Chapter 53: "The Temple of the City God"
Last time, I talked about urging the carpenter to use a spell to deter the "mahout guard" Nantong Hou, and after being reminded by the land lord, he went west to the "Siming Mansion" to find the City God Temple.
"Two hundred and five from house to house, one hundred from trench to one hundred." For "ordinary people", the ancient transportation is indeed inconvenient, but for the "cultivators" who can fly to the sky, a hundred miles away is at most a tea exercise. At this time, the carpenter had already descended from the sky and was hidden in Siming Mansion.
At this time, through the scanning of the divine sense, the carpenter found that this "Siming Mansion" was slightly less prosperous than the "Jingjiang Mansion", but the local characteristics were very distinct, because in the early Ming Dynasty, this was the rear of the Ming Dynasty's expedition to Annam, and it was also the territory of the local Tusi of various ethnic groups.
However, due to the complicated domestic relations in Annam, the remote geographical location and the barren land, the Ming Dynasty annexed Annam and established the "Jiaozhi County" to rule for more than 20 years.
As a result, the Ming Dynasty once again withdrew from its direct rule over Annam, allowing the descendants of the Chen Dynasty of Annam to return to power, continue to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and become a vassal state. It's just that the Ming Dynasty did not relax its control over the southwestern frontier region, especially the coast of the Beibu Gulf, after all, the Japanese and the ghosts will come.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty's "Battle of Pingwu", that is, in the 44th year of Jiajing, that is, in 1565, the Ming generals Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Liu Xian, Tang Kekuan, etc., led more than 30,000 troops to conduct a large-scale suppression of Wu Ping (a native of Zhao'an, Fujian), a "fake Japanese robber" in South Australia, and Wu Ping was defeated.
Wu Ping fled to Annam, which was later Vietnam. In the following year, the officers and soldiers of Fujian and Guangzhou continued to pursue Wu Ping at Wanqiao Shanao in Annam, and together with the Xuanfu Division of Baining in Annam, they jointly sent troops to recruit and suppress, and defeated Wu Ping again, forcing this "fake Japanese robber" to die in despair, and finally calmed down the plague a little.
However, just after Wu Ping's death, his subordinate Zeng Yi (a native of Zhao'an, Fujian) gathered more than 10,000 remnants of the Japanese and continued to harass the coastal areas of Guangnan East Road and Southeast Asia in the Ming Dynasty. In the second year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1568, Zeng Yiyi led the "Japanese Army" to suddenly attack Leizhou.
After that, Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general, was ordered to enter Guangdong to sweep away the Japanese invaders, and immediately proposed to build a boat to recruit troops. However, the ship was not built, and the "fake Japanese Bandits" led the "Wokou Army" to raid Guangzhou, which made the coastal areas of Guangnan West Road boiling, which made the battle of the Bandits in the late Ming Dynasty more uncertain.
In the third year of Longqing, that is, on the third day of June in 1569, the thieves were defeated by Li Xi and Yu Dayou, but escaped while it was dark.
On June 26 of the same year, when the Ming general Guo Chengjin suppressed the "Japanese Invaders", the thief leader Zeng Yiyi was captured by the Ming general Wang Zhaosheng, and Zeng Yiyi died of illness shortly after being captured. However, coincidentally, after the death of the thief leader, the "rebellion" that originally invaded the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty and Southeast Asia basically subsided.
Although "Siming Mansion" is also equivalent to the prefecture-level city of later generations, at that time it was only a square city in the east, west, north and south, covering an area of only a few miles. Only two streets run parallel to each other on the edge, flanked by some old-fashioned shops.
After scanning the inside and outside of the "Siming Mansion" through his spiritual power, the carpenter knew the general situation in his heart, and felt that this was only a city with a population of no more than 10,000 people, and there were many paddy fields, mountains and forests and dwellings within a radius of dozens of miles outside the city, which was where the poor lived.
At this time, the carpenter determined that the "City God's Temple" was ten miles away from the west of the city, built by the mountain, sitting in the north and facing south, so he turned into a light and flew over.
Perhaps it is because of the poor mountains and bad water that the Central Plains culture is not prevalent here, and even the "City God Temple" is only a temple. As everyone knows, the truly complete "City God Temple" should include the square in front of the temple, the main hall, the Yuanchen Palace, the God of Wealth Temple, the Cihang Palace, the City God Palace, the Niangniang Palace, etc.
The carpenter didn't care so much, find a hidden place to show his origin, and follow a few girls who came to offer incense. When I got closer, I found that there was only one "god statue" enshrined in this "City God Temple", which was neither a Taoist Zun, a Buddha, nor a Bodhisattva, or a king of Hades, but someone else.
After entering the "City God Temple", the carpenter found that there was a stone tablet in the temple, and the tablet was engraved with "Where the father and son are successive, there is a lord in the world, and it is called the world official." Siming's hereditary official surnamed Huang, after the end of Xu Lu, was a native of Yidu County, Qingzhou Prefecture, Shandong, and was enshrined in Huang. Now Huguang Huangzhou, the old country also.
Later, the surname was the country, which was the Huang family. During the time of Song Renzong, there was Huang Shanzhang, who had meritorious service in recruiting Nong Kou from Di Wuxiang, played to become a loyal man, suppressed the territory, won the hearts of the people, and guarded this land. Seeing this, the carpenter suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help but say to himself: "He turned out to be Di Qing? ”
"Who are you? How dare you call 'Grandpa Chenghuang' by name? Why don't you hurry up and bow down and ask the 'City God' for forgiveness? A few girls are right.
"Uh...... Thanks to a few girls for reminding me, this is fragrant. Seeing that the girls were dressed well, the carpenter thought that it must be a member of the family and the maidservant of the squire's family, so he asked with a smile: "I just arrived, I forgot to bring sandalwood, I wonder if the girls have any extra borrowing?" ”
"Giggles, you're funny." After hearing this, the women couldn't help but laugh and said, "Don't you bring incense when you enter the City God Temple? How do you ask God to make a wish? Stupid! ”
"Oh? Really? It's really stupid, that's why I want to borrow an incense ...... you "————" This is not borrowing Buddha to offer flowers, it is not spiritual. ”
"Really? In that case, then I can simply summon the 'City God'. "————" Giggles, are you kidding? Lunatic! ”
However, the carpenter didn't think so, after all, these girls were the same age as their daughters, so they were all childish words. So, the carpenter took the face of the girls and began to pinch the trick and chant the incantation: "The city god society orders to appear quickly, and the Taishang Laojun is as anxious as the law!" ”
I saw that the originally bright "City God Temple" suddenly made a whirring wind sound, it was still a hot summer, but immediately the autumn wind was whistling and even the cold wind was whistling, and billowing black smoke came out of thin air, causing the light in the hall to be dim, as if night was falling, frightening the women to scream in horror, and almost half dead.
That's when a strange event occurred. I saw that after a strong mana fluctuation suddenly erupted behind the "Di Qing" sitting statue, a taller figure appeared out of thin air, half virtual and half real, looking like Di Qing, and arched his hands and hugged his fists and said: "I don't know what the immortal called to summon the little god?" ”
"Haha, actually, it's nothing, I just want to ask you if there is a 'Japanese invasion' nearby, or other 'man-made disasters', hehe."
"Wolver? Man-made disaster? This one...... Immortals, please wait, wait for the little god to cast a spell and ask the nearby mountain gods and land within a radius of a hundred miles', and take a look......
"Haha, I'm tired. Then I'll wait for the good news. Seeing the "Di Qing" virtual image, the carpenter closed his eyes and groaned, talking to himself, and did not disturb.
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