It’s the first month of the lunar month. Counting from the first day of the lunar month to the thirtieth day of the first lunar month, almost every day is a day of Christmas and descent for gods and Buddhas. In the fifth year of Chongzhen’s reign, there were constant floods in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu, especially from June to August.
Almost all of Lunan was hit by disasters, and Yizhou was particularly severely affected. Most of the people fled the country. Even so, there were still quite a lot of believers who came to Yunsheng Temple to pray for blessings on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Especially some wealthy families who had recently converted.
Take this opportunity to express your piety.
As a result, the Taoist temple's main hall, which was originally a bit cramped, could not accommodate so many pilgrims. Zhang Yingchen had no choice but to obey the authority in a hurry and bought a bluestone manger from the dealer to fill with an incense burner and set it up outside the main hall. Even so, the choking manger was placed outside the main hall.
The smell of inferior incense still made him dizzy.
"The five offerings of incense, lanterns, water, flowers and fruits are really troublesome and a waste of time and money to implement, so they need to be changed." With a professional smile, he nodded to every pilgrim and believer who said hello to him, while facing Ming Ming.
Qing assigned:
"Take a few junior brothers with you to persuade the believers outside not to burn paper money and tin ingots randomly, so as not to attract back pay."
Whether it is to commemorate ancestors or to make offerings before gods, burning tin ingots and paper money is a deep-rooted tradition. Even Zhang Yingchen, who has become a living god among believers, is unable to rebel against this tradition. This is not the case in Lingao or Hainan counties, as long as they offer sacrifices
The introduction of "Municipal Management Measures" and big killers like labor camps can completely ban some bad habits. Zhang Yingchen had to work around it. In the "Regulations on Good Beliefs" that was just completed, it stipulates that burning paper money as an offering must be done at a designated place.
It is done in the furnace. After the sacrifice, water needs to be poured out to extinguish the embers.
However, judging from the feedback sent back by the study group, the residents of Dadianzhuang and several nearby natural villages are not particularly resistant to this. After all, for Ming people who generally live in houses with civil structures, fire is always a threat to their lives.
The biggest threat to property security. The situation in rural areas is better. In densely populated towns, there are countless wealthy households who become beggars every year because of fires that burn down the doors of their shops and houses. In matters that are actually related to their own interests, the masses are always the most important.
The most astute thing is that this can be regarded as the new understanding of Daochang Zhang who has been doing "grassroots mass work" for these days from D-Day to now.
However, compared to the work of the grassroots people, there is no doubt that the work of bankers is more difficult to do.
No matter how much he admires Zhang Daozhang's medical skills and Taoism, Confucian scholars' contempt for Taoism is deep in their bones. Zhuang Qian may regard Zhang Yingchen, who saved his life, as an earthly immortal, but for those squires who have heard rumors about him. Zhang Yingchen
He is nothing more than an alchemist with special skills. When he asks for help from Taoist Master Zhang, these country gentlemen are willing to make people in the famous religion look down on him. On the left is an immortal master, and on the right is a real person who flatters him. However, in his heart, his attitude
It is nothing more than the Ming Dynasty rural version of the model of Emperor Jiajing and Tao Zhongwen. Every time he interacts with these squires, Zhang Yingchen has to think of the old uncultivated evil gentry who is enjoying the morphine purified by his own method in Hangzhou and wants to die.
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This kind of opposition between technical intellectuals and Confucian intellectuals can be said to have reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Yingchen, who had seen a lot of the arrogance of the Ming gentry, often had to agree with what was shouted in the Spartacus Regiment's magazine "Red Flag"
The radical slogan of "cleanse all the backward gentry and throw them to Southeast Asia to improve the race" has its rationality. However, the work of the united front must also be done. Even if a leading party cannot be cultivated, some enlightened gentry can be influenced, which will have a great influence on the future.
Mainland strategy is also beneficial.
In contrast, the wives and concubines of the country gentry are more pious to the new Taoism. It seems that women must always work tirelessly.
Over the past few days, he has been running around treating wealthy gentry families, never asking for money. He only asked them to "donate according to circumstances." He asked them to donate food, bricks, charcoal, cloth and Chinese medicinal materials. All the donations received were used.
When it comes to relieving refugees, I don't have to spend any money. In addition to expanding the scale of hosting refugees, the main thing is to give myself a "real person" halo of "high moral integrity" as soon as possible.
Relying on the "casual charity" of the local gentry in Yizhou - mainly sponsorship from bankers, and Ma Sanwei's "pleasurable donations", he used refugees as labor force and expanded the "Tzu Chi Hall" for refugees with work-for-relief projects.
Camp, a second earthen fence was built, and the original adobe thatched cottage was renovated: a brick-and-tile warehouse, office space, and health clinic were built. Naturally, toilets and bathrooms that the Senate had always spared no expense on were built.
From this, the kind people knew that Taoist Master Taoist attaches great importance to personal cleanliness.
He also added brick turrets and gatehouses to the walls of the refugee camp to improve the level of defense. With the support of the villagers, he "organized a regiment" and pulled up a group of more than 100 rural warriors - who failed to fight and stood guard.
It is not a problem to stand sentry to defend against small groups of bandits.
Although the "Tzu Chi Hall" was co-founded by the Zhuang family and a group of gentry, although these gentry all had the title of "good directors", they did not have specific directors. The Zhuang family only sent one steward - and this steward was also
His followers, so the work of hosting and relieving refugees went very smoothly.
Throughout 1632, his work of transferring refugees in Yizhou went smoothly: in 1632, Yizhou suffered another flood after the flood in 1631. The disaster was very serious, and the number of refugees increased sharply. Because of the support of the bankers and other local gentry, Tzu Chi Hall
, the local disaster relief and shelter work went very smoothly.
Although the route that had originally been opened to go north through Yishui River, then take a short land route to Juyangshui to Laizhou Bay, and finally to Qida Island was temporarily closed due to the Dengzhou rebellion, the engine command still opened the second route.
This line allows refugees to go from Dadianzhuangzhou, Yizhou, to Lanshantou by land in the refugee escape mode, and then be picked up by boats at Lanshantou and transported to Jeju Island.
At the top of Lanshan Mountain was the Ming Dynasty's Andong Guard. However, at this time, the Ming military guard was depleted, and disasters occurred all over southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu. The officers and soldiers were already overwhelmed, and they basically held a non-interference attitude towards large-scale refugee crossings. As long as there was no local riot,
You can go where you want. The Taoist leader just suffered from a shortage of manpower. Although he had the assistance of Wang Ruixiang, he was still unable to devote all his efforts to transporting people. Therefore, after the line to Longkou in the north was closed, only more than 10,000 people were transported in 1632.
This performance could not satisfy him in any way.
At present, the entire Lunan area is full of refugees, and there are refugee groups flowing out everywhere. However, I do not have enough manpower and material resources, so I can only watch helplessly as the refugees are displaced and die in large numbers on the way to escape.
No matter how capable he is, he can only barely save the people in Yinan County. If it extends to the whole state, he will be unable to do anything.
However, he has recently received good news: the operation in Dengzhou has been declared victorious, and the traffic line to Longkou will soon be restored. Judging from the news, Lu Wenyuan and the others have become a powerful force in Dengzhou.
Now that the aftermath bureau is in charge of this half-official body and is quite "covered" by the local people, this route should be safer and more convenient than in the past.
We must seize this opportunity and transport a large number of people away!
"Xiao Min."
"Taoist Master." Min Zhanlian responded. He was dressed in green and looked very capable. He had a sword on his body and was now the Taoist Priest's teacher. After he was captured, he thought he would die, but under the Taoist Priest's attention, he
After some "teachings", he had converted to his new Taoism. The Senate was very interested in what methods the Taoist used to make the former assassin surrender, but the Taoist never said a word about it.
"How's it going at Masanwei's place?"
"He is very honest. He has been hiding in the village and not going out."
"Very good, you are keeping an eye on him." The Taoist priest was very worried about Ma Sanwei. However, it was the Chinese New Year, and even if Ma Sanwei wanted to do anything, it would still be half past the first month.
Speaking of which, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the birthday of Sun Simiao, the King of Medicine and Heavenly Medicine. It is also time to gather the leaders of the study group and the Taoists for a study meeting.
He thought for a moment, then called Liu Sanchu over and wrote an invitation in person, saying that on the day when Zhang Daoling, the Seventh Patriarch of Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling, became a Taoist, Yunsheng Temple had prepared a sutra altar and a sutra urn for speeches, and set up a large fasting altar.
Let him invite the banker's gentlemen to join him on the seventh day of the lunar month.
Liu Sanchu was his new recruit as "trainee Zhu Shi". He was originally an old boy - the kind who lived in a Mongolian mansion, had several acres of farmland at home, and was neither hungry nor hungry.
He joined the Nanwuliang Sect simply because he saw the benefits of Xiangtou. Of course, he was not very courageous. Although he could be regarded as a scholar, he did not have the style of a Shaoxing scholar, and Tong Sheng did not
Even if he entered school, he could not be said to have mixed up with Shilin. As for the fight between Master Zhang and the Nanwuliang Sect, he did not know the inside story. However, since everyone said that Zhang Taoist Master had great magic power, the leader of the Nanwuliang Sect was beaten to death on the spot.
Better yet, he would have no choice but to follow the crowd.
Zhang Daozhang exempted Nanwuliang Sect from donating to believers, and Liu Sanchu had no chance to take advantage of him. However, Zhang Daozhang chose some Xiangtou who had some knowledge of writing to be study group leaders, and selected a few of these study group leaders.
As a trainee, "activists" can at least enjoy a monthly allowance of two kilograms of mixed noodles. With this kind of employment method, it is unclear whether Daochang Zhang is hiring assistants or hiring leaders.
Today is the fourth day of the first lunar month. It seems that under the control of Daochang Zhang, who has some skills in the world, the whole place has finally calmed down. Although many people have starved to death, at least no major epidemic has occurred. Everyone knows that this is a living thing.
The king of medicine, Taoist Zhang of Sai Chunyang, has divine medical skills and profound Taoist powers. Therefore, there are many people who burn incense in Yunsheng Temple to fulfill their wishes. Even the refugees who have not been deported come in groups to kowtow to thank the gods for their blessings.