Chapter 3582 Double Horse Drinking Spring

Chang'an City in late spring is shrouded in the drizzle. Fei Qian looked up and saw the kiss of the door of Zhuque Street, as if he was swallowing and spitting out the blue smoke in the drizzle.

Because Zuo Ci's affairs were also quite sudden, Fei Qian did not hold any major welcome ceremony, but quietly entered the south gate of Chang'an and entered the city.

The reason why it is from the south of the city rather than the east is just because the gate to the south of the city opened first.

The morning in Chang'an is still full of vitality.

Even though it was raining, pedestrians still appeared on the street early in the morning. The shops and shops could not hang banners on rainy days, but they still stuck out the water signs, indicating that they had started business.

The smoke mixed with the drizzle was like a layer of veil cage on Chang'an City, hazy and beautiful.

Fei Qian mingled among the Xuanjia cavalry, and walked along Zhuque Street and through Chunming Gate, the copper bell at the eaves on the door sign was shaking by the wind passing through the street, making a dull sound, which was not as crisp as before, which made Fei Qian look slantedly.

If you just choose someone to be the pope, it would be simple. Fei Qian doesn’t need to come back in person, and you don’t even have to see the new pope. You just need to report a list, and then Fei Qian takes the cinnabar pen and looks at the name, and then he just chews it on it...

But can this meet the needs of Feiqian?

Obviously impossible.

After Zuo Ci fell ill, Fei Qian had already considered the Pope's issue, but at that time Cao's army was the primary contradiction and had no time to deal with these matters. As a result, Zuo Ci suddenly received a box lunch and was immediately embarrassed.

Zuo Ci's poor health is completely opposite to what he describes in history, and it is also very normal.

I have never seen a person who can live long after eating pills!

What's more, Zuo Ci not only ate pills, but also relied on his own intelligence when he was young, cheating on food and drink and overeating, which also damaged the foundation. When he was old, he wanted to remedy it, but he couldn't save it at all.

It’s like there will inevitably be problems after too much self-guidance. Don’t think that it seems that there is no symptoms in the twenty-year-olds. Let’s look at it again when you reach thirty or forty. It’s useless to soak the jujube as a meal every day. It’s like the copper bell that has rained on the door sign. Although there doesn’t seem to be much change on the outside, there is a problem inside.

The same is true for the five directions of God's religion.

Qiao Bing had a problem last time. If you can't choose Zuo Ci's successor, you may have to have another problem. Waiting for repairs later will not only be troublesome, but it may not be able to make up for it well.

Fei Zhen and Xun You got the news and left the cavalry official party and waited in the square in the rain.

"The General of the Cavalry Returns to the Mansion!"

The sang of the envoy flew away the swallows under the eaves sheltering from the rain.

Fei sneaked straight into the front square, then turned over and dismounted, patted the horse's neck, took off the wet straw raincoat, and let the guard take the horse down to rest and wash it. He strode forward, glanced forward with his eyes and glanced at Fei Zhen, who was standing in front with his head tilted, but walked towards Xun You, who was wearing a dark and dark dress, and was mottled by the wind and rain. "The affairs of Guanzhong in front of the army are complicated, and thank you Gongda for his hard work."

Xun You hurriedly bowed down and was pulled up by Fei Qian again. Then he walked into the government gate, but threw Fei Zhen, who was thinking about it, behind...

After entering the government hall, Fei Qian did not say anything to go to wash and rest, but just changed his dry robe and broke off his wet hair. Then he sat in the upper seat and listened to Xun You's stern and eye-catching report.

Fei Zhen sat aside, with her back straight and her face listening seriously, but she looked at Fei Qian from time to time, and still exposed Fei Zhen's complicated mood now.

Fei Qian did this now, not deliberately showing off his appearance to Fei Zhen, but he was just used to it.

Sometimes Fei Qian would think of later actors, enjoying the glory and wealth under the light, while crying and saying that he would have some private space. It is really like a drama in his life.

You know, everything comes at a price, both needing and having to do it, why don’t you go to heaven?

If Fei is in a high position, he will naturally have to bear the price of being at a high position.

The guards who came back with Fei Qian can now take a hot bath easily, then have a beautiful meal, and get into the bed and sleep in the dark. However, Fei Qian can only listen to Xun You's report in the festival, and cannot be distracted. He must understand, think, and give feedback in the shortest time.

Why do you need this?

Just because Fei Qian is the General of the Cavalry and the leader of the entire Guanzhong political group.

To a certain extent, religion is the drama of this era, so selecting good actors is of course very important, otherwise it would be not great to create a group of dramas of death roaring at every turn.

As the text piled up on the table became higher and higher, Xun You generally briefly described the incident during this period...

Fei Qian nodded.

The situation in Guanzhong is similar to that of Fei Qian’s original estimate.

The people are relatively stable and are busy with their own livelihoods.

Those who are noisy are often "public intellectuals".

Public knowledge in a narrow sense is actually good. It usually has five basic characteristics, including academic background and professional knowledge; has a basic bottom line of universal value; maintains a personal independence and just standpoint; has a strong critical spirit; and is able to express true opinions on important public affairs.

This is the true "public knowledge", but in fact, in most cases, public knowledge in a broad sense will cover the voice of public knowledge in a narrow sense, making the information received by the people completely different.

As long as there is a media that speaks out on public voices, there will be "public knowledge".

Even if there is no Qinglong Temple in Feiqian, there will be a Miaozhu Forest in Xu County. The dispute between the Party and the Forbidden City of Luoyang can actually be regarded as a form of "public knowledge".

"Public Knowledge" cannot be idle.

This is also a disadvantage of the feudal dynasty. Since the king's orders do not go to the countryside, then what is "going to the countryside"?

Religion may be something better than these "publicly wise men" in feudal dynasties.

"Public Knowledge" is too arrogant, and religion that is close to earth is more suitable for the needs of the people, but there must also be a premise, "down-to-earth"...

Ghosts and gods, faith, are also tools.

This is not to say that Fei Qian's blasphemy towards the gods, but in Fei Qian's cognition, ghosts and gods should be trans-dimensional existences, just like a person facing an ant.

Will people care about ants worshiping the ant king in their nests, or pounding their tentacles to perform a mysterious dance to worship and please gods like humans?

Obviously impossible.

Occasionally, in order to study ants, some zoology and botanical scholars deliberately stabbed the originally fat and big ant king with a probe, and then "selected" an ant to succeed the throne...

It can be said that this new ant king inherited the will of God and became the son of God? It is equivalent to the ant claiming that he is the biological son of the zoologist! He began to threaten that if God does not change, then he will change God!

If this zoologist understood the language of ant and heard the announcement of the new ant king, what would he do?

As for the power of faith and the merits of the world, to be honest, will a person care about the belief of an ant, or what kind of merit accumulation is obtained from an ant?

So from this perspective, religion and belief are just human beings’ entertainment.

So, do humans need religion?

Need, but not.

When I was young, I didn’t review and did not study well before the exam. I asked the gods and Buddhas in the sky for help the day before the exam or even an hour before, praying that I could send out all the questions I knew in the paper and the questions I didn’t understand were all correct! Then, after the paper came down, I immediately had a slag of orange peel, and then said that the gods and Buddhas in the sky were all bullshit!

When I grew up, I encountered many unethical things that made people feel heartbroken, such as toxic milk powder, Sudan Red, plasticizer, gutter oil, why help, etc. Anyway, many things have refreshed the moral limit in Feiqian's cognition. In summary, it is "the human heart is not as good as the ancient times", and I feel that everything that is harmful to the world for money can be done. Frankly speaking, Feiqian didn't know much about religion at that time, but he intuitively believed that the reason why "human nature is deteriorating and morally corrupt" was because of lack of religious belief and not knowing what fear is. Without fear, he would naturally dare to do anything unethical.

It was not until the Han Dynasty that Fei Qian not only personally encountered the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but also met the timid people under the brutal cruelty of the Western Liang soldiers. Later, he met Zuo Ci and began to deeply understand Taoism and other religions. Only then did he realize that China has no "religious religion" since ancient times, but only primitive beliefs and spiritual sustenance.

The folk belief in ancient China was a unique hodgepodge in the world, combining the worship of heaven and earth, worship of ancestors, worship of ghosts and gods, worship of saints, etc. This thing is a mixture of the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and earlier shamanism. It has the characteristics of regionality, dispersion, spontaneity, etc. However, compared with the "religion in the true sense", this belief has neither founder, doctrine, theory, nor classics, systematic organizations, and clergy.

But it doesn’t mean that religion can grow and grow as long as it is organized.

There is inevitably a competitive relationship between religion and religion; religion and religion themselves also have huge essential differences.

Fei Qian felt that the Monotheistic Church felt a bit like a frog in the well, and if the Polytheistic Church was not controlled properly, it would be very likely to fall into a situation where mutual accusations, belittlements, or the chaotic narratives of clergy lead to a more chaotic situation of believers...

Therefore, if Fei Qian wants to develop the five-way God religion, he must first have a positioning.

Simply put, solve the problem of "Who am I" that will inevitably arise during the process of human growth.

The Monodiac Church can clearly solve the problem of "Who am I?"

It's like the emperor claiming to be the emperor.

By answering this question, the status of the class is determined, and a group of people who believe in the same God can establish a common identity, which can be easy to manage and thus establish social order; secondly, they can form groups to fight monsters and work together to do some major things...

Therefore, when Fei Qian negotiated with Zuo Ci, he abolished various gods and chaotic systems and directly proposed the five-way God theory, with the Chinese God as the leader and the four-way God as the second. It is similar to the monotheism, but also tolerated the polytheism.

In fact, the most cruel person in the religious system is not the one who carries the wooden stand on the back, but the ancient A San religion. The nature of the race determines the identity of A San in the human world. What is even more terrifying is not the so-called low caste, but the birth of the "Melliche" in the "Melliche" in the "Melliche" of the "Melliche" in the "Melliche" of the "Melliche" of the "Melliche" of the "Melliche" of the "Melliche". This is not a sin at all in their cognition.

As a result, Buddhism, which was born later, wanted to get rid of the limitations of the caste system, but on the other hand, could not find a suitable anchor. As for the conflicts arising from Buddhism, it was impossible to justify itself, it was hard practice, enlightenment, self-nature, and selflessness. There was almost no standard answer that could be expressed directly in human language, so I had to put my hands together, and the Buddha said that it was impossible to say.

Secondly, the second advantage of religion becoming a system is that it can cultivate a rare army of "missionaries".

There were already Buddhist practitioners in the Han Dynasty, but these practitioners did not spread it, or wanted all over China, and even the whole world to believe in the Buddha's beliefs. Of course, this is also related to the local political system in China. Every emperor with a little brain knows what King Zhou and King Zhou is doing, so he believes in it and really wants to replace the emperor with gods and Buddhas. Not only does the emperor not want to, but his subjects are also unhappy.

But is "missionary"? Fei Qian thinks it can be found.

A unified organizational structure and a unified divine system can cultivate stronger core competitiveness in religious communication.

It's like carrying a wooden stand, it seems to have an innate mission of "anti-counterfeiting and rights protection"...

Especially the aliens in the Wood Shelf Sect, or primitive forms, are fine. These people think they are "part of a great cosmic plan", but this privilege only belongs to their own nation and foreign races have no right to participate. The reason for this is ultimately because of the level of human cognition of the world in different historical periods.

There was a group of ants, well, a group of frogs, who felt that the well where they lived was the whole world, so they made up a unique frog god, claiming that this true god had given the most fertile land at the well to these frogs, and this true god only loved these frogs and would not love other species. For example, loaches, eels, etc., they would definitely not be able to be redeemed.

As a result, after a long time, a frog escaped from the well and jumped into the pond. For some reason, the frog betrayed the original true frog god and announced that the loach and eel in the pond could be saved when the wellhead collapsed and dried up. So, the rebellious frog was killed by the frog in the wellhead, but was worshipped by other frogs, loach and eels in the pond, and became the savior of the pond. Later, a dog came and felt that the frog loach and eel in the mud was too dirty. The frogs that had hair were clean, so they processed the frogs and the new hair-bearing god to go to heaven, otherwise they would become hot pot ingredients!

The reason why Gouzi can only think of hot pot is because Gouzi has only seen hot pot. After all, Gouzi doesn't know what the universe is or what galaxies are, and doesn't know if there is really a true god of Gouzi, and what it is to manage is a huge world with a diameter of at least 93 billion light-years and more than 1 tera of stars. Will he insist that Gouzi God is omnipotent, and his left hand combines and his right hand aggregates...

Therefore, with the improvement of human knowledge, the power of religion became increasingly small. In the stage of feudal dynasty advancement, Fei Qian felt that religion was still a tool with considerable power, so it was naturally impossible to let go easily.

Fei Qian looked up at the rain falling in the courtyard, and as he looked at the squatting beast in the corner of the eaves, his head raised to pierce the rain curtain, he suddenly remembered the way Zuo Ci used cinnabar to draw talismans in Qingyangsi many years ago...

The old Taoist who likes to pretend always likes to drag the last pen of the talisman for a long time, as if he wants to hook up some invisible secrets. I don’t know if he can truly understand the secrets of heaven and see through the past and the future before his death?

"The Taoist Jinghong is a ritual in the five directions of Taoist temples."

Xun You whispered.

Jinghong is Zuo Ci's disciple.

Zuo Ci is the "Immortal Chief" in the world, not a noble man, so he had no serious disciples before, and there were Taoist children who followed him, and most of them were refugees. Jinghong was Zuo Ci's disciple in Sichuan and Shu, and he was considered a relatively formal disciple.
To be continued...