This time, Mao Dafang became even more secretive.
However, now that Tangtang is taking the risk to contact someone from the second rank, one can imagine what the mastermind behind it wants to do.
Thinking back to Dao Yan's sudden visit before, he also had some guesses in his mind.
Pu Qia glanced around, forced himself to calm down, and said in a normal volume:
"Amitabha, did the donor come to me to recite sutras?"
When Mao Dafang heard this, he smiled meaningfully, "I came to Jiming Temple to find the master, and of course I chanted sutras and prayed for blessings."
"Well, please follow me to the Zen room and see what aspects of scripture and poetry you need."
Pu Qia nodded slightly, stood up slowly, and walked towards a Zen room in the courtyard.
Mao Dafang was invited and of course followed him.
The Zen room was very dark.
The two sat on the chairs in the room and were silent for a moment.
Mao Dafang saw that Pu Qia had not arranged for anyone to light the lamp, and when he was about to speak, Pu Qia raised his hand and kept silent, signaling him not to speak yet.
He was just observing what was going on outside.
Seeing that nothing unusual happened, he picked up a cage-like thing from the corner.
It was covered with a piece of black cloth.
Mao Dafang took a closer look and saw that it was actually a cage of crickets.
The black cloth was lifted, and the cage began to become lively.
The shouts of "chirp, chirp..." can cover up the low conversation between the two.
It seems that this Zen room is a place for information exchange to hide from others.
After looking at the crickets fighting fiercely in the bamboo cage and looking at the sun-drenched sky outside the window, Pu Qia joked in a low voice:
"I haven't seen Almsgiver Mao for almost a year. According to rumors, they say you are dead."
When Mao Dafang heard this, he hummed smugly:
"It's easy to die. It's not the time yet. Besides, I can be killed so easily."
"Master, you see, I am unscathed now. Not only am I living well, but I am also continuing to work hard to accomplish what the two idiots Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng failed to accomplish."
Looking at Mao Dafang with a proud look on his face and listening to what he said, Pu Qia also felt that he might not have been targeted by the Jin Yiwei.
Because he was not included in the list of imperial prisoners.
If you think about it carefully, he was an early official who abandoned his official position and ran home.
Such old ministers of Jianwen, including Yingtianfu Yamen, had thousands of people in the court, large and small.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs also specially sent personnel to visit the homes of important officials and deliver messages.
Mobilize them to return to the Yamen and resume their duties, and let bygones be bygones.
No wonder Mao Dafang dared to appear in public and established connections among Jianwen's old officials.
Jin Yiwei just suspected that he had ulterior motives, and they didn't dare to take action easily as long as they didn't have real evidence.
Once the old ministers of the previous dynasty were dismissed from office collectively, Zhu Di would definitely be thunderous.
I'm afraid Jin Yiwei cannot afford this consequence.
Well, this trick is quite cruel.
Mao Dafang has been in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate system for more than ten years. He has placed many secret agents and spies in the six departments and nine ministers.
Chen Ying, who had just been promoted from the position of censor to serve as censor of Zuodu, was really not enough in front of veterans like Mao Dafang.
However, after so many years of understanding Mao Dafang, the pedantic and extreme Mao Dafang and others are not enough to achieve a high success rate and well-planned major event.
The Qing Zhengtong Church must have received strong foreign aid, and there were experts making suggestions behind the scenes.
What Pu Qia was thinking in his heart could not be expressed on his face.
I saw a pleased expression on his face and said with a smile:
"Amitabha, almsgiver Mao, it's good that you are still alive."
Mao Dafang seemed to hear something else in the other person's words. He was silent for a moment and suddenly asked:
"What about you, Master? What are you going to do next? Are you just going to settle down like this?"
"In this world, people like us live in suffering."
"Everyone will die sooner or later, so it is better to fight it with all your strength in the end. Even if you die, you will still be worthy of Emperor Jianwen's kindness."
After hearing this, Pu Qia's eyes flashed with a bright look, but then dimmed.
He poured tea into Mao Dafang's and his own teacups, took a sip first, then slowly put down the teacups and said:
"Donor Mao came here just to encourage me?"
"Of course it's more than that."
Mao Dafang picked up the cup, took two large sips of tea, shook his head and said solemnly:
"I don't go to the Three Treasures Palace for any reason. I dare to take risks and come here. It's not just as simple as agitating."
"Actually, Master, you don't need me to encourage you here. You are just waiting for the opportunity to see if it is worth taking action, right?"
"How can I see it?"
Pu Qia's rhetorical question shows that he agrees with this statement.
"When Emperor Jianwen fled the palace, Qi Tai, Huang Zhicheng, and many others, including me, recruited troops outside the capital. Only you were by the emperor's side."
"Where he went and what secret strongholds of the former dynasty are outside, only the master knows."
"Yan Ni has sent out his guards all over the world to look for him, but he has no clue at all."
"Emperor Jianwen and Master are observing whether the fire of restoration inside and outside the imperial court can burn, and it must burn strong enough, then His Majesty will show up."
"This is the time I'm talking about."
Mao Dafang said with bright eyes.
"But now that the world has been pacified by Yan Ni, why should the Qingzheng Church pursue restoration? In the end, it will only cause a large number of officials to be slaughtered and make unnecessary sacrifices."
"So, the poor monk will not get involved now."
"Master may not understand the current strength of the Qingzheng Church."
"Not only the original core members, but also a lot of foreign aid came in, and a huge revitalization plan was planned."
Mao Dafang smiled and said in a deep voice:
"This new land tax policy of Yan Ni's 'dividing a small farmer into an acre' is intended to shake Emperor Jianwen's economic foundation among the gentry and gentry. We must resolutely resist it."
"As for Xu Qin, a little boy who helped the emperor to do evil, went on a rampage in the Yanghuai area, massacred bloody people, and deceived the public with his monstrous words, the Qingzheng Church must get rid of him first if it wants to uphold the laws of its ancestors and protect the interests of the gentry."
After hearing this, Pu Qia shook his head and said:
"Xu Qin's upper-level connections in the capital are quite complex, and he is very good at planning. Coupled with the aura of the military god and the strong support of the royal family and the Xu family, it is not easy for you to move him, and it is even possible. Being counterattacked.”
"Do you have to think carefully about all this?"
After hearing this, Mao Dafang frowned and fell into deep thought.
He was not hesitating whether he was going to do this now, because the plan had been set beforehand.
Now we are just following the original plan.
There were just some things that he didn't know if he should explain clearly to the master now to enhance the confidence of the master and Emperor Jianwen.
Mao Dafang first told Pu Qia that the senior leaders of the Qingzheng Church unanimously agreed:
Xu Qin, the eldest son of the Duke of Wei, has now completely surrendered to Yan Ni.
This boy was disobedient and unfilial, openly betraying his father Xu Yungong's belief in loyalty to the emperor, and had become a public enemy of the Qingzheng Church.
