Zheng Lei and Di Yi returned to Zhaoge, the capital of the Shang Dynasty, a month later.
Di Yi was a good emperor who was diligent and loved the people. The Shang Dynasty under Di Yi's leadership was not as cruel and fatuous as his son, the future King Zhou (Di Xing). Therefore, Di Yi was loved by the common people of the Shang Dynasty.
When Zheng Lei and Di Yi entered Zhaoge City together, the commoners who had received the news rushed over and stood on both sides of the street to welcome them.
Zheng Lei was Emperor B, and the people of Zhaoge were surprised at how popular he was.
"Sir! Come out with me! Meet my subjects."
Di Yi, who was sitting in the carriage with Zheng Lei, heard the cheers outside the carriage and asked for Zheng Lei's opinion.
He wanted to introduce Zheng Lei to his subjects before Zheng Lei entered the palace to receive his reward.
"Alright."
Zheng Lei nodded in agreement. The two of them stood up and walked together. They parted the beaded curtain and walked out of the palace.
After they left the palace, Zheng Lei and Diyi stood at the head of the carriage. He looked around and saw that the streets were filled with commoners who were shouting " Great King, Great King " to welcome Diyi back from hunting.
Zheng Lei had been sitting in the palace and had heard the noise outside. He had already expected Diyi to be loved by the people of Zhaoge.
However, seeing the people of Zhaoge welcome him with flowers, he had to admit that he had underestimated Diyi's status in the hearts of the people.
"This time, although I did not hunt anything, I found an immortal. In the future, Mister Zhao Lei will be the Imperial Advisor of my Great Shang Dynasty!”
Diyi, who was standing on the same boat as Zheng Lei, said loudly.
Zhao Lei was the alias Zheng Lei was using now. The reason why he was using an alias was because Zheng Lei and Diyi had only found out about it when they were chatting. Because he had once fought against the flood with Yu the Great, he was already respected as the Sage of the Human Race by all the humans in the world.
He was on par with Suirenshi, Yu the Great, Yellow Emperor, and Fuxi. He was honored as the Thunder Emperor and enjoyed the worship of the human race.
In the ancestral temple of the Great Shang Dynasty, there was a statue of Zheng Lei.
In order not to reveal his identity, Zheng Lei had no choice but to use an alias.
"Great King! Sacred!"
"Great King! Sacred!"
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To Zheng Lei's surprise, none of Chaoge's subjects objected to Diyi's appointment of him as the Nation Master, which was not a very honorable position. It could be seen that the subjects of Chaoge trusted Diyi to the extreme.
After the introductions, Zheng Lei and Diyi went all the way to the Thearch Palace!
"Sir! It was already late. Why don't you rest in my palace for a night? After I reward Mister's mansion, servants, maidservants, and slaves tomorrow morning, you can move to your mansion to live. What do you think?”
After arriving at the Imperial Palace, Di Yi asked Zheng Lei for his opinion.
"This works too!"
Zheng Lei nodded in agreement.
For a cultivator like him, whether he lived in a palace or a thatched cottage made no difference.
"Someone come! Please return to the side hall to rest."
Seeing that Zheng Lei had agreed, Diyi was very satisfied. He immediately called the palace maid over and instructed.
Zheng Lei left with the palace maid.
However, Zheng Lei didn't know that his arrival had already caused a huge commotion in Zhaoge City.
That night, the news that " the king invited a strange man who was said to be an immortal and a great sage to stay in the royal palace and would confer him the title of national master " spread throughout Zhaoge City.
Especially among the officials, many of them were self-proclaimed loyal officials. They were very dissatisfied with the fact that Diyi General had so easily found a young man who had no reputation at all and did not know how to be the Imperial Advisor.
They had already decided to remonstrate with the king at the morning court tomorrow to make the king retract his order and drive the demon who had bewitched the king out of Zhaoge City.
However, even if Zheng Lei knew, he would probably just laugh it off.
The night was silent. The next morning.
Zheng Lei was woken up early by the palace maid sent by Diyi. After breakfast, he went to the main hall of the palace with Diyi.
At this moment, the ministers of Great Shang had already lined up in two rows, waiting there.
Zheng Lei and Di Yi entered the hall from the back door. As soon as Di Yi sat on the dragon throne, an old official with a white beard, who looked to be in his fifties, knelt on the ground and kowtowed. Tears welled up in his eyes as he shouted,
"Great King! Please reconsider! This young man has just come of age, but you want him to be the state preceptor. He must have bewitched you with his sweet words. I beg you to give up this idea and kick him out of Zhaoge.”
"Oh! What if I don't agree?”Di Yi had expected that the ministers would object to him making Zheng Lei the State Preceptor, so he spoke calmly.
The old minister's face was filled with grief and indignation. He looked like he was doing his best for the country and said,"If Your Majesty doesn't agree! This old minister resigned and retired.”
Just as all the officials thought that this minister's threat would not be effective immediately, but would at least make things difficult for Diyi.
Who knew that Diyi would say lightly,"Oh! Since you have no intention of becoming an official, I won't force you. After the court session, return your official clothes and official token, then resign and go into seclusion!”
What? You really want me to resign and retire?
The old minister was instantly shocked!
He had no intention of resigning from his post and living in seclusion, alright? The reason why he said this was to force Diyi to give in.
In the end, Diyi did not care that even if he did not have any contributions, he had worked hard in his position. He really asked him to resign and retire.
"Your Majesty is so protective of this young man! Could it be that he had been bewitched by the other party?”
The minister who looked as pale as Kao Shuangpi couldn't help but think so.
However, he did not know that the reason why Diyi asked him to resign was because he felt that his role could not be compared to Zheng Lei's.
Moreover, this official was just a pawn of those who opposed him making Zheng Lei the Imperial Advisor. Since that was the case, he might as well kill the chicken to warn the monkeys.
As expected, after Di Yi dismissed an official, no official dared to oppose Di Yi's decision.
"Since no one objects, I announce that the Great Sage Zhao Lei will be the State Preceptor. He will teach the prince how to read, and will be given a mansion, twenty palace maids, a hundred slaves, a thousand seashells, and a hundred jade seashells.”
Immediately, Di Yi rewarded him in front of the ministers.
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