Chapter 52: The Southern Regions
On the 10th day of the fifth month of the Great Xuan Calendar, that is, the second day after Zhang Yu returned from the Xuanfu in Qingyang, the Hongshan and Miguang factions released the news, declaring that they were willing to accept the inspection of the Xuanfu.
As soon as the two factions announced this matter, most of the remaining Daoists who were waiting and watching immediately gave up their insistence, and they also expressed their willingness to accept the inspection.
Zhang Yu discussed with Yun Chen and decided to start with the small faction in advance.
This time, they did not come to the door in person, but asked the factions to come directly to the Xuanfu for investigation.
The various factions did not dare to disobey, and they all led their disciples to the Xuanfu one by one.
And most of them did not have the confidence of the two factions of Miguang and Hongguang, and they did not dare to continue to maintain the Taoist sect, and while accepting the inspection, they also handed over their own seal secret methods and visualization maps.
These things were done very smoothly, and when they were done, another four days passed.
Zhang Yu sensed the slightest mistake at this time, and according to his agreement with Li Mo, after returning to the station, he would try to persuade his colleagues to lean towards Xuanfu together, and inform him of the current situation outside the territory at any time.
But five days have passed, and I think that he should have returned to the station a long time ago, but there has been no news until now, so it is very likely that something has changed.
In view of this, he felt that he couldn't stay here longer, so after thinking about it, he ordered someone to invite Yun Chen, and said: "Yun Daoyou, I recently got a report that there is likely to be a 'spiritual pass' in the southern region of Qingyang Shangzhou, and it is likely that there are others coveting it here. ”
Zhu Xuanshou didn't tell his disciples about this, so when Yun Chen heard it, he was also very surprised, and said, "It's actually a spiritual pass? ”
He knew the importance of Lingguan, and said solemnly: "Xuanzheng rest assured, I will take care of the rest." ”
Zhang Yu nodded, in fact, even if there is no Lingguan, this time he went to the two factions to check, he also deliberately let Yun Chen do it alone, this is his previous promise to Zhu Xuanshou, that is, to give credit to Yun Chen.
Merit here does not refer to merit, but to the prestige of one person.
If Yun Chen wants to successfully sit in the position of the head of the Qingyang Xuanfu, then he must first have reasonable merits to convince the public, so as to establish his position, and the investigation of the various factions is the stepping stone prepared for him by the Xuanshou.
As for Zhang Yu himself, he doesn't really care about this, as a Xuanzheng, as long as he does a good job of supervision, it is already a great achievement in itself, so there is no need to fight for these at all.
After this matter was decided, he told Yun Chen about something that he had been thinking about for a long time.
"Yun Daoyou, although many Taoist sects have been disintegrated now, but it has also cut off their path of recruiting disciples, if it continues like this, in ten or eight years, maybe my Xuanfu monk will have no successor. ”
Yun Chen's expression was a little more serious, Zhang Yu mentioned it, and he immediately realized the seriousness of this problem, although he was a true cultivator, but since his teacher arranged him to be the next Xuantou, then he had to consider the problem from the position of Xuanfu.
He thought for a moment and said, "Xuan Zheng raised this matter, but is there a way to solve it?"
Zhang Yudao: "It is only necessary to restore the old system of Xuanfu here, and I am ready to find a suitable time to re-establish the Xuanfu School Palace on top of Zhuzhou County." ”
When the Dongting Capital Protectorate, the Xuanfu was continuously provided with talents by the Taiyang School Palace, and even the entire School Palace was established with the Xuanfu as the center.
Originally, the same was true of Qingyang Xuanfu, more than sixty years ago, there were 23 states and counties in Qingyang Shangzhou, and the school palace in each state and county had to provide certain talents for Xuanfu every year.
However, due to the change in the situation, coupled with the rapid progress of the Divine Robe Xuanjia, most of the current school palaces have been transformed into providing talents for the military government and the state government.
Yun Chen said: "What Xuan Zheng said, I also understand, but with the current situation in the continent, where does this school palace come from?
Zhang Yudao: "I have read the file before, and there are still several abandoned school palaces in the state and county, which have now been used by him, and we can try to ask for it to come back and rebuild." In fact, the school palace is just a dead thing, even if there is really nothing, it can be built again, my generation of cultivators, even if they take heaven and earth as their house? The key here is still people!"
Yun Chen was born in a true cultivator, he very much agreed with Zhang Yu's opinion, he raised his hand and arched, his expression showed a look of inquiry, and said: "Then dare to ask Xuanzheng, where do people come from?"
Zhang Yu said slowly: "Overseas capital protectors." ”
Yun Chen's eyes lit up, and he understood what Zhang Yu meant in an instant, and he couldn't help nodding again and again.
Zhang Yudao: "Outside the East, there are fifty-seven Imperial Protectorates, and each of them is garrisoned by the Xuanfu, but there is still no news from most of them. And after the fact, we can also recruit talents from many of the returned prefectures. ”
With the current pattern of Qingyang Shangzhou, forcibly competing with the two provinces for students is easy to cause internal strife, so he set his sights overseas.
As long as the local protectorate still exists, and still respects Tianxia, then there must be a Xuanfu garrison, if this part of the Xuanfu and even the school palace behind it can be integrated, then the Qingyang Xuanfu will not be short of talents.
Even if only half of them returned, it would be quite a powerful force.
In this way, on the one hand, it can avoid direct conflict with the two prefectures of Qingyang, and on the other hand, it can further strengthen the ties between the many prefectures and the mainland, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Yun Chen very much agrees with this strategy, although there are still many things to do here and many difficulties to overcome, but there is no intention that this is the right path.
He thought about it for a while, and said very seriously: "I know what Xuan Zheng means by saying this to me, Xuan Zheng can rest assured, now that I am a person from Xuan Mansion, I will work with Xuan Zheng to promote this matter with all my might." ”
Zhang Yu could see that what Yun Chen said was sincere, but it was not enough to rely on the two of them, he would also explain the matter to Xuan Ting, so as to gain a certain initiative, at least nominally get more support.
After discussing some details with Yun Chen, he said goodbye to him and returned to Kaiyang Academy.
When he returned to the Jintai residence, he sat down alone in the ashram, and after a little breathing, he ran the "Seal of Knowledge" and looked through the seals and visualization maps presented by the various dispatches.
This time, except for the Hongshan and Miguang factions, almost all the secret methods of the remaining Taoist sects have been included, which is undoubtedly a huge asset.
After he had read all of this, he looked at himself again, and found that the Divine Yuan needed to deduce his own visualization map had once again been greatly reduced, and judging from the Divine Element he had accumulated now, it seemed that he had already made up most of it.
If there are a few more that he wants to cultivate by himself, he doesn't know how long it will take to make up for it, so he still needs to go outside to find the source energy.
At the moment, he was able to deduce the visualization diagram, and he didn't have enough divine yuan to practice, so he could only wait until the existence of the "Spirit Pass" was confirmed, and then he would come back and continue to think of a way.
After careful consideration, he decided not to call the rest of the people for this investigation, and to do it alone.
When the Xuan Mansion was still being integrated, there were no people in the Mansion who were really worthy of entrusting life and death, even if there were one or two people, it would be useless, but it was not as flexible as his actions alone.
The most important thing is that if there are many people, the matter will be easily leaked, and if the people of the two factions are inadvertently inadvertently known, they may secretly obstruct it, and if it reaches the ears of those foreign Taoist sects and sends people to rob it, it will be a big deal.
And he has the treasure given by the Xuanfu, plus the Qingyang Wheel borrowed by Zhu Xuanshou, which is enough to protect himself.
At this time, he glanced at the "Knowing the True Spirit" on the desk, unfortunately, this thing has not yet been civilized, otherwise this time he could have brought it with him to help him perfect the "Seal of Foresight".
He looked away, stood up, flicked his sleeves, and stepped out of the ashram.
Shortly after he left, a faint blue light flickered over the gap in the "spiritual house", only to fall silent again after a while.
Zhang Yu came to the outer room, and after some preparations, he went to the school palace to take leave, and when he came back, he called Li Qinghe and explained: "I am going to leave for a period of time in the near future, you and Qingshu and Qingxi take care of the residence, if there are visitors, write down the name and surname, and wait for me to come back before speaking." ”
Li Qinghe followed him here from the East Garden, and was very familiar with his style of doing things, and immediately understood in his heart that this was something important for his own husband to do, and he said solemnly: "Qinghe has written it down, Mr. be careful." ”
This time, in order to ensure that his actions were secret and not let others see his whereabouts, Zhang Yu first took a flying boat in the direction of Juzhou, creating the illusion of going to Xuanfu.
In the southwest direction outside the Qingyang Shangzhou region, on the original uncultivated station, a huge diamond-shaped crystal jade was erected in the center.
All around, ships shaped like giant whales are constantly moving materials and supplies to and fro, and new roads, wells, buildings, factories, and forts are rapidly erecting, and the entire camp is expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Because this place is relatively close to that "boundary gap", and after decades of operation by Li Mo and others, all kinds of conditions are in place, so the people of Shuangzhou have long regarded this place as an important fulcrum for their control of the "boundary gap".
In the next period of time, Frost Continent will continue to transport war flying boats and armored sergeants, if it weren't for the fear that the action would be too big to attract the attention of the two prefectures of Qingyang Shangzhou, even if the scale can be expanded by ten times compared to now, there will be no problem.
At this time, the crystal jade giant of Li Mo, who had been caught before, took his men to the bottom of the platform, and watched a huge flying boat slowly moored in mid-air, and when the hatch was unscrewed, and with the bright ladder paved down, he saw a team of crystal jade giants driving Xuan soldiers on their shoulders walked down, and set up a queue below.
In the midst of everyone's nervous gaze, a tall figure finally walked out.
He was also wearing a jade armor, but he was more than two feet tall, twice the size of an ordinary jade giant, and there were layers of heavy textures on the armor, which looked very oppressive.
He stood there, his gaze sweeping over the group of people waiting there, and then he involuntarily lowered his head, and after a while, he said in a deep voice, "How's the preparation?"
The female crystal jade giant respectfully clenched her fists and said, "Protector, the camping teams are ready and ready to set off at any time!"
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