Chapter 832: The Shadow of the Light Ghost Society
"How is this possible!" Song Siyuan was dumbfounded: "By now, fifty or sixty years have passed since the chaos of the Tai civilians, how can there still be the Taiping Army?" Not only Song Siyuan, but everyone else was also curious, urging Tian Liumei to continue.
Tian Liumei was obviously not lying, and her face became serious: "I'm not lying, although I haven't seen these people, but I am very familiar with the evil spirit, if it weren't for the people of the Taiping Army, I wouldn't be able to make this kind of evil behavior, back then, I was in the Taiping Army, and I had also seen such a method with my own eyes...... "The evil spirit, to put it bluntly, is the upper body, as for what it is on the upper body, that's another story."
The upper body of the righteous god debuts, the upper body of the wild fairy comes out of the horse, and the upper body of the ghost and god is called the evil spirit, and in some places it is also called the evil spirit.
Regardless of what it is called, let's just talk about the problem to be solved by the upper body. The upper body of the righteous god is mostly for guidance, the upper body of the wild fairy is mostly for doing things and asking questions, and the upper body of the ghost and god is generally not good, and it is mostly to blame and harm people, seek money and kill people.
This kind of means has existed since ancient times, since ancient times, there have been witches in order to pray for a good harvest to cure diseases and save people, began to let the gods enter the body, so as to show the spirit of the gods to give hints and act, over time, please the gods on the body has become a means of witches to pass the gods.
Now, in addition to healing the sick and seeing things, inviting God to come up has another function, that is, to enhance personal authority.
At that time, Hong Tianwang knew that he was just a showman, his prestige was not enough and his reputation was not good, if he only used his name to attract the people, there were not many followers to follow, if he wanted to respond to all calls, he must strengthen his authority, at least, to make the people believe in him and be willing to follow him.
The people of the previous dynasty believed in the gods and Buddhas the most, and they may have been oppressed by foreign races to the point that they had no dignity, and the people who were wronged would not be helped by the law, but turned to ghosts and gods.
This kind of atmosphere has spread among the people as early as the time of Emperor Qian, and even this kind of soul-calling atmosphere has affected the capital, and even the emperor can't help but be very curious about this kind of ghost and god theory.
In short, King Hong also intends to use the power of ghosts and gods to enhance his authority, he remembered that he had preached with foreign priests, and he patted his head with the idea, since the gods of the east don't care about things, it is better to invite the gods of the west to come up, so that the gods of the west can also help these poor people.
With this in mind, King Hong opened the altar and invited the Heavenly Father to come up for the first time. This pretending to be a god is the same as the real thing, Hong Tianwang shuddered a few times, and bluntly said that the current government is mediocre and incompetent, and the gods of the east are powerless to change this situation, if the common people want to stop suffering, they will follow the call of the Heavenly Father to expel the Tatars.
Although Hong Tianwang's opening of the altar was full of loopholes, it had an amazing appeal, and although the people didn't believe that Hong Tianwang could really make Heavenly Father go up, they all understood that what he said through Heavenly Father's mouth was true.
At that time, the government of the former dynasty was mediocre and incompetent, basically losing the face of the Celestial Empire, and if it couldn't beat the foreigners, it could only cut the land and pay compensation, and the money was still scavenged from the people in the final analysis, which is equivalent to saying that the people bore the compensation for the government, and their people's fat and people's ointment were all scavenged out by the government in various forms.
These culprits in the capital, even so, still did not give up their pleasures, looting the people, and riding on the heads of the people to make a fortune.
The two vast lands of Lingnan are themselves poor mountains and bad waters, and the people do not have many ways to live.
In this case, the people of Lingnan and Guangxi have actually been accumulating a breath of fire, and they are only one bird away from being able to lead them to rebel.
Hong Tianwang said these words alone, it is inevitable that he will be resentful of the government, if there is an incident, he can only be a homeless thief, the teacher is unknown, and they themselves have no bottom in their hearts, and the homeless people themselves are not as good as the official battalions, and they are likely to disperse directly when they fight, or they are cowardly recruited.
If you want to make people's hearts stand up, you have to find a valid reason for the outcasts, at least, in legal terms, they are not rebelling, and it is precisely because Hong Tianwang knows this that he has to say these words under the authority of the Heavenly Father.
For the common people, since the Heavenly Father is dissatisfied with the current government, it means that the government of the previous dynasty has long been corrupted to the point of dissatisfaction with the apocalypse, and since the heavens are dissatisfied with the government, the common people can of course follow God's will, expel the Tatars, and clean up the rotten world.
As a result, King Hong quickly strengthened his authority by virtue of the prestige of the Heavenly Father, and also let the people know that what they did was not for themselves, nor for glory and wealth, but on behalf of the divine right to expel the Tatars and clean up the portal.
After arriving in Jinling, King Hong has tasted the sweetness of the Heavenly Father's upper body, but whenever he encounters something that lacks prestige or cannot be solved, he must move out of the Heavenly Father to enhance his authority, so that after the trouble, many Heavenly Kings have also followed the same example, inviting what Heavenly Brother, Heavenly Brother, and Heavenly Mother to come on.
It can be said that the Taiping army is naturally mysterious, and coupled with the spirit of the heavenly king, it also makes them attach great importance to the revelation of the heavens and like to act with the will of the gods.
In this process, the Taiping army was also ordered by King Hong Tianwang to organize a group called
The role of the special team of "Lamp Shadow" is to use the crooked things of the evil demons to sacrifice spirits, battle formations, and prayers for the Taiping Army.
The origin of these people is very good! At that time, in addition to the landless and homeless people and thieves in the Taiping Army, there were many people in the rivers and lakes, such as the flower monk who broke the precepts, the chicken foot Taoist who killed people, the goddess who killed people with evil magic, the Gu woman who harmed people with Gu magic, the Tufuzi who dug graves and dug graves, the Jianghu Langzhong who cheated and sought money, the craftsmen who played tricks, the puppet and murdered the dramatists, the feng shui Taoists, the Yin and Yang gentlemen, and the ghost hunting boys.
The lamp shadow organized these people with strange abilities in the rivers and lakes, ate and drank well, and gave high-ranking officials generous benefits, of course, they would not pay in vain, their functions were completely different from those of the ordinary Taiping Army, the main purpose was not to fight, but also to pretend to be gods and ghosts, and to drum people's hearts.
The best is to use strange forces to disrupt the government's plan and cooperate with the Taiping army to fight head-on. For example, if the government wants to march in the mountains, there will inevitably be ghosts in the mountains around the camp tent, and at the same time, there will also be people who will die from the attack of mandrill ghosts, so that the battalion soldiers have to defend themselves step by step, and the fighting spirit has been almost dispersed before the battle starts.
Another example is that a certain official likes to pray to God and worship Buddha, and when they pray to God and Buddha, the idol will fade, the god and Buddha will cry, and even break it for no reason, so that these officials will feel weak in their hearts and worry all day long.
For another example, in the county town where the battalion is stationed, there will be a crossing of the Yin soldiers at night, and there will be casualties and plagues everywhere they go.