Chapter Twenty-Three: The Immortals
Not to mention that Tian Yinzhen helped Yun Monk's Buddhist friends in the broken temple, all in all, it is not something that can be completed in a moment or three.
I saw that on this day, in the imperial city of Yingdu of Chu State, the middle door of the Jinluan Palace suddenly opened, and a middle man wearing a golden crown and a dragon robe sat majestically on the throne, and below was the group of ministers kneeling on the ground, shouting like a tsunami: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
The momentum is very amazing.
This generation of Chu Emperor is the ninth grandson of the founding ancestor of Chu State, reigned for 18 years, the first ten years of hard work, so that the increasingly erosive Chu State has the image of prosperity, but gradually began to indulge in the matter of asking God to ask, that is, believe in Buddhism and Taoism, especially for the Taoist art of immortality has a very strong interest, on weekdays have no intention of managing the government, and the state affairs are gradually declining.
Half a year ago, Emperor Chu suddenly didn't know what was crazy, and he actually had the idea of raising troops to attack Yueguo, and then he was out of control, deposing three prime ministers who opposed him in a row, and killing a military secretary who was extremely rude to him with a cane, everyone was silent, and no one dared to say a word.
On this day, the morning dynasty is a monthly court meeting, which should be full of people, and hundreds of officials have played, but at this moment the hall is silent, it turns out that the Chu Emperor is losing his temper again because of the unfavorable matter of raising grain and grass, who dares to speak at this time.
"Where is the Hubu Shangshu Cheng Qun?"
As soon as Emperor Chu's words fell, a trembling middle-aged man walked out of the crowd, quickly knelt on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, the minister is here." β
"Hmph, since you are here, then I ask you, why it has been three months since the agreed start of the army, and the food and grass have still not been raised?"
"The minister is guilty!" The head of the household department hurriedly complained bitterly: "Your Majesty does not know, in the past three months, the minister has made every effort to arrange the operation of the household department, and he does not dare to slack off in the slightest!
"Hmph!" When Emperor Chu heard this, he was immediately furious and scolded: "Useless thing!
A younger official hurriedly came out of the class and knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is here." β
Seeing this person's dignified appearance and full of anger, although Emperor Chu was still angry, his mood finally improved a little, and he said coldly: "I order you to investigate this matter immediately, and then report the list of dispositions to me! I give you ten days, but I want to see who is so bold!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister has an order!" Hearing this, this person hurriedly accepted the order and retreated.
"Hmph, useless things, get out!" didn't give Hubu Shangshu any face, Emperor Chu didn't look at him, then closed his eyes, and the eunuch behind him hurriedly raised his throat and said: "If you have something to do and play early, you will retreat from the curtain if you have nothing to do!"
As soon as the words fell, I didn't expect someone to come out, and everyone looked at it and wanted to know who was so bold, only to find out that it was actually the elder of the Three Dynasties, Taishi Qi Lianzhong.
"The old minister has something to do, Your Majesty. "Seeing that it was the elder of the Three Dynasties, the old minister, even if the Emperor Chu had a big temper, he didn't dare not give face, so he hurriedly ordered someone to give him a seat, and asked with a pleasant face: "I don't know what Taishi Qi has to tell me?"
"Your Majesty, the minister has recently connected to various state capitals to report that there are many powerful ghosts who are haunting the mortal world, causing a wide range of harm, and even the famous Fahua Temple in Heyang County cannot escape this catastrophe, not only the temple was destroyed, but even none of the monks in the temple survived! What's more, hundreds of people from the Taishou family of Heyang County, including the servants, all died overnight, and the whereabouts of the murderers are unknown, but all kinds of signs show that these people all died at the hands of powerful ghosts!"
When the ministers heard this, they couldn't help but shake their heads again and again, this Qi Taishi is old and confused, right? What kind of system is it to discuss ghosts and ghosts in front of the court and public? Although it is said that His Majesty now worships the Buddha and the Tao, but discussing it in court is still really damaging to the majesty of the imperial court, and the loss is the old lady of the three dynasties.
When Emperor Chu heard such bad news, his face turned cloudy and gloomy, as cold as if it could form ice cubes, and he asked with some disbelief: "Old lady, ghosts and ghosts have always been legends, how dare you be so sure, these are all the actions of ghosts?"
Hearing this, Taishi Qi smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, although the old minister is a little confused, but on the issue of right and wrong, he is still not confused, if there is no evidence, how can the old minister be so sure? Not to mention anything else, Master Zhihua of Fahua Temple, the old minister has seen it in the past, he is indeed a monk with a high degree of Taoism, and his magic power is mysterious, he can kill him and uproot Fahua Temple, this ghost's cultivation is probably not trivial!"
Hearing what the old lady said so solemnly, Emperor Chu, who had always been superstitious about Shinto, finally believed in seven points, but his brows were also furrowed, and he was very ghostly, which was not a good sign.
couldn't help but look up at the ministers and asked, "Do you have a good plan to deal with the ghosts?"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly, if they wrote poems to give them of course no problem, even if they marched and fought, everyone could talk about it on paper, but this demon hunting...
At this time, it was Qi Taishi who said first: "Your Majesty is wise, this matter, the minister thinks that Yi Er, as the saying goes, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, as long as you are willing to post the emperor's list, and recruit people who can subdue the ghosts nationwide, there will definitely be a crowd of applicants." β
When Emperor Chu heard this, he originally thought that this suggestion was not very good, but after thinking about it, he was overjoyed, he had always admired Buddhism and etiquette, but he had never seen any high-ranking people, and immortality was extremely illusory, but half a year ago, there was an old fairy who claimed to be a master of the Ming Law in a dream at night, promising that as long as he helped him raise enough grain and grass for later use, he would teach himself a set of methods of immortality, and had the same dream for ten days in a rowγ
So he immediately issued an order to hire a Taoist immortal to subdue demons and catch ghosts with ten thousand gold.
In other words, the country really has the power to fall the mountain, the Chu Emperor only gave an order, and in less than ten days, the emperor's list documents were pasted in all the large and small cities in the Chu State, which confirmed the view that the Chu Emperor was a Buddha and a Taoist emperor in the minds of everyone in the country.
Of course, Emperor Chu didn't know this, for more than half a month, the cultivators who came to the imperial city every day to apply for ghost hunters were really endless, and the number actually reached as many as a thousand people, Emperor Chu saw so many people, he was really excited, even if the nine CDs in this were liars, there were at least more than 100 real Dao immortals, so he dispersed these people according to the suggestion of Taishi Qi, and assigned them to various large and small cities to catch ghosts and subdue demons according to the severity of the ghost chaos.
For a while, the state of Chu was very lively, and regardless of the effect of these ghost-hunting and demon masters, on this day, a young Taoist priest wearing a green robe and carrying a three-foot sword came slowly along the official road to Huaiyin County in the direction of Jiebei County of Chu State.
He Jianfei couldn't stop the secret road in his heart, it was really unlucky, three days ago, his money bag containing yellow and white things was actually stolen, and the dignified cultivator could actually be stolen by someone in the mundane world, and it was a big joke to say it, so this matter can only be stuffed in his heart, no one can say it, and he doesn't know what realm he has reached here, he just felt that his mouth was dry, and suddenly he saw a tea pavilion in front of him, and there was actually a bright yellow paper pasted on the pillar next to the tea pavilion, and a bunch of people were crowding up to see itγ
"What is it?" He Jianfei was also curious in his heart, what could be written on bright yellow paper, could it be a holy decree or an imperial list? When he got closer, he couldn't help but smile, it was really the emperor's list, and it was also a ghost hunter, isn't this just a sleepy pillow, is there a more authentic ghost hunter than himself in this world? As long as one or two little ghosts can be caught, there will be no need to worry about the shortage of money in the next two or three years.
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