But after all, he is a Taoist official of high quality. When walking on the road, when he is called by others, he can have the suffix "Master".

And his master is a Zhike Taoist priest in the Taoist temple. His status is second only to the temple master and the supervisor, the third highest position.

The young Taoist official could not make much money by setting up a bookstall here. When he was young, he worked as a mountaineer, going into the mountains to collect herbs, catch centipedes, and weave cricket cages. He was willing to do any kind of money-making work.

Logically speaking, he is a Taoist official and his appearance is not bad, so he is not a bachelor. But the problem is that the neighbors say that this Dianzao master named Mao seems to be a little confused. He is often in a daze, or

While eating, my face would be filled with tears all of a sudden, but the problem was that there was no cry. Over time, no one would dare to propose marriage. Otherwise, any Taoist official who has an ultimatum would be a favorite.

A piece of sauced meat wrapped in oil paper was spread out on the palm of Mao Zhui's hand, with seven or eight garlic cloves in it, and he was chewing it slowly.

A young Taoist priest came to the street. He was wearing a round hat with a stiff brim and a Hunyuan scarf on his head. His hair was exposed in a bun with a boxwood hairpin crossing it.

The foreign Taoist priest stopped, looked up at the plaque of the small Taoist temple, and said with a smile: "It's good to use the excess to make up for the deficiency."

Only by adhering to the way of profit and losing it can you avoid the regret of overpowering the dragon and the mistakes of the world.

The young Taoist priest turned his head and looked at the hair cone with a smile.

There are big states, small countries, big counties and small counties, and small Taoist temples, but he is a great monk.

It's not "but there is", but "but it is".

Because the Taoist audience and the Taoist temple itself were transformed by this Taoist priest.

Mao Zhui turned to look at that person and sighed, "The stall is closed."

The children immediately became unhappy, and Mao Zhui had no choice but to say: "Next time, each person will read three books, and there will be no charge."

There is no next time anyway.

The children left happily.

As for those young men, they didn't care much. They just kept their temper and cursed a few words before leaving, mainly because they felt that the foreign Taoist priest didn't seem like a good person.

The young Taoist priest smiled and said: "It took a lot of effort to find this place. No wonder Master Lu can't find you."

Mao Zhui said: "It's not that he can't find me, it's that he doesn't need to find me for the time being."

The young Taoist priest smiled and said: "It's the same anyway, it's the poor Taoist who got there first."

"The Qingshen Dynasty can't protect you. Yao Qing has too many worries and his realm is a bit lacking, so he said hello to Pindao."

"In Pindao's Difei Mountain, once the formation is opened, you can hide in the Huayang Palace Ancestor Cave to protect you for a hundred years. It won't be a big problem. Anyway, Pindao can pay for all the expenses of opening the mountain gate array.

The Qingshen Dynasty will reimburse."

Mao Zhui sneered: "Aren't you worried that he will be right in front of you the next moment?"

"First of all, Pindao's formation skills and means of concealing the secrets of heaven are not too bad."

The young Taoist priest walked to the stall, picked a bench and sat down, and said with a smile: "Furthermore, it is obvious that Bai Yujing cannot deal with it. There are already Xuandu Temple and Suichu Palace, and there is another Difei Mountain."

, it’s nothing, he’s really invincible.”

There is a country in Youzhou whose national strength is not inferior to that of the Qingshen Dynasty in Bingzhou. Among them, the Yang family of Hongnong has been the backbone of the temple since ancient times. The Yang family has always been the biggest pilgrim in Huayang Palace. Not only the incense money, but also the many Taoist temples in Difei Mountain

Officials are all from the Hongnong Yang family.

As long as it falls into the hands of a certain Bai Yujing within a hundred years, those who can be punished or not will be punished severely, and those who can be killed or not will be killed.

In fact, these are nothing, everyone knows anyway, Yu Dou never deliberately targets anyone, he just discusses the matter.

The problem is that this Taoist second-in-command, every time someone who violates the rules is held accountable, he will be killed or severely punished as usual. In addition to discussing the matter, he will also investigate the "teaching is not strict, the fault of the teacher", making the whole mountain bow his head. This is nothing, earth lungs.

There was once a young man in Shan who was deprived of the Taoist certificate and could never be appointed as a Taoist official. He was not convinced, not for himself, but for the sake of his master and Shantou. He insisted on asking for an explanation and justice from the Taoist lao Er.

And this man was not only born in the Yang family of Hongnong, but he was also the youngest disciple of this "young Taoist priest".

As a result, there was a big fuss. Not only did this former Taoist official named Yang get a second degree of guilt, but he also implicated the family in the "son's failure to teach, it's the father's fault", so that the Hongnong Yang family would not be injured, at least

Back then, a highly respected old Taoist priest, one of the ten people in Qingming Tianxia, ​​stood at the border of Baiyujing and looked at the 12th floor of Baiyujing's Five Cities from a distance.

And he is the ancestor of Huayang Palace in Difei Mountain, Gao Gu, whose Taoist name is "Juyue". He is recognized by several people as the number one alchemist in the world.

Mao Zhui shook his head and said, "You still underestimate that person too much."

Gao Gu smiled and said: "Why don't you put it another way? Gao Gu overestimates himself?"

Mao Zui twitched the corner of his mouth, "This joke sounds good."

"Fellow Taoist Chunyang once said that when a golden elixir is in my belly, I know that my destiny is not determined by God."

Gao Gu said: "We are lucky enough to be born as human beings, and to climb mountains and practice Taoism. The things we seek, no matter how hard it is, are ultimately just to maintain our humanity. As for you, Master Bai Gu, after all, you are not a walking corpse, you are seeking humanity.

, prove yourself. Fellow Taoist, do you think so?"

Mao Zhui was silent for a moment and said, "Wait until I finish eating the sauced pork and garlic cloves."

In Yuzhang County, Hongzhou, Dali, a new logging institute was established.

Yuzhou, which is connected to Hongzhou, had established a Weaving Bureau before this, which was nominally responsible for supervising the weaving of textile supplies required for imperial and official use within the state. The first chief officer was a young man named Li Baozhen.

The official was born in the battlefield and had military honors. But even the governor of a state was not qualified to review this person's files.

When Li Zhizao took office, he only brought two personal followers as assistant officers of the Zhizao Yamen Office, both of whom were surnamed Zhu.

According to local chronicles, there is often a loud noise in the sky near noon in Yuzhong for no reason, as loud as thunder, hence the name Yuzhou.

Late this night, the weaving officer Li Baozhen and two assistant officials from the government office visited the Yuzhang County Logging Institute.

The three of them met Lin Zhengcheng. Li Baozhen bowed as a junior and said, "Uncle Lin, my nephew has taken the liberty of paying me a visit."

Lin Zhengcheng, who was sitting next to the stove in the study and keeping vigil, just nodded in greeting.

Seeing that Li Baozhen seemed to be planning to continue standing and talking, Lin Zhengcheng took a poker and poked the charcoal a few times, pressed it a few times, and signaled the three visitors to stop standing.

alright."

In fact, given the identities of both parties, it is impossible to discuss any official matters. The newly established Yuzhou Weaving Bureau and Hongzhou Logging Institute, similar to the earliest Longquan County Kiln Supervision and Construction Bureau, are both a kind of "sink" of the Dali court.

Organizations and government offices have secret records, all the way to Tianting. If two chief officials contact each other privately and plot something, it is a taboo in official circles. But ordinary human relations

, but there is no need to be too deliberately alienated. As for the scale of this period, it depends on the Taoist practice of each other. Just like tonight's meeting, both Lin Zhengcheng and Li Baozhen will take the initiative to record it, and even if they deliberately conceal it, the Weaving Bureau or

It's the logging institute, and there will definitely be some officials who will let His Majesty the Emperor know about this.

According to Da Li's new code, the rank of the Yuzhou Weaving Bureau is much higher than that of the Yuzhang County Logging Institute. As the chief weaving official, Li Baozhen's official rank is from the fourth rank, plus some hidden

In terms of authority, it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Zhizao is half a feudal official.

The four of them sat around the fire, with an iron net clamped on top of the brazier, baking some golden rice cakes and tofu cubes, probably as a midnight snack.

The father and daughter surnamed Zhu have long since left their humble status and followed their son Li Baozhen. They have been wandering outside for more than 20 years. After being polished by the public practice and fighting on some different battlefields without the sight of swords and swords, Zhu He and his daughter Zhu Lu are now separated.

They are a martial artist at the Golden Body level and a martial artist at the Sixth level, the latter just broke through at the beginning of this year.

An old martial artist, nearly sixty years old, with a slight frost on his temples.

Lin Zhengcheng turned to look at the old man and said with a smile: "Zhu He, we haven't seen each other for many years."

Zhu He smiled and nodded: "It must have been twenty years since we last met."

At that time, Lin Zhengcheng was among the first group of small town natives to leave Lizhu Dongtian and move to the capital. Although Zhuhe was the nursing home of the Li family on Fulu Street and belonged to the family, in the early years of the small town, Lin Zhengcheng was the supervisor.

The assistant officer of the government office often accompanied the superintendent to inspect the kiln entrance, and the Li family had its own dragon kiln. It was Zhu He who took care of the specific affairs, so the two parties met frequently and were not strangers.

Lin Zhengcheng turned around and asked: "Zhu Lu, have you ever married?"

The woman looked a little cautious and shook her head slightly, "I'm not married yet."

Lin Zhengcheng nodded and said, "I know you've been high-spirited since you were a child."

Zhu Lu looked stunned.

Li Baozhen actually envied the father and daughter, who could reminisce about old times with Lin Zhengcheng. Unlike himself, who came to the logging yard today just to pay a visit to the top of the mountain.

Regarding Lin Zhengcheng, a secretive official of the former Supervisory and Construction Department, Li Baozhen only knew a little bit about the depth of the water and the shallowness of the water.

Just like the dignified third-rank governor of Yuzhou, he was unable to access the files of a fourth-rank weaving officer in his own territory. This was Li Baozhen's confidence.

Li Baozhen, as the chief officer in charge of the entire southeastern intelligence of Aquarius Continent in the past, had access to many confidential files of Dali intelligence. From Lin Zhengcheng's seemingly detailed and mediocre resume, and Lin Zhengcheng's subsequent work in the Dali Capital Information Office,

However, Li Baozhen smelled something extremely hidden and unusual, and even came up with an inference that made Li Baozhen feel chills running down his spine. This uncle Lin who remembered being unsmiling in his childhood might be the national master Cui Chan who was placed in Lizhu.

A key chess piece in Dongtian, and this seemingly inconspicuous chess piece is very likely to affect the trend of the entire Dali court to a certain extent. This is an official intuition of Li Baozhen.

Lin Zhengcheng glanced at Li Zhizao, who was sitting upright. He was not young anymore. He was in his forties, and his official position was from the fourth rank. If he put aside his identity as the emperor's confidant, in fact, in the two temples of Dali Capital and Side Capital, the Zhizao Bureau was after all a member of the Dali Imperial Court.

Ad hoc institutions are "cool bench" yamen that are on the fringes of the officialdom. Therefore, unlike Cao Gengxin and Yuan Zhengding, disciples with the Shangzhuguo surname, they are too eye-catching. However, some people do seem to be born to join the officialdom.

In addition, the only one of the Fulu Street Li family who has a profound background to be involved in officialdom is Li Baozhen.

Lin Zhengcheng gently flicked the charcoal fire with a pair of tongs, covering it in dust, and said calmly: "A person using wisdom is burning charcoal to keep warm. He must learn to hide his power and bide his time, so that it can burn for a long time."

Li Baozhen nodded and said with a smile: "In addition to being diligent and frugal in running the house and saving charcoal, we must also increase our wisdom. Going up the mountain to cut wood and burn charcoal is one way, and buying charcoal with others is another. In addition, burning charcoal for heating in the cold winter is not only under your own control."

As long as the fire is good, you should also pay attention to the people sitting around the fire, and try to prevent everyone from feeling that the temperature of the charcoal fire is too hot."

Lin Zhengcheng nodded and drew inferences. He was a smart man and it was easy to chat.

The three younger brothers and sisters of the Li family on Fulu Street have indeed fulfilled that prophecy.

Lin Zhengcheng asked casually: "Having been an official for so many years, have you gained any insights?"
To be continued...