The Holy Emperor of Ming

Chapter 356 Offspring (4000 words)
Everyone present nodded in agreement.

If you want to forge a Ming Dynasty national treasure that is recognized and believed in by everyone, it is not easy to succeed just by doing it.

The He Shi Bi was not originally a property of the Qin State. Before Qin Shihuang, it was just a treasure.

It is only because of the glory of the Qin Dynasty and the blessing of the Han Dynasty for four hundred years that, under the illumination of the two glorious histories, it has gone on for hundreds of years.

It was then hailed by later generations as a national treasure, symbolizing the destiny of the country.

In other words, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to create its own national treasure, it also had to give it a special and glorious symbol.

There is no doubt that the Ming Dynasty will be able to unify the world and achieve glory.

But if you want to succeed in casting faster, that is not enough, it would be better to have something to do with His Majesty.

Your Majesty, use it to unify the world, and that will be almost enough.

It does not need hundreds of years of glorious history like the He Shi Bi.

Your Majesty will be satisfied in one day.

Thinking of this, the ministers almost had a perfect idea in their minds.

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, there are only three things that can be called the greatest treasures of our Chinese nation.

The Xuanyuan Sword of Emperor Xuanyuan, the Nine Cauldrons forged by Emperor Dayu, and the Heshi Bi.

The others, such as Qin Shihuang's Tai'a Sword and Han Gaozu's Chixiao Sword, are all much inferior.

If our Ming Dynasty wants to forge a national treasure that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and pursued by future generations, it would be best for Your Majesty to hold this treasure, unify the world, and make the four seas submit.

Only in this way can the casting be successful in the shortest possible time." Gu Xichao said.

"You mean, you want me to forge a sword and use it to unify the world?" Zhu Houzhao said.

Gu Xichao nodded, and the other ministers also nodded. They thought the same thing.

"But I don't use a sword, and using a sword is not very domineering." Zhu Houzhao frowned and said reluctantly.

The ministers were helpless, but they had already gotten used to their emperor who was domineering in everything.

"Or I can use the Sun and Moon Divine Spear?" Zhu Houzhao said again.

"Your Majesty," Liu Jian said, "Although the Sun and Moon Divine Spear is good, it is not suitable to be a national treasure.

Because guns cannot bear the weight of a country.

In this world, only the tripod, the seal, and the sword can bear the weight of the country. "

“Among the three, no matter how well the tripod is cast, it is probably difficult to surpass the Nine Tripods.

Similarly, the He Shi Bi has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Only the sword.

Although the Xuanyuan Sword is also deeply rooted in people's hearts, the era of Emperor Xuanyuan is too long ago.

The Xuan-Yuan Sword has never been born, and it is almost as if it were nothing.

If Your Majesty can forge a Holy Martial Emperor Sword and unify the world with it, and win the hearts of the people from all over the world, it will surely replace the Xuanyuan Sword and become the most precious national treasure of our Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Houzhao thought about it seriously, hesitated, and nodded, "It seems so."

After that, he looked at the others and asked, "Do you have any other ideas?"

The ministers shook their heads, indicating that they strongly agreed with this matter.

"Well, my Ming Dynasty will forge a Shengwu Sword, and it will become the national treasure of my Ming Dynasty." Zhu Houzhao said firmly, with a look of anticipation on his face.

"Yes." All the ministers responded in unison, with anticipation and excitement in their brows.

After discussing for a while, Zhu Houzhao called some people and began to prepare for the casting of the Shengwu Sword.

Needless to say, this time, all efforts were put into forging the Holy Martial Sword into the most powerful sword in the world.

So it is destined not to succeed overnight.

But the Ming Dynasty is now rich and has countless natural treasures of all kinds.

As long as he put his best effort, he would definitely succeed. Zhu Houzhao never worried about this.

The casting of the sword began quickly. Zhu Houzhao didn't understand it, and he didn't need to do anything. He continued to pay attention to the affairs of the previous dynasty.

June.

Yin Zhong, who had been away from Beijing for more than a month, returned to the capital with three people.

The Tong family was born, and he forcibly broke into the Shuiyue Cave.

However, the Shuiyue Cave is now frozen. Yin Zhong came back to get the Blood Ruyi Heart to unlock the Shuiyue Cave and get the magic mirror.

The three people he brought back were the few remaining members of the Tong family.

Zhu Houzhao had known this news for a long time.

His curiosity about the spirit mirror still exists.

If the magic mirror is really as magical as Yin Zhong said, it will still have a powerful effect on the Ming Dynasty.

So he met the three brothers of the Tong family in person.

The process was peaceful. He felt that Tong Bo was a talented person and liked him quite a bit.

A day later, Yin Zhong, the three brothers of the Tong family and some Jinyiwei went to Shuiyue Cave.

After another ten days, news came that everything was going well.

Yin Zhong, Tong Zhan who has inherited the position of head of the Tong family, Tong Bo, and several elders of the Tong family are escorting Ling Jing to the capital.

Late June.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Houzhao looked at the stone mirror in his hand with great curiosity, and the power in his hand continued to flow into it.

After a few breaths, Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up and his curiosity became even stronger.

The surging power poured into the stone mirror more and more rapidly.

Yin Zhong and everyone from the Tong family in the hall felt an incomparable sense of oppression.

Looking upwards with awe, the Tong family member wanted to speak up and say that the spirit mirror was not opened that way.

But saying this seemed a bit mocking to Your Majesty, so I didn't say it.

Although they were just born, they had already deeply felt the power of Emperor Shengwu and dared not offend him.

After another dozen breaths, a golden flame rose from Zhu Houzhao's body, and it seemed like endless true energy was madly pouring into the spirit mirror.

The spiritual mirror was wrapped in golden light, but it remained motionless and had no response.

"You mirror, you are obviously spiritual, but you dare to ignore me." Zhu Houzhao widened his eyes and said with curiosity and dissatisfaction.

He could clearly sense that this spirit mirror had a very powerful spirituality, even stronger than the white dragon's.

But he just ignored him and let him attack him without any reaction.

After a while, Zhu Houzhao stopped indignantly and said unyieldingly: "This broken mirror is no longer a thing of the heavenly realm.

I can't do anything to it now, but I'll show you what I can do when I break through."

He shook his hand vigorously a few more times, but the spirit mirror still did not respond.

Zhu Houzhao threw it to Tong Zhan with some boredom, "Come, show me how to activate this spiritual mirror?"

Everyone was thinking about what Zhu Houzhao had just said.

The Tong family breathed a sigh of relief.

Yin Zhong was surprised, but also felt it was natural.

Zhu Houzhao was shocked to hear that the spiritual mirror was not a treasure at the level of heaven and man.

These words came from Zhu Houzhao's mouth, and he believed them.

Because he had seen with his own eyes how powerful Zhu Houzhao was, he was incredibly powerful.

If he says it doesn't belong, then it definitely doesn't belong.

It was only natural that he thought about it and felt that this was normal.

Otherwise, how could his injuries take five hundred years to heal?

He quickly suppressed these thoughts and made his plea to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao agreed without caring.

Tong Zhan and several elders of the Tong family had no choice but to agree.

Soon, Tong Zhan opened the spirit mirror and asked Yin Zhong the question, where is his daughter?
A scene appeared on the surface of the stone mirror.

She is a young girl who looks very similar to Yin Tianxue. She lives in a place full of poisonous insects, snakes and ants.

"Hell Rock!" Tong Zhan also knew these three words and blurted them out.

"This is my Feng'er! Feng'er is really alive!"

Yin Zhongzheng stared at the magic mirror whose image had disappeared with a dazed look, his face seemed both happy and sad, as if he was crying for joy.

After hearing Tong Zhan's words, he couldn't stay any longer.

He grabbed Tong Zhan by the collar and asked anxiously, "Feng'er is in Hell Rock?"

"Yeah." Tong Zhan nodded.

After receiving the news, Yin Zhong could no longer bear it and wanted to go to Hell Rock immediately.

He took a step forward, but restrained himself, looked at Zhu Houzhao and saluted, saying: "Your Majesty, I want to go to Hell Rock immediately to rescue my daughter."

"Well, go ahead, bring more people and search together." Zhu Houzhao said.

"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty." Yin Zhong responded and left.

Zhu Houzhao didn't pay attention to Yin Zhong, and stared at the spirit mirror with even more indignation.

Why did you ignore me but easily pay attention to Tong Zhan?
"Wait, I will settle the score with you when I am strong enough."

Zhu Houzhao thought quietly in his heart.

He shifted his gaze and asked curiously, "Tong Zhan, can this magic mirror really bring the dead back to life?"

Upon hearing this, the Tong family members were all in a dilemma.

Emperor Shengwu wanted to bring the dead back to life, but for the Tong family, this was against their ancestral teachings.

"Your Majesty." At this time, Tong Bo spoke, and said gently: "The spirit mirror is spiritual, and believes that life and death are determined by fate and should not be forced.

Therefore, the Tong family has never used the magic mirror to perform such heaven-defying acts as bringing the dead back to life.

Of course, the spirit mirror does have magical powers. I think it should be no problem to save a few seriously injured and dying people.

But if there are too many, the spiritual mirror may not be able to be completed."

"That's right." Tong Zhan followed up and said, "Your Majesty, the power of the spirit mirror is also limited, and it cannot be opened frequently."

Zhu Houzhao felt that Tong Bo and the other man were telling the truth, and couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

But think about it, this is normal.

It would be strange if this magic mirror was really omnipotent.

After asking a few more questions, he asked the Tong family to leave.

Of course, the spiritual mirror still remains with him.

When there was no one around, he struggled with the magic mirror for a while, and finally threw it to the ground.

What a broken mirror! Wait for me.

Ten days later.

Yin Zhong returned to the capital with a young girl. The Tong family took action again and used the magic mirror to heal the injuries caused by the magic mirror on Yin Zhong.

In the blink of an eye, it was September.

On September 22, Zhu Houzhao's 20th birthday was approaching, a piece of news was quickly transmitted back to the capital.

The Ming army has taken over the entire territory of Sui.

This was undoubtedly good news, and it was enough as a gift for Zhu Houzhao's 20th birthday.

September 24th was Zhu Houzhao’s 20th birthday.

He was very happy and drank a lot of wine.

After the birthday, busier military and political affairs arrived.

The Sui Dynasty was conquered, but it was certainly not easy to govern it well.

Putting aside other things, the presence of so many aristocratic families is a problem.

There are still so many people who can’t survive.

If we can reach an agreement with those aristocratic families, it will be easy to govern, and in less than ten years, it will become a seemingly prosperous era.

But how could Zhu Houzhao give in to anyone?
On October 1st, Zhu Houzhao issued an edict to relocate all the aristocratic families in the newly conquered continent who had reached the innate realm to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

This imperial decree immediately stunned many of the aristocratic families on this continent.

Although they had long known that Emperor Shengwu might not be polite to them.

But I didn't expect him to be so rude.

Just let them migrate and completely cut off their roots.

It's simply too much.

Many aristocratic families were furious.

Then look at what other people are doing.

The Li family of Taiyuan and the Song family of Lingnan were the first to issue a statement and move immediately.

These two pieces of news caused many aristocratic families to curse inwardly.

Subsequently, some aristocratic families such as the Dugu family and the Pei family also announced their relocation.

Amidst sighs, more and more aristocratic families joined the migration.

Nowadays, there are always more smart and sensible people.

Of course, there is never a shortage of smart-aleck people.

There are some aristocratic families who are looking for excuses and so on, and there are even rebellions in some places.

In response to this, the Ming Dynasty’s response was simple and direct.

With a fierce punch, the Ming army suppressed the rebellion and the factory guards conducted a thorough investigation.

Anyone who does it on purpose will be caught.

With absolute strength, he crushed more than a dozen aristocratic families in a clean and neat manner without mercy.

It allowed the aristocratic families, who already understood the power of the Ming Dynasty, to experience more personally what the Ming Dynasty was.

They migrated faster.

In fact, Zhu Houzhao didn't take these things to heart at all.

Because he didn't need to do anything personally, he just taught the aristocratic families how to behave in the court.

Now, it is the Ming Dynasty that suppresses everything without having to worry about anything.

Would that allow these so-called aristocratic families to be so rampant?

The victors of their Ming Dynasty are not from aristocratic families, so how can they allow you losers to continue to be from aristocratic families and live a carefree life?

How can it be?

The idea of ​​relocation was proposed by the cabinet to Zhu Houzhao.

The civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty were not polite or had any good feelings towards these aristocratic families.

The time is November.

A piece of good news that almost excited the entire Ming Dynasty spread quickly.

Concubine Cheng, who entered the palace last, is pregnant!

This news quickly shook the capital, and all the civil and military officials in the court showed smiles of joy.

Your Majesty is finally going to have a successor!

The affairs of the prince concern the foundation of the country, so it cannot be overemphasized.

Especially since His Majesty has been on the throne for eight years and has been taking concubines for five or six years, there has been no news of any of the concubines being pregnant.

Although the ministers did not say anything openly, many of them were anxious secretly.

Now that's good, Concubine Cheng is pregnant with the dragon seed.

This means that Your Majesty can have offspring.

After confirming this, many ministers felt relieved.

If there is a first one, there will be a second one. As long as it is confirmed that Your Majesty can have an heir, it will be fine.

The fact that Cheng Lingsu was pregnant made the people of the Ming Dynasty happier than the fact that the Ming army had completely taken over the territory of the Sui Dynasty.

The one who was even happier, of course, was Zhu Houzhao.

(4000 words, will be finished in a few days, new book is being prepared.)
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