After Becoming a Taoist

   Chapter 825 The Ghost-Swallowing Scholar Zhong Kui

   Besides, there are many gods in Min, and Feng Subo is just one of them.

   These gods include righteous gods, evil gods, and evil gods who steal the name of righteous gods.

  What Sun Lord, Moon Lady, Mountain Ghost, Water God, Dragon King, Fire Officer, Wind Lion Lord, Earth Lord, Shi Bogong, Snake King…

   After all, the sun, moon, mountains and rivers, water, fire, wood, stone, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, in the eyes of Lingnan people, all hide a mysterious spirit. This is actually the animism of witchcraft.

  Lingnan culture was late, and the earliest residents of the Lingnan Min area were the Min people.

  At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, King Huai of Chu destroyed the Yue Kingdom, some of the Yue people fled to Fujian and merged to form a new nation, the Minyue people.

  In the early Western Han Dynasty, the Minyue people established a Minyue country. However, Emperor Wu of Han later destroyed the Minyue Kingdom and moved the Minyue people north to the Jianghuai area.

   As for the Han people entering Fujian on a large scale, it was a matter after the Jin Dynasty.

  In the late Tang and Five Dynasties, wars in the north continued. The originally poor mountains and bad waters in Lingnan became a treasure land to avoid war. Han people migrated to the south and became the main ethnic group in Lingnan.

   At the same time, a large number of Hokkien and Yue people have been educated and matured, and the maritime economy has gradually developed, which has paved the way for the maritime economy of the Song and Ming Dynasties.

   is the later generation, and the Mindi Temple is also blooming everywhere. It is known as one village, one temple, different villages, different gods, and there are more than 20,000 dojos.

   Today, Lingnan is not considered civilized, let alone 20,000 gods, it is ten times more, 200,000, and 300,000. .

   There are more primitive shamanistic relics. In the Lushan Dharma Realm, monsters come out from time to time to make trouble.

  Lv Yan, for example, got the red flag, but his primordial spirit was out of his body, and his body was still in the imperial examinations in Chang'an.

   The body is dull, but it is just rote memorization, where is the soul and spirit.

   In a daze, I entered the examination room. The article was written with a foreword that doesn't fit the description, and the **** doesn't make sense.

   However, in this imperial examination, there are other differences.

   However, there was Zhong Nanshan, a child of the poor family, surnamed Zhong and Kui, who also came to participate in the imperial examination.

   "Tongjian of Immortals of All Dynasties" records that Zhong Kui was a native of Zhongnan, Shaanxi Province, and was talented at a young age. During the Wude period of Tang Dynasty, he went to the capital to take the exam, but was rejected because of his ugly appearance, and he was killed by the palace stairs in anger. The emperor heard it and gave him a red official robe for burial.

   During the Tianbao period, it is said that Tang Xuanzong Li Longji suffered from a spleen disease in Lishan Mountain in Lintong, which was not cured for a long time. Dahan claimed that he was "a jinshi who failed in the palace test, Zhong Kui".

   Tang Xuanzong woke up from a dream and recovered immediately. Therefore, Tang Xuanzong ordered Wu Daozi to make a picture of Zhong Kui catching a ghost in his dream and hang it in the palace to ward off evil spirits.

  It may be that Li Dandao changed the course of history. After eight years of martial arts, he helped Li Er to kill Prince Yin.

   So the emperor Zhong Kui met was not Li Yuan, but Li Shimin.

   But he said that at the last Duanyang Five Poison Banquet, Kuixing of the White Tiger Star Palace inspected and appointed Wen Kui for the imperial examination.

  The champion is this person.

  Zhong Kui's appearance is very ugly. How should I put it, the calamus and dogwood are already ugly enough, even the old man called him a shabby look.

   But this Zhong Kui is even better. First of all, he has strong hair, straight eyebrows, scribbled beard, like a lion's mane, huge eyes, like copper bells, and a nose with rosacea, which is usually red.

   His mouth is also large, and his teeth are even more uneven, like a wild dog's teeth, but this Zhong Kui was born in Zhongnan Mountain and lives in Zhongnan Mountain. Although his family is not prominent, he is also worry-free.

   Although Zhong Kui's family background is not prominent, he is only noble, but he is actually a family with Zhongli Quan's ancestors, but later changed the surname of Zhongli to Zhong, and studied in Zhongnan Mountain.

  Zhong Kui studied Confucianism at a young age, but he was attracted by "Old" and "Zhuang" before he was eight or nine years old.

   Later, he went to Louguan Taoism and worshipped Louguan Taoist Yin Wenchao as his teacher.

  Yin Wencao also learned Confucianism first and then Taoism. At the age of 16 or 17, he had already practiced Qi successfully, and he was a high Taoist for Louguan.

  Zhong Kui studied Taoist scriptures while reading, but his appearance was different from ordinary people, even his physique was the same. His cultivation was not very smooth, but he learned a few powerful spells.

   One of them is "take food", but everyone else is taking some kind of immortal food and spiritual bait, but Zhong Kui is taking "ghost", and he takes the art of swallowing ghosts.

   This Zhong Kui was recommended by his teacher to take the imperial examination in Chang'an.

   Soon he was the number one tribute, which was different from Lu Yan who fell off the list early.

  Zhong Kui, relying on real materials, reached the first stage of the imperial examination (in history, the imperial examination was founded by Wu Zetian).

  Li Shimin attached great importance to this imperial examination and hoped to obtain some useful talents. This Zhong Kui was not born with five surnames and seven looks, and reading his articles also implied civil and military tactics.

   In his policy article, he personally reviewed the article and felt that it was the material of the humerus.

   Now, although the northern plague has been contained and the locust plague has not continued to move south, it still brought extremely heavy losses.

  Although the Turks retreated, the frontier was still in jeopardy.

   In addition, Li Er made a rebellion against his own father. All five surnames and seven Wangs needed a good life to comfort him. Several family members surnamed Li raised troops to oppose him.

   Above the imperial court, Wei Zheng still had nothing to do with him after eating every day, leaving him with nothing to do.

   Fortunately, he is a diligent and ambitious emperor, and he is also in his prime, so he is not faint.

   I just still feel that the court has too many old Sui ministers, and even the relatives of Emperor Yang of Sui.

   This time, the imperial examination was undoubtedly highly valued by Li Shimin, and he had to be trained and practiced as a team.

   However, when Zhong Kui entered the hall, Li Shimin was still taken aback.

  Li Shimin had been harassed by the ghost of Najinghe Longjun, Li Yuanji, and the ghost of Prince Yin, but now looking at this, he looks like a human being, and he looks like a ghost, and frowns immediately.

   However, during the re-assessment, Zhong Kui's broken gong voice made Li Shimin even more bored.

   Where did he know that Zhong Kui's voice had the effect of swaying the soul because he swallowed ghosts and took food. He felt disgusting when he heard it, but it was normal.

  Li Shimin originally intended not to record Zhong Kui, and even couldn't help turning it face-to-face: "I'm going to take a judge, and I'm all about my words and judgments. You wait for an ugly person, how can I call you the champion of the Golden Division?"

Without waiting for Zhong Kui to speak, Wei Zheng went online at this time: "The good and bad of a person are not at all in appearance. Wouldn't a sage not hear that Yan Ying's three feet are three feet and become the equal minister, Zhou Chang stutters and can help the Han, Confucius judges the lost son by his appearance. Yu? Your Majesty, since he was selected for the imperial examinations, but retired because of his appearance, the minister will ask the historian to record it truthfully.”

   Xiao Yu, who was on the side, was the prime minister, but he still thought about the former Sui Dynasty, and at the same time, he was extremely jealous of Xianneng. He also read Zhong Kui's article, but he didn't want to accept him at all.

   When he saw Li Shimin's Yankang attack, he said: "The champion of the gold division must be trained both internally and externally, and it represents the image of the disciples of the emperor. There are 300 candidates for the ken, how many of them are there? Why not choose another champion of the gold division?"

   "If Zhong Kui is really loyal and filial, he should also be sympathetic to the Holy One. Besides, being a jinshi, the second place in the list, he won't be able to take the top spot, and it's not bad to be a jinshi."

   Xiao Yu's words immediately angered everyone.

   (end of this chapter)