Xu Zhi saw that the abbot of Zhicheng said that Li Shimin was very worried about Wang Renze's garrison in Yuzhou, and all the monks expressed their puzzlement and said: "As far as the situation at that time is concerned, King Qin's analysis is correct, only by taking Wang Renze in Yuzhou, can the Tang army advance eastward in one fell swoop and join up with the partial division of Hujiao Pass, so as to resist Dou Jiande's army going south, otherwise, Dou Jiande's army will cross the Yellow River and attack the Tang army with Wang Renze from east to west.

Seeing that Xu Zhi analyzed the situation at that time very thoroughly, he secretly admired him, recited a Buddha, and said with a smile: "Amitabha! Xu Zhi, it is a great pity that you have taken refuge in my Buddha now. Abbot, three masters, don't you say?"

The empty words immediately aroused the unanimous echo of the brothers and sisters. Xu Zhi stopped: "Although the three of us have not been in the house for a long time, we are also dedicated to the Buddha and are kind to others, how can we be half-hearted and take refuge in the imperial court to serve the tiger?

Seeing that Xu Zhi was eloquent, he didn't know how to respond to him for a while, so he had to say to Zhixin stupidly: "Master, we are your old disciples, why have we never heard such a story from you?

Master Zhixin was very indifferent to his disciple's anger, and said with a faint smile: "Amitabha! This is also the first time that I have heard the abbot talk about the old things of this temple. As the saying goes, 'the embankment of a thousand miles collapses in the anthill', no matter how strong the fortress is, it can be broken from the inside, and the old man feels that the failure of this Wang Renze must be destroyed in the hands of his own family!"

The abbot of Zhicheng held the Buddha beads in his hand and smiled at the disciples: "My Buddha is merciful, things are just as the disciples of Zhixin expected!", after speaking, he continued to tell the monks:

Master Puhui was very annoyed when he saw Li Shimin pacing back and forth, and when he saw Zhao Xiaozai lying on the ground unable to move, he thought about it and said to Li Shimin: "His Royal Highness King Qin, the poor monk has a plan, I don't know if it is feasible?"

Li Shimin asked: "What kind of strategy is it, the master will talk about it quickly, and I will hear the details in the next wish!"

Master Puhui said, "King Qin, do you have to ask General Zhao on the ground for help in this strategy?", and after speaking, he motioned to the Daoguang junior brother beside him to unlock Zhao Xiaozai's acupoint.

Daoguang glanced at Puhui suspiciously, and saw Puhui nodding slightly to him, so he had to stretch out his right index finger and solve Zhao Xiaozai's acupoint. Zhao Xiaozai lazily rubbed on the ground for a while, moving his hands and feet for a while, but he obviously understood the conversation between Puhui and Li Shimin, did not dare to stand up, knelt down to Li Shimin and said: "King Qin, the masters are above, the villain is willing to abandon the darkness and surrender to the light, and obey the dispatch!"

Puhui smiled: "This is easy, as long as General Zhao seizes the military power of Yuzhou, and captures Wang Ren alive and dedicates it to the King of Qin, it will be a great achievement!"

Zhao Xiaozai felt that this matter was very difficult in his heart, and excused himself: "The villain thanks the King of Qin and the heroes for their forgiveness, and he also wants to do things for the king, but the villain has a humble official position, and secondly, the Zheng army is heavily garrisoned, how can he capture Wang Renze alive?"

Seeing that Zhao Xiaozai repeatedly refused, he was afraid that what he said about surrendering was not what he wanted, but just a temporary excuse, and he thought that he would simply cut off his retreat and let him die for King Qin, he deliberately analyzed: "General Zhao, if you don't serve King Qin, even if you can return to Yuzhou alive, Wang Ren will not trust you!"

Cho Hyo-jae asked suspiciously, "Why is this?"

Puhui smiled: "This is one more question, everyone has seen it, you deliberately ran into Wang Renze in Dengfeng, and let go of King Qin without permission, in the process of pursuing King Qin, you didn't work too hard, and once again mistook Wang Renze's good dream of capturing King Qin alive, do you say that Wang Renze will reuse you?

Pratt & Whitney's words made Zhao Hyo-jae's face sweaty. Zhao Xiaozai also knew that this Wang Ren relied on himself to be King Zheng's nephew, usually stubborn and self-serving, greedy for money and lustful, and he didn't agree with his subordinates, so he had to engage in military law, so that everyone in his subordinates was in danger and the day was in danger. Many generals, including Zhao Xiaozai, privately hoped that the Tang army would capture Luoyang as soon as possible and take Yuzhou, but the Tang army's attack on Luoyang was repeatedly frustrated, and Dou Jiande's reinforcements would arrive soon, so they didn't dare to openly betray for a while, so they had to swallow their anger.

Li Shimin also took the opportunity to convince him: "Master Puhui is serious, a talent like General Zhao, Wang Ren can't cherish it, the lonely king is still humble and waiting, General Zhao, this king swears to the sky, as long as you can help this king take Yuzhou, this king will make you the general of Yuzhou, and seal the marquis of ten thousand households!"

Zhao Xiaozai saw that Li Shimin personally promised himself, and he no longer had any doubts in his heart, so he hurriedly bowed down and thanked him and said: "King Qin Houen, I will go to the soup to fight the fire, and I will also help my king take Yuzhou." ”

Li Shimin, the Eleventh Stick Monk and Zhao Xiaozai carefully discussed repeatedly at the Tiger Prison Pass: it was decided that Zhao Xiaozai and the Eleventh Stick Monk Xianhu would sneak back to Luochuan County under the jurisdiction of the King of Qin from Qin.

Liu Wengzhong, the county commander of Luochuan, was originally a general under Wang Shichong, and he was close friends with Zhao Xiaozai, but because of a disagreement, he offended Wang Shichong and was transferred from Luoyang to the small Luochuan County as an official, and he was very unhappy. He was very surprised when he saw his friend Zhao Xiaozai suddenly coming, and asked: "Listen to the battle report in the army: Didn't Brother Zhao be kidnapped by a group of thieves? Why did he suddenly come to my Luochuan?"

Zhao Xiaozai asked Liu Weng to retreat left and right, and asked him to meet the King of Qin. Liu Weng is hard to pay for his ambitions, and seeing that Li Shimin's benevolence and righteousness are worthy of his reputation, and he is willing to return to our dynasty, Liu Weng Chong found some squires and tyrants who were dissatisfied with Wang Renze from the locality, and after everyone discussed returning to Yuzhou, they spread the rumors that Li Shimin, the king of Qin, had been seriously injured and died, the Tang army was leaderless, and Dou Jiande's reinforcements had occupied the Tiger Prison Pass, and they would go to Luoyang City in a few days.

Wang Ren listened to the rumors on the market, was overjoyed, and said with emotion: Last time, he was careless and let Li Shimin run away, but Li Shimin was blessed with a great life, and he still couldn't escape the pursuit of death. Wang Ren was pondering how to quickly defeat the Tang army after Li Shimin's death and force his uncle Wang Shichong to abdicate, when he saw Zhao Xiaozai and Liu Weng come to visit, he was overjoyed: I didn't expect Li Shimin to die, and he couldn't hide from good things, not to mention that his deputy returned safely, just heard him talk about how Li Shimin, the sworn enemy, died. In addition, this Luochuan County ordered Liu Weng to rely on his status as a veteran, and he had never taken the initiative to visit him, and this time he had to humiliate him in person.

Zhao Xiaozai first congratulated Wang Renze, and then told how he saw Li Shimin seriously ill and died, and those outlaws were leaderless and dispersed, so he took advantage of the chaos to return to Luochuan, and found Li Shimin's body with Liu Xianling, and parked it in Luochuan County.

Wang Ren seemed to be a little unconvinced, and asked Liu Weng seriously: "General Liu, no, Liu County Order, is this the case?"

Liu Weng nodded hurriedly and said: "What Sima Zhao said is the truth, this is also what his subordinates have seen with their own eyes, I would like to congratulate the king." If the king still doesn't believe it, he can deign to move to Luo Chuan, and he will know the truth at first sight!"

Liu Weng was still a little hesitant when he saw Wang Renze again, and said softly: "Your lord, your subordinates have not dared to see you in the past few years, firstly, because the king is busy with political affairs and the war is tight; Now that Li Shimin is dead, the victory or defeat of the world has been decided, sooner or later this country will still be the king's, and his subordinates will visit the beautiful women all over the territory of Luochuan, and please come to Luochuan on the same day!"

Zhao Xiaozai also persuaded: "King, these beautiful villains are seen with their own eyes, all of them are beautiful and fragrant, and they will never lose to the ladies of Luoyang, this Liu County Order is also a painstaking one, I hope the king will fulfill him!"

Wang Ren was moved by Liu Wengzhong's words, and said with a smile: "Liu County Order, you are really a person who sees the wind and steers, but your character is like the lonely king, as long as what you say is true, you serve the lonely king comfortably, the lonely king will immediately let you resume your identity as a general and leave the small ravine in Luochuan!"

Liu Weng saw that Wang Ren was in the middle of the plan, and hurriedly knelt down to thank him.

Wang Ren was also a little impatient, and was afraid that Zhao Xiaozai and Liu Weng would unite to deceive him, so he deliberately said: "General Zhao got out of danger with wit, and brought great good news, now although Li Shimin is dead, but the Tang army may still have a fish to die and the net will be broken, this war must not be sloppy, General Zhao, you should stay in Yuzhou for the time being to deal with military affairs." This king and Liu County ordered, no, General Liu inspected the defense of Luochuan!"

Zhao Xiaozai and Liu Weng Chong hurriedly agreed, and Liu Weng saw that Wang Ren had made up his mind, and in order to dispel his concerns, he comforted: "King, it's getting late, why don't you set off for Luochuan tomorrow?"

Wang Ren said with a smile: "This day is known to people's wishes, and this king is going to visit Luochuan at night in spring!"

Wang Ren, under the guidance of Liu Wengzhong, led a thousand soldiers into Luochuan County overnight. Liu Weng Chong led Wang Ren into the backyard of a carved and painted building, where there were bursts of girl's piano and laughter, Wang Ren saw that Liu Wengzhong was right, and hurriedly retired the guards and went to the backyard alone, but was held hostage by the eleven stick monks who had already been ambushed, and took him back to Yuzhou overnight.

Zhao Xiaozai in the eleven stick monk with the help of the eleventh stick monk, killed several Wang Renze's cronies, took control of the army in Yuzhou, and officially surrendered to the king of Qin, the king of Qin saw that things were done very smoothly, very pleased, on April 27, sent an edict of condolence, sealed Tanzong as the "general monk", Zhao Xiaozai as the "Shangkaifu", Liu Weng as the "Yitong". In the sixth year of Zhenguan, Taizong personally wrote the book "Shaolin Temple", which has a discussion: "If you talk about Shaolin achievements, it is not different from martial arts." That is to say, the credit of the thirteen warrior monks of Shaolin Temple in helping Tang capture Wang Renze is not very different from the credit of the Tang army's victory over Dou Jiande in the Tiger Pass.

After the abbot finished speaking, he looked at the disciples around him and saw that the disciples were deeply infected by the glorious history of Shaolin Temple and the righteous deeds of their predecessors.

An Jingsi whispered to the cause beside him: "Senior brother, I didn't expect that the Shaolin predecessors would have such a legendary story, not only saving the King of Qin, but also saving thousands of suffering people!"

Liao Yin said with a smile: "Then it is needless to say, there are many legendary stories of our Shaolin Temple? Do you want to hear the story of the first ancestor of Bodhidharma, crossing the river with a reed, facing the wall for ten years, and subduing the dragon and subduing the tiger!"

An Jingsi listened to Yin's words, and was very yearning, and asked, "Senior brother, what kind of stories are these?"

As soon as he was about to open his mouth and tell the story in his stomach, he was interrupted by Elder Zhide with his eyes.

Master Zhide saw that the abbot finished telling the story on the mural, and then said: 200 years ago, in order to save Shaolin Temple and the common people in the world, the Shaolin ancestors endured humiliation, united with the outside world, and assisted King Qin to defeat the strong enemy. And now some of our disciples do not abide by the Shaolin precepts, for the sake of temporary unhappiness, but they have a deep grudge with their fellow disciples.

When the disciples heard this, they shouted loudly, "The disciples know that they are wrong, and they ask the first seat of the Precept Academy to punish them!" Lichen and Liyin were even more ashamed, and smiled at each other, which can be regarded as a release of their suspicions.

Zhixin saw that the disciples were under the guidance of Zhide, the morale was high, and the people's hearts were available, he looked at the Zhicheng abbot again, the abbot nodded to him, Zhixin understood, and said loudly: "Today, I will gather everyone, that is, to discuss with everyone, now Shaolin is besieged by the official army, the incense is not continued, we want to break out of the siege several times, but we are blocked back, how should we save ourselves, save Shaolin, and save the world! Everyone has a good suggestion, although it is put forward, everyone will discuss whether it is feasible to discuss it together!"

Seeing that the monks looked at each other, no one was willing to speak first, he looked at the dust and the cause, and said: "The cause, the dust you are the big disciples of the Dharma Academy and the Luohan Hall, among the disciples, you have been in Shaolin for the longest time, and your martial arts are also outstanding than other disciples, you say, how should you solve the current predicament of my Shaolin?"

Cause and Dust glanced at each other, because Cause was a little older, Dust motioned to Cause to say first. Because he didn't think about it for a while, his face was full of embarrassment, so he had to look at the dust with the eyes of asking for help, and he was very expecting the dust to relieve him first.

Lichen couldn't resist him for a while, pondered for a while, and said:

"Abbot, masters, disciples think that since the Northern Wei Dynasty built the temple, Shaolin is located in the world's key places, and there are constant wars, so in order to survive and protect itself, Shaolin has had a system of monks in the nursing home for hundreds of years. Now the thousand-year-old temple has been trapped for a long time, the door wall is not firm, and some of the warrior monks have rebelled, but the foundation of my Shaolin warrior monks is still there, and the spirit of justice is still there, the abbot and several masters are wise, and the thirteen stick monks of Shaolin, the eighteen Arhats, and the brothers and sisters are also inspired by the Shaolin spirit to work hard, practice martial arts hard, and hope to contribute to Shaolin as soon as possible, and contribute to the people of the world. ”

After listening to Chen's generous speech, he was very moved in his heart and interjected: " What Brother Lichen said is that although our Shaolin has been besieged for several months, the army of the imperial court has not invaded my Shaolin, which also shows that the imperial court does not know the truth of my Shaolin, so it sent spies to infiltrate Shaolin to explore the truth and reality, which also shows that the strength of the enemy and us is equal, and the court is very jealous of us, but it does not dare to act rashly, and the Yellow King Righteous Army has crossed the Yangtze River north and will soon return to Luoyang, so the focus of the imperial court is to contain the righteous army, and there is no heart to deal with us!"

Lichen immediately understood Yin's intentions, and he then suggested: "What Senior Brother Liyin means is that as long as we hold on for another month or two, and wait until the Yellow King kills the carbine, my Shaolin siege will naturally collapse!"

Li Ming also said: "The two senior brothers are very right, the imperial court only besieges us, not attacked, first, we don't know our reality, and secondly, because we are afraid that Shaolin and the Yellow King Righteous Army will secretly contact each other, so that they will suffer from the enemy! As long as we wait quietly for help, the imperial court will not last long!"

The other disciples also applauded, but only the youngest disciple still frowned. Seeing this, the sincere abbot asked, "Heart, what do you think, you might as well tell the senior brothers!"

He said in a heartfelt manner: "I also agree with my senior brother's suggestion, but far water can't quench the thirst of the near, if the Yellow King's army is delayed in going north, won't my Shaolin monks sit still and wait to die, I think we can't just think about relying on others, or rely on ourselves to save ourselves!"

Everyone was silent when they said this, but they couldn't think of any good way for a while.

The Shaolin Sanjue glanced at each other, and looked at the disciples again, only to see Xu Zhi, Xue Atan and An Jingsi standing in the corner, never speaking. Zhide admired Xu Zhi's vision and judgment very much, and encouraged: "Xu Zhi, you are also my Shaolin disciple, do you have any good ideas, you might as well tell everyone?", Zhicheng and Zhixin listened, and also cast an expectant look at Xu Zhi.

Xue Atan and An Jingsi also persuaded on the side: "Brother Xu, you have seen more far-reaching than us, now is not the time for you to humbly refuse!"

Xu Zhi had no choice but to reply: "Returning to the three masters, the two senior brothers spoke very well just now, and the disciple didn't think of a better way for a while, but he just thought of what the senior brother said just now, which is the same as the abbot's "The story of the eleven stick monks saving the King of Qin", the far water can't save the near fire, and the Shaolin Temple has to rely on us to save it!"

Because he couldn't understand it, he asked, "Xu Zhi, how do you say this?"

Xu Zhi said with a smile: "The disciple has an immature idea, and I also ask the three masters and the senior brothers to correct: we should do two things at present, one is to break the siege of the imperial court, borrow grain from the surrounding states and counties, and rescue ourselves first;

As soon as Xu Zhi finished speaking, all the monks, including the three elders of Shaolin, applauded. Xue Atan even shouted: "It's still Brother Xu, we have to learn from our Shaolin predecessors 200 years ago, who not only rescued Shaolin, but also rescued the people of the world." ”

The more An Jingsi listened, the more excited he became, in front of all the monks, he turned over a few heels in a row, and shouted: "Yes, according to Brother Xu's approach, maybe our Shaolin Temple will be famous in history for the second time?"