The east wind blows the rain across the green hills, but you can see the green grass on thousands of doors.

Outside the Kawahara is surrounded by floating clouds, and the palaces and palaces are staggered and illuminated.

In Chang'an City, the setting sun is dappled, the east wind blows, and a white horse is welcomed.

The man on horseback, wearing a Taoist robe, looked around with empty hands.

At the city gate, two warriors wearing armor changed their expressions when they saw him, and looked at each other.

When the white horse approached, one of them stepped forward and asked, "Are you a serious Taoist?"

"No." The man on horseback chuckled.

Wu Ren was a little disappointed and said "Oh" but didn't say anything.

The Taoist priest on horseback said immediately: "He is a serious sage."

The two waiting warriors frowned and cursed the Taoist priest in their hearts.

"My emperor is hosting a banquet in the palace. Please meet with the Taoist Priest."

"lead the way."

The serious sage on the horse was naturally Li Yu. He spoke very concisely and remained silent after two words.

In Chang'an City, unlike the randomness of Bianliang, the planning and construction here is strictly based on square units.

From Xuanpingfang to the west, there are Yongningfang, Yonglefang, Guangfufang, and further ahead is the central axis of Chang'an City running from north to south: Zhuque Street.

Exiting the west gate of Xuanpingfang, there is a main road to the south. There are three city gates in the east and west of Chang'an City. This main road connects to Yanxing Gate in the east and Yanping Gate in the west, which is one of the main axes in the east-west direction.

The width of the road is as wide as that of Bianliang, and twice as wide as the main street in Fangnei, a full twenty feet.

Although he had already seen the width of Bianliang City Street, Li Yu was still deeply shocked when he saw this main road of the famous city in the Six Dynasties.

This is no longer an ordinary street. If a ten-foot-wide square street is equivalent to two-way eight lanes, a twenty-foot-wide city street is equivalent to two-way sixteen lanes, and the Suzaku Street in front of us is fully fifty feet wide, it cannot be used in this way.

Compared with the driveway, it is like a vast square, leading to the Zhuque Gate of the Imperial City due north.

Chang'an City has eleven north-south streets, fourteen east-west streets, and a total of 108 lanes in the city. It is divided into east and west halves by Zhuque Street.

The palace in the middle corresponds to four squares, and there are three squares in the east and west.

The four middle quarters are smaller in scale and only have gates on the east and west sides to avoid offending the imperial atmosphere of the palace.

The road surface of Zhuque Street is entirely paved with stones, and there are drainage channels about ten feet wide on both sides. Rows of locust trees, cypress trees, willows, poplar trees, and ginkgo trees are planted along the street. The trees are all over a hundred years old. Even if the leaves wither in winter

At the end of the day, the remaining tree crowns are still huge.

Now the spring breeze is bringing warmth, the ice and snow are melting, the streets are like clouds of ladies and gentlemen, cars and horses are connected, and it is extremely prosperous.

The jade lion illuminated the night, carrying him and his guards to the Tai Chi Hall, the palace of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yu ignored the contempt of the two guards. In their view, Taoists were both Taoist priests just like the great sage.

But Li Yu himself knew that his realm was different. Calling him a great sage was not to elevate himself, but to reach his realm.

This is an honest performance, worthy of the word serious.

How can these two guards understand?

When we arrived outside the gate of the inner city, there stood a Taoist priest, who was as rich as jade and had clear eyebrows.

"Is this a serious Taoist?"

"No, he is a serious sage." the guards joked.

The Taoist priest's eyes lit up, he clapped his hands and said, "This is how it should be. Fellow Taoist, please dismount."

After Li Yu dismounted, everyone discovered that his horse had no reins.

Li Yu took a picture of the Night Jade Lion's mane and said, "Don't walk around outside the palace. Wait until I come out."

The horse hissed disdainfully and turned its head.

Li Yu took off the wine bag from his waist and cursed: "Beast, don't run around, or I'll break your legs."

The white horse rubbed against him very flatteringly, nodding its head frequently, and even grinned.

Then, while the guards were stunned, he walked away with the wine bag in his mouth.

Li Yu smiled and said, "You haven't asked for advice yet?"

The Taoist priest smiled and said: "Li Chunfeng, the official of the imperial eunuch of the Tang Dynasty."

"I have admired you for a long time."

"Where, where."

The two exchanged blows for a while, strolled into the Tai Chi Palace, and the doors of the hierarchical palace opened one by one.

Guards in red armor stood on both sides. They were Colonel Yi Hui of the Tang Dynasty, responsible for guarding the palace.

Li Yu said with a smile: "The city of Chang'an is so popular that it deserves to be the scene of the prosperous Tang Dynasty."

Li Chunfeng also smiled and said: "Every year at the end of the year, Chang'an is the most densely populated. There are thousands of scholars rushing to take the exam, and they bring more than 10,000 servants and followers. There are also officials from various ministries who return to Beijing to report on their duties.

Envoys from the vassal towns and envoys from all over the world come to celebrate the New Year pilgrimage. All the inns and hostels in the city are full, and it is difficult to find a room."

"Although the New Year has passed, these people have not gone back, so they are still so dense."

Li Yu flicked his eyelids and said: "The bustle in the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit. Chang'an City is a vanity fair. I see that there are many Taoist priests and novices on the street. It seems that even Buddhism and Taoism are not exempt from secularism.

ah."

"This is also human nature. Since we are born as human beings, we should not fight or rob anyone."

After saying this, Li Yu stopped talking because he had an idea in his mind.

Taoism is unwilling to be suppressed by Buddhism.

Especially Buddhism's methods are somewhat despicable.

The Taoists upheld their loyalty to the Emperor of Tang and did not conceal the Queen's affairs, nor did they boast about it.

But the Buddhists said some illusory words, deliberately making Your Majesty think that they could eliminate the chaos of the Queen's destiny.

And in this way, the Taoist sect was suppressed and one family became the dominant one.

Soon, he entered the Tai Chi Hall. There were not many people in the hall. Li Yu looked around and found that there were only fourteen people except the guards.

Li Yu noticed that when he got inside, the guards changed again.

These guards have a long aura and are much more powerful than the Colonel Yihui outside.

This should be the Tiance Army of the Tang Dynasty, subordinate to Li Shimin's confidant Tiance Mansion.

He walked into the palace, looked up, bent slightly and said, "Li Yu, I have met His Majesty the Emperor of Tang Dynasty."

The emperor in front of him was very much in line with Li Yu's expectations, exactly as he imagined.

He has a handsome appearance and a dignified appearance. Judging from his appearance alone, he is also a very outstanding person.

The name Li Yu was no stranger to the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty.

Everyone looked at him, and to be honest, they were all a little disappointed.

This man, he is too ordinary.

It's completely different from what everyone imagined.

A person who can cause such a big disturbance can be handsome and handsome, or he can be high-spirited and tall.

But he turned out to be so ordinary, just like an ordinary Taoist priest in an ordinary Taoist temple, without a trace of immortality.

Everyone couldn't help but murmur in their hearts, how did they hook up with Er Qiao?

Li Shimin was not an emperor who judged people by their appearance, and his broad-mindedness was not comparable to that of ordinary people. It is said that Li Yu killed several monks, and even if he killed the Li Tang royal family, as long as he could eliminate the hidden danger of the empress bringing chaos to the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin would also

Treat each other with courtesy.

"Is this the serious sage? Come on, please give me a seat!"

Li Yu was just at the city gate and considered himself a serious sage. At this time, Li Shimin already knew about it, which shows that he has many eyes and ears and can deliver news quickly.

"The serious gentleman entered Chang'an alone and on horseback, which shows his sincerity. Today, we will not talk about anything else. We will only have wine and banquets, watch singing and dancing, and wash away the dust for him. Tomorrow, I will have a long talk with him all night."

"Li Yu obeys the order."——

After the royal banquet, Li Yu followed the guards to the Honglu Temple of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yu took a look and saw that the backyard of Honglu Temple was brightly lit.

It is now shortly after the New Year, and the envoys from various countries should not have withdrawn yet.

Li Yu didn't want to live in this place. He smiled and said to the guards who came to escort him: "You go back and report it, and I will go to Xuandu Temple to stay temporarily."

Xuandu Temple is a famous Taoist temple in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty.

When he came, the superior ordered that all the Taoist priest's requests should be met as much as possible. The guard thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Sir, please do as you please."

Xuandu Temple is located in the west of the southern section of Zhuque Street, adjacent to Jingshanfang Daxingshan Temple in the east.

Daxingshan Temple is the ancestral hall of Tantric Buddhism, one of the "Eight Sects of Buddhism". The most outstanding disciple in the temple has just been killed, and he has a hatred of Li Yu.
To be continued...