Chang'an City, outside Zuoyintai Gate in the Imperial City, is the Chengfa Building of the General Affairs Department; it is also known as the "Spider Cave" at the hub of the Great Luowang. A decoded message was hurriedly sent out, and the guards on duty delivered it directly to the Secretariat of Secretariat in Changle Gate without any hindrance.
Immediately, the fresh seal and text appeared in the hands of the minister Zuopu Shenan Huaigong who was on duty. However, after just a few glances, he couldn't help but raise his brows and said to the bachelors and scholars on duty in the hall: "I would like to invite the right censor Zhongcheng and the general secretary Zuo Shen to come and talk about it."
Later, in the small flower hall on the side of the official hall of the Shangshu Province, Nan Huaigong faced Liu Zhan, the right censor, Zhongcheng, the right censor, and Lian Gongzhi, the left counselor of the general affairs department, who were sitting opposite each other in official uniforms. He sighed: "This urgent order You have probably read the memorial submitted, but you don’t know how to view this matter."
"This is what it should be," the beard-laden General Secretary Zuo Shenlian broke the silence and said: "Since the Political Affairs Hall has authorized me to take charge of matters here, we might as well increase our support; after all, the world is so big that we can do it with This is the only person who can destroy demons with minimal cost or no damage."
"Lian Zuo Shen, I'm afraid the point is not here!" Liu Zhan, the right censor, who was described as serious and with slightly dyed temples, shook his head slightly and said: "What this monster is doing to arrest is an extraordinary thing, but his reputation and effectiveness , achievements. But they are all attributed to the name of Xiantai, I feel that I deserve it."
"That's right..." Nan Huaigong also nodded and said: "Since this person left the capital and went south on the order, Zhang Youcheng often told me that the vacancies of official positions in Jinghu, Jiangxi, and Southeast Roads suddenly accelerated a lot. The cost of retirement and retirement is dozens of times higher than before."
"So that most of the candidates waiting for office in Dongluo courtyard were vacated at once? Therefore, Zhang Youcheng sighed to me: If there are a few people up and down the Xiantai who are like Jiang Chao, then what? Why worry about the selection of officials in Beijing facing the difficulty of selecting officials from outside every year?"
"It's enough to have one." However, after hearing this, Liu Zhan, the right censor, smiled bitterly: "After all, is there anyone in the world who can be as powerful as this person and use it without any restraints?" Where is the first place? But the matter he raised is something that I think must be guarded against."
"What You Xian means is that after the celestial changes, some people have been trying to collude with monsters and deliberately cause abnormal events, monster chaos, and disasters all over the world in order to contain and disrupt the imperial court?" Zuo Shenlian, General Secretary of General Affairs, said: "This is not Has it been initially confirmed at the political hall meeting?"
"But it's obviously not enough! At least for now, most of these measures have little effect. Instead, they are reporting strange things from various places, which are getting worse." Liu Zhan, the right censor Zhongcheng, sighed again: "So even if we only rely on With some evidence and conjecture, I am willing to countersign."
Then, both Gongzhi and Liu Zhan looked at Nan Huaigong, who was the convener of this impromptu meeting. I saw him let out a deep breath and said: "Forget it, I will prepare a formal presentation later and propose in the political hall to thoroughly investigate the origin of the collusion between the yin and the monsters in the temple."
"But whether it can be approved is unknown; after all, whether it is Buddhism or Taoism, it has always been the foundation of the establishment of the national religion, and has a close relationship with the Ouchi and Tianjia; even if there is no objection in the political hall, only I’m afraid that the journey in Tianjia will also be quite full of twists and turns.”
"But no matter what, it's good to have a reason to start doing something." Liu Zhan, the right censor, Zhongcheng, said disapprovingly: "As long as the political affairs hall can get more than half of the votes to hold the seal; even if the Tianjia wants to stay in the middle, Xantai We can also use this information to inquire about the matter and conduct a secret investigation first."
"By the way, we have something to do, which may be used as evidence." Lian Gongzhi, who is the left counselor of the Department of General Affairs, suddenly thought of something and said: "The mine supervisor who patrolled Fujian Road reported that Jianzhou Construction Wenling Town in Yang County has been cut off for several months due to a sudden landslide."
"Could it be that Wenling Town, known as one of the Nineteen Small Cave Heavens of Taoism, (Wuyi Mountain) has truly ascended to the Xuantian Cave Heaven, and produced tribute tea 'Late Ganhou' in the past dynasties?" Nan Huaigong reacted quickly after hearing this: "I remember , the mountain that collapsed before was near Wangwu Cave Sky in Shaanzhou?"
"And Daze, where the Yunmeng thieves were revolted, is also in the Zixuan Cave in Jingzhou, which illuminates the world; and the Linwu Cave, which has undergone changes this time, is inseparable from the Taomen Cave and the Paradise. This matter cannot be delayed, and I will ask the Political Affairs Hall later. The hall elder on duty is promoting a thorough investigation of the world's paradise."
Soon after, Yu Cong, the deputy supervisor who was presiding over daily affairs in the Xijing Lixingyuan, also received a message from the division commander and Shangguan; he couldn't help but sigh. Immediately, he personally led people to the rebuilt Chang'an City South Youtufang, which was now beginning to take shape.
After more than half a year of painstaking reconstruction, brand-new factories and workshops have been re-erected on the ruins of the once burned-out neighborhoods; misdemeanor prisoners in uniform uniforms, pushed in groups amidst the sound of whistles, drums and bugles, Materials and instruments are shuttled back and forth like weaving.
On the surrounding walls, wire barriers and towering sentry towers were also re-arranged; sergeants armed with muskets and crossbows were patrolling almost day and night; and at the protrusions and corners of some city walls, Equipped with small cannons and crossbows that can rotate, it looks like a fortress.
Because, except for the equipment and equipment related to the Xijingli Academy, they need to be kept secret and remain underground. Many ancillary daily material production workshops, leather, hardware, civil engineering and other raw material processing workshops; supporting warehouses, canteens, prisons, and campuses are located in it.
There is even a small technician training center here to select and screen out those who are actively reforming and motivated among these laborers in the right apprenticeship, and to train them into skilled workers who can master complex skills. , and even the low-level foreman who helped maintain the workshop.
Therefore, there are also professional craftsmen and craftsmen who were allocated and assigned by the imperial court and were originally affiliated with Jiang Zuo Jian, Military North and South Supervisors, and Shaofu Temple. Although most people are unable to participate in the core secrets of Xijingli Gongyuan, they also share peripheral production tasks.
In addition, the northern part of Youtufang, which is specially isolated and divided by iron fences and high walls, also serves another purpose and function. It's like a zoo of animals, displaying some living alien species that have been harmlessly treated/removed as threats, or corresponding specimens and products.
Whether it is the cut and processed giant head of a snake lizard, the partial remains of a large blood vine, or even the complete skeleton of a giant mountain monster, they are all displayed under a specially built huge dome; together with the accompanying explanatory text, they are displayed all day long. Welcome visitors and visitors coming and going.
But among them, those who come to visit and visit the most are undoubtedly those officials who are about to be transferred or sent abroad, or those newly selected for the imperial examination. Because following the great changes in the sky, demons and chaos have occurred frequently in the world, which is also one of the important realities that they will inevitably face after they take office one after another;
Therefore, starting from the middle of last year, before the vast majority of people left Beijing to take up foreign posts, the Department of Personnel, the Department of Examination, and the Department of Literature and Selection of the Ministry of Rites would organize a group of people to come here to participate in and experience these monsters. presence, and conduct short on-site teaching and disguised training.
Senior sergeants who have personally experienced and faced many monsters and beasts over the years and participated in handling major abnormal situations will serve as on-site lecturers; they will introduce the characteristics, expertise and key points of prevention of various monsters; and the countermeasures that can be taken and means, and even emergency self-protection measures.
In order to understand and master one or two, the general types and names that have been discovered. Although the imperial court does not expect these officials and selectmen to be able to effectively deal with these monsters, it can at least ensure that most people will not be at a loss when encountering changes after taking office.
At least based on existing experience and lessons, in most cases, as long as local governments can take some evasive and preventive measures in a timely manner, or even resolutely implement the process of blockade and eradication, they can avoid causing greater panic from top to bottom and reduce the risk of Corresponding collateral losses and casualties.
Of course, this is only the most ideal situation expected. After all, while the imperial court is now working hard to maintain the operation of the country, it is also doing its best to adapt to the extremely chaotic and turbulent world after the celestial changes. In addition to sending troops to exterminate and eliminate targeted areas, we are also trying to convert the advantages and disadvantages.
For example, some captured aliens can be treated harmlessly; turned into nutritious and energetic supplements; made into excellent armor and weapons; or even domesticated and bred to become a source of stable output. Youtufang, under the supervision of Xijingli Xingyuan, became the only legal pilot project.
Therefore, although there are still no publicly sold monster products on the market, some special ointments and body-building (nutritional) prescriptions that are supplied internally in the Xijingli Academy and are "accidentally" leaked have become privately popular in the capital. A rare item that is hard to find for a lot of money.
Therefore, Yu Cong, who stayed in the capital to preside over the daily affairs of the Lixingyuan, became increasingly busy; he wished that he could cope with the sudden change in the sky by having three heads and six arms. During his busiest times, he only slept three hours a day, relying entirely on potions to wake him up.
But this time, his benefactor and teacher seemed to have given him another important task/responsibility. Further expand the scope of teaching for the popularization of heterogeneous knowledge in Youtufang, and extend it to the six ministries, nine temples and five prisons in three provinces in Beijing, turning it into a permanent short-term training class.
This could cost him his life. As we all know, today's Xijingli Academy has been forced to expand too fast and too big; in terms of follow-up personnel training and training, it has become somewhat exhausted; the prisoner took away the most elite personnel when he went south; separate establishments The other offices in each government also require people to sit in charge.
It is also necessary to take into account the cooperation projects in the Shayuan Prison on the outskirts of Beijing and with the teaching army under the Privy Council, which are mainly aimed at various monster equipment, equipment inspection, practical operation and tactical coordination. But he had no time to publish several editions of "Demon Appraisal" internally, so how could he find the manpower to teach separately?
Therefore, after repeatedly inspecting Youtufang, he still sent someone to send a souvenir to Qingqi Garden in Qujiangfang.
(End of chapter)
