Chapter 17 The second generation of the third generation
Baimayuan used thunderous means to mobilize the efforts of all parties to completely solve the problem of the Qionghe Department in just one and a half months. The most critical day did not exceed ten days, which was far beyond everyone's expectations.
After the Longbai tribe and Chama tribe learned the news, they waited, hesitated, discussed, and made conditions. The personnel sent to the Qionghe tribe had no choice but to return as soon as they arrived at Haizi Mountain. This order was greatly shocked by the two tribes.
Call all the people back and be on full alert.
At the same time, the two ministries sent envoys to Baima Courtyard to ask for an audience with Zhao Ran, but Zhao Ran did not see them, and it was Yuan Hao from the Supervisory Court who came forward.
Yuan Hao told them that this was a unilateral agreement between the Baima Court and the Qionghe Department. It was a win-win agreement reached by the Qionghe Department voluntarily and on the basis of mutual benefit. It was not aimed at a specific third party or anyone else. Please
Longbai and Chama were assured that Baimayuan would always abide by the agreement reached by the three ministries and Ming Dynasty and respect the autonomy of the three ministries.
When envoys from the Longbai and Chama tribes pointed out that the autonomy of the Qionghe tribe was no longer autonomy in the true sense, and asked Yuan Jianyuan to comment on this, Yuan Hao replied: "Autonomy includes large autonomy and small autonomy.
There is also internal autonomy, as well as external autonomy. The specifics are just a matter of understanding the inner meaning, and there is no concern about whether it will be abolished. If there are differences between the Longbai Ministry and the Chama Ministry's understanding of autonomy and the White Horse Court, the White Horse Court welcomes both parties.
The Ministry came to negotiate and discuss this issue.”
Zhao Ran paid close attention to the movements of the two departments in the White Horse Courtyard. When he found that the reaction of the two departments was just a verbal dispute, he knew that he had taken this step.
At this time, he received Feifu from his senior brother Wei Zhizhen and asked him to go back to the mountain, so he entrusted Yuan Hao to take care of the affairs and left Baimayuan.
Before returning to the mountain, he went to Xiaojie Temple and asked someone to bring back Feng Tang who was patrolling Haizi Mountain.
"It's been half a year since you entered Taoism. How do you feel?"
Feng Tang thought for a while and replied: "I dare not say that I am familiar with it, but I can already complete the tasks within my duties."
This answer was very honest, neither arrogant nor inferior. Zhao Ran was quite satisfied with it. In fact, what satisfied him the most was Feng Tang's performance in the Xiaojie Temple during the three months, especially the last more than one month with Zhang.
Fifth, Jiang Zhuzi and Iron-legged Dragon get along with each other. Although they don't "get along harmoniously", they don't "get along like enemies" either.
It's normal that they can't get along harmoniously. Feng Tang has been imprisoned by them for so long. It's not easy to open the knot in his heart, but it's not easy without them being enemies. Zhao Ran also heard that Feng Tang
He saved Jiang Zhuzi's life, which he greatly appreciated.
So Zhao Ran stopped talking nonsense and said: "Have you read all the Taoist scriptures carefully?"
Feng Tang said: "I have loved reading Taoist scriptures since I was a child. Later, during the years when I joined the army, I read less and had no chance to read. However, the abbot asked me to pick it up and read it again in the past six months. Now I have memorized it by heart. The abbot
Do you want to test me?"
Zhao Ran said: "As long as you memorize it, I won't test you. Whether your homework is solid or not is related to your future practice. This is your own business, not mine."
Feng Tang nodded: "What the abbot said is right..." Just as he said this, he suddenly woke up and breathed quickly: "Abbott... you just said... practice?"
Zhao Ran smiled: "I promised you back then that as long as you can live, you can come back to me. If you don't have the qualifications and skills, you will work in the jungle of Shifang. If you have the qualifications and skills, I will take you to practice. In the past six months, I have
I have also seen your performance and it seems that you are generally decent and have good qualifications, so I would like to ask you if you are willing to go to the tower to study Taoism?"
Feng Tang's blood suddenly surged up, and his whole face turned red from suppressing it. He seemed to be drunk for an instant. He swayed on the spot three times, and then fell to the ground: "Disciple is willing. Teacher is here, please accept my three bows!"
"
Zhao Ran quickly helped him up: "Don't worship me. I usually don't have time to teach my disciples. This time you follow me back to Maharaja Mountain. After entering the Tower Temple, worship under my senior brother. From now on, you will call me junior uncle."
That’s it.”
Feng Tang was surprised and said: "Teacher introduced me to the beginning, why don't you want to accept the disciple as your disciple? Is it because the disciple did something bad?"
Zhao Ran explained: "You will know when you enter Louguan in the future. Of the four senior brothers of my generation, the eldest brother is the best at teaching the Dharma. The second senior brother, third senior brother and I are usually given guidance by the eldest brother. It would have been me."
I am willing to accept you, but it is actually for your own good. You also have a senior brother named Qu Fenghe, who was also introduced to me by me, and he also studied under my senior brother."
Feng Tang didn't know what to say for a while, so he followed Zhao Ran into Maharaja Mountain.
Returning to the Dajun Mountain Cave Heaven, they bumped into Qu Fenghe. When Feng Tang was imprisoned in the Jundu Mountain Bandit Village, Qu Fenghe was working as a fireman at the Jundu Mountain Temple. The two were actually not far apart, but they had never met.
, they had never heard of each other, but now a few years later, they "reunited" again and got closer, becoming brothers directly.
Qu Fenghe happily ran to Zhao Ran: "Little uncle, I have broken through!"
Zhao Ran said happily: "I entered the Taoist realm in two and a half years, which is pretty fast. It's almost the same as me back then. Here's a congratulatory gift for you."
Qu Fenghe smiled and took the small box handed over by Zhao Ran. When he opened it, he found two stacks of talismans. One stack was very thick and there were probably more than a hundred talismans. They were all kinds of first- and second-level talismans, most of which were
Fire talisman, the rest are defense talismans, flying talismans, etc. The other stack is very thin, but contains three golden armor and golden soldier talismans, one each for sword and shield soldier, spear soldier, and archer soldier.
Zhao Ran said: "Go back and ask your teacher to take you to the Jade Emperor Pavilion to be interred."
"yes."
"At your current level, you can already go to the sword pavilion to try it out. You can choose flying sword magic weapons and other magic weapons at will. As for other magic weapons, I also have them here, but I have to wait until you enter the Yellow Crown before I can give them to you.
.You can take these talismans and compete with fellow monks. This golden armor and golden weapon talisman is enough."
Qu Fenghe agreed and accepted it, looked at Feng Tang beside Zhao Ran, and asked: "Uncle Junior, what is this?"
Zhao Ran said: "This is Feng Tang. Haven't you always said that you want to find a junior brother? This is your junior brother."
Qu Fenghe immediately became warm and started chatting with Feng Tang. He was three years younger than Feng Tang, but his personality was more cheerful and enthusiastic than Feng Tang, and his behavior was more mature. He was also the first senior brother and Taoist priest.
Although he was an "advanced cultivator" in the world, Feng Tang was very reserved in front of him, and was a little embarrassed to deal with Qu Feng and his barrage of questions.
Zhao Ran asked Qu Feng and Touqian to lead the way, and went to see his elder brother Wei Zhizhen first. Zhao Ran had already told Wei Zhizhen in detail about the situation of the Tang Dynasty in advance, so Wei Zhizhen was well prepared and immediately called Yu Zhichuan and Luo Zhiqing in front of him to ask everyone
Zhike and other lay ministers invited the two female cultivators Cao and Zhuang of Qingzong to observe the ceremony. They then performed the apprenticeship ceremony in Doumu Hall and were given the Taoist robes, tokens, scriptures and other items for the Tanglou temple.
After the apprenticeship ceremony was completed, Wei Zhizhen led Feng Tang to the main peak of Houshan Mountain to meet his master Jiang Tenghe, and then to Wenqing Valley to meet Master Lin. Feng Tang was officially counted as a third-generation disciple of Lou Guan, ranking second.