Chapter 17 Chapter 91: Dinghuang Mausoleum

Xia Xun and Ji Gang walked all the way to the capital, discussing the action plan along the way. The two of them agreed: the most urgent task is to establish Wan Songling's authority first.If this puppet cannot have an effect on the tribes of Oala, it will become a useless pawn. Of course, it is impossible to completely control Oirat through Wansongling. The formation of the forces of Oirat tribes has been developed in the past hundred years. This is impractical.Mahamu dared to make him a profuse sweat because he recognized this point. At the same time, it is really not in the long-term interests of the Ming Dynasty to call Wan Songling to unify Oirats and become the Khan of Western Mongolia who is arbitrary in Gan Gang.The strength of Oala was already stronger than that of Tatars. It was all due to the fact that all the tribes had their own masters and went their own way, so it was impossible to form an absolute joint force. How could Ming help them to unify? Even if this Khan is a fake, it is not safe. Wouldn't it be obvious if he wanted to be a king who only respected himself, or because of his identity as a Han Chinese, he would submit to Ming's command?

Therefore, they must give him more power under the premise of controlling Wansongling, at least to allow him to influence Oala's foreign policy and military operations. This cannot be achieved by peaceful means in the short term. , and therefore can only bleed. The assassination plan designed by Ji Gang was sharp and direct, just like his chess playing style, open and closed, with no future, but there is no lack of meticulous and cautious deployment, which is different from chess, Ji Gang is more cautious.Xia Xun listened carefully to his plan, but couldn't find any major faults. He only raised some objections on two details, and the two had a re-negotiation.

When the two rushed to Yanjing City, the action plan had already been formed, and Ji Gang immediately issued an order for the people he deployed on the Wala Grassland to start action. When Xia Xun and Ji Gang rushed to Yanjing, all the civil and military officials in Yanjing went out of the city to greet them, but the reason why the emperor sent the pair of troubled brothers to Yanjing was that the officials had their own eyes and ears in Beijing, and there was no The eyes and ears also have colleagues, friends, old students, and close correspondence. They have learned the truth long ago and know that these two were kicked out of the center by the emperor, so their attitude towards them is neither cold nor cold.

They all have the same attitude towards Xia Xun, a high-ranking and prominent prince, and they are even more respectful to Ji Gang. Ji Gang feels that he is boring. After attending the welcome banquet, he should have gone to see Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui together with Xia Xun. When I asked the officials, they knew that King Zhao had gone hunting in the city, and he had been away for three days. King Zhao often took ten and a half months to come back after hunting. I went to Tianjin to select a site for the construction of Jinyiwei. Xia Xun went to the banquet and returned to his residence. His cheap old nephew Xie Chuanzhong had brought a few sons to wait there, waiting for his uncle to receive him.Xie Chuanzhong was originally strong, and since he got along with Xia Xun, a relative, and undertook the commodity trade in foreign markets in the Yanjing area, his wealth has continued to grow like a snowball.

His wealth has increased dramatically, and his horizons have also increased. The few gifts he brought to Xia Xun are all priceless, but elegant and not vulgar.Xie Chuanzhong's mind is flexible, and he can even find out who Xia Xun brought with him. Not only did he prepare a generous meeting gift for Xia Xun, who is half a star and half a girl, but even Xianya and Xiaoying Everyone has a share. Xie Chuanzhong is rich and generous, he doesn't care about these gifts, if Xian Ya is always a girl, and Xiao Ying is always a guest, it is not surprising that there are many people in power.In case any one of them gets promoted and becomes Mrs. Ru of the Grand Duke, his initial investment will be hundreds of times more effective than rushing to hug Buddha's feet.

Xie Chuanzhong, a cheap relative, has always been very respectful to Xia Xun over the years. The seasonal gifts and birthday gifts are never delayed and always delivered on time. Xia Xun has a good impression of Xie Laocai, In addition, he didn't have a lot of airs, so he invited Xie's father and son to the flower hall to meet each other, and entertained them with a simple meal. The flower hall belongs to the back house, and if it is not an important guest, it will not be invited here. It is a great honor to be able to entertain the Duke of the state. Xie Chuanzhong sent a carload of gifts, had a light meal, and said goodbye happily When I came out, I met acquaintances along the way, so I couldn’t help but take the initiative to say hello, hiccup a few times during the conversation, and when people asked, they would calmly and casually say: Oh, it’s nothing, just now I was invited to help Duke Guo had a feast

Since Xia Xun came to Yanjing in the name of investigating the construction of Yanjing's imperial city and the site selection and construction of the imperial mausoleum, he had to put on a show. I took a trip to Yanjing Branch. Xia Xun picked such a time to come, the idea is to meet the scene.He didn't care much about construction matters, but he had to go, thinking that there should be nothing important at this time, and there were not many people in the department, so he could go back home after dealing with it casually, but he didn't want to go At that time, there was a quarrel in the travel department.

The people who were arguing were not the officials of the Ministry of Industry, but the Fengshui masters invited by the imperial court. Fengshui has reached great success since the Tang Dynasty. At that time, it was divided into four schools: Bazhai, Xuankong, Yanggong Fengshui and Guolu Yinyang. After that, most of the schools were the continuation or branch of these four schools. In the Ming Dynasty, the Fengshui school Although there are many, the Jiangxi School and the Fujian School occupy the main positions. In fact, the two schools of Fengshui are inherited from the four major schools of the Tang Dynasty. More emphasis on the Xing Gua.

Outstanding feng shui masters from these two schools were sent to Yanjing. The location of the imperial palace was undoubtedly to be rebuilt on the basis of the former imperial city of the capital. Their main task was to select the royal mausoleum.Not long after Empress Xu passed away, they were sent to Yanjing. They traveled around Yanjing, explored for several years, and now finally came up with a plan. As a result, there were too many plans. The representatives of the two schools had different opinions. There are also differences of opinion within the major schools, and disputes arose in the line department.

The officials of the administrative department either don't know anything about Feng Shui, or they only know some basic knowledge, so naturally they can only sit in a group of ducks and listen to the thunder, and let them play.But in the end, when it was time to report to the emperor for a decision, they couldn't report all the various opinions. They still had to sit there and listen carefully. When they were getting dizzy, someone came to report: Duke Fu has arrived! All the officials were overjoyed upon hearing this, and now they will be the ones to take the blame, so they hurriedly invited Duke Fu to come in, no matter where the imperial tomb is chosen, he will decide, and he will be fine.As soon as Xia Xun arrived at the entrance of the department, there was a bang, and the main door opened wide, and a large group of officials from the department rushed out. When they saw Xia Xun, they all smiled and bowed to each other: Hello, Duke!I have seen the Duke!The next official is polite, please come in, please come in

Xia Xun was curious in his heart, why did these officials come to be arrogant before and then respectful? Xia Xun was inexplicably surrounded by these officials of the Ministry of Affairs to the main hall. There were a lot of monks, Taoist priests, and Confucian scholars in the main hall. Rare.When they saw Xia Xun, everyone stepped forward to salute.Xia Xun laughed in surprise: "What is the Xingbu doing today? Why did you invite so many people from other places?" Zhang Wentao, Shangshu of the Xingbu, sighed: "The Duke of the State is not aware of this. Since the funeral of the empress, the emperor ordered the Xingbu to cooperate with the Fengshui masters sent by the imperial court to choose auspicious land for burial."Grandpa, you also know that this auspicious land is not only the burial place of the empress, after the emperor lives forever, it must be buried with the empress.How dare the subordinate officials not pay attention to it? In the past few years, officials from the Ministry of Traveling have accompanied the masters to travel all over the northern mountains and rivers, and finally selected some auspicious places. However, the auspicious places chosen by the masters are different. Make up your mind, Duke, you came at the right time, and you have to make up your mind on this matter! Xia Xun felt bad when he heard it, and then he understood why everyone was so happy when they saw him, Feng Shui?You don’t understand, neither do you!Xia Xun quickly declined and said, "Ah, my country's lord just came in and sat around casually. I heard that the renovation of the imperial city has already taken shape?"I think I'd better go see the imperial city.It's good for Zhang Shangshu to make the decision about choosing Jiyang Xia Xun said that he was about to slip away, but Zhang Wentao was not willing to let him go, so he grabbed him and said: "Don't be impatient, the Duke, this matter is urgent. The Duke must help the official to come up with an idea!"As Zhang Wentao spoke, he waved his hands and said, "Master Bai Lin, let the Duke hear the auspicious and beautiful words you have chosen first!" A big fat monk in a red cassock stepped forward and said, "I'm from the middle of Shu, a master of the Tang Dynasty and a group of masters of the Bazhai School of Fengshui!" Zhang Shangshu said: "My lord, Bailin in the middle of Shu is very famous in the area of ​​Bashu!" Master Bai Lin proudly said: "The old man used the eight trigrams to match the nine stars with the eight houses, combined with the fleeting movement of the flying stars in the nine palaces, and carefully calculated with the Yi theory of "Hetu" and "Luoshu", he selected an auspicious land, which is located in Tujiaying outside the mouth.This place has excellent feng shui, it Xia Xun was confused when he heard it, and thought: "It's gossip and I Ching. Isn't this Taoist knowledge? Why is it a great monk who talks about this knowledge?" As soon as he thought of this, there was a Taoist priest wearing a nine-beam Taoist crown, a gossip fairy clothes, and a water and fire silk sash around his waist. He floated out and shouted: Duh!What nonsense!My Ming emperor's surname is Zhu, and Zhu has the same pronunciation as pig. When Zhu enters the Tu family, doesn't the only way to do it is to slaughter him?You only talk about nine palaces and gossips, flying stars and eight houses, but you don't know that you violated a taboo. Although this place is an auspicious place, it is not suitable to choose it as a mausoleum for my royal family of Zhu Ming! Zhang Shangshu hurriedly explained: This Taoist priest named Dongshanling is a famous Fengshui master in Damaoshan, Jiangxi. Dongshan ordered Xia Xun to say: "The feng shui technique learned by Pindao is based on the nine stars of Luoshu, and the basis of natural mountains and rivers, combined with the theory of three-element luck. Operations such as closing the mountain and releasing evil spirits, etc., should be done like a god.Pindao chose a good place, which is at the foot of Yangshan Mountain in the southwest of Changping County.