After many years of no war, the garrison was reclaimed, the people recuperated, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty accumulated a lot of grain, and the government treasury also began to have surplus grain.

The western and eastern gold in the north suffered from the white plague and famine, and they all bought grain from Bianjing, but Bianjing did not refuse.

Now is the time to accumulate national strength, the covenant is still in force, refusing to sell grain is out of place, and it is not good for Bianjing, of course, in the difficult period of the other party, Bianjing will not be a simple good person, so he slightly raised the price of grain by 30%.

Through this transaction, Bianjing made another fortune and bought thousands of horses.

As Bianjing overcame the difficulties of the first few years of moving the capital, the government treasury began to have surplus grain, the household department and the inner treasury began to have a surplus of money, and some people in the court began to reclaim Guanzhong and Hedong, and recover Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion.

Emperor Zhao Yan, who had a few coins in his hand, was also eager, and summoned Yang Congyi and others several times to discuss military affairs, asking when he could go on a northern expedition to recover his northern homeland.

At the beginning, Yang Congyi didn't speak, and after the roll call, he replied that the time was not yet ripe, and the hurried Northern Expedition was unfavorable to the Great Song Dynasty, and it would take at least five years to prepare, otherwise, it would definitely be defeated!

After several discussions, Zhao Yan no longer asked Yang Congyi's opinion, and then he did not summon him again.

Yang Congyi became an ornament in the court, he didn't take the initiative to say anything, and Zhao Yan didn't take the initiative to ask him, and the relationship between the two gradually became cold.

The civil servants and officials who are good at observing words and emotions did not wait for a reminder, and immediately understood, and wrote to impeach Yang Congyi.

The reasons for impeachment ranged from such trivial matters as the extravagance and waste of the Yang Mansion's daily life and failure to comply with the frugal style advocated by the emperor, to major matters related to the stability of the world, such as Yang Congyi's frequent interaction with the border commanders and guards, and his close personal relations with the local commanders.

In the face of many impeachments, Yang Congyi did not defend himself, except for Prime Minister Shi Hao, no one said even a word for him.

Originally, he wanted to stay in the DPRK and participate in the overall situation of the world, so as to prepare for the Northern Expedition in the future, but seeing the attitude of the Manchu Dynasty and Zhao Yan, Yang Congyi had nothing to say.

The next day, he sent a note to the emperor, and asked for his resignation as deputy envoy of the Privy Council on the grounds that his old illness had relapsed and he needed to leave Beijing to recuperate in the mountains.

Zhao Yan did not refuse, but just asked the chamberlain to pass the word, not to stay away from Bianjing, and said that when he left Beijing, he would send royal guards to escort him and protect his safety along the way.

On May 26, Emperor Zhao Yan issued an edict, and Zhou Zhen, the middle of the imperial history, signed a letter to the Privy Council and the governor.

On the same day, Yang Congyi and his family left Bianjing under the escort of 50 palace guards and headed south.

At the beginning of June, the tenth line to Xuzhou was not entered, and no state officials went out of the city to greet them.

On June 28, Yang Congyi and his entourage passed through Ye County, Ruzhou, and stayed in the city for two days, without seeing local officials.

On 19 July, the group arrived in Dengzhou under the escort of the Praetorian Guard, again without seeing any officials or staying long, and continued to the southwest the next day.

Five days later, the group entered Junzhou.

On July 29, Yang Congyi and others arrived in Wudang County.

After staying in the city for five days and purchasing some incense materials, Yang Congyi and his party marched to Wudang Mountain on foot, looking for the old Taoist who had saved his life in the Taihu County Prison more than 20 years ago.

There are many temples in Wudang Mountain, but it is not easy to find the temple where the old Taoist chief is, and he didn't say what the temple where he is located back then.

Fortunately, Yang Congyi can still remember the old Taoist's number.

So after entering the mountain, every time I entered the gate of the temple, I added incense, and asked the Taoist in it whether there was a Taoist with the name of Qingmu in the temple.

For more than half a month, I walked through four or five temples, but I didn't find anyone from Qingmu Dao, and I didn't even hear about it.

On August 27, Yang Congyi and his entourage came to Nanyan and stayed here for three days.

Nanyan, according to legend, during the Tang Dynasty, one of the eight immortals, Lu Dongbin, had practiced here, and the incense was prosperous for thousands of years, and there were more than 300 cultivators here.

Due to the large number of people here, Yang Congyi finally learned from an old Taoist leader that the cultivation place of Qingmu Dao Chief, the Five Dragons Temple.

After leaving Nanyan, Yang Congyi and his entourage crossed the mountains and mountains, went west, and went straight to the Wulong Temple.

Two days later, they finally arrived at the Five Dragons Temple.

The three words of "Five Dragons" hang above the simple mountain gate, two pillars, a plaque, and it is not long away.

When the group entered the mountain gate, they saw more than a dozen newly built houses on top of the large ruins, and they were only twenty or thirty years old, far less than Nanyan.

Judging from the scale of the Taoist temple, the incense here is not prosperous, and it is estimated that there will not be many Taoists who cultivate.

After entering the courtyard for a long time, I saw a little Taoist boy who was more than ten years old appear in the Taoist temple.

That Daotong obviously hadn't seen so many people enter the mountain at the same time to offer incense, and when he saw Yang Congyi and others, he was suddenly a little nervous, and stepped forward timidly and said, "Is the donor here to offer incense?" Over there. ”

After speaking, Dao Tong raised his hand and pointed to a small room next to him, but his eyes were always fixed on Yang Congyi and the others.

"Yes, we are here to incense, and we are also looking for an old Taoist." Yang Congyi looked at Xiao Daotong and smiled slightly.

Hearing this answer, Dao Tong breathed a sigh of relief, and then replied, "Which master is the Shi looking for?" ”

"Many years ago, I had a relationship with Qingmu Dao Chang, and I inquired in many ways, and I heard that Dao Chang was cultivating in the Five Dragons Temple, and I came to ask to see him." Yang Congyi replied reverently.

"Qingmu Master Ancestor?" Dao Tong pondered for a moment and replied, "He is not in the view. ”

"If you're not in the view, where is that?" Yang Congyi frowned slightly.

"I don't know, I haven't seen Master Qingmu for several years." Dao Tong replied respectfully.

"Why can't you see other Dao Masters in the Five Dragons Temple?" Xiao Daotong's knowledge is limited, it is better to ask him than to ask other Taoists, Yang Congyi thought about it, and no longer asked Daotong about the old Taoist of Qingmu.

"Master and brothers are working in the fields." Dao Tong replied.

After this answer, Yang Congyi didn't ask any more.

The Taoist people who practice in the mountains are self-sufficient, and generally have to farm the land to support themselves, of course, the incense is particularly vigorous, there are a large number of donors to worship, and if there is a field given by the imperial court, the temple can be rented to the nearby people to cultivate, and the temple can pay rent to the temple, and the Taoist temple can also support itself by virtue of the land rent.

Of course, most of the Taoist temples are in the deep mountains, mostly in remote places, and not like temples in the downtown or around the big city, so most Taoist temples are not vigorous, and Taoist people who want to cultivate with peace of mind must spend time farming every day, which is also part of cultivation.

The Five Dragons Temple was in ruins, and there were no other pilgrims along the way, and the Taoists here had to spend time farming if they wanted to survive.

Yang Congyi asked Dao Tong to go and get busy, they walked around the view, and then put on incense.

After the Taoist boy saluted, he left quickly.

Meng Yunniang and the others looked at the Taoist temple in front of them and sighed.

This Five Dragons Temple is too shabby, since entering Wudang Mountain, I have never encountered a Taoist temple more broken than the Five Dragons Temple, it is completely built on the ruins, and I don't know what this place was before, there are ruins and broken rubble everywhere.

"Husband, the old Taoist chief you met in Taihu County is really from the Five Dragons Temple?" Meng Yunniang didn't believe that such a dilapidated and shabby Taoist temple could have such a profound cultivator.

"There shouldn't be anything wrong with that. As for what has happened over the years, it's hard to say. You see, this temple was supposed to be a vast area, but it was destroyed, and these newly built houses were only twenty or thirty years old. Yang Congyi walked slowly with them and found that the ruins of Wulongguan covered a wide area, and it can be seen from the ruins how grand the scale was before.

"What can happen in the mountains, it can't be water. The houses were all made of wood and burned down without the slightest care. Meng Yunniang said and glanced at the fragrant wooden house.

Gu Qingchen has not spoken, she has been cultivating in the mountains with her master since she was a child, after the death of her master, she found Lin'an, and followed Yang Congyi.

Since entering Wudang Mountain, every time she sees a Taoist temple, she feels very kind, as if this is the place she should come.

However, she is Yang Congyi's wife, the head of the family, and has a son who is not yet an adult, and it is impossible for her to become a monk again and cultivate in the mountains with peace of mind.

Besides, she also knew that her husband might not stay in the mountains for too long when he came to the mountains this time, otherwise the emperor would not have sent someone to follow them inseparably.

So what she can do is to give more incense money, especially those smaller Taoist temples, and give more incense money, maybe the Taoists will be able to live a little easier.

After turning around in the temple, everyone went to the incense one after another, and then waited for the Taoist chief to return to the temple in the incense hall to inquire about the news of the Taoist chief Qingmu.

Half an hour later, the three Taoists returned to the temple.

They went straight to the incense hall, and after saluting, the elder Taoist chief asked, "Dare to ask what the donor is called, what is the matter with finding Master Qingmu?" ”

"My surname is Yang, I don't hide it from the Taoist, I was shipwrecked in Taihu County more than 20 years ago, and I was fortunate to have the help of the Qingmu Taoist, so I escaped and saved my life. There was a promise that day, and in the future, he would come to the mountain gate to burn incense and thank him, but he was in a hurry, only to hear the Taoist chief say that he was practicing in Wudang Mountain, and he didn't know where it was. This time I came to worship the mountain, just to see the head of Kiyoki Road, and by the way, I asked him about some things. Yang Congyi quickly clarified his intentions.

"I see. However, it was unfortunate that Master Yang came, Master Qingmu went down the mountain a month ago, and he was not in the temple at this time, and he didn't know when he would come back. When asked what he meant, the Taoist leader immediately replied.

"That's really unfortunate, I only arrived in Wudang a month ago." Yang Congyi sighed: "If we can't see each other this time, I'm afraid we won't see each other again in this life." Qingmu Road is a long tour, how long does it take to return to the mountain? ”

"The short is three or five months, the long is three or two years, and the longest is five or six years. The Taoist replied.

"It's okay left and right, can we wait on the mountain for the Qingdao Chang to return to the mountain?" Yang Congyi suddenly asked.

When the Taoist chief heard this, he was quite embarrassed, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "Lord Yang, please forgive me, the place of Wulongguan is not spacious, three or five pilgrims can stay overnight, Yang Shi has many masters, and there are female dependents accompanying him, I am afraid it is not good to stay here." ”