Chapter 33 Xuanhuiyuan

Speaking of Xuanhuiyuan, Qi Xuansu had also heard of it.

Qi Xuansu mentioned this when he talked with Shi Bingyun about rectifying the atmosphere in the imperial capital.

Shi Bingyun said that there were two very prominent examples in the new policies regarding Taoism and the court. One was to rectify eunuchs, and the other was to rectify prostitutes. The former was a destruction of men, and the latter was a destruction of women. Both should be completely abolished.

Shi Bingyun did not mention Xuanhuiyuan at that time, and Qi Xuansu did not need Shi Bingyun to waste his words. When he was in Wanxiang Taoist Palace, he already knew that he would go to the imperial capital to take up a post. Since he knew that he had to read the "Great Mysterious Law", he naturally expected to deal with various forces such as Tianchensi and Xuanhuiyuan, so he had a special understanding. The collection of books in Genyuan was all-encompassing, and many Taoist secrets were hidden in it. It happened that Qi Xuansu had a good relationship with Master Sun. After explaining the reason, Master Sun waved his hand and let him read it at will.

However, Qi Xuansu never expected that prostitutes would be rectified, and the collection of books in the Wanxiang Taoist Palace would not record these, so he had to ask Shi Bingyun for advice.

In terms of eunuchs, the Taoist sect basically did not intervene. There are many reasons for this. Even in the previous dynasty, eunuchs mostly worshipped Taoism rather than Buddhism. The reason for this is said to be that a Quanzhen Taoist master was often troubled by human desires when practicing Taoism and could not calm his mind. So he castrated himself to practice Taoism. During the Wei Dynasty, although the eunuchs in the palace believed in Taoism, they did not worship the Supreme Taoist Ancestor, but worshiped this Quanzhen Taoist master.

The eunuchs kept saying that they were believers of Taoism and the main force of the royal family to check and balance the Confucian sect. Whether it was about deeds or heart, there was no big problem. If you don't look at the monks, look at the Buddha's face, the Taoist sect really couldn't do anything, so it was handed over to the court for disposal.

However, the Taoist sect also gave its own opinions. Xuansheng hoped that after these eunuchs died of old age, there would be no new eunuchs, that is, to retain the existing eunuchs and completely abolish the eunuchs in the future.

Emperor Gaozu agreed with Xuansheng's opinion and accepted nearly 100,000 eunuchs left over from the Wei court. He stopped expanding the eunuchs' size, abolished the original 24 yamen of the inner court, and set up Xuanhuiyuan for unified management.

This is the origin of Xuanhuiyuan.

Logically speaking, it has been more than 200 years since Daxuan seized the world, and those eunuchs of the previous dynasty are no longer alive, so there should be no eunuchs in the world.

However, things in the world are not over yet, and they are finally unresolved.

Eunuchs are like prostitutes. They want to be abolished and decided to be abolished, but in the end they were not abolished, but retained. It's just that compared with the scale of 100,000 in the previous dynasty, it has shrunk a lot. Now there are probably less than 10,000 people left, and they only exist in the palace city, unlike the previous dynasty, which sent various eunuchs and military supervisors to guard the city.

The reason for this is that we have to mention a special inheritance that is independent of the inheritance of the six immortals of heaven, earth, man, god, ghost, and corpse transformation - Yin and Yang people.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Wei Dynasty, in order to protect the royal family, the Qingluan Guard and the 24 inner court offices were established. The Qingluan Guard had 13 Taibao, recruiting strange people for their own use. The eunuchs were cultivated by the royal family themselves since childhood and were given the inheritance left by a Confucian master who was proficient in the doctrines of the three religions. They were the legendary "great inner court masters" in the rivers and lakes. The eunuchs also passed on the master-disciple relationship from generation to generation, just like the sects.

This inheritance is like "sanren", a patchwork and fabricated inheritance, but sanren can achieve immortality, while yin and yang people cannot achieve immortality, so there is no immortality.

Although the eunuchs firmly believe that this inheritance is not from Confucianism, but from the Quanzhen Taoist master who castrated himself to cultivate immortality, they believe that the master has already glimpsed the mystery of immortality and realized the essence of the transformation of heaven and man and the growth of all things, but so far, no eunuch has achieved immortality.

The Taoist sect naturally looks down on this incomplete inheritance that requires self-mutilation.

However, this kind of inheritance has an advantage that the six Taoist immortals cannot match, that is, living by relying on dragon veins, and can suppress the three corpses in the body from attacking life through dragon energy. Even if you cannot achieve immortality, you can achieve pseudo immortality, and there is no heavenly tribulation.

The immortal can be immortal by cutting off the three corpses, but the heavenly tribulation once a hundred years is equivalent to the heaven forcing you to ascend to the world, because immortality breaks the rule that all things have life and death, withering and flourishing, either kill or drive away, one of the two choices.

But the Yin and Yang people took advantage of this. In this regard, they are quite similar to the gods, but the gods feed on incense and vows, while the Yin and Yang people feed on dragon veins and dragon energy.

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The so-called dragon vein luck, Kunlun is not only a Taoist holy land, but also the ancestor of all mountains. The three major dragon veins in the world all originated from Kunlun. According to the trend of mountains, rivers and the hidden dragon veins, from west to east, the winding terrain of the dragon veins is regarded as the Feng Shui veins, which are divided into three forces, called the Three Dragons, namely: the south of the river is the South Dragon, the middle dragon between the river and the long river, and the north of the long river is the North Dragon.

The South Dragon and the Middle Dragon have collapsed one after another, leaving only the North Dragon.

The mountains of the North Dragon are majestic and majestic. From Kunlun Mountain to the east, the South Mountain and the Central Mountain stretch vertically and horizontally, and the mountains embrace each other, forming a series of good places for entering the dragon and the dragon of fortune. The water on the west side of the mountain flows into the West River of Longmen Prefecture, and the water on the east side of the mountain flows into Youzhou and flows east to the sea. Beimang Mountain is the remnant of the South Mountain, so the Feng Shui is excellent, which has attracted emperors and generals of all dynasties to build mausoleums here.

If the North Dragon is regarded as a giant dragon that goes down the river and into the sea, then the dragon's tail is in Kunlun, the dragon's head is in Bohai Prefecture on the coast of the East China Sea, the Five Elements Mountain is the reverse scale, and the Imperial Capital City is just the finishing touch.

If the Imperial Capital is the eye of the North Dragon, then the Imperial City is the pupil. All the spiritual energy of the mountains and rivers in the two encircling circles outside the Imperial Capital is gathered here. This is used to build a large formation. If it can be fully opened, even immortals cannot resist the majestic power of the formation and have to retreat.

However, this formation also has flaws. It can only block people who have a sense of the way of heaven, that is, only immortals will be restricted by the formation, and others are not restricted.

In addition, the dragon vein is closely related to the fate of the dynasty. If the dynasty is at its peak, the dragon energy is majestic, even if the immortals come to the world, they will not be rash. But at the end of the dynasty, the dragon energy is weak, and there are leaks everywhere. The constraints on the immortals are not so great, at least they cannot let an immortal be captured.

Now, the North Dragon has also shown its decline. The court once invited more than a hundred real people and great real people from the three sects of Taoism to gather together for geomancy and came to a conclusion that the North Dragon is the last dragon in the world. After the North Dragon, there is no dragon vein. The throne of the emperor that started with Zulong may end here.

This is a big change that has not happened in three thousand years. However, if the Great Xuan Imperial Family can deal with it properly, retreat to a leisurely life, enjoy the years, and receive courtesy from the people of the world, it is not a bad thing to jump out of the vicious circle of the death and extinction of the imperial family of all dynasties.

At that time, the big tree of the imperial family can't protect itself, so the eunuchs who originated from and depended on the imperial family of all dynasties will naturally die together.

It is the rise of the king, and he must die with this, this is the truth of heaven.

However, before this, the eunuchs can still linger, as long as they don't leave the imperial capital, they can live forever. Legend has it that there are several old monsters in the depths of the palace city who have lived for more than two hundred years. They are old people of the previous dynasty. Although they are about to decay, like living dead, their cultivation is unfathomable. As long as they are inside the palace city, they have the power to fight even against immortals.

This is also one of the reasons why the Daxuan royal family violated the decision of their ancestors and re-employed eunuchs.

Immortals of longevity are respected and are the leaders of the three religions. How can they be willing to be slaves? But these old eunuchs are different. They feed on dragon energy to barely survive and live in shame. However, dragon energy is in the hands of the emperor. Therefore, no matter how unfathomable their realm and cultivation are, these old eunuchs must obey the emperor's orders and protect the emperor's safety. The temptation for the emperor is too great. Especially after Beilong fell into decline, the Imperial Capital formation also became worse day by day. It was like the end of the dynasty. The dragon energy was weak and leaked everywhere. At least, an immortal of longevity could not be captured.

Although the Taoists comforted the royal family, this was just the decline of the dragon veins and dragon energy itself, which had nothing to do with the national destiny of the dynasty. Since then, the national destiny has turned from obvious to hidden. In the future, there will be no sorcerers who can judge the trend of national destiny by looking at the energy, but the royal family is still worried. When the formation gradually fails, these eunuchs become more and more important.

Another point is that the eunuchs are not willing to sit and wait for death.

Just like the cruel officials, the emperor used the cruel officials to attack the enemy, and then threw the cruel officials away, and all the black pots were on the cruel officials. But the cruel officials are not stupid, and they don't want to be abandoned by the emperor, so they will try their best to make the emperor anxious, let the emperor think that he is in crisis, and encourage the emperor to start a big case, so they have a place to use their power, such as the matter of the prince.

The mentality of the eunuchs is the same. Seeing that the court has decided to reduce and abolish the eunuchs, many old eunuchs are anxious. So the eunuchs played a fishing trick.

At that time, the overall situation of the world was initially determined, people's hearts were unstable, and undercurrents were surging. Some Confucian forces still had a resistance attitude towards the new dynasty (this chapter is not finished!)

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, especially the new policies of the Daxuan court such as measuring the land of the world, clearing the hidden fields, and dividing the land tax, which seriously damaged the interests of these traditional gentry who relied on the land for food.

The eunuchs noticed the attitude of the gentry and sent people to sneak in, disguised as radical Confucian disciples, secretly colluded, and secretly gathered dead soldiers. During the reign of Emperor Taizong, they launched a rebellion and attacked the imperial city, and even the ministers in the court responded.

This caught Emperor Taizong by surprise. At this time, the Taoist sect was fighting fiercely with the Buddhist sect, and even the Confucian forces that had surrendered to Daxuan were involved in the battlefield in the Western Regions. The situation was quite critical.

At this time, the eunuchs showed great loyalty, regardless of their own safety, protecting the emperor, and suffered countless casualties. In the end, they successfully suppressed the rebellion.

This move naturally won the approval of Emperor Taizong. Although he did not openly re-establish the 24 yamen and let the eunuchs interfere in politics, he no longer reduced and suppressed the eunuchs, so that the Xuanhuiyuan has continued to this day.

As for the inside story, it was not until the reign of Emperor Gaozong of this dynasty that it was gradually known. At this time, Emperor Taizong was no longer in the world, and there was no such thing as deceiving the emperor. The key point was that the royal family could not do without eunuchs, so it was left unresolved.

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