Chapter 410: [Zuo Ci Arrives]

During the period of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, there was a Yu Ji.

According to the "Biography of Xiangkai in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty", it is recorded: "When Emperor Shun, the Lang Evil Palace was worshiped by the Que, and his teacher Yu Ji obtained one hundred and seventy volumes of divine books on the Quyang Spring Water, all of which were ethereal and white Zhu Jieqing Shou Zhu Mu, called "Taiping Qing Lingshu".

Yu Ji said that it was given by a man of God, in fact, he created it himself, Yu Ji's disciple Gong Chong went to the palace to dedicate his teacher's "Divine Book" "Taiping Qing Collar Book", his words are based on the five lines of yin and yang, many witches and miscellaneous words, regarded as a demon and delusional, Shun Emperor ordered to hide it, and did not establish a school for it, so his book did not see the royal family's attention, and later transferred to Zhang Jiao's hands, Zhang Jiao and the later generations of Hong Xiuquan who got the Bible, started from a book, in fact, it has nothing to do with what Nanhua old fairy hair, It's just that Zhang Jiao deceived the world and stole his name by using the prototype of Zhuangzi's Nanhua old immortal!

In the fifth year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, there was also a Yu Ji, who was killed by Sun Ce in the romance.

"The Biography of Sun Ce of the Three Kingdoms" notes the "Jiangbiao Biography": "From time to time, there are Taoist priests who are evil in Ji, first live in the East, go back and forth to Wuhui, set up a fine house, burn incense and read Taoist books, make talisman water to cure diseases, and Wuhui people are troubled. Yu Ji lives somewhere in the east, often travels back and forth between Wu and Huiji, burns incense to treat people, the Eastern Han Dynasty dedicated the emperor to Jian'an for five years, that is, 200 years AD, when Sun Ce, who dominated the land of Wu, ruled by Sun Ce, Yu Ji criticized Sun Ce's lack of self-control, thinking that "General Bo Fu, the name is false", Sun Ce was furious when he heard the news, and ordered to kill Yu Ji, the local residents said that there would be retribution, and soon after Sun Ce was hit by a dark arrow in the war, which caused a serious illness and died, some people say that he was haunted by Yu Ji's ghost and died.

Now the problem comes, Emperor Shun of Han reigned from 125 to 144 AD, Yu Ji has become the head of the Lang Evil Taiping Dao during the period of Emperor Shun of Han, as the master of Gong Chong, even if it is estimated that he was in the last years of Emperor Shun of Han to dedicate the Taiping Sutra, to Emperor Han Xian Jian'an five years (200 years) was killed, conservative estimates are over 100 years old, is because some people doubt that the Taoist priest Yu Ji who was active in Eastern Wu is not the original Yu Ji of the Han Shun Emperor period, but Fan Ye, the author of the book "Book of the Later Han", regarded these two Yu Ji as a person.

Wei Yan tends to treat these two Yu Ji as one person, because Yu Ji is a Taoist who has practiced for many years, at least he has some experience in the art of health preservation, and it is common to live for a hundred years, you must know that Zuo Ci, who has never doubted his identity, was born in 156 and died in 289, and lived to be 134 years old, Wei Yan speculated that if Yu Ji was not killed by Sun Ce, it is estimated that he would be able to live to such a long age.

However, he was ordered to recruit Yu Ji's soldiers, and it took more than half a year to wander around the Langxie area, but he could not find any trace of Yu Ji, so he could only come back and report to Wei Yan.

Wei Yan vaguely remembered that it was recorded in history that Yu Ji was an evil man in Lang, as for what it meant to "live in the East", Wei Yan could only infer that Yu Ji temporarily lived somewhere in the east of the Han Dynasty, whether it was Xuzhou or Qingzhou or Yangzhou, he didn't know anything, so he had to temporarily announce that he would give up, and when the opportunity came, Yu Ji would automatically come to the door.

As for Zuo Ci, there are really people, the character Yuan Fang, Lujiang people, proficient in the Five Classics, Xiaofang Zhongshu, and also know astrology, he predicted from the stars that the Han Dynasty's qi will be exhausted, the national fortune will decline, and the world will be in chaos, so he sighed and said: "In this troubled world, it is more difficult for the official position to protect himself, and it is easier for those who have more money to die, so the glory and wealth of the world must not be coveted!" ”

So Zuo Ci began to refine the Taoist technique of hard cultivation in Tianzhu Mountain, and obtained a copy of the "Nine Dan Golden Liquid Sutra" ("Dunjia Heavenly Book" in the romance) in a stone cave, and learned the magic of making himself changeable.

Wei Yan even believed that the scripture was an ancient magic book, and Zuo Ci was David Copperfield in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

When Wei Yan first sent troops to Huainan, he sent people to Tianzhu Mountain to recruit Zuo Ci.

Wei Yan sent someone to find Zuo Ci at that time, firstly, he valued his magical magic (called magic at this time), such a powerful magic skill should be helpful to Wei Yan to establish a new religion, it can be seen that Wei Yan had the idea of creating a new sect to replace the old Taoism, and secondly, Wei Yan had the disease of widowhood (the common disease of ancient emperors - lustful), and there will be more and more wives, I am afraid I can't cope with it, Zuo Ci This guy has lived for more than 130 years in history because he knows how to do it, Wei Yan wants to learn this room technique from him, Only by living a little longer can we bring Huaxia into an ideal state.

He was ordered to recruit Zuo Ci's soldier surnamed Wang Mingquan, who was originally from Lujiang, and was later conscripted into the army by Yuan Shuqiang, and later surrendered to the Wei army, and then joined Fengyingwei, because he was a native of Lujiang and was familiar with Tianzhu Mountain, so Wei Yan sent him to Tianzhu Mountain to conquer Zuo Ci.

Wang Quan wandered around Tianzhu Mountain for three or four months, and almost spent all the coils that Wei Yan handed over to him, but he did not find the cave where Zuo Ci's cultivator lived.

Ge Xuan is a great figure in the history of the development of Taoism, he is Ge Hong's grandfather, in Taoism is revered as Ge Xian Weng, also known as Tai Chi Xian Weng, in some Taoist schools with Zhang Daoling, Xu Xun, Sa Shoujian as the four great masters.

Ge Xuan was originally a Langya person, and later moved to Danyang Jurong, Gaozu Ge Lu was the general of the Han Hussars, and sealed Pi Hou, his grandfather Ge Zuju was a waiter of the Yellow Gate, and his father Ge De Confucianism was a great Honglu Dengshangshu, and he was taught Taoism, so Ge Xuan was born in a famous eunuch family, studious since childhood, read the Five Classics, and was famous at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Knowing Wei Yan's intention to send Wang Quanlai to revive Taoism, Ge Xuan was ecstatic and took Wang Quan to meet Ge Xuan.

Wang Quan met Zuo Ci, at this time Zuo Ci had been in the mountains to cultivate for ten years, although he was already thirty-five or sixteen years old, he looked only in his early twenties, Wang Quan saw it, his heart was confused, and he refused to hand over Wei Yan's letter suspiciously.

Zuo Ci was dressed in a cyan robe, his face was light and breezy, and he smiled loudly.

When Wang Quan was confused by Zuo Ci's smile, he found that the letter in his pocket had fallen into Zuo Ci's hands.

Zuo Ci unfolded the letter, and after a closer look, it turned out that Wei Yan was sincere and willing to ask Zuo Ci to go out of the mountain to revive Taoism.

Since Zhang Daoling founded Taoism, the development of Taoism in Middle-earth has been very smooth, after all, the people of this country still need religious worship very much, Confucianism is political belief can not replace religious beliefs, Buddhism from the Tianzhu Hu people was despised by most Han people to develop slowly, Taoism has a good start, but at this time there appeared a character Zhang Jiao, originally he developed Taiping Taoism well, don't get a scripture like those cult leaders in later generations Hong Xiuquan and others want to rebel, Taoism can get greater development in his hands, but unfortunately Zhang Jiao's house is not only old and frail, but also ambitious and ambitious, only as a tool to win over the rebels, because of his rebellion, the good Taiping Road was defeated by the imperial court, only Zhang Lu's five buckets of rice Dao remained, and Taoism fell into a trough.

Historically, Cao Cao, based on the danger of Taiping Taoism, could not see the long-term benefits of the local religion in China to the country, so he inhibited the development of Taoism.

As a thoughtful, moral, cultured, and ideal Taoist priest, Zuo Ci was actually thinking about how to revive Taoism all the time.

Wei Yan's letter is right in Zuo Ci's arms.

Zuo Ci, who has been cultivating for ten years and has some experience, can no longer calm down and cultivate.

He packed his luggage and prepared to take Ge Xuan to defect to Wei Yan.

Wang Quan took out Wei Yan's second letter and handed it to Zuo Ci.

In the letter, Zuo Ci was asked to visit the other princes first, and then to Yiyang

Zuo Ci was very puzzled why Wei Yan wanted him to do this, but seeing that the wording in Wei Yan's letter was very decisive, he had to comply.

Zuo Ci left Tianzhu Mountain and went straight west, passing through Jingzhou on the way.

Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao put aside the identity of the Han clan, in fact, he is a great Confucian who knows how to learn, he believes in Confucius's "Zi Bu Silent Ghost Chaos God", after seeing Zuo Ci, he thought that Zuo Ci pretended to be a ghost, and remembered Zhang Jiao back then, so he did not hesitate to think that Zuo Ci was a demon who confuses people's hearts, and intends to catch and kill him.

Zuo Ci said unhurriedly: "I have some meager gifts to reward your army. ”

Liu Biao said: "You are a Taoist priest alone, I have so many people, can you afford it?" ”

Zuo Ci said it again, and Liu Biao sent someone to see what the gift was, and saw that there was only a bucket of wine and a small bundle of dried meat, but ten people didn't lift it.

Zuo Ci brought the dried meat himself, cut the meat piece by piece to the ground, and asked a hundred people to bring wine and dried meat and distribute them to the soldiers. Three glasses of wine and one piece of jerky for each soldier. The jerky tasted the same as usual, and more than 10,000 soldiers were full of food and drink, but there was no shortage of wine in the wine vessel, and the jerky was not eaten up, and Liu Biao's more than 1,000 guests were also drunk.

Liu Biao was taken aback and dispelled the intention of killing Zuo Ci.

A few days later, Zuo Ci left Liu Biao and went to Xuzhou, where he met with LΓΌ Bu, who was extremely hostile to Taoism because of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, so he sent his troops to chase down Zuo Ci.

Zuo Ci was wearing wooden shoes and walking slowly with a bamboo cane, Wei Xu chased after him with a weapon in his hand, but he couldn't catch up with Zuo Ci, only then did he know that Zuo Ci had Taoist skills, and he didn't dare to kill him again, so he hurriedly reported back to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu didn't believe it, he led the men and horses to chase and kill Zuo Ci, Zuo Ci got into the flock, and the people who pursued him couldn't tell the difference, so he checked the original number of sheep, and sure enough, there was one more, knowing that Zuo Ci had become a sheep, but he couldn't tell which one was Zuo Ci's change, and he was ready to kill all the sheep, at this time Zuo Ci showed up and said to Lu Bu: "If you kill more and do more injustice, you will kill yourself." ”

After Zuo Ci finished speaking, he turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared in front of Lu Bu.

said that Zuo Ci then met Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others, and they were all hunted down and killed by them without exception.

Only then did Zuo Ci understand what Wei Yan meant, except for him Wei Yan, other powerful people in the world had a deep-rooted prejudice against Taoism, and if he Zuo Ci wanted to revive Taoism, he had to cooperate with Wei Yan.

Zuo Ci came to Yiyang and met Wei Yan, and the two talked together about how to develop religion for three days and three nights.

Wei Yan discussed Christianity, which was now flourishing in the Great Qin Kingdom (Rome) in the West, a certain religion that began to flourish in the Middle East, and Buddhism that had infiltrated Middle-earth, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of each religion, and pointing out the fatal flaws of the native Taoism.

Zuo Ci surrendered and decided to work with Wei Yan to reform Taoism and improve Taoism into a religion that was accepted by the majority of Han people and had a strong impetus to expand the living space of the Han people and accumulate virtue from goodness.

After Wei Yan persuaded Zuo Ci, he arranged for Zuo Ci to infiltrate Xu Du and meet with Liu Xie, the son of today.

Liu Xie saw the extraordinary Zuo Ci of the fairy wind Dao bone, and he liked it very much, and listened to Zuo Ci from a "Jiudan Golden Liquid Sutra" ("Dunjia Heavenly Book" in the romance), and learned the magic that made him change, and he couldn't remember a lot of spells, so he asked Zuo Ci to perform the magic for him.

Although Liu Xie, the Son of Heaven, is a puppet emperor, the Liu Han royal family is a hundred-legged insect after all, but it still has its residual prestige, and there are still many court ministers and local princes loyal to the Liu Han royal family, as long as the Son of Heaven Liu Xie recognizes Zuo Ci and approves Protestantism, it will be of great benefit to the spread of Protestantism under the rule of the Han Dynasty.

Zuo Ci thought of this, so he put down the shelf of the Taoist master and performed the magic for Liu Xie on the spot.

Zuo Ci picked up a wine glass, poured it full of wine, and pulled out the hairpin on his head to show Liu Xie, Liu Xie took it in his hand to see, it was indeed a hairpin made of ink bamboo, Zuo Ci stirred the hairpin in the wine, and the hairpin dissolved in the wine in a moment, just like the ink dissolved into the water when grinding ink, Liu Xie saw such a method there, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Zuo Ci rolled up the wine glass with his robe, and in an instant, the ink bamboo hairpin was held intact in Zuo Ci's hand, and the wine in the wine glass was still pure and sweet.

Zuo Ci raised his wine glass and smiled at Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, let's divide the wine in this cup into two halves." ”

Liu Xie thought that Zuo Ci wanted to drink half a cup by himself first and then give Zuo Ci the remaining half of his own cup, felt that Zuo Ci was a little rude, and couldn't help but look pale, but he didn't expect Zuo Ci to use the ink bamboo hairpin to draw his wine glass, and the wine glass was divided into two halves, and there was wine in both halves, separated by several inches, and the wine seemed to be condensed in mid-air, and it did not roll down.

Zuo Ci raised half of the glass, drank it all, and handed the other half of the glass to Liu Xie, Liu Xie drank the wine in the half of the glass suspiciously, and it really tasted the same as before.

After Zuo Ci finished drinking, he threw half of the cup in his hand to the carved beam of the palace, the cup turned into a bird that swooped down, Zuo Ci grabbed the bird, and the bird became half a cup in Zuo Ci's hand, Zuo Ci made a move with his left hand, and the half cup that was originally in Liu Xie's hand instantly reached Zuo Ci's hand, and the two halves of the cup were tightly attached to each other and returned to their original state.

Seeing Liu Xie's expression, Zuo Ci knew that his magic was still not enough to deter, his eyes rolled, and he instantly thought of a magic technique that shocked his heart, and he smiled at Liu Xie and said, "Your Majesty, do you miss the first emperor?" ”