"Your Highness wants to go, I will naturally obey." The expression on Tang Bohu's face did not change, he just bowed and said.

Zhu Houzhao nodded, then said with a smile: "Then let's set off early tomorrow morning."

Early the next morning, Zhu Houzhao led his people to Zhongnan Mountain.

The Chongyang Palace is located in Zu'an Town, Huyi District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, 40 kilometers away from the center of Xi'an. Zhu Houzhao and others set out from Guyuan, and it was impossible to reach it in one day even on horseback.

The group's first destination was naturally Xi'an. There is also the Palace of the Qin Prince of the Ming Dynasty in Xi'an City.

The first generation of Qin kings was Zhu Xi, the second son of Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. There is no Qin king in this generation.

The previous king of Qin was Zhu Bingke. He attacked Lintong in the eighth year of Hongzhi's reign. He succeeded him as King of Qin in the thirteenth year and died in the fourteenth year.

Since the death of Zhu Bingke, the imperial court has not named King Qin, and the title of King Qin has been vacant these years. However, this Zhu Houzhao has nothing to do with him, and he has no plans to go to the Prince of Qin's palace to do anything.

The princes of the Ming Dynasty have long lost the power they had in their early years. These princes of the Ming Dynasty are more like pigs raised by the imperial court.

Although the Prince of Qin's Mansion was not alarmed, the local officials must have been alarmed. When they heard that His Highness the Crown Prince was coming, the whole Xi'an Mansion was in a state of panic.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty has a very high reputation among the people, and local officials are even more afraid of him.

In the Yangzhou salt smuggling case, how many people were traced by His Royal Highness?

Just a few days ago, how many big families in the northwest were arrested? They were all sent to build city walls, and all their property was confiscated. Officials in these families will definitely be implicated as well.

Although the imperial court has not made a clear edict, everyone knows that this matter is a certainty. His Highness the Prince has already ransacked all their homes, how can these people still be left?

The local officials in the northwest are now less afraid of His Royal Highness than a tiger.

When Zhu Houzhao arrived at the gate of Xi'an City, a team had already been formed to welcome him.

All the civil and military officials were present and stood upright, fearing that they would lose etiquette in front of the Crown Prince Zhu Houzhao.

With the sound of horse hooves, the Black Dragon Guard rumbled from far to near.

In recent years, as the results of the Northwest Battle have spread, His Highness the Crown Prince's Black Dragon Guard has become famous.

Seeing these majestic cavalry, the officials in Xi'an City became even more silent. Who didn't know that His Highness the Crown Prince's Black Dragon Guards were His Highness the Crown Prince's loyal lackeys.

The arrests and house raids in Northwest China in the past few days were caused by these people. They killed people at every turn. Anyone who disobeyed was killed on the spot. These people kill without blinking an eye.

Among the people in the northwest, the Black Dragon Guard is even said to be a miraculous force. It is a murderous army. Now it has shocked many people when it appeared on the scene.

Zhu Houzhao rode his horse forward, and the Black Dragon Guards lined up on both sides.

Looking at the civil and military officials kneeling on both sides, Zhu Houzhao said directly: "Okay, everyone, get up!"

When everyone stood up, Zhu Houzhao said: "I came to Xi'an this time just to have a look at the Chongyang Palace. I don't want to disturb the place. You all perform your duties and do not disturb the people."

"I obey." Everyone agreed quickly, and at the same time they breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. It turned out that they were not looking for trouble, so that's good, that's good.

That night, Zhu Houzhao and his party stayed overnight in Xi'an.

Early the next morning, a group of people rushed to the Chongyang Palace. The only officials from Xi'an Prefecture accompanying them were Yang Qi, the prefect of Xi'an.

This is because Zhu Houzhao was afraid that the local officials in Xi'an would think too much, otherwise Zhu Houzhao would not want the local officials in Xi'an to come with him.

But it's good to have him following me, at least some things can be arranged clearly.

When the Quanzhen religion flourished, there were about 5,048 palace buildings. The palace area stretched from Laoyu River to the east, Ganyu River to the west, Zhongnan Mountain to the south, and the Weishui River to the north. Quanzhen Taoist disciples gathered here, reaching nearly 10,000 at its peak.

The scale of the temple is the largest among all Taoist temples in the world.

It's just that after these years of suppression, it has long been ruined, and only a few Taoist priests are left to guard here to prevent it from being abandoned.

When they heard that the Crown Prince, Zhu Houzhao, was coming, everyone in the Chongyang Palace was not excited or happy, but terrified and afraid.

The Ming Dynasty believed in the Celestial Masters of Longhu Mountain, and they were the ones who encouraged them all these years. They did not pay attention to the Quanzhen Sect at all, and suppression has become the norm, even a national policy.

Now that the Crown Prince is here, what everyone in the Chongyang Palace is thinking about is whether His Highness is here to deal the final blow? He won't demolish the Chongyang Palace, right?

The Chongyang Palace that people in later generations saw was not the current Chongyang Palace at all.

After the wars in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, "the walls of Chongyang Palace collapsed, the palaces collapsed, and the wild places were left exposed." Later, during the Qianlong period, "the people who guarded the fort repaired it", and this maintenance "suffered from the prosperity of the city".

"It is difficult to continue" and "succeed with small things", leaving "remains to be guarded".

What later generations saw was that part of it was built in the Qing Dynasty, but it was almost destroyed by modern wars, and the remaining part was newly built in modern times.

Chongyang Palace has long lost the aura of the Ancestral Palace of the World, but when Zhu Houzhao came here, he could still see some of this aura.

"Your Highness, Taoist Priest Chonghe of Chongyang Palace is outside to greet His Highness the Crown Prince." Yang Qi, the prefect of Xi'an, walked beside Zhu Houzhao and said cautiously.

Chonghe Taoist Priest?

Zhu Houzhao had never heard of it. Of course, he didn't know much about the Quanzhen Religion either. His limited knowledge was through martial arts novels and TV series. His knowledge was limited to Wang Chongyang, the Seven Quanzhen Sons, and Tomb of the Living Dead.

Of course, the Tomb of the Living Dead is real, but there is no Little Dragon Girl living in it.

In the first year of Dading of Emperor Shizong of the Jin Dynasty, Wang Chongyang was 49 years old. After the failure of the resistance against the Jin Dynasty, he dug a cave to live in Nanshi Village. He built a tomb several feet high and hung a sign on it that read "Wang Haofengling's Bit". The sign was more than ten feet deep.

, lived alone in the cave for two years. Outsiders called it the "Tomb of the Living Dead."

Seven years later, Wang Chongyang walked out of the Tomb of the Living Dead and began to realize his ideals in another way.

In later generations, there were still tombs with the words "Tomb of the Living Dead" engraved on the stone in front.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the door of Chongyang Palace with a gloomy face and did not reply. He just raised his head and looked at the huge plaque above.

Yang Qi, who was standing next to Zhu Houzhao, didn't react at first, but the next second he was shocked, his body was shaking, his face was pale, and he was shouting in his heart that it's over, it's over.

As for why it ended, the reason is very simple. There is a big plaque on the mountain gate of Chongyang Palace, which says "Chongyang Palace of Longevity". This is nothing, but that plaque was given by the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.

In recent years, although the imperial court suppressed the Quanzhen Sect and did not allow them to establish a leader, and the Quanzhen Sect was dispersed into countless strands, the Chongyang Palace was still preserved.
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