The world is in turmoil, and evil will be plentiful.

When people lose confidence in reality, they will inevitably pin their hopes on the ethereal gods, which provides the soil for the survival of crooked and evil ways.

Throughout the history of the development of religion in China, a very strange phenomenon appeared in the Ming and Qing dynasties: Authentic Buddhism and Taoism were declining day by day, while a wide variety of folk religions were in full swing, and at least ninety percent of these folk sects belonged to cults.

The reason for this can be traced back to the early years of the Ming Dynasty, when the rulers exercised strict control over Buddhism and Taoism. Although the government recognized and protected existing Taoist temples and temples, it almost did not approve the construction of new temples, and legal degrees were rarely issued, which greatly inhibited the development of orthodox religion. Not only that, but monks and Taoist priests are also kept in captivity in temples, and they are not allowed to preach and preach at will.

What are the consequences of this?

First, the population increased dramatically in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, but the number of religious personnel and religious sites did not increase with it, and orthodox religion could no longer meet the growing spiritual needs of the people.

Second, orthodox Buddhism and Taoism are unable to penetrate deep into the people, are unable to have cordial contact with the masses of the people, and gradually lose the ability to evolve and reform themselves.

Third, a large number of illegal folk religions have developed rapidly, and crooked and evil ways have flourished among them, squeezing out the soil for the social survival of orthodox religions.

The Qing Dynasty generally followed the religious policy of the Ming Dynasty, so that there were more and more civil church organizations, which directly affected the religious situation of the Republic of China. However, the loss of local control by the government of the Republic of China, coupled with years of wars and successive natural and man-made disasters, led to the spread of the originally prosperous folk illegal religion.

Among them, Shandong is a cult-stricken area, where wars and starvations are frequent.

"***" preaches the idea of the end times, believing that natural disasters and man-made disasters are the punishment of the gods to the mortal world, and only by believing in "***" can we get salvation.

And "***" is not a simple Taoist tribe, they claim to be "five religions in one", and the highest god they believe in is Wuji Old Mother. Mother Wuji had five sons, namely Confucius, Lao Tzu, Shakyamuni, Jesus Christ, and Muhammad. Not only are the five gods of the "***" sacrifice, but what Bodhisattva, Guan Gong, land, and city gods all worship.

That is to say, no matter which religion you originally believed, you can join the "***", which is the base camp for all religions to love each other.

The more wars and disasters in the Republic of China, the more rapid the development of "***", which is now not limited to missionary work in Shandong, but throughout the whole land of China.

The "Confucius and Mencius Dao" founded by Liu Congyun, the immortal of Liu Shenxian in Sichuan, is a branch sect of "***", also known as the "consistent innate avenue". "Confucius and Mencius" still had a little bit of discipline, did not engage in any "unity of the five religions", did not recognize Jesus Christ and Muhammad, and only recognized Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism as "three religions in one".

Liu Congyun is not an old man, and it will be two years before he turns 50. But he has long hair and combs his hair, and I don't know if it's pure natural, or if he uses hair dye, his beard looks a little gray, and he looks very old.

Liu Congyun is a native of Xindian, Weiyuan County, and worked as a private school teacher in his early years, often relying on fortune-telling and divination to defraud money. In the year of the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, Liu Congyun took advantage of the influence of the emperor's abdication to claim that the White Crane Immortal descended to earth, preached the idea of doomsday, and then founded the "Confucius and Mencius Dao".

Before colluding with the warlords, Liu Congyun already had tens of thousands of followers, set up six main altars and 108 branch altars, and had great power and prestige in Sichuan.

At this moment, Liu Xiang really respects Liu Congyun, because Liu Shenxian is like a god, and every word must be true. He was able to grow big among the many warlords in Sichuan, thanks to worshipping Liu Shenxian as a military advisor, which is a dual belief in career and spirituality.

In fact, the reason why Liu Congyun was like a god was because his disciples were all over Sichuan, including various warlord troops. To put it bluntly, the information that Liu Shenxian pinched his fingers and calculated, it was just information secretly transmitted by his disciples.

But Liu Congyun disdained to be only an intelligence chief, he packaged himself as a living immortal, and used various means to deceive the Sichuan warlords.

According to the development of history, in a few months, Liu Xiang will form a fourth army in addition to the land, sea, and air force-the Divine Army!

Liu Congyun has absolute control over the "Divine Army", and the soldiers are all followers of "Confucius and Mencius", and he can even mobilize the "Divine Army" to attack Liu Xiang, which is equivalent to a small warlord in disguise.

But the "Divine Army" didn't sound good after all, so Liu Xiang organized this unit as a "model division" - I don't know if Lao Jiang, who also carefully built a "model division", would be so angry that he vomited blood when he heard it.

Liu Congyun's influence on the Sichuan warlords grew until a few years later, except for Liu Xiang, all other warlords had to kneel and kowtow to Liu Congyun.

Demon Road!

Among the warlords of the entire "Air Force Exercise Observation Group," Yang Sen is the only one who understands. Although he nominally worshipped Liu Congyun as his teacher, he only took advantage of the situation, on the one hand, he could win over other religious warlords, and on the other hand, he could appease the religious soldiers.

Fourteen planes appeared on the runway, which was very rare in Sichuan, and attracted the admiration of warlords of all sizes.

This is also the ultimate purpose of Liu Xiang to form an air force and invite warlords from all walks of life to watch the show - to scare other warlords.

Liu Xiang said to Yang Sen proudly: "Brother Zihui, what do you think of my air force?" ”

"Mighty and majestic." Yang Sen nodded in admiration, but his heart was sour, and he was very jealous of it.

Thinking that when they went to military school together, Liu Xiang was the first from the bottom in every exam, while Yang Sen was often among the best.

But now?

Many old classmates in the class were overturned and subdued by Liu Xianggan, and this most incompetent "Liu Stuffyduner" actually developed the best!

Liu Xiang showed off to Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao again, turned his head and asked Zhou Hexuan: "Mr. Zhou, how does my air force compare with the air force of the central government and the air force of the northeast?" ”

Zhou Hexuan replied euphemistically: "Each has its own characteristics." ”

Liu Xiang took a lot of effort to form the Sichuan Air Force, and three years ago, he sent people to France with 200,000 silver dollars to order four planes. The parts of the aircraft were shipped to Vietnam for assembly, and it was supposed to be driven back to Sichuan, but the result was ......

The first plane had just taken off and was plunged headlong into a rice paddy. The second plane flew quite far and flew all the way to the border of Guangxi and Guizhou, when suddenly the engine stalled, and the plane crashed during a forced landing, seriously injuring the pilot.

After two failed test flights, Liu Xiang didn't dare to play exciting anymore, so he could only ask Lu Zuofu to send a ship to ship. Hung the British flag and transported to Shanghai, after passing through the customs, and then transported back to Sichuan all the way through the Yangtze River.

Today, Liu Xiang has 14 aircraft, which are ordered from the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, and are well-deserved "Wanguo brand" air force.

Fourteen planes took off smoothly and performed various "thrilling" flight shows. The big and small warlords in Sichuan looked up, and they all opened their mouths wide and felt shocked, and they were deeply afraid of Liu Xiang's military strength.

After the air show, a live fire show followed.

The pilot swooped down with the plane, and the bullets swept on the ground target, although the accuracy was not enough, but the momentum was still very scary.

After the gun is dropped, the plane flies through the crowd of spectators, the bombardier holds the shell and aims at the ground target, and lets go after feeling the position-

biu!

"Fuck me!"

Zhou Hexuan saw that the situation was wrong, so he rushed backwards with a rolling belt, lying behind the stone steps to avoid the shells.

"Boom!"

The artillery shells fell on the teaching regiment watching the exercise, and a center blossomed, and the teaching regiment suffered dozens of casualties in an instant, and even one of the right sides of the Yangtze River was blown off by the education regiment.

Liu Xiang was dumbfounded, and it took a long time to squeeze out a few words: "Mom sells batches, I'll be an immortal banban tomorrow!" ”