Chapter 628 - Envoy's Boat and Car to the Sun (8)
Wei Ye can only roughly explore the location of each cinnabar jade seal here, as for the detailed situation, he has to directly contact many powerful envoys through the spiritual guidance on the cinnabar jade seal.
Therefore, he didn't know at all that after Yan Fulong left Zhili, the various circumstances along the way were much more exciting than his head of the Yamen of Tianjin Mansion.
More than 30 years after Qianlong ascended the throne, this arrogant and flashy son of heaven took the lead, and the creed of governing the world without suppressing mergers and treating ministers with leniency was exchanged for the land of Sichuan and Shaanxi, which is known as the granary, and the number of bankrupt peasants increased.
These bankrupt peasants either became tenants of the country gentry, or they had to work part-time jobs to make ends meet.
And the so-called squires, although they always have some ulterior motives, regard the clan and the village sages as a treasure. But in the face of reality, it has always been the inferior gentry who dominates, and the gentleman with a conscience, almost like the conscience of sweatshop owners, is a rare thing worthy of being put in an incubator and exhibited in the multiverse.
Even Shaoxing Xiucai, who has just entered the business of the curtain guest, knows that there is a real lack of knowledge of the county, named "Baili Hou", in fact, he can only choose to make friends with the local gentry, which is the only way to be an official in Taiping.
As for the inferior gentry, as long as there is no big fuss and alarming the Kedao Yanguan to play on the topic, no one will care about anything. Naturally, in the ranks of the gentry, there are also some Taoist gentlemen who worship the teachings of the ancestors, but these people, at most, are standing on the dry shore and playing some fancy tricks of "cutting the table and breaking off relations", so that they can drum and cheer for the people, which is not quite in line with the sage teaching of "if you are poor, you will be alone".
Yan Fulong's journey is exactly when the states and counties in various prefectures and counties are concentrating on the major event of "completing the autumn grain". Although he is a Taoist costume in a yellow turban Taoist uniform, his description is completely different from those wandering Taoist priests wearing rags and robes that he is accustomed to seeing in the Qing Dynasty.
Especially the jade seal on his waist and the magic sword on his back, no matter how you look at it, it is unacceptable. Being watched by curious onlookers is a trivial matter, and along the way, there are almost a dozen cases of being watched by curious villagers.
If Wei Ye is here, he will probably be in the mood to talk a little, Yan Fulong is a Taoist soldier, and he has been killing so many battles with Wei Ye in Xiliang, how can there be any detours to think about?
At first, he also talked to people a few words, but later, relying on his own cultivation to be able to open the valley for half a month without eating, and with all kinds of pills given by Wei Ye, he simply didn't even live in the store, but just whipped away quickly - if the horsepower was overdrawn, he robbed the horses from the post stations along the way and replaced them.
This is straightforward and bright, but the new prestige envoy of the Daohai Sect has become a horse thief temperament. I don't know how Wei Ye would feel if he knew.
On this day, he had already arrived at the boundary of Ezhou, and finally arrived at the Hubei place where Wei Ye appointed him to take office. It was only at this moment that Yan Fulong slowed down, led the newly seized stagecoach from Xinyangyi, Henan, and slowly walked into Ezhou City.
Ezhou place, speaking of Hubei is also an important town, Ezhou connects Henan Wushengguan has always been a place for soldiers, business travel, but also has its own lively scene.
However, the atmosphere in Ezhou City made Yan Fulong instinctively feel that something was wrong.
Ever since Yan Fulong entered the city gate, whether it was Liba carrying work in the warehouse, or the guy who was sent to him in the restaurant, his eyes had secretly glanced at him.
This kind of gaze falls on others, and nothing can be noticed, but Yan Fulong practiced with Wei Ye, although he was not outstanding in practice. But more or less there are some innate masters of the so-called spiritual sense, these eyes, there is not much curiosity, but more vigilance, vigilance.
However, he was always rough and straight, and he led his horse towards the lively part of the city.
As he walked, he pressed the cinnabar jade seal on his waist at the same time, and a trace of true qi crossed over, and in a moment, Wei Ye's voice sounded in his ears: "Is it Yan Fulong?
Yan Fulong just replied in a low voice: "The disciple only knows how to act on orders and take charge of teaching, what is the next ......?"
"What should I do next?" Wei Ye chuckled in Yan Fulong's ear, "The customs in this place are not good, and there are masters everywhere who secretly look at people with their eyes. Sure enough, it is Hubei, and there is the most widespread place for the White Lotus Sect of the Qing Dynasty!"
Yan Fulong couldn't understand the meaning of Wei Ye's words, but the immortal warlock knew it clearly.
Qianlong's so-called "prosperous era", at this time, created a large number of bankrupt displaced people in the two lakes of Gansu and Shaanxi, and finally they either gathered in the mountains and forests, or went to the city to work, and became the urban poor.
Such unique conditions are the best training ground for the White Lotus Sect, the most restless underground sect in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The so-called teachers of the White Lotus Sect are distributed in almost the entire territory of northern Sichuan, southern Shaanxi, and Hubei. It's just that these teachers have different generations, even though everyone worships the motherless and believes in Maitreya, but they don't belong to each other. Between several sects, it is like a split sect of the rivers and lakes, if there is anything, it is impossible to prohibit it at all, and it can only rely on the teachers to make peace and talk about things.
In this environment, the leaders of each branch of the sect regard each other's acres and thirds of land as extremely important.
Whether it is the ancestor of Xinpiao, the ancestor of the mixed yuan, or the Huang family, the Han family, or the Luo Zu Bodhisattva, once the hand fish crosses the boundary, it will be particularly jealous.
And in the eyes of others, although Yan Fulong is also a Taoist attire, this dress is really not the same way as the old Taoist that everyone is used to seeing in ordinary days.
Who knows, this kind of capable man is not the senior brother of a sect in the north, he can't get along in the north, and he comes to Hubei to burn incense and set up altars to rob everyone's business?
In fact, in addition to those teachers who were once forced by the government and the powerful to the point of ruining their families, the ordinary elder brothers of the White Lotus Sect who lit incense and taught the Dharma may not be willing to really engage in anything against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, kill officials and rebel, but burn incense and raise altars, develop believers, and then sit and collect incense money, foundation money, and even more to their spleen and stomach.
In these years, the cost of joining the White Lotus Sect is not five buckets of rice, at least, it has to be three hundred yuan - it has to be a newly minted Qianlong Tongbao, if you use the old money, you have to add another hundred!