"Welcome Your Majesty back to the palace—"

It was a windy and snowy day, and Li Zhi and the others finally returned to Chang'an City.

Since swearing to go west and going to Heaven again, more than half a year has passed, but fortunately, it is not for nothing, not only has he obtained a lot of cultivation resources from Heavenly Court, but he has also abducted Zixia Fairy back for Sun Wukong.

"All the Qing, this snowy day, don't stand outside, let's go to the 'Daming Palace'—"

After being away for more than half a year, even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in charge of the country, there are some things that Li Zhi still has to deal with personally, at least it is good to take a look at the gates.

Li Zhi first let Nezha, Sun Wukong and Zixia Fairy go to the mansion of Qinglongfang, and the two brothers each have an independent courtyard, although it is not as tall as the Heavenly Court Mansion, but it is also extremely luxurious in the world.

Li Zhi has never cared too much about these rich and noble things in the mortal world, but over the years, the Tang Dynasty has been in good weather, and the national fortunes have been thriving.

There are a lot of cultivators in the Tang Dynasty, hundreds of people in the Ministry of Industry in Chang'an, and the worst ones have also reached the "Jindan" period.

Everyone in the harem was also among them, Li Zhi simply said hello and asked them to wait at the Emperor Taishang of the "Lizheng Palace" first, and then hurriedly took all the civil and military to the "Hanyuan Palace".

"Hanyuan Palace", originally only the Great Dynasty will be opened, but when Li Zhi arrives, the rules have been completely changed, and he will come directly when he needs it.

Originally, Li Zhi's time to stay in Chang'an was limited, and it was so easy to come back, who knows when he will turn around and leave?

Therefore, Fang Xuanling, the head of the hundred officials, secretly ordered someone to inform all civil and military personnel above the fifth grade in Chang'an City to worship in the "Hanyuan Palace".

The current Datang, the territory has long been different from what it used to be, and I can't wait to cover most of the Nanzhan Continent, of course, the "Heavenly Wolf Mountain" in the North Juluzhou is automatically classified as the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Even the overseas "Yingzhou Island" has now officially appeared in people's field of vision, which is the overseas palace of the Tang Emperor, and Fang Xuanling even sent dozens of people from the Ministry of Engineering to the highest level, and traveled tens of thousands of miles to "Yingzhou Island" to build a palace for Li Zhi.

In Fang Xuanling's words, since it is the emperor's "dojo", it can't be too shabby.

To this end, the most famous construction master of the Tang Dynasty, Yan Lide, who is nearly 100 years old, was specially sent to design and supervise the construction in person.

Lao Yan Tou is definitely a master of today's construction lineage, but only the cultivation of the "foundation building period", in order to protect this special talent, the Emperor Li Shimin has not given away longevity things in private.

This road is inevitably a little too far away, to avoid accidents or bumps too much, Concubine De Niangniang Ao Ling notified the entire water system of Nanzhan Buzhou, and specially asked Yan Lide and other dozens of craftsmen from the Ministry of Engineering to go to the East China Sea from the waterway.

The ship is a big ship of the East China Sea faction, and the people who operate the boat are also the East China Sea clan, and the safety and speed are absolutely in place.

There is a specialization in the art industry, and Yan Lide is in charge of the construction, Bai Ze has to be responsible for finding materials, of course, the East China Sea Dragon Palace is naturally responsible for all the needs, and Bai Ze is just docking, is it really for him to find it all over the world?

"Your Majesty, the minister Xuanling resigns—"

Li Zhiduan sat on the top of the "Hanyuan Palace", the civil and military were divided into two compartments, full of people, I'm afraid there must be hundreds of people, right?

"Why is this the case? You are always the elder of the three dynasties of the Tang Dynasty, what kind of character I am, you also know, if there is no room to sit in Chang'an, this Tang Dynasty can have today's prosperity? ——」

Li Zhi didn't expect that the first thing after Wenwu arrived in Qi was Fang Xuanling's resignation.

If you want to talk about this Fang Xuanling, the real age is nearly fifty years older than Li Zhi, and now he is in his early 100s.

He is absolutely incomparable to Li Zhi, Li Zhi has achieved success in cultivation, and his appearance has always stayed in his twenties, but Fang Xuanling has not even reached the "Jindan Period".

This person is bent on Datang's government affairs, especially Datang's "tossed" by Li Zhi, for a long time

Out of the ordinary category, Fang Xuanling is even more laborious to deal with.

"Hehe, Your Majesty has an overreputation, the old minister has learned with his talents, and he has been able to serve my three emperors of the Tang Dynasty successively, which is already exhaustive."

"Besides, the old minister is over 100 years old, and his energy is no longer as good as that of his prime, but now that Datang is thriving and there are many talents, it is time for the old minister to rest."

"Thanks to the grace of the Emperor, his old man has reserved a place for the old minister in the 'Lizheng Palace', and the old minister will follow the Emperor Taishang to practice in the future."

For Li Zhi's praise, Fang Xuanling also accepted it calmly, even in the entire "Hanyuan Palace", there was no slight word about it.

There's no way, people's merits, hard work, and hard work are all there, and they have been doing their best for the Tang Dynasty for seventy or eighty years, and their achievements are really unparalleled.

"Well, since Fang Xiang wants to take a break, I won't force you. From today onwards, Fang Tong will be promoted to 'special advancement' just like the pharmacist."

"Fang Xiang has worked hard for Datang for decades, conscientious, hard-working, and dedicated to the public but has caused his own cultivation to be sluggish, so I naturally can't treat you lightly."

After saying this, Li Zhi raised his right hand, and nine white lotus phantoms shot out, all of which were submerged into Fang Xuanling's body.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zhi mobilized a small amount of spiritual power water to wash the muscles, bones, acupoints, and veins of this Fang Xuanling over and over again.

On this "Hanyuan Palace", Li Zhi did this because he wanted the hundreds of civil and military ministers present to see with their own eyes how he Li Zhi treated the heroes of the Tang Dynasty.

As soon as the tea was ready, Li Zhi stopped the movements of his hands.

Look at Fang Xuanling again, the golden pill in the dantian has been completed, and the posture can break the pill for a baby at any time.

A gray and full hair is now completely black, his waist is also straight, and the wrinkles on his face are gone, and he is already the same age as Wei Zhengruo beside him, and he looks like he is in his fifties.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness—"

To be honest, Fang Xuanling is very good in all aspects, but on the way to practice...... It can't be called ordinary, it's just very bad.

Perhaps, the old house is destined to only enjoy the wealth of the world.

It's a pity that he met someone like Li Zhi, a person who completely ignores the "will of heaven", and changes his life against the sky, he has been doing it since he was a child.

"You don't have to be polite, this is what you deserve, this 'Heart Dao' and 'Body Formula' two exercises, you still have to practice well, even if you don't want to go into battle, you can live a thousand more and eight hundred years old."

Two more white lights flashed, and they disappeared into Fang Xuanling's sea of knowledge.

"Di Qing, since Fang Xiang wants to take a break, from today onwards, the burden on your shoulders will be heavy, so bring Yao Chong and Song Jing back to Chang'an."

After so many years of development, whether it is the "Qinghai Road" renamed by Tuyuhun or the "West Tibetan Road" renamed by Tubo, they are now on the right track.

Although in terms of prosperity, it is far from being compared with the hinterland of Datang, the infrastructure that should be done is set up, and the rest is nothing more than the accumulation of time.

Putting talents like Yao Chong and Song Jing there is somewhat overkill.

Fang Xuanling resigned, Wei Zheng retreated to the second line as early as last year, and among the military, Pharmacist Li, Qin Shubao, and Cheng Yanjin lived in the "Lizheng Palace" early.

Perhaps Li Shimin has made great progress in his cultivation, preferring to "show off" in front of these old courtiers, and is also willing to take these old courtiers to pursue a higher realm together.

It is said that once the son of heaven was a courtier, and Li Zhi has been on the throne for decades, but he has always retained those "old ministers" of the Zhenguan Dynasty, and now it is still going to be renewed.

"Yonghui" Dynasty, the future Wenchen will be headed by Di Renjie, supplemented by Yao Chong and Song Jing, how can these three people support more than 100 years, right?

They are not like Fang Xuanling, their own cultivation is very good, and now Di Renjie has even broken through to the realm of "Taiyi Xuanxian".

In fact, as long as the three of them are willing, I am afraid that they will always be able to preside over the Tang Dynasty

Politics, so that Li Zhi can be a complete shopkeeper.

Of course, it also depends on when Li Zhi is "tired", and he has also thought that if he is addicted to the emperor, he will let Li Agarwood succeed to the throne.

And what about the prince of agarwood?

In the past few years, the prison is not much different from being the emperor, anyway, he is such a "lazy man", and he is not afraid of his own prince usurping the throne, so he will do more if he likes to take care of things, and if he doesn't like to take care of things, there are so many capable courtiers below.

The strength of the military is also strong, Qin Shubao is going to accompany the emperor, and now the highest-ranking general is Xue Rengui.

Followed by Su Dingfang, Pei Xingjian, Hou Junji, Qin Huaiyu, Luo Tong, Cheng Chumo, Cheng Chuliang, etc., these people are stronger than the other, but they are always useless.

Yes, for the warlike generals in their bones, if they can't go to the battlefield to fight, it's useless.

It's a pity that according to the current trend, it is really difficult for the soldiers of Datang to go to the battlefield.

Take the recent Western Expedition as an example, the people who were transferred were all people above the "Xuan Xian" level, and even so, when they arrived at the foot of Lingshan, they were also the masters of soy sauce.

In fact, the battle of Lingshan was quite stimulating for the entire Datang military.

When the recruitment was made, it was only a few hundred people selected by the Tang Dynasty.

After those hundreds of people saw the heavenly soldiers and generals, Yang Jian's 1,200 grass head gods, and the elite of the more than 1,000 Tianhe water army under the command of Zhu Bajie, they knew what kind of army could come in handy.

As a result, Datang's army has been training for half a year.

After several military bigwigs held several meetings, they reported to the prince of the prison country, Li Shenxiang, for his instructions, and cut half of the entire Tang Dynasty army, retaining only about 200,000 in size.

Of course, the process of dismissal is long, and you can't punish it without teaching, right?

Every other month, a large-scale military training will be held throughout the Tang Dynasty, and a certain number of troops will be eliminated, and it is expected that the final rectification of the Tang Army will be completed within one year.

At the same time, the establishment of multiple recruitment offices in the entire Nanzhan Continent would not be a "foundation-building" period, which is equivalent to the "martial arts gods" decades ago.

Anyway, with a quota of 200,000, whether it is five years or ten years, the military bigwigs are stuck at the lowest line, at least to the "foundation" period, right?

It doesn't matter if the upper limit of the lowest line is, there are so many heavenly soldiers and generals, but they all start from "heavenly immortals".

"Style" is the most popular exercise in the army, this is the queen Yang Chan personally made the decision, although the combat power is important, loyalty to the Tang Emperor is the first.

Accustomed to seeing the deceit of all parties in the Heavenly Court, Yang Chan didn't want Datang to have such a situation.

Fortunately, among Li Zhi's generation, the second Li Chengqian has not entered the Tang Dynasty for many years, and the third Li Ke has long become a diehard member of Li Zhi, and the fourth Li Tai ...... It's good to be alive.

The other brothers, who are civil and military, can also be placed in the right position, they are really completely unlearned, as long as they don't toss blindly, they can definitely ensure a rich life for decades.

In the next generation, well, now there are only two sons and three daughters, and the five wives are not empty, and the youngest daughter is Li Baicao, who was born to the eldest grandson Huanting, and is now two or three years old.

With such a structure of children, what are you fighting for? Let Li Aoting and Li Agarwood fight?

If it weren't for Li Zhi's "laziness" and the "urging" of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, Li Shenxiang himself would not be willing to take care of the affairs of the court.

The second prince Li Aoting was even less interested, he was all about cultivation, especially after seeing the "awesomeness" of his eldest sister Li Liluo, his desire to become stronger was even more urgent.

......

"Ladies and gentlemen, I went to the Heavenly Court some time ago, and the Great Heavenly Venerable rewarded a lot of cultivation resources, in addition to rewarding the soldiers of this Western Expedition, the surplus can be put into the treasury, and it will be used as a reward for outstanding ministers of the year in the future."

"Di Qing is solely responsible for this matter, and will be approved together with Xue Dashuai and Commander Yan, and the ministers with outstanding performance every year will be ranked in the top ten in both civil and military affairs

name."

There are more and more cultivators, ordinary gold and silver treasures, and beautiful fields can no longer satisfy their appetite, and cultivating resources and exercises, and even divine weapons and magic weapons are their next pursuit.

It's a pity that Li Zhi himself is also "poor"!

It's time to let the cloud neutrons on "Yingzhou Island" refine more treasures, even the most ordinary "Acquired Spirit Treasure", it is very tempting to reward it to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs.

"In addition, it's almost the end of the year, and I want to hold a wedding in Chang'an City for my brother, 'Monkey King' Sun Wukong and Zixia Fairy."

"Our Chang'an City hasn't been lively for a long time, let's have a big party of subjects, this matter should be treated as the top priority before the New Year, and it will be placed in the small year after the fifth day——"

This is another happy event, many details of the western expedition to Lingshan have already spread throughout Chang'an, Datang, and even Nanzhan Buzhou with the turn of the army.

And Fang Xuanling ordered someone to secretly and deliberately guide, exaggerating the achievements of Li Zhi and others a lot, especially the competition between Li Zhi's four brothers and the Buddha.

Fang Xuanling keenly found that this was a rare opportunity.

Isn't the spiritual mountain of your Buddhism occupied by the demons? I, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, led the army to exterminate the demon clan and recovered the Lingshan for your Buddhism.

Between the loss of this one and the recovery, can't you tell which one is stronger and which is weaker?

Of course, Fang Xuanling will not say the "bad words" of the Buddha, after all, he is the world-honored of Buddhism, even in the Tang Dynasty, he has a very lofty position.

Buddhist believers are all over the Tang Dynasty and even the entire Nanzhan Continent.

However, "it is better to defend people than to prevent Sichuan", if the people "spontaneously" defend their own emperor and say a few "excessive" complaints, it is also understandable, right?

It has been more than half a year, not only Emperor Li Zhi, but also Yang Jian, Nezha, Sun Wukong, Little White Dragon, Zhu Bajie, and even the Bull Demon King, etc., have established a tall image in the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Especially Li Zhi's three worship brothers, they have now been invited into the "Tang Jun Temple" and enjoy their own divine positions in the side hall.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, the ministers will definitely hold a beautiful wedding for the Great Sage, and the city will definitely celebrate with the whole city and all the people at that time—"

The Tang Dynasty is so powerful and so rich, but Li Zhi, who is the emperor, has never been greedy for enjoyment, and many civil and military officials and even the common people of the Tang Dynasty have "quite complained".

It's easy for Li Zhi to make a request to the ministers, how can Di Renjie not try his best to meet him?

"In addition, after the New Year, I will leave Chang'an, and the Great Heavenly Venerable has other important matters to entrust, and I hope that the ministers will assist the prince in supervising the country with all their hearts."

The matter of going out to the "Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon", Li Zhi would never say it on such an occasion, and there is no need for that, even if he said it, how many people can understand it?

For Li Zhi's statement, it didn't attract much attention from everyone, anyway, since he succeeded to the throne, he has not stayed in Chang'an for many days.

Fortunately, the prince has grown up, even if Li Zhi is floating outside every day, it will not affect the development of the Tang Dynasty, it is just that there are more people to worship in the "Tang Army Temple".

After Li Zhi's own decision was over, all that was left was the "annual report" of the heads of the six departments, all of which had been approved by several ministers, and Li Zhi patiently listened to it, and by the way, he gave a verbal commendation.

......

"Father, mother, pheasant slave is back—"

It was easy to wait for the ministers to finish their reports, and Li Zhi was able to leave the "Hanyuan Palace", and he didn't even have time to wait for his son Li Shenxiang, so he ran over first.

"You, you, how old are you, and you're still the 'Human Emperor' who was jointly promoted by the Three Holy Emperors, and you look like a child-"

As soon as he saw Li Zhi coming in, the eldest grandson stood up, took the youngest granddaughter Li Baicao in one hand, and personally helped Li Zhi, who fell to the ground, up.

"Haha, the son is the 'Emperor of Man' outside, and in front of you and your father, it is the 'Son of Man'! The grass is growing taller again, let Daddy hug it-

」

Li Zhi also stood up with the momentum, but hugged Li Baicao in the hands of the eldest grandson Wuji.

The little girl will be three years old after the New Year, and she was born with a "Heavenly Immortal" cultivation, and she doesn't know how to cultivate at such a young age, but this cultivation has never stopped growing, and now she has reached the realm of "Xuan Immortal".

I heard that when crossing the "Heavenly Immortal", "True Immortal" and "Xuan Immortal" thunder tribulation, a big tripod automatically appeared above her head, and the little girl sat on the ground eating the pastries in the palace, and easily survived the thunder tribulation.

The Dading that appeared, others don't know, the eldest grandson Huanting is no stranger, and even a little "jealous".

That is actually the "Shennong Ding" of the "Earth Emperor" Shennong!

"Shennong Ding", also known as "Creation Ding", one of the top ten artifacts in ancient times, is ranked alongside "Fuxiqin" and "Xuanyuan Sword", and is the ancient tripod of the Holy Emperor Shennong refining a hundred medicines in the past.

Although it was originally an acquired spiritual treasure, because of the accumulation of thousands of years of elixir qi, countless elixirs have been refined to save thousands of people, and finally the acquired return to the innate and become a "congenital merit spiritual treasure".

Different from the attack attributes of "Fu Xiqin" and "Xuanyuan Sword", the strongest thing in "Shennong Ding" is defense, and its super defense power is no less than that of the innate five-color flag, so it is naturally easy to deal with the "Xuanxian Immortal" thunder tribulation.

"Are you Daddy? Cao'er has forgotten your appearance, you look about the same age as the prince's brother, how can you be our father?"

In the end, a child of two or three years old, even if he has a good cultivation, this mind is still the mind of a "normal" person.

"Haha, then look at Daddy more, don't forget Daddy's appearance."

For this daughter, Li Zhi really hasn't gotten along much.

When he was born, he couldn't accompany him, and it was more than a year old when they first met, and then he went west to Lingshan without waiting for a few days.

Now that the child is about to be three years old, where can I know his father?

Li Zhi hugged Xiao Baicao with some "guilt", and secretly investigated his youngest daughter's cultivation.

Sure enough, this little girl's mana is more inclined to the wood attribute, and it seems that the inheritance she got is not from the eldest grandson Huanting, but directly from the Holy Emperor Shennong.

At the time of birth, there were "Baicao Sutra" and "Hundred Grass Ruler of Merit" placed next to it, the "Baicao Sutra" was submerged into the sea of knowledge of Xiao Baicao, and the "Hundred Grass Ruler of Merit" turned into a hairpin and was inserted diagonally on Xiao Baicao's bun.

"Daddy, Sister Huoling can breathe fire, Cao'er thinks it's fun, and she can help her mother refine medicine, but Sister Huoling said that she can't pass it on to others, can you teach Cao'er?"

The fire spirit, that is, the spirit of the "Sun True Fire", originally followed Li Zhi, and later after the "Sun True Fire" further evolved into a kind of supernatural power, the fire spirit could come out of the body independently.

Because the eldest grandson Huanting awakened her memory and would refine some pills from time to time, Li Zhi let the fire spirit follow the eldest grandson Huanting.

Presumably, Xiao Baicao has seen the fire spirit's "fire-breathing" magic skill, and the children's heart will have this question.

"That's called 'Sun True Fire', Daddy can naturally teach you, but I can't guarantee whether you can learn Daddy."

Li Zhi has a lot of magical powers, for his children and disciples, Li Zhi will never hide his secrets, and he can't wait to give them away, but no one can learn them all.

This is not a question of whether you are smart or not, nor is it a question of whether you are diligent or not, it seems that it can only be described as "fate".

For example, the best cultivation of the formation is the eldest disciple Bai Suzhen, and the best cultivation of the "Broken Delusion Golden Pupil" is Li Aoting, that kid has already cultivated the "flower", and he is underestimating him by using the blue out of the blue and better than the blue.

It's a pity that no one has been able to inherit this "Sun True Fire" so far, but Ao Ling got inspiration from it and strengthened his fire power.

......

"Wow, what a cute little flame—"

An obscure rune was slowly transported by Li Zhi into Xiao Baicao's sea of knowledge, which was the method that Li Zhi summed up by himself after the "Sun True Fire" evolved from a spiritual object to a supernatural power

Door.

Just the time of the meal, when Xiao Baicao opened his eyes again, his eyes turned a few times, as if he was thinking about something?

And then...... Then I saw that between the thumb and index finger of Xiao Baicao, a small flame was beating.

She...... Is it really refined?