Zhu Nao

Fenyang City, Taiyuan Prefecture.

There is a Jianguo Temple in the southwest of the city. It was originally the former residence of a prince of a certain country in the Spring and Autumn Period. It was destroyed by war and converted into a temple by monks. After several expansions, it became a famous ancient temple.This ancient temple covers an area of ​​hundreds of acres, and there are dozens of Zen and Law Courts.There is a spiritual vein here, so the incense has always been very strong, and it is supported by believers. The ancient temple once housed thousands of monks.

However, things in the world have always been feng shui turns. When Jianguo Temple was at its peak, because of its excessive momentum, it provoked Tianwei, and the imperial court ordered to suppress it, causing the temple to decline for a while.After the war broke out, Jianguo Temple was occupied by the rebels led by Guo Jinli and Li Cui. The monks were either expelled or joined the rebels.After Guo and Li died, Jianguo Temple fell into the hands of Henry Zhang again.

Today, Dajianguo Temple is still magnificent and magnificent, but the plaque of Jianguo Temple has been taken down and replaced by another gilt signboard - Daxuantian Temple.

The bodhisattvas and gods enshrined in the temple in the past have also been changed, but they are not removed and replaced with new Buddha statues, but like the plaques of the temple, the temple is still that temple, and the Buddha statues are still those Buddha statues, just the Buddha statues However, all the name tags below were replaced and changed into other names.The biggest change is the statue of Sakyamuni enshrined in the Daxiong Hall. It was chiseled out of the lotus, the red mole on the brow was removed, and a golden crown was worn to cover the hair. It became the statue of Zhang Xuan, Emperor Xuantian of the Taiqing Dynasty.

A thousand-year-old temple has been transformed into a temple dedicated to Xuantian Sect just like this.

Naturally, the monk halls in the ancient temple were all occupied by Xuantian believers, and one of the treasure halls was renovated and directly became Henry Zhang's bedroom.

Right now, Henry Zhang is playing with several young and beautiful women in the bedroom.

"Beauty, I have consecrated your pair of jade peaks. From now on, I will call them strange peaks protruding, soaring into the clouds."

"Ah, Shijun is really bad~~"

Henry Zhang is now famous all over the world, but not many people have seen him.In fact, he is not too old, only 25-[-] this year.He was tall and burly, with a dignified appearance, and a pair of peach blossom eyes were frivolous but not obscene.His appearance can be said to stand out in the crowd, so after the death of Guo Jinli and Li Cui, the mob had no leader, he was able to stand out, was loved by the people, and finally established Xuantian Sect.

Different from ordinary people, Henry Zhang’s hair is very short, and he can only tie a small knot behind his head.This is because when he was young, he went to the temple to be a monk because of his poor family, and he lived in this Jianguo Temple.Later, he joined the rebel army and founded his own religion, and finally returned to the vulgar.

Several women gathered around Henry Zhang to laugh and feast. Henry Zhang sat open like an emperor. Two women pinched his legs, two women pinched his shoulders, one peeled dates for him, and the other poured tea for him.While enjoying it, he joked and flirted with a few people.

When it was time for music, there was a voice from outside: "Master, there is news from Yanzhou."

Henry Zhang didn't call anyone in, he tilted his head and bit a date from the woman's hand, and asked vaguely through the screen: "What's the news?"

The humanity outside the screen said: "Yanzhou City...was taken back by Xie Wuji and Zhu Nao."

“What?!” Henry Zhang sat up straight suddenly, almost swallowing the jujube whole, the jujube core stuck in his throat, and he spit it out in a timely manner.He choked and coughed a few times, and asked with a blushing face, "Where's Shi An?"

"Shi An and Jiao Bie have been beheaded by them. The people Shi Jun sent to Yanzhou with Shi An were also killed by them..."

The smile on Henry Zhang’s face disappeared completely, and he slammed the table down.The women around him backed away in fright.

Henry Zhang knew that Jiao Bie and Shi An were in trouble, and he was also trying to find a way to help.However, Fenyang and Yanzhou were hundreds of miles away, and it took several days for news to come and go. He was already a step late when he received the news, and it took a while to verify the news, find people to discuss, and select people.Some time ago, he had just selected a few talented people to send to Yanzhou to help Shi An. Xie Wuji had already snatched the state back.

But the city had been lost, and it was useless for Henry Zhang to be angry, so he calmed down quickly.He asked: "How did Yanzhou be lost? Did Xie Wuji lead an army to attack? How many people were killed or injured? Tsk, that Jiaobie is sitting on a solid wall, but he can't even defend a city."

The people outside the screen did not answer immediately, Henry Zhang waited for a while, realized that something was wrong, and sat up straighter: “What’s going on?”

The people outside tremblingly said: "Shi An and Jiao Bie fell into Zhu Xie's scheme...Zhu Xie and the others didn't lose many people..."

Henry Zhang frowned even tighter.He originally thought that it would not be easy to attack the city, even if the city was lost, it wouldn't be a bad loss if Xie Wuji's troops could be weakened.It turned out to be a trick?This is a big loss.

He was already very unhappy, but he didn't expect the people outside to say again: "Master, Mr. Shi An is cowardly and fearful. In the past few months, he has concealed a lot of news. Only after his death did someone report these things... ..."

Henry Zhang was taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "What news? Tell me!"

The people outside said: "Yanzhou...the believers in Yanzhou were either rebelled or wiped out by Zhu and Xie...all the garrisons were confiscated...all...disappeared..."

"What?!" Henry Zhang couldn't sit still anymore, and jumped up from the chair suddenly.

He still didn't call the people outside, but ran out by himself, bypassing the screen, and startled the kneeling people outside.He grabbed the skirt of the person who came to report the news: "What did you say??? Say it again!!!"

The man was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe, and said with a mournful face: "Master, from Yanzhou to Qingyang, the entire north of Xiaoguan, our institutional system has almost been destroyed by them..."

Henry Zhang was stunned, unable to believe his ears.

He founded Xuantian Sect not for a long time. These days, Xuantian Sect has flourished and sang songs all the way, but it is not without setbacks.Everywhere they go, they almost always encounter resistance, either being suppressed by the government or resisted by local forces.It is not uncommon for tens of thousands of believers to be killed or injured, but the dead are not worth anything to Henry Zhang, and he can recruit as many believers as he dies.

What makes him most proud is the establishment of the Xuantian Sect.This system was created by him on the basis of Guo Jinli and Li Cui's formation of the army and government, and also by incorporating religious beliefs.With this system in place, no matter how many people die, he can be refilled, and his foundation cannot be shaken.

But now, his subordinates told him that his power in Yanzhou had even been destroyed? ? !

"How is it possible!!" Henry Zhang refused to believe it at all, "You must have made a mistake! Have you sent someone to Yanzhou to see it?!"

There are quite a few believers in Yanzhou. He was able to take Yanzhou City because he had already laid a good foundation there and captured a lot of hearts. This made the Yanzhou Army unable to resist even though they had excellent troops. he.The last time the worshipers from all over the country made offerings to him, Yanzhou also ranked among the top.Under such a good situation, how could such a thing happen!

"If you don't confirm, how dare you report such an important matter to the master?" The man bit his head and said, "I sent someone there the day before yesterday, ran to more than a dozen villages, and couldn't even find a flag carrying... …I heard that Zhu Nao widely disseminated operas that slandered the master among the people, and a large number of people believed in the operas. Unsteady believers rebelled because of this, but firm believers were betrayed, arrested and killed by them..."

Henry Zhang’s face turned livid again.Carrying the flag is the lowest status, largest number, and most important ministries in Xuantian Sect.Originally, every village and village had flag-carrying flags, and the flag-carrying people were responsible for propagating teachings and attracting believers, and finally condensed into a powerful Xuantian Sect.The spies went to more than a dozen villages but couldn't find a single flag-carrying flag, which meant that Zhu Xie had uprooted all their flag-carrying flags.The power of the Xuantian Sect can indeed be said to have destroyed even the establishment.

The man was filled with righteous indignation: "It's all to blame that Shi An is hateful, he dared to suppress the news, and kept Master in the dark..."

Henry Zhang’s mind was in chaos.

Shi An once wrote to him saying that the situation in Yanzhou was not good, and asked him to send someone to help.But Shi An had never reported that the situation was so bad.Every time Shi An wrote a letter, what he emphasized in his heart was that Zhu Nao and Xie Wuji had a strong army, which made him difficult to deal with, so he needed help.

Now that I think about it carefully, there are indeed many strange things in Shi An's letter.It's not that Shi An didn't mention some things at all, but simply mentioned them in a simple way.He didn’t say in detail, it seemed that things didn’t matter, Henry Zhang didn’t care too much, after all, he thought that the enemies this time were the same as those they had encountered before, they would encounter some setbacks, but they would definitely win.

It was the victories in the past that made Henry Zhang too proud and a little paralyzed.

Why on earth did Shi An conceal the news?Henry Zhang actually knew very well that few of the most active people around him now really believed in his Taoist rhetoric.These people are all unscrupulous and unscrupulous villains who joined the Xuantian Sect just to get benefits.It’s just that Henry Zhang didn’t care about it before, these people have the same purpose as him, and they are effective, and he also likes to use them.All is well when things are going well, but when there is a setback, the downside is revealed.

Shi An’s deception was obviously because he was afraid of being blamed by Henry Zhang for not doing things well, afraid that Henry Zhang would take away his power and find someone else to replace him.And the worse the situation was, the less he dared to tell the truth.He may also be too arrogant, thinking that if he can defeat Zhu Nao and Xie Wuji in the end, he will be able to make up for it.But not only did he not have the ability to protect himself, he even ruined all the forces of the Xuantian Sect under his rule.

Henry Zhang was furious, but there was nothing he could do.The thing has already happened, and now he has no way to take back Yanzhou, and even has no way to dig out Shi An's body and flog it.

He calmed down for a moment, and then asked again: "Just now you said that Zhu Nao spread dramas that slandered me among the people? Are you referring to those who say that I am a weasel?"

Henry Zhang has already heard of the play that described him as a weasel spirit.But even this was not reported to him by Shi An, but when Zhu Nao went north to Yanzhou, he ordered people to spread it along the way, so the news reached Henry Zhang from the south.Henry Zhang himself guessed that Zhu Nao would do this when he arrived in Yanzhou, so he took the initiative to write a letter to ask Shi An, and Shi An admitted to him.

The subordinate nodded and said, "It's those..."

Although Henry Zhang was also angry, it was rare that there was news that he already knew. He was not frightened, and he was even relieved.

However, before he was relieved for too long, his subordinates continued: "Master, it's not just about drama, Zhu Nao and Xie Wuji killed Shi An and Jiao Bie, they also arranged a drama at the gate of the city..."

"……What drama?"

"They found someone to pretend to be the master, and then made black dog blood, monster-catching talismans and other things, and asked Xie Wuji to break the trick of the fake master on the spot. And... let the master turn into a weasel under the eyes of everyone..."

Henry Zhang: “……………!!!”