Chapter 34 I Will Definitely
The Taoist Priest of the Fourth Grade Liquor seems to have a high position, but in fact he has just passed the first threshold. In the words of the imperial court, he has become an official.
There is only a gap of three levels from a fourth-level Taoist priest to a first-level innocent Taoist priest, but in fact it is far more than three levels.
This involves the Taoist Jinque discussion system.
The Jinque Council is the highest authority of the Taoist sect. Excluding the Grand Master and other great masters, there are a total of thirty-six real people participating in it. These thirty-six real men are all second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests. Their full name is "Shenzhi Jinque Council" "Zhenzhen", referred to as "Thirty-six Zhenren" or "Zhenzhi Zhenren". If he resigns or is dismissed from his post and loses the right to participate in Zhijinque's discussions, he still retains the rank of a second-grade Taiyi Taoist priest and can be called a Zhenzhen.
In other words, there are far more than thirty-six real people in the Taoist sect, but the thirty-six real people who attend the Jinque Discussion Forum are the most important.
In the same way, the three great masters known as "Heavenly Master", "Earth Master" and "National Master", their full title is "Deputy Master Dacheng". If they retire and resign, the person who resigns is actually the deputy master. Position, still retains the title of "Dacheng Zhenren", referred to as "Dacheng Zhenren".
Under normal circumstances, unless it is a major crime such as apostasy or rebellion, the Taoist sect will not remove the name of a great master or a true master.
Ordinary real people are qualified to observe the discussions of Jinque. Ordinary real people are still qualified to participate in the discussions of Jinque, and their status is higher than the thirty-six real people who participate in Jinque. In order to distinguish the deputy head masters, this type of real people is called "Pingzhang Jinque Discussion Dazhen", referred to as "Pingzhang Dazhen". It means: rationalize it, make it harmonious, teach etiquette and law, make it clear and clear.
In short, the upper level of Daomen can be divided into five levels.
The highest one is the great master, also known as the great master. There is only one person, the status is respected, and he is the leader of the Taoist sect.
Next are the three deputy head masters, who are also the leaders of the three realms. They have great power, one person is subordinate to them and ten thousand people are superior to them.
Thirdly, there is the Pingzhang Jinque Discussing Master, whose number is not fixed. He can be regarded as a kind of figure such as a senator, a senior, and an elder. He is highly respected and has many old disciples. Although he is relegated to the second line, he has great influence.
Then there are the thirty-six real people who participated in the Jinque discussion, the mainstay, the real power figures, most of them are the masters of a hall or the masters of a local palace.
Finally, there are the ordinary real people whose number is not fixed. Although they are not as good as the thirty-six real people, they cannot be underestimated. They may hold important positions or are quite popular. If there is a vacancy among the thirty-six real people, they will be chosen from these Real people will make up for it.
Looking at it from another perspective, there are differences between the same first-grade innocent Taoist priests or second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests. Putting aside the great master who is at the super level, the first-grade innocent Taoist priests and the second-grade Taiyi Taoist priests are actually at the fourth level. Including the third-grade Youyi Taoist priest and the fourth-grade Jijiu Taoist priest, it is the sixth level.
The Taoist Priests of the Fourth Grade Jijiu are at the bottom, and they are still far away from truly reaching the upper echelons of the Taoist sect.
If you add the top Grand Master and the levels below the fourth level, then the Taoist sect is exactly the ninth level and the twelfth level.
This is not a secret, as long as a Taoist priest who has reached a higher level will know it. After all, you have to climb up within the Taoist sect. If you don't even know these basic information, then there is no need to camp.
The reason why Zhang Yuelu is feared by all the disciples of the aristocratic family, apart from her own abilities, is mainly because she is paid attention to by the two deputy headmasters, Da Zhenren. Although outsiders cannot guess how much attention the two deputy headmasters attach to Zhang Yuelu, it is only It was the attitude itself that was enough to intimidate Xiao Xiao.
As for those real people with real power, of course they will not be intimidated, and they may even know the truth and falsehood, but what reason do they have to get involved in the brawling of these children? Even people like Zhenren Tiangang like Zhang Yuelu very much.
Zhang Yuelu's status in the Taoist sect can be imagined.
On the other hand, Qi Xuansu was just an insignificant seventh-grade Taoist priest. He had to be respectful in front of Sun Yongfeng, a fourth-grade Taoist priest who offered wine, and was not even qualified to "sit and discuss Taoism."
From this point of view, the gap between Zhang Yuelu and Qi Xuansu, not to mention the difference in Yunni, is almost the same.
But the gap between Zhang Yuelu and the Grand Master was several times greater than the gap between Zhang Yuelu and Qi Xuansu.
Because before the Taoist priests of the fourth-grade wine ceremony, they could still rely on others for promotion. If there is a noble person who appreciates him, it is just a matter of words. But things will be different after the fourth level. There is a carrot and a pit. If someone goes up, someone has to come down. Who goes up and who goes down? After reaching the second-grade Taiyi Taoist priest, everyone has a backer, everyone has power, and their roots are intertwined, affecting the whole body.
As for the positions of the three deputy masters and the chief master, they cannot go to Taishang Taozu to promote themselves.
It can be said that it is one step at a time.
There is a saying in the Taoist sect that it is easy to rise to the top, but difficult to become a great leader.
If you want to be a great master, one lifetime is not enough, you have to practice for several lifetimes.
Zhang Yuelu said that she wanted to be a great leader, even if she was an unparalleled genius, even if she was really the reincarnation of an immortal in the sky, if word spread, she would still be laughed at, because she was bragging and thinking blindly.
This is the great master of the Taoist sect.
To this day, the Grand Master has been vacant for a long time, and the Jinque meeting has been held twice, but there is still no result, so the three Deputy Masters, Da Zhen, take turns exercising the power of the Grand Master.
This is also known to everyone.
There are even rumors that the three deputy headmasters intentionally do not elect a new headmaster. After all, how can they hand over the power they have obtained? When the new Grand Master ascends the throne, he will inevitably take over power. Not only can the three deputy Grand Masters not take turns exercising the power of the Grand Master, but they also have to obey the orders of the new Grand Master. Naturally, they have to maintain the status quo.
This rumor spread more and more fiercely, and later, it was even said that the three deputy masters conspired to kill the previous master, forcing the ancestral temple to order the arrest of those who spread and fabricated the rumor.
However, the rumor had spread, and even Qi Xuansu, who had not been in the ancestral temple for many years, had heard about it. In Qi Xuansu's opinion, this rumor was also a bit strange. Maybe it involved the struggle among the top leaders of the ancestral temple. Someone wanted to use this rumor to form a large-scale discussion and force the three deputy masters to nominate a new master as soon as possible.
As for why one of the three deputy masters was not appointed as the master, it was because there was an unwritten rule in the Taoist sect that the candidate for the master must come from the thirty-six assistant masters, just like the royal inheritance, which is mainly father-son inheritance, not brother-to-brother inheritance.
Even if the three deputy masters wanted to break this rule, they could not reach a unified opinion and check each other. No matter who wanted to be the master, they would be opposed by the other two.
The current situation is that only one person can be nominated from the thirty-six assistants, and the requirements for the Grand Master are very high. He must be a "young man" who can overwhelm all the masters at around the age of sixty.
Tiangang Master is now sixty years old. This age is considered ordinary among masters, and young among great masters. Just like the age of thirty, for a seventh-grade Taoist priest, it is too old, and for a fifth-grade Taoist priest, it is a young and promising one.
Zhang Yuelu is less than twenty-five years old this year. He will be promoted to the third grade at the age of thirty, to the second-grade ordinary master at the age of thirty-five, to the second-grade assistant master at the age of forty, to the first-grade Pingzhang master at the age of forty-five, and to the deputy master master master at the age of fifty.
But in fact, it is impossible to be promoted to the deputy master master master master at the age of fifty. When Tiangang Master was fifty, he was one of the thirty-six masters. Ten years later, he was still one of the thirty-six masters. Except for the transfer of positions, there was no other change. It can be said that he has stopped moving forward. If there is no change in opportunity, he will still be one of the thirty-six masters in another ten years, and perhaps he can be promoted to Pingzhang master master after the age of eighty.
From this point of view, the sixty-year-old Grand Master can indeed be considered a young man.
Qi Xuansu's dream in this life is to wear the sword of wisdom, to climb to the position of a real person, and he would be satisfied if he could be just an ordinary real person without even having to be a real person who knows everything.
How difficult it is.
The reason why it is a dream is that it must be difficult to achieve, or even hopeless.
For Zhang Yuelu, it is almost no suspense that she will become a real person in the future. At worst, she will be an ordinary real person who wears the sword of wisdom. If she develops smoothly, she should be among the thirty-six real people who know everything in the Golden Palace, so her dream is to become a Grand Master.
The end point that Qi Xuansu desires is actually the starting point for Zhang Yuelu to reach the end point.
Qi Xuansu is not a fool, and naturally he noticed this from Zhang Yuelu's attitude and words.
For a while, the two were speechless.
Whether it is drinking when meeting each other, or guarding against each other and testing each other, some things that the two have never cared about, after the two gradually let go of some of their guard, finally surfaced and turned into an invisible barrier.
Qi Xuansu's slightly charming thoughts just now disappeared in front of this barrier.
He is not a chic and heroic knight, nor a wild and unrestrained madman, he is just a small person struggling at the bottom of the Taoist sect.
So in order to survive, he is unlikely to do something out of the ordinary, such as ignoring the hierarchy and not the fate of God, which is very refreshing, beautiful, and chic, but it does not belong to him.
At least not to him now.
Zhang Yuelu also felt the subtle change in the atmosphere between the two, stopped and said: "It seems that our fate today ends here."
"Today's fate?" Qi Xuansu keenly noticed Zhang Yuelu's choice of words.
Zhang Yuelu said in a tone that was quite like a fortune teller: "But our fate in August has not ended yet, we will meet again."
Qi Xuansu thought very quickly: "You mean working together in Tiangang Hall? But whether I can enter Tiangang Hall is still uncertain."
Zhang Yuelu looked at Qi Xuansu deeply and said: "You can enter Tiangang Hall, and Sun Yongfeng can't stop you. I said it."
Qi Xuansu was shocked and said with a hint: "As far as I know, the new deputy hall master of Tiangang Hall is named Zhang, and his age is not much different from Miss Tan Tai. Could it be that Miss Tan Tai has an old relationship with this
deputy hall master Zhang and intends to say a few good words for me?"
Zhang Yuelu walked away without looking back and said: "Brother Tianyuan, I said you can enter Tiangang Hall, and you will definitely be able to enter Tiangang Hall."
Qi Xuansu stood there, looking at Zhang Yuelu's back as he left, thinking.