Pawn Crossing the River

There are many things in this world that seem inexplicable to others, such as unreasonable love, inexplicable fate, and marriage that happened by chance. How do you know that it is not the work of the immortals in heaven?

The chess piece in question is ignorant, like a puppet, and is enjoying it. He thinks that there is no one in the world as proud as me. Little do they know that God is favoring them, but what if God is not favoring them? What if they are treated as abandoned pieces? What can they do?

This is the tragedy of chess pieces.

Qi Xuansu was deeply touched. When "God" favored him, he was smooth sailing and the Taoist sect was the most proud. What if "God" did not favor him? It's like raising pigs. When they are raised, they are naturally good. They don't need to watch the house, plow the land, produce milk, or shear wool. As long as they are alive, it's fine. When it's time to slaughter and eat meat, what can you do?

Regarding this matter, Qi Xuansu did not want to talk about right or wrong, nor did he want to criticize anything from a moral high ground. This is an enemy-friend issue, a core interest issue, and there is no room for easing. It is useless to talk about it.

Moral standards can change. Are the moral standards in ancient times the same as those today? In the past, we talked about the principles of morality, and kneeling and kowtowing to officials was morally correct. Now we talk about equality, and kneeling and kowtowing to officials is morally wrong.

Right and wrong can also change, because history serves the present. The Taiping Dao Uprising was wrong in the past. It was a rebellion and violated the way of loyalty to the emperor. From today's perspective, the Taiping Dao Uprising was right. It was a desperate resistance launched by the people against the unjust rulers after they had nowhere to go.

Today's morality may be the dregs of tomorrow. How do you know that today's correctness is not tomorrow's mistake?

The relationship between Qi Xuansu and the geomancer is a mess. Without the geomancer, there would probably be no Qi Xuansu today, but Qi Xuansu would not let others manipulate him and give up his life because of this.

This so-called favor of knowing someone was full of malice from the beginning. Not to mention that Qi Xuansu's success today is not due to the efforts of the geomancer alone, but also to the Heavenly Master, Qi Niang, Donghua Zhenren, Cihang Zhenren, etc.

This is like a joint-stock company. The geomancer is the founder, but as the company expands, other people continue to invest, and the geomancer is only one of the shareholders, without absolute controlling rights, and it is no longer a company owned by the geomancer alone.

Without the geomancer, Qi Xuansu would not be where he is today, which does not mean that Qi Xuansu's success today is entirely due to the geomancer.

These are two different things.

In other words, he is not good at making things happen, but he is good at making things fail.

With the birth of Qin Lingge, Li Zhixing and Qin Hengyue, the eldest daughter of the Qin family, met by chance, and fell in love at first sight for no reason. It is really an indescribable fate.

This is love, which cannot be explained clearly.

From here, we can see that Qin Hengyue is a direct member of the Qin family and still uses the generational model characters. Li Zhixing's origin is a bit biased. He may be a foster son, and he does not even use the generational model characters of the Li family.

While Qin Lingge was the county magistrate, he took the upper route, worked hard to build a good relationship with the Qin family and develop his own power.

Qi Xuansu had to take the lower route.

Speaking of this, Qi Xuansu had experience. When he and Zhou Mengyao were swallowed by "Cangtian", they lost their realm and cultivation. In order to break through Cangyun Castle, they established a Taiping Sect.

These are all ready-made experiences.

This time, Qi Xuansu planned to appoint himself as the Great Sage and Good Teacher, the supreme leader of the Taiping Sect. For the time being, there would be no Tiangong General. The Great Sage and Good Teacher would personally control the military force in the sect and secretly form the Yellow Turban Army. However, "Huangtian" was no longer the supreme god, but the Supreme Daozu was the supreme god - the people watching the chess game were all Taoists, and the Great Master personally supervised the battle, so it was better to be restrained.

The "Taiping Jing" was the supreme classic, and the right to interpret the scripture was in my hands. The core doctrine is "to achieve peace", to build a peaceful world, in this peaceful world, there is no exploitation and oppression, no hunger, cold, disease, no fraud, and no theft, everyone is like a dragon.

The rest are still the old settings, such as the national teacher: Li Changgeng is a great saint who has attained the Tao, and is the teacher of the living and the dead. When he responds to the feeling, he changes with the direction, and when he succeeds, he retreats and stays forever. He stays without staying, and the constant source is not there. He circulates the six voids, teaches the three realms, transcends the worldly law, is in the worldly law, is active and inactive, and is completely studied.

The national teacher can't say anything, this is not the slightest insult to the national teacher, but it is greatly elevated.

The pro-Tao faction of the Li family has made a comeback!

This is certainly not a deception. Qi Xuansu is sitting high in the clouds at this time, like an immortal.

So Qi Xuansu gave birth to his third son, and gave him the "Nine-section Staff", "Taiping Jing" and "Taiping Yaoshu".

This "Nine-section Staff" is certainly not the genuine "Nine-section Staff". The real "Nine-section Staff" is in the hands of the national teacher. It is the exclusive fairy item of the leader of the Taiping Dao, similar to the "Yangping Zhidu Gongyin" of the Zhengyi Dao. Moreover, in this book world, because of the suppression of dragon energy, it is difficult to exert earth-shaking power. It can only perform some small spells to cure diseases and save people, and deter evil spirits, but it is enough.

When the chess spectators saw Qi Xuansu drop the third piece, many people laughed out loud.

"It's really the experience of Taiping Dao."

"What a great Taiping Sect, with the national teacher as the leader, wonderful, wonderful."

"I wonder what fellow Taiping Daoists think?"

"Isn't the so-called Great Sage Teacher the Great Immortal of Taiping Dao today? It seems that the little master prefers the Great Immortal of Taiping Dao to the Great Immortal of Quanzhen Dao."

"But then again, when it comes to rebellion, Taiping Dao is indeed more professional, followed by Zhengyi Dao, and finally Quanzhen Dao."

"It's also ironic that a Confucian scholar, who is ostensibly a county magistrate of the Wei court, is actually the Great Sage Teacher of Taiping Sect. It's quite interesting."

As for why Qi Xuansu went to the trouble of taking the exam to become a county magistrate instead of preaching directly, there are two main reasons.

First, because he had to use his official status as a cover, preaching directly would be easily suppressed in advance.

Second, because Qi Xuansu did not make up his mind to do this at the beginning, and still wanted to take the path of accumulating power as a governor, but the heavenly way here backfired and put him in the territory of Yanzhou. Seeing that the path of governor was not feasible, he had to change his mind and just come to Taiping Religion.

This is a helpless method. Taiping Religion has another advantage, that is, it can save money. If you can't satisfy materially, you can rely on spiritual drive, which is another way.

As for why the people want to join the religion.

This is a cliché. Yanzhou is not rich, and Qiongming County ranks low in Yanzhou. The life of the people can be imagined. People live, and there must always be a thought and hope. Religion is to give people thoughts. Whether it is true or it is a big cake to fill hunger, it can always give people a little comfort, so naturally they believe it.

Furthermore, there is no power vacuum, especially at the grassroots level.

The so-called imperial power does not go to the countryside, and the Confucian court is at most at the county level. The grassroots baojia system is essentially the self-government of gentry. The Taiping Sect took root in this soil, and its primary enemy was not the court, but the gentry.

The so-called gentry is actually a general concept. They are not one person, nor are they a monolithic group, but a loose group with different ideas. Some want to keep things quiet, some think it is insignificant, and some are as if they are facing a great enemy. Whether it is cohesion or organizational strength, it cannot be compared with a sect. Even some gentry will join the sect themselves. In the absence of official power, gentry is by no means a match for the sect.

In a county, Yin Zhengxin represents the official power. It goes without saying who he will favor.

Not to mention, Yin Zhengxin still has the "Nine-section Staff" in his hand, which can perform miracles in a small range. It can't scare those important people with luck, but it is not difficult for ordinary people to bow down.

In this process, Yin Zhengxin is also constantly guiding Huang Rong and changing Huang Rong's ideas.

Huang Rong, in line with the Confucian concept of marrying and obeying her husband, did not resist very much.

Soon, Huang Rong was completely influenced by Yin Zhengxin and converted to the Taiping Sect. Yin Zhengxin appointed her as a general of the people, responsible for the training of the Yellow Turban Army - on the surface, he still had to call her a servant.

Huang Rong met a master when he was young and was taught martial arts, which was quite good. It was not difficult to simply train soldiers to fight and fight. However, the art of joint attack in the military formation requires professional talents, so Huang Rong was only a general of the people.

In this way, Qi Xuansu and Qin Lingge gradually got on the right track, set up a rough framework, and sorted out their future plans. The next step was to work hard, day after day, year after year, and accumulate over time.

In this way, the chess game ended the initial layout stage and gradually entered the mid-game fighting stage.