Chapter 1190: The Erupting Taiping Dao

Leaving Jiuyuan Commandery, Su Fan brought Zhang Liao to Jizhou. Jizhou is located in the north of the Central Plains and is also one of the most prosperous major provinces of Liu Han.

The headquarters of Zhang Jiao's Taiping Dao is in Jizhou.

And the aristocratic families in Jizhou are as numerous as crucian carp crossing the river.

And the common people at the bottom of Jizhou live worse than pigs and dogs. It is precisely because of this that the development of the Taiping Dao has been very smooth.

Moreover, Zhang Jiao also listened to Su Fan's suggestion and started from the rural villages. Although there are clan elders in the rural villages,

these people actually do not live very well either. Ancient small landlords, although they do not eat or wear as poorly as many bottom-level common people, because of the relationship of productivity, they actually cannot eat fish and meat at all.

They also have to accept exploitation.

Therefore, the Taiping Dao preaching in the villages and towns is highly supported by both the village elders and the bottom-level common people.

Especially the disciples of the Taiping Dao, after being taught, each one has very rich knowledge.

Originally, the Taiping Dao was about curing diseases and saving people, using talisman water to cure illnesses.

Later, after Su Fan's guidance, medical skills were constantly added among the Taiping Dao disciples, and agricultural affairs were also spread again.

It is equivalent to the Taiping Dao taking over the actions of Shang Yang and the others back then.

After the Great Qin dissipated, Su Fan passed down agricultural technology knowledge, part of which was indeed lost due to war.

But a lot was passed down. However, most of the inheritance was occupied by those aristocratic families.

For example, the knowledge of fertilizer. In the Great Qin era, bottom-level common people were guided by officials, and the Great Qin had a special department that manufactured fertilizer. After all, the official fields of the Great Qin were also very large.

This kind of fertilizer knowledge would be passed down from generation to generation by bottom-level common people. However, unfortunately, because most bottom-level common people were illiterate, they could only pass it down orally. Sometimes, accidents happened, or they expressed it unclearly, which led to incomplete fertilizer knowledge.

And the Liu Han Imperial Court had no officials going to the local areas to guide the bottom-level common people on how to manufacture fertilizer.

Over time, folk fertilizer still existed, but compared to the fertilizer technology of the Great Qin era, it not only did not develop but instead regressed.

This is why, during the Liu Han period, the yield per mu of most fields in the world actually decreased.

Of course, some aristocratic families possessed such technology, but they only used it as a means to monopolize knowledge.

They never spread it down.

In the Great Qin era, such things could never happen. Once the Imperial Court issued an order, in the local areas, almost no one dared not to act. If officials were inactive, they would be directly dealt with. If local aristocratic families dared to obstruct, they would also be dealt with once discovered.

The laws of the Great Qin had a deterrent effect even on the Imperial Clan, let alone others.

The Liu Han Imperial Court, in its peak period, only relied on imperial power. Compared to the Great Qin era, its control over local areas was far behind.

Of course, now, it is even worse.

However, this gave Zhang Jiao an opportunity.

After Su Fan's guidance, the Taiping Dao changed its thinking, and the believers of the Taiping Dao instantly surged.

As long as one Taiping Dao disciple went to a village to preach, that village would soon become believers of the Taiping Dao, regardless of old or young.

Even those village elders were the same.

After all, the Taiping Dao preaching, whether it was the simple medical skills spread or agricultural knowledge, especially guiding farming, had infinite attraction for anyone.

In addition, Su Fan suggested developing technology, and the Taiping Dao first applied it all to agriculture.

Ancient productivity was entirely based on farmland, so agriculture was the most important.

The Taiping Dao's preaching in agriculture and medical skills was the most in line with the appetite of the bottom-level common people.

First of all, in terms of medical skills, besides curing diseases, Taiping Dao disciples also often guided the common people in these villages on how to prevent diseases, or how to self-treat simple colds.

You must know that during the Liu Han period, doctors only existed in those cities, and only rich people could afford to see them. Ordinary common people could only endure it.

In the Great Qin era, medical treatment was actually not that developed. Even though Su Fan spread medical books at that time and the Medical School developed to a great extent,

for the huge population, medical treatment was still not enough. Even in the new era of the 21st century where Su Fan's first life's technology developed, medical treatment was not enough in many places, let alone in ancient times.

Therefore, the self-treatment simple medical skills spread by the Taiping Dao truly had great help for the bottom-level common people.

They did not need to treat any major diseases. The simplest colds and wind-cold from rain were originally the most terrifying for common people.

They could only endure it. If they survived, they lived; if they couldn't, they could only wait for death.

And the knowledge spread by Su Fan could maximize the reduction of the mortality rate. Such attraction cannot be said to be small.

As for agricultural knowledge, it goes without saying.

In just a few years, the development of the Taiping Dao in Jizhou surged more than ten times compared to when Su Fan left.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Jiao's Taiping Dao disciples were not enough, it might have erupted even more.

The Nine Provinces are too big. Jizhou alone has a population of no less than hundreds of millions, and even so, Jizhou can be considered sparsely populated. The area of Jizhou is several times larger than the area of Asia in Su Fan's first life.

Hundreds of millions of people, although Jizhou has several cities with millions of people, there are still more villages. If one village needs one disciple, then the entire Jizhou might need tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of disciples.

There are many Taiping Dao believers, but disciples—where would there be so many people? Over these years, even though Zhang Jiao has tried his best to recruit Taiping Dao disciples, only about ten thousand people have been able to graduate.

Even later ones were only taught in a hurry for two or three years before being sent to preach.

The quality dropped significantly. Of course, just for preaching, systematic training for two or three years is also okay.

True core disciples of the Taiping Dao are each trained for at least five years, and the disciples taught by Zhang Jiao himself are each trained for more than ten years—not just knowledge, but also cultivation.

Zhang Jiao has founded the Taiping Dao for less than fifty years, and its foundation is still too shallow.

Of course, the current Taiping Dao is indeed a behemoth to many Daoist sects.

After all, just the disciples now number hundreds of thousands, especially the newly joined disciples, which have surged terrifyingly in the past two years.

Because of the increase in believers, naturally more disciples can be recorded, especially some village elders, who have also brought a lot of wealth to the Taiping Dao.

It can also increase the cultivation intensity of the disciples.

The Taiping Dao walks the bottom level, and it is the policy of surrounding cities with rural areas, so the development of the Taiping Dao has no obstacles. ===== CHAPTER 1191 =====