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Chapter 558: A little trick, just do it.

The city of Chang'an was in turmoil, with open and covert struggles taking place one after another, and the competition among the major folk sects was about to reach a fever pitch.

The latest Quanzhen Taoism that has emerged here is now showing signs of standing out. Although the people may not be educated, they still have clear thoughts in their minds. After eating the porridge distributed by those crappy religions, their stomachs become as big as a bucket and they cannot defecate. They need their special talisman water to defecate. It's completely like they are using a bug to increase their performance. Even a fool knows that there is something wrong.

But the things of Quanzhen are just like their name, Quanzhen. The porridge and rice can really make you full and still have bowel movements, the vegetables are really pickled with salt, and the medicine can really keep people alive.

To be honest, unless it is a matter of life and death, people really don't have to rely on the sect's teachings to seek the last bit of peace of mind. They mainly hold the mentality of taking advantage.

Moreover, the Quanzhen Sect did one thing very well, which was that its means of enhancing cohesion were much better than those of other groups.

Don’t those who enter the Tao call each other brothers? One day, one of the people who entered Quanzhen was bullied by a minor official in Wannian County. He was beaten and it seemed that one of his legs was broken. He was lying on the bed in great pain.

When their Quanzhen brothers learned about this, they not only paid for treatment for their "brother", they also led more than 700 people to block the government office of Wannian County and asked the Wannian County Magistrate to punish the petty official who had injured their brothers. This matter was quite serious, and the county magistrate was worried about a civil uprising in this troubled time, so he sentenced the man reluctantly, not only making him pay compensation but also sending him to jail for three years.

This incident made the name Quanzhen famous in Chang'an, something that those other sneaky and shady sects simply could not achieve.

As for those evil tricks, when they are performing, someone will expose them. Some tricks may look mysterious, but once they are exposed, they are just that simple. Many potential believers have been killed in this way.

However, these people would definitely not agree to such a thing, so they followed the clues to trace who was behind it. This was not difficult to investigate, and they soon found out that it was Quan Zhen.

They were puzzled at the time, why did they have to be so aggressive when they were all in the same profession? So they took advantage of the night to kill a few Quanzhen believers, intending to teach these people a lesson.

It would be fine if no one died, but it would be a big deal if someone died. The Quanzhen believers naturally refused to give up and said that you have killed my brother, so there is no need to talk about the right and wrong between us.

Thus, a direct conflict broke out, and within a few days the entire Chang'an city turned into the Temple Street in Young and Dangerous, with armed fights and group brawls every day. The Jingzhao Yin and the four major yamen in the two counties were arresting people everywhere every day, even arresting all the big guys.

But some things here are very interesting. Quanzhen people do not discriminate against anyone when it comes to treating illnesses. They treat everyone, whether you are an official, a merchant, or a peddler. And most of them can be cured. So when they were arrested and thrown into jail, it was not called imprisonment, it was like going to Liangshan to be a brother.

All they see are brothers, and all they see are benefactors. But the lives of those other sects are much harder, as they are beaten by their brothers, dozens of them can die in a single day, and when they are investigated, they are all found to have died suddenly in prison.

This obvious favoritism, coupled with the disadvantage in the off-field confrontation, soon made the other side red-eyed. They no longer cared about overthrowing Chang'an, and were determined to suppress Quanzhen to death like crazy.

But can this thing be suppressed? They have real money to back them up. There is meat in the porridge, the medicine is more expensive than gold, and even sick believers can eat canned sugar water from Fuliang. This is not only human, material and financial resources, but also the crushing of technology. What can you rely on to compare with others? Rely on porridge mixed with Guanyin soil? Rely on talisman water that can cure diseases by writing two stupid words on yellow paper? Or rely on brainwashing to paint a rosy picture of a bright future?

As I said, although the ordinary people in Chang'an cannot be said to be that well off, they are not so desperate as to watch their newborn babies being thrown into the pot to be stewed. Their method may be useful at the moment but the premise is that no one comes out to deceive them. Once the cheating is done, and you don't even give out eggs, how can I still trust you?

It seems that this matter is handled by Xiao Douya, but in fact the person behind the scenes is Ma Zhou. Ma Ye is the prime minister of a country. Coordinating and dispatching this matter and dealing with these aristocratic families who have been unimpressed for a thousand years, isn't that like playing?
You know, if there had been no Xia Lin, Ma Zhou would have been a candidate for prime minister on the same level as Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, and Zhangsun Wuji. With Xia Lin, he was armed with new ideas. How could these old folks from the old era risk their lives to fight him?

In short, the group of trouble-making families in Chang'an were quickly suppressed by Ma Zhou's fighting wisdom, Xia Lin's technological foundation and Dugu's huge financial resources. They were suppressed without any military force, but purely by means of manipulation.

However, seeing that other strange religious sects are getting weaker, while Quanzhen is getting stronger and stronger, what should these people do?
Master Ma was not in a hurry at all. He asked Dugu and Sanniang to talk to Li Yuan and ask him to open a sect office and establish Quanzhen as the state religion. Quanzhen was a hidden sect on Zhongnan Mountain. Its doctrine was so righteous that it was evil. It also had a broad mass base. Li Yuan actually couldn't disagree. It was just that this matter encountered considerable resistance in the court. However, this was also the result that Master Ma had expected. He did not rush into it but continued to move forward slowly. Private fighting has been rampant among the people recently. Some people tried to frame Quanzhen by means of means. It was rumored that Quanzhen believers captured children and used their hearts and livers to refine elixirs, and then Quanzhen opened their mansion to the public...

The number of orphans adopted there is known, and the daily meals are transparent, making it a game of clear water with no fish in it.

Seeing that this group of powerful people were so cowardly, the other side tried other tactics and began to murder the top leaders of Quanzhen. Two of the seven were killed on the first day.

But who knew that killing the two would have the opposite effect. The anger of all Quanzhen believers was ignited, and they almost started a religious war in Chang'an City. Several sects were razed to the ground by their believers. No matter whether they did it or not, based on what they did on a daily basis, there would be nothing wrong in defeating them first.

Chang'an, which was originally in a state of panic and could have been hit by the Yellow Turban Rebellion at any time, changed its script into the Holy Grail War in just a dozen days. There were arson and fighting everywhere, and sometimes even spread beyond the palace walls. The most terrifying thing was that one day during a fight they even burned down the house of the chief minister of the Zongzheng Temple.

He was the chief minister of Zongzheng Temple, a man whom Li Yuan would call uncle whenever he saw him. Burn down his house...

The next day, the members of the Zongzheng Temple collectively went to the palace to cry to Li Yuan, and used their ultimate trick of relying on their seniority to force Li Yuan to end the chaos and restore order to Chang'an. The remaining people should be arrested or killed, and no one should be tolerated.

Now that things had come to this point, no one came out to obstruct it. Li Yuan waved his hand and sent troops to suppress it!

This time it was not about suppressing the people. The things they did were the same, but they were now about pacifying the mob. The righteousness was in their hands. The people of Chang'an City had suffered from these people for a long time, so they all applauded and happily welcomed the emperor's troops into the city to quell the rebellion.

This is going to be quite lively. These people are just liars, right? They are caught and publicly tried one by one, and the interrogation is done by Sanniang's personal army. After listening to them tell everyone about their methods, the believers who found out that they were deceived cursed loudly.

If this thing loses its mass support, it will be useless. On the other hand, the Quanzhen sect is here to save people. Even if a believer is caught for fighting with others, he will be sent to jail as a brother, so they are all strong-willed and insist that they are right.

In this world, one or two people may not be able to change yin and yang, but hundreds of thousands of people can really change yin and yang. In order to calm the situation, Li Yuan, after discussion in the court, "reluctantly" made Quanzhen the state religion of the Tang Dynasty, but the prerequisite was that Quanzhen must reduce the number of true hardcore believers to less than 10,000.

Ma Ye had naturally thought of this a long time ago. After Quan Zhen was incorporated, he did something very exciting, which was to initiate an assessment...

The content of the assessment is very simple. The believers come and fill out a test paper. Anyway, the technology in Fuliang has spread and printing paper is very cheap. So everyone fills out a test paper, which contains information about their understanding of doctrine, understanding of heaven, earth and man, understanding of Taoism, and comprehension of Laozi.

A test paper, those who pass can become true believers, those who fail, can still drink the porridge and cure the disease, but other benefits are gone. Because I saved you, but you don't want to understand that I don't love me, then you can only be a porridge drinker, after all, love does not need to be taught, it is innate, as long as you try hard, you can answer it, if you can't answer it, it means you don't love!
How can I explain this? These people have fallen to the point of eating porridge mixed with Guanyin soil. Now, they are asked to answer what "knowing, stopping, doing, breaking, and observing" mean. From the secrets of plants and trees to the question of impermanence, there is nothing so abstract in the world. Those who can answer this question must be of a high level.

But fortunately, the porridge can still be drunk, and the disease can still be treated. The lonely old people have someone to take care of them, and the children without fathers have someone to take care of them. Isn't that enough?

It was only about a month, and Xia Lin had just received Li Yuan's reply, while Ma Zhou had already put down the Chang'an Rebellion and added a new department to Li Tang.

But Li Yuan thought about it several times and always felt that something was wrong. There was a strong smell of Lin in this matter, but he was also very worried at the moment and could not care about so many things. Anyway, judging from the result, it was not a bad thing now, so let's just continue like this. But he always felt that he was being plotted against.

After all, he is the emperor of a country. It is always bad to be plotted against, right?
(End of this chapter)