The new trends in Chang'an City naturally can't hide from Li Mao's eyes, but he has no time to look west now. Jiangnan's old friend He Sancai was promoted from Suzhou to the observer of western Zhejiang in the past, and he was stained with some of Wang Shoucheng's light, and at this moment he was recognized as Wang Shoucheng's remnant party, and he wanted to get rid of it quickly.

He Sancai felt aggrieved: he was promoted to the position of observer based on his local merits and ability, and he had a fart relationship with Wang Shoucheng, Wang Shoucheng's promotion to his official position was nothing more than a fancy to his shallow roots, and he wanted to use him to expel other faction forces and clear the way for his henchmen to seek to seize Jiangnan, as for saying that he could sit firmly in this position, it was the situation of the times, the hungry people in Jiangnan were everywhere, and the wolf smoke was everywhere, whether it was rich or poor, life was not easy, and the local officials were not familiar with military affairs and were repeatedly teased by rogues, they knew the military, dared to fight and dare to work, and could protect the territory and the people. Sincerely supported by the locality, this is the transaction that is secured, this is earned by his own ability, and it is not Wang Shoucheng's charity, Wang Shoucheng is unlucky, and he wants to pull himself into the water, how can there be such a reason in the world?

He Sancai couldn't figure it out, and when he was excited, he tied up the envoy from Chang'an, which led to a catastrophe, and now the courtiers accuse him of rebellion one by one, and he is difficult to confess if he has a hundred mouths.

Li Mao sympathized with his suffering, but he couldn't help his request, He Sancai asked him to go to the table to defend him, this kind of thing is absolutely undoable, do it, not only can not wash away He Sancai, but also put himself in it, there is a force in the DPRK that wants to tie him up with Wang Shoucheng, and take advantage of Wang Shoucheng's downfall to blame him.

So he said to He Sancai's son He Zang: "For now, Hugh has to take care of other things, hold the handle of the knife, protect the territory and the people, and do your duty well." The Son of Heaven will be deceived by the courtiers, and will come from those who will understand the loyalty of your father and son. ”

He Zang said: "The soldiers in western Zhejiang are weak and outnumbered, and the coastal troops are controlled by Zhenhai, and now Zhenhai, Huainan, eastern Zhejiang, and Xuanshu are all eyeing me, as long as the imperial court has an edict, I have to pounce on my father and son alive." I implore the Taibao to send good generals to the south to save my father and son from fire and water, and the great kindness and great virtue of my father and son are engraved in my heart and will never be forgotten. In the future, if there is anything in the world, my father and son will look forward to the horse. ”

This is very well said, Li Mao was a little moved, thinking about it carefully, it is not impossible to send troops south, but you can't send troops south, after all, it has not yet reached the moment of turning your face. Li Mao promised that He Zang would consider it carefully.

When Wang Shoucheng was in power, in order to quell the civil unrest in the south of the Yangtze River, three military towns were added along the river: Zhenhai, Wuchang, and Jingmen. The Zhenhai Navy Jiedu envoy was stationed in Jierunzhou, in charge of the Yangtze River Navy and the coastal garrisons of the two Zhejiang. At the same time, Runzhou is also the station of the observation envoy in western Zhejiang, and there are few soldiers and horses in western Zhejiang, and after the addition of the town navy, the coastal garrison and the Yangtze River naval army were rowed away.

He Sancai's observation made it possible to use not many soldiers, and most of them were recruits recruited during the crusade against the people's uprising, with insufficient training and poor equipment, and they did not experience the test of major battles. Now surrounded by strong enemies, it is indeed precarious.

Li Mao carefully analyzed the situation in the south of the Yangtze River and decided to send troops south to help He Sancai stabilize western Zhejiang.

In what form to go south to help, but it took him a lot of thought, Wuning, Weibo, Yiwu and other towns privately sent troops to the south, and the homeless, rebels, gangsters and bandits mixed together, recruiting troops, separating one side, this is a model, the advantage of this model is flexible and convenient, can advance and retreat, the disadvantage is that the name is not justified, morally untenable, difficult to become a big tool. Especially in the context of the subsidence of the disaster in the south of the Yangtze River, the gradual subsidence of the people, and the seeking of stability among the people.

Li Mao didn't want to use this way, and after thinking about it again, he summoned the Great Virtue Heavenly Master Lu Ju and asked, "How long will you have to fight the war of words with Wu Huosong?" Lu Judge replied distressedly: "I was almost picked up by him, the Heavenly Master has fallen into the mortal world, his reputation has been ruined, and recently there have been many people in the Xuanzhuang Gate, I have already betrayed my relatives, and if I continue to consume, I will wait to be sent to the guillotine by him." ”

Li Mao said: "You can't stay in Hebei, but Jiangnan is still promising, you lead your close disciples to preach in the south, go to Jiangnan, go to Runzhou, there are people to pick you up, and when you get there, under the guise of preaching, secretly assist He Sancai to stabilize western Zhejiang, this is a chore, but if it is successful, it is a miracle." Do you have the guts to go? Lu Judge said: "The disciples of the Heavenly Master are not enough, and I hope that the Taibao will send troops and generals to go south with me." ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "You are still self-aware, I will arrange this, you go back and prepare, I will let Li Guotai and Qin Fengmian assist you." ”

Lu Ju said again: "I am notorious in Hebei, I can be deceived for a while when I go to Jiangnan, but I can't be deceived for a long time, Wu Huosong must let him shut up." ”

Li Mao said: "If you go on the front foot, I will arrest him on the back foot, dismiss him from the Heavenly Master's teaching, and condemn him to the crime of apostasy, so that he will never be able to open his mouth." ”

Lu Judge was overjoyed to retreat, for most of the year, he was stripped of a layer of skin by Wu Huosong every day, and he couldn't backhand, which made him very embarrassed, and now he was notorious, except for Zeng Zhitan and Ming Cun Hao, there were few followers around him, that is, Zeng Zhitan and Ming Cun Hao If it wasn't for the coercion of the Internal Security Department, they would have run away long ago.

Lu Zhi understands that his task is about to be completed, but there is no sense of accomplishment in his heart, from the admired Heavenly Master to the mortal dust, in the end there is still a little loss, if there is a choice, he is more willing to continue to play the role of the Heavenly Master, scenery, pomp, command, can do things that ordinary people dare not think of, to be a man, what more can the husband ask for?

Just when he was about to despair, the opportunity fell from the sky, and his status as a heavenly master was not only extended, but there was also a bigger stage waiting for him to play, which was really happy from the sky, and it was difficult to be happy.

With this joy, he added several honorific titles to Li Mao, which raised his status a lot, and then he announced that he would go south to preach and save the people of Jiangnan who were living in dire straits.

In the autumn of the second year of Yamato, the Heavenly Master taught the Heavenly Master Lu to lead the left and right protectors, thirteen with him, thirteen presiding, thirty-three presiding, three hundred and thirty-three divine envoys, and 3,300 inner room disciples went down the Sanggan River, boarded a sea boat at the confluence of the river and the sea, and went south to Runzhou to preach.

Soon after the Heavenly Master left, some believers reported to the Great Protector that the master of the Great Altar in Jizhou had been in cahoots with his brother Wu Huosong, defrauding believers of money, seducing female believers, and abducting and selling their children.

The Great Protector Li Mao ordered the Jizhou local raid on the altar, and rescued 40 imprisoned boys and girls in the secret room.

This move completely angered the people of Jizhou, and thousands of people gathered in front of the Assassin's Mansion to demand that the law be punished to Zhihe Wu Huosong, Li Mao was furious, and first issued a big Dharma Protector Seal, dismissed the two from their teaching positions, and then sent the Dharma Protector to send the two to the local government. The evidence was ironclad, so that He Wu Huosong bowed his head and pleaded guilty, and was convicted of the three crimes of stealing and cheating money, raping women, and abducting and trafficking in human beings, and beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market.

After that, the Great Protector of the Heavenly Master Sect issued a puritanical order to conduct an inventory of all the altars scattered in Youzhou, Chengde, and Yingping, and once it was found that the believers had committed adultery, they would be immediately dismissed from their positions, expelled from the church, and those suspected of committing crimes would be transferred to the local authorities for punishment.

At its peak, the Heavenly Master Sect had more than 100,000 people, but after such a toss, there were less than 10,000 people left in the winter of the second year of Yamato, most of whom were old village husbands and women.

Different from the silence in the north, the Lu Tianshi who went south to preach is widely popular in western Zhejiang, and the observation of western Zhejiang makes He Sancai very obsessed with the Taoism of the Heavenly Master, and the Shangzun is called "the supreme heavenly master of morality for protecting the territory and the people", and he is observing the altar of the embassy, serving as the altar master, and entering the religion as a pious disciple, under his leadership, the development of the Heavenly Master Sect in western Zhejiang is extremely rapid, all the states, every county, and the villages and towns of a little scale have believers of the Heavenly Master Sect, and they all have the altar of the Heavenly Master Sect.

Unlike in Hebei, the Heavenly Master Sect in the south was tightly organized and had strict precepts, and believers rarely engaged in enriching or harming the people. Although the doctrine is vulgar and unbearable, most of the Jiangnan scholars despise it, but there are not many haters, and most of the gentry can accept such a foreign religion that does good deeds without leaving a name, and persuading the poor to help the poor without trying to retribution.

In view of the observation of He Sancai's special contribution to the development of the Heavenly Master Sect, Lu Tianshi named him "the great protector of the sea and the chief protector of the southern law", and his status was only below himself and Li Mao.

The Heavenly Master Sect has 200,000 people in western Zhejiang, and the sect is full of talents, and it is close to the local military and political authorities, and has formed 300 "altar protection teams", which are nominally built to protect the private property of the altar, but in fact are well-trained troops, and their combat effectiveness is still above the official army in western Zhejiang. The leaders of the altar protection team are brave and good at fighting, proficient in battle formations, but they are Youzhou generals wearing magic robes, with such an army wing protection, the surrounding feudal towns no longer dare to have any delusions about western Zhejiang, He Sancai finally gained a firm foothold in western Zhejiang.

In order to stabilize the situation in the south of the Yangtze River, Li Han, who took advantage of the Zhenhai Festival to make Zhao Zun convicted and imprisoned, issued an edict to combine Zhenhai and western Zhejiang into one, and build a town navy to make the envoy of the Jie Du, with He Sancai as the Jiedu envoy, to take charge of the garrison in western Zhejiang and the naval army along the Yangtze River. The envoy of the town navy concurrently serves as the observer envoy of western Zhejiang, and governs the civil affairs within the management.