Chapter 20 Drought or flood?
Whether in any era, ancient and modern times, China and abroad, those administrative bureaucrats are mostly useful, and they are useless. They are bribed and bribed, corruption and abuse of power. It is said that a few years ago, a lamp tube in the Pentagon in the United States broke down. It was just a small matter, and it took several months to replace the lamp tube... It can be seen that this bureaucrat is the same as China and abroad.
On the contrary, most of the people below are responsible for technical work, who are actually capable. Therefore, since ancient times, even if the officials in this yamen are just a nerd who has just taken the imperial examination, they have no political experience, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, there are so many minor officials, masters, yamen runners, etc. below, which can ensure that the entire yamen continues to operate according to inertia...
Just like the Americans, the emperor and the ministers are the same. Every president takes office, he has to replace the chief officials of each unit with his own people. Most of these people are professional politicians. Nothing is understandable, but those deputy and employees under him are all elites and can still operate well.
This is to divide the entire management system into two systems: bureaucrats and civil servants, which is very similar to ancient China. Although the later Celestial Empire was called civil servants, it was actually bureaucrats... from top to bottom...
The nonsense was far from being a big deal. These things were discussed by Tong Guan and Wen Fei. Although Wen Fei didn't know much about the story, Tong Guan deeply understood this truth. So he knew that it didn't matter to arrest those corrupt officials, and that this color was only the ability to help the poor. However, after the salt pond was repaired, if you wanted to continue producing salt, you still rely on these minor officials, or the foreman-like leader just now. So you even did not hesitate to win over the promotion!
This little official Li Zheng looked like an honest man. After hearing this, he was at a loss and stammered and didn't know what to say. Wen Fei pretended to be a white face, and Liu Qi stretched his face without Wen Fei's instructions: "What, don't you want to serve the official family? Don't want to serve the court, don't want to serve the Tianshi?"
The hats were pressed down one by one, and Li Zheng and others were shocked. They still pulled Li Zheng at the man who was rude and shouted whisper: "Brother-in-law, why don't you thank the Tianshi for help!"
Li Zheng woke up like a dream and quickly returned to the big holiday: "Thank you, Tianshi, I will definitely devote myself to my whole life until I die..."
This made Wen Fei laugh and said, "You are not Zhuge Liang, so why don't you die before you die? I see that you are just a poor minor official. If you do it well, I will report to the official family and reward you with an official body, why is it difficult?"
Li Zheng was overjoyed: "Thank you, the great official. Although the young man has no ability, he cannot be Zhuge Liang. However, his ancestors have been working in this salt pond since the Tang Dynasty. There is nothing that the young man doesn't know about this salt pond..."
Wen Fei interrupted and asked, "This salt pond is red. Have you ever heard of it before?"
Speaking of this, Li Zheng's face changed. Qi Qi Aiai said, "I heard of it, but this matter is thoughtful. I am afraid that all the nobles will not believe it. I dare not say it even if the young ones!"
Liu Qi shouted again: "This is what the National Protection Master is asking you. Is there any dragon that is causing trouble? Let's say it quickly!"
Li Zheng smiled bitterly and said, "I heard from my grandfather that this happened during the reign of Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty, but..."
"But what?" Liu Qi shouted coldly again.
"However, though... the dragon started to make a fuss soon, it rained heavily, and the flood rose..." Li Zhengqi said awkwardly.
Several people looked up at the sky. The sun was so fierce and hot. Looking around, after so long, the salt pond was almost shrunk. However, Li Zheng said that it was about to cause heavy floods. No wonder he was so whispering that he didn't dare to say it. If someone else had to scold him, he might have scolded him long ago.
"The little one checked the files left by the previous dynasty, and there were also local chronicles that did record such things..." Li Zheng said carefully.
Wen Fei smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to be a person with a heart!"
Liu Qi frowned: "It's raining. Flood? It's been drought this day! Father Shang?"
Wen Fei said: "There is such a record in my Taoist sect. It is said that in the 12th year of the Dali period of Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty, red salt grew in the salt pond. Cui Feng, who served as the Iron Attorney of Hedong rented salt, thought it was a sign of auspiciousness and reported it to the court.
As a result, the dragon left shortly afterwards, and the rain continued, causing disasters. Most of the houses and fields of households were damaged, and the production of salt ponds was also greatly damaged.
This old man Cui Chui was so scared that he urinated and finally didn't know how to use a method to suppress the dragon. Daizong was overjoyed and ordered the Jiechi to be "Baoying Lingqing Pond" and the god of the salt pond to be "Baoying Lingqing Duke". He then built the Temple of the Pond Temple on Woyungang in the salt pond."
Li Zheng slapped his face and said, "Well, that's it. According to ancient legend, when we see the salt pond turn red, we know that something is wrong. This is Chi You's cause and comes out to make trouble again. Only the official named Cui, who does not distinguish between the two, treats this as auspiciousness..."
Liu Qi
His face changed drastically: "Father Shang, is this really going to cause a flood?" The salt pond was dry and the problem was not big. There is still a way to imagine that when Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, he encountered a severe drought and the water in the shaking pond was almost dry. At that time, Jiang Shidu, the governor of Hedong, summoned 100,000 prisoners, mobilized troops, dug ditches, and drew the water of the river, and entered the pond through Miao Village to help the salt pond. This problem was solved. Later, it took too long, and the ditches were silted.
In this way, the salt is probably not in the water, but underground. In this way, the same method can be used to divert water into the salt pond.
But if it really happened as Wen Fei said, heavy rainstorms and floods were flooding, then there would be no way. For a moment, Tong Guan was frowning, and he pointed to the production of Jiechi to provide him with enough military expenditure.
"How did Cui Ci's solution to this problem back then?" Liu Qi asked, a glimmer of hope arose in his heart.
Wen Fei didn't know about this problem. He just said that Chen Niwan and others told Wen Fei along the way.
But Li Zheng said: "I relied on the court to build the Chi Shen Temple and enfeoff the Chi Shen, and then suppressed the Chi You below. It was only when the monks performed rituals last time that they offended the Chi Shen, so this kind of thing happened!"
Wen Fei heard this and asked, "What's going on? To put it in detail!"
Since Li Zheng planned to surrender, he naturally knew everything and said everything. He and his brother-in-law told the matter clearly.
Wen Fei was furious and cursed: "Hu Rong was killed by a knife, so he died too easily. If he was alive, he had to taste what it means to execute Lingchi!"
The matter was finally clear. It turned out that the Yanchi had always suppressed the gods, so that nothing could happen. The Tang Dynasty even directly conferred the title of Duke Ling Qing. You should know that this Duke is the meaning of Duke, the highest position of the fifth-class Duke, Bozinan, and the Duke, Bozinan, was the highest in the fifth-class Universal Master. It represented the luck given to the emperor and suppressed the Yanchi.
But last time Wen Fei fought on the spot in the Daqing Hall of the Imperial Palace, and shortly after defeating Cong Yue and other monks, a monk from Mount Wutai was invited by Hu Rong to the salt pond to pray for rain. As a result, the rainwater was not invited, but it desecrated the God of the Pool... I don’t know what did Tong Guan and others discover when they came for a day first?
The group of people rushed to the Temple of Chi Shen, and saw the temple tall and majestic, very spectacular. The Temple of Chi Shen was called Woyungang in ancient times. It faced the Yinhu Lake in the north and faced with Yinyuan. It is located on a high ground with heavy eaves, nine ridges and ten beasts. It has a hip-mounted roof with carved beams and painted roads, which are exquisitely magnificent. The scale is the same, the shape is the same, the moon platform in front of the temple is connected, and the railings are exquisitely carved.
Yanchi had money, so all the temples built naturally came to build. Wen Fei and his team rushed to the Temple of Chishen. Tong Guan rushed over and shouted, "Father Shang, something is not good!"
Wen Fei was shocked: "What happened? He suddenly got inspiration from modern time and space, and knew that the anger was caused by the imbalance between the yin and yang energy of heaven and earth. Then he hurried back to the time and space of the Northern Song Dynasty, but unexpectedly, what Yanchi saw along the way was much worse than he expected!
"The statue of the God of the Pond is gone with no inspiration..." Tong Guan lowered his voice and said, "I have already interrogated it clearly. A few days ago, a group of monks came from Mount Wutai to pray for rain. It seemed that then that night, strange sounds came from the Temple of the Pond, and the next day these monks hurriedly left the salt pond..."
The spiritual light of the statue is gone? This can only show one problem. The God of the Salt Pond no longer exists.
"Does these bald thieves have such courage to destroy the salt pond so blatantly?" Wen Fei was a little surprised. The matter was now clear.
It must be those bald thieves and bald men who took the opportunity of praying for rain to kill the God of the Pond who suppressed the salt pond. Then the matter came to the point where the water of the pool turned red. But how did these monks have such courage, and the matter reached Zhao Ji. If he didn't believe that Zhao Ji would not dare to raise troops and directly beat Mount Wutai to death! Could it be that someone was shaking the blame?
Unable to figure it out, Wen Fei shook his head and asked, "By the way, where are my senior brothers? Why didn't they see anyone?"
Tong Guan smiled bitterly: "Last night, Zhongtiao Mountain vibrated, and several of your senior brothers went to check it out. They said that the earth energy burst out. There was only one named Chen Niwan, who said that he wanted to escape from the spirit world and the Taoist temple of the Shenshen to check it out."
"There is no spiritual light on the statue of the God of Chi Shen, which means that the God of Chi has fallen. Where is the Taoist temple there?" Wen Fei said strangely.
Tong Guan smiled bitterly: "I don't understand these things, I just saw them..."
At that time, Tong Guan saw Chen Niwan laughing. When his body shook, a exactly-same Chen Niwan walked out of his body, saluted everyone, walked a few steps forward to the statue, and disappeared immediately.
Chapter completed!