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Chapter 397 Shouzhe Enters Beijing!comeback

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Facing the pure and innocent eyes of those little wolf cubs, as if you could fight if you wanted to, Emperor Longchang raised his hand several times, but he was still reluctant to fight.

"Forget it, I made a mistake this time." Emperor Longchang sighed, and the anger on his face faded, "Since you five little ones are so naughty, I decided to give you a small punishment as a lesson. "

"Come here, lock them in a cage, put a small isolation space formation, and find two more, no, ten eunuchs will take turns to guard them, and they must not lose their sight for a moment." Emperor Longchang ordered, "Hungry them for five days. , within three days.”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The eunuchs immediately bent down to accept the order, and began to look for cages that met the requirements everywhere, and carried out the order of Emperor Longchang.

"The cage must not be without water, and it must be covered with soft silk." Emperor Longchang gave another instruction, and then drove to the Humble Administrator's Pavilion with a dark face.

He couldn't stay in this devastated imperial garden.

Distressed, heartbroken, and uncomfortable just looking at it.

After two full days, Emperor Longchang's depressed mood recovered a lot, and his anger towards the little wolf cub also subsided a lot, and he began to miss him again.

You've been hungry for two days, so you should be much better, right?
Early in the morning, Emperor Longchang set up the imperial garden again to visit the cubs.

"See Your Majesty."

Seeing Emperor Longchang, the eunuchs on duty rushed to salute.

"Are the five little ones still obedient?" Emperor Longchang asked with his hands behind his back.

While speaking, he glanced at the specially built wolf's lair. Seeing that the railings were intact and the small space isolation formation was in good condition, his heart immediately became more at ease.

And the five little ones also stayed in the wolf's den obediently, sitting on the mat with their buttocks, their backs straight, their eyes not squinting, and their movements uniform.

When they saw the Great Emperor Longchang, their eyes showed longing and excitement, and they stuck out their tongues "haha, woo, woo", and even the silver-gray wolf fur fluttered happily.

"Report to Your Majesty." The eunuchs hurriedly replied, "We obeyed His Majesty's order and did not take our eyes off for a moment. The five little wolf cubs are obedient and have never left the wolf's den."

As soon as this remark came out, Emperor Longchang's heart immediately became elated, and he looked at Lao Yao with a little trepidation and said, "Old Yao, what are you talking about? These little ones are still obedient in their bones, but they are a little naughty and need to be carefully trained .”

"Come on, let them out. They are still young, at their most lively age. They have been locked up for two days, and I'm afraid they will get bored." Emperor Longchang said with some distress, "I took them out for a walk. Slip away, relax."

The royal craftsmen were very fast. In just two days, most of the dilapidated imperial garden was repaired, at least on the surface, it was almost the same as before.It's just that those rare exotic flowers seem to have "thinned" a lot, and they won't grow back in a short time.

Emperor Longchang wandered around the imperial garden with his five little ones, teaching them to identify some expensive species from time to time, and at the same time teaching them in a babbling manner: "You can play whatever you want in the garden, but if you destroy it casually, you will have to do it again." I have suffered."

With such a patient appearance, he really looked like a kind grandfather.

The five little ones are also well-behaved, listening to them and nodding their heads repeatedly, and urinating from time to time to irrigate those exotic flowers and plants, as if apologizing for their past wrong behaviors.

"Okay, okay, you really live up to my teachings." Emperor Longchang felt very relieved, very satisfied.

After taking the five little ones to relax, he simply took them to the Humble Administrator's Pavilion.There are still some government affairs to be dealt with today, and the five little ones are with me, so I can feel more comfortable.

In the evening, Emperor Longchang dealt with some difficult and miscellaneous affairs in the government. He looked up and saw the five little ones obediently in the Humble Government Pavilion.

They were lying or sitting, or simply sleeping on the emperor's legs, and none of them made trouble.

For a moment, Emperor Longchang felt warm in his heart, feeling that his training of the five little ones was quite effective.

If he had known that the Silver Moon Wolf was so fun and healing, he would have ordered the Mobei barbarians to donate a few of them.

In this warm atmosphere, time flies by.Before I knew it, it was dinner time.

The eunuchs went to the imperial dining room to bring the emperor's dinner.

Emperor Longchang is Emperor Lingxu, and his body functions are naturally extremely powerful. He can stabilize mountains and rivers with one kick and collapse mountains with one punch.And to maintain such a powerful body function, the daily consumption will naturally not be less.

Even if he is old, he is no longer pursuing a breakthrough in strength. He still has extremely high requirements for the replenishment of qi, blood and spiritual energy. Consuming and refining the sixth-grade Lingyuanbao pill refined from heaven, material and earth treasures.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to maintain his powerful strength just by meditating and breathing out, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth gathered around him.

After all, the stronger the physical body, the faster the metabolism, and the greater the daily consumption of blood and aura.If you don't get enough supplements, of course there will be no problem in the short term, and the energy stored in your body can last for a long time, but if you don't get supplements for a long time, the body of the Xuanwu monk will gradually decline until exhausted.

For an ordinary dinner like today's Emperor Longchang, he needed to use the leg meat and spine meat of a fifth-grade snow-grained beef cattle.

This kind of spiritual beef cattle is specially raised in a special way in the large royal ranch. It is a special breed that has been domesticated and improved over a long period of time. It eats formula feed such as spiritual grains and spiritual grasses every day. The meat is tender and nutritious. abundant.

This kind of snow pattern spirit beef unique to the royal family can grow up to the fifth or sixth level. It grows fast and has low intelligence. The meat produced is also tender and has an excellent taste, which is very popular with the outside world.

In the royal ranch, from time to time, some snow-weave spirit cattle will be sold at high prices to subsidize the ranch's losses.

For the emperor's dinner, he usually eats six or seven hundred catties of spirit beef. According to the market price, it has exceeded tens of thousands of gold.

In addition to the snow-patterned spirit cow, the emperor also likes to eat some high-grade spirit fish, some spirit melon and spirit fruit, and drinks some spirit wine when he is happy.

This dinner often costs more than [-] dry gold.

In terms of food supplements, Emperor Longchang spent about 700 million dry gold throughout the year.In addition to the 100 million Lingyuan Baodan, you have to take [-] pills for refining every year.

In this way, the annual basic consumption of the emperor is 900 million dry gold.

And this is the result of Emperor Longchang giving up upgrading, greatly reducing his own supply specifications, and only maintaining the most basic consumption.

Otherwise, according to his consumption when he was in his prime, or the ration specifications when he was in his own conquest, the consumption would double.

It can be seen from this that to feed a Great Emperor with the strength of the Lingxu Realm, the annual consumption is astonishing.

"You five little ones will eat with you." Emperor Longchang said with a smile, "If you like the snow-patterned spirit cow, I will ask the imperial dining room to prepare more spirit cattle with bones."

The five little ones' eyes lit up, and they immediately nodded in unison.

Grandpa, you are such a good person, they are all drooling.

While speaking, the serving eunuch had already opened the big lid of the food box, revealing a large pile of roasted snow-patterned spirit cows inside.

It can be seen that the heat of these spirit beef is well controlled when roasting, each piece is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, exuding a strong aroma of barbecue, which makes people very appetizing at first glance.

However, Emperor Longchang had just taken a bite, and his face became gloomy. He said dissatisfiedly, "Why haven't these spirit beefs been marinated in advance? It tastes completely unappetizing. Has the chef's head been caught by the door?"

He has lived for thousands of years, and spent most of the time pampered and pampered. Naturally, the more he lives, the more picky he is, and he has extremely high requirements for the taste of food.

The eunuchs trembled with fear.

It was Lao Yao who took a step forward and explained in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the chefs in the imperial dining room opened the kitchen early this morning and found that the spirit beef marinated in advance yesterday was gone."

"As a last resort, the spirit beef cooked in a hurry is indeed not as tasty as in the past. This case is already being investigated by the old slave, and please Your Majesty to make do with it today."

"Huh~" Emperor Longchang said in a displeased mood, "Those royal chefs are really getting more and more careless, and even lose the ingredients. Forget it this time, if there is another time, I will let them move their heads."

Just because of this, Emperor Longchang, who has always been picky, lost his appetite. After eating half of the spirit beef, he lost his appetite. After eating some spirit melon and seventy to eighty catties of spirit rice, he stopped moving his chopsticks.

In this way, it was cheaper for the five little ones, and they ate happily.

What kind of owner is really, what kind of pet is raised.Although they are not yet adults, their food intake and appetite are quite astonishing.

Soon, the five little ones ate up the rest of the food, and their bellies became chubby.

After eating, they still didn't forget to act cute and act like a baby to Emperor Longchang, and served them very well.

This made Emperor Longchang feel much better.

The next day.

Emperor Longchang took them for a walk just like yesterday, and after dealing with some government affairs, it was time for dinner again.

As a result, Emperor Longchang was more and more dissatisfied with the food served this time. The ingredients were prepared in a hurry.

"Old Yao." Emperor Longchang said angrily, "What did you do? Can't even catch a small kitchen thief?"

"Return to Your Majesty." Lao Yao replied in a cold sweat, "the formation of the imperial dining room showed no signs of being touched, and the old slave arranged guards on duty at night, and did not see anyone coming in or out. But the strange thing is that early this morning, Those marinated ingredients that were just processed last night are gone."

"Interesting, interesting." Emperor Longchang sneered, "I don't know how long there have been no thieves in the palace, and they even steal my food. Lao Yao, after you find out, bring him to me. Let's see who it is who has such abilities."

As a result, his appetite was naturally bad, and in the end he lost five little ones, and they almost couldn't even walk.

The five little ones opened their blue eyes, excited.

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Day three.

Because of what happened two days ago, Emperor Longchang was not in the mood to go for a walk early in the morning, so he went straight to the Humble Administrator's Pavilion.

Last night, Lao Yao personally stood guard all night, and today the result must come out.

Sure enough, as soon as he arrived at the Humble Administrator's Pavilion, Lao Yao came to ask for an interview, and reported: "Your Majesty, this old servant only watched the imperial dining room from a distance in order to avoid agitating others. There was no sign of being touched. Until the morning, when the old servant went in again, he found that the ingredients had been stolen again."

"Afterwards, the old slave carefully inspected the corners of the imperial dining room, and finally found a not-so-large cave in a very hidden place, and found this bunch of hair beside the cave."

Speaking of this, Lao Yao took out the small handful of hair, with a wry smile on his face: "Does the texture and color of this hair look familiar to Your Majesty?"

"This..." Emperor Longchang's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief, "That's impossible, my five little ones are obediently staying in the wolf's den. There are special personnel on duty to watch at night, it's impossible It's stealing..."

Speaking of this, Emperor Longchang didn't even have the confidence to continue.He took the handful of hair and went straight to the back garden.

In the imperial garden, the exquisite wolf's lair, the dedicated eunuch, and the five well-behaved little ones, everything remains the same as before.

After the eunuch opened the fence of the wolf's lair, the five cubs rushed out immediately, circling around Emperor Longchang.Such a heart-warming attachment and well-behaved appearance made Emperor Longchang warm in his heart, and he even couldn't help doubting his own deduction.

The five little ones are so obedient, how could they steal food?Did I wrong the five little ones again?Maybe it was done by other spirit beasts with similar coat color...

"Did you behave well at night?" Emperor Longchang squatted down and patted their heads one by one, his voice sounded a little gentle.

"Ahhhh~~" The five little ones said ahhhh in unison, nodding incessantly.

"Which one of you left this clump of hair?" Emperor Longchang took out the clump of hair and began to interrogate, "Second, you are usually the most lively, is it because you did something bad? Fifth, you Sneaking and hiding behind, is that you?"

The five little ones squatted on the ground, you looked at me, I looked at you, and then looked at the emperor with pure and innocent eyes.

Kind and lovely grandpa, what are you talking about?Why can't we understand?
"Your Majesty, according to your order, as long as the five little ones are in the wolf's lair, we will be watched all the time." The eunuch in charge of guarding chimed in and said, "We keep two people watching at all times, so we can make sure that the five little ones are not left."

"Check the wolf's lair." At this point, Emperor Longchang was already dubious, "The main thing is to check if there are any caves."

The eunuchs immediately took orders and went to check the wolf's lair.

At first, they didn't find any problems until an eunuch lifted the soft blanket specially laid in the wolf's den.

In the corner, there was a small hole, only big enough for the body of a wolf cub to pass through.

"How is it possible?" The eunuchs were all shocked.

The five little ones are always under their noses, when did they dig the hole?

Emperor Longchang took a look, and immediately held his head and became dizzy.

That appearance, like a child I believed in, suddenly turned into a lawbreaker, full of disbelief, and complex emotions of being deceived and betrayed.

His face was as dark as water, and he fixed his eyes on the five little ones: "Be honest, how did you do it?"

"Woooooo~"

Seeing that the deeds were exposed, the five little ones knew that there was no way to escape, and immediately lowered their heads, and put their ears on their heads, with a look of remorse, a look of "I made a mistake, and I will definitely repent".

At the same time, they also arched each other, pushing the fifth child out.

The limp old fifth reluctantly moved out, and pitifully started his own performance in front of the emperor.

I saw it squatting on the spot, shaking its fur, and then backed away.

Something magic happened.

The original one old five suddenly turned into two, and the extra one can blink and stick out its tongue, which looks very lifelike.The Xuanwu monks who are slightly weaker can't see any problems at all.If it is under the moonlight, it is even more likely to confuse the real with the fake.

Then Lao Wu took another step back, conjuring the second phantom, and the third phantom...

"Moonlight Illusion Technique? How many cards are you five little ones hiding?" Emperor Longchang's mouth twitched.

They never expected that each of these little wolf cubs has great supernatural powers. They not only have the ability to hide and disappear, but also have the ability to space, and they even have the ability to hide phantoms?

He is also very smart and knows how to use phantom ability to confuse the eunuch, and then secretly dig a hole!

Although these abilities are nothing more than superficial tricks to the majestic Emperor Longchang, if they dare to use them in front of him, they will definitely be seen through in minutes.

But these little wolf cubs are still young, they haven't even reached the fifth level~~ Where did they learn all this shit?
Even Emperor Longchang was well-informed, so he was shocked by them for a while.

It is not uncommon for the silver moon wolf to awaken the ability of moonlight phantoms. What is strange is that they have already awakened at this level and can use them proficiently.Moreover, he even deceived the guard eunuch.

You must know that the bloodline of the Silver Moon Wolf is very old, and the bloodline is relatively noble. Before the fifth level, it can only be regarded as a cub.Among its group, the wolf king who enjoys the best resources can even be promoted to the ninth rank.

Generally speaking, the cubs of the Silver Moon Wolf will not be considered as teenagers until they reach the fifth level, and can formally participate in hunting. At that time, it will not be easy to domesticate them.

This is why Wang Lici wanted to express them back as soon as possible.The strength of these five cubs has reached the middle of the fourth level, and they will be promoted to the fifth level in at most ten years.

"You five little ones are so naughty, you dare to deceive the great emperor." Emperor Longchang reprimanded with a dark face, "Hmph~ I don't believe it, even you five little ones can't be dealt with."

"Come on, plug up the hole for me, and lay Chi-Ji iron floors in the wolf den."

"The fences are also replaced with arm-thick Chijing iron, and the locks are replaced with secret locks!"

Emperor Longchang seemed to be in a fight with the five little ones, he stared and gritted his teeth: "I want to see what you brats can do. By the way, red iron essence is too hard and cold, and they are still there after all." If you have a long body, you still need to prepare a good velvet cushion."

The corner of Lao Yao's mouth twitched when he heard it, he hesitated to speak.

Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you are getting deeper and deeper~~ Do you still remember that this is someone else's wolf cub?
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At the same time that Emperor Longchang was competing with the five little ones.

In order to pretend to be pitiful, Taishi Ankang, who lives in the official inn, is in trouble.

In the simple inn room, he drank bitter spirit tea and meditated endlessly.

Something is wrong, something is wrong, according to Shouzhe's previous planning and layout, now that His Majesty hears about my miserable appearance, he should be very happy to see me and ridicule me by the way.

"Could it be, what happened in it?"

There is no other reason.Originally according to the plan, after Taishi Ankang "pleaded to no avail" everywhere, it was time to implement the second step of the plan "meet the Emperor Longchang".

After raising the opponent's coolness again, and begging to no avail, the third step of the plan can be implemented.

But now, he went to see His Majesty twice, but was blocked back.

He couldn't figure it out, so he secretly sent money to the eunuch for interrogation, and only then did he get a strange news, saying that His Majesty has been very busy recently and has no intention of dealing with government affairs for the time being.

"No intention to deal with government affairs?" The more Taishi Ankang thought about it, the more he felt that it was unpleasant, and suddenly he slapped his thigh and suddenly realized, "So, so it is. Your Majesty must have a new love, and he was obsessed with it for a while, so he was tired of political affairs."

It's not the first time His Majesty has done this, and he has a criminal record.

According to unofficial rumors in the market, in the past 3000 years since His Majesty ascended the throne, there have been no less than five times, because of being infatuated with a certain concubine, he has been lazy in politics for many years.However, the most recent time was already 800 years ago!

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." Taishi Ankang felt bitter in his heart, and secretly sighed, "You are already very old, how can you be so good? Could it be... the group of King Kang's people are secretly planning?"

"This is troublesome~ It seems that this matter can only be settled by Shou Zhe."

With this in mind, Taishi Ankang immediately spread out the letter paper and began writing to summon someone.

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some time later.

An exclusive flying chariot cut through the sky and stepped into the airspace of Guilong City.

Guilong City is called the city, but it actually covers a large area, surrounded by 36 military guards.

Through the glass portholes of the flying chariot, large tracts of farmland and pastures can be seen.They are extremely large in scale and occupy an astonishing area. Among them, those places with the most fertile land and the most abundant spiritual veins belong to the legendary Huangzhuang.

"Huangzhuang", as the name suggests, is the Zhuangzi of the royal family.

They are one of the main properties of the royal family, among which they are planted, raised, or operated in some kind of industry, and may even be a precious large-scale spiritual stone mine.

It was also born from these Huangzhuang that the huge and continuous wealth supported the royal family's expensive expenses.

Huangzhuang is not limited to the vicinity of Guilong City, but spreads all over the counties.Basically, some of the most fertile land in every county is the private property of the royal family.

"Speaking of which, the royal family is still very rich in general." Wang Shouzhe couldn't help but sigh with emotion while on the flying chariot, "It's just that the family has a big business, and the expenses are also very huge. Just to support a Lingxu Emperor, the annual expenditure It's an astronomical figure, not to mention that there are so many princes in the supernatural power realm, and county kings in the purple mansion realm."

"Grandfather, I heard that His Majesty is going to increase the tax revenue of our Longzuo County this time." Wang Anye, who has grown a little taller beside him, blinked and said, "Is it true that His Majesty Longchang is too rich and the royal family has no money?" ?”

"Stupid boy." Wang Shouzhe patted his head fondly, "National tax will not go directly into the private treasury of the royal family, and it is not even allowed to enter the private treasury of the royal family. The main purpose of national tax is to maintain the entire imperial court. To operate, reasonably adjust the imbalance between the counties, and use it for disaster relief, military pay, land reclamation, etc. Part of His Majesty's expenses does come from the support of the state, but a considerable part comes from the royal family's own subsidies. "

"However, His Majesty is the emperor after all. He is the pillar of a country, and the amount of state honors he enjoys every year is not small. The rest of the princes, county kings, and princes and other titles will all have a part of the state honors income."

"The expenditure of this part of money comes partly from national tax and partly from state-owned properties. Therefore, although our Dagan Kingdom is in the hands of the royal family, it does not mean that Dagan Kingdom is privately owned by the royal family."

While explaining all this to Wang Anye, Wang Shouzhe secretly sighed in his heart.

This is the difference between the Dagan Kingdom and the ancient Chinese feudal system.Many emperors in ancient China paid attention to "the world at home", and they said "is there any king in the world", those courtiers and nobles can only be regarded as "workers", and life and death are all in the emperor's mind.

But Dagan is composed of aristocratic families, and the royal family can only be regarded as the most powerful family in Dagan Kingdom.

Strictly speaking, Dagan is shared by all aristocratic families, which is somewhat similar to the share responsibility system.

The stronger an aristocratic family develops, the more shares it occupies in the "country" enterprise, the more responsibilities it needs to assume, and at the same time, the more power to speak.

The Dagan Zhao family and the Dagan Wang family were the two partners of the Wu family when they started their business, and they were not simple vassal families.

To use Wang Shouzhe's popular words in his previous life, it is called "co-founder".

Because of this, the Zhao family and the Wang family have a high status and enjoy considerable power in the court.

While Wang Shouzhe was flying the chariot to watch the flowers all the way, the chariot had already arrived at the junction of the regions on the outskirts of Guilong City.

If you go further inside, you can't fly casually.

The flying chariot needs to stop at the flying chariot station.

Under the control of the coachman, the flying chariot hovered and landed slowly on the square in front of the flying chariot station.

After a while, the flying chariot was stable, and Wang Shouzhe stepped out of the flying chariot with his great-grandson Wang Anye, grandson Queen Yingxuan, daughter Wang Lilong and others.

In the distance, Guilong City is far away.

The sky is high and the clouds are wide, and the blue is like washing.

Under the high sky, Guilong City without city walls is majestic and majestic. Through the huge outline, it seems that one can glimpse the profound history that is silent under the giant city, as well as the authority and vast power it represents.

Looking at all this, Wang Shouzhe couldn't help but feel his heart surge slightly.

He, Wang Shouzhe, will finally step into the imperial capital.

The power center of this big dry.

I am afraid that the situation will rise again.

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(End of this chapter)