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During the trip to exterminate Zongjiazhuang, Zhao Ran watched a killing scene and took 5,000 taels of silver for nothing, which really made a fortune. In the past two days, Zhao Ran himself felt that he was afraid that the traverser really had his own halo attribute, otherwise someone else had been the master of the party for several years, and he had not encountered a big thing, and he had just been in office for a few months, and he ran into this big case.

It wasn't until the Song Prison Yuan reported that the trip had passed, and the Song Prison Yuan mentioned that the case of Zong Weiwu's private Taoist altar and distortion of doctrine had been exposed by the people at the end of last year.

Zhao Ran didn't care about it at first, but after leaving the prison building, he suddenly realized that this case happened to be encountered, and it was clearly that Jin County Lieutenant deliberately pressed it down to reward him.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ran deliberately went to the scripture hall again and asked the master of the scripture about Jin Jiu's studies. Jin Jiu's current Taoist name is called Jin Zhijiu, and he has been in the scripture hall for more than five months so far, in fact, Zhao Ran can probably guess without asking, with the temperament of Jin Jiu's son, it is impossible to change it in such a short period of time, and the homework must not be much better. Sure enough, in the five-month monthly examination, Jin Jiudu ranked last, if it weren't for the person who Zhao Ran strongly recommended, Liu Zhiguang, who was highly meritorious, would even have the idea of deposing him.

Zhao Ran had no choice but to say something good for him again, and asked Fang Zhihe to take care of him more.

These days. Zhao Ran didn't have to go to the Charity Hall to feel that the progress of the Charity Hall was unhindered, because the daily increase in the merit power in his Qi Sea had returned to its previous level. It even went beyond, indicating that the charity hall has helped more poor people.

However, the increase in these merits seemed to be a lot, but Zhao Ran always felt that it was still far from the requirements of the "Taoist" realm. Based on the expositions of the "Innate Merit Sutra" and the "Zhengyi Fu Fa", if you want to start "refining and refining qi", before making the essence and mana merge, you must first fill the sea of qi with mana, that is, feel the "swelling" of the sea of qi. In this way, it can be regarded as entering the realm of "Taoist", and can receive Taoist talismans.

But I have transformed so much merit by myself. But Cheng Dù, who wants to reach the "swelling" of the sea of qi, still feels that it is far away – this is an intuitive feeling of cultivation, which cannot be quantified and cannot be explained. But I know it must be so.

In fact, Zhao Ran himself had speculated that he had spent so much money and done so many good deeds, and in less than half a year, he could feel the mana in the sea of qi beating like a flame, and its speed should be amazing. But in his subconscious, the targets he compared or chased were Zhou Yumo and Zhu Meng of Huayun Pavilion, and he couldn't help but be a little anxious. Zhou Yumo had entered the Yushi realm more than a year ago, and Zhumeng's talent was what he had seen with his own eyes, so Zhao Ran couldn't be wrong because he felt urgent and anxious. He really didn't want to be left too far behind by these two people.

If he wants to catch up, Zhao Ran must find a way to make a windfall of "merit power", and he originally planned to start with the green seedling money. In one fell swoop, it solved the problem of borrowing loans for poor peasant households, thus benefiting tens of thousands of people in Guyang County, but Wuji Yuan negotiated and Guyang County also agreed, but it was stuck on an official document approved by Xizhenwu Palace.

Thinking about it, Zhao Ran didn't think of who to look for. In the end, there was no way, I still had to go to Song Zhiyuan.

But Song Zhiyuan didn't have a good way. The friendship with the West Zhenwu Palace is only to know some people, otherwise with his profound deacon qualifications in the Wuji Academy, there would not be so many twists and turns in the promotion of the prison court, and in the end, he would have to pass through Zhao Ran to reluctantly ascend to the throne. wants Xizhenwu Palace to issue an official document to allow Zhao Ran to participate in the loan of Qingmiao money, and a discerning person knows at a glance that this is supporting Zhao Ran to oppose the wealthy gentry, with Song Zhiyuan's kind of "nodding friend" relationship, it is impossible for anyone to be willing to take this head.

As for the two who were newly promoted from Wuji Courtyard to the West Zhenwu Palace, Zhong Tenghong and Zhao Ran didn't have much to do with each other, although Jiang Zhibiao and Zhao Ran had the old, but they were just old, and Jiang Zhibiao had not been in the West Zhenwu Palace for a long time, and his foundation was not solid, so it was really a little embarrassing to want him to come forward to help with this big favor.

Zhao Ran was very disappointed with Song Zhiyuan's answer, but he also understood it very well, and did not mess around because of this, when he left, Song Zhiyuan sent Zhao Ran a message - Gao Gong Liu Zhiguang seems to have some way in the West Zhenwu Palace, because he can be promoted to Gao Gong, and it is said that he has the help of the middle and high-level of the West Zhenwu Palace.

As soon as Zhao Ran heard this, he rushed to the scripture hall, and he and Liu Zhiguang had a deep "friendship." If Liu Zhiguang had a way, it would really be in vain.

Hearing about Zhao Ran's intentions, Liu Zhiguang "persuaded" for a while, and saw that Zhao Ran insisted on going his own way and had to do this, so he no longer blocked it, but told him frankly: "Don't hide it from my junior brother, senior brother, I do have some ways in Xizhenwu Palace, and I have a lot of friendship with Duguan Jingzhimo." ”

"What's the matter?" Zhao Ran was a little discouraged when he heard this. Among the Daomen, the status of Sandu is indeed respected, only under the prison court, but Sandu is not very in charge of things on weekdays, and only has the right to speak on important matters, Zhao Ran's request for the Xizhenwu Palace to issue official documents is a daily trivial matter, which can be said to be a public matter, but also has a strong private matter, this kind of affairs Sandu and other characters generally do not care, and it is indeed not easy to interfere.

Liu Zhiguang explained: "This Jingdu Guan is different from others, although it is among the three capitals, it is an outlier. To put it bluntly, in other palaces, although the three capitals are respected, they are old-aged, and there is almost no possibility of going to the next level. But this Jingdu Guan is only in his thirties, and he is in his prime. It is rumored that Jingdu Guan was specially cultivated by Zhang Yunzhao of the prison to take over the aftermath. And Jingduguan has a very deep background, I don't know exactly how it is, but he and Yu Zhiyuan have a good relationship, and I can get to know Jingduguan because of Yu Zhiyuan. ”

"Oh, that's the case, then, can Senior Brother Gao Gong introduce him on his behalf?"

"No problem, wrap it on me, senior brother, wait for me to repair the book, you can go to the West Zhenwu Palace with the letter. Liu Zhiguang was not ambiguous, and immediately wrote a letter to Zhao Ran: "I won't say the specific things in the letter, senior brother, you can discuss it in person after you meet Jingduguan." ”

"This is natural, senior brother Gao Yi, junior brother, I remember it in my heart!"

With Liu Zhiguang's letter, Zhao Ran planned to leave for Xizhenwu Palace. But just as he was about to go down the mountain, the county government came to the secretary office of the famous torture room and notified Zhao Ran to go to the county government to participate in the trial of the case of Zong Weiwu's remaining sins.

Zhao Ran is the nominal person in charge of the clean-up of Zongjiazhuang, and these follow-up hands are his responsibilities, anyway, he has to go down the mountain, so he will go to the county seat first.

Zong Weiwu's case was characterized as "privately setting up a Taoist altar and distorting the teachings of the Taoist scriptures", "claiming to be an immortal saint, bewitching the people, and propagating heretical theories in the last days", and "secretly possessing a bow and crossbow and suspected of rebellion".

The chief judge is Zhao Ran, Dong Zhushu and Jin County Lieutenant, Zhao Ran represents the Taoist Yuan, and Dong Zhushu and Jin County Lieutenant represent the county government, among which Dong Zhushu is the head. Guyang County is an upper county, which is not only equipped with county orders, but also has a complete set of assistant officials, that is, county officials and master books. Zuo Erguan has nothing to do on weekdays, because every qiē has a county order directly presiding, but after all, these two official positions are officially appointed by the imperial court, and when the county order cannot come forward and entrust the principal, the status is quite high, and the words are also very weighty.

Zhao Ran saw Dong Zhushu two years ago, but at that time, Zhao Ran was only a junior brother in the Jingtang, and accompanied Jiang Gaogong at that time to set up a Zhaijiao altar for Dong Zhushu, in order to congratulate the joy of housewarming, and belonged to a small role that could not be put on the table in front of Dong Zhushu. But today, two years later, he can already sit opposite the Dong Zhushu, on an equal footing, and he can't help but feel a little trance-like when he thinks about it.

Zhao Ran thought that most of the directors couldn't remember themselves, but they didn't expect that the directors first mentioned the Zhaijiao ceremony two years ago, during which he said some very "warm" words, such as how he felt when he saw Zhao Ran at that time, how he would be in the future, and so on. Zhao Ran was very puzzled when he heard it, but he was really useful in his heart, no matter what, the county master has done his homework in order to have a good relationship with you, and it is quite face-saving anyway.

The greetings have been completed, Zhao Ran and Dong Zhushu are one left and one right, Jin County Lieutenant is slightly at the bottom, several torture room clerks sit on both sides, each has studied thick ink, and the official is divided into two shifts to stand, one is ready.

Dong Zhushu gestured to Zhao Ran with his eyes, and Zhao Ran bowed his head, so Dong Zhushu shouted: "Bring someone to commit a crime!" (to be continued) R466