Chapter 112: Getting Closer
Zhang Yuelu's main task when she left Yujing this time was to eliminate the secret association, and Cihang Zhenren gave her great autonomy, without specifying goals or dividing regions. In other words, Zhang Yuelu could decide for himself where to go and what secret associations to crack down, and under the signboard of Tiangangtang, all local provincial governments had to assist.
Now that Zhang Yuelu was invited to Wuxu Palace, she did not forget her responsibilities and began to arrange errands for her subordinates.
In the beginning, there were only two principals under her command, who met the rules of the Daomen.
However, over the years, many rules have become fictitious, such as the rule that each deputy hall master has two directors fixed in the Xuansheng years, when the Dao Gate was not as large as it is today, and the two masters were enough to deal with various affairs.
But with the continuous development of the Daomen, the two principals gradually became overstretched, and it was not easy to change the structure rashly, such as adding another level of position between the deputy hall master and the deputy hall master, so the deputy hall masters and deputy hall masters came up with a compromise strategy to continuously increase the number of directors under their command, and form an invisible rank through the ranking of the directors.
Generally speaking, only a newly promoted deputy head will have only two vice masters, and there will be as many as nine chief vice masters.
After Zhang Yuelu took over Shangguan Jing's old department, including Sun Yongfeng and Lingquanzi, there were already five directors under his command. Xu Kou also entered the stage of returning to the truth not long ago, and was promoted to the main minister by Zhang Yuelu regardless of his previous suspicions, with a total of six directors. is not inferior to many real power deputy hall masters, and it is no wonder that he is called a small master.
In fact, the appointment and increase or decrease of the head of the hall still have to be approved by the real person in charge, not that the deputy hall master can be appointed if he says that he is appointed, but Cihang Zhenren also gave Zhang Yuelu great autonomy in this regard, and reporting to the real person in charge of the hall has become a formality, and it is okay to say that it is Zhang Yuelu's appointment.
The reason why this is so is because Cihang Zhenren is afraid that Zhang Yuelu's authority will not be able to suppress a few principals who were originally under Shangguan Jing's orders, after all, Shangguan Jing is a second-grade Taiyi Taoist, and now Zhang Yuelu is only a fourth-grade sacrificial wine Taoist, two levels behind. Therefore, Cihang Zhenren handed over the personnel power to Zhang Yuelu, whoever dares to challenge Zhang Yuelu must be prepared to be dismissed by Zhang Yuelu, and at the same time shows her attitude, at least in Tiangang Hall, Cihang Zhenren unconditionally supports Zhang Yuelu, and if you want to fight a lawsuit, you can only go to Jinque.
This time, Zhang Yuelu sent all the six principals under his command out, and ordered them to lead their Taoist priests and spiritual officials to exterminate the small group of secret association forces. In addition to dispatching and commanding in the center, she only brought a few deacons who belonged directly to her to continue to investigate Wan Xiuwu's case.
Pan Cuiqing didn't have any opinion on this, after all, Wan Xiuwu was only a fifth-grade Taoist, not even a high-grade Taoist, and it was impossible for the entire Shaking Light Division to revolve around him alone. When the flying boat was attacked, Tiangangtang only dispatched a division.
After scattering the manpower, Zhang Yuelu left the Wuxu Palace in Xijing Mansion and came to the "Ghost Pass" to visit the spiritual officer stationed here.
This spirit officer is a genuine first-class spirit officer with a transcendent status. in order to
Zhang Yuelu's Taoist grade, naturally unable to dialogue with him on an equal footing, but the Daomen still talks about positions, in terms of position, Zhang Yuelu is definitely a humble and powerful, and Shangguan Jing, who has died, is also the deputy hall master, that is, a second-grade Taiyi Taoist, just able to correspond to a first-grade spiritual official.
Because of this, this spirit official did not turn Zhang Yuelu away, but he was not too enthusiastic, and the distance was just right.
In fact, inside the Daomen, because the spirit officer was created by the Taoist priest, he was regarded as a tool man and was not allowed to interfere in politics, but most of the spirit officials had a keen sense of smell.
This situation may seem paradoxical, but it is realistic.
Because the realm cultivation of Taoist priests comes from themselves, even if they are defeated, it is a big deal to be a loose person, or take a back seat, and even worse, leave the Taoist gate in a fit of anger, and no one dares to provoke them with their realm cultivation. But the realm cultivation of the spirit officials comes from the Dao Gate, and if they accidentally stand on the wrong team, they are likely to have nothing, even if they are first-grade spirit officials, they are no exception. So the officers had to be careful.
This is also the root cause of the spirit officer's natural low Taoist head.
Zhang Yuelu didn't want to win over this spirit official, but just asked if there was anything abnormal in the recent Ghost Country Cave.
What is the purpose of a member of a secret association who came to the "Ghost Pass" and stayed there for two days? The biggest possibility is that it is aimed at the ghost country cave.
After all, Si Ming Zhenjun has long coveted the Ghost Country Cave Heaven for a long time.
After Zhang Yuelu explained his intentions, this first-class spirit official was taken aback, because not long ago, there were indeed some abnormalities in the Ghost Country Cave. For this reason, he also met with Mr. Yin.
Unexpectedly, Yujing knew so quickly, who leaked the news? Or does it mean that Yujing has planted people in the "Ghost Pass", does this mean that Yujing no longer trusts himself?
For a while, this first-class spirit official had already begun to speculate whether Zhang Yuelu had a special mission, and the so-called suppression of the secret association was just a pretense.
Most smart people are like this, they treat others with themselves, and in the end, they are smart and mistaken by smart.
So Zhang Yuelu easily got the answer he wanted.
The ghost country cave has indeed had an abnormality recently, according to the formation, the overlap between the ghost country cave and the present world has deepened, but this overlap generally only occurs on the 15th of July every year, but the impact is not big, it may just be the normal change of the cave sky, the "ghost pass" has strengthened its vigilance, and no trace of any suspicious people has been found.
And the time when the abnormality occurred in the Ghost Country Cave Heaven just corresponded to the time when Wei Wugui passed through the "Ghost Pass".
Zhang Yuelu was noncommittal about the statement that "no suspicious person was found", but she was very satisfied with this answer, which proved that her thinking and speculation were not wrong, and all the clues pointed to this Wei Wugui, and there was indeed a problem.
This is no longer just a matter of Wan Xiuwu.
After Zhang Yuelu left the "Ghost Pass", he came to the summer palace of Zhongzhou Provincial Government.
The Summer Palace can also be seen as a large Taoist temple, which also provides the job of a post station
Yes, but there are certain requirements for the grade and position of Taoist priests, and ordinary Taoist priests cannot stay in it.
Zhang Yuelu listed all kinds of clues he had obtained in the past few days at his residence, and in the absence of sufficient evidence, he began to make bold assumptions and carefully verify them.
What is the purpose of Wei Wugui's entry into the Ghost Country Cave Heaven?
There are three Yin things with a long inheritance in the Ghost Country Cave Heaven, as early as the Xuan Sheng Era, they have already existed in the Cave Heaven, they are the creations left by the previous master of the Cave Heaven, and they are also half of the masters of the Ghost Country Cave Heaven.
There was an abnormality in the Cave Heaven of the Ghost Country, but the three major Yin Objects did not take the initiative to report it, but waited until the spirit officer who guarded the place inquired before replying that there was no abnormality, just a normal change in the Cave Heaven.
The first possibility is that the three major yin objects really did not find any abnormalities. But the problem is that the formations in the "Ghost Pass" have all discovered the anomalies in the Cave Heaven of the Ghost Kingdom, and it is impossible for the three Yin Objects that are integrated with the Cave Heaven not to detect the abnormalities in the Cave Heaven.
Then there is the second possibility, the three major yin objects noticed the abnormality in the ghost country cave, but chose to hide it from the Daomen.
Why should they hide it?
This can lead to a guess, will Wei Wugui's entry into the Ghost Country Cave Heaven be related to the three major yin things? In other words, he entered the Ghost Kingdom Cave Heaven to see the three major yin things.
In this way, it made sense for the three Yin Beings to conceal the Dongtian anomaly from the Dao Gate, and they were covering up the fact that they had met with Wei Wugui.
If this speculation is true, then what happened to Wei Wugui after he met with the three major yin objects?
Is it that the three major yin things give birth to two hearts, and they want to be in harmony with outsiders? Or did Wei Wugui prescribe some kind of condition to the three great yin things on behalf of a certain Gu Immortal?
It's all possible.
Zhang Yuelu didn't expect that a simple murder case would involve so many internal information.
The deputy capital of Xizhou of the imperial court protects Qin without disease, Pei Xiaolou, the second grade of the Taoist sect, and the three major yin objects of the ghost country and the cave, no matter which one, it cannot be regarded as a small person.
There is also Feng Bo, there is no monolith between the secret associations, and even often infighting, Feng Bo does not hesitate to take the risk to sneak into Xijing Mansion to chase and kill Wei Wugui, which is also very strange.
These people are like beads, and Wei Wugui is like a thread, connecting these beads together.
In front of these characters, Wan Xiuwu became irrelevant, and it was even difficult to connect the two.
This made Zhang Yuelu waver in some of his speculations.
Could it be that Wan Xiuwu's killing was just an accident?
In fact, Wei Wugui and Wan Xiuwu have no grudges, perhaps Wan Xiuwu accidentally discovered Wei Wugui's true identity, and then was killed by Wei Wugui. Maybe the two simply had a conflict, just like "Xiao Tiangang" bullied Wei Wugui.
If that's the case, then Wei Wugui has nothing to do with Qi Xuansu.
Who wanted to link Wei Wugui with Qi Xuansu?
Thinking of this, Zhang Yuelu had a flash of inspiration and remembered someone.
Yue Liuli.