Zhang Liecheng and Zhang Lieming crawled away.
Jiao Jixun left with gratitude, and he was even more convinced that Zhang Yan was a holy king, and that a major event that should have caused huge waves was let go so lightly.
But Zhang Hao actually didn't let it go as gently as he said.
How is this possible? Zhang Yan was not from Jiaqing. This man was almost killed by the cook at Shenwu Sect. Afterwards, he could only return to the palace and was so frightened that he cried. This was a rare occurrence in history.
What's more, there is nothing simple behind this incident. It is not a simple incident like the Jiaqing assassination.
Now Zhang Yan is calm on the surface because he cannot fall into the trap.
If he becomes angry because of this incident and starts purging the army and the court, then he will be playing into the hands of those in the dark.
At least it disrupted the Zhou Kingdom's rhythm of unifying the world, and at worst it caused a major battle between the Longyou faction in Hexi and the Daibei faction in the Central Plains and Hedong.
But this does not mean that Zhang Yan will not investigate, but this matter must be quietly entered the village, and shooters do not want to handle it this way.
The only thing that Zhang Hao can't figure out now is that the other party can obviously send a few assassins to kill him once and for all, but in the end, it is a good old monk who doesn't know how to kill.
From this, another question arises: is Master Cixian really indifferent to politics, or is he deliberately pretending to be stupid to remind Zhang Hao?
This is really a complicated issue! It gives me a headache just thinking about it.
Zhang Hao thought hard for a long time, but he had no clue. In fact, he was not very good at conspiracy. This was the case before and after the time travel. He summoned Li Gu and Zhao Pu because he wanted such people to give him some inspiration. .
But the result left Zhang Hao a little disappointed. Li Gu was not his original follower, and Zhang Hao didn't dare to tell him clearly some things.
Everything Zhao Pu had was given to him by Zhang Yan, so he could use it with confidence. Moreover, he was also a good player in conspiracy and conspiracy in history, but at present he is too young and is of a weak-willed nature.
After talking to the two men for a few words without getting to the bottom of things, Zhang Zhi appointed Li Gu as the inspector of Guanzhong Province. He stopped the envoy from Tongguan Town and asked him to rush to Tongguan to guard it.
As for the current Tongguan town envoy Wu Xingde, Zhang Yan is preparing to transfer him to attack Shu.
Because compared to Wu Xingde, Li Gu had a reputation for loyalty in history, and he also proved his vision and ability in the action of picking up Shi Chonggui.
Wu Xingde, although he raised troops to respond to Zhang Yan and killed the Khitans before the Zhou-Liao Battle of Luoyang, he also made many meritorious deeds in the Battle of Luoyang.
But after all, he is from Taiyuan, Hedong. He started his career due to Shi Jingtang's appreciation, and he is also a representative of the Daibei and Hedong cliques.
With such a background, no matter whether he has any problems or not, whether Zhang Yanxin trusts him or not, he must be replaced immediately now.
First use Li Gu to control Tongguan in and out of Guanzhong and ensure the connection between Guanzhong and Luoyang and Kaifeng, so that Zhang Yan can feel at ease.
As for Zhao Pu, Zhang Gao also asked him to rush back to Luoyang immediately to assist Zhang Liecheng in carrying out a large-scale platoon against the pro-army and part of the forbidden army.
Zhang Yan suddenly realized a problem. He had frightened Zhang Liecheng today. In other words, the fact that he was almost assassinated frightened Zhang Liecheng out of his wits.
In this case, Zhang Liecheng may not be able to hold back the fire in his heart and do things beyond the scope prescribed by Zhang Liang.
Although Zhao Pu is still a little immature in politics and conspiracy, he can talk to Zhang Liecheng and clearly understand Zhang Li's requirements. It is appropriate to go to Luoyang to assist Zhang Liecheng in secretly gathering intelligence.
Just after the arrangements were made, the servant outside came to report that Luo Yu'er had brought two thousand elites from Changguo Town to the gate of Xiangji Temple.
Zhang Gao suddenly felt much more at ease. Luo Yu'er was one of his 108 Yuan Cong generals and one of the fifteen most capable people in the Yuan Cong faction. He could be trusted in terms of loyalty and ability.
Moreover, he has been with Cao Yuanzhong in Chang'an for a long time and is familiar with the situation in Guanzhong. Now he can dispatch after receiving orders, which proves that there is nothing unusual in Chang'an Town and other places in Guanzhong.
At the same time, Luo Yu'er's two thousand people could easily approach Xiangji Temple, which also proved that the forces behind Master Cixian were not yet capable of using force to compete with the imperial court.
More importantly, this at least proves that Cao Yuanzhong, his father-in-law, has no problems.
This incident also made Zhang Yan realize that since he chose to use 50,000 pro-army households and 80,000 forbidden army households as the country's main army at this stage, he must add corresponding political review mechanisms.
At least we must prevent people like An Sizhong from appearing in critical positions again.
Secondly, the selection mechanism for the 50,000 pro-army households and the 80,000 forbidden army households is still somewhat rigid. The previous admission mechanism was too rough, resulting in a mixed bag of good and bad.
And when these 130,000 households completed the selection of 70,000 households, the conditions for latecomers became too harsh.
Zhang Yan thought of the hundreds of warriors recommended to him by the thirty-three inspectors of Guanzhong in front of Zhang Yichao's tomb. It was obvious that based on their own conditions, they were all qualified to join the Forbidden Army or even the pro-army.
However, the current selection mechanism requires them to work hard for at least seven or eight years before they can be successfully selected.
Considering people's medical conditions and the dangers on the battlefield at this time, this probability is still too low, and certain fine-tuning must be made.
. . . .
South of Chang'an, in the Zhongnan Mountains, there is a small temple called Bailian Temple.
This place is located deep in the Zhongnan Mountains. Although it is not inaccessible, except for the hunters from nearby villages, there are only a few ordinary people living here.
Bailian Temple is even more deserted. There are only about ten monks in the temple. They usually live on a few acres of cultivated fields around the temple. Except for buying daily necessities such as salt, sugar, and soy sauce, the monks rarely even go down the mountain.
This style of conduct is not very like that of a monk, but rather like those in the Taoist sect who retreat from the world to practice.
Moreover, the roar of tigers often shakes the hills in the Zhongnan Mountains recently. Even the government has posted notices, and nearby hunters have also avoided this area.
In the slightly dilapidated Mahavira Hall, there is a colorless statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, which looks a bit ferocious no matter how you look at it.
There were more than a dozen futons spread out in the hall, and on each futon sat a person with a different look. Although they were all wearing gray monk robes, it was obvious that they were not all Buddhists.
"People say that there are many heroes in the North, but now that I have seen it, I realize that this is a big lie. Since you can see the face of the Buddha's enemy, why do you only send an old monk instead of a brave man with a strong bow and a crossbow to kill him? He is a person from the North. Are you all greedy for life and afraid of death?"
Among the crowd, a tall man wearing a monk's robe but a net scarf, with a thin face but an unusually strong body, was sitting on the futon to the left, shouting loudly and dissatisfiedly.
After he finished speaking, he looked around, as if if anyone dared to talk back, he would immediately step forward to fight with them.
After the strong man finished speaking, a short fat man knelt down next to him and watched the man who looked like a businessman speak.
"Master Fa Zhi, I have said a long time ago that we should wait for Brother Li to arrive before making any plans. This time we have just missed the opportunity and alerted the snake. We will rarely have such a good opportunity again in the future."
"Hmph!" As soon as the short fat man finished speaking, a strong man with curly hair, black face and pockmarked face said angrily: "This Li Erlang, I'm afraid he mistook the saint in Xiangji Temple for a young rural tycoon from Huaibei.
He also wielded a strong bow and a crossbow to stab the king and kill him. snort! The entire Xiangji Temple was surrounded by 10,000 pro-army troops. Not to mention bows and crossbows, even with a whistle stick, no matter how powerful you were, you couldn't even get close.
If Master Cixian is not there, even if someone can remove the last sentry post, if you can't even enter the mountain gate, what's the use? "
"A certain family thought that Yan Kunlun, who is famous all over the world, is a good man who is upright and upright. Unexpectedly, he turned out to be a master who is afraid of difficulties and hardships."
The features of the yin-yang man's face were so obvious that any warrior would be able to identify him. Therefore, even though it was the first time Li Erlang saw him, he could tell his identity at once.
"Shuzi! You dare to do anything in front of me. You don't think that just saying a few passionate words can make me do such a stupid thing, do you?
Since you, Li Renshu, are so brave, the man from Xiangji Temple will return to Chang'an City tomorrow. A certain family will give you a powerful crossbow worth two stones and five stones. Can you try it? "
Good guy, the one sitting at the top with curly hair, black face, and pockmarked face is Liu Zhiyuan's half-brother Murong Yanchao who successfully escaped from under Zhou Jun's nose.
And this rude second brother Li turned out to be the Huaibei thief Li Renshu who Zhang Gao had been tracking.
Poor Zhao Kuangzan was still searching for places in Xuzhou, but no one expected that Li Renshu, who was roaming all over Huaibei, was not from Huaibei at all.
His ancestors were from Guanzhong Tongzhou who followed Gao Pian to Huainan. If he could speak Guanzhong dialect, which was regarded as a passport for Zhang Zhou, he had long since left the boundary of Huaibei.
"Namo Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva! You two should stop arguing with each other."
A Buddhist chant sounded, and a lean old monk looked at Li Renshu and said.
"Li Tanyue, if something goes wrong among the people in Xiangji Temple, it will not be a blessing to the people in the world, nor will it be a blessing to the followers of our Buddha.
We are gathered here to eliminate disasters and solve problems for people in the world. As long as we can make them realize that they cannot go against heaven, it will be a great merit for us. "
"That's right! That's right! The saint's efforts in clearing up trade routes and establishing the Banking Association are still meritorious. As long as the Banking Association can be kept as it was before, we will not do that rebellious act."
"That's right! Saint Zhang is still a wise master, except that the Six Methods Sect is really ridiculous!"
Li Renshu was so angry that his eyes burst into flames. He looked at the atmosphere in the hall with hatred and became somewhat amiable and wealthy.
In anger, Li Renshu stood up abruptly and walked outside, "What use are the rats to do? Just wait until you are all killed by Thief Zhang!"
As Li Renshu stood up and left, the two followers with fierce faces behind him also stood up.
These two people were the personal followers of Liu Renzhan, the governor of the Qing Huai Army in Shouzhou of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Without Liu Renzhan, a man with great eyes and hands in Huainan, Li Renshu would not have been able to escape from the Zhou army's arrest so easily.
Liu Renzhan sent people to participate in such a gathering, but he was actually forced by Zhang Gao.
Zhang Yan captured He Jingzhu. He thought it was not a big deal, but in Liu Renzhan's mind, it was like a thunderbolt!
Zhang Yan dared to abduct He Jingzhu today, but the Southern Tang court did not dare to say anything. Then tomorrow Liu Renzhan and his family might be abducted.
In addition, the situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty is becoming increasingly embarrassing. As the son of Liu Jin, the founder of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and one of the 'shareholders' of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Liu Renzhan cannot sit idly by anymore.
Li Renshu and the others had just left, and a few more people were chasing after them. The leader was a man with a gloomy face. He raised his hands and bowed in an empty bow.
"Huaibei Li Erlang is indeed a hero. The bald donkeys in the palace are still harboring illusions, but I won't wait.
Please go back and report that Zhao Jieshuai and Li Jieshuai have made preparations. If the bald donkeys in Guanzhong and Henan dare not attack, then we will choose another place. "
. . . .
In the hall, a middle-aged monk with a resolute face also sighed softly, and then walked to the back hall.
In a quiet room in the back hall, the curly-haired and dark-faced Master Cixian was translating the "Vajra Destruction Dharani Sutra" into Khitan. When he heard the footsteps behind him, he did not look back.
Because the only one who could enter this quiet room at will without being blocked by his Khitan followers outside was the monk who he admired very much and who made money from money.
"Disciple Yanshou would like to ask Master a question." The middle-aged monk Yanshou asked softly in Heluo Yayan with a Wuyue accent.
Only then did Master Cixian turn his head. He handed Yanshou a thin booklet with the words "Emperor's Seal of the Sound Training Method" written on the title page.
"I heard that this is the teaching method that Saint Zhang was inspired by the gods and Buddhas. A poor monk from India can speak elegant language in one month after undergoing this training method. As a Chinese native, my junior brother should be able to speak more quickly."
Hearing Master Cixian's Heluo Yayan's words were so accurate that Yanshou, who had not felt embarrassed for a long time, actually felt a little ashamed. He reached out and took the booklet.
"Thank you, senior brother, for the gift."
Since Master Cixian affectionately called him Junior Brother, Yanshou no longer called Master Cixian as Master or Elder.
"Sage Shaoming is as immovable as a mountain. His compassionate sages have traveled all over Tianzhu, the rivers, the Central Plains and even the desert outside the Great Wall. I have never seen a person who can completely control his own emotions and anger. Compared with Saint Shaoming, the poor monk seems to have stronger concentration. Quite a bit different.
What's even more strange is that he looked at the poor monk as if he were looking at a clay statue standing in the hall.
And when I looked at Saint Shaoming, I seemed to be able to see my disillusionment about life and death in his eyes. That feeling was extremely strange. "
As he spoke, Master Cixian, who had always been very calm, suddenly felt as if he was itching. He twisted slightly at first, but after a while it became faster and faster, and the speed of his mouth began to increase.
In his mind, he kept recalling the strange look Zhang Hao looked at him, and for a moment he seemed to be possessed.
"Namo Amituo Buddha!" Monk Yanshou chanted the Buddha's name loudly, and then knocked the plain gold bowl on the table.
This monk is not an ordinary person. He is one of the thirteen ancestors of the Pure Land Sect in history. He founded the slogan Amitabha.
Master Cixian suddenly woke up as if he was trapped in a nightmare. His head with curly short hair was covered with sweat.
Suddenly, Master Cixian understood why these fellow disciples from China were not so nervous when facing the supreme power of Saint Shaoming, but were instead nervous about his control of Buddhist banks and other real interests.
Because the method of the Six Methods Sect is not easily accepted by the Chinese people, but it is very suitable for use in Hezhong, Tianzhu and other places.
He actually really hoped that Zhang Yan could push the Six Methods Sect back to Tianzhu, but Zhang Yan clearly refused.
"Junior brother, you should go back to Wuyue! The poor monk is also going back to Khitan."
Master Cixian suddenly lost all interest in this so-called conference called to save Buddhism by his fellow disciples in the Central Plains.
Yanshou nodded. The chiefs, elders, great virtues, etc. of the Daxiangguo Temple and other temples seemed to be Buddhist monks, rather than fat businessmen.
They say they want to plan for the future of Buddhism, but in fact they are doing it because of their own interests.
Yanshou decided to leave. As for Hu Jinsi, the tasks entrusted to him by Duke Hu seemed to be impossible to complete.
As a qualified monk and a qualified philosopher, a formal religious person like Yanshou is destined to be unable to get together with a fat monk like Daxiangguo Temple who lends money at usury and sells fat pork.
At the same time, Murong Yanchao in the palace also fell into deep thought.
He looked around. Zhao Zaili of Weizhou had lost everything in the new dynasty. Surrounding Zhao Zaili were the Hebei Ya soldiers who had not been selected for the Forbidden Army and the pro-army due to various reasons.
As the former local emperors of Hebei, these people suffered a great loss when the new dynasty was established.
Because Hebei was ravaged several times by the Khitans, the only ones who could survive were the rich with knife handles like them.
Sage Shaoming only gave Fu Yanqing, Gao Xingzhou and Huangfu Yu the opportunity to maintain their power. The rest naturally hated the new dynasty.
Li Ye is Liu Zhiyuan's brother-in-law. Liu Zhiyuan was defeated and he lost everything. The people around him were also the tooth soldiers and even bandits from the Hedong faction who had lost everything.
The Tuyuhun people in Hedong around him were dissatisfied with Zhang Gao's forced conversion to the Six Methods Sect.
These Buddhist believers were so stupid that they didn't even care about the solicitation of their royal family, Murong Nobunaga, and thought of Saint Shaoming as an enemy of Buddha.
As for the Huaibei thief Li Renshu, he was the representative of Huaibei and Huainan who suffered great losses in the new dynasty. Of course, he was also supported by Southern Tang generals such as Liu Renzhan and Huangfuhui.
The Buddhists in the Central Plains chose to rebel because Zhang Gao directly took over the Buddhist bank they had worked so hard to manage, and they were afraid that Zhang Gao would take the opportunity to suppress the Buddhism in the Central Plains after he gained a foothold.
No, this cannot be considered a rebellion at all! Murong Yanchao let out a long sigh, but Rebellion didn't have the guts to go straight for it, making such moves that would only scratch the surface and scare the snake away.
Can they really make it happen?
