Chapter 167: Imperial Ancestor
As soon as I entered this room, I was greeted by an old man sitting on the first seat, with white hair and a childish face, and on either side of this old man's hands sat six strong men with extraordinary strength. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
And after these six, they all stood two or three, either ghosts or people. These standing and floating people or ghosts, the weakest of them all gave Zhu Houlie a sense of innate grandmaster-level strength.
Of the seven people sitting, the momentum exuded by each of them was far stronger than Zhu Houlie, and the one who gave Zhu Houlie the deepest feeling was the old man sitting at the top. Because Zhu Houlie felt that he wanted to be an ordinary person, but the more so, the more careful he had to be with it.
"Junior Zhu Houlie, I have seen all the seniors in the name of my father!" Zhu Houlie gave a junior salute to these strong men.
It's not that he pretends to be cowardly, but as soon as he steps into this place, he feels that the water here is very deep, although there is no establishment in this mansion on the official side. But Zhu Houlie knew that this was definitely a manifestation of the heritage of the Great Qian Dynasty. If he wants to get along well in Daqian, then it's best not to offend these old guys.
The old man sitting at the top closed his eyes as if he was sleeping, and a middle-aged man standing beside him motioned to a maid and a female ghost next to him.
The female ghost was holding a jade plate, and a large crystal ball was placed on top of the jade plate. The maid understood what this person meant, she slowly floated in front of Zhu Houlie, and said to Zhu Houlie: "Childe can drop a drop of blood into this crystal ball." ”
"I understand. Zhu Houlie nodded, this was probably testing his bloodline. If Zhu Houlie was not of the blood of the Great Qian royal family, then he might not be able to get out of this room.
Biting the index finger of his right hand, a drop of blood dripped from his index finger that released vigorous vitality, and the blood dripped into the crystal ball. The originally transparent ball inspires a golden light, like a golden dragon wandering inside the crystal ball.
"Ancestor, this person is a child of my royal family. The middle-aged man whispered to the old man who had closed his eyes and recuperated about the results of the crystal ball.
"Hmm. Old Ancestor opened his eyes and nodded, a pair of eyes full of wisdom and depth carefully looked at Zhu Houlie, he smiled and said, "Yes, yes, there is a successor to Youbiao." ”
"Thank you Ancestor for the compliment. Zhu Houlie responded with a slight smile.
"What Ancestor, according to the seniority, you have to call me Uncle Gaozu!" said the Ancestor.
"Nephew and great-grandson to meet Uncle Gaozu!" Zhu Houlie respectfully made a big salute to this old ancestor.
Shu Gaozu, according to this generation, this person is probably the royal family of the Zhanzi generation, that is, the grandson of Emperor Taizong. Although I don't know how many generations this person has lived, it can really be said to be a living fossil!
"You're good. The ancestor of the Zhanzi generation said, "Your father Youbiao sent me a letter three years ago, and he mentioned you to the old man. The old man thought that it would take you at least ten years to come to me, but your progress exceeded your father's expectations, and it was beyond the old man's expectations, which is really very rare. ”
"Don't dare, don't dare. Zhu Houlie hurriedly shook his head.
"There's nothing you don't dare, you can afford it!" Old Ancestor said lightly, "I don't talk about seniority here, and I don't play any official tone, everything depends on strength." Now that you have been able to step into the realm of a Martial Dao Grand Master at the age of twenty-one or twelve, you have already proven your strength, which is much stronger than your father back then!"
Zhu Houlie was silent, and the premise of these praises was that the time that Zhu Houlie had spent was really only three or four years. But he knows his own affairs, if he didn't have the time difference caused by the Shenxiao Mirror traveling through the world, Zhu Houlie would definitely not have progressed so fast now.
"Since you're here, do you know anything about the old man?" asked the ancestor again.
"Uncle Qi Gaozu, I really don't know. Zhu Houlie responded honestly.
Although Zhu Houlie had some guesses through some of his actions just now, he understood that instead of conjecturing on his own, it was better for these people to decrypt them in detail.
The ancestor smiled: "It seems that Youbiao still knows the severity, and no one will talk nonsense to people, Dongyang and my nephew and great-grandson will talk about what we are doing here." ”
Dongyang understood. ”
The middle-aged man, who was also named Dongyang, began to explain to Zhu Houlie the effect of this nameless mansion in Nandu.
Emperor Taizu used the three major systems of vassal king, city god god, and Jinyi guard to monitor Daqian in all directions, in order to consolidate the imperial family of Daqian for thousands of years. After Emperor Taizong succeeded to the throne, because the power of the vassal kings was expanding day by day, the imperial population also grew rapidly. Therefore, the imperial family began to become a burden to the advance of the Great Qian Empire, rather than a help.
In view of this, Emperor Taizong began to reduce the feudal domain, reduce the rights and interests of the feudal king, and bury the clan that was gradually treated as a pig. At the same time, he also established the East Factory to strengthen the monitoring of civil and military officials and feudal kings in various places, and also had the meaning of checking and balancing Jinyiwei.
However, after a long time, Emperor Taizong found that the clan could not raise too wasted wood, otherwise once the center changed, there would be no Liu Xiu or Liu Bei in the clan to continue the life of the dynasty.
Therefore, in order to strengthen the strength of the clan, Emperor Taizong secretly established the Imperial Elder Group. The Elder Group mainly collects the children of the royal family who are powerful in their personal strength, but lack the desire for power, or who are not qualified to inherit the throne.
Let these children of the royal family with strong individual strength accept the worship of the imperial family, and their status in the imperial family will not be much weaker than that of the prince, county prince and other royal princes, but they cannot interfere with the imperial court and local rule of the emperor and the feudal king, as well as the inheritance system, and the elders of the imperial family have the same treatment as the feudal king without rights.
And the only thing that this royal family elder group has to do is to carefully cultivate the children of the royal family with excellent personal strength for the royal family, so that they can serve the imperial family at any time.
"It's really tight. Zhu Houlie said dumbly in his heart, "The blessed land of the royal family, the elder group of the imperial family, and the vassal king groups guarding the frontier have spread all over the prince's mansion and county palace. Dongchang and Jinyiwei, which are already directly in the hands of the emperor. ”
Although I don't know how strong the royal blessed land is, as long as I think about it, as long as the children of the royal family have not committed a major crime, then the blessed land after death is their home. And no matter how strong the gods of the city god are, they must obey the orders of the royal blessed land. Then here you can know the strength of the royal blessed land.
Guarding at all levels is to protect the great cadres of the Zhu family, even if the emperor is too bad, someone will come out to correct it. Coupled with the Huimin system established from Taizu to Taizong, as long as there are no problems outside, there may not be a group within this great cadre to replace it.
After listening to Dongyang's detailed explanation, Zhu Houlie understood that this royal elder group was the path that his father Zhu Youbiao had planned for Zhu Houlie.
This way out can be said to be the best treatment in addition to the position of King An, and even better to some extent.