Chapter 220: The War Breaks Out, the Abbot is Busy (Four Changes)

Originally, Huo Yuanzhen planned that if the war did not break out soon, he would have a temple fair on April 18, and the propaganda would be bigger, so that these monks could go out of Shaolin and go down to the countryside

First, you can take this opportunity to promote Buddhism and increase the popularity of Shaolin, and secondly, it can also alleviate Shaolin's economic problems and completely repay its debts.

Huo Yuanzhen even came up with a lot of ideas to use on the day of the temple fair, but they were all ruined by this sudden war.

In the imperial court, because His Majesty the Emperor was worried that Taishi Wei Xian and Guan Tianzhao would unite with General Ma in the northwest, he had not allowed the proposal of Taishi to go to the northwest to worship his ancestors.

And this time, His Majesty the Emperor agreed to Zhao Ximo and Zhao Yuankui's proposal, and suddenly allowed the Taishi to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors.

Taishi Wei Xian was still a little at a loss for a while when he got this imperial order, but he did want to meet with General Ma in the northwest to discuss important matters.

And he thought that his arrangement in the city guard army was enough, and he was not worried about what tricks the emperor could play, so he left Chang'an as planned.

As soon as he left on the front foot, the person was still halfway, and His Majesty the Emperor here began the thunderous cleanup, Zhao Ximo personally went out and assassinated more than a dozen senior henchmen left by Taishi in the city guard army overnight with the strength of a master in the late congenital stage, and won the control of the city guard army in one fell swoop.

The reorganization of the city guards was completed in only two days, and the original team of the Taishi was disrupted, and when the group of dragons was leaderless, those ordinary soldiers couldn't make any waves at all.

After quickly taking control of the city guards, His Majesty the Emperor solved two major problems.

One is that there is no time bomb by his side, and the other is that there is one more usable trump card in his hand, and the emperor has completely occupied the advantage.

After that, the emperor quickly closed the Chang'an border pass, completely isolated the Taishi in the northwest, and only waited for Guan Tianzhao to be cleaned up here, and then turned back to deal with him and the surnamed Ma.

The Taishi knew that it was too late for the emperor's series of methods, the border was closed, and he didn't dare to go back. 《》www

After the city guard army completed the reorganization, together with the third army of the Tang Dynasty, the two legions rushed to Luoyang at the same time, wanting to take this fortified city in one fell swoop and start the first battle to conquer the feudal town.

However, although Guan Tianzhao is obsessed with the art of Jindan, he occasionally listens to reports from Chang'an.

It also happened that the news that the city guards were quickly rectified by the emperor was learned by him, and Guan Tianzhao suddenly sobered up a lot.

At this time, he had already realized that if he couldn't quickly reverse the passive situation, then his Jindan Avenue would be empty after all, so he also temporarily stopped studying Jindan and began to organize forces to deploy.

When the city guards and the Third Army arrived at Luoyang City, the other party had already prepared, and seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses could not hold out, and Luoyang City became a stinky and hard stone, which could not be gnawed down.

In desperation, the two legions bypassed Luoyang City and began to march to the interior of Henan, so that in the middle of Guan Tianzhao, the front could send troops to resist, and the defenders of Luoyang could sneak attack, and they could also cut off the supply lines of the other party, so that the two major armies fell into the quagmire of tug-of-war.

The two legions also set up suspicious formations, and made some decoy grain convoys to attract each other to take the bait.

The Henan army also succeeded in sneak attacks and failed to take the bait, and the two sides had two large-scale exchanges on a land radius of hundreds of miles, with tens of thousands of casualties.

But Guan Tianzhao's strategy was successful, the two corps could not take Luoyang, they could not form a real threat to the interior of Henan, and their own strength was not enough to eat these two corps, so they could only try to take a defensive position, wait for General Ma in the northwest to send troops to support, and give pressure on Chang'an from the other direction to relieve their own pressure. ..., the war was at a stalemate for a while.

When the war came, no one in Henan had the heart to cultivate, especially in the rural towns from Luoyang to Dengfeng, where the undersupplied imperial rebels often appeared, looted and burned, and in their hearts, these Henan people were already completely believers in Guan Tianzhao and did not deserve pity.

Although these were only small troops, they were not something that the people could resist, and soon a large number of victims appeared in western Henan.

As long as Luoyang is lost, Henan will be defeated, the officials have packed the gold and silver finely, and quietly prepared the carriages and horses, as long as the situation in Luoyang is not good, there will be a large number of officials who defect or flee. (《》www)

In this case, where will anyone still have the heart to do business, and the yamen will not be promoted to the court, who will care about the life and death of those disaster victims.

The rioters searched for something to eat.

The merchants who stockpiled grain began to take advantage of the opportunity to raise the price of grain and exploit the few dollars in the hands of the victims.

In order to survive, some people who had no money clashed with grain merchants, and even killed people.

Although this was not a large-scale riot, as time went on, if the war did not end and the victims died on a large scale, it would be the day of the peasant revolt.

And the Shaolin Temple, which hoarded a lot of grain at the beginning, has now become fat in the eyes of many people.

It's just that due to the strong defensive capability of the Shaolin Temple itself and the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain of Yuzhai Mountain, those who are worried about it have not dared to attack the Shaolin Temple.

Originally, I thought that Shaolin Temple was going to make war money, but at the end of April, when the tide of victims had reached Dengfeng, Shaolin Temple suddenly made a move that surprised everyone.

Open the mountain gate! Give alms and porridge! Pudu people!

At this time, food is gold, who would be willing to take out so much food to relieve the victims, only Shaolin Temple.

Thousands of victims have gone up to Shaomu Mountain, in the temple, countless sheds have been built for these victims to rest, the monks of Shaolin Temple have temporarily stopped practicing martial arts, dozens of cauldrons have been propped up, cooking porridge for these victims to drink.

After getting the news, more and more people began to go to the Shaolin Temple.

This is indeed a shelter, not only away from the sword soldiers, but also sheltered from the wind, the old and weak, women and children are arranged into the shed.

What's more, the monks in this temple are very good to people, especially the young abbot, who is good at everything, and personally comes to the victims every day to help Zhang Luo make arrangements.

If you are hungry, find the abbot and he will give you a bowl of porridge to drink.

If you don't have a place to sleep, find the abbot, and he will arrange a place for you to live.

When the child was crying, ask the abbot to knock on the wooden fish for you, recite the scriptures, and the child will stop crying.

And in this Shaolin Temple, people's mentality will naturally calm down, those Buddha's halls, as long as you walk in to worship, then you will involuntarily yearn for it, and will sincerely pray for the Buddha to bring you well-being.

Although there are many people in all Shaolin Temple now, but it is not chaotic, the victims are still living comfortably here, compared to the chaos outside, this is already heaven.

If you stay in Shaolin, you will naturally hear the story of Shaolin, and the most widely spread among the people is that the buildings of the Shaolin Temple are miraculous things.

Originally, people scoffed at this statement, but when more people said it, many people gradually believed it.

Of course, there are many people who insist on not believing that this kind of thing is too ridiculous, and it must be fabricated by false rumors.

But on April 28, two Buddha halls descended from the sky and appeared out of thin air, shattering everyone's doubts.

A Fuxian Palace, a Daxiong Treasure Palace. ..., Huo Yuanzhen didn't win any grand prize when he drew the lottery in April, but only drew a construction token of the Fuxian Palace, Huo Yuanzhen simply gambled once, and the result was successful, and the gamble went to the Daxiong Treasure Palace.

And these two construction tokens, Huo Yuanzhen first quietly used the Fuxian Hall in the middle of the night, and no one found out.

The next day, people found the Fuxian Palace, and when they were full of admiration, Huo Yuanzhen used the construction token of the Daxiong Treasure Hall again.

This time, under the gaze of thousands of people, the Daxiong Treasure Hall appeared, and in full view of everyone, it was absolutely impossible to fake.

The miraculous scene led to people's awe of the unknown, many people knelt on the ground to worship, prayed sincerely, and for a time, almost all of them became followers of the Buddha.

And the miraculous abbot who was able to communicate with the Buddha was a hit among the people this time.

At the beginning, the influence of Shaolin Temple was only limited to the Dengfeng area, but now, as soon as the war is over, after these victims return to their hometowns, Shaolin Temple is definitely a well-known mythical temple in Henan, and it is a pure land in the minds of countless people.

Huo Yuanzhen dragged his tired body back to the abbot's courtyard, and lay down on the bed with his head upside down, not wanting to move his fingers.

Shaolin has now taken in nearly 4,000 victims, almost filling the entire courtyard, if there are any more people, I am afraid that they can only be arranged in the back mountain.

Since he started making porridge until now, Huo Yuanzhen has never been idle, and there are too many things to take care of in the lives of thousands of people.

Adults cry, children make trouble, the elderly need to be helped, and they have to get out of the women's toilet alone.

It's so annoying! Shaolin monks used to share a big toilet!

Especially if someone is sick or injured, basically many times the abbot needs to come forward in person, obviously Huiwu and others don't believe it if they want to save people with gold sore medicine, even if Huo Yuanzhen is watching from the side, the victims are also at ease.

It's not easy to be a leader!

With a long breath, Huo Yuanzhen was a little physically and mentally exhausted.

Rubbing his shoulders with his hands, Huo Yuanzhen remembered that in the cold palace, An Ruhuan had quietly pinched his shoulders, and if she was there at this time, she should take care of herself.

It's just that An Ruhuan is a fairy-like character, does she really know how to take care of people?

What about Ning Wanjun?

What about Murong Qiuyu, what about Luo Caiyi, and what about Hua Xiaohuan?

When he was tired, these women who had crossed paths with him appeared in front of him one by one, Huo Yuan really thought that it would be good if someone could chat with him at this time.

Thinking vaguely, he fell asleep vaguely, I don't know when, someone seemed to be calling softly in his ears, and his voice was delicate: "Huo Yuanzhen." ”

This voice is so sweet, sweet doesn't want people to wake up, Huo Yuanzhen can't tell if it's a dream or not.

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