Why do we say that ordinary heroic spirits are arbitrary for eternity?

Chapter 4: All living beings outside the city, Taiping Road accepts people!
  In the early morning of the next day, Lu Yu slowly opened his eyes and felt the spiritual power in his body, feeling excited.

In one night, the spiritual energy in the spiritual stone was continuously converted into spiritual power in the body, and a total of nine rays of spiritual power were refined.

According to records in ancient books, this efficiency is pretty good, not necessarily extremely talented, but at least not bad.

"I finally embarked on the path of cultivating immortality, but..."

"Shangqing Dao Xuan Zhen Jing" is only a method for cultivating internal strength. Even if you complete it, you can barely step into the ranks of Qi practitioners.

But because there is no combat magic, when the cultivation level is low, there is still no fighting ability.

Lu Yu didn't know anything about alchemy, spells, talismans, and killing techniques.

He is not a genius who can learn things on his own without a teacher.

The old Taoist priest passed on a copy of "Shangqing Daodao Xuanzhen Jing".

None of the other spells were taught.

Then I thought about it. It's normal. If there is no spiritual power, those spells can't be used. What's the use of passing them on?

Maybe the old Taoist priest didn't know it himself.

"For other spells, I have to find them myself."

Lu Yu did not practice anymore, but continued to move forward along the river bed.

……

Outside the county town of Nanyang County, tens of thousands of refugees gathered here.

There were officers and soldiers stationed outside the city, and the victims were not allowed to enter the city. Anyone who forced their way through the gate would be shot without mercy.

There are also porridge sheds built by officials and gentry, where old rice is boiled in preparation for relief to the victims.

But after only a few hundred people were rescued, some officials shouted: "The porridge is gone today, come again tomorrow!"

tomorrow? These victims have worked so hard to get here and are already on the verge of starving to death. How can they survive until tomorrow?

At this moment, a group of people stepped forward to pull people away.

"The Li Mansion accepts slaves, those with strong bodies will be given priority! Those with handsome faces will be given priority! Only twenty people will be accepted!"

"Tian Mansion accepts slaves! Good-looking women can be exchanged for half a bucket of rice! There is no limit to the quantity! If they meet the standard, they will be accepted!"

"The Zhou Mansion is accepting slaves! Children under the age of ten will be given priority. They are free from disease and are in good health. Both men and women can be exchanged for a bucket of rice!"

It was originally a site where the imperial court was providing relief to the victims. With the arrival of these wealthy families, it suddenly turned into a human trading market.

The victims of the disaster took their children, wives, or themselves, and lined up to come to these people for ‘interviews’.

For a while, all kinds of bargaining sounds were heard, and everyone was red-faced and furious.

Although everyone knows very well that once they enter someone else's mansion and become a slave, there will most likely not be a good ending, but in order to survive, they have no choice.

After these large households had finished collecting their people, a group of Taoist priests in Taoist robes came over from outside the city, pulling cart after cart of corn.

“Victims of the disaster, don’t panic!!”

The leading Taoist priest opened his mouth and shouted: "We are Taiping Taoists, and we are here to give porridge and save lives under the orders of the great sage and mentor! You don't need to fight, everyone has a share!!"

When some of the victims heard this, they cheered loudly and praised the great sage and mentor without hesitation.

There were also victims who were holding the two buckets of rice they got from selling their wives, sons and daughters, and couldn't help but burst into tears and burst into tears.

If he had waited a little longer and waited until these Taiping Taoists came, he might not have to sell his family.

There are also some victims talking everywhere: "The people from Taiping Road can't come here early, don't pretend to be giving porridge to the officials and gentry, and don't collect slaves for those wealthy families, how can they be qualified to come here to give porridge? When the time comes, your porridge shed will be directly It’s polite to say so!”

"Yes, this is the limit of what Taipingdao can do! In order to save us, we can only compromise! Afterwards, I am afraid that the reputation of rescuing the victims will be taken away by those officials and gentry!"

"The great virtuous teacher used talisman water to cure the plague, and now he is also giving porridge to the victims. He is really a saint in this world! If you can follow such a saint, what's the matter even if you die?"

There were constant discussions among the crowd, but Lu Yu's expression was a little subtle.

The Tao of Taiping, a great sage?

Isn't this Zhang Jiao?

The character who wanted to rebel in the future was openly helping the victims in a soup kitchen outside the city. The soldiers guarding the city not far away saw him, but they still turned a blind eye.

This situation is a bit absurd, but if you think about it carefully, it feels very reasonable.

As early as a few years ago, Zhang Jiao took his two younger brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang to preach around.

The method of preaching is to use talismans and spells to treat people's illnesses, and then start preaching to the common people.

Being able to operate in a plague-ridden place and successfully cure the sick people is not something that charlatans can do.

The plagues during the Eastern Han Dynasty were mainly hemorrhagic fever and typhoid fever. There was no cure for hemorrhagic fever and could only be overcome by strengthening immunity, while typhoid fever could be cured with cinnamon twigs, peony and wormwood.

So those talismanic waters are actually medicinal soups mixed with cinnamon twigs, peony, mugwort and other herbs to achieve the therapeutic effect. The ancients were not fools. If they had no effect at all, they would have been regarded as charlatans long ago.

In the following years, Zhang Jiao traveled to various places to preach, especially in disaster-stricken areas, which accumulated a large number of followers for him.

As the scale grew, Zhang Jiao began to recruit a large number of disciples and believers, and developed the Taoist sect "Taiping Dao".

After establishing the sect, Zhang Jiao sent his disciples to various places to promote the teachings.

nowadays.

Taiping Dao's sphere of influence already covers the eight states of Qing, Xu, You, Ji, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan.

Not to mention Nanyang County, even in the capital city of Luoyang, there are many Taiping Tao believers.

Many wealthy families have people who believe in the Tao of Taiping.

Religion that can place one's faith on has been a very profitable industry since ancient times.

Therefore, Taiping Road is not short of money, as evidenced by the truckloads of corn.

The officers and soldiers of Nanyang County have long been accustomed to the activities on Taiping Road.

Occasionally, an official couldn't help but sigh: "All the white grains are fed to the victims. What a sin."

outside the city.

After the Taiping Taoists finished serving the porridge, they began to promote the teachings and ideas of Taiping Tao.

"Everyone, I am Han Zhong, a disciple of the great virtuous master. Today I will tell you my teachings on the Tao of Taiping to you, fellow villagers!"

As soon as these words came out, the tens of thousands of refugees who were originally noisy quickly became quiet.

Everyone sat on the ground and listened carefully to Taiping Taoist Han Zhong's speech.

Even those victims who were eating porridge tried not to make any noise.

This scene was quite spectacular. Han Zhong looked around at everyone and was very satisfied with it.

Han Zhong also knew that many disaster victims might not be able to read a word, so he made the teachings as simple as possible.

"Everyone, Huang Tian and even the God of Gao!"

"The creation of heaven and earth and creation of all living beings were all done by the God of Yellow Sky."

"As early as ancient times, Huangdi was the representative of Huangtian's will."

"So the world during the Yellow Emperor's period was an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity!"

"In that peaceful and prosperous age, there was no exploitation and oppression, no hunger, cold, disease, or fraud and theft. Everyone was free, happy, and living in peace and contentment."

"If everyone in the world believes in the Tao of Taiping and respects the supreme god Huang Tian, ​​then one day the world will return to the peaceful and prosperous age of the Yellow Emperor!"

"The original intention of the great wise master in establishing my Taiping Dao was to put an end to this miserable world of years of famine, death and death, and people eating each other!"

"In ancient times, the Duke of Zhou performed Zhou rites and brought peace. Today, there are great sages and teachers who created the Way of Taiping, bringing peace and prosperity to the world!"

"If anyone is willing to believe in Taiping Dao, you can join me in Taiping Dao and become a member of Taiping Dao!"

As soon as these words came out, many victims immediately stood up and wanted to join the Taiping Road.

Apart from anything else, if you join Taiping Road, you won't have to go hungry, which is very exciting.

However... although Han Zhong did not mention the qualifications to join Taiping Dao, this threshold obviously exists.

The elderly, weak, young and ignorant children were all rejected on the grounds of "unbelief".

Because most people really don’t ‘believe’ that much, this reason is really impeccable.

Those who are qualified to enter Taiping Dao are basically young and strong men.

Lu Yu thought for a moment, then walked over, stood behind the crowd and started queuing.

After waiting in line for a long time, when it was Lu Yu's turn, Han Zhong looked carefully and felt that the temperament of the young man in front of him was completely different from that of the refugees. His eyes lit up and he asked, "What's your name?"

"Lu Yu."

"how old are you?"

"Seventeen."

"Why do you want to join me on Taiping Road?"

"I want to practice Taoism and bring peace to the world." Lu Yu said truthfully.

"Very good!" Han Zhong was very satisfied: "To join our Taiping Dao, most people have to start as a disciple, but I see that you are talented and intelligent, so you can become my teacher and start as an outer disciple! Are you willing?"

(End of this chapter)