【Karma】

"Laojun, I am immortal, do you think this will trap me forever, don't be delusional!" From the Laojun Alchemy Furnace, the sound of cursing continued to be heard. It is the arsonist of the Songshan fire two hundred years ago, the karmic demon gathered by the long-term dissatisfaction of the people at the bottom of the Han Dynasty with the world, it gathers the four emotions of human anger, sorrow, evil, and desire, and the hatred of the world is far from ordinary, once released, it will make the world face a catastrophe, when Lao Jun learned that the karmic demon came to the world, he immediately went down to the world in person, and captured the karmic demon, but after holding him, there was no way to place, and the resentment of human beings did not diminish one day, and the karmic demon would not be extinguished one day, helplessly, Lao Jun could only lock it in the alchemy furnace, use the Liuding Divine Fire in the alchemy furnace to suppress the energy of the karmic demon, and let it taste the pain of devouring caused by the Liuding Divine Fire, but this does not fundamentally solve the problem.

"Master, the resentment in the world has accumulated too deeply, and the people will not be at peace for a day, and this karmic demon will not be eliminated for a day!" At this time, Taixuan Tongzi stood beside Taishang Laojun and said. When Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, established the Han Dynasty, Zhang Liang, the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty, resigned and left after Liu Bang completed the imperial business, and retreated in the Baiyun Mountain.

"Back then, Liu Bang, whom you assisted, established the Han Dynasty and adopted the Huang Laozhi of my Taoist family to govern the world, so that the people of the world lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the people lived a solid and prosperous life; The treasury of the Han Dynasty was full, and the whole country was prosperous, but in Liu Che's generation, he deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism, and forcibly drove the Taoist school out of the central institution of the country. It can be seen that if we want to eliminate the grievances of the people, only by restarting the spirit of governing the world of our Taoism, ruling by doing nothing, and resting with the people, can we completely eradicate the grievances of the people! At this time, Lao Jun said.

"Does Master mean to carry out changes within the Han Dynasty, or ...... Or build a new dynasty! At this time, Taixuan Tongzi asked anxiously, he was the founding hero of the Han Dynasty, the founding father, although hundreds of years have passed, but he still has more or less feelings.

"Let's try to reform from the inside first, if you can't change it, then you can only establish a new dynasty, but, after all, this is a mortal thing, you must not use immortal power to interfere with it, otherwise it will definitely disturb the heaven and earth, and the future will be endless!"

"Yes! Disciple understands! ”

"The next thing is left to you, and find a way to save the people from fire and water as soon as possible, otherwise the energy of this karmic fire will continue to increase, and in the end, it will ...... Hey~ You go first! Lao Jun knew in his heart that the current energy of the karmic demon was not as good as the Liuding Divine Fire in the alchemy furnace, therefore, the karmic demon could not get rid of the lock of the alchemy furnace, as the resentment in the world continued to deepen, the energy of the karmic demon would also increase, once it surpassed the Liuding Divine Fire, at that time, he would have no choice.

"Yes! The disciple will do his best! "Taixuan Boy didn't know about the master's troubles, but as far as the current situation was concerned, it could only be like this, after he surrendered his hand to Taishang Laojun, he turned around and left to arrange the affairs of the world.

"Laojun, listen to me, once I come out, I will definitely break you into thousands of pieces, do you think I have no other way, you also underestimate me, I might as well tell you, when you caught me, I have sprinkled the eight fires on my body to the world, they will definitely disturb the world on my behalf and accelerate the resentment of the people, haha......!"

"What!" At this time, Lao Jun was surprised and said: "The plan is in the people, the success is in the sky, the Taixuan boy, the affairs of the world, please!" ”

"Laojun, to tell the truth, my karma demon did not want to disturb your heavenly court, why do you have to get along with me, I originally came from the human world, and now I want to return to the human world, am I wrong, the people in the human world originally lived in the water and fire, and my karma demon is to give them a good time!"

"There are no two gods and demons, do you think your clever words can hide from this king, you come from the resentment of the world, once the human race is destroyed, you will no longer exist, only let the people continue to live in the water and fire, you will always be strong, two hundred years ago you went down to the mortal world, the purpose is nothing more than to aggravate the suffering of the world, how to give the people a happy saying!"

"Haha...... I can't imagine that you are quite knowledgeable this old man, thinking that back then, the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, I was so brilliant at that time, and who was my opponent in the three worlds of gods, men and demons, but I never thought that there would be an extra Liu Bang in the world, and after dominating the world, he used your Taoist ideas to govern the country, and the original impetuous heart of the people suddenly stopped, and the world lived and worked in peace and contentment, laughter and laughter, and I had a trace of fire left, at that time I felt that I was about to die, but the reincarnation of heaven, who wanted to get Liu Che, the descendant of Liu Bang, It will abolish Taoist ideology and expel all your Taoist disciples, and then the chaos of the bureaucratic and scholar class, and the interference of relatives in politics, haha...... Two hundred years ago, I thought that I would personally take action to aggravate the suffering and suffering of the world, so that they would live in disease, war, famine, and massacre, where there is resentment, where there is pain, there will be my karma, but who would have thought that I would be arrested by you, God will not fulfill people's wishes, haha...... However, it doesn't matter, my eight fires have already been sprinkled by me to the world, two hundred years ago, they may have appeared a long time ago, or they should appear soon, they appeared in the world with the mission I entrusted, that is, to make the world chaotic, haha......"

"Humph! Karma, you've sprinkled a lot of fire, but didn't you think they would kill each other? ”

"I said, Laojun, don't you understand what my karma means, haha...... Whether it's cannibalism or concerted efforts, the ultimate goal is to make the world full of chaos, famine, disease, war, and plunder, and that's my purpose, haha...... Everything comes from the human world, and everything will also eat the human world, this is me, the karmic demon who will never be destroyed! ”

[Annexation of land, the sorrow of the peasants]

The bitter winter will eventually pass, and the pleasant warm spring will finally come, after a few dashing spring rains, the mountains are green, the water is green, and everything is recovering. Every morning, everyone will carry a hoe to the field to do farm work, or hoeing, or irrigation, or sowing, everyone is working for themselves, maybe they are working for others, maybe some people have already realized this problem, but they are forced to do it, and in the end they are helpless, but once they have the opportunity to turn over, they will not hesitate to resist; But the most pitiful are those who don't realize it at all, they are young, but they are already like their peers, their minds are numb, their spirits are decadent, their beliefs are self-abandoned, and there is only one result waiting for them, that is, they die in inaction, and then their children and grandchildren continue to repeat their situation, always, forever, and so on!

Seeing these people working hard in the fields, Liu's mother couldn't help but feel pity for their situation, remembering that Liu Honghe mentioned to himself: Emperor Guangwu was originally a powerful landlord in Nanyang, and the Eastern Han Dynasty regime was established with the support of powerful landlords. Emperor Guangwu once said: "I am in charge of the world, and I want to do it with judo", which is not only soft for ordinary people, but also soft for powerful landlords.

After the country has experienced the war, the people's livelihood withered, to govern the world with Taoist inaction, so that the people of the world can recuperate and recuperate, but the strong landlords blindly soft, blindly laissez-faire, do not take certain restraints on their behavior, it will inevitably cause the world to merge land, the strength of the powerful landlords has gradually become stronger, and now they can really be described as "the family has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars, the land of the household and the land of the king, the bud to rule in chaos, and the swordsman to the head of the mighty Qian". However, with a strong economic foundation, they will naturally seek political interests, in order to be able to enter the political officialdom, in order to obtain political power, in order to be able to influence the political situation of the country by their own will, they then set off a wind of bribery in the country, a large number of powerful landlords to the official career, and political power, there is a reaction to their own strength expansion, so vicious circle, it has led to the Eastern Han Dynasty land annexation problem is more severe, and the problem of displaced people will follow. Some peasants who have lost their land will go to the rich landlords and endure their endless exploitation, becoming "dependent peasants" and others becoming "self-sellers".

Others have been displaced by the loss of their livelihood, either starving to death or freezing to death...... The wealth of the world is gradually gathered in the hands of powerful landlords, the financial strength of the central government is weakening day by day, and the number of displaced people has increased, which has led to the unbearable suffering of the displaced people in various places and rising up, in order to suppress the so-called anti-thieves, they have to fight wars, and the expenses of the imperial court have increased, and in order to make up for the consumption of finance, it is necessary to increase taxes. Once the imperial court violated the interests of the powerful landlords, they would arm themselves and use their slaves and peasants to oppose the government, thus forming a vicious circle of social governance in our dynasty, and the crux of the problem was that the wealth of the society was concentrated in the hands of the powerful landlords......

Thinking of this, Mother Liu suddenly felt that she was so ridiculous, how could she suddenly care about the prosperity and decline of the country. But after thinking about it, the emptiness of the imperial treasury can still be exploited from the common people, but what should I do about the financial crisis of my own family? Before Liu Hong left, his annual income was still good enough to take care of the family's expenses, but after he left, the family economy became increasingly poor, and it was not a way to go on like this. Her father and husband were born as officials, if she let herself become a dependent peasant or self-seller of a powerful landlord, and sell her labor in exchange for some charity from the landlord, she can't do it, this is not only a matter of her own dignity, but also the dignity of the family, once she becomes a dependent peasant or self-seller of the landlord, not only will she eventually harm herself, so that the family will suffer humiliation, and eventually harm her own children, these powerful landlords will continue to instill loyalty and honesty to Liu Bei. Now Bei'er is only six years old, and she is still so young, their filthy behavior will make Bei'er lose the consciousness of independent thinking since she was a child, they will control Bei'er's thoughts, and they will let Bei'er continue to be their dependent farmers, therefore, as a mother, she will never do this, she will never ruin the child's future by herself!

While she was worrying about how to support her family, Liu Bei suddenly ran to her from the door, still holding a box in his hand. Mother Liu looked at him, she was really angry, Liu Bei was covered in dust and mud, Mother Liu immediately frowned and shouted, "Did you fall into the mud pit?" How did you get to ...... like this?"

Liu Bei saw that his mother was angry, so he quickly put on a smiling face and said, "I just took Rhubarb to the second uncle's house to find Deran to play, and the second uncle asked me and Deran to help him pick up the straw, and then it was like this." "Rhubarb is a dog of Liu Bei's family, or Liu Bei's father gave Liu Bei a plaything, if it weren't for this relationship, Liu's mother should not let this dog stay in her own home, because Liu Bei always has fun with this dog, and his studies have been abandoned because of this, I remember that she once read such a sentence in "Shangshu": Summoning the public to be a traveling mastiff, playing with people and losing morality. is so obsessed with a dog, how does this make Liu Bei grow.

At this time, Liu's mother saw that Liu Bei was going to help Liu Yuanqi, thinking that since Liu Hong left, his family has been taking care of his family, and it is also appropriate to let her son go to work for them, since it is a job, how can there be a reason for clothes not to get dirty, so she was relieved a lot, but she wondered again, so she asked suspiciously: "Why did the second uncle let you pick up straw?" ...... Also, what's in the box you have in your hand? ”

Liu Bei saw that his mother was not so angry, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Second uncle, their family wants to weave straw mats and straw shoes." As soon as he heard his mother ask him about the contents of the box, he suddenly laughed evilly, and said in a strange way: "This is my great general." After speaking, she opened the box, and when Liu Mu saw it, it turned out to be a cricket.

Liu's mother didn't care too much about the cricket, but she secretly pondered about the matter of weaving mats and selling shoes, and she also knew more or less about Liu Yuan's starting a family. Since I don't want to go to the farmland to work, why not learn from their husband and wife, do some small business business, although these have not been experienced before, but everything will have the first time, the most difficult thing is not that they have not done business and do not know anything about the truth, but they have done it themselves but do not have the perseverance to always adhere to it, if you persist, you believe that there will be good results, at least better than sitting on the mountain, if you choose this industry, maybe it is also a matter of words and deeds for Bei'er, Let Bei'er know how to dare to act since childhood, know how to persist since childhood, and the most important thing is to endure hardships since childhood.

Thinking of this, Liu's mother finally showed a smiling face, Liu Bei saw that his mother was angry for a while, and happy for a while, and he didn't know what was wrong with his mother, but he just looked at his mother ignorantly, and saw that his mother suddenly said to himself: "Bei'er, come, take my mother to pick up straw!" ”

Liu Bei listened to his mother's words, but he didn't think about it so much, he just thought it was fun, so he jumped up and shouted excitedly: "Okay, mother, let's go, Bei'er will take you there...... If you're lucky, you can catch a few more generals. ”

"What kind of general is not a general, how did you name the cricket the general?" At this time, Liu's mother took Liu Bei's hand and said.

"Because the general is powerful, my father told me before that the general is the most powerful, so I call him the general!"

After listening to Liu Bei's words, Liu's mother wanted to cry and laugh in her heart, as soon as Liu Bei mentioned her father, Liu's mother would feel a faint pain in her heart, and her nose would be sour unconsciously, he really wanted Liu Hong to come back to life, of course, it was a fantasy, so that the burden on his body would not be so heavy, and he would not be so tired that he would sometimes be out of breath; But what I want to laugh at is the childish words of Liu Bei, the general is naturally powerful, and Liu Bei can command this general, then he himself is not the emperor.

【Taixuan Boy】

Majestic and steep Tongbi Mountain, there is a hole on the mountainside, around the hole, the green cypress is lush, the blue and deep show, the hole is the ovary hole, enter the hole door, the space is wide, there is a stone temple in front of the face, the face is engraved "Han Liuhou Temple", Zhang Liang was done in that year, the post of the Marquis, but he regarded the wealth as floating clouds, abandoned the Xuan crown from the immortal red pine nut tour, he had lived in this cave to carry out the cultivation of the valley, and then ascended the immortal for the Taixuan boy.

At this time, he was waiting in the cave for the three disciples he sent to the world, namely Zuo Ci, Yu Ji and Zhang Daoling, and Zhang Daoling was his eighth grandson. He knew that if he wanted to destroy this karmic demon, it was useless to use force against himself, and there were only two ways to weaken or eliminate him, one was to use violence and slaughter human life, so that there would be no resentment in the human world from now on, and the karmic demon would be gone, but this was an impossible way to implement it; The second is to alleviate the suffering of the world, to promote the concept of salvation to them, so that their spirits can be comforted, so that they will no longer be tormented by disease, hunger, and war, so that the resentment in the world can also be dissolved, and the karmic demons will also lose their place to stand.

In fact, there is another problem that plagues Taixuan Tongzi, that is, the survival and death of the Han Dynasty, today's Han Dynasty is no longer the Han Dynasty in the former Wenjing period, he is like an old man who is riddled with diseases, every muscle and bone marrow is tortured by the virus, every organ is about to die, he no longer has the youthful breath he once had, some just sigh, and some just moaning in pain.

However, after all, this is the country created by himself, when he and Liu Bang together, overthrew the tyrannical Qin, defeated Xiang Yu, and went through a lot of hardships to create this empire, he is like his own child, how can parents endure the pain of love, he has paid his life's work for this country, he still vividly remembers the days of sharing weal and woe with his brothers, this Han Dynasty is their hard work, is the crystallization of their joint efforts, if you want to let yourself understand it with your own hands, you really can't do it!

But is there any way to bring him back to the prosperity of the past, like an old man, is there any way to make him younger?

If you find a person who can carry out changes within the original system of the Han Dynasty, let him rejuvenate the Han Dynasty and relieve the suffering of the world, so that the Han Dynasty is preserved, and the karmic demons are also eliminated, wouldn't this be the best of both worlds?!

"Master, the disciple is here!" Just as Taixuan Boy was immersed in his thoughts, his three disciples came.

"You're here, Zuo Ci, let you go to find the whereabouts of Sang Lingzi, Fairy Qingshui, and Mumiliu, how is it going?"

Two hundred years ago, Taishang Laojun used the alchemy furnace to trap the karmic demons, and began to think about how to eradicate the karmic demons, the trip to Songshan, let him inadvertently discover the Qingshui fairy, she is smart and clever, good nature, since then, Lao Jun has intended to cultivate the Qingshui fairy, he brought the Qingshui fairy back to the Taoist temple, taught it Taoism, taught her Taoist thoughts, told her the universal truth, I hoped to make her the same person as the Taixuan boy in the future, but I didn't expect the Qingshui fairy to escape from the Taoist temple without permission, Mixed with Sang Lingzi of Songshan, he also gave his Taoist collection of books to mortals, when he wanted to beat the Qingshui Fairy back to his original form, only to see Sang Lingzi come forward, in the face of his own strong might, he had no fear at all, in order to protect his beloved, he was willing to give his life, since then, he realized that Sang Lingzi is also affectionate and righteous, there is no lack of courage to be a person, if it is cultivated, it is also a good material, but the two of them have not experienced the bitterness and suffering of the world, It is impossible to have a thorough understanding and experience of life, so I will decide to relegate them to the mortal world, to experience the various forms of life in the world, to taste the ups and downs of life, and more importantly, to have achievements in the world, so that you can become a qualified Taoist disciple.

I think back then, during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, whether it was Erlang God or Nezha, they all went through hardships in the world, and finally achieved positive results, and the Taixuan boy around him also helped Liu Bang establish immortal feats, and finally ascended to immortality, and Taishang Laojun's expectations for Sang Lingzi and Qingshui Fairy are also the same. He asked the Taixuan boy to find their traces in the world, and secretly exerted influence on them, so that they could exert themselves in the world, save the people from fire and water, keep the people away from disasters and hardships, let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and train them to become qualified Taoist disciples.

"Found it, Master! Qingshui Fairy was born in Zhongshan Country in Jizhou, his name is Su Xue, his family has been dealing in horses for generations, and he is a well-known local wealthy businessman! And Sang Lingzi is now in Zhuo County, Youzhou, his name is Liu Bei, he is a relative of the Han family, but his family is in the middle, and his life is no different from ordinary people, his father died unfortunately the year before, and now he is dependent on his mother Liu! ”

"Oh? Han clan relatives! Liu Bei's identity gave Taixuan Tongzi a surprise, is it providence, the innate political identity let Liu Bei go to the Zhongxing Han Dynasty, maybe it is the best way.

"But, Master, is there one more thing?"

"What's the matter?"

"There is also mudflow, he is now Liu Bei's cousin, and his name is Liu Deran!"

"It's really a creation to make people, in the previous life, the three of them were all essences on Songshan Mountain, and there will be inextricable links in the future life, but I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing...... By the way, have you found out the news of the eight flames of karma? ”

"So far, only one has been found, but the other seven have not been found!"

"Where?"

"In the Imperial Palace, right next to the Emperor, are those eunuchs! Two hundred years ago, that fire fell into the Luoyang Palace, the fire injected the evil power into the bodies of those eunuchs, and now in the palace, the eunuchs all worship the karma, they worship it in the temple, and regard the karma as their god! ”

"How can this be true, no wonder the eunuchs do a lot of evil, it turns out that their identity is actually a karmic demon!"

"Zuo Ci, you will find a way to cultivate Liu Bei, Su Xue, and Liu Deran, and educate them, and the specific methods will be handed over to you, and pay attention to the movements of karmic demons in the world!"

"Yes! Master! ”

"Yu Ji, what about you?"

"The disciple is writing a book on the way to save the world, called "Taiping Qing Lingshu", after the disciple finishes writing, the disciple will entrust it to the disciples in the world, so that they can promote the spirit of our religion in the Guanzhong of the Han Dynasty and the Kanto region, and help the common people get rid of the sea of suffering and get rid of torture!"

"Well, Zhang Daoling, what about you?"

"Master, the disciple is going to create the Five Bucket Rice Dao in the southwest region to promote the spirit of my teaching!"

"Yes! Time is running out, I hope you will step up and do a good job! ”

"Yes!"