Having said that, Zhang Jiao can be regarded as a half-literate person. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the village where Zhang Jiao is located, there lives an old scholar who used to be an official in the county seat, and later resigned for various reasons and returned to the village to live a good life.

Unfortunately, the old scholar's wife and several children died in a plague, leaving the old scholar alone in the village.

As mentioned above, Zhang Jiao is still a young man who is enthusiastic about helping others, so Zhang Jiao often helps the old scholar to do some hard work, such as fetching water and chopping wood, and let the old scholar spend time with him during the New Year's holidays.

Over time, the old scholar regarded Zhang Jiao as his son, so he planned to teach Zhang Jiao to read and break words.

In this era when the illiteracy rate is more than 80 percent, being able to read and hyphenate is considered a literate person, and he can also be respected by others, and if he is lucky, he can even get a half-official position.

So Zhang Jiao naturally agreed to follow the old scholar to read and break words, so after being busy with farm work every day, he went to the old scholar's house to study, and Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang also followed Zhang Jiao to study at first, but soon Zhang Liang gave up and went to learn the craft from a pig slaughterer in the village, and Zhang Bao also studied for a period of time, feeling that he had learned almost, and the commonly used words could be written, so he no longer followed the old scholar to study.

Only Zhang Jiao has been persevering, following the old scholar for five years, and the old scholar can also be said to know everything, speak endlessly, and teach Zhang Jiao everything he has learned all his life.

However, because the old scholar's own background is average, he also learned a rough idea of the four books and five classics, and Zhang Jiao learned almost everything in the third year, so the old scholar began to teach Zhang Jiao some of his own experiences, the most of which are some myths and legends, which also made Zhang Jiao, who had never been out of the village so big, have a preliminary understanding of the outside world.

It's a pity that this old scholar died of illness in the fifth year of teaching Zhang Jiao, and Zhang Jiao was responsible for burying this old scholar.

However, the reason why Zhang Jiao is half a scholar is because Zhang Jiao can basically read and hyphenate, and because he can't afford to buy paper, ink, pen and inkstone in terms of writing, he doesn't know how to write, so Zhang Jiao can't go to the county town to be a petty official like an old scholar, so he can only laugh at himself as a half scholar and continue to cultivate the fields in the village.

If it weren't for meeting those two mysterious old men and obtaining the "Taiping Book of Heaven" and the piece of green jade, Zhang Jiao would probably have lived this life as an ordinary peasant.

However, after getting the "Taiping Book of Heaven" and Qingyu, Zhang Jiao returned home, and after a hurried meal, he reluctantly lit the oil lamp and looked at the "Taiping Book of Heaven".

Relying on the knowledge taught to him by the old scholars, Zhang Jiao could barely understand what the words of the "Taiping Book of Heaven" were, but Zhang Jiao found that he couldn't understand what these words meant.

To put it simply, the "Taiping Book of Heaven" in Zhang Jiao's hand is a book that records a large number of passwords, and Zhang Jiao, who does not have a decoding book, naturally cannot understand what this "Taiping Book of Heaven" says.

Zhang Jiao read the entire "Taiping Book of Heaven" with some doubts, but the result was still nothing, and he looked confused, not knowing what was recorded in this "Taiping Book of Heaven".

However, Zhang Jiao didn't think that this "Taiping Book of Heaven" was a nonsense and meaningless book, because Zhang Jiao had heard an old scholar say that paper books like this are very expensive, basically comparable to the same weight of gold, only those big families can have it, like those small families in the county can't buy this kind of paper books even if they sell their property, because paper books are simply priceless.

So Zhang Jiao looked at this excellent paper "Taiping Heavenly Book", and knew that no one would use such a good paper to write some messy content, maybe he just didn't understand it.

So, Zhang Jiao decided to read the "Taiping Book of Heaven" several times, after all, the old scholar had taught Zhang Jiao a sentence - practice makes perfect, Zhang Jiao felt that as long as he read it a few more times, he would be able to understand what the "Taiping Book of Heaven" recorded.

In this way, when Zhang Jiao went out to cultivate the fields every day, he would take this mysterious "Taiping Heavenly Book" with him, and he would take it out to take a look at it when he was resting, and over time, Zhang Jiao didn't know how many times he had aged the "Taiping Heavenly Book".

Suddenly, one day, when Zhang Jiao finished reading "Taiping Tianshu" again, Zhang Jiao only felt a pain in his head, and then some inexplicable information appeared in his mind.

It took Zhang Jiao some time to finally sort out the information that appeared in his mind inexplicably, and finally knew what was recorded in this "Taiping Heavenly Book".

First of all, this "Taiping Book of Heaven" is a medical book, which records in detail various diseases, as well as many miraculous prescriptions, and claims that as long as the corresponding prescription is used, any disease can be treated, but these prescriptions have a main medicine - Taiping Fu.

To put it simply, Taiping Fu is to use a piece of yellow paper as a carrier, and then the owner of the "Taiping Book of Heaven" can concentrate and write the word "Taiping" on the yellow paper with his hand as a pen, and then he can burn it to ashes, and then it can be tormented with other medicinal materials.

And the most amazing thing is that directly taking the talisman water of Taiping Fu can treat all kinds of diseases, but according to the severity of the disease and the ability of the user of the Taiping Heavenly Book, there is only a certain success rate.

However, there is also a special note here, the owner of the Taiping Book will not be able to use the Taiping Fu to treat his own diseases, which is often said that it is difficult for a healer to heal himself.

Moreover, Zhang Jiao also knew from the "Taiping Book of Heaven" what the effect of that piece of green jade was - as long as he held the green jade, the green jade could improve the recovery speed of spiritual power to a certain extent, and when drawing the Taiping talisman, it would consume a certain amount of spiritual power.

To put it simply, as long as Zhang Jiao holds the green jade in his hand, he can draw more Taiping talismans.

After that, Zhang Jiao relied on the prescriptions recorded in the "Taiping Book of Heaven" to cure many people's diseases, and Zhang Jiao didn't need much money, just the patient gave himself some yellow paper.

Of course, some people asked Zhang Jiao to study under the famous doctor, and Zhang Jiao, in order not to expose the secret of the "Taiping Book of Heaven", made up a reason, saying that he was learning medical skills from a traveling Taoist priest, and the traveling Taoist priest left without leaving his name.

Over time, with the help of "Taiping Tianshu", Zhang Jiao's local fame became more and more famous, and he was called a miracle doctor by the villagers in ten miles and eight towns.

Zhang Jiao also wanted Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang to learn the knowledge in the "Taiping Book of Heaven", but before he could say a few words, Zhang Liang shouted that he couldn't understand what he was saying, and Zhang Jiao realized that he couldn't tell the knowledge recorded in the Taiping Book of Heaven.

However, in order to find a way out for his two younger brothers, Zhang Jiao relied on his reputation, and after curing the illness of the county order, he recommended his two younger brothers to the government, Zhang Bao because he could read and break words, so he became a small official responsible for copying news, and Zhang Liang because he had long forgotten the words he had learned, so he could only be a servant, but because of his strong body, he soon became the head of the bureaucracy.

At this time, because of the double blow of drought and locust plague in Jizhou, many people starved to death, so there was a plague, and for a time the whole Jizhou was shrouded in the plague, and death harvested life everywhere.

And Zhang Jiao's village was naturally not spared, and Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were also infected with the plague.

Fortunately, Zhang Jiao knew the treatment of this plague from the "Taiping Book of Heaven", so he prepared the prescription and paired it with the Taiping Fu to cure Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao's diseases.

The other people in the village had already been infected with the plague at this time, and when they saw that Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang had been cured of the plague by Zhang Jiao, they came to the door to ask for medicine.

Because these people have been villagers for decades, Zhang Jiao naturally would not refuse, so Zhang Jiao also cured them of the plague.

Therefore, the story of Zhang Jiao's ability to cure the plague spread throughout the giant deer. Countless people infected with the plague hoped that Zhang Jiao would be able to save him.

However, Zhang Jiao discovered a serious problem - there were no medicinal materials.

In the prescription for the treatment of the plague, there is a very important medicine, but in Jizhou, the reserves of this medicinal material are very small, and the medicinal materials of this era are basically wild, excavated from the mountains by medicine farmers, and there is no large-scale artificial planting, so there is no such medicinal material available for a while.

And Zhang Jiao also understands that if there is no such medicinal material, then this prescription will have no effect, but his current reputation has spread, and countless people have come to him to ask for medicine, and he can't refuse them all, and there are many patients from the big families, they won't reason with themselves!

So Zhang Jiao gritted his teeth and decided to use only the Taiping Fu to treat the plague patients.

However, Zhang Jiao didn't know what the success rate of using Taiping Fu Water alone was mentioned in the "Taiping Book of Heaven", Zhang Jiao was afraid that the success rate was too low, and if he killed too many people, he would cause death.

So Zhang Jiao gritted his teeth and decided to put on the coat of "immortal master" to protect himself, so he called himself a great sage and good teacher, borrowed the word "Taiping" in the "Taiping Book of Heaven" to establish Taiping Dao, and borrowed some myths and stories that the old scholar had told him to make up the teachings of Taiping Dao.

He told all those who came to ask for medicine that as long as those infected with the plague believed in the Taiping Dao, drinking this Taiping Fu water would cure the plague, and if they did not, they would die.

What Zhang Jiao didn't expect was that none of these people who came to ask for medicine raised any objections, and they honestly obeyed Zhang Jiao's orders one by one and retrieved their respective Taiping runes.

And when Zhang Jiao heard that one-third of the plague patients survived because of the Taiping Fu Shui, Zhang Jiao finally breathed a sigh of relief, after all, in the face of the 100% mortality rate of the plague, it was already very good to be able to survive thirty percent of the people.

Moreover, Zhang Jiao also kept a heart, deliberately kept a few medicinal materials that could treat the plague, and used them to cure some patients of the family, which also made the family a loyal supporter of Zhang Jiao and consolidated Zhang Jiao's position.

However, at this time, Zhang Jiao's mood quietly changed. (To be continued.) )