Chapter XXVII

"Yuan Zhenren...... What is the relationship with you? Zhang Yicheng vaguely felt that things didn't seem to be as simple as he imagined, about Yuan Shaoyi's deeds, he usually listened to his father's chatter; This person is the head of the Longhu Mountain Zhengyi in the middle of the Republic of China, ranking first of the eight truths (1) of the Republic of China, not only the number one boss of the Zhengyi Sect, but even the chief scoop of the entire Daomen, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, this person joined the Kuomintang top secret secret agent organization China Taiping Blessing Committee to join the War of Resistance, his whereabouts are mysterious, and his cultivation is even more unfathomable, and he has also performed magic to save the life of the old lady Li Erya, according to the description of the father Zhang Guozhong, even the Nanyang evil art of Dai Zhenyun, the fourth child of Maoshan who is half human and half immortal, but let this Uncle Yuan get it in three minutes, how could such a stormy immortal have anything to do with the ET uncle in front of him?

"He's mine...... It can be said that it is an adoptive father and master......" Tong Guohu straightened his glasses, "I was only eight years old when my father died, and I had no relatives, but he adopted me and raised me. ”

"Raising ...... Father...... Add...... Division...... Fu ...... "Zhang Yicheng's legs trembled and he really had the urge to hang himself on the spot, according to his father Zhang Guozhong's words, the so-called Eight Truths of the Republic of China at that time were originally the Seven Truths of the Republic of China, all of them were proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, and Ma Sijia, the head of the Maoshan faction, was not included in it because he belonged to the younger generation. The reason why it later became Bazhen and there was an additional Ma Sijia behind it was entirely because of the patriotic feat of Old Man Ma who first joined the Anti-Japanese War, and his patriotic remarks of "the country is dying, how can the road survive" is admired by the same family. If you strictly rank seniority according to the rules of the Daomen, Yuan Shaoyi should be a generation higher than Ma Sijia, theoretically speaking, Daddy Zhang Guozhong still has to call others a master, so don't you have to call Uncle ET in front of you Grandpa?

"After my dad died, the street wanted to arrange for me to go to work-study school, but I was not old enough, but there was no way, I had to go there in my situation, and then I stayed in school for a few years, and I was bullied by the big children, so I ran out of school......" Tong Guohu squeezed his eyebrows, and seemed to be quite unsatisfied, "I didn't dare to go home, I was afraid of being arrested again, but I had nowhere to go, and then I remembered that my father had lost money at the train station when he was alive, and I wanted to go to the train station to steal money, but the money was not stolen, but was caught, I thought to myself, I must have been sent back to that work-study school, but my captors not only didn't send me back to work-study school, but also took me home and taught me to read and write. ”

"The person who arrested you is Yuan Shaoyi?" Zhang Yicheng frowned.

"Yes!" Tong Guohu nodded, "At first, he only taught me literacy, and when I grew up, he began to teach me Taoism, he said that I was very similar to an apprentice he had a long time ago, like the surname Miao, and he liked him the most among all the apprentices, like me, he also had an eye like this, and his understanding was very high, he was a rare Taoist genius in a hundred years, but unfortunately this person disappeared inexplicably later, and his life and death were uncertain; When he met me later, he felt that the apprentice was back......"

"Have you ever visited a teacher?"

"No, until his old man said goodbye, there is no clear and specific relationship between me and him, I call him grandpa, he calls me Xiaohu......" Tong Guohu looked out the window, thoughtful, "I heard you say today that your father is the head of the Maoshan faction, I suddenly remembered him, I don't know if your father has any dealings with him, I don't know where his old man lives now, whether he is alive; We haven't seen each other in more than a decade. ”

"So that's ......" Hearing Tong Guohu say that he didn't apprentice, Zhang Yicheng's heart can be regarded as letting go, at least there is no need to call grandpa, "How long have you been learning from him?" ”

"It should have been thirteen or fourteen years since I formally learned Taoism......," Tong Guohu said, "until he said goodbye to the old man later." ”

"Brother Tong, to tell you the truth, my father has indeed met Yuan Zhenren, but the time they have met is probably not as long as the time we have met, looking for him for this matter, I really can't help you............" Zhang Yicheng pouted, and said that he still wanted to use his father's identity as a coach to brag about NB with others, but he didn't expect that he was a cow who had learned from Yuan Shaoyi for more than ten years, maybe the two times my father took it to others for nothing, "Yuan Zhenren is so capable, why don't you let him help you solve that thing?"

"Of course I asked him......," Tong Guohu said, "but he doesn't seem to have found a particularly good way......

"I'm a dear mother......" Zhang Yicheng smiled, your uncle's Yuan Shao didn't have a clue to the side door and said that you came to me for help, isn't this Nima an international egg...... "Brother Tong, Yuan Zhenren has no solution, you come to me?" You think too highly of me, don't you? ”

"Hehe, looking for you, it's not what I mean, it's what he means...... Tong Guohu smiled, "He told me that finding someone like you is the key to unlocking the lock!" ”

"Keys? What do you mean? What is a lock? Hearing Tong Guohu say this, Zhang Yicheng was also stunned.

"This lock is the 'Mao Array' that caused your classmates to get something like yesterday!" Tong Guohu turned around and showed a long-lost ET smile again, "Hong Xiuquan is a worship of God and believes in God, do you know why he named the country 'Taiping Heavenly Kingdom'?" ”

"I should hope that the world is peaceful, right?" Zhang Yicheng had a question mark in his head, and he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Tong Guohu's gourd.

"I hope for peace, and he still rebels? Honestly stay at home at the most peaceful! Tong Guohu said with a smile, "Tell you, this kind of side door is not created by his old Hong family!" The word Taiping is not the same thing as the Taiping you are talking about! ”

According to Tong Guohu's words, in the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation, there have only been two peasant uprisings that were purely religious and large-scale enough to shock the rule of the current dynasty, one was the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the other was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the giant deer Zhang Jiao was known as the immortal gift of the "Taiping Technique" to create the "Taiping Dao", and in the Han Dynasty Guanghe seven years (AD 184), based on the Taiping Dao believers to launch the Yellow Turban Uprising, millions of people (2) instantly transformed into a rebel army, for a time the world was in turmoil and the opposition was shocked, although the uprising was finally put down by Cao Cao, but the uprising directly led to the formation of the Three Kingdoms in the Later Han Dynasty, and its scale and influence can be seen in general.

With such a huge uprising covering the whole country, and among them there are millions of disciples, it is obviously unrealistic to just rely on mouth spray, and it is possible to fool 180 people with an open-air speech, but if you want to fool 1.8 million people at once, you can't do it without any real skills. At the same time as leveling Zhang Jiao, Cao Cao himself was also apprehensive about the so-called "Taoism" that Zhang Jiao used to deceive people's hearts, and simply handed over some captured upper members of the Yellow Turban Army to the court warlocks for severe torture, and through the interrogation of a number of high-level leaders of the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Jiao's demagogic tricks were finally recognized by a court warlock named Wu You, according to Wu You's analysis, Zhang Jiao's so-called "Taoism" and the current mainstream "Five Buckets of Rice Dao" Taoism, although it is indeed somewhat similar on the surface, but there is no dime in the bones, as the so-called"This Tao is not the other way, it seems to be the Tao but not the Tao", Zhang Jiao's "Dao Method" is actually the "Mao Technique" in the six ancient techniques that have been tampered with.

As soon as I heard that Zhang Jiao was using "Maoshu", Lao Cao couldn't rest assured, according to Wu Wei's statement, Maoshu was abolished as early as more than 100 years ago during Wang Mang's reform, and now it is not only resurrected, but it has almost shoveled the government, this is still it? In Cao Cao's view, although Zhang Jiao is dead at this time, but the vigilance against the ancient evil art of Mao Shu can not be relaxed at any time, and the yellow scarf is gone now, but if this kind of evil art is allowed to develop freely, maybe one day there will be a red scarf and a green scarf? So much so that Cao Cao concentrated on the Mao technique before he got rid of Sun Quan and Liu Bei.

After Cao Cao's death, Sima Zhao killed Cao Chao and usurped the power of Cao Wei, and sent Zhong Hui and Deng Ai to settle Xishu and unify the world.

"There is an old Chinese saying, called 'a hundred-legged insect dies but does not stiff'......" Tong Guohu said, "Although Sima Zhao's ban made Maoshu extinct for more than a thousand years in the Jin Dynasty and even later generations, this thing came back to life in the late Qing Dynasty......"

"Are you saying that the 'Taiping' of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is the same thing as Zhang Jiao's 'Taiping Dao'?" Zhang Yicheng frowned and didn't know why, this Tong Guohu's opinion was simply unheard of......

"If you think about it carefully, why is the Yellow Turban Uprising called the Yellow Turban Uprising?" Tong Guohu stretched out his finger and pointed to his head, "Wrapping their heads in a yellow scarf is their most obvious feature!" Do you know what the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is dressed for? ”

"This ......" Zhang Yicheng couldn't help but be stunned, and carefully recalled the illustrations in history, it seems that they are indeed wrapped in cloth, but the illustrations are black and white, and it is difficult to determine what color it is.

"When Du Wenxiu rebelled, he called on his subordinates to wear Ming clothes, which is understandable, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, many anti-Qing forces liked to use the anti-Qing restoration as a cover, and although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom said that it was anti-Qing, it did not advocate the restoration of Ming; Although it is said that he worships God and is a Western immortal, but the costume is also different from that of foreigners, and it is different from all dynasties, Hong Xiuquan was born in the late Qing Dynasty, and he is not a fashion designer, why did he figure out that weird dress? Tong Guohu narrowed his eyes and pointed to his head again.

"Just by clothes, do you think that Hong Xiuquan has inherited Zhang Jiao's Mao technique?" Zhang Yicheng seemed a little unconvinced.

"Of course, it's not just about ......clothes," Tong Guohu said, "Do you know what secret they have under the cloth on their heads?" ”

"Maoju?"

"Not exactly!" Tong Guohu walked to the bed and pulled out a large rattan suitcase from under the bed, which seemed to be quite old, "Look at this!" Tong Guohu opened the suitcase and took out a dirty and strange bright yellow hat, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, like a big cap worn by a policeman with the brim removed, and a bright yellow silk cloth attached to the back of the hat, which was full of various messy patterns with slightly darker silk threads, which at first glance looked like the outfits used by some folk music performers in the south.

"This is the hat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? Big hat, ......" Zhang Yicheng took the hat, it didn't seem to be quite the same as the one drawn on the illustration in the history book, "Brother Tong, I remember that the hat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom seems to be a piece of cloth, and then find a hoop, similar to Arafat's kind of ......"

"That's the hat of a common man or an ordinary soldier! This hat, in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, only people at the level of the prince are qualified to wear it! Tong Guohu took the hat from Zhang Yicheng's hand and pointed to the inside of the hat, "Look here!" ”

"This ...... What is it...... Is this what it is? Following Tong Guohu's guidance, Zhang Yicheng also found that the inside of the hat seemed to be a little greasy, although the hat was too old to look good, but he could still faintly see some strange patterns from the mud stains on the silk surface, at first glance it was a little similar to the Taoist talisman, but he couldn't understand it at all when he looked closely.

"Almost......" Tong Guohu said, "This is a talisman!" ”

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Note:

(1) The Eight Truths of the Republic of China: During the Republic of China, the eight Taoists recognized as the most prestigious and the most advanced in cultivation were Yuan Shaoyi (Zhengyi), Shen Fangzhuo (Wudang), Su Zhengu (Quanzhen), Hou Zihou (Zhengyi), Yan Tongjiu (Lushan), Zhang Xinguang (Quanzhen), Zhu Haizhi (Qingcheng), and Ma Sijia (Maoshan).

(2) The concept of population in the late Eastern Han Dynasty: At the beginning of the Zhangjiao Uprising, the number of believers in the uprising was about 800,000, and later the Yellow Turban Rebellion swept the country, and the number of rebels gradually grew to more than 1 million. In that period, the social population density was not as high as that of modern times, taking the famous Battle of Chibi as an example, Cao Cao led the main army of Wei to attack Wu, known as 830,000, and historians analyzed its real number according to the logistics supply capacity and transportation capacity at that time, which was more than 100,000; In the middle of the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yu was defeated and Maicheng was captured by Pan Zhang, and was killed by Sun Quan, Liu Bei avenged Guan Yu, raised the country's troops to attack Wu, and even the security city management went into battle, claiming to have an army of 700,000, and the real number was 70,000 or 80,000, excluding the migrant workers who carried luggage, and there were only 40,000 or 50,000 people who could really fight. Therefore, Zhang Jiao's uprising of 800,000 believers was definitely a terrifying number for the imperial court at that time. It was only because the vast majority of the rebel army were civilians without any combat effectiveness, and the uprising lacked a unified command of the scattered sand throughout the country, which led to the final defeat.