The day after the empress received the news that Prince Ning had secretly entered Beijing.

On the 11th day of the twelfth lunar month, Wu Xukuan went to court.

Early this morning, dozens of important officials including Wu Xukuan who had been ill and did not attend court came to the morning court. Wu Xukuan's "concession" speed was faster than everyone imagined. Zhou An had originally planned to carry out the second phase of the arrest in these days, but since Wu Xukuan and others had returned to the court, the next action was unnecessary.

In the confrontation between the empress and Wu Xukuan, this can be regarded as a phased victory.

However, for the empress, who already knew about Prince Ning's secret entry to Beijing, this phased victory was important, but it was not about the general trend.

Too many reasons can make Wu Xukuan give in. It can even be said that he was not forced to give in, but took the initiative to give in.

Because he was going to wait for Prince Ning to enter Beijing.

Or wait for Kanglongi to die!

For Wu Xukuan, who still has a great advantage, what he wants to do now is not to intensify the conflict, but to stabilize the situation and not to go to court, to put pressure on the empress and shake the minds of some neutral Beijing officials.

And now, these seem to be unnecessary.

Wu Xukuan has found the simplest, most direct and most reliable way to win!

As long as he still holds heavy troops and the military power is still in his hands, and the generals in the army still support him, the only thing he needs is time left. He only needs to wait, and when Prince Ning arrives and Kanglongji dies, everything else is not so important.

The empress also made concessions. The four people who were detained in the prison of the vassal department for deceiving the emperor were released after the morning court on that day... They were just dismissed from office and were not killed.

Wu Xu brought people back to the court, and the empress also gave in and released the people, which made the imperial court in Qianjing City breath.

However, they just saw the appearance.

In fact, the situation did not improve at all, but instead deteriorated in places they could not see. Wu Xukuan was like a dormant beast. When he took action again, it would be a world of upside down!

*******

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhou An arrived at the Dongchang Yamen in the morning, stayed for an hour, and hurried back to the inner court.

Because Xiaotingzi told him that the batch of medicinal materials Zhou An had asked for alone had arrived.

This batch of medicinal materials is not much, only more than a dozen, but it costs 300,000 taels of silver from the inner palace.

This is the benefit of being in a high position, power and power. Zhou An really has a great demand for medicinal materials. But now, he doesn’t need to spend money on his own or find a way out. As long as he gives an order, he can buy even the most precious and rare medicinal materials.

Qianli Palace, Ning'an Garden.

In the inner hall, Zhou An had just returned and was checking the medicinal materials he had just sent.

There are fourteen kinds of medicinal herbs, the most expensive of which is Polygonum multiflorum, which has reached two thousand years of age. Polygonum multiflorum has grown into a human form and is placed among the people. These Polygonum multiflorums appear in the world to attract the people to bow down.

In addition, there are a few ginseng plants over 1,800 years old, thousands of years of wild red Ganoderma lucidum, and a hundred-year-old blood python gall... Speaking of the hundred-year-old blood python gall, if you only talk about rareness, this thing is actually the rarest, because the blood python cannot live for a hundred years, and those who can live for a hundred years are almost elicited... It is more difficult to find a hundred-year-old blood python than to find a person with a lifespan of more than 150 years old!

Whether you can find a hundred-year-old blood python gall depends on your fate!

Xiaotingzi stood beside the long table, carefully opening the brocade boxes one by one, while Zhou An took the list and looked over them one by one.

"The ambergris is only such a small piece?" Zhou An suddenly asked as he looked at the things in the brocade box. The brocade box contained only a big gray-brown fist-like thing like amber.

"Yes, the factory." Xiaotingzi replied, "Amberg is rare, it is already the only inventory of Tongbao... They also heard that the imperial court wanted it, so they sold it."

"Well..." Zhou An pondered.

He knew that Tongbao was the largest money house in the world that has been passed down for nearly 800 years. It is also known as the number one money house in the world. It is already the world's top force, belonging to the top force in the world, and one of the few permanent neutral forces among the top forces in the world.

The neutrality of Tongbao is not because they declared that they would not participate in the dispute, but because of the agreement made by Tongbao and the founding emperor of Donggan. When Wu Yuanyin fought south and north to unify the world, Tongbao made great efforts and had the merit of following the dragon.

So after the founding of the country, this agreement was made, and Wu Yuanyin also issued an order to talk about this matter himself.

It is precisely because of Wu Yuanyin's order that Tongbao has continued to grow in the past three hundred years and has become one of the largest and most mysterious organizations in the world. It not only operates money shops, but also achieves the greatest in pawnshops, drug stores, and even news transactions.

It is hard to say whether Tongbaohao is the largest money house. After all, with the imperial court's money house, the people trust the court more, and talents in the martial arts world trust Tongbaohao more.

But one thing can be confirmed that Tongbao is the world's number one intelligence organization!

This time, when the imperial court purchased medicinal materials, Tongbaohao made great efforts. Zhou An asked the medicine that he wanted was in stock and would sell it to the court. If there was no inventory, they would sell it and tell the court who had it.

Since I left the Tongbao account or just found such a small piece, it means that there is really nothing left.

It's not completely none, but even if anyone in the world has ambergris, it is unknown and difficult to find.

Zhou An quickly counted the batch of medicinal materials.

There are fourteen types, all of them are found, but some are not enough.

And this is not all the medicinal materials Zhou An needs.

This is just the first batch.

Zhou An also gave Xiaoting several other lists, and many of the things he was looking for were legendary things, such as the seven-colored red fruit. Even if this kind of thing really exists, it is not something that can be found in a short time.

"Xiaotingzi, go out and guard the door for our family. Unless the emperor summons him, don't bother our family in anything." Zhou Andao.

"Yes." Xiaotingzi took the order and hurried out.

Zhou An is going to start refining alchemy, and this time he is alone.

In fact, the fourteen medicinal materials that just arrived are all used as the main medicine for alchemy. They are not only used for one elixir, but four! Two are used for healing, one is used for breaking the realm, and the other is what Zhou An wanted to try to find out if it can grow after taking it.

This is the prescription for a kind of medicine, which is better than the super Nine-Turn Great Pill. It is considered the best in Zhou An, but in this world, it can be considered the best!

It is a top-quality prescription that can refine the best elixir!

Therefore, Zhou An wanted to refine the alchemy alone, and he didn't want others to know the alchemy recipe.

Even a small pavilion is not good.

It’s not that Zhou An doesn’t trust Xiaoting, but that Xiaoting shouldn’t have known it. It’s not good if he knows it, it may bring him danger.

The inner hall had previously reserved hundreds of treated medicinal materials, and now the fourteen main medicines have arrived.

Nothing is missing.

Zhou An directly started to practice alchemy behind closed doors!
Chapter completed!