The mission led by Gao Chong left Guyin at the end of June.

From the beginning of autumn and July to the middle of August, in this month, Xin Er's days are very full and busy, and his long-standing sense of urgency of "time is not waiting for me" has become more and more serious in this month or so.

Life is full and busy for three reasons.

On the one hand, the literary examination of martial arts requires adequate preparation.

The difficulty of the questions, the setting of the examination room, the arrangement of the examination procedures, the qualifications of the candidates, the selection of the content of the examination questions, the use of the examiners, and the most suitable official positions for the examiners to be appointed to them all need to be discussed.

In particular, the selection of the content of the examination questions, the use of the examiners, and the number of grades to be awarded to those who have won the examination were repeatedly debated four or five times at the court meeting alone. After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the martial arts examination will obviously become customized, and these three articles will involve too many long-term interests of different factions in the DPRK and China, so people of different factions want to get the greatest benefit for their side, because these debates are quite intense.

-- However, who the examiner uses and the number of grades awarded to those who pass the examination are certainly related to the rights and interests of a large number of people, and is the "selection of the content of the examination questions" also related to the rights and interests of those people? Relevant, indeed. Today's style of study, although not as good as the previous Qin Dynasty, the door is strict, the five classics have their own schools, no matter what else, only one "Book of Songs", there are several doctrines, the disciples of this doctrine, it is strictly forbidden to learn other doctrines, and they regard each other as enemies, and then there is the dispute between the present and the ancient scriptures, and now the Confucian style of study is much more enlightened, and even the interpretation and introduction of Confucianism, in fact, it has opened the original time and space, and gradually became the precedent of the "three religions in one" wind at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, but today's Confucian research, but there are also many factions, so? What is the school of thought for the exam questions? You have to fight for clarity.

And at present, Qing talk is prevalent, and scholars advocate nature? So should Taoist content be included in the exam questions? There are many Buddhist believers in Longzhou? Dao Zhi is ready to move and participate in it? Asked some Buddhist scholars to write and ask for the content of Buddhism to be included in the exam questions? Daozhi and said that Kumarosh? Ask Kumarosh to take the opportunity of giving Zuo a lecture and try to influence Zuo's decision-making on this.

Although Longzhou is small, all the indigenous and foreign religions in the north and south, Taoism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism? But there are all of them.

Than the way, Buddha? First, the main adherents of Zoroastrianism were the Sogdians, and most of their interests were in business, so as not to anger the authorities because of their beliefs, and thus affect their money? Lack of interest in missionary work, lack of initiative? Second, the Tang believers in Zoroastrianism? Since Guo Yi's rebellion was executed, or like Wang Yifu? Apostasy? "Painful change"? Or those who have not apostatized, and now they do not dare to speak out loud, so Zoroastrianism is not involved in this controversy.

Xin Er's Confucian literacy was ordinary, and he did not know much about the debates between the various schools of Confucianism, so he chose this item for the content of the examination questions and entrusted him to Master Yin, asking him to be responsible for determining the examination questions and trying to balance the interests of the various schools of Confucianism. As for whether the doctrines of Taoism and Buddhism should be put into the exam questions, Xin Er's attitude is very clear. In addition, when Taoism and Buddha were born, Taoist priests and monks claimed to be outsiders, and they should not participate in the worldly affairs, because they simply and directly stated that this matter would never be feasible.

Because Daozhi was more conspicuous in this controversy, he aroused an old thought in Xin, so Xin Er summoned him to Xingong's Mansion and asked him face to face: "Monk, I asked you to sort out the precepts of your Buddhism and set them into norms, so that the monks in our country can follow them, have you sorted out and set them?" ”

Precepts, concentration, and wisdom are the three schools of Buddhism. The precepts are the precepts. Since Buddhism was introduced to China, it is not a short time, but because there are not many Buddhist scriptures on the precepts, the precepts of Chinese Buddhism have not yet been fully formed, and there is no version of the precepts that all Chinese monks follow. Therefore, Xin Er handed over the task of "formulating precepts" to Daozhi a long time ago, and asked him and Kumarosh to take advantage of the large number of monks in the Western Regions of Longzhou to organize monks in the Western Regions of Longxi who had read the original texts of Buddhist scriptures such as Buddhist precepts, and invited famous monks from Qiuzi and other Western Regions countries who were familiar with the precepts of Buddhism to gather together, plus local Tang monks, to jointly sort out and formulate a comprehensive Buddhist precept norms.

Daozhi has been in office as the official supreme leader of Western Buddhism believers for a year or two, and although he has been in a high position for a long time, this monk, I have to say, is a devout believer in Buddhism, and still maintains the habit of asceticism, and still describes him as black and thin, he replied respectfully and said, "It's almost done." In another two or three months, it should be ready to take shape. When the time comes, the poor road will come, please take a look at the Ming Gong. ”

"I don't understand the precepts of Buddhism, but the three that I suggested to you before, you must set them in the vows."

Xin Er mentioned to Daozhi before that there are two precepts that must be added to the precepts, one is to prohibit monks from eating meat and drinking alcohol, one is to prohibit monks from marrying wives, and the other is to prohibit monks from following their master's surname.

In the previous article, today's Buddhism does not prohibit meat eating, Xin Er greatly opposes this, and prohibits monks from eating meat, which not only "purifies the heart and has few desires, so that you can practice better", but also saves a large amount of meat for soldiers and people to eat; The next one, there are not many monks who marry wives, but there are some nowadays, and Xin Er asked for this article to be included in the precepts; The latter article, such as Zhu Yuanrong, his "Zhu", is the surname of his teacher in the Western Regions, Xin Er believes that this practice will promote the atmosphere of monks divided into sects, so it is recommended to set a rule, since the monks who are monks are all disciples of Shakyamuni, then do not take the surname of the teacher who taught them as their surname, but should take Shi as their surname.

Daozhi agrees with both of these items.

After listening to Xin Er's instructions, he responded: "These two suggestions of the Ming Gong have been set into the precepts. ”

Xin Er nodded and said, "Very good." Then he said earnestly, "Monk, set the precepts as soon as possible, this is the right thing you should do. He also picked up Kumarosh and blew the wind in the ears of the Queen Mother, who specially summoned me and asked me if this was feasible? How unreasonable! The people who participated in the literary examination were all tigers and wolves from Dingxi, who wanted to fight for the country and kill the enemy, and you let them take the Buddhist test, why? Do you want them to have mercy on my enemies? ”

Dao Zhi was startled, hurriedly defended, and said: "Poor Dao has no such intention! ”

"Add another one to your precepts, a monk is a monk, what is the 'poor way' that you keep saying? Don't call yourself 'the Word' anymore! ”

Dao Zhi was in trouble and asked, "Then poor Dao, no, poor ......, how should I call myself a Buddhist disciple?" ”

"You are monks, you are monks, you can call yourself a monk."

Dao Zhi suddenly replied: "Yes, yes, what Ming Gong pointed out is that it should be so!" ”

Urging Daozhi to step up the formulation of Buddhist precepts is a small episode, which seems to be less important than the important matter of paving the way for the "imperial examination" in the martial arts, but in fact, in the long run, this matter is also very important.

It will have a strong impact on future generations, not to mention, only the impact on the future development of Dingxi, if this matter is done well, it will have a certain Sasuke effect on Dingxi's future attack on the north.

If this matter can be done successfully, until the precepts are established, if it can be smoothly spread to all parts of the north and south, so that the Buddhist believers in the north and south are all accepted and practiced, then the influence of Dingxi Buddhism among the believers in the north and south, in other words, that is, the status of Dingxi in the minds of Buddhist believers in the north and south will obviously be greatly improved, and this will of course be beneficial to Dingxi's future use of troops. ——Xin Er's idea is the same as his image of Kumarosh as a "divine monk", and the purpose is the same.

On the other hand, according to the reports of Shazhou, Xihai, and Shuofang on the establishment of the Langjiang Mansion, Xin Er plans to promote this system throughout Dingxi by the first half of next year at the latest, which also requires a lot of work.

Another aspect, is the use of troops in Nan'an County to prepare for the war, Gao Yancao and other troops need to be transferred back from Shuofang, the transfer of troops in the eight southeastern counties, need to be exchanged with Lu Shuang, obtain his consent, although the preliminary set of "because of the grain to the enemy", but the imperial court can not not prepare no grain at all, but also need to mobilize from the granary of Guyin, the treasury of various counties, as well as the transfer of the people, as well as the further detailed investigation of the garrison of the Qin army in Nan'an County, Tianshui County and other places, and formulate a specific battle plan and so on.

For more than a month, Xin Er was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, but fortunately, Yang Chao, Tang Ai, Yang Fu, etc., were all capable and shared a lot of various military and political affairs, and Xin Er's pressure was reduced, otherwise, he was afraid that he would be divided into ten people, and he would not be busy.

The sense of urgency of "time is running out" is getting heavier and heavier, because of the continuous information about the Qin army's victory from Hebei.

First of all, in mid-July, the news came that the Qin troops of Gou Xiong, Yang Man, Qiu Chang, Li Ji and other troops had captured Shangdang and Taiyuan counties.

——According to Pu Mao's will, he did not let Gou Xiong and others fight Taiyuan County, but ordered them to defeat the Shangdang, and then joined forces to the east to threaten the west flank of Ye County, but the reason why Gou Xiong and others fell into the Shangdang first and then pulled out Taiyuan was because Han Motu took the initiative to send aid to save the Shangdang.

Xin Er didn't know about Pu Mao's will, and what he saw was only the story of the Qin army's battle in the party and Taiyuan as described in the intelligence.

Li Ji led his troops to Shangdang County, and after joining forces with Gou Xiong and Yang Man, who had just arrived in Shangdang, they besieged Zhilu County, the county of Shangdang County. The Wei army guard of Lu County is the clan of the Murong clan, although the status is noble, the military talent is insufficient, and after only three days, Lu County is in danger. Gou Xiong saw that Kecheng was in sight, and he didn't want to give Li Ji the credit, so he took Li Ji's troops away and ordered him to go to Xiangyuan and other counties in the northwest of Lu County.

At this moment, out of the worry of "cold lips and teeth", Han Mo of Jinyang County, Taiyuan County, sent reinforcements into Shangdang County.

From Jinyang to Luxian, Xiangyuan is a must-pass place.

Li Jibu was here, and he happened to collide with the reinforcements sent by Han Motu.

The two armies then engaged in a battle outside the city of Xiangyuan. When Xiangyuan City had not yet been conquered, the Wei army guards in Xiangyuan City also went out of the city and attacked the northeast and north with Jinyang reinforcements, trying to annihilate Li Jibu in one fell swoop. Li Ji attacked the Wei army of Xiangyuan with Feng Tai, Feng Yu and other enemies, and attacked the Wei army of Jinyang with Wang Nong. Wang Nong is still hiding in the saddle, rushing forward, the two sides of the arrow exchange is not a few shots, he has been in the middle of a thousand troops, suddenly beheaded the main general of the Jinyang Wei army in front of the battle, Jinyang Wei army was in chaos. Li Ji personally led the troops to fight, and the Jinyang Wei army was defeated.

After defeating the Wei army in Jinyang, Li Ji and Wang Nong turned to attack the Xiangyuan Wei army, and joined forces with Feng Tai and Feng Yu to break the Xiangyuan Wei army.

Bingzhou begged to live for a long time to be famous in the north, Li Ji in this battle, Fu defeated Xiangyuan, Jinyang two Wei army, its name spread far and wide, spread all over Shangdang, Taiyuan two counties. And, Liang, Long, the folk customs have always been martial, Shangdang, Taiyuan two counties of the Tang Dynasty heroes, strong men, one has been oppressed by the Xianbei people for a long time, both of them, but also saw that Murong will die, Pu Qin will enter Hebei, because it is a stream of votes.

In just ten days, Li Ji has won more than 1,000 brave and healthy people.

He sensed the hearts of the Tang people in Shangdang and Taiyuan counties, so he went to Pu Mao and asked to attack Taiyuan County.

Pu Mao granted his request.

Li Ji then led his troops north and invaded Taiyuan County.

Taiyuan is his hometown, follow his beggar children, most of them are also Taiyuan people, this fight back to Taiyuan, as he expected, is like a fish in water, where he passed, the local Tang people are all welcome, some of them send food to their families, some enthusiastically join the army, all the way to conquer the city, invincible, a few days later, when he soldiers to Jinyang City, not only the victory, and its department has been expanded again.

Han Mo was trapped in the lonely city and held on for a few days, feeling that Jin Yang was afraid that he would not be able to hold it, so he led his troops to break through at night.

Although Li Jibu has many soldiers and horses now, most of them have just joined the army, and the discipline is not strict enough, he is still unable to do it like a finger, and he has not been able to respond in time to intercept Han Motu, but he has also laid down Jinyang City.

The victorious military report was sent to the Pu Mao camp, Pu Mao was overjoyed, did not hesitate to reward, and immediately awarded Li Ji the title of Zhongyi General,—— General Zhongyi is not an existing general, it is Pu Mao's current fabrication, named "Zhongyi", its meaning is self-evident, it is for the Tang people in the north, Youzhou and Jizhou beggar army to see, and broke the local people are not allowed to live in the local governor's rule, and awarded the official position of Taiyuan Taishou with it.

Although Li Ji had the intention of relieving himself and returning to the field, after Pu Mao's holy decree arrived, he still accepted the appointment under the persuasion of Feng Tai, Feng Yu, and the new Taiyuan and Shangdang heroes who had joined his account. Regardless of whether Li Ji is willing to serve as Pu Qin's Taiyuan Taishou, he has been promoted to an official and has a real shortage, which is always a happy event. But for Gou Xiong, who had already conquered Lu County, he was really annoyed, and regretted that he should not have sent Li Ji to fight Xiangyuan, so that his great contribution to conquering Jinyang in Zizi actually fell into Li Ji's hands in vain.

Before coming to the party, Li Ji promised Wang Nong, and when he was defeated in the party, he was appointed to Pumao's account to take the top prize in conquering Ye County, Li Ji was a trustworthy person, and after the Jinyang War, he listened to Wang Nong lead his headquarters to return to the east, and returned to Pumao's camp with him.

Because Wang Nong was too brave in the previous Battle of Luoyang and this Battle of Xiangyuan, this matter was also mentioned in the information presented to Xin Er, of course, he did not say Li Ji's previous promise to Wang Nong, only said "Wang Nong led his troops back".

Then, at the end of July, Xin Er received information about the battle between Meng Lang and Murong Zhan Guixiang.