Please Do Not Disturb My Cultivation

The Zero Ring Road of the imperial capital is a very magical place.

As the highest power center of the empire, it should represent the most modern aspect of the empire and the most cutting-edge technology of the empire.

Indeed, many buildings on the Zero Ring Road are like this. The art masters tried their best to spread their talents here. All kinds of weird and post-modern art-style buildings emerge one after another on the Zero Ring Road. The most advanced technological elements of the empire also appear on these buildings.

Due to breakthroughs in laser technology, more and more buildings have become shrouded in light and mist, and even the Emperor's Tower has been renovated several times to become radiant.

But there are still a few buildings that still maintain a stubborn and even out of place style, such as the Winter Palace, the headquarters building, and...

Elder's compound.

This is the exclusive courtyard of the Great Elder. There is no trace of modern creations. The old walls, red stone tiles, lush big sycamore trees, and the aged stone tables and old wooden chairs under the trees all look out of place.

Ordinary, ordinary, without bright spots, but it is the courtyard belonging to the highest authority in the empire.

The Great Elders are very special, they basically don't show up in the prosperous age, and only when the empire is in a storm, they will come out to control the overall situation.

When the Empire is stable again, they will recede into the background again.

At first, they were the first emperors who created the modern empire, and they existed to limit imperial power and prevent the restoration of the old empire.

But later, the system of the Eight Elders' Conference brought out extremely sharp contradictions.

The authority of the elders determines that they are not restricted in terms of law. As long as the imperial power is squeezed out, they can expand infinitely, and finally formed eight huge groups.

When these eight groups can no longer expand, sharp and irreconcilable conflicts arise.

In order to prevent the empire from splitting, the great elders produced by the special system changed direction, no longer restricting the imperial power, but instead restricting the elders.

The authority of the elders is all split from the imperial power, and the two sides are in sharp opposition to each other.

Even if the emperor does not fight, the senate attached to the imperial power and the offshoot royal family will devote themselves to fighting for their power.

When the imperial power is too strong, the Great Elder will restrict the imperial power again.

Inside the Great Elder, it is called the art of balance, the left end is the imperial power, and the right end is the elder.

In the history of the empire for more than a hundred years, the powers of the elders have undergone several changes, and gradually formed the current state, but their core mission has never changed——

Maintain the system of the empire, maintain the stability of the empire, and maintain the balance of the empire.

This is also the reason why Li Longxing is here today.

Under the plane tree.

The elder was noncommittal to Li Longxing's proposal.

A great elder offered a tactful refusal: "Your Majesty, the emperor of the empire is the symbol of the empire. A stupid and weak Papal State is not worthy of being conquered by the emperor himself. It would be disgraceful."

Li Longxing said indifferently: "Let them gallop on the land of the empire for another day, it would be a real loss of face."

Another great elder said: "The Royal Guard is an important component of the Supreme Council."

Li Longxing said with a smile: "Your Majesty Xingling, the local fight is in full swing. Shizhou, which is backed by the Qin Group, can't even beat a small county. It shows that the local strength is weak. The presence of the Imperial Army is enough to deter them."

The third elder asked: "Your Majesty, is that boy from Changshan County your illegitimate son?"

Li Longxing laughed and said: "Impossible, I still plan to take Linyue...cough cough cough, I am so tall, mighty, and extremely handsome, that kid is almost embarrassing."

The fourth great elder threw out their real conditions.

"Before going out, you need to store up."

Before Li Longxing could answer, he put a black cardboard on the table.

"This is the list of the three prince candidates."

Li Longxing looked at the candidates on the list and fell into a long silence.

——

Taiming Palace.

Hanyuan hall.

Li Linyue clearly rejected the proposal of the Special Envoy of the Council.

"Tell Yu Zhongxian that we have no basis for cooperation."

"Your Highness..." the special envoy felt anxious and unbelievable, "We can talk again. Painful Baba Company has a monthly revenue of at least one billion yuan. After receiving it, we don't want any of it. We will give it all to Your Highness. As long as Changshan County is brought down..."

Li Linyue ignored him.

"Xiao Zhizhong, see off the guests."

The tall and burly Xiao Zhizhong stood up.

"please!"

Although his words were polite, he grabbed the envoy who didn't want to leave by the neck and threw him out.

Seeing this scene, Liu You on the other side felt very complicated.

Among the princess' confidantes, except him, no one knew that the first princess had selected a candidate on the platform.

Everyone was still happily saying: "Your Highness, we finally don't have to deal with these disgusting guys."

"Is it time to seize the most important powers of imperial interpretation and audit?"

"We've been waiting a long time."

If the imperial power wants to expand, it should first obtain the power to interpret the imperial law and the power to review and inspect the council. This is the consensus within the princess faction.

As long as there are these two powers, the imperial power will have the ability to deter. Coupled with the natural authority and justice of the imperial emperor, it will be difficult for anyone to restrict the expansion of imperial power.

Only Liu You knew that this was one of the reasons, and he couldn't even tell whether it was the main reason or the secondary reason.

Sure enough, Li Linyue didn't answer their questions, which made Liu You's worries come true.

"Chang Yuankai."

A young general stood up from the crowd and bowed respectfully: "Your Highness, Yuan Kai is here."

"You are the inspector general of Shenjing, and you take advantage of your position to spread the black material of the council in the imperial capital."

Chang Yuankai was full of excitement, and trotted up hurriedly, half-kneeling to take the black material from Li Linyue's hand, leaning over to kiss the princess' fingertips.

But the white jade-like fingers retracted.

Chang Yuankai was stunned, and looked at Liu You who was on the side as if asking for help.

Liu You gave him the customary look that a princess is in a bad mood today, Chang Yuankai felt relieved, and hurriedly retreated.

Afterwards, all the followers knew that Her Highness the Princess was in a bad mood today, and they immediately turned into gentlemen with a concise style. They had no objection to any of the Princess' arrangements and orders, and became able to speak and do things more skillfully, mainly showing their elegance and extraordinary temperament in terms of temperament.

In the next meeting, all arrangements are for the council.

Everyone has no doubts. The Council itself is the archenemy of the Princess faction. The two parties have come together several times because of the combination of interests, and soon separated as the interests diverged.

I just didn't expect the day of complete hostility to come so soon.

Before the meeting ended, Li Linyue said casually: "Feng Guang, I remember your father is the chief engineer of the Imperial Ships, right?"

A young man at the end of the line jumped up, so excited that he couldn't even speak clearly: "I, I, no, no..."

Seeing the goddess in his mind raised her brows slightly, in a panic, the words behind her were blocked in her heart, and he fainted on the ground in a fit of rage.

His friend on the side quickly replied: "Your Highness, his father has been promoted to the general manager. Now he is the general manager of the Imperial Shipping Company, not the chief engineer."

Li Linyue glanced at the fainted young man, and said lightly: "When he wakes up, you tell him to ask his father to sell some advanced cargo ships and inland river frigates from the empire to Changshan County at a more suitable price."

Although the friend felt slightly strange, he still bowed and accepted the order: "Yes, Your Highness!"

The new princess maid, Chang Ling, rushed up with a group of personal maids, and left the venue with Li Linyue in her arms.

After the princess left, several people came up and asked respectfully: "Mr. Liu, why do we help Changshan County who doesn't know what's good?"

There are a lot of people among the princesses who are dissatisfied with the governor of Changshan County.

Before the princess threw an olive branch, this guy didn't come up quickly to kneel and lick it, but he even opened his mouth to ask for money, one time and three times, it's a joke in the world.

Liu You reprimanded impatiently: "Idiots! Local factions who have not taken refuge in the imperial power are our potential enemies. The Qin Group is the largest of the local factions, so they are naturally our greatest enemies. The enemy of an enemy is a friend. You don't understand this. How can this kind of quality become a follower of the princess?"

Several people blushed, blaming themselves and apologizing again and again, Liu You snorted coldly, one of them understood immediately, took out a pure gold plate from his bosom, and stuffed it into Liu You's hand, and the others followed suit.

Liu You weighed lightly, feeling a little satisfied, put his sleeves back, and whispered to them: "In the near future, I will move closer to Changshan County and learn more about the merits of County Chief Lin."

Then he turned and left.

If a few people realize something, they seem to be puzzled.

But in the face of the colleagues who rushed up, they pretended to be very rewarding.

Because only in this way, they will not lose money, and even make a small profit.

——

Yun Zhixing wandered outside the master's compound for a long, long time before finally summoning up the courage to go in.

The compound has been enlarged ten times and completely transformed into a library, which is full of personnel files. Xia Xiaoxiang is sitting in the deepest part of the library just like the final boss.

Although Yun Zhixing felt that he had reached the full level and put on the best equipment, he still felt that the pressure of the final boss was constantly being released from the depths.

He summoned up all his courage, crossed the last row of bookshelves, and faced the biggest boss in his life.

Boss was sitting behind the desk, wearing a pair of big glasses. She deliberately combed into a serious apple hair, wearing cold old woman makeup, and wearing a gray robe that almost completely concealed her figure.

This woman who deliberately covered up all her advantages was still dazzling and beautiful in his eyes.

He walked up carefully, not disturbing the master who was busy at work.

Just staying by his master's side like this, he can feel peaceful, and his frantic heart calms down a little bit.

After a while, she seemed to have noticed something, turned her head, and saw Yun Zhixing standing quietly by the side.

The smile on her face spread slightly, no matter how she concealed it, her charming peach eyes were slightly curved, like a crescent moon reflected in the tranquil lake.

It's a beautiful, healing smile.

"Zhixing, why are you here? Did you encounter any unpleasant things?"

At that moment, Yun Zhixing was about to cry.

He was ashamed of his vacillation. Sheriff Lin's unintentional words hit him so hard, which proved that his love for his master was not firm enough, and that his belief that he thought he would never be shaken was not strong enough.

He lowered his head in shame and said softly, "I, I, I just miss you."

There was a warm feeling on the forehead, it was the catkin of the master, brushing away the broken hair between his forehead.

"Zhixing, if you are unhappy, just cry."

For a moment, all the grievances accumulated so far burst into tears.

The master's gentle comfort came from the ear.

"Don't be afraid, little Zhixing, I'm here, I've always been here..."

At this time, Lin Wen just came back from the water battle, stepped into the compound, and saw Xia Xiaoxiang stuffing the cushion under his buttocks to Yun Zhixing who was crying.

The latter cried bitterly while hugging the cushion, and kept rubbing wildly on the cushion, as if it was the owner's embrace.