Chapter 326 Religious Reformation

While spreading the Yanhuang Cult, the God Envoy often supplemented with some myths and legends, and spoke them with confidence in order to achieve the goal of making the people of faith unquestionable.

These myths and legends were all nine capable ministers including Xun Yu, and then carried out a certain artistic process to avoid the logical conflict between each legend and legend, and finally formed a complete Yanhuang myth system.

Among them, the legend with the two emperors of Yan and Huang as the core accounts for nearly 80%. The content mainly focuses on the theme of the two emperors of Yan and Huang leading their tribesmen to defeat various demons and ghosts, natural disasters, so that the descendants of Yan and Huang can finally reproduce and survive on the land of China. It further consolidates the sacred and undesecrated position of the two emperors of Yan and Huang in the hearts of the people.

Then, the ancestors of each surname, Zhang, Wang, Li, Zhao, Sun, Wu, Kong, Meng, etc., were all said to be the followers of the two emperors Yan and Huang. In the process of following the two emperors Yan and Huang, they learned one kind of skills. In subtle influence, they deepened the sense of identity of the two emperors Yan and Huang and placed them above their respective ancestors.

It emphasizes that good and evil will be rewarded, and the cycle of life and death will be reborn; the laws of heaven are clear and retribution will not be happy. Doing good in this life will not only follow the two emperors of Yan and Huang after death, but also enjoy the heavenly court, but also live a rich and beautiful life when reincarnated. However, if you do evil in this life, you will be abandoned by your ancestors after death, and naturally you will not be able to follow the two emperors of Yan and Huang. If you surrender in the next life, you will become a pig, dog, cow and horse, and suffer all the blame and burdens. As for those who do evil, they will die and go to hell, and spend decades or even hundreds of years in the pain of life being worse than death...

The purpose of such a complete myth system to teach people is nothing more than hating evil and doing good, unity and love, loyalty, righteousness, integrity, benevolence and filial piety... to guide people to form a positive and healthy outlook on life and values, so that the entire society will flourish and have a pure atmosphere.

Although this seems superstitious, in terms of human beings' current understanding of the world and level of civilization, it is necessary to regulate people's inner good and evil. Although the law can punish criminals, criminal behavior is an external manifestation after all; and a person's good and evil depend on his heart, the law has no way to control the thoughts in people's hearts and can only be guided by faith.

A nation without correct beliefs, allowing human beings to be dominated by the original innate ideas of primitive rule. Such a nation will never be truly powerful. The contradictions within the nation alone are enough to make it a mess.

Not to mention the distant past, just take the example of Chinese people. The various reality we are experiencing now are the best examples.

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Let’s look back at Zhang Liao’s expedition to the Qiang people.

Half a year ago, Cao Chong sent troops to send troops, but he encountered some twists and turns when he sent them to the House of Representatives to vote.

The reason is that there are also a large number of senators who believe that judging from the current domestic situation, a strategy of gentleness should be adopted against the Qiang people.

Almost all of these senators came from the prefectures and counties that were most seriously damaged by the civil war. They heard and witnessed the suffering lives of the people around them and the dilemma of urban construction being unemployed. Therefore, they believed that they should use force at this time and should save national strength to recuperate.

This is reasonable.

However, the discussions of these senators also caused the senators who were originally in charge of the war to shake. In the end, the first vote of the House of Representatives failed to pass the expedition order that Cao Chong went to.

Cao Chong's attitude towards this matter is not very good. Some opposition parties in the Cao family clan cling to this matter, claiming that this is the consequence of reform: the government orders are not fulfilled, and the king orders are like a joke. If this continues, the country will not be in power.

Wu Fan and other opposition parties finally finished speaking, and then said lightly:

"The purpose of reform is to make the country a country of the people, not an emperor. Since it is not a country of the emperor alone, why must the emperor pass the emperor's orders? As for the long-term remarks such as the country being dissatisfied, it seems that it is too early to say it now. I, Wu, don't like to suppress different opinions, because it is contrary to the purpose of free speech of reform. However, for you oppose reform, I do not mind continuing to pursue the bureaucratic consciousness before the reform and suppressing the small ones."

Speaking of this, Wu Fan took out the Saint in his arms and suddenly said with a sharp look:

"I am here to go to the reform. If there is an imperial edict here, if there are opponents, the crime will be disobeyed by the emperor's order and then there will be any complaints. Those who cause trouble for the reform will be killed immediately."

This immediately calmed down the conservatives who opposed the reform. They turned their heads and looked at Cao Chong, but saw Cao Chong with such a look. From then on, everyone no longer dared to talk about the right and wrong of the reform in front of Wu Fan, and could only complain in private.

Of course, Wu Fan was very clear about this and just thought he didn't know anything.

Because he believes that time will prove everything. Breaking an old inherent system will inevitably lead to short-term discomfort, which is like grafting a fruit tree. Now is the pain period for fruit trees.

However, Wu Fan was the main force in the battle, and Cao Chong's expedition to the Qiang people also came in accordance with Wu Fan's opinion. In this way, Wu Fan naturally would not stand by and watch after failing to pass the vote. After saying that harsh words, Wu Fan strode out of Zhaoming Palace and came to the Taihe Palace where the Senate was.

The officialdom advocated during the reform refused to be a single person and expressed different opinions on the same matter, not only referring to lower-level officials for superior officials, but also to lower-level officials for subordinate officials.

Wu Fan's trip was to express his main point of view to the senators who had opposing opinions.

After half an hour of debate, Wu Fan's main battle view finally received support from the vast majority of senators. After Cao Chong received the news, he sent the Yi Ling here again. The results of the new round of voting showed that the ratio of support to opposition was 257:73, and the Yi Ling from the expedition to the Qiang people was approved.

After that, Zhang Liao took charge of the expedition, leading the Central Army to 300,000, and gathered troops from Yi, Yong, and the southern and central prefectures, with a total of 600,000 people expeditioning the northwest desert. A large number of military supplies, equipment, craftsmen, and food were also accompanied by the expeditionary army.

Half a year later, the book follows the previous text. Just as the initial communication network centered on Luoyang was just formed, the Expeditionary Force had defeated the Qiang people. The vast desert areas in the northwest, that is, today's Gansu and Ningxia, as well as some Xinjiang areas, were included in the Chinese territory.

The expeditionary army returned triumphantly. On the way from Yizhou to Luoyang, the people cheered and couldn't help but be happy.

However, as Zhang Liao returned to Luoyang, a piece of news that was hard to be happy was revealed from Zhang Liao:

Although the Qiang people were defeated, they did not completely lose their vitality. Instead, they gathered the remaining soldiers and fled to a more bitter and colder area in the south. There, the soldiers of the Middle Earth were extremely uncomfortable. After walking for a long time, they would become inactive and weak. The most incredible thing is that they could not even cook rice. They ate half-cooked rice every day. In addition, in the harsh environment, the number of people vomiting and diarrhea increased greatly every day. Zhang Liaocai led his army back.

Zhang Liao's narrative surprised the elders. After a little thought, Wu Fan immediately realized that the bitter and cold land that Zhang Liao mentioned must be the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is known as the roof of the world. Because the average altitude is as high as 4,000 to 5,000 meters, the air is thin and the atmospheric pressure is reduced. The reason why soldiers will lose their breath after walking for a long time is that the oxygen on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is not as abundant as the plains, and the rice cannot be cooked, is that the atmospheric pressure decreases, resulting in the boiling point of the water.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau had such harsh natural conditions, and with the current productivity level of the Han people, even if the territory expanded there, it would be difficult to live in. Therefore, no one, including Wu Fan, advocated leading his army to occupy that barren land. However, Zhang Liao's subsequent narrative forced Wu Fan to fall into deep thought again.

——There are also barbarians on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, called Di. After the Qiang people fled to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, they joined the Di people, and it is difficult to guarantee that they would not be ready to move.

However, this Di people never appeared in the Three Kingdoms series of games. Only by looking at the territory of the Three Kingdoms era can you find the general living area of ​​the Di people.

A brand new barbarian, whose previous game experience was almost useless. After thinking about it for a while, Wu Fan had to adopt a cautious strategy and suggested that Cao Chong go down to order Yizhou and Nanzhong prefectures close to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to strengthen their military equipment and guard against the invasion of the Qiang and Di Joint Army at any time. At the same time, he mobilized 300,000 Central Army to station 150,000 in these two prefectures to supplement it.

Cao Chong acted as he said. After this military transfer order was submitted to the House of Representatives, he was approved with an overwhelming vote-rate support.

Half a year later, in the winter of 201, the Yanhuang Cult spread network had already covered most of China, with only the five states of Nanzhong, Yizhou, Liangzhou, Jiaozhou and Youzhou, either because of their remoteness or due to the tension in preparation for war, the spread of the Yanhuang Cult was hindered to a certain extent. The popularity rate of each county in other areas has reached 92.

At this time, a new problem arose: the salary of clergy.

As the church has gradually separated from the official government, in addition to the funds for the construction of the New Longguan Temple, all other activities, including the salaries of clergy, are operated by donations from the church people. Since there is no corresponding salary standard, the salary of the God Messenger is paid according to the monthly amount of one or two taels of gold, which is equivalent to the income of a landlord with a medium-sized real estate scale. The salary of the God Messenger and the God Messenger is even higher than that.

Wu Fan thought this was inappropriate, so he proposed that the salary standard of the God’s envoy should be based on the average income of ordinary local residents. As long as you can solve your own food and clothing, you can save a little bit of it. When people think of the God’s envoy, their first impression is that they are suffering.

As for the salary standards of other clergy, such as the Great God Messenger and the Chief of God Messenger, they should only be lower than those of God Messenger, and not higher than those of God Messenger, because the work of these people is not as hard as that of God Messenger.

Wu Fan's claim was questioned by religious insiders, and he didn't understand what Wu Fan's move meant. God's envoys were faithful and spread their righteousness and made ritual blessings. Their daily work was very cumbersome, so why did they suppress their salary like this? Although the great envoys and the envoys were not as heavy as the envoys, they were senior clergy after all, and they belonged to the management class. The salary did not rise but fell. What is this logic?

Wu Fan smiled indifferently about this and gave the following explanation:

First of all, among the many doctrines that the Yanhuang Church wants to promote is the universal concept of thrift.

In this case, as a clergy, you must naturally imitate yourself, because your own character is the best tool to convince others. If each clergy regards faith and preaching as a profitable job, then his ideological motivation will not be pure, so how can he talk about influence others? He cannot influence others with himself. No matter how much he says it is just some empty words.

As for what you generally believe, the Great Messenger and the Chief Messenger are clergymen in the management level, and their salary should naturally be higher than that of clergymen in the lower level. This is precisely due to a worldly concept of hierarchy.

The Yanhuang Church advocates that everyone is equal, and there should be no distinction between hierarchies and hierarchies between people. In this case, when your work is not as good as the God’s envoy, why should you still have higher salary than God’s envoys? Don’t use the official salary system to measure you. This is also the reason why I independent the church from the government. In addition to not wanting religion to become a tool for the ruling class to kidnap the people in disguise, another main purpose is to maintain the purity of religion and not be contaminated by the dirt of the officialdom.

There were both support and opponents of the clergy in the church for Wu Fan's statement. During this period, although the Yanhuang Cult was gradually breaking away from the government, it was still completely under the control of Wu Fan. On the surface, except for the nine capable ministers including Xun Yu who participated in the establishment of the Yanhuang Cult, no one could see what Wu Fan had to do with the Yanhuang Cult. In fact, Wu Fan was the stern manager behind the Yanhuang Cult. His status was even better than that of the Christian Pope.

However, the Pope Wu Fan was hidden, not only did he not have any internal positions, but outsiders were completely unaware of this.

As a result, Wu Fan directly removed the opponents from the church. These people include the great envoys and the envoys, as many as hundreds of them, accounting for nearly two-fifths of all clergy.

As a result, the Yanhuang Cult suddenly fell into a dilemma of serious shortage of manpower. Wu Fan ordered the Longguan Temple, which lacked a divine envoy, to temporarily close it, and at the same time, among the priests across the country, a large-scale selection of new clergy personnel will be re-elected among the priests across the country. This time, in the selection announcement, the first article of Wu Fan explained the salary issue, and showed to all candidates that if he did not have the spirit of frugality and self-discipline and self-discipline, he should not do this chore.

Since the Yanhuang Cult has been spread for a year and this selection has abandoned the previous standard of virtue and respect, many devout ordinary religious people still actively sign up even though they know that becoming clergy would be very hard.

This is the power of faith. It can transform people's pursuit from primitive material desires to spirits. As long as they can help more people join their own sects with their own efforts, they will be greatly satisfied in the process. As for the salary they can get from this, it is enough as long as they can prevent them from being hungry.

Even some churchgoers who run for election suggest that they can not have any salary, and that they will be satisfied as long as they can be elected as clergy and serve the majority of churchgoers. As for food and clothing, they can fill it with their own family money.

This is a typical religious fanaticism.

If you become frenzy about anything, you will inevitably lose your mind and then do extreme things. This is obviously not what Wu Fan wants, at least in selecting clergy, this is not necessary.

Finally, after three months of selection and systematic training, a new group of more frugal and pious clergymen gradually entered new jobs. Under their frugal and pious piety, the Yanhuang Cult's position in the hearts of the people of the church became more sacred, and the number of newly joined religious people also surged day by day.
Chapter completed!