Pawn Crossing the River

Master Qingbo looked at Master Qingwei's face with his one eye, but he could only see the calmness of still water, without any disturbance.

Master Qingbo could only say: "Don't you really want to know why I turned into a demon?"

Master Qingwei asked back: "The reason why you turned into a demon is the secret of Fenglinzhou?"

Master Qingfang said: "This is only a very small part of it."

"Is there anything else?" Master Qingwei asked.

Master Qingfang replied: "There is a rule in the human world. People who are too powerful, whether immortals or gods, cannot stay in the human world for a long time, only for a hundred years. Unless they use countless divine powers to build a divine kingdom and then hide in it. Among them, even so, after a hundred years, they cannot easily leave the kingdom of God, no different from the mountain gods. But Fenglinzhou seems to be an exception. Many people or demons who have passed the hundred years are still active in the world, such as the big demon. Tamamo-mae is another example of Yamata-no-Orochi.”

"With the great strength of the Taoist sect, it has nominally ruled Fenglinzhou for nearly a hundred years. It must have discovered many strange and unexplainable phenomena. Fenglinzhou seems to be a dark and unknown place where humans and monsters coexist, where monsters live. , and the places where humans live are actually overlapping, except that humans are active during the day, and monsters appear at night. "

"It seems like a deserted ruins during the day, but at night, when the lights first come on, monsters appear one after another, and it is as lively as Yoshihara in Hidekyo. In Pyeongkyung, when night comes, the whole street is deserted. At this time, many strange monsters will appear, like a procession at a temple fair, marching in groups in the streets at night. It is called the Night Parade of One Hundred Ghosts. It is said that those who witness it will be cursed and die for no reason. "

"And Ise. Not long ago, I just went to Ise, where the Yin Qi covers the sky. If there are not enough people, they will be eroded by the boundless Yin Qi and resentment and turn into monsters. And the people who die there , the soul cannot enter the sky, and the soul cannot enter the earth, but will be driven by the Yin Qi to return to the body before death and turn into a ghost. The killing god in the Central Plains who killed 400,000 subjugated soldiers did not have such Yin Qi. Resentment. Where does all this yin and resentment come from?”

"What do Gaotian Kingdom, Weiyuan Kingdom, and Huangquan Kingdom mean respectively?"

"I believe that the Taoist sect has a certain understanding and research on these situations, but I also firmly believe that the Taoist sect still has many unknown things. Regarding these, even this native Shizhouzhai will not know better than me."

Master Qingwei really smiled this time, not an illusion: "Very good, I'm very interested. As long as the master can answer my questions and resolve my doubts, the Taoist sect will meet all the master's reasonable requirements. Let's change places and talk slowly."

The master of Qingfang lowered his head and put his hands together: "Buddha said there are eight sufferings: birth, old age, illness, death, meeting of resentment and hatred, separation from love, not being able to seek what you want, and the five yin being strong. Everyone in the world is suffering from this disaster. I intend to save the world, but the world is addicted to the world of mortals. Transformed into bones, all things are empty, only cause and effect, endless reincarnation. I often say to the world, there is no suffering and no pain if the mind is not moved. All phenomena are not real, all phenomena are like dreams, and all phenomena are empty. , Buddha is compassionate. Only when you enter my Buddhist door, devote yourself to doing good, know what you know, and get what you want, and avoid anger and delusion, and avoid greed, can you achieve ultimate happiness."

…

Xiu Jing camp.

After Zhang Yuelu met the leader of Qingfang, he returned to the camp. He did not follow the army to attack, but still buried his head among the papers.

In fact, this was supposed to be Li Changge's job, but who let Li Changge be censored?

On Zhang Yuelu's left hand was a top-secret file provided by Fenglinzhou Daofu and the notes she had taken. On her right were various historical records provided by the Prime Minister's Palace.

At this time, Zhang Yuelu was browsing the file at a glance.

As early as when the Daomen entered Fenglin Continent for the first time, they had already realized the existence of certain problems.

At that time, the first head of Fenglinzhou Taoist Palace, Da Zhenren, once made a suggestion to Jinque to abandon Fenglinzhou on the grounds that there were great unknown risks in Fenglinzhou. As for what the risk is, the great master was vague and did not say it clearly.

Regarding the original documents, Fenglinzhou Taoist Office does not have them, and they should be sealed at Jinque. But after all, it is an old object from a hundred years ago, and it should have been decrypted, but it will be quite troublesome to find it.

At that time, Jinque made a compromise decision not to actually occupy and rule Fenglinzhou, but to hand it over to the Toyotomi Prime Minister's office for self-governance. The Taoist sect must do no interference, no change, no intervention to the greatest extent possible, and ensure that it can leave at any time. Fenglinzhou. Daomen can only make certain decisions within certain limits, focusing on business, that is, making decisions that the situation allows.

Hundreds of years have passed by, and many people have forgotten their original decision. Even because it was unclear at the time, later generations did not even understand the significance of this decision. So there was the Fenglinzhou war, which went against the ancestral decision.

Zhang Yuelu was also unclear about the meaning of the decision back then. Only after combining the top-secret documents related to Fenglinzhou Daofu and Toyotomi Prime Minister's Palace, he gradually came up with a rough guess.

Under normal circumstances, these top-secret documents are kept in a place where no one cares about them and are heavily guarded. No one from the Da Zhenren in charge of Fenglinzhou Taoist House to ordinary deacons will touch them.

The reason why Zhang Yuelu accessed these two secret files was mainly because he came up with this idea after a conversation with Master Qingfang.

In order to retrieve these two secret files, she specifically asked Master Qingwei for instructions. Master Qingwei came forward to communicate with the Fenglinzhou Taoist Office and the Toyotomi Prime Minister's Office respectively. The Taoist Office and the Prime Minister's Office spent a lot of effort to obtain the documents. Come out, if it were Zhang Yuelu himself, that would be absolutely impossible.

Zhang Yuelu turned another page.

"There is a mountain called 'Eternal Life' in Fenglinzhou, also known as 'Furong Mountain'. Back then, a Taoist alchemist went to the overseas fairy mountains for the ancestor dragon to find the medicine of immortality. He came here, but disappeared later. There are rumors that this Fangshi surnamed Xu is an ancestor of the Japanese people, but the authenticity cannot be verified."

Zhang Yuelu wrote the words "Furong Mountain" in his notes and opened the relevant records of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

"In June of the 19th year of the Enretsu period, Suruga Kuni said that from March 14th to April 18th last year, the top of Mount Furong burned itself. During the day, the smoke was dim, and at night, the fire illuminated the sky. The sound of Like thunder, the dust falls like rain, and the rivers and mountains below are all red.”

"In the 21st year of Yanli, "Fenglinzhou Chronicles" contains: "Suruga Xiangmo Guoyan, Suruga Kingdom Furong Mountain, the day and night are constantly burning, and the gravel disperses like mist. Ask for divination to divine the sun and prevent thousands of epidemics. , it is advisable to order the two countries to strengthen their ties, and to read the scriptures to ward off disasters... In the fifth month of the month...Jiawu, abolish Xiangmo Guozugang Road, open the Luhe Road, and use hibiscus to burn gravel to block the road."

"On the twenty-fifth day of the fifth month of the sixth year of the Shinkan period, in Suruga Kuniyan, there was a great mountain fire involving the three Asama gods in Furong County. It was so blazing that it burned the mountain for one or two hundred miles. The flames were more than twenty feet high, and the fire was huge. There were sounds like thunder, three earthquakes, which lasted for more than ten days, and the fire was still not extinguished. The scorched rocks collapsed, sand and gravel were like rain, and smoke and clouds were thick. No one could get close. In the northwest of the mountain, there was a native habitat in the water and sea. The burned rocks flowed into the sea. , three hundred miles away, three to four hundred miles wide, and twenty to thirty feet high, the flame belongs to the Kingdom of Jia Fei."

"On the 17th day of the Xin Chou Kahi Kingdom, there was a sudden fire in Furong Mountain in Suruga Kingdom, burning the hills and mountains, scorching the grass and trees, causing landslides and rockslides, burying Yatsushiro County Motoji and drawing two seas. The water was as hot as soup, and the fish All the turtles died, and the people lived in their houses and were buried with the sea. Some of them had houses but no one was there. Their number is hard to remember. To the east of the two seas, there was also a sea of ​​water called the Hekou Sea. The flames went to the Hekou Sea. Motochi and other seas were not burned. Before the burial, there was a huge earthquake, thunder and lightning, heavy rain, rain and fog, and it was difficult to distinguish the mountains and fields."

"The second month after the fire, the Fenglinzhou court issued the order of 'Suppressing Thanks'. There will be no worries from then on."

Zhang Yuelu continued to take notes: "Four fires, the ashes almost filled the entire Kanto, and there were countless casualties. After that, the 'Hundred Ghosts Walking at Night' happened."

After writing this, Zhang Yuelu paused slightly, and then commented in small characters: "Is it because of the fire that the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk happened? Or because there were too many casualties in the fire, the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk happened? Or are these two factors indispensable? There should be doubts here.”

"In addition, regarding the so-called thanksgiving ceremony, it was led by the Ise Shrine, the former shogunate, and the Horinsu court represented by the imperial family. The Toyotomi Prime Minister's Office rose too late, and the Toyotomi family was from civilians, so there has been no relevant Detailed records of the incident are unknown.”

Zhang Yuelu leaned back on his chair and murmured: "What exactly is under Furong Mountain?"

No one can answer this question.

Maybe Qingwei Zhenren can answer this question after talking with Qingfang Master.

This is related to the entire layout adjustment of this Fenglinzhou war.

Now, Zhang Yuelu even believes that the Taoist sect should not have launched the Fenglinzhou war so hastily. It was only the increasingly fierce internal party struggle and the rising blind arrogance of the young faction that ultimately led to the occurrence of this war, and the result may be It develops in a direction that no one expected.

At this moment, Mu Jin walked in.

Zhang Yuelu closed the files and notes on the table and asked, "What's the matter?"

Mu Jin replied: "The secretary of Master Qingwei sent a message, and the deputy hall master Tianyuan replied. It's safe and sound."

Generally speaking, secretaries will have a special circle. For example, if two real people want to meet, their secretaries will usually contact them first, discuss the time, and finally report to their respective bosses.

In this circle, there are also distinctions between big and small. For example, the secretaries of Tang Jiaohua, Gong Jiaojun, and Qingwei Zhenren are considered senior secretaries, while Mu Jin is considered a junior secretary.

However, Zhang Yuelu has a bright future, and Mu Jin who follows Zhang Yuelu is destined to be prosperous, so the secretaries are happy to submit to him at all costs, as if they have formed a good relationship in advance.

After all, the three masters and the three princes will eventually ascend, and they can't follow them up together. By the time that day comes, Zhang Yuelu and others will be at the top of Jinque, and they will no longer be secretaries and come out to take charge of the affairs on their own. As the saying goes, the official career requires fine workmanship, constant access to capital, and constant filial piety. They also turn to flatter these juniors who have become senior secretaries, so that these juniors can say good things for themselves in front of Zhang Yuelu and others, or Got some inside information.

Zhang Yuelu asked: "Where is Tianyuan now?"

Mu Jin replied: "On the way back to Yoshida City."