Chapter 949: Cultivating with Incense

"Oh, since that is the case, then Minister Wei Zheng, let me ask you: is your identity the Prime Minister of my Great Tang, or an immortal official of the Heavenly Court?!"

Although this question from Emperor Li Shimin of Tang was an inquiry, it expressed the intention of forcing Wei Zheng to choose a side.

Either continue to serve as the Prime Minister of Great Tang, or be your immortal official; you can only choose one of the two.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, your humble servant is the Prime Minister of Great Tang!"

At this moment, Wei Zheng naturally heard the implication in Emperor Li Shimin of Tang's words, so after pondering for a while, he spoke.

However, before Emperor Li Shimin of Tang could prepare to praise Wei Zheng for his loyalty, he heard Wei Zheng speak again:

"Your humble servant is also an immortal official of the Heavenly Court."

With one sentence, he indicated that Wei Zheng did not want to give up the position of Prime Minister of Great Tang, nor did he want to give up the honor of being an immortal official of the Heavenly Court.

Yet these words were so grating to the ears of Emperor Li Shimin of Tang.

Although Wei Zheng's words indicated his neutral attitude, one must know that under these circumstances, with the Heavenly Court being powerful and the Tang Dynasty being weak,

Wei Zheng not choosing a side was already choosing a side.

It is like Fatty bullying Nobita; others have three choices: help Fatty, help Nobita, or stay neutral and mediate.

It seems like three choices, but in reality, there are only two: being neutral is siding with Fatty; only helping Nobita is siding with Nobita.

And changing it to this situation, the same logic applies.

Loyalty that is not absolute is absolutely not loyal.

At this moment, Emperor Li Shimin of Tang found Wei Zheng more and more displeasing to the eye.

One must know that the position of Prime Minister of Great Tang is a position of being under one person and above ten thousand. It can be said that if Wei Zheng had any disloyal thoughts, Li Shimin, as the Emperor of Great Tang, would suffer huge losses.

"Since the Prime Minister is extremely exhausted by the affairs of my Great Tang, I will allow you to retire to your hometown and replace you with an energetic young man." Emperor Li Shimin of Tang said this with an appearance of being very concerned about Wei Zheng.

"Your Majesty, your humble servant's body is still strong; there is no need to retire to my hometown."

Wei Zheng naturally did not want to give up the position of Prime Minister in his hands.

It was not that Wei Zheng was greedy for the power of the Prime Minister or the glory and wealth of the mortal world, but because Wei Zheng hoped to leave his name in history.

After all, under the current rule of Great Tang, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and in Changancheng, people did not pick up lost items on the road, and doors were not locked at night.

Thus, as the Prime Minister, he would inevitably leave a heavy stroke in the history books.

So, under these circumstances, Wei Zheng did not want to give up his position as Prime Minister.

Furthermore, as a mortal who was granted an immortal register to become an immortal, in the Heavenly Court, to quickly improve one's strength, one could only do so by absorbing human incense.

Although this method had very serious sequelae and the upper limit was not high—reaching the Taiyi Jinxian stage was already the limit—

for Wei Zheng, relying on his own cultivation, let alone Taiyi Jinxian, even becoming a Heaven Immortal was a very difficult thing.

Therefore, the method of incense cultivation not only had no sequelae for Wei Zheng, but instead had huge benefits.

And to want incense, Wei Zheng had to have sacrifices in the human world, so only the position of Prime Minister of Great Tang could allow him to achieve this goal.

Once he stepped down, Wei Zheng would inevitably be unable to use incense to cultivate. ===== CHAPTER 951 =====