Chapter 30 Ten years later
In a blink of an eye, ten years passed by in a hurry.
During these ten years, many things happened. Yin Zhengxin wiped out the bandits in Qiongming County, cleared up years of backlog of old cases, and even rehabilitated several unjust cases, which people at that time called Qingtian. There were also ways in the court. After three years of examination, he was promoted to the sixth rank of magistrate.
The so-called magistrate can be understood as the deputy prefect.
The magistrate and the magistrate are in charge of affairs, in charge of military and civilian affairs, money, household registration, taxes and service, prison trials and other matters. The magistrate must sign and detain together with the magistrate to take effect. The magistrate also has the right to supervise and recommend officials of the government to the court. If the magistrate is illegal, the magistrate can report to the court. When there is a war, the magistrate is responsible for preparing money, grain, collection of civic and general money.
After Yin Zhengxin was promoted to the verdict, he caught up with the Golden Account invasion of the border and made great contributions in the battle. He was recommended to be promoted to the right senator.
People who are not familiar with the official positions of Confucian schools probably don’t quite understand what kind of officials are those who are involved in politics and those who are involved in politics.
These are all subordinate officials of the governor. The governor is in charge of the government affairs of a state, and the senator is divided into various ranks, and is in charge of grain storage, military farming, military affairs, post office, water conservancy, and reputation support. The left and right senator is generally the fourth rank, while the left and right senator is the third rank.
The prefect is also the fourth rank. Among the many officials of the fourth rank, the prefect is the most powerful. After all, he is in charge of one party and the top leader of a prefecture. He is in charge of all aspects and is the local chief official. As for political participation, the consul is the auxiliary officials of the governor, and each is in charge of one aspect. Although the consul is at the same level as the prefect, he is mostly inferior to the real power.
Of course, the prefect can only take care of his own affairs on the ground, and it will not work well when he goes to other places. The power of the Senate covers the entire province, and as long as it is related to the affairs he is in charge of, he can speak.
Just like the auxiliary branch of the Taoist Mansion and the deputy head of the deputy mansion, the grade is the same, but one is on the vertical stripes and the other is on the horizontal stripes.
So this promotion is reasonable. No county magistrate has ever been promoted to magistrate, and he has to go around a few circles.
Moreover, Yin Zhengxin's age is here, and it is not easy to be a fourth-rank official in his thirties, which means that it is no problem to be a governor in his lifetime.
Yin Zhengxin, the right senator, was in charge of military affairs and pacifying, and was still responsible for the suppression of bandits, but this time it became a suppression of bandits across the state.
Thanks to Qi Xuansu's change of his fate in advance. According to Yin Zhengxin's previous fate, he would almost end up being the first level of the magistrate in his life. If he became a senator, he would be blessed and would die of illness in office in a few years.
Yin Zhengxin made repeated progress, and the secret development of the Taiping Cult has not fallen. The number of smuggling and associations has already reached more than 40,000 religious residents, centered on Qiongming County, covering twenty-three counties around.
There were more than a hundred Yellow Turban Army members, most of whom were serious soldiers. They were defeated and unable to bear the exploitation of their superiors, so they became bandits or became refugees, and were incorporated by Qi Xuansu one by one.
Under the operation of Yin Zhengxin, these people also have official positions or staff.
According to regulations, there are about 60 constables and 60 Kuaishou in the government. This refers to the "comprehensive and regular officers" with an organization. When one official goes out to work, he has to take two deputy officers, and each deputy officer has to bring his "helpers". In this way, it is actually a huge team of more than a thousand people.
Qi Xuansu hid some of the Yellow Turban Army in these more than a thousand people, some of the Yellow Turban Army were organized into the battalions, and the remaining few were active outside as people from the world.
There are more than ten Taoist priests, all of whom are elite backbone. In addition to being responsible for preaching, they also know some Shinto methods.
In this world, there is actually Shinto.
The emperor himself has no cultivation, but he can enthrone some gods. As long as he is enthroned by the court, he is the righteous god. If he does not receive the enthronement, his temple will be classified as a lewd temple.
The city god, land, and mountain gods are all the righteous gods enthroned by the court.
The Taiping Sect established by Qi Xuansu in this world belongs to the fact that there is no imperial enthronement, but it cannot be said that the Taishang Taoist ancestor is a wild god. This is the ancestor of the three religions, a true saint, and the people of the Confucian sect must also recognize it. It is not comparable to the Hongjun ancestor fabricated by the story. The Taiping Sect has a bit of a loophole. Even the Taoist sect in this world cannot completely deny the Taiping Sect. After all, the doctrines and other things are completely copied from the Taiping Sect. It was not compiled by Qi Xuansu himself. The only problem is that there are no certificates and lack of official endorsements.
If there is no certificate, just make a few copies.
I dare to do even rebellion, what's there to dare to do?
This makes Taiping Cult half true and half false, and seems to have some problems, but the specific problems cannot be explained.
The senior officials in the state have vaguely heard a few words, but they didn't take it seriously. After all, the last rebellion of Taiping Road dated back to Sun Lingxiu hundreds of years ago. Taoist priests of this era mainly focused on an upper-level route, teaching high-ranking officials and nobles the skills of room, refining elixirs, and developing some health preservation methods. This lower-level route has long been abandoned.
Rather than worrying about the Taiping Cult uprising, it is better to worry about the rebellion of the Qin family in Liaodong. After all, tens of thousands of servants are really visible to the naked eye.
As for why not establish a Tianshi Sect, it is because the Zhang family is still there. The Zhang family has just changed their heads. It is not that they are dead. Under the banner of Tianshi Sect, the Zhang family will come to the door. On the contrary, the Taiping Sect has been extinct for a long time, so there is a distinction between the ancient Taiping Dao and the Taiping Dao. Now that Xuan Sheng is dead, no one resurrects Taiping Dao from the old paper pile, the Li family is naturally unhappy to steal this title. In this world, the Li family and Taiping Dao have nothing to do with it.
Now Yin Zhengxin is only a fourth-rank right senator, but the Taiping Sect has penetrated into all aspects of prefectures and counties, and there are more than 40,000 people. This is not the only confidant relationship in the officialdom. If you really talk about power, you will probably be much bigger than the Censor.
However, after Taiping Education expanded to this point, under the current conditions, it was almost over. It still needs an opportunity to expand further without causing suppression.
This opportunity is either the collapse of the order of the court, the household registration system, the road-guiding system, and the Baojia system have all failed, and a large number of refugees have emerged. Or it is the intentional person who wants to use the Taiping Cult to achieve certain political goals, and thus deliberately let the Taiping Cult not take care of it or even add fuel to the fire.
Qi Xuansu is well aware of this principle, so he does not expand blindly, but waits for the opportunity.
However, before the opportunity could be reached, Qi Xuansu's backlash from his third son had already arrived.
I vaguely remember that there is a saying that there is naked hatred among colleagues.
Regardless of whether this sentence is right or wrong, there is some reason.
Qi Xuansu avoided the Tianshi Sect and the Zhang family, but was targeted by the Bailian Sect.
There is no need to say much about who is the White Lotus Sect. Even in the Taoist world, there are still some people from the White Lotus Sect. Xu Zu used the White Lotus Sect to create a Qingyang Sect, and later Master Jin Gong also followed suit. "Tianting" was originally called "Baiyang Sect", which was a branch of the White Lotus Sect. He believed in the future Buddha, and later established his own family and converted to the First Ancestor of Baiyang, and merged with the remnants of the Qingyang Sect. The result became more and more outrageous, and finally the five religions were integrated.
In the Taoist world, the decline of the White Lotus Sect is very dramatic.
The White Lotus Sect was originally based on Buddhism and supplemented by Tao, so it was clearly distinguished from the orthodox Confucianism. The Confucianism was above all else and did not accept surrender.
After the Taoist sect took office, the Buddhist and Taoist war started directly. Xuan Sheng personally visited the front line, and the Donghuang presided over the rear, grabbed the Confucian sect, and at the same time eliminated Buddhist forces in various places. He also swept away the White Lotus Sect's those who were related to Buddha. The rabbit and the fox who were related to Taoist sect were so sad that he directly threw himself into Taoist sect and accepted the transformation of Taoist sect. In the end, only two or three big cats were left, and the White Lotus Sect declined.
The White Lotus Sect in this world is quite powerful, especially in Jiangnan and other places, which have developed and even raised troops repeatedly.
This time, the White Lotus Sect sent envoys to contact the Taiping Sect, which was nominally a relationship between fellow practitioners. There were thousands of white lotus flowers blooming, but I wonder which branch would be born?
In fact, it is the real and real.
If a hard bone is hard to bite, then become an ally. If a soft persimmon is easy to pinch, then swallow it in one bite.
As a dignified right senator, Yin Zhengxin could not come forward in person. However, over the past ten years, he also trained a confidant deputy named Lu Yunshan. He was originally a teacher who failed the exam and was hired as an aide by Yin Zhengxin. Later, Yin Zhengxin founded the Taiping Cult, and Lu Yunshan also became a member of the Taiping Cult, smashing and burning all the Buddha statues, gods, Confucian books, and the most sages and masters in his family, showing his will.
During his tenure as county magistrate, Qi Xuansu was unable to leave the county. Lu Yunshan left Qiongming County alone with the "Taiping Jing" and traveled to various counties to promote Taiping religion. In a few months, he absorbed more than a hundred poor people as believers.
In the following years, Lu Yunshan used the identity of a teacher as a cover, teaching during the day, carrying a torch in his hand, crossing mountains and ridges, traveling villages and villages, promoting the Taiping Church, and developing the congregation. The poor people were very convinced by him. In less than three years, more than 3,000 people were developed to join the Taiping Church and cultivated a group of backbone elements.
Although Lu Yunshan's ability is also due to the times, if the people were not living in poverty, how could so many people join the Taiping Sect? In essence, it is the lower class to gather together to keep warm.
Everything is difficult at the beginning. With these three thousand people, they are like snowballs, getting bigger and bigger.
Later, Yin Zhengxin was promoted to the right senator. Lu Yunshan met Yin Zhengxin. After the meeting, the two decided to use Qiongming County as the base camp of the Taiping Cult, and Lu Yunshan was in charge of this place.
At the same time, Yin Zhengxin taught Lu Yunshan the "essential arts of peace" and named him the general of the Earth Duke.
Of course, it was not accidental that Yin Zhengxin was able to explore the talent of Lu Yunshan. The key is that Qi Xuansu overlooked the world and had the art of hope for qi. In this world, there is a saying that the roots of Lu Yunshan were the highest and lowest limits. The lower limit was just a poor teacher, and the upper limit was a strategist and civil servant who stirred up the world's general trend.
After all, it depends on the world. If it is a peaceful world, then the hero is useless. But if it is a chaotic world, it is the time to show off.
The Great Wei Dynasty has lasted for more than four hundred years, with many problems and chaotic times.
People like Lu Yunshan can finally turn into dragons when they encounter wind and clouds.
Chapter completed!