Chapter 166: Bamboo Monarch Palace

The reason why Shunyi City is Ye Tao's ideal meeting place is naturally not because it is an important town in the north of Xiling, in addition to these, Shunyi City is also an important northern town of Daoming Sect, one of the three major centers of missionary and management of the entire Daoming Sect's huge system. Daomingzong established an idolatrous system with the legendary three saints as the core, and on the outskirts of Shunyi, there is a bamboo monarch hall built by Daomingzong, which enshrines one of the three saints.

In the big city, no matter how Ye Tao tried to hide his identity, he had never lived in seclusion to avoid the eyes of others, not to mention those officials, soldiers, merchants, and important members of the family in Dongping, even outside of Dongping - such as officials and merchants in Chunnan, Hu merchants and Persian craftsmen, and those more Western-born craftsmen and technical experts employed by Hu merchants - I have seen many people, and the possibility of being recognized is really very high. And in a place like Shunyi City, as a person who was listed in the top 20 of the Daoming Sect's assassination list, Ye Tao's courage was really quite large.

Moreover, Ye Tao is not hiding in the carriage and not coming out, on the contrary, he plays the role of a handyman in a traveling team. And in this traveling team with a little investigation, it is Sophie who is ostensibly at the core, more and more like the Sophie of Sophie Marceau that Ye Tao wants her to be. Sophie didn't even have to change her name, she just changed her identity temporarily, and she played the daughter of Pirlo, the royal engineer of the Frankish royal family. The fact that the Samir family had already chosen to build a bell tower in the Middle East, and that the super-lavish three-tower plan was the first to start, greatly stimulated the idea of Merovingian IV, who was known more in the West for his grand palaces and huge public works. Since the East was absolutely ahead of the curve in this kind of super-high-rise tower building, and there was no competition, Merovingian IV finally couldn't help but send his closest confidant, Pirlo, to Dongping to investigate...... Add learning, if needed.

All right. Overall, this thing is not fake. Merovingian had been planning this matter since the Samir family recruited various types of architects to Dongping as apprentices, so much so that many people had already brought such news to Xiling, although they knew that there must be fewer people than Dongping. After all, there are two magnificent bell towers in Dongping that seem to reach the sky, and they are something that everyone can talk about with pride. And that Master Pirlo, in fact, is about to arrive in Dongping, and he is now recuperating in Nanyang for severe seasickness and some disorders caused by adaptation to the tropical climate, and it is conservatively estimated that it will be more than a month away. He'll be able to start again. But this specific time difference is in the hands of Ye Tao, who has an extremely good cooperative relationship with the Samir family.

Sophie is a true Frankish beauty, and since the Samir family insisted that some craftsmen and artists should learn from Ye Tao, and because of the non-natives in Yip's workshop, it was really easy to organize a mixed tour group and expedition. In order to keep the level of this not-so-small team from being exposed in terms of the intimate relationship between the characters, in addition to the attachés in terms of guards and clerical personnel. Ye Tao even asked Sophie to formulate the roles of everyone around her.

Sophie herself, naturally, may not have a high status, but she has a good taste in art and craftsmanship, and she is very friendly to others. Because Ye Tao has been training and cultivating for several years, this is exactly Sophie's real temperament. I have handled so many drawings of Ye Tao. Sophie can now design some of the exterior of the building herself.

must follow to play, no matter how Ye Tao persuaded Dai Qiuyan, who refused to listen to it for safety reasons, was naturally the accompanying painter. And Wei Zhi, the chief accountant of Ye Mansion, who is already becoming more and more influential, was one of the dancing girls who was given to Ye Tao as a gift by Muhammad back then. easily pretended to be a maid. Then there's Kassandra, who is now one of the top ten technicians in Yip's Workshop, who occupies a carriage as a painter and a friend.

Two other Persian apprentices and a Frankish framer were equally interested in the role-playing journey. They play the roles of cook, steward, and chief guard, respectively, even though they don't have any skills or experience associated with them. But when it comes to pretending to be arrogant, it's clear that they're all very knowledgeable and experienced. After all, they were all guys who had dealt with rich people and people of status.

Organizing this tour with such a group of people of different skin colors as the core can go a long way to dispel the suspicions of others. After all, seeing Hu people or Europeans now is not only a problem of language barriers. In Xiling, where there is no estuary, it is simply treated as another awe-worthy creature, and no one would have thought that this group of people were all Ye Tao's subordinates and relatives and friends from the beginning.

If you want to say that the identity of the whole team is the most peculiar and embarrassing, I am afraid it is Ye Tao. According to his arrangement, it is true that the security of this team has increased greatly, but judging from this temporary composition, basically the status of him and Sophie is reversed. If Sophie was his secretary and favorite concubine, it seemed now. It's like Ye Tao has become Sophie's attendant and ...... Gigolo. If it's someone else like Ye Tao to play tricks, it's okay to say. But the problem is that Ye Tao has always been used to everyone. It's such a fun thing to happen. It's really hard for everyone to be serious all the time.

In any case, their neat and gorgeous team came to Shunyi City all the way without ostentatious but not low-key. After staying in Shunyi City for four days, they waited for the team of Lei Huang and other students.

In the winter, at the end of the year, I came to Shunyi City to inspect the missionary work of the Daoming Sect and the organization and management of the church. Ye Tao had long heard that the Daoming Sect always prepared some food and clothing for the poor and helpless at the end of the year, and would hold an extremely grand puja before the New Year. During this time, the religious activities in Shunyi City must be extremely prosperous, and there will be a large number of people belonging to different levels and different halls of the Daoming Sect. And the attitude of these people to contact the believers is also a very valuable subject.

However, in just a few days, Ye Tao found that he had made a huge mistake when preparing for various matters of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect: the forms of the Divine Sticks trained by the Thunder Yin Demon Sect were too consistent, although there were some women and some middle-aged people in the entire student team, but there was no old man...... And those female members are obviously not bad in appearance, the average age is lower, and there is not even one who can pretend to be an aunt-type character. The elderly and middle-aged women have always been easy to trust, and the primary reason is that they don't look like a threat to strangers. Although that may not be true, but a point that can be used, Ye Tao just forgot about it.

As an important town of the Daoming sect, Shunyi City usually has a relatively strong religious atmosphere, and even among the defenders and officials in the city, there are quite a lot of believers, and the city guards of Shunyi City are obviously quite conniving at this kind of religious activities that preach harmony and affection. Since the Daoming Sect's power in the Xiling government and opposition is getting bigger and bigger, this situation is not difficult to understand.

Zhou Rui investigated the situation in advance and felt that the Bamboo Monarch Hall was a little difficult to approach. On the eve of the New Year's Festival, almost only the most devout believers and clergy of the Dominion Sect, or the Eagle Hall of the Daoming Sect are allowed to enter the Bamboo Monarch Hall. Ordinary people can approach the Bamboo Monarch Hall only on the day of the puja. But judging from the hustle and bustle that will inevitably occur on that day, not only will safety be a big problem, but there will actually be no content to be seen. Fortunately, now the Zhujun Hall is no longer a lonely temple, but a building complex with a huge extension. Facing the three-story hall of the Zhujun Hall and the long staircase from the foot of the mountain, there is already a small village of some size, spread out on both sides of the road leading to the Zhujun Hall in Shunyi City. And just halfway up the mountain, there is even a restaurant that deserves to be evaluated for high quality and low price. Halfway up the mountain, on this platform, the prelude to the puja is passionately staged.

On a sunny day, it is pleasant to sit in a restaurant and eat a delicious meal, while a few people are chatting about topics that have nothing to do with religion. But Ye Tao sat in this kind of place, and in the eyes of Bi Xiaoqing, Zhou Rui, Wu Ping'an and others around him, it was definitely enough to go deep into the tiger's den. Even Lei Huang and other students who came here with Ye Tao's name were a little incomprehensible to Ye Tao's adventure. But wearing a crab-blue coarse cloth dress and a sheepskin vest on the outside, it didn't look conspicuous at all. And they actually swaggered to a position only two hundred zhang away from the Bamboo Monarch Palace, and sat peacefully. You must know that there must be masters of the Eagle Hall in the Bamboo Monarch Hall now, and if those people can solve any of the people on the Daoming Sect's assassination list, they will be able to obtain great glory and extremely rich wealth. It is now easier for these people to understand this drive than it is for religious zeal.

Maybe it was their line of work, occupying a place with a good landscape, pointing at the Zhujun Palace, but it was not at all like the tone of the believers of the Daoming Sect and the contrast between the surroundings was a little big, and after sitting there for a while, a guy dressed in the uniform of the intermediate clergy of the Daoming Sect walked up. The man's face was full of a gentle smile, and his eyes were full of warmth, and everyone involuntarily and politely let the man go to the table.

"These must be guests from afar, right? Can you let Poor Road take a seat here? "Although the color of this person's clothes is too far from the Taoist priest in Ye Tao's impression, this Taoist priest is not another Taoist priest. The self-proclaimed Taoist priests are all in the middle layer of the third-order clergy of the Daoming Sect, Daoist, and Yushi, and with the fact that this person can quickly get a report and come here to talk, I am afraid that this guy's position will not be very low.

Ye Tao just showed a curious look. At this table, it is not him who is talking now, but Feng Yan. Feng Yu said nonchalantly, "Tuas, please take a seat." ”

The man waved slightly, and sat down in the corner unceremoniously. Then he asked, "Where do you come from?" It doesn't seem to be a person from Xiling. ”