After walking out of Changle Palace, Li Mu had to admit that he was careless this time.
He was forced by the Queen to swear a poisonous oath to Heaven, and he could not leave her until he helped her eliminate the Demon Sect, conquer the Ghost Realm, and pacify the Demon Kingdom.
Fortunately, Li Mu was smart and changed a word when he swore.
What he said was that he would not leave her until he finished these things, not Shendu or Dazhou.
If he could abduct the Queen, it would not be considered as leaving her. Whether the Great Zhou Dynasty could eliminate the Demon Sect, conquer the ghost realm, and pacify the Demon Kingdom was a matter for the Great Zhou court. Anyway, Li Mu had fulfilled his oath to the Queen.
Doesn't she like to grow flowers? When the time comes, a garden will be opened for her next door to where he and Liu Hanyan and Li Qing live in seclusion. As long as she doesn't get bored, she can grow flowers all her life.
Li Mu looked back and twitched his lips.
If she wants to trick him, she will have to practice for a few more years.
After taking the oath, he once again mentioned the matter of cleaning the Enshrinement Department. To Li Mu's helplessness, the Queen had handed over to him all the things that should have been hers.
She didn't even leave it to Li Mu, but Li Mu himself raised the problem and solved it himself. Now she wants Li Mu to work for her for the rest of his life. If she hadn't given him so much and was so good to him.
, Li Mu might have gone back long ago to wait to inherit the Fu Lu Sect.
What really made Li Mu feel that he owed her was that the Queen always stood by his side when facing the Zhou family and himself, and gave him the greatest trust and the greatest freedom to reverse the case and avenge Li Qing's father.
It would be too heartless if he just ran away.
How could a woman treat him like this? Even if Li Mu couldn't commit herself to her, she couldn't be so heartless.
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Worship Department.
Lord Mei from the inner guard had just arrived? After leaving an imperial edict, he drifted away again.
The contents of the imperial edict made countless worshipers angry and dissatisfied.
From now on, the Enshrinement Department will be placed under the management of the Neiwei Bamboo Guard. Although they do not need to be merged into the Bamboo Guard, Li Mu, the deputy commander of the Bamboo Guard, will take charge of the Enshrinement Department.
The Enshrinement Department has always been a special existence in the imperial court.
They were not from academies, nor were they officials in the imperial court. Their relationship with the Zhou imperial court was more like cooperation than affiliation.
Does the court provide spiritual resources for the worshipers? The worshipers work for the court, and both sides get what they need.
The Enshrinement Department has always been such an independent department and has never been under the jurisdiction of officials from the DPRK and China.
Even the officials can only make requests for sacrifices, not orders.
This imperial edict shook the position of the Minister of Worship.
For practitioners, the country is already a vague concept to them. What practitioners pursue throughout their lives should be the supreme strength and the ethereal way of heaven. Becoming a court eagle dog, or lackey, is despised by most practitioners.
things.
But cultivating a religion does not just involve one person immersing himself in hard work.
Cultivation requires resources, and practice resources are not easy to obtain for most practitioners without background.
In order to more easily obtain spiritual jade and other spiritual resources, some capable practitioners would put down their dignity and choose to be worshiped by the imperial court.
But this does not mean that they are willing to be under the jurisdiction of the court. After becoming enshrined, these people are still a bit more unruly than the court officials. They will submit to the strong, but not to the official rank.
"What do you think the Queen thinks, letting a young boy take care of us?"
"Although his talent is good, his cultivation has just reached the fifth level. What qualifications do he have to lead us?"
"After killing more than 20 people from the old party, Zhou Chuan from the new party was forced to ask for his own appointment. Has Li Mu's hand finally reached the Enshrinement Department?"
"I don't know whether you can bear it or not. Anyway, I can't bear it. We must express our attitude in protest."
"Everyone should not come to the Enshrinement Department tomorrow. Doesn't he want to be the master of the Enshrinement Department? Let him be his own master..."
Most of the worshipers in the Enshrinement Department showed resistance to this matter.
It would be fine if the Queen allowed a sixth-level warrior to take charge of the Consecration Department, but Li Mu only had a fifth-level cultivation and had just entered the fifth state. Any worshiper here would be stronger than him.
Being strong and asking them to obey the instructions of a weak person is a psychologically difficult thing to accept.
Of course, there are also a large number of people among them who have long been bribed by the benefits of the old party and are hostile to Li Mu.
Under this kind of hostility, some people soon began to incite other worshipers to give Li Mu a blow.
A group of people left the Enshrinement Department noisily. Two old men with the same appearance stood in the courtyard with their hands folded. An old man on the left said: "What do you think?"
The old man on the right thought for a while and said: "No matter how strong he is in killing, he must know that this Enshrinement Department is not a place for him to run wild..."
…
The Queen temporarily placed the Consecration Department under the Bamboo Guard. As the deputy commander of the Bamboo Guard, Li Mu naturally became the direct superior of the Consecration Department.
A few days ago, he collected information about the Enshrinement Department in detail.
Today, there are two strong men in the sixth realm in the Enshrinement Department. Both of them have just entered the sixth realm a few years ago, and they are twin brothers.
For the imperial court, it was easy to recruit offerings from the fifth realm, but it was difficult to recruit large offerings from the sixth realm.
Having reached this stage of cultivation, one can already be called one of the most powerful people in the world. Whether it is out of dignity or the pursuit of a higher realm, he will not be willing to be a court hawk.
This also resulted in the imperial court having to pay a huge price every time it recruited a sixth-level expert.
Not only do they have to provide them with a large amount of spiritual jade every year, but they also have to meet their various requirements. After seeing the welfare benefits of the two great priests, Li Mu wanted to become a great priest himself.
What they can do, Li Mu can do, and what they can't do, Li Mu can still do, and it is guaranteed to be value for money. If the court gives him the resources given to these two people, Li Mu is guaranteed to create greater value for the court than them.
.
The key is that these two people don't make much achievements every year. Li Mu also kills dozens of Demon Sect elders. The two great elders have contributed more to the court than the entire Enshrinement Department, but he has nothing but the Queen's love.
did not receive.
This made Li Mu feel very unbalanced.
He walked into the Worship Department and found that it was unusually quiet.
There are probably more than a hundred people worshiping in the court. Not everyone worships Si Yamen every day, but at any time, there should be at least ten people on duty here.
But Li Mu visited all the check-in rooms and didn't see even a single figure.
He found an old man who was cleaning the house in the backyard, and through questioning he learned that there were usually at least twenty people worshiping Si Li, but today, there was no one at all.
This is obviously aimed at him.
The entire worship department is more united than Li Mu imagined.
There is no one in the worship department, so it would be pointless for Li Mu to stay here.
He said to the old man who was cleaning: "Tell them that after three days, all those who make offerings in the capital of the gods will report to the Enshrinement Department. Those who do not show up after three days will be kicked out of the Enshrinement Department."
Before leaving the Enshrinement Department, Li Mu took away a list of offerings.
On the list, it is clearly written which priests are out on missions and which priests have no mission to stay in the city.
And notifying them is very simple.
The worshipers are treated very well, and the deity has an entire house specifically for the worshipers to live in.
Among them, only the fourth-level cultivator can be assigned to a two-entry courtyard. The fifth-level worshiper lives in a house with at least three entrances and three exits. The mansions of the two great worshipers both have five entrances.
The maids and servants in the house are all available.
When he learned the news, Li Mu complained for a while about Lao Zhang.
In fact, when he first came to Shendu, if he wanted to live in a bigger house, he didn't have to work so hard. He only needed to resign from his official position and join the Enshrinement Department, and he would immediately get a house with two or even three entrances. For these outsiders, the court
, much better than officials.
Li Mu asked all the worshipers in the worship department to come to the worship department to report the matter within three days, and soon all the worshipers knew about it.
"What does it mean?"
"In less than three days, he will expel the Enshrinement Department. None of us will go. Can he expel everyone?"
"I want to see what he does when he is the only one in the worship department!"
"This is not good, Li Mu is not someone to be trifled with. Look at the things he has done, none of them are serious. What if he really drives us all out..."
"Haha, if he is the only one in the Consecration Department, is he still called the Consecration Department? When the time comes, the only one who will be kicked out is Li Mu. How did he expel us? Then he will have to invite us back...
…”
"In this case, everyone should not go..."
…
After leaving the Yamen, Li Mu passed by the Worship Department on his way home and glanced at it.
Tomorrow is the three-day period, and he doesn't know what the outcome will be tomorrow.
One thing he knew clearly was that among the three things a new official should do when he takes office, this first fire must be a little brighter.
If he can't establish his authority, he won't have to hang out in the worship department in the future.
The problem now is that there are so many powerful people in the Enshrinement Department. It is not the imperial court, and the enshrinements are not officials of the two parties. Any conspiracy is useless. Absolute strength is the truth here.
It's a pity that Li Mu himself is not very strong, and he is just a bare commander with no reliable helpers. How can he fight against a group of strong men of the same level by himself?
"Calculating marriage, fortune telling, predicting good and bad luck, treating infertility, and giving birth to a fat boy..."
Walking on the street, a familiar voice came to his ears again. Li Mu looked in a certain direction and suddenly came up with a plan.
At the street corner, a slovenly old man was soliciting customers. Suddenly, a shadow appeared in front of the Gua stall.
He raised his head and glanced at Li Mu, then waved his hands like he was shooing away flies and said, "Let's go, let's go, I don't want to see you."
Li Mu did not leave this time. He looked at the old Taoist and said: "Senior has such a high level of cultivation. To be a fortune teller would be unworthy of his talents. I wonder if I want to become a minister in the court..."
"Consecrate?" The old Taoist jumped up from the ground, glared at Li Mu, gritted his teeth and said: "What kind of person I am, even the six major sects don't look down on me. Who is the imperial court of the Great Zhou Dynasty? You actually asked me to be a member of the imperial court.
Dog, if this is not the capital of the gods, I will definitely turn you into a dog first..."
Li Mu continued: "With the cultivation level of a senior, if you join the Enshrining Department, you can become a great enshrined person, live in a house in Wujin, and have maids and servants at home, and the court will also provide them..."
The old Taoist looked at Li Mu and said, "You'd better leave quickly before I change my mind."
Li Mu shook his head and said: "Senior Jifu probably won't want it that day..."
As soon as he turned around, someone grabbed his wrist.
The old Taoist grabbed Li Mu's hand and said seriously: "It doesn't matter whether it's heaven or heaven's secret. The main thing is that I want that big house. You are still young and don't understand. This man has been wandering all his life. When he gets older,
What I’m looking for is a stable place, a place that can protect me from wind and rain. By the way, you just mentioned the secret talisman. Why, do you want to join the worship department to give me the secret talisman..."
[ps: I recommend "The Ruins of the Old Days" by Bear Wolf Dog
The world is about to be in chaos, and demons are emerging one after another. Chu Qiguang defends his territory, looks at the demons who are working peacefully, and the old employees who have just been re-employed by the corpse, and shouts: Dare you ask the sun and the moon to change the sky!]