Chapter 671 Pie in the Sky
It's really a piece of cake!
Qi Hui, the head of Louguan Dao, didn't expect that he would have such a good thing when he came to the border this time.
Zuo Youxian, the head of the Taoist lineage, was able to successfully advance to the martial arts master because he entered the Desert Temple. That's it.
Rumor has it that the reason why Bi Xuan, the Turkic martial arts master, was able to become a martial arts master was because he entered the Desert Temple. This is a good place.
The most important thing is that Zuo Youxian said that he could give the Central Plains Dao Sect access to the Desert Temple, but it would be in exchange for the core books of each Dao lineage.
Qi Hui was overjoyed and directly agreed to the exchange on behalf of Louguan Dao!
As for the reactions of the other Dao lines, he would know after he asked one by one, very quickly.
In fact, the other three Dao leaders who were traveling with him also immediately agreed to the exchange proposed by Zuo Youxian.
Although the core books of their Dao lines are precious, they are not the most important core martial arts inheritance.
As for the lineage of the Taoist Ancestor, whether they can comprehend other core martial arts inheritances by reading and comprehending the core classics of other Taoist lines, that is none of their business.
To be honest, Qi Hui is also full of bitter tears.
Since the end of the Han Dynasty, there have not been many powerful Taoist masters in the Taiqing lineage.
Ge Hong Ge Tianshi is one, and the rest are gone.
But if you look at the lineage of Laozi and Zhuangzi, there are really talented people, and there is almost no interruption in the generation of masters.
The most famous ones are Zhang Jiao, the general of Tiangong, and Sun En, the Taoist of Tianshi, who came later. They are all Taoist masters of the grand master level, and Sun En directly broke through the void and left.
When it came to the Sui Dynasty, Ning Daoqi, the first master of the Central Plains, appeared!
I feel depressed just thinking about it. Isn’t the inheritance of the Taiqing lineage powerful?
Where is the problem? In fact, Qi Hui also knows it well, but it is difficult to accept it.
The core classic of the Taiqing lineage is the "Tao Te Ching", which can be said to be the general outline of Taoism in the world.
But the problem is that it is not something that ordinary Taoists can do to comprehend martial arts by understanding the Tao Te Ching.
Even Ge Hong, the Taoist master, took a different approach and mainly studied the Dan Jing inherited from the Taiqing lineage, and finally became a generation of Dan King!
And the inheritance of Laozi and Zhuangzi is too imaginative.
Just one chapter of "Xiaoyaoyou" can allow very talented Taoist masters to easily comprehend all kinds of powerful martial arts methods, which is so unreasonable.
But the world of the Twin Dragons of the Tang Dynasty really loves imagination.
The main reason why the Taoist lineage is so important is that the Taoist lineage can also be regarded as a branch of the Taiqing lineage, and it can be regarded as a true Taoist lineage.
In addition, the "Ziwu Gang" practiced by Zuo Youxian is also based on the Yin and Yang Dao.
This is basically the same as the martial arts inheritance of the Taiqing lineage!
Zuo Youxian was able to successfully advance to the realm of martial arts master through the enlightenment of the Desert Temple. Qi Hui naturally had full confidence in the fellow Taoists of Louguan Dao and himself.
The exchange was successfully completed, and both the host and the guest were happy.
The following series of cooperation discussions were naturally quite smooth.
At this point, the Central Plains Dao Sect naturally could not continue to ignore the influence of the Daozu Zhenchuan lineage.
They had made a decision to send their core disciples who were both civil and martial, and with the help of the strength and influence of the Daozu Zhenchuan lineage, they could successfully gain a foothold in the border areas and even the grassland tribes outside the Great Wall.
Jia Huan's words made sense: "Only Buddhism is allowed to expand in the heart of the Central Plains. Can't our Taoism spread its tentacles and expand its influence and living space?"
"The Taoist sages at the beginning also mustered up the courage to cut down mountains and destroy temples, and step by step developed Taoism and became one of the giants in the world now!"
"It can't be that the younger generation of disciples enjoy the stable foundation laid by their ancestors, but don't have much desire to emulate the sages, right?"
This remark made Qi Hui and other Taoist leaders in the Central Plains very embarrassed, and some passion was also aroused in their hearts.
The last topic of discussion was how the Taoists in the Central Plains could help the people in the heart of the Central Plains to settle in the border areas.
This year is the fifth year of Daye, and Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty has made big moves one after another.
The most amazing move was to recruit millions of strong men from Hebei to build the Grand Canal in the northern section of the Yellow River.
Not only were the young and strong laborers in the entire Hebei almost completely withdrawn, but they also needed young and strong women to take over.
It can be said that after this incident, Hebei was seriously injured and it would be difficult to recover in less than ten years.
However, Yang Guang was impatient and directly limited the construction period, which was simply forcing countless young and strong laborers to die. This was crazy to the extreme.
The reason why Yang Guang was so anxious was that he wanted to personally conquer Goguryeo.
No matter what, the people of Hebei suffered a great disaster, and when the canal construction period was over, there were hundreds of thousands of casualties.
During this period, the clerks arranged by the Taoist True Transmission in the Ministry of Works naturally worked a lot on the front-line construction sites.
They encouraged many young and strong laborers to bring their families to join the Taoist True Transmission forces in the border.
There was no way, the people were really scared.
The most unlucky people were the powerless civilians due to the frequent big moves of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty.
In Hebei alone, many young and strong laborers were recruited for the second or even third time to participate in various huge projects.
Even if you have steel and iron bones, you can't stand such tossing.
In the autumn of the third year of Daye, members of the Daozu True Transmission lineage took the initiative to persuade young and strong laborers to take their families to settle in the border areas. They would be very hesitant and didn't know whether to listen.
But now, the young and strong laborers can't care so much. They put themselves and their families in a safe environment first.
So too, the number of people coming to the border areas has increased in recent months.
According to the Daozu True Transmission lineage and the rough statistics of the border government, since the Daozu True Transmission lineage started to take action and boasted among the young and strong laborers, there have been almost 300,000 people who have successfully settled in the border towns.
In the past, this would definitely not happen!
As time goes by, this number will become larger and larger!
Who knows, with the efforts of the Daozu True Transmission lineage, the number of people coming to settle in the border will gradually reach or even exceed one million!
When that time comes, relying solely on the people and troops at the border, the foreign tribes outside the Great Wall will be suppressed so that they dare not act rashly, and the tentacles of the foreign tribes outside the Great Wall will be firmly isolated from the hinterland of the Central Plains.
Of course, this is just Jia Huan's idea, and he has not told anyone, not even his senior brother, for fear of causing unnecessary trouble and misunderstanding.
The high-level officials of the Central Plains Taoist sect naturally do not know Jia Huan's thoughts, but they have long seen the actions of the Taoist ancestor's true lineage. If they can help those poor young and strong laborers, they will not be stingy.
Anyway, they only need to send enough people, and the Taoist ancestor's true lineage will be responsible for the guarantee of all logistical materials and money and food!
Under the premise that he cannot influence Yang Guang's decision, Jia Huan can only do so much.