Chapter 308: The Archmage is an Old Man
said, Li Mao also nodded in agreement, because this country's free medical care, not to mention in the Tang Dynasty, even in the future generations when medicine is highly developed, it is still impossible to achieve perfection, and although he is committed to the construction of people's livelihood and medical care after becoming the emperor, what he can do slightly better in front of him is only the two metropolises in Chang'an and Luoyang, which are closer to his palace, but even so, he knows that what he has done is far from enough for the people to see a doctor.
"Little Housheng, you get up and speak, these things you said will be truthfully told to our saint when you go back, he is very concerned about your people's food and treatment, but you and your neighbors should also understand that people eat grains, what kind of strange diseases will occur, it is really impossible to get rid of the disease, as long as you know that this believes in ghosts and gods to seek blessings, it is better to believe in your own hard work, if this posterity of A-Niang did not have the care and arrangement of Lord Yin before, do you say that she can persist until now? Okay, let's all get up and speak first, this matter of reciting scriptures, you can read it at any time, no matter how powerful his Manichaean leader is, he can't be more powerful than our Tang Emperor! Otherwise, they wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles from their Persia to our Chang'an to preach and give alms, right? ”
After Li Mao finished speaking, he raised his hand and pointed at the gang of the camel gang that had been captured when he just came in, including of course the double-edged brothers who were very familiar with Liu San. "Big guys, I think they all know them, these people usually do all kinds of evil in Fanfang, fish and meat villagers and business travelers, today we are in the mouth of the saint to arrest them, Fanfang has been chaotic for many years, it can be said that we have not cured a long-term buried cancer in the capital of Chang'an, some of the big guys are the people of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, and some are travelers from other countries who come to do business...... Most of you live in this place, and as for the security environment here, I don't think I need to say much about it, you all know it...... In the future, Manichaeism must not and must not be allowed to spread in this dark corner...... It is not that they cannot tolerate Manichaeism, but that if they want to preach here, they must be upright and bright, and strictly abide by the laws of the Tang Dynasty......"
Li Mao waved his hand again as he spoke, and before the sect members could react, the more than 1,000 soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion came to them one after another to help the old man and the child all pick up and pull them aside, while a young man and other sick people in the same family, Li Mao and Wangcai carefully instructed them, full of promises to give them the final medical treatment and arrange everything afterwards. Even while speaking, he took out a few pieces of silver from the cold blood and personally delivered them to these people.
", if your mother's illness can be cured in the future, it will be great, but if it is really difficult to cure, you can't be too sad, birth, old age, sickness and death are human lives, and our saints will not escape from this, you say yes, but this general promises you, your life will be better in the future, we Datang is in need of the construction of young people like you, if every young man kneels at the door of Manichaeism every day like you to pray for blessings, that big guy will talk about who will farm the land, who will do business, who will go to war, and where will the food come from, If Manichaeism is really so powerful, why do they still let you sacrifice money, they are not ordinary but also have to eat, you listen to this general, Manichaeism is just the same as that Taoist temple, temple, not as magical as you think, if they are really waiting for you, let them give each of you a house, a hundred gold, so that everything is solved, what kind of doctrine do you read! Haha......"
Li Mao said in simple terms, and laughed out loud after speaking, and at this time, those sect members seemed to be a little shaken by what he said, because as long as this matter calms down a little and thinks about it, it can actually come up with a reason. Therefore, under the gentler drive of the soldiers, they gradually stopped being as tough as before, and they all got up one after another and ran to Wangcai's side to register, because Li Mao lobbied at the same time, and also promised that Jingzhao Mansion would do its best to solve their current predicament tomorrow......
However, just after Li Mao took the black guards and the government soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion to solve the people's roadblocks, the Manichaean general altar was also arguing over today's sudden encounter, especially the sect leader who claimed to be the Manichaean saint was sitting on the high throne at the moment, listening nervously to the following elders, and the left and right Dharma protectors and others were discussing countermeasures.
"Archmage Gu Desire, it seems useless to let the sect members block the way Tang Bing came! At present, the commander of the inner guard has dispersed the crowd, and soon came to our main altar, they were street brothers at the beginning, it seems that the people who came are really not good, this is ...... We, Manichaeism, have listened to your old mind and only preached in Fanfang, how could we still alarm the young Tang Emperor in the Daming Palace? He would even personally issue an edict for such a trivial matter, and send a forbidden army to inspect it...... What a good thing that is! ”
"Don't panic, you don't have to panic, this matter has not yet reached the point where it can't be cleaned up, just now the people below reported that those people were specially asked by the Tang Emperor to find trouble with our Manichaeism, this old man still doesn't believe it, the Tang Emperor and the old man have also had a few faces, he still knows a little bit about the old man, he thinks very highly of himself, and will never work hard because of these little things, presumably there must be something strange about today's things, the light makes you just go out to investigate whether you have ever seen the commander of the inner guard, what kind of appearance and age is he?"
"Archmage Qiqi, that commander looks handsome, and he looks like he is about twenty years old, but he is quite ruthless in doing things, I heard that he was the first to kill the envoy of my sect...... In addition, all the subordinates around him are highly skilled, and they are by no means ordinary Tang warriors, and the sharp weapons in their hands are also different from ordinary Tang soldiers, even the small strong crossbow and stainless steel umbrella shield are carried with him...... Therefore, the subordinates thought that these people were by no means good people, and they did not back down in the face of the camel gang's numerical superiority......"
"This old man has also heard that the little emperor of the Tang Dynasty seems to have created a royal black guard with extraordinary combat power, the number is not much, only one or two thousand people, but one or two thousand of them can be a hundred, fortunately we didn't make a rash move! Thinking that these thirty or so people are the famous black guards, otherwise tens of millions of sect members will lose most of them even if they rush up......" The old man Gu Yu couldn't help but sigh secretly after speaking, as if at this moment he recalled the scene when he fought against Li Mao on the grassland.
That group of murderous demons still make it difficult for him to sleep, especially those thunderbolts, he was under house arrest in Chang'an by Li Mao for three years, and he devoted himself to arranging secret investigations, but so far he has not received any news from the mysterious armory, and even a dozen or so people sent have not returned alive.
After the old man thought about this, he then turned to the Manichaean Sect Master and folded his hands and made a ceremonial pilgrimage, and then said, "Sect Master Sage, it seems that we can't hide today, those black guards alone are very tricky, and now even Jingzhao Mansion Yin has joined in, presumably this matter must have a settlement, the old man has a special identity in Chang'an, it is not good to come forward rashly, if he really goes to meet with the Tang Emperor, I am afraid that even if he deliberately disguises his appearance, he will recognize him, and now I can only wronged you and deal with them for the time being, I heard that King Lao Ning will also be there in a while, presumably he will help us say some good things in the face of the old decay, as long as he is there, the Tang Emperor does not look at the face of the monk and looks at the face of the Buddha, it should not be a killer, in addition, our business in Chang'an and Luoyang in the past few years is also somewhat prestigious...... These cultists are our reliance, as long as you keep your posture as low as possible, you can survive this catastrophe safely......"
After listening to the words of the old man Gu Xu, the Manichaean leader Leon was skeptical, and then he also made a pilgrimage with both hands, and after whispering a few times in his mouth, the god of light protects my religion, etc., and then got up and slowly walked down the steps.
"Archmage, the head of this sect also thought a lot a few days ago, the main purpose of our Manichaean mission is to guide those confused poor people to the bright road, but since listening to your arrangement, the general trend advocates the convergence of all kinds of sects to magnify our religion, it is true that the believers in the sect have a great development, but such an unrestrained development will inevitably cause the good and the bad to be uneven, and all kinds of bad believers will also join it, just like the few Dharma protectors who were slashed and killed by the Tang Dynasty guards on the street, their previous behaviors, This sect leader has also heard of it, but today they are so bold that they don't even give face to the royal guards of the Tang Empire...... From this point of view, there are still many arrogant people in my sect! Have they long forgotten what happened to us Manichaeans when they first came to the Tang Dynasty? And the hostility of Buddhism and Taoism towards us......"
Before the words of the Leon Sect Master were finished, they instantly attracted a lot of approval from the management personnel in the Manichaeism, and some people immediately whispered at this time, lamenting that the sudden blind expansion of their own sect was not the main factor that caused the crisis, but they were afraid of the strength and prestige of the old man Gu Desire, and they could only whisper to the bottom of the theory, and they did not dare to debate with him face to face, and even Leon himself could only carefully say a few words to Gu Desire.
As early as more than a year ago, he was still sent by Li Mao to guard a separate garden in the suburbs, although he had no worries about food and clothing, but in addition to a specific period of time, someone would follow him out for a walk, and the only one who could contact the outside world was the daughter who was sent by him to be a maid in the Tang Dynasty royal family that day, that is, the maid Xiaotao who was later discovered by Li Mao lurking in the middle of Concubine Wu Hui, Later, Li Mao Nian sent people back to Gu Xiang after she said how to push the boat down the river and design the prince's ghost at night to scare Concubine Wu Hui to death, and it was based on this that Li Mao thought that their father and daughter had a bond, so they gradually relaxed their guards on Gu Desire, and only limited his scope of activity to Chang'an City......
And then things slowly developed Gu Desire is also a person with an old heart, without the ambition of the past, but people are not as good as the sky, the development of this thing is just such a coincidence, when Manichaeism took advantage of the chaos in the Li Tang Imperial Household to take care of the resurgence of the ashes, the remnants of the Turkic Khanate far away in Persia, that is, the original Vigha Khan, actually followed the Manichaean hitchhiker to send all kinds of spies to Chang'an, and even faintly cultivated their own power in Manichaeism, when they heard that their old national teacher Gu Desire was still alive, It was another earth-shattering operation of ghosts and gods, and the old man was hooked.
If it weren't for Li Mao's strength to wipe out all of Li Heng's rebels, perhaps the Turkic Viga Great Khan would have thought of taking advantage of this Li Tang's civil strife to add a fire to Chang'an.
At this moment, Gu wanted to face Leon's suspicions, but he just wanted to dispel his concerns first, so without waiting for Leon to further clarify his words, he said with a self-detonating salute and said, "Since the sect leader, you also feel that the development speed of the sect is too fast, then let's slow down next, this matter is also caused by the old man's lack of consideration, and the old man is willing to accept this crime from the light envoy alone...... Willing to face the wall for half a moon to show punishment......"
"This? Archmage, the sect leader doesn't mean to blame you for saying this, the benefits you have brought to us after entering the sect are actually obvious to everyone, otherwise a few of us would still be nesting in that filthy corner to survive? How can there be such a general altar of light that can live in ......?"
Leon wanted to ask the old man Gu Xiang to take back his words, and the management leaders on the side also persuaded them one by one, but Gu Xiang didn't listen to their persuasion at all as if he had made up his mind, and even turned around and walked into the wall room alone to think about it, and also instructed people not to give food that could satisfy their stomachs to >...... for three days