Chapter 220

"After that man returned to the Taoist temple yesterday, he repaired a letter and sent it to Jiangxi." Uncle Zhong stood behind Yang Shangjing and said with a smile, "This stargazing technique seems to be also a heart problem of the Zhang family." ”

"If you have the opportunity to get your hands on it, and it's within reach, you always have to fight for it." Yang Shangjing laughed, stood at the bow of the boat, looked at the surging river in front of him, and smiled all over his face, "As Uncle Zhong said, although this Zhang family was hung high by the Taizu of this dynasty, in the end it is also a thousand-year-old romance, and it is not difficult to grasp a royal history that he resigned and returned to his hometown." ”

After a pause, Yang Shangjing's face was also full of strange smiles: "If the Zhang family really took something out of that Xu Hui's mouth, presumably this Zhang Daoye's level will also rise by one level, right?" ”

Like the nine-grade official system of the imperial court, the Zhengyi faction is also divided into nine grades, which corresponds to the grade of the imperial court, and different levels correspond to different spell permissions, which means how much mana can be cast, but there are still some rules in the end, what kind of basket is received, but it is not something that can be bought with money, you have to have some real skills, or make some substantial contributions.

Uncle Zhong smiled and nodded, but then his face turned solemn: "It's just that young master, this Taoist sect has not been very peaceful in the past dynasties, so you must not get too close to it, so as not to burn yourself." ”

Yang Shangjing was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "Jian naturally knows about this matter, everything always has to have a degree, and now Jian is just using the connections of the Zhang family to engage in this Xu Hui, as for the rest, I have never thought about it." ”

That's what he said, Yang Shangjing thought even deeper in his heart, how he said it was also from five hundred years later, there are more things that can be seen, and there are naturally more things to think, what things can be closer and closer, and what things should be kept away, and his heart is still a little pressing.

Taoism has always been the rebel professional household in the Central Plains, after all, it is different from the religious thought of the monks who "endure a good life in the next life", the core idea of Taoism has always been "life and death are downplayed, and if you don't accept it, you will do it", and you will know it if you turn over the Tao Te Ching, "the softest water in the world", "the attacker can win", when Zhengyi was founded, the grade of the nine products used directly corresponded to the official position of the imperial court, this thought, naturally, it is not difficult to guess, and people are not seeking the next life, but this life, So when you are alive, you naturally have to fight it.

Therefore, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Uprising directly put the Taoist vest on his body, and he did not change it, in order to establish an earthly Taoist country, but this is too different from the feudal society that the family families adapt to, so the princes from all walks of life, that is, the big landlords, went shirtless, beat up these religious madmen, and directly pinched them to death, and then Taoism learned to be obedient, and began to use his identity as "after staying in the marquis" to focus on preaching in the upper class, and did not mind serving the family. Provide them with a little theoretical support for the distribution of imperial power.

For example, the metaphysics that prevailed during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties is actually a variant of Taoist thought, the so-called "rule by inaction" is actually a kind of thirst for hypocrisy politics, that is to say, the family wants to use Taoist ideas to directly empty the emperor and directly engage in a family republic, at that time, the name with a "zhi", such as Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi and the like, are all Taoists, and the influence of Taoism on the upper class of society can be seen.

However, Rao is so, Taoism has not given up the idea of revolting from the lower levels, overthrowing the feudal dynasty, and establishing an earthly Taoist state, starting from the Yellow Turban Army, the color of the cloth wrapped around the head is constantly changing, but you look at the core idea, it is basically the same, at most, it is to replace a certain Tianzun with a childless mother, especially if it is not for the support of a big force behind him, this group of rebellious mud legs, even the military food and grass do not understand, and it is not a minute to exterminate the imperial court?

Therefore, even if Li Tang was at that time, he found a famous ancestor Li Er for his family, and built a Taoist temple known as the most luxurious in the world in the long press, and established Taoism as the state religion, and he has not relaxed his surveillance of Taoism, and has not given up his efforts to balance the forces of Buddhism and Taoism. There will definitely be accountability when he comes back.

As for this dynasty, if it weren't for the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, he also needed a reasonable vest to let himself, a poor man who was born with mud legs and had been a monk, ascend to the throne, but I am afraid that according to his temperament, the religion would have been extinguished long ago, but Taoism has been in the flow for too long, and the influence of the people is by no means easy to pull out by the regime supported by the economic foundation of feudal small peasants, so he can only rely on poverty and tyranny, hang Taoism, and isolate their influence on the bottom as much as possible.

This kind of power, if you can use it, it will be useless to get too close, and he is not without a backer now, and he does not need the full support of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, it is good for everyone to be mutually beneficial.

Talking about this topic here, even if it is over, Yang Shangjing turned his words around, and guided the topic to this trip: "Now Jian takes people by boat and goes all the way south, but I don't know what the foundation of this Jin Xiangwei is, what needs to be paid attention to, but it is also a helpless move, please bother Uncle Zhong, find Xu Zongqi and Liu Duanshi, and talk to Jian, Jian is also a little prepared." ”

Uncle Zhong responded and retreated, while Yang Shangjing looked at the waves of the river and sighed.

The situation of the noble and military lowly formed in the late Ming Dynasty is not without reason, after all, compared with the civil officials, the military generals are a little worthless, not to mention the nineteen guards along the coast of Zhejiang alone, and the nineteen commanders of the three products, just the merits accumulated from generation to generation, it is enough to have a group of "shadowy and not working", or "insulting the ancestors" of the noble children, with the official position of the second grade, rushing to the third grade, or even the work of the fifth grade, it is simply not too much, just this situation, How to deal with a group of people who passed the imperial examination?

However, the Xungui group is still holding the gun, and if you want to move their interests, you have to ask them if the gun in their hands agrees, so even in the later period, the civil power has increased greatly, and the top handful of nobles still have an extremely strong right to speak, even if they can't say one or the other, some voices are also necessary for reference in the court.