In October of the sixteenth year of Jiajing (1537), Cao Xu returned to the Central Plains from the South China Sea. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In November, Cao Xu took over the Huashan Qi Sect in the Huashan Sword Qi Chongxiao Hall and became the head of the Huashan Sect of the Quanzhen Sect.

In December, Yue Buqun resigned as the head of the Quanzhen Sect and retired to Xiyue Academy. Cao Xu was elected as the leader of the Quanzhen Sect.

In the first month of the seventeenth year of Jiajing, Cao Xu was canonized as an auxiliary national great real person, and was stationed in the capital Baiyun Temple under the edict of Emperor Jiajing to take charge of Taoism in the country.

In the past few years, Baiyun Temple has been expanded several times and has become the premier avenue view in Beijing.

Cao Xu strolls through the Taoist temple, which will be where he will live for the next few years.

After taking over the position of the leader of the Quanzhen Sect and being canonized by the imperial court, Cao Xu could sense that an invisible force gathered around him.

You can't see it, you can't touch it, but it's real. This power nourished his soul and strengthened his spirit.

"Is this the secret of joining the WTO and helping the dragon?" Cao Xu realized the changes in himself, thinking as he walked.

"Zhangjiao Zhenren, just now Gonggong Liu in the palace sent someone to spread the word, saying that the emperor will come to our Baiyun Temple in three days, so that we can prepare in advance. At this time, Lauderno ran and said.

"The emperor wants to come to Baiyun to see incense. Cao Xu thought for a while and said, "This is a good thing, and I ask the second senior brother to bother a lot these days." ”

"The real person in charge of the teaching is serious. Lauderno smiled and left.

Three days later, in the Baiyun Temple, Cao Xu and Emperor Jiajing met for the third time.

In the Three Qing Dynasty and Four Imperial Palaces, Emperor Jiajing asked with a smile after offering incense and praying for blessings: "According to folk rumors, the Quanzhen Sect is in charge of teaching the Auxiliary Guoda Zhenren who knows 500 years before and 500 years later, looks up to astronomy, looks down on geography, knows people in the middle, understands yin and yang, Ming gossip, Xiaoqimen, and knows Dunjia ......." ”

Cao Xu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "If the emperor wants to know anything, let's just ask, there is no need to go around in circles, I will know everything, and I will say everything." ”

Emperor Jiajing waved his hand, and all the guards around him retreated.

"I want to know, how many years of national fortune does the Ming Dynasty have?" Emperor Jiajing asked with a solemn expression as he stared at Cao Xu with his eyes.

"National fortune?" Cao Xu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then reacted, the emperor asked a Taoist priest about national fortune or something, it was really a normal thing. This kind of thing, even the Taizu of the Great Tu Dynasty in later generations, can be no exception.

Cao Xu groaned slightly, and slowly spoke: "The matter of national fortune is related to heaven, earth and people. However, the will of heaven is lofty, and people's hearts are unpredictable, only from the aspect of 'earth'. ”

"Please also speak clearly to the real person. Emperor Jiajing said.

Cao Xu said: "The land is divided into north and south, and the first emperor toured south and came to the vicinity of Jinling. Then the Qi Warlock said that the qi of the Son of Heaven came out of this place, so the first emperor let people cut off the dragon veins of Fangshan and block the royal qi of Jinling. Then the Huai water runs through Jinling, reaches the Yangtze River, and discharges the earth's gas. Since then, although Nanlong is strong, it is not a problem. ”

When Emperor Jiajing heard this, he nodded and motioned for Cao Xu to continue.

"The dragon of the north originates from the northwest Kunlun Mountain and the northeast Changbai Mountain, Kunlun Mountain is the ancestral vein, and Changbai Mountain is the branch, but after the Han and Tang Dynasties, the ancestral vein of Kunlun Mountain is deeply hidden, but it is the Changbai Mountain dragon qi as a branch vein, and there is a vague trend of entering the Central Plains. During the Song Dynasty, the rise of Liao and Jin successively responded to this momentum. ”

After a pause, Cao Xu continued: "If this dynasty can take the lead in responding to the dragon spirit of Changbai Mountain, it can continue the national fortune for at least three hundred years. ”

"Real person, please speak?" Emperor Jiajing hurriedly asked.

"Your Majesty, putting aside the previous rhetoric, the dynasty that has been based on agriculture since ancient times has reached the point where 'the rich have no place to stand, and the poor have no place to stand', that is, the gas is exhausted, and the manpower is irretrievable. Although the climate in the Northeast is cold, the land is fertile, the land is vast and sparsely populated, as long as it is developed, it will be a big granary that is not inferior to Suzhou, Hangzhou and Huguang. Cao Xu said unhurriedly.

Emperor Jiajing set his fiery eyes on the northeast, three hundred years of national fortune, nearly two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, if you add up, that is five hundred years, enough to compete with Xia and Shang. Cheng Zhou is known as 800 years, but leaving aside the Warring States Period, when the Zhou royal family completely lost its authority, it is actually 500 years.

Since then, the two Han Dynasty combined, a total of 500 years, and the Tang and Song dynasties combined, also more than 500 years.

What Emperor Jiajing didn't know was that if you follow the trajectory of history, the Ming and Qing dynasties added up, it would also be five hundred years.

In the so-called 500 years of China, there will be saints. It also means that every 500 years is a humanitarian catastrophe.

The Seven Kingdoms fought for hegemony, the Five Hu Chaos, the Mongol invasion of the south, and then the salvation of the Ming and Qing dynasties five hundred years later, Cao Xu hoped to make certain changes to the humanitarian catastrophe that occurred every 500 years within the scope of his ability.

Even if a world war breaks out in the future, I hope that it will be a Chinese civil war similar to the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, rather than being slaughtered by others like later generations.

Getting back to the point, when Cao Xu saw Emperor Jiajing's expression, he knew that the master of Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty was already moved.

Cao Xu took out a fold from his arms, put it on the table next to him, and said: "Here are some of my thoughts on the development of the Northeast, after the emperor returns to the palace, you can take a look, I hope to help the emperor." ”

Emperor Jiajing nodded with satisfaction, clapped his hands, and after a while, the guards who had gone out before all walked in, and Emperor Jiajing ordered someone to take Cao Xu's fold, and then left Baiyun Temple.

After sending Emperor Jiajing away, Cao Xu returned to the Sanqing Four Palaces, sitting under the statue of Sanqing, he thought quietly, just now, when he prompted Emperor Jiajing to look to the northeast, the invisible power around his body increased several times.

In the sea of knowledge, the original black and white reincarnation disk fragments gradually glowed with colorful lights, although there was no comparison with the reincarnation disk that Cao Xu had seen, but it showed that the reincarnation disk fragments were regaining their strength little by little.

The invisible power was perceived by Cao Xu's mind, captured, and then sent into the sea of knowledge.

The reincarnation disk was indifferent to this, but Cao Xu himself felt refreshed, as if drinking a bowl of iced sour plum soup on a hot summer day.

Cao Xu quickly absorbed the invisible power outside his body, and at the same time, he thought, the leader of the Quanzhen Sect, the canonization of the imperial court, and his promotion of the development of the Ming Dynasty, the three are combined to obtain this invisible power.

Before talking to Emperor Jiajing today, although he could sense the existence of invisible forces, he could not actively absorb them, and could only passively accept the subtle influence of invisible forces.

At the same time, before he took over the position of the head of the Quanzhen Sect, he also had the canonization of the imperial court, but he did not sense the existence of this power.

Now it seems that name, instrument, and power are all indispensable.