Su Wuming was transferred to Sima in Ninghu. As soon as he arrived in Ninghu, he came to a temple to take shelter from the rain, and he encountered a fight between two forces, one group of people from Tuo Shrine, the other group of people who opposed Tuo Shrine, they wanted to burn it down Temple of Tui. Tu, or crocodile, Su Wuming and Xijun, who first came to Ninghu Lake, were surprised that someone worshipped the crocodile god.
On the second day, after Su Wuming and his party entered the city, a group of people walked down the street carrying the statue of the god Tu, and the people all worshipped the god when they saw it. The leader of Tuo Shrine saw that the three of Su Wuming did not kneel, so he asked, and after learning Su Wuming's identity, he was not polite. It was about to suffer, Su Wuming and the three were not allowed to have the slightest disrespect to the God of Tuo.
Even Fei Jiji wanted to drink, but he only found out about Tuoshen wine, which cannot be bought with money. It is exclusively brewed by Yaoyuelou and only for Tuoshen. Only on the third day of the third month of the third month, on the birthday of the goddess, the goddess will be held on the island of Tuoshen, and the officials and people who land on the island will have the opportunity to drink the wine bestowed by the goddess. The shopkeeper said that 30 years ago was the first time the God of Tuo appeared, and I think it was the first time someone pretended to be a ghost in the name of the God of Tuo.
Su Wuming saw that the people from Tuo Shrine were collecting taxes, and the old man begged them to give them some grace. What we saw was Tuo Shrine bullying the people. After Su Wuming relieved the old man, he bluntly said that the Tuo Society was doing something wrong, and the old man spoke for the God of Tuo. Yes, the people of Ninghu are poisoned by the spirit of Tuoshen, which is very superstitious, and they have to give money to Tuoshen social society and incense money every year, Su Wuming asked if no one resisted? The old man said: "I don't want the weather to be smooth? I don't want the harvest to be harvested?"
Those who disrespect the gods are to be thrown into the swamp of the gods. The old man's nephew refused to pay social money and incense money and even lost his life. Even if the nephew died, the old man still revered the God of Tuo. In the hearts of the people, his nephew's death was the price of disrespecting the God of Tuo.
In the last years of the Han Dynasty, Ninghu flooded, and only a hundred people survived when they climbed onto a giant duck. Since then, Ninghu has revered the duck as a god. In fact, this is also reasonable, but Tuo Shrine is just borrowing the name of Tuo God to collect incense money and community money. If there are people who don’t obey, they will kill them by borrowing the water of Wan Tuo. ?
The people have paid so much money, except for taxes, whose pockets are other money going to? It must be the Tuo Shrine and the local government. Chang Shi also said that whenever a tax is collected, the state does not need to send someone to urge it. That is, who dares not to pay, not to pay is disrespectful to the God of Tuo, and he will die at that time.
I think it is because the government can make a profit from it, which will fuel the arrogance of Tuo Shrine. Lu Yong took the record of Tuo Shrine and went to Chang Shi to expose the crimes of Tuo Shrine. He asked Chang Shi to be the master of the people, but Chang Shi was unmoved. profit.
