While Pingyuan County was fully engaged in disaster relief work, the China News Service, a subsidiary of the Chinese Publishing House, also sent reporters to Pingyuan County and set up a telegraph line to report the progress of disaster relief in real time and published a special issue calling on citizens to donate money and materials to support the disaster area.
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The person responsible for accepting donations is the Chongdao Hall established by Taoism in various provinces, prefectures and counties. Every donation, as long as it is worth more than ten copper coins, is registered in the book. Every payment is recorded very clearly and guaranteed.
All donations will be used for the victims of the disaster, and no donation will be wasted.
The reason why Taoism gives such a guarantee is that it is evolving into a truly conscientious and responsible humanitarian organization. Taoism is not only secretly researching science and technology for the country, but also promoting the virtues of truth, goodness and beauty for the country, and is also actually doing so
Lead by example, and I believe it won’t be long before the people will sincerely accept Taoism as the state religion.
With the spread of newspapers, the news of Wan Lei's visit to the disaster area soon spread all over the country. People were excited and inspired after reading those glorious deeds modified by literati. As the saying goes, the country has its people in its heart, and the people also know that the country has its people.
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Some people are happy, and others are worried. Wan Lei led the Taoist sect to win the hearts of the people in the disaster area. The conservative elements of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism began to feel restless. They can predict that if the Taoist sect continues to do this, the name of the state religion will be
Once established, other factions will never be able to turn around.
In order not to fall into extinction, the Confucian conservatives gathered in Kong Gongjian's mansion and secretly discussed countermeasures. Also present at the meeting were Pu Qia, the abbot of Qixia Temple in Nanjing, and Zhang Yuchu, the leader of the Zhengyi Sect.
I have been to Peiping and know that Wan Lei is the biggest supporter of the Taoist sect.
These guys studied behind closed doors for half a day and came to a consensus: if they want to overthrow the Chongdao sect, they must first ruin the reputation of the Chongdao sect, and if they want to ruin the reputation of the Chongdao sect, they must first overcome Wan Lei's hurdle. After all, Wan
Lei is the president and cannot sit back and watch the Taoists being smeared.
How to get over Wan Lei? These guys couldn't reach a consensus. Kong Gongjian believed that the power of Confucian scholars in the world should be mobilized to launch a wave of support for Confucianism. He also used the earthquake in Pingyuan County as an excuse to attack the Taoist sect as the state religion.
It went against the law of heaven and finally forced the parliament to amend the constitution.
However, Zhang Yuchu disagreed with Kong Gongjian's view. He advocated cutting the firepower and taking advantage of the opportunity of Wan Lei being in the disaster area to find a way to assassinate him and achieve all the success in one fell swoop. However, Pu Qia remained silent, neither expressing support nor opposition.
Kong Gongjian and Zhang Yuchu each had their own opinions and argued with each other. In the end, they had no choice but to do their own thing, that is, those who wanted to carry out assassinations committed assassinations, and those who wanted to pursue peaceful "evolution" pursued peaceful evolution. However, Kong Gongjian and Zhang Yuchu also reached a verbal agreement.
Agreement: No matter which side succeeds, they cannot suppress the other side.
With the idea settled, all parties began to act separately. At this time, Wan Lei was leading the disaster relief team to rescue people in Pingyuan County. In the past two days, the rescue team dug out more than 4,000 people from the rubble. Although there were also thousands
He died in the ruins because he was not treated in time, but the results of the rescue were already amazing.
You must know that the magnitude of this earthquake is expected to be above eight, and because the earthquake source is shallow, the intensity is above ten. In previous dynasties, more than tens of thousands of people died directly in the earthquake, and those who died indirectly
It is even more difficult to calculate.
Although some people were rescued, Wan Lei was not complacent. Instead, he was worried about the subsequent resettlement of the victims. As the rescue work unfolded, more and more victims gathered at the disaster relief site, with a total of more than 100,000 people. So
Many people need to eat, clothe and sleep, and supplies such as tents, food, quilts, etc. are starting to be in short supply.
Faced with this situation, Wan Lei ordered the emergency transfer of a batch of military supplies, and at the same time once again appealed to people across the country to donate. In the past two days, Chongdao Halls in various places have successively received a lot of supplies, but it was difficult to transport them because of the long distance.
Therefore, Wan Lei encouraged people from other provinces to make donations as much as possible.
On November 19, the north wind picked up and heavy snow fell at night, which caused a lot of trouble for the disaster relief work. Wan Lei was visiting the disaster relief site and comforting the victims when he suddenly heard a noise coming from outside the tent. He hurriedly
Someone was sent to check what was going on, and they saw thick smoke billowing from the temporary warehouse where the grain was stored. Needless to say, it was a fire.
What was stored in the warehouse was life-saving food for hundreds of thousands of victims. There was no room for error. Wan Lei didn't hesitate to ask more questions and immediately led people to put out the fire. But on his way to the warehouse, a man was hiding in the dark.
The well-dressed man at the scene took off a short bow from his back, straightened the arrow and aimed it in Wan Lei's direction. The arrowhead glowed with a faint blue light under the firelight.
"Whoosh!" The cold arrow flew out from the string and went straight to Wan Lei's back. At this critical moment, the two elite guards behind Wan Lei had heard the sound of the bow and arrow piercing the air, and they all pounced forward.
He directly pressed Wan Lei under him, and the cold arrow came too quickly, hitting the arm of a Jingzhong guard.
"There is an assassin!" The injured Jing Zhongwei shouted urgently, then his face changed and foam came out of his mouth, "Arrows, arrows are poisonous!"
"Quickly, surround His Majesty the President." The elite guards around him immediately formed a human wall and surrounded Wan Lei in the center. At this time, people in the surrounding tents had also been frightened and ran out to see what was going on.
The scene suddenly became chaotic.
Seeing that Wan Lei was surrounded by the Jingzhong Guards, the well-dressed man did not retreat. Instead, he quickly took out two black cans with leads from behind. At a glance, he knew they were bombs containing gunpowder.
After the man lit it on fire, one threw it towards the landlord where Wan Lei was, and the other threw it into the chaotic crowd.
Facing the sudden flying bomb, the elite guards surrounding Wan Lei were shocked. Seeing that the fuse was about to burn out, one of the elite guards rushed forward desperately and pressed on the bomb. Only "boom boom" was heard.
With two muffled sounds, the crowd exploded, and dozens of people around were knocked to the ground, making the scene even more chaotic.
As if the man in strong clothes didn't think the chaos was enough, he flew up and kicked down a fire pot on the ground. The flames immediately spread to the tent, and he took advantage of the chaos to escape. After a few jumps, he disappeared into the darkness.
.When the Jingzhong Guards arrived, only a mess was left at the scene.
"The President is injured. Come and help him quickly." The person pressing on Wan Lei was Zhao Zizhong, the chief of guard of the Presidential Palace. He was so anxious that his eyes were red because not only Wan Lei was injured, but he was also dead.
Two brothers, and if these two brothers hadn't reacted quickly, I'm afraid President Wan Da would have died.
"I only suffered a minor injury. It's okay. You save the people first. In addition, immediately assign people to investigate the assassin's whereabouts!" Wan Lei got up from the ground, and there was a blood mark on his arm.
He was cut by the flying fragments of the bomb, and the elite guards guarding him were also injured to some extent.
"Mr. Wan, this place is too chaotic. You cannot stay here for a long time. Please come back to Beijing immediately, sir." Zhao Zizhong hurriedly advised him. He was really scared. If President Wan had something wrong under his eyes, he would be able to escape the military law.
He was punished and had no shame to go back to see his father and brothers in Beiping City.
"It's dark now, so it's inconvenient to travel. Let's wait until dawn tomorrow." Wan Lei frowned, then patted Zhao Zizhong on the shoulder, and said apologetically to the elite guards: "This time I have caused trouble for you. Wan's unscrupulous talent led to
I'm sorry for causing trouble, brothers."
"Mr. Wan, please don't blame yourself so much. It is my duty as a loyal guard to protect President Zhou Quan. This time, two brothers died. It is only because the thieves were too vicious. They used poisonous arrows and bombs. They made it clear that they wanted to put Mr. Wan and Mr. Wan at risk."
Death place." Zhao Zizhong said angrily.
"Alas, it is easy to win the world, but it is difficult to govern it, and it is even harder to win people's hearts." Wan Lei shook his head in pain and said to the people watching around him: "Wan asked himself that his actions were worthy of God and not guilty of the people, but he ended up being assassinated.
The end result is that it affects many people, so what can I do?"
"His Majesty the President loves the people as his own children, and it is well known to all the people that those shameless traitors who assassinated His Majesty are enemies of all people and cannot be tolerated by national law!" an old man said angrily. He was one of the people rescued from the ruins by Wan Lei.
So when I saw Wan Lei being assassinated, I felt even more angry than Wan Lei.
"Yes, to assassinate His Majesty the President is to be an enemy of all people and the common people of the world. I would like to ask His Majesty the President to order a strict investigation and strict punishment." Another old man agreed.
"Yes, we must strictly investigate and deal with it to bring justice to the world." Everyone agreed in succession.
"Wan is very pleased that everyone is so sensible. However, according to state laws, even this assassination case must be handled in accordance with the law and no extrajudicial punishment is allowed. As the president, Wan cannot abolish the law because of people. I hope you will
understand."
Wan Lei said this, but in his heart he had already sentenced the assassin to death. This statement was just to express his stance on governing the country according to law. Anyway, according to the criminal law, the assassination of the president was punished as treason. Although the whole family was not implicated,