Chapter 210 Shi Hesheng

The Upper Palace is still the same, with seven gardens, one gate and eight areas, named Qian, Kun, Kan, Li, Zhen, Gen, Xun and Dui respectively.

Zhen Garden is located in the east, where the four-grade priests live.

Dui Garden is located in the west, where the high-grade teachers of the academy live.

The south gate is the main gate, named Li Gate, which is connected to the Mingtang through a long bridge of more than 300 feet.

Kan Garden is in the north, where the main teaching area is located.

To the northeast is Gen Garden, where the "Tianshui Yixin Tower" is located.

To the southeast is Xun Garden, which is only connected to Zhen Garden and has been opened up as a residence for alternate priests and reserve priests.

To the northwest is Qian Garden, which has an extremely open white jade square and a huge auditorium for holding various ceremonies.

To the southwest is Kun Garden, which is only connected to Dui Garden and faces Xun Garden across the Li Gate. This is where the great master of the palace and the high-level officials of the Taoist Palace live.

The newly promoted second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests are not cabbages on the roadside, and are definitely not comparable to the fourth-grade priests. This time, there are only twenty people at most, and they are not from the same year. Some people like Xu Jiaorong were too busy to get promoted that year, so they had to postpone it, from last year and the year before last to this year. This is also reasonable. If there are too few people, then save them and wait for more people to come together. You can't let a bunch of Taoist masters teach two or three people, that would be too wasteful.

Because the number of second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests is too small, there is no need to open up a special park. Just arrange them in Kunyuan where the Grand Master of the Palace is.

Entered the upper palace all the way.

The gate is connected to a straight long bridge as wide as the steps outside, with half-person-high railings on both sides. Looking over the railing, under the bridge are continuous roofs and treetops, as well as a road like a chessboard. It can be seen that someone is walking in it, that is the lower palace.

Looking down from above, the whole Wanxiang Taoist Palace is like three "口" characters put together, that is, another "口" is put outside the "Hui" character. The innermost "small mouth" is the Mingtang, the "middle mouth " wrapped around the Mingtang is the upper palace, which is connected to the second floor of the Mingtang by a bridge, and the outermost "big mouth" is the lower palace. Because it is not a suspended building, the bridge is omitted and it is directly connected to the first floor of the Mingtang.

It is also because of this that if you look from the front, the Wanxiang Taoist Palace is like a mountain divided into three layers.

Qi Xuansu had already sighed once when he came last time, and he didn't feel much this time. It's just a pity for Xiao Yin. She can also come in, but she can only go to the fourth-grade Jijiu Taoist priest for further study. She hid when she heard it, and would rather go home to find her grandfather to go to private school than come to study.

At the end of the bridge is the main building of the Wanxiang Taoist Palace, the Mingtang. It is 300 feet high, 300 feet north-south and 300 feet east-west, with three floors in total: the four sides of the lower floor correspond to the four seasons, namely spring, summer, autumn and winter; the middle floor follows the twelve hours, with a round cover on top, held by nine dragons; the upper floor follows the twenty-four solar terms, also a round cover, with a golden phoenix on top, and is one foot high. There is a huge wooden pile in the middle of the Mingtang, which serves as the main trunk for the bracket beams, and runs through the upper and lower parts, called Wanxiang.

Generally, when new students report, they have to go to the signing room in the southwest corner of the Mingtang to register and receive a jade pendant to prove their identity and open the residential access control. They need to hand it in when they leave.

It is different now. Second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests all have scriptures, and they can directly authorize on the scriptures.

Zhang Juxian is Zhang Juyan's brother. When Zhang Juyan let Zhang Wuhen go, he died because of it. How to deal with this matter still needs to be communicated with the Zhang family. I don’t know how Shi Dazhenren and Tianshi discussed it. In the end, Zhang Juxian was transferred to take over Zhang Juyan’s position.

Zhang Juxian was in a complicated mood at this time. Zhang Juyan was indirectly killed by Qi Xuansu. At that time, Qi Xuansu had just been promoted to the fourth-rank priest, but in a blink of an eye, Qi Xuansu not only replaced Qi Jianyuan, who also died in the Wanxiang Taoist Palace that year, but also surpassed him by far, becoming the youngest second-rank Taiyi Taoist, even surpassing the three Taoist masters.

In the past, Qi Jianyuan was "Da Qi" and Qi Xuansu was "Xiao Qi". Now there is no distinction between Da Qi and Xiao Qi. There is only one Qi, Qi Xuansu's Qi.

In the past, when mentioning Qi Zhenren, there was only one, that is, Qi Jiaozheng Qi Zhenren. Now when mentioning Qi Zhenren, one can't help but ask one more question, which Qi Zhenren? It's impossible to divide it into Old Qi Zhenren and Da Qi Zhenren, so everyone tacitly changed their words. When mentioning Qi Jiaozheng, it means Wan Miao Zhenren, and Qi Zhenren specifically refers to Qi Xuansu.

Speaking of which, Xiao Yin's full name is Wan Miao. If Xiao Yin becomes a Zhenren in the future, I'm afraid Qi Jiaozheng will not even be able to keep the title of Wan Miao Zhenren and will have to change his words again.

It would be even more interesting if Xiao Yin changed his name to Qi Wanmiao after Qi Xuansu.

Old Qi Zhenren, Great Qi Zhenren, Little Qi Zhenren.

Zhang Juxian originally had some opinions about Qi Xuansu, which had nothing to do with Zhang Yuelu, but the things about Zhang Wuhen and Zhang Juyan were hard to describe. But now it was hard to say anything even if he had any opinions. The Heavenly Master would not support him, and the gap in status was there. What could he do with this future Chanzhi Zhenren?

Soon, under the leadership of Zhang Juyan, Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu came to the residence of the Grand Master of the Palace in Kun Garden. Because the Taoist sect advocated frugality, it was not a magnificent palace, but an ordinary residence.

Ning Yuqing just came out of it and was stunned when she saw Qi Xuansu.

It had been just a few years since the last meeting. Qi Xuansu had not changed much, but his aura had changed. Qi Xuansu's aura had changed a lot. His past cautiousness was replaced by majesty and decisiveness, and it was even more fierce.

This kind of ferocity is not the murderous spirit that was derived from killing people in the past, but the temperament honed by manipulating cities and conquering territories on the battlefield, and deciding the lives and deaths of thousands of people in temples. It is far from comparable to the ferocity of the Jianghu people who kill a few people.

Ning Yuqing almost didn't dare to recognize her. It wasn't until Qi Xuansu took the initiative to say hello that she was sure that the person in front of her was Qi Xuansu.

In the past, Qi Xuansu only seemed to have a bright future, but now Qi Xuansu has begun to gradually realize these four words.

The difference is huge.

In the past, Ning Yuqing had some ideas about Qi Xuansu, but now she no longer dares to ask for it too much. After all, Zhang Yuelu is by Qi Xuansu's side, and anyone who wants to call him a god is worthy of being called a god.

Ning Yuqing stepped aside and invited the two of them to come in - Master Shi Da was waiting for them in the study.

The last time Qi Xuansu came to the palace, Master Shi Da happened to be away. This time he finally saw him in person.

However, for the current Qi Xuansu, the great master Pingzhang is no longer mysterious. After all, he has met three of the seven great masters of Pingzhang, namely: Zhang Qihan, the master of Fenglinzhou Daofu, and the master of Zixiao Palace. Jiang Hedao, the great master of the palace, and Lan Hexu, the great master of Borneo Taoist government. Now there is another great master of the Wanxiang Dao Palace, Shi Hesheng.

Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu came to the study door and knocked on the door.

A strong voice came from inside: "Come in."

The two pushed the door open and entered. There was an old man sitting behind the desk, facing the study door. The desk was piled with various files.

To be fair, because of the orders of the five great masters of the Five Dynasties, all the Taoist Pingzhang masters seem to be carved out of the same mold. They are all old men with white beards and hair. Even their auras are not much different. They are not overly majestic or overly outgoing. Chen, with a little kindness and fireworks at the same time, looks approachable, more like a human being than a fairy. If you don't look carefully when you meet for the first time, you really can't tell who is who. In other words, the differences between the three divisions are quite large.

Of course, this is an unfamiliar situation. If you really get familiar with it, if you distinguish it carefully, you will find that the people of Pingzhang Dazhen are different. For example, the indifferent Lan Dazhen and Jiang Dazhen who are responsible for putting out fires are completely different. extreme.

Master Shi Da motioned the two of them to sit on the two chairs opposite him and said, "Qingxiao, we haven't seen each other for a while, right?"

Zhang Yuelu said: "The last time I met the Great Master was at the Hungry Ghost Festival Three Religions Conference."

Qi Xuansu remembered that it was during the Ghost Festival that Shi Bingyun took advantage of the lantern viewing opportunity to find Donghua Zhenren to ask for someone due to lack of manpower, and finally sent him to the Imperial Palace.

Master Shi Da then said to Qi Xuansu: "Tianyuan, this is the first time we have met, but you are from the Wanxiang Dao Palace, so you are one of your own family."

Qi Xuansu responded: "Yes."

Master Shi Da asked: "How do you feel about coming here for further training this time? If you have any requirements or any problems that I need to solve, you can tell me."

Qi Xuansu said nothing.

Zhang Yuelu said: "Da Zhenren, we have no requirements."

Master Shi Da nodded slightly and changed the subject: "You are the future and pillars of the Taoist sect, so you are different from ordinary second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests. You have no requirements, but I have to make some requirements for you."

Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu both straightened their expressions.

Master Shi Da said: "Qingxiao, I heard that you still refuse to learn the language of Westerners?"

Zhang Yuelu responded calmly: "Master, I think a language contains power, not just symbols, but also a whole set of thinking logic. If you learn the language of Westerners, you will unconsciously be influenced by it. Its influence is more biased towards Western thinking and logic. The deeper you study, the greater the impact, which is very detrimental. "

Master Shi Da's face turned solemn: "Then do you know the principle of 'know yourself and the enemy and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles'? If you don't learn the language of Westerners and don't know their logic of thinking, how can you understand them? If you don't understand them, how can you defeat them? There is a The cardinals of the Holy Court can write beautiful articles in classical Chinese, but can you write a dossier in Western languages? The Confucian sage said that among three people, I must be my teacher. Why are you so arrogant and arrogant? ?”

Zhang Yuelu was wilted - she also knew that she was being unreasonable.

Master Shi Da said: "I hope you will learn a Western language well during your further studies, and then write me a report in Western when you graduate."

Zhang Yuelu could only respond.

Master Shi Da looked at Qi Xuansu again.

Taking a lesson from the past, Qi Xuansu put his position in a very correct position, which can also be said to be slippery, and took the initiative to say: "Master Shi Da, please tell me, I will make corrections seriously."

Master Shi Da said: "Your problem is not big. You are very skillful in administering government in Borneo, which is worthy of praise. The main thing is to strengthen the study of traditional culture. You can not ask for a deep understanding, but you can't be ignorant, and then come up with something like "Jianxiu Mountain Master He" If people's jokes spread, you are not afraid of being embarrassed, but our Wanxiang Taoist Palace will be embarrassed!"

Qi Xuansu suddenly withered like Zhang Yuelu.