Chapter 767: I took the reward that the First Emperor promised me.
"Where are the gods in this world?"
Zulong visited all the temples in Rome, offering his sincerity one by one with a pious heart.
But he stayed here for more than a month, but he never heard the call of the gods.
The priests of those temples talked nicely, saying that as long as they were pious enough, they would eventually be forgiven by the gods...
Zulong sneered at this. He didn't need any forgiveness, he just wanted the method of immortality.
Unwilling to be reconciled, Zulong spent more than a year visiting famous temples everywhere.
As for the result, anyone with a normal IQ knows it.
Zulong's temper became increasingly bad-tempered, and his physical condition also deteriorated.
He had to take more so-called elixir to strengthen his spirit. This elixir could indeed refresh his mind and greatly improve his physical and mental state.
But the medicine is 30% poisonous, and taking too much of it will definitely not be a good thing.
The more Ancestral Dragon's elixir is consumed, the greater the damage to the body.
Good food doesn't mean that the more you eat, the better, but it also comes in a certain degree.
What's more, when various medicinal materials with different medicinal properties are gathered together, heated and then taken, it is equivalent to eating Zulong and turning him into a medicine man.
When side effects occur, take elixirs to suppress them.
The more elixir you take, the stronger the side effects will be. You can only take more elixir.
Once you fall into this endless loop, the consequences will be self-evident.
What's even more exaggerated is that those alchemists who followed Zulong on his western tour so as to prepare medicines for him anytime and anywhere even began to experimentally add strange animals and plants from all over Europe into the medicinal ingredients.
Even Li Yunze was horrified to see this kind of refining medicine that seemed to bring great luck.
Let alone Zulong, even he himself would not dare to eat it.
As for Zu Long, he had already tried to persuade him, but he didn't listen.
Zu Long kept asking him for the method of immortality, and the biggest evidence why Zu Long believed that there must be gods in the world was Li Yunze, who seemed to be eternally young.
Li Yunze was tired and did not explain.
He could also understand Zu Long. After all, as he grew older, his fear of death also increased.
Who can not be afraid of eternal death?
On this day, Zulong's mighty fleet arrived at the westernmost and narrowest waterway in the entire Far West Sea.
"This is the real end of the world."
Li Yunze, who was standing on the deck and looking at the steep cliffs on the shore not far away, let out a rare sigh of admiration.
This is the top of the extreme western sea. If you go further, you will reach the vast Western Ocean.
When Zu Long on the side heard this, he also raised his eyes and looked towards the shore. Looking at the cliff towering over the coast, he immediately asked Zhao Gao to "pass the decree and carve words on this cliff."
Zhao Gao subconsciously asked, "What to engrave?"
you still need to ask?
Zulong's face sank and he said, "I'll carve it to the ends of the earth!"
Zhao Gao hurriedly ran to do things, while Zulong walked to Li Yunze's side. "Master, if we go further, it will be the Western Ocean on the globe, right?"
"That's right."
Li Yunze nodded and nodded, "This is the top of the Western Sea of World Island, and in front of it is the Western Ocean. Crossing the Western Ocean is the new world where the descendants of the Yin and Shang Dynasties live..."
Zu Long was not very interested in the new world that Li Yunze introduced enthusiastically.
After all, for him, Da Qin was already huge enough at this time, even so huge that he could no longer manage it.
Even on the way to the Western Tour, he had to deal with memorials weighing hundreds of kilograms every day. He really had to stay up until the rooster crow every day, relying on ginseng soup and elixir to sustain him.
It causes great damage to the body.
Zulong doesn't want a new world, nor does he want descendants of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
What he was thinking was, "I wonder if those descendants of the Yin and Shang Dynasties have learned immortal magic..."
Hearing this, Li Yunze rolled his eyes.
Zulong has gone crazy.
The Qin Dynasty's Western Expedition basically came to an end after conquering Luocheng.
As for those places further west and further north, in the eyes of everyone, they are proper barbarian lands, either with barbarian tribes blooming everywhere or endless forests.
The Qin army had no interest in going deep into the mountains and forests to play hide-and-seek with the barbarians.
After visiting all the civilized places, they started to pack their bags happily, sorting out the trophies they had obtained over the years, calculating their military merits, etc., preparing to return to their hometowns contentedly when the newcomers from China arrived to guard the border.
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The Qin Dynasty's Western Expedition, which was so mammoth and earth-shattering, lasted for decades, destroyed hundreds of countries along the way, and pacified countless barbarians, finally came to an end.
After that, it is time to divide states and counties and arrange local civil affairs.
Zulong is not named Ya. The land he conquered is naturally his own, and he will manage it carefully and control it firmly.
For example, if Ya's death caused the huge empire to collapse, Zulong would never allow it to happen.
After worshiping the God of Poseidon at the western end of the West Sea and waiting for a while, no messenger from the God of Poseidon appeared. Zulong, who invited himself to visit the Dragon Palace, ordered the fleet to return with disappointment.
Returning to the Roman city that had been renamed Suzhou, Zu Long had been busy here day and night for more than half a year.
The main task is to settle this huge territory acquired by the westward expansion.
On the southern shore of the Far West Sea, Zulong set up a protective palace, which was managed by Wang Li and others.
Zulong still has great trust in the Wang family of Wang Jian's lineage.
As for the north, the narrow sea is used as the boundary, the east is the Jiaozhou Protectorate, and Shejian is the Great Protectorate.
To the west is the Suzhou Protectorate, with Su Jiao, who made great achievements in conquering the city, as the chief protector.
In Zulong's view, the establishment of the Protectorate is only temporary.
Local prefectures and counties must be resettled and allocated as soon as possible, and local officials must make arrangements as soon as possible.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He plans to use ten to twenty years to stabilize this place.
When that time comes, all the great protectors will be transferred back to Xianyang City one by one to enjoy their blessings, and then directly divide the governor's mansion into several provinces to completely control these territories.
Once Zulong gets busy, he can't stop.
There are just too many different things.
Not to mention anything else here, people in different places speak differently. The first is to unify the language, and the second is to unify the writing of documents.
Then we need to re-divide the living areas, assign identities to various people, recruit a group of people who are willing to join the Qin army, support a group of weak thugs who were originally oppressed, and sort out the roads and farms in various places. How to re-divide and relocate them specifically?
How to settle the Qin people who came here, etc.
The territory is too big, the population is too large, and there are countless troubles. Even if he keeps taking elixirs, Zulong can hardly bear it anymore.
Li Yunze saw all this, but had no intention of helping.
In fact, there was nothing he could do to help.
Zu Long was a person with a strong desire for control. Even if he traveled tens of thousands of miles westward, he still insisted on writing letters to Fusu who was far away in Xianyang Supervisor State every few days, arranging Fusu to do this and that.
So do that.
In this situation, how can Li Yunze help him?
Should he say to Zu Long, 'I have also been an emperor, and I have done it several times. I am well versed in all these things. You can do it, and I will do it?'
Facing Zulong who stayed up until dawn every day and ate the so-called elixir every day, Li Yunze just shook his head and left.
The Western Expedition has been completed, and Zulong can be regarded as a true captain.
This time the world's wish has been fulfilled, and Li Yunze has nothing to do.
The only thing he is still waiting for now is to take away the reward that Zulong promised to him many years ago.
After spending a lot of energy and effort, Zulong finally completed the initial arrangements for both sides of the West China Sea.
This western tour has taken several years, and it is time to return to Xianyang City.
After all, although he trusted Fusu very much, he even arranged for him to serve as a supervisor during his western tour and perform the duties of the emperor on his behalf.
But Zulong is an emperor after all, an emperor with a strong desire for power, so he can't wait to return to the center of power in the world, Xianyang City.
The mighty fleet docked on the east coast of the Far West Sea. There was a railway line just outside the harbor, and Zulong's special train was parked on it, waiting quietly.
Zulong didn't even see the officials who came to see him off. He got into the car and urged him to leave quickly.
Because there is a train for transportation, you don't need to rely on your legs to walk. According to the technological strength at this time, you can return in almost a month.
And if you use both legs...the unit must be years, but it's hard to say exactly how many years it is.
The Western Expedition is over, and so is the Western Patrol.
The world that seemed to be in raging war suddenly seemed to quiet down.
On the way the train goes east, through the window you can see busy figures on the fertile soil along the way.
Li Yunze also came back, and he sat quietly in the car.
The matter of training Zulong to become a ball leader has been completed, and he is still here, just waiting.
From his point of view, he could naturally see that after years of fatigue and overdraft, Zulong was already running out of gas and might become the first emperor to die at any time.
The train traveled all the way east, and Zulong on board was still busy processing various memorials. Almost every large station along the way would send official documents weighing hundreds of kilograms and accumulated for a long time for the emperor's approval.
Zulong still maintains a high-intensity working state.
As for Li Yunze, he ate well and slept soundly.
When the train stopped to add water and coal, he went out and walked around a few times.
Just walking and stopping all the way, we finally arrived at Xingxing Gorge a month later.
As the place where Zulong was once attacked, Xingxing Gorge was now transformed into a large military camp. There were Qin troops stationed on the hills on both sides of the road, which would not give the assassins the slightest chance.
It was already evening, and Li Yunze, who was sitting on a chair looking at the scenery along the way, suddenly heard a panic sound coming from Zulong's carriage.
His perception ability is super strong, and his hearing is naturally very outstanding.
I heard very clearly ‘His Majesty fainted~~~’
After sighing, Li Yunze stood up and walked towards the carriage door.
The palace guard at the door tried to stop him, but was easily knocked unconscious by him.
The locked door was very strong, but Li Yunze kicked over it, deforming the door and causing it to fall to the ground.
The luxuriously decorated carriage can be seen at a glance. The Zulong lying on the bed has a face as bright as gold paper, while the eunuchs and alchemists are surrounding him.
Li Yunze ignored Zhao Gao and others, and simply stepped forward to stand in front of Zu Long.
Zu Long, who was as angry as a silk thread, wanted to say something to Li Yunze, but he couldn't say a single word.
Li Yunze knew clearly that this was a burst blood vessel in the brain and cerebral congestion.
"Prince Fusu succeeds to the throne?"
Zu Long's eyes showed a hint of joy and he nodded with difficulty.
"Zhao Gao just wanted to control the news. Do you want to kill him?"
Zu Long still moved his chin slowly.
"Deal with all the alchemists?"
"Um..."
"I will take care of these things." Li Yunze nodded gently, "Go with peace of mind."
Zu Long's eyes stared at Li Yunze, and then gradually began to lose focus, until he finally became silent.
Li Yunze sighed, raised his hand to cover Zulong's eyelids, and then turned to look at the horrified Zhao Gao and others, "Go and accompany the First Emperor."
Half a month later, Fusu, who had hurriedly completed the enthronement ceremony, returned to the imperial study room to prepare for meeting important ministers to discuss important matters.
But when I came back, I saw a note on the desk.
He recognized that the note belonged to the Grand Tutor.
The note said simply, 'I took the reward that the First Emperor promised me.'
Fusu rummaged around in confusion, and finally realized to his surprise that the imperial seal was missing!