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Chapter 182 Lingguang Monarch Temple
April in Tongcheng was supposed to be the time when the willows and willows are green inside and outside the city, and tourists from all over the world come in droves.

But the situation is not right now, and the time is not right.The best scenery is ruined by the killing spirit of passers-by.

Tang Mingyi only brought a dozen or so people with him, among which there were only three of his own guards, and the rest were Jin Wan's soldiers and Tongcheng's defenders.

This team of more than 500 people was supposed to be managed by Jin Wan and the leader of the Tongcheng Army. However, because they did not lose their status as disciples, the two naturally handed over the power of arrangement to this man named Tang Mingming. young people.

Tang Mingyi himself accepted it more readily, and he didn't care what their attitude was from what he thought of him.

So before the people and horses left the city, they made some arrangements as a whole.

Although the people of the Sun family are not human beings, they are still human beings. Since the people of Tongcheng are all within the jurisdiction of the Tongcheng government office, their safety must be taken into consideration when the government office takes action, so it is The bandits should not be alarmed prematurely.

If more than 500 people left the city with great fanfare, it would not look like they were going to redeem people.

So they had to act separately. Tang Mingyi considered that the fundamental purpose of the three parties was not necessarily the same, so he divided these people into a team of more than 30 according to the source of the people.

He, Jin Wan, and the commander of the Tongcheng army each lead a team, with roughly the same number of people, leaving the city from the north, west, and east at the same time, and the rest of them split up and disperse out of the city.

Due to time constraints, less than [-]% of the people were able to change their costumes and act, so they were the first to find out the way, and the people behind only had to follow the marks left by the people in front.

So Tang Mingyi took on the responsibility of the first team to explore the way north.

Everyone walked along the official road, and according to what the letter said, they walked ten miles northwest, and they saw the ruined temple that the bandits mentioned.

Perhaps it is inaccessible, and temples that are not cared for by anyone will generally be shortened with the word "broken".

In fact, this temple can not be called dilapidated, the ridge windows, the red walls and gray tiles are almost intact, but it has been abandoned for a short period of time, and it is about to be covered by many unknown plants and trees.Looking at the format, it is obviously a Lingguangjun Temple.

Everyone originally wanted to go directly to the back of the temple according to what the letter said, and then continue on their way.However, Tang Mingyi temporarily changed his mind and went inside to have a look first.

There is nothing special in the courtyard, except for two trees that grow too wildly and disorderly, it is so clean that there are no other sundries.It's just that the section between the courtyard gate and the temple gate was stepped on by someone, presumably there were still people coming to worship, so they cleaned it up by the way.

Everyone pushed open the temple door effortlessly, and they saw an old and faded "Seated Statue of Lord Ling Guang".

Before Tang Mingyi and the others could make any moves, a figure suddenly flashed across the temple, heading straight for the nearest window from the dark place on the left side of the sitting statue, and then crashed through the broken window that could barely support it for a while, rushing to Outside the temple, it disappeared.

The three guards were the first to react and rushed out first, but the man's body was light, and by the time they ran outside the temple, he had long since disappeared.

"I'm afraid they are spies left by bandits." Tang Mingyi said without panic, frowning.

One of the guards immediately replied, "I'll go after it."

As soon as the words came out, the guard was about to act directly, but was stopped by Tang Mingyi: "Don't be busy, since the bandits have arrangements, they won't just do this one thing. Just now that person may not have seen our identity, so he first put Do a simple search nearby to see if there are any traces or something."

Tang Mingyi said that he was absent-minded, and thought that he was exercising the convenience of staying at home, and then divided the more than ten people into three teams. The patrolmen and the Tongcheng army went to investigate in two directions, while Tang Mingyi led the guards They stayed in the temple, in the euphemistic name of preventing the thieves from leaving and coming back to make an ambush.

Naturally, he didn't care about the dissatisfaction of the other two teams. He just stared at the statue of Lord Lingguang in the temple, wondering what he was thinking.

After confirming that the others had gone far away, a guard finally asked, "What did your Highness see?"

"This is the standard of the ancestors. It's been some time since now." Tang Mingyi still didn't move, and only said this.

When Chu Shizu was in power, the Lingguangjun Temple could only be built by the imperial court, and most of the series of worship activities could only be participated by the Chu royal family and some high-ranking officials in Lianzhou.

Although the folks know about the deeds of this god, after all, no one has seen it with their own eyes, so they don't know anything about her appearance and shape.

The remnants of the Duchenne Rebellion lasted for five years. In addition to the banditry that appeared in various places, there was even a famine caused by a severe drought. Although the people were saved from military disasters, their survival was very difficult.

Over time, the scope of praying for Lord Lingguang gradually expanded, and the folks also began to spontaneously build temples for her based on the various details handed down from the court sacrifices.

At that time, the Southern Chu court supported this kind of behavior. Coupled with the two consecutive years of bumper harvests and the gradually stable situation in Southern Chu, Lord Lingguang's reputation grew accordingly. Suddenly, the entire Southern Chu From Lianzhou to the counties, from the county to the workshops, and even in the houses of some rich families, Lingguang Temples of different sizes have been built.

However, the requirements are not the same everywhere.Those who are often droughty pray for rain, those who are often flooded pray for sunshine, those who test their fame and fame ask for prosperity in literature, those who practice martial arts ask for prosperity in martial arts, even those who are dying come to ask for a child, and the gamblers who have been gambling for many years come to ask for a turnaround.

All in all, in the end, Lord Ling Guang didn't care about anything in the world from big to small.

Therefore, the statues of Lord Lingguang in different places are very different, some are sitting or lying down, some are old or young, some are kind-eyed and embrace a boy, or some are cold-eyed and hold a halberd and a gun. The characteristics are integrated with it.

Originally, the Southern Chu court let this situation go unchecked, and even increased the number of monthly sacrificial sacrifices, which added a lot of firewood to the people.

But with Ling Guangjun's popularity at its peak, this matter has gradually undergone new changes in various places.

In many places, mountain bandits, water bandits, and powerful clan forces quietly amassed money in the name of someone under the seat of Lord Lingguang, and some even openly opposed the Southern Chu court with dissenting intentions.

When these people were discovered, they had already caused some influence. Although they would not cause Nanchu to fall into any great crisis, they brought a lot of trouble to the local area.

As a last resort, the Southern Chu court had no choice but to order that the Lingguang Jun Temple could only be built according to the court's permission to the prefectures and counties, and the people could not build it privately.Then the Ministry of Rites specially formulated regulations, and this chaotic situation finally came to an end.

(End of this chapter)