Wisps of faint morning mist floated like ribbons in the clear blue sky, and the two ends of the "ribbons" were tied to the gate in the distance and the tent in the vicinity. The rising smoke of the pillar-like cooking, the eternal silent stream, and the old cow walking with the sunset are all strung one by one on the slender and slender silver chain of memory like rock sugar gourds, which taste very fragrant and sweet.

Li Yunzhong, Hu Yihuang, Ling Shiba, and Meng Shengsheng simply had breakfast, and prepared the baptism, and prepared an incense case in the courtyard, which was used as a shrine, and placed two bright lamps and three cups of tea on the shrine. Li Yunzhong recited a confession of the three of them, which contained the names of the baptized, and he read it once, and Hu Yihuang and other baptized people repeated it. The confession was then burned, symbolizing its presentation to God...... Li Yunzhong then asked the converts if they had promised to "not worship false gods or do bad things, but to abide by the rules of heaven." Hu Yihuang, Meng rises. Ling 18 knelt down in turn to answer, and Li Yunzhong poured another glass of water on each person's head, and said in his mouth: "Wash away the sins of the past, get rid of the old and give birth to the new." "The converts stand up, drink the tea, and wash their breasts with water to purify their hearts. While confessing sins, pray for forgiveness. After being baptized, Hu Yihuang and the three received various forms of prayers, which were used for morning and evening prayers and before meals.

Next, Li Yunzhong told the three of them about the precepts of worshipping God: 1. Worship the supreme God 2. Worship false gods. 3. Do not speak God's name at will. 4. Worship on the seventh day and sing praises of the mercy of the Most High God. 5. Be filial to your parents. 6. Quit killing. 7. Precepts**. 8. Quit stealing. 9. Quit lies. 10. Quit greed. Let them memorize by heart.

Li Yunzhong worked hard all morning, and finally completed the baptism of the three of them and successfully joined the God Worship Cult.

After it was over, Li Yunzhong saw that they were overjoyed, as if he wanted to do it immediately. So he proposed, "It's better for us to worship as brothers, so as not to make Brother Li long and Brother Hu short." All three of them applauded, and they proposed to worship with the incense that had just been used for baptism.

At this time, there was a sound calling for Hu Yihuang outside, and the four of them went out to greet them, and they were Hu Yihuang's friends: Zhang Weikun, Lin Daji, and Zhang Suimou.

The three of them and Hu Yihuang have known each other since childhood, like-minded, and heard that Hu Yihuang had a friend in his family, so he came to come for a while, and knew that Hu Yihuang had joined the God Worship Sect and after listening to Li Yunzhong's introduction to the God Worship Sect, they would also participate together. After Li Yunzhong finished baptizing the three of them, he remembered that he was going to worship, and naturally invited Zhang Weikun, Lin Daji, and Zhang Suimou to participate together.

Li Yunzhong thought: I can't let them be pulled over by Yang Xiuqing, and tie up a few people together by swearing.

Seeing that everyone knelt in two rows, Li Yunzhong lit a few sticks of incense and inserted them in the incense burner on the press, and the seven of them all raised three fingers with their hands and swore to the sky: Today, Li Yunzhong and everyone reported their names in turn. Li Yunzhong went on to say, "A total of seven people worship as brothers, and in the future, they will be blessed and enjoy hardships together, if someone betrays his brother for the sake of glory and wealth in the future, or calculates his brother with others, then let him thunder and split, divide the corpses of five horses, cut off his children and grandchildren, and the eighteenth generation of his ancestors will not be at peace, and he will die without a place to bury" Li Yunzhong said more than a dozen poisonous oaths in one breath, and glimpsed the six people looking at him with wide eyes, as if to say: Don't you want to be so poisonous. Li Yunzhong hurriedly ended, "Heaven and earth are for example", and then kowtowed. Several people said in unison, "If there is a betrayal of the brother, it will be as Brother Li said." After that, he killed the chickens and drank the blood wine.

Everyone reported their age, Meng Sheng's oldest was forty-two years old and became the eldest brother, Hu Yihuang was thirty-two years old and was the second brother, Ling was eighteen and twenty-seven years old and the third, Zhang Suimou was two months younger than Ling eighteen and was the fourth, Zhang Weikun was twenty-six and became the fifth, Lin Daji was also twenty-six and was the sixth, and Li Yunzhong was the youngest twenty-two years old and the seventh brother.

After the bow, several people greeted each other, talked and laughed.

Suddenly remembering something, Li Yunzhong sighed with a sad face.

Sure enough, Hu Yihuang asked, "Why is Brother Eighty-Seven sighing, but if you have something on your mind, tell me about it, and I will share your worries with all the brothers." ”

At the beginning of this year, the government took advantage of our negligence to take precautions to arrest Feng Yunshan and Lu Liu, and the Hong sect leader went to Guangdong again, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui and others took the opportunity to seize power, and Yang Xiuqing pretended to be Heavenly Father went down to control the congregation, and when I rescued Mr. Feng, Yang Xiuqing actually committed a crime, openly provoked Feng Yunshan, and returned to Guangdong overnight in a fit of anger, I couldn't see it, so I wanted to stop Yang Xiuqing, who knew that he was mad and wanted to harm me, and I got the news thanks to it, so I escaped. ”

Meng Sheng muttered on the side, "I have heard of the worship of God Society, I always thought it was created by Feng Yunshan, but I didn't expect the sect leader to be Hong Xiuquan, then Yang Xiuqing I know him, he will have some crooked ways, specifically ask ghosts for poor people, and he is very prestigious near Bauhinia Town, I didn't expect him to be such a person, I will definitely guard against them after I go back." ”

Hu Yihuang comforted: "Seventh brother, don't worry, Yang Xiu liquidates something." It was he who was unrighteous first, of course we obeyed the orders of the seventh brother, and he couldn't help our brother. ”

It seems that they are all people who understand, and the future is limitless. Li Yunzhong's eyes were full of approval.

Because Zhang Weikun, Lin Daji, and Zhang Suimou joined the God Worship Society, they were all children of wealthy families, and like Hu Yihuang, they were often extorted by regimental training officials under the pretext of training soldiers and bandits needed to donate silver, and they had long been dissatisfied with the status quo, and several people often got together to discuss how to resist. They all accepted Li Yunzhong's rebellious ideas and expressed their willingness to support them with all their family wealth.

The seven of them got along with Hu Yihuang's house for a few days, during which Li Yunzhong's advantages were finally fully brought into play, and he kept fiddling with knowledge and knowledge with the experience of later generations, winning the admiration of Hu Yihuang, Zhang Suimou and others, and later it became Li Yunzhong's separate speech, they listened in the back, and they couldn't even keep up with the interjections, which made several people ashamed of themselves, and Li Yunzhong's prestige in their hearts reached its peak, just like being brainwashed by Li Yunzhong.

Meng Sheng couldn't wait to go back to Huazhou with the three hundred taels of silver sent by Hu Yihuang, and Ling Shibai also took five hundred taels back to Xinyi, Guangdong. Because Hu Yihuang tried his best to keep him, and in order to further investigate the lives of the four wealthy families: Hu Yihuang, Zhang Suimou, Zhang Weikun, and Lin Daji, Li Yunzhong decided to stay in Pingnan County for the time being.

After witnessing the growing tension between the Hakka, Yao, and Zhuang ethnic groups in Guangxi and the local landlords, large and small, and the frequent armed fights between the two families, Li Yunzhong planned to encourage the villagers to join the worship of God to resist the oppression of the local gentry.

Hu Yihuang took Li Yunzhong and a few brothers to pass by the mountain people to rush to the south of Siwang Town, there is a marriage temple in the west of Siwang Town, which is very spiritual, I heard that Li Yunzhong has not yet married a wife, so I insisted on pulling him over to see it.

It is said that the temple is actually just a house made of mud and stone, and there is a big tree outside the courtyard, which is covered with red ribbons, and from time to time a couple of men and women come to make wishes and make vows.

After everyone entered the temple, they were stunned by the scene inside, the gods enshrined in the temple were actually a pair of half-naked men and women, snuggling together affectionately.

Li Yunzhong asked the temple that distributed incense candles and ornaments next to the statue about the origin of this temple.

It turned out to be the early years of Daoguang, the great drought in Guangxi, countless people starved to death, among them there was a pair of young men and women who met unexpectedly under the tree in the courtyard when they were dying, and died of peace at night, after the villagers found out in the morning, they were supposed to throw their corpses into the wilderness, who knew that it was the time when the sky rained heavily, thunder and lightning. In addition, the news that the money and food for the imperial court disaster relief had arrived immediately came, the people were shocked and frightened, thinking that it was the manifestation of the gods, so they set up a temple for the two of them. The incense of this temple is also becoming more and more popular.

After listening to the origin of this temple, his eyes rolled, Li Yunzhong remembered that Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan were the experience of promoting the worship of God among the common people, and quickly pulled a few brothers out of the temple gate, seeing that they were all looking at him in surprise, Li Yunzhong took this 'killing weapon' as his own idea and said: "At present, the main task of the God Worship Sect in Pingnan County is to recruit more believers, and to recruit believers is to expand its influence, after all, there are more people who know the Tao, and the more people will join. Now we have destroyed this temple in the name of worshipping God, and the reputation of worshipping God has spread in this place. Then, we destroyed all kinds of temples in Pingnan County, so not only Pingnan County, but also the entire Xunzhou Mansion was topped with a big name. ”

"Then if we destroy all the temples in Guangxi, then wouldn't we be able to take down Guangxi immediately, and the temples of the whole country" Zhang Weikun was interrupted by Zhang Suimou before he finished his daydream.

"That's impossible, since the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the folk party has continued to revolt, among which the Heaven and Earth Society, Tianli Sect, and White Lotus Sect are all across several provinces, and the imperial court is to mobilize the strength of the whole country to pacify, so the government has very strict control over the folk party, and the slightest rise will be exterminated in the name of rebellion. However, since Jiaqing, the policy has been gradually relaxed, but it can only be spread secretly on a small scale.

Zhang Suimou is knowledgeable and resourceful, Ling 18 bravely crowns the three armies, Hu Yihuang is mature and steady, Meng Shengsheng has insight into people's hearts, Zhang Weikun is mediocre and unambitious, and Lin Daji is careful and bold. can be of great use, Li Yunxin sighed: With these few people, you can make a career.

"I'm afraid that the common people will not only not join the worship of God, but will hate us, after all, we are smashing down temples for no reason." Lin Daji said worriedly.

"Ha Luha, the virtuous brother is too worried, those Hakka people live in poverty and rarely worship temples, as long as we lure them and call these temples evil temples, this method is still likely to be successful." Hu Yihuang agrees.

Li Yunzhong saw that everyone had no objection, so he naturally ordered, "Second brother, you go and spend money to hire some idlers, beggars are strong." ”

"Okay, I'll go" Hu Yihuang was very familiar with Siwang Town, and walked in the direction where the beggar was.

"Fourth brother, fifth brother, sixth brother, your task is a bit heavy, use deception, use rush, whatever you want, in short, you want to gather the people in this small temple, by the way, also buy a few people to mix in the crowd to do internal response, look at my face and act." As he spoke, Li Yunzhong pointed to the open space around the small temple with his hand.

"Then let's go and prepare first," Zhang Suimou, Lin Daji, and Lin Daji replied in unison.

After everyone left, Li Yunzhong looked at the small temple in front of him with great ambition, and had an intuition: his career starts here."

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