With Du Duqiu's enthusiastic help and Pan Liao's pragmatic operation, the seals were removed from the main residence of the Guanlong family in Chang'an, the soldiers were evacuated, and everyone moved back to their respective mansions.
After returning to their long-lost home, everyone began to organize, purchase furniture and furnishings, recall old domestic servants, hire people to clean the house, remove weeds, and decorate the door of every house with lights again, returning to the old home where generations have lived.
It was only then that everyone's tired hearts finally found a home.
Chang'an Yuzhen Palace is the largest monastic place for female Taoists in Chang'an. It is located in Anyefang. It was originally called Yuling Palace. However, because Princess Yuzhen, the sister of Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, became a monk here and practiced Buddhism, it was later renamed Yuzhen.
Palace, like Xuandu Temple, belongs to the royal Taoist temple.
There are more than 300 female Taoist priests in Yuzhen Palace. Basically, they are family members of the emperor who have become monks and practiced Taoism here. Most of them are old and are retiring in the palace.
In the morning, Ying Caihe, who was renamed Li Ying, officially took office as the 13th palace mistress in Yuzhen Palace. Her Buddhist name was Qinglian. King Guo Song of Jin conferred her the title of Heavenly Master. In the melodious sound of bells, three hundred and four
More than a dozen female Taoists and thousands of female monks gathered in the square to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the new palace master.
The previous palace master has been in power for two years, and the position of palace master has been vacant. The abbot is responsible for daily affairs. According to convention, the abbot or temple master of the Imperial Temple of the Tang Dynasty must be canonized by the emperor, and then appointed by Zongzheng Temple or Taichang Temple.
This young Qinglian Heavenly Master was canonized by King Guo Song of Jin Dynasty and appointed by the Ministry of Scholars.
Her identity naturally interests many people. Because King Jin was born in Kongtong Mountain, many people speculate that Qinglian Celestial Master is King Jin’s junior sister and is also from Kongtong Mountain. Basically, nine out of ten cases are like this.
There was speculation, but no one could have imagined that this beautiful and gorgeous female heavenly master was actually Ying Caihe, the red-pink skeleton who killed people without blinking an eye.
However, Aunt Gongsun's coffin was officially buried in the cemetery in the backyard of Yuzhen Palace. Several real people knew that the new palace master was a disciple of Gongsun Zhenren and came to keep vigil for her master on the order of His Highness King Jin.
Today, thousands of female monks came to attend the inauguration ceremony. Ying Caihe specially covered her face with a thin veil so that her appearance could not be seen clearly. In fact, many people in Chang'an have seen her. She was a Tibetan monk back then.
When she was the deputy owner of Jianlou, she killed countless people in Chang'an, so in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, she still adopted the method of not showing her appearance. This was also allowed and added a sense of mystery.
However, when she took office last night, she showed up and donated 10,000 yuan of wealth, which made the Taoist palace extremely excited. Like Ganye Temple, they have not received money from the court for many years, although there are monks worshiping them.
The price of sesame oil is slightly better than that of Ganye Temple, but after all, there are more than 300 people to feed, the Dharmakaya of Sanqing needs to be renovated and gilded, and Yuzhen Palace cannot make ends meet, so life is very tight.
With the 10,000 yuan donated by the new palace master, the female Taoist priests of Yuzhen Palace will have enough food and clothing for at least ten years.
The ceremony was presided over by Yunzhen Palace, the oldest person in Yuzhen Palace. Yunzhen Palace was the famous female poet Li Zhi. She was old and spent her old age in Yuzhen Palace, where she had been a monk when she was young.
Compared with last night's internal appointment, today's ceremony was much simpler. Officials from the Shibu Department read out the appointment letter, then bowed to Sanqing, received the canonization jade certificate kept by the previous palace masters from the hands of the real Yunxiu, and finally everyone
The Taoist nuns and monks paid homage to the new palace master, and the ceremony ended.
At this time, officials from the Shibu Department announced that all Taoist priests registered in Yuzhen Palace would receive three dou of rice and five hundred coins per month. The Shibu Department would allocate money to repair the Sanqing Dharma statues and reshape their golden bodies. This announcement
Immediately, the Taoist nuns burst into cheers and applause.
The inauguration ceremony was over, and Ying Caihe met four Jurchens in the backyard. The four Jurchens were all in their forties and had become monks since childhood. They fought secretly for two years to compete for the position of palace master, and finally came from outside.
The new palace master was appointed, which made the four people extremely frustrated.
Ying Caihe had already taken off his veil and said to the four of them: "You must also know that since my master is Gongsun Auntie, I am also a martial artist. I came to Yuzhen Palace mainly to practice martial arts. Unless there is someone in the palace in the future,
I will not interfere with important matters or ordinary daily affairs, and I have two disciples who are my right and left guardians. When I go out to travel, I will leave one person behind. You may not be able to find me, but you can find them first."
The four Jurchens looked at each other, unable to hide the secret joy in their eyes. It turned out that the palace master was a hands-off shopkeeper, which was great. One of them said: "The palace master devotes himself to cultivation, of course there is no problem, but do we have any rules for managing trivial matters?"
"Of course there are charters. I'm considering establishing a Senate. The main thing is that all monthly financial income and expenditures will be reviewed by everyone. Large expenditures will be decided by the Senate. Daily affairs will be handled by the abbot. The four of you will take turns to be the abbot. Each of you will be the abbot.
Three months.”
Ying Caihe has also been the master of the Hidden Sword Pavilion in Chengdu for several years, and is well versed in the various tricks and checks and balances of her subordinates. Although she is the master of the house, it does not mean that she can tolerate the chaos of the people below, so she established the Elders
The hospital has assigned more than a dozen old Taoist nuns to be responsible for reviewing the money and food income and expenditure every month. I believe they will do the review seriously and responsibly.
Then there is the abbot, whose term lasts three months. Their confidants are replaced before they have been trained. Even if they have selfish motives, there is no time to complete it. The four of them are allowed to continue to scheming while they concentrate on cultivation.
Although Ying Caihe is Guo Song's lover, she still wants to continue practicing swordsmanship. Like her master, she not only enjoys a long life, but also has skin as white as snow and no wrinkles on her face when she is eighty years old.
Although she couldn't keep her sword intact for the rest of her life like her master, her master told her that having sex was not the main factor affecting her longevity. The main reason was that she couldn't stop practicing swordsmanship. Once she stopped practicing for a month, she would start to lose strength.
Kung Fu, the master finally became a disciple because of his dispersion of kung fu.
It is for this reason that most of Gongsun's disciples became monks and became Taoists and practiced continuously throughout their lives.
"What questions do you four have?" Ying Caihe asked again.
"There is nothing else to do."
"If you have nothing else to do, just step down! You will draw lots to decide the order in which you will serve as the rotating abbot, and then I will announce it at the Elders' Meeting."
The four real people bowed and left.
Ying Caihe also found two of her female disciples, one named Jingyu and the other named Jingyue, who were about seventeen or eighteen years old. Both of them were abandoned babies adopted by Gongsun Aunt and had been born since they were five years old.
They worshiped Ying Caihe as their masters and have been practicing martial arts in the Cangjian Pavilion. Their martial arts are very strong. Before that, they were the personal guards of the king and queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Now they have also become a monk with their master.
"Yuzhen Palace will be our permanent residence from now on. From now on, you will be my master's guardians. If you come to me about anything in the Dao Palace, you are responsible for conveying it. I don't want to see them."
"yes!"
Ying Caihe smiled again and said: "Our nine sword styles must be practiced for life and cannot be stopped. The same is true for you. Keep practicing as long as you have nothing to do. In addition, I have seen many little Taoist nuns in the Taoist temple. Each of you can choose a dozen.
People, accept them as disciples and teach them to practice martial arts, and our nine sword styles can be passed down from generation to generation."
"We got it!"
At this time, Jingyu asked cautiously: "Master, will we still go out to do business in the future?"
Ying Caihe sighed slightly, "You all know the master's other identity. If His Highness King Jin gives instructions, the master must do it, and of course he will take you with him. But one thing you remember, this secret is only for us.
The three masters and disciples know this and must not let it out, do you understand?"
"Master, we understand."
"Okay! You go and invite Senior Aunt Yunxiu from Laojun Hall and a dozen other Senior Sisters. I want to discuss some matters with them."
Laojun Hall is the place where more than a dozen senior Taoist nuns from Yuzhen Palace come to practice their spiritual life. Ying Caihe is planning to use them to establish the Elders Association.
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Just as the new master of Yuzhen Palace was holding the inauguration ceremony, the old city was also very lively. Today is the day when the Imperial College is moving.
The Imperial College is the Imperial College, the Ministry of Education in later generations, responsible for imperial examinations and schools, with more than a hundred officials. They can move huge projects, with various documents and materials piled up like mountains, and hundreds of oxcarts required [pencil novel www.qbxs.
me]delivery several times.
Meng Jiao had no intention of participating in the move. He paced back and forth in the new official room, anxious. After King Jin came back, he had to hand in the complete plan of the new study, but now he was stuck.
According to Guo and Song's reform ideas, Taixue no longer taught Confucian classics, but Guozixue was responsible for teaching. Taixue changed to teach various professional and technical knowledge, which was equivalent to the establishment of an institution of higher learning in the arts and sciences.
In fact, both the Tang and Song dynasties attached great importance to various sciences and technologies. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that, with the restriction of thought, new inventions began to be regarded as strange and obscene techniques, and all were inferior. Only Confucianism was superior.
The scope of the imperial examinations in the Tang and Song Dynasties ranged from scriptures to current affairs politics, economics, systems, military, law, salt administration, water transportation, history, mathematics, philology, etc. They were very pragmatic. Especially in the Northern Song Dynasty, the research on weapon technology and even firearms was
It has become a national strategy.
The biggest problem that Meng Jiao encountered was the shortage of teachers, which almost made Meng Jiao's head turn gray with worry. There were almost no such professors who needed to understand professional skills and be able to stand on the stage. They could only be found among current officials.
Taixue will officially start school in September, but the teachers have not yet been fully staffed. Meng Jiao considered that the more than 3,000 Taixue students could only study arithmetic, law, agriculture, medicine, and martial arts as basic subjects.
Later, subjects such as calendar science, metallurgy, hydraulics, weapons science, and weaving science will be gradually opened.
But this requires the consent of His Highness the King of Jin!
At this time, Niu Jian, the chief minister, hurried over with a list of names and said, "According to the order, the list has been sorted out!"