Chapter 340: Returning home
There are four archbishops under the two heavenly masters, who are in charge of the teaching affairs of Jizhou, Bingzhou, Shuozhou, and Youzhou, among which the archbishop of Jizhou and Bingzhou is concurrently served by Ji and Nanhai immortals, and the archbishop of Qingzhou is the eldest brother of Nanhai immortals Ge Xuan, and the archbishop of Shuozhou is Yu Ji's eldest brother Gong Chong. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Under each archbishop there are several bishops, scattered in each county, and each county is a diocese in charge of these bishops, and the political status of the bishop is very high, and he can sit on an equal footing with the county governor and the county lieutenant.
There are several priests under each bishop, scattered in the counties below the county, and are responsible for the affairs of each county.
There are several high priests under each priest, scattered in the townships below the county, and are responsible for the teaching affairs of each township.
There were several priests under each high priest, scattered in the pavilion below the township, and were responsible for the teaching affairs of each pavilion.
There is a chapel in each pavilion, and there are statues of four gods in the church, because the place is small, there are no statues of other gods for the time being, and a priest is a deacon in it, who is responsible for preaching, and conducts weddings, funerals, confessions, and other ceremonies for the believers, and worships them every five days.
There is a church in each county town, which contains statues of all the gods and immortals, and the priest is a priest, who is responsible for large-scale worship, and is responsible for the baptism and confession of important people in the county.
There is a cathedral distributed in each state city, which enshrines the statues of all the gods, celestial immortals, and earth immortals, and the archbishop is in charge of the large-scale worship in the state and the baptism and confession of important people in the state.
There is a super church in Xiangyang, which enshrines the statues of all the gods, heavenly immortals, earth immortals, and human immortals, which are in charge of the two heavenly masters, who are responsible for all the large-scale rituals of worshipping the heavens in the country, and are responsible for the baptism and confession of important figures in the imperial court. After the recovery of Luoyang, another super church will be built in Luoyang, and one of the Heavenly Masters will be in charge.
At this stage, Jin Liang could only train a group of missionaries from the Taoist priests, and train them for half a year, so that they could systematically master the knowledge of Tongtian doctrine, mythological system, Taoism, theology, psychology, etiquette, etc., and then send them to various counties and counties to carry out missions.
But not all of the more than 1,000 Taoist priests are willing to give up their original Taoist beliefs and accept Tongtian Sect, there are more than 300 Taoist priests who are unwilling to join Tongtian Sect, for such Taoist priests, Jin Liang asked Yu Ji and Nanhai Immortals to do persuasion work, if they can't be persuaded to do it, they will be treated as cultists, Jin Liang cultivates missionaries from those Taoist priests who are willing to join Tongtian Sect, because the missionary of Tongtian Sect should cover every pavilion, and the existing seven or eight hundred missionaries are simply not enough, according to the budget, it is necessary to cover more than 50 million people in the Han Dynasty, It would take at least 20,000 missionaries to do so.
At present, under the control of Jin Liang, he is preaching in the counties and counties of Jizhou, Bingzhou, Shuozhou, and Qingzhou, and then waiting for the trained missionaries to be in place, and then going to the townships and pavilions below.
For this reason, Jin Liang opened a seminary in the Central University Hall, specializing in training professional missionaries, of course, giving priority to selecting students from the families of Taoist priests who are willing to join the Tongtian Sect, and each seminary student must study in the seminary for three years, and then practice for one year in the county church, and only after the approval of the county pastor can they be sent to the pavilion-level chapel to preach.
Except for the 700 who turned from Taoist priests to Tongtian bishops and pastors at the beginning, all subsequent bishops, priests, and high priests must have attended seminaries, and they must all have the experience of preaching in pavilion-level chapels, and they must all be promoted one level at a time.
Jin Liang used this strict organizational structure to thoroughly set Tongtianjiao as an efficient and super-organized religion, and gradually became the only choice for the religious beliefs of the Han people.
Tongtian Sect was established, and problems followed, Yu Ji and Nanhai Immortals found Jin Liang Dao: "Jiaozun, Buddhism has the Huayan Sutra, Taoism has the Tao Te Ching, what classics do we have in the Tongtian Sect?" ā
Jin Liang said indifferently: "The two Heavenly Masters are here, wait for me to ask the Emperor of Heaven." ā
Pope Liu Bian, Auxiliary Han Heavenly Master Yu Ji, and Zuohan Heavenly Master Nanhai Immortals now position Jin Liang as the only messenger in the human world who can communicate with the gods, referred to as angels, Jin Liang wants to change this point, but the big fools he threw out before are difficult to recover, so he has to accept this positioning head-on, and he has to continue to pretend.
Jin Liang spent a whole night recalling the Christian "Bible" and the Islamic "Koran", using these two great religious classics as a blueprint, blending the myths and legends, the god system, and the Tongtian doctrine that had been set before, racking his brains, repeatedly revising, and finally concocting the Tongtian Bible, the "Tongtian Sutra".
When Jin Liang recalled the history of the development of the major religions in later generations, he suddenly found that he really had to set himself as the only messenger who could communicate with the gods.
Tongtian Religion is different from Buddhism, Buddhism is founded by Sakyamuni himself, set himself up as the supreme god, the so-called Buddha was born, in each direction of seven steps, the right hand points to the sky, the left hand points to the earth, saying heaven and earth, only I respect, by the founder and become the supreme god, this can not be applied to Tongtianism.
Tongtian is different from Christianity, Christianity was founded by Jesus, and later followers of Jesus regarded Jesus as the son of Jehovah and engaged in the Trinity. Can't do the Trinity.
Jin Liang had no choice but to follow the prophet of the Islamic religion, and in the "Tongtian Sutra", it is implicitly mentioned that in times of turmoil, the god Fuxi will always send an immortal from the heavenly realm to the world. This immortal will save the whole world and restore peace to this world.
Jin Liang understands the character of the Chinese people, which is different from the people in the Middle East. The people of the Middle East wanted Muhammad to tell them personally, and the people of the Han Dynasty believed more in some specious and vague things, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was the most popular proverb, and the people believed in some prophecies, and if they were told it clearly, they would be doubly suspicious.
When the people were speculating whether this person was Jin Liang or not, Jin Liang's attitude was to neither admit nor deny it. The more mysterious it is, the more the people recognize Jin Liang as the savior in the "Tongtian Sutra".
When Jin Liang handed over the "Tongtian Sutra" to the Nanhai Immortals and Yu Ji, the two heavenly masters were deeply impressed when they took a look, especially Yu Ji, who recalled that he wrote the "Taiping Qing Lingdao" alias "Taiping Sutra", compared with this "Tongtian Sutra". I really don't know what to do, but think about how Zhang Jiao can still develop millions of believers using that "Taiping Sutra", this "Tongtian Sutra" should be able to develop more believers for Tongtian Sect.
Many of the contents of the Tongtian Sutra were taken from the previous "Tao Te Ching" and "Taiping Sutra", which made the Nanhai Immortals, Yu Ji and other Taoists feel more cordial, but Jin Liang added a lot of private goods to the Tongtian Sutra. The biggest private thing is to tell the Han people through the "Tongtian Sutra" to try to sprinkle the care of the gods to all places where the sun shines, in other words, to tell the Han people that we should be an aggressive nation.
Jin Liang learned this private thing from the Islamic religion, an army with faith can defeat an army without faith, and with the support of strong faith, the army is invincible.
Historically, the ISIS army had very low individual combat ability and was very untrained, but their doctrine was very strong, and they turned a group of rabble into extremely fanatical, fearless and even willing to sacrifice, so as to defeat one army after another with no faith or weak faith, and successively took out the nests of Manichaeism, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. In the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", many of the Western Heavenly Buddha countries were greened overnight, and all the original ecological civilization and culture were destroyed.
Since ancient times, Central Asia has been a channel of communication between the East and the West, and it is also a place where all kinds of cultures, all kinds of religions, all kinds of sects, all kinds of cultures, all kinds of civilizations, once like a hundred flowers competing for beauty, and later, all Ismulin. The Ismulimists say that their doctrine is stronger, that it is the result of free competition, but in fact that the Ismulim legions burned down monasteries, drove out monks, destroyed texts, and divided history, with the aim of making it impossible to see anything but Islam. In this environment, all non-Isis heterogeneous civilizations are gone, and the local people have no choice but to believe in Islam and become Mulin?
The development speed of Islam has been far beyond Buddhism and Christianity, its extremely aggressive doctrine determines that it has great diffusion ability and possession properties, as long as it has been ruled by Islam in history, it has been basically an Islamic country until now, at the same time, it is still slowly spreading, some countries in Africa are beginning to become Islamic countries, and the population of European and American countries that believe in Islam is also increasing rapidly.
On the other hand, other religions, such as Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism, could only retreat in the face of Islam, and Christianity in general was gradually eroded.
Look at the Shinto religion of the Japanese people, the national religion of the Japanese people, Shintoism believes that the world is given to the Yamato nation by the gods, so the Japanese people have never stopped the war of aggression against foreign countries, and the Buddhist doctrine distorted by Shinto believes that as long as people die, they will become Buddhas, so they have created a large number of Japanese samurai who are not afraid of death, and also created a large number of Japanese devils who kill people without blinking, that is, after the death of the Class A war criminal Hideki Tojo, he will also become a Buddha, and the war of aggression is also in line with the interests of the Japanese country, so he is also a national hero, So it is enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine.
Although in the eyes of the Han people, such a belief of the Japanese people is not wrong, but as the smartest and most industrious Han people in the world, why must we be humble, why must we endure it, why can't we shout to the surrounding small countries, my Han wants to conquer you!
Counting on such eloquent emperors as Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty to stir up the bloody nature of the nation and instigate the Han people to expand their living space in war, after all, it can only last for decades, and cannot maintain this spiritual head for hundreds or even thousands of years.
How to maintain the momentum of the Han nation's external expansion for hundreds or even thousands of years is to learn Islam and establish a strong religion.
Although the peace-loving Han people always look down on those who start wars at every turn, we must admit that in the era of cold weapons, if the Han nation could have such a strong religious belief and with the wisdom, industriousness and courage of the Han nation, it would surely sweep the whole of Asia and even the world.
In religion, if you add something positive, you can stir up the whole nation to be active.
In the process of founding the Tongtian Sect, Jin Liang's heart has always been uneasy, and what he is most worried about is the attitude of his people towards the gods.
Think about the 21st century those good men and women who burn incense and worship the Buddha and look very sincere, they seem to be very pious, in fact, they do not believe in it from the bottom of their hearts, and the attitude towards the gods is **naked utilitarianism.
Jin Liang thought about it deeply and was relieved, it was only the second century in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, not the twenty-first century when science was prosperous and people's hearts were not ancient. Perhaps the Han nation in the 21st century has no religious belief at all, believing in everything but not at all, but this is not the case with the Han nation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
In the Xia, Shang and Zhou eras, religious belief was very popular, the emperor sacrificed to the sky, and the people worshipped their ancestors, and the Chinese people at that time were still 100% religious. However, because the Chinese could not understand how God and the heavens ruled the universe, the founding theory was very pale, so the "distant theism" of Confucius was created. Since Confucius, he has not casually talked about "strangeness, force, chaos, and gods". When Confucius's students asked him how to deal with ghosts and gods, as well as life and death, Confucius said, "If you can't do anything to people, how can you do ghosts?" Unknown life, unknown death? "Confucianism is neither devout theism nor atheism, but atheism.
However, Confucianism has only mastered the ideological field for more than 200 years, and the so-called aphthism is only active in the upper class of scholars, and in the psychology of the middle and lower classes, there is still the worship of gods, after all, the problem of birth, old age, sickness and death, and the problem of ghosts and gods are a kind of spiritual need of people, especially in the two Han Dynasty periods, disasters continued, wars continued, and the people's life and death were uncertain, and spiritual belief was needed.
If it weren't for the fact that Buddhism and other religions were all passed down by the Hu people and rejected by the Han people, I am afraid that Taoism would have ceased to exist a long time ago, and the current Han Dynasty is in great need of a perfect and active religion to fill the gap in people's spiritual world.
Moreover, there has always been a deep-rooted religious belief in the bone marrow of the Han people, that is, ancestor worship, you can not worship any gods, but you can't help but worship ancestors. Moreover, the Han people believe in the Mandate of Heaven the most, and the older they get, the deeper their belief in the Mandate of Heaven becomes, and the more they believe that there are gods in the world.
When Jin Liang figured out all this, he no longer worried about anything, but vigorously developed the Tongtian Sect without hesitation.
Although Jin Liang understood the great impetus of religious belief for a country's national spirit, he did not want Tongtianjiao to repeat the mistakes of Buddhism, Taoism, and Christianity, and did not want Tongtianjiao to interfere too much in politics, let alone let Tongtianjiao override politics, so he strictly restricted the scope of Tongtianjiao's activities, only allowed to preach, not allowed to interfere in local government affairs, let alone military affairs, and strictly limited the size of churches, not to exceed 100 priests in super churches, 40 priests in cathedrals, and 10 in churches. There was only one chapel, and considering that there was only one clergyman in the chapel, the clergyman's wife or other devout believers were allowed to assist him as auxiliary clergy.
Like Taoism, although all the laws and regulations of the state can regulate the activities of the priests, these priests can marry wives and eat meat, and there are no unreasonable taboos of other religions.
When Tongtianjiao developed to a certain extent, and when Jin Liang's power developed to a certain extent, Jin Liang was ready to completely ban other sects in the Han Dynasty, and would only retain Buddhism among the domesticated Hu people, and retain Confucianism, which was dominated by political beliefs, and other religions, especially foreign religions, all of them would be attacked, and all related buildings would be changed to Tongtian churches.
Now the center of the Han Dynasty is Xiangyang, the center of Xiangyang is the Imperial Palace, the right side of the palace towers the central castle, the left side of the palace has recently fallen into a huge white stone tower, the base of the tower is all paved with white marble, this white tower is a straight ladder from the southeast and northwest sides, each step of the ladder is gilded in sections, the gilded surface forms a section of golden gossip pattern, there is a flag standing on the top of the white tower, and a Taiji gossip map is drawn on it, mysterious and harmonious.
The giant white tower is the world-famous Tower of Babel, with a total of 365 steps, one for every 30 steps, and 12 for each step.
At the same time, the Tower of Babel is the largest church of the Tongtian Sect in the Han Dynasty, which enshrines the statues of all the gods, heavenly immortals, earth immortals, and human immortals, especially the statues of the four great gods of Pangu, Huaxu, Fuxi, and Nuwa, all of which are more than six high, and the whole body is gilded, and the April sun shines through the cracks of the Tower of Babel, and the four statues of the gods are shining with golden light, dazzling, especially the top of their heads, often shining with dazzling apertures, which further enhances their sense of sacredness, except for a few insiders such as Jin Liang, all the believers enter the Tower of Babel and see the four statues, I can't help but feel the urge to kneel down and worship.
After Jin Liang participated in the inauguration ceremony of the Tower of Babel, he handed over all the follow-up matters to Yu Ji and the Nanhai Immortals, and he was ready to break free from the tedious teaching affairs and return to the military affairs he was familiar with.
Jin Liang returned to his general's mansion, rolled the saddle and dismounted, and was about to lead the red rabbit horse into the mansion, when a person walked by at the gate of the mansion and stopped him and said, "Senior brother, don't come unharmed?!" "The voice is slightly hoarse, and it is a very nice mezzo-soprano. There was a heavy resentment in the plain words.
Jin Liang Dingqing saw that it was Cai Yan, who had not been seen for many days, and had been playing with his eldest son Jin Qi since he began. Accompanied by Cai Yan, Diao Chan, Zhang Ning, and Zou Qing's four wives to give birth, Jin Liang was immersed in the joy of family, and he founded Tongtian Sect with the two great gods of Nanhai Immortal and Yu Ji. As soon as Jin Liang was busy with teaching affairs, he returned to the General's Mansion and played with his wife and children, and at this time he completely forgot his marriage contract with Cai Yan.