Chapter 3 Personal Intervention
【There was a great famine that year, and people ate each other.】
These six simple words fully describe the cruelty and sorrow of history.
Su Che had never seen famine, nor had he seen the hell on earth where people ate each other . He could only infer those tragic situations from the fragmentary words of people in the past.
The pictures flashing before his eyes at this moment moved him.
This is a natural disaster as well as a man-made disaster.
The words in the book continue to evolve.
[After becoming the Taoist priest, you took your two younger brothers, carried the herbs from your home, and traveled the world with the Taoist priest . Your means of making a living remained the same, except that the deceptive magic water was replaced by the decoction you prepared.]
[You asked the Taoist priest, why do you have so many tricks but choose to cheat? ]
[The Taoist asked back: If you can cure one person, can you cure ten thousand people? ]
[Your answer: As long as I keep going forward and continue to treat patients, how can I not save tens of thousands of people? ]
[The Taoist priest asked again: Can you save tens of thousands of people? Can you save all the people in the world? ]
[You are speechless and don't know how to answer. Yes, can you really save the world by yourself? ]
[The Taoist priest asked again: "You can save people for a moment, but can you save them for the rest of their lives?"
[You asked the Taoist priest, then is everything I do meaningless? ]
[The Taoist smiled and asked: Do you think what you did is meaningless? ]
[You lowered your head and thought for a moment, then raised your head and said: Saving one person is saving, saving one moment is also saving, and without accumulating small steps one cannot reach a thousand miles? ]
[The Taoist priest just smiled and touched your head, and said with a smile: You are a good child. ]
[However, a fire has been planted in your heart. The people of the world are living in poverty, plague is rampant, but the court does not care, and the dignitaries continue to enjoy themselves. The problem is at the root. What you have done is only a temporary solution, not a permanent solution. But if you want to solve the problem, you have to...]
[Two years later, you had learned a lot, but the Taoist priest passed away due to plague.]
[Next, your choice is...]
[One, kill the officials and rebel. Two, continue to save the world. Three, concentrate on practicing. Four, intervene personally.]
This time, these choices made Su Che frown.
First, killing officials and rebelling would definitely not work. Zhang Jiao had not accumulated any capital at that time, and if he rebelled at this time, it would be tantamount to seeking death.
Continuing to practice medicine and save the world is good, but it does not fit Zhang Jiao's growth trajectory, and it is difficult for him to gather a force that has the power to change the world.
As for the third one, concentrating on practicing, waiting for the world to become more chaotic, and then taking action when the opportunity arises, to gain a lot of support, seems to be a good idea as well.
but……
Neither option is perfect.
Su Che hesitated again and again, and finally turned his attention to the fourth option.
Intervene personally.
He couldn't help but wonder, if it were me, could I do better?
But he is not satisfied with these options right now. In this case, he has no choice but to give it a try!
If you don't even have this little courage, how can you gain the recognition of the Great Sage Teacher?
It is obviously unrealistic to think that you can sign a contract with such a powerful heroic spirit just by clicking on some multiple-choice questions!
With this thought in mind, Su Che resolutely chose the fourth one and intervened personally!
The next moment, the scene in front of Su Che gradually became real.
The two younger brothers were kneeling beside him, sobbing quietly.
On the bed beside him, Master Yu Ji was lying quietly, with a layer of white cloth completely covering his body.
Su Che stood up, hesitated for a moment, and then stepped forward to remove the white cloth.
But under the white cloth, there was nothing. Where was the corpse?
The two younger brothers, who were originally crying, were shocked when they saw this scene.
"Where's the Master?"
"this…… "
Su Che turned his head and looked at the two foolish brothers, smiled faintly and said: "Master has passed away and ascended to heaven. You should be happy, and there is no need to be so sad."
“So that’s how it is.” Zhang Liang suddenly realized, thinking to himself, with Master’s magical powers, how could he die from a small plague?
"Brother, since our master has ascended to heaven, what should we three brothers do next?" Zhang Bao asked hurriedly.
Over the years, the four masters and apprentices traveled far and wide, sleeping in the open air, having no fixed place to live, curing illnesses and saving lives along the way, and never staying in any one place for too long.
Although they had long been well-known among the people, they were still poor and destitute, with no food to eat. However, there were still many poor people in the world who could never be saved.
The four masters and apprentices are like a drop of ink. How difficult is it to dye the entire rivers and seas black?
Su Che pondered for a long time and asked, "What is the name of this place?"
"Brother, this place is called Julu!" Zhang Liang replied.
"In that case, let's settle down here." Su Che said, "In a world like this, it's the same no matter where you go. Why not stay here and do something?"
After these words were spoken, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
"From now on, our sect is called Taiping Dao, and our teachings are to wish for peace in the world."
Su Che took out the relic left by his master, which was a peach wood sword: "And I am the leader, the great and wise teacher of those poor people!"
…
A few months later.
Julu County, Taiping Township.
On a wide flat ground.
There were hundreds of people sitting on futons.
Su Che, however, was wearing a Taoist robe and holding a peach wood sword. He paced back and forth and said loudly:
"If you join our Taiping Dao, you must remember our Taiping Dao's purpose, to get rid of the false and retain the true, to get rid of the evil and retain the good!"
"In the heavens, there are gods and ghosts who are always watching over the world. They will increase or decrease your lifespan based on your good and evil deeds."
"So, we must do more good things and less evil things in our daily lives!"
Su Che tried his best to explain the doctrine in a simple and clear way to prevent the believers from not understanding.
Those who could become followers of the Taiping Dao were all people who had suffered a lot and generally had a low level of cultural education.
They had no land of their own, and even no relatives of their own, so they all came here for help in order to make a living.
The famine in the early days had caused the landlords and gentry to buy away their land and even their wives and children for the price of a small bag of rice.
There is really no other way. If we don't sell our children, the whole family will starve to death.
If they sell their children, their descendants will have some leftovers to eat in wealthy families and at least they can still survive.
In the face of natural disasters, the lower-class farmers have little chance of survival.
Land annexation is so common in this era that it is a rolling tide of history.
After Su Che preached his doctrines, some small leaders lured these people into their own team and explained to them the various rules of joining the Taiping Dao.
Su Che returned to his residence.
As he walked along, many believers greeted him excitedly, and some even knelt on the ground.
Su Che did not stop him. It was obviously unrealistic to have a world where no one was allowed to kneel and everyone was equal.
When Su Che returned to his mansion, he poured himself a cup of herbal tea and drank it. Before he finished it, the two brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang rushed over.
"Brother, these days, hundreds of people come to join us almost every day. The number of followers of our Taiping Dao has reached tens of thousands!" Zhang Liang said excitedly.
He is the big leader, commanding 5,000 followers, which will expand to more than 10,000 in the future. He has a dozen small leaders under his command. The feeling of holding great power is simply too great.
In the Taiping Dao, the military, politics, and religion are integrated into one. As the leader, Su Che has supreme power, and a generous leader like Zhang Liang also has extremely high power.
"Although there are more and more people, our food is getting less and less." Zhang Bao said with a frown: "In the past, we used coercion, inducement, extortion and blackmail to make the gentry and landlords give us food, but now, the landlords have no surplus food... How can we support so many people?"
Su Che just smiled and said, "Then fight!"
The simulated history, the moment Su Che said this, directly deviated in another direction and inevitably began to run wild.
