I am a temporary worker in Jinyiwei, how did I become a powerful official?

Chapter 134 Hey, Yan Hao, you dare to fight me ( words)

Seven days later, there was a big fair on the outskirts of Xuanfu city.

The big market was a place where poor people from the border areas would exchange goods. It was really crowded with people.

At the most prominent location in the market, someone had built a three-foot-three-meter-high altar. On the altar stood more than thirty people in black Taoist robes.

These people wearing black Taoist robes are all comrades from the Northern Pacification Division.

Lin Shisan was wearing a purple Taoist robe and sitting on a throne in the center of the altar.

People love to watch the excitement. When Lin Shisan saw that most people had gathered, he jumped up from the armchair like a big toad, pinched the Yin-Yang harmony fingers with his hands, and walked around the platform twice with his feet.

The guardian fat immortal Sun Yueyue beside him shouted, "Fellow villagers! The Lord of Morality has descended to earth!"

Lin Shisan performed the same trick as he did by the Taiye Lake, foaming at the mouth, wriggling like a maggot, suddenly standing up, and calling himself the Heavenly Lord.

He sat cross-legged and said loudly: "I am the Great Pure Daode Tianzun, yes!"

There are many members of the Yin-Yang Sect among the common people.

They whispered, "Our Immortal Yan is the reincarnation of the immortal child of the Lord of Morality. How can this person on the stage call himself the Lord of Morality?"

"Humph, the one on the altar must be fake. Our Immortal Yan is the real one."

Whether it is true or false depends on whether Lin Shisan can use tricks to deceive the people.

Sun Yue said loudly: "The Lord of Morality has appeared in the human world in the form of a substitute, one to save the people, and the other to find the immortal insects left in the human world!"

As Sun Yue was speaking, a white mist rose from Lin Shisan's body. The scene was extremely mysterious.

Opposite him was a candle holder with nine large candles on it. The large candles were originally extinguished. Lin Shisan pointed with his hand and a large candle immediately lit up.

With another finger, another large candle lit up.

He pointed nine times, and all nine large candles lit up.

Then, Lin Shisan took a talisman in his hand and threw it into the sky. The talisman caught fire, and a huge butterfly flew out of the fire.

The people were extremely shocked and their mouths widened.

Next, Lin Shisan cast more than a dozen spells, which were as magical and strange as they could be.

Lin Shisan is just a mortal, but he knows so many magical little spells, so he must have a master behind him to help him. However, the master behind him is definitely not some Taoist master, but Yun Miaoshou, the most famous magician in the capital.

Lin Shisan sent an express horse back to the capital and spent five hundred taels of silver to invite Yun Miaoshou from the capital to Xuanfu.

The common people were ignorant and, when they saw these miraculous little spells, they thought they were the result of gods and immortals descending to earth.

When Yan Hao first founded the Yin Yang Sect to gather people, he also used magic to deceive the people.

Just now, the people were very skeptical of Lin Shisan, but now they believe him two or three points more.

The left protector of Taiqing Daode Tianzun is Sun Yue, and the right protector is an old man with white hair and beard - Zhang Bo.

Zhang Bo shouted: "The Lord of Morality has come to the world to save the suffering and give money and food!"

After saying that, he and Sun Yue pulled up a piece of white cloth that was ten feet long and three feet wide.

Lin Shisan opened his eyes and shouted, "Ling Xiao bless, appear!"

Zhang Bo and Sun Yue put away the white cloth. Unexpectedly, a small mountain of broken silver and copper coins appeared out of thin air behind the white cloth.

Sun Yue shouted to the audience below the stage: "Everyone listen! The Lord of Dao and Morality has come down to earth to save people from suffering!"

"He was so kindhearted that he founded the Xian Cricket Sect and appointed himself as the Grand Sect Master! He will bless the first one hundred people who join the sect with one tael of silver each!"

"For the next nine hundred people who join the sect, each will be blessed with three taels of silver! For the next nine thousand people who join the sect, each will be blessed with one hundred copper coins!"

At this moment, a group of people from the east drove more than a dozen ox carts to the platform.

The leader was Captain Zheng, who was stationed in Da Bishi Hutong, Nongtan Street, Xuanfu City, under the Southern Pacification Division.

Zhang Bo shouted, "Today, the Grand Master is accepting the first batch of members. Anyone who joins the sect today is a person of opportunity, and he will also be blessed with three pounds of pork!"

The people living in the border areas have been exploited by the government and squeezed by the border troops for years, and have been sucked dry by evil forces. They cannot even get a bite of meat all year round.

Joining the Yin-Yang Sect gives out both silver and meat, so how could the people not sign up eagerly to join?
In their view, whoever gives them money and pork is a true god who saves people from suffering.

A poor commoner shouted: "I want to join the sect, I beg the Immortal Grand Master to save me!"

Lin Shisan shouted, "I've heard it all! You must be sincere when you join our sect, and you are not allowed to join other sects! Those who are from other sects must quit and focus on this one!"

The people know what is good and what is bad.

Those who join the Yin-Yang Sect must offer sacrifices, while those who join the Xian Cricket Sect are given silver, copper coins and meat to eat. Isn't it obvious which side of the kang is hot and which side is cold?

But poor people always dream of pie falling from the sky.

The Yin-Yang Sect draws "predestined people" from the list every month and grants them a hundred times the blessings of offerings. This is a chance to get rich overnight.

A member of the Yin Yang Sect shouted, "Daoists, if you withdraw from the Yin Yang Sect, won't you miss the chance to win the lottery this month?"

Lin Shisan quickly glanced at Sun Yue.

Sun Yue understood what he meant and lied loudly, "You all heard it! The current emperor respects heaven and loves the people, and his virtue and prestige spread far and wide. The Lord of Morality prepared a short-winged stove fairy insect as a gift for him."

"But the immortal insect secretly escaped to the lower world! The Heavenly Master had no choice but to look for the insect in the world!"

"According to the calculations of the Heavenly Master, the immortal insect is hiding in the crevices of rocks on both sides of the Sanggan River in Xuanfu!"

"If you join the Immortal Cricket Sect, you must go to the banks of the Sanggan River to look for immortal insects for the Immortal Venerable. Regardless of whether you find them or not, you will be given three pounds of millet every day as a reward!"

"If anyone finds the immortal insect, the great master of the Tianzun Sect will grant you a great blessing!"

After saying that, Sun Yue pointed to a piece of red cloth on the tribute table next to Lin Shisan.

Lin Shisan made hand gestures and chanted towards the red cloth, shouting, "Rise!"

The red cloth strangely floated into the air. The object under the red cloth also appeared in front of everyone. It turned out to be a small mountain of gold and silver.

There are dozens of silver ingots at the base of the Small Gold and Silver Mountain, and a large gold ingot at the top of the mountain!

Sun Yue shouted, "Whoever finds the fairy insect will receive four hundred taels of silver as a reward! Another twenty taels of gold as a reward!"

How could the poor people have ever seen so much gold and silver? This was much more tempting than the Yin-Yang Sect's "lottery of blessings"!
The people around the platform were all excited: "I want to quit the Yin Yang Sect and join our Xian Cricket Sect!"

"I also want to join the Immortal Cricket Sect!"

Sun Yue shouted, "Okay, those who wish to join the sect please leave your name and address on the sect master's immortal book. If you are half-hearted and join the Xian Cricket Sect and still participate in the Yin Yang Sect's fasting and offerings, then the great sect master will send you to the nine levels of hell as retribution!"

"In addition, when you return home, you must spread the teachings of the Sect Master and invite your parents, relatives and friends to join the Sect! If you recruit a member to the Xianqiu Sect, you will be rewarded with one penny of silver!"

Lin Shisan almost copied the way the Yin-Yang Sect started. The difference was that his initial investment was even more ruthless! The gift Yang Shun gave him allowed him to exchange five thousand taels of silver in a money shop in Puzhou, and he used all of this silver to win over the people. On the day of the big market, the Xian Cricket Sect received eight or nine hundred members. The evil way of recruiting people has always been one to two, two to four, four to eight, like a snowball.

It won’t be long before the Xian Cricket Sect will poach countless members of the Yin Yang Sect.

Things turned out just as Lin Shisan expected. Three days later, the Xianqiu Sect had a full 5,000 members on its roster.

A new Taoist sect emerged in Xuanfu, and the local officials who had received benefits from the Yin-Yang Sect naturally wanted to take charge.

But when they inquired, they found out that the leader of the Xian Cricket Sect was actually the emperor's official, the imperial envoy for catching insects, the guest of honor in the Yan residence, the nephew of the seal holder of the Imperial Household Department, and the Flying Fish Lin Shisan of the Northern Pacification Office. How could they dare to intervene?
Lin Shisan established Dao Zong in Xuanfu with such great fanfare that the news naturally reached the ears of Governor Yang Shun and Inspector Lu Kai.

That day, Yang Shun and Lu Kai asked Lin Shisan to chat in the study.

Yang Shun got straight to the point: "Lin Chuanfeng, why did you establish the Dao Sect? It's that Xian Cricket Sect. I heard that you gathered 5,000 people in just a few days!"

Lin Shisan smiled and said, "I founded the Xian Cricket Sect. The ostensible reason is to promote Taoism on the border for the Emperor."

Yang Shun asked: "What's the real reason?"

Lin Shisan replied: "I tried to catch short-winged crickets in the Sanggan River a few days ago, and found that it is still necessary to use force instead of tricks, and it is possible to catch them with more people."

Yang Shun said: "Hey! Why do you have to go through so much trouble to order those poor guys around? Just say hello to me and I will collect 10,000 labor service from you!"

Lu Kai agreed: "Yes. Conscripting corvée in Xuanda is just a matter of a word from Yang Butang. If the corvée is not enough, we can also transfer border troops to you!"

Lin Shisan smiled slightly: "What's the point? I have a little hobby. Li Dao Sect is convenient for catching insects and can satisfy my little hobby."

Yang Shun asked: "Oh? What's your hobby?"

Lin Shisan replied with four words: "Playing with the people!"

Yang Shun and Lu Kai were stunned.

Lin Shisan said: "For me, getting promoted and making money is fun; destroying my enemies is fun. But the most fun thing in the world is to play with people!"

"I feel so happy when I see those poor guys being fooled by me!"

"That kind of pleasure is something that no matter how many skinny horses you have in your yamen or how many dissolute women you have in your Soft Jade Pavilion, can ever give you."

Yang Shun thought to himself: Damn it. This guy is such a loser, even more loser than me!
Whatever, let him do whatever he wants. He is from Yongshou Palace, even if something happens, it is not my turn to take care of it, it has to be taken care of by the palace.

Thinking of this, Yang Shun smiled and said, "Little Brother Lin, your hobby is really interesting."

Lu Kai agreed: "Elegant, very elegant!"

Lu Kai's thoughts were: If I want to kill Shen Lian, I have to catch the demon Yan Hao. Lin Shisan's setting up the Xian Cricket Sect and poaching from the Yin Yang Sect is only good for me and not bad.

If the Yin Yang Sect collapsed, Yan Hao would be easier to capture without so many sect members.

Lu Kai never could have imagined that Lin Shisan went to such great lengths just to force Yan Hao to show up and arrest him to clear Shen Lian's name.

A few days later, in a land temple outside the city of Xuanfu Yi County.

Yan Hao, a demon Taoist who is in his fifties, was sitting cross-legged on a cushion.

His left protector walked up to him quickly and said, "Master, the Cricket Sect is getting more and more aggressive in poaching our people! In the Xuanfu area, at least six or seven thousand people have left the Yin Yang Sect and joined the Cricket Sect."

"If this continues, within three months, eight out of ten of our members will be poached by the Xian Cricket Sect!"

Yan Hao's whereabouts were secretive, which had both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was that it would be difficult for someone to catch him. The disadvantage was that he was isolated from the news. He didn't know that the leader of the Xian Cricket Sect was a close minister of the emperor.

Yan Hao opened his eyes: "Six or seven thousand people? What methods did the Xian Cricket Sect use?"

The left guardian said, "We used our old methods. First, we used magic tricks to deceive those poor people. Second, we gave them sweet rewards. But the sweet rewards given by the Immortal Cricket Sect are too big. It's been less than half a month, and I'm afraid they have already spent four or five thousand taels of silver!"

Yan Hao said angrily, "They invested so much money to recruit people. Aren't they afraid that the poor guys will get addicted to the sweetness and get used to it. Aren't they going to be able to get their money back later?"

The left protector said, "Yes. It's very strange."

At this moment, the right guardian hurried in with a notice in his hand: "Grand Sect Master, this notice has been posted everywhere by the people of the Xianqiu Sect. The Sect Master of the Xianqiu Sect wants to challenge you to a duel!"

After saying this, the Right Protector presented the invitation.

Yan Hao took the notice and read it. The content was roughly as follows: The Grand Master of our Xianqiu Sect is the reincarnation of the Great Pure Daode Tianzun, and is the orthodox Taoist sect. Your Yinyang Sect is nothing but a crooked sect.

Seven days later, the Xian Cricket Sect set up a duel outside Xuanfu City, and the Grand Sect Master and I will duel to determine who is superior and who is inferior, and who is good and who is evil.

If you don't dare to come, it means you think your magic is not good enough. The Yin Yang Sect must get out of Xuanda forever.

Yan Hao was furious after reading it: "You bastard! Do you really think I'm easy to bully?"

The left guardian said, "Grand Sect Master, if you don't go, you will be showing weakness. I'm afraid all of our sect members will run to the Xianqiu Sect."

Yan Hao sneered: "It's not only about deciding who's superior, but also deciding what's good and what's evil? What's the point of deciding what's good and what's evil? It's better to decide life and death!"

"Tell Bayangerishun that I want to borrow his Vulture Claw. It's just a fight, right? Fight! Regardless of the outcome, I will send that bastard from the Cricket Sect to hell."

In recent years, the Ming Dynasty and the Tatars have been engaged in a secret intelligence war. The Southern Pacification Office has sent many secret agents to the grassland.

Similarly, the Tatars also sent a number of secret agents into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The Vulture Society is to the Tatars what the Southern Pacification Office is to the Ming Dynasty. They have about thirty or forty Eagle Claws in Xuanfu. Their leader is named Bayangerishun.

Over the years, Yan Hao sold a lot of border military intelligence to the Tatars, all through Bayangerishun. If he was asked to help kill someone, he would definitely not refuse.

Yan Hao has slowly fallen into Lin Shisan's trap.

Let’s talk about the Governor’s Office.

Lin Shisan was discussing with his master and apprentice how to capture Yan Hao.

Lin Shisan ordered Sun Yue: "Go to Bao'an Prefecture and ask Eunuch Zhang to borrow 1,000 soldiers. Ask him to bring the soldiers and horses and make sure they arrive at the outskirts of Xuanfu before the duel."

Zhang Bo said: "The border troops of Baoan Town are also under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Xuanda. Without Yang Shun's order, there must be a reason for privately transferring troops across towns."

Lin Shisan smiled and said, "That's easy. Just let Eunuch Zhang say that the troops were mobilized to help the emperor catch bugs. Isn't it reasonable for the border town supervisor to want to please the emperor?"

"After all, Eunuch Zhang is the disciple of Eunuch Huang and a supervisor sent by the palace. Yang Shun doesn't dare to do anything to him."

Uncle Zhang asked, "Have you considered how to avoid offending the Yan family after catching Yan Hao?"

Lin Shisan sighed, "Alas. Master, what you said before is very true. How can I please everyone every time I do things? I haven't figured out a clever way to fool the Yan family yet."

"If we can get Yan Hao in our hands, Shen Lian will be safe. I can't offend the emperor and Governor Lu just to please the Yan family."

Zhang Bo nodded: "Well, you can distinguish the distant and the near from the distant, which is very rare."

Lin Shisan said again: "After we catch Yan Hao, we will leave Xuanfu immediately. After all, this is Yang Shun's territory, so we should avoid any more trouble. Let's go directly to Bao'an Prefecture."

Old people always have the wisdom of the elderly, and their thoughts are more comprehensive than Lin Shisan's. Zhang Bo added: "We must be careful of Yan Hao's desperate actions. He will turn the magic fight into an assassination meeting."

(End of this chapter)