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Chapter 22 The Road to Peace
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were four wealthy merchants.
The four wealthy merchants are the Zhen family in Hebei, the Mi family in Xuzhou, the Chen Liuwei family, and the Wu family in Yizhou.
Each of these four families has a wealth of tens of millions, assets of hundreds of millions, and nearly ten thousand servants and diners.
According to unofficial records, the daughters of these four families got married with a dowry of 20 billion.
The Zhen family in Jizhou supported Yuan Shao in the early stage.It can be said that Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of arrows owe more than half of the credit to the Zhen family. After Yuan Shao's defeat, the Zhen family supported Cao Cao's hegemony.
The Mi family in Xuzhou fell in love with Liu Bei.It's a gift of family property and a sister.It can be said that Liu Bei's repeated defeats and battles in the early stage were inseparable from the full assistance of the Mi family.
Chen Liuwei's family spent all their wealth to support Cao Cao's army, which made Cao Cao one of the princes of the Eighteenth Road to Dong Dong.
The Wu family in Yizhou also fell in love with Uncle Liu Huang.In the later period, Liu Bei managed to manage Yizhou and established the Shuhan regime. If there was no support from the Wu family, the local emperor, he would be thinking about fart.
The Zhen family is located in Wuji County, Zhongshan.
Liu Jin went to Zhongshan mainly to meet the famous Zhen Mi (fu second tone).
Cao Zhi's "Ode to the Goddess of Luo", "as graceful as a frightened bird, as graceful as a dragon swimming", directly made the Zhen family Zhen Mi a god.
It can be said that as long as he is a man, there is no one who is not interested in this Goddess of Luoshen.
Of course, it is said that the daughters of the Zhen family are all unparalleled in beauty.
Liu Jin said that I just have a pure heart, and I want to appreciate and judge the beauties of the big man.
Changshan and Zhongshan are adjacent to each other, only one or two hundred miles away.
But Liu Jin was really shocked every step of the way.
There is a bandit in three miles, a bandit in five miles, and a yellow scarf in eight miles.
Either they robbed Liu Jin's BMW, or they took a fancy to Diao Chan on the horse, and some even planned to kill and rob him directly.
The most outrageous thing is that some refugees robbed Liu Jin's cakes and dry food with hoes and forks.
When encountering unscrupulous bandits and bandits, Liu Jin didn't hold back his hands at all, and he didn't leave a single one alive.
It was the refugees with hoes and forks, but Liu Jin couldn't do it, shook his head helplessly, and left the dry food to them.
In recent years, Dahan has suffered from natural and man-made disasters.
There is a severe drought across the country. Although it is not enough to say that there is no grain harvest, after paying the taxes, there is basically not much left, and more people cannot even pay the taxes.
If the emperor can't collect taxes, he has no money to spend, no money to enjoy, and no money to support the army.
So the emperor came up with a coquettish operation, selling officials and selling titles.
As long as you are willing to spend money, you can become an official without being recommended by others, and some official positions even cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
The emperor sold his official position to make money, tasted the sweetness, and became more unscrupulous.
As for those who spend money to buy officials, I have to earn back the money spent, so all kinds of messy taxes come out.
Then the common people can't pay the taxes even more, and the emperor can't collect the money even more, so let's sell the officials!
The big man fell into a vicious circle directly.
The common people have no choice but to be hungry, what should they do?
Be honest and eat the bark and leaves.
Those who are not honest will block the road and rob. If you are lucky, you will eat well and drink spicy food. If you are unlucky, you will be a good man again after 18 years.
Soon, the bark, leaves and other edible things were all eaten, and I was still hungry, what should I do?
Insert the label and sell the first!
Easy to eat!
Children have no labor force and cannot bring wealth. They eat nothing but eat.
The whole family is starving to death, and they can no longer carry a mop bottle.
So put a straw mark on the head and sell it.If he is favored by a wealthy master, at worst he will not starve to death.
But more children starve to death directly, or are dying, and adults have no money to see a doctor.
Just bury it, this is meat. Although it is human flesh, it can really fill your stomach.
Just eat it, this is my own child, tiger poison doesn't even eat children, let alone human beings, I can't even talk about it.
So, hey, let's change, you eat mine, I eat yours, out of sight, everyone is hungry, hello, me, everything is fine.
What's more, if you see someone who is alone or see that there are not many people on the other side, you will directly order the killer to eat the meat. If you are lucky, you can even eat meat when you meet a woman.
The entire Han people are in darkness, and the people's livelihood is in decline.
At this time, a Taoist priest named Zhang Jiao stepped forward.
It is said that Zhang Jiao was originally a poor scholar. Once he went to the mountains to collect medicine and met an old man.
The old man with blue eyes and childlike face, holding a goosejack stick in his hand, called Zhang Jiao to a cave, and taught him three volumes of heavenly scriptures, namely "Taiping Essentials".
The old man is the legendary Nanhua old fairy.
After Zhang Jiao got the "Taiping Essentials", he studied day and night, and called himself "Taiping Taoist".
Zhang Jiao regards Huang Tian as the supreme god, and believes that the Yellow God created the world and created human beings.
He also believed in the Yellow Emperor and Laozi, and believed that the world under the Yellow Emperor was a peaceful world.
In this peaceful world, there is neither exploitation and oppression, nor hunger, cold, disease, fraud or theft, and everyone is free and happy.
So Zhang Jiao founded the Taiping Road, and put forward the ideal of "Towards Peace".
Coinciding with the outbreak of the epidemic among the people, Zhang Jiao began to carry out activities among the people by using medical skills and spells to heal people's diseases. He recruited a large number of believers, developed his strength, and called himself a "great virtuous teacher"!
When the common people heard this, they were surprised that such a beautiful world still exists. Our requirements are not high, as long as we don’t go hungry.
And Zhang Jiao also appropriately distributed a small amount of rations to the people. When the people saw that there was food, it was worth it, and they scrambled to join the Taiping Road.
As a result, Zhang Jiao won the support of many people, and within a short period of time, he had hundreds of thousands of followers, all over the eight states.
Zhang Jiao divided the believers in Bazhou into 36 parties, with more than 7000 people in Dafang and [-] people in Xiaofang.Each side set up a Qushuai, under his unified command, with the intention of overthrowing the Han Dynasty and establishing a peaceful world.
Zhang Jiao met with believers on March [-]th of the Jiazi year, and raised troops against the Han with the slogan "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should be established, the year is in Jiazi, and the world will be prosperous".
"Cangtian" refers to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and "Huangtian" refers to Taiping Road.
According to Zhang Jiao's calculation, Han belongs to fire, and fire gives birth to earth, and the earth is yellow, so all the believers tied yellow scarves on their heads as a mark, so as not to accidentally injure friendly troops.
So along the way, Liu Jin saw many people wearing yellow scarves preaching.
As long as you drink a bowl of talisman water, kneel down and shout "Great virtuous and good teacher", you are considered to be a teacher, which is quite convenient and quick.
The common people were starving to death, and had lost confidence in the great man long ago. Once they heard the teachings of the Taiping Dao, they joined the teaching very happily. If you don't let me join, you are in a hurry.
Then the Protestants called their friends one after another, gave full play to their three-inch tongue, and began to develop downlines. After all, the more downlines they developed, the more rewards they got.
Of course, there are also people who want to develop Liu Jin as a teacher, and become angry after being rejected by Liu Jin, shouting that Liu Jin is a running dog of the imperial court, and they want to attack him in groups.
Liu Jin didn't argue, and drove away quickly, leaving behind a pile of yellow scarves eating ashes.
Soon, Liu Jin entered the boundary of Zhongshan.
"System, check in today!"
"Ding! Sign in successfully. Congratulations to the host, you have obtained modern papermaking."
Liu Jin is very happy, it's good, it's a sharp weapon for cheating aristocratic families.
Paper is something that most people can't afford.
Ordinary people are illiterate, while poor scholars are literate but cannot afford to spend.
The only ones who can make repeated consumption are those from aristocratic families and educated people.
If they see that the modern paper is as white as snow, smooth and smooth, and even in thickness, they will be surprised if they are not crazy.
If you sell them at a low price, you will look down on them, knowledge, inheritance, and this sacred object.
So, don't blame me, Liu Jin, for pitting you.