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After Cai still left Tokyo Bianliang City, several major events happened:

The first item.

Zhao Ji's insight has reached the point of becoming obsessed with evil spirits.

Before Zhao Ji ascended the throne, a Taoist priest left a prophecy: "The auspicious person will succeed the throne."

The combination of the characters "Ji" and "Ren" is exactly the character "Ji".

really!

Not long after, Zhao Ji inherited the throne and ascended to the great treasure.

This made Zhao Ji initially come into contact with the magic of Taoism.

After Zhao Ji ascended the throne, for some reason, Zhao Ji had no children.

Because Zhao Ji accidentally took a break and took up the throne because his brother Song Zhezong had no son, Zhao Ji was always worried about his lack of a son.

So Zhao Ji asked for help from the magical Taoist.

Just then, Zhao Ji met a Taoist priest named Liu Hunkang.

After hearing Zhao Ji's troubles, Liu Laodao said to Zhao Ji: The emperor's youngest son is related to the Feng Shui of Bianliang City. The low-lying terrain in the northeast corner of Bianliang City seriously affected the emperor's offspring. If the terrain here can be raised, there will be no problem with the royal offspring.

After hearing what Liu Laodao said, Zhao Ji immediately arranged for people to accumulate a huge rockery in the northeast corner of Bianliang City - this rockery was the later Wansui Mountain, which is Genyue.

What’s amazing is that since then, the concubines whom Zhao Ji favored have kept coming to the good news of pregnancy or childbirth. The concubines in the harem lay eggs like hens in chicken coops, one after another, and in more than ten years, Zhao Ji almost became the emperor with the most children in history.

These two things made Zhao Ji admire the old Taoist Liu and believe in the magical Taoism.

In recent years, as Zhao Ji's physical functions have declined somewhat as he grows older.

This inevitably made Zhao Ji have the same problem as emperors such as Qin Shihuang, who wanted to rely on Taoist methods to maintain his youth and even live forever.

At this moment, Zhao Ji found several powerful Taoist masters.

This first master is Wang Laozhi from Linpu, Puzhou.

Wang Laozhi claimed that he had received the immortal pill from the Han Zhongli and turned into an immortal, so he abandoned his wife and children and built a thatched cottage in the fields.

In order to invite favor, Wang Dan, the Taipuqing, visited the thatched cottage three times before bringing Wang Laozhi to the capital.

When Wang Laozhi saw Zhao Ji, he did not speak at first, but presented a stack of ink treasures.

Zhao Ji took it in confusion and took it, and then looked horrified!

These calligraphy treasures are actually all poems written by Zhao Ji himself. The top poem is written by Zhao Ji to Qiao and Liu, the two concubines Liu, and the poem by the pillow.

Zhao Ji immediately announced that he was given the title of "Mr. Miaoguan Ming Zhendongwei".

The second one is Wang Zaixi from Hongzhou.

According to Wang Zaixi himself, he met Xu Xun and Xu Zhenjun during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, obtained his true teachings, and taught Taoist seven-yuan secrets such as "Da Hole" and "Hidden Book", which could tell people about life and death in the first five hundred years and the next five hundred years.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed and gave the title of "Chongyin Dushi", and was granted the title of "Mr. Tongmiao", and placed it in Shangqing Baolu Palace.

The third one is named Lin Lingsu.

Lin Lingsu said to Zhao Ji: There are nine skyscrapers in the sky, and the highest in Shenxiao. The king of Shenxiao Yuqing, the eldest son of God, is the king of the south, and is called the Great Lord of Changsheng, is Zhao Ji. He also said that Cai Jing was originally the immortal prince of Zuo Yuan in the sky, Wang Fu was a Wenhua official, Cai You was the envoy of Yuanyuan Baohua, Tong Guan and others were also listed in the immortal class, Liu Guifei was the Concubine An of Jiuhua Yuzhen, and himself was the immortal minister named Chu Hui in Shenxiao.

While being happy, Zhao Ji named Lin Lingsu as "Mr. Tongzhen Daling". He received endless rewards and was given gold medals, so he could enter and exit the palace at will, and built Tongzhen Palace for him to practice and live in.

Lin Lingsu is a very controversial person.

On the one hand, Lin Lingsu once used Tuibei Pictures to "The emperors in the two dynasties were smiling and led the ministers to cross Mengjin. It was natural that they could not advance or retreat if they wanted to go, and they were worried about killing people." He warned Zhao Ji and advised Zhao Ji to move the capital. Lin Lingsu also helped Bianliang City retreat from the flood.

On the other hand, Lin Lingsu's "demon" is indeed very big.

Under Zhao Ji's order, Lin Lingsu was responsible for majoring in Taoist books, correcting the rituals of the scriptures, proofreading the alchemy spiritual chapters, and deleting the annotations.

On the seventh day of the lunar month, Lin Lingsu held a meeting to repeatedly explain the story of the Three Caves Taoist Sutra and the birth of the Yuqing Shenxiao King. The cost of each fasting was as high as tens of thousands of dollars, which was called the "Thousand Daohui".

Lin Lingsu created several miracles such as "King Qinghua arrived at the altar during the day" and "Fire Dragon Sword descended to the inner palace at night", which made all the scholars and people in the capital believe in Taoism.

Lin Lingsu also instigated Zhao Ji to order the construction of the Shenxiao Yuqing Wanshou Palace nationwide. Without Taoist temples, the Buddhist temple was rebuilt, and all the statues of the Shenxiao-type gods such as the Emperor Changsheng and Emperor Qinghua were set up in the hall.

In short, Lin Lingsu vigorously promoted Taoism and even proposed: merge Buddhism into Taoism, change the Buddha land into palaces, transform the statue of Sakyamuni into primitive heavenly masters, Bodhisattvas into masters, Arhats into Venerables, monks all had their hair, crowns and bamboo slips, and changed their careers to be Taoists.

Zhao Ji followed Lin Lingsu's advice and not only appointed Lin Lingsu as the Jiedushi of Wenzhou Yingdao Army, but also added Lin Lingsu to "Kinmen Yuke", "Tongzhenda Lingyuan Miao", "Taizhong Dafu", "Ningshen Temple Shichen", "Ruizhu Temple Shichen", and "Chonghe Temple Shichen", and issued an edict: Buddhism was changed to Taoism, clothing, the left and right streets were changed to the Moral Academy, and Monks were changed to the Deshi Academy, which was affiliated to the Moral Academy.

Zhao Ji felt that he was not satisfied with doing these things, so he ordered the Daolu Academy to be appointed as the "Cultural Leader Daojun Emperor" and he would take charge of Taoism. The Daolu Academy would be appointed Empress Guo in the harem as the leader of the Jinting Sect and Empress Meng as the leader of Huayang Sect.

Now is the time when Lin Lingsu, Zhao Ji and others are having the most fun, and the city of Bianliang in Tokyo was chaotic.

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The second thing is that Song and Jin have already taken the lead and are preparing to further discuss joint attacks on Liao.

But at this moment, a news came.

The news is that "the Khitan has stolen the land of Liaodong and appointed the Jurchen as King Donghuai", and both sides intend to repair it.

When Zhao Ji and others heard the news, they quickly informed the Song envoy who had already set out and suspended contact with the Jin people.

Later, people on the border heard from somewhere, saying that the Liao Lord Yelu Yanxi had the pretext of the destruction of the country and reported the matter to the court.

After discussing, Zhao Ji and others sent Wang Yaochen to take two painters to paint a portrait of Yelu Yanxi.

When Wang Yaochen and others came back with the portrait of Yelu Yanxi, they said to Zhao Ji: "The Lord of Liao does not look like a monarch. If the general rule is used, the Liao Kingdom will be destroyed in a daze, and the officials should quickly raise an army to attack Liao."

After hearing this, Zhao Ji was very happy. After rewarding Wang Yaochen and others, he asked the stopped Song Shi to continue to go to the Jin Kingdom to discuss the joint destruction of Liao...

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The third thing is that after Liu Fa was defeated, the Song army regrouped and fought against the Western Xia army in Lingwu, which severely damaged the Western Xia army. Most of the Hengshan area had fallen into the hands of the Song army. As long as the Song army had added another effort, they were expected to destroy the Western Xia. Zhao Ji was happy and ordered the Western army to repair and prepare to fight with the Western Xia and recover the lost territory in one fell swoop.

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In the fourth thing, Zhao Ji praised Cai You again and issued an edict to be the third department of Kaifu Yitong, and Cai You left the minister who was the prime minister and took another step forward.

Cai You also liked Zhao Ji and formally proposed: "The so-called ruler should regard the world as his home and peace as his entertainment. How much time can be achieved? How can he work hard alone?"

Zhao Ji accepted Cai Youzhi's theory and ordered to increase efforts to collect strange flowers and stones across the country, and rare beasts filled his Gen Yue.

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In addition to these four major events, there are two other things, two things related to Cai Sun:

The first item.

Song Jiang and his gang punished corrupt officials, killed the rich and helped the poor, and their popularity grew. Now, after they had been dealing with the official army in Yizhou (later Linyi, Shandong) for more than a year, they had already wandered into Puzhou on the northwest road of Jingxi Road and approached the capital.

Zhao Ji was shocked and ordered the Central Imperial Army to send troops to encircle and suppress Song Jiang and his gang.

The defense area where Cai Shen is located is not far from Puzhou (this is actually one of the reasons why Cai Shen chose this defense area at the time), and is also within the preparation sequence.

The second item.

Cai Shen's soap became popular, and it was so popular that it was so popular that it was so in short supply that it was ninety-nine sausages (two pieces) that it was so popular that Li He had to go on again and again. The price increase of the price increased to one hundred and ninety-nine sausages and a box could not dispel the enthusiasm of the buyers.

It is also true that as a movie clip in later generations says, those who can spend ninety-nine pieces to buy a box of soap will never be able to spend another hundred pieces.

Then why did Cai Shen’s soap become popular?

This is thanks to two people - two women.

First of all, Zhao Yuannu.

Speaking of which, human feelings are really strange.

Take Zhao Yuannu as an example:

There are so many people who like Zhao Yuannu who pursued Zhao Yuannu relentlessly, but Zhao Yuannu was indifferent to them. On the contrary, Cai Shen, who doesn't like her at all, made Zhao Yuannu even unable to forget it.

Since she drove Cai Shen away that day, Zhao Yuannu has been as usual on the surface, but in her heart, she actually hopes that Cai will come to Fanlou to find her again.

Moreover, every bit of the time he was with Cai Shen was always replayed in Zhao Yuannu's mind. Even Zhao Yuannu could see Cai Shen's face that was talented, melancholy, and philanthropically as soon as he closed his eyes.

But Zhao Yuannu waited on the left, Cai still did not come, and Cai still waited on the right, but Cai still did not come.

During this period, because Baixiangju (the store where Cai Shen sells soap) also struggled to buy several boxes of soap, Cai Shen's soap was not popular, but Cai Shen's soap was still engraved on the soap box and spread it out, and then it was spread by people, especially in the brothels, which resonated with the ladies. Everyone was talking about this Cai Ziyin and wanted to know who Cai Ziyin was.

This made Zhao Yuannu even unable to forget Cai Jian.

Later, just when Zhao Yuannu couldn't help but want to send his maid to invite Cai Jian, her maid found out from Cai Mao that Cai Jian abandoned Wen and went to Yangwu County to form the Jinwu Army.

This not only failed to stop Zhao Yuannu's thoughts about Cai Jian, but instead made Zhao Yuannu feel that Cai Jian was different from others and that he could not forget Cai Jian more and more.

However--

How could he not know that Cai still doesn’t like her? Otherwise, how could Cai still see her only once and never come to find her again? He went to Yangwu County and didn’t tell her?

What Zhao Yuannu has is not only beauty and talent, but also wisdom.

Zhao Yuannu soon thought about how to ask Cai Jian to take the initiative to find her.

Zhao Yuannu asked her maid to find out Cai Meng about Cai’s location in Baixiangju, and then asked her maid to go to Baixiangju to buy a hundred boxes of soap in one go.

And that's not all. Zhao Yuannu gave these hundred boxes of soap to her 100 good sisters like a boy who was scattered. Among them, another courtesan, Li Shishi.

On the other hand, Zhao Yuannu gave gifts to good sisters. How could good sisters not ask why?
To be continued...