Chapter 854: The Three Immortals at the End of the Han Dynasty
Yu Ji.
When he heard this name, Liu Zheng's expression was indeed a bit unfavorable.
It's not because I was scared by this name.
But this person is indeed a relatively mysterious and controversial person.
According to legend, there were three immortals at the end of the Han Dynasty.
One kicked off the prelude to the Three Kingdoms in the Troubled Times, the other cursed Sun Ce to death, and the other teased Cao Cao.
It is said that there is an immortal named Nanhua Laoxian.
He advocated taking Tao as a thought and caring for the world. He had a magical art of "Taiping Dunjia" that could reversal the heavens and change fate. In Julu County at the end of the Han Dynasty, he gave three volumes of curse talismans called "Taiping Yaoshu" to Zhang Jiao, who was collecting herbs in the mountains.
Later, he gave Yu Ji more than a hundred volumes of "Taipingqing Lingdao" to be obtained on Quyangquan Water. This technique is all prescription for treating human diseases, and is called the Forbidden Mantra.
He also handed over three volumes of "Dunjia Heavenly Book" to Zuo Ci in Mount Emei.
After Zhang Jiao learned the skills of peace, he launched the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which almost subverted the Han Dynasty's rule.
Yu Ji had many religious followers in Wu and was one of the representatives of Huang Laodao. However, at that time, Sun Ce ruled Wu. Sun Ce believed that under his rule, there could not be such a bull-nosed existence in Wu, so he arrested Yu Ji and killed him.
Yu Ji put a curse before his death, causing Sun Ce to be assassinated by Xu Gong's three disciples, to be unable to treat him, and he was unable to make a comeback and eventually died.
Zuo Ci was another master of enlightenment. He was very powerful when he was young and attended Cao Cao's banquet. Cao Cao smiled and looked around the guests and said, "Today's VIP party is basically complete with delicacies. What is missing is the fish powder made of perch in the Songjiang River in Wu Kingdom."
Zuo Ci said, "This is easy to get it." So he asked for a copper plate, filled it with water, and installed a bamboo pole and fished in the plate. After a while, a bass was caught. Cao Cao applauded warmly, and everyone at the banquet was surprised.
Cao Cao said: "A fish cannot be eaten by the guests at the banquet. It is better to have two." Zuo Ci then put the bait on fishing again. After a while, he caught another one. Just like the previous one, it was more than three feet long, and it was very cute. Cao Cao walked up to him and made it into fish powder and gave it to everyone at the banquet to eat.
Cao Cao said: "I have gotten bass now, but the regret is that there is no ginger from Shu Kingdom as the seasoning." Zuo Ci said: "It's easy." Cao Cao sent him to buy it nearby and said: "I used to send someone to Shu Kingdom to buy brocade. You can order others to tell me the appointed person and ask him to buy more second-ends."
Zuo Ci left and came back in a while. He got ginger and said to Cao Cao: "I met the person you sent in the Qipu where the brocade is selling. I have ordered him to buy more two more."
Later, more than a year later, the people appointed by Cao Cao came back and indeed bought more Erduan brocades. Cao Cao asked him, and he said, "In the past, a certain month and a certain day, I met someone in the store, and he conveyed your order to me."
Cao Cao went out to the suburbs to have fun: There were more than 100 scholar-officials accompanying him. Zuo Ci sent a bottle of wine and a piece of dried meat, poured the bottle of wine with his own hands, and toasted every official. There was no official who was not full or drunk. Cao Cao felt strange and sent someone to investigate the reason.
I visited the shop selling wine, and it turned out that their wine and dried meat were all lost yesterday. Cao Cao was furious and secretly planned to kill Zuo Ci. Once, Zuo Ci was about to arrest him at Cao Cao's banquet, but he retreated into the wall and suddenly disappeared.
Cao Cao offered a reward to search him. Someone saw him in the market. When he was about to capture him, the people in the market were exactly the same as Zuo Ci. I don’t know which one was Zuo Ci.
Liu Zheng has never seen any of these three people before.
Even Zhang Jiao, the most likely god he is to meet, has never seen Liu Zheng.
Because when Zhang Jiao died, Liu Zheng was not the direct unit of the Yellow Turban Army. Although these things were widely rumored, Liu Zheng maintained a skeptical attitude towards their so-called immortals from beginning to end.
In Liu Zheng's opinion, they are not gods, but just gods.
Just knowing some tricks of coaxing people, they gathered a lot of believers and started making trouble.
After all, there are many people who use religion to subvert the regime in later generations.
The more famous one is the White Lotus Sect.
So Liu Zheng was still very interested in people like Yu Ji.
"Yuan Zhou, Zhang Kai, let's go and see now. Is this Yu Ji really a living god or a charlatan who can only pretend to be a ghost?"
Liu Zheng was a little interested in Ji, so he didn't go directly to find Yu Ji with great fanfare. Instead, he dressed up in ordinary clothes and disguised himself, and only brought a few guards to Wu.
His Jianye was originally near Wu, and he went to the Taoist temple of Langya Immortal Palace, not far away.
The so-called Langya Immortal Palace is actually just a Taoist temple located on the hillside. When facing the river, you can see the Yangtze River from afar. There are several villages at the foot of the mountain. The villagers believe in Yu Ji who lives on this mountain.
Here, Yu Ji seems to be a living god in the local area. The villagers in nearby villages know him.
When Yuan Zhou brought Liu Zheng to the foot of the mountain, he saw some people from other places one after another. They also heard that there was a Langya Immortal Palace here.
The prayer for God is very effective, so I want to come and worship for a few.
I hope the gods will bless you. Or I may be suffering from a serious illness and want to ask the gods in the Taoist temple for help.
Regarding this kind of superstitious means, Liu Zheng adhered to the idea of distrust, but would not destroy it.
After all, saying that they are superstitious means, sometimes they can also give people a psychological comfort and play some role. It is not entirely a cheating.
Follow the stone-paved road and walk all the way up the mountain.
The more you walk up the mountain, the more you can see that this Taoist temple is quite famous nearby.
The pedestrians coming and going were all villagers who went to worship, and these people seemed to have a great sense of trust in Ji.
It seems that Yu Ji is really the living god in their mouths, omnipotent.
This aroused Liu Zheng's curiosity even more.
Under Dian Wei's escort, they quickly walked up the mountain and came to the Langya Immortal Palace.
A Taoist temple built with red bricks and green tiles!
It is expensive and it is obvious that it can't be built easily. If you want to build such a place, it takes a lot of money alone.
It is difficult for a Taoist priest to build such a large-scale Taoist temple.
Although this place is smaller than the imperial palace built by Liu Zheng in Jianye City, it is not much different.
Such a way of making money also made Liu Zheng amazed.
Chapter completed!