"Patriarch, what does this mean?" Although Father Peter could speak Chinese, this kind of dialogue between dialects and colloquialisms still made him a little confused, so he had to ask Wang Da Lama for advice.

"Things are getting out of hand elsewhere." Grand Lama Wang roughly understood: "This kind of thing can't just happen to them in one place. People elsewhere have already gotten the news. ”

"Yes." Tang Sai'er replied: "The masters in the sect often travel to and from various places, and they are relatively well-informed. They said that the words of the old man were coaxing. ”

The fellow by the sea said that they had heard this several times, and they did not believe it at all. This time, they insisted on not breaking up and wanted to fight to the end, but the government really turned its face, transferred the officials, and beat up the petitioning fathers and elders, injuring many people. The rest of the people were also scattered, and they had to flee back to the village. ”

"So what are you going to do?" Father Peter asked.

"We don't know what to do, the masters in the sect have different opinions, and no one can convince anyone." Tang Sai'er said: "The great monk can't make up his mind. He was not very reconciled, and felt that the government was cheating us again; But he didn't dare to gamble, for fear that this time he would really provoke people and recruit all the officers and soldiers. However, the old fairy girl is very determined, and she opens the altar every day and gathers the villagers, which seems to be determined to do it. The great monk couldn't make up his mind, so he went to ask the big gentleman in the village next door. ”

During that time, the old fairy aunt didn't know why, but she admired me very much, and deliberately took me out of the house to teach martial arts. She also gave me all kinds of magic weapons, saying that she wanted me to be her apprentice. She thought about it: "I became a fairy girl later, and it was she who instructed me." ”

"Isn't that a good thing?" Fr. Peter said: "On our side, some of the monks also go to the people and choose clever children to be their apprentices. This is an old tradition, and even in Rome today, it is a supplement to education. Your family should be happy. ”

"Yes, my grandmother was really happy at the time, and I felt that I had a chance. The fairy girl promised that she would take me away and raise me well, and she would also give me a matchmaker and marry a good family. They didn't hesitate at all, and let me go with the old fairy girl. Tang Sayer said.

"However, the great monk was a little worried. He seems to have always disagreed with the old fairy girl's approach. In front of outsiders, he didn't show it, but he asked me privately a few times to ask what the old fairy girl was preparing, so I still remember. ”

"It's normal for local leaders to have disagreements." Grand Lama Wang is not surprised.

"The great monk has a bit of a prejudice against the old fairy girl." Tang Sai'er didn't hide it much, and said helplessly: "He quietly told me that although most of the people in the sect are good people, some people who are in charge always like to make trouble out of nothing and try their best to benefit themselves." ”

He said that when he went to the city, he heard people gossiping, saying that our White Lotus Sect was a bunch of ruffians. On weekdays, he makes trouble for no reason and extorts benefits. When encountering a major event, they will join up with other cults, so as to disrupt the world and seek benefits for themselves. Our reputation has been ruined for them. ”

"Then it's really unbearable." Father Peter nodded in agreement: "The monk is right. Isn't that a scolding of you for being Jews? ”

"Uh......" Tang Sai'er didn't seem to know what this allusion was, scratched his head, and said, "Me too...... I guess that's what I thought. I'm not very old, but I'm not stupid. Doesn't he mean that he suspects that the old fairy girls are fanning the flames......"

"Mr. Big's relationship with them is also very average. He had more contact with the great monks, and borrowed scriptures from each other to read, but he didn't like the old fairy girls very much. She brings up another character:

"My grandmother sent me to his side to open the Mongolian before, so he specially asked the great monk to bring me a message, saying that since he was my husband, he had to help me to the end. The group of people of the old fairy girl, who are obsessed with strange forces and chaos, use side doors to attract the people, even if they claim that their intentions are good, they will definitely cause trouble after a long time. He said that now that the world is chaotic, it is not easy to force anything, but in the future, I must respect myself and abide by my heart. In short, it's all big truths. ”

However, Mr. Big is also very entangled in this matter. He suspected that the old fairy girl had a lot of eyes and an impure mind, but he also suspected the government. The great monk said that before the other Zhuangzi had made trouble, Mr. Da decided that the government had cheated. ”

"How did he deduce?" Grand Lama Wang was also a little curious.

"Mr. Big is a person who has read the Four Books and the Five Classics, of course he knows it." Tang Sai'er said: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was said, 'The weight of the coin is sweet, and it tempts me', because there were many examples of mutual booby trapping at that time. A person like this who is greedy and has no credit, and suddenly makes a promise and gives special preferential terms, will definitely not be at ease, and a fool will be fooled. So he told the students very clearly that the government's assurances were not enough to believe. ”

He still felt in his heart that he should gather and train the villagers and prepare in advance. But he kept looking at the old fairy girls unpleasantly, thinking that they were nonsense. In fact, there is no way, let alone him, I don't know how to decide this matter......"

"And in the end, how did it get up?" Grand Lama Wang asked.

"Originally, even the old fairy girls didn't plan to fight with the government immediately, but wanted to accumulate some strength first. But on the Jinan side, there is a situation again. Tang Sai'er said: "There are rumors over there that during the reign of Emperor Hongwu, an edict was issued to allow the people to accuse officials of corruption and perversion of the law. Therefore, he threatened to make a big deal and go to the capital. ”

"Really?" Fr. Peter expressed doubts: "To set this precedent is to allow the people to question the authority of the officials. The government is a system up and down, so even if the lower classes really violate the law, the upper levels definitely don't like the people to sue them. Because in this way, the people will definitely become more and more arrogant, and the authority of the government as a whole will also decline. ”

"I used to work as a consultant to compile church laws and read a lot of law books. Traditionally, it is forbidden for a son to sue his father and a wife to sue her husband. Because such accusations undermine the authority of society, and the authority of the State is clearly intimately connected with these social authority, at least nominally, they cannot be allowed to be questioned at will. What's more, accusing officials is directly questioning the executors of state power. ”

"That Hongwu Emperor, if he really dares to do this, it means that he has authority from other sources. So when someone questioned the old system of authority, he was able to partially tolerate it in exchange for more efficient functioning of state institutions. He shook his head and analyzed, "But you know what that means?" It's not just about being generous. This shows that in addition to the traditional authority, a new basis for legitimacy has been found. Carefully discerning, it can be regarded as the idea of founding a sect. ”

"Well, it's not new. We have all said that in ancient times, when Yao Shun was in ancient times, there was a place to beat drums and sound grievances. If you have to say what new authority it is, then you can only say that giving justice to the people is a kind of authority - but this thing is not new, and it was not invented by his old Zhu family. Tang Sai'er didn't believe it.

"That'...... That's more powerful. I thought it was only in Rome. Father Peter was a little surprised: "Then they went to accuse, did they succeed?" Does the emperor still admit it? ”

"I don't know if I recognize it...... In fact, everyone doesn't know if there are any other requirements and what steps to follow. Tang Sai'er shook his head and said, "I guess they don't expect to really succeed, they can just scare the officials temporarily." ”

"So, the people over there looked for the documents from the Hongwu period. The document was too small and inconspicuous, and I was afraid that the government would not see it, so I asked a carpenter to make a sign, and painted the portrait of the old emperor Hongwu and held it up for everyone to see. ”

"I think about it, it makes sense for them to do this - just like you said, the government likes to talk about the words of the monarch and the father and son every day, and they can't even deny what the emperor's father said, right?"

"It's a pity that in the end, I didn't try out the meaning of the imperial court. Because they went to the county seat, they were stopped. She told the two: "The villagers all came forward to cry, saying that everyone wants Emperor Hongwu to go up." Back then, the old emperor led a large group of people to kill the Tartars, which was bigger than the current battle, but he didn't see so many broken things. If only he could come back. ”

But the government didn't pay attention to it at all, but instead directly transferred the officials and troops out to suppress it. Fu Yin Lao'er threatened that whoever dared to make trouble in the name of the first emperor would send him to see the first emperor. ”

The villagers originally had high expectations, but when they saw him say this, they were very angry, and finally fought with the officials and soldiers. It's a pity that they are not well prepared, where are other people's opponents, and many people have been killed. The documents that I didn't know if they were true or false were also lost, and the portrait sign was also smashed by the officers and soldiers. The survivors had to scatter and flee again, and those with fast legs ran all the way to my village to call the police, and everyone knew about it. ”

"The villagers all talked about it, and it seemed that the court really didn't want a father. It seems that what Mr. Big said is indeed right, and the government was fooling people before. The great monk also made up his mind, saying that this matter could not be good. Let's prepare for a rebellion. ”

"Isn't that something somewhere else?" Father Peter asked.

The great monk explained. In this matter, the government itself has gone too far, and if the court investigates it, they themselves will be unlucky. Therefore, in order to shirk responsibility, we must press all the charges that we have and are not guilty of - and the bigger the crime, the better. Tang Sayer said.

"If the officials are incompetent, or even corrupt and pervert the law, and finally cause a civil uprising, the black gauze hat of the official and even the head of the whole family may not be able to be saved. If we want to save it, we have to say that we are all stubborn bandits who have been accumulating years, and we are traitors who collude with the Tatars, and we have long been determined to rebel. In this way, this series of things can be said to be the sins of the people. And not only are they not guilty of incompetence, but they have the merit of exterminating bandits and spies. ”

"Therefore, whether we rebel or not, the officials in the province will make this series of things into an iron case. Those who do not rebel will also force you to rebel; If you can't force you to rebel, you will kill all of us, and then report your merits according to the bandits. How can this little person in Zhuang Shang be the opponent of so many big officials? For the sake of their future and their lives, they can only let us all die. ”

"We have been preaching for several generations in the White Lotus Sect, and everyone has long been used to it. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, we rebelled and fought with Tartar officials and squires. But in the eyes of the official, we are not worthy of ...... Expel those who are Tartars. This is not only not a merit, but a criminal evidence, which shows that we have long had a cult gang, a history of rebellion, and a rebellious force. ”

Therefore, the great monk concluded that even if the first few things were spontaneously caused by the villagers, this rebellion would definitely be detained on the head of the White Lotus Sect. No matter what the elders in the sect think, this crime cannot be removed. In that case, why continue to suffer from this bird's anger, and in the end you can't escape to be a ghost who has died unjustly? ”

"That's right......" Father Peter sighed, looked at the Great Lama Wang, and sighed with emotion: "What about you? ”

"We're really rebelling." Tang Sai'er nodded.

(End of chapter)