Taoist culture is an important part of Chinese culture. The Taoist culture mentioned here refers to the Taoist thought pioneered by Lao Tzu, not to the Taoism created by Zhang Daoling later.

Taoism, China's native religion, may seem strange to later generations. For more than 1,000 years, Taoism, as a native religion, could not become a theocratic state religion like Christianity, and could not develop a missionary system that effectively managed and fully governed its followers. On the contrary, because of all kinds of strange and brain-dead things in the name of Taoism, they have left a lot of inglorious reputations in Chinese history.

In fact, the Quanzhen Taoism in the Taoist system is still very clean and pure. Quanzhen Taoism emphasizes individual practice, unlike other sects and other religions that seek to attract and develop followers everywhere. She is more like a religious sect that emphasizes personal cultivation and emphasizes self-cultivation.

However, religion is always integrated with the local culture in the process of propagation. When the Quanzhen Sect, which emphasized the cultivation of Neidan, spread in Hubei, it was combined with the strong local Jingchuwu culture in Hubei. In this way, the originally clean and tidy Quanzhen Taoism was also painted on its face with a layer of exaggerated oil paint of gods, ghosts, ghosts, hideousness and evil.

The Taoism that the landlord came into contact with and believed in in the Huangzhou area is the Quanzhen sect of Taoism.

People are close to religion for two reasons. One is for profit reasons, and the other is for psychological reasons.

The so-called profit reason refers to the fact that people combine their fate with false gods, hoping to control their own destiny from the gods through the means of prayer. For example, in modern society, many parents who have candidates at home will like to burn incense and worship Buddha before the exam, hoping that their children can get a good score in the exam.

For example, at the beginning of 2015, officials in Nanjing had close contact with monks in temples. In the final analysis, it is these officials who have completely lost their proper faith and abandoned their materialist values. They degenerated into feudal bureaucrats, and absurdly pinned their hopes for promotion and fortune on the gods and Buddhas.

The so-called psychological causes refer to the fact that people encounter a large number of setbacks and failures in the face of reality. They have lost faith and hope in reality, and are full of despair about their future. For this reason, they seek psychological solace by converting to religion.

The landlord, as a broken and noble son, was full of courage to challenge reality when he was young.

In the eyes of the landlord, the honorable should have the honor and mission of the honorable. If you are the descendant of a military general, then you should assume the responsibility of defending the country and obtain the glory of military victory.

However, in the environment of the late Ming Dynasty, the landlord's sense of mission and honor soon encountered a realistic blow. In his early years, he thought that if he was admitted to the martial arts, he would be reused by the country, and he would be able to serve the country on the battlefield.

However, after entering the officialdom system of the Ming Dynasty, he realized that not only did the military generals have no status in front of the civil officials, but among those military generals and nobles, making money, occupying land, raising drama troupes, eating, drinking, and having fun were regarded as serious things by them. When he heard the landlord talk about his ambition to defend his family and country, he was actually faced with the ridicule of those noble children. Even those uncles and elders who were close to his family also advised him very seriously not to hold such unrealistic illusions, but to manage the officialdom well and reorganize the family.

What the landlord especially didn't expect was that his mother, who had always helped him and supported him, persuaded him to revitalize the family business more important and urgent than to make contributions on the battlefield after he was admitted to Wu Zhuangyuan.

In this environment, the landlord naturally let go of his ideal of making contributions on the battlefield, and under the arrangement of his family and relatives and friends, he became a pickled military attache who sent money to the top, asked for money from the bottom, and ate empty salaries to occupy the military quota.

A person with ideals has succumbed to reality and lived for twenty years. The trauma to his psyche must have been very great.

In this way, the landlord became a devout Taoist believer in the position of commander of Huangzhou Wei. He no longer danced knives and guns every day to train archers and horses, but began to burn incense and meditate every day, and did his Taoist homework more pious and standard than that of Taoist priests.

For the landlord, only burning incense and meditating can bring him some peace of mind.

In the capital of Huangzhou, the landlord of Huangzhouwei was also famous. General Taoist is the nickname given to the landlord by the Huangzhou officialdom. And inside the Huangzhou Health Center, the landlord was also secretly called Chengfang Lao Dao by his subordinates and soldiers.

Fang Lao Dao is not a real old man after all. The decision-making power of Huang Zhouwei on various major matters is still in the hands of the landlord.

One day in 1626, when the landlord was burning incense and meditating in the clean room, Huang Zhouwei commanded more than a dozen principal officials of Huangzhou Wei, including the envoy's fellow intellectuals, servants, suppressors, experiences, and governors, to rush into the clean room where the landlord burned incense and meditated, despite the obstruction of the people under the house.

Seeing that the landlord was about to have a seizure, his deputy, Huang Zhouwei's commander and Tongzhi Ma Degong, immediately said to him: "Report to your lordship, the soldiers and horses of the new Huguang chief soldier Wang Shuhui have arrived in Huangzhou. More than 1,000 soldiers and horses had already surrounded the commanding envoys. If something is wrong, adults should make a decision quickly! ”

Huangzhou Mansion is next to Wuchang Mansion. Along the Yangtze River, in less than one morning, more than 1,000 soldiers of the two battalions of the Fuxing Army arrived at the Huangzhou Wharf in full armor on a special troop transport ship of the Yangtze River Fleet of the Fuxing Army.

The unsuspecting capital city of Huangzhou was open to the Fuxing Army. More than 1,000 soldiers of the Fuxing Army, led by the officers, ran into the capital city of Huangzhou in a neat line. In less than half an hour, the two battalions of the Fuxing Army surrounded the entire Huangzhou Wei Command and Envoy Division.

Fang Dazhuang had long known that the commander of Huang Zhouwei was his own family, a guy with a ridiculous name called the landlord. He read the information in his hand again, and then ordered the signal corps to send a copy of the official document prepared by the Fuxing Society and made in the name of the Huguang General Army's Yamen to the Huangzhou Wei Command Mission.

As the new chief instructor of the 16th Battalion of the Renaissance Army, the Ming Dynasty's Zhengsanpin military attache robe was worn on Fang Dazhuang's body, which made him feel very awkward.

Not to mention that he felt awkward, but when the officers and soldiers around him saw Fang Dazhuang constantly tearing the clothes on his body, everyone secretly laughed in their hearts.

In the eyes of these young cadres and soldiers of the Fuxing Army, the magnificent military general's official robes of the Ming Dynasty are indeed very deformed and ridiculous. Space-Time Gate 1619

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