Everyone nodded and looked at each other, but no one responded.

The eighth day of April is the Buddha Bathing Festival.

In Tokyo, nine of the ten major temples were celebrating vigorously and staged "Mu Lian Saves His Mother" on a large scale. At the same time, Zhao Guan's family watched a newly rehearsed "The Legend of White Snake" at Gyeongbokgung Palace.

In the next few days, this new play quickly became popular in Tokyo, but it also caused strong dissatisfaction among the monks because it seriously affected the ritual activities of the Buddha Bathing Festival.

Finally, the monks, led by Fa He, the abbot of the Shaolin Temple branch in Tokyo, jointly submitted a letter requesting the court to stop this kind of play that slandered Buddhism... because according to their research, the story of the White Snake obviously originated from the Luoyang Python Incident in the Tang Dynasty.

In that incident, it was obviously the giant python who wanted to help the Anlu Mountains and rivers flood Luoyang, but was subdued by the eminent monk Shan Wuwei, but unexpectedly spread the rumors and caused the eminent monks of the Shaolin Temple to break up human relations, and the white snake flooded the Shaolin Temple. In the end, the eminent monk Fahai suffered retribution.

A ridiculous play that escapes into the belly of a crab.

In this regard, Zhao Jiu immediately personally approved that the Shaolin Temple serves the country and the people and has made many contributions when the court was in trouble. He must not be slandered easily. However, he personally asked the person who wrote the play and said that the outline of the story came from the Five Mountains.

The Taoist priest from the Wuyue Temple came out immediately to explain to Fahe.

Immediately, the leader of Wuyue Temple came forward in person to explain to Fahe. First, he said that the white snake was not a giant python from the Tang Dynasty, but the disciple of Lishan Mother. He also said that Xu Xuan, who opened a pharmacy in Tokyo in the play, was also a person from the Renzong Dynasty.

, Jin Mingchi borrowed an umbrella when it rained, these things were all told by Xu Xuan's brother-in-law to his master personally... Of course, his master lived a hundred years old and became an immortal last year; finally, he also said that the eminent monk of Shaolin Temple surrendered

The snake demon also asked Xu Xuan to build a pagoda to suppress the snake demon. Naturally, the merits are immeasurable and it is a good thing. But in the end, Xu Xuan's son succeeded in sacrificing the pagoda to save his mother, and the eminent monk Fahai fled five thousand miles and could only escape to the south of the Yangtze River in embarrassment.

The reason why Crab Belly is still alive is because Mother Lishan has boundless magical power, and her disciple Bai Suzhen is better than the eminent monks of Shaolin Temple once she has no worries because of Xu Xuan's death.

As the saying goes, my Buddha's Dharma power is boundless, of course Fahe did not accept this explanation! So the two sides came and went and debated all day long. One said that my Buddha has three thousand worlds in the palm of his hand, and the other said that the ancestor's purple energy came from the east thirty thousand miles, which attracted countless topics of discussion.

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However, Fahe and the monks in the temples in the city knew what was interesting and only went to settle accounts with the Taoist priests at Wuyue Temple, but it did not mean that other people knew what was interesting. Moreover, a play was insignificant and the monks were just looking for a sense of existence. It was a joke.

In contrast, some court strategies should not be so ignored... For example, after the Buddha Bathing Festival, Zhao Guan's family has been sitting in the palace for the past few days, but they have received many memorials about the events at Yuetai that day.

These memorials can be roughly divided into three categories.

The first group is naturally the remonstrating officials such as Li Guang. Their main purpose is to admonish the officials and impeach Qu Duan. They are just to let Zhao Guan maintain his dignity and be less rude like that day at Yuetai. At the same time, Qu Duan maliciously smeared him.

Xianda... Among them, Fan Zhongyan's descendants Xiaofan Tongzhi and Han Qi's descendants Meihua Han also wrote letters one after another, asking the court to repay the honor of their ancestors... This is nothing.

But the latter two categories are interesting.

One group is represented by Zhao Ding, Prime Minister of the Province, Liu Ji, Deputy Prime Minister, Hu Shijiang, Secretary of the Ministry of War, and Zhai Ruwen, Minister of Honglu Temple. Each of these people wrote a letter detailing the rise of Xixia from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and told the story of Hetao. The process and current situation of the region's "Fanization", it is bluntly stated that the founding of Xixia was not a fluke. On the contrary, if you try to plot Xixia by luck, you will only lose troops and generals, and the real Northern Expedition will be frustrated for no reason.

The other type is headed by the privy envoy Zhang Jun, the deputy privy envoy Chen Gui, the Minister of Punishment Wang Shu, the imperial cavalry commander Qu Duan, the deputy commander Liu Qi, and the deputy commander Li Shifu. They write that they can attack Xixia to enrich themselves. The imperial cavalry's lack of horses will lead to self-defeat.

These two opinions, with almost opposite views, immediately put Zhao Guan's family into a dilemma, which made the blisters on the corners of his mouth even more serious.

You must know that, to be honest, Zhao Jiu had the idea of ​​destroying Xixia first after being cornered by the lack of horses in the cavalry. But the problem is that according to the current intelligence, Li Qianshun is not a waste, but Even though Xixia lost 30,000 cavalry to Lou Shi, it still maintained sufficient combat power.

Doesn't seem to be a soft persimmon.

So, Zhao Jiu simply called the two groups to the Wende Palace and asked them to debate in public. However, the debate between the two groups in the palace was just like the debate between the Buddhist and Taoist families in the city, and it quickly fell into an endless loop.

The thing is like this... Zhao Ding and others believe that if the dynasty cannot defeat Xixia in a hundred years, it will inevitably fail if they rush for success this time, and if they fail to achieve success, the overall situation will be frustrated and the gain will not be worth the loss; while Zhang Jun and others believe that, At this time, after being tempered by fighting against the Jin people, the army's combat power was not comparable to that of the previous hundred years, so it had a high probability of success. Chen Gui especially pointed out that with the sealing and power of today's gunpowder bags, as long as The army pressed in front of Lingzhou City and could break the city immediately without firing cannons.

However, as the saying goes, practice is the only criterion for testing truth. For now, illusory indicators such as combat power cannot be quantified. Only by touching Xixia in person can we verify who is right and who is wrong.

But the problem arises. Once the verification is wrong, it will be a result that outweighs the gains. It is even possible that Xixia, which is currently cautious and neutral, will be pushed to the Jin people. Once Xixia unites with the Jin people, considering that Yan'an is still there In the hands of the Jin people, if Jin Xia is connected to the north, it will put huge military pressure on the direction of Guanzhong... Let alone war horses, it will be difficult to cross the river to the east of the river.

In a word, although practice is the only criterion for testing truth, the cost of this practice is too high. It is so high that no one can make a decision based on the words of a few ministers because the overall situation of the Song and Jin Dynasties is at stake.

Therefore, the matter quickly reached a deadlock.

But soon, something happened to break the deadlock... In late April, "Mu Lian Saves His Mother" and "The Legend of White Snake" were still in full swing in Tokyo city. New fruits on the market and new wine brewed by various stores had just been launched in Tokyo city. When the vitality of the world reached a higher level with this seasonal change, the golden envoy Wulin Dazanmo came to Tokyo again.

Also accompanying him was Han Xiaozhou, the head of the Meihua Han family and former envoy who had been detained by Nianhan in Daming Mansion for nearly half a year.

Not only that, including the Shunde Emperor Zhao Yingluo who was forcibly taken over by Wanyan Nianhan, the Jiade Emperor Zhao Yupan who was taken as a concubine by Wu Qimai's eldest son Puluhu, and the Rongde Emperor Zhao Jinnu who was taken as a concubine by Talan. , Emperor Xunde's concubine Zhao Fujin was taken as a concubine by Nianhan's eldest son She Yeman, Emperor Yifu's concubine Zhao Yuanzhu was taken as a concubine by Wushu, Emperor Ningfu's concubine Zhao Chuanzhu was taken as a concubine by Lu Guan (the sixth brother of Wushu), As well as Zhao Duofu, the concubine of the Roufu Emperor, who was in the Wu Qimai Palace at this time, and more than a hundred robbed ancestral daughters, noble daughters, and common women were also brought back... This should be in Yanjing City. All the captive women in Jingkang who could be found in the mansions of dignitaries in the Kingdom of Jin.

Zhao Jiu had no reason not to allow these people to come back, and there was no reason to refuse Wulin Dazanmo who sent these people back.

After Wulin Dazanmo entered Tokyo, news soon spread with the resettlement and return of these robbed clan daughters and civilian daughters... The Kingdom of Jin wanted to negotiate a peace, and was willing to unconditionally return the two saints and all the people. All the plundered royal relatives, nobles, concubines and eldest daughters below the prince are to show their sincerity.

Even the two saints and the princes can be released immediately after the peace negotiation is concluded... and then they will become brothers like the Liao Kingdom.

After the Ministry of Rites, who was still unaware of this, hurriedly contacted him, Wulin Dazanmo not only took the initiative to tell the news, but also further stated that the new Emperor Jin Tianjuan was willing to sign a secret agreement with the Song Dynasty to depose Liu who proclaimed himself emperor. Yu... to reach a peace treaty between the two countries.

The news was transferred to the capital, and the elites of the empire understood it almost instantly... At this time, directly talking about abolishing Liu Yu's throne, it means that several counties in Jingdong are completely negotiable... In this peace negotiation, there is really hope for the north. Great sincerity!

As a result, people inside and outside the court, as well as among the people, were almost shaken together.

Of course, when the news reached the palace, the Zhao Guan family, who had not yet had time to meet Han Xiaozhou and the concubines, immediately fell into a state of incompetent rage... How could they care about Xixia and the cavalry at this time?

For him, the main mission is about to fail! Who cares about a side plot?
Chapter completed!