The autumn of the sixth year of Guanghe in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the autumn of 183 AD. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hanzhong Chenggu people paid their salaries and left Luoyang City angrily, since the year before and the crown of themselves, without looking back, out of Chenggu County, Hanzhong County, full of thought that with their own ten thousand enemies of talent, they will be able to seek a great future in Luoyang, so they came to Luoyang City Mao Sui self-recommendation.

I don't want a year to pass, and the biggest official position I can ask for is just a small official, not to mention what good official position he will arrange for him.

It wasn't until recently that he was penniless and was driven out of the house by the owner of the rented house, and he had to tell himself that this world was not the world of the common people, but the world of the famous family lords who had been officials for generations.

If you only want to get a job as a small official, or to put it well, if you want to ask for an official position of more than 100 stones, it is just a pipe dream, and it is absolutely impossible. But what is the ambition of my salary and introduction?

Pay touched the empty and watery belly, gritted his teeth and walked towards the east blankly. I don't know where I'm going, but I instinctively want to stay away from the sad and depressed place of Luoyang.

I don't know how long I walked, my legs were about to break, and I still gritted my teeth and walked forward, as if as long as I walked forward, I could find my own bright road. Pay turned his head to look at the sunset in the west, and the faintly disappeared Luoyang City below, shouted and cursed, and walked forward again.

A gust of autumn wind blew, and I had already sold the salary of winter clothes and felt the cold for the first time this year. The face was gloomy, and his hands were rubbing the cold places, and he used a little bit of rubbing heat to drive away the ice. It's just that where is the place to stay tonight, and I am still at a loss to pay the salary.

When it was completely dark, Payroll saw a faint fire behind a leeward hill, and of course, the smell of food that Paypay needed most, so he walked involuntarily towards that place. It wasn't until I got close that I suddenly woke up.

Just as he was hesitating to go up and borrow a fire from his master's house to roast him, he heard a kind voice calling, "A guest has come from afar alone, but I would like to come and tell you." ”

After paying for a while, he was surprised, and said with his fists clenched: "I am willing to do it, but I am afraid of disturbing the master." ”

The kind voice smiled: "It's all pedestrians in a hurry, where to divide the host and guest." Come over and bake the fire, the weather is getting colder, don't freeze your body. ”

He thanked him and walked forward. Under the firelight, I saw two men with yellow scarves and foreheads standing in front of the fire, waiting for him quietly. The two men with yellow scarves wiping their foreheads, one in his forties, the other less than thirty, dressed in cloth, but barefoot, with a long hemp pole beside him. The salary is a little abrupt, this seems to be the dress of the legendary Taiping Taoist.

When he came to the fire, he suddenly felt a burst of warmth, and instead of waiting for the salary to go forward to thank the two, his stomach first made a burst of empty protest. I couldn't help but feel embarrassed for a while when I paid my salary, and I couldn't say the inquiries on my lips.

The two Taiping Daoists looked at each other and smiled, and a middle-aged man with a beautiful beard on his face took out a large piece of bread from the package behind him, stuffed it into the paid hand, and said kindly: "Eat first and then speak." ”

Paid for a while moved, in times of danger to see people's true feelings, this Taiping Tao can spread the good name all over the world, not for no reason. After a wolf-gobbling meal, unconsciously choked on the dough, Ma/Yuanyi hurriedly handed over a skin of turbid wine.

The salary was hurriedly taken, and he poured a few mouthfuls in a row, and then he said unsatisfied: "Thank you, you will become a solid person in the lower Han Dynasty, and pay the salary." Dare to ask what the two Taoists are called? ”

The middle-aged man with a slight goatee on his face said, "My name is Tang Zhou, this is Ma/Yuanyi, and both of us are disciples of Taiping Dao. As he spoke, he threw a large piece of bread to pay. I thanked him gratefully, and I ate again.

After seeing that he had eaten and drunk enough, Ma/Yuan Yi asked with a smile: "Little brother is from Luoyang?" Where do you want to go? ”

The salary should be paid: "It is half a day away from Luoyang, but it is just ......" where to go, and the salary can not help but be speechless. When he saw Ma/Yuanyi's concerned eyes, the drunkenness of paying and drinking, and the resentment he had received in Luoyang for many days, he couldn't help but talk about it happily to the elder Ma/Yuanyi.

said that he had been reading military books in a grass hut for nearly ten years since he was a child, and he had learned the art of ten thousand enemies, but because his background was too low and he didn't know how to travel, he was despised by the villagers. In the end, I finally borrowed tens of thousands of money and went away to Hanzhong, and came to Luoyang to seek officials, but I didn't want to be ignored because of my background. The full belly of military books and war strategies is useless, until the money is spent, and the future is still blank, and the future is not bright.

Ma/Yuanyi persuaded: "A talented person is like an iron cone placed in a cloth bag, which will come out one day sooner or later. Maybe the little brother asked for too much at the beginning. In the past, Huaiyin waited for Han Xin, didn't he also start as a guard. ”

Fu Yan shook his head and said proudly: "That's because the overlord of Western Chu doesn't know talents, and in the end, if Emperor Gaozu is not entrusted with the responsibility of the whole army, Huaiyin Hou is still unwilling to go out to Emperor Gaozu." Otherwise, how can the Han Dynasty come to the world for 400 years. ”

Ma/Yuanyi and Tang Zhou laughed dumbly, Tang Zhou said: "When the eldest husband is alive, he should think about the common people of the world everywhere, which is worthy of a man's seven-foot body, how can he only take care of his own selfish interests, or act according to the level of his position." Know that every job has a purpose. ”

Fu Yan shook his head and said: "Having said that, you must take care of yourself first in order to benefit the common people." Being a small official, worrying about the matter of the calf day and night, but I can't show my talent, and I can't benefit many people, how can this be my wish? And the court uses what it means, it should be the most basic, otherwise ......"

Ma/Yuanyi smiled and said, "I see that there is still a lot of righteousness between my little brother's eyebrows, and I am willing to join my Taiping Dao." My Taiping Taoist master, the great sage and good teacher, has always liked to promote talented young people, and there are also many high-ranking officials and believers in Luoyang City. If the little brother is recognized by the great sages and good teachers, whether he is an official in Luoyang or a general in the local counties, it is an easy matter. ”

After hesitating for a while, he asked, "How about reading military books by myself, but not hearing the teachings of the Taiping Dao?" I don't know ......."

Tang Zhou was taken aback, thinking that the Taiping Dao believers were all over the thirteen states and counties of the Han Dynasty, and there were no less than a million followers, and the people everywhere knew the teachings of the Taiping Dao to a greater or lesser extent. The land of Hanzhong is also an important stronghold of the Taiping Dao, such as there are still people who do not know the teachings of the Taiping Dao.

The face of the salary remains the same, if you don't know, you don't know, why do you need to pretend to know.

Ma/Yuanyi was also unhindered, and explained the doctrine of Taiping Dao to the salary in a friendly manner, but Tang Zhou did not dismiss the conciseness of Ma/Yuanyi's explanation, and said again: "I believe in the Taiping Taoist belief in Huang Taiyi, the god of the sect, the leader of the great sage and good teacher, is the god of heaven, holding the immortal book "Taiping Technique", with the ability to call the wind and rain, and move mountains and seas. On behalf of the heavens, the people of Puji are the people. It is a living immortal who is rare in the world for thousands of years to worry about the country and the people. ”

"Especially in the first month of this year, when the epidemic was rampant in the world, my master personally led hundreds of disciples to scatter Fu water everywhere, showing great compassion, treating the heavenly and human patients, and in less than February and March, the epidemic qi in the whole country disappeared. The people of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty are all in the name of my teacher......"

Tang Zhou Hao endlessly talked about the holy miracles of the great sages and good teachers, and the teachings of the Taiping Dao. Only then did I know some general information about the salary, and I had a basic understanding of this. However, the payment of wages has always been disrespectful to ghosts and gods, and I feel that the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao is just a person who knows some medical skills, and fools the people in the name of gods and men. However, his mental skills are not bad, and he is a person with some ability.

can convince the people of the world to be convinced, and can make the disciples Tang Zhou and Ma/Yuanyi under his command extremely pious and respectful, this corner may really have a lot of merits. Think about the Taiping Taoist believers all over the world, or there are really many high-ranking officials and nobles, if they are recommended by Zhang Jiao, or......

The salary was hot, and he said secretly: Anyway, I have nothing now, and I have nowhere to return, so it is better to believe in him for the time being, and then talk about it first.

Tang Zhou finally said proudly: "Bucai is also one of the five hundred disciples of the Great Sage and Good Master. ”

"I see, Tang Immortal Master, after hearing about it, I also admire the great sage and good teacher, I don't know what are the conditions for joining my sect?"

"There is no need for conditions, as long as you respect our religion and educate the righteousness of the world with 'good ways', you are a disciple of my religion."

He was overjoyed and said: "Two immortal masters, I want to join my Taiping Taoism, and I also ask the two immortal masters for permission." ”

Tang Zhou laughed and said, "Okay, okay, since you are willing to join the sect, then I will ...... Senior Brother Ma, look ......"

Ma/Yuanyi smiled slightly and said, "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Tang Zhou said: "I will make an exception to accept you as my disciple and let you be the third generation disciple of my sect." ”

He rubbed the earth for incense and bowed down and shouted, "Master is above, please accept the disciple's worship." Then he bowed his head nine times in a row, and performed the salutation of the teacher.

Tang Zhou was also overjoyed, and hurriedly helped pay the salary, and then told the salary some more specific teachings, and the distinction between some positions in the church. In particular, let the salary pay know that in addition to Zhang Jiao, the great sage and good teacher, there are still two good teachers, or great doctors, who are Zhang Jiao's younger brothers, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang. Below them are the eight great disciples, called Dafang, and Ma/Yuanyi is one of them. And below it are the thirty-six party commanders, and there are nearly 10,000 followers from each sect. Although Tang Zhou was young, he was also a disciple of Zhang Jiao's confidant, and his status was quite high.

This time, the two of them were ordered by the sect leader to go to Luoyang City on a business trip, but they couldn't go with their salaries, so they asked them to go to Julu in Jizhou County to wait. After Tang Zhou returned to Julu, he would receive a salary to meet the great sage and good teacher.

The three of them didn't sleep until late at night, and early the next morning, Tang Zhou gave two gold cakes to pay for the journey, and the three of them parted ways.