Jia Cong was sitting in the office of the Dajiala Government Building with a strong atmosphere of later generations. After listening to Liu Xiaoqi talking about the past of the late emperor for half a day, he couldn't help but cursed a later curse: "Fuck him!"
Liu Xiaoqi rolled her eyes: "Why are you complaining? Our family has sold their lives for their family for several generations, and I have not complained."
Jia Cong snorted: "That's because your ancestors are stupid."
Liu Xiaoqi gave him a sideways glance: "It's as if your ancestors were not stupid!"
Jia Cong choked. He wanted to argue but couldn't, so he had to ask: "What tricks did old man Zhen Deren use to dazzle the late emperor?"
Liu Xiaoqi smiled softly: "Although Zhen Deren is not a Taoist priest, his master is a Celestial Master."
It turned out that when Zhen Deren got the box, he took a quick look and understood what was going on. The box was engraved with his master's private seal - others didn't recognize it, but he did. His master said that all craftsmen who make mechanisms must learn the secret seal.
From time to time, I will learn some details, such as one yuan, two poles, three talents, four images, five elements, seven stars, eight trigrams, nine palaces and ten directions. When doing it, I will follow these. People who break the mechanism also learn these, and they will break according to these. Therefore, orderly
The mechanism will inevitably be broken; only if it is disordered, it cannot be broken.
The box cannot be broken by outsiders, but Zhen Deren can break it. It is not difficult to break, but it will take some effort. There are thirty-six Tiangangs, and no one knows what sort of mechanism his master used. Every possibility is tested.
If you try it again, you can always find the one that can be opened. But people who don’t know the details dare not act rashly, for fear that if they make a mistake, the mechanism will damage the objects inside. Naturally, Zhen Deren cannot tell the truth to the late emperor, only himself.
It took several years to study slowly. It took great difficulty for the late emperor to find such an expert, and he would follow whatever he said.
Zhen Deren then lived in Malishan, pretending to be a painter, strolling around every day to see the scenery, chatting with monks and Taoist priests, and flirting with the young widow. When he went back to his residence, he pretended to draw a bunch of machine drawings to fool the little eunuch sent by the late emperor to take care of his daily life.
He carried people on his back and tried to open the boxes one by one. One day, the test came out and the box was opened. He recognized the tokens of Celestial Master Dao inside at a glance and recalled what his master said about Celestial Master Dao when he was still alive.
, he immediately guessed the cause and effect. The Tian family was so cruel and ruthless that even the Maitreya Sect of Tianshi Dao was wiped out immediately, not to mention himself? He had to pay for it with his own life, otherwise even his wife and children at home would not escape death. He immediately put the box away
Cover it back and pretend you didn't find anything.
Zhen Deren was very skilled in craftsmanship. Although he could not leave Xiaoci County, he was able to ask the late emperor for many materials. He only said that he was using them to break the mechanism in the box. Just like Sun Monkey visiting King Zhu Zi, he took these things to his face.
After messing around day and night, he actually only took a few of them and made a fake token that was very similar to the Tianshi Tao token, but a little smaller. Taking advantage of the Dragon Boat Festival, the late emperor sent his confidant eunuch to deliver the reward, and Zhen Deren thanked him for his kindness.
He accidentally dropped the false token from his arms. The eunuch was curious and asked him what it was. Zhen Deren said: "This was left by my master. I took it out to worship my master a few days ago when he was born."
After the eunuch returned to the palace, he reported the matter to the late emperor. The late emperor was shocked when he heard what he said about the fake token! He ordered the eunuch to rush back to Malishan quickly and take the thing left by Master Zhen Deren back to the palace. Grandpa Zhen
The late Emperor had seen the real thing before, but now that he saw the fake one, countless thoughts suddenly came to his mind. So he sent a clever eunuch to test Zhen Deren. Zhen Deren was eager to survive and made up many irrelevant stories.
He also used ambiguous words to hook him up. The eunuchs in the palace were the best at making random thoughts based on clues. When they thought too much, they used words to test Zhen Deren. Zhen Deren continued to make nonsense based on his words, which became more and more outrageous.
In the end, the eunuch thought about it from the beginning and concluded that Zhen Deren was the illegitimate son raised by an important figure in Tianshi Dao. His master was ordered to go to Jinling to educate him. Zhen Deren's biological father did not die at the hands of his great grandfather, but he was a fish that slipped through the net.
However, he also believed in his heavenly master and went into seclusion for cultivation, so he led his disciples to hide among the people. Zhen Deren made up another strange object, which he said was mentioned by his master. It was not big, but it could withstand thousands of armies.
He thought that with his identity as a Celestial Master and this rare item hidden somewhere, the emperor might be able to spare his life and use him to catch the Celestial Master's people in order to seize the rare item.
Zhen Deren spent several years working hard, but did not open the box, and confessed to the late emperor: "This villain can only be a carpenter, but cannot crack the mechanism." The late emperor was extremely disappointed. Although he did not open it, he did not know that it was from the Heavenly Master.
He didn't dare to kill anyone yet. So he ordered him to make another mechanism box, and specially used old camphor wood. As expected, Zhen Deren made another one, which was the one that Lin Daiyu and others stole from a temple. And made it.
He made a stone rabbit to hide his master's old camphor wood box. The late emperor also ordered the masons to carve eleven more zodiac signs and hid them at the bottom of a mountain col in Mali Mountain. Naturally, there would be no need for an ambush.
The late emperor was completely unaware of Zhen Deren's tricks. He praised his craftsmanship so much that he made him a fourth-grade idle official and sent him back to his hometown. Before leaving, he ordered someone to ask him for the false token and leave. Zhen Deren escaped, and Amitabha, the old man
He knew full well that the things in the emperor's hands were fake. If he didn't need to pay them back, he would be exposed if he used them, and he would die.
The late emperor then sent a craftsman to take a fake token to try his luck in the place where Tianshi Dao was rampant in the early years. Zhen Deren was extremely skilled in craftsmanship, and Tianshi Dao had cut off contact with the leader for many years. Although he knew that this thing was not real, he could not tell whether it was something else.
An important thing. By accident, the late emperor did not realize that the thing was fake, and Zhen Deren lived a few more years.
It was just a few more years of life. Since the late emperor could not use the Celestial Master's Way, he wanted to find the "wonderful object" Zhen Deren said. The late emperor's people took the fake tokens and sneaked into the Celestial Master's Way but could not find out the "wonderful thing".
"Object", no one else knew there was such a thing. The late emperor thought for several days and suddenly snapped at the table: "Could it be that it is in Zhen Deren's own hands, so others don't know about it?" Then he sent Zhen Deren, a clever craftsman, to talk to him.
Zhen Deren knew that the thing was fictitious, and it didn't take long for his careful work to reveal the truth. Zhen Deren suddenly understood - he shot himself in the foot, and the emperor thought that the strange thing was in his own house. So he pretended to be stupid, and even after many years of careful work, he still couldn't find out half of it.
A piece of news. The days were going by smoothly, and Zhen Deren thought that he had been praying for life on the tip of the knife. Suddenly, Xiao Zuo became anxious, and used all kinds of tricks. Zhen Deren suddenly felt bad, and went to Zhen Yingjia.
After checking around the house, he learned that the underground tomb of the imperial mausoleum was about to be completed. The old man felt a little bit in his heart - the emperor must have wanted to find some rare artifact from the Heavenly Master to guard the mausoleum for him. But he had no choice but to send the smartest person to the mausoleum.
His little granddaughter took refuge in Zhen Yingjia's mansion. Half a year later, the late emperor couldn't wait any longer and ordered his masters to raid Zhen Deren's mansion at night to seize the rare objects.
After the bloodbath in Zhen's house, the late emperor sent people to carefully search every inch of the tiles in Zhen's house, and finally found a letter in a bookcase in Zhen Deren's bedroom. The cover of the letter was a memorial to the emperor, and the searchers did not dare to read it.
, and quickly sent it to the capital. When the late emperor opened the letter, he saw that Zhen Deren had explained most of what he had done. From having already opened the box to making a fake token and making up a fake miracle. "Sage, please let me know.
What a villain." The late emperor was so angry that his whole family was dead, so he had nowhere to vent his anger.
Later, the late Emperor was dying, so he told the matter to the Supreme Emperor. The Supreme Emperor sent people to Malishan to check the terrain, and then sent people to Jinling to check on Zhen Deren - he thought, since the old man had opened the box, he could not keep it. Other clues? The Supreme Emperor was more anxious than the late emperor to use the power of Maitreya Sect and Tianshi Dao for his own use. Unfortunately, he disappeared before he could start to investigate the matter.
Many years later, Jia Xu led people to find the stone carvings of the twelve zodiac signs at the bottom of Malishan Lake, and found that all the pins of the mechanisms at the bottom of the lake had been pulled out. Jia Xu thought about it for a moment by the lake and understood. When the mechanism was installed, it was probably Zhen Deren went to check it in person. The old man quietly pulled out all the pins... The mechanism at the bottom of the lake was reduced to scrap metal.
Jia Xu thought that it was not for nothing that he arranged for a smart granddaughter to memorize the order of Tiangang and pull out the pin of the trap at the bottom of the lake. Then he carefully investigated what Zhen Deren did in Malishan and found out his Two illegitimate children - one is dead, presumably because of the imperial court. He also tricked his mistress Li Taoniang and got the letters and paintings Zhen Deren left for his son. It was obvious that he was afraid that his son would be trapped in a trap. But Li Tao Niang is an ambitious woman. Jia Xu seems to be a high official, racking his brains to tell Jia Xu everything about Zhen Deren, just to get some benefits. "Only disorder can't be solved" those The words were spoken by Zhen Deren when he was drunk. Li Taoniang didn't know what they meant, but she had a good memory and memorized them. Jia Xu guessed eight or nine points.
He was going to try out all the sequences, but by chance, Jia Cong sent a letter saying that he would send Zhen Hui to Beijing. Jia Xu thought, in that case, it would be better to coax the Tiangang sequence from her. In case he didn't guess correctly, he poked randomly. How many times did the agency destroy the box? So they set up a big trap for Fenxiang. First, they ordered Li Tao Niang and her son to help perform a play for Li Cuihua, and then specially placed the letters and paintings in a place where ordinary women like to hide things. Let her steal it away. Li Taoniang's son is not Zhen Deren's, but Li Cuihua's son is Zhen Deren's. How could she miss the opportunity to let her son become an official with the help of his biological father? It was true and false, and he coaxed out Zhen Hui's password. As for Zhen Hui The box you unlocked can be opened regardless of the order by just poking each Tiangang hole**.
Liu Xiaoqi opened the real box and took out the token inside. He was bored and poked the box many times without destroying it. Only then did he know that Li Taoniang had an excellent memory and what she said was true. Zhen Deren said: "New It doesn't matter if your people don't find my granddaughter. Just let us, Zhu'er, try all the sequences, and you can always find the right one. That's how I found it." It was just Jia Xu's pretense. Full set. Now Zhen Hui is considered one of her own. If she discovers something is wrong, it will be extremely dangerous. Both Li Taoniang and her son will be silenced.
After hearing this, Jia Cong's scalp went numb. After a long moment, he sighed: "These two people... don't need to be killed."
Liu Xiaoqi said: "I also think it's okay not to kill him."
Jia Cong said: "You should have stopped Uncle Wu at that time."
Liu Xiaoqi smiled bitterly and said, "He is the bureau chief."
Jia Cong was stunned. The words "You must learn to say no" were pressed under the base of his tongue and he could not spit them out for a long time. In Jia Xu Liu Xiaoqi's line of work, subordinates really cannot say "no" to their leaders. Otherwise, they don't know what will happen. What a mess.
Liu Xiaoqi said: "The director said he was afraid that you would destroy these two things."
Jia Cong touched his nose: "How come he knows me so well? I'm hesitating."
Liu Xiaoqi wondered: "Why destroy it?"
Jia Cong sighed: "Religion is a very terrifying force. Once it falls into the wrong hands, it can turn living people into robots. And it is powerful. Otherwise, why can't even Grandpa Taipa be destroyed? I'm not sure I have the ability to transform.
they."
Liu Xiaoqi thought for a moment and said: "Why modify it? Can't it just be used? Didn't you say that as long as people are clever enough, even savage beasts can be used?"
Jia Cong smiled bitterly and said: "Religion is not a savage beast, the subject is people. In my opinion, religion must not have two things: taxes and the right to direct the actions of the believers. You see, the Western churches have great power, and they have this
Two things. Buddhism and Taoism have a long history in our country, and there are many believers. I recite sutras, practice Dharma, and free up all sentient beings. I welcome this. Like Maitreya Sect and Tianshi Taoism, in addition to Buddhism and Taoism, there are also rich people, I
There will be no room for them. Because not only do they have rules, but they also have the ability to uphold them. And their rules and my rules are obviously not the same set of rules. Do their believers listen to me or to them?"
Liu Xiaoqi said: "I must listen to them."
Jia Cong said: "If ordinary monks and Taoists break the law, the government can take them to task, just like the evil Taoist who dug a tunnel under the palace of the King of Shu to hide the Qiyin Formation was punished by the King of Shu. If there is a powerful Celestial Master Taoist behind him,
What? Can the King of Shu still deal with him? Will he be rescued?"
Liu Xiaoqi blinked: "Why didn't I understand? Now that the two tokens are in your hands, why don't you take all their money and use them for your own use?"
Jia Cong glanced at him: "My great-grandfather also took them all for his own use, but what happened in the end? Even the emperor, who holds the state machinery, could not deal with them and could only coax them into dormancy. This power is so terrifying.
And they don’t help for free, don’t they all want to promote Buddhism and Taoism? There are many schools of Buddhism and Taoism, so it’s impossible for them to all flourish together.”
"Of course they are promoting their own faction."
Jia Cong nodded and said: "With the emperor's help in promoting their own sect, they will be able to recruit many new disciples, and new money will flow in, making them stronger. These people will abide by the rules of their sect, not the laws of the country.
Once their rules conflict with the national law, they will stand on the opposite side of the national law. The most frightening thing is that they are powerful and can resist the government. The country cannot help but stand. If the layman commits a crime, he will be punished, and if the monks commit a crime, they will be exempted. What will the world be like?
?If everyone goes to become a monk, shouldn’t they be able to do whatever they want? If things continue like this, the country will not be a country. Grandpa Grandpa seems to be ungrateful, but in fact there is nothing he can do about it. If he keeps his promise, he will destroy the country he built.