Chapter 20: The Emperor's Thoughts

Juyi Hall is the emperor's dormitory and the place where the emperor usually approves the folds, when the emperor's chamberlain brings this jade pendant to the emperor with both hands, the emperor Cheng Mingci is looking at a book sent by Chongming, Chongming is located in the southwest of the empire, close to the 100,000 mountains, there are two major races in the 100,000 mountains, one is the forest empire established by the elf empire, also called the elf empire, and there is the beast demon tribal alliance established by the forest beast demon, Chongming Mansion is close to the beast demon tribal alliance, and is often harassed by the forest beast demon, so the six counties under its jurisdiction are all poor counties, and they are very poor, This letter is that Song Bing hopes that the empire can continue to exempt Chongming from paying taxes in these six counties for another three years, and hopes that the empire can add some more grain and silver taels to suppress the peasant uprising in the territory and prevent the harassment of forest beasts and demons, Cheng Mingci looked at this letter and frowned, the empire has been established for more than 2,000 years, and the major nobles are numerous, and when the empire was just founded, the founding ancestors of the country in order to reward the soldiers and assist the ministers and hope that they can follow the empire wholeheartedly, so the ancestors set up the will of the nobles not to pay, but not to add taxes does not mean not to pay taxes, but the founding of the country for more than 2,000 years The original non-endowment evolved into no taxSo the nobles who hold more than 60% of the empire's wealth do not have to pay a penny of taxes like the empire, but the taxes are paid by some farmers, small merchants and handicraftsmen, and the taxes paid by these people have to feed a huge empire with a population of hundreds of millions of land and more than 20 million square kilometers It is not too much to describe it as overstretched, the empire can be said to have uprisings almost every year in recent decades, and Chongming is the hardest hit area, but the empire has no extra silver taels to support Chongming, so he had to comment on the fold with these words: I am very relieved to see Aiqing's performance, I know Aiqing's hard work, and I hope that Aiqing will make more efforts for the empire to eliminate the bandits as soon as possible, I look forward to it, and the economy is exempted from paying taxes in Aiqing's jurisdiction for one year. [For more exciting novels, please visit]

After the approval, he handed the fold to the waiter, when he picked up another fold, he saw the jade pendant in the hand of the waiter, he stood up and walked to the front of the waiter, and earned the jade pendant in his hand, he was too familiar with this jade pendant, because this jade pendant was given to his wife, and the relief in front was carved by his own hand, that was when the two of them met for the first time, her wife used the bow and arrow in her hand to shoot a two-winged cloud python that attacked him, and then saved him, and the heroic moment was forever engraved in his heart, so he worked hard to personally enter a jade mine rich in white jade under the leadership of a mountain dwarf, and personally mined the rough stone of the jade mine, and cut and polished it with his own hands, and finally engraved his wife on this piece of white jade at that time, and the small poem on the back of the jade pendant was engraved by his wife himself, when they separated, his wife put the jade pendant that had been worn on his body and put it on the body of their daughter Cheng Xiuyi, and then the daughter did not say goodbye, he sent someone to find out, and finally found out the whereabouts of his daughter in Sanqing Mountain, he originally planned to take his daughter back to the palace to live, but was refused, and the Infinite Sect and the Mida Sect also advised him that now the child is sad time, and then there is in Sanqing Mountain, the two must carefully teach and make her achieve something in the future, and then persuade him to go down the mountain to reunite your father and daughter, and at that time, Cheng Mingci had just ascended the throne, and his position was unstable, and the empire was already eventful at that time, so he could only give up the idea of persuading his daughter to return to his side, and wholeheartedly govern the stormy country, and now the father and daughter have been separated for more than 20 years, and this jade pendant appeared in front of him again, so how can he not be excited, although he is now surrounded by children and grandchildrenIn the past 20 years, Mingci has made a great contribution to the reproduction of the imperial family, more than 40 princes, more than 50 princesses, and there are almost 100 people together, the oldest is already twenty years old and has children, and the youngest is still in the belly of the concubine, but what makes him feel indebted the most is his eldest princess, because he feels that he has not fulfilled his responsibilities as a father, and he owes to her mother, so he hopes to make up for his debt to this eldest daughter, and his relationship with his wife is the most innocent, and their separation is political, which has nothing to do with emotion, and the concubines he married in the future are not his own favorites, they are all together for political needs, so the children they gave birth to him he also does not feel so close, and these children are also afraid of their father, the more afraid the more unwilling to get close to him, so the vicious circle goes on He always feels that he has no relatives in this huge palace, and now he sees the jade pendant worn by the eldest daughter beside him How can he not be excited, so for the first time in history, the inner servant saw the emperor shed tears, the emperor held the jade pendant tightly on one side and the other hand grabbed the hand of the inner servant and asked, I asked where the girl holding this jade pendant isTake me to her.

The chamberlain hurriedly replied: Back to Your Majesty, the woman holding this jade pendant is a half-elf, and he is waiting outside the gate of the outer city. When Cheng Mingci heard this, he hurriedly ordered: Someone came to prepare for me, and I wanted to go out of the city to meet her.

Because the imperial city of Shangjing is too big, in order to facilitate the emperor's travel, the emperor has prepared two sets of travel cars, one is a purely manpower of the royal bowl, this royal bowl needs sixteen strong men to carry to act, this royal bowl is like a small palace in general royal gatherings, large-scale celebrations, and the country's foreign wars or domestic rebellions need to show the royal prestige when this kind of royal bowl is used, and the other set is a horse driven by eight dragon flying cloud beasts, these eight dragon beasts are huge, good at running, endurance and strong and can use their own wind and light spells of the magic beast, These strange beasts are like horses' heads, long antlers, covered with huge dragon scales, a dragon scale, like a shield used by a cavalry, slender, but the limbs are very thick, and there is a layer of steel needle-like colored horses on the four hooves, running as if stepping on the colorful auspicious clouds, the driving of the royal is also a powerful wind magician, once needed, these eight royal beasts can urge their own mana to rise into the air, and the body will emit a colorful glow, and the emperor is sitting in the carriage is also very huge, the main body is made of powerful wind monster bones after being tempered by a special magic furnace, the carriage was rectangular, the length is six meters six, The height and width are three meters three, the outer star gold leaf and blue silver foil can emit colorful glow under the sun, the windows are made of carefully polished crystal, because considering that this set of cars is used by the emperor to travel, it is necessary to take into account the needs of safety and royal prestige, so the whole royal horse has a strong protective force, and there is a small defensive magic array that runs automatically in the lower part of the car, plus these eight royal beasts have the strength of the martial master and the magic master, and the emperor also has the strength of the magician, Therefore, if the entire Imperial Bowl is not attacked by a sage, even if 10,000 heavily armed troops are dispatched, as long as there are no magician-level magicians, there is basically no problem.

When Cheng Mingci ran out of the Juyi Palace, this imperial bowl had stopped at the door of the palace, Cheng Mingci quickly boarded the imperial palace, and then ordered the official to rush to the Dayuan Gate from the second rank of the imperial driver.

Originally, the emperor traveled with a very strict set of etiquette guards, generally 1,200 Feiyun guards escorted around the left, and followed by a large number of palace maids, attendants, gongs in front, trombone to open the way, Huang Luo's umbrella cover of someone to support, all kinds of royal etiquette must be ready, generally prepare these things without an hour or two of preparation is not good at all, and this time the situation is special, the emperor decided temporarily, and is very anxious, if it is not for the royal driver to wait outside the palace, plus the area of the Juyi Palace is larger, the inner servant announced in time, and the emperor will not have any strong wind magic, so the imperial driver can drive the royal to arrive in time, otherwise it really won't be in time.

When Cheng Mingci came to the Dayuan Gate of Shangjing, he saw a beautiful half-elf woman outside the huge city gate, dressed in white, standing alone in front of the city gate, but in fact, this is just a personal mood, as the capital of the empire, and Shangyuan Gate is the main city gate, people come and go, and the emperor's attention is only focused on his daughter, plus they have been separated for 20 years, so there is a feeling of loneliness of the daughter, Cheng Mingci two lines of tears instantly slipped down, after decades on the throne, he thought that he had become hard-hearted, and the tears were gone, but when he saw his eldest daughter who had been absent for 20 years, he was very excited, when he pushed the car door and stepped out of the chariot, Cheng Xiuyi also saw Cheng Mingci who walked down from the imperial court, and at this time, all the people and soldiers outside the city gate quickly knelt down and shouted long live when they saw the emperor's chariot.

Cheng Xiuyi looked at his father, who had some gorgeous temples, you must know that he was given the Great Blessing Technique by the three main gods of the elf clan at the same time, his life is as long as the elf clan, but looking at his current appearance, he can imagine that he has not been happy as an emperor in the past twenty years, and her feelings are very complicated when she sees her father's appearance.

Cheng Xiuyi walked up to her father with one knee, touched her chest with her right hand, and whispered: Father, I'm back.

Cheng Mingci looked down at his daughter and stretched out his hand to help her up, and said in a low voice: It's good to come back, it's good to come back.

There were originally a thousand words but it only became these two sentences, at this time the Dayuan Gate opened one after another out of a lot of people, the first to come out is the emperor's ceremonial drive, this set of royal ceremonial personnel many ritual instruments are complicated, followed by the queen and her ceremonial drive, concubines, concubines, ladies, etc., the rest is the prince and the princes, the prince's ceremonial drive, and then down is the big zai, the left and right zai, and the ministry of the minister's ceremonial drive hula out of thousands of people, anyway, the identity can be called basically out.

(Disclaimer: The small orders in this chapter are the author's own original, and the poems that appear in future chapters will also be the author's own original)