect that could be achieved with one portion of spiritual energy will consume ten or even a hundred portions of spiritual energy here.

Moreover, he could only temper his body to the limit of a mortal body, and could not transform it into a mortal body, because transformation would involve the evolution of the body and the energy of cells and blood. Forcing the body to transform would cause the body to collapse. Bai Sheng had to stop the experiment immediately.

If that were all, then the impact on Bai Sheng would not be particularly great. After all, she still has the Turtle Breathing Technique to nourish vital energy. Vital energy is different from spiritual energy. Vital energy is the original energy of life. It should still be able to help Bai Sheng live longer and even live to three to five hundred years old.

But when she was trying to transform the liquid true energy in her body into vital energy to extend her life.

But I found that no matter how I increase my vitality.

Her life span was always stuck at 150 years.

In other words, this world has a limit on life, or the lifespan of humans, which is a maximum of 150 years. Bai Sheng tried to break through her cultivation again, but it was still useless. Even though she condensed a martial arts golden elixir in her dantian, her lifespan limit was still 150 years, and it did not increase in a year.

Even with the successful condensation of the martial arts golden elixir.

The speed at which the true essence dissipated was even faster.

At the same time, the dissipated true essence did not transform into spiritual energy, but just disappeared. Or it can be understood as being absorbed by the world. In any case, there is still no spiritual energy between heaven and earth, which is a completely spiritual environment.

“I thought it was a simple matter, but now it seems that it is not that simple. I want to live for three to five hundred years.

I think the first thing to do is to transform the world!
We must revive the spiritual energy of this world and change the relevant rules of this world at the same time. Otherwise, with a lifespan limit of 150 years, we won't be able to live for more than 300 to 500 years. There is nothing wrong with this world itself. The lack of spiritual energy should be caused by the rules of this world. Therefore, the root cause is not to practice with the same breath as this world, but to change the rules of this world, which can change everything. "

After a whole night of hard work, Bai Sheng finally came to a general idea of ​​this world and what to do next.

But how to change the rules of the world.

Bai Sheng has no idea now.

The only thing to be thankful for is that she is only 82 years old this year. Even if the current maximum life expectancy is 150 years, she still has 68 years to live, as long as she can think of a solution within the next 68 years.

More than sixty years.

It shouldn't be so difficult that we can't figure out a solution.

If we try the exhaustive method for more than sixty years, we will probably achieve a breakthrough, so Bai Sheng doesn't need to be too anxious.

And decided to hold on to power and become a qualified emperor, while working hard to climb the technology tree, cultivate his own hands, etc. After all, using technology to open the gene lock and extend telomeres is also a way to prolong life. If the direction of cultivation is really useless, you can also try science!

The rules of this world cannot possibly exclude both spiritual practice and science. That would be too strange.

Having made up his mind, Bai Sheng started to send people to collect information the next day. He recorded all the civil and military officials in the court and the officials sent abroad, and carefully analyzed which family and clan they came from, and which faction they belonged to.

Then, the more I analyze, the more headache I get.

No wonder the Tang Dynasty did not practice the policy of punishing nine generations of a clan. With such intricate connections, if the policy were to punish nine generations of a clan, half of the people in the court would be missing if any one of them was implicated.

There are no common people among the civil and military officials in this court.

There are countless connections between them!

Even those poor children promoted by the original body were mostly from declining aristocratic families. For example, Yao Chong, who betrayed her, had a father who was a governor, a grandfather who was a chief secretary, a great-grandfather who was a governor, a great-great-grandfather who was a general who conquered the East, and if you trace back further, there was even an ancestor who was a duke of Northern Wei.

That is to say, his father died early. He was only twelve years old when his father died, and the family gradually declined.

Moreover, he did not enter the officialdom through the imperial examination.

Therefore, he entered the officialdom as a filial son to Emperor Li Hong.

The so-called mourning man is a young man who pulls the coffin and sings mourning songs during the funeral procession. He is needed when the emperor, the crown prince or the queen is buried. Li Hong is Wu Zetian's eldest son, and the crown prince, so he is naturally qualified to use mourning men. Most of these people are children of nobles whose fathers or grandfathers are officials of the sixth rank or above. Only in this way can they be qualified to serve.

It can be said that he was able to serve as a mourner thanks to his father's official position. Otherwise, he would not have had the opportunity to appear in front of Wu Zetian, let alone be promoted and reused.

Thinking of this, Bai Shengdu was influenced by his original body's memories and became very angry, because several of those guys who forced the palace to rebel this time were promoted by his original body himself. It was really heartbreaking to be stabbed in the back by the people he promoted!

At this moment, Shangguan Wan'er suddenly reported:

"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince is critically ill, and the Imperial Hospital's doctors are helpless. Please, Your Majesty, please issue an order to summon the folk doctors to the East Palace to diagnose the Crown Prince and save his life."

"Critically ill? Wasn't he fine when we sent him back to the East Palace yesterday? Never mind, let's go to the East Palace."

In another world, Bai Sheng might not be so anxious, but this world has too many restrictions. If Li Xian dies of illness or stops breathing, and cannot be revived, wouldn't that be troublesome? So he should go over and take a look.

I didn't forget to ask for details on the way.

Why did he become critically ill? (End of this chapter)