After entering the Xishan Mountain Gate, Lu Yao, Mei Chaofan, Liang Guodong, and Xia Yongming entered the main hall together. After leaving for more than a year, the aura concentration of this Xishan Mountain Gate has become thicker and thicker, and Lu Yao feels that the aura concentration here is already about to catch up with the inner gate of the Shangqing Sect. Of course, it's the edge of the inner door.

Lu Yao was very satisfied, and he could also see that Mei Chaofan and other monks were also living very well here. Although the Xishan place is a little smaller, the aura is still strong, and everyone can feel at ease.

After Lu Yao sat down, he asked Mei Chaofan about the shape of this year.

Mei Chaofan said: "We don't meddle in the affairs of the imperial court, so we don't know the specifics." However, the Jin State was defeated, and the war lasted only four months. Now, after almost a year of rest, our monks have also gone to the Kingdom of Jin, and have gone to the entire Jin Kingdom and the entire area of the Kingdom of Yu, no matter how remote. The eighty-six monks who were found to have spiritual roots had already entered the Qi Feeling Period in the Xishan Immortal Gate. If you go back this time, you can bring them back to the sect. ”

When Lu Yao heard this, he asked happily: "Why are there so many this time, there are more than eighty?" You must know that last time, when the Shangqing faction selected disciples, how many countries were there? ”

Mei Chaofan said: "Every time the Shangqing faction selects disciples, it is only when residents voluntarily come to participate in the selection in a prosperous big city. In fact, many ordinary people did not have the opportunity to participate. Not to mention the people in the countryside and mountains. In fact, there are still a lot of good seedlings in these places. It's just that they didn't have this condition, and they didn't have this opportunity to participate in the selection, so they were delayed. ”

"Our monks are different from the stewards of the Shangqing sect. No matter how far or near, no matter how far away, we can go there, so that we can find these people with spiritual roots. What's more, this time it's not one country, but two. ”

Lu Yao said: "You guys have really worked hard. ”

Mei Chaofan smiled and said, "A few of us are okay, mainly those monks we hired. It's a bit of a rambling job, but it's not dangerous at all, and the monthly money we pay is high, so they work very hard. I just want to wait for you to come back and discuss with you, how about giving them some rewards? There is no need for anything else, just reward Zi Xuedan. ”

Lu Yao said: "Okay, we want as much as we want Zixue Dan." All you have to do is reward. ”

Lu Yao asked, "Next, when will we go to war against the Chu State?" ”

Mei Chaofan said: "In the war against the Chu State, the emperor means that after five months, we monks will prepare logistics materials and build roads and bridges, which may be two or three months in advance. So, there are still two months to spare. ”

"There are some monks we have hired who want to become official monks of our Yu family. I don't know what you mean? ”

Lu Yao said, "We are very short of monk disciples. However, the most important thing to build a family is the loyalty of the disciples. If these casual cultivators can be loyal, you can look at it coldly, and it's okay, you might as well take some too, but not too much. ”

This Mei Chaofan still understands. He said: "These applications to join our Yu Guo family, we look at seven or eight are still good. The rest, we didn't plan to ask for it. ”

Lu Yao nodded.

Lu Yao said: "How are the preparations for the collection of flowers in various places? ”

Mei Chaofan said: "For more than a year, we have purchased a large number of flowers, which have been planted in a valley, where Xia Yongming has arranged a formation, and the four seasons are spring. Very well preserved. I guess it's enough for you to refine for a while. ”

"In war, this low-level mortal talisman is too useful. However, many neighboring countries have already figured out ways to deal with it, although they can't stop us all. However, we can't take advantage of this as quickly as we did against the Jin Kingdom. The emperor and I both estimated that the next war against Chu might take a year or two. ”

Lu Yao said: "I have been mentally prepared for this. ”

Then Lu Yao asked Liang Guodong and Xia Yongming about the construction. Xia Yongming suggested that it would be best to establish two teleportation arrays here in the Xishan Immortal Gate. One is to reach the sect, and the other is to reach the White Fish Lake.

Lu Yao pondered for a moment and said, "The cost of laying the teleportation town is very expensive, how can you ask for 200 million top-grade spirit stones. Moreover, it is too wasteful to maintain it on a daily basis. We already have a teleportation array to the sect in Whitefish Lake. Why don't you set up a teleportation array between Whitefish Lake and Xishan Immortal Gate? It's okay to take on a teleportation array. ”

Xia Yongming hurriedly said, "If Baiyu Lake has already established a teleportation array to reach the Shangqing Sect, then there is no need to set up a teleportation array to the sect here. All you need to do is set up a teleportation array to reach Whitefish Lake. Anyway, if we people here want to go back to the sect, they can also take a flying ship, or they can go to Baiyu Lake first, and then transfer to the teleportation array to reach the sect. ”

Lu Yao nodded, gave Xia Yongming 200 million top-grade spirit stones, and said, "You can discuss this with Feng Qingliang on the other side of Baiyu Lake, and invite the people of the sect to lay it." ”

Xia Yongming nodded.

Lu Yao remembered again and said, "Brother Guodong and Brother Yongming, do you two family members also want to move to Yu Kingdom?" Sister Wu Jinfeng and Sister Zhong Fanya both said that after a while, they would use the flyship to bring their families over and settle in Yuguo. ”

Liang Guodong gave it up, but Xia Yongming was overjoyed when he heard it. He hurriedly said, "That's good. Actually, I've been thinking about it for a long time. I'm going to move my house over. I haven't been home in a long time. It just so happens that there is still a while before the war against the Chu State, which is enough for me to do these things. ”

Liang Guodong said: "It's okay to move the family here, we can take care of it nearby." ”

Lu Yao said: "Well, there is nothing to do in the past two months anyway, you can use the flyship to do things." If nothing happens, I'm going to go to the palace to see the emperor's brother. ”

Mei Chaofan hurriedly said, "Okay, you can go." ”

Lu Yao was not publicized, and went to the palace directly with a teleportation. This distance, teleportation is enough.

Although Lu Yao was a monk, she was wearing a jade plate to enter the palace, so the big array guarding the palace did not stop her.

She went straight to her palace. Cuiliu also served in her palace. I couldn't help but be startled when I saw that the princess, who had disappeared for more than a year, came back. However, when I think about it, the other party is not an ordinary princess, this is an immortal, and it is normal for someone to come and go without a trace like this. It calmed down.

Lu Yao asked Cuiliu to send someone to invite the emperor and empress to come over and talk.

After a while, the emperor came over with the empress.

After such a period of waiting, Lu Yao was not idle, she asked Cuiliu about the situation in the palace this year.

Cuiliu said: "In the past year or so, the relationship between the two concubines and the queen has been reconciled a lot. The emperor also offered a lot of beauties. There are five concubines and beauties who are pregnant. However, it has not yet been born. After the Great War of the Jin Kingdom, the noble concubine of the Jin Kingdom, that is, the second princess of our Yu Kingdom, also returned as a captive. The emperor gave her a house to live in. The queen of the Jin Kingdom and the other concubines were all sent to the Jiaofang Division. However, three of the princesses of the Jin Kingdom entered the palace as concubines. ”

"Although the position is not high now, they are all very beautiful, and one of the four princesses of the Jin Kingdom is particularly beautiful, and the emperor is very favored. In order to appease the nobles of the Jin family who surrendered, the emperor and the princes of the clan accepted some nobles of the Jin Kingdom. Among them, there is a noble girl who entered the palace, she is very favored, she is pregnant, and the emperor has made Li Concubine. ”

Lu Yao nodded, the emperor's Huairou policy was still right.

While he was talking, the emperor and empress arrived. The emperor and queen looked very cordial when they saw Lu Yao.

Lu Yao found that although the queen was a little melancholy between her eyebrows, she was in a good state. I know that last year's words of persuasion to her worked. The queen should have looked down on the competition for favor with these beauties.

But the emperor was in high spirits. It's no wonder that the Yu State has not expanded its territory for many years, and now it has destroyed the Jin State without much effort, and the entire land area has expanded by half, and he is already famous in the annals of history as the emperor. Can you not be happy?

The emperor and the empress exchanged a few words with Lu Yao, and Lu Yao praised his sister-in-law and queen for her good management of the palace. After receiving Lu Yao's praise, the depression between the queen's eyebrows was much less, and the emperor also praised the queen after his sister's praise, saying that the queen was a generation of virtuous queens, which can be called a model for future generations.

After receiving such a high-level evaluation from the emperor, the queen's face was full of joy, and she finally felt that her efforts were worth it.

After everyone talked for a while, Lu Yao asked, "How is our second sister living?" ”

The emperor hurriedly said: "Although she was born by Empress Ling, and she was against us everywhere before, but, after all, we are from a father. It's my sister. Blood is thicker than water, and the royal family of Jin resisted us to the end. So, I slaughtered the entire royal family of the Kingdom of Jin. Including the prince born to the second sister. However, I stayed with the second sister's life. ”

Not only did he leave her alive, but he also sealed her to continue to be the princess of our Yu Kingdom. She built a gorgeous princess mansion in the capital, and all of them came according to the prince's specifications. She is also free of food and clothing. ”

Lu Yao was very satisfied with the emperor's arrangement. Although she doesn't like this second sister either, after all, blood is thicker than water, and it is still difficult to kill them all.

However, if you want to take extra care of this second sister, Lu Yao can't do it, she is a mortal, and the monks will not have too much affection for mortals.

The emperor said: "However, after the second sister came to the capital, I only met once, and it was very unpleasant. So, I didn't see her afterwards. But the queen had been to her mansion and had seen her twice. ”

Lu Yao listened and looked at the queen. (To be continued.) )