Chapter 540: White Lotus Revival

In the beginning, if the Holy Daomen and others directly promulgated the method of making a fortune among the people, and prescribed medicine to the believers and the poor, this was almost a miracle, compared to the White Lotus Sect and the Maitreya Sect, they only knew how to talk about the afterlife, and only knew how to make some incense and other things to deceive people, so much so that they didn't know how many times to go, so although the White Lotus Incense Sect was the largest underground Taoist system in the three northern provinces.

Although the Holy Daomen teaches people to be rich and the Taoist priests who treat people gather, but the combat effectiveness is also quite good, they never take the initiative to provoke, but the White Lotus Sect and the Maitreya Sect have always relied on their fists to speak hard, but they have never taken any advantage of the Holy Daomen, and they can't beat it, and the doctrine is not as good as the other party's.

Not only has the territory under control been retracted step by step, but even the believers under his command have converted to the doctrine in large numbers and joined the Holy Daomen, and anyone can see that there is a better future over there. In many places, whether it is a gentry or a merchant, or a common poor person, they all worship the Holy Daomen, and often the words spoken by a pharmacist of the Holy Daomen are much more useful in the countryside than the words of the prefect.

Although these people in the countryside are rich and powerful, after all, they are countrymen, and they have seen little in the market, and they often need people to come to that idea, and the best consulting objects are the Taoist priests and pharmacists who walk in the countryside of the Holy Daomen, and these people have really given them a lot of ideas, so that they can grow stronger step by step.

Jingshi sent the tax supervisor down, like Cangzhou Mansion so group to deal with it after all, after all, there are not many, although that response is also very unsuccessful, many people don't know how to deal with it, and are about to ask the Holy Daomen, but just three days after the news of the arrival of the tax supervisor, the people of the Holy Daomen seem to have suddenly disappeared into the air, no one knows where they went, some of them collected news everywhere, but found the occasional clues, vaguely indicating that the people of the Holy Daomen may have gone overseas and went to sea.

People who talk a lot of nonsense among the people soon spread a saying that it is the Holy Dao Gate that the immortals descended to the earth, and the disappearance is that the immortals cannot live in the mortal world for a long time and return to the immortal mansion.

The White Lotus Sect, which is already extremely difficult, suddenly got the news of the disappearance of the Holy Daomen, all of them were ecstatic, this is their good time to come, for these underground Daomen, bewitching the people is nothing more than for the word wealth and nobility, inducing the other party to exhaust their wealth, and then agitating for chaos, trying to occupy a piece of the country, these sects in the Mengyuan Dynasty, known as the anti-Yuan and Song Dynasty, in the Ming Dynasty and said that it was anti-Ming and the Song Dynasty, in general, it was in what dynasty must be anti-what dynasty, full of anti-social tendencies. The White Lotus Sect knew that after passing through the Holy Dao Gate, no one would believe in their set of things. But now in the countryside and towns, there are many rich and powerful fat sheep than before, which is too coveted.

Just when he was worried, there was an idea in the White Lotus Sect in Yizhou, and several of his relatives had joined the Holy Daomen, so he knew a lot about the things inside the Holy Daomen, and the suggestion put forward by the helmsman was that the Holy Daomen was popular among the people at this time, and if you wanted to let the believers join again, it was better to use the banner of the Holy Daomen and preach the White Lotus Sect under the teachings of the Holy Daomen.

No matter how you think about it, this strategy is a very beneficial strategy, except for a very few fanatics, the remaining White Lotus disciples and leaders are concerned about how to gather believers and how to make more money. It was all full of promises, and the helmsman was immediately promoted several ranks, and he was asked to preside over this makeover.

It is not difficult to change the face, usually those White Lotus disciples who bewitch the public, this time they changed their words, they are still walking in the countryside, but the so-called apocalyptic catastrophe, only Maitreya who can live in the White Lotus Sect can bless the saying has changed, and it has become a demon in Beijing, sending eunuchs to collect gold and silver treasures from all directions, and poisoning the people.

The patriarch of the Holy Daomen was unwilling to get involved in the civil fighting, so he recalled all the disciples who walked the Ming Dynasty, this is the truth that some time ago, all of a sudden, the disciples of the Holy Daomen disappeared, but this statement is even more exciting later, saying that the big disciples of the Holy Dao Patriarch did not want to see the believers of the Holy Daomen suffer, so he secretly passed down the decree, so that the White Lotus people assisted the people to form associations to protect themselves, in order to resist the evil and traitorous eunuchs.

The effect of the absurd statement is unexpectedly good, and the panicked people don't think much about these statements made up by the White Lotus Sect, they all believe it. And what is different from the past is that not only the common people and the poor have joined, but also the cotton gentry of the big families and the factory owners and merchants in the city have also joined one after another.

In the big families of the cotton gentry, there are naturally people who are sober-minded and don't believe in ghosts, gods and Buddhas, but these people are also exhausted by the unsparing exploitation of the tax supervisors, and they all have some other ideas, joining the White Lotus Sect is not the same as the poor for them, after the small family joins the White Lotus, they become one of the chess pieces, and they are not free to move or anything, and their every move is controlled by others.

However, these big families are different, especially these cotton gentry who are rich in money, control a large number of people, and some have private soldiers, after they join the White Lotus Sect, because of their strength, they will be given quite high positions and titles, with this authority, these cotton gentry have greater control in their hands, and they can do some things that they did not dare to do in the past.

These cotton gentry all saw the destruction of their companions, and they became more and more urgent in their hearts, and their emotions became more and more angry.

In March of the 21st year of Jiajing, a tax supervisor in Qingzhou Mansion was killed in the middle of the night in his residence. Later, it was found out that it was a subordinate in the tax supervisor's house, and when the officials brought this person back to the yamen, he was besieged by the gathered people.

Thousands of ordinary people almost completely blocked the yamen and the surrounding streets, and they all impassionedly said that the tax supervisor deserved his crime, and that the murderer was a righteous man and should not be taken to the yamen to be tortured and interrogated. At first, the officials with the prisoners tried to drive away the people around them with sticks and whips, but there were too many people on the other side, and when they just made threats, the angry people took the first action and beat several of the officials.

Every time the tax supervisor arrives in a place, it is certainly not a bicycle to take office, and the Jinyi Wei who follows him is a rule, and this second wave of tax supervisors is followed by a lot, and there are many people who want to come here to make a fortune, these people who are called dogs and helpers are more hateful than the tax supervisors, and the tax supervisors are set a quota above, and these people below must have to add a lot, so as to fill their pockets, this tax supervisor does three points of evil, but in the hands of these people below, it has become ten.

After beating the officials, some people shouted loudly to teach those dogs and helpers a lesson, and as soon as these words came out, everyone immediately responded, and they rushed towards the tax superintendent's mansion in unison.

However, at this time, the brocade guards who had just gotten the news during the siege of the government took advantage of the chaos to go out of the city and transferred the soldiers and horses of the guards outside the city, after all, the residents in the city were bare-handed, and those soldiers were armed with blades, so they naturally entered the flock of wolves, and they dispersed these chaotic people in a short time. The officials of the yamen who were so frightened to death hid in the back hall and did not dare to come out, and only came out to clean up tremblingly after they were sure that they were safe.

After this incident came out, the tax supervisor's cronies and the people brought with them fled overnight in embarrassment, for fear that there would be something dangerous at night.

The subordinate who killed the tax supervisor was still caught by the soldiers and horses of the guard, and sentenced to be beheaded after the autumn, but those who gathered to make trouble, the magistrate saw that there were too many people involved, and he didn't want to cause too much fluctuation, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb. Of course, there is also the meaning of not holding the public accountable for the law.

After the death of one, the new tax supervisor was immediately assigned again, but the new tax supervisor acted much more cautiously in office, after all, it was a lesson from the past, and if he offended people too hard, he was afraid of ending up with his predecessor. The new tax supervision methods are suddenly a lot more relaxed, and the means are relaxed, whether it is the cotton gentry or the merchants, they suddenly feel that life is much better, and everyone is happy.

However, as soon as this incident in Qingzhou passed, the so-called brotherly alliance of the Holy Daomen, and the White Lotus Sect, which received the entrustment of the great disciples of the Holy Daomen, was greatly inspired, because the assassination of the tax supervisor this time was done by a fanatical member of the White Lotus Sect, and the next instigation of everyone to besiege the officials on the street and so on was also the handiwork of the White Lotus Sect, which was also the method they were used to, which was not unusual. But the consequence of this incident is that the burden on the people has been greatly reduced, and they are all relieved, which seems to be a bit like the result of maintaining the Holy Daomen.

In the past, those White Lotus disciples who quit the Church were all refreshed, and there were many big gentry who took the initiative to join the White Lotus Sect, and they all asked the White Lotus Sect to carry out actions to protect the Dharma and resist taxes in them.

In just a few months, the wind and clouds surged, and the underground of the three northern provinces changed from the original Holy Dao Gate to the former White Lotus Sect's dominance.

There still doesn't seem to be any movement in Huazhou......