Chapter 57 First Entry into Hongzhou City

A convoy slowly walked on the official road to Hongzhou! There are about 1,000 soldiers in front of the head, a big sedan chair in the middle, and a five-cloud camel on the right side of the sedan chair with a sword across Ji Taixu's waist! A little red light, yang and energy are emitted through the scabbard! The sedan chair is surrounded by more than a dozen people from the imperial city department! The front left and back are Shen Hanxue, Fang Hen Shao, Fang Du, and Ji Taixu on the right. This kind of protection is not strict! However, even without the protection of Ji Taixu and others, it is almost impossible for anyone to take Zhang Xuan's life!

Ji Taixu looked up at a six-foot-sized Qingyun on the sedan chair. There was a lamp-shaped thing above the Qingyun, bursting out dazzling light, like a guide lamp in the dark, leading people forward! Behind the sedan chair is a long team of 2,000 people! Except for the people of the Imperial City Division brought by Ji Taixu, the 3,000 troops are all led by Li Yanzuo, the lieutenant of the Royal Forest Army!

Gradually, Ji Taixu saw a big city in front of him, and Ji Taixu saw the two big words Hongzhou on the top of the city! Ji Taixu took a long breath and said to Zhang Xuan in the sedan chair, "Your Excellency, we will be in Hongzhou soon!"

"Oh!" Zhang Xuan's voice came from the sedan chair: "Has Hongzhou Assassin Luoming arrived at the gate?"

Ji Taixu looked again and said, "Your Excellency! This place is still nearly five miles away from Hongzhou, and no Hongzhou officials have been found!"

"Then stop!" Zhang Xuan said, "Stop and let people inform, and let Hongzhou officials greet them at the city gate!"

"Yes!" Ji Taixu said, and then pulled the five-cloud camel back and came to a general: "General Li, Lord Zhang has an order to rest in place, ask people to go to Hongzhou City to inform, and let the big and small officials go out of the city to greet them!"

Li Yanzuo said, "Okay!" Then the order shouted, "The whole army will stop moving forward and station in place!" Li Yanzuo's order was conveyed layer by layer, but for a moment, the 3,000-person team stopped, and a soldier quickly rushed to Hongzhou City on horseback!

"Your Excellency!" Ji Taixu said to the sedan chair on a five-cloud camel.

"This Hongzhou assassin's shelf is not small!" Zhang Xuan opened the curtain on the sedan chair and said angrily, "I patrol the emperor. How dare he not come to pick him up? Don't he want this official hat?"

"Dare that Luo Ming is used to being the local emperor in Hongzhou. He is so arrogant that he has forgotten the laws and rules of the imperial court!" Ji Taixu laughed.

"Local officials have been exhausted to this extent!" Zhang Xuan said, "No wonder the Lotus Pure Land Church has messed up to this extent!"

"Why did you stop in Hongzhou when you passed through so many states and counties all the way?" Ji Taixu asked.

"Hongzhou is the throat gateway from Huaihe Road and Guanzhong Road to Huguang Road. At the junction of the three roads, there is a river in the north and Duanmen Mountain in the south. The location is very important!" Zhang Xuan said, "You have also seen that many states and counties are Bailian in the whole city. If I were the master of the White Lotus Pure Land Religion, I would send someone to occupy Hongzhou to control the throat of the north and south! So we have to stop in Hongzhou and start from Hongzhou!"

"Yes!" Ji Taixu replied!

After a while, the soldier came back on horseback and knelt down in front of the sedan chair: "Your Excellency, Hongzhou Luo Assass said that the white lotus pure land taught the bandits and people to commit riot, and the Luo Assassin is strictly monitoring! Luo Assassin and other Hongzhou officials immediately went out of the city to welcome him!"

"Go down!" Zhang Xuan said. After the soldier went down, Zhang Xuan sneered and said to Ji Taixu, "What's the situation? So I forgot!"

Ji Taixu listened to Zhang Xuan's kind tone and quickly said, "Maybe this cult is too rampant, and the assassin is responsible for a state, and things are indeed a little busy!"

"Hmm!" Zhang Xuan snorted coldly and didn't say anything.

After about two columns of incense, the gate of Hongzhou City opened, and a team of brightly flagged soldiers came out of the gate, and the neat geese lined up!

"Shall we go there?" Ji Taixu asked.

"Hmm!" Zhang Xuan snorted, obviously very dissatisfied with the neglect of Hongzhou assassin Luo Ming! Ji Taixu waved to Li Yanzuo. Li Yanzuo was calm and ordered the team to start moving forward!

When the team walked to Hongzhou City, a middle-aged official in red with a white face quickly knelt down and said, "Hongzhou's assassin Luo Mingshuai Hongzhou officials respectfully welcome the holy driver. Long live my emperor!" The surrounding Hongzhou officials also shouted in unison, "Hangthou our emperor!"

Zhang Xuan came out of the sedan chair, holding a sword in his left hand and the imperial edict in his right hand, arched his hand and said, "Holy Gong'an!"

The officials got up again under the leadership of Luo Ming and then knelt down and said, "See Lord Zhang!"

"Hmm!" Zhang Xuan snorted coldly and said, "Lord Luo, the imperial envoy came in person today. Why don't you go out of the city to greet him in advance!"

"This--" Luo Ming's scarlet official clothes immediately turned dark red, obviously soaked in sweat! Ji Taixu on the five-cloud camel beside him smiled secretly and said, "This Luo Ming is also a little unlucky, but he can even forget the arrival of the imperial envoy, which is really a little out of line. With this, it is not a loss to avoid his officials!"

"Lord!" Luo Ming, who knelt on the ground, said tremblingly, "The white lotus pure land in Hongzhou City teaches the people to make trouble, and the subordinates are really--"

"Hmm!" Zhang Xuan said harshly, "You can't get away, can you! As a member of the imperial court, you dare to go out of the city to pick up when the imperial envoy comes, which is to despise Tianwei. With this, I can kill you off the horse today!"

"Lord, please forgive me!" Luo Ming immediately kowtowed and begged!

"But--" Zhang Xuan said, "I came by order today to inspect the four directions, representing the majesty of the emperor and the etiquette of the court!"

Ji Taixu shook his head and smiled and thought, "This Zhang Xuan really wants a step at this time, hehe, I'll give him a step!"

Ji Taixu jumped off the horse and said, "Your Excellency, although there are thousands of different things, it is difficult to get out of at least. It's better to experience the virtue of heaven and let go of Luo's life for the time being!"

Zhang Xuan looked at Ji Taixu and turned his head to Luo Ming and said, "Now Lord Ji of Dingbeihou is begging for you. I have the right to spare your life today!"

"Thank you! Lord Xie Ji" Luo Ming quickly wanted the two of them to kowtow.

"But--" Zhang Xuan said, "The crime of death can be avoided, but the crime of life cannot be avoided. Today, all your official salaries will be waived to serve as an example! However, the history of a state is indispensable, and you will take the place of this history first!"

"Thank you, you must be guilty and make contributions!" Luo Ming said.

Zhang Xuan nodded without saying anything, and then Luo Ming introduced a Hongzhou official. After going through the etiquette, he took Zhang Xuan into Hongzhou! At this time, Zhang Xuan no longer took a sedan chair and rode a horse, followed by Ji Taixu, Luo Ming and others!

As soon as they entered the city, everyone felt something was wrong. Except for the soldiers and officials greeted, they could not see a single people in the city! The desolate street makes people feel like an empty city! Several pages of paper flew in front of everyone in the wind. Ji Taixu vaguely saw the words Pure Land, lotus, rebirth, and a pattern of a white lotus flower on these papers! The surrounding households hung two lotus-shaped lanterns on the door, as if every family had died!

Is this still Hongzhou with three lanes? Crowded and prosperous Hongzhou?

"This--" Zhang Xuan frowned and didn't say anything, and Ji Taixu couldn't help saying a word!

"Hey--" Luo Ming sighed and said to Ji Taixu, "Marquis, this is today's Hongzhou. When the subordinate first entered Hongzhou, there were so many people on the street that even the subordinate could not leave at all! Now it has become like this, hey--" Luo Ming sighed, and tears were already rolling in his eyes!

Ji Taixu asked, "Why is this?"

"It's not a lotus pure land religion yet!" Luo Ming scolded fiercely: "Since the emergence of this cult, my Hongzhou has never stopped. Now I can hear the sound of shocking chanting at noon every day. Except for the government and the families of various officials, every family in the city worships some bullshit lotus Buddha. Except for a few times when people do their own work to get some food, they read scriptures at home! Yesterday, Jun Tianzi, the messenger of the Pure Land Religion in the city, gathered the believers of the whole city to gather at the Lotus Pure Land Temple in the south of the city. As a result, almost all the people in the city went there! This created a scene!"

"How many masters of Pure Land Religion are there in Hongzhou City now?" Ji Taixu asked.

"There are a hundred and ten people!" Luo Ming said, "I am also a serious Confucian disciple. In my early years, I studied in Yueyang Academy. When I was young, I went to Qufu to listen to Yan Shenggong explain the Analects and knew the Confucian method of practicing qigong. Jun Tianzi, the master of Hongzhou City, is not a simple figure, but a master. The remaining 100 pure land protectors are just those who have practiced a little, and they are still a certain distance from the soldiers in the army!"

Ji Taixu nodded and said, "My soldiers in the Great Wei are generally practicing Zhou Tian's skills, and their fists and feet are extraordinary. But the Pure Land Education is like this. Why didn't you think of suppressing it!"

Luo Ming heard this and sighed and said, "The people there surrounded the evil spirits of the Pure Land Religion on the inner three floors and three floors. What can I do even if I lead the soldiers over? Don't throw rats! If it's at night, my strength is not enough to fight with Jun Tianzi. If I can't take it down with thunder, it's just a humiliation. If so, it will be even more impossible to deal with it!"

Ji Taixu also shook his head when he heard it.

"You did a good job!" Zhang Xuan said to Luo Ming, "Fortunately, you didn't act rashly, otherwise it would be difficult for me to do it after I came!"

"Too empty!" Zhang Xuan turned his head and said to Ji Taixu, "We will drive the Pure Land Religion out of Hongzhou today!"

"Your Excellency!" Luo Ming said, "Isn't this too sudden?"

"Hmm!" Zhang Xuan said, "The evils of the Pure Land Religion are so rampant that they naturally have to do it by thunderous means. Since I have arrived, I can't let the evil spirits of the Pure Land Religion run rampant! Suddenly? Humph - what I want is suddenly!"