In the Ganlu Palace, the eunuchs and palace maids had already retreated, leaving only Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji.

I only heard Li Shimin say in a low voice: "There has been a great drought for three consecutive years, and the people have long complained and said that I am ...... You know that, too. In fact, I want to find Zhang Zhenren to come back, and I still hope that he can preside over the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens for me, and pray to God to keep my Tang Dynasty in good weather. The second point is to dispel rumors. ”

"But ......"

Zhang Zhenren's walking route is uncertain, at first he only traveled south, but later he became erratic, moving from east to west, south to north. I sent several teams of men to look for him, and every time I had just heard of him, they had already left. In fact, all the things recorded in this side of the excerpt were inquired about by the people I sent out in various places, and then they came back. They hadn't even seen a real person's face once. Speaking of this, Li Shimin sighed faintly again.

The eldest grandson Wujian couldn't help asking: "Second brother, why don't you let Lord Yuan calculate the real person's position?" After Zhang Xuanqing left the capital, in the first year of Zhenguan, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng were ordered by Li Shimin to be officials, and now Qin Tianjian is on duty.

The arithmetic of the two is well known to the world, and it stands to reason that it will not be too difficult to calculate the direction of a person.

Li Shimin sighed again when he heard this: "I haven't thought about it, but Yuan Aiqing said that real people are immortals, and mortal arithmetic is unfathomable." Therefore, even he can't be considered a real person's place, and it is not easy to find a real person!"

Hearing that the eldest grandson Wujian was also in trouble, he pondered carefully, and suddenly his heart moved, and his eyes flowed: "Second brother, the concubine has thought of a way to let that real person take the initiative to come to the capital." ”

"Oh, Guanyin, come quickly!" Li Shimin's spirit was shocked, he knew that his wife was extremely wise, otherwise, when he was not registered in the capital, his Qin palace would have collapsed long ago.

I saw the eldest grandson blink, and said playfully: "Second brother, do you still remember, in the past, my father and emperor ordered that there should be monks, nuns, Taoist priests, and female crowns in the world, and select those who practice diligently and move to the big temple;

"How can I not remember that Fu Aiqing and Xiao Aiqing were still arguing in the court, and Zhang Aiqing even used real people as an example to make Xiao Aiqing speechless. The next day, my father ordered the rectification of Buddhism in the world, and the Beijing master only left three temples, two temples, one in each state, and the rest were all gone. But what does this have to do with finding Zhang Zhenren?" asked Li Shimin, puzzled.

The eldest grandson Wujian chuckled: "Second brother, don't forget, what the concubine just said is not to find Zhang Zhenren, but to ask him to enter Beijing by himself." As for what the solution was, he didn't say anything.

Li Shimin hurriedly said: "Good Guanyin, don't sell Guanzi, talk to me quickly." ”

"Yes, the concubine obeys. The eldest grandson Wujian snickered twice, and his eyes flashed with a sly light: "What the concubine means, why don't the second brother follow his father's example, start with Taoism, and hold a 'Taoist test'?"

"Dao test?" Li Shimin vaguely understood the meaning of the eldest grandson, but he still couldn't think through it for a while.

This time, the eldest grandson Wujian did not hang Li Shimin's appetite again, and said bluntly: "It's a Taoist test! Second brother, you see, after my father ordered the rectification of Buddhism in the past, the monks and Taoists in my capital not only did not decrease, but made people feel that they had increased. This is the reason why the monks in the capital are gathered in one place. If the second brother holds a Taoist examination, like the imperial examination, he will make the world go to Beijing to take the exam, otherwise he will be deprived of his Taoist status. At that time, Zhang Zhenren will appear on his own. ”

"This method is wonderful! It's just ......" Li Shimin was overjoyed when he heard this, but he quickly frowned again: "In this way, it is bound to make some Taoists disgusted, and Zhang Zhenren does not value fame and fortune, how can I guarantee that he can take the entrance examination?"

The eldest grandson said: "It depends on the second brother, and the concubine just said casually, whether or not to implement it and how to implement it still needs to be considered by the second brother." ”

"Hmm...... That's what I said, then I'll thank Guanyin first!" Li Shimin finished laughing, and suddenly changed his words: "By the way, the pheasant slave has already slept, right?"

The eldest grandson Wujian responded: "I have already fallen asleep." After saying that, he yawned and looked tired.

The pheasant slave is Li Zhi's nickname, and the future Emperor Gaozong is still a one-and-a-half-year-old fat boy.

Li Shimin found that the eldest grandson Wuji's face was tired, and suddenly felt in his heart: "Guanyin is tired......, right? Go and rest, don't catch a cold. ”

The eldest grandson shook his head: "I have to wait for the second brother, when the second brother will sleep, and when the concubine will sleep." ”

Li Shimin's heart softened even more: "Okay, okay, I'll sleep here, I'll sleep here...... Let's go!"

"Ahh

......

Next, it is inconvenient to go into detail about the matter, but the next day, a holy decree was sent from the capital to all parts of the country, saying:

Since the Emperor Taishang issued a decree, he ordered Si Sha to be a monk, a nun, a Taoist priest, and a female crown, but there are still those who have slipped through the net. Today, the world is destined to be a monk, enter the examination layer by layer, and choose the top ten monks and ten high roads, and be the banner of Buddhism...... Chin this!

As soon as the news spread, there were those who were happy, those who were indignant, those who shouted loudly, and those who murmured in small voices.

At this time, Zhang Xuanqing sat on the side of the road outside a certain county without knowing anything, looking at a big tree in the center of the road and listening to stories.

"The Taoist chief is asking about this tree, this tree is old, and legend has it that there have been people dead on the tree...... The storyteller is an old man in his fifties and sixties, sitting on the ground with a bundle of firewood beside him, obviously just returning from going up the mountain to cut firewood.

Zhang Xuanqing sat next to the old man, and in four years, he looked a lot more mature, and his face has also undergone a lot of vicissitudes. There is even a short beard of one or two centimeters long under his chin, which proves that he has reached the age of standing in the Tang Dynasty time and space.

The two of them sit on the side of the wide road, the trees on both sides of the side are shady, it is very good-looking, but the peculiar thing is that not only there are trees on both sides of the road, in the center of the wide road, there is actually a lonely big tree, three or five people can not hug it, all the cars and horses have to go around a little bit to pass here, it is really inconvenient.

According to the general practice, all the official roads opened by the imperial court, the trees were either cut down or transplanted, and there was rarely an ancient tree left in the center of the road, and it was so thick and so big. Therefore, Zhang Xuanqing guessed that there must be some reason for it, so he stopped a local woodcutter and asked.

The old woodcutter happened to be tired of walking, so he simply sat on the side of the road with Zhang Xuanqing, resting and talking: "Daoist, you don't know, if you want to tell the story of this tree, it must at least be traced back to before the Sui Dynasty, the Northern Qi Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when it was still a forest ......" (to be continued.) )