Chapter 54 Millet Seed
The next day, Dan.
Jinan, Dongpingling.
The city gate slowly opened, and the surrounding households lined up outside the city gate early. After verifying the talismans one by one, they filed into the city. These people carried bags and backpacks and went to the west city market to sell.
At this time, an ox-cart and seven or eight retinues slowly drove out from the city gate. Because of the assassination of the Shaofu yesterday, the city gate officials checked everyone leaving the city very carefully.
But only seeing the style of the car, no one from the gates came forward, and they all let it go, so the car hung the apricot-yellow flag of Taiping Road in Qingzhou.
But before the car had gone a hundred steps, a group of people suddenly rushed down from the city gate tower, chasing them while calling the gatekeepers to stop the car.
When the gatekeepers saw this group of people, they secretly complained.
They recognized this group of people as Jinan Wanghujun. These people have been sitting on the city gate tower all morning, observing all suspicious people and vehicles leaving the city.
Now, this group of people came out, and the gatekeepers had no choice but to stop the ox cart. The followers of the ox cart immediately drew their swords, but they were persuaded by the people in the curtain car.
Jinan Wang Hujun ran over panting. As soon as he arrived, he cursed at the doorman:
“Why wasn’t this car inspected?”
The doorman didn't like him either. He licked his ears, pointed at the apricot flag on the car, and said scornfully:
"You can't read it yourself?"
When the guard saw it, his heart skipped a beat. He really didn't notice the flag on the car on the tower, but now the situation was like this. So what if it was Taiping Road? He had identified the car.
He asked the guards to surround the car, and then stretched out his hand to pull the curtain, but was immediately stopped by a bearded man next to him.
The bearded man was worshiping his grandson. He jumped off his horse and used his body to keep the guard away. He ignored this person and just looked around at the guards present. Then he pointed at one person and said:
"I know you. Your name is Gao Jian. You live in Taigan in the east of the city. You have a sister at home who loves to laugh. Your parents often take her to the ancestral hall to pray."
Then, before the sacrifice to the grandson was finished, he named five or six people in succession and explained them clearly, which made everyone horrified.
The leader knew that he couldn't let the bearded man talk any more, so he waved his hand and asked someone to forcefully pull down the curtain, but after waving for a long time, he couldn't see anyone.
Turning around, I saw that all these guards lowered their heads, and their feet were like piles, and no one moved.
Just as he was about to scold the guards, he was thrown to the ground by Ji Sun. Just as he was about to struggle, a big foot stepped on his face and grinded it into the ground until his face was covered with blood.
The guard leader first cursed, then howled, and finally just begged for mercy.
But even so, the guards didn't move. They all had families.
It wasn't until the guard was dying that Jisun let go of his feet, then commanded the convoy and continued southward.
When the guards saw Ji Sun and others walking away, they sighed and sent his head to the doctors in the city for treatment.
Zhang Liang stayed inside the curtain the whole time, closing his eyes and concentrating. These chores could not disturb his mind. On the contrary, it was the Zhang Chong he was going to see next, and he wanted to see it well.
The oxcart drove to Lushou Ridge in the south of the city. This place is the commanding height in the south of Dongpingling. It is named because it looks like a deer's head. After Zhang Shang rushed to kill it, he hid here.
Zhang Chong slept in the mountains yesterday, bitten by mosquitoes and worried, so he was depressed at the moment.
But he knew that the person he was going to meet next was someone who could change his destiny, so he steeled himself, found a stream, and took a bath.
He had seen an oxcart with an apricot-yellow flag hanging on the top of the mountain early, and knew that Zhang Liang was coming.
Since last year, Sun Sacrifice has begun to pave the way for him to become famous in the Taoism. The most important thing is to introduce him to his teacher Zhang Liang.
Zhang Chong naturally knew that Zhang Liang had another bad ending. Later, Taipingdao raised troops, and he was beheaded by Huangfu Song in Guangzong.
It is said that this Huangfu Song was really the nemesis of Taiping Dao. Except for Zhang Jiao who died of illness, the other two Zhang brothers were captured and killed by this man. As for other Qu commanders, countless others were beheaded by this man.
I don’t know if he, Zhang Chong, can defeat this man and change history if he catches him on the battlefield in the future.
Zhang Chong was thinking about this, and the ox cart team had stopped.
Zhang Chong stopped thinking and rushed down the mountain immediately. As soon as he arrived, he saw the bearded man smiling at him and giving him a wink.
When Zhang Chong understood and knew that this was not pretentious, he immediately bowed to the car:
"My servant Zhang Chong has met the great mentor of Ren Gong."
Then there was a burst of laughter in the car, and a middle-aged man opened the curtain, jumped out of the car before the other guards could react, and grabbed Zhang Chong:
"If you are a hero, will you be my disciple?"
What? Zhang Chong was stunned. He thought he was good at winning people, but he didn't expect this Liang to be so hungry for talents?
As soon as this person met, he wanted to accept him.
Very good, Zhang Liang, you have a vision, the road to peace has been broadened.
Not only Zhang Chong was stunned, Ji Sun and others were even more stunned. Of course they knew the status of Zhang Liang's disciples in the Tao.
If Zhang Chong, a person like Zhang Chong who had only been in Taiping Dao for a year, became a disciple of Zhang Liang, he would really have climbed to the Dragon Gate.
Zhang Liang looked at Zhang Chong with a smile on his face.
Zhang Chong, who still had his thoughts, kowtowed to the ground and responded to the teacher.
As for why I didn't kneel down to the head of the Jibei Kingdom before, but knelt down in front of Zhang Liang, what else could it be?
Can that person compare with Zhang Liang? Zhang Liang is an elder, and kneeling down is a sign of respect and love.
As a result, teachers and students got to know each other, and they were enjoying each other happily. At this time, the peach trees on the mountains of Luquling were also in full bloom.
Zhang Liang had no idea that today's whim was the most fortunate decision of his life.
Zhang Chong should also be lucky. He met an elder who still had Li Shu in his heart. Wasn't this really an arrangement by Huang Taiyi? This corresponds to the sentence: "Seeing a dragon in the field is a good way to meet an adult."
Then, under the peach blossoms on the mountain, Zhang Liang, Zhang Chong and others sat on the ground. They talked a lot, but basically the elder Zhang Liang did the talking.
Zhang Liang was originally a son of Gaoliang, and he never worried about wealth, food and clothing, but by chance, he followed his brother into Taoism. Since then, he has traveled deep into mountains and waded through rivers, and traveled to both sides of the river in the past twenty years.
He has seen too many scenes where the common people had no choice but to turn to death in a ravine. He also experienced too many people who would bite like wild beasts because of a little bit of chaff.
Who ever cared about these people? These people don't care about themselves. But Zhang Liang cares, and he also hopes that the disciple he accepted today will also care.
As Taiping Road gets bigger and bigger, more and more business tycoons are filling it. He needs people like Zhang Chong from the vast countryside to pour into Taiping Road.
Because they know the true nature of this big man, they are more willing to overthrow this unscrupulous man and build a yellow world on this earth.
Zhang Chong also confided a lot to Zhang Liang. In fact, Zhang Chong had been confused countless times in the more than a year since he came to this world.
Precisely because he came from the lower reaches of history, he knew that Taiping Road would definitely fail.
At first, he thought that he had been blessed by heaven and would have some luck, so he brazenly believed that the world was like the earth, and he could change it if he wanted.
But after fighting through all the obstacles in Mount Tai this year, he realized that compared with this society, he, Zhang Chong, was simply insignificant.
So he was afraid, a kind of fear of being alone in a dark forest with a bonfire, surrounded by tigers and wolves.
But as Zhang Liang confided, when the elder revealed his ambition to Zhang Chong, Zhang Chong was moved. He felt that he was not a lone brave man in this era, nor was he the only person in this era who was willing to lead the people to make a living.
He also told Zhang Liang about his efforts over the years, from seeking to survive in the countryside, to leading everyone to work hard to live a good life, to now being trapped in Mount Tai, and he had no reservations about telling Zhang Liang.
He also explained his thoughts on the world to Zhang Liang.
Zhang Chong has always believed that the way of heaven is also the way of human beings. Now the way of heaven is getting colder and the yin and yang are not harmonious, so that the crops will no longer be available, and then there will be a great famine in the world.
But Zhang Chong believes that although the way of heaven cannot be changed, the way of humanity can.
Now all the land in the world belongs to the powerful, and the powerful manage the land for profit. When it is most beneficial to raise a hundred people, they will not raise one more.
This is not the case for Li Shu, who manage their fields. As long as they can support another family, they will not give up.
The two lead to the fact that the latter can live more people than the former in the same field.
Because what the powerful want is enjoyment, while the common people only want to live in peace.
Therefore, every time Zhang Chong broke through a wall, he collected a field of land and divided it into Qutuli to make it secure.
Zhang Chong's words directly sent Zhang Liang to reflect.
He had never thought about this. He had always simply saved people when they were in trouble. He had never thought about the source of the suffering of the people in the world, and he had never thought about how to save them.
But now, a farmer told him.
The world is getting colder and colder, and food production is getting lower and lower. However, those powerful families who own the fields only care about their own interests, opening ditches and only irrigating their own fields.
And when they had food, they only enjoyed it for themselves and never thought of distributing it to the people. For a long time, the world was in chaos and the people were in dire straits.
Finally, this farmer, right here in Lushou Ridge, told him the solution, which was just six words:
"Destroy the powerful and equalize the land."
These six characters are Lu Shou Ce. Although the characters are few, they are as powerful as thunder.
Zhang Liang was horrified, he was going to be the enemy of the world.
But after the horror, there is great joy. Today, I have accepted this disciple, which will greatly promote my Taoism. He will definitely inherit my ambition and make everyone in the world have food.
As for being an enemy of the world? How about that?
I, the Taoist Taoist, came to this world to raise weapons on this earth and bring peace to this world.
Okay, this is it.
Thinking of this, Zhang Liang regarded Zhang Chong as his disciple and became his most trusted disciple.
But Zhang Liang is not the only one who feels blessed at this moment.
Everyone present, including Ji Sun, was all excited.
As Zhang Liang's disciples and followers, they are consistent with Zhang Liang's philosophy. In the past, they only did this with passion and benevolence, but how many of them didn't doubt it?
Why are there more and more poor people? Why is it that after saving one batch, there are still another batch? And if all the wise and noble people in the world cannot cure it, can we, the stubborn locals in Taiping Dao, really be able to cure it?
They were confused by all this, but they just forced themselves not to think about it, because when they thought about it, they felt that nothing would change. Since the result remained unchanged, what were they doing here?
But today, they understood what Zhang Chong said, they really understood.
Originally, Zhang Liang was extremely shocked by Zhang Chong today, but Zhang Chong finally said something to him, something that only a farmer like him could say:
"Master Liang, I have millet seeds in my hands, but they are barren for thousands of miles. Maybe I am afraid that I will not be able to catch them. Are our bodies worthy of this work?"
Yes, there is only a drop of seed in a thousand miles of desolation. If we don’t catch it, then let our flesh and blood irrigate it.
Zhang Chong is a millet farmer, can he fertilize the wilderness?
(End of chapter)