Miao Fulin's heart immediately became vigilant. Even the grain and vegetables on this island had to be transported from Dengzhou, and there was no other place except the prisoners in prison, so I really couldn't think of anything else that could be bought and sold. Could it be that this man is trying to free a prisoner on the island?

But these prisoners are all felons, and no one cares if they die, but if they run out for one or two and let people know, then he will be convicted in this prison.

Of course, being a prisoner in a place where birds don't poop is at most deducting the rations of 200 prisoners and 100 soldiers, and there is really no oil and water, and if the other party can really afford the price, then it can still be negotiated.

Thinking of this, Miao Fulin held his hand on the handle of the knife at his waist, and secretly sharpened the knife in his heart. But he still said deliberately with a cold face: "This is a military village, not a grass market, how can there be any deal?" Could it be that you are here to entertain your own officials? ”

Lu Shisang said calmly: "Naturally, there is a deal to be done, because there are many useless people in the hands of the prisoners." ”

Sure enough, it came! Miao Fulin's vigilance and greed suddenly rose, and he immediately shouted: "Nonsense! There are only felons from the imperial court on this island, so do you want to rob the prison? Come on, take it with me! ”

The soldiers who followed Miao Fulin immediately pointed their spears and broadswords at several men, as if they were facing a great enemy. On the other hand, Na Lu Shisang looked indifferent and said with a smile: "Why should the prison be like this. If you can't buy and buy, you can't be benevolent and righteous, so I hope to listen to the words of the Sprinkler family first. ”

Prison Miao just looked at Lu Shisang coldly, and didn't say anything, but he didn't interrupt Lu Shibao either.

I only heard Lu Shisang say: "Since the beginning of the country, there has always been a quota of 200 prisoners on Salmon Island, but in recent years, the number of criminals assigned here has increased year by year, and the quota is more than twice the quota every year, right?" However, the prisoners were still provided with a quota of 200 people, so should the prisoners have to pay for these prisoners out of their own pockets? It just so happens that I am going overseas, and it is not easy to recruit people who are willing to go to sea, so it is better to detain and sell these people to the Sprinkle family, which is indispensable for the benefits of imprisonment. ”

The word "overseas" immediately brought Miao Prisoner's mind to life.

What Lu Shisang said is not bad at all, from the beginning of the country to the present, there has always been a quota of only 200 prisoners on Shamen Island, and grain and grass have also been distributed according to this quota. However, the stabbing with Salmon Island is customized, and the officials do not care whether they exceed the quota or not. In addition, in recent years, there have been more and more bandits, rogues and rebellions in various places, and hundreds of people have been assassinated here every year.

Dengzhou will never allocate an extra grain because there are many people, or even deduct one less grain, so the situation of more people and less food has always existed.

Miao Fulin and a group of soldiers sent to defend the village in this place where birds don't also want to get some benefits from the rations of the two hundred prisoners, and there are too many people to even leave the scum. Anyway, those who are assigned to Salmon Island are not pardoned, and no one will ask about it, so several groups of prisoners are killed on the island every year.

Anyway, these people are killed and killed, and it is naturally a good thing to be able to exchange a few dollars. If you really get people overseas as you say, no one in the Central Plains will know about it, this is a lucrative business.

Miao Fulin is a careful person, although he was already moved, he still decided to find out the details of the other party. He asked, "Who are you?" ”

Lu Shisang said playfully: "Why do you have to know each other when you meet!" You and I are mutually beneficial, and life is enough! ”

The implication of Lu Shinang's words is that the interests of the two are related and they share weal and woe, and he will not do thankless things that harm Miao Fulin.

Miao Fulin was still not at ease, and asked again: "You know a lot about me, but I don't know about you!" ”

Seeing this, Lu Shisang took out a token and showed it to Miao Fulin alone. "After seeing this, Miao Hall Master still doesn't know!"

Miao Fulin looked at the scarlet flame token, and his body was full of excitement. Looking at that way, at least it is a character such as the helmsman and the elder in the sect. Miao Fulin asked in a trembling voice: "You are ......" The words behind him, he couldn't say anything.

Lu Shisang said: "This is not the place to speak. ”

Miao Jian hurriedly said: "Yes, yes." So you will come with me. ”

Maitreya was first founded in the period of Emperor Wu of Liang, the founder Fu Dashi called himself "the double forest tree to liberate the good wisdom of the master", Guanghong Bodhisattva line, Fu Xuande and others under the door.

Maitreya has been spread among the people for hundreds of years, and people have continued to rebel against it. When Emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Jizhou Shamen Faqing proclaimed himself a "new Buddha", and Li Guibo was the "Ten Dwelling Bodhisattvas" and created the "Mahayana Buddha"; The so-called new Buddha is to quote the Buddhist scriptures in the "Maitreya descended to become a Buddha" said, strongly advocate killing, that the person who kills one person is a Bodhisattva, and the person who kills ten people is a Bodhisattva, "slaughtering the temple, killing the monks and nuns, burning the sutra statue", "and the madness is convincing, the father and son and brother do not know each other, only to kill as a thing" ("Wei Shu • Yuan Yao Biography"), the history is called the "Mahayana uprising", and was later destroyed by Yuan Yao. Since then, the events of the false Maitreya coming into the world have come and gone.

In the ninth year of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty (613), Song Zixian, a native of Gaoyang (now Gaoyang, Hebei), was good at illusion, "able to change into a Buddha form", claimed to be "Maitreya was born", and gathered people to raise troops to make trouble. During the two Song Dynasty, Maitreya and Manichaeism showed a trend of integration, proposing that "Shakya Buddha declines, and Maitreya Buddha should hold the world".

In the seventh year of Qingli in the Northern Song Dynasty (1047), the king of Beizhou (now Qinghe, Hebei) was a farmer in Zhuozhou, fled to Beizhou to herd sheep to the landlord, and later rebelled, claiming to be the lord of Dongping, his slogan was "Shakya Buddha declines, Maitreya Buddha should hold the world". In addition, Gao Tansheng of Shamen in Huaizhou, Liu Ningjing, a woman from Wannian County, Sichuan, etc., all falsely claimed that Maitreya came into the world and rebelled.

Miao Fulin, the hall master, is Maitreya. After Wang Ze's rebellion failed, Maitreya continued to breathe.

And Lu Shisang is also a great background, and he is the leader of the Manichaean side in the south.

Mingjiao, officially known as Manichaeism, also known as Muniism, originated in the ancient Persian Sassanid Dynasty and was founded by the Persian Mani (Mānī) in the mid-3rd century AD, influenced by Christianity and the Mazda teachings of Zoroastrianism in Iran, and is a dualistic religion with Gnostic overtones. The main doctrine is the "Theory of Two Sects and Three Worlds", which advocates light.

Manichaeism was introduced to Xinjiang in China in the 6th to 7th centuries, and then from Xinjiang to Mobei Hui, and prevailed there. In the third year of the Tang Dynasty's Great Calendar (768), at the request of Hui Hui, Mani Temple was established in Jianghuai and other places. When Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty destroyed Buddhism in the fifth year of Huichang (845), Manichaeism was also severely attacked, and it became a secret religion, and absorbed Taoism and folk beliefs, thus changing its name to Mingjiao.

Because of the belief that the darkness was about to pass and the light was coming, Mingjiao dared to rebel and repeatedly acted against the government.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Maitreya and Manichaeism fused and colluded with each other, and then evolved into the White Lotus Sect.

Miao Fulin thought about it carefully, and his heart sank: If this person is really the big guy in the sect, then it will really be a matter of minutes for Shamen Village to change the owner of Shamen Village, as he said. And he already knows about it, but he doesn't want to participate, and if he doesn't get it, those big guys will kill themselves for the sake of secrecy.

After being silent for a while, he had to grit his teeth and make up his mind, seeking wealth and danger, supporting the bold to death, starving the faint to death. But since he took the risk, he wanted to make the most of it, so he asked, "So friend, can you make a price?" ”

Lu Shibao said: "One person is a silk." ”

A horse of silk is equivalent to consistent money, that is to say, a person exchanges consistent money.

Miao Fulin didn't expect the price to be so low, and his eyes widened: "It's just a silk?" It's buying a person! ”

No matter how poor he is in Maitreya, he can't ask for alms.

Lu Shisang said with a smile: "If the hall master doesn't change this silk, can he still be a cash cow if he keeps someone?" In the end, don't you have to kill it yourself? This is not just a matter of changing a silk, but also accumulating yin virtue. And the Sprinkle family made it clear, if the prisoners want too much, it will not be the prisoners' turn to sell these people. ”

Lu Shinang's threat made Miao Jian deflated, and then Lu Shisang said another sentence to make him regain some balance.

"Although a person only changes one silk, but there are many people, why can't you change one or two hundred times a year?"

Miao Fulin thinks about it, and this is also the truth. I don't know how many people will be allocated this year, even if one person changes the same money, one or two hundred is a small amount. With these funds, Maitreya can also help some brothers.

Of course, Miao Fulin will never let go easily, and after some bargaining, the two sides reached an agreement.

Because the risk of trading Miao Fulin for the first time was too great, one person exchanged two silks, and one person exchanged one silk for one silk in the subsequent transactions, but the prisoner's food expenses needed to be supplemented before Lu Shibao came to raise people. And not everyone wants Lu Shisang, and they must be selected to pay.

After reaching an agreement, Miao Jian brought several classes on the island to collude, and then asked people to take Lu Shisang to pick people, and it took a whole day to select a total of more than 70 people. Some prisoners who are already hungry or who have indeed committed the great sin of the wrath of man and God, Lu Shisang does not want it. This is all in accordance with the teachings of Manichaeism.

Seeing more than a hundred silk horses piled up in a large pile, Miao Fulin and his subordinates smiled crookedly-after boiling for so many years in this place where birds don't, they never thought there would be such oil and water.

Lu Shisang was also very satisfied. The people he picked out were all strong and courageous, and such people were needed to expand the territory in the southern mines. Moreover, when these people go to Salmon Island, it is equivalent to stepping into the ghost gate, and they have no thoughts.