Faced with Zhang Yuelu's forced order, Zhang Wenyue had to obey the order.
Not to mention that the second deputy palace chief is superior to ordinary deputy palace masters. In terms of family relationships, Zhang Yuelu has been recognized by the Tianshi as the leader of the third generation of the Zhang family. This is not an empty talk or an empty name;
To be honest, Zhang Jucheng and other Zhang family members also approved it.
Now that it has passed the dispute stage and has become a decision, Zhang Wenyue, as a contemporary of Zhang Yuelu, opposes Zhang Yuelu, which actually becomes the authority against the Tianshi. Da Zong will not speak for him, and the consequences are very serious.
The more important point is that Zhang Yuelu is right.
So Zhang Wenyue ordered his men to arrest the people involved in the case, including those within the Taoist government who did nothing.
After doing this, Zhang Yuelu presided over a meeting in Dongdu Mansion, which went all the way down to the deacon level. Many deputy palace heads also participated in the meeting remotely through the "Zi Mu Mirror". Zhang Yuelu did not directly mention Lin Yin in the meeting.
case, only one issue was discussed.
There is no vacuum in power.
Once it retreats and creates a vacuum, other forces will immediately fill this vacuum and thus gain corresponding power.
To put it more clearly, if the people who are supposed to be in charge don’t take care of things, others will take care of them.
Specifically, why do beggar gangs exist in major cities and towns? Because many things should be under the control of the government offices, but the government offices do not care, so the beggar gangs develop and grow, such as cleaning ditches, moving corpses, guarding the village, doing night patrols, etc.
A series of other things have become the work of the beggar gang. At the same time, the beggar gang has grown and become a gray existence between a secret association and a normal association. It has then monopolized some special industries and even developed into a local hegemon.
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In the New World, people in the Holy Court did not take care of things, so an illegal association called the "Mafia" filled part of the gap. They administered "justice" to the people, and their leader became a priest-like being, called Your Excellency.
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To this end, Zhang Yuelu also cited an example. A man's land was usurped by others. He went to report it to the government, but the government just responded perfunctorily and did not take care of the matter. At this time, his clan stood up and upheld justice for him through armed fighting.
The land was taken back. Do you think this person recognized the clan rules? Or did he recognize the government's decree?
Power comes from the bottom up.
If the people below recognize the clan but not the government, then the government will be ignored and the clan will control this part of the power.
Over time, the clan grew stronger, and then the gentry and rural sages took control of the power at the bottom, and the imperial power did not go to the countryside.
Was this part of power snatched away by the gentry? Or was it given up by the government on its own initiative?
so power
There is no vacuum. If you withdraw, other forces will inevitably fill the void.
In the same way, the same is true for the survival soil of so-called secret societies.
It seems very difficult to solve the problem of secret associations and the problem of gentry and clan. If we really want to cure it, it is very simple to say that it is to establish an effective system, manage the things that should be managed well, and prevent a vacuum of power. Naturally, there will be no
The existence of secret societies and gentry clans.
This leads to another issue, the integration of power and responsibility. The prerequisite for holding power is to assume responsibility. There is no way to only hold power without taking corresponding responsibilities.
Zhang Yuelu pointed out that many Taoist priests in the Taoist government have this idea. They want to have great power, but they want to slide over when something happens, and don't want to take responsibility. There is power without responsibility, responsibility without power, great power but little responsibility, so power
Can it be stable? What will eventually be damaged is the foundation of the Taoist sect.
Only then did Zhang Yuelu point out Lin Yin's case.
This case reflects a fundamental problem: inaction.
The top is perfunctory, and the bottom is coping. One is perfunctory, and the other is coping. They dress up the appearance, but do not solve the problem. At the same time, there are still problems such as collusion and collusion of interests. The final result is that small problems turn into big problems, and in the end it cannot be solved.
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Is this the way things should be?
Zhang Yuelu also talked about the scripts. Nowadays, the scripts are very popular among knight-errants. One kind tells about grudges and grudges, and the other kind tells about chivalry and righteousness, hoeing the strong and helping the weak, robbing the rich and giving to the poor. They are very popular. Why are knights so popular among ordinary people?
Welcome? In other words, why do ordinary people place their hopes on these so-called knights? What exactly does this knight spirit reflect?
After the Lin Yin case happened, how many people stood by Lin Yin? And why?
Shouldn't it cause some thought?
Now that things have happened, people cannot be resurrected, it is irreversible, but why is everything still the same? It seems that so many people have died without being touched at all. Is it so insensitive?
Zhang Yuelu asked many questions in succession during the meeting, but no one, including many deputy palace masters, gave an answer. It wasn't that he didn't know the answer, but that he couldn't answer it. Do they need to admit it directly?
Zhang Yuelu did not want to limit himself to Lin Yin's case. If he only limited himself to Lin Yin's case, it would be no different from treating headaches and foot pains. Treating the symptoms but not the root cause, similar things will still happen in the future.
She wants to use this case as an opportunity to further clean up the laziness within the Taoist government.
After Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu took office, they have each put forward their own purposes, or their focus.
Forced by the situation, Qi Xuansu focused on the issue of secret associations, including what he talked about about the survival soil of secret associations, etc.
Zhang Yuelu's environment was less urgent and more relaxed, so she went a step further based on Qi Xuansu and proposed improving the atmosphere and cleaning up the world's moral standards.
There is no distinction between the two. When faced with specific problems, Qi Xuansu naturally cannot talk about more general issues of ethics. He can only choose to solve the problems in front of him and even make some compromises. Among them, the main manifestation is a "
The word "break" means that Qi Xuansu wants to break the original power structure in Borneo, establish a new balance, and form a confrontational situation. This purpose is actually his sword, used to deal with enemies, rather than his fundamental purpose.
Zhang Yuelu has more freedom and is in a more relaxed environment, so he can stand at a higher position and talk about more ambitious propositions. Because Lingnan is close to Wuzhou and is the Zhang family's sphere of influence, Zhang Yuelu takes
The support of Tianshi came to Lingnan, which itself has broken the power structure of Lingnan and established a new balance of power. It can even be said that she has no enemies here, so she does not need to spend more time in this area.
You can express your feelings directly.
After the discussion, some people said privately that they had long heard that Zhang Yuelu was domineering, and today they had experienced it. He was obviously the second deputy palace master, but he talked and acted like a real person in charge of the palace. The future would be difficult.
Some people say that now she is only the second deputy palace master, and it will only last for three years at most. It will be over after a while. If she is allowed to become the chief master, she is afraid that she will go back to the era of the fifth generation of chief masters. The current situation is good.
The days are gone forever.
Some people also say that if you have to choose one of the four talents of Taoism, it can be anyone, as long as it is not Zhang Yuelu.
However, this statement was opposed by others. As long as it was not Zhang Yuelu, how could the Zhengyiyiyi agree? If you want to win, you must at least take into account both.
At this time, a person appeared.
He is a man of Quanzhen Taoism, but he can take into account the righteousness of Taoism.
Qi Xuansu.
He is not as harsh and radical as Zhang Yuelu. Using him to replace Zhang Yuelu can not only lead a good life, but also take into account the interests of Zhengyiyi.
From this point of view, Qi Xuansu's role is much greater than that of Yao Pei, who can only represent Quanzhen Tao, and it is also more important than not letting everyone have a good life.
Zhang Yuelu's life is much better. As for the little national master, he cannot tolerate the hereditary behavior of the Li family.
For most people, it would be better to have Qi Xuansu, who has no foundation, and be easy to control. The Zhang and Li family, which has a strong foundation and is too strong, may not be a good choice.
This reflects the mentality of people in Taoism.
How to achieve a balance between personal interests and Taoist interests.
Personal interests usually harm the interests of Taoism, but if there is no Taoism, personal interests cannot be protected.
In the past many years, the Third Division has also struggled with this issue, so the image of the Third Division is very complicated. They have acted to safeguard the interests of the Taoist sect, and they have also acted to harm the interests of the Taoist sect. It is difficult to use simple "good" or "bad" to describe
To summarize them. They are like the signs of Taoism, where yin and yang intersect, and black and white intersect.
You can imagine a picture, half of the faces of the three divisions are bathed in light and glory, and the other half are hidden in dark shadows.
But now, the three divisions have entered their "twilight years", and they don't have much time. This will break the balance they have maintained for a long time. Should they consider their posthumous reputation and put the interests of the Taoist sect first? Or should they consider the real family and put their interests first?
Personal interests come first? In short, the balance can no longer be maintained. There should be a choice.
Now it seems that the three divisions still put the interests of Taoism first. In their later years, they began to solve some problems and carry out some improvement measures. For example, the Fenglinzhou problem, the Posuzhou problem, and the Taoist custom problem,
The promotion and reuse of Zhang Yuelu is proof of this.
However, it cannot be said that this is the final choice of the three divisions. They will not make any decisions until the last moment.
Judging from the seventh-generation successor, Cihang's real hope is slim, and no one from the Zhang family can take the lead. It makes sense for the Tianshi to focus on the interests of the Taoist sect when the Zhang family has clearly been eliminated in the seventh-generation dispute.
Because even if we compete for personal interests, we can't compete with others. If there is no profit, we only want fame. It is better to occupy the moral high ground and push Zhang Yuelu, who advocates reform, up.
On the contrary, Quanzhen Taoism and Taiping Taoism both hope to win the Seven Generations War, and may be more focused on personal interests. After all, the influence of a great leader is too great.
After the discussion, Zhang Yuelu asked Xu Kou, who was from Qingluan Guard, to take charge of the case. She didn't want to limit herself to Lin Yin's case, but that didn't mean she didn't care about the case. The case still had to be investigated, and it had to be investigated to the end.
At this moment, her scriptures lit up.
There is only one person who can contact Zhang Yuelu through the sutra, and that is Qi Xuansu.