Chapter 1: The Birth of King Ming
"Mom, I'm on my way back?"
"Bought it, bought it all, you have all the seeds you want."
"I went back by car, and now I'm still in Ziyang, and I'll be in Neijiang soon, and I guess I'll get home in about a week!"
"Don't worry, I'll be careful."
"It's thundering and raining, so I have to find a place to shelter from the rain."
"Okay, bye-bye!"
On a small car parked on the side of a mountain road in Nanjin Town, Ziyang City, Li Zuo raised his hand and tapped the Bluetooth headset on his ear to hang up the phone, then leaned on the steering wheel and looked out of the car through the windshield.
At this moment, there was lightning and thunder outside, and the torrential rain was pouring down, and the place where he parked his car happened to be halfway up the mountain road.
"No, it's a bit dangerous here, landslides are most likely to occur in heavy rain, so you have to find a safe place to park and avoid the rain."
"If I'm not mistaken, there should be a cave on the side of the road ahead."
While thinking, Li Zuo started the car while igniting, he had walked this road two or three times, although he was not very familiar with it, but he probably remembered some special places along the way.
"I would have taken a detour and walked on the highway if I had known." While driving the car slowly, Li Zuo muttered remorsefully.
He was originally a restaurant owner, but after the restaurant closed due to the epidemic, he lost his job, but fortunately, he also had a side job doing videos.
Li Zuo is a history buff, and when he is not running a restaurant, he will look up some historical materials, then go to some historical sites to collect news, and finally make videos and upload them to the website.
Over the years, he now has more than 500,000 fans on a video website.
Although the family is not worried about his financial problems, because of the outbreak of the epidemic from time to time, it is inevitable that they will worry about his safety.
No, the family took the opportunity of opening a farm, and Li Zuo's parents called him home on the pretext of buying seeds.
Li Zuo did not object, and after running to several places in Chengdu to buy all the seeds needed by the family, he returned the rented house, packed all his belongings and stuffed them into the car, and drove home.
However, because he had to visit a few friends along the way to say goodbye to them, Li Zuo finally gave up taking the highway and planned to play all the way back.
But he never expected that he would encounter a rainstorm on the way to the village and the store, so he had the scene in front of him.
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In the eleventh year of Xiantong in the Tang Dynasty, Jiannan Xichuan Road, Zizhou, Panshan County, Tieshan, and the northern foot of the Liumin Village were broken in the temple.
Li Zuo, who was wearing a tiger-striped long-sleeved T-shirt, was sitting on a high platform like a ruin, his left hand was holding a crossbow on his knees, facing the people below, and his right hand was holding a Tang knife, staring at dozens of people in front of him with a confused expression.
He didn't expect that he would just go into the cave to investigate, and he would get lost in ancient times.
In the past, Li Zuo also specially inquired with the locals, and knew that the stone cave halfway up the mountain was not deep, only less than ten meters to the end, and there were people living in it before, so there was basically no danger.
So when he went in to hide from the rain and heard a faint sound of talking from the cave, he dared to go in and investigate.
Not long after entering the cave, he found a hand-held duffel bag, from which the Tang knife and crossbow in his hand came from, in addition to twenty arrows and twelve large yellow croaker.
However, the faint sound of speech seemed to be still in the depths of the cavern.
At that time, Li Zuo didn't know what to think, so the artist dared to go in.
But what he never expected was that after turning a corner, he would get lost, and he also went around to the original entrance of the cave, but the salute he had moved into the cave was still there, but the entrance to the cave was gone.
"Made, did you meet a ghost hitting the wall?"
Li Zuo, who didn't believe in evil, walked around again and found that he really returned to the original point, and suddenly kicked the cave wall in anger, and then something strange happened, he didn't expect that he kicked out of the hole with such a casual kick.
In a daze, Li Zuo looked out along the entrance of the cave, and suddenly his pupils shrank in shock, because he actually saw a group of people dressed in ragged costumes.
At first, Li Zuo thought that he had accidentally broken into some filming venue, but he soon found out that something was wrong, because those people outside looked at him with various weapons on guard with a frightened face from beginning to end, and those people looked like they were really yellow-faced and thin.
"Wear.... Crossed? Seeing this, Li Zuo's eyes suddenly widened in disbelief.
And the fact is just as he guessed, these people in front of him are indeed authentic ancients, or a group of displaced people who have lost their livelihood.
In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor was incompetent, indulged in wine and entertainment, ignored the government and government, and imposed serious taxes and miscellaneous taxes, resulting in political corruption, the dictatorship of eunuchs, the division of feudal towns, and the party disputes among courtiers.
Land annexation is intensifying, and taxes are becoming more and more onerous.
When the two tax laws began to be implemented, the silk was converted into currency for calculation, but when the actual tax was levied, it was just reversed. In this way, the tossing back and forth indirectly led to the fact that the amount of silk paid by the people was actually several times more than the original.
In addition to the two tax laws, lower-level officials also conjured up all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, such as housing tax and seedling money.
In addition, during the Anshi Rebellion in the Kaiyuan Dynasty, after the northern scholars followed Tang Xuanzong south to Shu to avoid trouble, a large number of scholars and bureaucrats and gentry wantonly bought and annexed land in Shuzhong.
Especially in recent years, the war has affected more than 10 states in southern Sichuan, including Yunzhou, Shuzhou, Yazhou, Qiongzhou, Meizhou, and Lizhou.
Under the circumstances of serious land annexation, heavy taxation and the impact of war, many Shuzhong peasants were forced into exile.
Some fled into the mountains, some went into exile and begged, and some plundered everywhere to make a living.
People's hearts will change, very fickle, when the times are prosperous, no matter what people believe, whether it is Taoism or Buddhism, in the final analysis, it is the court that believes in it, and the court is the foundation of people's instability.
But in troubled times, people don't believe in the imperial court, so they can only believe in the gods and Buddhas, and many times, even their fear of ghosts and gods is stronger than the fear of the court.
In other words, the displaced people who are struggling to survive have pinned their hopes for survival on the gods and Buddhas.
The same is true of the homeless people, who were praying for the blessing of the gods in the ruined temple for their survival before they broke through the wall.
After kneeling and bowing, when everyone was about to leave, a loud bang suddenly came from the high platform where the idol was enshrined, and then the idol shattered and collapsed, and a figure appeared in the position of the original idol.
So there was the opening scene, and for a while, both sides were guarding each other with a confused face, no one spoke, and no one dared to move.
Who am I thinking about Rizo? Where am I? What am I doing? There are so many people who can't beat me, what should I do?
And the people below are thinking that the gods have really appeared, so excited, what should I do?
After a while, just as Li Zuo was thinking about how to get out, a polite middle-aged man in the crowd suddenly moved in his heart, stepped forward and knelt down and said: "The world will be chaotic, the people will not be able to make a living, the king of Ming will come to the world, and all living beings will be purified!" ”