Chapter 54 Incense Branch
Xu Qingfeng spent a few days sorting out his mood, and by the way, he also purchased a lot of things that he felt he could use, and then took office.
I didn't bring my family with me.
The first one was that he didn't feel safe there, and he didn't want to bring his family over to be afraid.
The second, and most important, is that when you are an official there, you don't have any family members by default.
- Too close to the border, afraid of defecting to the enemy and betraying the country.
It's not that something like that hasn't happened before, and it's precisely because of that that that that that there is such an unwritten rule.
Xu Qingfeng didn't want to break the rules, so he could only reluctantly part with his wife and children, and tearfully took two seventeen or eighteen-year-old beautiful girls to take office.
He was accompanied by the old slave who had been with him, and a butler and a bookkeeper whom his father had sent to assist him.
Liu Qing thought that he was walking too slowly, so he didn't follow the past, but returned to Liuzhen first.
During his time in the capital, he has also been using small spiritism to communicate with pilgrims, taking this opportunity to develop believers.
And more and more miracles, more and more people are helped, and more people in Liuzhen give him incense.
In one village, the villagers took the lead in inviting the statue of Liu Qing into the land temple in their village, and after offering incense and bowing, they received God's guidance and solved their own problems.
This practice has caused other villages to follow suit, and they have gone to the land temple in Liuzhen to invite the image of the statue of Liu Qing into the land temple in their own village, coexist with the original land god, and enjoy the incense together.
When they bowed, the object of prayer was Liu Qing, the land god of Liuzhen.
This is not a private obscene temple, because Liu Qing's identity as the land god of Liuzhen was recognized by the Dao Palace, and it was built after the Dao Palace's edict came down.
Liu Qing is the land god of Liuzhen, and theoretically speaking, those village-level land gods are under his control, so it makes sense to offer him and those village land gods together.
In this way, the villagers of each village can easily worship the gods not far from their homes.
This is like opening a lot of branches, which makes Liu Qing's incense more prosperous.
And after Xu Qingfeng High School Jinshi in another town, the rumor that he was blessed by the land god of Liuzhen before he was admitted to Jinshi spread.
In particular, the Xu family came to the land temple in Liuzhen vigorously to offer incense, and also donated two hundred taels of silver to the Deshan School next to the land temple, and invited the statue of the land god in Liuzhen to go home to worship, which confirmed such a statement.
This is not only in Liuzhen, but also in other towns in Bowu County.
The land god of Liuzhen can actually help the people in other towns, which proves that the land god of Liuqing is very powerful on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also seems that the land god of other places is not good at all.
Xu Qingfeng was a high school jinshi, and spread the influence of Liu Qing, the land god of Liuzhen, to other towns in Bowu County.
Some people also began to follow the practice of the common people of Liuzhen and invite the statue of Liu Qing to worship in their local land temple.
By mid-April, Liu Qing had more than 500 followers.
He had to rush back, mainly because there were more pilgrims, and he had to show more miracles so that more people could become his followers.
The divine power provided to him by ordinary pilgrims is limited, and only believers are king.
With the increase in believers, coupled with the accumulation of time, his divine power is now several times stronger than when he first entered the capital, and his flight speed is also faster.
It doesn't take an hour to return to Liuzhen from the capital.
He did not go back to Liuzhen first, but went to Hongshan Town, another town in Bowu County.
Xu Qingfeng is from this town.
In this town, because of the propaganda of the Xu family, there have been seven or eight village land temples with statues of Liu Qing.
This can be said to be Liuqing's second incense town.
When he came here, he first used séance to descend on a black starling, and then flew over the Xu family, tearing out his throat and shouting:
"I am the oracle of the land lord of Liuzhen, and now the land lord wants me to pass on the message to you."
"Xu Qingfeng has been awarded the post of magistrate of Gumu County, Xiaojin Prefecture, Youyun Province, and he has left Beijing today to take up his post."
"His wife and children also left the capital, but they didn't go with him to the post, but went home, and asked someone from the dart bureau to escort them, if you don't feel at ease, it's best to send someone to meet you on the way."
"There are only a few family members brought by Xu Qingfeng, and when the county master is not manpowered, you have to send a few capable people to help him, otherwise this official will not be able to continue."
He can deliver such a message through a small spiritism, which is more convenient.
But small spiritism is a one-to-one psychic communication, and others can't hear it at all.
This time, Liu Qing just wanted to show a miracle, and deliberately chose to fly around in the Xu family's compound in broad daylight when there were many people.
Xu Qingfeng gave the magistrate of Gumu County, and he himself had written a letter to let people bring it back to his father.
However, the capital is seven or eight hundred miles away from here, and the person who came back to report the news is still on the way, and the Xu family does not know the news.
As for the fact that Xu Qingfeng has left Beijing to take up his post, there is no one who even reports the news.
These are all things that can be verified quickly, and a black starling said it in advance, and that is a miracle.
When these things are verified, there will be more people who believe in the land god of Liuzhen.
The news that the land god of Liuzhen has a black starling divine envoy has spread last year.
This time, such a black starling said such a thing, and everyone didn't think it was particularly strange.
But what he said almost made Mrs. Xu have a heart attack.
- He thought that his son had taken such a good name in the exam, and this time he properly entered the Hanlin Academy as a noble Beijing official, but he didn't expect to become a magistrate in the end.
And it is also to be a magistrate in the border of Xiaojinzhou.
The northern border of the Great Qianguo, Dajin Prefecture and Xiaojin Prefecture, were all places where prisoners were exiled, and they were also places where they often had to fight with the northern barbarians.
Being a magistrate there is no good job.
I regret it in my heart - if I knew this, it would be better not to let my son take the exam, and be a nine-grade petty official in this place.
The black starling comforted him again: "Don't worry about your son's safety, as long as you sincerely believe in the land lord of Liuzhen, the land lord will naturally bless your son with peace and security, promotion and wealth." ”
Sure enough, people who are still desperate are more likely to breed faith.
Knowing that his son was going to Gumu County, a dangerous place, to be the magistrate of the county, Mrs. Xu fell into despair.
However, hearing that sincere belief in the land god of Liuzhen can bless the safety of his son, Mrs. Xu soon became a believer in Liu Qing, and every day she was forced to bring the people in her family, including the house slaves, to worship the land god of Liuzhen on time in the morning, noon and evening.
Two days later, Xu Qingfeng's letter was brought back, confirming what the black starling said, and this time the miracle caused a great repercussion in Hongshan Town.
This time, hundreds of people heard what the black starling said, and before Xu Qingfeng's family letter was brought back, it had been circulated, allowing many people to experience what is called a miracle.