Chapter 517: Flower Monk Zhu Yuanzhang (1)
The thinner and thinner air reminded the two monks walking in the desert and their entourage that if they continued to walk, they would face even more severe altitude sickness.
However, they have no intention of giving up.
Yao Guangxiao picked up the telescope and looked for their target to spread President Xu's call among the mountains and mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
This is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which has not yet undergone economic construction, and there is not much population at this time. When they walked, they didn't meet a few families. If I hadn't brought enough dry food with me, and I had enough supplies to replenish it, I'm afraid they would have starved to death by now.
"Your Majesty, the road ahead seems to be more difficult."
Hearing Yao Guangxiao say this, Zhu Yuanzhang also took the binoculars, and just after a glance, he couldn't help but sigh.
Cosmopolitan has been established for many years, but it is still a little-known religion, and even within the empire, it has not achieved rapid development with various policy support.
However, Shu Tingbei, as a symbol of the unity of church and state, did not have any idea of giving up this action. As a result of his efforts, many people in that time and space in the second century C.E. had converted to Datong. But in other times and places, especially in the 17th century, when various religions were competing with each other, their Datongism was rejected by Buddhism, Taoism and Catholicism, and so far they have not made any progress.
His Majesty the Emperor, who was anxious, gathered many religious people to prepare to find a way to quickly promote Datong Christianity in a short period of time.
However, the so-called religious people are not willing to give up their faith easily. No matter how hypocritical they seem in that faith, they don't want to admit it. Even though the monks have lived for so long in the 21st century, you still stick to the Buddhist theories, and you don't think of being flexible, but they still collect some incense money in Taoist temples. He was also unwilling to sacrifice his life for the emperor's dream of spreading religion. As for the followers of other religions, you are basically in one of these two states, but very few of them are fighting to the death for their beliefs.
It can be seen that life in the 21st century after rebirth has basically changed their understanding of religion. The original firm belief has long been under the impact of new scientific concepts, and various cracks have appeared.
But even today, when all kinds of scientific theories are popular, there are still many people who worship their Christ, their Muhammad. This became a kind of spiritual comfort for them. Even though many of them wondered if such an envelope was really justified, none of them stopped doing it.
Therefore, even after being reborn, monks and Taoists have lived for so long in the 21st century, but they still regard their original religion as an important source of spiritual energy. It's like the Catholic scientists of the 21st century who have rejected the cosmological worldview of religious statements. But it is not considered that the culture of religion should be completely denied.
In fact, this view was not wrong, but the emperor did not think so.
From his point of view, the truth was always there. It's just that different religions interpret it differently. And among these differences, some things are right and some things are wrong. Those who are wrong should be rejected naturally, and those who are right are not right because of religion. It's because of the truth. He's right. So, even certain religions, certain schools of learning. The perception of something is correct, as long as there is no convincing logical basis as a guarantee, it is a mistake and correct, and it does not really prove the greatness of a religion.
What's more, many religions have a lot of mistakes in their understanding of the universe and the world.
Since their objective cognition is wrong, how many of the subjective philosophical ideas they have summed up are correct?
A subjective thought without objective support is a duckweed without roots. No matter how good-looking she is, a gust of wind blows, and it is inevitable that she will overturn,
To give a very simple example, Confucianism is like this.
He was right in many of his opinions, Confucius was a proponent of pragmatism, even if he didn't even know what it was to use it. Nor does it prevent him from drawing wisdom from life as he understands it.
But his students, especially Mencius and others, did not inherit this advantage from him at all. As a result, such bizarre things as the Five Virtues Cycle Doctrine have become the norm they admire.
So, when the whirlwind of the industrial revolution blew, the duckweed of Confucianism undoubtedly overturned.
Therefore, the emperor has always believed that it is absolutely unacceptable for other religions to poison the people of the empire.
However, education has not yet begun to spread, which has made many people ignorant, which has led them to give many religions and opportunities.
The emperor, then, considered it necessary to create something more rational for the faith of his people.
This is where Cosmopolitan comes from. And now, what the propagators of the Romanization Church, the first religious people to break away from their original beliefs, have to do is to theoretically build this bus to perfection, and I have not yet reached the point where I can easily PK other religions.
On the other hand, the Romans had to protect the interests of the people of the empire and find ways to provide them with substantial benefits, rather than defrauding them of their money through other means of deception.
In this way, Yao Guangxiao, as the first batch of people who were not strong-willed, was given the task of spreading the Datong Sect.
However, after all, people like him were only a minority, so the emperor had to urgently regenerate a new group of religious people.
This operation was carried out very secretly, and of course the emperor himself knew that he would have to make this plan public in the near future. But he prefers that when the world knows about his plan, it will be because it has succeeded, not failed miserably.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was reborn as a new group of religious figures, also shouldered the same mission. They are now on the Tibetan Plateau, ready to compete with Tibetan Buddhism.
It's just that both of them know very well that Tibetan Buddhism has a very strict control over its followers. They are afraid that it will be difficult for them to make substantial progress and may face religious reprisals.
So, they applied to the emperor for a large army as a backup plan.
Of course, the emperor was willing to provide military protection for the spread of his religion, so behind Zhu Yuanzhang and Yao Guangxiao, Xue Rengui, a famous general in the Tang Dynasty, was leading tens of thousands of troops, disguised into pieces, and quietly followed them. (To be continued......)