Jinyi Night Walk

Xia Xun and Ji Gang walked all the way to the capital, discussing the action plan along the way. The two agreed: the most urgent task is to establish the authority of Wan Songling first. [This chapter is updated for you by netizens] If this puppet cannot affect the Oirat tribes, it will become a useless pawn.

Of course, it is impossible to completely control Oirats through Wansongling. control, it's not practical.Mahamu dared to make him a profuse sweat because he recognized this point.

At the same time, it is really not in the long-term interests of the Ming Dynasty to call Wan Songling to unify Oirats and become Gan Gang's arbitrary Western Mongolian Khan.The strength of Oala was already stronger than that of Tatars. It was all because the tribes had their own masters and went their own way, so they could not form an absolute joint force. How could it be possible for Ming to help them unify? Even if this Khan is a fake, it is not safe. Isn't it obvious that he is willing to be a king who is the only one who respects me, or because of his identity as a Han Chinese, he submits to Ming's command?

Therefore, they must give him more power under the premise of controlling Wansongling, at least to allow him to influence Oala's foreign policy and military operations. This cannot be achieved by peaceful means in the short term. , and therefore can only bleed.

The assassination plan designed by Ji Gang was sharp and direct, just like his chess playing style, open and closed, with no future, but there is no lack of meticulous and cautious deployment, which is different from chess, Ji Gang is more cautious.Xia Xun listened carefully to his plan, but couldn't find any major flaws. He only raised some objections on two details, and the two had a new negotiation.

When the two arrived in Beijing, the action plan had already been formed, and Ji Gang immediately issued an order for the people he deployed on the Wala Grassland to start action.

When Xia Xun and Ji Gang rushed to Beijing, all the civil and military officials in Beijing went out of the city to greet them, but the reason why the emperor sent the pair of troubled brothers to Beijing was that the officials had their own eyes and ears in Beijing, and there were no eyes and ears. Colleagues, friends, old friends, old friends, and close correspondence, have learned the truth a long time ago, knowing that these two were kicked out of the center by the emperor, so their attitude towards them is neither cold nor cold.

They all have the same attitude towards Xia Xun, a high-ranking and prominent prince, and they respect Ji Gang even more. Ji Gang feels that he is bored. Ask the officials, but they know that King Zhao has gone hunting in the city, and he has been gone for three days. King Zhao often takes ten and a half months to come back after a round of hunting. Tianjin has chosen a site to build Jinyiwei.

Xia Xun went to the banquet and returned to his residence. His cheap old nephew Xie Chuanzhong had brought a few sons to wait there, waiting for his uncle to receive him.Xie Chuanzhong was originally strong, and since he got along with Xia Xun, a relative, and undertook the commodity trade in foreign markets in the Beijing area, his wealth has continued to grow like a snowball.

His wealth has increased dramatically, and his horizons have also increased. The few gifts he brought to Xia Xun are all priceless, but elegant and not vulgar.Xie Chuanzhong's mind is flexible, and he can even inquire about who Xia Xun brought with him. Not only did he prepare a generous meeting gift for Xia Xun, who is half a star and half a girl, but even Xianya and Xiao Sakura has a share.

Xie Chuanzhong is rich and generous, he doesn't care about these gifts, if Xian Ya is always a girl, and Xiao Ying is always a guest, it is not surprising that there are many people in power.In case any one of them gets promoted and becomes Mrs. Ru of the Grand Duke, his initial investment will be hundreds of times more effective than rushing to hug Buddha's feet.

Xie Chuanzhong, a cheap relative, has always been very respectful to Xia Xun over the years. The seasonal gifts and birthday gifts have never been delayed and are always delivered on time. Xia Xun has a good impression of Xie Laocai. In addition, he didn't have a lot of airs, so he invited Xie's father and son to the hua hall to meet each other, and entertained them with a simple meal.

The hua hall belongs to the back house, and if it is not an important guest, it will not be invited here. It is a great honor to be able to entertain the Duke of the state. Xie Chuanzhong sent a carload of gifts, ate a simple meal, and said goodbye happily When I came out, I met acquaintances along the way, so I couldn’t help but take the initiative to say hello, hiccup a few times during the conversation, and when people asked, they would calmly and casually say: “Oh, it’s nothing, I was just invited to assist you. The Duke's Mansion had a feast..."

Since Xia Xun came to Beijing in the name of surveying the construction of the imperial city and the construction of the imperial mausoleum, he had to put on a show, so the next day Xia Xun dawdled for a long time, picked a non-noon time, and left A trip to the Beijing branch.

Xia Xun picked such a time to come, the idea is to meet the scene.He didn't care much about construction matters, but he had to go, thinking that there should be nothing important at this time, and there were not many people in the department, so he could go back home after dealing with it casually, but he didn't want to go At that time, there was a quarrel in the travel department.

The people who were arguing were not the officials of the Ministry of Industry, but the Fengshui masters invited by the imperial court.

Fengshui has reached great success since the Tang Dynasty. At that time, it was divided into four schools: Bazhai, Xuankong, Yanggong Fengshui and Guolu Yinyang. After that, most of the schools were the continuation or branch of these four schools. In the Ming Dynasty, Fengshui Although there are many schools, the main ones are Jiangxi School and Fujian School. In fact, the Feng Shui studies of the two schools are inherited from the four major schools of the Tang Dynasty. Pai focuses more on Xing Gua.

Outstanding feng shui masters from these two schools were sent to Beijing. There is no doubt that the location of the imperial palace was to be rebuilt on the basis of the original imperial city of the capital. Their main task was to select the royal mausoleum.Not long after Empress Xu passed away, they were sent to Beijing. They traveled around Beijing, explored for several years, and now finally came up with a plan. As a result, there were too many plans. The representatives of the two schools had different opinions. There are also differences of opinion within the school, and disputes arose in the line department.

The officials of the administrative department either don't know anything about Feng Shui, or they only know some basic knowledge, so naturally they can only sit in a group of ducks and listen to the thunder, and let them play.But in the end, when it was time to report to the emperor for a decision, they couldn’t report all the various opinions, they had to sit there and listen carefully, and when they were getting dizzy, someone came to report: "The Duke Fu is here! "

All the officials were overjoyed upon hearing this, and now they will be the ones to take the blame, so they hurriedly invited Duke Fu to come in, no matter where the imperial tomb is chosen, he will decide, and he will be fine.As soon as Xia Xun arrived at the entrance of the Ministry of Industry, there was a bang, and the main door opened wide, and a large group of officials from the Ministry of Industry swarmed out. Seeing Xia Xun, they all smiled and bowed to each other: "Hello, my lord!" "I've seen you, my lord! ""The next official is polite" "Duke, please come in, please come in..."

Xia Xun was curious in his heart, why did these officials come to be arrogant before and then respectful?

Xia Xun was inexplicably surrounded by these officials of the Ministry of Affairs to the main hall. There were a lot of monks, Taoist priests, and Confucian scholars in the main hall. Not uncommon.When they saw Xia Xun, everyone stepped forward to salute.Xia Xun laughed in surprise: "What is the Xingbu doing today? Why did you invite so many people from other places?"

Zhang Wentao, Shangshu of the Xingbu, sighed: "The Duke of the Kingdom does not know. Since the empress died, the emperor ordered the Xingbu to cooperate with the Fengshui masters sent by the court to choose auspicious land for burial. Lord, you also know that this auspicious land is a beautiful place. , not only the burial place of the empress, but after the emperor lives forever, it must be buried with the empress. How dare the lower officials ignore it?

In the past few years, officials from the Ministry of Traveling have accompanied the masters to travel all over the northern mountains and rivers, and finally selected some auspicious places. However, the auspicious places chosen by the masters are different. It's a decision, the Duke, you came at the right time, and you have to make up your mind on this matter! "

Xia Xun felt bad when he heard it, and then he understood why everyone was so happy when they saw him, Feng Shui?You don’t understand, neither do you!Xia Xun quickly declined and said, "Ah, the Duke of this country just came in casually. I heard that the imperial city has already taken shape? I think I'm still in the imperial city. It's up to Zhang Shangshu to make a decision on choosing Jiyang... ..."

Xia Xun said that he was about to slip away, but Zhang Wentao was not willing to let him go, so he grabbed him and said, "Don't be impatient, the Duke, this matter is urgent. The Duke must help the official to come up with an idea!" Zhang Wentao said at the same time , waved his hand and said: "Master Bai Lin, first tell the Duke of the auspicious land you have chosen!"

A fat monk in a red cassock stepped forward and said, "This old man is from Sichuan, and he is a master of Feng Shui from the Bazhai School of the Tang Dynasty!"

Zhang Shangshu said: "My lord, Bailin in the middle of Shu is very famous in the area of ​​Bashu!"

Master Bai Lin proudly said: "The old man used the eight trigrams to match the nine stars with the eight houses, combined with the fleeting movement of the flying stars in the nine palaces, and carefully calculated with the "Hetu" and "Luoshu" Yili Jing, he selected an auspicious place, which is located in Tujiaying outside the mouth. This place has great feng shui, it…”

Xia Xun was confused and thought, "It's gossip and the Book of Changes. Isn't this Taoist knowledge? Why is it a great monk who teaches this knowledge?"

As soon as he thought of this, a Taoist priest wearing a nine-beam Taoist crown, wearing a gossip fairy clothes, and a water and fire silk sash around his waist floated out and shouted: "Duh! What nonsense! Zhu and "pig" have the same pronunciation. When Zhu enters Tu's house, the only way to do it is to slaughter? You only talk about Jiugong Bagua, Flying Star and Eight Houses, but you don't know that you have violated the taboo. Although this place is auspicious, it is not suitable for Zhu Ming for me. The royal family chose it as the mausoleum!"

Zhang Shangshu hurriedly explained: "This Daoist priest named Dongshanling is a famous Fengshui master in Damaoshan, Jiangxi."

Dongshan ordered Xia Xun to say: "The feng shui art learned by Pindao is based on the nine stars of Luoshu, and the basis of natural mountains and rivers, combined with the study of three elements of luck, through the arrangement of dragons and dragons, and flying stars to spread the plate." And the magic calculations such as closing the mountain and expelling evil spirits, should be done like a god. Pindao chose a good place, just at the foot of Yangshan Mountain in the southwest of Changping County, here..." Broken literature