Becoming an Immortal from the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 51 The Imperial City
Imperial City, Palace of Longevity.

This place was originally called Daqing Hall, a place where ceremonies were held. Because Zhao Zhen was grateful for the kindness of the immortals, it was renamed the Hall of Longevity.

Since it was converted into a palace view, the furnishings and layout of this hall have also changed greatly.

In the middle of the main hall is the golden body of the Immortal God, which was carefully crafted by craftsmen sent by the Emperor's Manufacturing Bureau. It cost a total of two tons of white jade and a thousand taels of gold. The base is made of pure copper. The working hours have gone the full 22 days.

Strange stones, exotic herbs, incense burners, and statues of gods can be seen everywhere in the temple.

All the eunuchs and court ladies changed into the common clothes of the palace, and pretended to be Qian Dao and Kun Dao. Everyone held Dao scriptures in their hands, shaking their heads and reciting non-stop.

With long hair loose, Zhao Zhen sat cross-legged on a futon, with his heart turned upside down, feeling that Taoism follows nature.

Empress Cao also wore a blue Taoist robe, which covered her graceful figure, removed the phoenix crown and Xiapei, and only inserted a wooden hairpin behind her head, reciting classics silently with her plain face.

The thick incense burns slowly, and sometimes the sound of someone chanting sutras and dharma sounds, everything seems so harmonious and natural.

Leaning slightly, Empress Cao's face twitched slightly, she opened her eyelids with a little irritability, glanced at Zhao Zhen, who had forgotten everything, hesitated for a while and said: "The official..."

Zhao Zhen opened his eyes without sadness or joy, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his eyes. He raised his hand and pressed down slightly to stop her words, and said seriously: "First of all, please call me a fellow Taoist."

"...Fellow Daoist, I have recited the scriptures of longevity a thousand times, but I have never sensed the attention of the immortals. May I ask if it is an illusion that you can feel the immortals watching me from outside the sky after reciting the scriptures silently a thousand times?"

Zhao Zhen laughed loudly, stroked his beard and said: "Cao Daoyou's words just prove that I am a person who is cherished by the gods. It can be said that Jane is in the heart of the gods. No wonder I feel that my health has improved a lot in the past few days. It must be because of my cultivation. achieved."

Empress Cao paused for a moment, shook her hands angrily, stood up straight and said, "In this case, your Majesty can practice here alone, and my concubines are going back to the Hall of Compassion."

She is impatient with cultivation, and she can't feel the gaze of the immortal that Zhao Zhen said at all, so she plans to wait for the Taoist head teacher of the Longevity Sect to rebuild the temple and distribute the Taoism classics, and then use her status as a queen to quickly Evangelize hundreds of people to be promoted, and get a ray of blessing from the immortal to complete the Tao.

"Hehe." Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "The queen is futile, and it doesn't hinder me from wasting time here. Please go ahead, I want to thank the immortal with all my heart."

After sending off the Queen and his party, Zhao Zhen closed his eyes and rested his mind, but he sighed slightly in his heart.

'Xianzun, why?Could it be that the Son of Heaven is no different from ordinary people in your heart? '

Before he could figure it out, he suddenly heard the sound of reporting from outside the palace.

"Report! The governor of Kaifeng handed over the closing memorial of Qi Shilang's case!"

"Bring it up."

Zhao Zhen opened the memorial, read it carefully, and compared the two with the secret investigation report of the Imperial City Division, he couldn't help but snort coldly.

"Spirits and monsters, clowns."

The death of Minister Qi is nothing, he sneered that after seeing the death of Minister Qi, all the officials went around crying and crying to buy the magic weapon shelter body of the Longevity Sect.

These officials are really good at doing one thing in front of the other. Zhao Zhen has been the emperor for so many years, and he has seen a lot of these people being double-decker.

But I don't want to see them face to face with their loyal ministers and try their best to curb the development of the Longevity Sect, but they have already drilled their brains and want to join the Sect, thinking that they don't know.

"Okay, let Yinzhen of the Cai Mansion know about it, and allow him to invite the Taoist of Changsheng to come to Beijing to do "magic things", but whether he can invite it depends on his own ability. All the messengers I sent to see the Taoist were all rejected. If you block it back, it won't help him at all."

Zhao Zhen replied casually, and remembered something with a smile, and added: "By the way, remember to ask him to report to Liu Qing first, I am worried that Liu Qing will be old and confused, and if he disagrees with this matter, he will cause trouble." Daozi, if Daozi gets angry, the people in the city will suffer."

"A monster wandering somewhere is hiding in Bianliang City. Every time I think of this, I feel uneasy!"

Speaking of this, Zhao Zhen's tone was full of sincerity.

Only the three-foot-long icy statue of the Immortal in this hall can make him feel more at ease.

Zhao Zhen sat on the futon in a daze for a while, thought and thought, and suddenly said to many eunuchs and maids:
"I want to measure the material resources of the whole country, and to win the favor of Daozi, what plan can you present?"

The sudden appearance of the red goat monster made him restless, for fear that the next moment the sergeant who came to the palace to summon him would report that there was a lot of smoke in the Song Dynasty, the monsters were in chaos, and he was besieged on all sides, with heavy casualties everywhere.Even the Xixia and Liao kingdoms took the opportunity to invade and annex the territory. The civil servants and generals under him fled and rebelled, leaving him alone.

Right now, the only way to make him feel at ease is to cultivate himself to protect himself and master the power enough to subdue the red sheep.

If possible, he would even be willing to worship the Immortal Venerable as his teacher, willing to be the next disciple of the True Immortal Seat.

Reluctantly, this immortal is far away from the human world by tens of thousands of miles, so he has no choice but to retreat and try to find a way to see if he can get in touch with this Taoist first.

The biography of Wang Changsheng, the Daoist, has long been excavated by the Imperial City Secretary. The origins of the nine clans have been investigated clearly, and now they are placed next to his futon for inspection at any time.

The distant relatives and widowed friends of the Wang family were also secretly sent to the capital by him. As long as there was any relationship with the Wang family in their blood, even those who were not close to each other, they were subject to the strictest surveillance.

Even the two maids under Daozi were checked, but the Northern Song Dynasty did not have electronic eyes, and no one cared about the life experience of a servant. For the time being, the Secretary of Huangcheng was still looking for the whereabouts of Renyazi back then, but found no useful information .

It will take some time for the blood relatives of the Wang family to come to Beijing, and Zhao Zhen does not intend to sit still, so he wonders whether he can start with Daozi's preferences and first close the relationship between double and reverse.

"Since the officials have this intention, why don't you tell Daozi face to face and agree to his three requests?"

The attendant eunuch hesitated and offered advice.

Zhao Zhen pondered: "But now, I can't even see Daozi's face, how can I let him know about this?"

"This... I don't know, but since the Governor of Kaifeng wants to invite Daozi to the capital to eliminate demons, the officials can take this opportunity to send people to meet with Daozi and discuss in secret."

"Secret...?" Zhao Zhen thought for a while, and said: "It's not appropriate. Since you want to form a good Taoism, if you don't want to spread it to the world, let me say that I am grateful for the people in Bianliang City. The special decree allows him to make three requests at will, without hesitation, and will help him fulfill the whole country, how about it?"

"This..." The eunuch was sweating profusely, and he didn't expect that the officials would take his suggestion seriously: "If it is widely spread in the world, then there may be no room for change."

"Limit? Why should there be room?" Zhao Zhen clenched his fist and said ruthlessly, "I just want to use this great news to hit this Daoist willing to see me!"

　Pave the way for the transition, don't worry.

　　Don't worry, it's an attitude, a kind of relaxation, a kind of calmness, and a kind of calmness.

　　If you are eager to fight back when you encounter humiliation, you are a reckless person. "Don't worry" teaches us to be modest and convince others with reason;

　　"Don't worry" embodies the golden mean of Chinese Confucianism, and embodies the life philosophy of humility, humility and peace. , Only then can we be in the right and left in the world, and not be surprised by changes.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)