Chapter 202: Manichaeism
Wang Yuanshi didn't expect that his most "favored" son would "abandon" him at the most critical moment. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Well, if he didn't want to take Wang Hu to blame, Wang Hu might not have done such a desperate job.
The henchman said cautiously: "Family master, Wang Hu's escape must have come from Wang Yu's instructions. If it weren't for this white-clothed talent, how could Wang Hu, a person without a city government, see the intentions of the head of the family? We have also been to Wang Yu's house and found that his wife, children, and family members are gone, which shows that this person must be a wolf with ambition and has already made plans for my Wang family......"
When Wang Yuanshi heard this, he was also very angry. However, this Wang Yu was personally selected by him from among his distant relatives to be his staff, and what he fancied was nothing more than his strategy. This Wang Yu is a fallen talent, who has repeatedly failed in his career, and he will no longer take scientific examinations in a fit of anger, and he willingly degenerates into Wang Yuanshi's staff. Because of his narrow-mindedness, he also joined the Manichaeism that came from the Persian Hu.
Dashun is also like the Song Dynasty in history, and everyone who reads is called Xiucai. Because at the beginning of the Dashun Dynasty, the Xiucai Department was set up in the imperial examination, and later the Xiucai Department was abolished because of the large number of subjects. But since then, Xiucai has become accustomed to becoming a generic term for scholars. After the imperial examination is standardized, each government pays tribute to the imperial court to pay tribute to the Ministry of Rites and Rites, and first conducts a selection examination, which is called the state examination, or the solution examination; After passing the state test, it is the tribute test, which is held in the Ministry of Rites Tribute Academy, also known as the provincial test; Finally, there is the palace test, to make sure that you are not a sergeant. Among them, all those who should be selected for examination in order to strive for recommendation are called Xiucai.
This henchman called Wang Yu a white-clothed talent, which was not the first talent, and had a contemptuous meaning, pointing out that he failed to find a move and fell to Sun Shan in the selection examination. Dashun's title of Xiucai was obtained without an examination, which is different from the imperial examinations of the Ming and Qing dynasties that many people are familiar with. In the official history, the Xiucai of the Ming and Qing dynasties was not easy to come by, and it was necessary to pass several exams, and the Xiucai may not be able to respond in the end.
In fact, the title of Xiucai already existed in the Han Dynasty. It's just that at that time, the probation system was used, and the local government inspected and recommended talents, that is, probation. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was sealed for four years, and ordered the ministers and states to recommend one Xiucai every year, which means outstanding talents. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, because of the avoidance of Emperor Wu's name, it was renamed Maocai. Cao Wei of the Three Kingdoms followed the inspection and changed his name to Xiucai.
At the beginning of the Dashun Dynasty, the establishment of the Xiucai Department was also intended to mean that all the people taken were outstanding talents. However, there are many names in Dashun's imperial examinations, in addition to the Jinshi department, there are also the Five Classics, the Three History Subjects, the Three Rites Subjects, the Three Transmission Subjects, the Ming Classics Section, the Ming Law Section, the Ming Character Section, etc., and now plus the arithmetic discipline set up by Lu Chengqi, there are as many as nine subjects. If you add a talent show, the number of people in the scientific examination will be too much, and the questions will not be uniform, which will bring a certain degree of difficulty to the marking. In order to save work time, let's delete what can be deleted, anyway, Xiucai and Jinshi are no different.
Wang Yuanshi knew the details of Wang Yu, otherwise he wouldn't dare to use it. It's just that he never thought that after Wang Yu tried and failed repeatedly, his temperament would become so extreme, and he even joined Manichaeism.
Manichaeism was introduced to the Central Plains from the previous dynasty and is also known as Mingjiao. When it developed, it was mixed with elements such as Taoism, Buddhism, and White Lotus. These Manichaeans often revered Zhang Jiao as their ancestor, Mani as the god of light, and worshiped the sun and the moon. Christians wear white clothes, advocate vegetarianism, abstain from alcohol, and bury naked; Emphasizing solidarity and mutual assistance, it is called a family, believing that the light in the world will eventually triumph over the dark forces.
Wang Yu has become more and more perverse because of repeated failures. By chance, I came across the teachings of Manichaeism, and I had a bad idea. After deliberately entering Manichaeism, he bought people's hearts, cultivated henchmen, and gradually stabilized his power, becoming the de facto leader of Manichaeism.
After Wang Yu co-opted the Manichaeans, he concisely summarized the teachings into eight words: "pure, bright, vigorous, and wise." Among the congregations are peasants, talents, officials, soldiers, heroes of the green forest, Jiangyang thieves, and martial arts Junyan. The believers are white-clothed and black-hatted, secretly form a society, and jointly worship the Ming envoy as the god of the church. Because it is in a state of secret association, in order to avoid people's eyes and ears and avoid being banned by the government, the name of the religion also has a variety of aliases, in addition to Zhejiang called Manichaeism, Fujian called Mingjiao, Huainan called "Erjunizi", Jiangdong called "Siguo", Jiangxi called "King Kong Chan", Fujian also called "Jiedi Zhai" and so on. The names were varied, but the teachings were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, gradually bridging the gap within Manichaeism.
Wang Yuanshi only knew Wang Yu's past, but he didn't know what Wang Yu was doing. Since the establishment of Manichaeism, Wang Yu's ambitions have soared. He thinks of himself as the first emperor and his second role. The identity of partiality cannot be exposed, and once it is exposed, his life will be in danger immediately. He often suffers from this, and he longs to take Dashun instead. Zeng said: "The vertical son is incompetent, how dare he occupy the throne? "The ambition is palpable.
This time instigating Wang Yuanshi is also a manifestation of Wang Yu's unwillingness to be lonely. His calculation was that if the Wang family succeeded, when Wang Yuanshi could not control the direction of the matter, he called on millions of Manichaeans to rise up, and then he would be able to win the world in one fell swoop, and he would be the emperor himself.
The ideal is beautiful, and the reality is skinny. Wang Yukong was ambitious, but he did not occupy the time, place, and people. In the official history, the Fangla uprising was also due to the exploitation of corrupt officials, and the people could not survive. But at this moment, although Dashun also has many contradictions, it will not come to that point. Coupled with Lu Chengqi's rectification of officialdom, corrupt officials dare not say that they are empty, and they are basically no longer so blatant. In recent years, Dashun has been generally smooth, and there have been no large-scale natural disasters such as famines. The time, place, and people are not on Wang Yu's side, what is he doing to rebel? The so-called millions of sect members, I am afraid that he raised the anti-flag, and the first to take him down was not the Dashun army, but those sect members. It's not that they can't live, how many people are willing to take the risk of rebellion?
There are careerists all the time, and only a few people may succeed. The so-called situation creates heroes, and heroes create the situation, these two interact with each other, and the two factors are indispensable.
Wang Yuanshi was angry in his heart, and cursed loudly: "The erector can't conspire with it, if the old man can catch this son in the future, he will definitely eat meat and bed, and he will be angry with me!" With that, I almost went black and fainted. The henchman hurriedly supported him, and it took a long time to stabilize himself. Wang Yuanshi was disheartened, waved his hand weakly, and said, "You go down, the old man wants to be alone ...... quietly."
The henchman walked out of the study, closed the door, and after walking a few steps, looked back worriedly.
Wang Yuanshi stared blankly at the guilty letter on the table, and after a long time, he smiled bitterly and said to himself: "That's it, that's it, the old man is the head of the family, so naturally he wants to come out to confess." I hope the Wang family can save a minute or two of vitality......" (To be continued.) )