Pawn Crossing the River

Speaking of Xuanhui Courtyard, Qi Xuansu had also heard about it.

Qi Xuansu mentioned this when he and Shi Bingyun were talking about rectifying the atmosphere in the imperial capital.

Shi Bingyun said that in the new policies regarding Taoism and the imperial court, there are two very significant examples. One is to rectify eunuchs, and the other is to rectify prostitutes. The former is the destruction of men, and the latter is the destruction of women. Both of them should be thoroughly Abolition.

Shi Bingyun did not mention Xuanhui Academy at that time, and Qi Xuansu did not need Shi Bingyun to waste any words. When he was in the 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 through the "Da Xuan Law", he naturally also expected to deal with Tianchensi, Xuanhuiyuan and other forces, so he had a special understanding of it. , Genyuan’s collection of books is all-encompassing, and many Taoist secrets are hidden in it. It happens that Qi Xuansu has a good relationship with Sun Laozhen, and after explaining the reason, Sun Laozhen waved his hand and let him look at it as he pleased.

It's just that Qi Xuansu never expected the matter of rectifying prostitutes, and the books in the Wanxiang Taoist Palace would not record it, so he asked Shi Bingyun for advice.

In terms of eunuchs, the Taoist sect basically did not interfere. There are many reasons for this. Even in the previous dynasty, most eunuchs followed Taoism rather than Buddhism. The reason for this is said to be that the founder of Quanzhen Taoism was often troubled by human desires when practicing Taoism and could never meditate, so he practiced Taoism in his own palace. In the Wei generation, although the eunuchs in the palace believed in Taoism, they did not worship Taishang Taoist ancestors. Instead, it is dedicated to the founder of Quanzhen Taoism.

The eunuchs kept saying that they were followers of the Taoist sect and were the main force in the royal family's checks and balances on the Confucian sect. There was no big problem whether it was about deeds or hearts. Looking at the Buddha's face without looking at the monk's face, the Taoist sect was really in trouble, so he handed it over to the court for disposal.

However, Taoism also gave its own opinion. Xuansheng hoped that after these eunuchs died of old age, there would be no new eunuchs, that is, the existing eunuchs would be retained and eunuchs would be completely abolished in the future.

Emperor Gaozu agreed with Xuansheng's opinion and accepted the nearly 100,000 eunuchs left over from the Wei Dynasty. He no longer expanded the number of eunuchs, abolished the original twenty-four yamen of the inner court, and established the Xuanhui Yuan for unified management.

This is the origin of Xuanhui Yuan.

Logically speaking, more than two hundred years have passed since Daxuan conquered the world. 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 still unfinished and will eventually end.

Eunuchs are like prostitutes. They want to abolish them, decide to abolish them, but in the end they are not abolished, but remain. It's just that it has shrunk a lot from the 100,000 people in the previous dynasty. Now there are probably only less than 10,000 people left, and they only exist in the palace city. Unlike the previous dynasty, they did not send out various guard eunuchs and supervisory troops.

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, humans, gods, ghosts, and zombies - the hermaphrodites.

At the beginning of the founding of the Wei Dynasty, in order to protect the royal family, the Qingluan Guard and the twenty-four yamen of the inner court were established. The Qingluan Guard had thirteen eunuchs who recruited strange people and strangers for their own use. The eunuchs were trained by the royal family since childhood and awarded one The inheritance left by the Confucian masters who are proficient in the three teachings is the legendary "master in the imperial family" among the people in the world. The eunuchs also teach it from master to disciple, passing it on from generation to generation, just like the sect.

This inheritance is like "Sanren". It is a pieced together and fabricated inheritance. However, Sanren can achieve immortality, but intersex people cannot achieve immortality, so there is no such thing as immortality.

Although the eunuchs all firmly believed that this inheritance did not come from Confucianism, but was passed down by the founder of Quanzhen Taoism who practiced immortality in his own palace. They believed that the founder had glimpsed the wonderful truth 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 upon this kind of incomplete inheritance that requires self-mutilation of the body.

However, this kind of inheritance has an advantage that even the six immortals of the Taoist sect cannot match, that is, it lives by relying on the dragon's veins. It can suppress the three corpses in the body to attack life through the dragon's energy. Even if it does not lead to immortality, it can still achieve pseudo-immortality, and there is no natural disaster. .

An immortal person can live forever by killing three corpses, but a catastrophe that occurs once every hundred years is equivalent to the way of heaven forcing you to ascend and die, because immortality breaks the rule that all things have life, death, and prosperity. You must either kill him or drive him away. Choose one of the two.

But the yin and yang people took advantage of this loophole. In this regard, they are quite similar to the gods. However, the gods feed on the power of incense and wishes, while the yin and yang people feed on the dragon's veins and dragon's energy.

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Chapter 33 Xuanhuiyuan

The so-called dragon vein luck, Kunlun is not only the holy land of Taoism, but also the ancestor of thousands of mountains. The three major dragon veins in the world all originated from Kunlun. According to the trend of mountains and rivers and the hidden trend of dragon veins, from west to east, the winding terrain of dragon veins is regarded as Feng Shui veins and is divided into three trends, called three dragons. They are: Nanlong to the south of Dajiang, Dajiang and Changhe. Between them is the Zhonglong, and to the north of the Changhe River is the Northern Dragon.

The southern dragon and the middle dragon have collapsed one after another, leaving only the northern dragon.

The mountains of Beilong are majestic and majestic. From Kunlun Mountain to the east, Nanshan Mountain and Zhongyue Mountain stretch vertically and horizontally. The mountains embrace each other, forming a series of good places for entering the dragon and blessing the dragon. The water on the west side of the mountain flows into the Longmenfu Xihe River, and the water on the east side of the mountain flows into Youzhou and flows eastward to the sea. Beimang Mountain is the remnant of Nanshan Mountain, so it has excellent feng shui, which has attracted emperors and generals of all dynasties to build mausoleums here.

If Beilong is regarded as a giant dragon that walks from the river to the sea, then the tail of the dragon is in Kunlun, the head of the dragon is in Bohai Mansion on the coast of the East China Sea, the Five Elements Mountain is the reverse scale, and the Imperial City is the finishing point.

If the Imperial City is the eye of the Northern Dragon, then the Imperial City is the pupil. All the spiritual energy of the mountains and rivers surrounding the two surrounding circles outside the Imperial City are gathered here. Using this to build a grand formation, if it could be fully opened, even the immortals would not be able to withstand the majestic power of the grand formation and would have to retreat.

However, this formation also has flaws. It can only block those who are connected to the way of heaven. That is, heavenly people will be restricted by the formation, while others are not restricted.

Furthermore, the dragon vein is closely related to the fate of the dynasty. If the dragon spirit is strong and strong when the dynasty is at its peak, even if the gods descend to the earth, they will not be able to cause trouble. However, at the end of the dynasty, the dragon spirit will be weak and leakage will occur everywhere, which will also restrict the immortal people. It's not that big, at least it can't leave an immortal person helpless.

Nowadays, Beilong is also in decline. The imperial court has invited more than a hundred real people from the three Taoist sects and Da Zhenren to come to the conclusion that Beilong is the last dragon in the world. After Beilong, there will be no more dragon veins. . The position of emperor that started from the ancestral dragon may end with this.

This is a major change that has not happened in three thousand years. However, if the Daxuan royal family can cope with it properly, retreat to a relaxed place, travel for a long time, receive the courtesy of the people of the world, and escape from the strange circle of death and annihilation of the heavenly family and the family of the previous royal families, it will not be wrong. A blessing.

By that time, the big tree of the royal family would not be able to protect itself, so the eunuchs who originated from and were attached to the royal families of the past dynasties would naturally also die together.

It is precisely because of this that you will prosper and you will perish. This is the right principle of heaven.

But before that, the eunuchs can still survive. As long as they don't leave the imperial capital, they can live forever. Legend has it that there are several old monsters deep in the palace that have lived for more than two hundred years. They are old people from the previous dynasty. Although they are dying and like the living dead, their cultivation is unfathomable. As long as they are inside the palace, , even if he is facing an immortal, he is still capable of fighting.

This is one of the reasons why the Daxuan royal family went against their ancestors' decision to re-enable eunuchs.

The Immortal Immortal has a high status and is the leader of the three religions. How can he be willing to be a slave? But these old eunuchs are different. They feed on the dragon's energy to barely survive, but the dragon's energy is in the hands of the emperor. So no matter how unfathomable their realm is, these old eunuchs must obey the emperor's orders and protect the emperor. Safety was too great a temptation for the emperor. Especially after Beilong fell into decline, the imperial capital formation also became worse and worse day by day. It was already like the last years of the dynasty. The dragon energy was declining and leaks were everywhere. At least an immortal immortal could not be left to be captured.

Although the Taoist sect has comforted the royal family, this is just the decline of the dragon's veins and dragon's energy itself, and has nothing to do with the national destiny of the dynasty. The national destiny has since turned from obvious to hidden. In the future, there will no longer be a saying that magicians can judge the direction of the national destiny by looking at the energy, but the royal family is still worried. As the formation gradually becomes ineffective, these eunuchs become more and more important.

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

Just like the cruel official, the emperor uses the cruel official to attack the enemy, and then throws the cruel official away. All the blame belongs to the cruel official. But the cruel officials are not stupid. They don’t want to be abandoned by the emperor, so they will try their best to make the emperor anxious, make the emperor think that he is in crisis, and encourage the emperor to initiate major crimes, so they have another place to use their power, such as the case of the cruel prince. .

The eunuchs had the same mentality. Seeing that the imperial court had decided to reduce and abolish the eunuchs, many old eunuchs were very anxious. So the eunuchs played a fishing trick.

At that time, the overall situation of the world was initially settled, people's hearts were unstable, and undercurrents were surging. Some Confucian forces are fighting against each other (this chapter is not finished yet!)

Chapter 33 Xuanhuiyuan

Yu Xin was still resistant to the new dynasty, especially the Daxuan court's new policies such as measuring the world's fields, clearing out hidden fields, and allocating farmers into acres, which seriously damaged the interests of these traditional gentry who relied on the land for their livelihood.

The eunuchs were aware of the attitude of the gentry, and sent people to sneak into them, disguised as radical Confucian disciples, secretly linked up, plotted to prepare dead soldiers, launched a rebellion during the Taizong period, attacked the imperial city, and even the ministers of the court responded.

This caught Emperor Taizong unexpectedly. At this time, Taoism was fighting fiercely with Buddhism, 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 and protected the emperor regardless of their own safety. They suffered numerous casualties and finally successfully suppressed the rebellion.

This move naturally won the approval of Emperor Taizong. Although he did not openly reset the twenty-four yamen and let eunuchs take part in politics, he also stopped reducing and suppressing eunuchs, so that Xuanhuiyuan continues to this day.

As for the inside story, it was only during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of this dynasty that people gradually became aware of it. At this time, Emperor Taizong was no longer alive, and there was no need to deceive the emperor. The key was that the royal family could not do without eunuchs, so it was left to nothing.

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