"I didn't expect these monks to be so easy to talk to, and even agreed to this condition."

After coming down the mountain, Xiao Qian said with emotion, until now, she felt a little incredible.

After Sun Ning put forward the second condition and wanted to take himself as the main one, Zhishan didn't dare to make his own claims, so he deliberately asked the other senior brothers, but they really agreed to cooperate.

Sun Ning just smiled lightly: "This is also reasonable, after all, in their eyes, nothing is more important than their own life." Moreover, the more rude the conditions I proposed, the more concerned they were about their safety. ”

"It's true, if you don't want to protect them, who bothered to do that." Xiao Qian nodded thoughtfully, and then glanced at Sun Ning strangely, "Do you really want to send them to the festival safely this time?" ”

"Why not?"

"Then you were secretly in contact with Liang Wentong and the others before, aren't they the people of the Dharma Destroying Society? Moreover, we didn't come to Jiangnan to deal with the flooding of Buddhism, but now we have become helping them, isn't this ......?"

"There is no conflict between the two, and I am escorting them to the puja safely today in preparation for the uprooting of Buddhism in the future.

"The trouble of Jiangnan Buddhism has long been accumulated and difficult to return, but it cannot be solved by putting a few fires and killing a few monks, it needs to be gradual and slow.

"Among them, I need the assistance of the power of the Dharma Destroying Society, but I also need to use the power of Buddhism itself for my use. So I'm going to befriend both. ”

"You're really thoughtful......" Xiao Qian said this, and suddenly chuckled again

"What, is there any problem?" Sun Ningqi said.

"I just think it's funny, if those monks know your true identity, they think it's very glorious even if they die, right?" Xiao Qian smiled and said, "I've only heard of people who protect the emperor's safety, but no one has to be personally protected by the emperor......"

When she said this, Sun Ning also laughed, yes, she really set a precedent, and I don't know what kind of reaction those monks will have when they finally know the truth.

……

It's hard to say how the monks will react after learning the truth, but Sun Ning's subordinates are very difficult to accept after learning about this.

"Your Majesty, how can this be done?"

"Your Majesty, you are the Son of Heaven, how can you ...... How can you go and give security to those bald asses? If something goes wrong, then 10,000 deaths won't be enough to atone for their sins! ”

"Your Majesty, it's better to let the ministers escort them on your behalf, you might as well stay in Hangzhou."

In the face of all kinds of obstruction from these loyal courtiers, Sun Ning could only sigh and explain: "I am not the emperor now, except for you, who in Jiangnan regards me as the emperor?"

"I know you're thinking about my safety and identity, but in the face of big things, these can be put aside. Taking Jiangnan is more important than anything else, and befriending these monks and making them believe in us is the only way to take Jiangnan.

"As for my safety, you don't have to worry about it, don't you know my skills? Besides, you also have to go with me all the way, and if you bother more, I will naturally have more peace of mind. ”

After a lot of persuasion, coupled with Sun Ning's identity as the emperor, everyone finally had no choice but to accept this fact.

But Nie Long and Wei Ting, who were the leaders, still said solemnly: "Your Majesty, if you really encounter anything dangerous along the way, please let the ministers and others take action on your behalf, and you should stay behind." ”

As the two most elite and motivated officers in the Japanese camp, these two were also selected by Sun Ning early in the morning to bring them to Jiangnan. And their loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor is getting deeper and deeper.

Sun Ning looked at the two of them with a smile: "You guys really know how to talk about conditions." Okay, that's it, as long as you can solve the problem, I won't do it. You can rest assured now, right? ”

"The ministers obey." These 20 or so elites of the Japanese camp all responded with their fists in unison, and many of them looked eager to try.

Don't look at the fact that they were trying their best to dissuade Sun Ning from taking risks just now, in fact, they were already ready to move.

Since they came to Jiangnan, they have only been investigating some things in secret, and they have hardly really made a move, which has already made them panic.

Now that I finally have the opportunity to fight with others and make some contributions, naturally everyone is gearing up, and I can't wait for an enemy to jump in front of me immediately.

Of course, not everyone can achieve what they want, there were thirty or fifty people who came to Jiangnan with Sun Ning before, plus dozens of others who came back one after another, adding up, it will be nearly a hundred.

These twenty people are only a few of them, and the others, under the command of Guo Chong, have to investigate news in Hangzhou and all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, doing the most obscure things, and they are not even allowed to show their good skills.

"Next, everything in Hangzhou will be handed over to you to co-ordinate, if there are any new changes, contact me again." Sun Ning patted Guo Chong, who came at the same time, and instructed.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, this little thing is still difficult for the minister." Guo Chong grinned, "The minister will also try his best to find out who has been in contact with the Dharma Destroying Society, and see if they can be used." ”

After learning that the scale of the Dharma Destruction Society was larger than he had imagined, Sun Ning felt that it was necessary to take a good look at this force.

The current Jiangnan should be more complex and changeable than it appears on the surface, at least it seems that under the appearance that all the wealthy families worship Buddha, there are other ulterior things.

……

On 25 February, when the sky was bright, a team of several hundred people had left Hangzhou City under the farewell of the official team headed by Zeng Xian, the Taishou of Hangzhou.

It's a spectacular, slightly bizarre team.

In front and behind the team, there were Hangzhou officials and soldiers with complete armor and complete blades, and there were more than 200 people, which was the scale of an official of about six grades when he traveled.

But the people who were escorted by them were not court officials, but monks sitting in cars, with bare heads and robes, as many as sixty or seventy people.

Naturally, these monks went to Suzhou to attend the triennial puja, and not only from one temple in Yunlin Temple, but also more than half of them were monks from several other temples in Hangzhou, and they were also invited by Hanshan Temple.

And around the cars of these monks are men dressed as people who are full of energy and riding horses, and they look more trusted by the monks than the official army, but the number is even less, only twenty.

This team of 300 people will spend seven days rushing from Suzhou by land to catch up with the Hanshan Temple puja on the third day of the third month of March!