Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty Seven

"Well," Daoist Chen Guang looked at the sky for a while and thought for a while, "there are legends, but I don't know which one is related to him. What kind of legend do you want to know?" "It would be better if it happened after Yongle Kaiyuan in the Ming Dynasty. You'd better tell me everything you know." "In the case of Yongle, the most famous legend is that the Eight Immortals Suppress Demons." Daoist Chen Guang twisted his beard with his hands, "I think Wudang has been around for a hundred years, but it's a pity that there are not many things handed down from generation to generation. It was all on fire at that time!" According to the memory of Taoist Chen Guang, Fuzhen Temple was looted several times during the "Cultural Revolution", although the then abbot, Taoist Luo Silian Luo, secretly organized I tried to collect scriptures once, but what I collected were basically "scriptures". Leisure books like fairy tales and legends were basically confiscated by the Red Guards and burned.Regarding this point, Zhang Guozhong certainly understood that the so-called "Cultural Revolution" was a mobilization of the whole people that smashed everything. Except for alien celestial bodies and Chairman Mao's quotations, almost everything with a history of more than 50 years was collectively referred to as "Cultural Revolution". "Four olds", even the tables, chairs and benches in the old age have become props that may breed bourgeois feudal ideology. They must be pulled out and burned. Old buildings and old city walls are covered with revolutionary slogans, at least visually.Against this background, Wudang Mountain is definitely the hardest-hit area without even thinking about it. This kind of place full of "four olds" is simply a paradise for the Red Guards. It is very face-saving.

"It's been a few years since I talked about this story. I heard it from my master back then, but those younger generations are not as patient as Zhang Zhang taught you. I wanted to tell them, but none of them wanted to listen." According to Taoist Master Chen Guang In other words, especially after the reform and opening up, young people are seldom interested in these legends and unofficial histories. Only the Seven Immortals have been handed down from generation to generation. As for who the other Immortal is, it is also a big mystery for me in Wudang. Today when you mentioned that Zhu Yunwen, it reminded me of this matter."

Strictly speaking, the teachings of the Wudang School focus more on Dan Ding, but the teachings belong to the teachings, and personal cultivation depends more on personal understanding and preferences.Zhang Sanfeng, the patriarch of Wudang, was originally a figure who collected the strengths of all schools. Among his disciples and grandchildren, there are many great masters of talisman seals, including Shen Fangzhuo, who later generations joined forces with Maoshan Ma Sijia, who died on the banks of the Yichang River, and Shen Fangzhuo who died because of breaking the alchemy. Yun Lingzi, who is well-known in the north and south of the corpse kiln, is an outstanding representative of the Wudang family who is proficient in the talisman formation. These people's practice of the talisman school is actually not inferior to some masters of the talisman school. .

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng had seven direct disciples: Song Yuanqiao, Yu Lianzhou, Yu Daiyan, Zhang Songxi, Zhang Cuishan, Yin Liheng, and Mo Shenggu.In martial arts novels, these seven people are called the Seven Heroes of Wudang. They are so messed up that one can be said to be worse than the other. Those who were collectively hunted down by all human beings because of having improper relationships with cult members, the seven disciples of Zhang Sanfeng were basically taken for nothing.However, this is not the case. In the official history, although these seven people all have high martial arts cultivation, they are not like the ones in the novel who travel around every day to fight and kill. It can only be used to strengthen the body, and it must not be used for actual combat killing. The implication is that you can fight with people. It is your freedom to shoot with bricks, but you must not use martial arts to hurt people, especially you can’t learn from me. Martial arts can hurt people, otherwise it is breaking the precept.The "compassion" emphasized in Buddhism is interpreted as "rebirth" in Taoism, which means respecting living beings; Taoism is the only religion among all religions that "living is a good thing", advocating respect for life, not only your own Life, including other people's lives, Zhang Sanfeng is a master of Taoism, and he is also well versed in this way. He absolutely does not allow his disciples and grandchildren to take the initiative to use martial arts to hurt others. Therefore, in the official history, the Wudang Qizhen is also mentioned in the novel. The greatest cultivation of the "Seven Heroes of Wudang" lies in participating in Daoism, not in martial arts and killing, let alone fighting with cult figures.

According to Daoist Chen Guang's account, Zhang Sanfeng himself learned from all the teachings. Apart from inner alchemy martial arts, he also had a high attainment in talisman formations.In Zhang Sanfeng's life, there were a total of 118 formations and bureaus that were completely self-created, that is, with independent intellectual property rights. The well-known formations of the Fuzhuan sect, such as the chasing soul formation, the singing and music formation, the Wudi formation, and the tomb formations such as the body-moving formation, the hundred-person formation, and the night formation, which are widely used in Tibetan areas, were actually created by Zhang Sanfeng. .

In the thousands of years of development of Chinese Taoism, self-created formations have always been regarded as a sign of masters, just like in today's computer industry, people who can save computers and type are everywhere. If you can design chips , Can write kernel-level program code, that is a real master.In view of this, some fake masters and fake experts who seek fame and reputation have emerged as the times require. They work on "creating formations" all day long, inventing some "face-saving formations" that are not only complicated but also have no practical value. , and even said that some formations have not been used for hundreds of years since they were invented.

Different from these people, Zhang Sanfeng did not publicize the formations of his inventions, and secondly, he did not deliberately, each formation must have its purpose, that is to say, only when encountering problems that cannot be solved by the existing formations, Zhang Sanfeng would spend his time The brain invents a new formation, and the "Eight Immortals Formation" used in "Eight Immortals Suppressing Demons" comes from this. According to legend, in the thirteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1380), a well-known corrupt official named Zhao Jinzhou came out of Xiangyang Prefecture.The reason why he is famous is not because he has been greedy for a lot or for a long time, but because since the Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang invented the new anti-corruption policy of "peeling real grass", this person is fortunate to be the first one in Hubei to enjoy this special treatment people.

During the 30 years of Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, it can be said that it was the anti-corruption climax period that lasted the longest, was the most powerful, and had the most resolute attitude in Chinese history. 30,000 people were killed, and as many as 70,000 to 80,000 people were killed in group corruption cases such as the "Kongyin case" and the "Guo Huan case", which is enough to form a group army.Zhu Yuanzhang, who came from a poor background, hated corrupt officials deeply since before the incident. Now that the imperial power is in his hands, shouldn't he have to vent his anger?

In the Ming Dynasty code "Da Ming Law", the punitive measures against corrupt officials can be said to be the most stringent in the past dynasties, but Zhu Yuanzhang still didn't feel satisfied, so he simply wrote a law that was more effective than the "Da Ming Law" "Da Gao", which stipulates that the embezzlement of sixty taels of silver must be beheaded.Later, Zhu Yuanzhang simply felt that beheading his head was still a light attitude, which would not have the proper deterrent effect on later generations, so he ingeniously invented the trendy anti-corruption method of "peeling the real grass". Corrupt officials are taken to the Pichang temples in every prefecture, state, and county for skinning, and then the human skin is filled with straw and lime and placed on the court where the person was an official during his lifetime. To put it bluntly, corrupt officials are made into Specimens for the successor to look up and remember.

And Zhao Jinzhou from Xiangyang Mansion was fortunate to be the first person in Hubei to peel real grass.When Zhao Jinzhou's specimen was placed on the court, it immediately attracted a large number of ordinary people to pay their respects.To be honest, this Zhao Jinzhou did not do anything excessive during his lifetime, and a few unjust cases were tried very well. In terms of those corruption cases that cost hundreds of thousands or millions of taels, it is true that even Xiao Wu is not counted.The reason is entirely because the salary given by the imperial court is really lacking in attitude. The dignified magistrate, who is the fifth rank in the dynasty, can't even get a decent dowry when a girl gets married. It's shameful. I have no choice but to take risks. To be greedy for a fortune, I didn't expect to catch up with Zhu Yuanzhang to behead Hu Weiyong and crack down on corruption by the way, so he was caught on the cusp of the storm.

The father was made into a specimen and displayed in the yamen because of his marriage, and the daughter naturally couldn't survive. On the day Zhao Jinzhou was taken to the Pichang Temple for skinning, Zhao Cuier, the daughter of Zhao Jinzhou, hanged herself from the beam at home. At the same time, there was a personal maid named Xiaoyun who committed suicide at the same time.In addition, Zhao Jinzhou's daughter-in-law, Song Shi, was implicated because of her husband's corruption and was sentenced to eighty years of punishment. She died within a few days after returning home.Zhao Jinzhou's mother died of myocardial infarction the same night her daughter-in-law finished the board because she couldn't bear the blow of family ruin.In addition, there were three people in charge of accountants and stewards in Zhao's mansion, all of whom were beheaded.To put it bluntly, for this case, even Zhu Yuanzhang himself felt a little bit sorry, he was wiped out after corrupting a thousand taels of silver, and rebellion is nothing more than that, but there is no way, the purpose of such a resolute anti-corruption action is to kill chickens. Monkey look, who made you suffer two hundred and five lives just to catch up. One thousand taels of silver, eight lives, plus one specimen, this is why Zhao Jinzhou became famous.After the Zhao Jinzhou case, the whole of Hubei really showed a brand-new atmosphere of honesty and honesty. Many officials who were ready to move or had been corrupted were all enlightened and enlightened, and embarked on the road of honesty and integrity without hesitation. This can be regarded as Comrade Zhao It is the greatest contribution to society since becoming an official. Because the family members were all dead, and no relatives were willing to come forward to take care of the funeral for this buddy who was exhibited, the corpses of the eight members of the Zhao family were all buried in a place called Longhugang outside Xiangyang City by the government officials. In the mass grave, eight thin-skinned coffins were buried in one pit. To save trouble, no graves were erected. In the end, a wooden sign of "Eight Thieves Tomb" was specially inserted to warn future generations.