Chapter 171 Taiping Dao to Taiping, Zhonghuang Taiyi
Chapter 171 Taiping Road leads to peace, Zhonghuang Taiyi
Author: Mr. Xiong Er
Chapter 171 Taiping Road leads to peace, Zhonghuang Taiyi
Taiping County
This county is one of the ten newly born counties. There are only four counties in the actual area, and only three counties can be directly lived in. One county is now completely in a jungle and mountainous state, and there are many monsters and ghosts in it. It needs to be cleaned up slowly.
Then you can check in smoothly.
But even in the remaining three counties, there are basically no people there now.
The population has been relocated, and now it is not an easy task to open up wasteland and cultivate land on Dongning Island.
Even though there are already a large number of Taoists who use Taoism to help, and even though there are already a large number of advanced tools such as steel hoes, sickles, plowshares, etc., there are no strong men left, only the old and the weak are left, and it is still very difficult to open up wasteland.
After hard work, there has finally been some improvement. If we force them to move back at this time, isn't it just a disease?
Jiang Hua naturally wouldn't do such a stupid thing, so he opened a large market near the port of Taiping County. This market was essentially a black market.
However, now that it was opened in Taiping County, the nobles of Chao Kingdom pretended not to see it.
Moreover, since Taoist Taiping swept through the six northern counties of Chao Kingdom alone, and since Wang Jujun was sweeping a certain county, the nobles once again realized a problem: King Xi could not guarantee their safety.
When many nobles discovered this, the nobles who originally did not want to trade with Yancheng also changed their attitudes.
Now their mentality is: they don't want to make money in transactions with Yancheng, they just want to spend money to buy peace and peace of mind. Yancheng just don't give me any trouble in the future.
With this mentality, many nobles took boat after boat of barbarians to Taiping County and Taiping Port. As you can tell from the name, this is the place governed by the Taiping Taoist who swept through the six counties in the north.
However, although Taiping Port is nominally affiliated with Taiping County, it is actually under the direct management of Yancheng, but Taiping County can get 1% of the commission.
Although it doesn't sound like much, considering that Taiping Port is one of the largest smuggling ports in Chaoguo and Yancheng, this profit is also considerable.
Taiping Taoists originally chose this place because of the 1% commission.
In Taiping County, Taiping Taoist sat quietly on a futon, while his second brother and his third brother were having a heated discussion: "Third brother, have you ever visited Taiping Town?"
"Of course, second brother, you have asked this question six times!"
"I have visited Taiping Town more than once, and I also understand the significance of Taiping Town to us."
"Soon, a thousand households will be sent here, and we will place them in Taiping Town at that time."
"There is a tributary of the Chao River in Taiping Town. There is a lot of water and a large amount of water. There is a large plain along both sides of the river. Therefore, Taiping Town has both water and plains. As long as the people live here, they will not worry about food and drink.
"
"Furthermore, I have repeatedly inspected this tributary twice. Anyone who has become a spirit has been planted with the Talisman of Peace by me, and has been directly used for my own use. They have become our monsters and specially help us patrol this tributary.
, and guard Taiping Harbor by the way."
"Although these monsters are not very powerful, they are somewhat useful in water. Basically, they are all good at water magic. I plan to train them and teach them some basic water magic, so that we can work together to irrigate crops."
"With these water monsters, it will be much easier for us to farm."
"As for the land, there haven't been any big spiritual energy fluctuations in the recent period, so there haven't been many new monsters born. I have inspected the entire fifty-mile radius of Taiping Town, inch by inch, and found seven new monsters.
The goblin is making bacon. When a thousand households arrive, each household will give them thirty kilograms of bacon as a greeting gift."
Having said this, the third child looked at the second child and asked directly: "Second brother, don't ask me all the time, how is your house prepared? How is the food prepared?"
"After these thousands of families came here, they were left empty-handed and had nothing!"
"If you don't prepare these, where will they live? What will they eat? Food, clothing, housing and transportation. Have you prepared all these?"
Hearing this, the second brother also nodded vigorously: "It's all built. I used the Taoist courtyard technique from the Yancheng Journal. Every household is a large house with three entrances and three exits. The front yard
There are also wells built in the backyard and the city. The entire town is planned to be divided into east, west, south, and north parts. In the middle is a fifteen-meter-wide street. The roads on this street are all stone roads, which are specially compacted with soil-based roads.
Already."
"The east and west of the city are residential areas, each with 500 households. The south of the city is a large schoolyard, and the north of the city is a large school, which is responsible for teaching them reading and literacy."
"There is also a stone wall built outside one thousand households. This stone wall is one meter thick and three feet high. It looks very safe."
"As for grain, we have already bought 10,000 shi from Yancheng. When these 1,000 households arrive, each family will be given one shi of grain based on head count. The remaining grain will be placed in the rice shop and sold slowly. In addition,
, I have already contacted the merchant, and 10,000 shi of grain will arrive in two days. I will reserve it directly to meet unexpected needs."
"In terms of cloth, we have also purchased 50,000 pieces of cloth, which are also distributed per head. Each person is given two pieces of cloth, and the rest are slowly sold."
"Sea salt is a specialty of Yancheng. It's all pure white salt. When you come here, you should give it out by the head. Each person is given two kilograms of salt."
"All kinds of food and drink expenses will be distributed. For the first time, the amount will be distributed according to the average amount of one to three months per person."
"It's just that there are not many Taoists, so we three brothers left in a hurry. We were still preaching in Qi State, but we came over immediately after hearing the news. It will probably take two or three months before the disciples come over."
Hearing this, the third child also spread his hands and looked at his elder brother Taiping Taoist.
Taiping Taoist stroked his beard and said, "How many people do we have now?"
"Now there are only sixteen disciples, all of whom are Taoist priests."
"There are many disciples, disciples, and family members. The total number is estimated to be five to six hundred people. However, their movement speed is very slow, especially the family members. They can't even think about it for less than three months."
"Disciples, you must protect your family members. There are only sixteen people who came here in the early stage."
Sixteen plus three is nineteen.
Can nineteen people manage a small town with a thousand households?
Taiping Taoists think it is not a big problem.
"However, there are still many Taoists from Yancheng who are very enthusiastic. Some have donated food to us, some have donated some small daily ritual tools to us, and some have left us name cards saying that they are
If you have any difficulties, you can go to them to discuss, maybe they can help." The third brother said directly.
"Oh?" Taiping Taoist was very curious about this.
"For example, Taoist Fellow Qingmei, who was born in Meihua Dao. Taoist Qingmei admires our ideals very much and said that he would bring some enthusiastic fellow Taoists here to help today."
"Then what are you waiting for? Come with me to greet you."
After a while, Taiping Taoist arrived at Taiping Port and saw Qingmei Taoist, Jiang Hua, and a thousand households of people behind Jiang Hua.
Jiang Hua introduced to Taiping Taoist: "Fellow Taoist, these thousand households will be handed over to you in half a month."
Most of these people were half-clothed and dirty, most of them had been hungry for a long time, many were skinny and bones, and many had deformed bodies.
Just by looking at their appearance, you can tell that most of these people are savages.
In Jiang Hua's view, it was an extremely irresponsible act to directly hand over these thousand households to the Taiping Taoists.
What do Taiping Taoists know?
He doesn't understand anything!
Jiang Hua did not doubt Taiping Taoist's determination, nor did he doubt Taiping Taoist's financial resources. However, these thousand households had to feed themselves for half a month. They had to live a normal and full life for half a month and let their bodies recover first.
Take a moment and then you can live a normal life.
Otherwise, if the plan of the second and third brothers of Taiping Taoist is followed, many people will only suffer from bad stomachs, bad health, and even die when they are happy or excited...
"Next, these thousand households will live together in a camp that has been built near the port for half a month. This half month is mainly for slowly recovering their bodies and recuperating a little. After half a month, they can go directly to Taiping Town to live.
Already."
The moment Taiping Taoist saw these people, he understood what Jiang Hua was thinking: "No problem, these people really need to be well taken care of. It just so happens that in the next half month, my brother and I, as well as all the disciples, can also
Contact these people at close range, give them hope, and preach to them at the same time.”
Preach!
Taiping Taoists finally chose religion!
He can't trust the officials!
Therefore, after thinking for a long time, Taiping Taoists decided to create Taiping Tao, and then let the people under their rule become followers and use canons to govern the area.
It sounds very idealistic and not very reliable, but again, as long as it is not too outrageous, Jiang Hua will not interfere. With the strength of the three Taiping Taoist brothers, it is easy to steal a small town with a thousand households.
"Li Sheng once said that a small country has few people..."
"The whole town is actually not big. A thousand households can see me every day."
"Moreover, most of these people have just left the savage villages, and most of them can live a good life in the town."
"At times like this, when people feel at ease, they don't need too many big actions. They only need to make three simple rules, then rest and recuperate without any fuss, and then they will be cured naturally."
"So, I plan not to bother with anything else except preaching."
"Every day, I will show up in the whole town, meet more people, and tell them more about the teachings of Taiping Tao..."
Taoist Taiping once again talked about his ideas. Jiang Hua did not comment, but Taoist Qingmei who came with him took the initiative to come out.
"So, what are the teachings of Taipingdao?"
Taiping Taoist looked at Qingmei Taoist and nodded with a smile: "This Taoism regards Huang Tian as the supreme god, believes in Huangdi and Li Sheng, and believes that the world during the Huangdi period is a peaceful world and a true world of great harmony. This is the spirit of the believers.
Sustenance.”
"The peaceful world in the teachings is a peaceful world without hunger, disaster, illness, nor cunning, theft, deception, robbery and other sins. This is the pursuit of peace and the pursuit of Taiping."
"Of course, the pursuit of peace can also be seen as the pursuit of a world of great harmony. The world of peace and the world of great harmony are actually different descriptions of the same thing."
“Through the yearning and yearning for a peaceful world, and through preaching, we can awaken people’s good thoughts.”
"Everyone I teach has the highest ideal of achieving peace."
"No one in my religion is allowed to steal or deceive..."
"In the Taiping Dao, I am the general of Heaven, my second brother is the general of Earth, and my third brother is the general of human beings."
Upon hearing this, Taoist Qingmei felt that something was a bit unreliable, but she couldn't explain exactly what was unreliable.
She only thought that Taiping Taoist ideals were very good, but her intuition told her that they were unreliable!
"Then how do you manage it?" Qingmei Taoist asked next.
"Government by doing nothing, just let the people govern themselves."
"As long as the people can understand the teachings of Taiping Dao and act according to the teachings, then it is not a big problem for the people to govern themselves in units of a hundred households."
"How to govern yourself?" Taoist Qingmei asked.
"First teach the people the teachings of Taiping Dao and teach them to be good. Every night, I will spend half an hour teaching them the teachings of Taiping Dao. If they listen to them enough, they can recite the teachings of the Taiping Cabinet and act according to the teachings, and
Those who can pass the test of asking the mind mirror will officially join the Tao and become followers of the Taiping Tao."
"Congregants can learn Chinese characters for free, and can learn breathing techniques, guidance techniques, and visualization techniques for free."
"In the future, these villages will be directly governed by the church members."
"Every once in a while, we will examine whether the congregants are upholding the Tao and whether their behavior abides by the teachings and regulations. We directly use a mind-searching mirror to examine, or we create a large-scale illusion and use powerful illusions to inspect them inadvertently."
"Those who do not abide by the teachings in private will be dealt with directly according to the canon rules."
"In the end, we use devout believers to govern the villages, and then use canon rules and doctrines to restrain them, thus governing the small towns."
"It is only one county now. In the future, I plan to create more than a dozen or twenty small towns according to the specific topography. These small towns will be personally managed by my trusted disciples."
"Taipingdao does not force people to join Taoism, but it takes time to explain its teachings every night."
"If you are willing to listen, I will give you some grain, eggs, firewood, rice, oil, salt and other daily necessities."
"Once you join Taoism and become a formal member of the church, you have the right to study and practice for free, but at the same time, you must strictly abide by the teachings and act in accordance with the canon rules. All sinful things must be prohibited, and you must help ordinary people more, and you must truly
Treat everyone equally. No theft or fraud, no mistreatment of the people, no personal gain, no..."
Looking at Taoist Taiping who was very excited, Taoist Qingmei said nothing. As for Jiang Hua, he felt that Taoist Taiping's behavior was all based on Taiping Taoist's extremely high personal self-cultivation and the individual skills of his disciples.