Chapter 144 Yan Song’s Immortal Clan Plan, the prodigal son Yan Shaoting, the Yan family actually raised a spirit beast!
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh." The wind and snow were howling. Everyone just felt a flash before their eyes, and the next moment they appeared in the wind and snow. They were still a little dazed, but soon, someone reacted first.
"Oh," Chen Hong sneered, "Zhao Bu Tang, you are really good at scheming, and you have even schemed against your master!"
Hearing this, Zhao Zhenji's eyes fixed and he looked at Chen Hong, but in the end he still said nothing.
A summer insect cannot talk about ice. He would not talk to such a eunuch who had no sense of officialdom.
The person he really cares about should be Lu Fang. In his opinion, even Huang Jin is better than Chen Hong.
Chen Hong? He was just a villain who suddenly gained power and became arrogant. In his opinion, it was a waste of time to say one more word to such a person.
"Let's go." At this time, Xu Jie bowed to Yuxi Palace, then turned and left.
Seeing this, the others also bowed and turned to leave.
The other people from the Imperial Household Department were taken back by Chen Hong, while Huang Jin followed Qingfeng all the way to the Xuanpu Palace in the east.
As for Prince Yu, Prince Jing and Lu Bing, they stayed in Yuxi Palace.
Yan Song and his son looked at the people leaving, but they were not in a hurry to leave. Instead, they walked slowly and leisurely towards the outside of the West Garden, with two sedan chairs following behind them from a distance.
"Dad, why did you ask me to come out just now?" Yan Shifan asked while supporting Yan Song.
Before this, it was because he received eye contact from his father Yan Song that he expressed his support for Zhao Zhenji's proposal on the spot.
But now it seems that the emperor does not agree, and the reason for his veto is very straightforward. How can the imperial court be so calculating?
If this gets out, how will people in the world view the court and the emperor? It is a matter of dignity, so it seems that there is no problem if the emperor disagrees.
"Hey," Yan Song couldn't help but sigh when he heard Yan Shifan's question, "Because Zhao Zhenji's idea is very good. Since it is a good idea, we should naturally support it."
"Dad, do you mean to bypass the emperor in this matter?" Yan Shifan said, shaking his head repeatedly, "No, absolutely not!"
"Don't even mention that the emperor has already cultivated immortality. Even if he hadn't cultivated immortality before, we would never do such a thing!"
Yan Shifan just felt that his father was being a little too arrogant.
"Zhao Zhenji's words were a bit too blunt," Yan Song sighed, "As the chief minister of the cabinet, I naturally have the responsibility to help check. Don't worry, I know the emperor..."
The last sentence made Yan Shifan stunned. He felt as if a flash of lightning passed through his mind, making him suddenly understand.
"Dad, what you mean is..." Seeing that his son Yan Shifan finally reacted, Yan Song shook his head slightly without saying anything. He just waved his hand and stopped, and the sedan chair immediately followed.
Watching his father Yan Song step into the sedan chair, Yan Shifan was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously turned around and looked in the direction of Yuxi Palace, "I see..."
After his father's advice, Yan Shifan finally came to his senses. Even though the emperor had driven them all out of Yuxi Palace, he was not really angry!
The emperor actually wanted to agree with Zhao Zhenji's approach, but this matter could not be done openly, and someone had to take the blame.
In short, the idea is that the person who proposed this plan was Zhao Zhenji, and the person who supported this plan was the Yan family.
Just as Zhao Zhenji said, it makes the common people suffer, but for the emperor, it makes everyone suffer, and everyone will bear the blame.
At the same time, in Yuxi Palace.
"I heard that Li gave birth to a prince for you?" In the abode, although Jiajing was asking, his tone left no room for doubt.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, it has been more than three months." Hearing that his father finally asked about his child, a smile suddenly appeared on Prince Yu's face, and then he immediately bowed and said.
As he spoke, Prince Yu glanced at Prince Jing beside him without leaving any trace, with an indescribable look of pride on his face.
After all, Prince Jing and I were competing with each other, and his princess was only pregnant, and we didn't know whether it was a boy or a girl. And I was not only his elder brother, but also naturally higher in status than him. Now I had given birth to a prince, continuing the family line for my father.
He was naturally proud and felt that he had once again surpassed King Jing.
"I have already thought of a name for the prince," Jiajing ignored his two sons' private actions and said, "The name will be Zhu Yijun. The decree will be issued later."
"Thank you, father!" After hearing that Jiajing gave his son a name, Prince Yu immediately thanked him with a happy face.
"And you," Jiajing said, looking at King Jing again, "This is the 'Yang Yuan Dan', which helps to cultivate the body's vitality. Give it to your princess to take, and it will ensure that the child is safe."
"Thank you, father, for the elixir." King Jing immediately and respectfully took the jade bottle containing the elixir from Lu Fang.
"After you go back, just like Yan Song and the others, find a piece of land in the back garden of the palace and submit it. Then you don't have to run to the palace anymore and can practice at home...Okay, everyone, go down."
"Yes, your son will take his leave." Prince Yu and Prince Jing bowed and turned to leave.
At this time, only Jiajing, Lu Fang and Lu Bing were left in the palace.
"Tell me, how is the training of the Immortal Guard going?" Jiajing looked at Lu Bing.
"Your Majesty, the thousand children have now broken through to the post-natal realm. With a large amount of flesh and blood, as well as some elixirs provided by Eunuch Lu, their progress is not slow."
"According to the realm classification of 'Xianwufa', the martial arts realm is divided into nine levels in total," Lu Bing said with a slight pause, and then continued: "The first three levels are the acquired realm, which mainly cultivates qi and blood, the middle three levels are the innate realm, and the last three levels are the martial arts realm."
"As the name suggests, it means to enter Taoism through martial arts."
Hearing this, Jiajing nodded slightly. The four words "using martial arts to enter the Tao" were what he valued most.
In fact, the most important reason why he chose the 'Xian Wushu Method', which requires a lot of blood and food in the early stages of cultivation and is not a martial arts method that ordinary people can practice even in the mortal world, is because this method is derived from the immortal cultivation method.
When this martial arts technique is practiced to perfection, it can be smoothly transferred to the immortal cultivation technique.
"These children are only at the first level now, and they still have a long way to go. However, the number of people in a station and the cost consumed are no less than that of a guard. When they reach the second level..."
At this point, Lu Bing's tone became a little hesitant.
"The consumption of one school is equal to the military supplies of one guard?!" Lv Fang at the side couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise, "If I remember correctly, these Immortal Guards are just children, right?"
"Yes, they are a group of children," Lu Bing smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying, "The oldest one is no more than fourteen years old, and the youngest is only five years old. There are no requirements for talent and physique when it comes to the Xianwu Fa post-natal realm. It all depends on whether the resources can keep up."
"In other words, as long as you have money, good food and drink, and enough precious medicinal baths, you can break through to the third level."
"But even if you are at the first level of the acquired realm, you can defeat ten people at the same level. When you reach the third level, you can defeat thirty people at the first level."
“If I raise an army of 100,000 immortal warriors in the future, it doesn’t require them to reach the Xiantian realm. Even if they reach the Acquired realm, it will be enough to sweep the world!”
"This is much stronger than any cavalry!"
"Hiss!" Upon hearing this, even though Lu Fang's cultivation had already reached the first level of Qi training, he couldn't help but take a breath.
He knew that Lu Bing's words were not exaggerations, and in front of his master, Lu Bing did not dare to say anything deceptive, so what Lu Bing said were all facts, and even conservative estimates.
To be honest, he couldn't imagine what the scene would be like if the Ming Dynasty really had such a powerful army of 100,000 people.
I'm afraid that even if the Shenji Battalion, which also has a strength of 100,000 people and is well-equipped with sophisticated firearms, would be slaughtered instantly when faced with such a terrifying martial arts army. No, it's not an estimate, it's inevitable!
Although Lu Fang did not practice the "Xianwufa", he did keep a backup of this martial arts technique and had studied it.
Moreover, he also planned to train some new eunuchs who had just entered the palace to practice immortal martial arts in the East and West Factories after his master came out of seclusion.
Therefore, he also knew what kind of abilities a warrior would possess after practicing the "Xianwu Fa".
I wouldn't dare say that he can fly on clouds and use talismans and magic spells like immortal cultivators, but simple skills like flying over eaves and walking on walls, especially the martial art called "body movement" mentioned in the book, can be used like a ghost.
It is precisely because of this that Lu Fang knew in his heart that if an equal number of troops were to face the Shenji Camp, the latter would definitely be defeated in an instant, and most likely without any casualties.
Although the firearms of the Shenji Camp were powerful, they had to replace ammunition after each firing, which was too slow.
As the level of martial arts cultivation deepens, warriors can subdue the people from the Shenjiying the moment they launch an attack.
Even if a cultivator like him, who was in the early stage of Qi training, was surrounded by the army of Immortal Guards, even if he could kill many people, when the talismans in his hands and his own spiritual energy were exhausted, then death would be the only thing that awaited him.
"In that case, it is understandable that a large amount of consumables are needed..." Lu Fang let out a breath and murmured.
"Moreover," Lu Bing said at this time, looking at Jiajing, and seeing that the emperor did not show any dissatisfaction, he added: "This money was all paid by the Jinyiwei, and now the money is managed by the Ministry of Revenue."
"If you ask for too much, I'm afraid..." Having said this, Lu Bing kept silent, but his meaning was already very clear.
"Don't worry about the supplies," Jiajing waved his sleeves, "The Immortal Guards will be of great use to me later."
"The cabinet is ambitious to divide the countries, but how will the divided territories be managed? In the future, the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty must be stationed with a strong army, right? Those mortal soldiers must be gradually replaced."
"Just tell me what else you want and I will get it all at once!" Jiajing said generously.
To be honest, he hadn't expected that the Xianwu Guard only had the training materials for the first level of martial arts, but it already reached the military needs of one guard. What about the second level, the third level...by then, how huge would the military expenditure be?
"This is only the acquired realm," Lu Bing also looked a little troubled, "After the innate realm, you have to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transform it into innate true essence."
"This requires spiritual energy supply!"
"After that, the resources consumed by a single martial arts practitioner are probably no less than training a Qi training practitioner."
After saying this in one breath, Lu Bing lowered his head.
He knew that what he was reporting to the emperor now was not the situation of the Immortal Guard, but a huge financial expenditure.
In fact, it's not just money, there are also spiritual resources needed in the later stages.
"In this way, training an army of 100,000 Immortal Guards is almost equivalent to training an army of 100,000 immortal cultivators..." Lu Fang said, and shook his head.
He knew that this was not the way to calculate it.
Let's not talk about the innate realm of the Xianwu Guard, just the acquired realm. If we cultivate such an army of 10,000 people whose cultivation reaches the third level of martial arts, theoretically, as long as the materials can be supplied, it will be fine.
And this martial arts army of 100,000 people will appear.
Even for the innate realm, the same principle applies. As long as there are enough materials, it can be produced in a short time.
But cultivating immortals is different.
When it comes to cultivating immortality, the time and resources spent by each person are completely different.
For example, it takes a person a year to break through to the first level of Qi training. During this year, the spiritual resources consumed will only increase, not decrease!
Lu Bing could train a thousand Xianwu Guards of the first level of the acquired realm for the Ming Dynasty in one year. But even if he were given twenty years, he would definitely not be able to train a thousand Xianwu cultivators of the first level of Qi training.
In other words, as long as there are enough resources, there will be as many Immortal Guards as needed, and the time consumed will be shorter. Even if the immortal cultivator has enough resources, he may not be able to achieve the desired effect! And the resources consumed are still progressive.
Jiajing would naturally calculate this account, and he could calculate it very clearly.
After a long silence in the hall, Jiajing slowly spoke.
"The court will provide you with resources for the Xianwuwei Acquired Realm, but the Xianwuwei Innate Realm requires spiritual energy," Jiajing said, pausing. Under Lu Bing's gaze, he said, "You can allocate a ten-acre piece of land in the suburbs of the capital as a spiritual field for the Xianwuwei."
"When the Immortal Guard expands in the future, you will have to figure out how to deal with the spiritual fields yourself." Jiajing looked at Lu Bing seriously, "In the future, there will be many spiritual fields open in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. For the sake of fairness, I will announce them."
"Whether you can compete with others depends on you, but my Immortal Guard must be expanded every year."
"Can you do it?!"
Now, as long as the original life is moved to the world of cultivation, the Ming Dynasty can be grafted with spiritual energy. Jiajing will naturally speed up the development of the Ming Dynasty. In the future, there will be insufficient resources for cultivation...
Isn’t there an entire world of cultivating immortals?
But all of this requires strength. The early Ming Dynasty, in the words of later generations, was "living in hiding and developing slowly", and the spiritual energy of the world of immortal cultivation was grafted onto the Ming Dynasty bit by bit.
"Yes, I can do it!" Hearing this, Lu Bing was immediately overjoyed.
What he wants is the emperor's support!
"Well," Jiajing waved his hand, indicating that Lu Bing could go back, "Go down..."
"Yes!" After reporting what he needed to report and getting what he wanted, Lu Bing naturally did not linger any longer.
"That Zhao Zhenji is a capable person," Jiajing looked at Lu Fang after Lu Bing left. "I think the cabinet will handle the rest of the matter, but the main credit still goes to him."
"Don't reward him openly, reward him secretly..."
Hearing Jiajing say this, Lu Fang's eyes flashed, and he understood what his master meant.
Now, for these elders, nothing can be considered a reward from their master except spiritual fields and immortal techniques.
As for Zhao Zhenji, he already has a spiritual field, so the next step is naturally to reward him with immortal magic.
I have to say that these people in the cabinet are still very sensible.
Although Jiajing asked each family to submit the spiritual fields they wanted to allocate within a month, they did not report it immediately, but waited until the 20th day of the first lunar month in the 43rd year of Jiajing.
It took exactly one month, and the national policy of "concentrating land and reducing clan power" proposed by Zhao Zhenji was modified to save face.
Jiajing naturally saw the memorial submitted by the cabinet. Since it was no longer a calculation that would damage the reputation of the court, there was naturally nothing to say and he approved it directly.
Of course, Jiajing was not idle during this month, but took time out to return to the world of cultivating immortals.
This time, he dismantled his natal Ming Dynasty into several pieces and placed them all on the spiritual vein of the Ming Immortal Sect.
But they were all in the Heritage Pavilion and the branches under his residence. He did not release other branches for safety reasons.
Although other people would not go underground to check the spiritual veins when they had nothing to do, he was used to being cautious and would not take such a risk. After all, this thing was not invisible and could be seen as soon as it was taken out.
Not only that, after he came out of seclusion this time, everyone in the sect knew that he had successfully broken through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Afterwards, he went to Sifang City and Yeshi again, said something to Liu Quan, and announced that he would go into seclusion again.
As for the 'Emperor's Scripture' he practiced, he had told Liu Quan a long time ago that it was an adventure he had in Yeshi at that time. Liu Quan did not think much about it. After all, cultivators have to change their techniques after establishing their foundation.
The Great Ming Immortal Sect did not have any decent martial arts inheritance at all. The original plan was to wait for Jiajing and others to make a breakthrough in their cultivation and then choose to learn from either the Dugu brothers or Liu Quan's method.
Otherwise, you can just go to a college or some chamber of commerce to buy it.
In the world of cultivation on Arcturus, skills can also be purchased. Some specialized independent cultivation forces will bring out many skills inheritances when exploring some relics and secret realms. Most of them are auctioned.
Of course, Jiajing did not say the name of the technique, only that it was a fire-attributed technique. Others did not ask much, although they were all from the same sect, it was still very taboo.
In the study room of Yan Mansion.
"Grandpa, father!" A young man, only about sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in white, bowed to Yan Song and Yan Shifan who were sitting on the couch, "I wonder why you called your grandson here?"
This young man was none other than Yan Shifan’s son, Yan Shaoting!
Yan Shifan loved this son very much.
There was no other reason, it was just that this son was as smart as him, even smarter than he was when he was a child, and he loved him deeply.
"Shao Ting, sit down." Seeing his grandson, Yan Song smiled and waved his hand, motioning him to sit down.
"Yes." Yan Shaoting smiled, then walked forward, moved a small stool over and sat down. At this time, Yan Song also spoke.
"Shao Ting, do you know why you are called here?" Yan Song raised his hand to interrupt Yan Shifan who was about to speak. He leaned forward slightly, his face full of kindness, and there was a testing look in his eyes.
Yan Shaoting glanced at his father beside him, then smiled slightly and nodded, "Grandson knows."
Huh? Hearing Yan Shaoting's words, Yan Shifan was stunned and subconsciously looked at his father Yan Song. The meaning was very clear, I didn't tell him.
A smile appeared in Yan Song's eyes. He ignored Yan Shifan, and there was a hint of expectation in his expression.
He knew that his grandson was smart, but he still wanted to see how smart he could be.
From today on, the Yan family will embark on the path of becoming immortals, and this grandson will be one of the pillars of the Yan family's future.
Therefore, he had high expectations for this grandson.
"The backyard!" Yan Shaoting did not keep Yan Song and Yan Shifan waiting for long. He said, "And that is..." As he spoke, Yan Shaoting raised his head, his eyes slightly fixed, staring at Yan Song, and said:
"It also has something to do with the changes in Grandpa!"
Yan Song did not speak, but nodded slightly and said, "You mean, these two are related?"
Yan Song's skin improved, which was obvious to all.
Yan Song did not deliberately hide this, because before this, his skin had just become smoother and had fewer age spots.
These things are not too amazing. When other people see them, they will only think that Lord Yan has a secret to maintain his youthful appearance and must have found some tonic. After all, money can feed people.
However, what Yan Song did not expect was that his eldest grandson did not seem to think so and had his own ideas.
Not only that, he was able to hold back and not say anything, as if nothing had happened. This performance... is such a surprise!
"Tell me about it." Yan Song stared at his grandson with implicit expectation. He wanted to know whether his grandson could give the answer he was thinking of.
"Yes," Yan Shaoting nodded slightly, and then said word by word, "If my grandson's guess is correct, my father suddenly had someone open up the backyard and renovate the soil, as if it was made into a field."
"But my Yan family doesn't need to farm, so there are only two possibilities," Yan Shaoting said with confidence, "either you, grandpa, want to farm for fun."
"Or this field has another use!"
"However, Grandpa, you are old, and as the chief minister of the cabinet, you have a lot of official duties, so you will not be idle to farm and do rough work."
Well, actually there was one more thing he didn’t say, which was what kind of extravagant life his family led, so how could his grandfather know how to farm?
"So, the field in the backyard has other uses."
"I'm afraid we need to grow some special grains," Yan Shaoting paused for a moment, and then added, "Now there are some special new grains emerging in the Ming Dynasty, such as golden grains, sweet potatoes, and yellow taro..."
"These crops have never been seen before, but this is what the palace said."
"What kind of grain is there in this world that my Yan family doesn't know about? But the palace can produce it, which means..." At this point, Yan Shaoting changed the subject and said, "Before, the court was rumored that an immortal had descended to the world to bury Yinshan."
"Afterwards, the Cabinet issued an order that Grandpa reprimand the senior officials of the six ministries for talking about the imaginary immortals."
"Not long after that, Grandpa's health suddenly improved. In the past two years, Father and Grandpa have often brought some fruits, elixirs, tea leaves, and rice from Prince Jing's Mansion..."
“These are all so abnormal!”
"After that, grandpa and father looked better and better... So I boldly guessed that there really was a legendary immortal born in the Ming Dynasty."
"Moreover, the Emperor has also obtained the Immortal Fate!"
"The fields we have opened up in the backyard today, could it be that our Yan family is also going to plant some immortal grains?"
After Yan Shaoting finished speaking, the study fell into silence.
Yan Shifan stared at his son Yan Shaoting with wide eyes in surprise. He had never thought that his son could be so wise.
Although as the eldest son of the Yan family, he had access to many truths, but being able to guess so much based on these alone was already extraordinary, a wisdom and a sharp eye for seeing through the essence of things.
In an instant, Yan Shifan thought of his father Yan Song!
At such a young age, he has such vision and judgment. The key is that he dares to think in that direction. You must know that the talk of immortals is nonsense to other people.
"You should have other ways to verify it, right?" At this time, although Yan Song was very pleased, he still stared at his grandson and asked.
Hearing this, Yan Shifan was stunned and looked at his son suddenly.
Being seen through by his grandfather, Yan Shaoting was stunned. He subconsciously looked at his father Yan Shifan, his eyes dodging as he said, "Indeed, to be honest, the wine and fruits that my father gave me before..."
"My grandson took them all to feed the cat, and the cat seemed to have changed, getting bigger and bigger, like a monster... Grandpa doesn't ask, and my grandson can't hide it for too long..."
Cat?! Hey cat!!!
Yan Shifan was stunned for a moment, then became furious, "You used the spiritual wine, spiritual fruit, and other spiritual objects I gave you to feed the cat!"
Yan Shifan was really pissed off by this prodigal son.
He himself was reluctant to eat or drink the spiritual creatures, and even wanted to share half of them with others, but they were actually used to feed the animals!
However, Yan Song discovered the key: the cat had mutated!
"..."
Too busy, I will update 6K first, and add more tomorrow~~~
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