The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 300 Encirclement and suppression
In a blink of an eye, the autumn color is deep, the vegetation is gradually withering, and Zhao Tun's days of confinement are over.

But he didn't go to the court. After all, there is no special military, he doesn't have to attend the court meeting, and the three-month holiday given by the emperor has not even passed half of the time.

The mansion is very lively today, especially at the East Kitchen, because the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has existed since ancient times, that is, it is celebrated on August [-]th, but it was the Taizu of this dynasty who officially established this festival.

For Song people, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a big day, and there is only a difference in the year, and even the Dragon Boat Festival cannot be compared with it.

Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, convenience stores in various places in Tokyo began to be arranged, and all major stores sold new wines, reconnected with colorful buildings on the facades, flower heads and painted poles, and the city people rushed to drink.

And there will be a holiday in the morning, not an ordinary rest, but a regular holiday.

At this time, there will be a banquet in the palace.

Rich and noble families will build high platforms in their mansions, or stop on high places, drink and invite the moon, and listen to operas for fun.

Ordinary people's families will also go to the small platform in the courtyard to arrange family reunions and reunite their children. Those who are wealthy will go to restaurants to grab seats and spend a lot of extravagance.

In addition to reciting poems under the moon, there are many other romantic things in the programs of Mid-Autumn Festival, such as viewing flowers, visiting gardens, releasing river lanterns, painting boats and watching lanterns, etc.

On this night, the business in Tokyo city will go until the fifth watch, and tourists will enjoy the moon and dance in the city without stopping all night.

And the East Chef in the palace is busy preparing Mid-Autumn Festival dim sum at the moment.

Dim sum is baked moon cakes, also known as Mid-Autumn cakes, which is probably the predecessor of moon cakes.

The small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crisp and glutinous rice in the middle, which is a seasonal food for Mid-Autumn Festival.

For this reason, Zhao Tong specially asked someone to go to Jardine Square to recruit two cooks. Jardine Square is the most famous place in the city for making moon cakes, but the taste is fixed, which is not what he likes.

The two cooks spent a lot of money. They were the east cooks in the mansion. They only made pastries on weekdays and seasonal desserts on festivals.

At this time, the aroma of scones from Dongchu's side was already wafting out, and the young lady was also busy there. Zhao Tang felt that she should find something to do for her. Since she liked these things before, let her take care of making dim sum. .

As for what flavors Zhao Tong's family likes to eat, they all wrote down and asked Jin'er to take the list, and then Xiao Niang studied the method, and then brought the two cooks to arrange.

At noon, the first batch of moon cakes came out, and Jin'er trotted to the study with the oiled wooden tray in his arms.

Zhao Tang doesn't like to eat that kind of soft mooncakes, but prefers those with a slightly crispy outer skin. As for the fillings, it doesn't matter what the most authentic nuts are, most of them are crispy fruits.

In the afternoon, as more and more small cakes were baked, I enjoyed them one by one. The baking was not closed until the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

After Zhao Tong finished eating the pancakes, he sat in the study and drank tea. Luo Jinshui came to the mansion and presented a blueprint, which was exactly the residence of the Mingjiao people he had explored these days.

At this moment, Fang La has not rebelled, and the Mingjiao organization is not well understood by the imperial court, nor does it know that it has spread widely among the people, so there is no explicit prohibition, or it is regarded as a scourge.

Therefore, Mingjiao's work is not so secretive and auspicious, and if you want to preach, you have to communicate with each other.

This place in Tokyo is different from other places. After all, under the feet of the emperor, the people's life is still decent. Since the Song Dynasty, Buddhism and Taoism have flourished. In recent years, the Taoist emperor has tossed about the Shenxiao religion, and the people are not surprised by this.

Therefore, Mingjiao's mission is not smooth, and once it is blatant, the more likely it will be noticed.

In addition to the addresses of the two envoys on the drawing, there is also a special place marked by Luo Jinshui, which should be the residence of a higher-level envoy, because the mark on the door is much higher than that of the envoy.

But Luo Jinshui had never seen the people inside, and he didn't know which level of Mingjiao's identity he was. After all, he was no match for Zhu Xiaoyi's group of dirty clothes, and he could watch day and night.

Luo Jinshui said: "My lord, those two envoys have become more and more arrogant in the past few days, and dare to preach directly in the market."

Zhao Tong nodded, he should be a little anxious, but even if it is estimated that the court will not express anything, because there are too many teaching and preaching in the capital, and the branch schools of Buddhism and Taoism are diverse and innumerable.

At the beginning, the Ming religion was under the guise of Buddhism, and mixed with local Persian theories in various ways, and then mixed with some things from the Western Regions in the Uighurs, and now it entered the Central Plains, even some Taoist theories were included.

So this thing is really nothing to be seen from the outside, and it is so bold that it is directly announced in the market.

Zhao Tang carefully looked at the markings on the blueprint. Most of them are ordinary believers. It is easy to deal with these people. At worst, he will take over or eradicate those missionary leaders. It faded away.

He understands the scriptures of Mingjiao. In fact, this kind of thing is not as attractive as Buddhism to the people who live and work in peace and contentment.

It's only for those who can't eat enough, or who are brave and powerful, and have nowhere to vent their strength. The temptation is great.

Therefore, this thing has always been spread more in poor places, and it is not easy to develop in Gyeonggi.

He picked up the pen and circled a few places on the drawing, including the two envoy residences and the higher-level envoy residence, and there were two other points. According to Luo Jinshui, It is a place for private gatherings, and these two are also circled.

Zhao Tong knew that this gathering place was actually a place to explain the scriptures, this kind of place had to be spacious, ordinary houses can't accommodate so many people.

First pull out these five places, then interrogate to see if there are any leaders, and clean them up together.

Then he called Tan Zhen, and this matter would probably be done in the name of Tan Zhen. Since he was on vacation at home, he would not interfere in name.

When you go to arrest them, you need to bring a few good fighters. After all, the Mingjiao people are all good at martial arts, so maybe there are some masters hiding in the city.

Now that Huang Gu and Ouyang Bei are away with official positions, it is best for the people in the palace not to show up, so he asked Tan Zhen to call Lu Junyi, Xu Ning and Zhang Xian, and Shen Fei to bring them along, and asked him to pick a few martial artists from the regiment. Go on the table together.

As for the Broken Jade Tower, it was not used. After all, it was regarded as an official, and it was not good to involve the world.

After everything was arranged, Luo Jinshui was asked to stare at it quietly, and only waited for the night to come before starting to do it.

Although there are as many as five places in the place, there is no need to mobilize the crowd. Zhao Tong's plan is to sweep from the big to the small. Luo Jinshui said that the location of the higher-level envoy will come first, followed by the two envoys, and then the meeting place .

After dinner, it was getting dark a little bit. At this time, someone was delivering a letter outside. Zhao Tang took it and saw that the two envoys had left the door and rushed to the meeting place. It seemed that they were going to explain the classics tonight. righteous.

Zhao Tang pondered for a while, and it was even simpler this way, the five locations directly became three, as long as someone was sent to watch over the meeting place, it would be all right at that time.

Looking at the time, he felt that it was about the same, so he took Shen Fei out.

Shen Fei picked a total of ten teenagers in the group, most of them were the ones who went to Lanxia Town to hang out together when they returned to Tokyo, they were all proficient in fist and foot.

Exit the old Caomen on the east side of the inner city and come to the outer city. In front of you is Zhujiaqiao Wazi, and then walk down the Xie Street. It is very lively here, with prosperous business, brothels and restaurants, and there is a tendency to catch up with Zhouqiao.

A group of people went further east on Niuhang Street, and came to the Niulou Hotel. The special place Luo Jinshui mentioned was nearby.

This Niuhang Street is the largest street in the east of the outer city. It is prosperous, but the traffic of people is complicated, the security is not good, and there is no curfew in Song Dynasty, so things will happen every day, which always makes Kaifeng mansion a headache. endlessly.

Zhao Tang took out the blueprint drawn by Luo Jinshui and took a look. It was located in the southeast of the Niulou Hotel, and there was a residential area there.

After taking someone to look for it, Xu Ning came to pick him up not too far away. It turned out that Tan Zhen had already surrounded the place like a net, and kept everything in and out.

Zhao Tong went over and saw that Tan Zhen and Lu Junyi were pretending to be drunkards, arguing endlessly in front of a house, while Zhang Xian and Yanqing were pretending to be their own servants, the master was arguing, and they also stared at each other.

He couldn't help laughing, this flaw is too obvious, if it wasn't for the Mingjiao people who think that Tokyo is not dangerous, and their hearts are relaxed, even if they are a little vigilant, they will have noticed it.

When Tan Zhen saw Zhao Tama coming, he was about to say hello, but Zhao Tama gave him a wink, and Tan Zhen stopped in his tracks, and then Yan Qing, who was beside him, went straight to the gate of the house.

This was planned long ago, instead of those sneaky attempts to climb over the wall, just walk through the main entrance.

Yan Qing knocked on the door, but there was no movement inside for a long time, Yan Qing shouted: "Pedestrians, drunk and thirsty, ask for a bowl of water."

He yelled a few times, but there was still no answer from inside. Tan Zhen frowned at this moment and stepped forward and shouted: "Is there anyone... I'm thirsty, sir. I'm getting a bowl of water to drink, but it's not in vain for you."

Still no one was talking inside, Tan Zhen pretended to be drunk, and said angrily: "If you knock on the door and refuse to open it, don't you look down on the officials? Don't you know my name on this Niushi Street! If you don't open the door again, I will smash it in and get water for myself!"

As he spoke, he raised his foot and kicked it, when a female voice suddenly came from inside: "Where did this bastard come from, he actually broke into my aunt's place!"

As he spoke, footsteps sounded, and when he reached the door, he heard a "bang" pull of the wooden bolt, and then the two doors opened left and right, revealing a woman's figure.

I saw that this woman was born with a strong back and waist, and was very tall, with two messy broom eyebrows and a dark pancake face. If she was not wearing women's clothing, she would definitely be mistaken for a man.

Tan Zhen was also a little dumbfounded when he saw this woman. He was a well-informed man, and the capital was prosperous. He had never seen such a woman before, but it was the first time he had seen this black tower in front of him.

The woman was also a little dazed, she didn't expect there were so many people outside, she couldn't help but frowned and said, "Where did you come from...what are you doing here?"

Tan Zhen shook his arms and said, "I said that the officials want to drink water, why don't you drink water for a long time? Now that the officials are thirsty, how do you want to compensate?"

Seeing his rude words, the woman immediately showed anger on her face, and said coldly: "It's so funny, you actually blackmailed me to the door of my aunt's house!"

Tan Zhen didn't care about these things, he yelled: "The ugly woman doesn't go to the market to inquire about it, what will happen to those who dare to offend me, Niu Daguan, why don't you hurry up and pay for it with money."

As he spoke, he walked towards the door. The woman was so angry that she reached out to close the two doors. Tan Zhen pushed with her arm. The door had been decayed for a long time, and there was a "click" sound, along the wooden shafts on both sides. Fold down.

The woman took a step back immediately, and then glared at Tan Zhen: "You're so stupid that you can't find death!"

Tan Zhen laughed loudly, and rushed to the back and said: "Come in and have a look, if there is anything worthwhile, let's move it away, and it will all be used to compensate the officials for my thirsty money."

The woman's face was livid with anger, she clenched a fist the size of a bowl, and watched Tan Zhen grit her teeth.

At this time, the people outside the courtyard walked in with a "hula", and shouted in cooperation with Tan Zhen: "Losing money, losing money, losing money quickly!"

The woman saw that there were so many people and that they were not attractive, so she took a few steps back, then turned around and was about to run inside.

How could Zhao Tun let her run away, and shouted: "Don't think about reneging on the thief, don't leave without taking the money."

Lu Junyi stepped forward in two steps, the woman seemed to want to touch the weapon, but Lu Junyi was not as quick as Lu Junyi, and Chunyan cut the water from behind, directly twisting her two arms together.

The woman was shocked and struggled desperately, she didn't know Yu Qilin's tricks, she saw Lu Junyi lifting and pulling her arms, dislocating them all, and then shouted: "Be honest, I will let you go after I take the money."

The woman cursed angrily in pain: "You bastards, how dare you enter the house to rob?"

Tan Zhen laughed and said, "What are you robbing? I knocked on the door for a long time and no one opened it. I blame your family for being rude. You have to pay the officer for my rudeness."

"Rogue, aren't you afraid of the government!" the woman scolded.

"Government?" Tan Zhen laughed and said, "You mean Kaifeng Mansion!"

The woman was pushed to the door, she couldn't help but panicked, but she still shouted: "I'm going to Kaifeng Mansion to sue you rascals!"

Tan Zhen hehe said: "Officer, my brother-in-law is working in Kaifeng Mansion, it depends on whether you believe me or you!"

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the door in front of him, with a look of doubt in his eyes. Logically speaking, the courtyard has been so tossed, and if there are people in the room, they will make some noise even if they can't see it. But nothing happened.

He gave a wink to a few guards wearing ordinary clothes next to him, and these guards immediately stepped forward and kicked the door open.

There were many candles lit in the main hall of the room, but there was no one there. After several guards rushed in, they went to check the rooms on both sides, but there was still no one there.

At this time, a forbidden soldier said suddenly inside: "What kind of Buddha is this offering, why have you never seen it before?"

Everyone heard the words and went to look at it, only to see a stone Buddha enshrined in the room there, with rays of light carved around its body, with a majestic, solemn and compassionate expression, and completely different attitudes appeared on the same face.

Except for Zhao Tun, no one in the room recognized this stone Buddha, and they all frowned and showed puzzled expressions.

Zhao Tun's face darkened at this moment, this is clearly the Mani Light Buddha enshrined by Mingjiao, also known as Mingzun.

He turned his head to look at the woman, and said coldly: "Come here, interrogate this woman carefully!"

(End of this chapter)