I thought the prediction was a joke, but 20 years later I realized it in horror. What kind of mysterious profession is a credit knife person? Able to accurately predict the future? Let's get into today's story "The Mystery of the Credit Knife Man". ---- primer
Hello everyone, I'm Bamboo. Today let's explore the story of the credit knife man! There is an old saying that "360 lines, lines out of shape." Three teachings and nine streams, different skills." With the development of society, many industries have been merged and integrated, and many industries in ancient times have slowly disappeared with the development of society, but so far there is still a mysterious profession from ancient times to the present, preserved to the present, but it is not so common, this profession is the credit knife person! At first glance, when you hear about this profession, you will feel very confused, what kind of mysterious profession this credit knife man is, and why I have never heard of it. In fact, the history of the profession of the credit knife man also begins with the Warring States.
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What the hell do the credit knife people do
According to legend, the profession of the credit knife man is actually related to a disciple of Oniguzi. This disciple lived a rather free life and was extremely good at astrological divination. Traveling all over the world all year round, he likes to talk to people about people's livelihood and other proverbs while being charitable and charitable. For example, the price of rice has risen and fallen this year or whether there have been natural disasters and man-made disasters recently. Moreover, the proverbs he spoke were usually fulfilled shortly thereafter. After the fame gradually spreads, everywhere it goes, it will be warmly welcomed by the local people. In this way, a profession slowly began to rise - the credit knife man.
The profession of the knifeman is a special profession that sells forged knives along the street through different places, but does not collect the equivalent currency on the spot when trading, but says a proverb and waits until the proverb is realized to ask for the knife money. It belongs to a small category of phase teachers. Although the proverb may take a long time to implement, it will take several months or a year or two, or even a dozen years to be realized. So some people say that the credit knife people industry is doing charity? Or is it a god and a man? In fact, it is not, because this also starts from the origin of the credit knife man.
The origin of the credit knife man
The special industry of credit knife people was first called fortune telling, which is a special category in the divination industry. It belongs to the category of xiangshi in 360 lines. The 360 lines are divided into three teachings and nine streams according to classification, and the three teachings and nine streams of the Xiangshi belong to the middle nine streams of the nine streams. As one of the 360 lines, Xiangshi Feng Shui culture has a long history since ancient times and is a special cultural inheritance. In the underdeveloped ancient times, this industry was favored. Although the modern feng shui practitioner industry is called a superstition, it was highly respected in the era of underdeveloped scientific and technological information at that time. As a kind of feng shui master industry, the natural credit knife people are also respected by the locals.
Every year, different credit knife people go to the surrounding villages to make credit knives. At first, people did not believe in the proverb of the credit knife man, but with the fulfillment of the credit knife man saying, many people began to believe in the credit knife man, and even trusted the credit knife man to think that the person with such ability was a god man. There used to be such a legend about the knife man. Legend has it that in an ancient village, when the knife maker was carrying a knife on credit, he said to the villagers, "You should take the knife first, and then I will collect the money when the sun is dark." At that time, many people did not believe the words of the credit knife person, and they all thought that the black sun came from under the blue sky and white sun, and they shook their heads and ridiculed the credit knife man. But the credit knife man did not think so, and still slowly left the village after the credit knife. After a few days, sure enough, the proverb came true, and the fiery red sun gradually darkened in the daytime, and an eclipse appeared.
At this time, the villagers who were tending their crops in the field prostrated themselves, believing that the tengu had eaten the sun. The black sun appeared, and it was time to collect money. Therefore, everyone also obeyed the words of the credit knife people, and prepared the money for the credit knife from door to door. Sure enough, the next morning, the credit knife man came to the village again, still sitting at the entrance of the village where the credit knife was last time, waiting to collect the knife money. When the villagers saw the knife bearers, they gathered around and respectfully handed over the knife money. After receiving the money, the knife maker did not say much, stood up and shook slowly and prepared to leave. But just halfway through, he stopped, took a dark bow and arrow from his worn-out bag, and shot at a mound of dirt at a speed visible to the naked eye. The arrow was thrust straight into the mound.
This move once again became the laughing stock of the villagers laughing at the credit knife man, and this time the credit knife man was still the same as the last time, and he did not think anything of the ridicule and left slowly. It wasn't until after he left that everyone's laughter ended, and there were even more good people. Before coming to the mound, I was ready to pull out this useless arrow, but I did not pull it out after a long time. In the end, I had to take a shovel to dig, but when I dug it up, I found a dead folklore fang monster lying on the ground. This is another magic of the credit knife man, who will predict the auspiciousness of the Qi men. So can these people who can use credit knives really predict the future, in addition to being good at strange things?
The credit knife man accurately predicted the future
According to historical records, one day during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, a person with a credit knife from other places rowed a small boat to the shore to make a credit knife. After writing down the amount of the credit knife transaction, he said to the person with the credit knife, I will come back to get the knife money when the price of rice drops to eighteen. At that time, the people around them laughed and shouted how it was possible, now the price of rice is eighty yuan, and when the price of rice drops to eighteen, this is simply a dream! Laughter is laughter, but many people still think that this deal is worthwhile, so they take out credit knives and take them home. Although it was a little long, this dream really came true. 20 years later, during the Guangxu period, due to the Guangxu Restoration and the introduction of the New Deal, the price of rice on the market really fell to about eighteen yuan. Newspapers at the time recorded that four clear large characters were used in the headlines: "Demon words confuse the public"! As soon as this newspaper came out, few people with credit knives appeared.
One was the Prohibition Order of the Qing Government on Credit Knife People at that time, and the second was that the country began to be in turmoil at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the people did not have a good life. The people had no place to live, the sale of credit knives was not cost-effective, and it was difficult to feed and feed themselves, so slowly the credit knife people disappeared from people's sight. Until March 2019, a credit knife man appeared in Huanggang, and this credit knife man also stood on the street corner with many knives and used the old rules to take the knife, and predicted that he would come back to get the knife money when he became a cell here. Sure enough, after the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, although it was not as serious as the epidemic in Wuhan, Huanggang seemed to be temporarily isolated from the outside world. It wasn't until the end of the epidemic that I saw the knife man on credit again. What does it mean for the credit knife man to reappear after disappearing for nearly a hundred years, and is the folklore that the credit knife man master Cheng ghost Guzi is true?
A line of ghost valleys?
As the founder of Zonghengjia, Oniguzi has always been a legendary figure in Chinese history. He knew everything about the world without leaving his home, and used the theory of vertical and horizontal to change the pattern of the world. Most of the apprentices were very famous, Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Sun Zhen, Pang Juan, Li Mu, Bai Qi, Shang Martin, Li Si and so on. The appearance of these people changed the history of the Spring and Autumn Warring States, making the theory of vertical and horizontal becoming a legend of the Spring and Autumn Warring States period. So why do you say that the credit knife people are related to the ghost valley?
In fact, at the beginning we mentioned that There was a disciple of Oniguzi who was good at divination, and it was his prophecy that gradually caused the new marketing model of Buying to rise, and the earliest prototype of the profession of Bu Selling as a credit knife person was naturally considered by later generations to be in the same line as the Oniguzi Zongheng Sect. But in fact, there is no real scientific basis for this statement. It is likely that it is also a fabricated statement, so can a credit knife person who uses a special marketing model make money? Think it's really just a charity bazaar?
The profit model of the credit knife person
In fact, the credit knife person is not unprofitable, but there will be other products involved in the transaction when the credit knife is used, and only the knife will be credited. If it is just a simple credit knife, then the price of the knife will usually be several times or dozens of times higher than the market price. In fact, this is also a way of long-term investment, through this long-term investment can eventually obtain several times or even dozens of times the profit. Moreover, the selected trading locations are mostly remote villages with stable personnel. This special marketing model was also a unique way of survival under the turbulent society at that time. In addition, there is also a possibility that the way the credit knife people are sold is also likely to be the prototype of a new marketing model.
For example, when a rice noodle merchant needs to increase the price, he may hire a group of credit knife people to spread the news, predicting that the price of rice noodles will increase. Promote the trading volume of local rice noodles. Everyone bought more, and the price of rice noodles naturally rose in the case of not much inventory now. Merchants make profits in this way, and credit knife people also get additional profits in this way, and this marketing method of merchants kills two birds with one stone, which not only increases the price but also obtains greater profits. In fact, the story of the legend of the credit knife man is like an unfinished movie, whenever we find a little useful information from the history of the wild, we will quickly integrate a set of words in our minds according to its unique divination in our minds.
Whether the credit knife man is a master or not, and how accurate his prediction is, is actually an unconfirmed statement. But it is this curiosity that prompts people to dig into the magical mysteries of this world. According to the surrounding environment and the background of the times, it is integrated, and finally output as a special information for dissemination, satisfying people's curiosity about unknown things. China has been around for five thousand years, and the traces of history have always been there. Each historical and cultural node has its own shining and unique side, as long as you carefully observe, you can always find the truth of the matter.
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