There is an old saying in Huayu Continent, called 'taught the apprentice, starved the master to death'; and there is also an old saying in the rivers and lakes, called 'Rather give up a piece of gold than a word of spring'; it is a pity that those blonde, blue-eyed and high-nosed foreign monks do not understand this truth, and they actually handed over the 'secrets' and the right to act of the Heavenly God Sect to this 'star of tomorrow' - Zhang Yuan.

Soon, these foreign monks knew what a huge mistake they had made, and they also learned an old saying on the Huayu continent: people's hearts are not ancient, and the world is hot and cold.

Zhang Yuan grew up on the streets of the market when he was a child, and then mixed in the Goolan Tile House, and had regular contacts with those three religions and nine streams. When he was twenty years old, he was recruited into the official family by the newly appointed county magistrate of the local area.

Zhang Yuan, who returned to his hometown again, really wanted people, money, power, and identity. Not only does the original boss need to accompany the smiling face out of the city to greet him; Even the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites, who was far away in Yanjing City, specially sent a 'five-grade master' who was responsible for contacting him!

There is no way, who made the carriage of the Heavenly God Sect still stamped with the gold seal of the envoy officially authorized by the Nankang Imperial Court?

After shaking off the majesty in his hometown, Zhang Yuan is about to start doing business! He changed into a monk's robe of the Celestial God Sect and went to the hardest-hit area where the Yu River burst its embankment, and began to spread the gospel on behalf of the 'Celestial God' to save the people of Li from fire and water.

If it is more white, then the aftermath of this natural disaster is actually just a competition between the Heavenly God Sect and the Northern Yan Imperial Court for the hearts of the people; And in fact, there is no very serious antagonistic relationship between the two, after all, one is in charge of the sky and the other is in charge of the earth, and everyone performs their own duties and does not interfere with each other.

Although the Celestial God Sect is willing to provide food for disaster relief, due to the reason why the Nankang official wants to sell grain at a high price, the batch of relief food that can be handed over to Zhang Yuan is only better than nothing. If Zhang Yuan only wanted to make the errand as usual, he would probably be able to distribute all the food in his hand in no more than three days, and he only needed to say a few more good words to the victims of the Heavenly God Sect, and he could successfully complete the task and go home!

However, how could Zhang Yuan, who had finally turned over, be willing to do that?

So Zhang Yuan made a 'dry thunder does not rain', and slashed at the Northern Yan Imperial Court. With a large amount of money in his hand, he hired more than 100 strong and eloquent local people from Beiyan, and also helped each of them buy a new set of clean clothes, and purchased a wheelbarrow for each of them, planted the banner of the Heavenly God Sect, and traveled back and forth between the disaster areas day and night.

Because the Nankang court did not allow them to carry a large amount of grain, and in the disaster area, grain is even more valuable and valuable; Therefore, the 'capital' brought by Zhang Yuan is not enough for those hundred teams!

Under such circumstances, the tactics adopted by Zhang Yuan were simply extremely cunning! He didn't follow the old disaster relief calendar and open a big porridge shack; Instead, each convoy was loaded with dozens of empty sacks, and then a whole bag of food, pushing the cart all day long, going back and forth between the hardest-hit areas. No matter where the victims asked, they all said that they had just returned from the farthest disaster area, and the last bag of rice grain in the car was their own rations, and if everyone had to grab it, then they could also share it with the elderly and children. After all, they were Celestial Cult monks, and they were willing to suffer with the victims.

As a result, even though the victims of the disaster in any place did not eat much rice from the Celestial God Sect; But the reputation of the Heavenly God Sect to help the world and save people and purify all sentient beings has really spread out! On the contrary, the Beiyan Imperial Court, which emptied the treasury and sincerely provided disaster relief, did not have many people to think of them.

People are sometimes like this, accustomed to the benefits brought by their 'people around them', they will take it for granted, and irrelevant outsiders, even if they only reward a mouthful of leftovers, will make him grateful to Dade in his heart!

What's more, Zhang Yuan, who was originally intentional, also instructed those lackeys and minions to buy a few loud 'drummers' among the victims in advance?

It is also this unusual experience that has made Zhang Yuan completely transform from a market splash to a master who is good at playing with people's hearts and inducing emotions! In fact, he had already learned these 'technical means' through those unbearable early experiences, but he had not woken up at that time.

If you compare it horizontally, in fact, the income of the Zhang family is far above the average level of the people of Beiyan. Although the small county of his hometown is not rich, fortunately, the previous parents and officials have a good ability to govern the county; So throughout the first half of Zhang Yuan's life, he actually didn't see what the real 'purgatory on earth' looked like;

Although he also had a poor experience in Gusu City, it was only a twist and turn in his life at best; Even if it is more serious, at best, he has only seen the sinister hearts of the people 'outside', at least for Gusu City, and even the entire Nankang, the pain he suffered will not have the slightest impact at all.

But his return to Beiyan for disaster relief has made his whole life experience a tempering and sublimation. When he went back and forth to the hardest-hit areas to 'put on a show', he saw tragic scenes, and even today, 20 years later, he still feels palpitations and sick to his stomach.

the limbs that were boiled in a cauldron; those women and children who were sold by their own families; The 'weirdos' who were so hungry that they were covered in skin and bones and had only a huge head left, and the girl who didn't say anything but tugged at her pants, and her hopeful eyes...... The miserable pictures often appear in his sleep...... In fact, this Zhang Yuanzhang Sect Master is the one who was really dreamed of by the 'Nightmare Demon'.

The price of hiring an adult man in the Northern Yan Dynasty was about four taels of silver per year; But what if it is placed in those hard-hit areas? As long as you can take care of the other party's full meal, then as many people as you want, no matter men, women, young and old, no matter how ugly and handsome, will be ready for your orders.

And Zhang Yuan, who was 'reborn from the ashes', was in such a situation that he gathered his first batch of henchmen. Most of these people's family members died in the floods. Under the 'life-saving benefactor' Zhang Yuan's 'persuasion', they also blamed the pain of their loss of their relatives on the Northern Yan court's 'ineffective disaster relief'.

Zhang Yuan, who has seen purgatory on earth and really wants to purify all sentient beings, naturally has a strong ambition to 'replace it'. Since he wants to 'establish himself as a king', it is not enough to have a group of loyal and stupid cannon fodder, he also needs smart people who can really do things for himself, or for the sake of profit!

So, he waved a large silver ticket from the Heavenly God Family, and gathered a group of people who were not accepted by the Jianghu people! Don't look at these people for their poor character and moral turpitude; But their brains and wrists are those cannon fodder who have no blood and can't catch up with them! Since these people are under the pursuit of Jianghu Dao and the official family, and they have survived to this day, it is definitely worth the large amount of silver thrown out by Zhang Yuan!

Just like the Lord of the Tiger Neck Village captured by Shen Gui today, he is not only smart and clever enough, but also has a very accurate and vicious vision, and he not only knows how to judge the situation, but also has the courage of a strong man. As for the dignity, etiquette, dogma, rules, decency, etc., which shackles and restricts one's behavior, etc., for such people, they are all useless!

In fact, if these people did not go down the wrong path at the beginning, no matter which career they chose later, they would definitely be able to get a very good result.

Since the formation of the team, Zhang Yuan announced that he would break away from the Heavenly God Sect, create his own Huashen Sect, and once again go deep into the disaster area, more presumptuously demagoguery, and gather believers and disciples. However, since he broke away from the status of a monk of the Heavenly God Sect, he also lost his status as an envoy of the Nankang Imperial Court. In this way, Zhou Yuanqing, the Heavenly Blessing Emperor who was stolen from the 'Fruits of Victory', was naturally the first to jump out to exterminate Zhang Yuan!

Faced with the huge crisis of being uprooted just after its establishment, Zhang Yuan not only chose to 'evaporate from the world', but also transferred the 'main battlefield' of evangelism to those remote areas where the entire village was barely literate. Such a small village and small county town are not only remote, inconvenient transportation, but also extremely weak in the power of the government. For those 'wandering people' of the Huashen Sect, the working environment is also safer.

What are the villagers afraid of when they are poor? As long as you survive, there are infinite possibilities and hopes!

And these Huashen Sect 'Youfang Daoren' who are responsible for 'working', all the 'good fortunes' obtained by deception have always been distributed in accordance with the method of 'Sanqi'. Moreover, this method of division will change as his status in the church gradually rises; The highest level can reach the proportion of 'five-five' account sharing.

Zhang Yuan's purpose of ordering his subordinates to make a lot of money is actually very simple. He thought that the emperor of the Northern Yan Dynasty had no way to govern the country, so he wanted to come forward to take over the job of Emperor Tianyou. Since he wants to establish himself as the king and overthrow Beiyan, he has to face a very real problem: now he has lost the protection of the monk status of the Heavenly God Sect, and at the same time, he has also lost his strong financial support!

He naturally has no shortage of manpower, and the young and middle-aged men in those small places are simple-minded and easy to coax, and he can't pick them! But as the saying goes, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first. If you want to compete with the imperial court, you can't do it without a stable and reliable source of military spending! Whether it is armor or swords and guns, whether it is a war horse or a soldier, it needs a continuous supply of silver taels......

Therefore, he will send those subordinates on the rivers and lakes to gather people's hearts in various places, and by the way, accumulate wealth as food and military expenses.

Since the establishment of the Huashen Sect, twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye. I don't know how much military spending has been raised for Zhang Yuan in the past 20 years, just like this Tiger Neck Village altar master's 'Youfang Taoist Regiment'...... But according to this altar master, I'm afraid that until now, the Huashen Sect has not started to train troops!