Chapter 21: The Return
"The national teacher once said that he would go back if he went, but now it's almost dark, why don't you see him!"
Above the court, looking at the sunset outside, Li Shimin felt a little uneasy in his heart.
Because of the various miracles of Chen Jienan before, Li Shimin has already decided that Chen Jienan is an immortal, and he is also convinced of Chen Jienan's identity as a disciple of Taishang Laojun at the beginning!
Even Li Shimin felt that maybe the genealogical records of his ancestors were wrong, maybe their Li family did not have any Hu blood, maybe they were really the descendants of Lao Tzu!
After all, their genealogy has been recorded for hundreds of years, and there is still a blank period of several hundred years before the era of Lao Tzu.
Therefore, when Chen Jienan left before, he said that he would go and return, Li Shimin was even more convinced, and even ordered the whole court to wait for the return of the national teacher.
At the beginning, everyone was looking forward to it, but as time went by, Chen Jienan had not returned, and everyone began to talk about it.
Even now, even Li Shimin is worried, is something happened to Chen Jienan?
"Since the national teacher can descend to the earth, then the other gods and Buddhas in the legend may also be able to descend to the earth! And the Turks are also said to have a wolf god, and they also claim to be the descendants of the wolf god! The legendary wolf god can be said to be extremely powerful, it is not the national teacher..."
Li Shimin muttered to himself, a worried look on his face.
After all, there is a great drought everywhere in the Central Plains, and Chen Jienan is still counting on Chen Jienan to help regulate the wind and rain, and even if you don't talk about this, Chen Jienan, the identity of an immortal, can sit in Datang, and you can prove the orthodox status of Datang and yourself!
After all, it has only been how many years it has been since the Tang Dynasty took over the country from the Great Sui, and he is the throne obtained by killing his brother and imprisoning his father, God knows how many careerists are surging under the Tang Dynasty that seems to be leveling all over the world!
The most important thing is that he announced Chen Jienan as the national teacher in front of the people of the world, and in less than two days, the national teacher had an accident, what will the world think? !
"Your Majesty, don't be impatient, the national teacher is a true immortal, and he is also a disciple of the Taishang Dao Ancestor, there should be no accidents!"
Yuan Tiangang, the supervisor of Qintian, took a step forward, bowed and said, both comforting Li Shimin and comforting himself.
As the leader of the Datang Daomen, he naturally knew how important Chen Jienan's arrival was to the entire Daomen!
Yuan Tiangang knew that Chen Jienan must not have any accidents, otherwise the old gentleman's personal disciple died in the Turkic battle, and such news would be such a huge blow to the Daomen!
"Well, let's wait!"
Li Shimin shook his head, didn't say a word, and couldn't see what his expression was.
"Alas, look at the heavens!"
Suddenly, someone pointed to the sky and shouted, and everyone looked up, only to see someone in the sky stepping on colorful auspicious clouds slowly falling towards Taiji Palace!
"This is the national teacher!"
The stone hanging in Li Shimin's heart finally fell, and he breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly greeted him.
"National teacher, I don't know what is going on with the Turks?" asked Li Shimin.
"Your Majesty, look at what this is!"
Chen Jienan smiled without saying a word, took off the bag on his waist, and shook it to the ground!
"Bang!"
A person fell out of his pocket directly, which really scared people!
"This, this, this is Jieli Khan?!"
Li Shimin shouted, and his heart was extremely surprised!
When he first ascended the throne, Jieli Khan led a large army to invade and persecute himself, causing the Tang Dynasty to become a vassal to the Turks, paying taxes and tribute, and opening the treasury to take it!
It is precisely because of such a great humiliation that Li Shimin also began to make up his mind, work hard, accumulate strength, and hope to be able to be ashamed in the future!
After the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty has long been injured, and it may be difficult to recover in a short period of time, coupled with the fact that there have been natural and man-made disasters in the past few years, Li Shimin does not feel that he can see the time when the Tang Dynasty will break through the Turks in his lifetime.
And now the king of the Turks, who used to drink Ma Wei water and whip the Tang Dynasty, is like a cargo at this moment, being thrown on the ground at will, for others to look at.
This man's face was no longer full of spirit, but full of fear and despair!
"Haha, Jieli Khan, long time no see!" Li Shimin greeted the people on the ground with a smile.
"You, are you Li Shimin?!This is Chang'an?!" Jieli Khan's face was full of shock, and he shouted: "Impossible! Chang'an and the grassland gather thousands of miles together, even if it is a fast horse, it takes two or three days to travel, how can it be so fast?!"
"Hmph, my Tang National Master is an immortal figure, and his cultivation is to reach the sky, how can you be a little Jieli Khan who can speculate without permission!"
Li Shimin Longyan Dayue, directly ordered someone to detain Jieli Khan, and announced the news in front of the people of Chang'an tomorrow, and then hurriedly ordered someone to prepare a banquet to wash the dust for Chen Jienan.
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Luoyang.
White Horse Temple.
This is the center of Buddhism in the world, and it is the first temple after Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains, and it is called Shiyuan Ancestral Garden.
Today, the White Horse Temple is particularly lively, because Master Tang Xuanzang, who went to the West Heaven to learn scriptures, has returned! And he plans to meet at the White Horse Temple in a few days to preach Mahayana Buddhism!
"Amitabha!"
A white-haired old monk knocked on Tang Xuanzang's door and whispered, "Master Xuanzang, I don't know if you are free now?"
"It turned out to be the abbot!"
In the room, a middle-aged monk stopped the pen in his hand to translate scriptures, stood up, and went out to greet him.
"I don't know what happened when the abbot came late at night?"
Master Xuanzang folded his hands and asked with a smile.
"Master Xuanzang, something is not good! Just now I got news from the Chang'an Buddhism that Li Shimin has made a Taoist priest a national teacher!" said the old monk with a sad face.
"So what!"
Tang Xuanzang shook his head with a smile, disapproving: "Since the establishment of this Li Tang, he has always admired the Tao and suppressed the Buddha, but even so, his Taoism has not been weakening, and it is not as good as day by day! My Buddhism has been suppressed by those in power, and it is not the same but it is still flourishing!"
"But this person is different!" The old monk sighed, and his tone was a little worried: "It is said that this person is a god descending from the earth, and he can also call the wind and rain!"
"Oh, joke!"
Tang Xuanzang rolled his eyes, not impressed.
"Abbot, there are no gods in the world!
"A liar who pretends to be a god and fools the people, don't care!"
"If he is really a god, I will abandon the Buddha and follow the Tao in the future!"