Hearing that Gao Huai, a famous eunuch in history, was actually a member of the White Lotus Sect, Yue Xiang was really surprised. In his impression, the White Lotus Sect belonged to the kind of underground sect that could not see the light. Gao Xiang was in a high position and was prominent for a while, what did he want for glory and wealth, and what prompted him to have a relationship with the White Lotus Sect? What's in it for him?

What people pursue in this world is nothing more than fame and fortune, money, power, and beauty, and no one can escape unless they are saints. Gao Huai is absolutely not related to a saint in what he does, and he is no different from calling him a devil. He has money and power, and the female eunuch will naturally not be interested, so what are the benefits of him being associated with the White Lotus Sect? Have you eaten enough?

"If you want to lie to me, make up a lot of stories. Such a ridiculous joke, but it's not funny at all. Yue Xiang's blade pressed inside, and blood oozed out along Li Shoucai's neck.

"Childe, what the little one said is true, and you can't help it if you don't believe it."

"How could the White Lotus Sect infiltrate the Imperial Palace? What is the relationship between Gao Huai and my insider? "Yue Xiang really can't imagine that kind of big forbidden land...... How is that possible? Not everyone in the vegetable market can enter and exit casually, the eunuch is the job of serving the emperor, and now he is a service staff in Zhongnanhai, and if he doesn't know the hiring specifications, he has to check three generations.

The ancient White Lotus Sect is probably equivalent to a modern terrorist organization, and it is too unbelievable to enter it. If Gao Huai was a member of the White Lotus Sect, then maybe he was not the only one who had mixed in.

But his doubts did not last long, because there were two experts on the scene. Li Shoucai nudged the blade of the knife with his hand: "Naturally, it has a lot to do with it...... Yue Xiang withdrew the knife, Li Shoucai covered his neck, glanced at Ma Sandao, and said softly: "Mrs. Zun was raised by Gao Huai, and she is the only one who knows the clues of Gao Huai's hidden gold." ”

The two spoke alternately, and gradually unfolded an alternative historical picture in front of Yue Xiang.

The White Lotus is arguably one of the most famous folk religions in Chinese history, and its fame is probably comparable to that of Buddhism and Taoism. However, most of its reputation is associated with the notoriety of gossip, left-handed sideways, strange powers, obscenity, and rebellion, and is a mysterious religion that has been quickly destroyed by successive rulers.

The origin of the White Lotus Sect is different, but it is recognized as a branch of the evolution of the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism, and according to legend, the word White Lotus is named after the famous monk of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, that is, the ancestor of the Pure Land Sect, Huiyuan. It was not until the third year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty that Mao Ziyuan, a monk from Wujun County, Jiangsu, became the founding patriarch of the White Lotus Sect, and the White Lotus Sect became an independent sect, but it was still called the White Lotus Sect at that time.

The White Lotus Sect was originally a purely Buddhist organization, but after a long period of development, the members of the sect became large and complex, and slowly joined the teachings of other religions, and it slowly changed. The precepts were lax, sects were numerous, and some believers gathered at night to make trouble, and occasionally rebelled against the rule of the imperial court. There are historical records of the activities of the White Lotus Sect in all dynasties, such as the famous Fang La Incident in the late Northern Song Dynasty and the Zhongxiang Yang Qi Incident in the Southern Song Dynasty, which are generally considered to be related to the White Lotus Sect.

By the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the activities of the White Lotus Sect had developed to a peak period in history. At that time, the tyranny of the imperial court was raging, natural disasters continued, and the people were in dire straits, and the White Lotus cultists in various places took the opportunity to revolt one after another, and the beacon fire of resistance against the Mongolian tyranny was ignited in the north and south of the river.

In the eleventh year of Emperor Yuan Shun's reign, Liu Futong and Han Shantong, the leaders of the White Lotus Sect, claimed that King Ming was born under the pretense of "one eye of the stone man instigated the Yellow River to rebel in the world", setting off a red turban uprising that swept the whole country; Peng Yingyu, a White Lotus cultist, burned incense and gathered people in the Jianghuai area, claiming that Maitreya had come to the world and raised troops against the Yuan; Xu Shouhui, Zou Pusheng founded the country, called the emperor and so on. Even Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, is said to have some unclear relationship with the Ming Sect, a branch of the White Lotus Sect.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang annexed the remaining three of the four tyrants at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, drove the Mongols out of the Central Plains and established the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time realized the terrible potential of the White Lotus Sect to overthrow the world at every turn, and immediately implemented a severe and bloody suppression of the White Lotus Sect.

At that time, the White Lotus Sect had also been divided into large and small factions in the war, and there were many armed uprisings of the White Lotus Sect in Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Lu and other places, and some of them also claimed to be emperors.

The huge uprising of the "Buddha Mother" Tang Sai'er in the eighteenth year of Yongle is the masterpiece of the Red Silk Society, a branch of the White Lotus Sect. It's just that the toss is big, and the price paid is also big. At that time, the Ming army was strong and strong, and Emperor Yongle was a rare emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty who was known for his martial arts.

After Tang Sai'er's uprising, the imperial court set off a new round of purging the White Lotus Sect**, and all sects and schools were chased to the point that there was no way to go to heaven and no way to go to the earth, and many of them died. In this way, it lasted for decades, and gradually recovered its vitality during the Zhengde and Jiajing periods of the Ming Dynasty, and many emerging sects sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, such as Jinchan, Longhua, Hongyang, Maitreya, Jingkong, Huangtian, Mixed Yuan, Wenxiang, Luo Dao, etc.

These new sects do not belong to each other, and their teachings have long been changed beyond recognition compared to the previous White Lotus Sect, and the rituals are quite different, and the gods they believe in are extremely complex, including the Jade Emperor of the Heavenly Palace, the Yama King of Hell, the sages of the world, the old-fashioned Maitreya Buddha, and even the ones that were simply invented and created by themselves, such as the Vacuum Ancient Buddha, the Childless Old Mother, the Mixed Ancestor and so on. But basically, they are all changing the soup and not changing the medicine, and they are still playing the same tricks as before.

For example, the Luo Sect, which is known as the founder of the folk religious scriptures, openly scolded the White Lotus Sect for following evil waters, burning incense, and worshipping the sun and the moon in its own "treasure scrolls" scriptures, and so on. As everyone knows, in the eyes of the imperial court, all of them have been counted by the White Lotus Sect, and they are all unstable factors in society. No matter how you draw a line with your former teacher, the court will not let you go.

In addition, these Protestants also have the old problems of the White Lotus Sect, with complex members, lax precepts, and often gathering people to fight against the government, so they are even less recognized by the imperial court.

For example, Luo Qing, the founder of Luojiao, was himself a pawn of the imperial court, and his influence was very huge among the Cao Yun Shui masters of the imperial court, with thousands of believers passed down from generation to generation by fathers, sons and brothers. And the Ming Dynasty grain army and Cao pawn like to gather crowds to make trouble is famous in history, Wanli 28 years of Jiangnan Cao gang Zhao Yuangu uprising, known as the gathering of 100,000 people, Liukou coastal provinces, the rivers and lakes generally believe that Zhao Yuangu is the Luo Jiao King at that time.

As a result of such a big disorder, these sects were even more regarded as dangerous elements by the imperial court and were severely suppressed. Some of the Protestants who followed the lower route went through ups and downs, and were finally forced to reintegrate with the White Lotus; The other part of the Hongyang Sect and the Wenxiang Sect have successfully transformed, and the Hongyang Sect to which Gao Huai belongs is one of the most successful examples.

Han Taihu, the founder of Hongyang Sect, is also known as Hongyangzi, a famous Tongtian god stick on the rivers and lakes. Born in the fourth year of Longqing, he is a native of Quzhou County, Guangping Prefecture. In the fourteenth year of Wanli, there was a great drought in his hometown, so he ran away from home and wandered around to practice, during which he visited teachers to seek Taoism and experienced hardships. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the twenty-second year of Wanli, he enlightened in Taihu Mountain, established a sect, and called himself Piao Gaozu.

The following year, Han Taihu went to the capital to preach. Because he befriended the nobles and eunuchs and protected the Dharma, his religion flourished, and now it is said that the "evil cult" in the capital is the most powerful.

In fact, since Jiajing, Protestantism has gradually gained influence among the eunuchs of the imperial palace. Most of the eunuchs came from poor families in rural Hebei, especially in the Gyeonggi area. The "cults" in these areas are active and powerful, and it is not difficult for the followers to make friends with the eunuchs through their family or social connections.

Therefore, after the Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, when there were many sects in society and flourished, the forces of "evil cults" also latent and grew among the eunuchs. For example, in the twenty-third year of Wanli, Wang Sen, the leader of the Wenxiang Sect, was arrested and imprisoned, and his apprentice Xu Hongru went to the capital to find the eunuch Wang Dexiang to do activities, bribed a lot of money, and finally Wang Sen was acquitted.

And Hongyang Sect is even more violent, after the establishment of the religion in the 22nd year of Wanli, Piao Gaozu went to Beijing to carry out activities, and soon developed a large number of believers among the eunuchs and princes and nobles in the palace, and Gao Huai, a famous eunuch in the palace, was one of them. The rest are the palm-print eunuch Chen Ju of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the eunuch Shi Heng in charge of the Neijing Factory, and the palm-print eunuch Zhang Zhong of the armor factory, all of which are key departments. The current Duke of Dingguo, Xu Xi, the second son of the founding father Xu Da, and Song Shien, the current lord of the Marquis of Xining, are all closely related to the Hongyang Sect.

And the Hongyang Sect also listed their names in the scriptures, became immortals, and ranked in the immortal class, doubly touted. For example, it is said that Xu Xi, the Duke of Dingguo, "The Ming Dynasty is a country that is connected to the world, and the founder of Dingguo Gong is opened." Supporting the mixed elements such as teaching, and the "sermons" like limericks abound.

One of the most ridiculous is the stone enjoyment of the Neijing Factory, because the relationship between the Neijing Factory and the carving of the scriptures is very large, the building near the water gets the moon first, the Hongyang Sect not only carves the most scriptures in the "cult", but also the most exquisite and gorgeous scriptures, so the Hongyang Sect scriptures compliments Shi Heng of the Neijing Factory in every way, calling him "the king of heaven in the middle of the eight days" and "the old Shi Heng of the Central Jade Emperor". A eunuch has actually become a god and is worshiped by the believers, which can be said to have achieved the realm of the god of eunuchs.

In fact, the scriptures of Hongyangjiao basically adhere to the idea of "take-it-ism", which is a hodgepodge of plagiarism of the scriptures and ideas of other schools, and in many places it is cheeky to copy the five or six volumes of Luojiao, which were later regarded as classics of folk religious scriptures. Even the supreme gods worshiped in the religion often change back and forth, sometimes they are mixed ancestors, sometimes they are Wuji ancestors, sometimes they are mixed with the three gods of no ancestors, no biological mothers, and vacuum ancient Buddhas.

However, it is such a nondescript cult that actually mixes like a fish in water in the Beijing Division, which is known as the Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger, which shows the depth of the cult's penetration in the court, so that a considerable number of the mining tax eunuchs sent by the Wanli Emperor to all parts of the country have the background of various sects of the White Lotus Sect, and Gao Huai is no exception.

These eunuchs levied and looted the people's wealth in various places, and the total number of them was handed over to the Ouchi less than 1 percent, and a considerable part of them fell into the hands of these cults and became their activity funds.

Hearing this, Yue Xiang felt as if he was listening to a story, but he had to believe it. Where are these things recorded in the canonical history? But this is what the people of this era really told him personally.

I didn't expect the White Lotus Sect to have such a terrible energy, he only knew that the White Lotus Sect made a big fuss in the Yongle Year Tang Sai'er Uprising, in the second year of the Apocalypse, Xu Hongru called the emperor to raise troops, and later during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect of the Sichuan and Shaanxi generations revolted, and the rest of the times seemed to be silent. I didn't expect to know that the power of this cult was really amazing. From the palace to the grassroots, thousands of people seem to be everywhere.

"You said that these mine tax eunuchs are actually from the White Lotus Sect?" Yue Xiang seemed to understand a little, no wonder these eunuchs were so reckless, their physiology and psychology were not normal, and they were brainwashed by the so-called doctrines of the cult every day, so it was not surprising that they could do those bad things that brought disaster to the country and the people. Anyway, these cults just hope that the world will be as chaotic as possible, and only when the chaos is extreme can they take advantage of the chaos, and as for how many people will be harmed, it is not within their scope of consideration.

"Five or six out of ten." Li Shoucai talked for a long time, and saw that Yue Xiang's face eased slightly, and felt that there was hope for survival. But Yue Xiang's sharp eyes and the blade not far from Li's own neck still made him dare not act rashly.

"You White Lotus Sect are very smart, you came up with this method to collect money under the banner of Emperor Lao Tzu. Fuck back then, Gao Huai's dog eunuch ran to Liaodong to extort and extort violently, forcing many people to die. This is also a good skill of your White Lotus Sect, right? What the hell do you still claim to be purifying sentient beings, saving suffering, and you can't save suffering like this? ”

Ma Sandao saw that Yue Xiang's tone was not good, and hurriedly distinguished: "Our Red Seal Society and Hongyang Sect are not all the way, how can the evil son of Hongyang Sect be counted on our heads." We are waiting to find Gao Huai's Tibetan gold, which is used to relieve the poor people in the world, and to promote my ideal of helping the world and saving the people, Gongzi ......"

"You don't come with me, I don't believe in your White Lotus Sect. What Red Seal Society Hongyang Sect, I think it is all the White Lotus Sect. I don't care how you fool the common people, let me ask you what is the relationship between your Gao Huai Tibetan gold and my wife Chen? ”

"This matter has to start from the twenty-eighth year of Wanli in our Qinghe City, in fact, the mining tax supervisors in various places looted the people's wealth that year, and the people's grievances have boiled everywhere. Some people in the northern and southern religions proposed to take advantage of this opportunity to start an incident, and the north and south would attack at the same time, overturning the Ming Dynasty. Later, some people really took the opportunity to raise troops, the one in the south of the Yangtze River was headed by Zhao Yuangu of the Luo Sect, and the one in the north was dominated by the Baiyang Sect in Liaodong. In the twenty-eighth year of Wanli, the Baiyang Sect Leader Jin Deshi came to the world with seven treasures in this Qinghe City, and his son was born as Allah of the East, and in three days he gathered tens of thousands of volunteers and rebelled against Ming. ”

"Wait, you said that the White Yang Sect is in Qinghe City...... My wife, Chen, is this Baiyang Sect ......"

"Exactly, Mrs. Zun's real name and surname are Jin, and she is the only bloodline left by the Baiyang Jin family. It's a pity that the Ming court was not exhausted back then, and the Jin sect leader and his son were martyred together, but his daughter was rescued and escaped from the pursuit of the imperial court. The person who saved her was Gao Huai of the Hongyang Sect, who was also from the White Lotus Sect, and at that time he was in power in Liaodong, and he was the only one who had the ability to save people. And the daughter of the Jin family later became Gao Huai's adopted daughter. Gao Huai has done all the bad things in his life, but he does this good thing alone, which is also a strange skill. ”

Later, Gao Huai somehow gave birth to two hearts, not only betraying the emperor, but also betraying the Hongyang Sect. He hid his wealth in a secret place, and as a result, he collapsed, and the whereabouts of his wealth became mysterious. ”

In fact, there is only one person who knows, and that is the daughter of the Jin family, Gao Huai told his adopted daughter the location of this treasure when he had a premonition that something was wrong. Later, the daughter of the Jin family disappeared after the fall of Gaohuai, and the two of us searched in Liaodong for two years, and finally learned that the daughter of the Jin family changed her name and surname, and returned to Qinghe to marry the son as his wife. ”

The two of them said that they had noses and eyes, and Yue Xiang couldn't see where there was a fake. I thought I was so obedient, and I felt like my angry wife...... It was from a rebel family.

Yue Xiang hadn't digested this sudden large amount for a while, but he heard Yue Shan's report outside.

"Boss, Madame has arrived." …………