The temple of protecting the country is not big, there are two courtyards before and after, the ancient cypress in the courtyard is towering to the sky, the main hall of the first courtyard is three rooms wide, two rooms deep, the hall ** enshrines a life-size bronze statue of Guan Gong, both sides are the gods of worship.

Regarding Guan Gongguan's second master being finally named an immortal high position like Guan Shengdi Jun, now this Chongzhen Emperor has no opinion.

Because of the wide spread of the story of the Three Kingdoms, the people believe in it so much, and Emperor Chongzhen doesn't have much to say.

However, for the future of the Protector Zhongyi Temple, Emperor Chongzhen has his own considerations and ideas, and will not just use it as the Guandi Temple as later generations.

Therefore, since entering the first courtyard, seeing that the main god of the main hall is not the Emperor Zhenwu, Emperor Chongzhen's face is not very good-looking.

After seeing the statue of Guan Gong in a green robe, red face and green turban, Emperor Chongzhen came out of the hall, his face was gloomy like water, until he came to the main hall in the backyard, and saw the statue of the Emperor Zhenwu who was wearing black clothes, gold armor and jade belts, angry eyes with swords, and stepping on turtles and snakes, and his face eased.

The Zhenwu Hall in the second courtyard of the Protectorate Zhongyi Temple is still the size and specification of three rooms wide and two deep, which is consistent with the specifications of the main hall dedicated to Emperor Guan Sheng in the front yard.

There is a side hall on each side of the east and west, which was originally used to store items such as rituals and magic weapons for worshipping Emperor Zhenwu, but now they are all empty.

Emperor Chongzhen led a few people around him to look around, and saw that although the name of the Protector of the Country and the Loyal Temple was loud, the pattern was too small, and he was quite unhappy.

Along the way, from the front yard to the back yard, and from the back yard let people open the back door, look at a bushy garden behind the temple, and never say a word.

This situation made everyone who knew something about the emperor sweat.

Sure enough, Emperor Chongzhen turned around silently, returned to the front yard, stood still under an ancient cypress tree, looked at the old Taoist priest Chen Fengxuan who was following him closely, and then said:

"Although I live in the palace, I have never been here, and I am very relieved to see that you and other Sanqing disciples are still guarding this temple!

"It's just that I don't know, what kind of god is your temple of protecting the country and loyalty!? Since you have inherited Shao Yuanjie, Tao Zhongwen, and Guo Hongjing, what god is you worshipping now? ! ”

Huguo Zhongyi Temple is a royal Taoist temple, the old Taoist priest Chen Fengxuan took over the abbot position here from his master, it has been more than 20 years, and now the beard is white, and he is over 70 years old.

Although he had never seen such a legendary figure as his ancestor Tao Zhongwen, when he was a little Taoist child, he had seen his master's master Guo Hongjing.

At that time, the disciples of Tao Zhongwen's lineage had a very high status in the eyes of the relatives of Emperor Jingshi.

However, since he had been learning the Tao for more than ten years, Tao Zhongwen and his disciples had successively ascended to immortals, and the status of their disciples and grandchildren had plummeted and deteriorated.

After Emperor Taichang ascended the throne, although they, Tao Zhongwen's disciples and grandchildren, were still waiting in this palace in the imperial city, the emperors of the old Zhu family never summoned them again, and they never came to the Protector Zhongyi Temple, which was not far from the Forbidden City in the Xuanwu Gate.

Emperor Chongzhen, who came today, is the first emperor of the old Zhu family to come here in the more than 20 years since he took over as abbot.

The old Taoist priest Chen Fengxuan naturally attached great importance to this opportunity, and he definitely didn't want to see anything dissatisfied with the emperor after he came.

Although he is over seventy years old, and he also has the appearance of a Taoist master, and he is familiar with the various classics and talismans handed down by the ancestors of the Zhengyi faction, but his heart of fame and fortune has not been completely eliminated.

Of course, with his observations over the years, he already knew that it was impossible for him and his disciples to obtain the achievements and status of ancestors like Shao Yuanjie, Tao Zhongwen, and Guo Hongjing.

However, he was still eagerly looking forward to getting a real title from the emperor before he became an immortal.

The title of real person is a basic standard for the abbot who was previously resident in the Zhongyi Temple of the Protector of the Country.

But since Emperor Wanli of Shenzong, it has suddenly become difficult to get the title of a real person.

Just now, after listening to the emperor's previous words, the old Taoist priest Chen Fengxuan's heart had hope for this.

But immediately after the emperor's next sentence, he was a little confused for a while, and he didn't know how to answer.

Including the many attendants in front of and behind him, they were also confused after listening to the emperor's questioning.

Of course, they heard the dissatisfaction in the emperor's question, but how could this be? This is the Emperor of the Saints!

Could it be that the young emperor in front of him was dissatisfied with the Guan Sheng Emperor who was enshrined in the courtyard for the first time?! It shouldn't be!

However, the emperor asked, and although Chen Fengxuan was puzzled, he had to reply when he should have replied.

At the moment when he opened his mouth to play, a thought flashed through his head like lightning, and then he changed what he was going to say, and said directly:

"The temple of protecting the country and loyalty, since the protection of the country first, this temple is dedicated to the god of worship, it is the god of my Ming Dynasty to protect the country - the North Pole Zhenwu Xuantian God! Since the Holy Emperor of Guan is the god of the Zhenwu Emperor! The first emperor worshiped Zhenwu with his obedience, which is the reason for his loyalty! ”

Chen Fengxuan vaguely seemed to understand the emperor's intentions, but he seemed to be unable to grasp something.

Just as he was pondering what to do with the statue of Emperor Guan Sheng, Emperor Chongzhen continued his words and said:

"There are countless temples dedicated to Emperor Guan in the world, but there is only one temple for my emperor to protect the country and loyalty! From ancient times to the present, there are many loyal and righteous people in the world, that is, since I created the Ming Dynasty, there are also many loyal and righteous people! If we talk about loyalty, why is there only Guan Sheng here?!

"The true martial arts Xuantian God is the god of the emperor and the protector of the country! Be the god of worship for the Emperor Ming to protect the country and the temple of loyalty!

"Guan Sage, the embodiment of the loyalty and righteousness of the ancient warriors, it is not impossible to worship the true martial arts!

"However, since the emperor Ming Zhao, the loyal soldiers who protect the country have died on the battlefield and returned to the horse leather shroud, but no one has been seen to worship Zhenwu and deserve to enjoy this temple! I thought it was unfair! ”

Emperor Chongzhen said this time, not only the old Taoist priest Chen Fengxuan understood what the emperor meant, but also the other close courtiers and attendants who followed the left and right also roughly understood the emperor's meaning.

Emperor Chongzhen did not want to completely promote Taoism, and he did not plan to promote Taoism to the position of state religion.

If he really wants to do this, he will not say whether it is right or wrong, just talking about the minister of the DPRK and China, he will not be able to pass the hurdle.

Moreover, there is not much need to do so, and the system of coexistence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism established by the Ming Dynasty is still reasonable in his opinion.

It is only because the imperial examination system is based on Confucianism that the Confucian family dominates and monopolizes the political right to be an official and recruit.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen is very able to understand the helplessness of Emperor Jiajing back then, and the various choices made under various and powerless helplessness.

However, like Emperor Jiajing and later Emperor Wanli, making the relationship between himself and the Wenchen group so stiff is not in line with the strategy of the current Emperor Chongzhen.

The three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism each have their own uses, and it is not good to lack any of them.

Taoism, especially the authentic Zhengyi faction of the Zhangjia of the Han Heavenly Master's Mansion in Jiangxi Longhu Mountain, is mainly based on talisman spells, curing diseases and exorcising ghosts, and various sacrifices and prayer ceremonies, which can just be used in national rituals.

Buddhism, especially the Yellow Sect in Tibetan Buddhism, can be used to control and image the Tibetans and Mongols in the Qinghai-Tibet region and the Northern Mongolian tribes.

As for Confucianism, which is the most powerful, it can only slowly change itself in the direction of applying it to the world.

For the other factions in the hundred schools of thought, such as the Legalists, the Mohists, the Bing Schools, the Zongheng Schools, and so on, they can only be slowly guided, encouraged, and slowly supported their development.

Of course, it's useless to be anxious about these things, and they can only be laid out after a long period of time.

It is said that just two days after Emperor Chongzhen visited the Protector Zhongyi Temple at the northern foot of Wansui Mountain in the north of the imperial city, that is, on the morning of the sixth day of the second month, he received a note from Jia Jichun, the left deputy imperial envoy of the Imperial Procuratorate, Niu Juming, the staff of the Ministry of War, and Xu Yuqing, who was transferred to the Ministry of Rites and served as the Ritual Secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Although these three people wrote separately publicly, the content of the letters and invitations was similar.

In the above letter, the three people "unanimously" asked Emperor Chongzhen for consent, and the imperial court allocated funds on the Jundu Mountain where Juyong Pass is located, on the Bauhinia Ridge where Bauhinia Pass is located, as well as on Baishan Mountain in the northeast of Datong City, Yiwu Lu Mountain outside Yizhou City in Liaodong, and on the Phi Island where the Marshal's Mansion in Dongjiang Town is located, to build the Martyrs' Shrine to collect and bury the bones of the Ming soldiers who have died in the previous battles against the captives since Wanli or the tablets of the gods, and set up Taoist priests to requiem and preside over at four o'clock, so as to highlight the court's intention of praising the loyal martyrs.

In addition, these three people are also in their own recitals, asking Emperor Chongzhen to allocate funds to expand the temple of protecting the country and loyality in the imperial city, and use it as the general shrine of the martyrs' shrines in the Ming Dynasty, and since the formation of the Guards and the soldiers who died on the battlefield in the towns of the nine borders since the Wanli period, the spiritual position of the people who have performed particularly heroic and outstanding has moved into it, and the same as the Emperor Guan Sheng, from the worship of the Zhenwu Emperor, the year of the memorial, and the eternal glory.