Chapter 613: Holy Dao Gate

The status of the Holy Daomen in Huazhou was a little embarrassing at this time, the original intention of the establishment was to compete with the Western religion that spread because of the Dutch people, when it was founded, among the displaced people who migrated from the mainland in Huazhou, the number of Taoist monks was already very scarce, and the status of Chen Chong, who invented smokeless gunpowder, was the highest both officially and privately, so he was also called the head of the Holy Daomen.

Chen Chongdao, who came from Louguantai in Shaanxi, was really indifferent to fame and fortune, and after sitting in this position, he was just obsessed with his alchemy every day, and what he did was nothing more than to write the teachings in accordance with the official wishes of Huazhou, and then he didn't care too much about the details of the teaching.

This holy gate has been given too much meaning, so his teachings are quite interesting, Taoism talks about non-action, talks about the practice of this world, but the holy door talks about no disease, and talks about forging ahead in this world. In fact, it is already tens of thousands of miles worse than the real Taoists and the so-called Taoism.

There is a rather attached explanation in the teachings of the Holy Daomen, saying that the Taoist "non-action" is "no disease", no matter how fallacious the text is, it will not be like this, but no one will take it seriously, pinch their noses and admit it. Since it is said that there is no disease, the Holy Daomen attaches great importance to medical skills, and most of the children in the sect are doctors or apprentices of doctors, and these people are called pharmacists.

Some of these doctors and apprentices who knew medical skills and pharmacology were helping diseases in the civilian population, and some were serving as military doctors in the army. Treating diseases and saving talents is the most practical thing, and whatever you say is out of the blue, it is not as good as this kind of real effect of helping others.

If you want to be treated by the pharmacists without reservation, and you only need to pay a relatively small consultation fee afterwards, then you need to join the Holy Dao Gate and call it a believer, and pay a small amount of incense money every month, which is called dedication.

This thing actually looks very similar to the medical insurance when Jiang Feng didn't cross over, but Jiang Feng didn't make much effort in it, Huazhou's industrial and commercial color made many economic things appear in advance, the army needs the military doctors of the Holy Daomen, the people need the pharmacists of the Holy Daomen, the internal security agencies need the Holy Daomen to spy on the voices of the people, and the intelligence agencies need the Holy Daomen to compete with underground cults such as the Daming and the White Lotus Sect.

There are so many people who need it, if it is a person who is enthusiastic about fame and fortune and can't see the situation clearly, he will definitely recruit disciples on a large scale, but although Chen Chong usually doesn't care about teaching affairs, he throws everything to the Taoist officials of the Holy Daomen, but this matter has always been insisted on, those who pay incense money and declare their belief can only be believers, and to become a believer, they must know medical skills or have some foundation.

Lang Zhong and the doctor is a relatively scarce profession, the Holy Daomen in Huazhou know how to know the medical skills of the people are recruited under the door, and then half of the high salary lure, half of the kidnapping threat, the north of Lang Zhong and the doctor or something moved over a lot, so it is still not enough, helplessly, the Holy Daomen can only imitate the various lecture halls opened in Huazhou, opened the Holy Church, this church is to select those experienced doctors as teachers, clear-minded young people as students, teaching the method of curing diseases and saving people, if you are successful in your studies, You can be called a pharmacist.

The selection is strict, and the people who come out are all talents who know medical skills, and Huazhou naturally attaches great importance to such institutions, and does not spare money for businessmen and treasurer officials who are extremely budget-conscious, and there is a special fund to allocate it, and everyone who is called a pharmacist has a large salary.

Because of the generous salary and high status, the qualifications for being called pharmacists and believers are also extremely strict, and Chen Chong is very persistent in this principle.

In the Holy Dao Gate, although the head of the sect Chen Chong was born in the Louguantai and was extremely proficient in the essence of Taoism, and he also liked to do some alchemy techniques that deviated from the inheritance of the Louguantai, but he did not appreciate those who could only tell the Taoist scriptures but had no real skills.

Therefore, the promotion in the Holy Daomen is always those who know professional skills to get the greatest benefits, and the promotion is the fastest, so the result is that except for a few people, the rest of the people in the Holy Daomen are not very proficient in the doctrine, but they all have a professional technology, or know how to use medicine, or are proficient in alchemy (which is already very close to experimental chemistry).

There was no threat to the regime, and those who believed in the Calvinist church were also curbed, and the spread of the Calvinist church brought by the Dutch was also curbed, and the Holy Word was beneficial and harmless to Washington.

Jiang Feng and Liu Shunhua saw this momentum, the Holy Daomen was originally established to confront the Western Church, although they did not expect that it would actually have the role of the health department. The Holy Daomen has also been incorporated into Huazhou's own system, and the head of the Holy Daomen is equivalent to the level of the six divisions of Huazhou, that is to say, Chen Chong's status in the official sequence is equal to that of the treasurer, Si Nong and other members of the ruling party.

The rest of the officials of the Holy Daomen are arranged according to the official grade of Huazhou, and there is an ancient saying in the land of China, saying that "if you are not a good person, you are a good doctor". In the land of Huazhou, it is really realized.

In fact, the incense offerings paid by the believers were not enough to maintain the treatment of the Holy Daomen, epidemic prevention, and the huge expenses of confronting the White Lotus Sect and other cults on the mainland. It is necessary to subsidize the Huazhou treasury, and the war is currently underway, and their estimated expenditures are the same as those of Sima Cheng, and there is a shortfall.

However, the emergence of prisoner of war labor camps made up for this very well, and the Holy Daomen of course also had its own share of the farm's output. Moreover, on the farm, the pharmacists and Taoist priests of the Holy Daomen preached their teachings while helping the wounded and sick prisoners of the Ming army.

For example, Buddhism says that it is diligent in cultivating this life in order to seek the reward of the next life, which is not as good as the pharmacist of the Holy Dao Gate to clean up your wounds and apply some decoction or medicine.

Since these prisoners were assigned to various parts of Liaozhen to cultivate land, because of the closed environment and the status of prisoners, although the officers and regimental envoys in charge of the prisoner of war camps in Huazhou swore that they would regain their freedom after three years of hard labor.

In the past few years, after the soldiers and horses of Jizhen, who thought they were still strong, were captured, they always thought that the other party would train themselves into a new army and use them on the battlefield, but they didn't expect that the other party would actually disarm them, divide them, and come to these places to serve hard labor, and these soldiers are not afraid of work, but this posture is not what they don't think about, this is to divide them and kill them cleanly.

So no matter how you explain it, small-scale escapes and mutinies are always endless, which is quite a headache, but after the Holy Daomen really participated in the management of the farm, everything was different, and the soldiers gradually settled down, thinking that since the other party sent a doctor to treat the prisoners, it would definitely not be to kill themselves.

Moreover, some prisoners who devoutly served the Holy Way and worked hard to learn medical skills were also relieved of their captives by the officers of the prisoner of war camps, and they were also treated as members of the Holy Way Gate.

There is such an example, the captives' minds are stable, everyone is devout and dedicated to the Holy Daomen, and even the labor efficiency has been improved a lot, which is really an unexpected joy, originally Sima engaged in the and pro-military camp also engaged in various means in it, such as differentiation and allocation, planting spies, etc., but there is no simple and effective means of the Holy Daomen, which has a reference for various departments in Huazhou, and sometimes it is necessary to engage in some flexible means appropriately, and the effect is very good.

In fact, this kind of mutual aid system of the Holy Daomen, with the payment of donations as a means of payment, has become popular throughout the Ming Dynasty, although there are such and such problems, but the believers of the Holy Daomen in this system still enjoy some medical services, which is a great benefit in this era.

At the beginning, most of these captives in the Liaozhen Prisoner of War Labor Reform Farm became disciples of the Holy Daomen and became believers, that is to say, although the captives of doctors who have mastered medicine and pharmacology are few, the more doctors in Langzhong, the better, and it can be regarded as a great achievement of the Holy Daomen.

Of course, among these prisoners, many of them have become secret agents of the pro-military camp and Sima Cheng, and the prisoner of war labor camp still has such an effect, which Jiang Feng, who formulated this rule at the beginning, did not expect, and the so-called historians of later generations have already praised this policy to the sky.

However, the so-called results were already a year later, and during the settlement of these prisoners of war, the footsteps of the Huazhou army did not stop, and Guangning was defeated, and the western Liaoning corridor had become a thoroughfare, and the three guards and horses between Guangning and Shanhai were mainly farmers, either surrendering or escaping into the pass.

Shanhaiguan as a pass, the meaning of geographical terms, far greater than his significance as a fortification, Shanhaiguan's Ji town guard will see this situation very clearly, here can not be defended at all, Huazhou army is still a day away from Shanhaiguan, Shanhai defenders give up defense, in Luanzhou camp around the deployment.