April 19 of the first year of Guangxi of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jiazi Day of April in the summer of Jisi, and May 21 of 189.

In this year, the left general Huangfu Song led 20,000 Han troops, broke through the coalition of more than 100,000 troops of the kingdom, Ma Teng, and Han Sui, and beheaded more than 10,000.

In this month, Emperor Xiaoling Liu Hong died, and the young emperor Liu Wei ascended the throne, changed Yuan Guangxi, and granted amnesty to the world.

On this day, a huge rain prayer activity was held in various parts of Yuzhou.

The year is a big one!

Since June last year, the obscene rain has been continuous, and the crops have not been harvested in October.

Complete one's misery!

Since January this year, there has been a severe drought for four months!

The spring drought is dark, and the sun is as red as blood!

Peiguoyu County, Yuzhou, because of the nameless rivers in the territory, the drought is particularly serious.

In the wilderness, cracked fields are everywhere, and under the scorching sun, dust rises with the wind, like smoke.

Hungry people are like ants, and starvation to death is commonplace.

Even on official roads, the corpses of hungry people can often be seen stacked on top of each other.

The drought is extremely dry and locusts, and there are small flocks of locusts passing through the territory from time to time, and the terrifying locust plague many years ago seems to be about to reappear.

Except for a very small number of wealthy families who can still support it, most families have already eaten everything they can eat. The bark of the grass roots and trees is already haode, and many people feed their hunger with dirt and linen. The village is empty, and there are not a few families who starve to death together. There has been a phenomenon of cannibalism in Xinqiao in Xixiang, and I heard the old man say that this kind of thing only remembers that thirty-eight years ago in the first year of Yuanjia, it happened in Liangguo Gushu County.

Ten miles east of the city of Yuxian County, there is a big mound, about ten zhang high, 100 zhang long, 30 zhang wide.

In the past, there was a scholar who was proficient in the law, and he was ordered by Xiao He, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, to try to create the Han law here. wrote eight chapters, all of which were used by Xiao Xiang because the content was extremely pertinent. When the ninth chapter was written, the scholar's wife came to see him and picked two peaches under the mound. Unexpectedly, he violated the "thief law" formulated by his husband and was immediately suspended. When the scholar's mother heard this, she was furious and threw Lu Jian in her son's face: "What is the crime of betraying your mother and divorce your wife?" The scholar was dumbfounded, there was indeed a rule: "If you divorce your wife and don't tell your parents, you should die!" So, he resolutely died in the law. His mother was extremely sad, so she buried the chapter of Zuihou, and Xiao Xiang couldn't ask for it. After Xiao He's subordinates learned of this, they robbed the tomb and broke the coffin. I didn't want this chapter to have the law of "tomb robbers should be beheaded", and in desperation, Xiao He beheaded his subordinates.

This story has been passed down for a long time, but no one knows the scholar's name, because it happened on the mound, people simply called him Qiu Sheng, and the mound was named "Zhuanglutai".

When the drought first started, the legal platform became an altar for praying for rain in Yuxian County, and both the people and the government prayed for rain here repeatedly. He also specially went to Fengxian and Sichuan to invite the descendants of Zhang Ling Tianshi, and he was very busy, but God didn't give face, just not a drop of rain. In the cracked fields around the platform, banners were hung everywhere to drive away the drought ghosts, and a gust of wind blew in the dark night, which was terrifying.

Later, people saw that repeated prayers could not be achieved, and the method of stirring up the gods became popular. The first humble words praised the gods such as Xiannong, Fengbo, Yushi, and Lei Gong, saying that the gods were omnipotent, and then put out the best offerings offered by the wealthy family, and then set up a monument to the gods. After a few days, there was no rain! People began to speak of the drought as a disgrace to the gods to provoke their pride and anger, but there was still not a single hair in the sky. So, the people called the people of the county and the township, and began to speak and intimidate the gods, beating gongs and drums to warn the gods: everything is raining here! If you can't do it, it will no longer be a good word, and you will no longer be sacrificed, so you will destroy your monument and tear down your temple! As you can imagine, there is still no rain!

Yuzhou Mu and Guannei Hou Huangwan, since the drought just began, began to travel to the counties in the prefecture, telling the officials to lead the people to dig wells to prevent drought, and the first to arrive at that time was Yu County. At that time, Tan Fu nodded his head like a chicken eating millet, but as soon as Huang Wan left, he didn't take a few wells, so he took the lead in offering rain. Even Huang Wan's order to open a warehouse for disaster relief was only symbolic.

Not only Tan Fu is like this, but there are also a large number of officials in various counties in Yuzhou who are like Tan Fu. This is due to the fact that in modern times, the witch wind has become increasingly hot, encouraging the gods to deceive the people and confuse the common people. Yan Yun: "The country will prosper, listen to the people; Dying, listen to God. "Nobuo?

Some time ago, Tan Fu invited a "Tianyi" master from Xuzhou, named Que Ling, who was the second brother of "Tianyi" to teach Tianshi Que Xuan. This Que Ling told Tan Fu that as long as he did what he said, he would keep it raining all day!

Tan Fu was overjoyed, and immediately worshiped Que Ling as a god, and Que Ling told him: The reason why it does not rain in the sky is because of the lack of respect for the Thunder God in the world, and only one boy and one virgin girl who are in line with the Thunder God's mind are selected from the county, and a high platform is built to be enshrined to the Thunder God. And the families who were not selected had to contribute money and goods to pray for rain.

Que Ling's method has been used many times in Xuzhou and all over the country, and it has been tried and tested repeatedly. Speaking of later, he said to Tan Fu with a difficult face: "It's just that the eligible sacrifice boy is difficult to find, and only if you find the right one can it rain!" ”

Regardless of the dissuasion of several virtuous people, Tan Fu, who has tried all kinds of ways to ask for rain and has nothing to do, simply died as a horse doctor, if the two children can really save the victims of the county and even the whole state, it is too worthwhile!

Tan Fu showed his selflessness, first let Que Ling see his ten-year-old boy, Que Ling shook his head, and said that there was a mole under his chin, no. Tan Fushen regretted this and took the lead in donating 10,000 yuan.

For some time after that, Que Ling was busy looking for sacrificial children in the county. Of course, he started with the big families in the county, because the conditions were easy for the big families to produce the appearance of the haode sacrifice children. When Que Ling chose the boy, he made the boy alone in a room, and he covered a bronze turtle with his head with his sleeves, and observed the boy intently. The boy's family continued to throw some gold and silver money into the cloth bag under the copper turtle, zuihou, as long as the ** is low, it is not a sacrifice child. The method is simple and practical, but it is strictly ordered to be kept secret, otherwise it will be punished by God.

In the past few days, I have been running all over the county's large and medium households, but I still haven't found the sacrificial child. However, the donated money and materials are worth more than one million, half of which is temporarily stored with Tan Fu for safekeeping, and the other half is used for Que Ling's daily expenses for organizing a rain prayer event.

But this day, the news came, and the state pastor Huang Wan was coming again! After traveling to the 98 counties of Yuzhou, Huang Wan returned to Zhiqiao County, and heard that the disaster in Yuxian County was particularly serious, and he was going to visit this place again in the near future. When the news came, the county commander Tan Fu suddenly panicked, the matter of praying for rain could not be delayed any longer, and he urgently summoned Que Ling overnight.

"Mingting, don't panic!" Que Ling had a fearless and fearless appearance, and smiled confidently: "I have found a pair of men and women who sacrifice children, tomorrow is Jiazi Day, it is auspicious, and you can pray for rain at noon, and you can call the people of the whole county to come and make a strong reputation!" ”

The county government of this dynasty is called the county court, so the county order is generally called "Ming court", and sometimes it is also called "county king", "county prince" or something. Jiazi Day is the most auspicious day for the beginning of everything, such as the founding day of a certain dynasty to choose Jiazi Day.

"As long as I can ask for rain, even if I have an explanation, I don't have to worry about it!"

Fang Bo, the honorific title of the history of the assassin and the state pastor, is equivalent to the history of the Ming envoy and the history of the Ming assassin, which means that it is an example of one party. In fact, since the beginning of the year, after Tan Fu married his daughter to Zhao Zhong's nephew in Da Changqiu, he didn't put Huang Wan at ease. It's just that when he heard that he was coming again, he was afraid for a while, but now that he heard Que Ling say this, Tan Fu's anxious heart suddenly let go.

As soon as the morning dawned, Tan Fu ordered the county officials to notify the townships and organize the people to build momentum at the legal platform.

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