Bao Zhong listened to the Taoist priest reciting a sentence, and he followed the recitation below, at this moment, in the midst of the incense of the letter, he felt as if his soul had been washed, silent and serene, as if all the hardships he had suffered in the past period of time were nothing.

Zhao Ran and Yuan Hao stood behind the hall and watched this scene, Yuan Hao sighed: "The Han people are still enough, I don't know when these party members will be able to take refuge sincerely." ”

Zhao Ran smiled: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, take your time." In addition, our batch of relief combined with prayer may or may not be able to achieve some results. There was no need for him to tell Yuan Hao for the time being, that he had set up a simple magic circle with a Wei Dao talisman on the main hall that could help him concentrate.

The beginning is very important, especially the first step of igniting the believers, in order to lay a good foundation, Zhao Ran is also desperately smashing the talisman array regardless of the cost, hoping that the first snowball can roll as soon as possible.

The incense burned two inches, and after the recitation, a drum sounded, and Bao Zhong followed the crowd to the outside of the hall, and slowly moved towards the bookcase. While moving his steps, he looked back at the solemn Cihang Hall in the incense, and secretly swore in his heart that after he went back, he must borrow more Taoist scriptures to read.

Signed, drawn, and fetched grain, Bao Zhong soon received this month's relief - three catties of grain, half of barley and millet each, and in addition, half a tael of salt!

In addition to food and salt, there was also a surprise, the White Horse Temple announced that the cloth bag containing the grain did not need to be returned to the White Horse Temple, and there would be similar relief in the future, and each family could come with this bag to get food.

Bao Zhong looked at it, which is equivalent to an additional two feet of white cloth per person in the White Horse Courtyard, and the elderly and children have it. Some people have a lot of homes, and they can already make a dress from this!

The White Horse Courtyard was released for three consecutive days, and as expected, not only the people in the city, but also many party members living in large and small villages outside the city also rushed to the scene after hearing the news and followed the brigade to receive relief food.

After December 19, there were still party members from villages outside the city who came to receive food, but they were regrettably told that the relief distribution this month had been completed, and they would like to wait for next month.

After the overall calculation, the White Horse Courtyard released a total of more than 80 stones of barley and millet in three days, more than 370 catties of salt, and more than 7,400 people were relieved.

Zhao Ran selected several Taoist priests with excellent homework in the scripture hall and set up a writing group to write two reports. The first is a report on Li Yansi and Qiang Xiong's suspicion of plotting rebellion, and the second is a report on the distribution of relief to the people of Hongyuan.

Yuan Hao once again postponed the departure date of personally inspecting the land measurement work, and took the initiative to ask Ying to take over the task of writing the two official documents. After two days of hard work, Yuan Hao handed over the two official documents to Zhao Ran.

The essay and sentences are old and spicy, Zhao Ran asked himself that he was far from catching up with Yuan Hao, and after reading it, he was deeply admired.

Zhao Ran especially noticed that in these two official documents, Yuan Hao intentionally or unintentionally buckled the responsibility on the head of the former abbot Zeng Zhili. He vaguely pointed out that it was because of Zeng Zhili's inaction that Li Yansi and other party leaders gradually grew their willingness to rebel, and led Li Yansi and others to complete the accumulation of grain and the preparation of military armor; and even more because of Zeng Zhili's connivance, it led to serious antagonism between the Hongyuan party members and the Han people, so that Hongyuan's propaganda affairs and people's affairs were never on the right track.

Zhao Ran had been thinking about whether to submit an article on the impeachment of Zeng Zhili, and he believed that as long as he impeached Zeng Zhili, and there were so many ironclad evidence, Zeng Zhili should be able to make Zeng Zhili disgraced.

But how to phrase the impeachment, Zhao Ran hasn't thought about it yet, because the impeachment has made a salute, and it is bound to implicate Yuan Hao and the three capitals of the White Horse Academy, and even the eight deacons, and the proportions are very difficult to grasp.

Yuan Hao's two articles were handed in, which was equivalent to solving Zhao Ran's difficulties. These two articles are not impeachments, which not only make Zeng Zhili's mistakes clear, but also do not implicate other colleagues in the White Horse Academy, and at the same time avoid Zhao Ran's notoriety of "the predecessor of the later senator and the predecessor" - although Zhao Ran is not afraid of this notoriety, I believe it is enough for Zeng Zhili to drink a pot.

After reading it, Zhao Ran asked: "Are the confessions and evidence in the back all stringed?"

Yuan Hao said: "The abbot is relieved, there will be no flaws, well, just like the abbot, a chain of evidence has been formed." ”

Zhao Ran thought for a while and said, "The prison praised the sergeant of the Imperial Guard in the text, which is very good. My idea is, can we add a fold to ask for merit for the sergeant guarding the palace? In particular, I might as well add a few more strokes and raise it a little higher for the merits of the guarding station? ”

Yuan Hao said "understood", and drafted a text on the spot to ask for merit for the Hongyuan Imperial Palace, and submitted it in a moment

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Zhao Ran drew a circle and signed: "Quasi-newspaper, Tianhe Palace, Western Sichuan Governor's Palace." ”

At this point, all the things of the previous year have come to an end, and all that remains is to wait for the New Year's Day Lent. On the first day of the first month of the next year, the Taoist priests of the White Horse Academy will be divided into two parts, among which the people in the official mansion headed by Yuan Hao will usher in a long holiday, and after the Lantern Festival, the Taoist people led by Zhao Ran will continue to work hard - the first month is the day when the various Jiao rituals in the Daomen are most concentrated, and they will not be able to make up for the holiday until after the Lantern Festival.

On December 23, the men sent by Yuan Hao to Songzhou finally returned, bringing back two special funds from the Tianhe Palace and the Governor's Office of Western Sichuan—a resettlement fee for displaced people and a special evangelistic subsidy.

Zhao Ran ordered to go down, and allocated five sheep and twenty taels of silver to Luo Ji Restaurant, so that the restaurant could prepare dishes. This is the day when the Lord of the Stove went to heaven to say good things for the people of the lower realm, also known as Xiao Nian, and the colleagues of the White Horse Academy have worked hard for a year, and it is a good time to get together and celebrate together.

Hearing that Abbot Zhao was going to hold a banquet, the Taoist priests of the White Horse Courtyard suddenly exploded! The White Horse Courtyard was a newly established Taoist courtyard, and Hongyuan was a poor place, and none of these Taoist priests moved their families to settle down, so they couldn't celebrate the New Year with their families for the past two years.

The former abbot had given a gift in this regard and was more "rigorous", so everyone basically had no hope for the New Year, and did not want to come to an abbot Zhao, so he actually set up a banquet for everyone, although the wine and food were simple, but what a heart-warming move!

That night, the lobby of Luo Kee Restaurant was full of wine and food, and there were more than 20 large and small tables, not only the Taoist priests came, but also the fire workers were able to participate in the banquet, everyone was jubilant, and the atmosphere was extremely warm.

Yuan Hao coughed dryly twice, and the restaurant was suddenly silent, so he heard Yuan Hao say: "Fellow Daoists, this winter, many colleagues must be the same as Yuan, thinking that it is just an ordinary winter, thinking that we will feel the misery of the border land in this heavy snow and cold wind." But you and I are wrong, our White Horse Courtyard ushered in Abbot Zhao, so this winter, Yuan doesn't feel cold, Yuan is very warm!"

The hall was suddenly in an uproar, and those with straightforward temperaments echoed loudly in agreement, and those with reserved temperaments also nodded one after another.

I only heard Yuan Hao say: "Today is a small year, my fellow Daoists of the White Horse Academy can gather together and arrange a banquet here, who do we want to thank?"

"Thank you, Abbot!"

"Would it be good for the abbot to say a few words?"

"Thank you, Abbot!"

......

"Then ask the abbot to say a few words to his colleagues!" Yuan Hao stretched out his hand and invited Zhao Ran out.