Chapter 207: The height of the temple (37)

It was still early, and the monks in Tianjing Temple were still sitting on their homework. The neat and weak chanting of scriptures wandered around the walls of Tianjing Temple. Several young monks, who were thirteen or fourteen, dragged a large broom, swept the greystone floor and made a "whistle," sound.

When Xuanjing entered the meditation room, Master Zhi was meditating cross-legged, looking at his nose and his nose, as quiet as a thousand-year-old turtle. He heard that Hou Dayong had arrived at the door, Master Zhi suddenly opened his eyes, supported the edge of the bed with his left hand, and his legs were already standing on the ground, his movements were as sharp as a cheetah. The monk of Tianjing Temple standing beside him opened his mouth wide. He never thought that the old monk with white beard was as agile as this.

Although Hou Dayong had only met Master Intelligent once, the two felt that they had met too late. Although they had been separated for several years, they met like an old friend.

The Buddha said: After five hundred years of cultivation, I can cross the same boat, and after thousands of years of cultivation, I can sleep together. I fall in love at first sight, and I will fall in love at first sight. I think I have practiced for eight hundred years in my previous life.

Seeing Hou Dayong's face was worried, Master Zhi exchanged a greeting and said, "Please ask the donor Hou to meet in the meditation room." After entering the meditation room, Hou Dayong did not talk much, and explained the matter of the third princess clearly in a few words. Master Zhi slowly stroked his long beard with his palms and said happily: "Save a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. In front of Mr. Hou, Lao Na was unwilling to hide his weakness, so he went to the palace to treat Mr. Chai Xiao."

Seeing that Master Zhi was generous and did not delay any slut in his work, Hou Dayong couldn't help but feel happy and bowed: "The master is willing to take action, and the third princess has no worries about his life. But this morning court will start soon, so I can't delay it. I'm asking Mrs. Fu to accompany Master to the palace. I wonder if it is possible?"

Over the years, the intelligent master traveled around the world, and he could see clearly that the Great Zhou revival was in a state of emergency. He did not hesitate or shirk at all when he learned that the Great Zhou Dynasty princess had an acute illness.

After Hou Dayong went out, Fu Ying did not rest, but instead put on some makeup and sat in the main hall waiting for news. Xiao Liu was clever and ran to the kitchen to prepare Fu Ying's breakfast without Fu Ying's instructions. Soon, a bowl of millet porridge specially added with pearl grass and a small plate of pickled crispy green heads were sent to the main hall.

There are some golden bead grass in the millet porridge. It exudes a faint fragrance. The bead grass is extremely bitter. However, after boiling water, it is soft, smooth, fragrant and tender in the millet porridge. It is a first-class delicacy. Fu Ying always drinks a large bowl of millet porridge, but today she has no appetite. After drinking half of it, she put down the bowl and looks at the gate of the main courtyard. However, Qin Jiahe, who always looks at the door of the door, didn't even have a ghost at this time.

While he was worried, the silenced gate of the courtyard was pushed open with a creaking sound. Qin Jiahe knew that Fu Ying was waiting for him, but he still habitually stretched his head and looked into the courtyard. He met Fu Ying's gaze and walked into the courtyard with Luo Qingsong one after another.

Fu Ying heard that the intelligent master of Shaolin Temple was actually in Tianjing Temple. She couldn't help but stroke her chest and said to herself: "It's God's will. If the intelligent master can cure the third princess, I must donate a large sum of incense money to Tianjing Temple and Shaolin Temple." Fu Ying was in charge of a huge wealthy shop, and the funds she mobilized in her hands exceeded some towns. She promised to donate a sum of incense money, which must be quite large.

In Fuqi Palace, Concubine Ling De stayed in front of her daughter Chai Xiao's bed all night. Last night, her daughter Chai Xiao's breathing was rapid and her whole body was hot. This morning, her daughter's breathing was as light as a sheep and her body was as cold as ice. The little sister of the Fu family sat opposite Concubine Ling De, and at this time she could not say any meaningful words of persuasion, but just held Concubine Ling De's cold hand.

When the rapid footsteps sounded, the lost Concubine Ling De looked at her daughter Chai Xiao intently, and her daughter's little face also blurred in her eyes.

These days, the famous doctors have been brought to Fuqi Palace. The young sister of the Fu family saw her sister Fu Ying bringing a white-eyed and beautiful old monk in. She didn't feel strange, and she didn't have great hope in her heart as she was at the beginning.

Fu Ying introduced: "This is the intelligent master of Shaolin Temple."

Concubine Ling De heard of the name of the Master of Intelligence. She suddenly stood up as if she had caught a life-saving straw, and then came to the Master of Intelligence in a few steps, grabbed the Master of Intelligence’s arm, and said with a voice: “Master, you must save my daughter. Only save my daughter. The little girl gave Shaolin Temple a golden Buddha.”

The intelligent master Heshi said, "Good, good." But he said in his heart: "Even if he is as noble as an imperial concubine, when encountering children, it is no different from an ordinary woman."

The defense between men and women in the Great Zhou Dynasty was not strict. Generally, doctors would not use cotton thread to hang their pulses like a comedy. Those who should touch their wrists should still touch them normally. At this time, the intelligent master was a white-haired old man, and the third princess was a drooping child, so there was no need to avoid it. The intelligent master stood by the bed, carefully observed the third princess' face, explored the pulse, then looked at the eyelids, and repeatedly asked about the symptoms of the disease.

Concubine Ling De looked at the face of the intelligent master Ruo Hanshuang, and her heart seemed to be about to jump out. When she saw the intelligent master taking out more than a dozen long needles from a small square wooden box, she inserted them directly into her daughter's face. She felt that the face turned black and she fell to the ground softly.

Although the young sister of the Fu family is young, she also has the demeanor of her sisters. She said to the palace maid: "Please protect Concubine Ling De on the bed and feed her some good ginseng soup."

Because the third princess was sick, Fuqi Palace was covered with clouds these days, and several palace maids were beaten. These palace maids were like frightened rabbits, and they kept their ears stuck at any time. When they heard Concubine Fu's orders, they quickly carried Concubine Ling De into the bedroom carefully, and a gray-haired old doctor also followed in to serve.

Ten long black needles were inserted into the face of the third princess Chai Xiao quickly. The intelligent master turned the long needle with all his concentration. As the long needle went deeper, the third princess' breathing became rapid again. After a stick of incense, the third princess's face gradually became rosy.

There were two earth dragons and a fire wall burning in the palace. The indoor temperature was much higher than outside the house. When the Intelligent Master stopped turning the needle, his face was covered with sweat.

Yesterday, Taoist Tang Shi, who entered the palace, had also made some mysterious mistakes. The third princess could open her eyes and shouted faintly: "Mother." This made Concubine Ling De and the sisters of the Fu family overjoyed. However, the third princess' condition did not recover for long and soon fell into a coma again. In the end, Taoist Tang Shi was powerless and retreated aside in shame. Therefore, Fu Ying and Fu Xiaomei saw that the master of intelligence had great skills, but their hearts were still hanging, fearing that they would be useless again.

Some small water droplets gathered on the Scar of the Intelligent Master. The more and more small water droplets gathered, they quickly slid down from the Slim Master's smooth head and fell into countless pieces on the light ground. After a long time, the Slim Master let out a breath and said, "Get paper and pen."

The eunuch quickly took the paper and pen, and the intelligent master pen was like a dragon and a snake. He wrote a prescription, which contained more than a dozen medicinal herbs, and handed it to an imperial physician beside him, and ordered: "Just boil it with a high heat." The imperial physician has been worried these days. Looking at the prescription, it was just ordinary schizonepeta, windbreak, scutellaria, ginger and other substances. He walked towards the pharmacy with doubts.

Soon, a bowl of thick black Chinese medicine was brought over. The three palace maids stroked the third princess and pried open the third princess' lips with a silver spoon, but they could not feed the medicine into their stomachs. The medicine juice flowed a lot to the third princess' chest. The more the three palace maids became more and more panicked. Fu Ying walked up to him, took the medicine bowl, held the third princess' bottom lip, and poured the medicine juice into the third princess' mouth steadily. The three palace maids couldn't help but shivered. After Fu Ying fed the medicine, she did not scold them. She looked back at the Intelligent Master, as if there was a flower on the intelligent master's gray beard.

However, the Intelligent Master no longer looked at the third princess, with his hands on his back, looking up at the top of the palace. Since the Intelligent Master entered the palace, he had always had a kind-eyed expression. At this time, his face was solemn and powerful.

After taking about two incense sticks of medicine, the third princess was sweating profusely and her hair seemed to be washed.

The intelligent master took the long needle from the third princess' face and stabbed six long needles into his neck. As the long needle rotated, the third princess vomited a large mouthful of black liquid, which smelled fishy and unpleasant. This happened three times. The third princess' vomit gradually became clear.

The intelligent master said nothing. He slowly put away the long needle.

The third princess suddenly opened her mouth and cried loudly, and her voice was loud. As before she was sick, Concubine Ling De, who was in the bedroom, was originally unconscious. When she heard the crying, she immediately opened her eyes, turned over and got out of bed, and stumbled and ran outside.

Fu Ying didn't expect that the intelligent master would be cured by using more than a dozen black shiny needles and an ordinary prescription. The third princess's expression was still disgusting, but her breathing, pulse, and temperature were normal, and her life was worry-free.

Fu Ying and the little sister of the Fu family asked about the cause of the disease. The intelligent master said lightly: "Black phlegm accumulates in the chest, which causes disease."

When Master Zhi was treating his illness, Hou Dayong was still in the morning court. He was worried about the third princess' condition and was a little absent-minded.

When the court was about to scatter, Chai Rong suddenly issued an edict: "Appoint Li Chongjin as the governor of Yongxing Army, the chief lieutenant of the procuratorate, and the chief secretary, as the chief magistrate of the guards, and removed the position of commander commander of the guards. At the same time, the southwest camp was established, and Li Chongjin was appointed as the southwest camp. "

The chief officials of the three provincial governors were the Minister of the Secretariat, the Minister of the Secretariat, and the Minister of the Secretariat. Because these three positions are of high power, they have not been easily granted since the Tang Dynasty. Since the Liang, Tang, Jin and Han Dynasty, these three positions have been given only as a single official. The Minister of the Secretariat, the Minister of the Secretariat, are generally only used as a member of the vassal states, or as honorary titles to be given to the important ministers, generals and princes. At this time, appointing Li Chongjin as the Minister of the Secretariat is a kind of honorary title.

When the officials heard this appointment, they felt a shiny heart: there was an assassin incident in the suburbs during autumn hunting. As the commander of the guards in charge of the defense, Li Chongjin was indeed to blame. No wonder he was removed from the position of commander of the guards. Such arrangements of Li Chongjin were considered to be merciful and righteous.

The officials raised their ears and wanted to hear who would take over as the commander of the guards, but only heard a sharp "scattered" sound.

After the court was dispersed, Hou Dayong came straight to the Secretariat, and today it was his turn to serve as the prime minister.

Hou Dayong sat in the lobby of the Secretariat's door in a state of uncertainty. The edict of the morning court this morning was extremely sudden. His Majesty did not discuss with several prime ministers in advance. Hou Dayong picked up a cup of tea and slowly tasted it for a long time before he received a thick stack of memorials.

Since the Tang Dynasty, Hanlin Bachelors were responsible for the issuance of edicts and edicts of the inner court, and were specifically responsible for the "internal life". Because the study of the dynasty was always on the side of the monarch, he was a private minister of the emperor and a confidant minister of heaven and earth, he was equivalent to the chief secretary of later generations, and his position was not high but his power was not small, and his development prospects were even more limitless. Especially after the Anguan Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the situation was chaotic, and the secret edicts were mostly from Hanlin Bachelors, and the power of Hanlin Bachelors was invisibly aggravated. In addition to being responsible for internal systems, he also participated in cardinals and decision-making, greatly dividing the power of the prime minister, and was called "internal minister".

This time, the edict to mobilize Li Chongjin was written by Dou Yan, a Hanlin scholar.

Dou Yan also has a clan brother named Dou Yan. Dou Yan served as a Hanlin scholar in the fourth year of Xiande, as the Minister of Rites. He is currently a bachelor of Duanming Palace and a minister of the Ministry of Rites. He is also a close minister of Chai Rong. Dou Yi and Dou Yan, two Dou family members, actually have some decision-making power and become prime ministers who are not prime ministers.

In addition, the Privy Councilor and the Duanming Palace also more or less divided the power of the prime minister.

When Hou Dayong thought of these things, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: In later generations, there was a saying that the prime minister was "below one person and ten thousand people". In film and television programs, the prime ministers often have power in the court and the country. Why did I become the prime minister? But I didn't feel like I was in power.

Chai Rong was a very smart emperor, and his wisdom was of course reflected in all aspects. Not allowing ministers to dominate was the means Chai Rong always insisted on implementing it. Hou Dayong felt restricted, and other prime ministers and Privy Councilors also felt a lot of restraints. This was also the result of Chai Rong's "balance".

During lunch time, an eunuch came over to invite Hou Dayong to have a meal.

Hou Dayong followed the eunuch to the palace. Chai Rong looked full of spring breeze and looked very energetic. He swept away the frost on his face during the morning court.

"I didn't expect that the intelligent monk's medical skills could be so wise. A piece of ordinary earth medicine soup and a few black needles could bring back his heart." Chai Rong rubbed his hands and said excitedly, "The Taoist Tang Shi is also a Taoist, but he returned without success today. Instead, the intelligent monk made great contributions. It seems that I have a prejudice against monks."

Hou Dayong felt a little nervous: The intelligent master of Shaolin Temple really lived up to his expectations.

The imperial kitchen successively placed six plates of cans on Hou Dayong's table. The large jar was filled with fragrant pork belly pieces, some round mountain roosters, and a can of roasted pig's trotters and a plate of fried waist flowers. Hou Dayong was a foodie. When he saw these dishes, he immediately realized that these were all Shu cuisine, so Shu cuisine was naturally associated with Li Chongjin.

Sure enough, the two of them ate a few bites. Chai Rong put down the chopsticks of cow horns and said, "Li Lang will be heading west soon, and Qin Chuan is greatly influenced by Western Shu. Most of the food is Shu flavor. Today, I specially asked the chef to make a few Sichuan dishes to taste, and it was really delicious." Hou Dayong also put down the chopsticks and smiled, "After capturing the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, the Great Zhou army went to Chengdu Prefecture to try the authentic Chengdu flavor."

Chai Rong did not go too far and directly entered the theme of the Northern Expedition: "Li Lang was a heavy general of the Great Zhou Dynasty. From him to the southwest, Western Shu must think that our army will launch an attack in the spring. Judging from the information collected during this period, the Liao army was not prepared to be prepared for our army's attack at all, and its combat preparations were extremely relaxed. This plan to attack the west and attack the west seemed to have achieved success. In March, if our army progressed smoothly and after attacking Youzhou, the Liao people might not be able to transfer the main force."

Hou Dayong had never contacted the spy organization of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The information he received was transferred to him by Chai Rong. However, the military intelligence camp sent soldiers from Youzhou to provide an important piece of information, which coincided with the information of Chai Rong. He said: "All the Bian River naval forces moved to Oyeze and stepped up training there. The entire navy army had reached 20,000, and there were more than 400 warships of all sizes, including nearly 100 transport ships, with Xuanjiao ships as the main force, and the rest were auxiliary ships and logistics supplies ships. These warships could all reach Yijin Pass. After passing Duliukou, the army had to disembark."

"The Liao people would never dream of a 20,000 army that would arrive at Yijin Pass by water. If this battle was unexpected, the Liao people would definitely be defeated." As Chai Rong spoke, his eyes were bright and shining.

Both of them knew the map of the northward advance and did not have to read the map, so they carefully discussed the details of the navy's northward advance. These details have been discussed countless times.

The discussion lasted for two or three hours. When it was about to end, Chai Rong said casually: "The last time Houlang suggested that the imperial guards be divided into ten, which made a lot of sense. However, in this way, the forces of each unit were too weak. I plan to divide the imperial guards into six, including the left and right cavalry wings, the left and right cavalry wings, the left and right cavalry wings, the left and right cavalry wings, the left and right cavalry wings, the left and right cavalry wings, the left and right cavalry wings, and the Bianhe Naval Division. Each army has 20,000 people, and one commander, and two deputy commander commander, taking the left and right cavalry wings as an example, the highest commander is the commander of the Iron Cavalry wings, followed by the commander of the Iron Cavalry wings and the commander of the Iron Cavalry wings, each commander of 10,000 people."

The new military system of the Imperial Guards was changed based on Hou Dayong's proposed land. In essence, it divided the Palace Front Office and the Guards into six, with each division having 20,000 troops, and its strength was not weak, but it actually solved the problem of being the only one. This proposal was better than Hou Dayong's original proposal.

Hou Dayong couldn't help but exclaim.

When he returned to the mansion, Meng Shu and Du Gang had been waiting in the mansion for a long time. Hou Dayong arrived at the main courtyard first. Fu Ying stayed up all night last night. Today, after the third princess was fine, Fu Ying relaxed and lay on the bed and fell asleep quickly. Seeing that Fu Ying was sleeping soundly, Hou Dayong did not disturb him and went directly to the villa.

Du Gang wore a round-necked green robe with excellent texture, a jade belt on his waist, and two small beards, which were very rich and business-like, but there was a hint of gloomy look in his expression. After Xiao Lianzi's unexpected setback, Du Gang had quickly matured and had a more manly taste.

"Tang Shi lives in Baiyun Taoist Temple. He is indeed from Western Shu. According to the little Taoist priest of Baiyun Taoist Temple, Tang Shi is an extremely famous Taoist priest in Chengdu Prefecture. He has profound Taoism and excellent martial arts skills. He is also a master of Xinglin. In addition, the two Taoists who fought with Tang Shi also found out that the middle-aged Taoist priest was Ling Jing, and the female Taoist priest was Liu Qingye. Ling Jing is a wealthy family in Xuzhou. There is a small courtyard in the east of Daliang City. As for why Ling Jing and Tang Shi fought, they were not clear for a while."

Although the Feiying Hall has broken off contact with the army, it is still full of eyewitness in Daliang City and is well-informed. It is not difficult to find a few foreign Taoist priests.

After Meng Shu's report was over, Du Gang added, saying, "Ling Jing and Liu Qingye fought with us in Zhengzhou." Du Gang came from Shaolin and had good martial arts skills, but was easily defeated by Ling Jing, so he had a deep memory of Ling Jing.
Chapter completed!