Chapter 303: The Sprout of Faith

After a few heavy snowfalls, Qingdu has been covered in silver, compared with the excitement of the election, Qingdu at this time seems depressed and lonely, from time to time there will be some bear children appear in the snow, pick up the top layer of snow and squeeze it into a ball and throw it at passers-by, grab the middle layer of snow and stuff it into the mouth, and then use urine to dye the lower layer of snow yellow, water, expose the wet ground.

The children didn't have much to play for, and soon the adults called them home, and the door slammed shut behind them, trying to keep the cold winter out, and then there was a quackling laugh or a whoa-wah-wah-wai cry from the house.

To the east of Qingdu, in a small alley called Liujiao Lane, there are many fewer people in and out than some time ago, this is a dead end, there is only an old small door in it, you can see a small pond along the path behind the door, the water is clear, you can see the silt at the bottom of the pond at a glance, there is nothing in it, but there is an old man who sits by the pond all day long and fishes.

The fisherman is Lao Ke, who is always staring blankly at the water, silently thinking, perfecting the big things they are doing, not moving mountains, but spreading faith.

Occasionally, people of different genders and ages would come to him, and they would also move a small bench and sit on the water, staring at the water, as if hoping that a fish would be baited, and sometimes they would talk a few words, in a very small voice, as if they were afraid of disturbing the fish.

With the help of these people, some of them went smoothly and carried out very quickly, and after coming to Qingdu and finding Miao Liren, Dongzang and Xu Qing'an, the first thing Lao Ke did was to let a well-known cultivator enter the palace to find the national teacher Meng Yongnian and tell them about their intention to spread the faith.

The doctrine has been sorted out. It is divided into four parts, the first part tells about the wonder and greatness of the Creator; The second part describes heaven and hell; The third part confesses the meaning of faith—leaving the world and going to heaven for the soul; Often accompanied by the Creator, the fourth part is the most. It is said that the way to enter heaven after death is to do good.

There are no regulations related to diet and living habits, but it only tells what is good and how to be good, and there are also some principles of life, which are paraphrased from Confucianism and Buddhism.

In one of the very inconspicuous places, there is a clause about the equality of all beings, but it does not mention the cultivator at all, but it speaks of man and animal, to the effect that both man and animal come from the hand of the Creator. There is no difference between high and low, people will eat other animals, and other animals will eat people. This is how life is continued, and it will continue to continue, and there must be no bullying in the treatment of others or other partners, and there must be an egalitarian heart. Otherwise, the Creator will not like it. Punishment will fall.

This one is in Yu Ye's notebook, which is the foreshadowing for moving mountains, and in the future, people can be replaced with immortals, and animals can be replaced by ordinary people.

After getting the doctrine, Meng Yongnian read it carefully, and immediately felt that this matter was feasible, although the first half of the doctrine was nonsense in his eyes, but it accounted for the second half of the good article. Whether it is for the country, for the people, or for this world, there is only good and no harm, so he sent the teachings to the emperor.

The emperor was furious when he saw the teachings. He is the Son of Heaven on high above, how can he be as equal as all beings? However, the words brought by the old Kepai immediately made the high-ranking son of heaven happy: Why is it not the creator that the emperor can be the emperor? If the emperor is also a believer, he can understand that "the throne is also given by the Creator", and release this sentence, then the more devout believers, the more stable his throne will be, of course, there will still be a struggle for power, but there is no difference from now, the difference is that the people under the rule are more kind, and it is not good to have fewer wicked people?

So the emperor became the first group of believers.

With the official consent, with the official support, the spread of faith is surprisingly fast, and the emperor also believes in the Creator, so what is good at the top, and what is good at the bottom will follow, he quotes a few words of doctrine in the court, and the ministers who like to slip around and pat the horse will inevitably go back to study the doctrine, and those who are upright will go back to study the doctrine, no matter what purpose the ministers have for this faith, the officials below them will follow suit, and the doctrine will continue to spread in this way in the future.

The faith was propagated among the upper classes by the emperor, while the lower classes of the common people had special people to lead them in the study of the doctrines.

This method was not thought up by Lao Ke, but Xu Qing'an, the initiator of moving the mountain, applied the earth's missionary system.

The first article of the good is written very clearly, all those who are willing to spread the faith will be loved by the Creator, and the devout belief in the good is itself a kind of good.

Among them, Li Yuncong, Jin Yang and others stayed in Qingdu, and set up missionary churches in civilian areas and rich areas, wandering and preaching, each lasting one day at a time, teaching people to read and write in the morning and spreading doctrines in the afternoon.

No money, no identity restrictions, can be literate and can learn, how can ordinary people let go of such an opportunity? The church was full every day, and the rows of chairs that had been placed were moved out of the church, because they took up space, and there were still a few more people standing without these chairs.

The wealthy merchants were not very zealous, they were content with the status quo, some of them became believers because they had heard too much and were curious, and found the teachings, while others remained indifferent as long as the Creator let them continue to make money.

For these low-status middle-class classes with rich material life, Lao Ke also used his method - using copied teachings to offset taxes.

Merchants have to pay a lot of taxes, and they use the copied teachings to offset some of the taxes, and they make more money, and it also solves the problem that there are too few teachings that are not conducive to dissemination, and the country will definitely lose something at first, but if the faith can be spread, the stability of the country will bring prosperity, and in the long run, it will also be a good investment.

Most of the people who came out of Willow Waist Lane left Qingdu and went to various secular countries in the Tianji Continent, some of them were powerful cultivators, even if they couldn't fly with their swords, they could go to great distances at a very fast speed, and they also persuaded the ruler first, and then started from the capital, established a missionary church, and spread the teachings.

The first of the most devout believers of the people came from prisons all over the world, and this doctrine helped the prisoners to survive the most difficult days, they sang the praises of the Creator, repented of their sins, copied the teachings over and over again, and vowed to become the most devout missionaries after they were released from prison, to carry a hat, to go to war, and to travel unswervingly to every corner of the continent.

And all of this happened within a month of Yu Ye leaving Qingdu with Xiaoqiang.

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Wang Tofu is still selling his stinky tofu, this honest man who doesn't like to talk is more and more loved by the townspeople, the tofu he sells smells very stinky, eats very fragrant, and the rice wine he sells does not seep a drop of water, such an honest and loyal businessman, who doesn't like it?

Yu Ye carried his big backpack, and when he walked into the stinky tofu shop for the second time, Wang Tofu was concentrating on copying the teachings, which were sent from Qingdu, and not long after arriving, Wang Tofu had not finished copying.

Looking at the well-organized and straightforward teachings, Yu Ye sighed that these things still had to be done by professionals, and compared to the things in his notebook, these teachings were much more clever.

There was also a letter sent along with the teachings, the letter was sent by Miao Liren, which roughly explained their current situation and Lao Ke's plan, when the letter was written, it was still a plan, but when Yu Ye got the letter, the plan had been basically realized.

Since Lao Ke brought people here, Miao Liren basically didn't need to care too much about the matter of faith, and could study Hei Dan and Tianxuangong wholeheartedly, and with the help of smart people like Li Yuncong and Jin Yang who did not have any inherent thinking, I believe that research will soon make progress.

At the end of the letter, he asked Yu Ye if there was anything that needed to be added about Lao Ke's plan.

Yu Ye thought for a while, and gave up the idea of setting up an image for the creator, this matter became complicated as soon as it was made, the saint crucified on the earth was just an image of a prophet and spokesman, representing God's mercy to the world, and even the three major branches of that religion were still entangled in this issue, and it was not appropriate to apply such an image to the creator who did not have so many legends, and there was no need for that.

The secular beliefs of the Tianji Continent are just a blank sheet of paper, there is no need to be too complicated, the simpler the better, even the religions made by Yu Ye and them in a half-tone can develop rapidly, it is not like writing on a blank paper at all, but directly painted.

However, it is still necessary to have a clear and clear logo, and Yu Ye decided to apply the logo of Tianji Auction House.

A circle with sharp corners on the top and bottom, left and right, and a symmetrical "day" character in the middle, this logo is eye-catching enough, there are too many things similar to faith to take the word heaven as their life, so it is most suitable to directly use a word of heaven, but in the doctrine, it is needless to say that the creator is heaven, and it is best for people to guess for themselves.

After writing the letter sent to Qingdu, he drew a heavenly character logo at the bottom of the letter, and handed it to Wang Tofu after drying the letter, Yu Ye rode the black horse that made Wang Tofu fat and strong, and drove due west.

The big black horse is not a thousand miles of horses, so it is naturally impossible to run to Qiankun Mountain thousands of miles away in day and night, Yu Ye is not in a hurry, he wants to reach Qiankun Mountain with Ma Guirong, and he also has to think about how to hide the matter of Hei Dan from the head of Muling Peak.

No matter how slow he walked, a thousand miles was not too far for a horse, and three days later, Yu Ye came to the town at the foot of Qiankun Mountain, sent the black horse to an inn again, buried his backpack, and set foot on the path up the mountain.

…… (To be continued......)