Chapter Twenty-Four
Wen Fei was a little laughed. These guys served from Tiandu Fort to Luoyang City. After a few months, they became Wen Fei's special orderly servicemen. (By the way, Wen Fei used them as ordermen, which made people misunderstood that Wen Fei had a broken back...) The two sides were naturally very familiar with each other. Even the lights and sounds arranged in Guirenyuan were arranged by them. But they didn't expect that they were also even more shocked by the scenes yesterday.
Wen Fei is not the kind of approachable person, and he always feels that it is not a bad thing to keep these people in awe of him. He asked: "Why are there so noisy outside?"
"Qi Bing Master, those outside were impressed by the Master after listening to the Master's sermon last night. They all wanted to worship under the Master's sect!" an orderly soldier replied.
Wen Fei hunched: "Go out and have a look!"
Although he was mentally prepared, he almost shocked Wen Fei when he went out. He saw that outside the yard where he lived, there were people everywhere, and he didn't know how many people came.
When those people saw Wen Fei appear, it was like crazy fans in later generations who saw their own stars appear. They waved their arms and shouted excitedly: "Immortal Master, Immortal Master..." Some even cried loudly, and tears fell like rain.
Fortunately, there have always been Western soldiers guarding the front of Wen Fei's yard, which formed a wall of humans like the bodyguards of the stars in later generations to separate the crazy fans. Otherwise, these excited and crazy people would probably be able to push down the entire courtyard wall directly.
Wen Fei, who was not mentally prepared, looked at it for a long time and suddenly called Yan Jing, as if his words were really magical. The crowd of people who were originally noisy and emotional immediately calmed down.
But someone huddled in front shouted: "Please give me a talisman!"
When the people behind heard this, they shouted: "Please give us the talisman!"
This kind of scene has a natural herd nature. After a few screams, the sound became more and more neat, like rolling thunder, echoing. Many of the officials who originally lived not far away were alarmed by the sound. Out of their reserved status, these people would only send servants to inquire, and would never surrender their identities and squeeze together with these people.
When Wen Fei heard the word "Talk of the Talisman", he couldn't calm down. Later generations, the Three Mountains of Talisman returned to Zhengyi and the Heavenly Court was established. The power of the Talisman was taken away by Zhengyi, and only Zhengyi had the power to give the Talisman. However, that was already a matter of the Yuan Dynasty.
Now is the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and each school and sect are not subordinate to each other. Each has its own set of gods, and each school has its own system of licensing.
But Wen Fei was depressed. Although he pretended to be a god, he was really a fool. But when it comes to giving talismans, he was just a blind eye. It was not like after modern times, even the Heavenly Court was selling official positions and titles, as long as you pay money, the Taoists of Longhu Mountain would give you talismans. As for whether it works, God knows it!
Giving a talisman is equivalent to being granted an official position by the Heavenly Court. When you are alive, you have magic power and you can immediately go to the Heavenly Court to become an official when you die.
Wen Fei had discussed this issue with people in the group before, and it was simply poaching. Everything in the world is the same, and things are rare and valuable, and the more they are, the less valuable they are.
Moreover, the Zhengyi School’s talisman system is not reasonable and unscientific at all. It is only level five, and the lowest level is Dugong Talis, which is equivalent to the official title of the sixth and seventh grade.
According to regulations, "Those who require promotion and awards must be promoted according to the merits of Taoism and achievement according to the level. The Dugong will be promoted for three years; the Five Thunder Sutras will be promoted for eight years; the Five Thunders will be promoted for three holes and five Thunders will be promoted for twelve years; if there is no merit, you cannot be promoted, if you have outstanding merits or have special contributions to society (referring to the aspects of saving the world, saving others, doing good deeds, and accumulating virtues), you can be promoted for absurdly. Those who have no merits and no virtues will want to be promoted, but will be sent by heaven.
This seems very strict, but it is actually completely nonsense. At least if you upgrade to the third level of the Five Thunder Talisman, you only need to get through the qualifications and take twenty years, which is equivalent to a third-rank official title.
Of course, this official title has nothing to do with the world, it is the official title of the Heavenly Court. You can imagine how funny it is! As long as you are a Taoist priest (Zhengyi Sect), after being granted the talisman, at least after death, there will be a third-rank priest in the Heavenly Court. You can imagine how many idle people this Heavenly Court has to raise?
Generations of Taoist priests grow, and the priests in that heaven will die in decades, right? Even if the five decays and humans decline according to Buddhism, it will take at least tens of thousands of years, or tens of thousands of years, right? How can heaven not collapse if this is done?
Think about being a third-rank priest who is a million, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions, and hundreds of millions of dollars, and running to the Jade Emperor to seek salary. What would the Jade Emperor look like? God also wants to be incense.
Therefore, the licensing system designed by Zhengyi School is a completely tragedy of a coffee table! And the major sects before Zhengyi School have never been so stupid.
In the Tang Dynasty, starting from the most basic priest, the above priest priest was the highest, with a total of 120 levels...
Comparing the dynasties in the world, the Northern Song Dynasty was the dynasty with the most redundant officials in history, and there was too much money to pay for salary every year. This was why Wang Anshi's reform came into being.
That is, because there are too many imperial examination candidates who are equivalent to the number of imperial examinations, every four years has more than 100 people who pass the imperial examination. In addition, the enrollment from time to time, and those who are in charge of the government, so many people have to arrange job positions and get salaries!
But the new Jinshi is only one who is awarded a rank of rank? The eighth grade! Most people have been hiking for a lifetime, but they can’t even reach the third grade until they die.
It is conceivable how valuable the priests in this heavenly court are!
Of course, these things have nothing to do with Wen Fei for the time being. Now so many people are asking him to give him a gift, so this is definitely not something that can just draw on paper with a pen.
However, Wen Fei had not agreed for so long, and the believers began to get excited again. Wen Fei had to say, "The matter of giving the talisman is very important. Everyone will go back to take a bath and change clothes first, and purify their body and mind. Seven days later, I will be in Guirenyuan again. Only those who believe in the Tao can give the talisman!"
I used a delaying strategy to deal with it!
After the crowds outside dispersed, Wen Fei sighed and felt sad.
After driving everyone out, Wen Fei wandered around the room and sighed. If he was a pure liar who did not understand the Tao at all, he would not be so troubled at this time. He would draw any talismans and post them on. However, because he knew the seriousness of the talisman, Wen Fei was a little confused. Should he go back to the modern world and find the guys in that group to discuss? Wen Fei thought about it and had rejected this idea. I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to help with such things, right?
Chapter completed!