In the spring of the thirteenth year of Jing Hao, the sanctuary of the sanctuary was killed.

The entire family of the Minister of Personnel, the Minister of Works, and more than 20 officials of the seventh rank or above were killed, and nearly 500 people were implicated.

Even all officials were silent and no one dared to impeach Duke Zhenguo.

Emperor Jing Hao did not attend court for many days while he was sick and ignored the affairs of the tutoring department.

The Duke of Zhenguo said that the emperor has the virtue of a saint, and that the world will be ineffective and will be greatly governed.

In the eyes of scholars, Ma Liu was already a traitor and his reputation was defeated, and everyone was able to kill him.

Jiang Tianhe, who had been released from prison, was restored to his post and promoted the strategy of placing a stake in a mu. No one in the court dared to object, just because Ma Liu stood behind him, afraid of being splattered with blood from his face.

All the shrewd court bosses saw the clues.

Ma Liu is singing a double act with Emperor Jing Hao.

One is white-faced and the other is black-faced, with Jiang Tianhe in the middle.

Ma Liu was willing to be a villain and protect the way for reform. Emperor Jing Hao naturally couldn't ask for it, so it would be okay to give up some power.

Jiang Tianhe assigned his confidant Wang Ziheng and others to go to various counties to supervise the matter of the stakes. Zhang Wu was also at home and refined his own elixir.

"Bang--"

With a loud bang, the alchemy furnace exploded, the whole yard trembled, the eaves fell from the eaves, the windows were black smoke, and Zhang Wu walked out of the side house with a dirt face, feeling very embarrassed.

Since half a year ago, the Jiang family was tactful and tributed five thousand-year-old elixirs, and the sixth uncle also relied on his power to empty the warehouse of the Imperial Medical Office, and plundered the world, and got all kinds of strange drugs. Zhang Wu was unable to rest anymore.

If you want to improve your strength, the first step is to refine your Martial Spirit Pill to be more nutritious and more effective.

After all, if you have high strength, you need to intake more energy, otherwise you will have to go hungry all day long or eat several martial spirit pills at a time to ensure physical fitness.

There is Vajra Pill in Shaolin, the Xiao family has the Emperor Spirit Pill, and Liu Cangshan also has the elixir he refined himself. Zhang Wu stole a lot in the secret room of the county magistrate's mansion and even divided a few of Shi Bodhi.

The Vajra Pill and the Imperial Spirit Pill were obtained from the old monk and Xiao Jingyi when he was in Yongchang City. It was nothing more than a resource exchange. I will exchange your Martial Spirit Pill for you.

Several kinds of elixirs can be understood and learned from each other's strengths and weaknesses. As long as the thousand-year-old elixir is enough, Zhang Wu will sooner or later refine the advanced martial spirit pill.

It's just this process...

If you don’t fry the stove hundreds of times, and without decades of research, do you really think that you are the son of destiny and can you succeed in everything in one go?

"Damn it, bad luck!"

He spitted two black foam in his mouth, and Zhang Wu pinched his fingers to calculate the good and bad luck.

Years of failure also made him look at the calendar all day long, looking at good and bad luck, and blame his own dissatisfaction on the illusory beliefs of ghosts and gods.

Luck is really mysterious and only ghosts know it.

"It's true that it's not suitable for alchemy in recent days."

After evasing it, Zhang Wu shook his head secretly.

He went to the well to draw a basin of water, washed his face, took off his clothes, and changed into a clean robe. He returned to the main room and began to pick up his pen to record his experience in alchemy.

Soon after, I got tired of writing, so I picked up the bamboo slip next to me and used a carving knife to carve my memoirs.

During those days in the prison, he taught Zhang Wu too much, which he summarized as "History of the Prison".

Pang Heihu, Lao Tang, Guo Tianxu, and the mighty general... are all interesting people. I miss them very much when I write them down and read them bored.

At the same time, in the Taiji Hall of the Imperial Palace.

The thin-faced Emperor Jing Hao was lying on the bed, covered with a thick quilt, and his eyebrows were not angry, which was eighty-slightly similar to Emperor Longqing back then.

There was no one in the hall, only a white-clothed sorcerer was taking the pulse of Emperor Jing Hao.

"Ahem cough cough..."

Xiao Jinghao coughed violently for a while and asked with a gloomy face:

"Brother, how long can I live?"

Xiao Jingyi said seriously:

"With the elixir left by our ancestors to prosper, as long as your desire to survive is strong enough, you can last another five years."

His face was also a little pale. The mental trauma caused by Liu Cangshan's desperate attack was not so easy to recover, and it might even leave hidden injuries, which made him unable to make any progress in his life.

Emperor Jing Hao showed a hint of determination and murmured:

"Is five years enough?"

Xiao Jingyi frowned and asked:

"Second brother, what do you want to do?"

"First destroy Ma Liu, then kill Zhang Wu, kill the fourth brother, and leave a peaceful country for you."

"you……"

Xiao Jingyi was surprised and his face became complicated.

Emperor Jing Hao said:

"You gave Zhang Wu's magic pill antidote. Ma Liu must have taken it. He seems to be acting with me to protect the Tao for reform, but he is also coveting the throne and seizing power with open conspiracy. He wants to use the art of scheming to win over the power.

I'm overturned?"

"No."

Xiao Jingyi shook his head and said:

"Ma Liu is not a person who is greedy for power, and he doesn't have that great ambition to be an emperor."

"He doesn't want to, but 'Xiao Jingwu' may not be."

"What Xiao Jingwu?"

Xiao Jingyi was a little confused by this name.

Emperor Jing Hao said with murderous intent:

"Brother, you don't know anything. Recently, there was a sudden gust of wind among the people, saying that the father and the emperor had an illegitimate son named Xiao Jingwu, who was the fifth prince of my Xiao royal family."

“…”

Xiao Jingyi was stunned, someone flashed through his mind, and his face changed.

"You mean Zhang Wu?"

"good!"

Emperor Jing Hao nodded and said:

"This boy is low-key and strong, and has changed his identities all year round. No one can understand his foundation. Whether this boy has ambitions or not is clear until he shows it."

After a pause, Xiao Jinghao asked:

"Brother, you have contacted him. What kind of person do you think he is?"

Xiao Jingyi thought about it and said:

"This boy is very naive. He has been in Tianzhu for many years and has long since he has eroded his blood. He is not as ambitious as a person."

Emperor Jing Hao shook his head slowly and said with a gloomy face:

"Even though Zhang Wu and Ma Liu have no intention of usurping the throne, who is the father who doesn't want his children to be the emperor?"

Xiao Jingyi frowned.

"You mean, are they both father and son?"

"If it weren't for the father and son, who would be wary of anyone who met Ma Liu and never talk to others, how could he treat Zhang Wu as if he were willing to make sacrifices?"

“…”

Xiao Jingyi was speechless, but he still felt a little disbelief in his heart. After a long time, he asked:

"Second brother, have you found out that my royal traitor? Who revealed the story of the ancestor's destiny?"

"Maliu!"

Emperor Jing Hao replied with great confidence.

Xiao Jingyi's eyebrows frowned deeper, and said without believing:

"The Ganquan Palace has a Feng Shui pattern arranged by me. You must not enter the grandmaster in person. Ma Liu will definitely not enter. How could he know that the ancestor is in a transformation?"

"Brother, have you forgotten that my ancestors have been practicing alchemy all year round. The Imperial Medical Office sends a batch of medicine to Ganquan Palace every month, which has never been interrupted for many years. The fragrance of medicine floats out from Ganquan Palace every now and then, and the yard is full of fragrance."

Emperor Jing Hao said:

"Until my ancestors were in a state of transformation, the Imperial Medical Office no longer sent medicine, and there was no fragrance in the yard. You secretly left the capital and went to the south to block Liu Cangshan in Yongchang City, so as not to come and assassinate me, just think about it based on this,

With Maliu's intelligence, it is not difficult to guess that the ancestor is dead."

"How are you going to deal with the father and son?"

"I have contacted the fourth brother secretly. It's better to eliminate the uncertainty first and then determine the outcome between us brothers."

Emperor Jing Hao was very ambitious and ambitious.
To be continued...