People are idle and osmanthus falls, and the night is quiet and the spring mountain is empty. The moonrise startles the mountain birds, and the song is in the deep stream. This is the great poet Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty wrote "Birdsong Stream", the poetry is beautiful, the Buddha and the Tao two virtues are perfectly integrated, it can be called a masterpiece.

Take one piece a day orally, it is definitely good for the body and mind. It is said that Mr. Wang has been practicing both body and mind in Buddhism and Taoism for decades.

It is not surprising that such earth-shattering verses can be written. "A lifetime of Buddhism is interesting, and it is empty in the words".

He can do it, but such a state is impossible for most people. No, in the Northern Zhou Dynasty a hundred years ago, there was someone who wanted to do this, but unfortunately he couldn't. This person's name is Wei Yuansong, and now he is in the Ye'an Temple in Chengdu, Sichuan.

Although his current profession is a monk, he feels that he is really not the material for being a monk, and every day he carries water and firewood, recites sutras and meditates, eats fasting and recites Buddha with his brothers and sisters, and the biggest entertainment activity is to chat, and he can't tell meat jokes.

In addition, the business in the temple is not very good, and the incense is pitiful. There are fewer and fewer donors who come, and even fewer large sums of money. The one asked why

& Let's talk about it later, in a word, Wei Yuansong regretted it. If I hadn't heard that it was better to be a monk, how could I have escaped into the empty door in the first place? I won't do it if I kill it. However, being a monk is the same as other professions, as long as you are not a eunuch, you will have time to regret it. Wei Yuansong thought about it, life must be a little ideal, so let's resign.

So I said goodbye to my master, and then I jumped ship, flipping from Buddhism to Taoism, growing my hair and beard, and changing my work clothes from black (tie clothes) to yellow (yellow clothes).

He also positioned himself as the most comfortable category of Taoist priests: wandering Taoist priests. Why don't monks pretend to be Taoist priests? Maybe Wei Yuansong thinks that this is more in line with his major. Because he has some study of Taoist metaphysics

As soon as he was ready, Wei Yuansong left Chengdu without looking back and went to Chang'an to pan for gold. To the busy traffic and high-rise buildings of Chang'an, at a glance, the capital is the capital, do eight sedan chairs are very much, equivalent to the current BMW Mercedes-Benz, really a rich place, and then look at yourself, a typical donkey friend, he feels that the North Drift family is really not easy, look up without relatives and friends, bow down and think of his hometown, but since it came out, the bird does not Ye'an Temple does not want to go back, I don't believe it, the huge Chang'an City, is there no bowl of rice for my Wei Yuansong to eat, even if it is mutton steamed buns.

However, prices have risen so much that I can't eat a few meals of mutton steamed buns. Just when Wei Yuansong sighed to himself, a person appeared, this person's name is Zhang Bin, he is also a Taoist priest, and he also went to Chang'an to pan for gold.

That's really a heroic sympathy, and the smell is the same. Two people are as good as one person. Talking about life, talking about ideals, talking about everything, just don't talk about money.

It's too vulgar, life doesn't bring death, and death doesn't take it. But the decades between life and death must be used. Finally, when the two were talking about their ideals and their stomachs rang, Zhang Bin said that if talents were starved to death, it would be too miserable, and they had to find a way.

Wei Yuansong agreed. It is said that people can stimulate great potential under stress, and in Chang'an in 564 AD, under the oil lamp without electrical equipment, in the protest of the stomach, two young Taoist priests who had nothing planned a superb plan in order to survive.

This scheme now seems to be a very modern marketing idea. Step 1: Build a hype team. Step 2: Create a topic and cause controversyStep 3: Self-packaging to attract attention. Step 4: Successfully sign a contract and gain fame and fortune.

Let's take a look at how they operate: First of all, the backbone of the hype team is the two of them. And then make the topic: this point level. Some time ago, you may have heard of the boiling "Li Yi incident", there is a Taoist priest Li Yi, who used the topic of health preservation to set a large number of celebrities and rich people. But 1,400 years ago, in that era when travel was basically relied on, communication was basically relied on roaring, and heating was basically based on shaking, the pace of work was relatively slow, and there were not many sub-healthy people, so health theory was not popular.

But there was a popular thing at that time, called the chen language. A proverb is a statement akin to prophecy. This is much more than the current prophecies of the end times.

Because they have been fulfilled (mostly by coincidence), it is easier to convince people of the accuracy of their statements, so some proverbs can make society harmonious, and some proverbs can cause society to fall into panic and restlessness. Zhang Bin and Wei Yuansong thought about it, yes, they used this proverb.

Make up some lace news to attract attention. The third step is to start self-packaging. First of all, create a proverb, and use divination as a disguise, anyway, this thing is not understood by ordinary people, so it is easy to fool. Most of the people who can divinate and rehearse are Taoist priests, and if they are Taoist priests with advanced spells, otherwise no one will believe it. The two brothers thought about it, no, they have to be packaged, they have to make themselves into a backbone master who can't eat fireworks in the world, and they have to have their own published books, so let's make up a few.

So Wei Yuansong wrote a book of "Yuan Bao Jing" and "Qi Sanjiao Treatise", "Yuan Bao Jing" is to explain the order of gossip and the like. This book is still highly regarded in the Taoist world, why, because it is mysterious and difficult to understand. The more difficult it is to understand and the more mysterious it is, the more profound it feels, and this is the case with such books.

The work is there, and this image also has to be packaged, and the current stars don't all rely on packaging, sparrows are wrapped into phoenixes, and ** are wrapped into girls. Zhang Bin said, we also pack, but I grew up in Chang'an City, and there are too many acquaintances, come on, few people know you anyway.

Wei Yuansong thought about it, I will come, I will come. Wei Yuansong is also packaged, but he is not more handsome, he is stupid, he is distributed, and he pretends to be crazy and stupid. That image is not much better than Brother Sharp.

This is a very popular hype method nowadays: it is called out of position. Everything is ready, let's act. So soon, a crazy Taoist priest appeared in Chang'an City, wrote a crazy book, said crazy words in his mouth, saw that there were words in his mouth, listened carefully and couldn't hear clearly, and then asked carefully, he has ignored you.

"People laugh at me for being too crazy, I laugh at others who can't see through it", sure enough, soon, the streets and alleys of Chang'an City, the kang head of the dinner table have spread, and some people also spread the gods, saying that the Taoist priest can pinch and calculate, and the Taoism is profound. For a time, the mad Taoist Wei Yuansong became famous.

At that time, there were no newspapers or radio stations, and I relied on my legs to go out and my mouth to become famous, so it seemed that the power of word-of-mouth was still quite large. There is an endless stream of fortune tellers looking for him. The income gradually increased, and the quality of life of Zhang Bin and Wei Yuansong quickly changed from poverty to well-off.

Well-off and well-off, four dishes and one soup. Looking at this four dishes and one soup, the two brothers feel that it is refreshing. However, there is always something in their hearts that they can't let go, the fourth step has not been completed, no one has signed a contract, and they can't earn a few dollars by fortune telling, which is really not enough to spend. We are a new generation of promising young people, and we cannot be bought by four dishes and one soup.

There is no unit to sign a contract, only to sell it yourself. Although it is a topic of conversation now, it is not enough, and it is necessary to turn people's names into celebrities. Either you don't do it, or if you want to do it, you can do it with a big vote. So in Chang'an in 564 AD, under the oil lamp without electrical equipment, at the table of four dishes and one soup, two young Taoist priests who lived well-off planned an amazing plan for their dreams.

Because of the implementation of this plan, a heavyweight is about to appear in their lives, and their fate will also change, and the days of four dishes and one soup will pass. Who is this heavyweight? Please see the next time: Monks from outside will chant sutras

Last time, Zhang Bin and Wei Yuansong made a plan together, and the express delivery went out, and the express list was filled in like this: Sender: Wei Yuansong Zhang Bin Mailed items: Event Planning Book Origin: Chang'an Recipient: Yu Wenyong Destination: Chang'an City Palace has you seen the recipient, Yu Wen Yong, who is it? It was none other than Emperor Wu of Zhou, the boss of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

Speaking of Yu Wenyong, I can't fail to mention his father, Mr. Yu Wentai. This gentleman is not a teacher, he was born as a military general. Since the Six Towns Uprising in the Northern Wei Dynasty in 523, Yuwentai has fought hard in the rivers and lakes for many years, and the bosses from all walks of life have died and run, and in the end, only he and another boss Gao Huan have been left to face off at the peak, and the two of them each have a puppet emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

With the Yellow River as the boundary, the Northern Wei Dynasty was torn into two pieces, east and west, and it is called the Eastern Wei and the Western Wei in historiography. To the east is Gao Huan's territory, and its sphere of influence includes today's Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi, the eastern half of Henan, the northeastern part of Jiangsu and the eastern half of Inner Mongolia.

To the west was Yuwentai's territory, and its sphere of influence included parts of present-day Shaanxi, Gansu, and Inner Mongolia. At that time, it was collectively referred to as the Guanzhong region. Of course, they were all in the area north of the Yangtze River, which is called the Northern Dynasty in history, and in a large area south of the Yangtze River, there was also a force, called the Liang Dynasty at that time, collectively known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which was the second Three Kingdoms in history.

Well, we've finished talking about the popular science of history. Let's talk about what is not in history textbooks. To tell the truth, at the beginning, whether it was military, economic or territorial, Yuwentai was not Gao Huan's opponent, and he was passive defense all year round.

It's a pity that the Yellow River also has a time when it is not powerful, as long as it is winter every year, as soon as the Yellow River freezes, then Yuwentai's heart is like freezing, how can he still have the heart to sleep, and he guards on the west bank of the Yellow River overnight, because Gao Huan can not use the boat, and he will kill him directly on a horse.

What makes Brother Tai depressed is not only this, and the internal situation is not optimistic. What is Guanzhong? The birthplace of the Zhou Dynasty and the birthplace of the Great Qin Empire, the people are simple and fierce. From the current Shaanxi Qin dialect, it can be seen.

Although Yuwentai started in six towns, he has been influenced by the Guanxi tribe culture for a long time, and his subordinates are all super ** with leopard heads and ringed eyes, but they are outsiders after all, this is to people's one acre and three points of land, and the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, but then again, he can't be bullied by the head snake, but fortunately, in this regard, Yuwentai is still a little bottom, because he now has two cards in his hand.

A card is the puppet boss Wei Xiaowu Emperor in his own hands, although he is the emperor, but he was intimidated by the old ** Gao Huan, with more than 10,000 imperial relatives and Janissaries from Luoyang to Chang'an to join us, if not for us, he would not be able to go to the post. Besides, "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes", what you do is justified, isn't it also cool?

There is also a card that is a group of fierce generals, since they follow themselves, that is Gao Huan's enemy, although forced by Gao Huan's strong military pressure, some people want to defect, but when I think of Gao Huan's careful eyes, I really don't have the guts, after all, there is a price to pay for taking risks.

Come to think of it, there doesn't seem to be anything else but these two cards, but there are a lot of problems, and two cards are definitely not enough. Friends who have played the game Three Kingdoms will know that there are several necessary conditions to defend a city: troops, prestige, money, morale, food and grass, generals, and the firmness of the city.

Yuwentai's problem is that except for the puppet emperor with +100 reputation and a few generals, nothing else is good, and the loyalty of the generals is not high, and they have to be constantly praised. However, people can't let urine suffocate to death, they have to find a way. What can you do? The strong dragon has to cooperate with the head snake and unite the forces in Guanzhong, isn't it good for everyone to achieve a win-win situation?

This Guanzhong force is not a simple local force in Guanzhong, it is mainly composed of three factions: one is the army that followed Yuwentai into Guanzhong.

This part has its own old subordinates from Wuchuan Town, the troops of the old leader He Batsheng (He Batsheng was killed by Hou Mo Chen Yue), and the prisoners who were recruited after killing Hou Mo Chen Yue. Everyone cooperated in the battle for a long time and formed a military faction in the six towns.

The second is the puppet emperor Wei Xiaowu, who brought more than 10,000 imperial nobles and janissaries from Luoyang. Those who followed Emperor Xiaowu all the way from Shandong to Guanzhong were basically loyal to the Wei royal family, and also formed a faction, the Shandong faction (royalist faction). The third is, of course, the local forces in the Guanlong region.

It is very superior, just like the current Shanghainese, with a mouth "Alafo is a Shanghainese, hungry is a Chang'an person", and the local wealthy family has been entrenched here for many years, according to the saying at that time, it is called Junwang, which is a famous family within a certain regional sphere of influence.

This also naturally formed a faction, according to the definition of Chen Yinke, a master of historiography, called the Guanlong faction. If you think about it, these three factions are mixed together, how complex the composition is, and the reason why it is so complicated is mainly that they all belong to different forces and do not have a unified guiding ideology. Therefore, the regions are different, the races are different, the counties are different, and the forces are different. Yuwentai is really powerless, and the pressure is great.