Establishing the reputation of Taoism through relief for the victims and speeding up the construction of Ziyang Temple and Zizhu Garden through cash-for-work is a strategy set by Zhu Daolin after repeated discussions with his master Xuanqing Daochang and several uncles.

In the process of specific implementation, Zhu Daolin's Ziyang Temple and Zizhuyuan successfully won strong support from officials of Shangyuan County and Jiangning County.

There is a famous saying in officialdom: Three lives are unfortunate, and the county is attached to Guo; Three lives do evil, attached to the provincial city of Guo; Full of evil, attached to Guo Jingcheng!

Jinling City is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, has retained the six departments of Nanjing, the Yamen is located in Jinling City, Shangyuan, Jiangning two county officials have a large group of provincial and ministerial, departmental and bureau-level officials on their heads, undoubtedly the Ming Dynasty wants a small number of the most unlucky and miserable persecution!

Therefore, the officials of the two counties, who were worried about the tens of thousands of displaced people gathering to make trouble, were more active than anyone else, and not only sent a large number of officials and officials to assist Zhu Daolin in the transfer of the displaced people, but also personally went to the Ziyang Temple under construction, and expressed their heartfelt thanks to the Xuanqing Taoist and his senior brothers who respected the world, and solemnly promised to give the greatest support to Ziyangguan and Zizhuyuan in terms of land purchase and workshop dock and other formalities, and Ziyangguan took this opportunity to obtain the franchise qualification of the iron workshop.

Under the management of Zhu Daolin, the expanded Zizhu Garden has been doing a good job, not only accepting more than 2,000 young and strong homeless people to participate in the construction and paying wages, but also clearing a large open space between the gate and the entrance of the lower street, and erecting ten porridge sheds to serve porridge day and night, Zhu Daolin has found time to participate in it many times.

Because he couldn't bear to see more and more orphans who had lost their parents shivering in the cold winter, and even being bullied and helpless, Zhu Daolin gritted his teeth and vacated the entire Dongkuan Courtyard, took in hundreds of orphans who were struggling on the line of death, hired doctors to treat those skinny children with scabies and other diseases, and selected more than ten honest and diligent couples with children from the displaced people to take care of the orphans' diet and daily life.

Hundreds of helpless displaced people survived because of the good deeds of Ziyang Temple and Zizhuyuan, and Zhu Daolin's first public appearance as the abbot of the Maoshan faction was successful.

The only thing that surprised Zhu Daolin and made him quite depressed was that the vast majority of the people and even the officials of Jinling City regarded Zizhuyuan as a separate courtyard of Ziyang Temple.

In just ten days, more than 23,000 displaced people flocked to the Ziyang Temple under the Shogunate Mountain, and the open space around the Ziyang Temple was filled with black pressure and a crowd of people who were sitting or lying down waiting for relief under the guidance of officials from Tianfu, Jiangning, and Shangyuan counties.

The compassionate Xuanqing Daoist and several brothers climbed the low post several times, condescendingly counted the number of displaced people, in order to mobilize food to carry out relief, but the disaster victims kept coming, how to count them can not be counted, and finally Xuanqing and others had to endure the pain to make a decision on how much rice to cook and how much porridge, and quickly sent two fast-legged little Taoist priests into the city to invite Zhu Daolin, who was full of ghost ideas, back to the abbot of the overall situation.

Zhu Daolin listened to the stories of the two junior disciples, and he also heard some remarks among the displaced people in the past few days, and Ying Changpei, who was very righteous, also sent the old housekeeper in his busy schedule to ask if 20,000 stone of food was enough? He also told Zhu Daolin that grain prices have begun to rise recently, and if you want to buy grain in large quantities, you should buy it as soon as possible, otherwise it will rise higher and higher.

Zhu Daolin didn't have to think about it to know that there was a conspiracy, and the first object of Zhu Daolin's hatred was the four major grain merchants in Jinling, and the second was the government that unscrupulously shirked its responsibilities for the sake of the official reputation and the black gauze hat on his head.

But no matter how he holds a grudge, Zhu Daolin has no ability to retaliate against others at present, and he can't even say the words of accusation, Zhu Daolin under heavy pressure After some annoyance, he realized that the Ziyang Temple, which became famous in a short period of time, and even himself had caused some people's dissatisfaction, if Zizhuyuan was not located in Jinling City, it would definitely be difficult to escape the fate of being surrounded by thousands of displaced people.

After repeated analysis, Zhu Daolin found Zhao Xunting, who was in charge of the overall construction of Zizhu Garden, told this conscientious technocrat about the grim situation that Ziyang Temple was currently facing, and entrusted him with more than 300 poor children in the east cross courtyard of Zizhu Garden, and then rushed to Ying's head office by carriage, and closed the door and discussed secretly with Ying Da, who was happily counting money, for more than half an hour.

After receiving the support of Ying Changpei who immediately sent people to find a way to buy 100,000 stone of grain, Zhu Daolin immediately returned to Ziyangguan, which was surrounded by more than 20,000 displaced people.

Zhu Daolin, who boarded the four-wheeled carriage, and Ying Changpei, who went out to see him off, didn't know, there were a pair of eyes staring at them not far away, the four-wheeled carriage had just left, and the shopkeeper Ying had not yet turned around and entered the door, and a young man dressed as a ruffian had quietly left not far away, and appeared in the main hall of Cuiweizhai backyard on the bank of the Qinhuai River a quarter of an hour later.

After listening to the half-quarter-hour report from the family, the young man in the brocade robe sitting on the throne rewarded the family with satisfaction, waved his hand and looked around after sending the family who knelt on the ground and thanked him: "What do you think?" ”

Zhang Guizhi, the slender and tall shopkeeper of Cuiweiju, who was over forty years old, rolled his eyes slightly, and looked at Master Zhou, who was playing with the jade ball in his palm and looked refreshed, obviously unwilling to steal the limelight.

The young man in Chinese clothes who sat at the bottom with thick eyebrows and big eyes said first: "The Taoist priest surnamed Zhu hurried to the general number of the Ying family to find Ying Laosan, and when he was finished, he hurriedly took the carriage to the north of the city, it must be that the food of Ziyangguan is almost gone, and he can only ask Ying Laosan to help buy it in a hurry, otherwise why is he in such a hurry?" ”

The brocade-robed young man touched his smooth chin: "What does Mr. Zhou think?" ”

The rich Master Zhou stopped turning the two jade balls in his palm, twisted his sparse beard and smiled calmly: "Young Master Yihe has a keen eye, and he has been working tirelessly up and down for several days, so he should be the first to take the lead!" ”

Yan Yihe, the young master of the Yan family, the head of the four major grain merchants, was very proud, but he didn't forget to compliment the brocade-robed young man on the main seat: "It's all up to the little marquis to anticipate things in front and command well, and he just runs errands and delivers a message to the homes of several uncles and uncles." ”

"And Mr. Zhou, if it weren't for Mr. Zhou's words at the banquet to mobilize a few adults in Tianfu and lead thousands of displaced people over, it would be useless for my Yan family to have more food, and the other families would not readily agree to raise the price, and this repeated action will push Ziyangguan into danger."

"In two days, tens of thousands of displaced people who heard the news within a hundred miles of the surrounding area will definitely come in a surge, and then tens of thousands of displaced people will gather outside the Ziyang Temple of the Great Construction. Ha ha! ”

Everyone laughed, and the little marquis Zhang Deyi on the main seat also laughed, and after laughing, he sighed with great emotion, and his slightly pale face was a little more bloody:

"In the past two days, every time I think of the prosperity of Yingjia's total number of daily gold, and the grand occasion of Yingjia's several major shops and merchants gathering to rush to buy, I don't feel good in my heart! If it weren't for the secret investigation in the past month, who would have thought that behind the sensation in the city again and again, there would be an inconspicuous Taoist priest. ”

"Alas! Speaking of which, I blame my negligence, if I pay more attention to the five Western grandfather clocks when Chaotian Palace gathers people to sell those five large Western grandfather clocks, how can it be the turn of Yingjia scenery now! ”

Zhang Guizhi, the big shopkeeper of Cuiweiju, who had never spoken, hurriedly stood up, bent down and admitted his mistake in fear: "Little Hou Ye, don't say that, as early as when Zhu Daochang went to the shop to sell the crystal ball, the small one should be reported to the Hou Ye, and then Zhu Daochang went to the shop to buy two Tang Dynasty three-color galloping horses, the small one still didn't pay attention to it, and the small one was wrong again and again, so he mistook the little Hou Ye and lived up to the trust and cultivation of the old Hou Ye for so many years." ”

Zhang Deyi waved his hand generously: "Uncle Gui sit down, although you are also negligent, but I know that you can't be blamed for this, there are so many rich people in Jinling City, it is common for me to spend 18,000 to buy a few pieces of antique jewelry in Cuiweizhai, who would have thought that a young and ordinary Taoist priest would be a sea merchant with a deep background?" If it weren't for Mr. Zhou's suggestion to find out the ins and outs, I'm afraid I would still be in the dark. ”

Mr. Zhou, who was polite and polite, came out with a smile and played a round game: "Little Hou Ye is right, Brother Guizhi doesn't need to blame himself, if it weren't for a month of secret investigation, and please mobilize the Lu Commander of the Zhongcheng Soldiers and Horses Division under the command of the old Hou Ye to help vigorously, who would have thought that the Maoshan faction, which has not been visible for many years, would have hidden such a deep strength?" ”

"Although the few thousand households guarding the Sanshanmen Water Pass claim to have no knowledge, and the two hall masters of the Cao Gang also flatly deny it, and at the same time, due to the Daomen forces and Wei Guogong behind the Ying family, we stopped the secret investigation and no longer looked for the root cause, but the results obtained are already ** not far from ten!"

"Alas! If it were a different family instead of a Ying family, I wouldn't have to work so hard day and night. ”

Zhang Deyi sighed again after speaking, he has always been a straightforward and bullying little marquis, and it is indeed not easy to play a conspiracy in accordance with the rules of the mall under various scruples, even if the old marquis Zhang Gongwei and Zhang Laohou of Longping learn about it, I believe that after turning his back, the old marquis Zhang will also be deeply pleased with his son's progress.

Seeing this, Master Zhou smiled again and encouraged: "Little Hou Ye doesn't need to sigh, as the old saying goes: It's not too late to make amends!" After the careful arrangement of the little marquis, and the concerted efforts of everyone, the opportunity has been placed in front of us, and the top priority is to seize the opportunity as soon as possible, send a suitable person to meet with Zhu Daochang, and everything will fall into place. ”

"As for the third child of the Ying family, the little marquis only needs to set the table for a banquet, and they are both respected noble and gentry families, so they are harmonious and wealthy, what is there to say?"

Zhang Deyi was in a good mood, and when he saw his dog-legged stern and eager look, he hesitated for a moment and decisively ordered:

"Uncle Gui is familiar with the Taoist priest surnamed Zhu, doesn't he like antique calligraphy and painting? Wait for you to go home with me, move a few treasures from the Yongle Dynasty Chengzu back and put them on the shelves, and then invite him to be a guest, Yihe and you will assist, ask him to go to the best restaurant, or go to Xu's mother's flower boat, and tell Xu's mother to find a few Qingqi people to open his buds, and then tell him who opened Cuiweizhai, so that he can't take him if he doesn't believe it! ”

"Yes!"

The old family member Zhang Guizhi and Yan Yihe, who had thick eyebrows and big eyes, stood up together, with confident smiles on their faces.