Chapter 11: Ancient Sects
Most of the sects in ancient times were actually similar to modern gangsters, and the sect naturally had his income, otherwise how could he support so many people in the sect, after all, he had to eat, drink, lazar, dress, live and travel. These are all for money.
When it comes to weddings, funerals, weddings, and gifts, you also need money, and as the old saying goes, a penny is hard to beat a hero.
For example, this time Wang Mingyue got married, the Huashan faction's Suili Yue Buqun insisted on squeezing out 1,000 taels and sending it to Wang Zhihe's mansion, and Wang Zhihe saw that they had taught their daughter for five years and offered 1,000 taels to the Suili and promised the Huashan faction to occupy the territory of Huayin County for another three years.
Wang Zhihe is a person who has been the governor of the three sides, which is equivalent to the commander of a modern large military region. Even if he is not a trilateral governor now, there are many protégés and former officials left, and his words still carry a lot of weight.
Of course, Wang Zhihe is even better now, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department and the Beijing Criminal Department, the first leader of the Ministry of Justice and the first leader of the army in the Jiangnan region.
To tell the truth, if he really has the heart to cover the Huashan faction, the position of the leader of the Wuyue Alliance will definitely be Yue Buqun.
The reason why it is related to the Huashan faction is that Wang Mingyue loves martial arts, and as a concubine, she is spoiled in the Wang family, so Wang Zhihe sent her baby daughter to the Huashan faction in the sunset West Mountain, and the reason why she sent the Huashan faction is that she doesn't want to be too involved with the gang, and a Huashan faction that is about to go bankrupt will not have too much black material.
After all, Wang Zhihe's identity is there, and the civil officials still have to be faced.
Wang Zhihe's meaning couldn't be clearer, I will ensure that your Huashan faction will occupy Huayin County for another three years, but it will be clear with my daughter's teaching, and the Huashan faction will not be allowed to go to my daughter if there is something in the future.
This is also the reason why Zhonghua Yin County is the inherent territory of the Huashan faction, otherwise with the three or two big cats and kittens of the Huashan faction in the drama, Zuo Lengchan would have attacked the mountain gate and annexed it, and would not have sent only one Lao Denuo to go undercover.
Three years later, when the time came, you see that in the play, Zuo Lengchan first sent the remnants of the Sword Sect to evolve peacefully, and did not send more than a dozen masters of the underworld to assassinate and destroy the door, and finally Zuo Lengchan personally came down to annex the Huashan faction.
So Lao Yue was excited when he heard that Brother Fan was coming, if he could get Brother Fan's blessing, the Huashan faction would naturally be worry-free after two years, and he would have the face to see the ancestors of the past dynasties after his death, do you say that Lao Yue's hands can not tremble?
Lao Yue is really too difficult, the Huashan faction that he took over is a mess, and now the family can fight the husband and wife, our Linghu Shaoxia has not started his legendary journey, and now he is also a weak chicken.
The protection fee of a Huayin County is now barely able to maintain the expenses of the sect, and you can find from the living and eating of the disciples of the sect in the play that the current Huashan faction is really embarrassed.
The income of the ancient sect can generally be divided into two types, one is the rent collected by renting one's own land to farmers, and the other is the income from commerce. Commercial income is divided into two parts, one is the commercial income of self-operated, such as inns, restaurants, green buildings, etc. The second is to collect protection fees.
In ancient times, the legal system was not perfect, and there was even a saying that the imperial power did not go to the countryside. In addition, the corruption of officials and the expropriation of officials have caused many unemployed displaced people.
Many ruffians, hooligans, and bandits were born among these outcasts. The ruffians and hooligans indiscriminately collected protection money in the city, and the bandits occupied the mountains as kings and robbed the roads outside the city, which seriously affected social stability and commercial prosperity.
In ancient times, most of the people who were able to engage in commercial activities were inextricably linked to officialdom, and officials found that these people had affected their money bags, and of course they were the targets of severe crackdowns.
How to do it? Officials were sent in the city to arrest them, and troops were sent outside the city to exterminate them. But the officials found that their subordinates could not control it at all, and these ruffians and bandits, like weeds, quickly reappeared after cutting, and the key point was that they were still very expensive.
But it can't be ignored, which means that the government needs help, so there is the soil for the birth of the sect.
In general, the more incompetent the government, the more gangs there are in the country. You can find that there are gangs in every country in the world except China.
Isn't it dramatic that the gangs in the old United States pay taxes legally to the National Tax Service, the drug lord gangs in Mexico dare to argue with the government, and the most bizarre small gangs in Japan have been legalized, and the gang leaders can participate in the election of the legislature?
Among them, the gangs that act above board are, well, the so-called decent people. If you pay the money, I will definitely keep your family safe, and I will be responsible for it to the end, this is the origin of chivalry and righteousness, otherwise you think that Yue Buqun and his wife have nothing to do and run out of the territory to catch Tian Boguang.
The other is the evil sect that behaves perversely, if you don't pay the money, I will destroy you, if you pay the money, I can't move you to see the mood, of course, there is a backstage that must not be moved, and the share handed over to the official master is indispensable, this is the survival criterion of the evil sect.
There is also a cult that is good at demagoguery and specializes in rebellious activities, taking it as its mission to overthrow the current dynasty. The most famous in the Ming Dynasty is the White Lotus Sect, formerly known as the Ming Sect, which is called the Sun and Moon Divine Sect in the play.
Lao Zhu made the Yuan Dynasty's opposite, and this unstable factor must be eliminated after Lao Zhu became emperor. The ancient people were ignorant, and naturally gave the cult the soil for full development, so the old Zhu family paid for so many years, and the effect was worrying, and the journey was wasteful.
Thousands of troops and horses have been killed, and there are naturally many smart officials in the imperial examination, so they thought of using the sect to balance the sect, and the Wuyue Sword Sect is the vanguard supported by the imperial court to deal with the Sun and Moon God Sect.
Of course, this kind of cult that specializes in sabotage and causes social instability will be severely cracked down on by both the gentry and the powerful sects.
The Huashan faction is a gang with Taoist beliefs, most of the sects with faith are famous and upright, and there are naturally many crazy people in the evil sect that lack faith. For example, the famous doctor who kills people is the same.
It's a lot of pressure to come out and grab land and cut people, this is a murderous profession. Nowadays, soldiers who kill people with guns and cannons from a long distance have war trauma syndrome, not to mention hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons, the scene is not to mention how terrifying it is to have flesh and blood flying sideways. It's better to pray to God for psychological comfort than to go crazy.
You can understand that in Hong Kong films, Hong Xing came out to cut people to worship the second brother Guan, and Huashan sent out to cut people to worship Sanqing Daozu. Seek peace, peace of body and peace of mind.
The teachings of Taoism have been loved by rulers since ancient times, because it leads people to goodness! The sects that believe in Taoism in the play are all famous and upright, such as Wudang faction, Qingcheng faction, Taishan faction, Songshan faction, Huashan faction...
For this example, I found that there are quite a few sects that Brother Fan has to visit to complete the job transfer task!
Not much to say, Brother Fan still went to the Huashan faction to activate the system first, Yue Buqun in front of the mountain gate glanced at his daughter-in-law slightly, and Ning Zhong, who had been singing for many years, immediately understood: "You child, you are already married, and you are so reckless, marry your husband, I think you have to ask the master to come back and give you a good tutoring for the female ring." ”
"Ah~~~, don't do it! That thing is too aggrieved to learn, why do we women have to listen to men in everything, and if men are wrong, do we have to listen to them? I, Wang Mingyue, were born free, and I only do what I think is right. Wang Mingyue said with words.