Chapter 168: The Most Tragic Giant Illusion Ever Created
In fact, this is the power of the collective human consciousness.
When a certain number of people are convinced that something is going to happen around them, then no matter how bizarre and unscientific, it is bound to happen.
Although this statement may sound idealistic and inconsistent with the materialist worldview of modern society in today's world, it is real.
"History of the Song Dynasty: The Biography of Sun Fu" records that in the first year of Song Qinzong Jingkang, Tokyo, which is today's Kaifeng, was besieged by the Jin army.
Sun Fu, the secretary of the military department, personally guarded the city day and night, and saw a "sentimental poem" one day, which contained the words "Guo Jing, Yang Shi, Liu Wuji", so he visited Liu Wuji in the market and found Guo Jing in the Dragon Guard.
"The good deed man Yan Jing can use the Liujia method, and he can capture the two generals alive and sweep them away, and his method uses 7,777 people."
Sun Fu immediately recommended Guo Jing to the imperial court.
The emperors of the Song Dynasty believed, and Song Qinzong was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately ordered Guo Jing to enter the palace to meet him.
Guo Jing performed the art of Qimen Dunjia on the spot, and Song Qinzong immediately believed in Guo Jing, appointed Guo Jing as the doctor of Wulu and the assassin of Gwangju, and gave tens of thousands of gold silks to let him recruit troops independently.
At this time, the enemy of the Jin State was attacking urgently, and Guo Jing talked and laughed freely: "Sending 300 troops on the next day can lead to peace and attack directly to Yinshan." ”
One day, the Xuanhua Gate was opened, and the 7,777 people selected by Guo Jing came out to meet the Jin soldiers, but under the attack of the Jin soldiers, they were constantly defeated and retreated, falling into the moat, and the dead bodies were all over the river.
Guo Jing, who was sitting on the city tower, said that he needed to go down in person to do the Fa, and then lead the rest of the people to escape south.
At this time, because there were no defenders on the city walls, the Jin people landed in the city, and Tokyo fell in an instant.
In the eyes of many historians, this incident is the evidence of Song Qinzong's mediocrity, gullibility in believing in the words of gods and ghosts, and the evidence of humiliation and death of the country, and a lesson for future generations.
But is that really the case?
In fact, a little thought can reveal a lot of irrationality.
The enemy has already hit the capital, even if the emperor is mediocre, are the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty all fools? So if Guo Jing can't convince everyone that he can really defeat the Jin army, can the Great Song Dynasty give him so much power and let him toss around in Tokyo City?
Don't say anything about political speculation, nonsense, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have been surrounded into a turtle in an urn, in case the Jin army comes in, it is difficult to say whether it can save its life, and I still think that fighting for power and profit is not a water in my head!
Power or death? (Liu Neng said that he wanted a wife...... )
Thinking about it from another angle, Guo Jing was originally a veteran in the forbidden army, and he was well treated in the army, and he didn't take the initiative to jump out and give me 3,000 city management when the Jin army was besieging the city...... Oh, it was for me to give me three thousand tigers to capture Yan Zongwang or something, it was Sun Fu, the secretary of the military department at that time, who took the initiative to find someone, maybe there was a little bit of persecution.
In fact, a long time ago, when Li Mengnan's grandfather was still alive, he once told Li Mengnan this story.
Then Guo Jing is an unlucky guy.
It can be inferred from his description of "being good at making gods serve ghosts, scattering beans into soldiers, and stealth and stealth ability" that this Guo Jing should be the descendant of a certain magician at that time, and the level of illusion is quite high, and he can even reach the realm of turning fake into real and virtual into reality.
The trickster who reached this realm was actually really similar to Superman in that era, as long as he was willing to lower the bottom line of doing things, money, beauty, glory and wealth were definitely at his fingertips.
If you think about it, you can understand that with Guo Jing's level, if you go directly to Emperor Dajin and show your hand, how can you be a national teacher and use it to covet this reward from your Great Song Dynasty? Turning back and waiting for the golden soldiers to come in, no matter how much gold, silver and jewelry there is, won't the bamboo basket be empty?
So, the real truth should be this:
Guo Jing was originally a descendant of a certain magician, an upright person, and did not want to use what he had learned to obtain ill-gotten gains, so he lived in the city of Tokyo, and in his spare time he and some friends who were also tricksters got together to drink and discuss the newly developed tricks.
Because he did not deliberately avoid concealing it, over time, the rumor that Guo Jing "knew thaumaturgy" spread far and wide.
The Jin soldiers besieged the city, and when Sun Fuzheng, the secretary of the military department, heard this rumor, he found Guo Jing in the army and asked him to cast a spell to withdraw from the army.
Guo Jing is also quite loyal, and he also knows the truth that there are eggs under the nest, so he reluctantly agreed to give it a try under Sun Fu's repeated requests.
The so-called "Liuding Liujia Divine Technique" is actually an extremely difficult illusion that forcibly controls the collective consciousness of dozens or even millions of people, so that it is forcibly loaded on 7,777 people who have already undergone subconscious hypnosis.
The reason why Guo Jing chose all the green-skinned scoundrels in Tokyo City, rather than the elite forbidden army, is that these bottomless scum basically have no willpower, and when he performs hypnosis, the resistance is relatively small, and it is easy to get better results.
If this super-large illusion is successfully cast, these 7,777 green-skinned scoundrels will go from scum with only five combat power to instantly transform into saint warriors who break through the sky and shatter the earth's combat power report, wearing golden holy clothes, pushing all the way with an extremely violent attitude, crushing the Jin army outside the city into slag.
It's a pity that although Guo Jing can be called a grandmaster-level magician, this super-large illusion is still beyond his control, plus these green-skinned scoundrels are not welcome on weekdays, and it is difficult for the people in Bianliang City, Tokyo to change their views on them for a while, and complete the huge reversal from bastard to savior, so naturally it is impossible to gather a strong collective consciousness.
Guo Jing delayed the counterattack again and again, in fact, in order to spread the rumors of "please God" he created more widely and more credible.
It's a pity that the fierce offensive of the Jin army outside the city and the weak combat effectiveness of the Song army really couldn't give him more time to prepare for this illusion, which may be the largest illusion in the history of tricks...... There is no then.
People must have a motive for doing anything, if Guo Jing is really just a charlatan, can he take such a big risk to participate in such a big chaos as the national war between the Song and Jin countries? Didn't he know that he couldn't repel the Jin soldiers at all, and once the city was broken, the Jin State would not let go of him, one of the main generals who participated in the defense of the city, and if the city was not broken, it would be impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to let go of a liar like him who dared to deceive the emperor and civil and military officials.
Is it just for the glory and wealth of just a few days? What are you kidding, the more small people are, the more they cherish their little lives, and they can't hide, who is full and stands on the cusp?
So it is certain that Guo Jing, a charlatan who was scolded by later generations and was scolded by later generations, and whose crimes of dying of the country were comparable to those of Daji Baoxi, should actually be just an innocent trickster, but he was a little less lucky, and he carried part of the black pot for Song Qinzong's crime of dying the country.