In the secret and solemn ceremony, Ma Weisan presented 10,000 taels of silver, which was originally intended to be presented to the main altar and Ma Weisan, but Zhang Yingchen accepted it unceremoniously. [No pop-up novel website] txt e-book download It takes a lot of money to open up the situation in southern Shandong, and money is also needed to accommodate refugees. Besides, I needed to be "comforted" when I had been frightened for the past two months.
Then, he got the most important part, the roster of various incense halls of Nanwuliang Sect in Yizhou area and various related account books. This wealth made Zhang Yingchen more excited than ten thousand taels of silver. There are more than 40 incense halls in the entire Yizhou branch, and the number of registered believers who worship incense rituals is more than 30,000. Although most of them are middle- and lower-class people, there are only 4,800 taels of incense rituals offered to the main altar every year, and there are also many religious properties that want to be managed.
Needless to say, most of this religious property must have become Ma Weisan's "sī property", but Zhang Yingchen was not prepared to get entangled with Ma Weisan on this issue. Now that I want to kill him, these things will all be my own in the future. Now is the time to stabilize the situation, and the most important thing is to reassure him first.
Therefore, he was quite polite to Ma Weisan. In addition to praising him for "forsaking the darkness and turning to the light", he also hinted that the good situation here in Yizhou was due to his Ma Weisan, and he would still reuse him in the future. Ma Weisan is an old man, so of course he was doubtful after hearing this, but now he is scared to death of the Taoist priest, let alone reuse him or not, as long as he doesn't need his wealth.
If he rebels against the disciples, the disciples will probably come to settle accounts with him. Putting aside heavy responsibilities, how to save one's life is the most important thing, so Ma Weisan repeatedly asked the Taoist priest to "move the law" to Majiazhai.
Zhang Yingchen rejected Ma Weisan's request to move "Fa Jia" to Majiazhai. Of course Majiazhai is good, but he has already made up his mind to use Dadianzhuang as the general base for the New Taoist activities in Yizhou. What's more, he will draw a clear line with Ma Weisan in the future and walk away from the future "traitors" Too close is inappropriate.
However, he also comforted Ma Weisan's fear appropriately, saying that he would not let him suffer otherwise. Even if the other person is not in Majiazhai, his safety can still be ensured. Of course, it would be hard to say if he left Majiazhai and ran around.
Zhang Yingchen did not want Ma Weisan to continue to exert his influence and use fear to trap him in Majiazhai. In order to reassure him, Zhang Yingchen drew a few talismans and handed them to Ma Weisan after the banquet, asking him to post them at home. The reason why he wanted to put them on Ma Weisan was because Zhang Yingchen himself did not want to continue doing this set of talismans. , it’s just for temporary use at the moment.
In order to break the mystery of the cult, he also led the incense owners to dig out the trap with great fanfare - with the frightened envoy of the main altar in hand, everything would no longer be a secret. Soon they discovered the "spell" arranged by Xuande, Rosenet and others.
The brick-shaped structure used in the five-piece touch is slightly newer in color, so it can be identified with just a little attention. Under each brick is a set of fire mechanisms. This fire mechanism is very clever. It does not use the traditional delayed fire such as "stuffing incense", but a foot-operated steel wheel flint fire. Under the bricks is a pedal and supporting thin wooden strips for insurance. When you touch it, you need to step on it with great force to get fire, so as to avoid accidentally stepping on it while walking around.
Zhang Yingchen was surprised at first glance. This was actually worthy of a flint gun. It seems that many practical technologies are not unavailable in China, but they have not been widely promoted.
The fire mechanism leads to fuses placed in the bamboo tubes. Each fuse controls a mechanism, and there are five sets in total. Every set has great ingenuity. Although in principle, the entire set of magic mechanisms is nothing more than a combination of landmines and ceremonial bombs, Zhang Yingchen was already amazed by the ability to achieve this step with extremely rudimentary technical levels.
One of them was installed under the Eight Immortals table where Zhang Yingchen was seated. This made Zhang Yingchen break into a cold sweat. If the other party hadn't been too obsessed with the effect of the spell, he might have blown himself to death.
This exposed Western scene had a great psychological impact on the still hesitant believers, especially since the envoy of the main altar and the saint of the inner law hall, who they regarded as a half-immortal, were also defeated and captured, which made them even more suspicious of this person. "Zhenren Zhang" is full of new admiration. A group of people fell to the ground
With the defection of Ma Weisan and others, all the power of the cult in Yizhou suddenly collapsed. Except for a small part of the more than 40 incense halls that collapsed on their own, all others were taken over by Zhang Yingchen. Zhang Yingchen then made some changes to the organizational structure according to his ideas, changing the incense owner to the group leader. In addition, he reduced the size of the larger incense hall and established 138 study groups to replace the original four Fifteen incense halls. Each group has a chief and deputy group leader to replace the original incense leader and secretary incense.
The original classics were abolished and all were replaced by three booklets shipped from the Hangzhou Printing House, which were written by Zhang Yingchen himself: "Tao Zang Entering the Gate", "Tibetan Questions and Answers" and "Collection of Essential Sutras".
These are three easy-to-understand New Taoist booklets written by Taoist priest ■ himself. Covers the basic knowledge needs of ordinary believers and missionaries.
The leaders and deputy leaders of all the study groups gathered in batches at Yunshengguan to participate in the three-day group study.
The general management organization of New Taoism in Yizhou is located in Yunshengguanli, and special financial personnel are set up to manage the revenue and expenditure of funds and the management of religious properties. In order to show his loyalty, Ma Weisan handed over more than 300 acres of land. Church property".
As a new aspect of the new Taoism, Zhang Yingchen canceled the heavy burden of fixed quotas of incense rituals for each incense hall. Although this move would cause him great losses financially, he knew very well that the Senate had no regard for any "organized" religion. I was very sensitive, so I decided not to accept the money. Moreover, the current economic situation of Yizhou believers is also very poor and they are in urgent need of recuperation.
The floods in southern Shandong would not reach the climax until 1632. Before that, Zhang Yingchen had to work hard to turn Yizhou into his own stable territory.
However, the matter of exporting the population can be started now.
He scooped up the silver donated by Ma Weisan and received great support from the banker. Historically, the banker of Dadianzhuang was very active during a series of natural disasters such as the flood in southern Shandong, and presided over the entire Yizhou area. Many disaster relief efforts. In this time and space, they are also philanthropic. At Zhang Yingchen's suggestion, the banker came forward and contacted a group of local gentry to set up a "Tzu Chi Hall", of which the master of the banker was naturally in charge. Zhang Daozhang, who was famous for his medical skills, also enthusiastically became the main deacon of the shantang.
Zhang Yingchen didn't care who held the leadership of Tzu Chi Hall. He mainly used Tzu Chi Hall's status to do things. It would be better if he could get some financial support from Tzu Chi Hall.
Lu Wenyuan on Qimu Island has already sent him news that the construction of Qimu Island has already laid a certain foundation. If the population is to be transferred, the current capacity of Qimu Island is one thousand people in the short term and three in the long term. Hundreds of people.
"Qimu Island Fort and the Taiwan base are in urgent need of labor. If there are suitable laborers, please send them to Qimu Island as soon as possible." What Lu Wenyuan needs now is labor. Because of the landing in Taiwan, the people who were originally gathered on Qimu Island The first batch of 1,000 refugees recruited from Huang County, Denglai and other places have already set off south to be transported to Taiwan.
It is not difficult to recruit labor force in Dongsan Prefecture. This place is very poor. No matter in good years or famine years, the people are always half hungry and half full, and there are many people fleeing famine. However, as the Jeju Island strategy is about to begin, the Qimu Island base will also transport people to Jeju Island. The large number of people transported in Dongsanfu becomes very noticeable. After all, this is still Sun Yuanhua's territory, and both parties need to be considerate of each other.
"Hmph, population, why am I braving the sun and going through life and death here, isn't it just for the labor force?" Zhang Yingchen muttered. He has already begun to take in refugees. He now has a complete organizational structure and sufficient manpower, so he no longer has to do it himself.
The first batch of buildings have been built on Qimu Island. Lu Wenyuan has now become the "island owner" to the letter. After Zhao Yingong returned to Zhejiang, he quickly recruited more than a hundred local poor households in the name of recruiting long-term workers and tenants. Place them on the island as basic labor force to build farms. There used to be a fishing village with more than a dozen families of fishermen on the island, and Lu Wenyuan also took them in as his long-term workers.
Although he doesn’t think much of the fishermen’s small fishing boats, compared with the fishing boats seen in the South China Sea and along the coast of Zhejiang, the ocean fishing boats in the Denglaiqing area are too small, with a displacement of more than ten or twenty tons at best, which is basically Longkou Bay. Nearby sea activities. However, having more than a dozen ships is still a coastal mobility force.
Lu Wenyuan also organized a hundred Xiangyong people according to the standard of one Ding per household. In a place where public security basically depends on oneself, it is really difficult to sleep without some fully armed Xiangyong.
After Sun Yuanhua heard people in the church mention this matter, in order to express his concern and peace, he specially sent some knives and guns. Of course, it would be inconvenient for him to openly distribute firearms and ammunition. But the visitor immediately said that as long as Lu Wenyuan wanted it, he could get a bird gun, a three-eyed gun and a small cannon with a little money. Fire projectiles are also readily available.
Lu Wenyuan thought of Zhao Yingong's instructions to establish a good relationship with the local officials, so he spent dozens of taels of silver, bought some three-eyed bird guns and two-man cannons, and also stocked up on some rocket projectiles. Let Huang Ande be the coach and leave the team to netbsp; According to the plan, Lu Wenyuan originally planned to dig a 2-meter-deep trench on the sand embankment of Qimu Island to introduce seawater and cut off the connection with the mainland. However, considering that the Bohai Bay is likely to freeze in winter, and it will be convenient for the enemy to come from the bay, it is somewhat unnecessary to spend a lot of effort to dig a trench alone.
