Chapter 228: Lei Huang's Troubles

Not long after Guan Haishan arrived in Xiling, this was also the first time that the Thunder Yin Demon Sect had built a special religious building in the entire northern part of Xiling. Prior to this, although the Thunder Yin Demon Sect had set up branches in many towns, they had all purchased the original courtyard and slightly transformed it, at most, the original hall was converted into a worship hall. Those sacrifices and members of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect can live in these courtyards, although the conditions are more difficult due to the need to house quite a large number of people, but everyone also feels that the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, which has always been simple and practical, should be like this. In addition to this, these courtyards often have to receive ordinary believers from all over the world, and the utilization rate of these courtyards has always been very, very high after they were bought.

In fact, the local believers in Xiling were initially very controversial about whether to build a temple complex like the Lei Yin Temple. Although the Thunder Yin Demon Sect has always been able to get funding from Yunzhou, at least on the surface, they can't show that they are wealthy. However, due to the implementation of a fairly strict membership management system, in the early stage of development, when the number of sects has not yet reached a certain number, especially when the donations of disciples are still quite limited, the management cost of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect is quite high. Those courtyards that were scattered in various places still had considerable pressure on the finances of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, at least on the surface. Even if everyone decides to build a temple, it will be a problem to free up the cost there.

However, what finally made everyone decide to build the temple was the annual large-scale festival of the Daoming sect. Although last year in the mountain behind the Zhujun Palace, Guan Huan beheaded the people of the Eagle Hall in full view of everyone, accusing the Daoming Sect of the Eagle Hall of tyranny and arbitrariness, which greatly dealt a blow to the influence of the Daoming Sect in the north. After that, Daoming Sect assisted the government to suppress the people, and other behaviors made Daoming Sect more and more distrusted, and these also made the Thunder Yin Demon Sect proudly seize the opportunity to compete with Daoming Sect in the north of Xiling in a short period of time. However, at the end of the year, Daoming Sect was vigorous. Compared to the grand ceremony of last year, it attracted an astonishing number of believers to gather and cheer again and again for every word of the Daoming Sect's scholars who preached the scriptures in a frenzied atmosphere. And in that atmosphere, even the most sane person can't help but waver, wondering if he should abandon his original little doubt and devote himself to the many followers of the Daoming Sect, become one of them, and become one of the many people who seek great truth and eternal life. And in that atmosphere. Even the followers of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect who went to observe the missionary situation of the Daoming Sect near the Bamboo Monarch Hall were a little shaken.

The missionary process is indeed similar to the sale of a product, especially in the absence of innate factors such as nation, nation, family, etc. Religion is a kind of sustenance, and it is also a consumption behavior that uses one's own spiritual, time, and financial investment to obtain psychological security and expect some kind of "well-being" to occur. And since this is the case, then ordinary people naturally have to shop around to see which god is bigger, to see which religion can move them more, and to see which religion is more powerful and can protect themselves. Even though the original trust of the Daoming Sect among the common people is really not high. But the power displayed during such a large-scale memorial event, especially compared to the simple and simple courtyards and simple activities of the Lei Yin Demon Sect, was obviously more able to capture people's hearts. This is the same reason that modern enterprises can get the same big profits from large investments in advertising.

The achievements of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect in just one year have already made them, who are considered a sect of the Daoming Sect above the name, especially those with relatively high status among them, see a different vision. The highest level from Dongping was naturally glad that the Thunder Yin Demon Sect had already gained a foothold. It has been able to exert a certain influence on local government affairs through its own organization, and has gathered many people from all walks of life who are dissatisfied with Xiling's increasingly theocratic system; Those who are devout have experienced the joy and sense of accomplishment that can be brought to themselves by gathering more Catholics and helping more Catholics. It was as if the way to heaven was at their feet; And those who entered the Thunder Yin Demon Sect with some ambition saw more and more the power and wealth they were able to grasp through more and more disciples...... Even those ordinary disciples were unwilling to accept that the Thunder Sound Demon Venerable they believed in was actually that shabby, and they could only take shelter in a simple shrine.

The original unresolved funding issues were fully implemented in less than a month, most of which came from donations from senior members of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect. Lei Huang originally wanted to let those poor low-level members and peripheral sect members keep some money in their hands, so as not to suffer their lives because of donations, but he didn't expect this instruction to become the first time in the history of Lei Huang, who has always been wise, that he was understood but resisted...... What Lei Huang didn't expect was that the last gap in the temple's budget was actually filled by Xiling's high-ranking officials: Sun Boping, the political envoy of Taizhou.

Sun Boping actually didn't want to be with the Thunder Yin Demon Sect. Or any contact with groups such as the Daoming Sect, which still dominates most of Xiling, but he has not been able to resist the tender offensive from his daughter Sun Mei'er. When Sun Meier was traveling around Taizhou, she happened to meet the rare Lei Huang personally giving a lecture. Sun Mei'er was just wondering why so many people gathered together and ordered the carriage to stop on the side of the road, but after only listening to a short passage of Lei Huang's lecture, she was firmly attracted by Lei Huang's passionate but simple and intimate sermons.

Lei Huang is not as arrogant as the children of the Xiling officials and eunuchs that Sun Mei'er usually comes into contact with, and always looks like he looks at people with his chin down, if he is not standing on a high platform. Wearing the costume of the high-level sacrifice of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect. If it weren't for the black cloak he wore on top of his modest clothes, he would have looked almost the same as the shop boys. But once Lei Huang began to speak. began to say his half-prepared and half-on-the-spot words little by little, and there was a kind of demagogic power in it.

Lei Huang's words are not literary at all, if it is Ye Tao or talk about Weixin, or it will be very accurate and fashionable to say, it is the language of the working people. Lei Huang told the stories of ordinary people themselves, especially those absurd things, which repeatedly made the ordinary people present with similar experiences laugh and tear and empathize. All kinds of dialects, local dialects, folk songs, and Lei Huang can easily become the material for his own sermons in various places in the north of Xiling, and he is even compiling a limerick poem with sixteen sentences, each of which is read in a dialect or local dialect to have the best effect. This seemingly ordinary Lei Huang can make everyone present constantly change their emotions according to what he said, from sadness to joy, from low to high, from disappointment to hope...... And when he recited a once-popular folk song in a mournful tone, the sound seemed to echo in everyone's ears, making the hall where two or three thousand people had gathered so quiet that everyone's own breathing seemed abrupt.

"God, you're old

Deaf and blind,

You can't see people, you can't hear words!

Glory to the murderer and arson,

Vegetarians and people who read the scriptures are starved and killed!

God, you can't be the sky, you're collapsing!

You won't be the sky, you're collapsing! ”

——Just after reading this ballad, Lei Huang's tone became intense. The whole audience was mobilized by Lei Huang, shouting "no" to the injustices mentioned by Lei Huang again and again, and bowing their heads in shame for their cowardice and inaction under Lei Huang's questioning again and again. In the entire sermon, Lei Huang didn't even mention the Leiyin Demon Sect many times, and asked everyone to believe in the Leiyin Demon Sect, but asked everyone to believe in themselves and start from small things...... And such a Lei Huang can't help but make everyone trust.

After listening to such a sermon, Sun Meier became a fan of Lei Huang. Relying on the identity of the political envoy, he repeatedly asked to see Lei Huang, and as she continued to contact Lei Huang, she became more and more infatuated with this young "Lord Pope". After a few long conversations, although Sun Meier also felt that Lei Huang did not want to offend himself because of his identity and status, he also felt Lei Huang's understanding and sympathy for the lives of the people, as well as Lei Huang's unique ambition to help the world.

With a completely open daughter of a disciple of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, with Sun Boping's status, not to mention how embarrassing it is. And even with a father like Sun Boping, Sun Mei'er was not able to be taken care of, and still accepted the assessment of ordinary disciples to become members step by step. After meeting Lei Huang twice, Sun Boping didn't know whether he really liked this simple and pragmatic young man or was also bewitched by Lei Huang's words, he himself had a strong interest in the Lei Yin Demon Sect, and began to find those simple printed materials to study. And when Sun Mei'er begged his father to come up with a large sum of money to fund the construction of the temple of the Lei Yin Demon Sect, even if he knew that this would cause great dissatisfaction in the Daoming Sect, it would also make the court have the pretext to attack him for the officials who were promoted to this position with plenty of oil and power in the line of fire back then, and he still easily agreed after Sun Mei'er's several requests. Not only that, but because Sun Boping is still more optimistic about Lei Huang, he feels that it is not a way for his daughter to always mix with Lei Huang, and the rise of the Lei Yin Demon Sect is not his future opportunity...... Just after the New Year, just a few days before the Lei Yin Demon Sect Temple in Lion Rock ushered in its chief engineer, Sun Boping found someone to officially propose to Lei Huang, wanting to marry Sun Mei'er to Lei Huang.

And this question really stumped Lei Huang. He's not just the Pope of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, he's a Dongping spy.