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After Cai still left Bianliang City, Tokyo, several major events occurred:

The first piece.

Zhao Ji's channel has reached the point of going crazy.

Before Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, a Taoist priest left a proverb: "Ji people should succeed to the unification." ”

And the combination of the word 'Ji' and the word 'person' is the word 'Ji'.

Really!

It didn't take long for Zhao Ji to inherit the throne and ascend to the throne.

This made Zhao Ji initially exposed to the magic of Taoism.

After Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, I don't know what the reason is, Zhao Ji has no heirs.

Because Zhao Ji accidentally picked up the omission and sat on the throne because his brother Song Zhezong had no son, Zhao Ji was always angry about having no son.

So Zhao Ji asked the magical Taoist for help.

At that time, Zhao Ji met a Taoist priest named Liu Mingkang.

After listening to Zhao Ji's distress, Liu Laodao said to Zhao Ji: The emperor's young son is related to the feng shui of Bianliang City, and the low-lying terrain in the northeast corner of Bianliang City has seriously affected the emperor's heirs.

After Zhao Ji listened to Liu Laodao's words, he immediately arranged for people to pile up a huge rockery in the northeast corner of Bianliang City - this rockery was later Long Live Mountain, that is, Genyue.

Miraculously, since then, Zhao Ji's favored concubines have continued to pass on the good news of pregnancy or childbirth, and the concubines in the harem are like hens laying eggs in the chicken shed, one after another, and they have given birth to dozens of children for Zhao Ji in more than ten years, making Zhao Ji almost become the emperor with the most children in history.

These two things made Zhao Ji admire that Liu Laodao and believe in the magic of Taoism.

In recent years, as he gets older, Zhao Ji's physical function has declined somewhat.

This inevitably made Zhao Ji make the same mistake as Qin Shi Huang and other emperors, and wanted to rely on Taoist methods to stay young forever, or even immortal.

It was also at this time that Zhao Ji found several worldly masters with strong Taoism.

This first master is Wang Laozhi of Linpu, Puzhou.

This Wang Laozhi claimed to have been awarded the elixir by Han Zhongli and turned into an immortal, so he abandoned his wife and children and married in the fields.

In order to invite pets, Wang Kang, the servant of the imperial servant, looked at the grass house three times, and brought Wang Laozhi into Beijing.

When Wang Laozhi saw Zhao Ji, he didn't speak at first, but directly presented a pile of ink treasures.

Zhao Ji took it over and looked at it suspiciously, and then he was shocked!

These ink treasures are all poems written by Zhao Ji himself, and the top one is still the bedside words and pillow poems written by Zhao Ji to Qiao and Liu's two concubines.

Zhao Ji immediately announced that he would give Wang Zhenren the title of "Mr. Miaoguan Mingzhen Dongwei".

The second place is Wang Tsaixi of Hongzhou.

According to Wang Zaixi's own words, he met Xu Xun Xu Zhenjun in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, obtained his true biography, and was given Taoist seven-yuan cheats such as "Big Cave" and "Hidden Book", which can know the life and death of people in the first five hundred years and the next five hundred years.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed, gave the name "Chong Yin Shi", and entered the seal of "Mr. Tongmiao", and placed him in the Shangqing Baoqi Palace to live.

The third is named Lin Lingsu.

Lin Lingsu said to Zhao Ji: There are nine heavens in the sky, and the gods are the highest. The king of Shenxiao Yuqing, the eldest son of God, the lord of the south, and the one who is called the immortal monarch, is Zhao Ji. It is also said that Cai Jing was originally the Zuo Yuan Immortal Uncle in the sky, Wang Hao was a Wenhua official, Cai You was the Baohua envoy of the Yuanyuan, Tong Guan and other cadres were also listed in the immortal class, Liu Guifei was the concubine of Jiuhua Yuzhenan, and he himself was the original Xianqing named Chu Hui in the Shenxiao.

In addition to being overjoyed, Zhao Ji named Lin Lingsu as "Mr. Tongzhen Daling", rewarded him without calculation, and gave him a gold medal, he could enter and leave the palace at will, and built a real palace for him to practice and live.

Lin Lingsu is a very controversial person.

On the one hand, Lin Lingsu once used the push back diagram to "smile and be happy with the sons of heaven in the two dynasties, and the generals and ministers crossed Mengjin." It is naturally difficult to advance and retreat, and if you want to go, you don't have to worry about killing. "warned Zhao Ji and persuaded Zhao Ji to move the capital, and Lin Lingsu also helped Bianliang City retreat from the flood.

On the other hand, Lin Lingsu's "demon" is indeed very big.

Under Zhao Ji's order, Lin Lingsu was responsible for majoring in Taoist books, correcting the scriptures, proofreading the spiritual chapters of the Dan Sutras, and deleting and revising the annotations.

Every seventh day of the first lunar month, Lin Lingsu held a meeting to repeatedly explain the story of the birth of the Three Caves Taoist Sutra and the Yuqing Shenxiao King, and the cost of each Lent was as high as tens of thousands, which was called the "Thousand Dao Meeting".

Lin Lingsu also made several miracles such as "King Qinghua came to the altar during the day" and "The fire dragon sword descended to the inner palace at night", which made the people of Beijing believe in Taoism.

Lin Lingsu also instigated Zhao Ji to order the construction of Shenxiao Yuqing Wanshou Palace throughout the country, and if there was no Taoist temple, the Buddhist temple was rebuilt, and the statues of Shenxiao such as the Immortal Emperor and the Qinghua Emperor were all set up in the hall.

In short, Lin Lingsu vigorously promoted Taoism, and even proposed: merge Buddhism into Taoism, change the Buddhist temple to Gongguan, change the statue of Sakyamuni to the original Tianzun, Bodhisattva to change to monk, Arhat to change to Venerable, monks all grow hair and crown to hold bamboo slips, and change to become Taoists.

Zhao Ji obeyed Lin Lingsu's words, not only canonized Lin Lingsu as the Wenzhou Daoist Army, but also gave Lin Lingsu the number of "Golden Gate Yuke", "Tongzhen Ling Yuanmiao", "Taizhong Doctor", "Ning Shen Temple Attendant", "Ruizhu Hall Attendant", "Chonghe Hall Attendant", and issued an edict: change Buddhism to Taoism, change clothing, the left and right streets to change the Institute of Morality, the Monk Division to the Department of Morality, subordinate to the Institute of Ethics.

Doing this, Zhao Ji still felt that it was not enjoyable, so he ordered that the Dao Yuan canonize himself as the "Daojun Emperor", and he would be in charge of Taoism, and let the Dao Yuan canonize Empress Guo of the harem as the head of the Jinting Sect and Empress Meng as the head of the Huayang Sect.

Now is the time when Lin Lingsu, Zhao Ji and others are tossing the most, and Tokyo Bianliang City has been made into a miasma by them.

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The second thing is that Song Jin has already taken the lead and is ready to further talk about the joint invasion of Liao.

But at this moment, there was a piece of news.

This news is, "The Khitan has ceded Liaodong and named Jurchen as the king of Donghuai", and the two sides intend to reconcile.

When Zhao Ji and the others heard the news, they hurriedly went to inform the Song envoy who had already set off to suspend contact with the Jin people.

Later, the people on the border also heard about it from somewhere, saying that the Liao lord Yelu Yanxi had the appearance of the death of the country, and reported the matter to the imperial court.

Zhao Ji and others discussed, so they sent Wang Yaochen to bring two painters to paint the portrait of Yelu Yanxi.

When Wang Yaochen and others came back with the portrait of Yelu Yanxi, they said to Zhao Ji: "The lord of Liao does not look like a human monarch, if you say it in a similar way, the Liao country will die overnight, and the official family should quickly raise troops to attack Liao." ”

Zhao Ji was very happy when he heard this, and after rewarding Wang Yaochen and others, he asked the stopped Song Shi to continue to send envoys to the Jin State to discuss the joint destruction of Liao......

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The third thing, after the defeat of Liu Fa, the Song army regrouped, and fought with the Western Xia army in Lingwu, the result was a heavy blow to the Western Xia army, most of the Hengshan area has fallen into the hands of the Song, as long as the Song army adds more strength, it is expected to destroy the Western Xia, Zhao Ji in addition to happy, ordered the Western army to repair, ready to fight a decisive battle with the Western Xia, and regain the lost territory in one fell swoop.

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Fourth, Zhao Ji promoted Cai You again, and issued an edict to Cai You as the opening of the palace with the three divisions, and Cai You took another step away from the ministers of the ruling government.

And Cai You also voted for Zhao Ji's favor, and officially proposed: "The so-called master of the people, when the four seas are his home, peace is entertainment, the years can be geometric, how can he work in vain." ”

Zhao Ji deeply accepted Cai Youzhi's words, and ordered to increase efforts to collect strange flowers and stones and rare beasts across the country to fill his Genyue.

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In addition to these four major events, there are two other things, two things related to Cai Ying:

The first piece.

Song Jiang and his gang, punishing corrupt officials, killing the rich and helping the poor, are growing in popularity, and now they have been fighting with the officials and troops in Yizhou (later Linyi, Shandong) for more than a year, and have flowed to Puzhou on the North Beijing Road, directly approaching the Beijing Division.

Zhao Ji was shocked and ordered the Central Forbidden Army to send troops to encircle and suppress Song Jiang and his gang.

And the defense area where Cai is still located is not far from Puzhou (which is actually one of the reasons why Cai still chose this defense area in the first place), and it is also within the scope of the sequence of preparations.

The second piece.

Cai Zhen's soap is on fire, and it is so hot that a box (two pieces) of 99 yuan is in short supply, so hot that Li He has to raise prices again and again, and the price has risen to 199 yuan a box can not discourage the enthusiasm of the buyers.

is really like a movie clip in later generations said, a person who can buy a box of soap for ninety-nine taels will never spend another hundred taels.

So why did Cai Ying's soap become popular?

This is thanks to two people – two women.

The first is Zhao Yuannu.

Speaking of which, human feelings are really strange.

Take Zhao Yuannu as an example:

There are so many people who like Zhao Yuannu and chase after Zhao Yuannu, but Zhao Yuannu is indifferent to them, but Cai Zhen, a person who doesn't like her at all, makes Zhao Yuannu forget it.

Since Cai was driven away that day, Zhao Yuannu was as usual on the surface, but he actually hoped that Cai would still be able to come to Fanlou to find her again.

Moreover, the bits and pieces of getting along with Cai are always replayed in Zhao Yuannu's mind, and even Zhao Yuannu can see Cai Ying's talented, melancholy, and philistine face as soon as he closes his eyes.

But Zhao Yuannu waited left, Cai still didn't come, and right, Cai still didn't come.

During this period, because Baixiangju (Cai still sells soap) also took the trouble to buy a few boxes of soap, Cai Ying's soap was not popular, but Cai still asked people to engrave on the soap box "Magnolia Flower Order: Quasi-Ancient Decisive Words" spread out, and then it was spread wildly by people, especially in the land of Qinglou, which resonated with the ladies, everyone was talking about this Cai Ziyin, and wanted to know who this Cai Ziyin was.

This made Zhao Yuannu want to forget Cai Ying, but he couldn't do it.

Later, just when Zhao Yuannu couldn't help but want to send a maid to invite Cai Yan, her maid heard from Cai Maung that Cai still abandoned Wen Congwu and went to Yangwu County to form the Jinwu Army.

And this not only failed to break Zhao Yuannu's thoughts about Cai Ying, but made Zhao Yuannu feel more and more that Cai was still different and couldn't forget Cai still more.

And yet—

is as smart as Zhao Yuannu, how could she not know that Cai still doesn't like her? Otherwise, how could Cai still only see her once and never come to her again? I went to Yangwu County, and I didn't tell her?

What Zhao Yuannu has is not only beauty and talent, but also wisdom.

Zhao Yuannu quickly thought of how to let Cai still take the initiative to find her again.

Zhao Yuannu asked her maid to inquire about the location of Cai Ying's Baixiangju from Cai Maung, and then asked the maid to go to Baixiangju to buy a hundred boxes of soap in one go.

And that's not all, Zhao Yuannu gave this hundred boxes of soap to her hundred good sisters like a fortune boy, including another Oiran Master Li.

is not a New Year's Day, Zhao Yuannu gave a gift to a good sister, how can a good sister not ask the reason?

As soon as the good sisters asked, Zhao Yuannu also took the opportunity to ask them to help publicize the propaganda.

The good sisters all guessed that Zhao Yuannu must be helping his lover.

Zhao Yuannu was not otherwise, she only said that she helped her, and she owed them personal favors.

Zhao Yuannu said so, as good sisters, can you not help?

Zhao Yuannu's good sisters are almost all famous prostitutes, and they help promote soap, can this publicity be small? And even Master Li, who had not shown up for a long time, personally showed up to help advertise the soap.

The soap itself is a good thing that is not available in this era, not to mention its strong decontamination ability, it does not hurt the skin, the key is that after washing the body with it, the body will leave a faint fragrance, which can increase the charm of a woman invisibly.

In addition, there is the foundation laid by "Magnolia Flower Order: Quasi-Ancient Decisive Words".

Coupled with the advocacy of a number of famous prostitutes.

So much so that the soap became popular all of a sudden.

At this time, it came out again, and the concubines and emperors in the palace were also using soap, and they all praised the soap as good, and it was even said that the emperor Zhao Ji also liked to smell the fragrance of soap on the concubines.

As a result, soap has quickly become a good thing that everyone is touting and competing for, and now it has even evolved to the point of being inferior if soap is not available.

As for how the soap came into the palace, there are many theories, but the most reliable one is that the soap was brought into the palace by Emperor Maode Zhao Fujin......

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