Chapter 617: Candidate for Messenger
It's not just that Yifeng and Shuli can't understand it, but when this imperial decree was issued, even Cui Ming was taken aback, and even caused an uproar in the imperial court and Junzhou City.
Without him, it was just because Zheng Wenqi was the vanguard of the main battle faction, and he had presided over the battle discussion conference in Junzhou City, wrote a crusade against the Dao, lobbied the various scholar forces in the imperial court everywhere, and even went directly to the prince's mansion to tell and request in front of Wei Huang to let the Shenwei Legion divide 200,000 troops and go to the eastern border of Junzhou to confront the Wind Roar Army.
Such a main battle figure, not to mention a minister or official, even Cui Ming, after being surprised, thought about it carefully before he understood the trick.
It is precisely because Zheng Wenqi is the main battle faction that he conforms to the momentum and attitude of ordering the Wind Roar Army to take the lead in withdrawing the army and letting Yifeng go to Junzhou City on his own to "ambush him".
But in fact, Zheng Wenqi is shouldering a secret mission, and Zheng Wenqi, who chose to hand over this mission to the main battle faction, is also hinting at Cui Ming's own attitude of the main battle faction Martial Emperor Wei Yu himself - he is inclined to peaceful negotiations.
Cui Ming immediately understood Wei Yu's intentions, from the day the envoy was announced, there was a very rare calm in Junzhou in an instant, the battle conference was not opened, and the controversy of the Holy Academy and its subordinate Confucian halls about the crusade against Buddhism and Taoism also disappeared, and it can even be called strange that the countless crusade texts posted in the one hundred and twenty-eight cities of Junzhou City also disappeared inexplicably overnight, which also proves that Cui Ming has overwhelming power in Junzhou City, this matter seems to be small, but it is just a matter of a few pieces of paper, But in reality, there is a dark tide inside.
The reason why he is equal to the Lord and the Lord's faction is completely for the sake of Emperor Wu's face, otherwise, with the power he has accumulated in Junzhou City for many years, with his terrifying influence, he is almost a figure who covers the sky with one hand, even if the crown prince Wei Huang and other pro-Buddhist ministers and officials argue, Cui Ming can guarantee that they can disappear the next day, of course, for various normal reasons, due to illness, business, and mourning, and even retirement.
No one can deny that he has this kind of strength, in the past, there may be the national teachers of Taiqingmen who fought against him, although Taiqingmen did not have the support of officials and officials, but they won the trust of Emperor Wu, in addition, there is an important reason, that is, the emperor Yan Qing.
Everyone knows that the emperor Yan Qing is the sister of the national teacher, and the national teacher is both the national teacher and the uncle of the country, and with these two points alone, Yan Guizhen is enough to compete with Cui Ming.
It's a pity that Yan Guizhen is now imprisoned by Cui Ming, and the Taiqingmen General Altar is also controlled by Cui Ming and the prince, although it is not completely controlled, but it is not so easy for Taiqingmen to turn over under Cui Ming's hands.
Those officials who admired the elixir of immortality, and the ministers who indulged in the Yin-Yang Room Technique, which had quietly become popular due to Emperor Wu more than ten years ago, of course, also died down and was diverted to the hands of the crown prince Wei Huang, or Cui Ming.
Of course, it is not only Cui Ming who understands the meaning of Emperor Wu's choice of people, those old treacherous and cunning people in the court of Junzhou City, all of them are as good as monkeys, everyone has three eyes and two tongues - long eyes on the back of the head, talking about people when they see people, and talking about ghosts.
Shenwei General Shi Meng, in fact, the faction of the crown prince Wei Huang certainly saw the situation clearly, but they were not complacent and arrogant, because they had been in the power field of the imperial court for a long time, and they all knew a truth: the higher the braids, the faster they died. So they also fell silent and waited for the development of what happened later.
Junzhou City has regained a rare tranquility, but on the eastern border of Junzhou City, a suburb called Lingtai County, there has been the most lively scene in history, which can be called unprecedented.
Just because this is the border between Junzhou and Qingzhou, and because the suburbs here have attracted the most monks in history.
Originally, the local people were afraid to hide in their respective homes in Lingtai County, close the door, trembling, and honestly afraid, not to mention going to see those monks who heard that they would kill people, and even hearing the name of the most powerful and terrifying big devil in history, Yifeng, was enough to make the baby stop crying and the old woman tremble.
They also have a lot of complaints about the Buddhism in Jiangnan, but they are also influenced by the Buddhism of Junzhou, so they don't know the true face of the Buddhism of Dawuguo, but everyone around them seems to be different, some believe in it, and some abuse it.
But now that Junzhou is surrounded by several monk troops, they still have heard about it, but they can't believe it.
However, they all let go today, because they knew that the army of Junzhou had sent an envoy from the Celestial Empire to meet with the great demon and evil monk to reprimand him for his actions, and also to order him to take the lead in withdrawing the army, and even order him to go to Junzhou on his own to ambush him.
This is a major event in their lives, and it is very likely that they will not be able to find this kind of thing in the next life, so thousands of people are empty, all the people help the old and the young, crutches, push wooden carts, ride oxen, play with mud, carry hoes, and are afraid to paint their faces with mud, leading the local dog raised by their own family, in groups of three or five, shouting five and drinking six, to give themselves strong courage.
The women of the village girls were even more flamboyant, laughing and playing, blushing and avoiding when they met the living, and as soon as they walked away, they opened their calves again, and hurried to the suburbs.
It can be said that they have all earned it, because this is indeed the most magical and spectacular scene in the history of the Great Martial Kingdom.
There is a mountain peak outside Lingtai County, up to hundreds of zhang, covers an extremely wide area, is called Zui Ling Peak, the posture of the mountain peak is very magical, like a Bodhisattva with his head bowed and his chest and his hands folded, there was originally a big temple on it, the local people called it Zui Ling Temple, although it was not this name before, it was changed to this name since then, however, it was demolished and burned down by the local Qingzhou Army garrison more than a year ago.
Some time ago, the local people heard the news one after another, saying that the big devil evil monk came here with the monk army, just to wait for the arrival of Emperor Wu's envoy.
On this day, it is a rare sunny day, but there is still a cold wind in winter, the sun is not very warm, hazy with white hair, whether it is hot or not, whether it is cold or not, there is a maple forest on the Drunken Spirit Peak, red and yellow are staggered, and the leaves that have fallen to the ground look from a distance, but it looks like a splendid robe on the Bodhisattva of the Drunken Spirit Peak.
There is a crack in the robe, that is, the stone path up the mountain, although the temple has been destroyed, but the stone path is not, there are often common people go there to climb the mountain, especially those old masters in the school and private school, as well as some scholars and doctors they know, often bring wine and swords, go to the top of the mountain to play.
However, there is a pity, that is, when the temple was demolished and set on fire, it ignited a maple forest around it, although those garrisons were afraid that the fire would be too big and hurt the innocent, so they immediately started to extinguish it, but it still burned a large area, so the top of that peak, which originally looked like the head of the Bodhisattva, has now become charred and black, and the face is hideous.
But the scenery below the head of the Bodhisattva is still good, especially here the terrain is higher, climb high and look far away, you can overlook the whole county, it is a magnificent place.
And now, all the ordinary people who came in a gang gathered on both sides of the mountain, one or two miles away, looking at the foot of Zuiling Peak from a distance, there was a large circle of gray tents, surrounded by wooden fences, and countless monks, wearing armor, surrounded by a young monk in a black robe, slowly walked down, facing the dirt road at the foot of the mountain that was overgrown with weeds on both sides, and walked over.
On the west side of the weedy dirt road, all the people craned their necks and looked at the end of the road from a distance, the cold wind blew the withered yellow weeds, blew up the dust on the dirt road, and rolled up a few small whirlwinds mixed with fallen leaves and dead grass and slowly drifted to the west, but they were shattered by a crisp and grand sound.
Everyone knows that the army of the Celestial Empire, the envoy of Emperor Wu, is coming.