Time flies, and it has been six years in a blink of an eye.
Six years ago, Wang Xu felt that the White Lotus Rebellion would subside in three to five years, but he was wrong.
Now six years have passed, and Wang Xu has grown from a 19-year-old to a 25-year-old young man, but the White Lotus Rebellion is still going on.
I would like to add something extra here. As Fahai thought, there really is a shadow of the demon clan behind the White Lotus Sect. However, this demon clan is not the Beidi demon clan, but the Kyushu demon clan itself.
There are countless demon clans in the world, not counting the far north, there are demon clans in the territories of human race, dragon clan, and barbarian clan.
The sky is high and the emperor is far away. Not all monsters are bent on joining the Northland. Most of the local monsters among the three tribes just want to be free.
In the second year, the Wu Dynasty raised troops from the Jiangnan camp and launched a series of battles. The White Lotus Sect, which had been severely weakened, wanted to take back the two states in one fell swoop.
And at the time of the decisive battle, the Nine Provinces Monster Clan suddenly appeared and joined the White Lotus Sect camp.
In everyone's imagination, the demon clan in Kyushu is weak, and most of the sixth-level demon gods are related to the three religions and nine streams.
But it was only on this day that I realized that among the local demon tribes in Kyushu, there were actually three demon gods hiding in Tibet who didn't know when they would break through.
As soon as these three demon gods appeared, they showed their support for the leader of the White Lotus Sect. Together with the five heretic demons who came to help, the White Lotus Sect's sixth-level combat power reached an extremely terrifying nine people.
You must know that there are no more than fifty sixth-level masters in the entire human camp.
Broken down, there are only about twenty people from the Buddhist and Taoist families. Each of them is a great Bodhisattva and a great deity, who can be called the sea-fixing needle of the human race.
In terms of numbers and strength, of course the three religions have the advantage, but at the sixth level, a single attack can destroy an entire state. They are afraid of each other, and no one dares to start a war.
In the end, the two sides discussed that monks of the fourth level and above should not interfere, and let the people below do the fighting, and then the matter was revealed.
But the problem comes again. Without the intervention of the senior monks, the low-level monks are left to fight on their own. How long will this fight last?
They fought back and forth, with both sides attacking and defending. They fought for six years and still haven't achieved a victory or defeat.
"Sir, you can't understand the truth without distinguishing it. Confucian scholars like us want to unite our knowledge and practice. Today, when we are all gathered together, why don't we try to understand people's hearts?"
"Why don't you dare? How can you argue?"
"Let's talk about why the people in the two Jiangnan states support the White Lotus Sect. Whoever's opinion makes sense? Let's treat him to a drink together."
"good..."
In a restaurant, there were seven talented people gathered together. Each of them was slightly drunk, pointing out the mountains and rivers in high spirits.
After hearing the title and lottery, the first talented man stood up and said: "In my opinion, the most fundamental reason why the people of Jing and Jiao two states support the White Lotus Sect is the land.
In the land south of the Yangtze River, land annexation was serious, with 90% of the land in the hands of just one person. As a common people, it was difficult to see the light of day. After the White Lotus Sect uprising, the gentry were either killed or fled, leaving a large area of ownerless land.
These lands have been distributed to ordinary people, those who support the White Lotus Sect, and they are their own land. How do you let them choose?
Even when the imperial court conquered the two states, the local people mostly obstructed it, simply because they were afraid that the White Lotus Sect would be defeated and their land would be taken back by the government and redistributed to the gentry who fled.
If the policy conflicts with the interests of the people, the people will naturally not support it. What's more, the White Lotus Rebellion is a man-made disaster. Those people who seem to be honest and responsible may not be as peaceful as they appear. How many are really clean?
"
"good!"
After hearing this, the other six people stood up and toasted the man with a glass of wine.
After finishing a glass of wine, the second person stood up again and said: "I think that the reason why people support the White Lotus Sect is not only due to land reasons, but there is also an unavoidable topic, and that is religion.
The infectious power of faith is very terrifying. If people were compared to water, faith would be ink.
Once the ink is poured into the water, it is difficult to prevent it from turning black.
My younger brother Bu Cai once traveled to Jiaozhou. The ordinary people there said that Miller was still alive but kept silent about their hometown. They had been brainwashed by the White Lotus Sect.
They are no longer themselves, but the carriers of faith. They regard faith as more important than life. They believe that everything the White Lotus Sect says is right, and everything that opposes the White Lotus Sect is wrong. These two ordinary views are
, how can they welcome the king's army from the north?
Therefore, I believe that land is only one, and faith is the second, which is also the basis for the White Lotus Sect to win the hearts of the people.
Some people in Jiaozhou have faith in their hearts and will feel very happy eating Guanyin soil.
They believe that death is not terrible, but what is terrible is living without soul and faith, and having to suffer after death.
Religious people firmly believe that they can ascend to the Vacuum Heaven after death and be with Maitreya. They will suffer in this life and enjoy blessings in the next life. Death will naturally not be scary. But sadly, if you can't expect it in this life for hundreds of years, what should you expect in this life?
Afterlife?"
"good!"
Everyone stood up again and toasted the second person a glass of wine.
"It's my turn!"
The third person put down his glass, stood up from his seat, and said: "The first two are right, but I want to add something.
I think that in addition to the extremely irrational distribution of wealth controlled by a few people and the issue of faith, there is actually another issue that cannot be avoided."
When everyone heard this, they put down their glasses and listened attentively.
The speaker was also unambiguous, beating the folding fan in his hand with both hands, and said: "The problem I want to talk about is that it is difficult to get a wife, and the people at the bottom have no choice.
Take the gentry in the countryside as an example. They all have three wives and four concubines. They have many wives and concubines. One person can have at least a dozen wives.
There are even some perverted ones who treat themselves as brides every month, enter the bridal chamber every day, and occupy as many women as they want.
If you don't believe it, go and take a look. Among the ten households, there are several families with wives.
I have a friend named Feng Ning, who comes from an ordinary family. He told me that among his generation, there are six boys and four sisters in his family.
The whole family is looking forward to him winning the election, because only if he wins the election can he have the money to marry his three brothers and two younger brothers, so that the four sisters will not become concubines because of the betrothal gifts. This is the problem.
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I was very shocked when I heard about this incident. My husband said that we should seek the truth based on reality. In order to verify this truth, I went down there to visit.
It's shocking. In an ordinary family, it's normal to have three or four males, but there can be as many as seven or eight.
Comparatively, there are more boys than girls. Why, because when there is a famine or recession, half of the girl's food should be given to the boys.
Everyone thinks that boys are the breadwinners of the family and girls are losers if they are not well-raised.
In this way, it would be fine if there were no disaster years, but if we did, the loss rate of girls in disaster years was more than four times that of boys.
Unfortunately, in the past twenty years, not to mention the consecutive disasters, but comparing local county records, the number of disasters has been several times greater than in previous years.
As a result, there are more and more boys and fewer and fewer girls. In addition, rich people have many wives and concubines. As ordinary people struggle to survive, there are naturally more bachelors.
Our Hangzhou Prefecture alone, according to my rough statistics, has a population of 180 million, of which about 60 million are bachelors.
On average, one in three people is a bachelor. In some families, there are eight sons in a generation and seven bachelors. It takes seven people to find a wife for one person. On the surface, it doesn't seem like much, but behind the scenes, the wife is shared by everyone. You think it's scary.
Not scary?
It is human nature to carry on the family line. There are already few resources, and the rich take more of them. What do you think should be done?
I don’t know. People in Jingzhou and Jiaozhou know that they chose to kill those few people, take away their fields, and divide their women. This is the reason why the people in Jingzhou and Jiaozhou do not support the imperial court, but support the White Lotus Sect.
, because the imperial court would not give them this opportunity, the White Lotus Sect gave it..."
Everyone was speechless for a moment. A happy family has thousands of reasons for happiness, but a miserable family always has a tragic key.
The key is, if you don’t have money, not everyone can make money, and not everyone has the mind to make money.
If this misfortune is the misfortune of a few people, then don't worry about it and just ignore it.
If this misfortune is the misfortune of most people, then there is a problem, and you have to wonder if something is going to happen.
What should I do if I don’t have money? I can steal or rob. I just don’t want to be content with following the crowd. If I don’t steal or rob, I can’t maintain my life. I have no choice.
"Sir, he said that internal conflicts can be solved externally. Jiuzhou is too small. If there are twelve or twenty states, the current problems can be alleviated." The first person to talk about land said with a dark and uncertain expression.
"The teacher also said that faith is due to ignorance. When one day everyone is like a dragon and you are God, you will no longer believe in God." The second person who said faith also spoke.
"My husband also said that if someone else has something that we don't have, don't be afraid. Just snatch it from them and we'll have it."
The third one who talked about women had his eyes flickering. He looked first to the north and then to the south, as if he had seen through layers of fog and saw the territory of barbarians and monsters.
Everyone bowed their heads in silence, lost in thought.
After a long time, a person who had never spoken a word looked like he had gained something and said, "Sir, you are right!"