Chapter 220: There Is No Peasant Revolt......
Tiekou Li then received instructions from his superiors, but unfortunately, there was no praise or encouragement, but they were asked to wait for the outer hall staff to direct them to carry out their next move. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The organizational structure of the Quanzhen Sect at this time is divided into the inner hall and the outer hall, the reason is very simple, the outer hall is mostly the three mountains and five mountains and rivers and lakes heroes, in fact, they are the original people who occupied the mountains as kings and roads as bandits------ they have always been good at robbing the rich and helping themselves, of course, verbally used to help the poor.
They are inherently very speculative and refugeant, and their sincerity in believing in religion is doubtful, but the True Religion has to accept them, because they are more useful than the people in the inner church at the moment.
The teachings and methods of the Quanzhen Sect originally had nothing to do with martial arts or anything to ask for money, and it was precisely because of the existence of the outer hall that there was a lot of room to play, and the legends of various magical martial arts came out.
For example, at the beginning of the establishment of the Chongyang Patriarch, the monks must live in the nunnery to practice, and the living conditions should be frugal.
"The Fifteenth Treatise on Chongyang Lijiao" says: "The thatched hermitage grass house needs to be shaded,...... Carving Liang Junyu is not the work of a sergeant, the main hall is high, how can it be the work of a Taoist. ”
Therefore, during this period, the Quanzhen Taoist priests also seemed to teach and advocate asceticism, and the seven disciples of Quanzhen were all known for their Toutuo-style asceticism.
For example, when Ma Yu cultivated, he only begged for a bowl of noodles every day, and swore to die barefoot, never drink water, and not turn to fire in winter.
Wang Chuyi once knelt in the sand and stones, and his knees were worn to the bone. The mountains are full of stone and thorns, and barefoot people come and go in it, so the world is called the iron foot cloud.
Qiu took the opportunity to enter the cave dwelling in the river, begging for food every day, and walking a lot, although he did not put a scoop on it,...... Those who have not slept day and night for six years.
Hao Datong sat under the Zhaozhou Bridge for six years, holding silent precepts, and children did not move, cold, summer, wind and rain, it was not easy to get there.
Well, in short, it requires that everyone who enters the Church must go through all kinds of self-destruction in order to achieve positive results.
These really have nothing to do with martial arts, but since Wang Chongyang, everything has been focused on expanding influence, so some talents who can play a role in practicality are more important, and the requirements for their cultivation have been reduced a lot.
Tiekou Li looked at the people sitting in front of him, dissatisfied, but he couldn't say it.
He said, "Master Ren, why do you want to lead the disciples into rebellion? This is not doctrinal......"
The master of Ren Hall is a black fat man, it is said that he is good at using a simple knife, and he was the king of the mountain on the Centipede Ridge back then, and later saw that the Quanzhen Sect was powerful, and at the same time was "influenced" by the teachings, so he led people to vote for the Quanzhen Sect.
When he went to Zaozhuang County, he wanted to lead people to rebel!
Hall Master Ren laughed and said: "I don't know much about the bird doctrine, but when I leave, I teach it well, but I just ask the people of Shandong to create a rebellion against the people!" ”
Tiekou Li smiled bitterly, he understood the current intention of the sect, but he wanted to let the Mongolian adults appreciate, but he wanted to help them put down the rebellion...... That's all about it right now.
However, isn't the management of the Liuqiu people here also very good?!
Life here is really good, not to mention the livelihood such as food and clothing, just ordinary life makes people feel comfortable.
He and his men were free, and when they had a day off every ten days, they would go to Zaozhuang City to have a look.
Seeing the rapid construction of houses one after another, seeing more and more people, and seeing all kinds of commercial goods placed in the shops one after another...... Among the people walking on the street, there are many pedestrians with smiles on their faces.
Now, they had heard that the Wanderers were going to start resting for two days in a row every ten days!
It's a really good life...... Tiekou Li Du secretly began to look for a place to build a palace.
But now they are going to take the Christians into rebellion!
Where does the hall master care about Tiekou Li's thoughts, he can't help but praise this place, thinking that this is a good place to rebel and rebel.
First of all, there are relatively few members of the Liuqiu Guards here...... As long as there are fewer officers and soldiers, that is their chance.
A small-scale riot like Ren Tang Master, who will lead it, naturally dislikes to face the officers and soldiers directly.
Speaking of the "peasant uprising", here is a brief point.
In fact, there was no real peasant uprising in this Chinese nation, and even although the word "uprising" is included in the classical literature of this nation, there is absolutely no combination of the word "peasant uprising".
So peasant revolt is a modern term.
Judging from the identity of the organizers of the peasant uprisings in the past dynasties, the organizers of large-scale mass events basically did not have the identity of pure peasants.
One of the fundamental reasons why the peasants were the main members of the insurrection was that they were coerced!
Their houses were set on fire, and their families had no food, so they had to obey others.
The people in the countryside who were coerced did not know the long way, traveled a hundred and ten miles away, and did not know how to turn back, because there were pursuers and died with each other.
At the same time, in order to prevent the captive peasants from escaping, they strictly controlled the peasants' private wealth, and even tattooed words on the peasants' faces or dyed their eyebrows to cut off their way back.
Other reasons for the peasants' participation in the revolt were natural disasters, excessive taxation, political corruption, frequent foreign invasions, mutinies, and abuse of the people by village officials.
Of course, there is nothing here that aggravates the landlords' annexation of land and exploitation of the peasants.
At the same time, there were peasant revolts on the European continent in this time and space, but the East and the West showed different characteristics.
The main body of the European continent is a kind of "feudal system of lords".
Most of the people who resisted the peasant (slave) revolt were the small and medium-sized lords who directly oppressed and exploited them.
Most of these rebellions could not develop to a scale similar to that of the Chinese people, such as the Red Eyebrows, Yellow Turbans, Yellow Nests, and Song Jiang styles...... It was difficult for the peasants under different lords to synchronize the uprisings.
At the same time, local lords were more willing and able to suppress than counties.
The effect of the peasant revolt of the Chinese nation was otherwise.
Under the predominantly county system, small-scale "agricultural uprisings" tend to start out as small-scale "agricultural riots" that are more likely to be taken into account and then inflicted on the more vulnerable common people rather than directly confront the state apparatus...... It is also more willing to "seize states and counties" to harm the more vulnerable ordinary people, rather than confronting the state apparatus on behalf of the people's interests.
When large-scale "riots" are formed after being coerced, such as the Yellow Turban, the Red Eyebrow Green Forest, the Yellow Nest, etc., they dare to confront the state apparatus when the force is enough to divide the territory and tear up the territory.
In other words, in terms of proportion, there were many "peasant uprisings" in the East under the county system, and they were prone to be large-scale; The "peasant uprisings" in the West under the "feudal system of lords" were fewer and less on a smaller scale.
This distinction has nothing to do with propositions such as "nationality", let alone "the level of consciousness of peasants in the East and the West", but is just a different "rational choice" in different realities:
Under the county system, most local state and county bureaucrats have neither the intention nor the ability to suppress the rioters, and the risk of the rioters taking the ordinary people of the prefecture and county captive is lower than that of direct confrontation with the state apparatus; Under the liege system, the risk of a rebel taking captive of the people of other lords is not necessarily lower than that of a liege who directly rebels against his own lord.
The difference is only one optimal option.
Therefore, of course, the hall master was very happy to see that there were not many officers and soldiers in Zaozhuang County.
He had heard a little about the bravery of the officers and soldiers, and he treated them with care...... People who were born as kings of the mountains never underestimated officers and soldiers.
Master Ren also studied the weapons of the officers and soldiers. (To be continued.) )