In addition, Yan Xiang was also awarded the official position of Huangmen Shilang, under Jia Xu. Because Xu Wen was able to handle the affairs of the Ministry of War, he removed the title of "temporary generation" in front of him and became the secretary of the Ministry of War. In the hearts of many people, this is a signal, marking the decline of the "Liangzhou system" and the rise of the "Yuancong system".

Although the army is still full of Xiliang heroes, the two generals on the Kaifu side are not from Liangzhou. Zhao Yun served as the governor of the state, and Xu Rong served as the governor of Sanhe (Hedong, Hanoi, Henan), and both had the right to recruit subordinate officials and staff members on their own, and these two were not from Xiliang.

There are hundreds of people, all kinds of people, although Chen Cheng scoffs at these things, but he can't stand the following, he likes to form gangs. It's about human nature, and it can't be changed at any time.

Yang Xiu was appointed as the Taishou of Nanyang, and he was warmly welcomed by Liu Biao. In Liu Jingsheng's view, this should be a gesture of goodwill by the imperial court to show him. Who is Yang Xiu? That's the son of the late Taiwei Yang Biao, how could he succumb to the position of a small Taishou? When I went to Nanyang, I just came to gild.

Liu Xian has Yang Xiu under his command and Huang Zu in Wu, and he feels that he can worry about it.

Then, it was the autumn harvest season, the crops in the fields turned golden, and all over Guanzhong and Liangzhou were full of laughter. This year, the wind and rain are smooth, and under the guidance of the government, the new composting method has been used in various places, and the yield has increased a lot, and everyone can finally have a fertilizer year.

The people of Bingzhou and Sili are relieved, after a long war, this year finally settled down, although the countryside still often heard of bandits, but under the blow of the government, it has not become a climate. Under the temptation of "tax exemption for the division of land", many thieves laid down their weapons, ran down from the mountains, and became ordinary people again.

Many people fled from Yanzhou, Hanoi, and even Yuzhou in order to be able to regain their share of land. This is due to the spontaneous propaganda of the common people, as well as the secret activities of the people of the "Military Horse Statistics Section." Wang Yue sent a lot of spies to these places to seduce the people there to escape.

Although not many people have fled to Sili for various reasons, this is only the beginning. As long as the system remains in place, there will only be more and more people fleeing. Regarding the situation that the number of fugitives is increasing, Chen Gong and others wrote to the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court can use severe punishment to stop them and send those fugitives back.

In response to this, the imperial court replied with an edict of the Ming Dynasty, "abolishing the use of Han people as slaves, allowing them to move freely, and violators will be severely punished." As soon as the edict was issued, there was an uproar in various places, but this was a moral policy and stood on the moral high ground. Although there were many people who opposed this law, there were also many people who sang praises.

As a result, the scholars split into two factions and quarreled with each other. When the people of the world were caught in debate and quarrel, the National Academy of Sciences was listed in Chang'an, and Fa Zheng became the first president. Later in the year, the Academy of Sciences, after recruiting a number of people, founded Pravda and awarded the title of "scientist" to ten people who had made outstanding contributions to the study of mathematics, physics, chemistry and geography.

Over the years, Chen Cheng has come up with too many new things, and although the newly established Academy of Sciences once attracted everyone's attention, it was soon overshadowed by other things. On the contrary, some ministers of the imperial court saw an opportunity from this, and when they urged their children to study "Chen Xue", they jointly funded a "Halal Newspaper".

When Chen Cheng heard about this name, he felt confused. When is it time to burn the unbelievers? He secretly said in his heart: He has already thrown Buddhism to the Western Regions, can he still throw other sects there? But didn't all these sects come from the west?

Later, when I sent someone to inquire, I learned that this was the meaning of the clear stream truth, and it had nothing to do with it. After Chen Cheng figured it out, he breathed a long sigh of relief. That's when I was relieved. Religion is completely forbidden under the current imperial court. On more than one occasion, he told people in public that if they wanted to preach publicly, it was not impossible, as long as they called out their gods and let the government prove that they were really gods.

Some people ask, how to prove it?

Chen Cheng replied: "At the very least, the knife cannot be cut, the fire cannot be burned, and the water will not sink..........

After that, few people dared to preach any false gods and evil gods. When the government caught someone who claimed to be an immortal god, they all came first to slash it, and if the steel knife could be cut down as if nothing happened, then they would talk about the rest. In fact, Chen Cheng is also looking forward to it, hoping to meet a real immortal, but it's a pity that there is no one who will not die if he is beheaded, which makes him so disappointed.

Cracking down on all kinds of bulls, ghosts, and evil gods made the miasma under the court be swept away, but it also brought about a consequence that Chen Cheng did not expect. A sect called the "Shinrikyo" quietly flourished in Liangzhou and Guanzhong, which claimed that the great general Chen Cheng was the only god in the world, and listed various miracles of the great general, attracting many ignorant people to join.

The problem is that there are still many soldiers in the township, registered soldiers, and some officials have joined. Such a phenomenon is not very serious in Guanzhong, and Xiliang is already flooded. This sect has sprung up in various places before, and it has only recently been named "Shinrikyo".

Even if some officials don't believe this, they don't dare to bother with Shinrikyo's affairs. Later, the cause of the incident was that Shinrikyo began to collect the tithe-tax tax, and some believers used this as a reason to refuse to pay grain to the government. After Xu Chao heard about this, he immediately stabbed in front of Chen Cheng.

Xu Chao, the head of the household, is a person who is not afraid of the heavens and the earth, no matter who it is, as long as he does not pay taxes, he dares to chase others and spray. It was only at this time that Chen Cheng was stunned to find that he had become a god in the world. After careful investigation, I found that Shinrikyo already has hundreds of thousands of followers, and its influence is all over the government and the opposition, and there are many people in the army who believe in it.

Soldiers, especially those who need to charge into battle and be born to death, are often hovering on the edge of life and death, and it is easy to throw themselves into the embrace of religion. Chen Cheng was very unhappy with this situation, believing that these people were completely contrary to his idea of building an enlightened secular society.

He originally wanted to uproot the Shinrikyo religion on this, but Wang Yue sent some more information, which made him stop his actions for the time being.

"Are you saying that there are many people in Hanzhong and Zang Ba who also believe in Shinrikyo?"

Chen Cheng asked very strangely: "You said that there are people in Liangzhou and Guanzhong who believe this, I can still understand, how did Hanzhong and Taishan believe this?" ”

Wang Yue said respectfully: "Hanzhong Zhang Lu and Qingzhou Zang Babu originally believed in ghosts and gods, and the lord was famous and famous, so they were considered gods by them. ”

"That's right," Chen Cheng thought for a while, and said, "In the future, we will send people to supervise this Shinrikyo Sect, and all those who collect money will be sent to the Western Regions to grow cotton!" Dare to collect tithes, will the Inquisition be established in the future? ”

The general spoke, and the people below immediately took action. Hundreds of patriarchs and missionaries were sent to the Western Regions, and the imperial court issued an official edict ordering that there should be no more rallies and tax protests, not even if they took a walk in the streets together.

The matter was thus settled, and the Shinrikyo religion, which had the potential to burn the prairie in Liangzhou and Guanzhong, fell silent. For a long time, it could only run underground, and there were no more exaggerated behaviors such as building temples and compiling and issuing canons, at least not on the surface.

But when the patriarchs and missionaries arrived in the Western Regions, they quickly turned them red. They hugged each other and preached the theory that "the general is the only true god in the world" all day long, and after putting on steel armor, they held a mace in one hand and science as a weapon in the other, and soon defeated all kinds of cults in the Western Regions.

The most important thing is that there are many officials and soldiers in the Western Regions Governor's Mansion who believe this. Many of them had fought under Chen Cheng and had personally experienced the miracles mentioned by the patriarchs. As soon as he came into contact with him, he threw himself into the camp of Shinrikyo. Moreover, Shinrikyo not only calls people to exercise their bodies and crusade against Diyi, but also tells them to study all kinds of scientific knowledge diligently, saying that books such as "Mathematics", "Physics", and "Chemistry" are the fundamental canons of Shinrikyo.

Cults that have mastered scientific knowledge are not ordinarily powerful. What Buddhism, Nestorianism, Tianfangism, Taoism and the like, are all scum in front of the Truth Religion. Later, Zhang Lu also sent people to the Western Regions and invited the patriarch to Hanzhong to preach. Those patriarchs are all muscular, wearing steel armor, hammers in one hand, and scientific men in the other.

They often fought with those Hu people in the Western Regions, even if they did not specialize in military affairs, they also knew how to organize a small-scale army to fight, and after arriving in Hanzhong, these patriarchs instructed the followers of the Wudoumi Sect to learn how to fight and farm, which made Liu Zhang's head extremely big.

Seeing that these people from the Shinrikyo were indeed effective, Zhang Lu took the opportunity to revise the doctrine, declaring that the great general was the embodiment of the Tao, so he could be invincible, so he could have all kinds of miracles. The believers of the Wudoumi Sect actually believed it and built a temple for Chen Cheng in Hanzhong, and also gave him an honorific title, called "Gou Chen Dijun".

Gou Chen is a great god in ancient legends, and Zhang Lu doesn't care if it's right or not, he uses it anyway. Of course, he didn't do this because he really believed that Chen Cheng was a god, but because after doing this, he would be able to make friends with Xiliang. The Shinrikyo only went underground in Xiliang, but it was not completely cut off, and its power was still very large.

Under the inspiration of the patriarchs, many retired soldiers brought their own dry food to Hanzhong to help Zhang Lu fight. Xiliang's Haoqiang also took the opportunity to sell a lot of military supplies. After the disarmament and redressing, many armor and weapons in Xiliang were piled up in the warehouse, which not only had to occupy space, but also had to be maintained frequently, and it was a happy thing to be able to sell them to Hanzhong.