Although Wanli did not get Lao Jin's support in choosing an heir, he did not blame Lao Jin. And inspired by the inheritance system in Liaoning, he issued an edict: in order to seek the Ming Dynasty for thousands of generations, the longest person who is elected as virtuous is the prince, and the son-in-law is preferred. However, the queen has no heirs, and the sons have not yet grown up, and they do not know their talents, so they will not set up a prince for the time being. Wait for the princes to be weak, and then make a decision. If there is an accident, the queen mother will supervise the country until the princes reach adulthood! The ministers shall not discuss it again.

The emperor's edict temporarily stopped the controversy over the canonization of the crown prince. However, the two factions have found a new point of contention: let the prince they support show more "virtuous"! So they began to quarrel again over the question of the prince's teacher.

Lao Jin didn't care about this, he got the endorsement of the imperial court on the issue of Ping'an Dao, and after placing Jin Si, he returned to Liaoning leisurely.

Compared with Lao Jin's leisurely travel, Tong Jiashi, who was in charge of the government, encountered something that made her anxious: Xi Ai found the White Lotus Sect activities in the Ming immigrants! Husband and brother-in-law (Jin Liu is still young, not counted.) None of them were there, and the others didn't do anything, so Tong Jiashi had no choice but to call Li Sicheng and Kim Zhenghao, who were nesting in Fei ala, to Hetuala to discuss.

The White Lotus Sect, a Chinese folk religion, has its roots in the Pure Land sect of Chinese Buddhism. The White Lotus sect is roughly the same as the Pure Land sect, worshipping Amitabha Buddha and requiring believers to recite the Buddha's precepts (not killing, not stealing, not committing adultery, not lying, and not drinking) in order to be reborn in the Pure Land of the West. In the previous Pure Land Association, the participants were only slackened members of the society, and the society did not belong to each other. During the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1131~1162), Mao Ziyuan (legal name Cizhao), a monk in Kunshan, Wujun (now Kunshan, Jiangsu), founded a new sect on the basis of the popular Pure Land Association, called the White Lotus Sect, that is, the White Lotus Sect. The organizational form was changed to master and apprentice teaching, and the sect belonged to each other.

The teachings of the White Lotus Sect are simple, and the scriptures are relatively easy to understand. It is accepted by the lower-class people, so it is often used as a tool to organize the lower-class people to rebel. There are many sects in the White Lotus Sect, with many names, and each faction does not belong to each other, the sect leader has the sole power, and the father dies and the son succeeds; Respect and humility are orderly, the hierarchy is strict, and when the believers join the church, they hold certain ceremonies, pay money, hold regular meetings, burn incense and worship, preach the scriptures, and teach the fist stick, which has become the organizational form of many peasant rebellions.

Due to the complexity of the composition of the chieftains, the attitude towards the Ming court was also very inconsistent. Some deceive believers and accumulate money by promoting religion; Some climbed to the upper echelons by writing scriptures to please the court; some developed believers among the court eunuchs and bureaucratic wealthy; Others combined with the struggle of the lower strata against the government and launched armed and pretended to riot.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect was strictly forbidden. During the Hongwu and Yongle periods, there were many riots of the White Lotus cultists in Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Lu and other places, and some of them were also called emperors, all of which were suppressed. From Wanli's grandfather Zhu Houzhao and Zhengde years, there has been a worship of the childless mother, and there is the so-called eight-character mantra of "vacuum hometown, childless mother".

And what Xi Ai found was the freshly baked "vacuum hometown, no mother" faction. Liaoning has paid great attention to the new immigrants, and has tried its best to scatter and resettle the same villagers, surnames, and ethnic groups. However, since the Central Plains refugees who were distributed to Liaoning were all transported to Dalian and Yizhou via Tanggu and Dengzhou, it is not surprising that the White Lotus Sect, which was very popular in Shandong and Hebei, mixed in.

Recently, it is late winter and early spring, the ground is frozen, the farmers are idle, and it is not uncommon for everyone to gather and chat. At this time, Liaoning's peasant officials had a task, and the old peasants had to go from village to village to go to the farmers' homes to publicize Liaoning's policies, new crops, new farming methods, and understand the needs of the new immigrants. This is directly related to political performance, and everyone is serious about it.

In the course of the visit, some agricultural officials found that there were many people gathered in some farmers' homes, and the gods were mysterious, and there were traces of burning incense and worshiping Buddha. After repeated questioning, he was still hesitant, and the leader looked like he was driven away.

The peasant officials who went from village to village were all old peasants who had come from the hinterland, and they were more or less aware of these secret non-governmental societies, and as officials, they were also aware of Liaoning's religious policy, and secret societies were absolutely not allowed. I am a court official, and my life is not easy to come by, so I must not smash my job. The agricultural officials immediately reported the situation, and Xi Ai immediately investigated. Professionalism is professionalism, and the secrecy methods of the White Lotus Sect Xiaobai level are full of loopholes in front of Xi Ai, and a complete report will be obtained soon.

Liaoning's intelligence department directly obeys Lao Jin's orders, and the government has no authority to govern it, and when Lao Jin is not there, he obeys Tong Jia's orders. The report was handed to Tong Jia's family, and the proprietress who had no concept of the Central Plains Secret Society* was blinded. The husband and the fourth uncle are in Beijing, the second uncle is in Ping'an Road, the third uncle and the two Jin family sons-in-law are in the Mongolian steppe, Jin Wu and Jin Liu are not in charge, and several other sons-in-law are also outside, and the only thing that can be trusted and relied on is the two "black hands" behind the curtain in Fei ala.

Li Sicheng and Kim Zhenghao came in, greeted their sister-in-law, sat down, and when they read the report, they all smiled.

Tong Jiashi was a little angry: "Xiaocheng, Cunde, I really didn't have an opinion to come to you, you are smiling, you have to talk about your ideas!" "Sister-in-law, don't worry, Xiao Cheng and I are thinking about some other things, and now these evil demons are just used to solve those things, and they are really sleepy and touch the pillow." The joy burst out laughing. Sister-in-law, you can't be annoyed, you are always annoyed, your skin is wrinkled and you are not beautiful, and it is not good to think too much about long white hair! No amount of ginseng eaten, no amount of pearl powder can make up for it! "The former woman still understands the mind of a woman very well.

"Just your poor mouth! Tell me quickly, let me put down the stone in my heart. "That's right, we have always been trying to break up the same villagers, surnames, and clans in our resettlement of displaced people, so as not to quickly form gangs and factions, which will be detrimental to governance. Recently, it has been discovered that these displaced people are all from the whole village and the whole clan, and they refuse to separate, and some of them are still confronting our government under the leadership of the leader. After the local troops dealt with it, they found that it was the inland clans who wanted to spread their branches and send them to Liaoning to occupy the territory, and they were not homeless people at all. ”

Kim Zhenghao stopped, and Li Sicheng continued: "The people below also had different opinions on this, and Cunde and I thought that it was necessary to crack down, but many people think that it is better to increase the population first, and not to rectify it too much for the time being, and we can't convince it at once." Now it's just right, if you don't rectify it ruthlessly, the evil demons and foreign ways have come out, do you want this country! The chickens pop up on their own, and we kill them to scare the monkeys. ”

"You two, why didn't you tell your sister-in-law earlier if you have an idea, it makes me scared all the time. Your eldest brother is away from home, what am I going to miss, but I'm sorry for your eldest brother! Hey, after all, it's your own person, and your heart is still connected. None of the others are at the top of their minds! ”

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The evil demons have all come out, and the council (parliament) and the government hall (cabinet) do not dare to hesitate. This has damaged their own interests, and they must be resolute! The council passed a resolution agreeing to deal with it severely; The Military Aircraft Hall (General Staff) formulates an action plan and deploys troops; The government hall prepared materials and mobilized local forces to assist, and everything was completed as quickly as possible.

In line with the principles of "it is better to kill 1,000 by mistake than to let one go" and "to be severe, strict, and expanded," the whole village and the whole township were dealt with. Anyway, in the village, either the leader or the follower, and the rest are not reported if they know about it, and there will be no mistakes. By the way, those clans that refused to separate were also disposed of.

The crying at the scene of the treatment was shocking, but it could not move the heart of the stone. To be merciful to the enemy is to be cruel to one's own oneself. If the Demonic Way succeeds, it will not be merciful to you! Under the torture of Xi Ai, the person in charge immediately surfaced.

The principal and his family members had their tongues cut out, their hands and feet broken, and hung at the intersection of the quarantined area of the pier until they died of hunger and thirst. Followers were branded as slaves, young women were sent to the marching army, and others were escorted to the mines to do hard labor. Don't ask what to do with the baby, because there are no babies among the people who have been caught.