CHAPTER XLVIII

After Bai Yuchan arrived in Lin'an, he did not stay in Lin'an, but only discussed with Yin Zhiping for three days in succession some problems faced by the current mission, and then ignored Yin Zhiping's retention and took people to leave.

Yin Zhiping knew that Lin'an could be regarded as a sad place for Bai Yuchan, who suffered a big setback in Lin'an that year, and was very disappointed in the entire Southern Song Dynasty from top to bottom. Bai Yuchan didn't want to stay in Lin'an for a long time, and Yin Zhiping understood this mood, so he didn't force him to stay.

After three days of discussion, they finally decided to go their separate ways. Since Yin Zhiping had already opened up the situation in Lin'an and taken root, he began to preach with Lin'an as a base. The main direction is to move from the south to the north, and strive to connect with the territory of the Quanzhen Sect in the north as soon as possible.

And Bai Yuchan still returned to Wuyi Mountain to develop, he has been operating Wuyi Mountain for a long time, which is considered a fundamental place. Since merging with the Quanzhen Sect and bringing back a group of Quanzhen disciples back to Wuyi, he has opened up the inherent situation and made a lot of development in the past six months. Not only did it admit many new disciples, but also developed a lot of believers, and it also merged two Taoist temples and built a new branch temple.

Bai Yu Toad has been operating in the Wuyi Mountain area for a long time, and it can be said that the foundation laid is very good, but it has been limited to the shortage of manpower, so it has not been able to expand and develop. This new addition brought back nearly sixty Quanzhen disciples, and immediately solved the problem of manpower shortage, and the expansion of most of the past six months can be said to be a matter of course.

His main direction of development will radiate from the southeast to the southwest, and eventually it will be connected with the Quanzhen Sect in Sichuan.

At the same time, the two will also give priority to the development of their respective regions, and want to connect Lin'an to Wuyi. The two places are not too far apart. By connecting these two places together, the two of them will be able to help each other. It is also easier to communicate with each other by stabilizing the results of their respective developments.

But after the connection. The two of them were no longer allowed to infiltrate each other's territory. Although the two factions are one religion, after all, they are still divided into sects, and each has its own independence from each other. This is also the point that Bai Yuchan emphasized when he chose to merge into the Quanzhen Sect, and he must maintain the relative independence of his own side.

The result of the current discussion between Yin Zhiping and Bai Yuchan is equivalent to dividing Fujian, Liangguang, and most of Jiangxi and Hunan areas into Bai Yuchan's mission area. Yin Zhiping's mission area was Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Hubei, as well as a small number of areas in Jiangxi and Hunan. As for Yunnan and Guizhou, over the years. The Quanzhen Church in Sichuan had gradually infiltrated the two places, and it was designated as a mission area for Sichuan.

Yin Zhiping was appointed to preside over the mission in the south, and he had the right to make his own decisions, and he could make decisions with Bai Yuchan with all his might, and he didn't need to go back to Nanshan to wait for instructions. However, after discussing the results with Bai Yuchan and some rules of action, he still wrote a letter to Zhongnanshan to report to Ma Yu and others. Although they don't need their approval, they have to let them know the truth. In addition, his letter also said that he would come from the Taoist temple of the Quanzhen Sect branch in Shandong. Then he sent a group of Quanzhen disciples to the south to help him start his missionary work.

He is now in Lin'an, in addition to himself, even Li Zhichang. There are only fourteen Quanzhen disciples who listen to it, and the manpower is too small. This bit of manpower is now helping him fully grasp the concept of longevity. It would be too much to develop any more.

Although the current Zongguan General Altar of the Quanzhen Sect is in the Chongyang Palace of Zhongnan Mountain, the name of the Quanzhen Sect was first established by Wang Chongyang in Shandong. The seven sons of Quanzhen are all from Shandong. It was in the process of preaching and preaching in Shandong that Wang Chongyang successively accepted seven of them as disciples. So. Shandong has always been the traditional force of the Quanzhen Sect.

At present, the place where the Quanzhen Sect has the strongest power and the most disciples, in addition to Shaanxi, where the Zongguan Chongyang Palace is located, will belong to Shandong. It was the original Yin Zhiping, although his ancestral home was Cangzhou, Hebei, but he moved to Laizhou, Shandong in his father's generation. He was also born in Shandong and is considered a native of Shandong. At the same time, he was also a disciple of Qiu Chuji when he was dealing with the affairs of the local Quanzhen Sect in Shandong.

It was precisely because the Quanzhen Sect in Shandong was powerful, there were many disciples, and it was also close to Lin'an, so Yin Zhiping asked to send a group of disciples from Shandong to Lin'an to listen to it. He can also make his own decisions about this matter, and he only reported it in Nanshan's letter in the end. Before writing this letter, he had already sent a letter to the diocese of Shandong, and directly asked the Shandong side to cooperate in his capacity as the first one.

After doing these things, Yin Zhiping waited for the Quanzhen disciples arranged by Shandong to go south to Lin'an, and on the other hand, he also began to select Taoist temples in Lin'an and the nearby areas outside the city to choose to merge, and prepared in advance.

In addition, he performed two more Jiao ceremonies in succession every once in a while to expand the influence of himself and the Quanzhen Sect, and to develop followers first. He beheaded Kublai Khan in the middle of the 100,000 Mongol army under the city of Xiangyang, and his reputation had already spread before he arrived in Lin'an. After arriving in Lin'an, he was rewarded by the emperor and became even more famous. Therefore, he wants to develop believers, but he has a very good foundation.

Although the Wanshou Temple is the royal palace view of the Great Song Dynasty, it is not taboo for the people to worship and offer incense. Just like the Northern Song Dynasty, the Daxiangguo Temple of Kaifeng Mansion in Bianliang at that time was also established as a royal temple, but it was not afraid of the people to incense. Except for the emperor or the clan and high-ranking officials who have to deliberately clear the incense, people come and go on weekdays, and pilgrims are weaving. The stall market outside the temple is prosperous, and it is also a prosperous place in Bianliang.

The concept of longevity has been very cold before this, not because it does not accept the incense of ordinary people, but because the previous masters did not do much, and they did not manage it carefully. This is the royal palace view, the Taoist priests in the view have the salaries issued by the imperial court, and every time the emperor, the queen mother, the concubines or the relatives of the clan come to offer incense, there are rewards, so the Taoist priests in the view are not very worried about the ordinary people's little incense money.

Therefore, the pilgrims received by Wanshouguan before were basically royal people, some officials, ministers and their relatives, and very few ordinary people. And because the Wanshou Temple is a royal palace view, the people are also in awe, and they dare not enter it easily, and the view is not publicized, so it gradually does not accept ordinary people to incense.

After Yin Zhiping learned that the concept of longevity can also receive ordinary people to offer incense, he has changed his previous drawbacks. In order to be safe, he also specially asked Emperor Lizong's permission in advance. While doing several Zhaijiao dojos in a row, he also ordered his disciples to vigorously preach the concept of longevity to the people who came to watch Zhaijiao, and began to accept incense and prayers from ordinary people.

There is a saying that "the mountain is not high, but the immortal is famous, and the water is not deep, and the dragon is spiritual." "The same is true for temples and Taoist temples, not in terms of their size, but in whether there are highly respected and well-known monks or immortal masters who are in charge of the abbot.

Wanshou Palace is a royal palace, which is already big, and now there is Yin Zhiping, a Xuanhua real person who "flies the sword to kill the enemy chieftain, and the official family gives the number", is in charge. As soon as the ban was opened, ordinary people were allowed to offer incense, and immediately the crowd of pilgrims who came to offer incense and pray for blessings was endless, that is, in the name of Yin Zhenren, and those who did not go to incense should also pretend to be incense to come to see and see.

Yin Zhiping also ordered the disciples of Quanzhen to spread the preaching weapon Dao Boxing method among the believers, and it was even more believers, but after ten days and a half of effort, the concept of longevity became prosperous from the previous cold. (To be continued......)