"Well..." Taoist Master Chen Guang looked at the sky for a while and thought, "There are legends, but I don't know which one is related to him... Which legend do you want to ask about?"

"It's best to tell me all the things that happened after the Kaiyuan period of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty... You know how much you should do!"

"In Yongle Nian... the most famous legend is the Eight Immortals Suppressing Demons!" Master Chen Guang said, "I think I have been in Wudang for a hundred years. It's a pity that there are not many things that have passed down from generation to generation. Those idle books and miscellaneous books will burn in the six years!" According to Master Chen Guang's memories, Fuzhen Temple was robbed several times during the special period. Although Master Luo Silian Luo, the host at that time, secretly organized a Buddhist scriptures at the beginning of the special period, the hidden scriptures were basically "scriptures". Similar to myths and stories, the casual books such as legendary writings were basically confiscated and burned by the Red Guards. Zhang Guozhong certainly understood that the so-called special period is a smashing of everything.

In the mobilization of the National People's Congress, except for the alien celestial bodies and Chairman Mao's quotations, almost everything that has a history of more than fifty years is collectively called the "Four Olds*". Even the tables, chairs and benches in the elderly have become props that may breed bourgeois feudal thoughts. They must be pulled out and burned, and the combustible substances will be burned, and they will be smashed if they are not flammable. For example, the old buildings and old city walls are covered with revolutionary slogans, at least they must be visually revolutionized. In this context, Wudang Mountain is definitely a severely affected area. This place with "Four Olds" everywhere is simply a paradise for the Red Guards. It would be considered very worthy of face if they didn't carry this old Taoist in the morning light to burn it...

"It's been a few years since I heard this story. I heard my master tell you, but those young students are not as patient as Master Zhang... I'd like to tell them, but none of them have the heart to listen to..." According to Taoist Master Chen Guang's words, especially after the reform and opening up, young students are rarely interested in these true and false legends and unofficial histories. Even though they have a lot of stories, they don't know who they say to, "It's said that they are the Eight Immortals, and only the Seven Immortals can be found in the world! As for who the other immortal is, it's also a big mystery in my Wudang! When you talk about Zhu Yunwen today, it reminds me of this matter!"

Strictly speaking, the doctrine of the Wudang Sect focuses more on the alchemy, but the doctrine is doctrine, and personal cultivation depends more on personal understanding and preferences. The ancestor of Wudang, Zhang Sanfeng, was originally a figure who learned from the strengths of many schools, and his disciples and disciples were also many talisman masters, including later generations, Shen Fangzhuo, who joined forces with Maoshan Ma Sijia, to set up a loyal formation and sacrificed his life on the Yichang River, and Yun Lingzi, who was famous for breaking the "corpse refining kiln", are all outstanding representatives of the Wudang Sect who are proficient in the talisman array. These people's cultivation of the talisman sect's magic line is actually not under some talisman masters.

At the beginning of the Kaiyuan period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng sat down and collected seven direct disciples, Song Yuanqiao, Yu Lianzhou, Yu Daiyan, Zhang Songxi, Zhang Cuishan, Yin Liheng, and Mo Shenggu. In the martial arts novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", these seven people are called the Seven Heroes of Wudang. They are all more embarrassing, and they are not very good at kung fu and cause trouble everywhere. In the end, the disabled and those who died were killed. In addition to being beaten to a high position, they were chased by all human beings because of improper relationships with cults. In short, even if Zhang Sanfeng's seven disciples were basically in vain, the fact is not the case. In official history, although these seven people have high martial arts cultivation, they do not go around and fight and kill like the novels. On the contrary, according to the rules set by Zhang Sanfeng, the use of martial arts can only be limited to strengthening the body, and

It is not meant to be used for actual killing. If you fight with someone, it is your freedom to use bricks to shoot it. But you must never use martial arts to hurt people, especially the martial arts I learned from, otherwise it will break the precepts. The "compassion" advocated in Buddhism is interpreted as "rebirth" in Taoism, which means respecting the creatures. Taoism is the only religion among all religions that believes that "living is a good thing". It advocates respecting life, not only one's life, but also other people's lives. Zhang Sanfeng is a Taoist master, and naturally understands this. He will definitely not allow his disciples and disciples to take the initiative to hurt people with martial arts. Therefore, in official history, the greatest cultivation of the "Seven Heroes of Wudang" mentioned in the novel is to comprehend the Taoist Dharma, rather than being addicted to martial arts killing, let alone to break the shoes with cults.

According to Master Chen Guang's narration, Zhang Sanfeng himself learned from the strengths of the various religions. In addition to inner alchemy martial arts, he also had high attainments in the talisman formation. In Zhang Sanfeng's life, he completely created the formations with independent intellectual property rights, with a total of 118 veins. This number is even far more than some famous talisman sect masters. So that the formations familiar to the talisman sects such as Zhengyi and Maoshan in later generations, such as the "Soul Chasing Formation", "Mingle Formation", "Di Dike Formation", and the "Moving Formation", "Hundred People", "Night Into Night" and other tombs that are widely used in the veins of the Tibet are actually created by Zhang Sanfeng.

In the thousands of years of development history of Chinese Taoism, self-created formations have always been regarded as the symbol of masters. Just like in today's computer industry, people who can accumulate computers and type in the streets. If you can design chips and write kernel-level program codes, you are a real master. Among them, some fake masters and fake experts who seek fame have emerged. They are all about "creating formations" all day long, and they are just inventing some "face formations" with high cost, poor effect, not only complex and no practical value. Some formations have not been used for hundreds of years since they were invented.

Unlike these people, Zhang Sanfeng invented the formation of the formation first and did not promote it, and the other hand, he did not deliberately; each formation must have its own intention, that is, only when encountering problems that cannot be solved by existing formations, Zhang Sanfeng will have to devote his brain to inventing a new formation. This is how the "Eight Immortals Formation" used in the "Eight Immortals Demon Suppression" comes from this.

According to legend, in the 13th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1380), a famous corrupt official named Zhao Jinzhou appeared in Xiangyang Prefecture. The reason why he became famous was not because he was greedy or had been greedy for a long time, but because since the implementation of the new anti-corruption policy of "skinning the skin", this person was fortunate to become the first person in Hubei to enjoy this special treatment.

During the thirty years of Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, it can be said that the longest, most powerful and most determined anti-corruption climax period in Chinese history, which lasted for the longest, most powerful and most determined. According to legend, the number of people killed for being implicated in the case of "Hu Weiyong" was more than 30,000 people killed for group corruption cases such as the "Empty Seal Case" and the "Guo Huan Case", even the number of people killed for being killed was enough. It is enough to form a group army. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in poverty, hated corrupt officials before the initiation. Now that the imperial power is in control, wouldn't he have to vent his vent?

In the Ming Dynasty Code "The Law of the Ming Dynasty", the punishment measures for corrupt officials can be said to be the most severe among all dynasties, but Zhu Yuanzhang was still not satisfied and simply wrote the "Great Edict" with a legal effect higher than that of the "The Law of the Ming Dynasty", which stipulated that if the corruption of 60 taels of silver was required, it was necessary to behead him. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang simply felt that beheading was too light and could not have the deterrent effect on later generations. He also invented a new anti-corruption method such as "skinning and solid grass". The specific implementation method was to pull corrupt officials to the "skin temple" set up in every prefecture, state and county, and then fill the human skin with straw and lime and place it on the court where the person was an official during his lifetime. To put it bluntly, it was to make corrupt officials into "species" for the successor to admire and remember.

Zhao Jinzhou, the Xiangyang Prefecture, was fortunate to become the first person to "skinned grass" in Hubei. When Zhao Jinzhou's "specimen" was placed in the court, it immediately attracted a large number of people to admire him. To be honest, Zhao Jinzhou did not do anything excessive during his lifetime. There were several unjust cases that were very beautiful. He was quite a reputation among the people. He didn't even have much corruption, just one thousand taels, compared to those in the court.

In terms of a corruption case of millions of taels, it is indeed not even a "little witch". The reason is that the court gave too little salary. It is a dignified magistrate, a fifth-rank official in the dynasty, and his daughter couldn't even get a decent dowry after getting married. It was embarrassing. In desperation, she could only take risks and make a small profit. Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang was killed by the death of Hu Weiyong, and he cracked down on corruption and was arrested on the cusp of the storm.

The father was made into a specimen for his marriage and was exhibited in the yamen. The daughter was naturally unable to survive. On the day when Zhao Jinzhou was taken to the "Piechang Temple" to peel off his skin, Zhao Jinzhou's daughter Zhao Cuier committed suicide by hanging a beam at home. At the same time, she committed suicide with a personal maid named "Xiaoyun". In addition, Zhao Jinzhou's daughter-in-law Song was implicated because of her husband's corruption and was sentenced to 80. She died after she returned home for a few days. Zhao Jinzhou's mother couldn't stand it.

The family was destroyed and the death of the family. On the night when his daughter-in-law was beaten to death, she died of myocardial infarction. In addition, there were three people in the Zhao family who were implicated in the accountants and managers, and all of them were executed. To put it bluntly, even Zhu Yuanzhang himself felt a little disgusted with this case. He was destroyed after greeding for 1,000 taels of silver. The rebellion was just like this. But there was no way. The purpose of such a resolute anti-corruption campaign was to kill the chicken and show the monkey. Who made you suffer a 25-year-old life just in time?

One thousand taels of silver, eight lives, and one specimen, this is why Zhao Jinzhou is famous. After the Zhao Jinzhou case, the whole Hubei indeed showed a new atmosphere of integrity and integrity. Many officials who were ready to move or had already bribes were enlightened and enlightened. They embarked on the path of integrity that turned back without hesitation. This is also the greatest contribution of Comrade Zhao to society since he became an official.

Because all the family members died and no relatives were willing to come forward to handle the funeral for this buddy who was exhibited, the bodies of the eight-member Zhao family were buried in a mass grave outside Xiangyang City by officials. The eight-member thin-skinned coffin was buried in a pit. In order to save trouble, no grave was set up. Finally, a wooden sign of the "Eight Thieves' Tomb" was inserted to warn future generations.

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The four old ones: the collective name of "old thoughts, old culture, old customs, and old habits".

Salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty: During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the fifth-rank official had a annual salary of only 192 stones, which was only 20%-30% of the salary of officials of the same position in the Tang Dynasty. Before Zhu Yuanzhang started his rebellion, he was a beggar for three years. Compared with his strict style, his stinginess was also famous in history. Even the first-rank official of the dynasty had a salary of only 1,044 stones, which was only about 300 taels of cash. It was only equivalent to the income level of the "magistrate" during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
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