After settling down in his heart, Li Chixin naturally had nothing to worry about, because in the treatment room in the building, there was still a grandmaster-level town house divine beast - the Hong Clan. With his mastery of divination alone, if Li Chixin is willing to set up a flag on Hong Kong Island or overseas, it will take less than half a year for the Hong clan to be crowned a god under his packaging, and he can't look down on the title of master or anything at all.

If it is for money, it is not a problem, Li Chixin at the groundbreaking ceremony of his real estate project, he invited a second-rate feng shui master on Hong Kong Island to cut the ribbon, according to the intermediary, if it is not a large project at the international level, those masters on Hong Kong Island or San Francisco will not show up at all.

At this time, Li Chixin didn't know why he suddenly missed the Hong family so much. In his shallow knowledge of history, he only remembered that the Hong clan fled into the mountains alone because of Li Chuang's defeat and survived in a nunnery; one night when the Hong clan faced the ancient Buddha of the green lantern, she remembered the past for a while, and after the defeat of the Great Shun Dynasty, she herself lost her husband and child, and the pain of her heart and lungs made her cry bitterly in front of the statue.

Later, the Hong family had to pass on the mantle of the old nun, only to learn that the master of the old nun meditation who presided over the nun here was actually the head of the White Lotus Holy Sect......

Soon, the stormy Southern Ming court also fell. Immediately after entering the customs, the Qing Dynasty violated its oath and ordered the Han people to shave their hair and keep braids, completely ignoring the matter of Wu Sangui borrowing troops to restore the Ming Dynasty; with Wu Sangui's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, a group of Ming civil and military officers found an excuse to oppose the Qing Dynasty and hold high the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty to the outside world.

As an opposition party with thousands of years of experience, the White Lotus Sect has always had a tradition of overthrowing the empire, as if they were born to overthrow the country, and at this time, they joined forces with Wu Sangui and other opposing forces of the Qing court to start a large-scale uprising in the heartland of the Qing Dynasty, especially in Jinmen, Shandong and Gyeonggi.

In Li Chixin's historical education, it is recorded that the lady of the Red family is a leading figure of the anti-feudal sect; in the classic historical books he has read, the lady of the Hong family, who is known as the Red Lady in the rivers and lakes, can be said to be the main disseminator and leading figure of the White Lotus Holy Sect during the period of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

According to Li Chixin's own analysis, the White Lotus Sect is not just an anti-feudal organization, it is more appropriate for them to be called an anti-government organization or an anarchic organization, and there is a reason for them to claim to have rebelled for a thousand years.

The White Lotus Cult arose in the Tang Dynasty and began in the Song Dynasty, and is a secret religious organization that circulates among the people. The White Lotus doctrine originated in the Pure Land sect of Buddhism. According to legend, the ancestor of the Pure Land Sect, Master Shi Huiyuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, once recited the Buddha together with Liu Zhimin and others in the picturesque Lushan Donglin Temple, and later generations of White Lotus believers took it as a model.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, because several generations of emperors advocated Buddhism, the Pure Land Sect was even more popular, and it was mostly called the White Lotus Society or the Lotus Society at this time. During the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Kunshan, Wujun County, which is now Kunshan, Jiangsu, there was a monk Mao Ziyuan who was named Cizhao, and on the basis of the Pure Land Association that flourished, a new sect was created, which was called the White Lotus Sect in later generations, that is, the White Lotus Sect.

The early White Lotus Sect believed in Amitabha Buddha, advocated chanting Buddha and keeping precepts, stipulating that believers should not kill, steal, commit adultery, not lie, and not drink alcohol, and called on its followers to worship their ancestors.

The teachings of the White Lotus are extremely simple, and the scriptures are more accessible than they are to the tradition. This is also one of the reasons why the middle and lower classes are easily accepted, so in the history education that Li Chixin received, he called the White Lotus Sect an organization that led the people to resist oppression.

After a long period of circulation, in the subsequent Yuan and Ming dynasties, the White Lotus Sect organized the people to rise up and overthrow the rulers many times. However, in the Yuan Dynasty, the organization and teachings of the White Lotus Sect underwent some changes, and the organization became lax and full of sects, some of which worshipped Maitreya Buddha and preached Maitreya's rebirth, a religious prophecy that originally belonged to Maitreya's Pure Land method.

In the first year of the Great Dynasty, the imperial court was afraid that the White Lotus Sect was too powerful, so it ordered a ban on the spread of the White Lotus Sect.

However, when Renzong ascended the throne, he immediately restored the legal status of the White Lotus Sect; however, the good times did not last long, and when Yingzong ascended the throne ten years later, the activities of the White Lotus Sect were restricted again; it was precisely because of the capriciousness of the Mengyuan court that the White Lotus cultists in many places had a hostile attitude towards the Yuan Dynasty government.

In addition, the followers of the White Lotus Sect are mostly middle- and lower-class people. Therefore, when the plundering and mergers of the upper strata intensified at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the social contradictions intensified, some White Lotus sect members took the lead in carrying the banner of anti-Yuan.

The leaders of the Red Turban Rebellion, Han Shantong, Liu Futong, Xu Shouhui, and Zou Pusheng, were almost all White Lotus followers, and they used the prophecy of the birth of King Ming, Amitabha Buddha, and Maitreya's birth to encourage the people to rise up against the Yuan, which had a huge impact on the rule of the Mengyuan court.

Chongzhen's ancestor, Ming Taizu Zhu Chong's eight Guorui, was named Xingzong after returning to the vulgar, and changed his name to Zhu Yuanzhang after participating in Guo Zixing's Red Turban Army, and he himself was one of the White Lotus sectists.

In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the expropriation and expropriation of the ruling class, coupled with the plundering and annexation that can only be described as crazy, made people who could not survive rise up one after another, and the Yuan lost its deer, and the world such as Guo Zixing, Han Shantong, Liu Futong, Xu Shouhui, Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang, Zhu Yuanzhang and these heroes rose up to chase them together.

It is precisely because of Zhu Yuanzhang's heroic uprisings and the use of the banner of the White Lotus Sect that when he sat on the throne, before he had time to kill the heroes, the first thing was to strictly prohibit the White Lotus Sect. During the Hongwu and Yongle periods, Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Lu and other places were forbidden to raise incidents, and there were many armed riots of the White Lotus cultists, and some of them also claimed to be emperors, but they were all suppressed by the Zhu father and son with a high military value.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the acceleration of the economic development of the Ming Dynasty, the folk religious names are becoming more and more numerous, there are Jin Chan, Wuwei, Longhua, Wukong, Huanyuan, Yuandun, Hongyang, Maitreya, Jingkong, Dacheng, Sanyang, mixed source, smelling incense, Luo Dao and so on dozens of kinds, and some sects are a sect with several names of this wonder.

Although these figures and sects are not the same, there are many differences in doctrine, and their organizations, rituals, and activities are also different, but their bodies are more or less bearing the birthmarks of the White Lotus Sect, and not only the old Zhu family thinks that they are actually still the White Lotus Sect, but even the people also call them the White Lotus Sect in general.

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