The Three Ways Conflict has penetrated into every corner, and its shadow is always found inadvertently.
Qi Xuansu understands this truth and believes that Ixichel will wake up soon. By then, she may not be so happy.
Who to choose? Qi Xuansu, who represents Donghua Zhenren? Or Li Changge, who represents Qingwei Zhenren?
This is a difficult problem.
Because now it seems that it is very difficult to be re-elected as the Grandmaster. There are two biggest permutations. One is the Seventh Generation Grandmaster Donghua Zhenren and the Eighth Generation Grandmaster Li Changge. The other is the Seventh Generation Grandmaster Qingweizhenren and the Eighth Generation Grandmaster Li Changge.
No matter how he chooses Qi Xuansu, the eighth-generation leader, he is destined to offend someone. The difference is whether he offends him early or offends him late.
But it's a dilemma.
But there is also a variable here, and that is Xidaomen.
Although neither Tantai Zhenxiao nor Gong Fu expressed their opinions, Huangfu Ji almost bet on Qi Xuansu because Taiping Dao's radical strategy essentially hurt the interests of Xidaomen represented by Huangfu Ji. If Taiping Dao dominated
When the Taoist sect really started to implement these radical strategies, perhaps Tantai Zhenxiao and Gong Fu had already ascended and passed away at that time, so it didn't matter, but Huangfu was most likely still alive, so he had to face this problem and must prepare for a rainy day.
Xidaomen's attitude will also indirectly affect Ixichel.
Qi Xuansu can make the first move, and Li Changge, who succeeds Qi Xuansu, can break the situation later. It's hard to say what the outcome will be.
One of Qi Xuansu's advantages is that he has the status of the Taoist plenipotentiary envoy. When Li Changge took over, the situation calmed down. It is difficult to say whether he will still be awarded the Taoist plenipotentiary special envoy.
For Li Changge, the worst possibility is of course that he does not have the status of special envoy and is simply the chief deputy head of Beichen Hall, which will greatly reduce his right to speak in the Southern Continent.
The best possibility is to follow Qi Xuansu's old practice of granting the Taoist sect the status of a full-power envoy, who is still able to control the wind and rain.
Of course, there is another possibility, which is to grant the Taoist special envoy status and remove the "full power" so that he cannot act arbitrarily. This possibility is quite small, because the situation is different. There is no longer the war between the north and the south, and there is no need for Kukulkan.
Appoint a special envoy with full power. Moreover, Qi Xuansu was supervised by Wu Niang at that time. Now that Wu Niang is gone, there is a lack of supervisory candidates. This "full power" is also inappropriate.
Three possibilities determine whether Li Changge's start is easy, ordinary, or difficult.
This can be regarded as the first official confrontation between the two. The time at Five Elements Mountain was a bit different. Both of them were chess pieces. This time, they were half chess players.
As for Zhang Yuelu and
Yao Pei was helplessly a step slower. If it were not for Qi Xuansu, it would be a situation where Li Changge would be the best.
Someone may want to ask, Qi Xuansu was promoted because he had two great achievements. One was to capture Wang Jiaohe and eliminate the remaining poison of the Taoist government in Borneo. The second was to catch up with the internal fighting among the Westerners and sell weapons on a large scale.
weapons, and successfully completed the financial tasks assigned by Jinque. With these two achievements, Qi Xuansu was promoted to the chief deputy head of Beichen Hall.
Li Changge is the chief deputy master of the Imperial Palace, and he has no merit there. Why does Li Changge get there in one step? Even if he has a background in Taiping Dao, Zhengyi Dao and Quanzhen Dao are not vassals of Taiping Dao.
The reason is not complicated. Li Changge will be specially promoted this time.
There are not many such promotions, but there have been quite a few.
For example, Xiao Yin was promoted to the fourth rank of Taoist Priest Liquor in one step. This was a treatment that no other Taoist scholar had, so it was considered a special promotion. On the contrary, the subsequent promotion to the third rank of Youyi Taoist Priest was not a normal promotion.
Lin Yuanmiao was also specially promoted. From a semi-black householder to a second-grade Taiyi Taoist priest, plus the position of Assistant to the Qing Palace, it couldn't be more special.
The specialness of these two people is not only special in status, but also special in cultivation. Xiao Yin has a cultivation level of the infinite stage, and Lin Yuanmiao has a pseudo-immortal cultivation level. Xiao Yin may not care about this, but you let this hypocrite
It is really a bit insulting to start from a ninth-grade Taoist priest, and it will make the person involved feel very dissatisfied and resentful.
There is no need for the Taoist sect to create unstable factors for itself for no reason. At this time, it needs to be more flexible, so special promotions come into being. This is a potential rule recognized by the Taoist sect internally.
There are two prerequisites here. One is that the person concerned is a Taoist priest, and the problem cannot be solved by granting a fellow Taoist priest. The other is that the person's level of cultivation is high enough, and at least the level of cultivation must exceed the age limit. A hundred-year-old immortal is not considered capable.
, a forty-year-old immortal is called powerful.
For example, Ixichel, although his cultivation level is high enough, but he is not a Taoist priest, he can solve the problem by conferring a birth certificate to an innocent Taoist priest of the same grade. There is no special promotion.
The Li family took advantage of the loophole. Li Changge was a Taoist priest himself, so of course he could not be granted a fellow Taoist priest. At the same time, Li Changge successfully accommodated the "Qing Que Pearl", so his cultivation level surpassed that of Qi Xuansu, and he entered the pseudo-immortal first, and then talked about Taiping Dao. Naturally, he could be special.
promoted.
To put it bluntly, the background of Taipingdao and the cultivation far beyond the age line are both indispensable.
For other people, without Taipingdao background, they would not be placed in such an important position even if they were specially promoted.
Master Qingwei still suffered at the expense of the Third Master. The Third Master was unwilling to recommend a new Grand Master, but was happy for the three of them to take turns to get rid of the Grand Master's addiction. Even if Master Qingwei had the "Qing Que Pearl", it would be meaningless. After all,
Jin Que's second seat, Shenzhi Zhenzhen, has reached the top of his status, so he cannot become a Ping Zhang Da Zhenren.
Qi Xuansu's perfect ending is not only the ending for himself, but also the beginning for Li Changge. Regarding the first move at the beginning, Qi Xuansu has already laid the groundwork for Lu Yujue. In the next period of time, Qi Xuansu will continue
Drop.
On the other side, Master Qingwei was not unprepared. For example, Shen Yubing was the one who stood in front of Li Changge, so when Shen Yubing saw Qi Xuansu, he put on a look of disdain, almost provoking. This was his mission.
This is something Qi Xuansu figured out later.
Therefore, Qi Xuansu estimated that his task of rebuilding the Northern Continent's espionage system would probably not be completed. No matter how capable he was, Beichen Hall would not cooperate in all aspects, and Shen Yubing's face was full of confrontation, so it was destined to be impossible to complete.
This credit is reserved for Li Changge. As long as Li Changge takes over, all kinds of obstacles will disappear immediately, and then rapid progress will be made. .??.
This will give people the feeling that Li Changge can accomplish what Qi Xuansu cannot accomplish, which shows that Li Changge is better than Qi Xuansu in some aspects.
Qi Xuansu could only eat Coptis chinensis while being mute, unable to express his sufferings. After all, facts speak louder than words.
Therefore, Qi Xuansu had to find ways to make amends in other ways and bury the hatchet for Li Changge. For example, he must seek justice for Lu Yujue.
Admittedly, this is putting private fighting above public affairs, seriously harming the interests of Taoism. It is wrong and will be criticized by Huayuan Taoist priests and Qingliu Taoist priests.
But Qi Xuansu had no choice. They made the first move. Wouldn't Qi Xuansu fight back? The more he retreated, the more others would push forward. Only a strong counterattack could maintain balance and stability and create a short-term peace.
A war can only be stopped by fighting.
Fighting is the eternal theme of human beings. As long as desire is still there and human nature is still there, it will not stop. As for the Huayuan Taoist priests and the Qingliu Taoist priests, they are just not involved. People who have never picked up are talking about letting go.
It makes people laugh. Not being exposed to the worldly feelings and not having the worldly feelings are two completely different concepts.
In addition, Qi Xuansu also wants to minimize the negative impact of his inability to complete the reconstruction of the Northern Continent's intelligence system, that is,
Covering up the past with other greater achievements is like Emperor Taizong of Daqi. His achievements as emperor were too dazzling, so killing his brother and imprisoning his father became irrelevant.
The problem still has to be the abolition of the blood-stopping ritual and the elimination of the insect-men.
Since there is no limit to the means, Jue Sheng Church's methods will inevitably be more intense and even cruel.
Through interrogation, Jueshengtang now knows the approximate location of Lan Yun Sect. It is located in the sea between the Southern Continent and Luo Suozhou. It is a huge island with various formations set up around it. If you want to penetrate it, you still need to spend some effort.
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Jueshengtang has considered the possibility of a force attack, but the island can move on its own, and the movement of a force attack is too great. In the vast sea, I am afraid that before the fleet has discovered Blue Cloud Island, all the insectoids on the island will have noticed it and evacuated first.
And in the chaos, it is difficult to annihilate all the insects. Therefore, the best way is to penetrate into the interior of Lanyun Island first, understand the situation, attack from both inside and outside, and annihilate them in one fell swoop.
This method has been approved by the superiors, and Juesheng Church has begun to select people to prepare for the first infiltration. Insects can disguise themselves as normal people, and in turn, normal people can naturally disguise themselves as bugs. Before returning to the mother nest, each person
Bugmen are all independent individuals and do not share a shared mind, so they can still muddle through.
Tantai Ying originally wanted to take action in person, but was persuaded by his subordinates. Hearing that those insects were sexually promiscuous, they could not bear the responsibility if Tantai Ying fell into their hands. The Thunder of the Great Master Tantai
Anger is no joke.
On the other hand, Qi Xuansu put forward another opinion regarding the abolition of blood-stopping rituals, which cannot be stopped only through violent means, but should allow people to stop this behavior spontaneously.
On the one hand, of course, it is the work of education, making people realize that this is a wrong behavior.
On the other hand, it is to open up more land and build more workshops. When the land becomes more and the workshops become more, there will be a shortage of manpower. At this time, the value of people as labor force will continue to rise. From then on
From a profit point of view, it is not cost-effective to sacrifice and kill a large number of laborers in vain. For profit, people can sell the ropes used to hang themselves, not to mention other things. For profit, naturally, they can also spontaneously abolish the hemostatic sacrifice
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Taking advantage of the situation is to follow the trend, violent suppression is only a temporary solution, and the development of the world is the root solution.
This is again linked to the aspect that Huangfu is extremely responsible for. Xidaomen has long seen this, but in the past there were years of war and they could not care about it. Now that they are free, they naturally have to focus on development. Although the pain is inevitable, as long as