Chapter 321 [Entering the City]

During the period of the Great Song Dynasty (1111 A.D. - 1117 A.D.), it is a rare peaceful year at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, although the Song Emperor Zhao Ji still likes to have fun, there are Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Gao Yu, Wang Huang and other powerful ministers in the court to control the government, the Great Song Dynasty has wars and disturbances in Western Xia, Tubo and other places, but for the people of Bianliang in Tokyo, the street market is prosperous, it is said that the famous "Qingming Riverside Map", depicting the Bianliang scenery during the Great Song Dynasty Zhenghe.

It is a prosperous age, this spiritual pursuit should be higher than the material pursuit, in addition to the achievements of the Song Emperor Zhao Ji in the Zhenghe period, in addition to the achievements in calligraphy and painting, also began to follow Taoism, good old learning, taste the self-note "Tao Te Ching", quite a gain. In order to vigorously promote Taoism and encourage scholars all over the world to learn Taoism, in August of the first year of Chonghe (1118), Emperor Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty specially issued an edict to give preferential treatment to those who learned Taoism.

The edict stipulates that all those who learn the Tao are allowed to enter the state and county for education. The content of the study is based on the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" and "Tao Te Ching" as the major scriptures, and the "Zhuangzi" and "Liezi" as the minor classics, as well as the Confucian books, so that they are combined into one, the major scriptures "Zhou Yi" and the small classics "Mencius". For those who are studying, the names of scholars are specially added and divided into official products. Its names are: Yuanshi, Gaoshi, Shangshi, Liangshi, Fangshi, layman, hermit, Yishi, and Zhishi.

Examinations are held every year, and the scholars of the state and county schools are newly enrolled as Taoist disciples, and they are promoted to tributes after passing the study examinations. Gongshi can go to Beijing to enter Biyong according to the imperial examination tribute method, and pass the examination and enter the upper house. In the third year, he was allowed to wear shirts to participate in the palace examination like other scholars who participated in the imperial examination, and he was also allowed to take the examination by asking questions. The edict concluded by stating that these preferential treatment measures were for the purpose of recruiting those who were enlightened. In September, Emperor Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty ordered two doctors of "Neijing", "Tao Te Ching", "Zhuangzi" and "Liezi" to be placed in Taixue and Biyong to teach Tuzi to learn the Tao.

In addition, the imperial court also promulgated the "Tao Te Ching" annotated by Emperor Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty to the world, carved a stone and erected it in the Shenxiao Palace, ordered scholars to study and study, and made a thesis from it, as a test question for the examination of scholars of Taoism. In addition, according to the request of Deng Xunren, a scholar of the Senior Administration Hall and a scholar of Chenzhou, dozens of copies of the "Taoist Tibetan Sutra" were selected, and the first edition was decided to be issued to the state and county.

The so-called upward and downward effect, the emperor of a country is so respectful, and the natural scenery of the world follows. For a time, Taoist temples in various places sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the Taoists in the market were like clouds, but they were like carp crossing the river.

On this day, it is the ninth day of October in the first year of the Great Song Dynasty, the street outside the Xinzheng Gate of Bianliang is bustling, people come and go, but in the twilight, when the sky is approaching, but look at the city outside the ten miles suddenly born noise, and soon see hundreds of frightened people rushing to the city gate, along the way people on their backs and horses do not say, along the road abandoned countless shoes.

This Tokyo Bianliang is divided into three walls: the outer city, the inner city, and the imperial city. Among them, the outer city is also called the new city, Luocheng, the outer city was built in the period of Xiande after the Zhou Dynasty, since the Song Dynasty, the outer city has been repaired and expanded many times, so that it has gradually become a military city with high pond and deep barriers. Xinzheng Gate is the main gate of the west wall of the outer city, called Yingqiu in the later Zhou Dynasty, Song Taiping Xingguo changed its name to Shuntian in four years, and because it can go straight to Zhengzhou to the west and is opposite to the Zheng Gate of the inner city, it is also commonly known as Xinzheng Gate.

And the north and south of Xinzheng Gate Avenue are Qionglin Yuan and Jin Mingchi respectively, it is the west of Bianliang to rush, naturally there is the forbidden army of the palace front division, and now the gate guard of the Duyu Marquis sees the chaos on the flat ground outside the city, and is also shocked. You must know that the place where everyone is stepping on now is Tokyo Bianliang of the Great Song Dynasty, and the forbidden army defending the city is claimed to have 800,000 people.

Seeing this, the Marquis of Nadu Yu first asked people to sound the gong to put the archers and guards in the city on guard, and then quickly walked out of the city gate, grabbed a passer-by who rushed in a panic and scolded: "Straight lady thief, what are you flustered about?" What happened? ”

Passers-by were sweating profusely, but they pointed to the road and hurriedly said, "I ...... I don't know, I heard about it...... But there are big insects on the road and hurting people! ”

As if to prove what the passer-by said, the people who were running from behind him also surrounded him, pulled Du Yu Hou Qi and said: "Master Jun, if there is really a big insect hurting people, go and take a look!" ”

Although this Tokyo Bianliang is large, but the dense forests outside the city are more direct to the old forest deep mountains, often I also hear that there are fierce beasts infested, and there are also big insects from the front of the city by mistake, and now it is not surprising that there are big insects on the road, Du Yuhou couldn't help but light up when he heard it, and immediately shouted: "Don't be impatient, it's just a big insect." ”

Then he turned and shouted, "Twenty archers, come with me and see!" ”

After that, this Du Yu Hou was dressed in armor, took an eight-foot whistle stick from the access control, and strode back and forth.

Along the way, although there were many people running on the side of the road, they did not listen to the roar of the big insects, and the more Du Yuhou walked, the more he wondered. After walking out of more than two miles, I saw dozens of people walking and retreating in front of the road.

When he came closer, he and the archers behind him were stunned and hissed.

At this time, it was a peculiar style mule cart that was surrounded by people in the road, and the mule cart seemed at first glance to be the same as the common cart in the Song Dynasty, but it was installed with an extra wheel in the position of the middle of the car, and at this time it was slowly approaching under the traction of two green mules, and then the mule cart railing was about two feet high, and there was a branch on it to support the gray carport to cover the carriage.

As for the big insect, it is still a rare adult white tiger with colorful black and white patterns!

Look at the person in the car, it is a stout young man who looks like a weak crown, look at his thick eyebrows and big eyes, high nose and wide mouth, his cheeks and cheeks and beard have just emerged, and he is dressed in a soap-colored robe and neatly upside down, but his long hair is tied into a bun, and he is hairpinned at will with an old branch, and he is holding a book and whispering at this time, completely ignorant of the appearance of foreign objects.

Du Yuhou saw that the eyes of the crowd around him were staring at the roof of the mule cart, and he also understood that there was a reason for the incident, so he took two steps forward and shouted: "Stop!" ”

"Whew!"

A tiger roar suddenly exploded like thunder, but it suddenly erupted from the roof of the mule cart, and the target of the tiger roar was Du Yuhou, who was surprised.

In an instant, the others were also calm, but Du Yuhou almost sat down on his knees with his legs weak, and the archers who followed him also changed color and retreated one after another.

At this time, the stout young man on the mule cart who was concentrating on reading was also awakened, and saw him casually pat the carport with a scroll and shouted: "Xiaobai! Shut up! ”

Du Yuhou's face turned pale from time to time, but he also calmed down between breaths, and looked left and right and forced a calm smile: "Don't panic!" I'm afraid it's a big insect that grows in the house. ”

A splashy man wearing a light green short fight, revealing half of the chest tattooed with a tiger and leopard green dragon, heard Du Yuhou shouting, but he hurriedly leaned over sideways and hurriedly said: "Master Jun, you need a small help to capture this big worm!" ”

Du Yuhou glanced at this flower arm, but he recognized that this person was a helper of a big family in the city, and he went back and forth to Xinzheng Gate for a long time, so he scolded: "Hu Er, the straight lady thief, don't make noise!" ”

Hua Arm hurriedly pointed to the big insect on the roof of the mule cart and said, "Master Jun, if the big insect hurts people's lives, it will be a disaster." ”

At this time, the stout young man turned his head to look around, only to hear a few whining and low roars from the top of the car, but also saw that his mule cart had been surrounded by dozens of archers wearing Song army jackets and Fan Yang hats. ”