Chapter Ninety-Nine: The First Appearance of the White Lotus III
The value of human life, this cannot be calculated, human life can be more precious than jade, or it can be as cheap as mustard. It's just that the meaning of this holy woman has been understood by Zuo Wannian. He said, "What does our Holy Sect mean is that we want to increase the price of grain tenfold, or even tenfold? If it really comes to that point, even the middle class will be completely broken, and the people will really have to rebel. ”
The holy woman nodded, her eyes were still full of compassion, as if she had incarnated into Nanhai Guanyin at the moment, looking at the world with pity. Zhou's body was shrouded in a holy light, so that Zuo Wannian did not dare to face it:
"That's right, since ancient times, it has not been broken or established, chaos comes from sludge, if it is not through chaos, how to govern? If we don't let the people in the puppet dynasty be corrupted, how can we rebuild the great cause of the dragon and phoenix emperor? It's a pity that the puppet dynasty has been in business for many years, and it has a lot of experience in fooling the people, so that the people don't investigate its evil, but use it instead. A few years ago, the white-clothed army was an opportunity, and it was punished by the border army. So this time, the way we came up with was not to fight with the puppet dynasty, but only to fight with it for money. ”
The tall girl in red said, "Sister, you said what you said today in our Qinglong Mountain." But I thought, as the price of this grain rises, I don't know how many people will starve to death, isn't our White Lotus Sect trying to save the world and help the people, why do we want to kill people first? ”
The woman smiled and said, "Sister, you don't understand. Just like when a person is sick, if it is not for the onset of illness, he will not go to see Langzhong, but will turn a minor illness into a major illness. The puppet dynasty has been established for a long time, and people have made up their minds that if they don't take a few fierce medicines, the people will not be able to detect its evil, and it will not be easy to save themselves in the future. ”
"These starving people are like the pain of human suffering, only by sacrificing them can we wake up the people and recognize the true face of the pseudo-dynasty, and our Longfeng Dynasty can restore the rivers and mountains and reorganize the mountains and rivers. These people are the price that must be paid for the sake of the world, so they can only sacrifice. ”
Not only is her gaze very lethal to men, even if she is also a daughter, the woman in red saw that she felt that what she said made sense, so she stopped talking. The saint sighed again
"What our Holy Sect is doing is to help the world and save the people, and to reorganize the rivers and mountains, in order to save thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty, and doing great things has been inseparable from the word money and food since ancient times. It's not a way to just count on donations, and this time we have raised the price of grain for the sake of the Holy Treasury. It's a pity, God is destined that the people of the puppet dynasty are cautious in their sins, and it is difficult to get Maitreya to save them for a while. The great plan of our Holy Sect has caused people to spoil. Now that the Cao Gang Jin Xiang Master has been arrested, and most of the stored grain has been confiscated by the government, this grain war is afraid that there will be many waves. ”
Zuo Wannian also hoarded a lot of rice and grain at home for this grain war, but he didn't care about the family business, he only cared about the layout of the White Lotus Sect. Hurriedly asked: "My subordinates heard that Jin Changling seems to have capsized and been taken, and the specific situation has not been inquired clearly." The saint came this time for this reason. ”
The woman said: "That's right, our informant in the government has inquired clearly, and the one who broke the layout of the Holy Sect this time is Yang Chengzu, the local hereditary brocade cloth of 100 households in Huaxian County, who actually gave the small flag. It was he who went to Luoyang to catch Jin for inspection, and he posted everywhere to blame the flood of the Yellow River on the head of my holy sect, and he was a new powerful eagle dog in the imperial court. ”
"Originally, I wanted people to open the embankment of the Yellow River and add a weight to the victory of the grain war, but now, not only can this not be the case, but also have to arrange manpower to guard against the embankment, in case the government is mad and pushes the embankment to the head of the Holy Sect, our Holy Sect will have nowhere to gain a foothold in Henan."
Back then, the white-clothed army wanted to tear open the river embankment and create refugees, but after all, they didn't dare to do it. The current White Lotus Sect is not as strong as the White Clothes Army of the past, and it mainly relies on folk preaching and preaching to win over believers. If there is really a reputation for flooding the people by digging embankments, who dares to preach in Henan in the future, it will be a situation of death and no life, and the entire White Lotus will be greatly affected.
After hearing this, Zuo Wannian said angrily: "I know Yang Chengzu, his father is the hardcore eagle dog of the imperial court, and he died in Xuanfu to save the faint king, but his son is still like this." I don't think it's as good as this, so I found a few people and cleaned him up. ”
"Thou shalt not be reckless." The White Lotus Holy Maiden waved her hand and said: "Now there must be brocade clothes around him, and there are fifty skilled and well-equipped pacesetters and cavalry in the county, which is not something we can touch." I came to Huaxian County this time, in fact, mainly to see what kind of person this brocade cloth hundred households is, and he can actually destroy our strategy. As for killing, this method is too inferior, you can not use it, try not to use it. Besides, he has offended many big people by destroying the price of food this time, so naturally someone will clean him up and let them fight in the nest, so we don't have to do it. ”、
"Holy Maiden, are all our plans in vain?" Zuo Wannian thought of the game that was finally laid out, but he just stopped like this, and he couldn't suppress this anger no matter what.
The saint said: "The master of the left altar doesn't need to be in a hurry, the pseudo-vitality is about to run out, and it can't be recovered by manpower." No matter how the surnamed Yang planned, he was just doing his best, but in the end, it was not the personnel who decided this food war, but the mandate of heaven. ”
"Destiny?"
"Yes, it's destiny." The saint said leisurely: "The Feiyunzi Taoist in our sect is a master of observing the heavens, and he said that the water in Henan is about to rise recently, and floods are inevitable. When the time comes, the people can see that it is not our White Lotus Sect that destroys the embankment, but the government itself is greedy for money and food from the river workers, and repairs the river embankment into a tofu, which will collapse as soon as it is rushed. ”
"Refugees are displaced and resentful of the government. And no matter how they try to stabilize food prices, in the face of natural disasters, there is no way, when the time comes, what should rise will still rise, the people should rise up to rebel, or will rise up to rebel, this world, after all, is the holy religion. There is only one thing to do now, and that is to wait. ”
"What are you waiting for?"
"Wait for it to rain. As long as it rains, the sky in Henan will change. ”
Just when the White Lotus Holy Maiden in Zuojiazhuang was analyzing the situation, Zhang Jiayin, who was wearing a homespun trouser gown and barefoot, sat on a stone under a big tree on the embankment of Huaxian River. If you hold a cigarette pouch in your hand, you will look like an old peasant.
Yang Chengzu squatted down beside him and said with a smile: "The head of the high-speed rail is in Kaifeng, if the eldest brother's dress falls into his ears, be careful that he moves to Beijing and you are out of order." ”
"Then I can't ask for it, it's better to take off my seal and let me go home to retire." Zhang Jiayin shook his head, wiped the sweat on his forehead with a towel, and looked up at the fiery red sun in the sky
"The sun is good, the sun is good. Do you know now, as long as there are some clouds in the sky, I will beat the drum in my heart, for fear of heavy rain. The water in Henan has risen, which is not a good situation. ”