Wang Hongyi slapped the horse's leg this time, and he only blamed himself for patronizing the way to drill Xue Huaiyi, and forgot to understand Xue Huaiyi's current situation.

Today's Xue Huaiyi is no longer as prosperous as he used to be, and he is just a dead tiger at this stage. Because Xue Huaiyi is the face of Wu Zetian, whether he should be popular or not, and whether his position is stable or not depends entirely on the attitude of Wu Zetian himself.

If he is in the emperor's heart, it is definitely above ten thousand people under one person, and the old ministers of the three dynasties can't withstand his pillow wind. If he is not favored by Wu Zetian, then his status is no different from that of a servant girl in the palace.

It is said that in March this year, after the Turkic invasion, Xue Huaiyi was named the general manager of the march of the Expedition Road, the prime minister Li Zhaode was the chief of the march, and the other prime minister Su Wei was the marching Sima, leading the 18th Route General to send troops to rebel.

With two prime ministers as staff and 200,000 troops under his command at his disposal, Xue Huaiyi is really complacent.

However, the army of Wu Zhou was on the expedition for less than a month, and before it reached the place, the Turks retreated.

Without the enemy who committed the border, Xue Huaiyi, the chief of the marching army, naturally led the army back. Strictly speaking, this is called a return to nothing.

However, Wu Zetian gave this little affection ~ face, although he did not fight against the enemy, he still let him be promoted to the first level, and he was named the Duke of Hubei, and the official was the general of the Right Guard Auxiliary State, and the rank was second.

Xue Huaiyi was naturally very happy and wanted to "thank you" Her Majesty the Empress. But that night, Wu Zetian did not recruit him to sleep.

As soon as he inquired, he found out that Wu Zetian had recently fallen in love with an imperial doctor named Shen Nanxuan, who was as good as mixing oil in honey.

Before Xue Huaiyi made his career, he was a Jianghu man who walked the streets and alleys and sold strong pills, what scheming could he have?

In his concept, I, a young man in his twenties, am willing to be an old lady in his sixties and seventies with you, which is enough to be wronged. How can you, a white-haired old woman, still be unfaithful to me?

Xue Huaiyi was furious at that time, and after breaking into the inner palace and making a big fuss with Wu Ze, he ran back to the White Horse Temple, and never took the initiative to meet him again.

He didn't want to think about it, who was Wu Zetian? How can you have true feelings for a captive face-to-face plaything? If you don't take the initiative to visit, people will spoil other beautiful men. There are more good-looking and obedient young faces in the world, Wu Zetian is afraid that he won't be able to find an edict?

Coincidentally, at this time, there was a twist and turn in the history of the servant named Zhou Ju.

He said, Your Majesty, in the White Horse Temple, Xue Huaiyi took hundreds of sturdy monks all day long, dancing with guns and sticks, did he want to rebel?

Wu Zetian thought about it carefully, Xue Huaiyi's angry little white face didn't know how thick the sky was, and it was really possible to be petty. immediately issued a holy decree to let Zhou Ju investigate the case.

At this time, Xue Huaiyi didn't know that he had lost his holy family, so he only thought that it was a husband and wife fighting at the end of the bed.

When the holy decree came down to the White Horse Temple, he rode a fast horse and came to the right Su Zhengtai. He did not enter the yamen, but waited on the steps.

As soon as Zhou Ju appeared, Xue Huaiyi was pampered and arrogant, so he didn't dick him at all, and after taking a look, he said, The Holy Majesty ordered me to come to the Suzheng Platform to cooperate with the investigation, I have already been here, can I leave now?

Without waiting for Zhou Ju to squeak, Xue Huaiyi turned over and got on his horse, shook the pony whip, and went back to the White Horse Temple.

Zhou Ju was hung at the door of the Suzheng Platform very shamelessly, and he was so angry that he had to go to Wu Zetian to ask for an explanation.

Wu Zetian still misses the old love, so he said that Xue Huaiyi is a crazy monk, and Zhou Aiqing should not be like him. However, the other monks of the White Horse Temple are at your disposal.

So, Zhou Ju transferred a team of forbidden troops to surround the White Horse Temple, and except for Xue Huaiyi, all the monks were exiled to Lingnan. This includes Liang Yougui's backer Xue Youfu.

In this way, Xue Huaiyi became the commander of the light pole again.

From this, it can be concluded that Wu Zetian no longer indulges and spoils Xue Huaiyi, in other words, Xue Huaiyi is no longer able to hang up in Wu Zetian's heart, and then it will be a long time to sit on the cold bench.

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Cui Geng naturally learned the ins and outs of this incident in a ridiculous dream.

Even if Xue Huaiyi becomes a dead tiger, he is far from being able to provoke his small Jiangdu County Order, so the timing of his move must be accurate.

On the same day, after he received the forced demolition task assigned by Zhang Qian, he counted the days, and coincidentally, this turning point that affected the second half of Xue Huaiyi's life was about to happen, so he secretly sent someone to Chang'an to inquire about the news

Before leaving, Cui Geng explained clearly, as long as Zhou Ju impeached Xue Huaiyi, he would hurry back and report back.

Therefore, the day Cui Geng killed Liang Yougui outside the gate of the Liang family's ancestral house was the two days when Xue Youfu was exiled.

Xue Huaiyi can't even keep Xue Youfu, how can he take care of Liang Yougui, who has never even met in person?

Wang Dazhong only cared about framing Cui Geng, and did not pay attention to the direction of the wind in the court. Of course, there are some secrets that he is not qualified to know.

Therefore, when Xue Huaiyi, who was alone as the commander of the light pole in the White Horse Temple, listened to Wang Dazhong's small report of framing Cui Geng, he mistakenly thought that this guy was ridiculing himself in a roundabout way, and he didn't beat him up on the spot, which was considered Wang Dazhong's luck.

At present, Xue Huaiyi is full of thoughts about how to return to Wu Zetian's arms, get favor again, and then try to put Zhou Ju to death, as for Wang Hongyi, how can he have time to pay attention?

As for Cui Geng, who killed Liang Yougui and offended himself by not knowing how many turns, it was not within his scope of concern and concern.

Therefore, this is also the reason why Cui Geng has no fear, persimmons are pinched hard, and among the three nail households, the first one is looking for the ancestral house of the Liang family.

He deliberately killed Liang Yougui in public, instead of arresting him in the yamen to punish him, of course, in order to make an example of the chickens.

See?

Liang Yougui had Xue Huaiyi as a backer, and the lion opened his mouth, but he was killed on the spot by the county. The rest of you weigh it carefully, is the backer behind it harder than Xue Huaiyi?

Sure enough, as soon as the matter spread, Liang Yougui died, Cui County Ling was unharmed, and he didn't see Chang'an Eguo Gong send someone to retaliate, and the entire Yangzhou territory was secretly discussing this matter.

With such an accident, the next demolition work is not so tricky. When they went to negotiate the terms of those nail households, the arrogance of those people plummeted a lot.

How can ordinary people dare to be nail households these days? It's not that you're arrogant and expensive, or you're flexible and have strong eyes, but are you desperate for money?

However, although the attitude was much more acceptable and they didn't dare to resist hard, these Diao people dared to grind softly, because how much money would have to be paid to demolish and relocate, and they were still waiting to see the direction of the other two big nail households.

Next, Cui Geng pondered, should he deal with the Gong family first, or deal with the Panruo Temple first?

Before Cui Geng could choose which family to start with, the head of the Gong family came to visit.

Without waiting for Cui Geng to open his mouth, he announced as soon as possible that the Gong family took the initiative to move the grave, did not take a penny, and would never embarrass Cui County.

I really wanted to doze off and met the pillow.

Cui Gengyi inquired and found out that it was the little monk Huiming who made a move.

Since people dare to come to Yangzhou to preach the Dharma, of course they have two brushes. It turned out that in the past nearly a month, the little monk had turned most of the elders of the palace family into loyal believers in Southern Zen Buddhism. The little monk told the people of the Gong family that the ancestral tomb of the Gong family is a first-class feng shui hole, but the so-called blessing is also exhausted, and the blessing of protecting the wealth of the descendants has come to an end this year. If we want to continue to benefit our children and grandchildren, we must move our graves.

The Gong family originally trusted the little monk Huiming, and now they take the initiative to move the grave and form a good relationship with Cui Geng, the parent official, so they are naturally happy to see it come to fruition.

That's what we are today.

Of course, Cui Geng couldn't let Gong Jiabai suffer this unwarranted disaster, and very happily asked for a sum of money from the prefect's yamen as compensation for the relocation of the Gong family's grave.

Not only that, but he also asked Zhang Qian to write the inscription after the relocation of the tomb for the palace family.

Zhang Qian is a disciple of the Zhang family in Qinghe, a member of the third grade, and he can write an inscription for the palace family, which is already quite face-saving, and both parties are very happy.

Even the palace family's superintendent of the imperial history wrote a few letters to Zhang Qianlian, apologizing for his previous Meng Lang's words.

The two of the three have gone, as long as the temple is solved again, the demolition work is almost completed.

But the bones that are left to the end are also the hardest to gnaw.

The monks of the Prajna Temple don't eat hard and soft, and if you pay for the relocation, they will open their mouths. You have to do spot checks, and the procedures are complete.

You have to inspect the monks' homework, and they are familiar with the rolling melons that they memorize the "Diamond Sutra".

Let's find a way to catch some of the monks' misconduct, except for the monks who buy goods, other monks are not allowed to go out at all.

In the end, Feng Changqing even went to the Praruo Temple to warn him, if you continue to fight to the end like this, don't think about our county magistrate assigning new monks to your Praruo Temple in the future.

Because in this year, the process of becoming a monk was to first obtain the degree issued by the government, and then the government allocated the temple.

When a person has stayed in a temple for five years and received the "bhikshu ordination" of the two altars, he is allowed to practice alone and travel the world.

Cui He's Jiangdu County Commander's term of office is still more than two years. The refusal to allocate monk resources to the temple within two years has caused a lot of controversy in the temple.

Some monks are even more worried, our Praruo Temple does not give face to the local county government, and has survived these two years, if the successor county order sees that we are so uncooperative with the local county government and continues to implement the policy of Cui County Order, then from now on, our Praruo Temple will never be able to share new monk resources?

After a long time, there was no new blood supplement in the temple, so it was naturally abandoned.

I have to say that Feng Changqing's hand just hit the weakness of the temple.

The old abbot Benyin monk frowned after listening to this, and finally proposed to think about it for three days and give a reply after three days.

Three days later, the old monk Benyin came out again, and did not give a clear attitude towards relocation, but proposed to negotiate with Cui Geng face-to-face.

However, in Cui Geng's view, this can be regarded as a lot of progress. Negotiation, there is a negotiation before there is a judgment, and when the chips are in place, there should be no difficulty. It depends on what kind of chips the other party wants.

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The next day, Pranya Temple, abbot's room.

Feng Changqing said angrily to the monk of Benyin: "Old monk, my family has arrived, you should always pay a real price now, right?" ”

"It's easy to talk about money." The monk said: "Cui County makes the people love the people like a son, even if the old man does not compete, presumably he will not let the temple suffer." Just ......"

"Don't ramble, everyone is happy!" Feng Changqing felt that his patience was tortured to the extreme.

"Alas," the monk sighed lightly, but said slowly, "To be honest, the old man is really reluctant to move. There are three eyes of spiritual springs here, which are not only extremely sweet, but also have the wonderful use of dispelling diseases and eliminating disasters. Half of the credit for the prosperity of the temple has to be recorded in this three-eyed spiritual spring. ”

When Cui Geng heard this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, and he secretly scolded the old monk for slipping his head, but he had already heard of the three spiritual springs in the Praruo Temple, and then waved his hand and said: "Because of the abbot, your temple has to be compensated, as long as it is not too outrageous, the county can agree." ”

"It's really not about money...... Monk Benyin shook his head and said with a wry smile: "My Zen temple is dedicated to spreading the Dharma, if the incense is not prosperous, what is the use of asking for more money?" ”

Speaking of this, he paused, and found that Feng Changqing's bull's eyes were glaring, and he seemed to be going crazy, so he hurriedly added: "Of course, the construction of Yangzhou Luocheng is beneficial to the country and the people, and it is said that my Panruo Temple should not be blocked." In this way, as long as Cui County Ling convinces a nobleman, our Pranyo Temple will have no objections. ”

Elegant? Can you still be the master of the temple?

Cui Gengqi said suspiciously: "Master Benyin, isn't the current Pranya Temple in charge of you?" ”

"Uh......"

The face of the monk was a little strange, his hands were folded, he lowered his head and said a good word, "It was, but now it's not." ”

As he spoke, he slowly stood up and invited, "Without further ado, now ask Cui Xian Ling to go with Lao Wei to meet that nobleman." ”

"It's fine."

The monk took Cui Geng out of the abbot's room, twisted around in the temple, and came to a rather elegant courtyard.

He pointed to a meditation room and said, "Cui County Order, please, the noble man has been waiting for a long time." ”

Praruo Temple is a local famous temple in Yangzhou, not a place where the dirt and dirt are hidden in the ninth rate, and there are Feng Changqing and Yongguang and others outside, Cui Geng does not think that the monk dares to harm him, and immediately pushes the door in.

As soon as he entered the meditation room, the so-called noble man in the mouth of the abbot was facing Cui Geng.

At this moment, the other party turned around.

When Cui Geng saw the true face of this person's Lushan, his face changed suddenly, "How... How are you? ”