Chapter 146: Witchcraft and Its History

"You're crazy!" Cang Hao was accustomed to Wan Peng's crow's mouth, and he didn't think too much about it: "It was Luo Jingnan who called me just now, and he didn't care about admitting that he sent mercenaries, and even told me that I had nothing to do with him." ”

Serchenko smiled helplessly: "Actually, what he said is right......"

"That's right. Cang Hao's expression became gloomy: "I really have nothing to do with him, although he doesn't have an official position, but his mother was opened by Luo Qingwu, so he is naturally the owner of power." As for me, no matter how powerful I have, I am indeed an ordinary person, because my parents are ordinary people. ”

Wan Peng didn't understand: "But what does this have to do with Colonel Song Shuang?"

In fact, this is the case in any country, the difference is only whether the ruling class is strong or weak, and whether it leaves an upward channel for the bottom society. The same is true of the country, where Colonel Song Shuang wants to rebel against the existing ruling order, overthrow the original ruling class, and involve more people in the country's decision-making. He himself is from a civilian background, so he has a fighting spirit, in the words of our Chinese people, it is - the prince and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning!" After a pause, Cang Hao continued: "However, Colonel Song Shuang has gone astray, and after he gained power, he is exactly the same as the original ruler, or even more brutal. At least in the past, everyone had enough to eat, but under his rule they had to starve, and that was the crux of the matter. If he hadn't deviated, his evaluation of Colonel Song Shuang would have been a different one today!"

Wan Peng was a little lost: "Then what should I do? Do you just watch people like Luo Jingnan behave nonsense?"

Cang Hao asked meaningfully: "Didn't I just say that the prince and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning, you don't understand what I mean?"

Cang Hao was talking, and he didn't believe that the Zen master came over, with a smirk on his face: "Boss, discuss something with you......"

Cang Hao was a little impatient when he saw this liar monk: "What are you doing?"

I don't believe that the Zen master nodded vigorously: "What's that...... Tomorrow, there is a puja at Dolin Temple, I hope you can participate!"

"No time!" Cang Hao waved his hand impatiently: "I still have to go to work!"

The unbelieving Zen master hurriedly reminded: "Tomorrow is Saturday!"

"I'm going to be busy with other things on Saturday...... Cang Hao suddenly remembered: "No, aren't you Zhu in Duolin Temple recently, why did you come to Cuifeng Village?"

"Didn't our eldest brother Moshi do a systematic analysis and invited us all......" The unbelieving Zen master sighed: "I stay up late every day, I can't sleep well, I have lost ten pounds......"

When the Zen master said this, Cang Hao noticed that Gesang and Feng Zenzi also came.

The two monks were both haggard and yawning, although they were busy cheating money every day, but the ink master was the first to come to them for help if he had something.

Gesang said to Cang Hao: "Boss, we are doing our best for your affairs, and you have to help us too......"

Cang Hao shrugged his shoulders: "The problem is that you have found the wrong person, what are you looking for me to help with?"

"Don't forget that you are my eldest disciple!" Gesang hurriedly reminded: "You are now the Venerable King of Gesang Canghao, if you don't go to my puja meeting, it will be too unconvincing!"

When Cang Hao heard this, he immediately remembered that he was still a disciple of Gesang in name, and if it weren't for Gesang's blessing, he wouldn't be a living Buddha, and he wouldn't have had the opportunity to give the actress a light.

At the thought of consecrating the actress, a certain part of Cang Hao was a little nervous, maybe he went to participate in this puja, and he could have more opportunities to consecrate the beauties.

So Cang Hao calmly agreed: "For the sake of the three of you doing your best, I will go tomorrow!"

The two monks immediately cheered together, in fact, what they really fancied was not Cang Hao's identity as a living Buddha, but that Cang Hao, as the president of Cao's Finance, was more capable of mobilizing ordinary people.

The next day, Cang Hao went to Dolin Monastery early, put on the same clothes he wore last time when he made a bed, and sat next to Gesang to participate in the puja.

The whole puja was of course presided over by Gesang, who danced and talked about it and spat freely.

There were really a lot of people who came to participate, and Cang Hao didn't care what the specific experience was, he sat there expressionlessly, focusing on looking for beauties among the believers.

However, to Cang Hao's great disappointment, most of the people attending the festival today were middle-aged and elderly women.

Even if they took the initiative to let Cang Hao open the light, Cang Hao really couldn't lift his spirits.

However, Cang Hao relied on his good eyesight, and he really found two beauties in the corner, and the two of them stood out from the crowd in the company of many middle-aged and elderly women.

The problem is that these two beauties, Cang Haoquan knows, are both employees of the company.

One was Chu Qing, the other was Lu Jiaqi, the two of them knelt there with their hands folded, staring at Cang Hao all the time.

Lu Jiaqi saw Cang Hao cast his gaze over, and immediately squeezed his eyes mischievously.

This can make Cang Hao a little panicked, he can make trouble in Duolin Temple, but if it is known by the company's employees, it may affect his work, and even affect Cang Hao's personal image.

After all, the essence of Dolin Temple is a fraud temple, this place has nothing to do with Buddhism, and none of the monks here are real.

But Cang Hao thought about it, since he had already opened the light to Xi Shaomei, it didn't matter.

When the puja was over, Gesang asked the devotees to donate money, as always.

At this time, there was nothing to do with Cang Hao, so Cang Hao glanced at Lu Jiaqi and Chu Qing, and motioned for two beauties, one big and one small, to go to the ear room on the edge of the hall with him.

As soon as Lu Jiaqi entered the door, he said with a smile: "I heard that Mr. Cang is a living Buddha, it turns out to be true!"

Cang Hao asked with a cold face, "What are you two doing here?"

"Of course, it depends on whether your living Buddha is real, many employees in the group are so ......" Lu Jiaqi found that Cang Hao's face was displeased, and hurriedly changed his statement: "Of course, in fact, we are mainly here to make a wish, wishing the company's business to be prosperous and prosperous, and we can get more bonuses!"

"Yes. Cang Hao said coldly: "Since you are all my subordinates, I tell you honestly, don't come here if you burn incense and make a wish to go somewhere else!"

Chu Qing immediately asked, "Why?"

Cang Hao snorted lightly: "Because here are all liars!"

Lu Jiaqi couldn't help but shake his head: "Then you are still a living Buddha?"

Cang Hao snorted softly again: "I, the living Buddha, was deceived to be, you think I am willing to deal with liars, but the fake monks here are all following me, and I can't lose their face!"

"Since you've reminded us, why don't you tell others?" Chu Qing pointed outside, where many people were stuffing money into the donation box: "These scammers are making too much money!"

"How can I tell them? If they go somewhere else, are they guaranteed that they won't meet liars?" Cang Hao smiled and shook his head: "What's more, I think the matter of burning incense and making a wish is nonsense!"

Lu Jiaqi was a little dissatisfied: "Hey, Mr. Cang, you can not believe it, but you can't defile the Dharma!"

"My story defiles the Dharma, but I feel that some people revere the Dharma and go astray...... "Sighing, Cang Hao said very seriously: "What is the Buddha, he is a peerless wise man, after he preached, he was determined to help sentient beings get rid of the sea of suffering, and not be troubled by all kinds of suffering in the world. The Buddha's concept is very simple, if you do more good deeds, you will inevitably go beyond the six realms after death and will not suffer from samsara, and you will also have good fortune in this life. But the Buddha never said, if you burn a stick of incense for me, I will bless you to be promoted and rich. The Buddha asked us to take refuge in the Three Jewels of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, but he didn't say that you should donate a large amount of money to the liar monks and let them go out and spend all day drinking.

"Mr. Cang is right. Chu Qing nodded thoughtfully: "However, this society is not just facing Buddhism, but any other religion is like this. ”

"This is determined by our national character. Cang Hao said thoughtfully: "Any kind of religion is essentially to teach people to yearn for the world on the other side, and the main thing is to ascend to heaven. But our Chinese nation is different, what we pursue is realistic returns, such as promotion and wealth. I'll burn a stick of incense for you, and you bless me to make 10 million this year, but in fact, this is not a faith, but a transaction. In other words, our nation and the gods and Buddhas are all business partners. ”

Lu Jiaqi was amused by Cang Hao: "This shows that our nation is smarter and does not pursue ethereal things!"

"Nope. Cang Hao shook his head: "There are some scientific experiments that show that human beings may have such a thing as a soul, and after we die, whether the soul will travel to another dimension, this possibility exists, so in the original expression of religion, heaven and hell are used to explain it." Actually, this is not to show how shrewd we Chinese people are, but that we are a people ruled by witchcraft, and witchcraft suddenly has a deep-rooted presence in our culture. ”

"Martial arts?" Lu Jiaqi was stunned: "What does it have to do with this?"

"I'm talking about witchcraft. Cang Hao shook his head and told Lu Jiaqi: "Don't associate it with things like Gu and lowering your head, those are specific manifestations of witchcraft, but witchcraft itself is a very broad concept. If you've read some of the books on this, you'll see that witchcraft is ubiquitous in real life. ”

Lu Jiaqi took out his mobile phone and read it: "Witchcraft is a magic technique that attempts to influence or control certain people and things with the help of supernatural mysterious powers......"

"Don't always look at Baidu Encyclopedia, a lot of things there are not accurate. Cang Hao glared at Lu Jiaqi, Lu Jiaqi hurriedly put away the phone, and Cang Hao continued: "Actually, the way of witchcraft to perceive the world is the same as science, both of which are trying to find some kind of law from the objective world and then use it. But witchcraft pins its trust in supernatural powers, while science denies any supernatural existence, which is the essential difference between the two. ”

Lu Jiaqi tilted his head sideways and asked, "Aren't witchcraft and religion the same thing?"

"Of course not, to put it simply, religion has a personal God, but witchcraft does not. This is the first, second, witchcraft pursues realistic results, while religion emphasizes the existence of heaven, and third, witchcraft tends to use after finding the laws of the objective world, as I said before, it pursues realistic results, and religion does not try to change the will of the gods......" Cang Hao did not explain much to Lu Jiaqi, but concluded: "However, the two are closely related, and many rituals of witchcraft can be religious or non-religious. And many religious ceremonies often have an element of witchcraft hidden in them......"

Lu Jiaqi was very incomprehensible: "But what does this have to do with our Chinese nation? Why do you say that the Chinese people are ruled by witchcraft?"

"If you look back at history, you will find that witchcraft is everywhere, in fact, there are a lot of witchcraft hidden in the culture of all countries, but it is too deeply embedded in the thinking of our Chinese people. Qigong, Chinese medicine, martial arts, etc., and even the custom of women's confinement, strictly speaking, belong to the category of witchcraft. In the past, when it didn't rain, I went to the City God Temple to burn incense, which was also witchcraft rather than religion......" Cang Hao elaborated: "One of the major characteristics of witchcraft is that the rulers are often shamans, which is especially evident in the history of our nation. The emperor is called the Son of Heaven, the son of heaven, which in fact illustrates the identity of the ruler. What heaven is, in fact, is the supreme existence of objective existence that cannot be explained by people's existing knowledge, and it is precisely because of the fear of the forces of nature that human society has given rise to the twin twins of religion and witchcraft. As a result, if God makes a disaster, the emperor will issue an edict saying that his lack of virtue will lead to God's punishment. In fact, disasters are all natural causes, and they have nothing to do with priests, monks, or Taoist priests, but if they are shamans, they have to do with it, and shamans must be held responsible, because there is no good communication with God. This is true of the ruling class, and it is also true among the people, I am from the Northeast, and there is a belief in the Five Great Immortals in the Northeast, and people think that animals such as foxes and weasels have some kind of supernatural power, but in fact this is still witchcraft, not religion. For neither foxes nor weasels, although they are considered spiritually and intelligent, are not personal gods, which is characteristic of witchcraft beliefs. ”

Chu Qing said thoughtfully: "This means that witchcraft has entered the ruling class to establish its own position within our nation, and at the same time has a broad base among the people, so religion has little chance."

"That's the truth. Cang Hao nodded approvingly: "So we don't have a national religion, the rulers of all dynasties have used religion, and the religious power must not surpass the imperial power." ”

Lu Jiaqi nodded thoughtfully: "It seems that this is really the case......"

"We do not have a unified religion as a nation precisely because witchcraft has become dominant. In the same way, because we believe in witchcraft, we adopt a realistic attitude towards religion and turn faith into a transaction. For example, after the introduction of Buddhism, Taoism and other religions, you can often see the weasel god position and the Buddha put together without violating the harmony in the Northeast. ”