Chapter 2: Human Tragedy

Last time, I said that Zhang Jiao's family suffered misfortune, met the old way, and later had evil thoughts, and then founded the Taiping Sect.

After 12 years of missionary work, the Taiping Church has grown and expanded, and has spread to the eight prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan. The Taiping Sect is not only widely distributed, but also has a large base of believers, as many as hundreds of thousands. I really don't know how the Zhang brothers did it. Maybe you can go far away and ask for directions and bump into the parishioners. Many of them were poor peasants in the countryside, small handicraftsmen in the towns, old friends of the Zhang family, and other new scholars, and the most unimaginable thing was that there were eunuchs who belonged to the group of enemies of the Zhang family. It seems that the Zhang brothers are determined to go to the end of a black road, and they can wear the mask so thoroughly.

Why? Not every eunuch is an enemy, is it? Can't make friends? But there is a special VIP member among the believers, that is, Feng Xu, a "permanent member" of the "club" of the ten permanent servants. As one of the leaders of the eunuch group, it is impossible for Feng Xu to completely dismantle his relationship with the party's calamity. But the Zhang brothers also pulled him in. For their great revolutionary cause. In addition, the canons have been changed to be more focused on human rights: a believer who has made a mistake only needs to confess his sins to the supreme leader of the church in order to be forgiven by Huang Tian. This is a bit similar to the teachings of a certain god stick that once appeared in the West.

In addition to the above changes, even the title of our Zhang Dashen has also changed. From the original Guru, to the later Heavenly Master, and now he is also a great and virtuous teacher. There are many patients who have been treated with Fu Shui, and even the younger brothers of the great god have been called great doctors. They were all self-appointed, but when there were many people who called, they believed.

It's all about that obsession: to take revenge on the corrupt court, at any cost, including your own family, property, clan, and even the lives of innocent people.

But all this, with the birth of Xiao Pingping, began to undergo subtle changes.

The morning after Xiao Pingping was born, Zhang Jiao went into the room to see his baby and wife.

"Xianggong, what do you want to do with Ping'er?"

Disposal? Zhang Jiao thought, it's too late for his son to be in pain, how can he be willing to deal with it?

Seeing Zhang Jiao looking at him stunned, his wife blushed and continued: "Xianggong, what you are doing now, if you fail, what will Ping'er do?" ”

Zhang Jiao understood a little, and shouted angrily: "What do women understand!"

The wife did not compromise and continued: "Are you sure you will succeed? ”

Zhang Jiao felt that his wife was demolishing his own platform and did not support him, so he threw down the sentence "unreasonable", turned around angrily and left, without even looking at his son.

Zhang Jiao happened to bump into Zhang Bao coming to him when he was going out. Zhang Bao saw the eldest brother coming out of the room so angrily, and wondered very much: Haven't the eldest brother and sister-in-law always respected each other? The sister-in-law sacrificed a lot for this family, and everyone is very grateful. So he asked, "Big brother, what's wrong with you?" ”

Zhang Jiao glanced at Zhang Bao and didn't know how to say it, so he said something ambiguous: "She, a woman's opinion!" ”

Zhang Bao saw that Zhang Jiao didn't want to say more, so he didn't ask anymore, and took Zhang Jiao to the study to discuss their "teaching affairs".

Zhang Jiao has been absent-minded for the next time, thinking about his wife's words, thinking of family feuds, and remembering the days when life was worse than death, but when he thought of Xiao Pingping's face, Zhang Jiao felt as if he had forgotten something important and didn't think about it, what was it?

Zhang Bao noticed the change in the eldest brother and thought: Something must have gone wrong with the eldest brother and sister-in-law, don't the eldest brother did something sorry for the sister-in-law and was discovered by the sister-in-law, so he was embarrassed to say that he was annoyed and angry? That's it, people, what they think is not necessarily the truth, but they believe in their own reasoning more and more. So Zhang Bao decided to secretly observe the eldest brother, and if he found that the eldest brother had done something wrong, he would persuade the eldest brother to turn back.

It was late at night, and Zhang Jiao was alone in the study, still thinking about what happened in the morning. suddenly remembered that when he was born in Xiao Pingping, he cried with joy and said: "The Zhang family has a queen!" "That's right! It's the Zhang family! In those dark days, Zhang Jiao felt that the Zhang family was finished, the two younger brothers no longer had any possibility of having offspring, and he was very likely to be extinct. Therefore, when all thoughts were lost, I thought about pulling the Han Dynasty to accompany the funeral. I didn't think it would succeed at all, but it was only later that the Taiping Sect developed more and more, and I felt that maybe it might really be successful. It's just that it doesn't matter if it's successful or not, the important thing is to accompany the Zhang family to the funeral. Because the Zhang family has no future, this is all caused by that faint king, even if he dies, this debt will have to be repaid by his son and grandson!

However, now it's different, now that the Zhang family has Xiao Pingping, although the Zhang family can't enter the office because of the disaster of the party, as long as Xiao Pingping takes over his mantle, can he live worse than that faint king? The Zhang family will grow again! But if he insists on going his own way, with the current lineup of fighters, Zhang Jiao really has no confidence in winning. Now there are a lot of people under him, but there are all kinds of crooked melons and cracked dates, but there are few who can really take them out. Good resources are concentrated in the hands of the scholars, and there is no way to do that.

The next day, Zhang Jiao summoned his two younger brothers and told them his plan: to stop the rebellion plan and train Xiaopingping to take over his class.

After Zhang Bao listened, he was stupid for a while, and the goal of twelve years of hard work for this collapsed like this? Why is that? Zhang Bao couldn't figure it out for a while, and it was down.

Zhang Liang is relatively simple, anyway, the eldest brother has the final say all these years, and he is just running errands. I'll leave the brain-draining things to the eldest brother himself. If it doesn't work, add the second brother. Anyway, I'm not very interested in things that aren't solved by force. If you don't become a doctor of the Taiping Sect, you can go back to be his leopard head in the west of the city, and his subordinates have only changed their clothes now, and they are still his subordinates. The team is all here, and now whoever dares not to give it will be a little thin!

Don't say how Zhang Liang YY. Zhang Bao left first, and he didn't know how he got back to the secret room behind the church. A figure approached Zhang Bao, saluted, and respectfully addressed Zhang Bao: "Master." ”

Zhang Bao was taken aback by this sudden figure, and subconsciously asked, "Who are you?" ”

"Disciple Tang Zhou, I am ready to leave for Luoyang, and I am here to bid farewell to the great sage and good teacher and great doctor."

"Tang Zhou, you don't have to go to the things I told you before for the time being."

Tang Zhou asked in fear: "Master, why is this?" Did the disciple make any mistake? ”

Zhang Bao was very helpless and replied: "Definitely." ”

Tang Zhou contacted Zhang Bao's clear mind when he entered the house, and he was even more flustered, thinking: Could it be that the plan has been leaked?

Zhang Bao noticed Tang Zhou's abnormality, and felt that Tang Zhou, as one of his disciples, was one of the few people who knew about the "big plan", and in order to calm the army's mind, it was necessary to convey the latest arrangements to them. Otherwise, let them speculate on their own, and really poke things out, and the consequences will be unimaginable. So he comforted: "It's just that the plan has been suspended." ”

When Tang Zhou heard this, he was not happy in his heart, and thought: Lao Tzu saw that you were large-scale, and you must have been able to make a lot of oil and water, so I joined, and it was easy to climb to the inner circle, and I found that there was a greater wealth waiting in front of me. If you don't do it now, you won't do it? Can you not do it?

Zhang Bao saw that Tang Zhou was still in place, so he said cordially: "You go and talk to other senior brothers." ”

"Master, can the disciple ask why?"

Zhang Bao didn't know what to say for a while, and replied: "The great sage and good teacher have an heir, so I decided to abort the plan." ”

Tang Zhou asked urgently: "Isn't the successor of the great sage and good teacher the master to respect you?" ”

Tang Zhou thought: Lao Tzu deliberately approached you because he saw that you were the successor who was most likely to win the title of great sage and good teacher. It's so easy to get to where you are now. This is a son of heaven and a courtier. The great sage and mentor have a head full of gray hair (although Zhang Jiao is only in his early 40s, his experience as a young man makes him look at least 10 years older than his peers.) See the first episode for details), how long can you live? But you're in the prime of life. Why did an heir suddenly appear?

Tang Zhou then instigated: "Master, if the plan is successful, shouldn't this great position be passed on to you?" ”

Zhang Bao said: "The great sage and good teacher had a son, just two days ago. ”

Tang Zhou was in a hurry, how could the cooked duck fly like this? Hurriedly said: "Master, don't you want the big position?" ”

Zhang Bao was also said to be moved: Yes, the whole world should be mine! Now a villain suddenly pops up, and there's nothing?

Zhang Bao subconsciously asked: "Then, what should I do?" ”

Tang Zhou's expression was hideous, and he made a downward cutting motion with his hand.

When Zhang Bao saw it, he was shocked into a cold sweat and thought: How can this work? That's my own nephew. But the big bit .......

Zhang Bao was silent for a while, and said to Tang Zhou: "You go back first, call Ma Yuanyi to me, I have something to tell him to do." ”

Tang Zhou was unwilling, but he knew that it was useless for him to talk more now, if he couldn't do anything, don't hang Zhou someone who is unrighteous, I believe that the court is very happy to hear what you do. So he exited the secret room and called Ma Yuanyi.

Zhang Bao waited until Ma Yuanyi came in, let Ma Yuanyi come in front of him, Zhang Bao asked him to come over and whispered something in his ear.

After hearing this, Ma Yuanyi looked at Zhang Bao in surprise.

Zhang Bao comforted: "Yuanyi, you are the most loyal disciple of the teacher, but Tang Zhou is not, and he knows some things that he shouldn't know, so this matter is handed over to you for the teacher." ”

Ma Yuanyi had mixed feelings in his heart, not only the joy of being trusted by the master, but also the sadness of Tang Zhou's rabbit and fox.

Zhang Bao added: "I don't worry about you doing things." ”

Ma Yuanyi shook his spirit and replied respectfully: "Obey the master's orders!" ”

Looking at Ma Yuanyi's back as he walked out of the secret room, Zhang Bao smiled: What a simple child! This is my good apprentice. As long as Tang Zhou is dead, who else will know how his nephew died?