Mortal Mage

Zhang Mingxuan was thinking about something else.

He had already fully understood the nature of the jade slip. It was just a storage medium that used spiritual power to store things.

Jade slips can be probed with spiritual consciousness and communicated directly. If we consider it only from the perspective of science and technology, jade slips are more advanced things.

In fact, the aura inside the jade slip, in his way of understanding, is a security key.

It’s just a question of whether it can be cracked.

However, there is a big problem with the prohibition in the jade slip: one can explore inside it countless times.

If you are on Blue Star, you will be locked if you enter the wrong password three times, but the jade slip is rigid and only recognizes the aura that corresponds to it.

Breath is like fingerprint, it is impossible to have the same breath twice, but password can be repeated.

He now has two options. One is to crack the dictionary and collect the aura of everyone in Canglang Continent to verify the jade slip.

The second method is to skip the jade slip’s aura detection.

If he collected the aura of everyone in Canglang Continent for testing, it might not be successful. If he succeeded, it would definitely cause turmoil in the country and produce uncontrollable consequences. At least before he had absolute strength, this kind of thing was very risky.

Then there is only the second way, to crack the jade slip.

He took out another jade slip and probed it with his spiritual sense, starting to evaluate the possibility of cracking the jade slip.

The first time the spiritual consciousness penetrated, the word "仙" appeared. The word "仙" in the jade slip began to retrieve the breath of the person who penetrated the spiritual consciousness. If there was no match, the word "仙" merged and the spiritual consciousness was expelled from the jade slip.

The second time, the spiritual consciousness probed in and the word "immortal" appeared. The jade slip tried to adjust the aura, but there was a mismatch. The word "immortal" merged and the spiritual consciousness was expelled.

The third son, his spiritual consciousness probed in... his spiritual consciousness was expelled.

The fourth time, the fifth time, the Nth time...

"There is a difference between the former dynasty and the harem."

Zhang Mingxuan grabbed a handful of jade slips and held them in his hand. After leaving a few words, he quickly walked out of the Qionghua Storehouse and headed straight for the Zhenghe Palace.

Zhenghe Hall is the front court. According to palace rules, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. Concubines in the harem can only send people to the front court to report to the emperor.

Zhang Mingxuan couldn't control these three old monsters, but he wanted to try out whether his identity as emperor was still useful.

If these three old monsters do not follow the rules, do not go to the previous court without reporting, and do not even have the most basic rules of the previous court and the harem, then he, the emperor, is probably just a mascot.

If these three old monsters abide by the rules, he cannot open his heart to the three women just by swearing a few oaths. He still has doubts about the laws of nature in this world.

If the oath can be fulfilled in this way, there would be no evil magic such as soul searching to forcibly obtain other people's memories. There must be other unknown reasons.

As soon as Zhang Mingxuan stepped out of the Qionghua Storehouse, Qingling Huayu followed.

"Since he is the emperor here, we must abide by the rules."

Shi Manman stood where she was and humbly whistled at the two girls.

Hua Yu stopped first. She had the lowest cultivation level, so any order given by these two men would work on her.

Qing Ling flew out of the courtyard without paying any attention.

"Your Majesty said that there is a difference between the former court and the harem."

At that time, Manman's flying sword flew out of her hand, and she chased after Qingling with a "yingying" sound.

"Okay, okay, you have a spirit sword, I'll listen to you." Qing Ling stopped and said this, but he was unwilling in his heart, "Look, he grabbed a handful of jade slips, it seems like he has a solution."

"Don't question someone who can comprehend the teleportation array."

"That's the jade slip of the Immortal Sect!"

"so what?"

Shi Manman stepped out of the Qionghua Palace and headed towards the harem first, her face stern; "You are a princess of the Western Dynasty, you should know the rules better than me."

Qing Ling turned around, as if she had figured it out. She did not respond, but followed Shi Manman towards Huaxi Palace.

Huaxi Palace is the lowest-level palace among the sixteen western palaces of the Taihe Palace. All the women who have not been canonized live here and wait for their fate.

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Taihe Square.

Zhang Mingxuan strode forward, turning back from time to time to look in the direction of Qionghuaku.

Seeing that the three women did not follow to the front dynasty, he secretly put his mind at ease.

There were soldiers standing guard in the square and eunuchs waiting for orders.

The Lingyu Guards and eunuchs on guard saw a man in blue striding out from the direction of the harem, and a group of people immediately surrounded him.

They knew that there were two women and one demon in the harem, but they didn't know that there were also men in the harem.

The most panicked one was a young eunuch.

"His Majesty!"

The young eunuch was not someone else, but Liu Zhong's subordinate.

Liu Zhong's men naturally knew Zhang Mingxuan.

"Notify all officials above the third rank to discuss the matter in the Hall of Supreme Harmony."

Zhang Mingxuan said as he walked, "Go ahead, everyone else should do what they need to do."

After sending the group of people away with a few words, Zhang Mingxuan had already reached the entrance of Zhenghe Hall. He kicked the door open with a "bang" and stepped into the hall.

Inside the hall, more than a hundred officials raised their heads in unison and looked towards the entrance of the hall.

Who is so arrogant.

"The Emperor has arrived."

The young eunuch's voice came late.

The man who killed Li Si is back.

"Long live the emperor."

All the officials were panicked. They hurriedly put down their official duties and knelt down and shouted.

"no."

Zhang Mingxuan waved his hand to signal everyone to stand up, and squatted on the threshold of the hall; "Who can tell me what the current situation in the court is?"

After these words were spoken, the officials in the hall looked at each other, and no one said a word.

Or no one dared to speak.

There are two gods and one demon in the harem, and they are walking on thin ice every day when they go to court.

Today, the emperor who had been missing for more than half a year miraculously returned.

"Who are the people in charge of the six ministries now? Tell me."

Zhang Mingxuan pointed at an old official in his sixties standing in front of him.

The old official hurriedly moved away from the table, trembling and bowing, and was about to kneel down. Zhang Mingxuan helped him up and said, "The kneeling ceremony will be abolished from now on."

You could hear a pin drop in the hall, and no one dared to raise any objection.

The old official was supported by Zhang Mingxuan, his face was terrified, and he reported in a hoarse voice; "Reporting to Your Majesty, at present, except for the Minister of War Li Hanzong who was executed along with his entire family for being involved in treason, there are still vacancies in the six ministries. The Ministry of Revenue is still headed by Lord Wang Mingde, the Ministry of Rites is headed by Lord Jiang Hanhai, the Ministry of Personnel is headed by Lord Sima Yuantu, the Ministry of Works is headed by Lord Gu Qing, and the Ministry of Justice is headed by Lord Liang Siyuan. There are no changes."

"rebellion?"

Zhang Mingxuan stood up suddenly and asked again, "Who is plotting rebellion and why?"

The old official didn't dare to hide anything and explained the whole story in detail.

Now that he is gone, there will be no crown prince in the court and the throne will be vacant, and chaos will come sooner or later.

Yulong's rebellion was both reasonable and unexpected.

He didn't expect that Wang Mingde and Qi Yuanqinghe would always implement his reform and opening-up policy.

After the rebellion, Liu Zhong and Dang Nanzhi's subordinates actually guarded the palace gate without the emperor. At least in Zhang Mingxuan's view, this was a meaningless resistance.

Liu Zhong and Dang Nanzhi are both useful and should be rewarded.

However, these two men are already the top leaders in the court, so there is no point in rewarding them.

After much thought, he decided to leave the troublesome task of rewarding to his subordinates.

Halfway through his thought, a handsome young official dressed in the uniform of a second-rank official came over holding a stack of memorials.

Zhang Mingxuan knew this person, Chen Zhize, who was the runner-up in the imperial examination in the same year as him.

"Your Majesty, there are many obstacles to reform and opening up, mainly in the reform of the land system, the household registration system, and the merger of land resources. However, the establishment of Taicang Development Bank, maritime reform, opening up trade, and popularizing education are progressing smoothly."

Chen Zhize didn't say a word of nonsense.

There are some problems that the six departments can solve, but there are some problems that the six departments cannot solve.

Zhang Mingxuan grabbed a memorial and glanced through it.

The problems and obstacles listed in the memorial were numerous and numbered nearly a hundred.

These problems cannot be solved by money.

In the end, he has to wipe his own ass himself.

"All memorials have been sent to Xuanzheng Hall. I will review them on a chosen day. Besides, everything about the wedding will be kept simple."

Zhang Mingxuan slapped the memorial back into Chen Zhize's hands, turned his head to look at the eunuch behind him, and ordered, "Ask Wang Mingde and Qi Yuanqinghe to come to see me quickly."

The young eunuch responded and left in a hurry.