As soon as Zhao Xin finished speaking, several people in the room laughed.
Ding Guofeng said: "Qianlong should be given a trophy."
Zhao Xindao: "If you don't give me gold, I will give you plastic."
Hong Tao said: "Why are you so stingy? You took thousands of taels of gold, pearls and ginseng from someone, and you just gave me a plastic cup."
Ding Guofeng smiled and said: "Doctor Hong, plastic is the ultimate treasure now."
Several people chatted nonsense, and the three people accompanying them, Lu Shoushan, Xu Dayong and Wang Changsheng, also laughed and giggled. Ever since they heard the news about Beihai Town's great victory, Lu Shoushan and the others were overjoyed, and they became more determined to follow Zhao Xin in an invincible battle.
After everyone finished teasing and dispersed, Zhao Xin said to the three Lu Shoushan who stayed behind: "When will the next boat leave?"
Lu Shoushan stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Tomorrow night. Three hundred people in one boat, three boats in total."
Zhao Xin shook his head: "Let's delay it for two days. Everyone who gets on the ship must first be inspected by Doctor Hong and others."
Lu Shoushan said in surprise: "Master, what happened?"
Zhao Xindao: "There are already people suffering from dysentery on Jeju Island. They were probably brought over from here."
Wang Changsheng on the side turned very ugly when he heard this, and murmured: "A major epidemic?"
Zhao Xin shook his head: "It's not a big deal. As long as the source is found and the infection is eliminated, treatment is not difficult."
In June of this year, after waiting for months and still no news about Zhao Xin, Lu Shoushan and others learned that the Qing government had sent troops to attack. Seeing that the number of refugees on the farm is increasing, they cannot continue to be resettled without relocation. The three of them sat down together and decided to find boat refugees to go to sea first. The temporary resettlement location is located in the southern part of Jeju Island where Xu Dayong once visited.
Sure enough, when Zhao Xin finally took a boat and took people to the sea outside northern Jiangsu, he saw two large sand ships transporting refugees just after leaving the Tsushima Strait, and Wang Changsheng happened to be traveling with the ship. These sand ships for transporting people were purchased by Wang Changsheng through his connections with the Luo Jiao, and the sailors on the ships were all members of the Luo Jiao.
This saves trouble. Deng Fei transported the refugees directly from Jeju Island back to Beihai Town, saving a lot of time. After Zhao Xin and Doctor Hong stayed briefly in Jeju Island, they took a sand boat to Northern Jiangsu.
Hong Tao brought 20 medical staff with him on the ship this time. He did not expect that a dysentery infection would break out in the temporary settlement in southern Jeju Island. Fortunately, Zhao Xin has a large inventory of quinolone antibiotics, which prevented widespread deaths. Hong Tao was worried that the situation here in Sheyang Lake was not good, so he took ten people with him.
The three of them felt relieved after hearing this. They all know the medical level of Beihai Town to some extent. Some serious diseases that were difficult to treat in the past are nothing here in Beihai Town.
Of course, it has always been the case that medicine can cure diseases and Buddha can help those who are destined. The hospital in Beihai Town is not omnipotent, at least cancer cannot be cured; and those chronic endocrine diseases are maintained by the medicine brought back by Zhao Xin. Once the medicine is discontinued or drug resistance develops, then only I can resign myself to fate.
After talking about boarding the ship for inspection, Lu Shoushan hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Master, there have been some suspicious people outside Zhuangzi in the past few months. After Dayong sent people to investigate, it was confirmed that they were people from the Yuan Cult. .”
"Shou Yuanjiao?" Zhao Xinxin said, "What the hell is this?" "Tell me, what exactly happened?"
Xu Dayong was about to stand up when Zhao Xin waved his hand and told him to sit down. Xu Da collected his words in his mind and then reported: "Sir, this matter was discovered in August. Before July, according to your instructions, we went to Henan and Shandong to buy refugees, using land reclamation The reason for the coastal wasteland. Because we were afraid of being noticed by the government, we bought at most a hundred people at a time, and then transported them back to Zhuangzi for resettlement. Later, because we asked Luo Jiao’s sailors to help spread the news, the three of us didn’t have to go there at all. , more and more refugees come to Zhuangzi every day..."
It turned out that in May and June this year, because Zhao Xin was busy dealing with the Qing army's attack, Deng Fei went to Ezo. There are no boats to pick up people, and more and more refugees are gathering here in Sheyang Lake.
At the beginning, Lu Shoushan and the others, in order to prevent interested people from mixing in, would strictly check every refugee family that came to Zhuangzi, and would only take them in after detailed questioning. But in July, as refugees from Henan and Shandong came spontaneously, the situation got a little out of control, and all kinds of random people got in. Among them, the group of people with the worst influence is Shuanyuanjiao.
China has been a country prone to disasters since ancient times. Various natural and man-made disasters threaten people's lives and property at all times. In connection with these disasters, traditional Chinese society has a sophisticated and complicated disaster system.
Later scholars concluded that this system was a strategy for traditional countries to use cultural systems to make up for technological deficiencies. It contributed to the coexistence of multiple gods with divine kingship and other sacred powers. It has a profound impact on the disaster belief mentality and belief system in Chinese history.
Folk sects have taken advantage of the country's disaster belief system and the disaster belief mentality of grassroots society, and relied on the teachings about "three times" and "three tribulations" in Buddhist scriptures to create a system with the "three periods of final tribulation" as the core. The disaster belief myth, and through this set of myths, established the sect as the core of this "disaster resolution system".
These sects have summarized their own picture of the end of the world through records of the most severe natural and man-made disasters in history. Facing the real disasters of wind and rain, in the hearts of ordinary people, the idea of catastrophe just confirms the current reality.
Almost all folk sects agree in unison, "Only by following my path can you avoid disaster." The real hardships make people physically and mentally exhausted, and the sect's disaster myths make people even more frightened. The generosity and kindness of the so-called "inanimate old mother" has won people's trust and favor; the misappropriation of Buddhism's "Maitreya Buddha descends to earth at the right time" is even more exciting. All this contributed to people's strong desire to move closer to the religion. Therefore, in the cases of various folk religious sects investigated by the Qing government, there are many believers who confessed that they only joined the religion out of "fear of floods, droughts and famines", "covetment of surviving disasters", and "practicing to avoid disasters, nothing else." yes.
Like other secret sects in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Shuoyuan Cult was widely spread in the Ming Dynasty. Within the sect, the "Litian Scroll" is regarded as a treasure scroll, and "Namo Tianyuan Taibao Amitabha" is the object of worship. There is also an eight-character mantra that "empty hometown, no biological parents" is passed down orally.
"Sir, in the 18th year of Qianlong's reign, the Shuoyuan Sect was renamed the Ronghua Society in Kaifeng, Henan. In some places, it was also called the Hunyuan Sect."
When Zhao Xin heard this, he already understood what nonsense "receiving yuan" and "ronghua" were. This was the White Lotus Sect!
Since the Qing Dynasty, there have been many folk secret societies, including Tianyuan, Bagua, Shuntian, Zili, Huangtian, Future, Randen, Shuyuan, Wuji, Qingshui, Sanyang, and Qinghui (this name is funny, we Quietly) and other thirty-four types; this does not include variant branches.
Some of these religions have several names, but they all belong to different groups. The teachings are quite different, and the organization, rituals and activities are also different, but they all bear the imprint of the White Lotus Sect to a greater or lesser extent. As long as it says "Old mother without birth, Maitreya will come to the next world" and has a treasure scroll, 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, a dozen or so. I asked Chen Jishan to lead people to keep an eye on them."
"Chen Jishan? Who is this?"
Xu Dayong quickly explained: "I bought this person at the Kaifeng Market, and he also has a younger sister. At that time, the brother and sister sold their land in their hometown and wanted to come to northern Jiangsu to seek a living. As a result, after arriving in Kaifeng, Chen Jishan fell ill. They got up and all their money was spent. In desperation, the two of them had no choice but to go to the market to pledge themselves."
"Oh. Is this person reliable?"
"It's reliable. He is a branch of the Chen family in Wen County. He once worshiped Guo Yongfu as his disciple. I sent someone to Wen County to check."
(Note: Guo Yongfu (1736-1796) was born during 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. In 1770, he wandered back to his hometown and was practiced boxing by all generations. The grandmaster believes that he is the ancestor of Hong Dong Tong Bei Wrapping Quan. Later generations believe that Hong Dong Tong Bei Wrapping Quan was created by Chen Wangting and the 108 styles of Changquan that were lost in Chenjiagou. Some people also believe that Guo Yongfu is the Chen family. Chen Youfu, the 14th generation successor of Tai Chi, may have changed his mother's surname and adopted a homophonic name because he wanted to avoid disaster; and the Chen family originated from Hongdong, Shanxi.)
"It's interesting." Zhao Xin's mind began to wander again: "I wonder if the heirs of the Chen family are more powerful, or the masters in the family are more powerful? Or, after Liu Sheng finds out, he might want to fight in a one-on-one battle. I'm sure. Very interesting..."
"Master, master?"
"Huh? Oh. Keep talking."
Xu Dayong asked: "Sir, how do you think these Shu Yuan cultists are handled?" After he finished speaking, he made a gesture.
Zhao Xin waved his hand and said: "No, arrest them secretly and send them to Jeju Island first, and then send them to Ezo to dig coal!"
When Xu Dayong and Wang Changsheng heard this, their hearts trembled. This adult is really poisonous! The Ezo land was in the wild mountains and the language was unintelligible. This was worse than killing those people.
A few 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.
"Sir, this is Chen Jishan. He said that there are government spies sneaking into Zhuangzi."
"Call him in and I'll ask him personally."
Not long after, a young man about 1.7 meters tall and wearing a green cloth gown followed Wang Changsheng in.
"I've met Mr. Lu and Mr. Xu." The young man bowed his hands and saluted.
"Jishan, this is my boss." Seeing Chen Jishan want to kneel, Xu Dayong quickly stopped him and said, "No need to kneel, our boss doesn't like people to kneel down. Just bow your hands as usual."
"My boss, this is Chen Jishan."
Zhao Xin took a look and saw that this man had a thin face, a slight beard on his chin, a pair of squinted eyes, and a strong body. He couldn't help but think: "That's what martial arts masters are like."
Chen Jishan bowed and saluted, and glanced at Zhao Xin curiously. He didn't expect that the boss Lu Shoushan and Xu Dayong often talked about turned out to be like this. He was tall but had a kind face.
"Stop standing, sit down and talk."
"Yes, my boss." Chen Jishan was very surprised. He was just a humble servant, but this boss actually let him sit. But he didn't dare to take it too big, so he just sat down, with his butt just a little bit close to the chair.
"What's going on with the government spies?"
"That's it..." Chen Jishan stood up again. When Zhao Xin saw it, he said, forget it, stop nagging, and quickly say it's true. "...Last night Li Erkui's son Da Shuan came to the villain and said that two new guys came to him in the afternoon to inquire about things in Zhuangzi. He asked where his family came from, and asked about the sale of his body. , during which he also inquired about Mr. Xu’s details from time to time. Da Shuan thought that the two of them 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. After the two people came out, Da Shuan went in to ask, and then went to find the villain.
When the villain went to investigate last night, he found that these two people were not sleeping yet. In the middle of the night, one of them came out of the yard. The villain followed him all the way to the river and found that he had been talking to a man for a long time. Because they were too far away, I couldn't hear clearly what they said, but they mentioned Master Min and Master Chen many times.
Because it was too late when he came back, the villain wanted to tell Mr. Xu about this at dawn. I never thought that my boss would come early, 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 asked him to go down first. After Chen Jishan bowed and left, Zhao Xin said: "This 'Master Min' might be Min Eyuan, the governor of Jiangsu."
Lu Shoushan said in surprise: "How could a governor pay attention to our place?"
Zhao Xindao: "How could you not pay attention? In the year of great disaster, people with ulterior motives will appear. Isn't it the Shuoyuan Sect that Dayong just mentioned? There are too many refugees gathered here. It's hard not to be noticed. impossible."
Lu Shoushan said: "Then what do you think we should do?"
"Have you got through to all the officials here?"
"The local general gave a hundred taels of silver, and he didn't even give a shit. In Funing County, everyone from the county magistrate to the lower government officials gave money, and they will tell us as soon as there is news. In Huai'an Prefecture, we gave it Master, five hundred taels, will help you manage things up and down. As long as Zhuangzi doesn’t get into trouble, usually no one will take care of it."
At the same time, in the refugee residential area outside Zhuangzi, hundreds of refugees were surrounding a group of people watching the fun. The tune of "Hillside Goat" came from the crowd.
"Zhongli begged the Holy Master: "I am not the chief culprit of eating meat, I am a person who worships the Master and practices in Jiuque. When the King of Hell heard about the word Jiuque, he put his palms together and asked for explanations; when the Four Kings heard about the people of Jiuque, they opened their mouths and asked Mingfen: Since you are a cultivator of Jiuque, I will listen to everything you say. Jiuque is not as good as the evil sect. What kind of religious image is the Dharma door? What is the way, and who controls it? I will understand clearly when you tell me... The image of the three yangs that rotate together for a lifetime is the main gate of the Golden Lotus Dharma. The Tao is the one-step way to heaven, and all phenomena lead to the same journey. "
Standing in the field singing were a middle-aged man in his forties and several young people in their twenties and thirties. Next to them there was a woman in her twenties and a six or seven-year-old girl. The woman was petite and exquisite in appearance, with an outstanding appearance. She was wearing a sapphire blue cotton dress. The girl stood aside very sensibly, holding the woman's skirt with her small hands, and looked at the refugees around her curiously with her big eyes, without looking afraid at all.
Except for the woman and the girl, all the people present were dressed like Buddha but not Buddha, or Taoist. Underneath, he was wearing a short jacket, a scarf on his head, a pair of black short boots, and a red trousers on the outside. Holding the suona, castanets, and flutes in their hands, they played and played, which was very lively.
Several refugees in the front of the crowd knelt on the ground, clasped their hands, and kowtowed. Not far behind them, a dozen short, stocky men with rough faces were watching coldly with their arms folded, with a hint of sarcasm on their faces from time to time. On the other side, several thin men wearing patchwork clothes looked at the field for a while, and then glanced at the dozen or so people opposite.
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