Zhang Yuelu's main mission when she left Yujing this time was to clear out secret societies. Master Cihang gave her great autonomy. She did not specify targets or divide regions. In other words, Zhang Yuelu could decide on her own where to go and what to attack.
A secret association, and under the banner of Tiangangtang, all local governments must provide assistance.
Now that Zhang Yuelu was invited to Wuxu Palace, he did not forget his responsibilities and began to arrange errands for his bosses.
At the beginning, she had only two chiefs under her, which was in line with the Taoist regulations.
However, over the years, many rules have become false. For example, the rule that each deputy hall leader has two chiefs was set during the Xuansheng period. At that time, the Taoist sect was not as large as it is today, and two chiefs were enough to handle various tasks.
kind of business.
But with the continuous development of the Taoist sect, the two principals gradually became stretched, and it was difficult to change the structure rashly, such as adding another level of position between the deputy hall master and the principal, so the deputy hall masters and deputy palace masters wanted to
Come up with a compromise strategy, continuously increase the number of bosses under your command, and form an invisible hierarchy through the ranking of bosses.
Generally speaking, only newly promoted deputy hall masters will have only two deputy hall masters, and the chief deputy hall master will have as many as nine directors.
After Zhang Yuelu took over Shangguan Jing's old subordinates, he already had five chiefs under his command, including Sun Yongfeng and Lingquanzi. Xu Kou had also entered the stage of returning to his true form not long ago, and was promoted to chief by Zhang Yuelu regardless of past suspicions, making a total of six chiefs.
.Not inferior to many deputy hall masters with real power, no wonder he is called the little master.
In fact, the appointment, addition or deletion of the principal still requires the permission of the real person in charge of the hall. It is not that the deputy hall leader can appoint the appointment, but Zhenren Cihang also gave Zhang Yuelu great independent power in this regard, and reported it to the real person in charge of the hall.
It turned into a formality, and it was okay to say that Zhang Yuelu was appointed.
The reason for this is that Master Cihang was afraid that Zhang Yuelu's authority would not be able to suppress several principals who originally took orders from Shangguan Jing. After all, Shangguan Jing was a second-grade Taiyi Taoist priest, and now Zhang Yuelu is only a fourth-grade wine-sacrifice Taoist priest.
There is a difference of two levels. Therefore, Master Cihang handed over the personnel power to Zhang Yuelu. Anyone who dares to challenge Zhang Yuelu must be prepared to be dismissed by Zhang Yuelu. At the same time, she made her attitude clear. At least in Tiangang Hall, Master Cihang is
Those who unconditionally support Zhang Yuelu have no choice but to go to Jinque if they want to file a lawsuit.
This time, Zhang Yuelu sent out all six of her subordinates and ordered them to lead their Taoist priests and spiritual officers to annihilate the small group of secret association forces. In addition to dispatching and directing from the center, she only brought a few of her own subordinates.
The deacon continued to investigate Wan Xiuwu's case.
Pan Cuiqing had no objection to this. After all, Wan Xiuwu was only a fifth-grade Taoist priest, not even a high-grade Taoist priest. It was impossible for the entire Yaoguang Division to revolve around him. When Feizhou was attacked, Tiangang Hall only dispatched one division commander.
That's all.
After scattering his troops, Zhang Yuelu left the Wuxu Palace in Xijing Prefecture and came to "Ghost Pass" to visit the spiritual officer stationed here.
This spiritual official is a genuine first-grade spiritual official with a transcendent status. With Zhang Yuelu's rank as a Taoist priest, it is natural that he cannot talk to him on an equal footing. However, within the Taoist sect, there is still a matter of position. In terms of position, Zhang Yuelu is definitely considered to be of low status and power.
The deceased Shangguan Jing was also the deputy hall master, a second-grade Taiyi Taoist priest, who could just correspond to the first-grade spiritual officer.
Because of this, the spiritual officer did not turn Zhang Yuelu away, but he was not too enthusiastic and kept the distance just right.
In fact, within the Taoist sect, because the spiritual officials were created by Taoist priests, they are regarded as tool men and are not allowed to interfere in politics. However, most spiritual officials have a keen sense of smell.
This situation may seem contradictory, but it is in line with reality.
Because Taoist priests' realm cultivation comes from themselves. Even if they fail, the worst they can do is become a free and unyielding person, or retreat to the second line. What's worse, they leave the Taoist sect in anger, and no one dares to offend them despite their realm cultivation. However, the level of cultivation of the spiritual officials comes from the Taoist sect. If you accidentally stand in the wrong team, you may lose everything, even if you are a first-grade spiritual official. Therefore, the spiritual officials have to be careful.
This is also the reason why spiritual officials are born inferior to Taoist priests.
Zhang Yuelu did not want to win over this spiritual official, he just asked if there was anything unusual in the nearest ghost country cave.
A member of a secret society came to the "Ghost Pass" and stayed there for two days. What was its purpose? The most likely reason was to target the Ghost Kingdom Dongtian.
After all, Lord Siming has been coveting the Ghost Kingdom Cave for a long time.
After Zhang Yuelu explained the purpose of his visit, the first-grade spiritual officer was shocked, because not long ago, there were indeed some abnormalities in the Ghost Kingdom Cave Heaven. For this reason, he even met with Mr. Yin.
Unexpectedly, Yu Jing found out so quickly. Who leaked the news? Or is it that Yu Jing has placed people in the "Ghost Pass"? Does this mean that Yu Jing no longer trusts him?
For a while, this first-grade spiritual officer had begun to speculate whether Zhang Yuelu had a special mission, and the so-called suppression of secret societies was just a cover.
Most smart people are like this. They use themselves to judge others, and in the end their wisdom is misled by their wisdom.
So Zhang Yuelu easily got the answer he wanted.
There have indeed been abnormalities in the Ghost Kingdom Cave Heaven recently. According to the formation, the overlap between the Ghost Kingdom Cave Heaven and the real world has deepened. However, this overlap usually only occurs on the Ghost Festival on July 15th every year, but the impact is not big. Maybe It's just a normal change in the cave. The "Ghost Pass" has stepped up its vigilance and has not found any traces of suspicious people.
The time when the abnormality occurred in the Ghost Kingdom Cave Heaven coincided with the time when Wei Wugui passed by the "Ghost Pass".
Zhang Yuelu did not comment on the statement that "no suspicious person was found", but she was very satisfied with the answer, which proved that her thinking and speculation were correct. All the clues pointed to Wei Wugui, and there was indeed a problem.
This is no longer just a matter of Wan Xiuwu.
After Zhang Yuelu left "Ghost Pass", he came to the summer palace of Zhongzhou Daofu.
The summer palace can also be regarded as a large Taoist temple, which also provides the functions of a post station. However, it has certain requirements for the Taoist priests' grade and position, and ordinary Taoist priests cannot stay there.
At his residence, Zhang Yuelu listed all the clues he had obtained in the past few days. Without enough evidence, he began to make bold assumptions and carefully verify them.
What is Wei Wugui’s purpose in entering the Ghost Kingdom’s Cave Heaven?
There are three yin objects that have been passed down for a long time in the cave of the ghost country. They have existed in the cave as early as the Xuansheng era. They are the creations left by the previous master of the cave and are also half the masters of the cave of the ghost country.
An abnormality occurred in the cave of the Ghost Kingdom, but the three evil creatures did not take the initiative to report it. Instead, they waited until the spiritual officer guarding the place inquired before replying that there was nothing unusual and it was just a normal change in the cave.
The first possibility is that the three major Yin objects really did not find any abnormalities. But the problem is that the formations in the "Ghost Pass" have already discovered the abnormalities in the cave sky of the Ghost Kingdom. It is impossible for the three major Yin objects to be integrated with the cave sky.
No abnormalities were noticed in the cave.
Then there is the second possibility. The three great ghosts noticed the anomaly in the cave of the ghost country, but chose to hide it from the Taoist sect.
Why are they hiding it?
This can lead to a guess: Will Wei Wugui's entry into the cave of the ghost country be related to the three great evil objects? In other words, he entered the cave of the ghost country just to see the three great evil objects.
In this case, it makes sense that the three great ghosts concealed the abnormality in the cave from Daomen. They were covering up the fact that they had met Wei Wugui.
If this speculation is true, then what happened after Wei Wugui met the three evil beings?
Did the three great yin beings have two minds and want to cooperate with outsiders inside and outside? Or did Wei Wugui, on behalf of a certain ancient immortal, impose certain conditions on the three great yin beings?
It's all possible.
Zhang Yuelu never thought that a simple murder case would involve so much inside information.
Qin Wubing, the deputy governor of Xizhou in the imperial court, Pei Xiaolou, a second-rank Taiyi Taoist priest in the Taoist sect, and the three great ghosts of Dongtian in the Ghost Kingdom, none of them can be regarded as small figures.
There is also Feng Bo. The secret societies are not monolithic and often fight among themselves. Feng Bo does not hesitate to take risks and sneak into Xijing Mansion to hunt down Wei Wugui, which is also very strange.
These people are like beads, and Wei Wugui is like a line connecting these beads.
In front of these characters, Wan Xiuwu becomes irrelevant, and it is even difficult to connect the two.
This made Zhang Yuelu shaken to some of his speculations.
Could it be that Wan Xiuwu's murder was just an accident?
In fact, Wei Wugui and Wan Xiuwu have no grudge. Maybe Wan Xiuwu accidentally discovered Wei Wugui's true identity, and then was killed and silenced by Wei Wugui. Maybe the two simply had a conflict, just like "Little Tiangang"
"The same thing as bullying Wei Wugui.
If that is the case, then Wei Wugui has nothing to do with Qi Xuansu.
Who wants to connect Wei Wugui and Qi Xuansu?
Thinking of this, Zhang Yuelu had a flash of inspiration and remembered someone.