Infinite Brilliant Scroll

Chapter 242

On this day, the sun was shining and the sky was sunny and the sky was cloudless. Chen Xizhen and his henchmen had a secret conversation in their mansion.

Originally, the emperor ordered twelve generals to be dispatched to the frontier army to cooperate with Chen Xizhen in the crusade against Liangshan, but Han Shizhong said that many generals would have to rest for a month before leaving, and the emperor agreed.

However, since the news spread that Liangshan defeated the government army twice and captured Quancheng, in just half a month, rebels were restless everywhere in the Song Dynasty.

A total of nearly [-] rebel forces fought against the imperial court in various places. Although some did not dare to show the banner of rebellion, they also hid in the mountains and forests, or went into the water as bandits, resisting taxes and killing officials. The building will fall.

The Emperor Tianming was furious and rarely went to court. He was furious and scolded all civil and military officials. Finally, many ministers made regulations and mobilized the army to fight the rebellion in various places.

This imperial court, which was already decayed in the hands of Emperor Daojun, was in the hands of Emperor Tianming. Although it was still decayed, it also had a record of breaking the summer. brutality.

The Emperor Daojun only knows how to squeeze the blood, tears, bone marrow of thousands of people into those useless flowers, birds, strange rocks, palace wonders, flower boats on the lake, and the mountains of gold and silver jewels in Bianliang City, and even the houses of ministers with a lot of money. No one cared about it until it was eaten away by termites.

But the Emperor of Destiny searched layer after layer, turning the suffering and blood of the people into swords and guns, and holding them in the hands of landlords, local officials, noble relatives, and court officials.

When the imperial decree was issued and the orders of the imperial court were crushed layer by layer, those famous private soldiers, rich merchants and powerful slaves who were not officially part of the imperial court's military forces were all mobilized.

The first ones killed by the rebels were the traitors from the evil party all over the country, so they had no choice but to resist and defend the Great Song court.

When the soldiers sent by the imperial court asked them to obey orders, many family elders and old ghosts in the ancestral hall cried out "Looking for their parents like a baby", and they all merged under the command of the imperial soldiers.

The imperial court only dispatched ten envoys to cooperate with the vicious party in the local area. In the past half a month, the momentum of the rebels in the world has already been thwarted.

But it was just a setback, and it was far from a real clean-up, so the Emperor Tianming ordered that the first evil should be eliminated first.

He also issued two handwritten orders to the frontier tent, urging the twelve generals to set off overnight, gallop through the starry night, and arrive at Bianliang ahead of schedule.

In addition, in today's morning court, the Emperor Tianming will be the general of the court.

Order the six Taoist officials including Gou Ying, the real person who binds evil, and Wang Tianba, the real person who subdues the devil;
Xiantian General Fenghui, Lingying General Haransheng, Kang Jie, Kong Hou, Fan Chenglong and other [-] generals, big and small, went out together with the army.

These six Taoist officials and twenty generals are all Chen Xizhen's henchmen.Originally, he asked the Emperor of Destiny to transfer Guan Sheng and others to the frontier army to avoid damage to his party members. Unexpectedly, in just half a month, the situation has changed dramatically, and it is impossible to avoid it.

Gou Ying comforted her and said: "Daozi, this is the end of the matter, it's useless to think too much. All the brothers present here are also battle-hardened men. When a big event is imminent, it's not because they are really afraid of those grassroots rebels."

"The holy will has been decided, and I naturally know that there is no excuse."

Chen Daozi responded lightly, but his eyes were not calm.

In the past few years, Emperor Tianming has ignored the government and devoted himself to practicing. Although Chen Xizhen said he was loyal, in fact, he inevitably had some not-so-respectful guesses in his heart.

But this time, he finally saw the cruel methods of the emperor again.

Over the years, officials at all levels in the Song Dynasty have amassed wealth and slavery whenever they have the opportunity, expropriating and extorting violently. The clans of officials from all over the country also took this opportunity to cultivate private soldiers, and they grew monstrously.

Everyone thought they were smart, they exploited the lower ones, and flattered the higher ones, everything was done so that the officials in the government could rest assured that everyone was decent.

But in the past few days, it seems that even if Emperor Tianming lives in a secluded palace, he doesn't look like he is kept in the dark. He seems to know the current situation of the world like the back of his hand, and the "smart people" who are fat and white are just used. The enjoyment of benefits is thoroughly domesticated, and when necessary, it is nothing more than a cattle and horse that can be ordered with confidence.

Chen Xizhen even vaguely felt that the emperor had known for a long time that the people of the Song Dynasty were going to rebel in the past few years. emperor.

After the turmoil, Da Song still had to support the aloof emperor until he reached the age of a hundred, successfully ascended to heaven, or failed and ascended to heaven.

However, the momentum of the rebellion may have been a little earlier and more violent than Emperor Tianming expected, and this was the real reason for his displeasure in the court.

After thinking about it for a few breaths, Chen Xizhen said: "The officials ordered so many soldiers and horses from all over the place to Jingdong East Road. There are a total of [-] soldiers and horses. It is definitely not only to get rid of Liangshan, the chief evil, but also to kill Liangshan. Places such as the bandit village in Qingzhou will also be carefully wiped out, and Jingdong East Road will be completely pacified."

Xiantian General Fenghui is familiar with the terrain of the art of war, and said at this moment: "Jingdong East Road is adjacent to Kaifeng Mansion, and it can also echo with the Liao Kingdom. How can such a big trouble be tolerated on the side of the couch? If you want to pacify the world, you must first suppress this place, so that every inch of it can be reversed." I don't dare to get up again."

"good."

Chen Xizhen said, "To satisfy the officials, we must not only win this time, but also reduce the damage. The matter must be done beautifully, and I will try my best to keep it safe, brothers."

He made up his mind, nodded and said, "If you want to fulfill your wish, you must invite two more people to accompany you."

At that moment, Chen Xizhen entered the palace to ask for an order to let "Mr. Huayang" Liu Hunkang and "Mr. Dongwei" Wang Laozhi lead the army together.

The Emperor Tianming was in the Cuiyun Pavilion in the imperial garden, tasting the precious medicine of cinnabar and taking the French wine. After listening to Chen Xizhen's request, he never gave him a look.

After two quarters of an hour, the wine was exhausted, and the Emperor Tianming smiled kindly, telling Chen Xizhen not to stand outside, but to sit down in the pavilion.

"It's been less than two hours since the early court, and you already know how to enter the palace to ask me for such a will. You really can figure out my heart."

Chen Xizhen didn't even dare to say: "The humble official is stupid, but he is doing his best for the official."

The Emperor of Destiny said: "Both of these two are pillars, masters in the practice of immortality. In the past few years, I have asked them to refer to many secrets of practice for me. It's just that such an expert will continue to stay in Bianliang. If you really can’t make the best use of everything, don’t let them lead the army, let them hang a name under your account.”

Chen Xizhen was overjoyed. After Xie En received the decree, he went to Wang Laozhi's mansion first.

Wang Laozhi was practicing alchemy. He unfolded the edict and nodded slightly: "My batch of alchemy will last seventeen hours. When the army should set off, I will set off at that time. I will naturally catch up with you."

Chen Xizhen asked: "What elixir is so important?"

Wang Laozhi said: "I don't need to be so troublesome, but this year the purple qi god sand from the Cangshan mine didn't arrive. I couldn't stay away halfway through the training of this alchemy, so I had to invite your old friend Xu Hulin's family and let them come to help me. Blowing the fire, this is just a few more days of delay."

Chen Xizhen's face changed slightly.

Wang Laozhi smiled and said: "After all, they are your friends and officials of the imperial court. I just want them to spend some cultivation and guard the fire. I never asked them to pay too much."

Only then did Chen Xizhen smile, and exchanged a few words with Wang Laozhi.

After leaving the mansion, he immediately ordered someone to send a message to check the life and death of Xu Hulin's family.

Ziqi Shensha is mainly extracted from the red crystal mine in Cangshan Mountain, and such ores are not naturally generated.

Immortal practice, after practicing the indestructible golden elixir, if you still can't reach the realm of ascension, then you will get closer and closer to the earth's energy, and when you reach the age of a hundred, you will bury yourself in the ground, which is the so-called " Autopsy".

Of course, if you have no nostalgia for the mundane, you can bury yourself before you are a hundred years old, such as Mr. Lin Daochang, a certain Mr. Yuan Miao, but he has been loving life more and more in Liangshan recently.

These "Corpse Immortals" did not actually die, but entered into a deeper and deeper dormancy, and in the long years, they continued to sink to the ground, ten miles underground, hundreds of miles underground, and thousands of miles underground.

If during this process, a corpse celestial being happens to come across a mineral vein, the breath in and out of his body will gradually cause the mineral vein to mutate.

Ziqi Shensha, it should be hundreds of years ago, I once met a corpse who practiced the "Purple Banyan True Art" by chance.

Xu Hulin's family has inherited this kind of exercise, and when necessary, it can be used to replace the purple qi god sand. This replacement can only consume the cultivation base, or it can directly use the practitioner as a medicinal material.

Fortunately, soon, Chen Xizhen got a reply saying that Xu Hulin's family is recuperating in seclusion, and everyone is still intact.

In fact, there is a situation similar to that of "corpse dissection" in the practice of magic. A master of magic who cannot ascend will choose higher and higher places to live after the age of one hundred, until he goes deep into the wind of the nine heavens and never falls again. Go outside the Gangfeng layer.

There is an old saying, "The fairy way dispels the corpse, the devil chases the sun", that's what happened.

Chen Xizhen went to the Taoist temple where Liu Hunkang was.

The courtyard of the Taoist temple is full of white cranes, walking and playing separately.

Liu Hunkang was drowsy on a recliner made of bamboo and rattan. When he heard the imperial decree, he barely cheered up and got up to receive the decree.

"The army outside the city will set off tomorrow morning."

Chen Xizhen reminded, "Master Liu, don't miss the time. Why don't you follow me to the barracks to rest now, so that you can sleep peacefully for the night and set off together in the morning?"

Liu Hunkang was sleepy, he yawned and said, "That's fine, that's fine."

The Taoist boys and attendants in the Taoist temple immediately got busy.

Chen Xizhen stood on the sidelines, watching the brisk steps of those people, frowned slightly, and suddenly glared at the Taoist boy who passed by him.

The Daotong turned around in astonishment, shrunk into a golden bean and landed on the ground with a whimper.

"Hey, what is Chen Daozi doing?"

Liu Hunkang bent down to pick up the bean, blew on it, the bean flew out, and changed back into Daotong's appearance, looking at Chen Xizhen timidly.

Daotong dared to leave in small steps only after Liu Hunkang waved him to go to work.

Chen Xizhen looked around and said, "It's been a long time since I visited Master Liu's house, why do the Taoist boys in this temple seem to be servants enlightened by the technique of spreading beans into soldiers?"

Liu Hunkang waved his hand lazily, and said: "The old man doesn't like to make noise, so let those Taoists and Taoists go to work in other temples in Bianliang. The people conjured by these little beans are all cute and clever. There are few words, suitable for an old man like me."

"Really?" Chen Xizhen said with a chuckle, "Renren Liu, you are the Qingzong of Maoshan..."

"Speaking of which, Chen Daozi's daughter also likes these Dao boys very much."

Liu Hunkang sat back on the reclining chair, brought a cup of tea from the side, blew on the hot air and said, "She hasn't come to my place for a long time, is there any trivial matter?"

Chen Xizhen's face darkened, he completely forgot what he was thinking before, and said with a sneer, "My damn... Liqing's whereabouts, does Master Liu really not know what's going on?"

Liu Hunkang's eyes widened, and he said blankly, "What?"

Chen Xizhen looked at him, but he couldn't see that the old thing had any pretense, and he couldn't help showing suspicion on his face.

He had suspected for a long time that Chen Liqing, that wicked person, suddenly knew about the Taiqing Tianxin Theory, and was secretly instructed by someone with a heart.

Among the four Daoist officials in Bianliang, Liu Yongxi was his close friend, Wang Laozhi concentrated on alchemy and rarely meddled in other matters, and only this Liu Hunkang acted absurdly and capriciously, making people confused about his temperament.

But what's the benefit of Liu Hunkang doing such a thing?

Chen Xizhen couldn't figure this out all the time, and seeing that Liu Hunkang's expression did not seem to be fake, he suppressed his unhappiness for the time being, and only urged the Taoist boys to step up their actions.

The Taoist boys prepared the frame, and Liu Hunkang didn't have anything to pack, so he set off for the military camp outside the city.

Not long after he left, the Taoist temple was full of white cranes, with their claws in their beaks, gathered some food, then flew away with wings and never came back.

The next day, the army outside the city made meals. After eating half full, all the soldiers took out the ground minerals and swallowed them for training. Black smoke billowed, covering half of the sky.

When the time came, many generals and Taoist officials all came to the army, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo and others came to greet Chen Xizhen one by one.

The army set off, first by land, then by water, arrived near Quancheng Mansion, and returned to the shore to set up camp.

Soon a flying horse came to report that besides the [-] troops here, another [-] troops assembled from various places had also arrived in Mengyin and Yizhou respectively. There was plenty of food and grass, and they could meet at dusk today.

If the weather is calm tonight, tomorrow will be the time to encircle Liangshan.

When the dusk was getting darker, Chen Xizhen, as the commander in chief, summoned all the generals in the barracks: "You can't hide the movements of the [-] troops. Liangshan will definitely respond. I predict that someone will attack the camp tonight to riot."

He took out a formation map, "The generals are scattered in the barracks according to my deployment, and the ambush is ready. Once they make a move tonight, they will immediately catch them and win a small victory."

(End of this chapter)