"Let's go! Someone has gone to the west! If you're late, you won't be able to catch up. ”

"Who goes up to the western heavens? Who goes to the western heavens? ”

"Xu Hongru is going to the West Heaven, as long as he believes in his mother, he can go to the West Heaven with him! Erdan, what are you still doing, take your daughter-in-law to the county seat quickly! ”

"Go, go, go, don't be too late."

The boundary of Yuncheng is in chaos at this time. I saw that the road was full of farmers with their families. Some led the oxen and drove the car. Some carried grain and iron pots, and came with their wives and children. There were more and more farmers on the road, and they were all hurrying to the county seat.

Oh my God! Can you not be in a hurry?

In the traditional Chinese worldview, there are heavenly realms, human realms, and ghost realms. Among them, the days of the heavenly realm are the best, and the life span of the celestial beings is also the longest. But in addition to the heavenly realm, there is also the term 'Western Heaven'. The so-called Western Heaven, that is, the immortals who jumped out of the Three Realms, when they cultivated to reach the Golden Immortal Realm, they could open up an independent space. Buddhism has arhats corresponding to the golden immortals, but the names are different, and they can also create independent spaces. In these spaces, there are many Buddha countries, where they live in abundance and comfort, and have a lot of time to preach and discuss the teachings.

Although the Western Heaven and the Heavenly Realm are two different things, the attraction to the common people is also huge. There is always so much pain and suffering in the world, and people dream of being able to be heavenly or to go to the Western Elysium.

In other words, the common people do not know what the difference between the heavenly realm and the western heaven is, and they always think that believing in Buddhism has all kinds of benefits, but they do not know that they are two different systems. In many places, older women will go to temples to recite scriptures, eat fasting, and worship Buddha. It is nothing more than fattening the local yin god. It has nothing to do with reincarnation in the next life.

However, such a phenomenon is common in China and still exists in the 21st century.

Religion is often deceptive. The Wenxiang sect that appeared at the end of the Ming Dynasty believed in the motherless old mother, which belonged to the 'Mahayana Buddhism' school, but in terms of practice, it used the Taoist 'Neidan technique'. I have to say that this is a very special national condition in China, after the convergence of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism in the Song Dynasty. Copying back and forth from each other, in general, the three teachings of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism are all copying Taoist things. It's just that Taoism used Taoist things first. So much so that after the Song Dynasty, there was no essential difference between the three religions of Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

There is essentially no difference between Wenxiangjiao and Wudoumijiao (Taoism) that emerged in the late Han Dynasty, and the power of religion has given rise to political ambitions among some careerists. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Wudou Mi Sect entrenched itself in Hanzhong and established political power. Zhang Lu's name is well known. And the real revitalization of Taoism is the Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling. Before Zhang Daoling revitalized the Wudou Rice Sect, the Wudou Rice Sect was very popular to practice the 'room in the house', and uncovered assemblies were held everywhere, and it was once extremely erosive.

The difference between Wenxiangjiao and Taoism is nothing more than that the moral quality of people in the Eastern Han Dynasty was higher, so although Taoism had political ambitions, it did a good job in administration. Taoism has also set up a system for organizing public welfare activities such as Yicang, Yixue, and road repair.

Later, the regime of Wudou Mijiao was eliminated, but the rulers discovered the edifying significance of Taoism. and the ability of public welfare organizations to be good, so Taoism was co-opted and became an officially designated legal religion.

When Buddhism was introduced to India, Buddhism was an 'illegal religion' in China, and it competed fiercely with Taoism. However, because Taoism was officially co-opted, a large number of folk religious elites could not ascend to power, and Taoism gradually lost its vitality. Buddhism has become a 'shell resource' for the folk religious elite, and a large number of people have devoted themselves to Buddhism.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Buddhism was officially 'slaughtered' several times, on the one hand, Buddhism was not an officially designated religion, and on the other hand, the localization of Buddhism was not mature at that time, and a large number of annexed lands and frenzied preaching threatened the rulers, so there were several slaughters of Buddha. A large number of temples were burned and monks were massacred.

But in the end, Taoism, which relied heavily on the government, was gradually declining, and Buddhism was also completely localized after several slaughters of Buddha, and no longer threatened the position of the ruler, and during the Ming Dynasty, Buddhism would send monks and soldiers to help in the war when foreign enemies invaded, so Buddhism also became a legitimate religion.

Not to mention the Catholicism of the West, which used the religious energy field to fool the countries of Europe, making Europe manage the dark Middle Ages for thousands of years.

Wenxiangjiao is equivalent to taking Taoism and Buddhism to use, and then re-'branding' to establish its own 'religious brand', but it is still under the name of Buddhism, which is equivalent to the difference between Catholicism and Protestantism (Christianity), after having a certain number of believers, it will incite believers to rebel, so as to seek political benefits.

This kind of activity, starting from the White Lotus Sect, has opened a hole. The remnants of the White Lotus Sect always jump out from time to time and put on a vest again, and almost all of the remnants of the White Lotus Sect, such as the Smelling Fragrance Sect, the Stick Mallet Society, the Huidaomen, the Boxer Rebellion, and the cults that appeared in the north in the 21 st century, are almost all the remnants of the White Lotus Sect.

Yuncheng can be described as a group of demons dancing at this time.

The entire county has been conquered by the Wenxiang Sect, and the people in the whole city have maintained a high degree of excitement, and groups of peasants with their families have poured into the city from all directions.

The streets and alleys are full of missionary scenes.

"If you believe in a childless mother, you can be invulnerable, and you will be invulnerable, and you will be good at everything." A shirtless strong man stood in the middle, surrounded by peasants who had just entered the city from the countryside. I saw the strong man squatting slightly, stretching out his hands, the muscles of his whole body were tense, his nose was buzzing, and his expression was like constipation. On the side, a person holding a watermelon knife, no, it was a machete, he was already holding the handle of the knife with both hands, and in front of everyone, he looked at the strong man with a knife.

Sonor!

The sharp machete, after slashing at the strong man's body, actually made a golden sound, and the strong man did not even have a mark on his body, and stood there unharmed.

A large group of peasants around were all stunned.

Not far away, there is also a group of people, and this time the performance is a hand-probed oil pot. I saw that an oil pot was boiling constantly, and a god stick stretched out his hand and stirred it in the oil pot for more than ten seconds, and then he lifted his hand, but there was no fart in his hand, which made the onlookers exclaim.

"Don't believe it, everybody. It's all a lie. A voice rang out, and a man dressed as a scholar shouted to the people.

"Isn't this Zhang Xiucai?"

"What nonsense, the motherless mother is going to be angry."

The crowd of onlookers blamed. The god stick in the middle showed a contemptuous smile, walked over directly, grabbed Zhang Xiucai's hand, and said viciously: "Since you said this is fake, then you can try it!" ”

Then he couldn't help but say something, pulled Zhang Xiucai down to the side of the oil pot and rolled up Zhang Xiucai's sleeves. grabbed Zhang Xiucai's arm and pressed it directly into the oil pot.

Sneer......

"Ahh Zhang Xiucai screamed, struggled to pull his hand out of the oil pot, and fixed his eyes to take a look. The whole hand has been fried beyond recognition.

"I'm handed, my hand, ahh~~!" Zhang Xiucai covered his hands and fell to the ground, screaming non-stop. The magic stick didn't intend to let go of Zhang Xiucai, and pulled Zhang Xiucai up. Raise Zhang Xiucai's arm high. presented in front of everyone, and then shouted fiercely: "Look, look, this is the end of slandering the childless mother." ”

The audience couldn't help but shudder, and suddenly one by one they became devout believers, kneeling down on the spot, shouting the name of 'lifeless old mother'.

No one can figure out why their hands are safe and sound when they reach into the pan. I can figure it out individually. People like Zhang Xiucai, but they can't go back. Most of them were silent, and Zhang Xiucai, who became a leading bird, was fried with one hand, and no one dared to stand up.

After the street demonstration, the uneducated peasants and the common people in the market surrendered one by one, and became extremely devout believers, bowing and making wishes to the statue of the childless mother.

The people of the entire Yuncheng were collectively stunned.

Xu Hongru sat on a chair, and under the lifting of more than a dozen people, a group of disciples appeared. At this time, Xu Hongru was wearing a yellow dragon robe, his face was solemn, and he was very bluffing.

In less than three days, Yuncheng gathered more than 20,000 sect members, and while capturing Yuncheng, the Wenxiang Sect army began to attack in the direction of Juye.

All the believers of the Wenxiang Sect, all wearing red scarves, armed with spears and big knives, and got them a lot of fire guns and other things, but the Shandong government did not prepare at all, and Juye fell two days later.

Having captured the Smelling Sect of Juye, he immediately launched an attack to the east. Soon crossed the canal, conquered Zou County, and sentenced Zheng Yijie to flee with his family. Then, the Wenxiang Sect waved Teng County, and Yao Zhiyin, the county magistrate, looked at the wind and fled, and the Wenxiang Sect was mighty, and the team grew to hundreds of thousands in less than half a month.

Along the way, the government basically fled in despair, without resistance, and the Wenxiang Sect spread like a virus, spreading wildly, quickly sweeping through the western part of Shandong, and the situation quickly eroded.

The western part of Shandong, which is the junction of Shandong, Jiangsu and Henan provinces, is an agricultural area dominated by the production of commercial cotton, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal passes through here.

The Wenxiang Sect has directly cut off the canal, and the transportation has directly stopped.

Just when the Wenxiang Sect was extremely rampant, a cavalry of more than 3,000 people came from north to south, galloping, and rushed straight to Yuncheng.

This cavalry is none other than the Tengxiang Cavalry Division.

Before the Shandong provincial units could react, Zhu Youxiao, who was still in the capital, had not hesitated to order the Tengxiang Cavalry Division to rush to Shandong to suppress the Wenxiangjiao rebellion.

Behind the Tengxiang cavalry division, there were three more infantry divisions. Zhu Youxiao almost threw all the troops he could use into the Shandong battlefield.

The security of the Beijing Division was the responsibility of the nine newly formed infantry divisions.

Before the Tengxiang cavalry division arrived at Yuncheng, it encountered a rebellious army of more than 50,000 people on the way, which was about to besiege Chongzhou City to the east.

When this group of rebels discovered the Tengxiang Cavalry Division, it was obviously not expected. The Tengxiang Cavalry Division had long been prepared for encounters.

Li Wei observed it with a telescope, and the staff officer next to him suggested: "Division commander, there are too many rebel troops on the opposite side, it is better to avoid the front for the time being." ”

"It's just a rabble." Levi smiled and put away the binoculars, and shouted the order: "Pass my order, all the team, prepare to charge." ”

"Subordinates obey."

The Tengxiang cavalry division quickly completed the whole team on the open plain, and with an order, the Tengxiang cavalry division ran in unison.

It's getting faster and faster.

With the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, the Tengxiang cavalry division seemed to become a 'flying cavalry wall', grinding forward like a bulldozer...... (To be continued......)