Chapter Twenty-Three: Zhang Jiao
Guangzong City, Jizhou, was originally one of the most severely affected places in Jizhou, but after the great sage and good master brought his personal disciples here ten years ago, Guangbu Fushui rescued the suffering, but let the people in Guangzong City get the best help. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Nowadays, the city of Guangzong from the city to the city guard to the people are all Taiping Taoists, the great sage and the good master and several of his personal disciples saw that the people of the people here were attached, so they set this place as the Taiping Taoist altar, and every Taiping Taoist will regard this place as their holy place.
A large mansion in the east of the city was originally the residence of a large family. Ten years ago, the family was wiped out in the plague, and after the Great Sage and Mentor led his disciples to heal the people of the city, they cleared out the house for the Great Sage and Teacher.
An old man in the house was sitting cross-legged on the futon, carefully reciting a simple scripture, judging from the dark green nine-section scepter beside him, this old man was the founder of the Taiping Dao, the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao.
Zhang Jiao, a native of Julu in Jizhou, was originally a foot Langzhong, because he inadvertently saved a Taoist priest named Yu Ji when he went into the mountains to collect medicine, and was later taught a set of strange books called "Taiping Qing Lingjing" by Yu Ji, so he turned into a Taoist priest and made a grand wish to save the people of the world. He first appeared in front of the peasant masses and was a Taoist practitioner with excellent medical skills and profound Taoism. But later, when he walked the world, Zhang Jiao found that today's Han world is full of corrupt officials and some powerful families who oppress the people for the rich and unkind.
Finally, during the Jianning period, Zhang Jiao began to decide to form his own forces, and took the overthrow of the corrupt court as his life goal, he gave himself the name of a great sage and good teacher, this name comes from the "Taiping Sutra" volume 90: This trip is a thousand catties of gold, ten thousand pairs of gold, how about a master? If you can't learn from the Master, how can you get it? If you want to govern the country and be happy, you can't do great things, how can you be justified once you want. Volume Ninety-Eight: Billions of Stars, Not as Clear as a Day. The words of the Zhutian group of worms are not as virtuous as the country.
Zhang Jiao called himself a great sage and good teacher, but in fact, he regarded himself as a prophet and sage of the Taiping Dao, and his purpose was to practice the great shun way, to teach the salvation of the world and the people, and to achieve peace in the world. He used spells to heal people, and he carried out a wide range of activities in the cities and villages of various states and counties, and through this he recruited a large number of disciples and developed his power and expanded his influence. Through more than ten years of hard work, Taiping Dao has gradually developed into a behemoth with hundreds of thousands of sect members, and Zhang Jiao, as the head of a sect that created Taiping Dao with his own hands, finally felt that his life goal was about to be achieved.
"Master, Senior Brother Chen Liubian Xi sent a letter for help again, this time the messenger who came to ask for help said that if Shizun does not rescue again, Chen Liudao will no longer have a foothold in the Taiping Road!" A middle-aged Taoist priest hurriedly walked into the door, and he had a blood-stained silk book in his hand, which was exactly what he called the letter asking for help.
Zhang Jiao frowned, and moved the scripture book in his hand aside: "Pin Pu, how many times have you said it for the teacher, when you read the "Taiping Qing Lingjing" for the teacher, no matter what happens, don't come to disturb the teacher." ”
"But this time the matter is really urgent, Chen Liu still has nearly 10,000 of our sect members, and Senior Brother Bian Xi is one of the future thirty-six party commanders personally ordered by your master, if you ........"
Zhang Jiao slapped the desk heavily and interrupted the man's words: "No ifs!" All of this was brought on by him! This seat has long been set to revolt after next year's spring ploughing, but Bian Xi killed Chen Liujun Shou Zhang Miao when the New Year was approaching. Now that Chen Liujun has taken crazy revenge, is it possible to let this seat be specially for him, and let the whole country raise an uprising in this cold winter wax moon? Ahem, ahem! ”
"Master, don't be angry, don't be angry." The man saw Zhang Jiao coughing violently, and hurriedly stepped forward to smooth his back.
After Zhang Jiao relieved his breath, he cautiously asked tentatively: "What does the master mean, just sit back and watch Senior Brother Bian Xi be exterminated by Chen Liu's official mansion?" Listening to the person who came to ask for help, Chen Liu's garrison mobilized 3,000 county soldiers, and within ten days, nearly half of Chen Liu's sermon points were sealed one after another, and Bian Xi's junior brother did not dare to gather the whole county congregation to openly confront the 3,000 county soldiers because he did not have the order of the master, and now he could only then lurk in a few relatively hidden sermon points, waiting for the master's instructions and rescue. ”
Zhang Jiao picked up the nine-section scepter in his hand and walked to the courtyard, looked at the withered yellow courtyard, and suddenly asked: "Pin Pu, I heard that you recently accepted a young man named Zhuyan as your righteous son?" ”
The man didn't expect that when he was talking about Chen Liu's important affairs, why did Shizun suddenly ask about his private affairs, but since Shizun opened his mouth to ask himself, he naturally couldn't slack off: "Back to Shizun, the disciple has never remarried since he was bent on seeking Taoism, and he felt that his body was getting heavier and heavier over the years, so he wanted to accept a righteous son." This Zhuyan gathering lonely teenager rampant in the Taihang Mountain area of Jizhou, has gained a bit of fame in the past two years. You also know that the apprentice once sold illicit salt and was a robber, and the name 'Horn' was the nickname given by his colleagues at that time. In a coincidence, the apprentice met Zhu Yan's kid, and after a conversation, he fell in love. After learning that Zhu Yan's parents died early, the disciple discussed with him to adopt him as a righteous son and led him to join our Taiping Dao. ”
It turns out that the name of this big man is Zhang Niujiao, his real name is Zhang Yan, and his character is simple. When he was young, he used to sell illicit salt, and he was a bandit with outstanding martial arts. Because he always carried a horn when he sold smuggled salt, and he used it to inform his partners whenever he found out about something, so everyone called him Zhang Horn, and in the end, he forgot his real name when he called too much.
A few years ago, when the plague was rampant in Jizhou, Zhang Niujiao was also unfortunately infected with the plague, and his wife and children all died in front of him after being infected with the plague. Later, he was lucky enough to meet Zhang Jiao, who wandered to his village, and finally picked up a life and decided to serve Zhang Jiao for the rest of his life, in order to repay Zhang Jiao for saving his life. Therefore, Zhang Niujiao gave up the previous name of Zhang Yan and became one of Zhang Jiao's earliest personal disciples.
Zhang Jiao grabbed his long white beard and glanced at it, and couldn't help but sigh and said: "I think that Pin Pu was in the prime of life back then, but now he is almost at the age of knowing the destiny of heaven." Look at this seat again, decades of hard work, but near the day of raising the flag, has become a decrepit body that is close to ancient times. ”
"Master, why did you suddenly talk about this today?" Zhang Niujiao didn't know how to persuade Zhang Jiao in the face of Zhang Jiao's exclamation, although Zhang Jiao was successful in cultivating Taoism, after all, he couldn't change the fact that he was old.