Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 61 Passing the decree from heaven
In fact, what Wang Daoqiu performed was the magic of "Flying Talisman" in later generations.When a very thin piece of oiled paper is ignited, the air around the paper is heated and becomes hot air.

According to the density of hot and cold air, cold air is heavier than hot air.Then the cold air above the hot air will press down and lift the hot air up, forming an upward airflow.This is why when the air conditioner is turned on in the room in winter, if the sealing of the room is not very good, you will feel that your forehead is very hot, but the soles of your feet are cold.

Just because this hot air encounters cold air, the hot air will surge upward.So as long as there is enough heat underneath, enough hot air is generated, and your paper is thin and light enough, you can make the paper fly upward.This is the reason why Wang Daoqiu's oiled tissue paper could fly just now, but the talisman paper in Baiyun Temple itself could not fly.

This kind of magic principle has long been thoroughly analyzed in the later Internet age, and not many people will be fooled.But in the Ming Dynasty in the sixteenth century, once this kind of magic effect came out, it was still very bluffing.After all, this kind of magic is not a trick, but a real science.

Therefore, those Taoist priests who are frightened by science, who do not understand those scientific principles, really think that gods have appeared!So they all knelt down to Wang Daoqiu, hoping that Wang Daoqiu would help them introduce them to the gods.

Wang Daoqiu just wanted to use this bluffing trick to break into the Shengun Group with a higher status and recruit those "chemical researchers".When the acting gets bigger, he can't hold it back.

So facing the Taoist priests who were kneeling on the ground, Wang Daoqiu pretended to be panicked and said anxiously: "Dear immortals, please come up. Xiaosheng is a scholar. He has studied the Four Books, Five Classics and Eight-legged Essay since he was a child. This year I just passed the Zhejiang provincial examination, and I came to Beijing to prepare for the examination in February next year. Xiaosheng has never been in contact with Taoist priests since he was a child, let alone understand any Taoism."

"It's just that when I entered this hall just now, I felt the Yuanshi Tianzun in the hall calling me. Really, really, dear immortals, I won't lie to you, I really don't know the Dharma at all. If you don't believe it , The Emperor and Mr. Lu from Jin Yiwei are here now, you can ask the court to investigate. Xiaosheng is really unfaithful, dear immortals, dear immortals, get up quickly."

Wang Daoqiu pretended to be anxious and spoke incoherently.After persuading these Taoist priests, he continued his acting skills, turned around and knelt directly in front of Emperor Jiajing, begging bitterly: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I will die, please persuade all the immortals! I really don't follow Taoism. "

"Wang Aiqing, have you really never practiced Taoism since you were a child?"

"Your Majesty, I dare not deceive you. Buddhism is prevalent in my hometown in Zhejiang. Monks are common there. Basically every village has a Buddhist temple, and there is at least one Buddhist temple within ten miles. But this Taoist priest is rarely seen in a year. One. I have lived in a remote village since I was a child. It was only when I was 16 that I left the village for the first time and went to the county to take the boy examination. But I never saw a Taoist priest during the boy examination in my hometown! It was so bad that I took the college examination in Hangzhou. During the provincial examination, I met Taoist priests in the city of Hangzhou, but I only had a casual relationship with those Taoist priests and had never interacted with each other. Your Majesty, today is the first time in my life that I have entered a Taoist temple, and it is the first time that I have interacted with people from the Taoist sect. It turns out that I have never practiced Taoism, and I really do not know Taoism."

When he said these words, Wang Daoqiu's acting skills were on point, definitely at the Oscar level.Moreover, Wang Daoqiu showed his "immortal art" just now, and confirmed his identity as a disciple of Yuanshi Tianzun. This identity can be exchanged for great wealth with Emperor Jiajing, who advocates Taoism!
But now Wang Daoqiu does not want to be rich and does not admit that he knows Taoism.It can be said that after listening to Wang Daoqiu's words, Emperor Jiajing was both pleased and disappointed.

Fortunately, Wang Daoqiu didn't even want great wealth, so Wang Daoqiu probably didn't lie to him.Wang Daoqiu's predecessor might really have been a disciple of Yuanshi Tianzun in the heaven, but he didn't know the Dharma in this life in the mortal world.What is disappointing is that since Wang Daoqiu, a disciple of Yuanshi Tianzun, does not know Taoism, how can he help Emperor Jiajing cultivate Taoism and become an immortal?

Conflicted in his heart, Emperor Jiajing personally reached out and lifted Wang Daoqiu up from the ground.Then he came up with a reason for Wang Daoqiu in his own mind and said: "Tianzun sent Aiqing to this world as a mortal, there must be a purpose! By the way Aiqing, didn't you just say that Tianzun said what you were thinking? Is it possible to communicate with him? Then Aiqing, you might as well give it a try and ask Tianzun for any instructions."

Isn’t it nonsense to ask what instructions this mud pimple has?Fortunately, Wang Daoqiu had made preparations in advance for any changes he might encounter today.

So after listening to Emperor Jiajing's words, he replied with three words, "I obey the decree."Then he pretended to stare at the statue of Yuanshi Tianzun attentively. After staring for a long time, he regained his consciousness and said to Emperor Jiajing: "Your Majesty, Tianzun said that only the emperor is qualified to receive the will of heaven. Knowing God's will, I am not worthy. "

"What, you want me to give you an order, how should I receive it?"

"It's still the same as before. I will burn the spiritual talisman and send my request to the Heavenly Lord. The Heavenly Lord will add God's will to the ashes of the spiritual talisman and pass it down."

"What, in the ashes? What do you think?"

"Your Majesty, God's will can only be received by you. Do you think you should let everyone else leave this hall now? I will tell you later how to know God's will from the ashes of those spiritual talismans. Will.”

"Okay, okay, okay, I will do everything according to what Ai Qing said."

After Emperor Jiajing said this to Wang Daoqiu, he ordered the place to be cleared, and asked Lu Bing to arrange for guards to surround the three clear and four imperial palaces, and no one else was allowed to approach within thirty steps.

After Emperor Jiajing gave the order, Lu Bing took the order and "invited" everyone else in the palace out first.Then he turned his back to the main hall while wearing a royal guard, and formed a cordon around the outside of the hall.But for the safety of Emperor Jiajing, Lu Bing still insisted not to close the palace door. He stood outside the palace and watched the situation inside the palace, just in case.

When only himself and Emperor Jiajing were left in the palace, Wang Daoqiu approached Emperor Jiajing and whispered: "Your Majesty, after the magic talismans burn out, Your Majesty will catch the ashes. Then he will smear the ashes of the magic talismans on the minister's body. The words that appeared on my arm at that time were the will of God for you. But Your Majesty, as the so-called heavenly secrets cannot be revealed, no matter what words you see on my arm later, you should not tell me anything. Get up, let alone mention it to others. Because this is disrespectful to God and will be punished by God." "Yes, yes, yes, I remember it. My dear, please communicate with the upper world!"

After speaking, Emperor Jiajing knelt down to the statue of Yuanshi Tianzun regardless of his status as an emperor, looking extremely pious.

Holding back the fun of deceiving the dignified king of a country into Fan Wei, Wang Daoqiu pretended to walk to the altar table again.He used his roomy student uniform to block the sight of Emperor Jiajing and Lu Bing outside the palace.Pretending to draw a talisman from the altar table, he then replaced it with a piece of thin oil paper from his sleeve that was very similar to the Taoist talisman.

Still following the gourd's example, he once again performed "Spiritual Talisman Flying to the Sky".But this time, in order to allow Emperor Jiajing to catch the ashes, Wang Daoqiu fanned the wind with his hand and adjusted the flight direction of the talisman to Emperor Jiajing's side.

Emperor Jiajing was also extremely excited when he saw this miracle again.When he saw the magic talisman burning up in the air, a ball of black ashes slowly floated in the wind.Emperor Jiajing was busy like a naughty child, chasing the direction where the ashes were blown by the air current in the air, and reached out to grab the ashes.

And while Emperor Jiajing was chasing the ashes of the talisman, Wang Daoqiu had found a wet wipe that Emperor Jiajing had just used and put it on the confession case.

When Emperor Jiajing caught the ashes, Wang Daoqiu hurriedly rolled up his left arm and said to Emperor Jiajing: "Your Majesty, after a while you will see God's will clearly, then wipe it off immediately with the wet wipes on the confession sheet." , Don’t reveal the secret.”

"Okay, okay, I see."

Then Wang Daoqiu turned his back, and Emperor Jiajing took the paper ash and smeared it on Wang Daoqiu's arm.At this time, a line of small characters appeared clearly on Wang Daoqiu's arm: "In April of the 26th year of Jiajing, Sichuan rebelled against Baicao, and Mongolia asked for tribute; in July and Bingchen, the river defeated Caoxian County; in September, Wang Gao He was imprisoned for taking bribes; in November, there was a great internal fire and the queen died; in December, bandits invaded Ningtai, Zhejiang Province."

Damn, this is really a secret!Next year’s natural and man-made disasters have been clearly explained!Looking at this string of small characters, Emperor Jiajing hurriedly used his super memory to memorize it.He closed his eyes and recited it silently in his mind, making sure it was correct with the small words, and then he quickly wiped those words away with a wet wipe.

After the words were wiped clean, no words could be seen on Wang Daoqiu's hand.Emperor Jiajing threw the wet towel away, and Wang Daoqiu turned around to face him, before he said: "Aiqing! All your affairs are left to chance, and I have my own arrangements. Since you have a destiny with Taoism, then you will have Kong, let’s practice Taoism with Master Tao Tianshi! Okay, let’s not talk about this anymore. We came to Baiyun Temple today to celebrate Lu Bing’s birthday, let’s go out.”

After speaking, Emperor Jiajing took the lead, followed by Wang Daoqiu, and the two of them walked outside the Sanqing and Siyu Palace together.Of course, the calm faces of the two people at this time had their own little thoughts in their hearts.

What Emperor Jiajing was thinking at this time was: There are time, place, and events. If those things don't happen next year, then your king Daoqiu's decree from heaven will be false. By then, I will Zhu your nine tribes.

And what Wang Daoqiu was thinking at this moment was: Just you, a famous feudal superstition fan in history.Wait for the big events that Lao Zhi copied from the history books next year, one after another, let's see if you don't confess Lao Zhi as a master in the future!
Yes, this trick of displaying characters on the arms is based on Wang Daoqiu's reference to a Taoist ritual called "Fuji" that he was very keen on during the late reign of Emperor Jiajing in history.

This fuqi is a mysterious and mysterious thing, which is almost magical.When performing this kind of ceremony, Emperor Jiajing usually first found a sand table, then set up a shelf on the sand table, and then placed two branches under the shelf for two young eunuchs to support.

After completing these preparations, Emperor Jiajing would write down the questions he wanted to ask God on a piece of paper and give it to a Taoist priest to burn to God. This was equivalent to asking the gods in heaven.

As soon as the paper with the question about Emperor Jiajing was burned, the two little eunuchs who were supporting the two ends of the shelf on the sand table began to twitch together like an epilepsy, and in a daze they placed two branches under the shelf. Scribbling on the sand table and drawing some strange things are considered the answers given by the gods to Emperor Jiajing.

No normal person would believe the answer God obtained through such a "magical" method.But Emperor Jiajing is not a normal person!He is a super fan of feudal superstition!He just believes in these nonsense things.

Just like those crazy lottery fans in later generations who believed deeply in the lottery word puzzles of each issue and took those word puzzles and guessed there all day long.They also don’t think about it. If the people who came up with the crossword puzzle really have inside information and know what numbers are arranged for the current lottery, can they tell you? They won’t earn this money themselves!

Therefore, human intelligence is really amazing. Some very smart people are often unbelievably convinced by tricks that are obviously deceptive.Just like the current Emperor Jiajing.

So Wang Daoqiu found a method to make invisible ink in the library based on Emperor Jiajing's stupid belief.Before coming to Baiyun Temple today, he used invisible ink on his left arm and wrote down several major events that would happen in the Ming Dynasty next year as recorded in the history books, in order to convince Emperor Jiajing that he was the God's sect. Those who come to the human world to convey decrees from heaven.

(End of this chapter)