Becoming an Immortal from the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 100 On the Tao
Huangzhou's face turned red with embarrassment, and he bowed respectfully: "I have seen all the Taoist priests of the Immortal Sect, and the student Huangzhou is very polite."

Lu Liang looked at the peasant boy up and down, and saw that although he was thin and bony, his overall integrity was still intact, like someone who had studied in a private school for several years, so he nodded and hummed lightly.

Zhang Yuqing raised his eyes slightly, and lightly waved a ray of magic power to support the latter.

Huangzhou's mind was shocked, feeling an inexplicable force straightening his body, he looked at the particularly handsome young Taoist in the carriage with surprise and fear.

Others saw that he had a different expression, and immediately explained: "This is my teacher Zhong Daozi, His Highness, but..."

After some explanations, Huangzhou immediately knelt down and bowed, and thanked with tears streaming down his face: "The student thanked the head teacher Daozi for helping the people..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Yuqing impatiently waved his hands and held him up from the ground, and said coldly: "What is your identity? How can you be qualified to thank me on behalf of the common people in the world?"

Huangzhou's face panicked, he didn't understand where he had offended the Taoist of the Immortal Sect, but he felt that the other party seemed to hate the Confucian robe he was wearing.

Everyone was surprised for a moment, especially Lu Zhixin was almost suffocated. As the person who personally selected Huangzhou to meet Daozi, he couldn't absolve himself of the blame.

"Please headmaster calm down, I'm waiting for death!"

Lu Liang was the most diligent in observing words and expressions.

He grabbed Lu Zhixin and kowtowed, not daring to raise his head.

Huangzhou was panicked, and he calmed down a little, before he said loudly: "The Taoist asked the student what status he is, and what qualifications do he have to thank the Taoist on behalf of the people. The student is not talented, but he is just a child in Huangjia Village."

"but……"

His tone was respectful, but his eyes were sharp: "The students are not talented, but they have also attended the lectures of great Confucians."

Huangzhou looked pious: "There is a contemporary great Confucian in Hengqu who once said: 'Build a heart for the world, build a life for the people, inherit the sage's knowledge for the past, and create peace for all generations!'"

"My generation studied Confucianism, and that's all it is!"

"Although the student is just a naive child, he has attended school for a few days. He knows that our generation's reading and writing is to bear what others can't bear, and what capable people can't."

"Although Daozi believes in Taoism, his words and deeds are more in line with these four sentences than the students! I feel like this for a while, and I can't help but feel a little sloppy. I don't know where I made Daozi angry. It's all the fault of the students. I also ask Daozi to punish me If so, punish the students!"

Huangzhou felt apprehensive, bowed his head and bowed his head, waiting to be dealt with.

Zhang Yuqing laughed lightly, and said bluntly: "Forget it, it's okay to talk to a Confucian scholar like you, and raise your head."

Huangzhou raised his head slowly, looking at Zhang Yuqing quietly.

"You said just now that you hold the status of a scholar and think that you are qualified to be able to thank Qianshou who received relief from my religion. In essence, it is because you think that they are not as smart as the people you have studied and know how to be grateful, right?"

Huang Zhou was slightly startled, intending to veto it, but saw that the Taoist in front of him had clear eyes, and just looked at him, as if he could see through the internal organs.

He gave a wry smile, cupped his hands and said honestly: "...Yes, Your Highness Daozi, the people are ignorant, ignorant of etiquette, and most of them don't have the opportunity to see Daozi in person..."

Zhang Yuqing interrupted him directly, and continued: "Stupid? Don't know etiquette? Whose etiquette do you know? Are you waiting for Confucian etiquette?"

Huangzhou heard the words, his face tightened and he said: "Exactly, does Taoist think there is something wrong with the etiquette of Confucianism in my generation? You must know that the world is governed by rules, and the ruler and minister, father and son, coincidentally coincide with the number of days. This should also be respected by Taoism. If there is no etiquette, there will be chaos. Order, it will be like the common people scrambling for rice porridge that day, chaotic, and casualties will only increase..."

Zhang Yuqing said coldly: "You even misunderstood the basic definitions of etiquette and rules, no wonder you are so arrogant!"

Huangzhou was sweating profusely, gritted his teeth and said, "Please don't hesitate to enlighten me, Daozi."

"The so-called etiquette rules exist only for three things from the moment they are enacted."

"The first is to gather the world's wealth reasonably and take charge of the follow-up distribution rights."

"This is what Confucianism advocates. So why should the people pay taxes to the emperor? Because the emperor is the son of heaven, and he manages the common people on behalf of heaven, and the common people must obey the orders of the emperor."

"Secondly, formulate a framework for the people to live in. All people must not go beyond the Confucian rules and regulations, and guarantee their basic living needs, such as the basic right to survival, which extends to education, medical care, public security, etc."

"This is the prefectural and county system. The county magistrate needs to guarantee the basic living needs of the people under his rule. The country needs to protect the territory from being invaded by foreign enemies, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, farming and supporting themselves."

"Third, in order to allow this system to continue to operate for a long time, the rights and interests of most of them are sacrificed actively to protect the core taxation rights.

Therefore, the etiquette of Confucianism is based on the assumption of ignorance of the people from the very beginning, because if the people are not ignorant, they will realize that the theory of the Son of Heaven is nonsense, and they will spontaneously refuse to pay taxes to the emperor, and finally come to a system The end of the collapse and reformation of the Yuan system! "

Zhang Yuqing looked at him coldly: "You think the people are ignorant, but you don't know that it is because of you Confucian scholars that the people of the world have to be ignorant!"

Huangzhou was sweating wildly, his tongue was dry, he muttered for a long time before he muttered: "But does Daozi think that this world doesn't need rules to restrain it?"

Zhang Yuqing sneered: "Etiquette and system are naturally indispensable in the world, but if you want to talk about etiquette, you must first talk about whose etiquette. You are still a Confucian scholar, have you never heard the saying that you can't be less polite than ordinary people?"

Huang Zhou slumped on the ground with a thud, and countless thoughts suddenly appeared in his mind, as if he wanted to understand something.

"No wonder this Taoist loathes my status as a Confucian scholar so much..."

"The etiquette, rule of law, and system currently running in the Song Dynasty are all proposed by your Confucianism.

Since we want to talk about etiquette and system, we must know that under the implementation of the Confucian policy of obscuring the people, no less than ten thousand people died of freezing and starvation in the Great Song Dynasty every day. "

The flood destroyed the fields that countless people depended on for their livelihood, displaced tens of thousands of people, and hundreds of people starved to death every day.

But in the eyes of Bianliang, Lin'an, and the Hengqu Confucians you call, all this is so commonplace. "

"But for the villagers of Huangjia Village, is there any need for this kind of cannibalism?"

Huang Zhou's face turned pale, and then turned red again, muttering: "But the people's life is getting better and better, this is the result of the enlightenment of generations of great Confucians, does it mean that His Royal Highness Daozi thinks that the promotion of Taoism is important? Will the world be a better place?"

Zhang Yuqing glanced at him contemptuously, and said, "It's only natural."

"I am a disciple of a true immortal, and I have [-] volumes of immortal law. If the system of my religion is implemented in the whole world, it will be a world where there are no bones left, no disasters for people, and everyone can live for the rest of their lives."

Huangzhou still refused to admit defeat. Although he had already seen the supernatural powers of His Highness Daozi, the so-called Ziyu was not strange, and immediately said with a straight neck: "The reason why Daozi is so sure is that the officials are unwilling to promote Daoism. It’s just the theory of the rule of law, so no one can verify the truth of the so-called things that never happened.”

Zhang Yuqing was too lazy to talk to him, and ordered: "Lu Liang!"

"Hey!"

Lu Liang got up from the ground in a hurry, took out a sack, and took out the immortal rice one by one.

"This is the rice seed that I improved according to the immortal method. Each plant yields [-] grains, and the yield per mu is [-] catties. It can save the common people from starving to death. Can you prove that my religion is more suitable than Confucianism? Do you govern the people?"

Huangzhou's eyes were about to burst, looking at those fairy rice, his eyeballs almost didn't fall out.

After all, he is also from a farming family, so he can naturally understand the concept of [-] catties per mu.

"This, this is impossible..."

Huangzhou muttered to himself, his worldview almost collapsed.

He was in a daze for a while, and the iron-like facts were placed in front of him, and the knowledge he had acquired through hard work in the past was instantly eclipsed.

He worked hard for so many years to get rid of the title of farmer's son, but now it feels like a joke in front of the words of Changsheng Jiaodaozi.

'Is Confucianism the chief culprit who confuses the people of the world? '

This doubt came to his mind for the first time, and then his back turned cold, and he hurriedly shook his head.

At this moment, his eyes looking at Zhang Yuqing became extremely frightened.

Huangzhou realized that once his words on Taoism with Daozi spread out today, it would deal a serious blow to the reputation of Confucianism!
Of course, Huangzhou is undoubtedly worrying too much.

After all, this kind of discussion about orthodoxy, as the subject of the discussion—the common people, it is often difficult to distinguish the difference.

And those who can understand the meaning must be those who have read the book and understand the truth.

Unfortunately, in today's Northern Song Dynasty, such people, let alone 90.00% are Confucian scholars, at least [-]%.

Will Confucian scholars agree with Zhang Yuqing's theory?

It is self-evident that you can understand it with your toes.

So in such an era when Confucianism controls the discourse power of public opinion, can such a statement really deal a blow to the prestige of Confucianism?
It can be said that there may be an impact, but it is minimal.

Therefore, Zhang Yuqing had no intention of promoting Confucianism to the world at all. What he mainly wanted was to form a population siphon effect through obvious institutional advantages.

As long as everyone living in the area governed by the Changsheng religion can live and work in peace and contentment, then people in other areas of the Song Dynasty will decide their heads with their buttocks and spontaneously vote for his camp.

As for why he debated these things with Huangzhou on a whim, he mainly thought of it for a while, and planned to instill Confucian confusion in Lu Liang, Lu Zhixin and some disciples of the Longevity Sect who had been with him for a long time through this debate.

It will come in handy when we grab the right to speak from Confucian scholars in the future.

Huangzhou gave up struggling, he kept his eyes on the immortals, and then looked at the handsome Taoist in front of him.

The sunlight fell on Zhang Yuqing's clothes from behind, Huangzhou suddenly felt his eyes shaking slightly, and a round of solar halo seemed to rise behind the Taoist's head.

'Is it really a... fairy who can save the world? '

At this moment, he suddenly had a thought.

He wants to join the Longevity Sect.

However, before making this conclusion, Huangzhou wanted to confirm it one last time. After hesitating for a while, he reluctantly said: "The Taoist's words are thought-provoking. Learn from... Huangzhou has been taught."

He arched his hands, and instead of the sharp eyes just now, he said with a confused expression: "After Daozi... what kind of immortal religion system do you plan to implement in the Song Dynasty so that the people can live a life without worrying about food and clothing?"

Zhang Yuqing said with a calm face, "First of all, we must provide food for the tillers and clothing for the weavers, so that all laborers can enjoy the income from their labor."

"On this basis, use Taoism to improve the living standards of the people, such as this immortal rice. In the future, the grain yield per mu will reach as high as [-] jin, the traffic in all prefectures and counties will be unimpeded, and the fruits in Lingnan will be able to eat in the afternoon. Sent to Bianliang, the old people can spend the winter safely with various kinds of cloth, and more and better fuel will make people no longer have the risk of freezing to death.”

Listening to Zhang Yuqing's words, Huangzhou could not help but fall into imagination.

'That world is so beautiful——'

He sighed, bowed his head sincerely and said: "I really hope to see with my own eyes, the world imagined by His Royal Highness Daozi!"

"What's so difficult about it? You just need to join my sect, and you can also contribute to the coming of the world a little earlier."

Huangzhou was overjoyed when he heard the words, and asked in disbelief: "Here, can I also join the religion? I just provoked Daozi to be angry, and I thought..."

Zhang Yuqing laughed lightly: "What makes me angry is that you never leave the common people in your mouth, but you don't see the shadow of the common people in your eyes. Instead, you act as if you are a high-ranking scholar."

Huangzhou blushed, cupped his hands and said, "I don't know if in Daozi's eyes, I am like this, I won't dare again from now on."

Zhang Yuqing shook his head, and said: "When you encounter people robbing porridge in the future, you should not blindly think that it is because the people are ignorant, but think about why they would rather risk their lives to grab a mere bowl of porridge. Rice porridge."

Huangzhou was taken aback when he heard the words.

"So it's because of this incident that displeased Daozi..."

Lu Liang secretly complained, knowing that Dao Zi was also beating Lu Zhixin's lack of experience.

Fortunately, Zhang Yuqing didn't bring up this matter anymore, and everyone agreed not to mention it again.

It's business as usual.

Lu Liang continued to speak to the common people, popularizing for them the benefits of joining the Longevity Sect.

To put it simply, enroll in a religion, give land, give money, and give your offspring a chance to study.

When the people heard the first preferential treatment, they lined up, and when they heard the second two conditions, they began to urge the Taoists in charge of registration to hurry up, don't waste everyone's time, we are still waiting to report to the head teacher Daozi expressed his gratitude.

After finalizing another village, the group continued to provide disaster relief in the disaster area, silently absorbing the population of the disaster area.

About ten days later, they finally brought the last flooded people back to the village named 'Xinhang'.

It is located between two big mountains, and a plaque named Xinhang Mine hangs at the gate of the village.

It is called a village, but after a period of construction and maintenance, the population here has skyrocketed to more than tens of thousands of people, enough to compare with all the residents of a small county.

(End of this chapter)