It’s the first month of the lunar month. Counting from the first day of the lunar month until the thirtieth day of the first lunar month, almost every day is a day of Christmas and descent for gods and Buddhas. [No pop-up novel website] In the fifth year of Chongzhen's reign, floods in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu continued, especially floods from June to August. Almost the entire southern Shandong suffered disasters, and Yizhou was particularly severely affected. Most of the people fled the country. Despite this, there are still many believers who come to Yunsheng Temple to pray for blessings on the first day of the new year. Especially some newly converted wealthy families took this opportunity to express their piety.
As a result, the Taoist temple's main hall, which was originally a bit cramped, could not accommodate so many pilgrims. Zhang Yingchen had no choice but to obey the authority in a hurry and bought a bluestone manger from the banker to serve as an incense burner and set it up outside the main hall. Even so, the choking smell of inferior incense still made him dizzy.
"The five offerings of incense, lanterns, water, flowers and fruits are really troublesome and waste money for people and money, so they need to be changed." With a professional smile, he nodded to every pilgrim and believer who said hello to him, and faced Ming Ming. Qing assigned:
"Take a few junior brothers with you to persuade the believers outside not to burn paper money and tin ingots randomly, so as not to attract back pay."
Whether it is to commemorate ancestors or to make offerings to gods, burning tin ingots and paper money is a deep-rooted tradition. Even Zhang Yingchen, who has become a living god among believers, is unable to go against this tradition. This is not the case in Lingao or Hainan counties. As long as the "Municipal Management Measures" and the labor camps are used, some bad habits can be completely eliminated. Zhang Yingchen had no choice but to make some adjustments. In the newly revised "Regulations of Good Faith", it was stipulated that burning paper money as a hanging offering must be done in a designated burning furnace. After burning, water should be poured out to extinguish the embers.
However, judging from the feedback sent back by the study group, residents of Dadianzhuang and several nearby natural villages are not particularly resistant to this. After all, for people who generally live in houses with civil structures, fire is always the biggest threat to the safety of people and property. The situation is better in the countryside and in densely populated towns. There are countless wealthy households who become beggars every year because of fires that burn down the doors of their shops and houses. When it comes to matters that are actually related to their own interests, the masses are always the smartest. This can be regarded as the new understanding of Zhang Daochang, who has been doing "grassroots mass work" for these days since D-Day.
However, compared to the work of the grassroots masses, there is no doubt that the work of bankers is more difficult to do.
No matter how much they admired Daozhang Zhang's medical skills and Taoism, Confucian scholars' contempt for Taoism was deep in their bones. Zhuang Qian may have regarded Zhang Yingchen, who saved his life, as an earthly immortal, but to those squires who had heard rumors about him, Zhang Yingchen was nothing more than an alchemist with special skills. When there is a request for help from Taoist Zhang, these squire masters are willing to make people from famous religions look down on them, like an immortal master. The one on the right was really flattering. However, internally, his attitude is nothing more than the Ming rural version of the model of Emperor Jiajing and Tao Zhongwen. Every time he interacted with these squires, Zhang Yingchen had to think of the old uncultivated evil gentry who was enjoying the morphine purified by his own method in Hangzhou and was in a state of ecstasy.
This kind of opposition between technical intellectuals and Confucian intellectuals can be said to have reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Yingchen, who had seen the arrogance of the Ming gentry, often had to agree with what was shouted in the Spartacus Regiment's magazine "Red Flag" The radical slogan of “cleanse all the backward gentry and throw them to Southeast Asia to improve the race” has its own rationality. But united front work must also be done. Even if we cannot cultivate a leading party, we can influence some enlightened gentry, which will be beneficial to future mainland strategy.
In contrast, the wives and concubines of the squire were more pious to the new Taoism. It seems that women have to work tirelessly to keep up the good work.
Over the past few days, he has been traveling around, treating wealthy gentry families and never asking for money. Just ask them to "donate as they please" and donate food, bricks, tiles, and firewood. Cloth and Chinese medicinal materials, all donations received are used to relieve refugees, and I don’t need to pay a penny. In addition to expanding the scale of hosting refugees. The main thing is to give yourself a layer of "real person" aura of "high moral integrity" as soon as possible.
Relying on the "casual charity" of the local gentry in Yizhou - mainly the sponsorship of bankers, and Ma Sanwei's "pleasurable donations", he used refugees as labor force and expanded the "Tzu Chi Hall" for refugees with work-in-aid. camp. A second earthen fence was built, and the original adobe thatched cottage was renovated: a brick-and-tile warehouse, offices and health clinic were built. Naturally, the senate has always spared no expense in the toilets and bathrooms - from this the devotees know that the Taoist Priest attaches great importance to personal cleanliness.
He also added brick turrets and gatehouses to the camp walls to improve the level of defense. With the support of the banker, he "organized a regiment" and pulled up a group of more than 100 rural warriors - it was not a problem to fight, but it was not a problem to stand guard against small groups of bandits.
Although the "Tzu Chi Hall" was co-founded by the Zhuang family and a group of gentry, although these gentry all had the title of "good directors", they did not have specific directors. The Zhuang family only sent one steward - and this steward was also His followers, so the work of hosting and relieving refugees went very smoothly.
Throughout 1632, his work of transferring refugees in Yizhou went smoothly: in 1632, Yizhou suffered another flood after the flood in 1631. The disaster was very serious and the number of refugees surged. Thanks to the support of local gentry such as bankers, Tzu Chi Hall's local disaster relief and shelter work went very smoothly.
Although the route that had originally been opened to go north through Yishui, then take a short land route to Juyangshui to Laizhou Bay, and finally to Qisang Island was temporarily closed due to the Dengzhou rebellion, the engine command still opened the second route. This line allows refugees to go from Dadianzhuangzhou, Yizhou to Lanshantou by land in the refugee escape mode, and then be picked up by boats at Lanshantou and transported to Jeju Island.
At the top of Lanshan Mountain was the Ming Dynasty's Andong Guard. However, at this time, the Ming military guard was depleted, and there were disasters all over southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu. The officers and soldiers were already overwhelmed, and they basically held a non-interference attitude towards large-scale refugee crossings. As long as there was no local riot, Wherever you go. The Taoist leader simply suffered from a shortage of manpower. Although he had the assistance of Wang Ruixiang, he was still unable to devote all his efforts to transporting people. Therefore, after the line to Longkou in the north was closed, only more than 10,000 people were transported in 1632.
This performance could not satisfy him in any way.
At present, the entire Lunan area is full of refugees, and there are refugee groups everywhere. However, I do not have enough manpower and material resources, so I can only watch the refugees displaced and die in large numbers on the way to escape.
No matter how capable he is, he can only barely help the people in Yinan County, but there is nothing he can do if it extends to the whole state.
However, he has recently received good news: the operation in Dengzhou has been declared victorious, and the transportation line to Longkou will soon be restored. Judging from the news, Lu Wenyuan and the others have become a powerful force in Dengzhou, and they have half-official status to run the aftermath bureau. They are quite "coverable" in the local area. This route should be better than in the past. Safe and convenient.
We must seize this opportunity and transport a large number of people away!
"Xiao Min."
"Taoist Master." Min Zhanlian responded. He wore a green outfit and looked very capable. He carries a sword and is now the Taoist priest's teacher. After he was captured, he thought he would definitely die, but after some "teachings" from the Taoist priest, he had converted to his new Taoism. The Senate was very impressed by what methods the Taoist priest used to make this former assassin surrender. Interested, but the Taoist priest always said nothing about it.
"How's it going at Masanwei's place?"
"Very honest. He has been hiding in the stockade and not going out."
"Very good, you keep an eye on him." The Taoist priest was very worried about Ma Sanwei. However, it was the Chinese New Year, and no matter what Ma Sanwei wanted to do, it would still be after the first half of the first month.
Speaking of which, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the birthday of Sun Simiao, the King of Heavenly Medicine. It is also time to gather the leaders of the study group and the Taoists for a study meeting.
He thought for a moment, then called Liu Sanchu over and wrote an invitation in person, saying that on the day when Zhang Daoling, the Seventh Patriarch of Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling, became a Taoist, Yunsheng Temple had prepared a sutra altar for lectures and a Buddhist altar. Let him invite the banker's masters to come and have a feast on Chuqi.
Liu Sanchu was his newly recruited "trainee Zhu Shi". He was originally an old boy - the kind who lived in a Mongolian mansion, had several acres of farmland at home, could not eat enough, and was not hungry to death.
He joined the Nanwuliang Sect because he was interested in the benefits of rubbing oil on the incense head. Of course, he was not very courageous. Although he could be regarded as a scholar, he did not have the style of a Shaoxing scholar. Moreover, Tong Sheng did not go to school, so he could not be said to have mixed up with scholars. As for the fight between Master Zhang and the Nan Buliang Sect, he didn't know the inside story. However, since everyone said that Zhang Daozhang was very powerful and the leader of the Nan Buliang Sect was beaten to death on the spot, he had no choice but to follow the crowd.
Daozhang Zhang exempted Nanwuliang Sect from donating to believers, and Liu Sanchu had no chance to take advantage of him. However, Daozhang Zhang chose some Xiangtou who knew a little bit about writing to be study group leaders, and selected a few of these study group leaders. As a trainee, "activists" can at least enjoy a monthly allowance of two kilograms of mixed noodles. With this kind of employment method, I don’t know whether Daozhang Zhang is hiring assistants or hiring leaders.
Today is the fourth day of the first lunar month. It seems that under the control of Daochang Zhang, who has some skills in the world, the whole place has finally calmed down. Although many people have starved to death, at least no major epidemic has occurred. Everyone knows that this is a living thing. Zhang Daochang, the King of Medicine and Sai Chunyang, has divine medical skills and profound Taoist power. Therefore, there are not a few people who burn incense in Yunsheng Temple to fulfill their vows. Even the refugees who have not been deported come in groups to kowtow to thank the gods for their blessings.
