Since ancient times, the greatest desire of every denomination has been propaganda. No propaganda, no followers, no survival! Therefore, the greatest wish of every cultivator is to go out in front of the people. This is not only for monks and Taoists who are good at preaching scriptures, but also for tantric masters who practice ascetic on the snowy plateau. Turning over the history of Tibetan beliefs, from time to time a certain lama master suddenly appears in front of the people, preaching and preaching, to raise funds, to build a temple or a high tower...

Back in the Song Dynasty, no matter how many supernatural people there were in front of him, no matter how much Zhao Ji believed in them and treated them well, he didn't give them a chance to face the public... Only Lin Lingsu! Zhao Ji, with the respect of the emperor, held a lecture conference for him. That day was a real assembly of 10,000 or even 100,000 people. According to statistics, Guanglin Lingsu has more than 20,000 disciples in Beijing. They are dressed and fed on weekdays, and they are in a high position, and at this time, all of them are dispatched to create momentum for the master...

But the biggest momentum comes from Zhao Ji! The emperor ordered: Taoist priests with positions must go! They all have a huge amount of money, and each temple is a hundred hectares, a thousand hectares, please imagine their wealth... These people were responsible for providing souvenirs and meals for the conference. As for the quantity, there is no limit! The people of the whole city of Kaifeng, as long as they bring a green cloth scarf to mark the scriptures, no matter who they are, even beggars and vagrants, they can enter... If you go in, you will get a sumptuous meal and 300 copper coins. In addition, you can also get close to the emperor, the clan, the ministers and other high-ranking dignitaries for the first time...

Zhao Ji set up a royal tent at the venue and listened to Lin Shenxian's lecture together...

It was so grand, most of the people attending the meeting were full of eagerness, and they were all wondering what Immortal Lin would say?

According to records: At that time, Lin Lingsu gave a lecture on the stage, explaining a paragraph, and if anyone below did not understand or had different opinions, he could interact with Master Lin at any time, and Lin Shenxian answered immediately.

What's going on? Look at the original transcript - "... The spirit is based on the high seat, so that people will bow down and ask again. However, there is no difference in what he says, always mixed with funny butterfly words, up and down for the big laughter, there is no courtesy of the monarch and the minister" This is a text that exists as a criticism of supernatural events and Lin Lingsu. If the fate of the Northern Song Dynasty is taken as the benchmark, this makes sense. After all, the prosperity of Taoism this time did not bring good luck to the Han nation...

In July, an accidental event prompted the Northern Song Dynasty monarchs to finally make a decision that changed history! As mentioned earlier, Tong Guan went on an envoy to the Liao State in 1111 and met Ma Zhi at Lugou Bridge. Four years later, in 1115, Ma Zhicai came into contact with the high-level of the Song Dynasty. put forward the words that the Liao State would perish and unite with the Jurchens. It would take another three years (that is, in February of the year following this incident) for the Song Dynasty to send official envoys across the sea to make contact with the Jin State...

This process is very long, which is enough to show the caution of the Song Dynasty. In the final analysis, Zhao Ji, Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others are all extremely smart, how can they be hasty in the matter of plotting the whole country? Like the impression given by general historical records, it seems that Ma Zhi poured a bowl of fan soup on Tong Guan at Lugou Bridge, and Tong Guan took it seriously. Ma Zhi went to Kaifeng City to pour another bowl to Zhao Ji, and the Song Dynasty went to war with Liao. How can it be that simple! The Song Dynasty observed for nearly 7 years, and also obtained accurate first-hand information in this accidental incident, before making a decision and sending an official envoy!

The first-hand source comes from this accidental storm at sea in Bohai Bay. They blew a group of merchants from the Jin Kingdom who had gone to Goryeo to do business onto the Song Dynasty border coastline. There are more than 200 of these people, and the leaders are the golden Han Gao Yaoshi, Cao Xiaocai, and Jirong monks. They went ashore near Dengzhou in the Song Realm, and when they confessed their identities to local officials, they revealed the news that the Great Liao Kingdom had been defeated and retreated in the past few years, and had lost its army and land...

This news is explosive, the invincible and the largest and strongest Great Liao State in East Asia has reached this point? The Song people collectively doubted their ears. After being shocked, the governor of Dengzhou, Wang Shizhong, wrote a chapter and reported it to the capital. It's up to the Emperor to decide...

Zhao Ji convened a meeting in front of the emperor and asked what should I do about this? In this matter, the courtiers quickly split into two extremes: on the one hand, Cai Jing and Tong Guan, which was the news they had been waiting for for a long time. Taking the Great Liao State as a knife and earning more benefits with military exploits is their long-term policy, and they will never waver. Their public reason was that Lianjin broke Liao and recovered the 16 states of Yanyun, which was the long-cherished wish of the Song emperors of the past dynasties and the guarantee of the racial safety factor of the Han people. Fighting this battle looks very dangerous in front of you, but it can be for long-term peace and stability in the future. As long as the battle is won, no matter whether they face the Liao, Jin or any other alien race, the Han people will regain the defense line of the Great Wall!

On the other hand, the composition is very complicated, there are courtiers who are free from the Cai and Tong groups (the opponents have not been identified for a long time), there are the original backbones of the Cai and Tong groups, there are foreign emperors, and the common people of the Song Dynasty...

The people are very good, called An Yaochen. He is an authentic grass people, but he doesn't know what method he used, but he was able to penetrate the shady scenes of the official mansion that Cai Jing, Tong Guan, and Liang Shicheng had controlled for more than ten years, and set up cards layer by layer, and let the emperor see the words he wrote. This letter is thousands of words long, An Yaochen counted all kinds of mistakes since Zhao Ji ascended the throne, Cai Jing and Tong Guan listed their problems one by one, and finally focused on analyzing the Yanyun problem. His opinion is: This is the political means of Cai Jing and others, not for the country but for selfish desires, which will bring the country to the fire pit! In this regard, Cai Jing was very angry, but Zhao Ji didn't care, and gave An Yaochen an official position...

The original backbone of the Cai and Tong group was Deng Xunwu, the current military boss and a member of the Privy Council. He is the son of Deng Xuan, and he is a meritorious man who tried to protect Cai Jing's position and rescued Cai Jing from other places to the capital... What he opposes is not the correctness of Lianjin's resistance to Liao, but the possibility of operation. He said that in the early years of the dynasty, with the divine martial arts of Song Taizong, the strategy of Zhao Pu, and the generals of Cao Bin and Pan Mei, they won all battles, but they were defeated under Youzhou City, will they be sure now?

The foreign emperor was the king of Goryeo, he was the most standard qi bag in East Asia at that time, and he had the most authoritative interpretation of every new and old force around him. The reason is - whoever rises up will bully him as soon as possible! He asked the Song Dynasty doctor who was treating him to bring Zhao Ji a message: The people of the Jin Kingdom are much more fierce than the people of the Liao Kingdom, and the brothers have a premonition that this is the most ferocious group of people, don't provoke them!

The opposing courtiers ignored it, and the same thing was to attach importance to the covenant, and it was a headache to repeat ...

Combining the two views, Zhao Ji began to reminisce. Memories of all kinds: It should be that all wishes come true, and there is nothing in the world that he can't do! Now that the ancestors have been looking forward to the appearance of a century-old God-given opportunity, the Liao State has weakened to such an extent, what are you waiting for if you don't take advantage of the fire to rob!

Therefore, the Song Dynasty immediately sent the first unofficial envoy, and sent 7 officers from the division of the governor of Dengzhou. Take Gao Yaoshi and others on the boat, and follow the sea route where the Jurchens offered horses to Zhao Kuangyin in the early years of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and advanced to the territory of the Jin Kingdom. Their public reason is to go buy horses. After these people crossed the shore of the Bohai Sea, they found a lot of Jurchen patrolmen... Their response was to take a ship back home immediately. These wild people are too terrible to touch. After returning home, they reported that they were caught by the Jinguo patrol when they went ashore, and they were treated inhumanely, and the other party did not want to form an alliance at all, so they had to come back...

Zhao Ji may be an unprecedentedly extravagant son, an unconventional artist, or an unknown leader. But he is very smart, so smart that he has firmly grasped the empire in his hands from beginning to end, and no one has ever dared to deceive him, can deceive him, not even Cai Jingjing can do it! These people's tricks were immediately seen through by Zhao Ji, and he sent someone to investigate, and soon found out the truth. These people were sent far away to southern Xinjiang to go to the labor camp for introspection!

In September, Yelu Yanxi gathered the Bohai refugees who had escaped from the Tokyo Road and selected the strong men. Form an army of 28,000 people: those recruited from Yizhou are called the former and the latter. Those recruited from Jinzhou are called the front brocade and the rear brocade. Recruited from Qianzhou, it is called Qian. Recruited from Xianzhou. In addition, in addition to the Qianxian camp and the Yanzhou camp, a total of 8 battalions are stationed in Weizhou Tribulus Mountain. In Yelu Yanxi's mind, these people lost their homes. Must be full of resentment? There are unjust debts and owners, and they are all caused by the Jin Army, so let them fight both sides! This army was named the "Eighth Battalion of the Resentful Army", and their leader was Guo Yaoshi, a native of Bohai.

So in December, the Jin army fought with Yeluchun, the king of the Great Liao Qin and Jin Dynasty, at Tribulus Mountain. The resentful army immediately went to the front. Immediately after being defeated by the Jin army, the eight prefectures of Xian, Qian, Yi, Hao, Hui, Cheng, Sichuan, and Hui in Shangjing Province were all lost. As of this point, it seems that the second Dao of the Great Liao State, the territory of Shangjing Province, is destined to fall as well...

Year. In addition to preparing for the Song-Jin alliance and the joint attack on Daliao, the entire Kaifeng City is still busy with another major event: the first is a trouble, which is almost common to human beings, and no one can escape or control it. But Zhao Ji actually succeeded in solving it, and thus created an immortal legend - Zhao Ji's son problem!

He is the emperor, and in addition to working in the court every day, he has to work overtime when he returns to the harem, and the prince and prince have more reserves. After all, too many lessons from the past reminded him: Zhenzong, Renzong, and Zhezong all made a big mistake on the issue of their sons, affecting the entire empire! Now that it is Zhao Ji's turn, the problem still exists, as if Zhao Guangyi's descendants are cursed, and it is difficult to have a son. Good luck in the crisis, to be precise, the gods came, Liu Mingkang, the Maoshan Taoist priest, turned around inside and outside Kaifeng, and said to Zhao Ji: As long as the land in the northeast corner of the capital is raised, the princes will be born in batches!

Will it? Zhao Ji will be suspicious, but he doesn't need to dig the soil with his own hands, he would rather believe that he has to try! Things are so supernatural, since the terrain in the northeast corner has become higher, the harem concubines have suddenly become pregnant en masse, and they have really given birth to a series of boys!

In the face of ironclad facts, everyone has to bow their heads. Zhao Ji was convinced, and since then he has faith and remembered the tradition. Your Majesty Zhenzong, my great-uncle, it really makes sense for you to believe in Taoism at the beginning!

In order to show his gratitude to Taoism and to make his son even more, Zhao Ji ordered to double the northeast corner of the capital that had been raised to make it a mountain! Lengthen it and turn it into a mountain range!

It is repaired by the current emperor for the successor emperor, so it is named "Long Live Mountain" because it is located in the northeast corner, and it is calculated by the direction of the innate gossip, which is the "Gen" position, so it is also called Gen Yue!

The greatest building in the history of the Song Dynasty has finally broken ground! It was a masterpiece of civil engineering, landscapes, birds, animals, jewels, and illusions within the boundaries of the empire, and it was the most important national movement at that time to mobilize the whole country with the highest administrative power! The result is a rare treasure in the history of mankind! It was built in 3 steps:

The first step was to break ground this year and be almost completed. This is rough work, that is, piling up a mountain of soil, which is in charge of Meng Kui, the head of the household. The project site is located in the east of Shangqing Baoqi Palace, and the mountain-shaped trend refers to Hangzhou Phoenix Mountain, reaching the extent of more than 10 miles and 90 steps high...

After that, the power is handed over, and the second step is taken by a big eunuch in the harem. The status of this eunuch is transcendent, and he is a unique existence in the palace of Zhao Ji's era. There is a good comparison: the "Yanfu Five" in front is dazzling and extraordinary, right? Being able to preside over it is a status symbol. Cai Jing couldn't grab it, and with Tong Guan's strength, he had to share it with 4 colleagues. And Gen Yue is so big, it is actually only this one person who is responsible, what is his status, does it need to be said? (To be continued......)