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With Joseon making peace with the Later Kim Dynasty and humiliatingly agreeing to marry Lee Jung-yeon, the lord of Myohyang, to Amin, the Jurchen army rested on the north of the Taedong River after conquering Ryukyung, as it was called Pyongyang in the previous life. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Shaliyuan, an important town in Huanghae Province, across the river from Liujing, also showed some signs of peace. The wealthy families no longer fled in a panic, and the poor people began to work hard again. Even the Chengfo Temple, an ancient temple in Zhengfang Mountain in the north of the city, which was deserted a few days ago, has also restored the atmosphere of the past with strong incense. The common people could not count on the weak North Korean regime to protect them, so they could only pin their hopes for peace in front of the ethereal gods and Buddhas.

However, careful people may find that there seems to be something unusual about the temple these days. There were suddenly many unfamiliar faces in the temple, although they were all bald monks, but there were not many monks who were calm and calm, all with sharp eyes and walking like the wind. The people also said that these people who came from nowhere were just to eat in the Buddhist temple, so they had no Buddhist cultivation at all, and they couldn't help but shake their heads and sigh.

Tomorrow, the envoy who sent off the Lord of Soxiang will arrive at the Sari Temple. Zhengfangshan was also busy sweeping the court, and politely rejected the ordinary pilgrims, saying that it was to prepare for the arrival of Lord Weng. In particular, the Qingfeng Building behind the main hall is even more heavily guarded, and it is strictly forbidden for all idle people to enter, saying that the abbot is fasting and preparing for tomorrow's important rituals.

In the Qingfeng Building, a monk in a robe reclined on the leg of the Buddha's offering table, looking anxious, without half of the "four emptiness" of the family. And the robe is very fat, it doesn't match his figure at all, and it looks like a Monkey King on his body, which looks very funny.

After a short time, a young novice hurriedly broke into the Buddhist hall and said loudly in Chinese: "The temple... The abbot, the mission has arrived at Zainyeong, not far to the south of the temple, and will arrive tomorrow morning. If the information is correct, at the latest, at dusk, will come to Zhengfang Mountain. ”

The young abbot was nervous and excited when he heard this, and he was about to get up, but he sat down with a painful look on his face. After a while, he said slowly in Chinese: "Tell me to go down, everything goes according to plan." It's a matter of success or failure! ”

This strange abbot is naturally pretended to be Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qin in the Ming Dynasty. And the fiery little novice is his right-hand man Zheng Sen. They have been waiting here for three days.

It turned out that since Zhu Youzhen decided to set up an ambush to block the mission in Zhengfang Mountain and rescue Li Zhenyan, the lord of the second incense, Li Yunhao did his best to screen out more than 100 good men who hated Li Liang for betraying the country and were absolutely loyal to Li Zhenyan from the Huanghai Merchant Gang and the children of the Li family in Haizhou. They disguised themselves as pilgrims, infiltrated the Chengfo Temple located on Zhengfang Mountain in batches, and then suddenly attacked at night and captured all the monks in the temple in one fell swoop.

When the temple was completely controlled, the original founder and the monks were imprisoned in the stone pagoda in the backyard of the temple, and Zhu Youzhen and Zheng Sen and others also entered the temple in person, pretending to be monks.

The reason why Zhu Youzhen chose Zhengfang Mountain as the location of the action was after some careful consideration. First of all, it is located at the junction of the Later Jin and North Korean forces, from which the North Korean troops have long since withdrawn, and the Later Jin army is separated by the Taedong River on the north bank. Once an armed rescue operation is launched, there is no danger of being surrounded by a large number of troops for the time being.

Second, the mission departed from Seoul and headed north, approaching the end of Yogyeong. This era was not as developed as the transportation in the previous life, and North Korea was mostly mountainous, so the journey was even more arduous, and the mission walked for three days in just over 100 miles. When he arrives at Zhengfang Mountain, he is already in a difficult situation, and the end point is in sight, he will definitely slack off, and it will be easier for Zhu Youzhen to start.

Third, not far to the north from Jeongfang Mountain, there is a large river in North Korea: the Daedong River. The Datong River is deep and can also pass through large boats, so Zhu Youzhen let the Fu boat quietly sail into the river and anchor in a secluded bay. Once they succeeded, everyone could quickly move to the ship and set sail for the sea. Although the Jurchens are in Jiangbei, they are only good at land warfare, not only do they know nothing about naval warfare, they don't even have a ship that can sail far away, and Zhu Youzhen and others can escape safely.

Fourth, and the most crucial point in the implementation of this action plan, is that Zhengfang Mountain is the only way for the mission, and the official road passes through the mountain. Since the Tang Dynasty, North Korea has been influenced by China to believe in Buddhism; And the Jurchens, don't look at the ferocious nature, they are actually devout followers of Buddhism. Zhu Youzhen bet that they would come to the Buddha Temple to rejoice; In case they don't come, they will have to take advantage of the favorable terrain to forcibly block them.

Fortunately, news has come in the past few days that the mission will indeed stay at Chengfo Temple for one night after leaving the Shali Temple, and then cross the river to the north the next morning. Therefore, Zhu Youzhen had already prepared a net of heaven and earth, and waited for the mission to take the bait.

But until the last moment, Zhu Youzhen's heart was always hanging in his throat, for fear that there would be a little accident and lead to a failure. Therefore, he couldn't stay on the blessing boat at all, and he had to personally sit in the Chengfo Temple and pretend to be the abbot, and go to the front line to directly command, so as to feel a little at ease.

But what made him smile a little bitterly was that Zheng Sen, these sailors, wanted to say that they would fight in battle, and they would not fall behind; But for shaving his head to be a monk, he has a lot of resistance. Zheng Sen took the lead in objecting: "Your Highness, although the villain has not read much, he also knows that the "Book of Filial Piety" says: 'The body is skinned, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it, and the beginning of filial piety is also.'" 'You let us shave our heads, how will we meet people when we return home?' ”

Zhu Youzhen told them bitterly for a long time, including that the hair of soldiers is easy to be caught by the enemy in combat, and it is not as convenient as bald heads; Once the head is injured, there is less obstacle to the hair, and it is more convenient to bandage; Hair of different lengths is detrimental to the appearance of the military, and so on and so forth.

These concepts are naturally self-evident to Zhu Youzhen, a modern person; But for Zheng Sen and others, it is simply unacceptable. No matter what Zhu Youzhen said, or even lured them with a reward of silver, they just refused to shave their heads.

In the end, Zhu You checked the fire and forced the two North Korean maids to shave their heads, and then pointed to their bald heads and said: "This king is the prince, and now he has also shaved his head!" If any of you refuse to shave your head, then get out of here as soon as possible, and don't participate in this operation and delay the king's great affairs!" ”

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen was leading by example, Zheng Sen and others dared to take it seriously, and they also "became monks" one after another. After shaving their heads, they looked at each other, of course, how awkward they looked at first; But after a few days, I gradually got used to it, but I felt that the bald head was more sturdy and could better reflect the heroism of manhood.

In the anxious wait of waiting for the mission to throw itself into the net, there is also great news coming: Qi Meifeng has been found, and she is safe and sound!