Chapter 88: The Rain Is Coming
Half an hour later, Huang Ying wore a men's outfit and walked into the legendary Nan Shaolin with Zhu Wen and Xu Huaiyu. Accompanied by Master Guanxiu, he visited the Main Hall, the Heavenly King Hall, the Sutra Pavilion, the Martial Monk's Martial Arts Training Field and other places. Of course, he also met the stubborn old man Zhou Pu.
After seeing this, Zhu Wen realized that the Shaolin Temple may be the legendary Nan Shaolin. Whether in terms of the architectural style of the temple or the surrounding geographical environment, it is surprisingly similar to the Shaolin Temple in Songshan. He really doubted whether the later experts and scholars' statement that Nan Shaolin in Putian was correct.
Because the sky was over, the three of them stayed in the room in the temple for a night and left at noon the next day. Before leaving, Zhu Wen did not forget to joke with the stubborn old man Zhou Pu. Zhu Wen seemed to have accidentally recited Zhou Pu's two lines: "The power of Yu is not there, and the sound of the river flows east."
He deliberately pronounced the word "Xi" into "East", and after pronounced it, he turned around and left. However, he kept glanced behind him, wanting to see the reaction of the stubborn old man Zhou Pu.
Sure enough, seeing Zhou Pu chasing out from behind quickly, muttering something while walking, Zhu Wen laughed in his heart: "It's indeed a pedantic old guy, you can do the same trick twice!" He didn't look back at the moment, and pulled Huang Ying and Xu Huaiyu out of the temple quickly and got on the horse. Zhou Pu's old guy actually chased him halfway up the mountain, and then he returned to the temple angrily with Master Guanxiu's repeated dissuasion.
Huang Ying saw it from afar, laughing so hard that Zhu Wen couldn't straighten his waist. Only Xu Huaiyu was confused, so he didn't know what the two of them were laughing, and why the old man behind him persisted in chasing such a long way behind him. He didn't think about it, but he didn't think about it. This is Xu Huaiyu's style of doing things, and he didn't ask. In his heart, Zhu Wen and Huang Ying were his bosses and his masters. Where can they ask randomly as servants?
Because he was worried that Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cun could not control the army, he was afraid that something would happen in Fuzhou City, Zhu Wen and others rushed straight to Fuzhou City.
But just three days later, I don’t know which ignorant scholar Huang Chao heard from a famous scholar Zhou Pu in Fuzhou, who was very talented and upright, but indifferent to fame and fortune. The previous Fuzhou observer sent people to ask him to be an official several times, but he refused.
After hearing this, Huang Chao became loving talent. In addition, he heard that Zhou Pu had failed many tests when he was young, so he thought of his childhood experience and felt pity for the same illness. He actually ordered Meng Kai to go and recruit Zhou Pu himself, and told Meng Kai to invite him to do so and not to scare him.
But what did Zhou Pu say after Meng Kai explained his purpose to Zhou Pu: "As a minister, I am still unyielding in the emperor, how can I follow the thief?"
Meng Kai was patient and willing to persuade him. Zhou Pu insisted on not following him and kept saying bad things. Meng Kai was an irritable person, so how could he have such great patience? He slashed Zhou Pu's head in anger. He could not be resurrected. When Huang Chao heard the news, he could only sigh inwardly, and after a few words of blame, Meng Kai was over.
After hearing the news, Zhu Wen secretly scolded Zhou Puque for being stingy, "Old guy, what are you talking about to him?" If you don't want to go, just ask him to be polite and polite, just say no to him. Why are you pretending to be noble? Now, you have moved your head? Bai has become friends with the old monk Guanxiu, but he has not even learned that he is one-tenth of the slickness of others.
On the back mountain of Shaolin Temple in Jiulian Mountain, Elder Guan Xiu buried his old friend Zhou Pu with his own hands, with two lines of clear tears on his face. He was ashamed and angry at his cowardice, but he still did not have the courage to fight with Meng Kai. It was not to care about his own safety, but to not want to implicate the entire temple because of himself. Although there were more than a thousand monk soldiers in the temple, it was impossible to compete with Huang Chao's tens of thousands of troops.
Elder Guan Xiu burned the paper money and cried for a while. The sun was setting, but he still refused to leave. Guan Xi, who had been standing behind, advised: "Senior Brother, it's getting late, so let's go back."
Guan Xiu suddenly turned around, his eyes flashed and his eyes looked at his junior brother Guan Xi, and said slowly: "Junior Brother Guan Xi, can you do your best?" The old monk's face was full of prayer. He had not shown such an expression on his face for many years.
Master Guanxi said: "Senior Brother, please tell me that as long as the junior brother does, he will go through fire and water, he will never frown... But did my senior brother ask me to kill the thief Meng Kai to avenge Mr. Zhou?"
Guan Xiu clasped his hands together, pronounced the Buddhist chant, and said, "Junior Brother Guan Xi, we are monks, how can we shout and kill like bandits? Brother Senior asked you to go to Runzhou to invite the governor of Zhenhai Army, Gao Pian, the number one military god of the Tang Dynasty. Be sure to invite General Gao's army to central Fujian. I will arrange for the good men in the temple to secretly cooperate with General Gao. It is best to catch all these bandits in one go to comfort Brother Zhou's spirit in heaven!"
People who are sleek and amiable are usually rarely angry. The scheming and habits they have developed over the years make them seem like they will never get angry in the eyes of outsiders. But once such a person is really angry, the anger will burn like a flame, enough to burn everything!
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Meng Kai didn't expect that he would call Gao Pian, the most taboo in the rebel army, if he had killed an insignificant sorcerer, to call Gao Pian, the most taboo in the rebel army? If he knew that such a result would be, he would definitely not be so Meng Lang. Although he was irritable and reckless, he was not a fool after all! He even knew Gao Pian's strength better than others!
Even Zhu Wen did not expect that such serious consequences would be caused. He was still working tirelessly to use Fuzhou as a long-term base, encouraging farming, promoting water conservancy, and revising the law with Zhang Yan...
As the days passed day by day, the world of the Tang Dynasty was still in turmoil. Everything seemed to have not changed at all from the past, but who knew that this was the eve of the storm...
The Hedong Army rebelled again and killed the Jiedushi Cui Jikang. The court transferred the Jiedushi Li Kan of the Bining Jiedushi Li Kan as the Jiedushi Hedong.
Zhang Yang, the governor of the Tianping Army (also known as Zhang Li, because the previous article was Zhang Yang, so for the first time, Zhang Yang is still used here, readers should not criticize him!) Because he accidentally surrendered Huang Chao a year ago, he was scolded by the officials of the court, but because he could not find a suitable candidate for a while, he still asked him to continue to be his governor of the Tianping Army.
But Zhang Yang was always worried about that matter, and soon became depressed and returned to the west in March of the sixth year of Qianfu. When his subordinates saw that Wang Jingwu, who was Pinglu Army, was killed by Song Wei, became a military governor. He wanted to be satisfied, so he gave him a gourd. He did not even make a secret funeral and became a military governor in Yunzhou City.
Unexpectedly, Cao Quanyue, the governor of Zizhou, who was in Zibo, heard the news. Cao Quanyue kept resentment in his heart that Cui Junyu was reluctant to save him from death outside Songcheng. How could he miss such a great opportunity to take revenge? He led Zhu Xuan and other brothers to attack Yunzhou and killed Cui Junyu. The court followed the situation and in order to show Cao Quanyue's contribution, the court placed the position of the governor of the Tianping Army on Cao Quanyue's head, which was a coincidence.
The only thing that made the prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty happy was that Cui Anqian, who was transferred from the Zhongwu army to Xichuan as the governor, took drastic measures to punish bandits, rectify the army, train soldiers, and trained the army of Xichuan, which had relatively weak combat power, grew stronger. Xichuan, where bandits were rampant, disappeared in a few days. It was necessary for people to look at Cui Anqian with admiration. For a while, Cui Anqian was regarded as a role model for various vassal states by the court.
Gao Pian, who was in Runzhou, also reported to the court and organized an army, preparing to launch another sudden attack on Huang Chao's rebel army. Will this time the number one war god of the Tang Dynasty, which had never been defeated in decades, still return triumphantly again as before? How will Huang Chao and his generals deal with it...
Chapter completed!