Pawn Crossing the River

Qi Xuansu became somewhat interested, "What is Yin Moon?"

Lao Pang said, "It is said that there is a sea eye at the bottom of the sea, which is connected to the netherworld. Yin energy is constantly seeping out from the sea eye, then flooding the sea surface, rising to the sky, and condensing into a black moon, which is the Yin Moon."

Qi Xuansu said, "Even Wutu doesn't know about such a yin moon, but you can actually know it."

Lao Pang said, "Because Master Wutu is not from the Central Plains and does not go to sea, he does not know these maritime legends."

Qi Xuansu couldn't help but ask, "Is it still related to the Central Plains?"

Lao Pang said, "Zhenren Qi should know Sun Lingxiu and Sun Zhenren, right?"

Qi Xuansu was startled, "Of course I know."

Sun Lingxiu was a native of Langya Prefecture in Qizhou. His family worshiped the Five Pecks of Rice for generations, and he was a member of the Nandu family in Yongjia. His uncle Sun Jingyuan was taught by Du Zigong, the leader of the Five Pecks of Rice Road in Qiantang Prefecture, and was respected and trusted by others.

About 1,500 years ago, in the second year of Long'an, Wang Gong's rebellion broke out. Sun Jingyuan thought that the country was about to be destroyed, so in the name of challenging Wang Gong, he secretly gathered thousands of people to prepare for the uprising. Before anything happened, Daozi and his son trapped and killed Sun Jingyuan and his six sons. Sun Lingxiu fled to the island and gathered more than a hundred people determined to avenge Sun Jingyuan.

In the third year of Long'an, Yuan Xian sent slaves from various prefectures in the eastern lands as guests. He was named "Lezu" and moved to the capital to serve as a soldier.

At that time, the wealthy and aristocratic families in Huzhou were specialized in taxation and had no involvement in the court. All the imperial court could control was Jiangzhou. In order to deal with the threat from upstream, Yuan Xian, who was in charge of the government at that time, while increasing the tax collection, in view of the current situation of Beifu soldiers not obeying the command, he ambitiously wanted to establish a new army completely controlled by himself.

However, the source of troops was exhausted, and Yuan Xian had no choice but to forcibly recruit strong men from Jiangdong prefectures who were "free from slavery as guests" and concentrated them in the capital for military service. These people are called "happy" people.

This measure aroused strong dissatisfaction among the nobles and those who were exempted from slavery. The nobles generally used slaves and maidservants, and even if these slaves were released as guests, they would still be attached to them. Conscripting those who were exempted from slavery as "happy subjects" was equivalent to taking away a considerable amount of manpower from the nobles. However, the common people who were exempted from slavery as guests had already risen from the status of slaves to the status of semi-owner farmers with their own economy. Naturally, he was reluctant to be drafted into a low-status soldier. Therefore, as soon as this order was promulgated, "the eastern land was in chaos, people were dying, and the world was suffering."

Taking advantage of the unrest among the people, Sun Lingxiu led his troops to capture Shangyu Mansion from the island and took advantage of the victory to defeat Kuaiji Mansion. Eight prefectures including Kuaiji, Wujun, Wuxing, Yixing, Linhai, Yongjia, Dongyang, and Xin'an responded. Within ten days, hundreds of thousands of people attended.

Sun Lingxiu's uprising army occupied the eight prefectures of Kuaiji, calling himself "General Zhengdong" and setting up a

Officially, he calls his disciples "immortal people". Please punish Daozi and Yuanxian's father and son.

This is undoubtedly another Taoist uprising. The so-called Five Pecks of Rice Tao is the Tianshi Tao.

There are also people from Tianshi Dao who are lurking in the capital. They are afraid of people and are often concerned about theft, so they are under martial law inside and outside.

Xie Yan led a heavy army to attack Sun Lingxiu, and the rebel armies of the eight prefectures in the east of the Yangtze River gathered in Kuaiji. "One of the women had a baby that was too tired to leave. She held the baby in a bag and threw it into the water. She told him, 'Congratulations on your first visit to the Immortal Hall. I will find you after I find it.' "

In December of the third year of Long'an, Xie Yan led his army to capture Yixing and killed Xu Yunzhi, the leader of the rebel army. Then they marched to Wuxing and stationed troops in Wucheng. He divided his troops and cooperated with Liu Laozhi to advance towards Qiantang Mansion. Sun Lingxiu led more than 200,000 men and women to retreat eastward, and then retreated to the island.

During the fourth or fifth year of Long'an, the rebel army continued to fight fiercely with the official army, and once approached the capital and captured Guangling Mansion. However, in the end Sun Lingxiu's attack on Linhai failed and he went to sea to sink himself. The Five Dou Mi Dao believers believed that he had become a water official immortal, and more than a hundred people drowned in the water.

Taoism is different from Buddhism. It has always dared to rebel. Later, it was because the Li family came to power. They felt that Taoism was powerful and uncontrollable, so they took action from the bottom of the cauldron. On the surface, they respected Taoism as the first of the three religions, and the powerful and powerful fought to believe in it. Taoist sect, in fact, made Taoist sect empty, and instead allowed Buddhism to occupy Taoist sect's original ecological position among the lower class people.

It's just that Buddhism is as timid as a mouse and never dares to rebel. It also exploits the people and just enjoys it. It is unpopular and has been destroyed many times.

In the final analysis, one's own people are the best at regulating one's own people. The Li family conquered the world, even if they let the Taoist sect openly go

It reached its peak, but in the following hundreds of years, the Taoist sect, which had lost its underlying foundation, also fell into a state of depravity, actually falling to the bottom of the three religions. Until Xuansheng Zhongxing Daomen.

Sun Lingxiu's Five Pecks of Rice Taoist disciples believe in the way of longevity and long-term vision, and believe in the three officials of heaven, earth and water, especially the water official. In fact, the prototype of today's Taoism was born.

This uprising also caused the reform of the Taoist sect by the upper-level figures Guan Patriarch and Lu Patriarch, which led to the emergence of the North and South Tianshi Dao. Eventually, the Southern Tianshi Dao returned to the Zhengyi Dao, and the Northern Tianshi Dao returned to the Taiping Dao.

The Taiping Dao led by the Li family also regarded this incident as another uprising feat after the Yellow Turban Uprising.

In short, Taoism's evaluation of this uprising was quite positive, mainly praising it, so Sun Lingxiu was respectfully called Sun Zhen

He has a much better reputation than Lin Lingsu, the master of the Jin Dynasty.

However, this person lacked vision and talent, which led to the failure of the uprising. In the end, he was just a real person.

Lao Pang said, "After Zhenren Sun went to the sea and sank himself, he did not die. Instead, he took those immortal people who threw themselves into the water and went to the depths of the sea. At that time, the court searched the mountains and seas to find Zhenren Sun, and all the masters came out, so Zhenren Sun Without stopping in Nanyang, he went from Nanyang to Luo Suo Continent via Java, but the people from the imperial court were still pressing forward step by step. So Sun Zhenren led the Changsheng people to leave Luo Suo Continent again, continued south, and finally came to the land between the Southern Continent and Luo Suo Continent. The sea. The sea here is vast, and there is almost no land except for some islands. The people of the court searched to no avail, so they had to return to the Central Plains."

"Legend has it that Sun Zhenren sensed the yin moon during his escape and realized the principle of walking towards the moon. Only then could he get rid of the Confucian masters from the Central Plains and escape."

Qi Xuansu said, "In other words, there are not only insect people in this sea area, but also the legendary Taoist Immortals?"

Lao Pang said, "Real people don't have to find it strange. The sea is bigger than the New World. How many people are there in the New World today? Westerners, Central Plains people, aboriginal people, and slaves plundered by the Westerners. How can the aboriginal people be subdivided? There are many tribes, each with their own differences. The vast ocean is so vast that one family cannot be the only one."

Qi Xuansu nodded and said, "That's true. So what's the relationship between insect people and immortal people?"

Lao Pang shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Qi Xuansu asked again, "In that case, how do you know about the Insect Man and the Immortal Man?"

Lao Pang said, "I am also from the Xidao Sect. I have been familiar with the classics since I was a child. I know many secrets in the eyes of others. However, I have no choice but to have poor qualifications. I have wasted many years and my cultivation level has not improved, so I can't be a human being. So at the age of thirty At that time, I started to go to sea, and I have been doing it for decades. I often encountered all kinds of strange things on the sea, including great horrors, and there were often so-called fairy people walking on the sea. The sailors said that I had witnessed it several times. It's a fairy, but I know that it's actually a bug and an immortal."

Qi Xuansu sighed with emotion, "It seems that this sea is really something that cannot be underestimated."

Lao Pang said, "What the real person said is true. Although real people often travel between continents and across the sea, they are always flying in the sky. The gods and ghosts under the sea have long been dormant. Real people stand in the sky and look down. There is nothing dangerous about the calm and beautiful scenery, but in fact, monsters and monsters are hidden under the sea, so we must be on guard against it.

Opening a sea route is the most difficult thing. I don’t know how many people will die. I have to try it out little by little with human lives and ships. Where can I go and where can’t I go? "

"To this day, let alone flying boats in the sky, ships on the sea still have to follow the familiar routes that have been established and dare not deviate from the waterway. The sea area that the real person mentioned happens to be outside the normal waterway and is very dangerous. ”

"Some ships strayed into this place by mistake and never came out again. Legend has it that countless ships sunk there, and countless souls of innocent people were bound to the bottom of the sea, never to be reincarnated. There are also legends that there was a huge sea monster here, which was once the great monster of the South Seas, but was expelled by the Queen of Heaven. , I have to flee here. I don’t know if it’s true or not.”

Lao Pang is the captain of a sea-going ship, but the key to going to sea this time is the word "find", so he was transferred to the flying boat.

Qi Xuansu nodded slightly and looked at Yang Shaozhen: "Yang Gangshou, what do you think?"

Yang Shaozhen replied, "We are a flying boat and a warship, so we shouldn't be afraid of these.

But it's better to be careful. "

Qi Xuansu said, "You really should be careful. How are your manpower?"

Yang Shaozhen said, "Master Huangfu has told me that the essence is more important than the wealth."

Qi Xuansu thought for a moment and then ordered, "Tell Hu En'ahan that if his work is finished, we can get on the boat."

Utu stepped back and disappeared into the shadows.

Not long after, a group of people came to the "Ceratopsian", and Utu and Hu En'ahan were also there.

Qi Xuansu walked in front and looked around the boat.

Huangfuji was also careful. This "Chorned Dragon" was a warship currently in service, not a decommissioned one. It was considered to be in its prime. The decks, bulkheads, guardrails and other places are covered with various talismans. Each talisman is a formation point, and the whole overlaps to form a huge formation.

Hu En Ahan was one position behind Qi Xuansu and said, "I usually keep my feet on the ground, but now I have to be at sea, and I feel a little uneasy."

Utu and Hu En'ahan walked side by side. "Isn't there a dragon among the immortals? When a dragon enters the sea, how can it be unsteady?"

Hu En Ahan "It's a good thing you didn't mention dragons. When you mentioned dragons, it reminded me that the Dao Sect slaughtered countless dragons and forced the remaining dragon clan to go far into the deep sea. We wouldn't have just met each other, right? Then there will be new and old hatreds. If you think about it, in a battle, my human immortals will probably not be able to defeat the real dragon."

Wu Tu said, "It's bad luck, bad luck, don't talk nonsense, there is no such thing as a coincidence."