fake prince

Chapter 442
Although in the later period of the Great Wei Dynasty, due to political corruption, the county soldiers became dispensable, even to the ridiculous extent that the weapons were put on display and could be broken with a little slap, and they were replaced by private soldiers. When the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, the county soldiers are still very effective and deterrent.

Qi Hongxin stopped talking, got up and left. Normally, there is nothing wrong with using an ox cart, but in a tense situation, a horse can be used. A few yamen servants pulled the horse over, followed Qi Hongxin on his back, and rode across the street straight out of the city. Door.

It was more than ten miles away from the troubled water temple, and they drove all the way with people, and when they arrived at the water temple, it was already night.

Qi Hongxin got off his horse, but saw that although there were farmers gathered, there were not many of them, only dozens of them.

"How's the situation, why can't you see anyone?"

"My lord, the person who made trouble here before was driven away by me." Li was talking, suddenly hesitated, and continued: "The person who assisted me in speaking was Mr. Su, who seems to be a scholar."

"Who knows that they went to call people again, and now they have gathered thousands of people, and they are coming here. My lord, this place is not safe, why don't you just avoid it, if they know you are coming, I'm afraid I want to harm you!"

Qi Hongxin ignored him and just frowned: "Who is the leader of the trouble this time? Have you discussed the stakes with him carefully?"

"I said it, but he insisted on insisting!

Qi Hongxin was silent for a while, and asked, "Who is this person?"

He has stayed in the officialdom for a long time, and he knows very well that although Li Zheng is not a high-quality man, he can run rampant in the countryside. If the instigator had no background or identity, he would have been captured long ago. How can he go back and entangle him again?
Sure enough, Lizheng smiled wryly: "It's fine if you're just an ordinary person. The leader is a young Juren named Duan Xiuwen. He lived behind the Water God Temple before. I came here after I built the side hall dedicated to the Locust God." After a few times, I saw that he was considered polite and a juror, so I didn't drive him away, who knew that he would take the lead in making trouble this time!"

Generally speaking, when one reaches the status of Juren, one can be a county gentry and not be short of money, so how can one get mixed up and live in this ancestral temple?

Even if you are in a foreign place, you will not live in a temple just by juren and visiting some people to have some autumn wind.

Living in ancestral temples is usually an embarrassment for young scholars.

"Hey, the villain was too soft-hearted at the time. If Duan Juren had been driven away earlier, there wouldn't be so many troubles now!" Li Zheng, who had completely missed the core of the matter, lamented.

After hearing his answer, Qi Hongxin nodded.

He cherishes talents very much, but at this time, he is really not in the mood to ask why a young man ended up in the situation of living behind the water shrine, and why he is taking the lead in making trouble now, whether there is any hidden secret in this, and he is not in the mood to ask explore.

With a cold face, he ordered: "Come here, hurry up and see the investigation, there is a Duan Xiuwen in the house."

"Notify Xuezheng again, and prepare to get rid of the meritorious service."

As he said that, he looked at the Water God Temple, and then walked in with great strides.

Instead of looking at the side hall, he looked up outside the main hall.

The statue enshrined in this water shrine is the same water god that was enshrined in the water shrine I saw when I came to Shun’anfu Road that day. Although it looks dilapidated, I can’t see the specific appearance clearly, but the dress and posture are still in the hands. The weapons held, together with the shrimp soldiers and crab generals on both sides, are exactly the same, and it can be vaguely seen that it is a goddess.

Thinking of the news I heard before, could it be a dragon girl?
Qi Hongxin couldn't help thinking of the vision that day.

"Is there really a god in this world?" Qi Hongxin stared at the statue for a moment, walked in, took incense from the table, lit it, bowed slightly, and inserted it.

Because the people were not stopped from coming in, although most people saw the guards at the gate, they dared not enter and left in a hurry, but some people were really brave and walked in.

But at this moment, Qi Hongxin didn't know, and his mood was very complicated. After burning the incense, he sighed: "I don't think I would sacrifice to the prostitute!"

Someone suddenly asked: "The water temple is dedicated to the dragon girl of Panlong Lake, and the dragon girl inherits the dragon king of the previous dynasty. Although it is not canonized by this dynasty, it is said that the imperial court has made a decree, and it will be canonized. , how can it be considered a prostitute?"

You must know that the prostitution refers to the wild gods offered in the countryside, and they have not been canonized by the court. Some foolish men and women may build small shrines and burn incense because of strange stones or a tree that has grown for a long time, or for various reasons. Worship.

These are wild gods.

There are also monsters who pretend to be gods and ghosts for the sake of incense, and make people sacrifice, and finally become wild gods.

Qi Hongxin felt distressed, and when someone asked, he said: "Although the dragon girl has received the grace of this court, she is not a wild god, but she is sacrificed across the border, and she is also a prostitute. Don't you know that?"

After Qi Hongxin said this, he turned to look at the person who was talking to him. He was meeting Su Ziji's eyes. He took two steps back suddenly, staggered a bit before standing still, and looked carefully, only to realize that it was not the same as himself. The young man who spoke looked familiar. Is he the young man I met on the farm?

"Your surname is Su, and you just spoke for that place. Have you ever had any fame?" Originally, when you met a scholar, you just met him, but Qi Hongxin was restless at this moment, forced to smile calmly, and his heart was in a mess.

"The student's surname is Su, and he won the Juren of Shuangye Mansion a year ago." Su Ziji did not lie, and made a bow: "Just now I spoke for Lizheng, the reason is very simple, the locust god is a wild god, and he belongs to the prostitute priest , my generation of scholars naturally needs everyone to attack it, so as to spread the righteous way."

"It's just a dragon girl who was conferred by the imperial court. Why does your lord also say that she is an adulterous sacrifice? What's the reason for this sacrifice across the border? Please advise me, my lord!"

"It turns out that you are also a Juren." Qi Hongxin took a deep look, his expression still a little dazed, and replied: "This belongs to the government of the official body, and you can learn it when you become a Jinshi and have a period of observing politics. "

"Let's just talk about it, sir."

"In general, the division of the territory into provinces, prefectures and counties is not only convenient for governance, but also enables the ministers and localities to have their own pastors and not to overstep."

"The same applies to ministers, and ghosts and gods are no exception."

"Therefore, obscene sacrifices refer to sacrifices that do not conform to the ritual system. There are two kinds of sacrifices that are not included in the ritual ceremony and sacrifices that are out of order."

""Worship Law" says: If the law is applied to the people, you will worship it; if you die and work hard, you will worship it; if you work hard to fix the country, you will worship it;

"This is the standard for being included in the sacrificial ceremony, and even if it is included in the sacrificial ceremony, each god has its own territory, and they are not allowed to cross at will, otherwise, it is crossing the border, and offering sacrifices across the border is a sacrifice that is beyond their rights."

"Just as officials are suspected of treason when they cross the border to seize land, once the incense of the gods crosses the border, not only the power of the gods, but also the believers cannot be restrained, and the tail will not go away.

Su Ziji nodded after hearing this, and thought to himself: "Sure enough, there are rules and regulations everywhere in ancient laws. This short sentence clearly explains the principle of adultery. It can be said that every whip, every mark, every slap palm blood."

And not only that, when I looked down, I saw half a piece of red sandalwood tin floating in the field of vision with a faint blue light: "Qi Hongxin taught you [The Way of Politics], do you accept it?"

(End of this chapter)