Chapter 132 Tell Him the Truth
After returning, he treated Gao Jia to a drink and invited him to go to Kaiyuan Temple to watch the ceremony the next day. Old Gao readily agreed and asked the yamen runners to notify the temple to make preparations.
Zhao Yulin knew that this old antique attached great importance to etiquette, but he didn't expect him to be so serious.
Lao Gao also said that if the young man went there in person, the incense at Kaiyuan Temple would become more and more popular.
Zhao Yulin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He wanted to tell him the truth and had already told it to Zhao Yujiang. But he was afraid that the news would leak out and bring bad consequences, so he decided to keep it to himself.
He asked Lao Gao to support the Shenwei Army more. Now that Lao Lu was in poor health, a large number of Shenwei Army were transferred to Guanzhong, and their control over Xingyuan Prefecture was much weaker.
Lao Gao said that was natural. After all, Hanzhong was saved by the Shenwei Army, so naturally they had to give it strong support.
They both drank a full cup and left the party.
Chen Chen asked him if he was about to leave?
He said that Military Advisor Zhu was seriously ill, and he wanted to go to Partridge Mountain to check it out. He wondered if he could make it back in time.
Chen Chen was reluctant to let him go, as they rarely got together even in Hanzhong.
The two of them were brewing tea in the study, and Zhao Yulin took out his memories of later life and looked through them, continuing to sort out and supplement them. Just after sitting down for a while, Lu Youpeng came.
Lao Lu told him that Mr. Zhu had passed away. Before he left, he asked for the news to be blocked. After Lin'an decided on the Northern Expedition plan, he wanted the chief officer of the column to go back to pay his respects.
When Zhao Yulin heard that Zhu Congwen had passed away, the tea bowl in his hand fell to the ground and he was stunned for a long time without saying a word.
Zhu Congwen is a person who has truly gotten rid of vulgar interests. He came to this world without any desires or demands, and devoted his life to the development of the Shenwei Army.
When Lu Youpeng saw Zhao Yulin's dazed look, he said that everyone would have such a day, so there was no need to blame himself.
Zhao Yulin said that the military advisor was using his death to stop everyone from advancing eastward and taking risks. He should send a message to Guanzhong and ask the heads of each column to go back. Fenghuang is pregnant, so she will stay in Fengxiang Prefecture. The other brothers will gather at Cuiping Mountain on August 15 to remember the military advisor. On that day, the entire Shenwei Army will lower its flag to half-mast to express their condolences.
Lao Lu knew that he was in a bad mood, so he told him to go to bed early and left.
On Dingjun Mountain, the abbot of Kaiyuan Temple was panicked and planned to escape after the self-immolating monk was taken away by the government office. He sent out disguised spies to monitor Nanzheng, but when he saw that the court did not come to arrest him, he gradually calmed down.
When he received a notice from Xingyuan Prefecture confirming that the prefect and the commander of the Shenwei Army would come to watch the ceremony, he began to dream of continuing to make money from incense and worship, and shouted at everyone to clean the temple and decorate the self-immolation platform.
The next day, everyone went to Dingjun Mountain to watch the ceremony. Zhao Yulin's guards had already gone out, so he and Gao Jia rode together. Along the way, there was an endless stream of people rushing to Dingjun Mountain.
Zhao Yulin arrived at the gate of the temple. The abbot and several guardians were already waiting outside the gate. Gao Jia dismounted and nodded to greet the abbot. Zhao Yulin ignored these crooked monks. A group of people filed in. The people on both sides kept greeting them, "Third Young Master, Third Young Master is so mighty."
Gao Jia said with a smile that he was here to clear the way for the young man.
Zhao Yulin immediately said, "How dare I, how dare I."
The two of them came to the central viewing platform. He looked at Lu Youpeng, and Old Lu nodded at him.
He said let's get started.
The host immediately called Shen Baiyi to come on stage quickly, but unexpectedly, the soldiers of the Shenwei Army disguised as civilians suddenly rushed out and grabbed these ferocious monks one by one, and tied them up with ropes. The civilians were also stunned.
The host was still arguing, asking what the official was doing and whether he was wrongly accusing the monks.
At this time, Qiu Ju handed a tin loudspeaker to Shen Baiyi. He took the loudspeaker and began to denounce the crimes of Kaiyuan Temple, telling the stories of murders and robberies, and other horrific scandals. The crowded temple square immediately became silent.
Even the prefect Gao Jia looked at Zhao Yulin with his mouth wide open in surprise. He smiled and said that he had just found out about it too, but was afraid that he would lose his composure in front of the fake monk and alert the thief, so he did not tell him.
He shook Lao Gao's hand and said, "The temple is not a lawless place. It still needs to be regulated."
Lu Youpeng immediately called out several representatives from the pilgrims to go search together with the officers and soldiers.
Immediately, some brave people came out. More than a dozen people followed Shen Baiyi into the temple and quickly found the secret room. They caught the criminals red-handed, and more than a dozen women who had been raped also saw the light of day again.
The people in the square were extremely angry and shouted, "Kill these bald donkeys, kill these bald donkeys."
In the middle, a monk explained in a mournful voice: the abbot was a fake monk, he was a Tudan Qianhu of the Northern Barbarians, and his right-hand men were all Northern Barbarians. After the defeat in Baishui River, they fled to Dingjun Mountain, killed the former abbot, and occupied our Kaiyuan Temple.
When the abbot Tudan saw that the matter was exposed, he laughed loudly, turned around and pointed at the monk who had just exposed him and said that they were all guilty of the same crime. Is there anyone in this temple who has not eaten human flesh buns?
Who hasn’t used the stolen silver?
Who hasn't slept with those women?
Damn it, this bald donkey is still showing off. Zhao Yulin didn't like it and ordered a fire to be set to send all this garbage to paradise.
Everyone followed Zhao Yulin and shouted, "Burn them all, burn them to death, burn them to death." The overwhelming shouts resounded through the sky.
Tudan was scared now. He crawled towards Gao Jia and Zhao Yulin and shouted for mercy.
The soldiers picked up their whistle sticks and hit them hard on the head. After knocking them unconscious, they grabbed their limbs and threw them into the self-immolation platform like dead pigs.
The people behind him kept shouting, "The Third Young Master is getting rid of harm for the people."
"The Third Young Master is mighty."
At this time, Zhao Yulin quietly went down the mountain while everyone was watching the self-immolation platform, and his guards protected him all the way to Wenzhou.
Zhao Yulin rode his chestnut horse out of Mianyang Prefecture and came to Yangping Pass to rest. However, he saw Changji Nima wearing a guard's uniform mixed in the team. He caught Changji and asked him why he went back. Did he not want to learn anymore?
Changji told him that he had learned a lot in the past six months. In fact, he had followed the army when it marched into Guanzhong via the Ziwu Road. The land of Shenzhou was developing very fast, and the Shenwei Army was an unprecedented army. He had learned a lot, but the key was to put it into practice.
Oh, it makes sense, and Zhao Yulin felt comfortable listening to it, as he could put it into practice.
He passed the beef in his bowl to Changji, telling him to eat more because he was growing. He also told him not to run around, because if anything happened, he would have to explain to Yangjin.
Changji immediately became proud and asked Zhao Yulin if he was afraid of his sister?
Zhao Yulin said that his sister was very powerful and he was very scared of her.
This guy was very happy. He walked over and whispered to the guard: Don't think that the third young master is cold and unapproachable. He is afraid of our sister. If there is anything inconvenient, just tell me and we will definitely come to you.
The captain next to him nudged him and told him to stop talking nonsense. The Third Young Master treated everyone the same, and he didn't treat people the same way as he imagined. If you don't believe it, wait until he returns to Partridge Mountain and try it out.
Changji Nima really, really didn't believe it.
After a night's rest, Zhao Yulin continued to rush to Baoning Prefecture.
In Fengxiang Prefecture in Guanzhong, Miao Gui felt embarrassed after receiving the letter from Hanzhong, so he went to find Huo Fenghuang to discuss.
Fenghuang was a little surprised to see Mr. Zhu's last words, asking the generals of the Shenwei Army to go back to attend the funeral. The order Zhao Yulin attached was even stranger. Except for Huo Fenghuang who was asked to stay in Fengxiang Mansion for recuperation, the other generals were asked to decide whether to stay or go on their own.
Miao Gui said this is a difficult problem, what should we do?
General Cao in Chang'an has already sent messages discussing advancing eastward to Luoyang.
Wu Yuqi revealed the secret and said that Mr. Zhu was afraid that the generals in charge of the army would obey the court's orders and lead the troops into danger, so after the war to recover the three capitals was agreed upon, the request was made by Yibin Shunfeng, and the young master asked the brothers to deal with it on their own, which was considering everyone's own choice.
Miao Gui was of course aware of the mystery. The young master's departure from Guanzhong clearly meant that he would not participate. He would definitely want to see who these generals were willing to follow.
After Miao Gui gave instructions to the three envoys of the big tent, he told Fenghuang and Wu Yuqi to go to Chang'an and send the original text of Hanzhong's order to each column.
Fenghuang said to Wu Yuqi, "Brother just walked away and left this huge mess to us. What should we do?"
Wu Yuqi smiled and said that her brother told her to take good care of the baby, why think so much? The sky will not fall.
Fenghuang caught Yuqi and asked her if her brother had given her any explanation?
Yuqi asked what else she could say. Her brother told her not to be afraid. Our Shenwei Army had only a few hundred people at the dock in Yibin, and we were not afraid. Now we have a force of 200,000 people. What else should we be afraid of?
My brother said, "Do your best and wait and see."
Fenghuang curled her lips, nagging her was like saying nothing.
Wu Yuqi asked her, what else to say? Ge'er meant to let the brothers choose to stay or go, including following General Cao to Luoyang in the east, and the defense gap in Guanzhong would be filled by the big tent.
Zhao Yulin sneezed twice in succession while riding on his horse, and he didn't know that his two women were discussing him.
Changjinima ran after him with great joy and shouted: "Brother-in-law, look, what a great grassland! It can raise the best war horses and the fattest cattle and sheep."
Zhao Yulin was in a good mood, riding his horse across the prairie covered with flowers. He saw several tents set up . He ran over to take a look and found that it was the newly built Hongyuan County Government Office.
Haha, Baoning Prefecture really opened such a new county as he said.
Changji Nima immediately recognized Ze Sang standing on the road, and Zhao Yulin asked Ze Sang what his position was?
The young man said that he was the horse administration officer here, in charge of horse breeding and trading.
Zhao Yulin walked up to him, hugged him, held his hand and shouted "Tashi Delek".
Changji Nima proudly told him that it was the Third Young Master, his brother-in-law who had arrived.
Zesang was surprised and immediately took out a calf skin from the tent, spread it on the grass and asked him to sit down, shouting, "Ah, ah, the third young master is here, the third young master is here." The surrounding herdsmen quickly surrounded him.
The county chief clerk hurried over to introduce himself. His name was Ma Libao and he was arranged by the Administration Office. He had just been here three months.
Zhao Yulin asked him to sit down, but he was not used to the herdsmen's lifestyle and was unwilling to sit down when he saw the dirty cowhide. Zesang said that the county magistrate wanted to make a cloth blanket, and he went into the tent to get the blanket.
