Chapter Seventy-Three: Taiping Road
In the third year of Guanghe, at the beginning of summer, Taixuan followed Zhang Jiao to the base camp of Taiping Road and the Yizhou station. Zhang Jiao took his two younger brothers during the Jianning period to use the charms and medical techniques learned from the three volumes of "Taiping Yaoshu" in the Yizhou area, where the plague was particularly serious, to treat a huge number of people in the imperial court family regardless of whether they were dead or alive. The teachings of the Taiping Tao claim that there are ghosts and gods in the heavens who monitor people's actions and increase or decrease their lifespan according to the good or evil of people's actions, requiring people to do more good deeds and less bad deeds.
Zhang Jiao was born in a poor family in his early years, and finally had a chance to study and get ahead, but the family controlled the upward channel, and he was born in a poor family and had the opportunity to choose Maocai (in the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to avoid the name of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, "Xiucai" was changed to "Maocai"). The Han Dynasty was born in a very difficult family, and the imperial court elected talents based on the recommendation of local wealthy families, not the imperial examination created during the Great Sui Dynasty, and not the lowest level of meritorious talents in the Ming Dynasty.
One day Zhang Jiao because of the mountain to collect medicine, met an old man, blue-eyed childish, holding a quinoa cane, with three volumes of the book of heaven to give it, the old man said: "This name "Taiping Technique", you get it, contemporary Tianxuanhua, universal salvation of the world; if you sprout different hearts, you will get evil retribution", called to a cave for thirteen years, dawn and night to practice, can call the wind and rain, and later learned that he worshiped one of the three immortals in the world under the Nanhua old immortal, the other two immortals are Yu Ji and Zuo Ci, and Yu Ji is also Zhang Jiao's uncle.
After Zhang Jiao went down the mountain, it coincided with the outbreak of plague in the world, the epidemic was epidemic, Zhang Jiao was ordered by the teacher to start to cure the disease and save people, and after being loved by the people, he began to preach and preach activities, calling himself a 'great sage and good teacher', and continued to use charms to heal diseases in a wide range of activities in society, collect a large number of disciples, develop strength, and expand influence.
When Tai Xuan came to the Taiping Dao station, he saw a large number of people surrounding Zhang Jiao, who had just appeared, and shouted: "Great sage and good teacher are merciful!" The voice was full of voices, and countless excited shouts, and the people had become Zhang Jiao's most loyal believers. The believers are crazy and persistent, and it seems that they can give everything and even their lives for the great sages. It seems that this great teacher is their spiritual pillar and everything to them.
Tai Xuan looked at these crazy people, his heart trembled, he was too fanatical, this is a force that destroys the foundation of the Great Han, everything in the world will be overwhelmed by these believers who have lost themselves in front of this. In this frenzy, Taixuan sensed a strange force rising from the crowd and gathering on the nine-section scepter held by Zhang Jiao.
Taixuan guessed that if it weren't for this nine-section scepter, it is estimated that Zhang Jiao would have gone crazy a long time ago, and the Taixuan people who were watching on the periphery were extremely manic by this fanatical atmosphere and strange power, as if they had been assimilated by these people and wanted to become fanatical, and hurriedly calmed down with Qinglian in the sea of knowledge, not to mention Zhang Jiao, who was in the center of the crowd.
"Big brother, this Daoist is the person you want to meet this time!" asked a few people who came out of a nearby courtyard, one of them was a man in his thirties, and his face was somewhat similar to Zhang Jiao.
"This is the Taixuan Dao Elder I invited out this time, and now he has joined my Taiping Dao, and you are my Taiping Dao Great Elder, you will serve the Dao Elder as you respect me in the future. Zhang Jiao said to the person who had just come out.
"I've seen Elder Taixuan!" everyone began to pay their respects to Taixuan, saluting in unison.
Then Zhang Jiao pointed to everyone and began to introduce Taixuan, among which the one who had just asked was Zhang Jiao's second brother Zhang Liang, the third brother Zhang Bao, and other disciple Ma Yuanyi and others, and then there was a wine reception, which was extremely enthusiastic.
On the second day, in Zhang Jiao's unique simple single house, Tai Xuanpan sat on a straw mat and sat on the ground opposite Zhang Jiao.
"How is the elder looking at my peaceful way?" Zhang Jiao asked, smiling.
Taixuan looked at Zhang Jiao, couldn't get any information, muttered for a while, didn't know what Zhang Jiao wanted to do, so he had to tell the truth, everyone understands people, this can't be seen It's too fake, today's question is estimated to be still tentative, and said: "The fire is spraying oil, the flowers are scorching, the foundation is unstable, and the destruction is only in an instant!"
"What did the elder teach me?" Zhang Jiao continued, still smiling.
"Taiping Road should be the place to re-establish the foundation at this time, although Yizhou is the foundation of the great sages and good teachers, but there are many wealthy families in the court, it is not a good foothold. It is best to have a weak court, family, and wealthy state, and after laying the foundation, it completely belongs to the Taiping Dao, and only then can it be considered stable by slowly developing according to this!" Taixuan replied.
"Which state does the elder think is feasible?" Zhang Jiao asked again, the same smile on his face.
"Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou belong to the bitter cold zone of the north, the power of the court is weak, the influence of the family is also limited, but the local wealthy clan is strong, but close to the border pass, there are often Qiang, Wuheng, Xianbei, exhaustion, Di, Dongyi people and other foreign clans to detain the pass, the north is not desirable; the east Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou is the place where the wealthy family stands side by side, the power of the court is not weak, and these are not desirable in the east; the west Yizhou Tusi, the royal family, and the wealthy family are even more staggered, and it is not desirable; only the southernmost Jiaozhou is not valued, the court, the family, The influence of the Hao clan is extremely weak, although this place is a wild place in the eyes of the Central Plains people, a place where miasma is born, in fact, it is not, this place has enough rain, fertile land, rich products, produces rice, two crops a year, and even three cropping land, which is extremely suitable for laying a foundation!" After Tai Xuan finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Jiao's reaction.
Zhang Jiao didn't speak, his smile was gone, he suddenly sighed, and said: "Elder Dacai, I know more about this world than I do, even I am not familiar with Jiaozhou!"
"A little shallow insight, let the great sages and good teachers smile!" Tai Xuan replied with a smile.
"Taiping Dao can't leave the Central Plains yet, the foundation must be in the Central Plains!" Zhang Jiao said a sentence that surprised Taixuan.
"Great sage and good teacher, why is this, once there is a problem with the Taiping Dao, these poor people, the court, the family, and the wealthy family will not care whether they live or die, hundreds of thousands of people!" Tai Xuan asked suspiciously, puzzled in his heart, you want to rebel against the baseless, aren't you joking with the lives of these poor people, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, how many people rely on killing these people who can't survive, get promoted, get rich, become famous, and be famous for eternity.
"Now that you have entered the Taiping Dao, you can see the current situation of the Taiping Dao, and have a strategy to re-establish the foundation, I think you can also see the general situation of what I want to do, I will not hide it from you, I not only want to build a Taiping Dao country on behalf of the Han Dynasty, but also change the sky for this Kyushu land!" Zhang Jiao's eyes were crazy, but his mouth was meaningful and said to Taixuan.