Three years later, Ah Fei and Sun Xiaohong no longer look like teenagers. One is like a jade tree in the wind, and the other is like a red plum with proud snow. Standing side by side in front of Hu Long, they are a match made in heaven.
Hu Long laughed loudly: "After we finish this big thing, it's time to discuss your marriage. Old man Sun has said in front of my teacher more than once that he wants to hold his great-grandson."
Li Qian'er also smiled and said: "Master, when Master Fei and Master Hong get married, should I call Uncle Fei as 'Uncle', or should I call Master Auntie as 'Auntie'?"
Although Ah Fei and Sun Xiaohong were in love and were officially engaged last year, they were still teased and laughed to the point of embarrassment.
A Fei could only try his best to cover up his embarrassment with a cold face, while Sun Xiaohong was already furious. Although she did not dare to get angry with Hu Long, she would not spare the little girl Li Ji'er and jumped over to twist her ears.
Li Jin'er dodged left and right while laughing and joking.
The first one and the second one were making a fuss around Hu Huan, and two more people came out of the hall side by side. One was Li Xunhuan, and the other was Wang Shouren, who had officially joined the central government as the Minister of War last year.
Although Sun Xiaohong and Li Jin'er liked to play, they also knew the general situation better. When they saw the two coming out, they both stopped laughing and stepped aside.
Wang Shouren first came forward to meet Hu Yuan, and then everyone sat down in the hall to talk.
Because what was being discussed was a confidential matter, Li Xunhuan had already turned away all the idle people, and even Li Jin'er obediently went to the back to see Lin Shiyin.
Wang Shouren raised his hands to Hu Yuan who was opposite him and said: "Taoist Master, Your Majesty thought that the time had come, so he decided to take action in the near future. For this reason, he did not hesitate to put himself in danger, and under the pretext of observing the people's sentiments, he went on a patrol to Jiangnan incognito. Although this matter is confidential. , but he will definitely not be able to hide it from that person. He will most likely not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I am coming here this time to follow His Majesty’s will to force that person one step further and destroy Jinshan Temple, which has been reduced to a den of bandits, to make him believe If we don’t strike first this time, we will have no choice but to sit back and wait for death.”
The majesty he spoke of was not Zhu Youtang but Zhu Houzhao.
Three years ago, Zhu Houzhao personally visited the front line and marched north to the grassland, defeating the Tatar tribe that had threatened the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty for many years.
After the army's triumphant return, Zhu Younai took the opportunity to abdicate the throne to his son and abdicated as the Supreme Emperor on the grounds that he was too weak to bear the burden of the country.
Zhu Houzhao successfully ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor with the remaining power of his great victory, and his reign was named "Zhengde".
In the eyes of the outside world, after Emperor Zhengde came to the throne, he was not as diligent as Emperor Hongzhi. He only cared about having fun and gave the power of government to Liu Jin, the eunuch who was highly used after Jia Jingzhong.
Relying on the emperor's favor and trust, Liu Jin competed for power with the civil servants in the court, and quickly became powerful in just three years. Some people even called him "the established emperor".
It was not until the beginning of this year that several important officials in the court attracted the eunuch Zhang Yong, who had been Zhu Houzhao's close servant in his early years, but later became somewhat frustrated with Liu Jin's favor. They exposed Liu Jin's crime of "secretly hiding armored soldiers and plotting evil intentions", and he was brought down in one fell swoop and sentenced to Lingchi. capital punishment.
Hu Yun naturally knew the details of his emperor's apprentice. He had stayed in Yangzhou for the past three years, and his other purpose was to cooperate with his apprentice and make some people relax their vigilance.
In Wang Shouren's heart, he was not willing to take such a risk with Zhu Houzhao, who had become the emperor. However, Zhu Houzhao had a heart-to-heart talk with him, explaining that only by taking risks himself could he induce the man to take risks and take such risks. The strategy of "capturing the thief and capturing the king" eliminated a great chaos that might have spread to the south of the Yangtze River and brought disaster to the people.
After a battle between heaven and man, Wang Shouren finally chose to obey the order.
After listening to Wang Shouren's words, Hu Tong nodded and said: "After ten years of planning, it is indeed time to close the net. That man hid his troops among the bandits, and many bandits in the green forest villages in the south of the Yangtze River were recruited by him. Monk Fei Fei from Jinshan Temple He is a Buddhist eminent monk, but secretly he is the mastermind of Jiangnan Green Forest Road, that is, that person's future military marshal. If Jinshan Temple is destroyed, Jiangnan Green Forest will immediately turn into a piece of scattered sand, and it will be difficult for that person to reintegrate in a short period of time. If you don't want to sit back and wait for death, the only way left is to take a risk. Xun Huan, how are you preparing?"
Li Xunhuan said solemnly: "Uncle, don't worry. The 'anti-smuggling' force trained by our disciples has eight hundred elite warriors who are willing to die, and they have mastered the new firearms sent by His Majesty in secret. They will never lose to those from Jinshan Temple." Those fake monks!”
Hu Yuan clapped his hands and said, "Soldiers are more important than speed. Now that we have made a decision, we might as well raise our troops immediately and chop off that man's arm with lightning speed!"
Wang Shouren and Li Xunhuan looked at each other, and after exchanging opinions, they said in unison: "That's exactly what it should be."
What Li Xunhuan said about "anti-smuggling" was purely the words of an elite soldier, and there was no exaggeration.
After he handed down the order, the eight hundred anti-smuggling soldiers immediately packed up their armor and weapons and set off as a team, marching all the way to Zhenjiang.
Today's Jinshan is still an island located in the middle of the Yangtze River.
As far as Hu Long knew, it would not be until the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty in "later generations" that the island would be connected to the mainland due to the diversion of the river flow.
Hu Long, Wang Shouren and Li Xunhuan led their troops across the river to the foot of Jinshan Mountain.
When the three of them looked up together, they saw the layers of pavilions and palaces in Jinshan Temple built according to the mountain, almost tightly wrapping the entire mountain.
The mountain is the temple, and the temple is the mountain. They are integrated into each other, creating a solemn and solemn atmosphere.
Li Xunhuan said with emotion: "What a pure Zen forest, but it's a pity that it is inhabited by demons and monsters."
Hu Yuan didn't have the scholar's sentiments about the past and the present. He reached into his left sleeve with his right hand, took out the wooden sword "Ming Ling" from the space of the jade gourd, and shouted with a strong gangster spirit: "The bald man inside Donkeys get out and die, Taoist master is here to destroy the place!"
After saying that, he waited for a response from the other party, then climbed the mountain with his sword in hand and walked towards the main entrance of Jinshan Temple, which opened to the west.
Wang Shouren and Li Xunhuan did not expect him to behave like this, and they were both dumbfounded by the surprise.
But they immediately thought that the Jinshan Temple had become a gangster den, and tourists and pilgrims had disappeared. They were not afraid of implicating innocent people. Approaching the temple gate.
In fact, before Hu Yun and others crossed the river, the people in the temple had already received the news.
It was just that the actions of Hu Yun and others were so lightning-fast that someone here sent the news to the temple. They had already crossed the river and reached the foot of the mountain, so that the other party had no time to stop them.
When Hu Yuan issued this shout and the soldiers behind him got into a fighting formation, how could the people in the temple not know that the one who came was evil?
The monk Fei Fei, who was known as the "Zhi Sheng Zen Master", immediately ordered the five hundred monks in the temple to take out their clothes, armor, weapons and equipment, open the mountain gate and form a formation, and faced Hu Yun and others who came to the mountain gate.
