Qi Pingding really values Ye Ming, there are many people in the Daomen, but there may not be many smart people. Ye Ming is at least a smart person in the eyes of the Guanzhu Qiping, but unfortunately Qipingding still missees him, a person with too big ambitions should not only be smart, but also wise.

Qi Ping is sure to be able to sit in the position of the watchman, he does not deny that he has a trick, but that is on the premise of seeing the general trend clearly, not a pure gamble.

The Daomen lineage is now orthodox in the Tang Dynasty, and it is recognized by the Tang clan, and it should be gradual in the future. Ye Ming wanted to use Li Shimin to go further, maybe he wanted to establish an unbreakable foundation for becoming the Lord of the Heavens, or maybe he was so ambitious that he wanted to eradicate the power of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop. But Ye Ming lost, not only did he die, but he also affected the Daomen.

The anger on his face made the people around him nervous even if he didn't say a word.

Except for one person, the others didn't dare to take a breath.

Yuan Tiangang sat upright under the ambiguity, but between his eyebrows, he was not like a mortal.

"Since the Lord has a life, Poor Dao should take a trip to Dunhuang to resolve this matter."

"The stakes are very high, after thinking about this matter, only Daochang Yuan can do it, thank you for it."

Qi Pingding's tone is kind, and his attitude is sincere enough, this is not his own subordinate, and it is not his duty to help you. The number of etiquette that should be there is indispensable, and there may be some reliance on it in the future.

The courtesies were still exchanged, and Yuan Tiangang did not delay any longer, waiting for his apprentice Li Chunfeng to embark on the road to Dunhuang in the west.

The two walked to a small roadside shop and ordered a few side dishes.

Li Chunfeng said to Yuan Tiangang: "Master, why are all the merchants I saw along the way, and there are few foreign businessmen?"

"As a teacher, it is often said that it is better to walk more and see more than to work behind closed doors. Since the King of Jin was in charge of the four counties, Chang'an and even Luoyang had a large number of merchants to follow the King of Jin, and the King of Jin also built a place like the Qianniuzhuang Exchange in Dunhuang City, which allowed a large number of transactions to be completed in Dunhuang. ”

Li Chunfeng nodded and said, "Then it's no wonder, if I don't want to walk so many more ways to Chang'an."

Yuan Tiangang smiled and said, "If you are not a Taoist priest, don't go to business."

"Why?" Yuan Tiangang's words made Li Chunfeng puzzled.

"Dunhuang is Dunhuang, and Chang'an is Chang'an. How can the goods sold in the two places be the same price, and if you want to get rich, you must endure hardship, and if you don't want to do it because you have walked hundreds of miles, what money will you make?" Yuan Tiangang taught.

Li Chunfeng was not convinced, and said: "Master, if it is as you said, then why are there so few foreign merchants along the way."

"Some people are just like you, and some are smarter, not because they don't want to, but they don't dare. If you take the official road, King Jin has large and small checkpoints along the way, not only to carefully inspect the goods but also to collect taxes, and the cost will double along the way. If you take the path that no one cares about, you can avoid the checkpoint, but you have to worry about bandits. In this way, how many people are willing to take the risk to come to Chang'an?"

"When the King of Jin was in Hebei, he didn't have a large-scale measure to exterminate bandits and robbers. Now he ignores a group of bandits and robbers, and he is really a good prince who knows right from wrong and is upright. Li Chunfeng shook his head.

"At this time and that time, you can't say that King Jin's approach is wrong, at least from his point of view, there is no fault."

Li Chunfeng was a little excited, and said: "King Jin doesn't think about the people, can he do it but not do it, isn't it wrong?"

Maybe Li Chunfeng's voice was a little too much, and the people sitting next to him also heard his words.

One of them stood up and said politely: "The two Taoist leaders are polite."

"This gentleman is polite, I wonder what is the matter with you?" Yuan Tiangang asked.

The merchant was not polite, and sat down very consciously as he spoke.

"The villain Du Bao is one of the Tang Dynasty merchants who sell goods between Dunhuang and Chang'an. When I just listened to what this Taoist chief said, I felt that I was biased. ”

"Why is it biased, sir, you might as well talk about it." Li Chunfeng immediately replied.

"It's not that King Jin didn't suppress the bandits, but he didn't strangle them. All the way from Chang'an to Dunhuang, as long as you take the official road, there is no idea that bandits dare to fight to and from business travel. There is also a remark that I know that this little Taoist chief thinks that it is immoral for the king of Jin to set up cards along the way and force foreign merchants to trade in Dunhuang without letting them enter Chang'an. But the foreign businessmen are making the wealth of the people of the Tang Dynasty, and the less they earn is an extra profit for the people of the Tang Dynasty, isn't this a great move for the benefit of the people?" Du Bao's long list of words made Li Chunfeng stunned when he heard it.

"Does that make sense?" Li Chunfeng didn't want to agree, but he couldn't refute it.

Yuan Tiangang said: "It's the apprentice Meng Lang, who doesn't know the truth but criticizes indiscriminately, and please don't be surprised by this gentleman."

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay to be benevolent and righteous, but it's also worth affirming." In the past, Du Bao would not come out like this, and King Jin was not familiar with him, and some people said that his no, what did he have to do with Du Bao? It's just that since Wang Hu came to visit in person that day and conveyed that he did not blame his own family, he was grateful to Li Chengzong, the king of Jin, and felt that Li Chengzong was a good prince.

"I don't know if I can join you, my master and apprentice are also going to Dunhuang." Yuan Tiangang asked.

"This! This Taoist leader may not know yet. A few days ago, the King of Jin was almost killed by Daomen Ye Ming, and now the big and small Taoist priests in Dunhuang have been arrested by the King of Jin, it is not suitable for you to go at this time!" Du Bao persuaded.

Li Chunfeng said on the side: "If it's not because of this, I and Shizun don't have to go!"

is open-mouthed, Yuan Tiangang is a guy who doesn't take advantage of it, otherwise it would be strange if he didn't beat him.

When Du Bao heard this, he looked at the two of them carefully, and found that they were unusual, especially Yuan Tiangang gave people an indescribable mystery.

"That being the case, it doesn't hurt to do anything."

Yuan Tiangang said: "Isn't Mr. afraid of getting into trouble?"

This is also strange, Yuan Tiangang proposed to go with him because he was not familiar with the road, although the official road safety is inevitably petty theft, and finding someone to accompany is the way to insurance. But Du Baoming knew that he went to Dunhuang for the sake of Taoism, and he was willing to walk with his master and apprentice, which was inevitably puzzling, and he was not afraid to let Li Chengzong know that he was implicated in Taoism.

Du Bao smiled: "You don't have to worry about me, King Jin will not blame me at will."

"Could it be Li Chengzong's people?" Yuan Tiangang couldn't help but think in his heart that he had long heard that Li Chengzong, the king of Jin, preferred the way of merchants, and many wealthy businessmen had a relationship with him, which should be true.

Li Chengzong, who was far away in Dunhuang, still wanted to take a nap, and the monk Huixin, the representative of Buddhism in Dunhuang, asked to see him again.

"King Jin is polite" Huixin is polite on face, but his voice is lukewarm and gloomy.

"Xingshi is asking for sin?" Li Chengzong said lazily, he was full of food, he had no spirit at all.

Hui Xin said in a deep voice: "Why did the King of Jin imprison the monks of the six temples of my Buddha Gate?"

"No, you don't even know that this king was attacked in Qingyin Temple?" Li Chengzong shouted in a loud voice.

"That's what Daomen Ye Ming did, what does it have to do with my Buddhism?"

"Isn't Seiginji Temple a place of Buddhism? Isn't that the temple dedicated to the Buddha?"

Hui said anxiously: "Qingyin Temple was built by someone after the King of Jin came, but it is not a lineage of my Dunhuang Buddhism."

"Messing around, what is the lineage of Dunhuang Buddhism? Can Buddhism in the world still be separated? Don't talk nonsense, if you don't find out for a day, you will be honest with me. You have to have fun behind your back, if it weren't for the people of the Taoist Gate who filled the prison, this king would have arrested you all a long time ago. Come on, this king is going to make up for sleep, you go back and reflect on it. ”