After the founding ancestor of Taoism, the ancestral master Zhang Ling ascended in the daytime, his son Zhang Heng succeeded him as the Heavenly Master, Zhang Heng was called "Si Tianshi" by later generations of Taoism, after Zhang Heng succeeded to the throne, he closed the door to thank guests, and did not leave the house, and the later "Daozang" said: Si Shi painstakingly read the "Lao Tzu Xiang Er Notes" written by Zu Tianshi Zhang Ling behind closed doors, and the great Daoist Qing Jing Wu Shu.
In fact, Zhang Heng married a flower-like wife Lu Shi, every day and Lu Clan in the house to create villains to play, the cultivation of the Fang He technique, Lu Clan has given birth to Zhang Lu, Zhang Wei, Zhang Shame, Zhang Yulan, the heir zhang Heng does not ask about the world, naturally someone to fill the power gap, this person is Zhang Xiu, Although Zhang Xiu is also surnamed Zhang, but there is no blood relationship with the Tianshi family.
Zhang Xiu took full authority to act as the manager of the Wudou Mi Dao, and began to rectify the ideological education within the church, and whether the disciples in the sect could skillfully recite the "Five Thousand Words of Lao Tzu", that is, the "Tao Te Ching", became a hard indicator for assessing whether the Daoist disciples were qualified, and the Wudou Mi Dao changed from a loose state to a well-managed religious organization.
At this time, the Eastern Han Empire has begun to turn from prosperity to decline, after the death of Emperor Han and Emperor on December 12 of the first year of Yuan Xing (105 AD), Liu Long, who had just turned a hundred days old, succeeded to the throne, the emperor was still a baby, the empress dowager's system and foreign relatives interfered in politics was logical, the imperial power was lacking, the power of foreign relatives, eunuchs, and scholars (Confucians) lost balances, the balance of balance was completely broken, the power imbalance of the Eastern Han regime, and the struggle between various forces began to go bloody.
Usually, after the little emperor became an adult, in order to regain his power, he could only rely on the eunuchs around him to seize power, round after round of power struggle, either the eunuch destroyed the foreign relatives, or the foreign relatives directly destroyed the little emperor, and took the eunuchs with them, and the imperial power fell into the opposition between the foreign relatives and the power of the scholars.
By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the power of eunuchs dependent on imperial power had reached the position that they could depose the emperor, which caused dissatisfaction among the scholars representing Confucianism, so the Confucian clan often joined forces with foreign relatives to attack the eunuch clique, which not only threatened the eunuch clique, but also threatened the power of the emperor, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was in chaos.
The result of the power struggle at the upper levels was that the emperor, eunuchs, foreign relatives, and scholars were all in danger, the Eastern Han Dynasty was in turmoil, and the unfortunate nature was first and foremost the common people, the Eastern Han Dynasty's national strength was greatly damaged, foreign chaos was frequent, hu people were in turmoil, and the Eastern Han Empire was in chaos.
At the beginning of the founding of the ancestral master Zhang Ling, it was clear that the political ambitions that had been given to Taoism, "Green Dragon and White Tiger" were all royal and special totems, the emergence of the Taoist Huang Laozhi Technique was originally a set of political ideological theories for governing the country in the service of the regime, Zhang Ling renamed Jiangxi Yunjin Mountain "Dragon and Tiger Mountain", there are deep and profound reasons, that is the manifestation of The Taoist desire for political power.
Inscription: The desire and ambition of Taoism and Taoism for political power was clearly seen by a founding emperor who soon after, who formulated laws to combat and restrict Taoism, and since then Taoism has been suppressed by various generations of regimes for nearly a thousand years, and this emperor is Cao Pi.
In the seventh year of the Han Ling Emperor Guanghe, in 184 AD, the giant deer Haoqiang Zhangjiao, who believed in the tao of Laozhuang, called on the parishioners to revolt in the name of the head of the "Taiping Dao", claiming that "the heavens (Eastern Han) are dead, the Yellow Heavens (Taiping Dao) are standing, the age is in the jiazi, and the world is auspicious." Hundreds of thousands of followers, known in history as the "Yellow Turban Rebellion".
Zhang Xiuwenxun, who was far away from bashu, did not want to be followed, led the five buckets of rice Dao believers, formed an army, attacked Hanzhong Taishou Sugu, and the hastily organized five buckets of rice dao army was a ragtag group, without military training, naturally could not defeat the regular army, and was quickly broken by Su Gu, Zhang Xiu fled back to Ba County, and continued to spread the five buckets of rice road.
In 188 AD, Liu Yan, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, went to the imperial court to say that there were many troubles in the four directions, and the reason was that the power of the thorn history was light, and the Eastern Han court changed part of the thorn history to the state pastor, so that the thorn history became the chief official of the military and government of a state and the direct superior of the Taishou, and the three-level structure of the Eastern Han Prefecture, county, and county was formed from then on, and the authority was moved downward, laying the curse of the warlord division at the end of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Yan was a wise man, seeing that the Eastern Han Empire Building would fall, making silk early, writing to the imperial court to ask for a shepherd in Jiaozhou (present-day Vietnam), wanting to escape the world's chaos, on the way to the post, he was persuaded by Dong Fu, a servant, saying that Yizhou had the spirit of the son of heaven, Liu Yan thought of the wealth of Shu land, and according to natural dangers, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he started the idea of dividing Shu land.
Therefore, Liu Yan went to the imperial court to impeach Yizhou's assassin history but was greedy and greedy, and gathered wealth and wealth in major matters, so the imperial court took Liu Yan as the emissary of the supervising army, Yizhou Mu, and fengyang Chenghou, and ordered Liu Yan to go to Yizhou to arrest but jian, at this time, Yizhou was in civil strife, the road was impassable, and Liu Yan was blocked in the eastern part of Jingzhou.
Ma Xiang, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army in the Taiping Province of Shu, rebelled, killed Yizhou's assassin Shi Butjian, declared himself emperor in Mianzhu, and was defeated and killed by Jia Long in Yizhou a few days later, Jia Long welcomed Liu Yan into Shu, and Liu Yan set up his seat of government in Mianzhu.
Liu Yan entered Shu, and in the face of the chaos in Yizhou, where war and chaos were only leveled, the first thing to be solved was the "Five Buckets of Rice Road" that had been popular in Shudi for decades and had a large number of religious congregations.
In this year, Zhang Heng, the "heir master" of Wudou Midao, has been "soaring in the day" for ten years, Zhang Heng is eighty years old, and it is his eldest son Zhang Lu who succeeds the Tianshi, and the real power of Wudou Midao is the invisible man in "Daozang" ~ Zhang Xiu, and the third generation of Tianshi Zhang Lu is just a decoration.
The third generation of Tianshi Zhang Lu divided in Ba County and Hanzhong for thirty years, Jian'an twenty years (216 AD) Cao Cao rebelled against Zhang Lu in Hanzhong and Ba County, zhang Lu's army defeated Cao, the family was moved to Yicheng, by Emperor Xian of Han as the general of Zhennan, Langzhong Marquis of Langzhong, all five concubines were sealed in waiting, at the same time Cao Cao moved to Hanzhong, Ba County population tens of thousands of families to enrich the three auxiliaries (Chang'an, Luoyang, Yicheng), since then the five buckets of rice roads throughout the Central Plains.
Cao Cao treated Zhang Lu with kindness, let his son Cao Yu marry Zhang Lu's daughter as his wife, and married Zhang Lu as a son and daughter, cao Cao's son Cao Pi was harsh, often pulling the Zhennan general Zhang Lu to feast and drink, and summoned some Daoist jianghu warlocks to perform "fangshu" during the banquet, Cao Pi Bowen was strong, he knew hundreds of families, and when he was a teenager, he knew all about the jianghu deception of these warlocks, taking pleasure in exposing them, and at the same time he was carelessly ridiculing Zhang Lu, the chief master of contemporary Taoist warlocks, Zhang Lu was both ashamed and afraid.
In the second year after the surrender of Cao, in the twenty-first year of Jian'an (216 AD), Zhang Lu, the general of Tianshi Zhennan, died of fear, Zhang Lu was the only Tianshi of the Taoist Tianshi family who did not have a "flying corpse solution", and was buried on the outskirts of Yecheng, and the family property and title were divided among five concubines, and the Taoist title of "Tianshi", Zhang Lu's five concubines did not dare to mess with a star and a half, without his son Zhang Sheng, the Tianshi family comparable to the Kong family in Chinese history would be lost.
In the same year that Cao Pi usurped the Title of Emperor of Han And Wei to the first year of the Huang Dynasty, he issued the Edict of Zun Kong, allocated it to hundreds of households in Qubu, Shandong, rebuilt the Confucius Temple, built hundreds of houses, provided accommodation and food for students, sealed the head of the Kong clan as a waiting, allocated special funds every year, sent full-time officials to sacrifice Confucius, and denounced Lao Tzu's doctrine as a demon to confuse the public, and the old Cao family made a fortune by suppressing the "Yellow Turban Rebellion" of the Taoist "Taiping Dao", and Cao Pi remembered it very clearly.
Zhang Lu's son-in-law Zhang Shengcong was not smart and did not know, but his vision was very accurate, and he clearly saw the intentions of the Wei Emperor Cao Pi, who respected Confucius alone and attacked Lao Zhuang, and at the same time saw that tens of thousands of Wudou Mi Dao believers who had moved from ba county and Hanzhong, the founding hometown of his Taoist religion, hooked up with the giants, local powerful people, and officials, and gradually formed a threat to the Cao Wei regime.
When Cao Pi first ascended to the throne, in order to stabilize the situation in the newly established State of Wei, he was forced to compromise with the scholars representing Confucianism, and adopted the "Nine Pins zhongzheng system" proposed by Chen Qun and Sima Yi, and the evaluation and appointment of officials in the State of Wei were monopolized by the scholars from then on, so it was only natural that Cao Pi advocated Confucianism and respected Confucius, and it was only natural to crack down on the Laozi doctrine and warn the gradual arrogance of Taoist believers.
The subtext of Cao Pi's edict is: "The descendants of Confucius were only given the title of a hundred household marquises, and your Taoist ancestor Zhang Ling actually dared to privately seal Lao Zi Li As "Jun ~ Taishang Laojun"? Is the old Zhang family really lawless? ”
This decision of the Wei emperor Cao Pi, affected the History of China before the Three Kingdoms to the Northern Song Dynasty, known as the "Door Valve Politics", the rise of the shijia clan, controlled the history of China for six or seven hundred years, Cao Wei was the only one in the Three Kingdoms, a country that compromised with the Confucians, made concessions to the Shi clan, although it lost some imperial power, but eased relations with the Shi clan, which made the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu Zhong, due to the support of the Shi clan, Wei was the strongest and most united.
During Cao Pi's reign, he cut down Eastern Wu, forced the Wu lord Sun Quan to submit to Wei again, sent Xiahou Shang, Xu Huang, and Shu generals Meng Dali to retake the three counties of Shangyong, and internally PingHaoqiang, pacified the separatist forces around Qingzhou and Xuzhou that Cao Cao had not pacified, completed the unification of the north, attacked the newly rising Xianbei in the northern steppe, and won a great victory.
However, the consequences of the confucianism of exclusivity soon appeared, the Shi clan sat in Cao Wei, the Sima clan from the Shi clan quickly usurped Wei Jianjin, the Jin unified the world, known in history as the "Western Jin", the Sima clan absorbed the lessons of Cao Wei's destruction of the country, the Dafeng clan, and attacked the Shi clan, but the Shi clan had already sat up, and before the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, it was never able to get rid of the control of the powerful subjects, and the Western Jin Dynasty Dafeng kinsmen made the same mistake as the early Han Dynasty, resulting in the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings", and the Xiongnu Liu Yao took the opportunity to destroy the Jin.
Emperor Cao Pi of Wei's suppression of Taoism and Taoist Lao Tzu made it so that in the subsequent history of China, Taoism and Taoism never appeared on the central stage of Chinese history, forcing Taoism to split into two major factions, one taking the route of alchemy to sell oneself to the imperial family and seek wealth; the other taking the folk route, and every time there was turmoil, it rose up and dreamed of rebuilding the glory of Taoism in the early Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms.
In the first year of Wei Huang's reign, in 220 AD, Zhang Sheng, the fourth generation of the Taoist founding ancestor family, saw the danger of being suppressed by Cao Pi and the old Zhang family, plus he was a Shu out, did not inherit the family property and the right to a knighthood, fled from Luoyang, entered the Longhu Mountain in Poyang, and re-created Taoism in the Longhu Mountain where the Taoist sect was founded at the old ancestor Zhang Daoling, which preserved the inheritance of the Taoist Zhang Tianshi family in the history of Chinese Taoism.
Zhang Sheng's departure, the creation of religion again, did not lead Taoism along Zhang Sheng's line of thought ~ let the world's Taoism respect him, Taoism has been leaderless since his father Zhang Lu descended from Cao, Taoism has rapidly divided into countless tribes, of which the most complete and destructive family of the old Zhang family Tianshi Dao is "Maoshan Dao", and then the Taoist historical stage Lao Zhangjia was suppressed by Maoshan Dao and the later order of the tribe for nearly a thousand years, almost forced to withdraw from the qualifications of Taoist orthodoxy, Maoshan Dao celebrities have emerged from generations, taking the upper route.
Another branch of Taoism, taking the folk route, rose up in the last year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, wanting to stand on behalf of the Jin Dynasty, but did not expect that it created a generation of war gods Liu Yu, who should have died in obscurity and made the Emperors of the Northern Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty feel frightened.
The two major branches of Taoism, in terms of time, should first say that Liu Yu started his family, created the Song Dynasty on behalf of the Jin Dynasty, and founded the Southern Dynasty, of course, there are also The fusion and division of Confucianism, Shi, and Taoism in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties
Digression: Zhang Lu's Zhennan general was only ranked below the Three Dukes, Cao Cao was only one of the Three Dukes at that time, when Zhang Lu was divided, the upper table of the imperial court, only got a Hanning Taishou title, equivalent to the Five Pins Official, the Zhennan General was a product, equivalent to the four generals of the Shu Han, and Guan Yu, Ma Chao, Zhang Fei, and Huang Zhong, so later Generations of Taoism called Zhang Lu "Zhang Zhennan".
(To be continued)
