Three days later, we were already outside Pengcheng City, Xuzhou, Huaibei Road, which is also the capital of Huaibei Road in the usual sense. After the Taixing reform, the Grand Chief Office, governor, inspector, interview, branch, transfer, salt and iron, and Hecao envoys were sent by the generals.

Compared to the Jidong garrison who had passed by before, which had Jeju, Qizhou and half of Hunzhou, the local garrison and population in Xuzhou were much larger.

Because today, Xuzhou is also the head of the four towns in Huaibei, the capital and garrison of the Qingxu Jiedushi. It is under the leadership of the six prefectures of Yi, Hai, Si, Meng, Hao and Ying. It occupies almost the hinterland of most of the essence of Huaibei Road, and also the sea outlet of Haizhou, as a benefit for trade, fishing and trade.

Therefore, although Qing Xuzhen itself was inevitably involved in the Luodu Incident and stood on the side of the opposition, the final result obtained from the court was not only refuted, and the symbolicity of the title and fines was greater than the substantial punishment.

The seemingly most severe result was that the contemporary Jiedu governor Du Guishen submitted a letter to resign and recommended his son to stay as the Jiedu. This was just because the contemporary Jiedu family was united enough and did not give the regent from the center and had too many opportunities to take advantage of.

After all, in troubled times, strength is the most fundamental backing. Such survival rules are best explained in a light edict issued by the emperor's name.

But for me, when I heard the familiar name Qing Xuzhen, I recalled a little sadly, those who were killed by me and killed in the underground pipeline after killing each other.

Because there are enough control over the three sides as a buffer, even though they had a big battle with Songzhou before the New Year, Pengcheng, as the capital, has not reduced much prosperity and popularity.

Just the height of the city wall and the range of the city wall in the field of view are calculated by several miles, and it is estimated that it can accommodate 200,000 to 300,000 households.

If you can ignore and ignore the new unknown corpses that have been gnawed in the suburbs outside the city, put on bids and sell their heads, or the mass graves.

But the most difficult winter has finally passed, and the short-term demand for servants and tenants has gradually recovered with the arrival of spring, so the faces of those who survived no longer seem so desperate and despair.

So as soon as someone passes by, they flock to the peddlers who sell themselves, and then they are beaten by whipping and sticks, and dispersed again.

At least here, we are good people who have the status and trust and have merchants as insurance, and their private pockets and corresponding money are enough to get what we want in the short term in this city.

So I bought the old horse and an old caravan that I rode all the way over, and renamed it Red Tiger III. After all, because its predecessor was handed over to Su Jingxian for humanitarian destruction, I guess it is now lying in a butcher's meat stall.

As long as you cross the Huai River, even if you completely escape the sphere of influence that the powerful minister could control, the princes and vassal states in Huainan nominally followed the orders of Luodu and were influenced by the powerful ministers, but they had much more autonomy.

However, it seems that due to the impact of the Luodu Incident and the recent tense relationship between Xuzhou and Huainan, the remaining journey does not seem to be easy to walk.

I can rest a few more days here, make some preparations and planning, wait for new news and changes, and handle other things.

Because of that famous post, the caravan that came with me introduced me to a family of related contacts that were always in contact. It is said that it is a local time-honored brand and is also a large storehouse run by a guest house - Shengchanglou.

It is said to be a building, but it is actually a multi-directional building complex, with guest houses, dining halls, stables, warehouses, cargo shops, and carriages. Next to it is a small market and a street full of shops. It can be said that it is very convenient in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Now is not the peak season for business travel, so if you have familiar customers, just spend a little more money, you can get two parallel large rooms in the left corner of the top floor from the four-story wooden building on the west edge. The view here is convenient, and the street market is not far downstairs. Although the environment is a bit noisy, the doors and windows are thick enough, and the sound insulation effect of the closed is still good.

The doors and windows are inlaid with translucent colors of glass, and the interior is mainly hardwood furniture, bedding, tent hangings, and bedding all look clean and tidy, without any mold or other odors.

All floors here are connected by external corridors, so the relative privacy of the interior is relatively good. Apart from the servants they call, no one will pass by deliberately. There is no problem staying in the room for many days.

We were here to replenish our mental and physical losses on the journey, and we couldn't even take care of washing up. We were sleepy and we fell asleep until the next evening. We were hungry and moved to the crotch downstairs, so that we could bring local dinners, beef sour soup, oily crumbs, and a stack of jars that were not famous.

After resting enough, I squatted with my head in my arms, spent two days visiting several markets, and led the Red Tiger to buy a lot of things again.

Including several bookstores, I bought a lot of miscellaneous old books and then handed them over to read them with my head in my arms, hoping that this would help her reply to some memories.

Then at night, after closing the door, she was trained to use a crossbow and a simple self-defense skill. She mainly relied on her petite and harmless body shape and appearance to deceive, and she was not prepared and asked her key wolf prevention techniques.

After all, girls of this age have no advantages in physically based endurance and explosion, and can only work hard on skills and strategies. Of course, it is said that the earliest template was from a tomboy on the forum who claimed to have broken JJ and pinched and burst the balls.

This was also the request she made on her own initiative, the reason was that she did not want to be a burden to me. After seeing such a tragic thing, she would at least give him a chance to save himself or avoid dragging me down.

I could only touch her head and comfort her, "You're thinking too much, and then the next day I started teaching her some self-defense skills."

Although I know she works very hard and is easy to learn, I didn't expect that the touch she felt better than me with the hand crossbow. Although I found out that she had actually practiced secretly before. She could use geckos as a target and maintain a normal hit rate.

Looking at her serious and slowly, I sometimes have an illusion, as if we are not in this ancient and chaotic alien time and space, but in the alienated scene of the classic old movie "A Killer Not Too Cold".

On the third day, when I walked into the room with a leather bag, I saw my head squatting and curled up with my fair legs, leaning against the corner of the bed reading. It seemed that because the content was interesting and fascinating, even my expression became much more vivid.

With the light breathing, under the fine mottled Chuyang, there was a little girl of this age who should have a cute and cute taste.

I couldn't help but reach out to touch the pointed pink chin, and then she trembled, her eyelids trembled, and she slowly returned to her cute appearance when she saw me.

"I haven't remembered anything yet."

I touched her head, squatted and shook my head with my head, as if I was trying to throw something away from my head.

"Then keep following me..."

"Um.."

At this moment, I seemed to hear some cheerful tone, but when I saw her still in the same shape, I felt that it was just my personal illusion.

"Go ahead, it's time for us to go out..."

“Where to go…”

"Go to the temple to see the monk..."

What we are going to is Chenguo Temple, which is said to be from the Lingnan court and another reserve contact base.

In fact, I found a teahouse outside and sat down. After a while, I found out that the place was there, and it was nothing else, because Chenguo Temple is so famous in the local area that everyone knows it.

Because this is the largest and most famous jungle treasure temple in the local area, and there is no doubt about it.

To be honest, this is obviously very different from the remote temples that I imagined that there are not many unpopular small households, but are more suitable for protecting their identities and underground strongholds.

Therefore, I spent an extra day inquiring about the relevant situations and the existence of other temples so as not to get the wrong target.

Unlike the Mahayana exoteric temples in the traditional sense of Dharma, Tiantai, Three Treatises, Huayan, Pure Land, South and North Zen, this large temple is a relatively rare Tantric temple in the state dynasty.

It is said that it originated from one of the three great masters of Kaiyuan, the national master of the Taixing period, the national master of the Taixing period, and the Guru Padmasambhava who traveled far away from the Western Regions, and was known as one of the two major fundamentals of the Tang Dynasty's Tantric Buddhism, Dongmi and Ximi.

In the original time and space, it was like a flash in the pan and the three great masters of Kaiyuan who soon declined, and the specific birth process of Ximi that appeared out of thin air is also quite dramatic. It can be traced back to the Taixing period when Liang Gongxi pacified the snowy land Kunlun and Qingtang Protectorate was born.

Because, in this time and space, it was originally located in the plateau, spanning northern Yunnan to the Western Regions, and even occupied a corner of Eastern India. The Tubo, which was once rich, had not even had time to reach its peak.

Under the personal expedition of Liang Gong, a predecessor of the time traveler, in which the entire country invaded Hexi and even within the war, the Longwu Group, which was fully mobilized, surrounded and blocked from all sides and lost, and recovered the entire Hexi Longyou all the way.

Then the war was blocked in Chiling, leaving almost the vast majority of Tubo expedition soldiers in the lowlands forever. The battle on the West Sea completely fought against Tubo's rule from Qinghai to the Western Regions, and his spiritual energy was sluggish.

The Battle of Xingsuchuan that finally took place completely eliminated the last Dalun in Tubo. The famous general Ma Dingde of the world tried to save the national fortune, including Luoshechuan (Lhasa Plain), where the Hongshan Palace is located in Tubo's political center, and the foundation of Wuru and Sixty-one Dongdai is almost gone.

In the end, only a few remaining people were left to protect the last descendants of the Tubo royal family and fled back to the Yalong ancestral land deep in the plateau, so that they could survive for a while.

Therefore, Guru Padmasambhava, who should have gone to Tubo to preach the Dharma in normal time and space, also became one of the spoils brought by the Tang army. With the enlightenment and support of Liang Gong, he came to Chang'an to spread the Dharma and spread the ancestral school. The identity of later generations was established to compete with Master Bukong.

Later, Liang Gong launched a large-scale expedition to the extreme realm, and Padmasambhava was also accompanied by Buddhists who were revived from the cruel suppression and rule of foreign teachers. He returned to the Western Regions and the land of India, and followed the army to restore the ancestral home of the origin of Buddhists such as Mahayana and other Buddhists, and became the founding master of the Western Tantric lineage, and presided over Nalanda Temple, and promoted the revival master who reunited the Theravada and Mahayana veins.

On the land of Tubo that fell violently, there is only a giant named Qingtang Protectorate, as well as many small national vassal territories established by the Western Qiang, Dangxiang, Tuyuhun, Supi and Xiangxiong.

Their most famous product is the swords of the Tianzhu technician and highland mine management, raised from mountains and valleys, the strong and strong plateau horses, and the yaks that can lie on ice and drink snow; and the hard-working and persevering warriors of the plateau, Qing Tang Yicong.

They often become the first choice for jumping and front-selling in the form of employment and serving in all kinds of armies.

Having said that, in the complex of Chenguo Temple, there is a three-story tower-shaped martial arts hall, which uses various epic wall paintings and natal stories to describe these exaggerated and beautified processes.

It is said that it was written by Liang Gongzheng, the tenth-generation grandson of Liang Gong and the then Grand Governor of Jianghuai.

The temples have many ancient sites, such as the Eight-tall Tin Tower, Tongliang Courtyard, Golden and Jade Wall Carving, Great Agarwood Bodhisattva, Boy's Hall, Relic Hall, etc., almost all of them were left behind during the regent of the Liang family.

Especially the Relic Hall can be traced back to the Qianyuan period. It is said that the Nanhai Governor's Office under the leadership of Duke Liang was first established, and Daxing Yishi condemned justice for the Tang people who died overseas.

On the Sumatra Island, he defeated the most powerful country in the South China Sea, Sriva, and killed all the royal family members and nobles, occupied all their lands and sold their people. He then washed away Borobudur, the first Buddhist holy land in the South China Sea, which had a history of thousands of years, and plundered all the relics of Sakyamuni Buddha.

When he returned to the country and presented it to the center, he ordered the decree to distribute the famous mountains and rivers of the world. The relics hall was then all over the place. Later, there was a Liang Gong Zhengling outside the Lingnan Zhidao camp, and he visited the five directions of the Indians. He then obtained Buddha bone relics, Buddha head bones and other Jialan treasures, and worshipped them in the two capitals of the country. Therefore, there was a saying that the thirteen fundamental jungle was the one of them.

The three pillars of Chenguo Temple in the past: the master, the temple master, Du Weina, also served as a monk official. He was the great merit envoy on the left and right streets second only to the monk Lusi in the two capitals, the merit envoy on the East Capital, and the merit envoy on the cultivation merit envoy. He was one of the twenty-six great monks in the twenty-six paths.

The temple is not too far from where we live, which is just a few towns and yards away. However, before entering the city, we have to pay according to the head of the city, which is not much or less, only ten cents per person per blue.

However, in my opinion, this regulation is not so much used to collect taxes, but rather as the threshold for entering the city. It just stuck with penniless refugees, or suburban farmers and vendors with low commodity value, so as not to add some uncertainty to the city's appearance.

Riding on the red tiger and carrying the purchased incense and flower fruit offerings, we could easily find almost the entire street wall and the huge mountain gate with several flying eaves.

As the tides were rising in, the bustling pilgrims and crowds were passing by, whether it was a peddler or a nobleman, there were many of them.

In fact, in this troubled times when many people are in danger, this kind of religious spiritual sustenance will be easier to obtain the general public's market and development space.

Especially in this relatively miserable world and relatively comfortable city, the potential crisis of the contrast between inside and outside is enough to make these temples always lack people to worship all day long.

Trees hide in the forest and hide in the downtown city are also a means and way to hide.

But I was a little confused because this place was too big, with a bunch of buildings, a group of big bald, a small bald old bald man in Zibo clothes and silk, and a young bald man of different sizes. I asked where to find possible strongholds and contacts.

Fortunately, I squatted with me and I had enough time to stroll slowly, visiting the temple, Buddhist temple and courtyard landscapes, and then looking for opportunities.

At least no one has come to stop us. Obviously, in this era, there has not yet been a commercial temple scenic spot in later generations. You have to buy tickets when you pass by the door. There are all kinds of real and fake monks who sell high-priced souvenirs and incense and candle artifacts, and their business skills are mixed with fish eyes.

Even if you run into a ritual place, you can only stare at you sideways. In addition, the scenic spots of the Eight-Shelf Tin Tower, Tongliang Courtyard, Golden Jade Wall Carving, the Great Agarwood Bodhisattva, the Boy's Hall, and the Relic Hall are all good places to relax.

For example, this tin tower, which has never been heard of in the original time and space, is also called the silver tower or the big white tower. It is said that it uses bricks and stone as bones, melts tin, and casts with lead and copper to form the main body of the tower body. Later, it was wrapped with a layer of thick silver foil, and a believer donated it to inlaid colorless glass, and white crystal treasures are the tops.

Therefore, whenever the sunny day, when you look at the tin tower from afar, it is as silver as snow as bright as light, like a standing devil-subduing treasure, and is steep in the observatory. In the underground palace under the base, the original Baby Leaf Gold Sutra, which is said to be from the former land of Tianzhu Diyuan and Bodhi Gaya, is also enclosed.

After donating a few big white incense money, I received the treatment of going to the tower to worship Buddha. When the monk who led the way retreated. I looked at the scenery of the city like a chessboard, the house like a chess, and the lining of the leizby, and suddenly sighed.

“It’s really a wonderful country.”

Then suddenly I felt that I squatted behind my back and hugged me gently.

"What's wrong.."

"I just suddenly realized that Ah Xia would fly away and disappear..."

She whispered softly to me in a soft voice

I smiled slightly, turned her around, faced out, stood at the top of the Yatunat Tower, then spread my hands out to make a bird pose, and then I hugged her, doing the classic scene COS, feeling each other's heartbeat and the howling wind at high places, alternately accompanied in the flow of blood.

"What did you hear..."

"Asha's heartbeat and breathing"

"There are also the calls of the times and the calls of the new world..."
Chapter completed!