People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 245

"what's up?"

Lao Zhang couldn't keep up with Zhang Yi's rhythm for a while, Zhang Yi pointed to the Yongshou Palace and said:
"The host of Yongshou Palace, who are you going to choose?"

Zhang Normal was stunned, and soon he was in trouble too.

Only then did he understand the reason for Zhang Yi's problem?
The emperor held the ceremony of enshrining the gods. At least there is no problem with the Yongshou Palace becoming the territory of the old Zhang family.

That being the case, Zhengyi must choose a suitable person to preside over the affairs of the capital.

After experiencing a Xuanjiao, Zhang Normal also understands that this matter is difficult to handle.

If the selection is not good, the Beijing Office is likely to overwhelm Longhushan's family again and become another Xuanjiao.

He glanced at Zhang Yi. In fact, if he had a choice, Zhang Yi would be the best candidate to sit in Yongshou Palace.

He was originally a direct descendant of the Zhang family, and he was capable enough.

Even if he has the emperor's trust, he will not threaten the family.

only……

As soon as Lao Zhang thought about it, Zhang Yi shook his head:

"I'm not suitable for..."

Leaving aside whether he wants to take over the authority of the Yongshou Palace, Zhang Yi understands that he cannot be the host of the Yongshou Palace.

For a seven-year-old child, even if he is a genius in the sky, Lao Zhang will fully support him, and there is a high probability that he will not be able to pass the emperor's test.

The future Chaotian Palace, in the original historical trajectory, should be the place where the emperor used to control Longhu Mountain and lead Taoism.

It's just that due to some circumstances, the trajectory of this history is in chaos.

Zhang Normal regained the right to lead Taoism because of the vaccination law, several years earlier than before.

And the institution that controlled Longhushan did not appear.

But Chaotian Palace is indeed a good place.

In the future, its function will not only be a Taoist temple, but also have many administrative functions of the imperial court.

In such a place, even if Lao Zhang has the right to accept the Taoist master, he still needs the approval of the emperor.

He, Zhang Yi, couldn't pass the emperor's test, even if he passed, sitting in the chair of Chaotian Palace, wouldn't he be annoyed to death by those censors who didn't like him?
Zhang Normal thought for a while, and felt that Zhang Yi was not suitable.

However, his thoughts were different from Zhang Yi's. The Yongshou Palace was too conspicuous. The emperor probably didn't like sending Zhang Yi here, which would increase his risk of exposure.

And Lao Zhang himself didn't want it in his heart, Zhang Yi's temper was too evasive, and there were many people here.

In case he says something wrong, someone will spread his words.

Putting it on the court would also cause an uproar.

After going through this risk, Zhang Normal understands one thing, that is, the words of civil officials can really kill people.

If one is not good, maybe even the emperor may not be able to keep himself.

Starting from Longhushan's status as the head teacher, he naturally hoped that the person who was talking to Yingtian was his son.

But from his father's point of view, he didn't want Zhang Yi to stand out.

"You should have a list in mind, and then hand it over to His Majesty the Emperor for a decision!
There is no rush, but it should be on the agenda! "

"Then who do you think is suitable for Longhu Mountain?"

Zhang Normal asked for advice humbly.

Zhang Yi thought for a while, but many names of Lao Zhang's disciples appeared in his mind.

Zhang Normal has indeed cultivated some good disciples in his life.

These disciples are also quite trusted by the emperor, but most of the people here do not have a good relationship with Zhang Yi.

Those people in the mountains, although they can't talk about bullying themselves, they will look down on him because of Lao Zhang's relationship with him in the cold.

Zhang Yi thought of someone, and the image of Deng Zhongxiu gradually appeared in his mind.

Deng Zhongxiu is also one of Lao Zhang's future favorite disciples. After he stayed in Beijing, Zhu Yuanzhang really wanted to see him.

In the fifth year of Hongwu, Brother Deng was already able to take charge of his own affairs and won the trust of Lao Zhu.

It is probably not bad to withdraw him at this time.

Zhang Yi told Lao Zhang this proposal, and Lao Zhang bowed his head in thought.

Xiao Deng seems to be a little younger.

However, at his age, the ancients probably married wives and had children, so it was not a big problem.

Zhang normal nodded and said:

"Then I'll put him on the list. If the emperor doesn't trust him, I'll recommend Song Zongzhen and Fu Ruolin..."

Zhang Yi nodded, he still prefers Senior Brother Deng, after all, he is his own.

The so-called everyone has a position. Although Zhang Yi doesn't want to go to the muddy water of Longhu Mountain, the host of Yongshou Palace is to a large extent the representative of Longhu Mountain in the future capital.

As a Taoist priest of Zhengyi, his pure heart temple is also controlled by Yongshou Palace.

If you meet a Taoist priest with a bad relationship, you will feel disgusted at that time, and you will feel very uncomfortable.

Mr. Song himself had burned his hair, and Fu Ruolin had conflicts with him too...

Well, it's better to be Senior Brother Deng!
The father and son chatted while waiting for Deng Zhongxiu's donkey cart to come.

After a while, the industrious brother Deng came from afar.

"Master, Junior Brother, you have been waiting for a long time!"

Deng Zhongxiu got out of the car, and greeted Lao Zhang and Zhang Yi enthusiastically. He suddenly felt that the atmosphere was not right.

Zhang's father and son looked at him, seemingly thoughtful.

"Little Deng, you have been with Master for several years!"

"Five years..."

Deng Zhongxiu answered his question honestly.

"I'm going to preside over the construction of the Conferred God Terrace in the Yongshou Palace in the next few days. You will follow me and wait for my orders! By the way, I have a volume of the secret art of Longhu Mountain here for the teacher. You can learn it later, and ask me if you don't understand ..."

Deng Zhongxiu was overwhelmed by this sudden sense of happiness. He has been a Taoist priest in Yingtian for a year, and finally wants to be taught the Dharma by his master?
It's been five years, and he's had a hard time these five years!

Especially this year, although it was considered fulfilling, but following Junior Brother Zhang Yi, I always felt that I was not a Taoist priest.

"Thank you, Master!"

Deng Zhongxiu knelt on the ground and knelt three times and kowtowed nine times towards Zhang Normal.

"Brother, you should study hard. In the future, you may have the opportunity to preside over the Taoist temple behind you!"

Zhang Yi turned his head, pointed at the Yongshou Palace behind him, and encouraged Deng Zhongxiu.

Deng Zhongxiu frightened silly?

Although the Yongshou Palace has not been expanded by Lao Zhu, it can be regarded as a Taoist temple.

This is almost comparable to the Taoist temple in Longhu Mountain, let yourself host it?
"Thank you Master, thank you Junior Brother!"

Deng Zhongxiu understood that this was the greatest opportunity in his life, so he quickly knelt on the ground, kneeling three times and knocking nine times!

"My family, don't do this!"

Zhang Yi didn't know anyone well in Longhu Mountain, only Deng Zhongxiu had been with him for a year, so he could be regarded as a close person.

He patted Deng Zhongxiu to comfort him, and Deng Zhongxiu nodded silently.

"Looking back, your junior brother has some ideas, you are in charge of implementing them!

As a host, you must first learn to take care of the Taoist affairs in every detail! "

Zhang Normal began to assume the attitude of a master, teaching dun dun.

Deng Zhongxiu studied hard!
A few days later, the tenth day!

Lao Zhang and Deng Zhongxiu almost stayed in Yongshou Palace and couldn't go out.

The person recommended by Zhang Yi was right. After Zhang normal used Deng Zhongxiu, he found that this little apprentice of himself did have great potential.

Although he is young, he is not bad at carrying out his orders.

And for some unreasonable behaviors of Lao Zhang, he can also put forward pertinent opinions.

Lao Zhang cooperated with the Ministry of Industry to build the Conferred God Platform and repair the Taoist temple, but Deng Zhongxiu was in charge.

In fact, Senior Brother Xiao Deng did very well. He was kind and he got along well with the officials of the Ministry of Industry.

In addition to repairing the Taoist temple, it is also a major part of Deng Zhongxiu's responsibility to warm up for the Yongshou Palace to confer the gods.

According to Zhang Yi, this is called draining Yongshou Palace in advance.

Zhang Yi's methods of drainage are various, but the most important method is to set up a stage and sing.

The Taoist paid its own money and invited the best theater troupes in Yingtian Mansion to sing songs in turn at more than ten hours a day.

The ancients lacked entertainment activities, and theatrical troupe set up the stage, which is no less than later generations Ai Kun holding a concert...

This kind of entertainment that ordinary people have no money to listen to is actually free!

And those opera troupes are not wild ones, but the best opera troupes.

For a while, Yongshou Palace was crowded with people, and it was hard to find one.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Yi's proposal to have a lunch was to maximize the enthusiasm of the masses.

It's not important to listen to music, but eating is a big deal at any time.

Especially the lunch in Yongshou Palace, although it is also a simple meat porridge, but when you find oil stars and minced meat in the porridge,
The big guy's affection for Longhushan exploded instantly.

"It's better to be a member of Tianshi's family!"

"That's not true. Although there are kind-hearted people giving porridge, the porridge water looks like water! The porridge in Yongshou Palace actually has minced meat, oil, and salty taste..."

"As expected of a family of immortals who passed down the vaccination method..."

Listening to ditties, eating and eating.

The hearts of the people, that is flattering.

Even humming a song "Xiao Zhang, sit down, Laojun will tell you what's in my heart..." along with the troupe's corner, it also became interesting.

This situation was reported back to the palace, and Zhu Yuanzhang and his son looked at the inspection report, and they couldn't laugh or cry.

Zhang Yi only used this method, and the Zhang family's reputation among the people increased tenfold.

The most important thing is that Zhang Yi has been tirelessly publicizing that the emperor is the reincarnation of Xuanwu, and this reputation has spread throughout Yingtian along with the libretto.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also very happy in his heart.

Although he scoffed at the so-called reincarnation theory, the most important thing for an emperor was legitimacy and mystery.

In ancient times, Gaozu cut the white snake.

Kings of all dynasties were born, and they always wanted to create some kind of vision.

The big guy is so enthusiastic about feudal superstition, isn't it just to improve legitimacy?
However, many of the so-called visions of kings are recorded in history books and left for future generations to read.

Even if many things are officially announced, the common people are used to it, whether they like to listen or not.

But the dissemination of Henan libretto is different. In an interesting way, private goods are included, which is the most important content of Zhang Yishuo's communication.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with the results caused by Zhang Yi through the inspection of the school.

"People's hearts can be manipulated, the younger brother of the Zhang family did it!

And compared to the subtle influence of the Three Kingdoms he said, the power of this libretto is even stronger!

It's only been a few days, the city is full of voices chanting Medicine King Taishang, and the people are also secretly worshiping the royal father's birth shrine..."

The deification of kings is a routine practice of kings of all ages.

But the common people are not so easy to fool, and there are not many people who really worship the king as a god?

If the common people can regard Lao Zhu as Xuanwu, then the effect of this propaganda will naturally be leveraged.

Zhu Biao put down the censorship and said with a smile:
"Longhushan, Yao Wang Taishang and Father Huang have already exhausted the benefits of the [flow] that Zhang's younger brother said. It is Master Huitan's mood, which may not be very good..."

……

Huitan's mood is not bad, it's extremely bad!
After coming out of the palace a few days ago, he has been in seclusion, and finally after leaving the seclusion, he made a decision.

Absorb Medicine King Taishang into Buddhism.

He tried his best to push this matter forward.

To a certain extent, this is Huitan's provocation against Longhushan and even Taoism.

At that time, Taoism provoked Buddhism with a copy of "Lao Zi Hua Hu Jing", which triggered a century-old debate.

Therefore, Buddhism has suppressed Taoism for a hundred years in terms of luck.

Now that Longhushan is rising, there are faint signs of Taoist revival. As the leader of Buddhism, Hui Tan is naturally obliged to put pressure on it at this time!
In the hearts of the Chinese people, Confucianism is divided into eight struggles.

The two schools of Buddhism and Taoism are doomed to fight each other in this ebb and flow, and to eat the soup left by Confucianism.

If the Daoist sect revives, the remaining share of the Buddhist sect will decrease.

That's why Huitan made a good move to snatch Zhang Normal's credit, not because he was greedy.

But in this position, there are some things he has to do.

It's just that this thing failed!
Then there is only one more strategy, even if it is to provoke Lao Zhang, he must eat the "people's hearts" behind the king of medicine!

Because, that is the incense that belongs to the future Taoism!

"There seems to be a lot less pilgrims in the temple recently?"

Arrange for the Medicine King Taishang to hook up with the Medicine Master Buddha, and prepare to enter the Buddhist gate.

Huitan was walking in Tianjie Temple, vaguely feeling something was wrong.

There shouldn't be so few people in Tianjie Temple this time. Although today is the tenth day of the lunar new year, the flow of people is no more than that on New Year's Day.

But with years of experience in secret, shouldn't there be so few pilgrims?
The Zhike monk was a little embarrassed when he heard the abbot's question:

"Host, this person has gone to Yongshou Palace!"

"Eternal Life Palace? It shouldn't be!"

Although the Yongshou Palace decided to build the Conferred God Platform, His Majesty Fifteen personally conferred the Gods!
Huitan expected that the incense in the monastery on the fifteenth day would definitely not work!

But in normal times, to be honest, Yongshou Palace is not worthy to be compared with Tianjie Temple at all.

"It was Yongshou Palace who set up a stage to sing, which attracted everyone..."

Hearing the monk Zhike's simple narration, Huitan's face darkened immediately.

This old Zhang's family didn't play cards according to common sense at all, which caught him off guard.

In the past few days, he was planning to make a formal move to hold a Dharma meeting to transform the belief of the Medicine King Taishang into a Buddhist Bodhisattva.

Public opinion, in fact, a few days ago, Huitan had ordered people to ferment it.

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But at this point, Huitan didn't expect that Yongshou Palace would shut down the Tianjie Temple?

He was a little annoyed and asked:
"Where's your senior brother?"

"Forehead……"

"Say……"

"Junior brother also went to Yongshou Palace to listen to the book, and I heard him say that "Fengshen Yanyi" is talking about the exciting part..."

Huitan was a little anxious, his apprentice went to Yongshou Palace to listen to the music?

Fengshen Yanyi, what is that?
A great sense of shame filled Huitan's mind, he only had one thought, to go to Yongshou Palace to find that disobedient apprentice back.

He thought for a while, then put on a set of ordinary clothes and went out, heading straight for Yongshou Palace.

Seeing the crowds of people in Yongshou Palace, Huitan was shocked.

He thought that there were many people in Yongshou Palace, but he didn't expect that there were more people here than in Tianjie Temple in the first year of junior high school.

Because of the turbulent crowd, he was not very conspicuous in the crowd.

Those who sang, kept telling Lao Zhang to sit down...

There is the sound of chanting the Sutra of the King of Medicine!
Huitan was eager to find his apprentice, and asked where to listen to "Fengshen" among the crowd.

When he finally found the place, he happened to hear the process of seeking Taoism in Zixiao Palace.

The scene where the two Taoists are throwing and rolling makes people burst into laughter.

When Hui Tan heard the names of the two Taoists, his eyes darkened.

Zhang normal, you are too deceitful.

(End of this chapter)