aircannonsinc Chapter 2892 Sudden Death
Chapter 2892 Sudden Death
Chapter 2892 Sudden Death
"Okay, seeing that you are sincere, I will save you."
Then, a stone pillar floated up and landed in the woman's hand.
"Take this stone pillar to your village."
"Yes, Master Mountain God."
Hearing this, the women were overjoyed.
The woman immediately went down the mountain, carrying her child.
In Zhao Qingyu's eyes, the woman gritted her teeth, turned around and left quickly.
Mountain women are indeed very tough.
Very courageous.
She wanted to go back to save her family, her husband and other children.
When the woman returned to the village entrance, she saw more than 40 bandits surrounding the village.
They drove out the villagers one by one.
"Your village has been in arrears with our village for 2000 shi of grain!"
"You must provide us with 30 laborers today, otherwise we will kill you all like sheep!" A bandit leader shouted fiercely at the village.
The villagers looked deathly pale and knelt on the ground one by one.
A village with only two hundred people suddenly lost thirty laborers. There was only one outcome: destruction.
Suddenly, a man shouted, "Xiao Cui, Xiao Cui, why did you come back again?"
"Didn't I ask you to go up the mountain?"
The robbers looked back and immediately saw the woman.
The thief leader was puzzled: "No, where did those two bastards Ma Zi and Tie Tou go?"
"Did he run away secretly?"
"Impossible, the government troops haven't arrived yet!"
Xiao Cui looked at the bandits with hatred.
They killed their neighbors and their relatives.
She then knelt on the ground and said, "Grandpa Mountain God, please grant me justice!"
The stone pillar in her hand immediately flew up.
Then, in front of everyone's horrified eyes, he pierced all forty or so bandits.
In ten seconds, he punctured 45 times.
Finally only one robber was left.
He was suddenly terrified.
"It's tricky!"
"There's something fishy!"
He turned around and ran away.
The stone pillar flew over slowly, it looked very slow, but it passed through him again.
He fell to the ground.
The villagers looked at these robbers. Now there was not a single intact person left. All of them were torn into pieces.
The stone pillar hitting him was like great luck.
The villagers were so frightened that they fell to their knees.
"The gods have appeared!"
Some of them even fell to the ground and became incontinent.
"What's going on?" Xiao Cui's husband was the village blacksmith. He was a capable man, so he had some courage and couldn't help asking Xiao Cui.
"Don't be afraid, this is the mountain god appearing!"
"Grandpa Mountain God is a good man, a kind one. Grandpa Mountain God is here to kill the bad guys!" Xiao Cui shouted to everyone.
The people in the village, including the village chief and a few prominent figures, all believed it immediately.
In fact, facing the situation before us, who can not believe it?
Dozens of robbers died just like that.
A stone pillar killed so many people in just a few breaths.
If this isn’t a god, could it be a monster?
Even if it is a monster, you have to treat it as a god.
The villagers knelt down and kowtowed.
Xiao Cui's husband, a blacksmith, had seen traveling merchants.
He had never heard of gods, but he had heard of demon cults.
However, all the evil sects call themselves the Holy Sect.
Of course, as a blacksmith, he only learned a few skills from the town. He occasionally made a fire and repaired farm tools for the villagers, but his main job was farming.
It is impossible for the village to have a full-time blacksmith.
But he knew that it was useless to say these things.
The villagers are superstitious.
They believe in a lot of things. Even old people would go and kowtow to a big locust tree where a person was hanged.
And now, finally, there is something that works.
Yes, in the blacksmith's opinion, the stone pillar was a useful thing.
It is definitely not a god.
Maybe he was some martial arts master who could pick leaves and flowers. When he was an apprentice in the town, his favorite thing was to sneak out, hide in the corner of the storyteller, and listen to the story for a whole afternoon.
Of course, the consequence was a severe beating by the master.
And at this time.
Those villagers had already kowtowed on the ground for hundreds of times.
Many people's heads were swollen.
"Thank you, Mr. Mountain God."
"By the way, should we build a temple for the mountain god?" someone couldn't help but ask.
"That's right. We should build a temple for the mountain god."
……
That afternoon, halfway up the mountain, after passing Xiao Cui and obtaining permission from the mountain god, they demolished the best house in the village, took out the best wood and bricks, and went to build a temple on the mountain.
They all tried their best.
Many people even collapsed on the mountain due to exhaustion, and some almost died of exhaustion.
When doing other things, if the villagers work together, they will definitely eat more and work less, and try to be lazy.
Only when it comes to offering sacrifices to the gods and building temples, they all strive to be the first, work very hard, and are willing to work themselves to death and ruin their families so that the temple will have an extra good stone, a good brick, and a good threshold.
After seeing it, Zhao Qingyu was very satisfied.
He thought it made sense.
Because some modern people do this. They are willing to give their houses worth millions of dollars to temples without caring about their children.
What’s more, this is a medieval world?
That would only lead to more fanaticism and stupidity.
But that just helped him get things done.
It can be said that the fanatical and ignorant belief in gods can even enable these people to break their fear of officials.
In ancient times, when people rebelled, they were basically associated with various gods and immortals, with almost no exceptions.
Soon Zhao Qingyu began to develop along the path of becoming a god through offerings of incense.
The temple was built in just over a week.
It's just that the statue still needs time.
But this was enough, he first appointed a temple priest.
Just use Xiao Cui.
Since I have a family member, and she is a woman, and she has been the first to see my apparition, I will make her a temple priest.
According to the novel, God cannot appear directly before people.
Be resolute behind the scenes.
Once that happens, there will be only one consequence: bold and daring heroes, after seeing the immortality and power of the gods, will try to take their place.
Anyway, they will die of old age even if they don't do this, so why not give it a try?
This is the difference between the stable mentality of a hero and that of an ordinary person.
Don't underestimate the ignorance of the ancients, and don't underestimate the ambition and courage of the elites among them.
The two coexist, and the diversity of Homo erectus is so terrifying.
After appointing Xiao Cui as the temple priest through telepathy, Zhao Qingyu ordered her to start the sacrifice.
“Sacrifice is in the heart, not in the things.”
"As long as there are enough people and their hearts are sincere, there is no need for cattle and sheep."
"Yes, Master Mountain God." Xiao Cui was very docile. She didn't ask any questions and just did her work.
Xiao Cui then asked her husband to find the village chief and start the sacrificial ceremony.
Everyone in the village, even the children, were brought here.
There were 232 people in total, including lame people and old men.
Everyone kowtowed to the incense burner in the temple. They only said one sentence:
"Long live the mountain god."
And at this time.
Zhao Qingyu saw that there was indeed a cluster of red gas gathered inside the glass ball.
That should be the incense.
If you sense it carefully, you can find all kinds of thoughts in it.
He immediately understood that this was a traditional routine.
Incense is poisonous and must be refined before use.
Otherwise, it will be contaminated.
Just like the Guanyin Bodhisattva in the classic, who was originally a male, but was polluted by vast thoughts and turned into a female.
Because people subconsciously believe that great compassion and great mercy are more maternal, in order to cater to this idea, Guanyin Bodhisattva changed from a male body to a female body.
Zhao Qingyu doesn't want to have the same experience.
Then he controlled the glass ball and began to refine the incense, and soon the red gas turned into clear gas.
Then he absorbs it again.
It feels like the whole body is strengthened.
Then he felt a ball of air appear in his dantian.
Very good, the Taoist priest has succeeded!
He is very happy.
The following things are simple.
Appearing in spirits, farming, recruiting people, and expanding territory.
……
A year flies by.
Relying on his control over Daqing Mountain, Zhao Qingyu quickly conquered 32 villages at the foot of the mountain.
People in these villages always refer to him as "Lord Mountain God".
There are five more temples, each of which is comparable to the big tiled house of a rich man.
For any important matter, one must first ask the temple priest for advice.
Even if they were yamen runners who occasionally went to the countryside, they didn't care, they only cared about what Xiao Cui and other temple priests said.
And after the New Year, the new county magistrate arrived.
Only then did he begin to take action against the mountain god.
Yes, the previous county magistrate heard about it, but did not take it seriously, or he did not want to make trouble.
He has been in office for two years and will be transferred in a year. Why bother?
But the new county magistrate was different.
He was a young third-class Jinshi who was looking to make a name for himself.
The best way is to educate the people and keep them away from the belief in ghosts and gods.
It not only does not offend officials and gentry, but also attracts the favor of the leaders of mainstream academic circles.
After all, "The Master does not speak of strange things," is absolutely true.
Daqing County Government Office.
Houya.
The county magistrate and two legal advisors, one was the financial advisor and the other was the criminal advisor, were discussing something.
"It is said that there is a mountain god in Daqing County, who just emerged last year and is very popular among the ignorant people. During the New Year holidays, huge expenses are incurred. This is a waste of money and labor, and our county has to take care of it." The county magistrate said to the lawyer.
He brought these two advisors from other places and they were sent by the money house. He borrowed 700 taels of silver from the money house before taking up the posts.
Now you have to return one thousand two hundred taels.
These two lawyers are responsible for collecting debts.
Therefore, after hearing what the county magistrate said, the criminal lawyer said, "Master, I asked the squad leader, and he said that the mountain god is indeed powerful and should not be easily offended. We should be cautious and wait for half a year until we are familiar with the situation before taking action."
"Humph, a bunch of ignorant people who think the Taoist's tricks are effective. How can they deceive my two successful candidates?" the county magistrate said impatiently.
He is in his thirties and is still quite young in terms of imperial examinations.
Fan Jin was a 54-year-old juren.
"That's true, sir. Why don't I take people to the temple to see the incense offerings?" said Master Qian Gu.
The county magistrate smiled and said, "Very good, then you go first."
Master Qian Gu arrived there very quickly.
Half a month later, he returned happily.
"Master, Master, there is great potential. The temples are full of golden statues."
The county magistrate was immediately delighted: "Well, these ignorant people have been cheated of so much money by those swindlers. It is better to give it to the master for safekeeping. In the future, if there is a disaster, it will be convenient for relief."
"Master, you are merciful."
The two masters spoke immediately.
Soon, the county magistrate called the squad leader and asked him to gather people and take them to the countryside to collect information about the illegal activities in the mountain temple.
In his opinion, temples are places where filth and corruption are hidden.
Especially in these rural temples, deceiving women, seizing land, and killing people are bound to happen.
It must be said that this county magistrate is not the kind of young man who is just trying to get by.
Before he passed the imperial examination, he had worked as a juren for more than ten years and was familiar with many things.
When the squad leader heard this, his face suddenly looked a little embarrassed.
"I just got here, I don't know how powerful this mountain god is."
"It is said that he killed more than 40 bandits, and those villages have often received blessings since they started worshipping this mountain god."
"What? This mountain god has another gift?" The county magistrate was a little surprised.
"Yes, there are new rice and grain seeds, new fertilizers, new medicine pills, and even a lot of food and daily necessities." The team leader said one by one.
“As long as you are diligent in offering and recruiting people, you will receive blessings.”
"How did you find out about this, sir? This is clearly a rebellion!" The county magistrate was shocked.
A temple that demands money from the people is not to be feared, for it will fall down with a push.
On the contrary, the temples that bestow gifts upon the people are terrifying; they are the Yellow Turbans and the Taiping Dao!
The Taiping Dao started out by giving away talisman water.
Why was Ximen Bao able to overthrow those local gentry bullies and sorcerers who married the water god?
And he never came again.
Isn’t it because of excessive demands that the local area is becoming increasingly impoverished?
Although people are superstitious, the pressure of real life will make them understand who is good and who is bad.
Master Qian Gu quickly knelt down and said, "Master, I was in a hurry at the time, so I just took a quick look and came back."
Actually it's just greed.
"Asshole, this is a serious matter, I'm going to report it to the county." The county magistrate said bluntly.
However, he forgot one thing.
If things are not kept secret, the king will be lost.
The team leader is a local.
It is easy to connect with locals.
That night, the squad leader told the city gentry what had happened.
The gentry are the most likely to collude with the temples.
This is normal, there is a great need between each other: one controls the mind and the other controls the body.
What's more, Zhao Qingyu is a modern man and knows very well how to control the gentry.
With good seeds, fertilizers and pills, a three-pronged approach, can the gentry still get away?
So the letter was written that night, and the county magistrate died suddenly the next morning...
Doing things in remote mountain areas is so simple and efficient.
This is why when a county magistrate is asked to fill a vacancy, he would rather wait than go to the mountainous area to take up a post.
There are too many inexplicable ways of dying.
The same was true even during the heyday of a dynasty.
The news of the county magistrate's death was not revealed to the county governor until three months later through official documents.
Then we report it to the higher authorities and fill the vacancies.
The higher-ups also sent people to take a look, but based on the money given by the local gentry, the foreman, and the testimonies of the two traitorous legal advisors, they all said that the master had died of a sudden illness.
"It's normal to get sick due to unfamiliar climate and water." The visitor from the county came to this conclusion and left with two hundred taels of silver.
It took half a year for the county magistrate's family to arrive and take away the body.
Then the body can only be placed in the charity cemetery.
As for how he died, it was of course because Zhao Qingyu gave him a modern toxin.
In order to detect it, it must be within a few hours of death.
After a long time, it will automatically decompose.
Besides, the body has to be kept for half a year? It's already rotten, and you still want to check it.
Nothing was found.
(End of this chapter)