Chapter 373: New Mountain Gate (1)
Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty, the ancient imperial capital, Xuanfeng City.
It is backed by a large lake in the north, with two mountain ranges in the east and west supporting it like two swimming dragons, and in the south is an endless plain with fertile land and abundant products. Countless cities are dotted in it, with thriving populations and a peaceful and tranquil life.
Xuanfeng City is a city in the shape of a Chinese character “回”.
The smallest entrance has walls no more than ten feet high all around. Inside is the imperial city where the emperor lives and holds court.
The largest entrance is surrounded by walls thirty feet high, and countless dignitaries and aristocratic families live here.
Outside the largest entrance, streets and alleys are crisscrossed, neighborhoods are scattered, and buildings stretch for hundreds of miles. This area without city walls is inhabited by wealthy businessmen and the common people.
Today, in the huge Xuanfeng City, countless officials and citizens are frantically spreading a piece of news.
Emperor Xuan Taiyi issued an imperial edict to the world, in which Princess Yunjiu, Xuanying, was kind and virtuous, intelligent, brave, resolute, diligent, and filial. She was appointed as the personal guard of the Black Swallow Guard, to supervise the royal army of Xuan Dynasty, to comfort the people and punish the criminals, to save the people of Yan Dynasty from danger. In one battle, she won the battle and took over 200,000 miles of Yan Dynasty and 3.8 million miles of territory of 62 vassal states.
The Ninth Princess Xuanying has a commendable heart, praiseworthy conduct, and her achievements are a model for all the royal family members and ministers of the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty.
Therefore, the ninth princess Xuanzhen was named "Princess Tianwu" and was granted a fertile land of one state and three counties with a width of 180,000 miles and a length of 120,000 miles 120,000 miles southwest of Xuanfeng City as her fiefdom.
As soon as this imperial decree was issued, all the civil and military officials in the court and countless people who heard the news went crazy.
In the history of the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty, there was an empress.
However, all those empresses were able to ascend the throne successfully because they were appreciated by their ancestors through the "palace fighting" drama, or because they had the support of the big shots in Canghai Tower.
In the history of the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty, there has never been any empress who could personally lead a large army to expand the territory like Xuanzhen did.
The title of "Tianwu" was so noble that it put all of Xuan's brothers and sisters under his feet. Not to mention that the other princes and princesses were still struggling in their own mansions, relying on a little salary or even financial assistance from their mother's family to survive, while Xuan had already obtained a fiefdom covering more than 100,000 miles!
In particular, that place is only 120,000 miles away from Xuanfeng City and is the most fertile and densely populated territory in the southwest.
The name of the state was "Yu", and the names of the three counties were "Bai Yu", "Qing Jue" and "Chi Yu".
Just by looking at the names of the state and three counties, you can tell how rich this land is.
Without mentioning other things, let's just say that in this territory, a hundred years ago, the imperial court counted the population of the people, and there were nearly 10 billion people in this state and three counties. Now that a hundred years have passed, the population of the people in this state and three counties will only be greater.
How much tax can be collected every year from such a large territory?
Given Xuanzhen's personality, isn't her Black Swallow Guard going to start a round of crazy expansion?
Under the cover of the shocking news that Xuanzhen was named "Princess Tianwu", the news that the eldest prince Xuanyi was "improperly behaved" and "dissolute and impetuous", and was therefore forced to "stay at home and study for a year", seemed unimportant.
However, someone helped him become famous.
Originally, Xuan Yi did not have a very good reputation in Xuanfeng City.
As the eldest prince, his mother is the Queen of the West Palace among the two queens of Xuan Taiyi. His mother is also the legitimate daughter of the Wu family, a powerful family in Canghai Tower. Despite such a noble birth, Xuan Yi has a bad reputation of "plundering" and "competing with the people for profit" in Xuanfeng City.
Especially Fengyueye of Xuanfeng City, who regarded Xuanyi as the biggest victim.
This fellow liked to wander around brothels and pleasure boats with his lackeys, but whenever he saw valuable goods such as courtesans and prostitutes that others had worked hard to train, he would throw down a few coins and forcibly take the trained beauties back to his own residence.
Those who are able to run a business in Xuanfeng City all have powerful backers and strong connections behind them.
Although these backers and supporters could not do anything to Xuan Yi... the news that Xuan Yi was ordered to study behind closed doors really made these backers and supporters who had suffered losses at the hands of Xuan Yi ecstatic.
Therefore, the news of Xuan Yi's punishment suddenly brewed and broke out after Xuan Xing was conferred the title of Princess Tianwu. It spread throughout Xuanfeng City in a very short time, and then spread to most of the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty at a speed several times faster than the spread of the plague.
When Xuan Yi heard that his family's scandal had been spread, his study was smashed to pieces.
The young eunuchs and palace maids around Xuan Yi heard Xuan Yi shouting at the top of his lungs to greet the "evil monk" named "Fahai" and swore to make him "die a miserable death".
Xuan Yi's mother, Wu Qingmo, who was born in the Wu family of Canghai Tower, heard that her son was framed in this way in the market... All the rare and expensive furnishings in her bedroom, many rare and vintage porcelains, etc., were in bad luck and were smashed to .
The eunuchs and palace maids around Wu Qingmo also heard her hysterically cursing a "little bitch" named "Cang Jiuer", and at the same time cursed the "shameless little bitch" born to this "little bitch".
They even heard Wu Qingmo swearing and vowing to let certain "shameless, sinister bitches" know how powerful he was.
Then, Wu Qingmo hurriedly ran to find Xuan Taiyi. It was said that she hugged Xuan Taiyi's calf and cried bitterly, describing how her beloved son Xuan Yi was "humble and gentle, loyal, filial, friendly, respectful to others, diligent and hardworking". She swore to Xuan Taiyi that her son must have been "framed" by someone.
Soon, gossip from the imperial city spread out.
It is said that on a certain day of a certain year and month, Empress Wu Qingmo of the West Palace left the emperor's inner study room, where he handled government affairs, with a huge slap mark on her face, shouting and cursing all the way. In the next three days, she punished the eunuchs and palace maids around her at will, and beat nearly a hundred people to death with sticks.
A few days later, the nobles in Xuanfeng City who were not blind or deaf noticed that some powerful people in the Canghai Tower and the Wu family in Xuanfeng City began to hold a drinking party with their friends, and many evil spirits kept gathering around them like flies smelling blood.
Many thoughtful people started laughing.
Come on, the drama is about to begin again within the royal family. Let's quickly prepare snacks and tea and get ready to watch the show, shall we?
Are there any bold and trouble- making people who would make preparations in advance and add fuel to the fire?
The various disturbances in Xuanfeng City naturally had nothing to do with Lu Yi.
At this moment, Lu Yu was doing geomancy and was busy chasing dragons and finding acupuncture points.
Having helped Xuanzhen so much, and with such a huge credit being given to her out of the blue, she naturally has to give something in return.
Of course, today Lu Yi is already the dual imperial teacher of Qingyun Kingdom and Xuan Dynasty, holding a high position of power and influence that is extraordinary.
However, it is obviously impossible for him to seek the same status in the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty - the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty has a strong foundation and is very powerful. A cultivator who has just opened the Golden Lotus realm would only be an ordinary "senior official" in the court, and would not be qualified to become a "key official".
If you want to become the 'national teacher' of the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty, you must at least break through the 'illuminating the void' realm, right?
Moreover, it cannot be an ordinary 'Illuminating the Void' realm, it must be the peak and ultimate cultivation in the 'Illuminating the Void' realm, preferably the ability of 'Half-step Heavenly Man Realm', and you must have unique and special skills and magical powers that are unmatched by other cultivators of the same realm, only then can you sit firmly in this position with peace of mind!
Therefore, Lu Yu is now just a guest official of Princess Tianwu Xuanzhen, and of course he has a relatively special status among her guests.
It was so special that Xuanzhen allowed him to arbitrarily select a piece of land with a length and width of 3,000 miles in his newly acquired fiefdom to open a mountain gate and build a temple, and at the same time open the mountain gates widely to recruit disciples.
Xuanxuan spoke, and of course Lu Yi would not be polite.
In the past few days, Lu Yi has already circled Xuanxuan's fiefdom twice, and finally set his eyes on a good location west of Yuzhou.
This area, to the north, northwest and northeast, is bordered by small branches of the Minshan mountain range west of Yuzhou. The mountain peaks are like screens, gently embracing a fertile plain covering thousands of miles in radius.
The area of this plain is about the same size as the territory that Xuanzang promised to Lu Yi.
On the south side of the roughly fan-shaped plain, a river more than ten miles wide meanders through it. The water flow is gentle, and the water body is deep and clear. There has never been any drought or flood, and the land on both sides of the river is extremely moist.
Lu Yi used the Buddhist vision to trace the direction of the underground spiritual veins and discovered that there was an excellent Feng Shui site at the northernmost part of the plain, at the foot of a small branch of Min Mountain.
The soil here is strong, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is extremely active and rich, and the Taoist rhyme is agile and graceful. It is indeed a blessed land and can be an excellent place for cultivation. If it is combined with Lu Yi's Five Elements Feng Shui formation, I really don't know what kind of "holy land" or "immortal land" it can evolve into.
However, on this Feng Shui treasure land, there is already a huge manor, and the area within hundreds of miles is all the private property of the manor owner.
The sharp cries of the big black swallows resounded through heaven and earth. Ten thousand Black Swallow Guards circled in the sky, and their huge wingspan was like a dark cloud, covering the top of the manor.
Under Lu Yi's command, 30,000 Taoist monks formed a Buddhist formation and marched forward with rumbling steps towards the manor in front of them where a large defensive formation had been set up.
Inside the manor, thousands of private soldiers looked at the Black Swallow Guards in the sky at a loss. Faced with the might of 30,000 Taoist soldiers, they felt their legs go weak and they had no idea how to respond.
If we fight, we will definitely not win.
But today, by chance, the owner of the manor, the head of the Lin family, one of the richest families in Yuzhou, was on summer vacation in the manor with his beautiful wife and concubines. These private soldiers were all the family sons of the Lin family, who had signed a death contract to sell themselves for generations, so even if they wanted to escape, they dared not.
Lin Sheng, the current patriarch of the Lin family, stood on the low wall of the manor with gritted teeth, looking at the Black Swallow Guards in the sky with a look of panic.
"I am Lin Sheng, the head of the Lin family in Yuzhou."
In the sky, a female commander of the Black Swallow Guard swung her sword downwards expressionlessly. A ray of sword light slashed down, causing the defensive formation to shake violently. The sound of building collapse could be heard in many places in the manor.
"The Lin family of Yuzhou colluded with bandits and plotted evil. In compliance with the order of Princess Tianwu, we are here today to arrest and punish them."
"Release the formation, go out and kneel down to surrender, and you will have a few more days to live."
"If we break through the formation and attack, you will all die!"
