Chapter 119 The Years Are Peaceful, the Young Man Comes to Beijing, and the Ninth Prince Makes His Debut
The next day, in the capital of Dayan.
The neighborhoods were as peaceful as ever. An old woman was cracking melon seeds at the entrance of the alley. A rough warrior who had just arrived in the capital was impressed by the prosperity under the feet of the emperor. Lu Mingyuan transformed into a blood-eating shadow warrior in the imperial capital, monitoring the movements of many princes in the capital.
The death of the three princes has attracted great attention from the cabinet and the court. There are many more secret guards guarding the palace. At the same time, the people of the imperial capital are also discussing whether the current emperor has angered the power of heaven, which has brought down such a disaster and caused the death of many sons and heirs.
The third prince was under house arrest in the Chu Palace, practicing martial arts every day in order to break through the road to the middle fifth rank.
The eighth prince did not see the movement for the time being, but Lu Mingyuan could clearly feel that Lu Yunqing's capable people were gradually increasing, and they were going in and out of the gate of the palace every day. I don't know what they are planning. For this reason, he followed the same method and planned to send a few shadow warriors to join him and check the clues.
As a result, only one piece of information was obtained. Lu Yunqing seemed to be brooding over the death of the three princes and was in a very bad mood.
Secondly, the shadow warriors who infiltrated the Jin Palace have been quite effective. There are already ten of them, but only the C-level qualification, and only Yang Erlang is still qualified for the B-level qualification.
There are too many C-level masters under the Second Prince, and most of them are simply sacrifices and can't play a big role. It may take some time for them to become Lu Guangjing's confidants.
However, Lu Mingyuan has already seen the influence and execution of Qingqiu Temple among the gods in the world.
Recently, many industries under the Second Prince's command spontaneously combusted and burned in the middle of the night. At the same time, there were rumors that transport ships with the name of Jin Palace heading north in the south of the Yangtze River were flooded by the river, and the subordinates went to the mountains to kill monsters and collect herbs and were killed by wild beasts.
It took Lu Mingyuan a long time to realize that it might be the Kitchen God who took action, or that he offended the River God.
He didn't know how Lu Guangjing would fight back for the time being.
These things are not big or small, but they are very troublesome when accumulated together.
Lu Mingyuan guessed that it should be the work of Qingqiu Temple, but there was no direct evidence, and it was difficult to find evidence. It was basically a mystery.
The mountain and water gods of the Great Yan Dynasty practiced self-government. Their subordinates, such as the gods of land, river gods, and river women, who were similar to minor officials, and even ghosts, water monkeys, and mountain kings, who were not even minor gods, were all governed by the gods themselves.
They managed their own territory, maintained stability, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and served the Great Yan, and there were not many restrictions.
As for the seventh prince Lu Yunwan, this fat man with a big belly, he made friends with the well-known immortal forces every day. Many sects in the nine heavens and ten lands of Taoism were also attracted by the conditions he offered. For example, the Donghai Sect, one of the ten lands, was in charge of the blessed land of the East China Sea. It was a sect that produced pearls of clam monsters and the treasured armor of the sky shark. He made friends with them by opening up sea transportation and sharing the profits of shipbuilding. Although this method was concrete, it could also win over many people.
The above is all the information that Lu Mingyuan got from the servants of Langya Palace.
At the same time, Lu Yunwan has a huge chamber of commerce behind him, covering all industries.
Luxury goods such as incense, soap, fur, and tea are the main sources of income. In addition, there are necessities such as cloth and rice. The economic lifeline such as iron salt and wine is under the control of the Ministry of Households of Dayan, and he cannot touch it.
In addition to the above industries, Dayan has another extremely profitable way, land trading.
However, this land is not sold to the people, but to the sects, especially those small and medium-sized sects. By passing on the treasures of the skills, or working hard in exchange for the three-color copper coins issued by the court, you can buy a mountain with abundant spiritual energy in Dayan and establish a sect.
Not all sects are qualified to establish a sect, and not all forces can survive for a long time. Big forces will cannibalize small forces, and small forces will also develop over time, with little incense, close down, and survive for hundreds of years, while the short ones will disappear in a few decades. The Great Yan court will take back the land that has been sold and sell it again.
This is a huge source of finance, which is beneficial to the dynasty and the three religions. The three religions cultivate talents for Great Yan, dig up caves and blessed lands, and treasures of heaven and earth. The dynasty provides human support, material support, and identity support to the three religions.
Generally speaking, only forces that own at least one blessed land are qualified to be called sects.
There are three levels of mountains: caves, blessed lands, and treasure mountains. Each level is divided into A, B, C, D, etc.
For a top power like Tianshi Mansion, the history of Taoism is tens of thousands of years. It has experienced rise and fall, and has been passed down without falling. It has 18 blessed lands under its command, and is in charge of two Class C caves and one Class B cave. The scale of wealth is not comparable to that of ordinary sects.
Lu Mingyuan has discovered that his younger brother is a natural businessman.
He does not show off his wealth, is low-key and not extravagant, and spends money where it should be spent.
Money is not omnipotent, but there is nothing that money cannot do.
Others recruit retainers and let cultivators come to join them on their own initiative.
He offers extremely high salary conditions to hire others.
There are many people who come here because of his reputation.
There are many worshippers under Langya Palace, and their strength is not bad. Most of them are worshippers of the Buddhist Shengtian, including the Seven Realm Great Master and the Eight Realm Venerable. The most powerful Buddhist Shengtian are the seven Buddhas of the Seven Great Shengtian, whose strength is not weaker than the Taoist saints.
Buddhism cultivates merits and advocates refining the mind.
Among the followers recruited by Lu Yunwan, there are many great masters comparable to grand masters, as well as Buddhist masters who can compete with Guanhai Realm warriors, and the golden body of the Nine Realms Dharma King.
In Lu Mingyuan's view, in the future, there will be another force that is not inferior to the second prince.
Among the many princes, three have already been eliminated, and only the unknown ninth prince has yet to see any clues.
Everyone has forgotten about him.
Basically no one mentioned him.
No one cares what his name is.
Because his status is too low.
It was just a son accidentally born to a palace maid. Even though the palace maid was later named a talented person, she still could not change the fact that her status was low.
Lu Mingyuan even believed that the Ninth Prince's discussion in the capital was lower than his own.
The shadow warrior he controlled passed by Jiangling Palace and left silently.
The Ninth Prince has been doing nothing. Every day is as dull as water, he has no worries about food and drink, and he doesn't go to brothels. He is like a puppet.
However, after Shadow Master left.
A handsome young man in simple clothes appeared at the gate of the inner city with a smile. He looked around at everything in the Imperial Capital, including the black-armored Imperial Guards guarding the city. He looked like a country bumpkin.
"This is the Great Yan Emperor's Capital. It is indeed much more impressive than the Jiangnan Villa in the Southern Zhou Dynasty."
The young man walked across the street and stepped onto the spacious and straight bluestone official road. He tapped his fingers and looked at the numerous shops, arched bridges and flower boats, and the black-eaves neighbors. He stared at everything around him. He was obviously a teenage boy. , but his eyes showed the depth of insight into people's hearts, like a ten thousand-year-old cold pool, with no bottom.
"That's my sword, give it back to me!"
In the middle of the market road, a group of children in different costumes stood. One of them, a child with rosy cheeks and a bun, shouted helplessly to the boy who was a head taller opposite, with a cry in his tone.
He obviously worked hard to make the toy little wooden sword.
The big boy held a wooden sword in his hand and slashed it a few times. He felt that he was feeling angry and pouted:
"Lend me to play with you for a few days. I won't damage you."
After speaking, he said to the children next to him: "Come on, let's play the game of swordsman slaying monsters, and you become monsters!"
A group of children ran away laughing.
A handsome young man with clasped hands took a step forward and asked with a smile: "Why are you crying?"
"He robbed me of my things." The kid with a bun said with tears in his eyes.
"This is not easy, just grab it back."
"Keke, I can't beat him." The kid with a bun in a bun sobbed and replied.
The handsome young man smiled slightly and said, "Then steal it back at night when he is not paying attention."
"There are adults at home, how could I go, and stealing is wrong."
The handsome young man's smile became slightly thicker: "This is your thing. It's easy for adults to deal with it. If you knock down the oil lamp and burn down his pig pen, they will naturally have no time to care about you. Then you can just go into the window and get the things back." ”
The kid with a bun in a bun stared wide-eyed, obviously not expecting such a solution.
"Brother, what is your name?"
"You can call me, Brother Yu."
After the handsome young man finished teaching the children, he walked away.
Entering the imperial city, he glanced at the sealed Prince Zhao's Mansion, and passed by the smoky, dead ruins of Prince Zhuang's Mansion, and said: "This is the place where ghosts have leaked out recently, and the demons have escaped. , Dayan’s news blockade was really timely.”
At the same time, he whispered behind him:
"There are so many eyes behind it."
"It's a pity that my clone can only exert one-tenth of its strength. Otherwise, no one in the Imperial Capital would be my opponent."
He made a vague seal with his left hand to ensure that his breath was hidden, then he jumped up and moved a thousand meters to the sky above the entrance of Prince Jin's Mansion, standing in the void.
But he just glanced at it and flew straight ahead.
Until it stopped at the gate of the courtyard of the Ninth Prince's palace.
"come out."
The handsome young man said in a hoarse voice.
An ordinary young man with a good appearance, neither tall nor short, walked out of the palace. When he saw the handsome young man, his face was full of fear. He walked up to the young man and was at a loss.
"Lu Yunhuang, long time no see." The handsome young man's expression suddenly changed and he smiled softly.
"gentlemen."
The Ninth Prince Lu Yunhuang bowed gently with a reserved expression.
The handsome young man has great trust in Lu Guangjing's actions and the loyalty of the Infernal Affairs Party under his command. However, as a human being, how could he not leave himself a trump card and a way out? Now he has great trust in Lu Guangjing, but who can think of the future? No matter how he changes, he doesn't expect Lu Guangjing to make great achievements or ascend the throne as emperor. As long as he can attract enough attention to the matter of seizing the legitimate son, that will be enough.
His backup plan was just because he liked to leave a way out for himself.
The handsome young man smiled and said, "You are indeed more obedient than Lu Guangjing, which is rare and valuable."
"Okay, now that I'm here, you can rest assured. It's hard for you to stay with Lu Guangjing for so long and your whole body has been shrouded in glory. This is not a good thing."
"At least no one cares about you now."
Lu Yunhuang's face turned pale and he nodded vigorously.
The handsome young man stood in the void, looking at the black smoke appearing in the sky above the inner city, and smiled playfully as if he expected:
"Lu Yunhuang, do you know why smart people leave a way out for themselves?"
"I don't know." Lu Yunhuang shook his head honestly.
The handsome young man slowly landed on the ground, his body steady, and he said calmly: "The good in the world can be measured, but the evil in the world is always unexpected."
"This is the first lesson I, Xun Yu, will teach you."