The two entered the house, Gong Huaiming brought the kettle from the stove that had not been extinguished all night, and poured a cup of hot water for Gonggong Li, "You drink a bowl of water first to warm your body." ”

Gonggong Li took the worn-out teacup, drank half a cup in one go, felt that his body was a little warmer, and then said, "Your Majesty, do you know about Xiuzhen?"

"Xiuzhen, what Xiuzhen?" Gong Huaiming was confused, he had lived in a mountain village for a long time, the transportation was inconvenient, and there were very few sources of information, that is, he relied on a few enlightenment books at home, and his parents knew a few words, so he did not become illiterate, and Xiuzhen was too far away from him.

Gonggong Li nodded, "Your Majesty doesn't know about Xiuzhen, so it's no wonder that the first emperor chose you to be a puppet." Your Majesty, today I say that the slave has the courage to give up his surname and life, and he will also tell you the Tao in this. ”

The so-called cultivation of truth is to learn the Tao and practice, to seek the true self, and to remove the false and retain the true. It is said that cultivating the truth to the point of profundity, where they can coexist with heaven and earth, calling for wind and rain, turning rivers and seas, and having unlimited magical powers. Gong Tianyou, the founding emperor of the Great Gong Dynasty, is such a cultivator, and it is rumored that Gong Tianyou has condensed the Yuan Baby, who has lived for thousands of years, and is a world-famous great master of cultivation, one of the few top existences in the cultivation world.

When Gong Tianyou founded the country, he had not yet cultivated to the Yuan Infant Stage, but at that time he was already a great master of cultivation. After reigning for more than 30 years, Gong Tianyou passed the throne of the Ninety-Five Supreme to his son, and then left the capital, traveled all over the world, and after decades, lived in a spiritual mountain 3,000 miles away from the capital. Gong Tianyou first renamed Lingshan Longteng Mountain, and then founded the Xiuzhen Sect in Longteng Mountain, which is known as the Longteng Sect in the world.

A hundred years after the establishment of the Longteng faction, Gong Tianyou broke the Dan and condensed the baby, and became one of the top masters of cultivation in the world, and the Longteng faction rose to become one of the eight major sects in the world.

Although Gong Tianyou is no longer the emperor of the Great Gong Dynasty, but the Longteng faction headed by him has always been the biggest backer of the Great Gong Dynasty, the Great Gong Dynasty has been established for more than 1,000 years, and natural disasters [***] continued, during which there were a lot of faint monarchs, but no matter what happened, the Great Gong Dynasty is still standing, most of the reason for this is because of the existence of the Longteng faction, whenever the Great Gong Dynasty is in danger, the Longteng faction will stand up, support the Great Gong Dynasty, support the building when it is about to fall, and help the Great Gong Dynasty survive the crisis.

There is a rule in the Great Gong Dynasty, all people with royal blood, regardless of men and women, must go to Longteng Mountain to accept the test of spiritual root, if they have spiritual roots, that is to say, they have the talent of cultivating truth, then they will be left in the Longteng faction, abandon the red dust, cultivate the truth and learn the Tao, hoping that one day, they can learn the way of the gods, soar the clouds and drive the fog, drink the mist of Xia and eat, and enjoy the world and the earth.

If you don't have a spiritual root, but have a certain specialty, you can also stay in the Longteng Sect and be a foreign affairs disciple to serve the Longteng Sect. Of course, this is not forced, if there is no spirit root and only a certain specialty of the royal children are greedy for red dust, and they just want to enjoy the wealth of the world for the rest of their lives, the Dragon Teng Sect will not force it, and will allow them to return to the earthly world.

The best age to take the Linggen test is before the age of sixteen, Emperor Chenghua was made the crown prince by his father since he was a child, born to the old emperor and his favorite concubine, in front of him, there are three older brothers, and behind him, there are several younger brothers. The old emperor liked the crown prince very much and hoped that he would inherit the throne, but the situation of the dynasty could be controlled when the old emperor was alive, but as soon as he died, no matter what changes occurred in the situation, he could not help it.

Emperor Chenghua has been scheming since he was a child, keen on power, and has no interest in the boring cultivation of the true truth, and more importantly, he was in the palace, and once tested the spiritual root with the Five Elements Disk in private, and the result made him both disappointed and happy, he belonged to the kind of person who had no spiritual root at all. The old emperor knew this.

Emperor Chenghua didn't want to go to the Longteng faction to be tested at all, but although he was the crown prince of the Great Gong Dynasty, he was known as one person and above ten thousand, but he knew very well that the person who really had the power in the Great Gong Dynasty was not him, nor his father who was about to die, but the old ancestor Gong Tianyou, who had been on the throne for more than a thousand years, if he violated the rules set by the old ancestor, he would not want to continue to be the emperor, and even whether he could continue to be a powerless and powerless An Lehou was a question.

It was a very time-consuming affair for members of the royal family to go to the Dragon Teng Sect to undergo the Spirit Root Test, and even if everything went well, it would take at least three months. Three months is enough to undergo a lot of earth-shaking changes, the struggle for the throne has always been very tragic, brothers are not uncommon, fratricidal things are not uncommon, fathers kill sons, sons kill fathers, wives murder husbands happen from time to time.

It was for the prince's Chenghua Emperor to reluctantly leave the palace and go to Longteng Mountain to measure the spiritual root, he just left the palace with his front feet, the old emperor was seriously ill, the imperial doctor was helpless, and the old emperor could only wait for death.

Before the old emperor died, he thought about how to make the prince who was not in the court successfully ascend the throne as emperor after his death.

The old emperor's favorite is the crown prince, and the other sons can't look down on him, he first denied the idea of neutralizing the emperor or the regent from these sons, each of these sons is eating dry rice, and one by one in the court has a group of henchmen, no matter who among them holds the power of the court, there is so much time, it is completely possible to uproot the prince's foundation in the court, and when the prince returns, he will directly put the prince into the prison, so that he is better off dead.

As for choosing a virtuous and respected regent among the imperial family, it is even more impossible, the old emperor also spent a lot of effort to get the throne, offending many people in the royal family. If the imperial relatives selected by him are superficially subservient and secretly have mortal hearts, after his death, he will also be able to turn his hands into clouds and rain in the court, and set himself up as the emperor before the prince returns, or choose one of the sons of the old emperor to be a puppet emperor.

Anyway, the throne has nothing to do with the crown prince. And this kind of battle caused by the throne, Long Tengshan has always stayed out of the matter and has never interfered. It is purely extravagant to expect the Longteng faction to stand up and administer justice for the crown prince at that time.

In addition, after the death of the old emperor, he did not set up an emperor and waited for the crown prince to succeed to the throne, which was also a great risk. Not to say that "a country cannot be said to be without a king", if a dynasty does not have an emperor for several months, there is a chance that the dynasty will be chaotic. The sons of the old emperor and the prestigious royal relatives will definitely jump out to make trouble, and when the time comes, the throne will still not be passed to the crown prince smoothly.

The old emperor thought about it, only to find a person who had no foundation in the imperial city and was easy to control, and supported him as a puppet emperor, and used the old ministers loyal to the old emperor and the crown prince to assist, on the one hand, to clamp the puppet emperor to cultivate the foundation in the court, and on the other hand, with the puppet emperor, you can move the jade seal. When the time comes, he will give orders in the name of the puppet emperor and monitor the prince and the imperial family, so that they will not dare to act rashly. If there is a reckless person, he can justifiably strangle him and throw him into the prison.

In this way, although the throne is occupied by the puppet emperor, the real power in the court and the "righteousness" of the dynasty are still in the hands of ministers loyal to the prince, which means that although the prince is not in the court, he still firmly controls the situation in the court, and the throne is still in his pocket, and he only needs to wait until he returns from Longteng Mountain, and he can take the throne back without much effort.

As for whether the minister with great power will seek to usurp the throne, the old emperor is not worried at all, the Longteng faction does not interfere in the internal disputes of the royal family itself, once someone with a foreign surname wants to get involved, the Longteng faction has never been stingy with bloody means, unless the minister is crazy and willing to take the life of his wife, children, parents and the surname of the nine clans as a price, otherwise, no minister will fight the idea of the throne of the Dagong Dynasty.

Although the old emperor's method is a little difficult, it can safely ensure that the throne will be smoothly passed to the crown prince. So the old emperor told the ministers who were loyal to the prince about his plan, and got the full support of the ministers, who were most worried that the old emperor was dead, and the prince was far away in the Longteng faction, and as a result, the throne was snatched away by other princes. As for assisting the puppet emperor, trying to ensure that the throne is not snatched away by others before the prince returns, that is their forte.

The monarchs and ministers chose to choose, and finally chose Gong Huaiming, a person who has lost his royal lineage for hundreds of years, and the reason why he was chosen was because Gong Huaiming was the so-called "brother" who was the farthest away from Emperor Chenghua in the Zongren Mansion, with the same ancestor and the same surname. At the same time, Gong Huaiming's family background is no different from ordinary people, he completely relies on the sky to eat, let alone in the palace, even in the capital, he can't find a familiar person, and more importantly, Gong Huaiming has not seen much of the world, and his mind is relatively simple, such a person is the easiest to control, so it is not easy to snatch the throne with him after the prince returns.

After Gong Huaiming became a puppet emperor for about three months, after the prince came back from Longteng Mountain, it took almost no effort to abolish Gong Huaiming and easily take back the throne. During this period, Gong Huaiming didn't say anything about resistance, and he didn't even have the consciousness to resist. Just like the emperor who ascended the throne in a daze, he was deposed as the people in a daze.

"Your Majesty, this is how things happened, and this is all inferred from the news of various channels in this period of the minion. "Gonggong Li has a bit of an identity among the eunuchs in the palace, and he has even more power than Gong Huaiming, who was a puppet emperor a few months ago, and in the palace, the most well-informed people are not the princes and ministers, princesses, and imperial concubines, but the eunuchs and palace ladies who are at the bottom, and all the dirty things that happen in the palace can't escape their ears and eyes.

Gong Huaiming didn't expect it to be like this, he was dumbfounded, and smiled bitterly, he thought that his transformation from the end of the recklessness to the Ninety-Five Supreme was a good thing for pie in the sky, but he didn't expect that in the end, he was just a poor worm, a doll at the mercy of others.

Gonggong Li looked at Gong Huaiming, who was devastated, sighed, got up, and quietly retreated from the room, leaving Gong Huaiming to sit there alone and ponder.

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