Chapter 923

现在的这几位皇子包括目前被立为太子的皇长子也不过是二十三岁，而皇后的嫡子却是皇三子也就是二十岁罢了，皇后自己也就四十多——上一批的老人都死啦，只有几个与世无争的老妃子还活着。“果然心狠手辣的政治动物。”白浪也是感叹。
The previous generation witnessed fierce power struggles among the dragons. Over ten court officials were executed by the imperial court, and more than twenty military generals had their houses confiscated. The former emperor was overthrown, and more than ten imperial princes were put to death. This major purge happened just twenty years ago. It's only because Prince Bailang diligently searched for information everywhere that we were able to gather and uncover these things.
Even so, more than 90% of the information from that year has been lost.
"Indeed, the emperor sitting in that position is a suspicious person, and he has no affection for his own son---perhaps there was some before he was ten years old, but afterwards, it faded away to nothing." Bailang sighed, but fortunately, the princess still exists. The eldest sister is already in her fifties, and she even has grandchildren.
白浪自然也不去管这些狗屁倒灶的事情，自顾自地日日摄入一缕火气游走，努力打通一个个的穴位。如今比过去第一次打通要舒服不少，贯通穴位的时候只是觉得灼热而已，受内伤也不怕——修炼三火归元功最不怕的就是受内伤了，他本来就是要借助这内伤来开辟经脉。
反正身体经脉里淤积火气也就淤积了，到时候打通十二正经，三火合一顺势那么一卷，这些淤积下来的火气内伤直接便可以转为丹田内的真火，成就他的内力。修炼武功让人快乐，尤其是让白浪快活无比，然而外表上却没有任何影响。
The tragic and ghastly appearance of the white tuberculosis ghost remains the same, even Xu Jie, the eunuch responsible for managing the daily life of the Fifth Prince, cannot discern the extent of his progress in cultivation - it must be none at all. Otherwise, why would he still look like this? And why does he occasionally cough up blood?
其实白浪这几个月来已经完全打通手少阴肺经，真气在这股经脉中圆转如意，只不过未能开辟丹田气海，所以真气时时刻刻都在损耗罢了，白浪必须日日摄入火气转化，然后努力将真气积蓄在穴位之中减缓损耗的速度，还得用这股真气去打通其他经脉。
根据乐观估计，打通十二正经至少需要五年，这已经是个非常夸张的速度了，关键是打通三条经脉之后能引入天火跟阴火，三火虽然不曾归元但是分别游走之下，打通其余经脉的速度自然很快。打通三条要三年，余下的九道经脉一共用不了两年。
It's only good to be a useless prince in one aspect, which is that it's peaceful – apart from occasional visits from his fourth brother, the only person he has to meet is his adoptive mother, Concubine Jing. She treats him quite well, and Bai Lang thinks that the palace system is truly detrimental. When he was the emperor before, he didn't have so many concubines, and even the palace restrictions were not strict at all – where else in the world is there someone who could assassinate the number one martial artist emperor?
As time passes, White Wave has also been here for nearly two years and is now fifteen years old—sixteen is considered the age of an adult prince, and he must establish a residence and build a foundation outside. The problem is that he is mostly just a figurehead prince, as he has never attended a single day of work at the Ministry of Rites, unlike his brothers. Please note that the translated content does not contain any @ matches.
The Crown Prince doesn't handle any affairs, but starting from the Second Prince, all princes above the age of ten are registered under the Ministry of Works or the Imperial Academy. Among them, princes above the age of thirteen have already started learning to handle affairs - this aspect is somewhat similar to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Everyone else is busy with their duties, but this Fifth Prince never does any work and simply collects a salary.
He is also quite poor here, except for the regular expenses in the palace and the monthly salary from his position, he doesn't have much else. If it weren't for the fact that palace maids, eunuchs, and half of the guards' salaries are covered by the palace, he would probably find it difficult to afford those people himself. Bailang has never asked about their salaries, anyway. As long as Xu Jie, the Grand Tutor, manages everything, including his own income.
Bailang just wants to hide himself, and after mastering martial arts, he can go anywhere in the world without any problem. He is also unsure whether the consciousness of this world will discover any problems and send those masters to kill him and expel him from this world. Therefore, his martial arts skills must be high.
At the very least, it is also at the celestial level, the higher the better.
两年的时光，白浪已经打通了两条半经脉，最后半条也就在这几天了。所谓的九龙夺嫡早已经再一次变成了群龙争日，因为老十到老十四都在这两年里进入书房读书了。
皇子们几乎都是少年老成，一进入书房没几天就学得像是大人那般勾心斗角，只不过都还会伪装，白浪看了就想吐。他不用装，就当个废物即可。读书一般般，部务也不做，这摆明了就是不准备参加夺嫡——然而没人会就这样无视他，万一是扮猪吃老虎呢？要不是他被太医说很难活过二十五岁，恐怕这种作为反而会让其他皇子都盯住他。
In fact, if the imperial physician were to come and feel the pulse at this moment, Bailang would shock him without any disguise and say, "Third Prince, you are going to die in a few days!" The fire element in his pulse is extremely strong, as if it could burn the liver wood and dry up the kidney water. It seems like his life is hanging by a thread. However, the Sanhuo Guiyuan technique sustains his breath, so his life is not in danger - he cannot die before practicing it, nor before turning twenty years old.
二十岁之前，他绝对能打通十二正经，成就宗师——这就意味着五年之内贯通奇经八脉从天地桥接引先天元气入体没啥问题，成就宗师已经让这具身体的寿命达到六十岁以上，大宗师百岁没压力，成就先天那就是寿数好几百年啦。
能活好几百年，那这种皇位要他作甚？让自己零零七几百年嘛？这根本就是苦役犯的日子好不好。之前当万历的时候，在位百年都已经够够的了，当三百年的皇帝真的是对白浪来说如同噩梦，而且百分之百会被世界意识针对。
而选皇子妃的举动也已经开始了——再怎么说白浪这个身体也是皇五子，哪怕说他活不过二十五岁，但是该有的待遇依旧会有，本朝后妃不但会有出自小门小户的，然而主流比如皇后贵妃，诸皇子正妃都是出自朝中官宦人家，勋贵世家的。
皇五子白浪是痨病鬼，活不过二十五岁的那种，所以勋贵世家没人愿意将嫡出的小姐嫁给他，甚至庶出的小姐也不情愿。朝中大臣也多不情愿——将女儿嫁给这人没用啊，对家长的仕途没啥用不说，还让女儿年纪轻轻守寡。换成几百年前王妃尚且可以改嫁，如今可不行。
所以大家都不情愿呗，白浪本来也不在乎，但是朝廷的体面还是要的，三议两议之下，宜城侯欧阳家拿出了一对庶出的姐妹花——姐姐是寡妇，妹妹和离，年纪也比十五岁身体的白浪要长五岁跟三岁。这对姐妹花的母亲已经故了，本来也只是妾侍还不是良妾。
The imperial court also agreed to this - the only one losing face would be White Lang himself. But when White Lang saw those two women, his eyebrows furrowed as if he heard the mocking laughter of Siwu, "Huangquan Biliang Slope? Accumulated corpse qi in the realm of the dead? How come I feel like one is from the Zou family and the other is from the Zhen family?"