Xia Xun and Ji Gang walked all the way to the capital, discussing the action plan all the way, and the two had the same opinion: the top priority is naturally to establish the authority of Wan Songling first.
If this puppet doesn't work against the Warats, it becomes a useless pawn.
Of course, it is impossible to hope that through Wan Songling, the formation of the forces of the various tribes of Warat was developed and formed in the past 100 years, and it is unrealistic to call Wan Songling a drastic move and form complete control over Warat without revolution.
Maham dared to praise him as a great khan, which was to recognize this.
At the same time, it is also not in the long-term interests of the Ming Dynasty to call Wansongling to unify Warat and become the Western Mongolian Khan who is dictatorial and dictatorial.
The strength of Warat was originally stronger than that of the Tatars, all because all the tribes had their own masters and did their own thing, so they could not form an absolute joint force, how could the Ming Dynasty help them unify, even if this khan was a fake, it was not safe, and when the time came, he was willing to be a self-respecting king, or because of the identity of the Han and submit to the command of the Ming Dynasty, isn't it obvious Therefore, they must give him more power under the premise of controlling Wan Songling, at least so that he can influence Warat's foreign policy and military action, and this cannot be achieved by peaceful means in the short term, so it can only shed blood.
The assassination plan designed by Ji Gang is sharp and direct, just like his style of playing chess, open and closed, with a front and no back, but there is no lack of meticulous and cautious deployment, which is different from playing chess, Ji Gang is still more careful.
Xia Xun listened carefully to his plan, and couldn't find any major faults, only raised some objections on two details, and the two re-negotiated.
When the two of them arrived in Yanjing City, the plan of action had already taken shape, and Ji Gang immediately issued an order for his people deployed on the Wara grassland to start acting.
When Xia Xun and Ji Gang rushed to Yanjing, the civil and military officials in Yanjing all went outside the city to greet each other, but the reason why the two brothers and sisters were sent to Yanjing by the emperor was that the officials had their own eyes and ears in Beijing, and there were colleagues and friends who had no ears and eyes, and their protégés were old and had close correspondence, and they had already learned the truth and knew that these two were blasted out of the center by the emperor, so their attitude towards them was lukewarm.
To Xia Xun such a high-ranking prince, they are all such an attitude, to Ji Gang is even more respectful and far away, Ji Gang felt bored, after going to the reception banquet, should have gone with Xia Xun to meet Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui, a question officials, but knew that Zhao Wang went out of the city to hunt, has been gone for three days, Zhao Wang often hunted for ten days and a half months to come back, the return period is still difficult to determine, so under the pretext of the emperor's dispatch, busy with official business, rushed to Tianjin to select a site to build Jinyiwei.
Xia Xun went to the banquet and returned to his residence, his cheap old nephew Xie Chuanzhong had already led a few sons to wait there, waiting for his aunt and grandfather to meet him.
Xie Chuanzhong was originally strong, and since he caught up with Xia Xun, a relative, and undertook the foreign sea market commodity trade in the Yanjing area, his wealth has been growing like a snowball.
His wealth has skyrocketed, and his vision has also increased, and the few gifts he brought to Xia Xun are all priceless and elegant objects.
Xie Chuanzhong's mind is flexible, and even Xia Xun has some people around him who inquires clearly, not only prepared a thick meeting gift for Qiaoyun, who is half a star and half a girl, but even Xianya and Sakura have a share.
Xie Chuanzhong is rich and generous, and he doesn't care about these gifts, if Xianya is always a girl, and Sakura is always a guest, it is not strange that many people have the right to be a gift.
In case one of them is promoted to the throne and becomes the wife of the grandfather of the country, his early investment will be hundreds of times greater than that of rushing to hold on to Buddha's feet.
Xie Chuanzhong, a cheap relative, has been respectful to Xia Xun over the years, gifts for the season, gifts for the past life, never delayed, always delivered on time, Xia Xun has a very good impression of this Xie Laocai, plus he is not big, so he invited Xie and his son to the flower hall to meet, and also entertained a light meal.
The flower hall belongs to the back house, not an important guest, it will not be invited here, so that the prince can entertain the banquet, it is the supreme glory, Xie Chuanzhong sent a car of gifts, ate a light meal, happily said goodbye, met familiar friends along the way, inevitably took the initiative to say hello, and then hiccup a few more when talking, when people asked, they were very calm, very casual and said: "Oh, nothing, I was invited to the Fuguo Mansion for a banquet" Since Xia Xun came to Yanjing in the name of surveying the construction of the imperial city of Yanjing and the site selection of the imperial mausoleum, how could he make a show, so Xia Xun waited for a long time, picked a time that was not at noon, and still took a trip to Yanjing.
Xia Xun chose such a time, and the idea was to respond to the situation.
He didn't care much about the things in the building, but he couldn't help but go, thinking that there should be nothing important at this time, and there were not many people in the department, so he could go back to the house if he coped with it, but when he didn't want to go, he ran into a pot of porridge in the department.
The people who quarreled were not the officials of the executive department, but the feng shui masters invited by the imperial court.
Feng Shui from the Tang Dynasty began to achieve great success, when it was divided into eight houses, Xuankong, Yang Gong Feng Shui and the passage of Yin and Yang four major schools, since then most of the various schools are the continuation or branch of these four schools, to the Ming Dynasty, although there are many Feng Shui schools, occupy the main position is the Jiangxi School and the Fujian School, in fact, the two schools of Feng Shui scholarship are inherited from the Tang Dynasty of the four major schools, in the same line, but the Jiangxi School is more focused on the situation of mountains and rivers and the format of the house, while the Fujian School is more focused on the Star Hexagram.
The outstanding feng shui masters of these two schools were sent to Yanjing, and the location of the imperial palace was undoubtedly rebuilt on the basis of the original imperial city of Dadu, and their main task was to choose the royal mausoleum.
Soon after the death of Empress Xu, they were sent to Yanjing, they ran around near Yanjing, explored for several years, and now finally came up with a plan, but there were too many plans, and the representatives of the two major schools had different opinions, and the two schools also had different opinions within the two schools, so they quarreled in the line.
The officials of the Ministry of Feng Shui either did not know anything about Feng Shui, or they only knew some introductory knowledge, so they could only sit in a faction of ducks and listen to the thunder and let them play.
But in the end, when it was time to report to the emperor for a decision, they couldn't report all the opinions of the emperor, they had to sit there and listen carefully, and when they were dizzy, someone came to report: "The auxiliary prince has arrived" The officials were overjoyed when they heard this, and now they had a top pot, so they hurriedly invited the Duke of Fuguo in, no matter where the imperial tomb was chosen, it was up to him to decide, and he would have nothing to do.
Xia Xun just arrived at the entrance of the department, with a bang, the main gate was opened, and a large group of officials from the department rushed out, seeing Xia Xun smiling, they all bowed: "The prince is good", "I have seen the prince", "The official is polite", "The prince of the country is polite", "The prince of the country please come in, please come in" Xia Xun was curious in his heart, how could these officials be so condescending before Xia Xun was inexplicably surrounded by these officials to the main hall, only to see a large number of monks, Taoist priests, and Confucian scholars in the main hall, some holding a compass, some raising dust, and the three sects of Confucianism, Taoism, and Confucianism are gathered, which is really rare.
Seeing Xia Xun, everyone also stepped forward to salute.
Xia Xun laughed and said: "What is the Xingbu doing today, why did you invite so many people from outside the party?"
Zhang Wentao, the secretary of the executive department, sighed: "The prince of the country does not know, since the funeral of the mother, the emperor ordered the ministry to cooperate with the feng shui masters sent by the imperial court to choose auspicious soil for burial.
Grandpa Guo, you also know that this auspicious place is not only the burial place of the queen's mother, after the emperor lives for thousands of years, it will be buried with the mother.
How dare the lower officials ignore it In the past few years, the officials of the Ministry have accompanied the masters to travel all over the northern mountains and rivers, and finally selected some auspicious places, but the auspicious places selected by the masters are different, and the officials are only shallow in learning, and they do not know much about Feng Shui, it is really difficult to make a decision.
Xia Xun suddenly felt bad when he heard it, and then he understood why they were happy when they saw him, you don't understand feng shui, and my brother doesn't understand it Xia Xun hurriedly excused himself and said: "Ah, my lord is actually just casually come in and sit, I heard that the renovation of the imperial city has taken shape, I think I should go and see the imperial city."
It's good for Zhang Shangshu to make a decision on this matter of choosing auspicious soil."
Xia Xun was about to slip away as he spoke, where was Zhang Wentao willing to let go, grabbed him and said: "Guogong is a little restless, this matter is urgent, Guogong must help the lower officials get an idea" Zhang Wentao said while waving his hand and said: "Master Bailin, first tell Guogong about the auspicious Yang Jia you chose."
A fat monk wearing a big red robe stepped forward and said: "Lao Wei is from Shuzhong, and he is a master of the Tang Dynasty and a descendant of the Eight Houses School of Feng Shui."
Zhang Shangshu said: "Grandpa Guo, Bailin in Shuzhong, it is very famous in the Bashu area" Master Bai Lin said proudly: "Lao Wei used the gossip set of nine stars with eight houses, combined with the flow of the nine palace flying stars, and carefully calculated with the Yi Li of the Hetu Luo Book, and selected an auspicious soil, which is located in the slaughterhouse camp outside the mouth.
This place has excellent feng shui and it's" Xia Xun was confused when he heard it, and said in his heart: "It's gossip and I Ching, isn't this Taoist knowledge, but it's a great monk who talks about this knowledge."
As soon as he thought of this, there was a Taoist fairy wind and dao bone wearing a nine-beam Taoist crown, wearing a gossip fairy clothes, and a silk silk tie around his waist, floating out and shouting: "A faction of nonsense, my Ming Emperor's surname is Zhu, Zhu and pig have the same sound, Zhu enters the slaughterhouse, isn't it only a way to slaughter, you only talk about nine palace gossip, flying stars and eight houses, but I don't know what to do, this place is auspicious, but it is not suitable for my Zhu Ming royal family to choose a cemetery" Zhang Shangshu hurriedly explained: "This Taoist Dao is called Dongshan Ling, and he is a famous feng shui master in Damao Mountain, Jiangxi. ” Dongshan Ling made a joke to Xia Xun and said: "The feng shui techniques learned by the poor road are based on the nine stars of Luoshu, and the basis of the natural landscape is taken externally, combined with the study of three-yuan luck, through the operation of the dragon and the acupoint, the flying star cloth plate and the collection of the mountain and other magic calculations, it should be like a god."
Poor Dao selected a good place, just at the foot of Yang Mountain in the southwest of Changping County, here" To be continued: