Chapter 156 (20) Why not have a mistress?

Speaking of the White Lotus Sect, it can be said to have a long history. How long? As long as the Bailianzong of the Song Dynasty.In the Yuan Dynasty, this doctrine gave rise to the Mingjiao, and Zhu Yuanzhang emerged from the Mingjiao, who overthrew the Yuan Empire and established the Ming Dynasty.Logically, in order to prevent another powerful character from this doctrine from competing with him for food, Zhu Yuanzhang became the first emperor to declare the White Lotus Sect a cult.After that, the White Lotus Sect went underground and grew secretly. When the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the White Lotus Sect emerged again.In the early years, Xiao Shunzhi officially announced that the White Lotus Sect was a cult, banned it, and resolutely cracked down on it.This teaching has since disappeared.In the Qianlong era, it sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, full of vitality.Although Qianlong suppressed and attacked again and again, but this sect became more and more prosperous.

Just one year before Qianlong announced his retirement, the imperial court made a big arrest to destroy the White Lotus Sect.This crackdown can be described as massive, and indeed a group of White Lotus Sect was launched in Sichuan. Their current political slogan is: Maitreya Buddha is born, Baofu Niuba riots. Which one is Niu Ba? Up to the top, down to the bottom, is exactly the word "Zhu" - good guy, the White Lotus Sect has openly rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty. So who came up with this political slogan? Under severe torture, the Bailian Sect in Sichuan recruited them, saying that their headquarters were in Henan.

The underworld policemen swarmed into Henan, and quickly uncovered the local underground organization of the White Lotus Sect.After torture, I found out that Henan is not the headquarters, but a branch, and the head office is in Shaanxi. The police swarmed into Shaanxi, and when they arrived in Ankang, they caught Xiao Gui who was illegally kowtowing in front of the Maitreya Buddha statue, which should be the headquarters of the White Lotus Sect. Xiao Gui was tortured to the point that he could not live or die, so he swore that he would never burn incense and kowtow in front of the Buddha statue again, and that he would remain consistent with the court from now on.At the same time, he confessed that his superior was called Song Zhiqing.

And this Song Zhiqing is the founder of Xitian Mahayana, and he is doing public activities.So he knew that the Xitian Mahayana Sect was just a cover for the White Lotus Sect.So the detectives arrested Song Zhiqing and continued to torture and interrogate him. Song Zhiqing confessed that the first line of Xitian Mahayana is Sanyang Sect, the founder is Liu Song, and his contact is Liu Zhixie. At this point, it should be clear. By the way, Liu Song is a weird old man in his eighties.He is the second disciple of Fan Mingde, the founder of Hunyuan Sect, and Liu Zhixie is Liu Song's eldest disciple.In the early years, Liu Song learned from Fan Mingde and used the Hunyuan religion to fool people. As a result, he was severely beaten by the government and exiled to Delong County, Gansu.Disciple Liu Zhixie was eager to protect his master and volunteered to accompany his master on the long journey of exile.After arriving in Gansu, Liu Song said to Liu Zhixie: Disciple, life here is too hard, I can't bear it as a teacher, hurry up and think of a way to get rid of poverty and become rich as soon as possible.

Liu Zhixie said: Master, but our Hunyuan Sect has been banned by the government, so it can no longer be used to fool people. Liu Song said with a smile: Disciple, you are short-sighted, Hunyuan religion has been banned, so you can't change your name?Well, I think Sanyangjiao is good, so we will call it Sanyangjiao from now on. From then on, Liu Song and Liu Zhixie, master and apprentice, spread Sanyang teaching everywhere.The Sanyang Sect is troublesome to say, but its actual function is to collect money. As long as you believe in my Sanyang Sect, you have to send me the money... Liu Song, an eighty-year-old strange old man, relied on his own With wisdom, he quickly got rid of poverty and became rich, changing his own destiny.

Now that Liu Songdong's incident was discovered, the arrester rushed into the door, pushed the strange old man who was eating chicken legs to the ground, and took a look at his kang, everyone was shocked. It's strange that the old man Liu Song slept, what kind of kang is there!It was a kang built with silver. It's no wonder that Liu Songdu, an 80-year-old man, still insists on founding Sanyangjiao. It turns out that this is the easiest job to make money.Some of the silver was stolen by the arresting detective, some by the magistrate, and some were shared privately by everyone. Finally, it was reported to the police that two thousand taels of silver was seized, and the imperial court should reward it.

But the number of two thousand taels also frightened Qianlong. Qianlong asked: Then Liu Song is over eighty years old, how many days can he live?Why didn't he spend the money?Why not use it as a mistress?Why? There is only one answer: the White Lotus Sect is about to revolt and needs money! Proclamation: Take Liu Zhixie, you must hold Liu Zhixie!