Chapter 118: I once saw a posthumous document in Qing History
The air in the small space was not very clear, and with the candles and incense burning all night long, the suffocation became more obvious, but no one dared to open the window lattice.
"Red Lotus Holy Mother Bodhisattva, there are many dangers in getting up tonight. Protector Huang summoned us for some reason but refused to show up. I wonder if there is some fraud..."
A Xiangzhong finally couldn't help but speak.
Jiang Wen heard the sound of jingling rings immediately behind the clay sculpture where he was hiding, and it was the indistinguishable male and female voice that answered.
"The unknown whereabouts of Protector Huang is not scary. The sudden disappearance of Holy Child Hongyang is the most important thing. The church members found out that he had appeared on the official road to Chong'an County. If the situation hadn't been urgent, I would have been there to search for him."
The person called Our Lady of Red Lotus said slowly.
"Although Protector Huang is under my command, he has always listened to orders but not propaganda. He only works closely with Hongyang Holy Child. If these two people disappear together at the critical moment, the situation will be very bad."
The incense crowd started talking again, whispering to each other before reluctantly telling Our Lady of the Red Lotus.
"Holy Mother Bodhisattva, although we have lived in Lifang for many years, we have only seen Protector Huang a few times. His whereabouts are secretive on weekdays. If it hadn't suddenly been announced that the remains of the Blood Buddha had been found, we would not have dared to gather in this nunnery late at night.
Among..."
There was an obvious information discrepancy between the two sides. Whether it was the local pilgrims or the visiting Red Lotus Virgin, they all came because of the news about the "Huang Protector". As a result, there was no news about the real owner, and they only saw the overlapping Buddha statues in the nunnery.
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Jiang Wen thought to himself that he had indeed broken into a White Lotus Sect stronghold.
The degree of secrecy of such a secret society was far higher than he imagined. Under the purge of successive imperial courts, they could even secretly believe in the same faith for several generations, and their identities would never be revealed until critical moments.
"Don't panic. Although the teaching center does not have the capacity to respond, I am not ignorant this time."
The male-female voice of Our Lady of the Red Lotus was particularly abrupt, "The Geng family, the running dogs of the Tatars, instigated the lamas to excavate the historical sites of three mountains and two pagodas, and created all kinds of weird and strange shapes, just to make the city in chaos without fighting.
Let’s march into the city openly.”
Xiang Zhong said with concern.
"Red Lotus Holy Mother Bodhisattva, although what happened between the three mountains and two towers in the city was deliberate, people were already panicking at this time. Everyone said that once the prophecy of King Min came true, the city would... after all, those evil soldiers and ghosts will now
Touring day and night is already known to everyone..."
Jiang Wen's ears pricked up when he heard this. Although he kept saying that he was not interested in the weird things in Fuzhou City, now that the gossip was right in front of him, he still didn't mind knowing a thing or two.
But what disappointed him was that the people in the secret nunnery were also very secretive about this matter, and they all stopped talking, leaving Jiang Wen scratching his head and feeling uncomfortable all over.
The Holy Mother of Red Lotus was silent for a long time, and finally continued.
"It is said that among these three lanes and seven lanes, an eighth lane has recently appeared. The ghost shop in it publishes Netherworld engravings, and the black ink is full of the figures of hungry ghosts and Rakshasas?"
Xiangzhong kept saying: "That's right! It is said that anyone who has seen the engravings and characters in it will be taken into the netherworld. It is precisely because of this that everyone in the city agreed to the Geng family to send people to garrison at Jipi Lane."
Before he finished speaking, the other party sighed repeatedly, "Hufa Huang activated the secrets of the sect, originally to expel the Qing soldiers and stabilize people's hearts, but who knew that he accidentally made a mistake and benefited the Geng family? Is there really a destiny that cannot be violated?"
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Jiang Wen was a little confused after hearing this, and could not connect the secrets in Jipi Alley with the expulsion of the Qing soldiers for the time being, but the other party quickly relieved him of his confusion.
Only the voice of the Red Lotus Virgin was heard saying: "Don't talk nonsense. The situation in Fuzhou City seems to be in danger, but in fact their various purposes are inconsistent and even conflict with each other."
Later, in order to resolve the doubts of his followers, the other party explained it in detail.
"Geng Jimao had a disobedient heart. In Guangzhou, he had a feud with the monk Xi, so he was feared and moved to the town. He was afraid that he would be as big as Wu Sangui. The exchange condition for Geng Jimao to move to Fuzhou was to help the Tatar emperor find the
Something he wanted."
The crowd was talking a lot again, but this time they obviously had some confidence, at least they didn't have to be in the fog anymore.
"Please also ask the Holy Mother Bodhisattva to clarify!"
The Holy Mother of Red Lotus snorted slightly, looking very disdainful.
"The Tatar emperor once doted on the demon monk from the Western Regions and ordered him to teach the Dharma in the palace for three days with great honor, just to cure the disease. However, the poisonous Vajra Dharmakaya that the other party boasted about in Haikou was buried in Wuyi Mountain, so the other party naturally started to fight.
The idea of the Vajra Dharmakaya.”
"Geng Jimao deliberately sent the prince to the palace to study with him, just to find out the truth in the secret palace. This time, he allowed him to grasp the lifeline of the Tatar emperor. And his own trip was just for the sake of Wang Shenzhi's stay there.
It’s really laughable that so many people are bothering me about the things I bought for their own benefit!”
When Jiang Wen heard that the matter was related to him again, Jiang Wen sat down.
The demon monk Keba from the Western Regions died in his own hands, and by the way, he cut off Shunzhi's thoughts. He had severely offended the Qing court; and the Hongyang Holy Boy they were waiting for died in Wuyi Mountain, even though the White Lotus Sect didn't seem to know about his death.
It is impossible for me to get rid of the tragic situation.
Coupled with the evil intentions of the Geng family, he unknowingly got into the whirlpool of struggle. All three parties were eyeing him, and they had various reasons to become his enemy...
Must run!
"Red Lotus Holy Mother Bodhisattva, what do you mean by the Vajra you just mentioned? Why do they think they are in Fuzhou City?"
Xiang Zhong said with a slightly trembling voice, recalling the Qing army's increasingly crazier massacres in recent years, and the greatest danger was the crime of holding a jade.
The indistinguishable male and female voice of Our Lady of the Red Lotus sounded faintly, as if she were sitting on the lotus platform and sympathizing with the sufferings of all living beings.
"If you want to know the origin of the Vajra, do you know the origin of the White Lotus Sect? Do you know the story of the four paths uniting to defeat the Northern Fa?"
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"That was when the former Song Dynasty was in decline, and monsters appeared frequently. Zhenzong dreamed at night that Qi people were harassing Bianjing, and more than a hundred people died from madness. When Shenzong collapsed, all civil and military officials came to court, and saw something as big as a mat crawling on the palace hall.
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"After Yiguan crossed to the south, an evil dharma lineage was introduced into the Central Plains, which was called the Northern Dharma. For example, in March of the twelfth year of Chunxi, the magistrate wrote a letter saying that there was a custom in the two lakes of using humans to sacrifice ghosts, and every time children and women were sacrificed.
Eyes, ears, and even the nose and ears are cut off, and then boiling water is applied to the skin to erode it, which is said to receive divine help."
The more Jiang Wen listened, the more familiar he became. It seemed that he had also heard of this history, and it was exactly "Yi Jian Zhi" written by Hong Mai of the Southern Song Dynasty.
It is recorded in the book that "there are dozens of groups of evil young men in the capital. Every three or five years, they will capture people, dip them in oil, and cook them in oil to sacrifice to ghosts. The ghosts are called ferocious ghosts, and a beautiful man must be sacrificed every time."
This evil sect in Northern France has become so serious that something like this has happened even in the capital. It seems that handsome men are specially selected not only to kill people, but also to raise ghosts and even create gods for themselves to drive around.
When Jiang Wen read the book, he read it as a story, because it was hard to imagine that such cruel and barbaric primitive customs would be widespread in China's prosperous period.
"In the Taijia period, temples for injuries were built all over the south of the Yangtze River. It was believed that those who died of murder would turn into gods with boundless magic power after death."
"The ministers at that time wrote a letter of horror and despair after the visit. They famously said, 'The temple of injury will be built on all sides, and the wind of murder will gradually enter Wuxing and spread endlessly. The harm will be unspeakable!'"
The voice of Our Lady of the Red Lotus is breathtaking every sentence, and it finally comes to an end.
"After the Taijian Year of Emperor Ningzong of the Song Dynasty, Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty deposed the treacherous prime minister Shi Miyuan Yudang, and in an effort to clarify the world, he ordered the four great sects of the world to work together to drive out the obscene worshipers. It was the like-minded people in the four sects who slowly and gradually changed the turmoil in the early Yuan Dynasty.
The current White Lotus Sect was formed.”
"The four sects in the religion, red, white, blue and purple, are derived from this, Baiyang Shimen, Qingyang Daomen, and Ziyang Confucianism. Only I, Hongyang, am extremely secretive. I am actually the incarnation of the previous Mingzun Sect..."
Ming Zunjiao?
A big question mark was drawn in Jiang Wen's mind. Isn't this what Mingjiao meant? It was the first time he had known the White Lotus Sect that he had known for so long that there were such factions within it.
But in this way, Jiang Wen knew the origin of the nameless Buddha statue with its disembowelment and blood flowing on the ground that Our Lady of the Red Sun was looking for - probably it was Mani, the true founder of the Ming Sect, who was executed and died in Persia.
Of course, the Mingjiao in real history and the Mingjiao in Jin Yong's works are two different things - this has to be mentioned in Jin Yong's novels, whether intentional or unintentional mistakes and omissions.
Manichaeism, also known as Mingjiao, has been developing in China for thousands of years. However, Manichaeism's mortal enemy is Persian Zoroastrianism. Even Mani, the founder, died at the hands of Zoroastrian priests, so it is impossible to worship any blazing holy fire.
At the same time, the old man in the mountain, Hawthorne, is the founder of the Assassin sect of the Christian sect. He is an extreme fundamentalist. He can even kill his own son for drinking, and it is impossible to create the "Great Shift of the Universe" and the Holy Fire for the Ming Sect.
Ordered.
After hearing this, the congregants bowed their heads and chanted sutras one after another, feeling extremely frightened by this hidden history.
"Red Lotus Holy Mother Bodhisattva, our ancestors settled in the Yuan Dynasty and became vegetarians, worshiping the Buddha day and night, but we did not know that there was such an origin. Now that we welcome back the true form of the Blood Buddha, we will definitely be able to revive our religion and save the world!"
The voices in the nunnery gradually became firmer, as if hundreds of years of faith had finally been rewarded at this moment, and this hidden alley finally glowed with its original vitality.
"That's not necessarily the case. That's why I came here this time."
However, Our Lady of the Red Lotus poured cold water on her, "Since the end of the Yuan Dynasty when King Xiao Ming of our Ming Zun Sect was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and at the same time he massacred and imprisoned his followers, the sect's teachings, classics, and martial arts collections have been completely lost, and even the true Buddha's appearance cannot be found.
Return."
"After the tragic death of King Xiao Ming, who became a saint through martial arts, the Holy Mother who was in charge of the classics in the early Ming Dynasty was burned to death by the scorching sun, and she was declining day by day. Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of all the believers, the Hongyang lineage has not been cut off..."
"It's shameful to say that even Saint Boy Hongyang was originally a member of the Qingyang Taoist sect. He only acted in the name of Hongyang because of his extremely abhorrent behavior."
But the other party's voice also became firmer, and everyone in the crowd made gestures like lotuses blooming on their chests.
"Tonight, we have rashly summoned the remnant members of the Mingzun Sect in Fuzhou, hoping to retrieve the lost classics from the Netherworld Engravings. I hope you will spare no effort to do so!"
"Please follow the instructions of the Red Lotus Mother Bodhisattva!"
Xiang Zhong answered without hesitation.
The indistinguishable voice of the Red Lotus Virgin sounded again.
"If traces of Netherworld engravings are found in the future, we must find the whereabouts of the "Bao Ming Zhen Sutra", "Liang Yi Ancient Sutra", and a martial arts classic from the pre-Song Dynasty!"