Chapter 40: Initiation
It has been said that human joy is eternally short-lived, while suffering is eternal.
When the disciples were in charge of the field book, they were led to their own land by the officials below who had completed the field.
The disciples who were originally happy buried themselves on the ground and cried for some reason.
They have too much sadness and grievances, and they can't say it, they can only cry.
Maybe that's what crying means to human beings.
At this time, Zhang Chong and Duman were also cleaning up.
stayed in Xue Jiabi for more than a month, on the one hand, he practiced Jianwu, on the other hand, he divided the grain and land, and the harvest was full.
Now Zhang Chong's subordinates have a unit that can initially fight, and they also have a group of field officials who have practiced general affairs.
None of them are the best, but they are all hopes for the future.
This time, Zhang Chong took in twenty-three more Jianfu tribes, all of whom knew a little bit of weaponry and could easily integrate into the team.
This team, Zhang Chong arranged and trained Li Damu, and he also became another leader under Zhang Chong.
Now Zhang Chong has 90 soldiers, just enough to make a team of 100 people. Coupled with some old battalion tuntian officials, baggage teams, slaves and maids, and craftsmen, Zhang Chong can be regarded as open.
It can be said that Xue Jiabi is Zhang Chong's starting place.
But although Liang Yuan is good, it is not a place to stay for a long time after all.
As their voices in Xuejiabi became louder and louder, some of the nearby Haoqiang Wubi began to pay attention to here, and recently they could see their faces wandering around here from time to time.
Therefore, Zhang Chong decided to wait for his father and them to come back, and went to Mount Tai, which was the place selected by Zhang Chong.
Mount Tai is deep and densely forested, it is a natural place to hide soldiers, and the red eyebrows have been dormant in Mount Tai in history.
And in the past few decades, there have been mountain people in rebellion, although they have been repeatedly suppressed, but those riotous people are still living in Mount Tai after that, if you can unite these rebels, you can strengthen the anti-Han forces.
But more importantly, Taishan is close to the hometown of Zhang Chong, a member of the team, and has a local advantage there.
In the future, it will be very convenient to replenish personnel, supplies, and intelligence, and even the morale of the army will be more stable, which is the advantage of being stationed on the inner line.
But all this has to wait for the little daddy to bring the sacrifice beard.
As long as the team is leaning on the biggest anti-Han force in the world, he Zhang Chong and his small team can gain a kind of vision of the world, instead of being really a grasshopper.
But when will Daddy come back?
What is Daddy Zhang Bingnan doing at this time?
Believe it or not, he is joining the Taiping Dao.
It is said that on that day, Wang Zhang escorted his little father to leave Xuejiabi, and went all the way through the mountains and forests towards Jinan Licheng.
Because they can no longer use the talisman to investigate, the road cannot be walked, and they can only take a long detour in the countryside.
After detouring to Yuncheng, Daddy found a friend, and his friend put them on a cargo ship bound for Gucheng.
But when Gu Cheng wanted to continue looking for a way to get on the boat, they were stopped by Gu Cheng's thieves.
When the thief saw their eyes, he checked the charms, and while they were in a dilemma, one of them relieved them.
The county magistrate with a black ribbon and copper seal whispered a few words to the thief, and said yes to the thief, so he went to other places to be busy.
Little dad looked at it, isn't this the county official who was in Gucheng a little before? At that time, it was quite high, and it was called Wei or something.
The county magistrate saw it and introduced with a smile:
"Wei Meng, I didn't expect to meet here. Where is this going? I'll see if I can give you a paragraph. β
This is really lucky, what do you want.
The little dad was happy, nodded and said:
"Wei Jun, we have something to do, and we want to take a boat back to Licheng. Do you think you can get there? β
Wei Meng smiled meaningfully, then shook his head and said:
"I'm afraid this won't work, I'm going to Lu County in Jibei Country to work this time, and at most I'll bring you to the light. But when I get there, I can find you another boat to see if you can go to Licheng. β
The little dad and the two were not happy about anything, so they naturally happily followed Wei Meng on the boat.
In this way, Xiao Dad and Wang Zhang took Wei Meng's official ship and set foot on the way home again.
After Wei Meng got on the boat, he didn't talk much with his little father, but just told Bangfu to prepare some millet and water for them, and walked away, and his little father was also happy.
On the second day they disembarked in the light.
Wei Meng told them that a ship from Licheng would be unloaded here tomorrow, and he had already greeted Cao Yi in the light and arranged for them to board the ship at that time.
The little dad was very grateful, but he got Wei Meng's meaningful words:
"Yesterday you crossed me, today I crossed you, everything is a cause and a combination."
The little dad was confused, he just thought that this person was really weird. But out of the way, the person who can help him is a good person.
In this way, after saying goodbye to Xiao Dad and Wei Meng and his party, he and Wang Zhang prepared to find a pavilion to rest, and they could take a boat back tomorrow.
Guangli is a small place, but it is the only way to go to Lu County, the governance of Jibei State, so it can be regarded as a prosperous business trip.
Xiao Dad and Wang Zhang are not official people, otherwise they can go to the nearby post station to rest, so they randomly found an abandoned pavilion and planned to deal with it for one night.
But the next night, Wang Zhang woke up the little father.
The little dad was sleepy-eyed, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw that a group of men in sackcloth and bastard shoes surrounded them.
Seeing the little father looking at him suspiciously, Wang Zhang's face flushed with shame.
He is also from a subordinate background, and it stands to reason that no matter how dead he sleeps, he will not lose his vigilance and let people touch him.
But because I've been tired for the past few days, I haven't rested at all, and as soon as this side touches the ground, my eyelids are locked.
"Did you hear that?" It was a man with a gloomy expression who spoke.
The little dad was stunned, "Huh? What? What do you hear? I've just been sleeping, and I don't know anything."
Seeing that the little daddy's expression didn't look like a fake, the man and his companions looked at each other, and when they saw that everyone believed it, his face softened.
He forced out a little smile and said fiercely:
"Friend, have you ever heard of the Taiping Dao of Helping the Suffering?"
Little Daddy and Wang Zhang looked at each other and said from the bottom of their hearts, I don't know.
In this way, Xiao Dad and Wang Zhang were pulled by this leader to promote the teachings of Taiping Dao, and inexplicably became members of Taiping Dao.
I forgot to say a word, and finally they told Xiao Dad that our head of the canal is a disciple of the great sage and good teacher, Jinan Tang Zhou.
After a simple initiation ceremony, Xiao Dad and Wang Zhang officially became members of the Taiping Dao.
After that, the group took Xiao Dad and Wang Zhang to a dock fort outside the city.
At this time, there are already hundreds of people gathered in the dock fort, old and young, all kinds of people.
Wang Zhang muttered to his father that the situation was not right, and saw if he could take the opportunity to run out.
Little Daddy nodded and waited to see what happened.
When the yin owl man entered the dock fort, he left the team and went to report to a middle-aged man with a three-section staff.
This gentleman's name is Shan Ming, he is a native of Guangli, and this dock fort is his.
He was a disciple of Tang Zhou and was sent back to his hometown four years ago to propagate the teachings and develop the Taiping Dao.
There are not too many children of rural tycoons like him who join Taiping Dao.
It's just because people like them are not high or low. If you want to go up, local positions are monopolized by Haoqiang, not to mention the impracticality of filial piety, it is difficult to be the pavilion chief of a pavilion.
In the two hundred years since the Han Dynasty, there has long been no ascent level for people like them.
Some people say, why do you have to progress, isn't it good to maintain your current life?
can only be said to be naΓ―ve, for these townsmen, if they can't gain power, then they are the belly of the fish under the mouth of the hero, after all, they are much fatter than those small people.
Therefore, in order to protect themselves, these little tyrants have joined the Taiping Dao, and borrowed the banner of the Taiping Dao to deal with those heroes.
The believers that Shan Ming summoned were all the believers he had snare over the years.
There are his family, relatives, guests, and some evil young rangers in the neighborhood.
They all joined the Taiping Dao because of Shan Ming, so Shan Ming's words were much more useful than that of Nalaoshzi Taiping Dao.
A few days ago, Shan Ming received a letter from Dongpingling, Jinan.
Seeing the teacher's words in the letter, Shan Ming was full of sadness, firstly, doing this would damage his strength, and secondly, this matter was very important, and he was afraid that if the incident happened, he would not be able to bear it.
But the teacher in the letter was convincing, and Shan Ming was helpless, so he could only burn the letter and do it.
At this time, the scattered walkers gathered one after another with their own men and horses in the dock fort of Shan Ming.
Shan Ming looked at the people present, shook the scepter three times, and said in a loud voice:
"The reason why we are calling everyone here today is because someone dares to rob the believers of everyone.
What is the Bu Ji of Dongjun, my teacher is a disciple of the Great Good Master, what about him? It's nothing.
Now he sent someone named Liang Zhongning to preach in the northern part of Jibei, but he didn't take me seriously at all.
They went into the northern kingdom to preach, and the believers were snatched away by them, who will we rely on to support them at that time?
So, what I didn't say, since this Bu Ji put his dog paws in, we will chop him up, and let them know that our Jibei people are powerful. β
"Good!"
"Give them a blow!"
"Kill, let's kill it."
Under the encouragement of their respective walks, everyone fought bravely to be the first, and they must let those Dongjun people know how powerful their countrymen were.
Shan Ming saw that the morale was available, and added another fire:
"All the seizures this time will be divided equally by everyone, and God will not take any of them."
This time, everyone screamed more realistically.
None of them think that there is anything wrong with being a fellow believer, and this is the disadvantage of doing things with others.
In a few moments, a team of hundreds of people poured out of the dock fort and headed west.
At this time, Shan Ming sat on a two-person shoulder, swinging all the way in the middle of the team, looking at this morale-filled team, he was angry:
"Liang Zhongning, Liang Zhongning, this time it depends on how you die."
Shan Ming didn't have much military talent, and he was proud of no one there.
There are knowledgeable people in his ranks, who will be sarcastic:
"Little Dad, look at this person's team, there is no one to walk, no one to stand, hee-hee-ha, all like mountain bandits. No, not even mountain bandits. β
It was Wang Zhang who said this, he was born in the military, and he has always looked down on this kind of straggler without a banner.
He also took a closer look at these Taiping Dao, there were still dozens of capable people in them, all in the middle of the team at this time, surrounding Shan Ming's shoulders.
At the outskirts of the line were a group of beggars, ignorant and unaware of what to do.
They were pushed and shoved by those capable Taiping Dao backbones, stumbling all the way to the road.
These are the lives of filling the ravines.
Little Dad actually doesn't understand much, what Wang Zhang says is what, he only cares, when can he slip away.
He was about to talk to Wang Zhang about this, when he felt that someone was sneaky behind him and kept embellishing them.
He glanced at Wang Zhang.
Wang Zhang had already noticed that this would be ordered by the little father, turned back, pushed aside a group of skinny beggars, picked up a baby, and carried it to the little father.
"What are you doing, following us all the way?"
"Uncle, I'm afraid, I used to be a fisherman, and the Taiping said that I wanted to buy fish. I brought the fish, and as soon as I came, he asked me:
'You know, isn't it the Taiping Tao that saves the suffering? β
Uncle, what do you say I know? I said I didn't know, so they viciously pulled me into the way, and the fish was taken away, and the money was not given! It is said to be an offering for initiation. β
Little Daddy said secretly, why are these routines the same? I took pity on him, and asked:
"Then why are you following us?"
"Uncle, I see that you are a good person."
This answer surprised Xiao Dad, but he looked at the Taiping Taoists around him who looked more like bandits than good people, and Xiao Dad was not surprised.
"Okay, then you can follow us all the way. By the way, I haven't asked your name yet? What's it called? β
"I, I, my name is Liu Bo."