Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 209

As soon as Zhao Xin finished speaking, several people in the room laughed.

Ding Guofeng said: "We should give Qianlong a trophy."

Zhao Xindao: "If you don't give me gold, I will give you a plastic one."

Hong Tao said: "Why are you so stingy? You took thousands of taels of gold, pearls and ginseng from others, and gave them a plastic cup."

Ding Guofeng smiled and said, "Doctor Hong, plastic is the peerless treasure right now."

Several people talked nonsense, and Lu Shoushan, Xu Dayong and Wang Changsheng who were accompanying them also giggled.Ever since they heard the news of Beihai Town's big victory, the three of Lu Shoushan were overjoyed, and their belief in being invincible with Zhao Xin became more and more firm.

After everyone left after teasing, Zhao Xin said to the three of Lu Shoushan who stayed behind: "When is the next boat leaving?"

Lu Shoushan got up and cupped his hands, saying: "Tomorrow night. There are 300 people in one boat, and there are three boats in total."

Zhao Xin shook his head: "Let's delay it for two days. Now everyone who boards the ship must go through Dr. Hong's inspection first."

Lu Shoushan was surprised and said, "Master, is something wrong?"

Zhao Xindao: "There are already people suffering from dysentery on Jeju Island, and they probably brought them from here."

When Wang Changsheng heard it, his face became very ugly, and he muttered: "A big epidemic?"

Zhao Xin shook his head: "It's not a big deal. As long as the source is found out and the infection is eliminated, the treatment is not difficult."

In June of this year, when there was no news from Zhao Xin after waiting for several months, Lu Shoushan and the others learned that the Qing court sent troops to crusade.Seeing that there are more and more refugees on the farm, it is impossible to continue resettling without transfer.The three of them sat down together and decided to find a ship to transport the refugees to sea first.The temporary resettlement site is located in the south of Jeju Island, where Xu Dayong once visited.

Sure enough, when Zhao Xin finally took a boat and led his people to the outer seas of northern Jiangsu, as soon as he left the Tsushima Strait, he saw two large sand boats transporting refugees, and Wang Changsheng happened to be traveling with the boats.These sand boats for transporting people were all bought by Wang Changsheng through Luo Jiao's relationship, and the sailors on board were also from Luo Jiao.

This saves trouble, Deng Fei directly transports the refugees back to Beihai Town from Jeju Island, saving a lot of time.After Zhao Xin and Dr. Hong made a short stay in Jeju Island, they took a sandboat to North Jiangsu.

Hong Tao brought twenty medical staff along with the ship this time. He did not expect that dysentery infection would break out in the temporary resettlement site in the south of Jeju Island.Fortunately, Zhao Xin had a large stock of quinolone antibiotics, which prevented mass deaths.Hong Tao was worried that the situation here at Sheyang Lake was not good, so he brought ten people along with him.

When the three of them heard this, they were relieved.They all knew a little about the medical level in Beihai Town. Some serious diseases that were difficult to treat in the past were nothing in Beihai Town.

Of course, it has always been the medicine that cures the sick, and the Buddha is a destined person.The hospitals in Beihai Town are not omnipotent, at least cancer cannot be cured; and those chronic endocrine diseases are maintained by the medicine brought back by Zhao Xin. I can resign myself to fate.

After talking about boarding the ship for inspection, Lu Shoushan hesitated for a while, and then said: "Master, there have been some suspicious people outside Zhuangzi in the past few months. After Dayong sent someone to check, it was confirmed that they were people from the Shouyuan Sect." .”

"Receiving Yuanjiao?" Zhao Xinxin said, what the hell is this shit. "Tell me, what's going on?"

Xu Dayong was about to get up, Zhao Xin waved him to sit down and said.Xu Da tidied up his words in his mind, and then reported: "My lord, this was discovered in August. Before July, we went to Henan and Shandong to buy refugees according to your instructions, all of which were cultivated. The rhetoric of the coastal wasteland. Because we were afraid of being noticed by the government, we bought up to 100 people each time, and then transported them back to Zhuangzi for resettlement. Later, the sailors of Luojiao also helped spread the news on both sides of the canal, and the three of us never went to Henan again. , Shandong, a lot of refugees came to look for them themselves.”

It turned out that in May and June of this year, because Zhao Xin was busy dealing with the Qing army's attack, Deng Fei went to Ezo.There were no boats to pick up people, and more and more refugees gathered on the side of Sheyang Lake.Lu Shoushan and the others selected family members from among these refugees, not bachelors.

In the beginning, in order to prevent people with intentions from getting in, Lu Shoushan and the others strictly checked every refugee family who came to Zhuangzi, and they would take in only after detailed inquiries.But in July, with more and more refugees, the situation got out of control, and all kinds of people with good intentions mixed in; among them, the group with the worst influence was Shouyuanjiao.

China has been a disaster-prone country since ancient times. All kinds of natural and man-made disasters threaten the lives and properties of ordinary people all the time.In connection with these disasters, traditional Chinese society has a set of elaborate and cumbersome disaster system.

Some scholars in later generations concluded that this system is a strategy for the traditional country to use the cultural system to bridge the gaps in technology, and it has contributed to the coexistence of the sacred kingship and other sacred polytheism.It has a profound impact on the disaster belief mentality and belief system in Chinese history.

Folk religions have made use of this national disaster belief system and the disaster belief mentality of the grassroots society, and have created a set of "three final calamities" as the core with the help of Buddhist scriptures about "three times" and "three calamities". It is the core of this "disaster resolution system" to establish the religion through this set of mythology.

Through the records of the most severe natural and man-made disasters in history, these sects have summed up their own picture of the end of the world.Facing the real disaster of bleak wind and rain, in the hearts of ordinary people, the saying of catastrophe just confirms the current reality.For example, the following statement is fully applicable to the years of catastrophe in various periods in ancient times:
"Xiayuan Jiazi, for three years and five years, all kinds of diseases invaded, father and son fled, and the husband and wife could not look after each other. Thirteen provinces, prefectures, counties, Diandao villages, people all became headless ghosts. People cannibalize human flesh, bones are everywhere. Rich and poor , the suffering of the Li people. There are seventy or eighty kinds of donations every year, expressing the distress of the people. The fields are abandoned, and the cattle and sheep die."

Almost all folk sects say in unison, "Only by entering my way can we avoid disaster."The hardships and hardships in reality have made people physically and mentally exhausted, and the disaster myths of sects have made people even more fearful, while the generosity and kindness of the so-called "lifeless mother" has won people's trust and goodwill;All these have contributed to people's strong desire to move closer to the sect.Therefore, in the cases of various folk religions seized by the government of the past dynasties, there are many people who confess that they joined the religion out of "fear of floods, droughts and chaos", "coveting to survive the catastrophe", and "practicing to avoid catastrophe, nothing else". yes.

Like other secret sects of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Shouyuan Sect was widely spread in the Ming Dynasty.In the church, "Li Tian Juan" is the treasure scroll, "Nan Wu Tian Yuan Tai Bao Amitabha" is the object of worship, and there is also a mantra of eight characters "A vacuum home, no parents".

"My lord, in the 18th year of Qianlong's reign, Shouyuanjiao was renamed Ronghuahui in Kaifeng, Henan, and it was also called Hunyuanjiao in some places."

When Zhao Xin heard this, he already understood, what kind of bullshit is "receiving yuan" and "ronghua", this is the White Lotus Sect!
Since the Qing Dynasty, there have been many names of folk secret societies, such as Tianyuan, Bagua, Shuntian, Lili, Huangtian, Future, Randeng, Shouyuan, Wuji, Qingshui, Sanyang, and Quiethui (the name is funny, we Quietly) etc. 34 species; this is not counted as a variant branch.

Some of them teach several names, each of which does not belong to each other.There are quite a lot of differences in teachings, organizations, ceremonies and activities, but they all bear the imprint of White Lotus Sect more or less.As long as it says something like "No birth mother, Maitreya will descend to the world", and there is a treasure scroll, then it must be the White Lotus Sect.

Zhao Xin thought of this and asked, "Does anyone in the farm believe this now?"

Xu Dayong said: "Yes, more than a dozen. I asked Chen Jishan to lead someone to watch."

"Chen Jishan? Who is this?"

Xu Dayong quickly explained: "I bought this person in the market in Kaifeng, and I also have a younger sister. At that time, the brother and sister sold the land in their hometown and wanted to come to northern Jiangsu to seek a living. After arriving in Kaifeng, Chen Jishan became ill. After getting up, all the money on their bodies was spent. In desperation, the two had no choice but to go to the people's market to pawn their bodies."

"Oh. Is this person reliable?"

"It's reliable. He is a branch of the Chen family in Wen County. He used to ask Guo Yongfu to train him for several years. I sent someone to Wen County to check."

(Note: Guo Yongfu (1736-1796), born in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, his ancestral home was under the big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi. He moved to Henan, and later beat someone to death in Wen County. He wandered back to his hometown in 1770 and was trained by generations The master believed that it was the ancestor of Hong Dongtong's back wrapping boxing. Later generations believed that Hong Dongtong's back wrapping boxing was created by Chen Wangting and lost in Chenjiagou. Some people believe that Guo Yongfu is Chen's Chen Youfu, the 14th generation descendant of Taijiquan, may have changed his mother's surname and adopted the homonym of his name to avoid disasters; and the Chen family originated from Hongdong, Shanxi.)
"It's kind of interesting." Zhao Xin's mind started to go wrong again: "I don't know if it's the descendants of the Chen family who are good, or the masters of the inner circle? Or, after Liu Sheng finds out, he might come to a duel. Definitely Very interesting."

"Master, sir?"

"Huh? Oh. Go on."

Xu Dayong asked: "My lord, how do you see these Shouyuan believers dealing with it?" After he finished speaking, he made a gesture.

Zhao Xin waved his hand and said, "No, we will arrest them secretly and send them to Jeju Island first, and then send them to Yezo to dig coal!"

When Xu Dayong and Wang Changsheng heard this, their hearts trembled.This lord is really poisonous!The land of Ezo is barren and wild, and the language is not understood. This is worse than killing those people.

Several people were talking, when someone knocked on the door, Wang Changsheng had the lowest status here, so he got up and went to the outer room to open the door.After a while, Wang Changsheng came back.

"My lord, it's Chen Jishan who came. He said that spies from the government have sneaked into the Zhuangzi."

"You call him in, and I'll ask him myself."

Not long after, a young man about 1.7 meters tall and wearing a green cloth gown followed Wang Changsheng in.

"I've seen Master Lu, Master Xu." The young man bowed his hands.

"Jishan, this is the master." Seeing Chen Jishan was going to kneel, Xu Dayong quickly stopped him, "Don't kneel, our master doesn't like kneeling. You just bow your hands as usual."

"Boss, this is Chen Jishan."

Zhao Xin saw that this person had a thin face, a slight beard, squinted eyes, and a strong figure.Can't help but said: "Wulin masters are like this."

Chen Jishan bowed and saluted, and glanced at Zhao Xin curiously.He didn't expect that the boss that Lu Shoushan and Xu Dayong often talked about would look like this, tall and tall, but with a very kind face.

"Stop standing, sit down and talk."

"Yes, my boss." Chen Jishan was very surprised, he was just a humble servant, and this boss actually let him sit.But he didn't dare to take it too big, he just sat empty, with his butt just a little bit next to the chair.

"What happened to the government's spies?"

"That's right." Chen Jishan stood up again.Zhao Xin saw it, forget it, don't talk about it, and tell the truth quickly. ".Last night, Li Erkui's son, Dashuan, came to look for the villain and said that in the afternoon, two newcomers asked him about the Zhuangzi. They asked him how his family got here, and asked about the contract of sale. Inquiring about Mr. Xu's details, Da Shuan thought the two were just curious, so he made up some lies to deal with it.

Coincidentally, last night, he saw those two people entering other people's residences to inquire again.After the two came out, Da Shuan went in to ask about it, and then came to find the villain.

When the villain went to investigate last night, he found that the two were still awake.In the middle of the night, one of them came out of the yard.The villain followed all the way to the river, and found that he had been talking to a person for a long time.Because they were too far away, I couldn't hear what they said clearly, but they mentioned Lord Min and Lord Chen many times.

Because it was too late when he came back, the villain thought about telling Master Xu about it at dawn.I never thought that the host would come early in the morning, so I waited until now. "

Zhao Xin nodded and stopped talking.Xu Dayong knew that it was inconvenient to say something in front of Chen Jishan, so he let him go down first.After Chen Jishan saluted and left, Zhao Xin said: "This 'Lord Min' might be Jiangsu Governor Min Eyuan."

Lu Shoushan was surprised and said, "How can a governor pay attention to our place?"

Zhao Xindao: "How can you not pay attention? In the year of a catastrophe, people with ulterior motives will emerge, isn't it the Shouyuan religion that Dayong just mentioned! There are too many refugees gathered here, it is hard to be noticed. impossible."

Lu Shoushan said: "Then what do you say?"

"Have you got through all the government offices here?"

"The local Zongjia gave 100 taels of silver, and he wouldn't let a fart go. In Funing County, from the county magistrate to the government servants below, they all gave silver. As soon as there is news, we will let us know. In Huai'an Mansion, we sent the master 500 taels, to help with the up and down management. As long as there is no major incident in Zhuangzi, generally no one will take care of it."

At the same time, in the refugee residential area outside Zhuangzi, hundreds of refugees are forming a circle to watch the excitement.A tune of "Hillside Sheep" came out from the circle.

". Zhongli pleaded with the Holy Lord: "I am not the chief culprit for eating meat, I am a person who worships Master Jiuque to practice.When the king of Hades heard about the word Jiuque, he clasped his palms against his chest to ask for clarification; when the four kings heard about the people of Jiuque, they opened their mouths and asked for clarification: since they are practitioners of Jiuque, I will listen to everything.Nine towers are no different from evil sects. What kind of religious image is the most dharma door? Who is in charge of what kind of Taoism? I can understand the difference between the words. The three yangs are transformed into a life image, and the golden lotus law is born in the main gate of the world.The Tao is the way of heaven in one step, and all phenomena return to the same journey. "

Standing in the arena and singing were a middle-aged man in his 40s and several young people in their 30s and 20s. Beside them was a woman in her [-]s and a girl in her [-]s or [-]s.The woman was petite and exquisite, and she had an outstanding appearance. She was wearing a royal blue cotton cloth and stood quietly aside.The girl stood aside very sensiblely, holding the woman's skirt with her small hands, and looked at the refugees around her with big eyes curiously, showing no fear at all.

Except for the woman and the girl, all the people present dressed in clothes that looked like Buddha but not Buddha, Taoism and Taoism.Inside is a bunt, a turban on the head, a pair of black short boots on the feet, and a red fur coat on the outside.Holding suona, castanets, and flutes in their hands, playing and beating, it was very lively.

A few refugees at the front of the crowd knelt on the ground, clasped their hands together, and kept kowtowing.Not far behind them, a dozen short, muscular men with arms folded watched coldly, with a hint of sarcasm on their faces from time to time.On the other side, several thin men in patched clothes looked at the field for a while, and glanced at the dozen or so people opposite them.

(End of this chapter)