That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 301

Power, don’t need to be contaminated, just seeing it often will give people an illusion, that is, they think they have become powerful insiders, but there is always a chance to let those self-righteous people understand that what you have learned and seen The rules are just the calm surface of the lake, and the undercurrent surging under the lake is actually the true meaning. The chess game you play is just imitation, without half the essence of the true meaning. The identity you think you are an insider is actually nothing.

Every place has its own rules.

In Taoist sect, only great masters can be the insiders who turn the clouds and rain.

In grasslands and post-building, bloodlines and soldiers and horses are gold medals.

In the Daqi Temple, only a sufficiently prominent official can be on the table.

Xu Beiyou has no official status, aside from his identity as the young master of the Sword Sect and a practitioner, strictly speaking, he is just a businessman.

In the world of Daqi, there has never been any collusion between officials and businessmen, only businessmen rushed to curry favor with the officials, or simply married into their own families to serve as slaves for the officials.

If Xu Beiyou was just a businessman, then he would never be where he is today.

A merchant, no matter how big his business is, seems to be well-groomed, but in fact he is in danger. Throughout the ages, countless wealthy businessmen have risked their heads to take risks, just for the identity of an insider.

Xu Beiyou was very lucky. Although he did not have an official status, his adoptive father, Han Xuan, wore the most noble official skin in the world, so under the shadow of this official skin, he could barely be regarded as half an insider. Often times, it is unfavorable, and even has his own contacts in the army.

Xu Beiyou has two allies in the army. Although the relationship between these allies is not very reliable, they can still be used one or two after all.

Needless to say, Fei Xiong Yukuang, who is close at hand, Xu Beiyou wants to establish a foothold in Jiangdu, and he must deal with the left commander of the rear army.

As for the other one, he was the governor of the left army far in the northwest, the sick tiger Zhang Wubing.

If the friendship between Xu Beiyou and Yu Kuang is due to the fact that they both belong to the imperial party and because of business, then the friendship between Xu Beiyou and Zhang Wubing is purely personal friendship and because of private interests.

Zhang Wubing had rescued Xu Beiyou from danger several times, and Xu Beiyou had also taken Zhang Wubing to see Tang Shengyue, no one owed anyone, but after all, he had accumulated a bit of incense in the past. .

More than a month ago, Xu Beiyou wrote a letter to Zhang Wubing, asking if he still had contact with the Buddhist sect. Zhang Wubing heard the string and understood the elegance, and wrote back saying that soon there would be an eminent Buddhist monk traveling far to the south of the Yangtze River. Write a letter to that eminent monk, and he will contact Xu Beiyou when he arrives in Jiangdu.

Counting the time, with the footsteps of that eminent Buddhist monk, as long as he didn't walk step by step, he should be almost in Jiangdu.

Regardless of whether this eminent Buddhist monk could become Xu Beiyou's helper, for Zhang Wubing's sake, he would never become an enemy.

Back then, Han Xuan and Lan Yu's temple battle ended with Han Xuan's defeat, and Zhang Wubing, as a member of the Han party, was also dismissed from office. Disappointed, this sick tiger joined Buddhism and became the Eighth Division of Buddhism. The lord of the dragons, known as the Dragon King, but for unknown reasons later, Zhang Wubing lost power again in Buddhism, and was exiled to the grottoes outside Dunhuang City in Xiliang Prefecture as a cave guard monk.

But now it seems that with Zhang Wubing once again becoming a sick tiger of the imperial court and occupying the position of the left governor of the Northwest Army, Buddhism has been reconciled with the former Dragon King.

I just don't know who the new Dragon King will be?
What is the situation of the long-famous eight tribes?
Xu Beiyou suddenly remembered an old incident.

Back then, the Houjian army and the Houjian Xuanjiao marched southward in a threatening manner. The huge Chu Dynasty and the Confucianism sect fell apart in an instant. Directly pointing to Jiangzhou, the other route is to bypass Shanzhou and go straight to Shuzhou. Just as countless scholars and Confucian scholars are lamenting that Shenzhou is sinking, Taoism and Buddhism joined forces to block the powerful and powerful Xuanjiao under the city of Jiangdu.

Afterwards, the Buddhism and Taoism divided Jiangdu equally, and later there was a battle between Buddhism and Taoism. The Taoism won a complete victory, and the Buddhism had to withdraw from Jiangdu completely and hibernate in the major temples outside the city. Therefore, only Taoism is left in Jiangdu today. Square, but not the former Foyin Square.

——Shortly after Yu Kuang left Jiangdu, a dusty ascetic monk came to Jiangdu City. He was dressed in linen and sandals, wore a bamboo hat, and carried a small package on his back. He probably had too many places to walk. , exposed to the wind and the sun, his not-so-old face was covered with traces of wind and frost.

He handed over the customs clearance document to the gate guard, and after the guard confirmed it was correct, he looked the monk up and down again.

In Jiangdu City, Taoist priests are very common, and most of them are of high status, but monks are rare. Naturally, the city guard does not know the past of Buddhism and Taoism that is difficult for ordinary people to know, and he does not think about it. In his opinion, no matter whether monks or Taoists In short, they are all outsiders who have become monks, so they didn't have too many embarrassments, so they let the monks into Jiangdu City.

The monk walked alone in the city of Jiangdu, stopping and looking around, as if he was carefully looking at this prosperous city that had gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes without losing half its prosperity.

When he reached Tianyuanfang, he stopped abruptly.

In Jiangdu, there is nobility and beauty.

Whenever there is war in troubled times, Jiangdu is like a female general, riding horses and raising whips, and women do not give up to men. In times of peace and prosperity, she is like a graceful lady, lying lazily on the shore of the East China Sea and the banks of the great river, charming. natural.

This is the ten-mile Qinhuai River, the golden powder land of the Six Dynasties, and the Jiangdu where all the traffickers and pawns have the smoke and water of the Six Dynasties.

After a long silence, the monk clasped his hands together and began to move forward slowly. Every step he took was very difficult, as if his whole body was connected to the earth.

At the same time, a woman suddenly came from the direction of Tianyuanfang and walked opposite the monk.

At this moment, the world was blurred, all the affairs around seemed to be in vain, and everyone around turned a blind eye to the two of them.

This is the dream bubble of Buddhist supernatural powers.

A long black knife hung from a bright red thread on the woman's wrist. After stopping, she said condescendingly, "Monk, what are you doing here in Jiangdu?"

I am Jiangdu.

I have to say, the tone of these four words is really heaven-sent.

But from a certain point of view, this is correct, Jiang Du is indeed this woman's, at least a part of it is hers.

Because she is Qin Mumian, the former saint of Xuanjiao, the senior sister of Wanyan Beiyue and Murong Xuanyin, the current leader of Wenxiangjiao, and the court's half-accepted old concubine. She even had a relationship with the Taoist old head teacher A mentoring relationship.

Of the three Lafayettes in Jiangdu, she ranks first.

With such a combination of prominent identities, even if Qin Mumian is just an ordinary person, it is enough to scare most monks, not to mention that she is an earth fairy above the twelfth floor realm?

On that day, Qiuye, the head teacher of Taoism, and Gongsun Zhongmou, the lord of Jianzong, made an appointment to fight on the Lotus Peak of Biyou Island.

Among the nine people are the four peak masters of Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, and Danyang from the Daoist sect, Wanyan Beiyue, the later founder of the country, Lanyu, the first assistant to the emperor of the dynasty, and Yan Suqing, a great Confucianist.

The remaining two were a woman and a handsome monk.

The woman was none other than Qin Mumian who was blocking the way at this time.

The monk was none other than this ascetic monk who was stopped by Qin Mumian himself.

"I have seen the benefactor of Qin." The monk stopped, clasped his hands together and saluted: "The poor monk came to Jiangdu this time because he was invited by someone."

"Who invited you?" Qin Mumian asked coldly.

The monk shook his head and said, "The Buddha said, don't say it, don't say it."

"Really not?"

"It's really impossible to say."

Qin Mumian took a step forward.

In an instant, there was wind and thunder.

There was a sound that sounded like the sound of a bronze bell, and Hei Xuan under Qin Mumian's wrist slammed on the top of the monk's head.

The next moment, a gap was slowly cracked on the monk's spirit, and thousands of golden lights shot out from the gap.

The monk was neither angry, nor sad, nor frightened, with a smile on his face, patted the top of his head, and recited verses, "I have a bright pearl, which has been locked away by the dust for a long time, and now the dust is exhausted, and the light is born, shining through thousands of flowers in mountains and rivers."

Numerous cracks appeared on the body of the young monk like a broken eggshell, and then pieces fell one after another.

The golden light became more and more prosperous, and it was as gorgeous as the sun.

Brighten up.

After an unknown amount of time, the light dissipated, and a handsome monk was wearing brocade, holding flowers and smiling.

(End of this chapter)