Chapter 33: The Suspicious Holy Lotus Sect

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When Xu Yang and the four of them were eating, they heard someone in the village shouting, claiming that they were members of the Holy Lotus Sect and had come here to collect members. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info Xu Yangzheng wondered if the Holy Lotus Sect was so bold that he dared to blatantly come to the village to recruit disciples.

Just when I was wondering, I saw two people gradually revealing at the door, both of them were dressed in plain cloth clothes, with a white strip of cloth tied around their necks, and one of them was holding a microphone in his hand, and was blowing the conch in front of him, while the person behind him was holding a gong and beating "dong, dong".

Xu Yang saw the two people passing by the door, just looked towards his side, and then continued to walk towards the front and shouted. Xu Yang saw that the two of them had gone away, and said to Ma Zichen: "It's just that this Holy Lotus Sect is blatantly going against the imperial court, and it is really becoming more and more lawless to dare to blatantly come to the village to recruit disciples." ā€

The girl named Lian Gui saw Xu Yang talking in annoyance, tilted her head to look at the other party, smiled stupidly, and then left the reunion table and started to play with the dogs and chickens in the courtyard. Ma Zichen saw the girl playing there and said, "Officers and soldiers don't treat poor people as human beings, and these Holy Lotus Sect members are just recruiting disciples everywhere under the guise of doing the way for the heavens, so as to expand their strength, they just want to benefit from it." ā€

"Fathers and fellow villagers, the officials are inhumane and the people, and the officers and soldiers know the law and break the law to earn the people's fat and people's ointment from the poor people. If you don't stand up again, I'm afraid that you will be exploited by those corrupt officials and corrupt officials until your wives are separated and you have no way out. It is better to work with us to overthrow this corrupt court, establish a new order, and restore a peaceful and prosperous world in the world. If you are interested in joining our Holy Lotus Sect, please come to the square in the center of the village. Our Holy Lotus Sect will definitely not treat you badly, and the military salary is much more generous than that of the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners Army. Join us in overthrowing the court so that you won't be exploited by the officials......" one of the villagers shouted.

Ma Zichen heard that the people of the Holy Lotus Sect had asked the villagers to gather in the square in the village, and asked Xu Yang, "Brother Xu, should we go over and have a look?"

"It doesn't hurt to see. I'd like to see how these people from the Holy Lotus Sect use their incorruptible tongues to induce the villagers to join the evil organization. As Xu Yang spoke, he stood up and walked outside.

Ma Zichen's mother saw that the two of them were going to see the excitement, and hurriedly reminded the two not to join in. Ma Zichen naturally knew that the Holy Lotus Sect was just talking about corrupt officials and corrupt officials and mutilating the people, and its purpose was just to incite the people to revolt, but the ambitions of the wolf were known to everyone. Ma Zichen said to his mother that he was just going to see the excitement and would not join in, and then walked towards the village with Xu Yang.

When the two came to the square in the village one after another, they saw that many of the villagers had already come, all watching the group of people on the stage shouting. Xu Yang saw two members of the Holy Lotus Sect standing on the stage, and there were also people from the Holy Lotus Sect holding fire guns and halberds all around. Xu Yang probably counted more than a dozen of these people, and they were all spread to all corners.

Xu Yang and Ma Zichen were standing behind the villagers, when they heard a member of the Holy Lotus Sect on the stage shouting with a microphone: "Dear villagers, and I was also born in poverty, and I have also suffered from the exploitation and oppression of corrupt officials and officers and soldiers, and I joined the Holy Sect in desperation. After I joined the Holy Church, I was warmly welcomed by the prefects, like a father and a son, and like a brother. The Holy Religion is a warm home. I think you have also seen how corrupt officials and unscrupulous officers and soldiers are preying on the common people, right? And how can you overthrow this evil force and bad tendency?"

"Of course, it is only by joining the Holy Lotus Sect and becoming a member of the Holy Lotus Sect that we can take revenge, make the world a peaceful and prosperous world, and we can have a good life. Several of the villagers shouted in different places.

Xu Yang was immediately very angry when he heard someone among the villagers say such things, and when he looked at those people, he found that although these people were dressed very plainly, they were very neat, unlike the clothes worn by the surrounding villagers, who were all sewn and repaired, and spoke with different accents from the villagers, and suddenly became suspicious.

Just as Xu Yang listened to the people on the stage ask a question, and some of the villagers below replied, cooperating with each other tacitly, Ma Zichen's voice came from his ears: "These villagers who sing and harmonize with the Holy Lotus Sect are not from our village. ā€

Xu Yang watched the two sides singing and harmonizing there, and the surrounding villagers were also indignant and resentful, and the grievances also followed the two sides to sing and harmonize. The villagers did not suspect that the two sides were performing a double reed play, which was performed for themselves, in order to arouse the anger of the people, so that the villagers would willingly join their team.

Xu Yang watched as the two sides of the Holy Lotus Sect gradually ignited the emotions of the villagers, and a terrible thought came to his heart, and he muttered to himself: "This group of Holy Lotus Sect is really trying their best to pull the villagers into the gang! What a bunch of goddamn demons!"

Just when Xu Yang was resentful in his heart, he saw that the villagers below had already walked onto the stage in groups, and those unaware villagers also followed this group of people to the stage, and loudly blew the conch to the villagers below: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are also being blackmailed and exploited by corrupt officials and corrupt officials when we stay in the village, and sooner or later we will die, it is better to join the Holy Sect, maybe there is still a glimmer of life." Hurry up and join us in the Holy Sect to overthrow this corrupt court!"

Those villagers who couldn't resist the temptation and endured all the hardships also followed the group onto the stage, shaking hands with the members of the Holy Lotus Sect warmly, and at the same time blowing the conch to the indifferent villagers below, encouraging these people to come up. Xu Yang was very angry when he saw that these kind villagers had been tempted by the Holy Lotus Sect, and he was about to step forward to beat these evil demons away, but he saw that these people were standing separately.

Although Xu Yang was very confident in his heart that he could beat these people to death, if one or two fish slipped through the net, wouldn't it bring unwarranted disasters to the villagers. Xu Yang didn't have to think about it to know that if he killed these Holy Lotus Sect personnel in the village, these Holy Lotus Sect would definitely come back to take revenge.

"Xu Yingying, Ma Zichen, Big Tiger, Little Tiger, the four of you also join our Holy Lotus Sect, and work with us to overthrow this corrupt court and make contributions in the Holy Lotus Sect together, wouldn't it be in vain to live this life. A villager on the stage shouted to Xu Yang and the others.

Xu Yang saw that in addition to standing next to Ma Zichen, there were also two big tigers and little tigers standing next to him, and there were not many villagers left under the stage, all of them were old and weak women who were still left below, and those young and strong male villagers were already standing on the stage, which showed that the tricks used by the Holy Lotus Sect had moved everyone.

Xu Yang saw that a villager on the stage also wooed him, and sneered in his heart. Ma Zichen didn't break through the tricks of the Holy Lotus Sect, and shouted: "I still want to gain fame, so I won't join you." ā€

"This court has become corrupt like this, what's the use of still testing for fame? Even if you get a half-official position in the future, you will definitely be in the same league with those corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the future. Don't you understand the truth that those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black? It is better for us to overthrow this imperial court, establish a new order, and restore the scientific examination system, and then it will not be too late for you to take the examination again!" shouted a member of the Holy Lotus Sect on the stage. When this person saw Ma Zichen shaking his head indifferently, and saw that Xu Yang and the three of them were also rare young men, they also shouted several times, but they still didn't expect the long-awaited effect.

Xu Yang and the four of them naturally knew some details of the Holy Lotus Sect, so they naturally would not fall into the trap and temptation of the other party. Seeing that the four of them were indifferent, the Holy Lotus Sect personnel sighed, they were hired by CICC again, and they left behind a bright future and future, and they still didn't see the four of them on the stage, so they gave up the four of them.

Seeing that there were more than 30 villagers standing beside them, the Holy Lotus Sect personnel could be regarded as having achieved their goal, and they touted flattery such as knowing the current affairs to these people, and said that Xu Yang and the others were blind to the mouses, and they could only stay in the village and wait for others to slaughter and die. One of the members of the Holy Lotus Sect asked two of his subordinates to lead these villagers back to the base, and these villagers who joined the Holy Lotus Sect followed the two Holy Lotus Sect personnel towards the north after saying goodbye to their relatives with tears of goodbye to their relatives.

When the villagers who had newly joined the Holy Lotus Sect disappeared from their field of vision, Xu Yang and the others thought that these people should also go home, but they didn't expect that an even more jaw-dropping thing happened in the Holy Lotus Sect, which suddenly made Xu Yang and the others completely fall to the bottom of the Holy Lotus Sect with the last bit of good impression. When these members of the Holy Lotus Sect came to Anning Village, they naturally saw rice bags (opium poppies) planted in the fields, so they began to use their money to buy tobacco soil from the villagers (the juice obtained from the opium poppy is tobacco soil, which is called opium after boiling), and promised that the price they would pay was twice as high as the price of the tobacco merchants.

The villagers of Anning Village saw that the price given by the Holy Lotus Sect was indeed twice as high as the price collected in the market, and immediately sold the black soil in their homes to the Holy Lotus Sect personnel in droves. These Holy Lotus Sect personnel took the black soil from the villagers, paid the villagers, and preached to Xu Yang and the others, but after receiving no satisfactory answers, they left.

Xu Yang didn't expect that Ma Zichen's home also planted rice bags, but the other party's family planted half of the rice bags and half of the grain. Xu Yang followed Ma Zichen back home, saw the other party's mother counting the silver tickets, and was surprised to see that these silver tickets were all from "Jinxin Qianzhuang". Coincidentally, the silver tickets in the hands of the rest of the villagers were all from Jinxin Qianzhuang.

What frightened Xu Yang was not limited to this, and suddenly found that after these villagers sold the black soil, they got all silver tickets, and there was no real money, how could it not make people suspect that there were secrets hidden in it that could not be told.

Xu Yang saw that the villagers were happily counting the silver tickets, and a terrible thought came to his mind: "Could it be that 'Jinxin Qianzhuang and the Holy Lotus Sect are in the same group?' If this is the case, I am afraid that the Holy Lotus Sect has poisoned all the villages, and the villagers and officials who do not know about it may still be kept in the dark, right? If one day after the Holy Lotus Sect is wiped out by the imperial court, will this Jinxin Qianzhuang still exist?" If Jinxin Money Village ceased to exist, wouldn't these silver tickets become a piece of waste paper, and wouldn't the villagers' hard-earned money be a scoop. No wonder I saw in Xiangcheng that all the money houses were looted by the people of the Holy Lotus Sect, but the only Jinxin money village was safe and sound. I'm afraid that this money village must have nothing to do with the Holy Lotus Sect. ā€

Ma Zichen saw Xu Yang frowning and looking at his mother counting the silver tickets, and suddenly thought that he still kept a thousand taels of silver tickets for the other party. Ma Zichen handed a small box to Xu Yang, who looked at the seven hundred taels of silver tickets in it were all from Jinxin Qianzhuang, and the rest were some broken gold and silver. Xu Yang put the silver ticket in his arms, and asked Ma Zichen to hide the box of broken silver at home. Xu Yang also told Ma Zichen about the concerns in his heart. Ma Zichen was frightened at first, but after thinking about it, there were a lot of strange things, but in order to prevent trouble, he decided to exchange the silver ticket for silver.

Ma Zichen concealed the matter, asked for the silver tickets in his mother's hand, and asked Xu Yang: "Do we want to take back all the silver tickets in the hands of the villagers, and then exchange them for silver in Xiangcheng?"

"The villagers have laboriously and time-consuming to collect the tobacco and sell it for a good price, and if they learn in the near future that these silver tickets have become waste paper, how terrible it would be for you to think of it! On the other hand, I look at the four major money banks of Hengli are all powerful money banks, and they also have the backing of the imperial court behind them. In any case, we will first take back the silver tickets in the hands of the villagers, and then exchange them for silver or other money tickets and return them to the villagers. Xu Yang said.

Ma Zichen nodded fiercely and asked, "What excuse do we have to get the silver ticket back from the villagers? We can't say that there is something suspicious about the silver ticket in this bank, right?"

Just when Xu Yang was about to answer Ma Zichen, the big tiger and the little tiger also came to visit, Xu Yang told the two of them about the concerns of Jinxin Qianzhuang, and the two immediately agreed, agreeing that Xu Yang would take back the silver tickets among the villagers. After experiencing Xu Yang's successful rescue of his relatives, the big tiger and the little tiger were convinced of what Xu Yang said, even if Xu Yang asked the two to jump into the fire pit now, the two would not hesitate to jump down, not to mention that this silver ticket is related to the livelihood of the villagers.