1825 My New Daming

Chapter 18 The Immortal Zhuge Arrives! (Seek collection, ask for monthly pass, ask for recommendation, ask for follow-up)
On the eighth day of February in the fifth year of Daoguang, many officials and Taoists had already gathered outside the Yingxian Gate of Bagua City, the capital of the Golden Empire!The Jieguan Pavilion and the painted archway were also built ten miles outside the city according to the regulations.This set of rules was brought all the way from Shengjing and Beijing.According to the old rules, when the imperial envoys return to Beijing, or the envoys from the upper kingdoms (Daming, Luocha) arrive, they must be greeted solemnly.However, as the finances of the Golden Empire became increasingly scarce, these etiquettes for welcoming and sending off gradually relaxed.

But I don't know who is here today?That stingy fat Daoguang was willing to put on such a big show.From dawn, the officers and soldiers of the guard battalion wearing the uniforms of the new army came to maintain order with their old front-loading rifles on their shoulders.After a while, dozens of cavalrymen wearing Eight Banners padded armor came, carrying colorful banners as a spectacle.As the sun gradually rises, there are still high officials wearing flower feathers or masters in Taoist robes brushing the dust.

Many banner people and common people living in Bagua City were also attracted by this lively scene, and gathered together to watch the excitement.Looking at it, they all struck up a conversation with each other.

"Look, look! Mu Zhongtang is here! Who is that female crown next to him? She looks like a fairy, can't she really be a fairy from heaven?"

"Looking at her attire and appearance, she must be a fairy from the Nalan family, and she must have come from the Yingxian Temple on Tianshan Mountain, right?"

"The fairy of Yingxianguan is still of the blood of the Nalan family, and she seems to be a female orchid. She looks really top-notch. I don't know who can be her double cultivator? It can't be Mu Zhongtang?"

"How is that possible? It's enough for such a fairy to enter the palace to serve the emperor. Where can Mu Zhongtang take the turn?"

"Perhaps Mu Zhongtang made some great contributions. The emperor decided to give him a dual monk?"

"What a credit that is!"

These words really sound like they are in the world of cultivating immortals. I really don't know how King Zhuge Wuzhong taught Nalan Mingzhu, a good apprentice, back then?
"Look, isn't that the four-wheeled carriage of the embassy? The embassy carriages of Luocha Kingdom and Daming came together to welcome the distinguished guests of the great power?"

"The carriages from the embassies of the two countries have come together. What is the status of this distinguished guest? No wonder it can alarm the fairies of the Nalan family."

"But what does this have to do with fairies? Could it be possible?"

Some well-versed bannerman uncles tried their best to get friendly with the Eight Banners soldiers riding tall horses, and asked in a low voice, "Which country is this honored guest from?"

The soldiers of the Eight Banners also had mysterious expressions on their faces: "It's amazing! This time, He Zhongtang, the Rakshasa Grand Duke Natalie and the fairy from Zhuge's family will be picked up. The Rakshasa Grand Duke is still going to be the Empress of Ming Dynasty!" of!"

"A Rakshasa woman becomes the empress of Ming Dynasty? Is there such a thing?"

"It's unmistakable, this is probably calculated by the great immortal of the Zhuge family!"

The bannermen who moved to ask were all devout Taoists. When they heard the Zhuge family's great immortal, they all widened their eyes with anticipation on their faces: "That's really eye-opening!"

Like these banner people, there is also the fairy Nalandili from the Nalan family who is full of expectations for the great fairy of the Zhuge family.The Nalan family has been "cultivating immortals" since Nalan Mingzhu went west. In fact, there is nothing else that the Golden Kingdom can do without "cultivating immortals".India in the south was relatively weak at that time, but there were not many people who followed Kangxi back then—during the decades-long Ming and Qing tug-of-war, the population loss of Manchuria was also huge.In the end, it was only by joining forces with Junggar and Mongolia that they were able to enter Central Asia.Since the two are joining forces, of course there will be some infighting.

The subject of the infighting is the "Controversy between Immortals and Buddhas". Galdan himself is a "Buddha".And Nalan Mingzhu, who came back from learning the scriptures from King Zhuge Wuzhong, naturally became the number one "immortal" under Kangxi.

This battle between immortals and Buddhas seems quite boring, but it is actually a struggle to determine beliefs——Central Asia is the world of Taoism, the paradise of Buddhism, or the home of Tianfang Sect, it depends on this dispute between immortals and Buddhas the result.

And the Nalan family is backed by the Zhuge family who can pinch and count, and also has the blessing of the Royal Family of the Golden Empire, coupled with the powerful methods of the two generations of "immortals" Nalan Mingzhu and Nalan Rongruo, they naturally won this struggle. .

By 1826, although the "immortals" had not conquered the whole of Central Asia, the Wuji Valley, the ruling center of the Golden Empire, and the Kazakh grassland area in the north of the Golden Empire had long been "the world of cultivating immortals".

Zhuge Weidao, who entered the Golden Empire on a horse-drawn sleigh, was an eye-opener along the way. For the first time, he knew that Taoism can actually play with flowers!

The nomadic tribes he met on the grassland were all worshiping the Patriarch of the Three Qing Dynasty. In each tribe, there were several Taoists and aunts who had cultivated immortals on Tianshan Mountain to lead everyone to "cultivate immortals". Good seedlings, I will also recommend them to go to the Taoist temple in Wuji Valley for further training. If they perform well in the Taoist temple in Wuji Valley, they can even go to Tianshan to practice!
And if Xiuxian has been cultivated, he can still enter the court and become an official!
In short, in this Golden Empire, if you don't have a decent boy from the Eight Banners (not a mixed-race Eight Banners), then work hard to "cultivate immortals", maybe you can really change your fate against the sky.

The Taoism of the Golden Empire is also more interesting. It is not about cultivating inner alchemy and outer alchemy, nor taking drugs to upgrade, but two ways. One is to practice divination, fortune-telling, mathematics, physics and chemistry - if you do well in mathematics, physics and chemistry, you will not be afraid of divination and fortune-telling; The second is double cultivation—a combination of men and women, so it’s not tiring to cultivate immortals!
The former is the way for "monks" to be promoted. If ordinary people want to stand out in the Golden Empire, they have to take the "Imperial Cultivation Examination".It mainly examines divination, fortune-telling, fairy stereotyped articles, and knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry—the Zhuge family highly respects mathematics, physics and chemistry, which is obviously very important, so the "immortals" of the Golden Empire also have to learn.The best of these immortals are the masters who can calculate formulas and equations just by opening their mouths.

The latter is used to cultivate "monk blood".According to the research of the two "great immortals" Nalan Mingzhu and Nalan Rongruo, whether the divination, fortune-telling and cultivation of immortals are good or not has a lot to do with the "blood". Otherwise, how could there be so many "great immortals" in the Zhuge family? Woolen cloth?

This shows that King Wuzhong has "true immortal blood" and passed it on to his descendants, so the descendants are so powerful.

However, the "immortals" of the Golden Empire do not have the blood of Zhuge, so they can only choose "monks" with "clear bones" to learn the art of dual cultivation.And the standard of the bones is of course to be beautiful
"True immortal blood."

Zhuge Weidao, who was walking side by side with Heshen and Zhongtang on the official road to the west of Bagua City, had just heard He Zhongtang talk about the Taoist theory of cultivating immortals in the Golden Empire, and heard for the first time that he had the "blood of real immortals" It seems that he has fallen into deep thought—the true immortal blood seems to have a little bit!

Isn't a soul that travels through time and space the so-called true immortal blood?

Doesn't King Wu Zhong's "immortal law" come from his soul that traveled through time?

"And I..." Zhuge Weidao thought: "I also have a soul that came through time, this is the blood of the real fairy! And there are two real immortals in a family of Zhuge. Is this just a coincidence? Maybe it really has something to do with the blood, Maybe people from the Zhuge family are particularly easy to be traversed? Or is there a will of God in the dark?"

He was thoughtful here, and He Shen and Zhongtang, who were good at observing words and expressions, also saw the clues. This is really "true immortal blood"!No wonder the old man has cultivated all his life, and he has become the number one physiognomy master of the Golden Empire, and his fortune-telling and divination are not very accurate.It is impossible to see a child like Sushun and know that his surname is Aixinjueluo, so the problem lies in his blood!

Thinking of this, He Shen turned his head and looked at Zhuge Weidao carefully - the more he looked at it, the more immortal he looked!

This bloodline is reliable!

While the two of them were thinking about it, fairy music suddenly sounded in front of them.

Zhuge Weidao was taken aback, and he came out of his own thoughts. He looked up and found that on the horizon in front of him, a rather magnificent castle had appeared at some point, and various colorful flags could be vaguely seen fluttering in the wind.

"Junior Brother Daozi, the Bagua City is here!" He Shen's voice rang in Zhuge Weidao's ears, "It seems that the emperor welcomes Junior Brother as a distinguished guest!"

"For me?" Zhuge Weidao was taken aback again, "Shouldn't it be Grand Duchess Natalie? She is the candidate for Empress Daming!"

He Shen stroked his white beard and said with a smile: "Junior brother is missing, my Golden Empire is the first to worship immortality, junior brother has the blood of Immortal King Zhuge, and is extremely talented in immortality. In the future, he will definitely become a generation of immortal masters of Zhuge family. Compared with a Daming empress who has no real power, the emperor pays more attention to it."

"This King Wuzhong is bad enough!" Zhuge Wei Daoxin said, "The Qing Dynasty is so bad that it has become a civilization of cultivating immortals for him!"

Seeing that Zhuge Weidao said nothing, He Shenyou approached him with a mysterious and sinister smile: "Junior brother Daozi, Emperor Daoguang knows that you have encountered a bottleneck and forgot some things, so I prepared something for you." A furnace that can help break through the bottleneck is the best! Hehehe"

"There is also the furnace." Zhuge Weidao thought: "This King Wu Zhong must have liked novels about cultivating immortals before he crossed over, right? It seems that he and I are of the same age!"

Thinking of this, he turned his head and said to He Shen with a serious face: "Senior Brother He, I appreciate Emperor Daoguang's kindness, and I am not good at it."

Zhuge Weidao is really not interested in any furnace, because he hasn't eaten Natalie yet!
Along the way, Natalie was closely watched by that Aunt Shasha.And the big guys are all on their way, Zhuge Weidao really has no chance to make a move—the Ming embassy in Petersburg sent many people to accompany him, and He Shen’s people followed, Zhuge Wei said goodbye and said that Natalie was dealt with , even if it's inconvenient to hug and hug, I can only look at each other, it's really uncomfortable!

"What? Not good at this way?" He Shen was a little stunned, thinking: "Is this really not good at this way, or are you being polite? If you are really not good at this way, then it will be difficult Yes. Dual cultivation must be a man and a woman, two men are not acceptable, you can't cultivate 'Little Zhuge'!"

Zhuge Weidao said at this time: "Besides, I am quite tired after walking this journey. Now I just want to find a quiet place to rest for ten days and a half months."

There is a clean place to start!

He Shen understood again, and immediately said with a sinister smile: "Okay, Fairy Nalan's Yingxian Pavilion in Bagua City is a clean place, and it is quiet in the middle of the noise. It is also very close to the Daming embassy. Live in and rest with Grand Duchess Natalie."

Zhuge Wei was overjoyed when he heard the words, smiled and said to He Shen: "Okay, then I'll have to work."

(End of this chapter)