Although Zhao Xing had been appointed as one of the 100 households, he could only stay in Qin Sen's mansion that night.
Now Yongfan is still a wasteland. There are only more than 30,000 registered military households, including two to three thousand Jurchens and Mongolians. Although the city of Vladivostok has been roughly established, the more than 30,000 people obviously cannot fill one
The city, not to mention that Zhu Yunzhen also arranged 20 villages on the seaside from Vladivostok to the Tumen River, not only to control this area but also to provide food and seafood to the city, and there were even fewer people in the city.
So now the business here is very underdeveloped. There is only one shop selling various groceries, a slightly decorated restaurant, a vegetable market, a leather market, a grain store, a breakfast stall at the entrance of the Yamen, and even an inn.
Zhao Xing's hundred households were outside the city and he would not be able to take office until early tomorrow morning, so he could only stay at Qin Sen's house for one night.
Early the next morning, Zhao Xing got up as usual and was about to change his guard when he suddenly remembered that he was no longer Qin Sen's guard.
He sat on the bed and chuckled, and told the servants of the Qin Mansion to leave the mansion. Since Qin Sen wanted to be a good person, of course he would not let him leave like this, and asked his servants to let him have breakfast before leaving.
; Zhao Xing naturally would not refuse.
After dinner, he went to the Yamen and easily received customs clearance and documents. A policeman came out and took him to the station.
When the local police arrived and said goodbye, Zhao Xing was about to speak when he suddenly saw several people wearing Taoist priest clothes walking in at the gate of the village nearby and asked, "What's going on?"
The policeman seemed to be familiar with this area and said: "That village over there is the Jurchen village, and the Taoist priests in the city are preaching to them."
"A Taoist priest in the city?" Of course Zhao Xing knew that there was a Taoist temple in the city. It was said that the leading Taoist priest came from Wudang Mountain and had some abilities, which attracted the attention of His Highness King Yong. His Highness was said to have asked the imperial court to grant him the title of Zhenren.
'Why does such a person come to a remote countryside or a Jurchen tribe to preach? Why should he not stay in the city?'
But he was finally not stupid enough to ask the question and talk to the police before entering his residence.
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Zhang Yishan led people into the village. The Jurchen who was near the door immediately saluted him and said in unskilled Chinese: "Zhenren Zhang."
Zhang Yishan also returned the courtesy and continued walking with his two disciples. After a while, he saw a wooden house that was relatively neat in the village appeared in front of him, with a sign hanging on it that read: Suining Village Taoist Temple.
Zhang Yishan walked in and saw several middle-aged and elderly women in the side hall wearing ill-fitting Taoist robes doing morning classes under the leadership of a young man. There were also two Taoist boys under ten years old cleaning the main hall, who were also dressed in ill-fitting clothes.
Taoist robe.
Zhang Yishan nodded to them and walked into the main room at the back.
Soon after the morning class ended, the young man who had just taught the disciples came over, knelt down and saluted and said, "I have met Master."
Zhang Yishan said: "Get up." The man just stood up.
His name is Wang Shouqing, a native of Huguang. He joined the Wudang Sect since he was a child and worshiped Zhang Yishan as his teacher. Like Zhang Yishan, he was very interested in preaching, so he not only followed Zhang Yishan to Yongfan, but also volunteered to be the first Taoist temple in the village to be the master.
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He asked respectfully: "Master, why are you here at this time?"
"Today is the birthday of Emperor Nanyue. It is the first big day since we have believers in this village. In order to make the believers more pious, a fast is a must."
"I originally promised you to host it, but after thinking about it, I still feel that you have too little experience. When you were in Wudang Mountain, you were too low-ranking to even be responsible for 'confession' and 'confession', so I am the one who will host it myself."
Wang Shouqing said without any dissatisfaction: "It is natural and safe for Master to take charge of it himself."
However, Zhang Yishan was still worried that he had some grudge in his heart, and sighed and said: "I'm still worried. Although we finally have these believers now, they are just superficial believers. We must be cautious every time we have a fast to let them feel
Solemnity and our ability so that we can have more believers.”
He couldn't help but think of the hard work of preaching these days.
The first is of course language. These Jurchens have finally had contact with the Han people. Many of them can speak simple Chinese, but when they preach, these Jurchens still can't understand what he is saying. Zhang Yishan had to organize Taoist priests to learn the Jurchens' language.
Fortunately, they had been prepared for this before, and after studying for a while, they were finally able to make the Jurchens understand what they were saying.
These Jurchens have never heard of Taoism before, and they generally believe in shamanism. Although shamanism is not a real religion in the eyes of Zhang Yishan and others, no one is interested in the Taoism they spread. Especially those who spread it.
They cultivate both internal and external practices and have no interest in the teachings of purity and inaction. However, they all know that these people are not ordinary Han people. Not to mention killing them, even beating them will cause trouble, so they just ignore them.
Zhang Yishan initially wanted to learn about their writing and print some excerpts from Taoist scriptures in their writing, but he had to give up the idea after being told by the police who often patrolled the area that these barbarians had no writing at all.
They never made any progress until Wang Shouqing proposed: "These barbarians simply cannot understand our teachings of natural inaction, the unity of nature and man, and internal and external cultivation. They even sneer at purity and few desires, so we can't preach like this."
"Then what do you think we should do?" Zhang Yishan asked. Of course he was aware of the problem.
"Master, my disciple thinks that we should first tell them the story of cultivating to become immortals, and the benefits of worshiping the Three Pure Ones. For example, cultivating both life and life can prevent all diseases, and worshiping the Three Pure Ones can bring good weather,..."
He talked a lot, but Zhang Yishan remained silent during the process, and finally said: "Disciple, but according to the scriptures..., what is the difference between this and what those bald donkeys do?"
"Master," Wang Shouqing said humbly: "The most important thing now is to win a group of believers first. Besides, what the disciple said did not violate the doctrine. The disciple thinks that these barbarians are more simple than ordinary people. As long as the methods are appropriately determined,
Can develop a group of believers."
Zhang Yishan thought about it all day and night, and finally accepted Wang Shouqing's method.
From the second day onwards, he told various stories about people who transformed into immortals and the gods in the sky.
It didn't work at first, but suddenly their most respected shaman died of illness. The young shaman couldn't cure their illness, so an old woman came to them for treatment with the intention of giving it a try.
Medical skills were a major weapon against barbarians, so naturally they all learned some of them. Zhang Yishan gave her a simple treatment and gave her a Taoist blessing bag.
After a few days, not knowing whether Sanqing really planned to manifest his spirit in this desolate land or whether it was a spiritual therapy, the old lady came to the church again, and this time she respectfully "invited" the statue of Sanqing back.
Zhang Yishan was very excited and personally took out a statue to consecrate and gave it to her.
From that day on, their missionary work took off. History has proven that middle-aged and elderly women have infinite vitality and are a gold mine for recruiting activists for various social activities, whether they are Han Chinese or other ethnic groups. In this old lady
Under the encouragement and guidance of Zhang Yishan, many women and old people came to "listen to the truth". Although no one has become a true believer yet, gradually many people will come to listen to Zhang Yishan's preaching at night - the long night is long, and it is also right.
Writing is a pastime.
They also taught these Jurchens some simple Qi training methods. After practicing, some people did feel more comfortable physically. More and more people came to listen to the preaching, and some finally became believers.
Wang Shouqing also proposed that the layout of the Taoist temple should be changed and the courtyard in front of the Taoist temple should be turned into a gathering place. He also hired merchants from the city to sell goods in front of their courtyard; and he had to violate the Quan Zhen
Learn from the principles of Taoism and allow Taoist priests to eat meat.
As a result, more people are willing to come to the Taoist temple to take a look. In addition to those who want to learn Qi training methods, there are also many who are not interested in this and have become believers. There are also a group of old people who are willing to become Taoist priests and Taoist nuns. Although the old people
It was of little use, but as the first batch of Taoist priests to be recruited locally, they still attached great importance to it, treated them, bought them clothes, and showed great care.
In this way, their situation gradually opened up, and some young people were willing to become Taoist priests. To this day, there are even young Taoist boys.
Zhang Yishan's thoughts returned to the present, and he ordered his apprentice to take out the various ceremonial items brought from the city and place them according to etiquette.
The local people had heard that there would be a Zhai Jiao festival a few days ago, and regardless of whether they were interested in Taoism or not, they came to watch the fun.
Zhang Yishan performed the ceremony meticulously, reciting incantations, performing hand-to-hand combat, chanting and singing the silent words, and greatly reduced the time for worshiping, chanting sutras, contemplating and other aspects;
The deacons were waiting for help. Although there were still many places where the conditions had to be simple, it still caused exclamations from the Jurchens present from time to time. Infected by the atmosphere of the scene, several young men were willing to become Taoist priests.
Zhang Yishan was very happy and quickly ordered Wang Shouqing to teach them the precepts. At the same time, he asked other people to collect various items and put them in the backyard. These items will be stored in Suining Village from now on.
In the evening, when Zhang Yishan was about to return to the city, Wang Shouqing said to him excitedly: "Master, although a few elderly people don't quite understand the teachings, they are willing to accompany us to preach in other Jurchen villages with which they are familiar.
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"This is great," Zhang Yishan said, "We finally have some devout believers."
Wang Shouqing pointed to the west with high spirits and said: "Master, in the future, these countless Jurchen villagers will definitely become devout believers."
"Hopefully, these countless Jurchen villages will all become believers in the Quanzhen Tao."
