Chapter 87 Entering the Emperor
“Sure enough…Spiritual roots!”

He thought excitedly.

The Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror really helped him gain spiritual roots.

He has already obtained all of Cui Xiabing's dual spiritual roots of water and earth.

Not only that, there is also mana.

At this moment, he could clearly feel a cold thread running around in his body, which finally swam to his dantian and swirled quietly.

His heart moved, and he saw a space that was extremely dark, but with several mists hanging in it, like clouds.

If you look closely, it looks like colorful clouds and ribbons.

A rough count shows that there are 12 in total.

This is magic power.

It is transformed from spiritual energy and is also an important symbol for cultivators!

From this moment on, he is also a cultivator.

Among these magical clouds, there are actually other different clouds, which are gradually being absorbed by these twelve magical threads, making them stronger.

These are internal forces.

The internal force cultivated through intensive martial arts such as "Blood Sword of a Hundred Battles" and "White Lotus Reincarnation Divine Art" is gradually being absorbed by these twelve magical powers.

Although the internal force is strong, it is far inferior to the magic power.

After a while, his first-level internal energy disappeared completely and was all absorbed by these twelve magical powers.

However, unfortunately, the "Su Nu Yin Sha Gong" practiced by Cui Xia Bing was not inherited by him, but instead converted into 10 points of mana.

"Because of the difference in physique, I can't practice the Su Nu Yin Sha Gong?"

"And the internal energy gained from the previous dual cultivation was actually all absorbed by the spiritual energy generated by the Su Nu Yin Sha Gong?"

"This... is truly miraculous!"

As his mind moved, lines of words appeared on the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror again.

[Owner: Zheng Yi]

【Talent: Yin and Yang】

【Lifespan: 25/1885】

[Spiritual roots: Water (low-grade 6/100), Earth (low-grade 4/100)]

[Mana: 11/100]

[Comprehensive Strength: Early Stage of Innateness]

[Innate Spiritual Energy Progress (Level 5): 10/]

Innate realm?
Have I broken through to the Xiantian realm?

So fast!
Zheng Yi only reacted at this time that all the internal energy in his dantian had been converted into magic power.

The energy generated by the magic power converted from spiritual energy is dozens of times more than ordinary internal force.

Moreover, even the martial arts techniques related to his own attributes in the Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror have all disappeared.

Instead, there is a column for spiritual roots and magic power.

He has both water and earth spiritual roots, but they are both of low quality.

There will be progress later. As long as he continues to practice dual cultivation with Concubine Cui, the quality of his spiritual roots will be improved.

At most, like Cui Xiabing, both the water and soil spiritual roots can be upgraded to the upper grade!

This……

For Zheng Yi, this is a huge benefit!
"Cui Xiabing has both water and earth spiritual roots of the highest quality. There is another woman in my palace who also has spiritual roots!"

Zheng Yi murmured, "Yuechan!"

"She possesses the power of Gu, and she wants to use the love Gu to control me. I have to find a way to eliminate her vigilance and then obtain her body... Oh no, it's the spiritual root!"

With his mind racing, he couldn't help but use a bit more strength in his hands.

"Your Majesty~!"

Cui Xiabing woke up with a coquettish cry.

As expected of a cultivator, even her physique is stronger than that of an ordinary woman.

Zheng Yi was inspired and asked, "Bing'er, is there any written record of the Su Nu Yin Sha Kung Fu: Qi Training Chapter that your master taught you?"

"Yes, yes..."

Cui Xiabing hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, do you want it? But that technique is specially for women to practice. Do you want to let other sisters in the palace practice it?"

"No, it's not."

Zheng Yi shook his head and said, "Your master also lived in the palace for a period of time, but he only accepted you as his disciple. It seems that you may be the only one in the entire palace who has spiritual roots."

"My idea is... can the Su Nu Yin Sha Gong be practiced by eunuchs?"

"Eunuch?"

Cui Xiabing widened her eyes: "Maybe... not."

"Aren't eunuchs men? Why?"

Zheng Yi said: "How about giving it a try? If I have a group of eunuchs who can practice Taoism..."

At this point, Cui Xiabing hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, Master once said that the Dharma should not be passed on to others, and now the entire Dayu cultivation world is in a state of decline, and the Dharma is difficult to enter and is extremely rare."

"I also swore a solemn oath in front of Master before she taught me the Dharma. I have to ask Master before I can do that."

"My beloved concubine is right. I was too reckless."

Zheng Yi hugged Cui Xiabing and said, "Since my beloved concubine has made a solemn vow, then forget it. I will find another way."

"His Majesty……"

Looking at Zheng Yi who was lost in thought, Cui Xiabing leaned on his shoulder and said softly, "Don't be discouraged. When Master returns, I will beg Master to give me the Dharma."

"Uh-huh……"

Zheng Yi answered randomly, but his mind was already thinking about how to deal with Yuechan and excavate the tombs of emperors of all dynasties.

The next day.

Zheng Yi did not appear in the court, but instead asked Liu Chengen to issue the imperial edict.

"The Emperor, in compliance with the Will of Heaven, proclaims: Lord Cui Jinghao has worked diligently for the people and protected Dayu... Considering his contributions to Dayu and the country, his request to retire is granted. In addition, he is to be fined 200,000 mu of land!"

Under the hall, Cui Jinghao knelt down on the ground, trembling, and shouted: "I thank the Lord for his grace!"

One million acres of land as penalty land was eventually reduced to 200,000 acres.

Although there are a lot of them, at least they are not serious enough to cause serious damage.

After the announcement, Liu Chengen said: "According to the order of your majesty, Liang Fan, the former left assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, will temporarily take over the position of the Minister of Justice!"

"Your Majesty, Liang Fan, accepts your order and thanks you!"

A middle-aged man walked out quickly and knelt down to express his gratitude.

The eyes of the other court officials kept flickering.

This Liang Fan is Cui Jinghao's disciple.

In other words, although His Majesty punished Cui Jinghao, he did not impose a heavy punishment.

The Ministry of Justice is still under the control of the Cui family.

"Retreat!"

The grand court was over, and the "Five-Year Plan" previously discussed by Zheng Yi, the Cabinet, the six ministers and others was gradually implemented under their strong promotion.

Discuss the crime field.

Navy established. Propaganda Department.

Military merit system.

New departments and new systems are also gradually being developed.

The first thing that was revealed to everyone was the rule of discussing the crime fields, which made all officials tremble with fear but also agreed with it wholeheartedly.

With this rule, the children and servants in their mansion, as long as they did not commit serious crimes such as murder and treason, could escape by paying the penalty of land tax!

But for small families and ordinary people, this crime is extremely painful and abominable!
The reason is very simple. The big landlords, wealthy families and others don’t care about those dozens or even hundreds of acres of land.

As long as they wanted, they could easily give up thousands or even tens of thousands of acres of land to escape punishment.

Some people even called for the land for crime to be changed to silver for crime, so that any crime could be exempted from punishment by paying money.

Unfortunately, Zheng Yi had already banned it, and the punishment land had to be replaced by gold and silver.

After this rule was announced, in just a few days, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue who were responsible for implementing the penalty land confiscated tens of thousands of acres of land. All of them were penalty land donated by the sons of noble families and officials!
This does not include the 200,000 acres of land that Cui Jinghao handed over!
In addition to Cui Jinghao, there was another person who paid a full 100,000 mu of land for crime.

Zhao Jingyi!
This man, who was the commander of the central army, secretly took in a woman from the Wu State as his concubine, but this was exposed by Zheng Yuantao.

Not only did he pay a penalty of 100,000 mu of land for his crime, he also lost his official position and was directly demoted to a small soldier guarding the city gate. His life was extremely miserable.

However, these confiscated lands were transformed into military merit lands through another operation!
The soldiers of the Shenji Camp and the Imperial Guards who broke through Yancheng were the first batch of soldiers to receive military merit fields.

While many officials and people were heatedly discussing the "Five-Year Plan" released by Zheng Yi, Zheng Yi himself came to Baiyujing and met with another group of people.

Shadow Guard.

More than forty Shadow Guards who had already completed their missions were called here, along with more than three hundred children.

These children are the Shadow Guard reserves personally selected by Chen Liancang in the past two years.

But today I received an order from His Majesty to come here to join him.

In addition to these shadow guards, there were actually several other people.

Chen Liancang, Liu Zhongyi, Chen Hongxiu, Zhao Tieshan, Meng Guang, Lu Lian and others.

These people are all young military personnel whom Zheng Yi values, and they are also soldiers loyal to Zheng Yi.

In fact, there are several other people that Zheng Yi also wants to recruit into the Imperial Party, such as Wang Anshi, Shen Xing, Li Ziyang and others.

Unfortunately, time is tight, so we can only focus on this group of people for now.

Zheng Yi sat on the dragon throne with his horse and golden sword, and a special flag appeared behind him.

The overall color is golden, but there is another pattern painted on it.

A dragon pattern swirling in a circle, with exquisite shape, overall blood red color, and every detail is visible, ferocious and domineering.

This is the flag of the Dayu Dynasty designed by Zheng Yi himself.

At the same time, it is also the banner of the Imperial Party!

Today, Zheng Yi summoned this group of people here for the purpose of establishing the Imperial Party.

He will hold a ceremony for the first batch of members of the Imperial Party to join the party.

For the first group of people, Zheng Yi only selected the Shadow Guards and his personal eunuchs.

The purpose is safety and privacy.

Zheng Yi sat in front of the dragon throne, Chen Liancang stood in front of Zheng Yi, and below him were more than three hundred shadow guards.

"kneel!"

At the command, more than 300 Shadow Guards knelt down.

Chen Liancang said in a hoarse voice: "We are Shadow Guards, and we should be loyal to His Majesty until death!"

"But the Emperor has shown mercy and Sher and the others have joined the Imperial Party!"

"Once you join the Emperor's Party, you should be His Majesty's son, consider His Majesty in everything, make decisions for the people of the world, and live to protect the world of Dayu!"

As soon as the words fell, more than 300 people shouted in unison: "Die for your majesty!"

"Get up!"

With a "swish" sound, more than 300 people saluted immediately.

"I swear!"

"I swear!"

Amid Chen Liancang's respectful and solemn voice, the other three hundred people followed and shouted in unison.

In the crowd, Chen Hongxiu, Zhao Tieshan, Meng Guang and others looked at each other.

They received an imperial edict from His Majesty and took the opportunity to send troops to Baiyujing to undergo the party admission ceremony.

I originally thought it was something like the flag-sacrificing ceremony before an army sets out, but I didn't expect it to be such a weird ceremony.

Dozens of warriors who were obviously eunuchs, but had very feminine auras.

Among them, Meng Guang's eyes twitched. The martial arts skills of these more than 40 eunuchs present were all third-grade martial artists!
The aura of several of them even reached the first level.

Your Majesty actually has such power in his hands!
In addition to these eunuchs with feminine auras, there were actually more than 300 children who looked only eight or nine years old.

Are these kids also going to participate in the imperial party’s oath-taking ceremony?
With another "swish" sound, more than 300 people clenched their right fists and pressed them hard on their hearts.

"We join the imperial party of the Great Yu Dynasty!"

"We join the imperial party of the Great Yu Dynasty..."

Chen Liancang recited each word clearly, and the others followed suit.

The oath was very short and was recited in just over ten breaths.

"...I am willing to sacrifice everything for your majesty and Dayu!"

"...I am willing to sacrifice everything for your majesty and Dayu!"

The voice was high and powerful, especially for the more than 300 children, whose eyes had changed from confusion and panic to sharpness and brightness.

Children from poor families have to grow up early.

Not to mention the children who have been displaced by famine and drought.

From the moment Chen Liancang adopted them, they were no longer human beings, but killing machines!
But now, Zheng Yi has given them another way, another way full of light.

For them, it is salvation.

In their future, they will give everything for Zheng Yi and the Dayu Dynasty!
Even Chen Hongxiu, Zhao Tieshan, Meng Guang, Lu Lian and others, their mood and perspective changed after reciting their oath.

The original intention of loyalty to the emperor now became even more obvious.

Be loyal to the emperor, be loyal to Zheng Yi!
It means being loyal to Dayu!

"Ah, very good."

Zheng Yi slowly stood up and said, "Gentlemen, congratulations on successfully joining the Imperial Party."

"From today on, you are our own people."

A row of young eunuchs walked up quickly holding trays, on which were rows of exquisitely shaped... badges.

Zheng Yi personally picked up the badges and put them on the chests of these people one by one.

The ceremony was solemn and dignified, and some people were so excited that they had tears in their eyes.

Your Majesty personally pinned badges on them, and spoke cordially to every member of the Imperial Party, trying his best to comfort them.

For them, this is really... so happy!
Your Majesty’s kindness can never be repaid in a lifetime!

Not only me, but also my children and grandchildren cannot repay it!

"Gentlemen, Dayu, I'm counting on you!"

"I dare not not die for your majesty!"

(End of this chapter)