Liao Zhai alchemist

Chapter 324 Heaven's Way Rewards!

In the early autumn of the 27th Tongjin, another minor incident occurred in Suzhou Prefecture. The cotton fields of Tai'an Commercial Bank were again infested by insects.It was still the same as last year, another plague of locusts!

This year, the people of Tai'an Commercial Bank stepped up inspections. As soon as the locusts appeared, they immediately attracted attention, and then sent people to deal with them.

The locusts were quickly wiped out.The outbreak of locusts this time made the people of the Tai'an Chamber of Commerce puzzled.This time they were sure it wasn't the people from the Agricultural Reclamation Association, but this kind of thing still happened, which still made them a little depressed.

But early detection and early treatment, the insects were expelled and killed, and did not cause any harm to the cotton.

This year will be another bumper year!
On the first day of August, without any recruitment, a golden light suddenly appeared in the sky of Tianmen County, and the golden light shone on Zhang's mansion. Then, under the eyes of everyone, two crowned gods wearing thunder robes walked out of the golden light.

The two gods fell from the sky, landed in the midair, and began to shout with a loud voice: "Magistrate of Tianmen County, Zhang Wei takes over!"

The sound was like thunder, and spread far and wide in all directions.When the people in Tianmen County heard this, they hurried out to see what was going on.

When they saw the two gods and men in the sky, they all bowed involuntarily.

At this time, Zhang Wei came out of the room, stood in the courtyard and said, "Zhang Wei is here, may I ask who is the god?"

These two gods and men seemed to be arguing, and they began to say: "We are the righteous gods of the Thunder Department of the Heavenly Court. I think you have made outstanding achievements and contributed to the court of heaven and earth, so I came here to pardon you. You don't have to listen quickly. seal up!"

Hearing this, Zhang Wei also nodded. It seems that Lei Bu wanted to make amends to himself.

Zhang Wei bowed and said, "Zhang Wei listens."

The man of God took out an imperial edict and began to read: "The emperor is above, and the earth is below. Today there is Zhang Wei, who is capable of writing and martial arts, and has a heart for the people. He has the power to kill dragons and the achievement of exterminating locusts. Ren One side of the county magistrate, making one side's blessing, the credit will last forever, and the blessing is in the sky."

"His achievements must be shown, and his achievements must be praised. The selflessness of the heavens is selfless, and the humanity is rewarded. Zhang Wei is now appointed as the general who conquered thunder and bandits. He is allowed to set up a temple to sacrifice and enjoy the incense forever!"

"Success, accept the gift!"

Then Zhang Wei shouted: "Zhang Wei accepts the gift!"

When the people in the city heard this, they all started talking.They were all sincerely happy for Mr. Zhang Wei.

The man of God landed in Zhang Wei's yard. This official business is over, now it's time for private matters!

The two hugged Zhang Wei and said, "Congratulations, Mr. Zhang! Congratulations, Mr. Zhang!"

Zhang Wei took the edict, and asked a little puzzled: "What is the position of the general who surrenders thunder and bandits? Why is there no rank? I haven't heard of it either?"

The two gods laughed and said: "Master Zhang, this general who brings down thunder and smashes bandits has no rank, and he is also newly created!"

No grade?Hearing this, Zhang Wei's face changed slightly.

Seeing the change in Zhang Wei's face, the two gods immediately said: "But Mr. Zhang, don't get me wrong. This doesn't mean that you have no rank. It doesn't mean that you have little power. You are a Yang official, and you naturally understand that there is another honorable person among the Yang officials." .This nobility has no rank except for the Duke and Bozinan.”

When Zhang Wei heard it, he understood a little bit, but he still said: "The lord is super, can it be compared?"

The two gods and men also laughed, and said: "This general who subdues thunder and smashes bandits is also super! It is set up for you by imitating the nobles in the world! In this way, you are not considered a heavenly official, and you can continue to be a yang official." !"

In fact, the thing that Zhang Wei was originally granted is similar to the scattered steps of the imperial court, with a false name but no real power.Because it is really not good for him to break the rules, he is both an official of the sun and an official of the day.

But Mr. Lei Zu finally decided that it can be sealed like this, but he must give Zhang Wei a right, and that is the right to build a temple!
For the gods, the right to establish a temple is similar to the honorable right to open teeth and build a mansion.

Many gods do not have independent temples. Only those great gods or gods with strong influence have the right to establish temples.

For example, Miss Ci used to be a deity, so she didn't have a temple, so she could only occupy a place in the Shuijun Temple in Huaishui River as a god, and risk some incense.

There are not many gods who can independently build temples and enjoy incense alone.The gods of the mountains, the land, and the city gods are similar to the gods of the land, and their temples are similar to offices, which are necessary. This is not considered as an independent temple.

Giving Zhang Wei the right to build a temple is equivalent to elevating this loose order to the position of a lord in one go!
But this matter was spoken by Lei Zu himself, and the other gods in Lei Bu couldn't say anything.

The two gods and Zhang Wei explained the pass in detail, and Zhang Wei quickly understood.Finally, the two gods said: "I have to say, Lord Lei Zu is taking good care of you, you should keep it in your heart."

Zhang Wei nodded: "Zhang Wei must remember!"

After chatting for a while, Zhang Wei gave each of the two gods a blue coin as happiness money.The two gods and men accepted it with a smile, and then left.

When they left, the family rushed over with a whoosh.

Hu Jubai took this letter of pardon, and said happily: "You will be a god in the future?" She didn't quite understand the truth of it, anyway, she knew that her husband was made a god.

Hu Susu looked at Zhang Wei, then smiled and said, "After you build a temple, do you want me to give you a temple blessing?"

This is a temple wish, there is a saying.When a woman prays to a male god, it means that she is committed to the god, which means that she will serve and respect the god wholeheartedly in the future and never marry.

It's just that the god Zhang Wei still has an entity, and it's a temple blessing. If you want to serve a god, that's to serve Zhang Wei. This is another kind of justification!

This mortal woman can't be a great woman, but she, Hu Susu, can still compete for this godly woman.

Hu Susu's small thoughts were immediately seen through by other women, and they were immediately pushed away.Hu Qinghao said, "Then let's build you a temple, how about building it next to your home?"

Everyone found it interesting, and didn't regard it as a very sacred thing. They all liked Zhang Wei, rather than respecting Zhang Wei, a god.

Zhang Wei could only smile, what else could he say.

But things changed the next day.

Early the next morning, several big 'squires' from Tianmen County came to visit Zhang Wei.

These big 'squires' are not those retired officials or people with fame in the Central Plains.But it is very characteristic of Tianmen County, the owner of the big workshop, the owner of the big cotton land.

There are still very few scholars in Tianmen County. Even if Tianmen County is rich now, the accumulation of talents is always slower than the accumulation of wealth.

There are no scholars to occupy this 'squire' highland now, so it is naturally occupied by these wealthy landlords and workshop owners.

Because Zhang Wei did not discriminate against merchants and landlords, and he himself came from a merchant family, these "self-proclaimed gentry" in Tianmen County were not opposed by Zhang Wei.

Now, these 'squires', these 'sages and dignitaries' are coming for revenge!
A dozen gorgeously dressed people sat on chairs with half of their buttocks, and Zhang Wei sat on top.After everyone took a sip of tea, Zhang Wei asked, "I don't know why you come to see me in the morning."

These people usually don't come to him easily, and if they want to look for them, they will go to the county government to look for them.It's a bit impolite to come to the house, after all, they are not Zhang Wei's acquaintances and friends.

At this time, Li Baicheng, the owner of the second cotton spinning workshop in Tianmen County besides the Zhangjia Workshop, said, "It's like this. Yesterday, my lord was conferred the title of Great General Who Brings Thunder and Bandits, and he also got the honor of building a temple." We have been thinking about it for a day and plan to build a temple for you!"

This is not an act of "spontaneously" building temples and shrines for Wei Zhongxian in various places in the late Ming Dynasty.This is a serious behavior that has been approved by the heavenly court and approved by the imperial court.

Moreover, for things like building temples, you can’t pay for it yourself. It makes sense to ask others to build temples for you.

Therefore, when everyone proposes to build a temple for Zhang Wei, it is not for the sake of flattering and messing around. Although it is also flattering, it is not messing around!

For this reason, Zhang Wei did not immediately object. He pondered for a moment and said, "How do you plan to build it?"

As soon as these people heard this, Li Baicheng immediately said: "My Li family is willing to donate the house on Dongsanmen Street, tear it down and build a temple!"

There was no East Sanmen Street in Tianmen County before, and there was only one street in Tianmen County in the past.Afterwards, when they became rich, more people came into the city, and a large-scale real estate development was naturally carried out.

The west gate of Tianmen County is the place where foreign businessmen enter, and it used to be a market for cattle, horses and livestock.As soon as there are more foreigners and cattle and horses, the price of this place will drop.

I didn't feel it before, but now that everyone is rich, they are shaking.I felt that the west side was unlucky, so rich people built houses on the east side, and the west side was where workshops, markets, and inns were located, noisy and noisy.

People, as long as they have money, they like to show that they are different.The east side is where rich and powerful people live, and Zhang Wei's house is an independent piece, because next to their house is the "civilian square", no one dares to occupy this place, on the one hand, for fear of causing public anger, and on the other hand On the one hand, I also feel that I am not qualified to be neighbors with Zhang Wei.

Therefore, this house on Dongsanmen Street is a prime location.Li Baicheng threw it out as soon as he said it was thrown out, and it seems that he also played the book.

Li Baicheng's voice fell, and someone over there said: "I am willing to donate three thousand square stones to the temple!"

"I will cover all the wood for the temple!"

"I donate [-] pieces of lacquerware!"

"Authentic South China Sea red sandalwood furniture, I cover it all!"

"We don't have anything else in our family, but we have craftsmen, and we sell craftsmen!"

"Give out..."

"out……"

Everyone had discussed it long ago, and each of them seemed to be taking on a task, without repeating everything, so they contracted this temple.

As soon as Zhang Wei heard it, he smiled and said, "Okay, since this is the case, I will accept everyone's kindness! I would like to thank everyone here."

After speaking, Zhang Wei stood up and bowed to everyone. These people quickly stood up and dared not accept it.

Seeing that Zhang Wei accepted, these people all laughed.Zhang Wei, who has been the county magistrate for these years, said mercilessly that the people here all depended on him to get rich.

The first cotton seeds were provided by Zhang Wei, the first textile looms were provided by Zhang Wei, and the first security was provided by Zhang Wei.

When this master comes, the blue sky will come, and the people will have a better life.They have seen and experienced the changes in Tianmen County over the years.

Don't forget the people who dig the water when you eat wells.Everyone has long wanted to reciprocate.But Zhang Wei is impeccable in this respect.

Sending money, Zhang Wei is richer than them, so giving money is inappropriate.

For the beauty, Zhang Wei's wives are all as beautiful as immortals, and they are afraid of offending the vixen.

Giving power, Zhang Wei was originally the most powerful person in the county. Besides, these people have just become rich and have no ability to influence the court. It is impossible to promote Zhang Wei and raise his salary.

It's good to give fine wine, I heard that Zhang Wei is also a good drinker.But they don't have any good wine here. It is said that the wine Zhang Wei drinks is all good wine brought from his hometown.What kind of wine can be better than hometown wine?
If they cannot give gifts, these people will feel very sad, and they will not be able to establish contact with Zhang Wei and enhance their relationship.

It's all right now, Zhang Wei is a god, and the temple can be built!This can't stop our enthusiasm for success.

Looking at it now, Master Zhang Wei Zhang is still very reasonable, and he quickly agreed with their approach and agreed to build a temple for Zhang Wei!

With Zhang Wei's permission, these people had another lunch at Zhang Wei's house, and then went home to prepare in the afternoon.

On the same day, Li Bai moved his yard on Dongshanmen Street. The next day, the yard wall was knocked down and the house began to be bulldozed.

When other people inquired about it, the servant of the Li family said proudly: "My master has already given this yard to the adults to build a temple!"

As soon as the words came out, other common people began to discuss, and then said: "It can't be like this, building a temple is such a big event, how can those big households be favored by them!"

Well, building a temple is not a matter of building a private temple for each family. It requires all believers to have money and strength to contribute, so as to show the sincerity of the believers.

In Tianmen County, who is not a believer in this what, General Jiang Lei Dang Kou?
In other respects, these ordinary people would just smile and say, "Let these big dogs contribute money and efforts!"

But in this matter, these people will say angrily: "We can't just let these big dogs contribute money and effort, we also want it!"

This is a rush to send money and contribute.Although everyone is not as rich as a big dog family, there are ten or eight two in the family. There are hundreds of thousands of households in Tianmen County and a million people. How can they be worse than a few big families?

Not only the urbanites, but also the local tyrants scattered in the vast countryside of Tianmen County quit.This is clearly bullying them for lack of information flow. How can you not participate in such a big matter!
Now even the villages as far away as Tianmen Lake know about this matter. Everyone rode horses and traveled day and night to Tianmen County for no other reason than to add bricks and tiles to Zhang Wei's temple!
When there are too many people, things get a little messy.

"What? Li Gou wants to build a temple on the leftover area? Let him build it. There is money to burn it."

"What? It was built for the Grand Master. His shabby place is only the size of a palm. Can he build a temple for the Grand Master? This is not possible!"

It turned out that the big households thought that the courtyard of Li Baicheng (Li Gousheng) was very big, but in the eyes of millions of people in Tianmen County, the temple was too small.

"If 1 people go to burn incense, there's not even a place to stand!" Someone shook his head and said.

"That's not it! With the tricks and snacks, this place is even smaller!" Someone said from an economic point of view.

"It's surrounded by other people's houses. I think they will copy others. They should all be moved away!" Someone said from a social point of view.

"Then spend money to buy the surrounding area!" Finally someone said with a lot of money.

In terms of wealth, these big families in Tianmen County are really not the richest.The richest people are local tyrants in the countryside of Tianmen County.

These local tyrants used to be poor, but now they have made a fortune from growing cotton, but they still like to bury their money in the ground as before.

The rural local tyrants in Tianmen County didn't know how much money they had buried in the ground. Now that they heard that a temple was going to be built for Mr. Zhang, these people planned to dig some out to show their hearts.

With this digging, coupled with the huge number of local tyrants, the money piled up like a hill.

These people used carts to push the silver to other people's houses, and said to others: "In the future, this place will be close to the temple. It will be noisy during the day and noisy at night. I guess you can't stand it. You take the money away, enough for you to buy money." There are three houses, and this house will be used to build a temple."

The people in Dongsanmen Street are not all rich like Li Baicheng, some of them occupied the land early, but they are not really rich, so these people saw so much silver, they immediately said: "I It's not that you value your money, it's mainly to build a temple for the old man. I'll take this money, and you can push this house!"

This is not commercial development, nor is it land grabbing.Everyone felt that a good temple should be built for Zhang Wei.

It's just a matter of getting together and working together.

When Zhang Wei found out later, his temple site had expanded tenfold, and there were still people who continued to relocate it!

Zhang Wei stepped forward to stop it immediately.Building a temple can't affect people's normal life, right?

Then he said to the general public: "Now this temple is big enough. I'm not dead yet. Now I mainly live in my own mansion! This temple really doesn't need to be so big!"

Zhang Wei's words made the people around him smile knowingly, and they began to wonder if it was too exaggerated.

Zhang Wei shook his head and said, "Since everyone loves you so much, I can't say anything. But you have to know, this is to build a temple for me, not a palace for me! I, Zhang Wei, have poor fortune, so I can't enjoy these things!"

Everyone laughed again. If Zhang Wei really didn't come forward to stop them, they really wanted to replace the stone with jade, the wood with red sandalwood, and the clay statue with gold. This would be too exaggerated!
Being rich is really capricious!
After Zhang Wei came forward to stop it, the county government also sent people out to start the calculation. It turned out that these big households could handle a small temple by themselves, but now, it has become a big project.

Zhang Wei once again recruited big households, public representatives, and people from the county government, and said: "Now this place is too big. The main body of the temple should follow the Li family's courtyard. It should not be too big. In other places, we should plant flowers and plants and build gardens. In the future, my temple will not be separated by walls, it will be open for everyone to enter freely."

This is a small open park.But the people around Zhang Wei didn't have this concept yet. They looked at each other and couldn't help but say, "It's still an adult!"

Once the planning is done, all that remains is construction.The rich have finished paying, and now the powerful are starting to contribute.

Originally, it was planned to hire people.It costs money.But the people stopped doing it as soon as they heard it, and they still have to charge money to build temples for adults. Isn’t this looking down on us!

Well, under the raging public opinion, everyone should stop taking money for work.At this time, the common people, no matter how their families were, knew how to do some masonry work, and they still knew how to build walls and dust.

In the case of a large number of people, the foundation was dug in one day, and then the walls and beams were built, and because of the large number of people, it was completed in three days.

The next step is to cover the tiles and do the interior decoration.

This was also resolved within two days.

In six days, the main body of the temple was completely completed, and there was one more day for rest. This creation is nothing more than that.

The main body is completed, and the rest is to plant trees and build small parks.These are also easy to handle, everyone gets started, and after a few days of work, the place has changed into a garden with winding paths leading to secluded places, flowing cups of water, lush forests and bamboos.

Finally, there is the idol.

A ten-foot-tall statue that resembled Zhang Wei seventy percent of the time was covered with red silk, and they walked around Tianmen County with gongs and drums.

Whenever the statue passes by, everyone will worship the statue devoutly.

Standing in the crowd, Zhang Wei stared helplessly at his idol, slowly absorbing the power of faith from everyone.

These powers of belief are very diverse, but they are extremely numerous.A clay sculpture, under the blessing of such faith, the sluggish eyes became lifelike, and the blunt color matching became radiant.

A dead object seems to be alive.

Seeing this, Zhang Wei couldn't help saying: "This is the power of humanity."

Just like in ancient times, gods just started to be created. The first gods also inherited people's love, respect, conviction, gratitude and other beliefs, and then they condensed their priesthood and became respected gods.

The divine way has an end, the heavenly way has an upper limit, but the human way has no.Humanity is endless.

Looking at these, Zhang Wei suddenly understood something in his heart.The world that came through, this world where gods and ghosts manifested.Seeking longevity and great happiness are just paths.

Leading everyone to a splendid world is the real goal and future!
He thought about it, and at this moment, a ripple suddenly appeared in his heart.Then he 'saw' a little golden bean that seemed to pop out of his heart.

At this time, he suddenly felt lucky and knew what this little bean was.

This is merit!
The way of heaven is fair, and meritorious deeds will be rewarded.What is rewarded is merit!
In Tianmen County, Zhang Wei broadcasts cotton seeds to benefit one side.Contributing to people and contributing to humanity.You will get the merit of heavenly reward.

This is the original merit, which is the same as the merit transformed by the heavenly court with yin virtue.The only difference is the units issued are different.

One is the Dao of Heaven and the other is the Heavenly Court.

He has been the magistrate of Tianmen County for four years, and now that the gods have just been established, the beliefs of the people of Tianmen County have been pinned, and the way of heaven has finally rewarded him!
　Today should also be a chapter, go out to drink!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)