Yuan Hong's downfall is so fast, people can't believe it, of course, all this is thanks to the credit of this big housekeeper, he has done a lot of things for Yuan Hong over the years, bribes, bribes, bribes, buying and selling officials, what to do with money, in short, he has done a lot of things, the most important thing is that this grandson has his own secret account, which records the content of each of his affairs in detail, date and address. When this secret account is taken out, it is simply ironclad evidence.

Wang Yuanhong of Guangyang was sentenced to be confiscated as a military camp state, his family property was confiscated, and his children were sent to Yongning Lane, which was subordinate to the Zongren Mansion, to do hard labor. Emperor Yuan Shanjian wanted to intercede with Yuan Hong several times, at such an old age, don't send him so far, just find a random place in Luoyang to put him under house arrest. Where is Gao Huan willing to camp, Yuan Hong is different from Zhou Wenqing, Gao Huan treats Zhou Wenqing as a dismissal and goes home to retire, and also uses the money in the imperial treasury to support him. But Yuan Hong's identity is not trivial.

Whether Yang Xiuzhi or Yang Kan said or hinted explicitly, they asked Gao Huan several times that this Yuan Hong could not stay, and he was afraid that he would be worried if he stayed here, and according to their meaning, they wanted to get rid of this Yuan Hong's idea. The assassination of the courtiers is unacceptable to Gao Huan, not to mention that he is still the humerus favored minister of his own camp, he can't do this, but this time the punishment was carried out Yuan Hong took the lead in obstructing it, which made Gao Huan very resentful of him.

Now it happens that he has been sent to Yingzhou in Liaodong, and there are thousands of mountains and rivers along the way, plus he is old and frail. There are a lot of opportunities to take the opportunity to kill him, Yang Xiuzhi has long been dissatisfied with him in his heart, and at this moment, he clearly asked Gao Huan for instructions to send someone to deal with this person on the road. Gao Huan was still hesitant, but Yang Kan said that if you don't get rid of someone like this, if he gets up again one day, he may kill you.

When Gao Huan heard this, he thought to himself, it was better for him to die than for me to die, so he agreed to Yang Xiuzhi's plan. Almost all the officials of the Yuanhong faction fell to Gao Huan's side, and the few diehards were also transferred and dismissed for various reasons, or even dismissed. At this moment, Chaoli and Gao Huan can basically be cleaned up. Gao Huan can now rule the world by himself, and he can do whatever he wants.

Gwangju Assassin Yan Xingming and Qingzhou Assassin Li Erhu had a very unpleasant quarrel, and there was even a scene of a big fight, this matter was Yang Xiu's participation in front of Gao Huan, Gao Huan then remembered that he and the original brothers had not met for a long time. I thought of the days when I was on an errand under Ge Rong, and the years when I was accompanied by wishful thinking, and I was full of emotion. So send someone to Li Erhu, Guan Yi and Guan Er brothers all called to Yecheng to meet.

People live in this world like this, some people like you and some people hate you, it is impossible for everyone to take care of you and spoil you, so whether a high-ranking and powerful person like Gao Huan will be hated will be jealous, there must be, and there are not a few. In order to protect the interests of themselves and their own factions, those in power must constantly erode and annex the interests of other people and other factions, and people have three major hatreds that cannot be resolved, one is the hatred of killing one's father, the other is the hatred of taking one's wife, and the last one is destroying people's wealth.

Gao Huan can do today's position, it is a great success, ruined the interests of many people to establish his own kingdom, the people who follow him must like him, love him, and be loyal to him, but those who are defeated or annexed by him do not want to seek revenge on him all the time. Therefore, the longer he stays in power, the more dangerous this person becomes, what personal bodyguards, the Praetorian Guards open the way to escort the car, and sound gongs and trumpets to warn him before and after, all of which are to prevent those who want to harm him.

But people like Li Erhu, Guan Yi and Guan Er are dead set on Gao Huan, because they used to be brothers who fought bloody battles on the battlefield and had a lifelong friendship, which is not a friendship that time can dilute or bad people can separate. Moreover, Gao Huan gave them a very high standard of treatment, reaching the level of Hou Ye, you must know that Li Erhu, who has the highest official position among the three of them, is just a thorn in history, and Guan Yiguan and the two brothers are even just a town general.

Gao Huan gave himself enough face, the three brothers understood in their hearts that they were more and more desperate for Gao Huan, and the moment when everyone gathered together was always short, and after a few days of partying, Li Erhu wanted to go back to Qingzhou, and Guan Yi Guan Er also had to return to his post. Gao Huan patted the horse and sent it all the way to the thirty-mile shop outside the east gate of Yecheng. The four brothers made an appointment in the pavilion to reunite in the future, but they never thought that this separation and reunion were already life and death, and this is a later story.

Gao Huan sat in a sedan chair carried by eight people, Gao Zhongming led people to escort him back to the palace, on the way back to the palace, when he passed Chongwen Street, Gao Huan was dozing in the sedan chair, he had just drunk a little too much, and his mood was also a little sad, so he was drowsy at this time. Suddenly, the sedan chair stopped, and Gao Huan opened the sedan curtain and asked Gao Zhongming, "What happened?" How did it stop? ”

Gao Zhongming rode a high-headed horse and ran forward to investigate, and then turned around and came back and said: "King, today is the day when the people are worshipping Zhang Tianshi of Taiping Dao. Gao Huan's heart moved, so he opened the sedan curtain to come down, and said to Gao Zhongming: "Oh, there is such a thing, then I have to take a good look." ”

In fact, he was curious, he hadn't been in contact with too much folk culture since he crossed over, and when he heard about Zhang Tianshi's sacrificial day parade, he was very happy and wanted to join in the fun, but this made Gao Zhongming bitter, remembering that the last time Gao Huan was assassinated, he still remembered that the last time Gao Huan was assassinated, if someone wanted to assassinate the king and plot to do wrong, it was really Daluo Immortals who couldn't save him.

Gao Zhongming was about to persuade him to be indecent and reckless, but who knew that Gao Huan went to the lively street without care, Gao Zhongming could only send people to look around and follow closely very nervously.

Gao Huan came to the intersection of the street, only to see a lot of people wearing colorful clothes, their faces painted like flowers, and holding a flagpole like a spirit flag in their hands, with words in their mouths, walking in the forefront is a yellow-robed Taoist priest holding a huge incense candle, there is an old Taoist priest in the procession who looks like a fairy wind and crane bones, is holding a carved wooden sword and sitting cross-legged on a platform, and the four big men below are carrying him forward.

Gao Huan felt that this thing was more powerful than his eight-person sedan chair, and asked a person on the side curiously: "Ask from my hometown, who is this old man sitting on it?" The common man looked back at him strangely and said, "You don't even know Zhang Tianshi?" When Gao Huan heard that this was Zhang Tianshi, an important figure in the history of Taoism in ancient China, he hurriedly looked into the crowd.

He didn't see Zhang Tianshi's face clearly, and felt very regretful, so he asked the ordinary person beside him: "How is this Zhang Tianshi's Dao method?" Does it work? This can be regarded as asking the right person, the common people talked about this endlessly, and praised Zhang Tianshi and said: "Ho, he is the twenty-eighth generation of the Heavenly Master, the Tao is unfathomable, and he is the best at using charms to cure people, and he does not take money from the poor." ”

Gao Huan was a little interested when he heard it, at first he saw a lot of monks in Nanliang, so he wanted to build a big temple in Yecheng, and now he saw Taoist priests, and felt that Taoist priests seemed to be easier to be accepted by the common people than monks, after all, this is a religion native to China. So he turned around and said to Gao Zhongming: "Let's go, get on the sedan chair, let's go home." Gao Zhongming was still nervous as if he was facing the enemy just now, and when he heard him say this, he immediately relaxed and asked, "What's the matter, the king, let's not watch it?" ”

Gao Huan sat back in the sedan chair, waved his hand and said, "Don't look at it and go home, tomorrow you go This Zhang Tianshi invited me to the palace, and I will discuss it with him in person." Gao Zhongming smiled in his heart, and said in his heart: Isn't this a joke, if you want to say that Gao Huan is a good hand at governing the country and fighting wars, and I have never heard that he still understands Taoist theories. Although he thought so in his heart, he still had to promise: "Okay, I'll invite him to meet him in our palace early tomorrow morning." Gao Huan waved his hand and said, "If you don't rush tomorrow, you will go to the Taoist temple to spread the word in a while." Don't get down to business. ”

Gao Zhongming really invited this Zhang Tianshi the next day, this Zhang Tianshi looked even more energetic than yesterday, with a goatee and crane hair, although his body was lean, he looked very light and capable, and he walked with the sound of the wind, which looked very otherworldly. Gao Huan came out to greet him as soon as he saw the Heavenly Master coming in person. The two sides exchanged pleasantries, and this Zhang Tianshi was also very polite to Gao Huan, and frequently replied.

In order to facilitate readers' reading and comprehension, here is a brief introduction to the background of this Zhang Tianshi, this Zhang Tianshi is the twenty-eighth generation of Taiping Dao, the heirs of Taiping Island have been the person surnamed Zhang since the first generation of Tianshi, in addition to Zhang Daoling, the originator of the mountain, the more famous Zhang Jiao, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion because of the official suppression, Taiping Dao has been strictly forbidden to spread in Hebei generation, but it is the same lineage of Sichuan Hanzhong Wudou Midao Dao ancestor Zhang Lu developed very well.

To the morale of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the introduction of Buddhism and Taoism gradually let go of taboos, so that they returned to people's field of vision, this Zhang Tianshi is called Zhang Niujiao, he is an orphan, he was abandoned in the mountains at birth, I don't know who it is, and later was picked up by the twenty-seventh generation of heavenly masters as a disciple, this kid is very intelligent, and he can understand the moral explanation, and he can understand it once he says, among the many disciples, although he is the youngest, he has the highest understanding.

Because he was naturally studious, he read all the books in the Guanli Zangjing Pavilion, and often saw him holding a book to read when he walked, ate, and went to the toilet, and even hung the book on the horn when he was herding the cow, because everyone loved to call him Niujiaoer, and his master, that is, the twenty-seventh generation of heavenly masters, named him Zhang Niujiao. This horn is very high, and when he is only thirteen or fourteen years old, he can draw talismans to exorcise ghosts and ascend to the altar. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, he can cure diseases and save people, and he can also scatter beans and become soldiers.

This kid is very famous in Taiping Dao, and there is no one in the Hebei generation who does not know about him. When it comes to this child, everyone picks the thumbs up. How? Because this child often traveled around with the twenty-seven generations of heavenly masters, helping to save many poor people.

Some people are very interested in their Taiping Dao method, how can they be so miraculous to save lives and help the injured turn stones into gold? In fact, most of the drugs they use are relatively backward Western medical methods plus acupuncture and moxibustion pills of traditional Chinese medicine, which is a combination of Chinese and Western methods to cover the eyes. It's very angry to look at, but it's actually an advanced chemical equation.

In that era, the people who knew Taoism were very remarkable, not to mention that they also cured diseases and saved people, which was even more respected by the people. Therefore, whether it is Zhang Niujiao or his master, his status among the people of Hebei is quite high, even comparable to the emperor of the soil. Of course, they are different from the emperor, because they do not marry wives or have children, they concentrate on curing diseases and saving people, and refining the elixir of immortality.

Of course, this Taiping Dao is so magical among the people, it is inevitable that some dignitaries and dignitaries deliberately or unintentionally believe in Taiping Dao for various purposes and ideas, so Zhang Niujiao is not surprised that Gao Huan wants to communicate with him, on the contrary, he feels that this is a manifestation of his ability, so in front of Gao Huan, he seems very calm and calm, and the old god is there.

Gao Huan talked to him about Taiping Dao for a morning, and felt that Zhang Niujiao really had a deep understanding of Taoist teachings, and the two had lunch and talked happily for an afternoon.

It stands to reason that whoever listens to this question will not dare to answer it immediately, and will be very subtle and modest, but Zhang Niujiao told Gao Huan very bluntly that there is no elixir of immortality in this world, at least he has not known the existence of such a thing so far, and he does not dare to guarantee whether there will be one in the future. Seeing Gao Huan's disappointed expression, he comforted: Taoism advocates health preservation in order to prolong life and delay aging, and he can help Gao Huan achieve this. (To be continued.) )