Jia Cong had just woken up that day when a porter came to his door and said he had a message from a Taoist from Zhenyuan. Jia Xu frowned and said, "Is it such a coincidence?"
Jia Cong said: "Never mind him, let's meet him." Then he ordered someone to invite him in.
Seeing this man entering the outer courtyard through the window, Jia Cong knew with one glance that he was not a porter, but a martial artist. Chen Ruijin immediately said: "The thief who led me out that night was him in disguise." Jia Cong nodded. .
The man came in and bowed his back and slapped him: "Mr. Jia!"
Jia Cong cupped his hands and said, "May I ask this general's name? Your demeanor shows that you are not a porter, and you are pretending not to be one at all."
The man chuckled and straightened up: "Mr. Jia is well-deserved. Do you recognize me?"
Jia Congnai looked at him carefully: "General, did you come to help me demolish the Wuming Temple on Qingcheng Mountain the day before yesterday?"
"Good eyesight!" the man said, "At that time, I pretended to be a commoner and infiltrated among them. I was wearing a set of common people's clothes. I wanted Taoist Xuancheng to change into it and go away. But he was so upright that he refused to change; then The clothes were finally given to Taoist Master Qingxiao. He doesn’t know kung fu and can’t escape at all, so all my efforts were in vain.”
"Oh, you are from Fang Xiong." Jia Cong nodded, "But Qingxiao said that Zhenyuan is not the same as you."
"We are really not in the same group." The man said, "We don't know where he came from. At first we thought he was a reclusive master, but unexpectedly he turned out to be a lackey of the imperial court."
Jia Cong pursed his lips: "Huh? How do you know he is from the imperial court?"
"If he were not from the imperial court, how could he order Mr. Ding? Taoist Master Xuancheng tested Mr. Jia to see if he could stand on his own feet?"
"Oh, that's right." Jia Cong said with a smile, "So you plan to sell him for money, which is really smart."
The man sighed: "The sea has changed in an instant, and no one else can care about it."
Jia Cong said seriously: "I'm praising you, really. Is this general here to discuss business with me?"
The man said: "Women and children are innocent, and they don't have the strength to compete with the prince. It doesn't matter whether they can be saved or not. If he comes to discuss with me, I will give him an idea to try. He threatened me and I won't accept this trick anymore." .'I happened to be sitting downwind and heard it."
Jia Cong frowned: "When I said this, the young men hadn't arrived yet."
The man said: "A few have come, including me." After a pause, "Ever since Zhenyuan said he wanted to use a honey trap to win over Mr. Jia, I knew he had ulterior motives and was definitely not here to help us." The man sneered and said, "Who would use Miss Fang's family as bait? How can we, adults, be in his eyes? How could an ordinary monk come up with such an idea? But he was so talkative that Taoist Master Xuancheng actually allowed him to coax him. "
Jia Cong's heart moved: I didn't expect that this beauty trap was actually Zhenyuan's idea. What this person said was, how could an ordinary monk come up with such an idea? In his early years, Zhenyuan was afraid that he would have sex with a monk. Same, he was playing in the green forest. "In fact, I also guessed that he used to be from the imperial court. But now there is no imperial court, unless he is from another prince. But he has actually lived in seclusion in Qingcheng Mountain for decades." Jia Cong said, " If you are from another prince, how can you live in the territory of the King of Shu?"
The man said: "It is not known whether the person is the Supreme Emperor. Furthermore, the court is in chaos. Who knows who buried whom in whose territory?"
Jia Cong shrugged: "That's right. The general is really here to discuss business? What's your surname? You have to have a title, right?"
The man said: "Master Fang is kind to me. Since he suffered, I changed his surname to Fang."
"Oh, okay, hello, General Fang." Jia Cong said nonchalantly, "Does General Fang know where Zhenyuan is?"
General Fang said with a smile: "I don't know yet. I have to ask Mr. Qiu to set up a game to lure him out."
"This is not difficult."
"Mr. Jia must have a way to rescue the Fang family's women and children?"
Jia Cong thought for a while and said: "Now that the King of Shu is in power and has a grudge against the Fang family, he keeps the women and children of the Fang family, partly for reputation, and partly because he wants to fish and attract people like you. I want to save them in vain."
It's impossible, we can only use Green Forest's method."
"I dare to ask what is the method of Green Forest."
Jia Cong smiled: "It seems that your Lord Fang is really an official. Don't you know how to use Lu Lin's method? Forget it, help me find Zhenyuan, and I will help you rescue people. General Fang, don't doubt that I am bragging. Such an idea
I have the ability."
General Fang looked at him and asked, "Mr. Jia is really helping the King of Shu because of the Qiyin Formation?"
"Of course not." Jia Cong said, "I went to check the tunnel because of the Qiyin Formation, and I helped the King of Shu because he sent troops overseas. To me, those who fight overseas are good people, and the princes and generals who fight overseas are good
Your Majesty, you are a good general. The King of Shu, the King of Yan, the King of Wu, the King of Liao, the King of Nan'an County, the King of Beijing County, including Liu Tong, the relative of Lu State, I will help whoever attacks overseas. If General Fang leads the rest of the Fang family,
I’ll also help you with your overseas territory expansion.”
General Fang thought: "Mr. Jia is afraid that something unexpected will happen to the King of Shu, and the troops of Shu in Nanyang will change."
"That's right." Jia Cong nodded and said, "The King of Shu is a general and a prince who fought in battles; his son may not have this energy. Now Nanyang has asked me to attack several princes, generals, and pirates. If Shu withdraws its troops,
, the situation in the entire Nanyang is in chaos. Nanyang is an important seaway for Westerners, and it is of great use for business travel, troop transportation, and supplies. If the Westerners make a comeback in Nanyang, even if Fang Xiong is cut into thousands of pieces, it will not be able to make up for the overall situation. When the time comes, I will hand over
If you don't talk about it until you have an errand, Fang Xiong will become a sinner for the ages."
General Fang asked casually: "Who does Mr. Jia want to report to?"
Jia Cong smiled and said, "If I said he was the Jade Emperor, would you believe it?"
General Fang looked at him carefully for a long time and said: "That's all, it has nothing to do with us anyway."
"Isn't that right?" Jia Cong took a sip of tea and said, "Fair trade, everyone gets what they need, isn't it good?"
General Fang suddenly asked: "It is rumored that there is a S.H.I.E.L.D. in the green forest. I am an outsider. Who gives me money to do business with whom? I wonder if he is the same as Mr. Jia?"
"They once asked me to join their gang. It's just that I'm older than them, so I'm not interested." Jia Cong raised his eyes and looked at General Fang, "Some things are beneficial to many parties. An alliance is more suitable than a gang. For example, the enfeoffment of the world.
That year, as far as I know, S.H.I.E.L.D. made as much money in one month as it did in the past year. If the Fang family wants to go overseas to rob, we can also cooperate."
"Is the enfeoffment of the world beneficial to Mr. Jia?"
"Based on the Emperor's temperament, does General Fang think he will send troops overseas? His eldest son, King Lu, is incompetent, and his second son, King Chen, is the master of the business. He will probably kill all the ambitious princes such as King Yan and King Shu.
"
General Fang said with a smile: "No wonder the people in the court dislike Mr. Jia." Jia Cong smiled. General Fang said, "I know that there is an old man named Tian Qi who is very important to Zhenyuan."
"How did General Fang know this?"
General Fang said: "A few days ago, I heard him sigh alone, 'that old Tian Qi', and his expression was different from usual." He looked at Jia Cong, "Mr. Ding could tell at a glance that Mr. Jia was in love with Chen Siniang. .”
Jia Cong trembled: "You mean, this Zhenyuan Taoist is a cut sleeve?"
"It's not very similar." General Fang said, "It's true that vertical and horizontal matters are very important."
Jia Cong nodded: "Okay. If we follow this method and catch Zhenyuan, we will rescue the Fang family's women and children." He stretched out his palm.
General Fang laughed, high-fived him three times, and left.
Jia Cong hurriedly turned back to look for Jia Xu and asked, "Does Uncle Wu know who this Tian Qi is?"
Jia Xu thought for a while and asked, "Could they be the three thieves of Xinglin?" He asked, "In the early years of our dynasty, there were three thieves, all of whom were named after medicinal materials. The first one was named Tian Qi, and the other two were named Wen Yuan. and Shi Jueming. No one knows the origins of these three people, and they disappeared without a trace. When I was young, I quietly checked out out of curiosity. They were originally people in the green forest. It took too long, and the time was chaotic. There are no files left by the government."
Jia Cong thought: "Since he is a big thief, how come there are no files left? Unless those files have been cleared away. Fifth Uncle, could it be that there is a monk in the capital, Zhenming Zhenyuan, who is the three thieves of Xinglin? A monk He seems to be a descendant of the Situ family."
Jia Xu blurted out: "Situ Chou!"
"who?"
"He was the seventh in the late emperor's generation. His biological mother and the late emperor's mother were biological sisters." Jia Xu said, "Situ Chou was a dandy prince who accomplished nothing and died early in drunkenness."
Jia Cong's mouth twitched: "Sure enough, he is somewhat similar to Situ Pan. Wasn't Situ Pan also the 'Xianwang' in his early years? It's just that the Supreme Emperor was much more incompetent than the late emperor, so Situ Pan had to come out to help him. If the Supreme Emperor was capable enough, Situ Pan I'm afraid Pan will be idle for the rest of his life."
Jia Xu couldn't help but nodded: "I helped my brother get to the country, but he didn't show his face. The real bright one is Shi Jueming, and the real bright one is Wen Yuan."
Jia Cong said: "Whether it's true or not, let's give it a try." Then he whispered a few words to Jia Xu with a smile, causing Jia Xu to slap him on the forehead: "Smelly boy!" Jia Cong laughed. .
They then intensified their search for Zhenyuan, and at the same time spread the word that a fat old monk had gone to Qingcheng Mountain to inquire about the evil ways of Zhenyuan, and asked the soldiers who stayed there to interrogate him. He was also an accomplice of Zhenyuan. .This is good. Originally, the people who were taking pictures of flowers and setting up the Qiyin Formation were all Taoist priests. This person named Tian Qi suddenly dragged the monks into the water, and the donors suddenly became a lot stingy.
A few days later, he said that the old monk, whose name was Tian Qi, kept claiming that he was not looking for Zhenyuan, but an old friend named Wen. Qiu Liang all believed in this monk, but Jia Cong refused to let him go. He was also a philanderer. Because Jia Cong was so famous and Qiu Liang had been in Shu for many years, people started to argue on the street: some said Mr. Jia was from the lower realm of heaven and his determination was unmistakable; some said his skills were Master Qiu knew everything, and was afraid that Mr. Jia had wronged the old monk and reborn the evil fox Daji (gl). Whenever there was a dispute, word spread several times faster than usual, and the matter was dispersed from Chengdu in the blink of an eye.
On the other side, the Taoist priest who was guarding the candle in Yuanchen Hall of Qingyang Palace quietly asked a little beggar to come to find Chen Ruijin and ask for the restoration of the reputation of Qingyang Palace. Jia Xu's people checked and found out that this person's surname was Liao, his Taoist name was Shouping, and he was originally He was a child of a poor family near Qingyang Palace. Because he had a huge appetite, his family could not afford to feed him, so he was sent to a Taoist temple to practice so that he could have enough to eat. He had never practiced martial arts, he was just naturally strong.
Jia Cong praised: "Since Bai Yang Shouping has grown so big, Qingyang Palace is great." Then he went to discuss with Qiu Liang, only saying that Qingyang Palace was deceived by Zhenyuan and thought he was a court spy.
Cong compiled a coherent story for Qiu Liang to tell.
Qiu Liang smiled and nodded at him: "This matter is easy to handle. Nowadays, if the people are jealous of monks and Taoism, the prince will not live in peace."
Jia Cong said: "Let the prince go to Qingyang Palace to pay homage to the Three Pure Ones in person, so as to rectify their names. Don't ruin the reputation of such a conscientious Taoist temple."
"Go and see the prince yourself."
"Alright."
Jia Cong then went to see the King of Shu and asked him to choose an auspicious day to go to the Qingyang Palace to cut the ribbon. The King of Shu agreed. He said: "I have already taught the old lady a lesson; Ding Wangji will not be able to get it if she comes."
Okay, but I still need him right now."
Jia Cong frowned and said: "The two of them are just fighting back. They are just like kittens and puppies. Even if they scratch them, it is not a big deal. But the root cause of this matter is not trivial. Prince, since ancient times, it is indispensable to seize the legitimate son.
Competition for talents due to the acquisition of direct descendants is also unusually tight. But you have the ability to be upright! What is the ability to start with women? Tai Shigong said, in general, those who use sex to treat others will lose their lust and relax, and their kindness will be cut off. This is not the right approach.
"
The King of Shu sighed: "There are so many children and grandchildren that I can't even take care of them."
Three days later was an auspicious day. The King of Shu personally went to Qingyang Palace to pay homage to the Three Pure Ones. He put on a grand gesture and made it very lively. The Taoist priest came to greet him at the door. Naturally, Jia Cong was also among them. He found Shou among the group of Taoist priests.
Taoist Ping nodded to him. Taoist Shouping nodded slightly in return.
The Taoist priests had been playing and playing for a long time, and the King of Shu walked to the back of the Qingyang Palace to relax. When he arrived in front of the Yuanchen Palace, the Taoist priest pointed out: "The person worshiped here is Yuanjun Doumu." The King of Shu nodded lightly and said,
He walked in with his hand. After paying homage to Lord Doumu Yuan, the King of Shu walked around and saw a big hole in the east corner. He smiled and said, "Is this the cellar?" The Taoist host chanted "Immeasurable Heavenly Lord."
The King of Shu was inevitably curious and ordered people to light lanterns. He wanted to go down and have a look. Qiu Liang first sent a few people down to illuminate the road. Looking from above, it was bright inside, so he led the King of Shu down. The King of Shu had just taken two steps.
On the way, I suddenly heard the sound of wind blowing in my ears. I felt like I was flying into the air, and shouted "No!" The sky turned dimly in front of my eyes for a moment, and then I fell to the ground.
The King of Shu fell so hard that his eyes were blurred, and before he could recover, he heard someone sneer and say: "Exchange Tianqi for your prince!" Before he finished speaking, there were three "bang, bang, bang" sounds, and the man shouted, "You
,you……"
The conversation was chaotic and fast. Qiu Liang rushed down to the cellar before he understood what was going on. He saw the King of Shu lying on the ground and not knowing what to do. There was a soldier holding a Western-style fire and a gun. There were four or five people lying in various places on the ground.
There were three soldiers and several lanterns. An old Taoist priest with a white beard pointed at the gun-wielding soldier, who fell down with a "thud" in front of Qiu Liang's eyes, with blood holes on his head and chest.
Qiu Liang hurriedly stepped forward to help the King of Shu, but fortunately he only fell heavily and was not seriously injured. Looking back at the soldier holding the gun, the soldier stood up from the old Taoist priest and said: "The evil path is dead."
Qiu Liang looked at him and said, "How come I haven't seen you before?"
The soldier smiled and said: "I am Jia Wu, an escort from the Taiping Escort Bureau in the capital." (..)