Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu arrived at the Jinguan Mansion on the second day of the first month of November, and after a day in the city, they left the Jinguan Mansion on the third day of the first month of November and headed for the White Emperor City.

Then they would take a boat from the White Emperor City down the river to Huzhou, which is ancient Jingzhou, and from Huzhou to Wuzhou. This is their original route, passing through Yongzhou, Shuzhou, Huzhou, Wuzhou, a total of four states, and finally arriving at Shangqing County, Shangqing Prefecture, Wuzhou, that is, the place where the Zhang family has lived for generations, where Yunjin Mountain Dazhen Mansion is located.

The two of them walked out of the gate of the Jinguan Mansion together, wearing a patched cloak, and walked unhurriedly along the wide official road.

"Qingxiao, have you seen His Majesty the Emperor?" Qi Xuansu asked without words. Along the way, the two of them can't just blindly rush and don't say a word, most of the time they still chat, which can not only pass the time, but also enhance mutual understanding.

Zhang Yuelu shook her head and said, "I haven't seen it." ”

Qi Xuansu said: "I don't know what His Majesty the Emperor looks like?" ”

Zhang Yuelu thought for a while and replied: "This year is the forty-first year of Jiushi, this majesty has been the emperor for forty-one years, I remember that he ascended the throne in the year of the crown, so it is the year of the sixtieth year, and he is already an old man." However, His Majesty the Emperor should have a good appearance, not an old man's appearance, but also to maintain his majesty, and it will not be a young man's appearance, that is, the appearance of a person in middle age. ”

Qi Xuansu sighed: "Forty-one years of emperors, how important should the authority be. ”

Zhang Yuelu said again: "The Great Wei of the previous dynasty respected Confucianism, and this dynasty respects Taoism, from Emperor Gaozu to His Majesty today, they are all disciples of Taoism. Before Emperor Gaozu got into trouble, he and the ancestor of the Li family and the ancestor of our Zhang family were listed as the three deputy masters of the Great True People, and the position of the Great Leader was vacant. ”

"Is it the Great Sword Immortal Li Daoxu and the Heavenly Master Zhang Jingxiu in the Xuansheng Card?" Qi Xuansu asked.

Zhang Yuelu nodded: "Exactly, at that time, Xuansheng was still below the three of them, and he was only ranked fourth in the Daomen. Later, the Great Sword Immortal and the Old Heavenly Master Feisheng passed away, and Emperor Gaozu decided to rise against Wei, and he no longer served as the deputy head of the Great Zhenren, and Xuan Sheng became the master of the Daomen. ”

"After seizing the world, the Daxuan Imperial Court respected Daomen as the state religion and respected the Taishang Daozu. In other words, the emperor has two identities, the first identity is naturally the Emperor of the Son of Heaven, and the second identity is the great true person of the Daomen, which is above the deputy head of the sect, and belongs to the super grade, which is tied with the big palm sect. However, the emperor could not meddle in the affairs of the Daomen, so the only super-grade Taoist priest in the Daomen was still the Great Sect. ”

"When we people in the Daomen see His Majesty the Emperor, they usually call him 'Your Majesty', but if it is a formal occasion, they should call him the honorific title of the Daomen, and the honorific title of His Majesty the Emperor today is 'Purple Greatness Zhenren', referred to as 'Purple Greatness Zhenren'. The honorific title of the first emperor is 'Zongzhang Yuanying Kaihua Yuandu Dazhenren', referred to as 'Yuandu Dazhenren'. Emperor Gaozu's honorific title is 'Chief Palm Jade Void Five Thunder Immortal Dazhenren', referred to as 'Immortal Dazhenren'. In general, it is enough to memorize these three. However, with the level of the two of us, most of us will not be able to see the human emperor who lives in the deep palace. ”

Qi Xuansu nodded to note it, and couldn't help but say: "I didn't know that His Majesty the Emperor still had such a Daomen identity, and this is also half a Daomen?" ”

"This honorific title is sealed by the Daomen Dynasty Taishang Daozu, and the emperors of the past dynasties consider themselves to be the disciples of the Son of Heaven and the Daozu, and the two identities do not conflict." Zhang Yuelu explained, "In fact, the same is true of the Golden Horde, the Golden Horde respects shamanism as the state religion, shamanism believes in immortality, and its leader Wuwang means 'the one who is favored by the immortal heaven', and the Golden Horde means 'the one who depends on the power of the immortal heaven and becomes the king', the two are interdependent, the former cannot occupy the throne for a long time, and the latter is favored by the immortal heaven, and can live forever, but cannot touch the throne." ”

It was the first time Qi Xuansu had heard of these semi-open secrets, there was no way, in the past, he was too low, and secondly, he had been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, far away from the Taoist gates and temples, and had no opportunity to contact these secrets.

Zhang Yuelu asked, "Why do you suddenly care about His Majesty the Emperor?" ”

Of course, Qi Xuansu didn't say that he actually had nothing to say, but said: "I often heard people say that the two most powerful people in the world are the Great Palm Sect of our Daomen, and the other is His Majesty the Emperor of the Imperial Court, and now that the position of the Great Palm Sect is vacant, isn't His Majesty the Emperor the most powerful person in the world?" ”

"Pretty much." Zhang Yuelu said, "But it has nothing to do with us, let the emperor's return to the emperor, and let the Daozu's return to the Daozu." ”

Qi Xuansu had heard of this sentence, it was the famous words of the three generations of the Great Palm Sect quoting the Western Continent, and the background was that the Great Sacrifice Wine of Confucianism, one of the three great sacrificial wines of Confucianism, raised a question to the three generations of the Great Palm Sect, that is, how to deal with the relationship between the Daomen and the imperial court. The three generations of Great Masters replied with this, which probably means that the well water does not interfere with the river water.

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Bohai Province is located in Sanhui Haikou, known as the gateway to the imperial capital, not only the hub of Cao Yun, but also facing the sea in the east, there are many ports, both for merchant ships to use the civil port, but also for the use of war ships for military ports. If you go to the imperial capital by sea, this place is a must.

Today, there is a behemoth docked in the military port, and the other ships are extremely small.

It was a majestic ship with no complicated sails, only an observation deck and a huge chimney.

This is the ironclad ship that crisscrosses the four seas, and the flying boat of Daomen, known as the "two dragons".

In addition, the battleship is equipped with the latest guns.

Two hundred years ago, the warships of the East and the West were generally equipped with breech guns, although there has been great progress compared with the breech guns, but at this time the breech guns used the technology of ejection, that is, the gun body of the gun is connected to the gun mount through the trunnion, and the gun carriage bears the recoil when the gun is fired, and the gun body together with the overall recoil of the gun mount will produce a large displacement after launching, and it takes a lot of time to reset and aim, so the rate of fire is very slow, and even once set the slowest record of firing twice in half an hour.

In order to improve this defect, the Western Continent developed the technique of tube retreat. This technology allows the recoil part of the gun to automatically return to its original position by using its own recoil force after firing, saving the time of resetting and re-aiming, and the rate of fire of the gun is greatly improved. Later, it spread to the Eastern Continent and was widely used by the three major sailors of the imperial court.

A group of people appeared at the bow of the ship, the leader was dressed in a dark crane and wore a lotus crown, it was the owner of this battleship, the Qingwei real person who was in charge of the Qizhou Provincial Government.

As for why Qingwei Zhenren, who is a member of the Daomen, can have an ironclad battleship, it can be traced back to the Great Wei period.

During the Great Wei Dynasty, the sea was closed and forbidden, the imperial court sailors were almost deserted, and Confucianism became the largest landlord in the world. Daomen found another way, vigorously developed the fleet, filled the gap, and the ocean-going fleet could reach the western continent, and finally relied on the prosperity of maritime trade to successfully surpass the self-contained Confucianism.

The vast sea, like a borderless land, is naturally plagued by pirates, and the fleet of the Daomen has to be equipped with artillery. Among them, the Li family's fleet was the most majestic, and after three naval battles, it established its position as the supremacy of the sea.

When the deer were chasing the world, the Li family's fleet was divided into two routes, all the way north to bombard Bohai Province, and the other side went south from the mouth of the sea into the river surface of the river to block the Cao Yun. Make a great contribution.

After the Great Xuan Dynasty won the world, it established three major naval divisions, and the predecessor of these naval divisions was the fleet of Daomen, and the Li family fleet was the mainstay. There is naturally an inextricable connection between the two, and to this day, the Li family still has a deep influence in the naval division, and every commander of the East China Sea Division has the background of the Li family.

Qingwei Zhenren is not only a real person of Daomen, but also a member of the Li family. On weekdays, he does not live in Qizhou, but lives in the Qingling Palace on Abbot Island, which is close to Penglai Island, where the Zhenjing Villa is located, and is the second person in Taiping Dao and the Li family.

This time, he was ordered by the emperor to go to Beijing, and he set off by boat from Abbot Island. In a sense, this is also a real person showing his power.

is also in charge of a local government, and there are also superior and inferior. Some of the Taoist people can only balance the forces in the middle, while some of them say the same.

Now the three deputy head of the sect and the rest of the Pingzhang Dazhen are all over eighty years old, and they cannot compete for the position of the great master of the sect, so most of them have to be elected from among the thirty-six real people who are involved in the knowledge, and the Qingwei real people with the support of Taiping Dao and the Li family are undoubtedly one of the most promising.

The real age of Qingwei real people is specific and geometric, and it is difficult for outsiders to know. Judging from his appearance alone, he was very young, about thirty years old, with a slender figure and an extraordinary handsomeness.

This real person who is expected to become the seventh generation of the Great Sect of Masters looks down, and the crowd below is like ants.

Dijing and Zhili are the only special places that have not set up a Taoist government, so the people who came to greet them this time were all court officials and disciples of Taipingguan, many of whom were born in the Li family.

Qingwei Zhenren retracted his gaze and turned to look in the direction where the imperial capital was.

He is an orthodox descendant of the Li family, a descendant of the Great Sword Immortal, Xuan Sheng, and Eastern Emperor. The Li family once had two great masters, four deputy masters, and twenty-eight real people, although they were not among the three major families in the world, but they were undoubtedly the first family in the Daomen.

For the Li family, a real person is really nothing, and now there is already a deputy master of the great real person, what the Li family needs is a big master to revive the glory of the Xuan Sheng.

Therefore, he wants to go to the imperial capital and meet His Majesty the Emperor, although the emperor cannot meddle in the affairs of the Daomen, but as the true person of the Daomen, his attitude itself is an invisible force.