"Your Majesty, this servant is guilty!"
"What's wrong?"
"Your Majesty, the selection is imminent. This servant is thinking that Lady Zhuang has already entered the palace. How can Xu Yeyue, who is ranked as one of the two beauties of the Imperial City, miss this opportunity?”
Zhu Houzhao smacked his lips.”
Cao Zhengchun lowered his head even more, and Zhu Houzhao was speechless."The Ghost King seems to have a good personality. Why didn't he beat you to death?”
"Your Majesty!"
Cao Zhengchun felt a little wronged. He had good intentions, so why was he not pleasing both sides?
"You still have the face?"
He got up and took out a cigarette, lit it up, and took a few puffs.
This was what he had obtained from signing in a few days ago. A whole box could last him a long time.
He went to Cao Zhengchun's side and kicked him, causing him to immediately eat dog shit.
He even turned around and smiled foolishly, speechless.
"Get up."
"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Cao Zhengchun was overjoyed. This meant that Zhu Houzhao had already spared him, which made him heave a sigh of relief.
She was grateful to Zhu Houzhao in her heart. She knew that this emperor had a good personality and was kind.
If it was another emperor, he would have long since whipped him to death and then apologized to the Ghost King.
Ghost King Xuruowu was one of the strongest people in the Ming Empire.
A Heaven Tier elite was awe-inspiring, overseeing the Darming Empire. This was one of the main reasons why the people of the martial world did not dare to act wantonly in the Imperial City.
During the rebellion of the Earthwood Fortress, Xu Ruowu had swept through the Mengyuan army with a single whip, which was why he was conferred the title of King of a Different Surname. (This is the setting of the book, it has nothing to do with the original work)
After that, Zhu Qizhen, who had gone missing due to the Tumu Fortress incident, returned and was imprisoned by Zhu Qiyu. A few years later, there was a rebellion.
Xu Ruowu did not care about the two emperors, but the chaos in the Imperial City was suppressed by him alone.
Zhu Qizhen, Emperor Yingzong, however, felt that Xu Ruowu had gone too far. Back then, he had waited until he had lost the battle before attacking, causing him to not only lose the throne but also be imprisoned for several years.
Although he did not vent his anger, his attitude was very bad. The relationship between the two sides naturally weakened a lot.
Even so, Ghost King Xu Ruowu had always been guarding the Imperial City.
After Xianzong Zhu Jianshen ascended the throne, he no longer cared about political affairs and military affairs. He had been cultivating in the Imperial City in peace.
It was only ten years ago that she had a daughter. Xu Yeyue was unruly and unruly. That was why her reputation as the Ghost King did not gradually sink over time.
It had to be said that Cao Zhengchun really ate the guts of a bear and leopard to actually provoke Xu Ruowu.
Even if Xu Ruowu killed Cao Zhengchun, Zhu Houzhao wouldn't do anything for him. Instead, he would have to send things to his door to make amends.
It wasn't anything else, but Xu Ruowu was someone the Daming Empire relied heavily on, and there was no reason for him to offend a Heaven Tier elite for a eunuch.
Zhu Houzhao suddenly put his arm around Cao Zhengchun's shoulder.""Old Cao, where did you get the guts to offend the Ghost King?”
His sudden action shocked Cao Zhengchun, who was immediately overjoyed.
This kind of intimate behavior, did it not represent Zhu Houzhao's trust in him?
"Your Majesty, this old servant did it for you. Xu Yeyue is extremely famous in the Imperial City. Her name is on par with Lady Zhuang. This old servant will naturally help you collect them.”
"That's true, but don't be so fierce next time. After all, although Zhen likes beauty, it's not without a bottom line.”
"It's this old servant's fault. This old servant knows that Your Majesty is kind and magnanimous.”
"Alright, by the way, I heard that you cultivate the Tiangang Boy Technique?”
"Yes, Your Majesty. This servant has been practicing the Heavenly Constellation Boy Technique for fifty years.”
"What realm is he at now?"
"Late-stage martial grandmaster!"
Zhu Houzhao pursed his lips. If you want to break through to the Heaven Tier, you can come to me at any time to ask for the Vitality Pill.”
"This servant thanks Your Majesty!"
Cao Zhengchun was overjoyed. He had clearly done something wrong, but Zhu Houzhao was still so close to him. He might even have a Human Restoration Pill. This was enough to prove that his actions were actually correct. He had just chosen someone he could not afford to offend.
Next time, he would definitely think about it carefully and strive to give His Majesty a better one.
After sending Cao Zhengchun away, Zhu Houzhao entered the Tower of Trials. Seeing that Xie Xuan wasn't there, he called an officer to call Xie Xuan over.
Xie Xuan had been training the soldiers in Black Turtle Camp. In the past few days, the soldiers 'cultivations had increased, but not by much.
On the other hand, there was still something to look at in terms of the army formation. It could be seen that these soldiers had spent a lot of effort and their combat strength had become stronger.
He got up and left the house, arriving outside the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
The few people who had been standing guard immediately bowed and welcomed him.
These Dragon Guardians were supposed to protect Zhu Houzhao, but because of the four guards, they didn't need to.
However, Zhu Houzhao did not mistreat them. Not only did he give each of them a Vitality Pill to cultivate well, but he also let them go to the library to choose martial arts manuals.
As for the people outside the Palace of Heavenly Purity, they were naturally the staff on duty, not everyone.
He brought everyone to the library pavilion.
There were a few very old eunuchs guarding it, and their cultivation levels did not seem to be bad.
Zhu Houzhao asked his followers to choose a martial arts manual, and he entered it and started to flip through it.
The Great Ming Imperial Palace's Book Collection Pavilion had many books.
Not only did it include martial arts, but it also included prescriptions, military formations, astronomy, geography, mechanisms, Confucian scriptures, Daoist scriptures, Buddhist scriptures, and other books.
It was so vast that one couldn't see the end of it at a glance.
This was the Land of the Nine Prefectures. There were still remnants of the Hundred Schools of Philosophy in the Great Qin Empire, and many of their classics had been circulated.
It was just that the other countries absorbed it and combined it with their own theories.
Zhu Houzhao casually flipped through it and went to the second floor.
The second floor was filled with Xuan Level martial arts. At a glance, there were dozens of bookshelves.
Zhu Houzhao casually flipped through the pages and suddenly took out a martial arts manual.
"Eight Trigrams Palm, famous."
In his previous life, when he was still in school, he had read some comics.
Since the Ming Divine Martial Arts had already known about it, this Eight Trigram Palm could only be that one.
He flipped through the martial arts and searched again.
Unconsciously, several books fell into his hands.
After that, he didn't stay any longer and went downstairs to leave.
There were only two floors in the library. The first floor was filled with Mortal Level martial arts and various miscellaneous studies.
The second level was for Black Level martial arts. Any one of them could cause a big commotion in the martial world.
The Ming Empire naturally had a collection of the Earth Grade martial arts after that, but they were all part of their foundation and would not be taken out easily, much less placed here.
Only the emperor Zhu Houzhao and some old man in the palace knew the exact location.
However, that old fart would not appear easily. That was the foundation of the Ming Empire on the surface.
If the Emperor Zhu Houzhao suddenly died, the next Emperor might not know the exact location, let alone how to open it.
If he couldn't even learn the Ming Divine Martial Arts, he would never know the Ming Empire's foundation.
It was impossible to say if this would be lost.
How could the foundation of the empire be so simple? This was only because the Ming Empire had been established for a short period of time.
If it was Great Qin or Great Han, their foundations would be terrifying.
Not to mention anything else, the statues of the ancestors in the ancestral temple might contain the will of the ancestors.
If they were in danger of destroying a country, they might not even need to use their foundation. The will of these statues could turn into surging true essence and flow into the emperor's body, allowing him to kill the enemy.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao did not want to unify the Nine Regions at all.
Who knew how many hidden old undying would they encounter if they really made a move?
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