Liu Cheng looked at Huineng's high-spirited appearance, without the restrained appearance of the previous monk, and couldn't help but move in his heart, and asked in a deep voice: "Who are you?" ”

Huineng smiled slightly, Zhenyi sat down, the restraint of the previous monk has been replaced by the unique reserve of the superior, and his hands are in full bloom on his chest: "The white lotus blooms, Maitreya is born!" A certain family name is Xu Wancheng, who is the sect master of the Red Yang Sect of the White Lotus Holy Sect, and Huineng is my pseudonym when I walk on the rivers and lakes! “

Thanks to the developed audio-visual media in later generations, if Liu Cheng is not very clear about what the Red Yang Sect is, the name of the White Lotus Sect has long been like thunder, and the White Lotus Sect leader has already become synonymous with the villain boss in many film and television dramas. What Liu Cheng never expected was that he would be able to see a living cult leader standing in front of him after crossing over.

Xu Hecheng saw that Liu Cheng's expression was different, thinking that the other party was prejudiced against the White Lotus Sect like most monks, so he explained with a smile: "Brother Liu, it's not that I intend to deceive, it's just that there is a lot of misunderstanding about my Red Yang Sect in the rivers and lakes, and it is more convenient for me to use the name Huineng to walk." In fact, I teach to uphold the admonition of 'removing evil and promoting good, and communicating with what is not', the world does not understand our behavior, which is quite prejudiced, Brother Liu is a wise person, and listens to me

It's not too late to explain, and then to judge. "It turns out that this White Lotus Sect was founded by the monk Cizhao of Kunshan in Wu County during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Pure Land Sect prevailed during the Song and Song dynasties, and this Cizhao also belongs to the Pure Land Sect. Since the teachings and rituals of the Pure Land sect were relatively complex and not understood by ordinary people, Cizhao simplified them and drew the "Selected Buddha Diagram of the Four Lands and Three Views of Harmony", which reduced the abstract theory to an image; The original Buddhist worship ceremony was simplified and unified into the "White Lotus Morning Dynasty Confession Ceremony", from which the White Lotus Sect was named. Because of its simple theory, simple rituals, and mutual assistance in the teachings, simple housekeeping, etc., so the White Lotus Sect develops very quickly among the people, especially the people at the bottom, and unlike other Buddhist sects, the White Lotus Sect does not require believers to become monks, and believers can also marry wives and have children, so its presiding officers are often passed down from generation to generation, and the property of the sect has also formed their private property, and the sect leader not only has rich financial resources, but also has a strong personal control over the believers below, Small groups with strong exclusivity were formed. In the era of peace, these people often colluded with the government and became local tyrants, and once the world was unstable, careerists could easily emerge among these leaders. Therefore, in the eyes of the government, the White Lotus Sect is a potential destabilizing factor, and in the eyes of other Buddhist and Taoist sects, the White Lotus Sect is a dangerous heresy, so it is not difficult to understand why the White Lotus Cult has become synonymous with cults in Chinese history.

Liu Cheng listened to Xu Hecheng's account of the history of the White Lotus Sect for a while, and couldn't help but think in his heart: "Isn't this the history of the evolution of Catholicism and Protestantism in China?" Who said there were no religious wars in China? It's just that China is a unified empire, and the White Lotus Sect can't establish its own independent small kingdoms in Bohemia, Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries like Western Protestantism, but this guy can mix up with one side of the sect, and he must be a great figure. Thinking of this, Liu Cheng looked Xu Hecheng up and down again, perhaps because of the psychological effect, he felt that the other party was extraordinary.

"Listening to my brother's explanation, I benefited a lot!" Liu Cheng snorted and asked carefully: "But there is a question below, I don't know whether to ask it or not?" “

Xu Hecheng was secretly happy when he heard this, he already had the intention of wooing Liu Cheng, and seeing that the other party's attitude had changed, he hurriedly replied: "Although Brother Liu and I only met in Daozuo, as the saying goes, 'Prime Minister Bai knows, and he is the same!'" "I really already regard Brother Liu as my own flesh and blood brother, even if Brother Liu speaks, a certain family must tell the truth."

"I haven't heard of the Red Sun Sect before, dare to ask, how many sectarians are under Brother Xu's command?"

"The sect originated from the eastern part of the country, and there are many branches, and it is not clear how many sects there are for a while, but in Shandong alone, there are no less than 400,000 sectarians, more than 100,000 people under the general altar in Liaocheng, and more than 5,000 acres of land under the name of the nunnery." Speaking of this, Xu Hecheng casually picked up a sea bowl and put it on the ground, picked up the Zen staff on the side, and unscrewed the bottom, it turned out that the inside of the stick was hollow, and the golden sand flowing out quickly filled the bowl, Xu Hecheng smiled slightly, and pushed the bowl to Liu Cheng's side: "This is a gold mine in the northwest of my sect, which can produce so much gold sand every five or six days." “

Liu Cheng carefully took the bowl, the golden sand in the bowl reflected a charming light in the daylight, feeling the heavy weight in his hand, Liu Cheng's right hand trembled violently, and he tried his best to push the bowl back to Xu Hecheng: "I can't see that Brother Xu is actually a rich man!" ”

"Huh!" Xu Hecheng laughed: "It's just a little bit of a blockage, if Brother Liu is interested, you can take it and use it!" With that, Xu Hecheng pushed the sea bowl in front of Liu Cheng.

"How can this work?" Liu Cheng hurriedly pushed the sea bowl back, since Xu Hecheng exposed the identity of the White Lotus Sect, he faintly felt a little wary in his heart, not to mention that he felt that this gold was a good fortune, but he was afraid that it would cause trouble.

Xu Hecheng smiled and pushed the gold back: "A gentleman has the friendship of wealth, if I am not mistaken, Brother Liu, you don't have much wealth on you, as the saying goes, the poor are rich, if you have no money, you can't do anything!" “

Liu Cheng thought about it, he had nothing on him except for his mobile phone, a few hundred-yuan bills, a few bank cards and an electric shocker, no matter what he wanted to do, he would have to make a start-up capital, if he didn't accept the gift of Xu Hecheng, would he not be able to go to the pit to be abducted? Anyway, he will be ten times more developed in the future, and he will return it to him. Thinking of this, Liu Cheng took the wooden bowl, took out three hundred-yuan bills from the wallet in his arms, and handed them over: "Since this is the case, then it will be disrespectful in the future, these are a little playthings, Brother Xu will take them as a souvenir!" “

Xu Hecheng smiled slightly and took the banknotes, he has been training in the rivers and lakes for many years, how can he not see Liu Cheng's ambivalence that he is short of money and unwilling to get too close to his relationship. However, after he took the banknote, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised by its exquisite printing and crisp texture, and he had a high opinion of Liu Cheng's origin.

Liu Cheng put away the silver taels and felt a little sleepy, so he took his leave and went down to rest. After Xu Hecheng sent Liu Cheng out of the door, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, he returned to the table and sat down, paused lightly on the floor twice with his heels, and then a person came in from outside, but it was Yu He, I saw him respectfully bow to Xu Hecheng: "Subordinates see the sect leader!" “

"Elder Yu excuses himself and sits down to speak." Xu Hecheng pointed to the chair on the right: "Can you see the origin of this person?" “

"Tell the sect leader that this person is not an official, a non-scholar, a monk, a Taoist, or a farmer, and his subordinates can't see where he comes from." Yu He said in a low voice: "It's just one thing that is certain, he seems to be a little wary of this sect. “

"You can see that, too." Xu Hecheng nodded: "I originally wanted to recruit him into the sect, but seeing him like this, I don't know where to start, I don't know what Elder Yu can do?" “

"Tell the sect master, the way to solicit in the world is nothing more than coercion and temptation, the sect leader just took out a bowl of golden sands is afraid that there are more than 30 taels, and ordinary people have accumulated nothing more than this, and this person actually accepted it without care, but I am afraid that it is useless to lure it with profit. From the perspective of my subordinates, I'm afraid there are only -"

"No!" Xu Hecheng interrupted Yu He's words, he took out the hundred-yuan bills from his arms, and handed them to Yu Hedao: "Have you ever seen such objects?" In my opinion, this Liu Cheng is not simple, I am only afraid of someone behind him, if we rashly use force, we are only afraid of self-defeating, it is better to get married first and wait and see what happens! “

Then Yu He took the hundred-yuan bill, looked through it a few times in his hand, and couldn't help but be amazed: "The pattern is so finely made, there are such skilled craftsmen in the world, it is really incredible, I am afraid that this person is from the palace, will cause trouble?" ”

"Humph!" Xu Hecheng sneered, and smashed several cases on the side with one palm: "What about the palace?" After such a long time, apart from that fellow brother, who else cares about my Xu Hecheng's life? ”

Yu He hurriedly spoke out to convince him, it turned out that Xu Hecheng's words were only half of what he said, he was indeed the leader of the Red Yang Sect of the White Lotus Sect, but the word "before" should be added in front of the sect leader. Although this Hongyang Sect had spread widely in the north in the past, it was inferior to the Wenxiang Sect, another branch of the White Lotus Sect, in Shandong and Beizhili. In the second year of the Apocalypse, Xu Hongru, the leader of the Wenxiang Sect, launched an uprising, which was soon wiped out by the Ming Dynasty, and the Wenxiang Sect was also banned. This invisibly paved the way for the development of the Red Yang Sect, and within a few years, it developed into the largest branch of the White Lotus Sect in the north. This Xu Hecheng was the eldest son of the old sect leader at that time, who was generous and righteous, shrewd and capable, and learned a good gun and club, and made great contributions to the development of the Hongyang Sect. But he didn't want his father to die suddenly, Xu Hecheng was busy with teaching affairs in other places at the time, and his brother Xu Wancheng reported to the government that he was sheltering the congregants and plotting against him in order to compete for family property and teaching property. In order to ensure that Xu Hecheng could not turn over, Xu Wancheng used 500 and 30,000 taels of silver to set up the relationship between Wei Zhongxian, the father-in-law of the palace master of ceremonies, and in one fell swoop, with the help of the power of the government, the forty middle-level cadres loyal to his brother were exiled and executed, if Xu Hecheng was not strong in martial arts, he was afraid that he would also die under the killer sent by his younger brother, in order to escape the pursuit of the government and his younger brother, Xu Hecheng had to flee to Guanxi, where the power of the Hongyang Sect was relatively weak, and found a gold mine within a few years, and mastered a part of the power, This was one of the few cadres in the church who fled with him at that time. After Wanli died and Wei Zhongxian fell, Xu Hecheng thought that he could overturn the case, but he didn't want his younger brother to hook up with Tian Huangqin - the father of Tian Guifei, the emperor's favorite today, and when today's son was only in his early twenties, it would take 30 years to wait until he died, but now he is not a lustful lord, and he doesn't know when that Tian Guifei will fall out of favor, and he can see that his case has become an iron case that cannot be turned over.

Seeing that Xu Hecheng was gradually discouraged, Yu He said in a low voice: "Why don't you let your subordinates go to Mr. Liu's place and knock on the side?" ”

"That's great!" Xu Hecheng nodded.

Liu Cheng returned to the house, looked around the house, and found nothing that could hold the golden sands. There was a knock at the door outside. Liu Cheng was stunned for a moment, hurriedly put the sea bowl into his arms, covered it with his sleeve, and then responded: "Who is it?" ”

"Is Mr. Liu here, why do you want to see him!"

Liu Cheng looked left and right, but didn't find a place to hide the sea bowl, so he had to put the bowl under the bed, then turned around and opened the door, and said with a smile: "Is there something wrong with Mr. Yu?" “

Yu He took out a deerskin bag from his bosom and said with a smile: "Mr. Liu, my family leader just remembered that those golden sands are not good to hold, so he asked Zai Xia to send this bag over." Liu Cheng took the pocket, remembering that he put the sea bowl under the bed, his face couldn't help but blush, and he was about to say thank you, so Yu He took out a small pocket from his arms and handed it over: "There are some scattered silver coins here, as the saying goes, wealth is not white, those golden sands are usually quite inconvenient to use, and these changes are for Mr. to spend usually." ”

"Thank you for your thoughtfulness!" Liu Cheng took the two pockets, but Yu He didn't leave, walked around the house twice, and suddenly smiled: "Dare to ask Mr. Liu where is Xianxiang?" ”

"Xi'an people!"

"It turned out to be a Xijing clan, no wonder it is so extraordinary." Yu He suddenly sat down: "Then why does my accent sound a little like Liaodong military dialect?" ”

Liu Cheng's forehead was already oozing a thin layer of cold sweat, and he prevaricated: "When I was young, the host of the monastic temple was from Liaodong, so the villain had some accents. ”

"Then dare to ask where is the temple where is the monk's house? What sect is it? But there is a degree, which monk is shaving for Mr.? ”

Liu Cheng was speechless by Yu He's barrage of questions, even if he was making up nonsense here, with this old man's shrewdness, he would know that he was lying. Yu He smiled slightly: "It's not that I want to deliberately embarrass Mr., it's just that if Mr. wants to dismiss these rebellious soldiers to the government, the government will inevitably inquire about Mr.'s origin, and if something goes wrong, I'm afraid that there will be some trouble." Speaking of this, Yu He paused and said, "But if Mr. rests here for a few more days, I will definitely be able to get a set of identities for Mr. without flaws." ”

In the face of He Dime's watertight arrangement, the only thing Liu Cheng could do was to nod. Taken to Yu He to leave, Liu Cheng poured the golden sand into the deerskin bag, only to find that the bag was very delicately made, and it could be tied around the waist after being filled with golden sand, and it became a belt, which could not be seen at all under the cover of the wide robe, although he knew that the other party was buying people's hearts, but his heart still couldn't help but feel warm.