Chapter 44: The Soul of the Dead
In this way, a few years have passed, since the rebellion of King Qian, five years later, Yizhou, since the beginning of the spring, a great drought has fallen from the sky, thousands of miles of red land, and the entire territory of Yizhou in the west of the Dayin Mountain region has no harvest and the farmland is dry.
This is because of the rebellion of King Qianwang five years ago, the reason why the dragon veins in Yizhou were cut and displaced, after five years of restoration, the dragon veins in Yizhou were stabilized again, and the local atmosphere in the territory changed, which evolved into weather changes.
There was a drought throughout Yizhou, and the deserted people fled to the plains in the south.
Yuzhou and Sili have the most refugees, but Liangzhou in the west is where the Barbarian Yue tribe lives, and the swampy mountains are not suitable for ordinary people to live, and Qingzhou in the east cannot be reached by thousands of miles of Dayin Mountain.
However, Dong Biwu, who was still in charge of the post of 'assassin in the north's state, vigorously recruited refugees and provided disaster relief in Tuntian, bringing a large population and acres of land to the state.
The refugees went to the imperial capital to go to the capital, and Qiantai, who was the young Yin of the capital at that time, was just thirteen years old, but he had already lived for tens of thousands of years in his heart. The only thing Qiantai can do during this time is to try his best to pay close attention to the security inside and outside the capital, give the refugees a relatively safe living environment, and take the initiative to bring people to help maintain the continuity of the porridge shed every day.
Not all families and gate valves are cold-blooded and single-minded only for the dragon, and the Meng family, a Confucian scholar in Shangjing, came forward to contact various families and set up porridge sheds outside the city to help the people.
At that time, there was a living Bodhisattva in Shangjing, a female doctor, who was from the Confucianism Holy Land School Palace named Yinling Girl, and this woman followed these refugees all the way from Yizhou, and it was she who encouraged the refugees all the way to Shangjing to sue the emperor and ask the emperor for disaster relief.
Qiantai, the silver bell girl, has also seen it outside the city, judging by its appearance should be a few years older than herself, it is the youth of seventeen or eighteen, she looks even more sunken fish and geese, her face is pale, and her heart is also really loving the people. This woman finally asked for the refugees in Yizhou to go to the capital, and did not hesitate to enter the palace, committed to be the emperor to be a music official, the silver bell girl also has the identity of the palace to guard the body like jade, but also for the old emperor to play the piano and dance for three days, only to ask the old emperor who was more than half of the sixty years at that time, to order disaster relief.
The emperor is also very fond of this Confucianism outside the holy land of the palace of women, and pampered it, Qiantai heard that the emperor even liked the song and dance of the silver bell girl, because the silver Ling girl, in the end, really got his wish to let the Yizhou Taishou dry to open the warehouse to release grain for disaster relief.
Throughout the early spring of that year, in the capital city, there was a lot of trouble around the disaster victims and the silver bell girl, and Yizhou was also busy with disaster relief.
And the heroes of the world, while watching the saints in Shangjing, seem to be indulging in women's pleasures, and on the other hand, they look enviously at the great benefits of Dong Biwu in the north and Zhou.
In the midsummer of this year, in Linxi Village, Feicheng Town, the real people of Minshan Surabaya in the mountains suddenly and urgently visited the second yuan god Yan Du, bringing a big news to Yan Du, and Yan Du had just sensed it from the prayers of a few believers near Xiaye.
The ghost of Yizhou Qianwang suddenly appeared outside the Dayin Mountain, led more than 10,000 military souls and evil creatures, captive the victims, and devoured the entire Li people in several counties and counties in the west of the Dayin Mountain in just a few days, and now, around the entire Xiaye, Julu and Changshan, there are villages and entire villages where the victims were sucked into the yang qi by ghosts and died, and the dead bodies everywhere, in the western part of Yizhou, in just one day, hundreds of thousands of Li people died tragically under this disaster.
This year is the worst day of disasters in Yizhou, from now on, the entire territory of Yizhou, refugees are unsafe, thieves are continuous, and disasters have arisen.
Because nearly half of the land in Yizhou is in the mountainous areas of Dayin Mountain, the land is poor, the people are fierce, and they have experienced heavy tax exploitation by the Qianmen in recent years.
These thieves swept through like locusts. Raising the banner again, these thieves said that they would revolt to save themselves, break the cold exploitation of Yizhou's 'looting money' and end the court that no longer ruled for the poor people. The thieves and the army of Yizhou are swimming around Dayin Mountain, and it is always difficult to completely clear them, and the entire territory of Yizhou is **. Later generations called this widespread rebellion the Rebellion of the Red Stripes.
When the second gods of Linxi Village, Yan Du and Surabaya Zhenren, arrived near Xiaye, they saw many barren villages littered with corpses, and the rancid epidemic had slowly grown, and several counties in the entire area were like ghosts.
Surabaya Zhenren and Yan Du did not find the army of evil things that swept the people of Li by King Qian, and the two came to Xia Ye City, and the treasure of the town faction brought by Surabaya Zhenren 'Dianlong Pen' broke through the military spirit and legal net support of the garrison of Xia Ye City at this time, and the two entered the city to find the Zheng Jiaweng who guarded the mausoleum for the line of King Qian.
Near the ruins of the original abandoned 'Ancient Wind Palace' in the east of Xiaye City, there is a small Yizhuang, and there is a land temple in the village.
Zheng Jiaweng, who is already old and half dead, is the temple of this land temple, in the past five years, the land temple due to the lack of Yan Du care, in the city of Xia Ye is not widely spread, only some residents who come to Yizhuang to stop the mortuary will burn some incense candles along the way, and recite a recitation of the 'return to the ruins of good and evil scriptures'.
The second elemental gods Yandu and Surabaya Zhenren learned from Zheng Jiaweng's mouth that King Qian's ghost army swept and plundered the people of the county, which had already happened five days ago, and had once attacked Xia Ye City. On that day, the black clouds in the city were overwhelming, thunder and lightning flashed, the cold and bone-scraping wind continued, and the whining cries made the residents of Xia Ye City frightened all night.
Subsequently, two days ago, Yuan Shao, the Liaodong County Shou of Youzhou, came to the outside of Xia Ye City with a group of senior monks from the Southern Dalin Temple, talked with Tai Shou Qian, and then went out of the city to the west to chase down this group of evil spirits.
When Yan Du left, he took out the 'Soul Flag' and released Gao Shilian and two scribes, and asked them to rectify the land temple, record the believers, and begin to spread their faith in Xia Ye City.
The two of them went through two more days, and found eighteen bald monks led by Yuan Shao in a hill swamp near Liangzhou on the western border of Yizhou. and a few monks and monks in cloud robes who were covered in water vapor stood beside Yuan Shao, but the real people in Surabaya recognized that it was the Northern Youshui Sect, but they didn't want the sect to close the mountain for five years, and now they took advantage of this opportunity to choose Yuan Shao, who is now the county guard of Liaodong County.
When the two arrived, these people had already formed a large array on the swamp, with great Confucian articles, Taoist magic weapons, treasures in the army, treasures of the imperial road, and Buddhist relics, and together they suppressed the army of the souls of the King of Qian, which had spread to more than 20,000 like a sea of black clouds and mist, and wiped out more than 20,000 souls in this nameless valley swamp.
The two also quietly returned to Xia Ye.
In the autumn of the same year, the belief in the land temple of Xia Ye took advantage of this disaster and the people of Li were panicked. In the midst of disasters and chaos, the people of Li need a spiritual sustenance, and the belief and doctrine of retribution for good and evil after death brings comfort to these oppressed people. What's more, the land god also has spiritual blessings, and most of the people who seek good fruits will be satisfied, and naturally it will spread quickly near Xiaye in Yizhou.
Land temples were built in villages and towns, and temples were born with the temples, and the power of Yandu's faith increased greatly, and the 'Good and Evil Sutra of Returning to Ruins' spread all over Yizhou, becoming the words of comforting the souls of the deceased in most of the funerals, quietly influencing and changing the burial customs of a state.
At the end of the autumn of the same year, Yan Du officially advanced to Chenghuang in Xiaye City, and he mobilized all the believers and temple Zhu to take the initiative to bury the corpses in the countryside, eliminate the epidemic, and reconcile the changing local atmosphere in Yizhou, so that the village roads and farmland near Xiaye could be planted in autumn.
And Yan Du and Surabaya real people are collecting dead souls in the vicinity of Xia Ye, and the yin qi in the soul flag gathers more deeply, entrusting tens of thousands of dead souls to the true spirits, and the diffuse yin qi also nourishes the peach tree law behind Yan Du's head, with the hell magic power in his left hand and the sickle magic weapon in his right hand.
And some of the extremely vicious and overkill souls were really pressed under the left palm by Yan Du, until they were tortured, and the life that was worn out was not as good as death, and there was a little Yuan Ling Fang who would let go of the temporary pressure in the 'Soul Flag', waiting for future reincarnation.
It is said that after Yan Du advanced to the city god, the yin soul achieved the primordial spirit, and the divine power was more profound, and the domination of the believers was even clearer.
In Xia Ye City, when Yan Du was meditating, he could clearly hear the prayers of the believers in Feicheng Town, which was thousands of miles away.
Even the ancient god law world behind his head seemed to implicate all the believers, shrouding the land of faith, giving birth to a trace of the reincarnation energy of the ghost-faced peach tree in life and death.
In Feicheng, Lu County, Yuzhou, the number of believers is also growing.
Yandu's divine power has gone further, the transmission of incense in the natural Feicheng Town has been accelerated, and the land temple in Feicheng Town has also been renovated and rebuilt to be more solemn. At this time, the Wang family, who had already entrusted people to seek connections in Dayin Mountain to help them maintain their status, had not yet waited for the news of Taiyizong.
The influence of the Wang family's power in Feicheng is about to be swallowed up by the belief of the land god little by little, and Wang Qingshan at home has also begun to re-plan in his heart, but Feicheng is located in a remote area, and the Wang family has nothing else except the only place in Dayin Mountain to borrow strength.
In fact, this is completely the Wang family's own attitude of misunderstanding the belief of the land god.
The gods and herdsmen pay the most attention to the power of faith and the support of believers to continue to multiply, rather than compete for power. It can be said that the original status of the gods is above the family, transcendent and will never fall into the power struggle with the Wang family in this fat town.
As long as the Wang family does not hinder the reproduction and production of the Li people in the town, the land god will not embarrass the Wang family, at least since the land god Yan Du entered Feicheng, he has never taken the initiative to feel sorry for the Wang family.
Even, during the days when Yan Du went to the north, many temples in Feicheng, under the leadership of Peng Lihu, also persuaded the Wang family to believe in the land god, and promised that as long as the Wang family was not evil, the land god would not covet the property of the Wang family at all, but the persuaded temple was driven out by the Wang family.
Even so, Yan Du, who heard about this, did not punish him, the matter of faith is focused on making people independent and sincere, and it is also true that the Wang family does not believe in themselves.