Although Wei Yan understood that religious belief was a great impetus 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.

Therefore, he strictly restricted the scope of Tongtian Sect's activities, and was only allowed to preach, and was not allowed to interfere in local government affairs, let alone military affairs.

He strictly limited the size of the church, not more than a hundred priests in the super-church, no more than forty in the cathedral, no more than ten in the church, and only one in the chapel, and allowed the priest's wife or other devout congregants to assist him as auxiliary priests, considering that only one priest in the chapel could not be busy.

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 has developed to a certain extent, and when Wei Yan's power has developed to a certain extent, Wei Yan is ready to completely ban other sects in the Han Dynasty, and will only retain Buddhism within those domesticated Hu people, retain the Confucianism that is dominated by political beliefs, and other religions, especially foreign religions, will all be attacked, and all related buildings will be changed to Tongtian churches.

Now the center of the Han Dynasty is Yiyang, the center of Yiyang is the General's Mansion, the left side of the General's Mansion has recently completed 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, northwest 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 white tower is the world-famous Tower of Babel, with a total of 365 ladders, one for every 30 steps, and 12 for each 12 steps.

At the same time, the Tower of Babel is the largest church of Tongtian 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 zhang high and are gilded throughout.

The sunlight shone in through the cracks in the Tower of Babel, and the statues of the four gods were shining with golden light, dazzling, especially the top of their heads, often shining with dazzling halos, which further enhanced their sense of sacredness, except for Wei Yan and a few other insiders, all the disciples entered the Tower of Babel and saw the statues of the four gods, and they couldn't help but have the urge to kneel down and worship.

After Wei Yan participated in the inauguration ceremony of the Tower of Babel, he handed over all the follow-up matters to Yu Ji and Zuo Ci to take care of, and he was ready to break free from the tedious teaching affairs and return to the military affairs that he was familiar with.

Wei Yan returned to the general's mansion, rolled the saddle and dismounted, preparing to lead the black horse into the mansion.

A person walked by at the gate of the mansion and stopped him: "General, don't come unharmed?!" ”

The voice is slightly hoarse, it is a very nice mezzo-soprano, and the flat words have a heavy resentment.

Wei Yan Dingqing looked at it, and it turned out to be Cai Yan, who had not been seen for many days.

Since he began to play with his eldest son, and accompanied Zhuge Meng, Fan Xue, and the three wives of the foot trainer to give birth, Wei Yan has been immersed in the joy of family, that is, he founded Tongtian Sect with Zuo Ci and Yu Ji, two great gods, and Wei Yan also returned to the General's Mansion as soon as he was busy with teaching affairs, and played with his wife and children.

At this time, he completely forgot about Cai Yan.

I haven't seen Cai Yan for more than two months, she has changed a lot, now she is much thinner, her chin is pointed, and her eyes are also bigger because her face has been slimmed.

Wei Yan couldn't help but feel a little annoyed at his forgetfulness, and he actually left such a beautiful and lovely talented woman behind.

Wei Yan sneered embarrassedly: "I've been busy lately, I've been so busy, how are you doing?" ”

Cai Yan's little face tightened, and he barely squeezed out an aggrieved smile: "The concubine is the dean of the Central Academy Women's College, and the things in the college have passed the busiest beginning stage, and now they are all in order, and I don't need to keep an eye on them all the time. ”

Wei Yan heard the word *** from Cai Yan's mouth, although he understood Cai Yan's original intention very well, but he couldn't help but think crookedly, seeing Cai Yan so beautiful and refined, he sighed secretly, such a beautiful woman can only ***, it is really a tyrannical thing, and the culprit of the tyrannical thing is himself, a fool who is too busy all day long to pick up girls.

Wei Yan despised himself a little for a moment.

Cai Yan's words were full of resentment, so Wei Yan didn't know how to respond, so he had to smile faintly and didn't answer.

Cai Yan saw his indifferent look, and she was also reserved not to say anything about her heart, she quickly remembered the pretense she used to come over this time: "General, the concubine came this time to ask you for an article." ”

"What article?" Wei Yan smiled: "Senior sister, you are only eight years old, and your literary talent is far superior to yourself, so you shouldn't need to ask for it." ”

"Only eight buckets high?" Cai Yan was confused, and asked suspiciously, "Senior brother, what do you mean by this?" ”

Wei Yan then remembered that the idiom of Cai Gao Badou was a metaphor used by the Southern Dynasty poet Xie Lingyun when he praised Cao Zhi, he said: "There is only one stone in the world, Cao Zijian (Cao Zhi) monopolizes eight buckets, I have one bucket, and the world is divided into one bucket." "Now although Cao Zhi was born, he is not yet famous, and Xie Lingyun was born hundreds of years later.

Wei Yan's brain teaser and said with a smile: "There is only one stone in the world, Wen Ji, you have eight buckets, I have one bucket, and the world has one bucket!" ”

Cai Yan snorted and said: "General, do you remember that you were the first to say that you were the first to slap the sycophants, you laughed at your subordinates for not slapping the sycophants, but you slapped the concubines on the back!" ”

Cai Yan's face tightened, and he pretended to be angry: "General, your fart slapped on the horse's leg, and it was my father who was really talented." ”

Wei Yan arched his hand and smiled: "Cai Zhonglang is talented, he deserves such praise, but Wen Ji's talent also has the tendency to be better than the blue." ”

Cai Yanwan smiled and said: "General, your words, your writing, my father can't do it in the world." General, I have read the "Shi Shuo" you did for the Teachers College and the "Ma Shuo" for the Political College, and they are written incisively and thought-provokingly. ”

It turned out that Wei Yan had now improved papermaking and printing, and began to set up a newspaper called "Dahan Xunbao", and the editor-in-chief was Wang Cang.

Wei Yan then remembered the "Shi Shuo" he did for the Normal College and the "Ma Shuo" for the Political Science Institute ten days ago: "Wang Cang put these two articles in the Dahan Xun newspaper? The wording of these two articles is very simple, and I can't imagine that they can enter Wen Ji's eyes. ”

Seeing that Wei Yan was so modest, Cai Yan smiled and gave Wei Yan a pretty look, and then recited the "Shi Shuo" that Wei Yan said was his own creation: "Ancient scholars must have teachers. Teachers, so preaching, receiving karma, and solving doubts. If people are not born to know, how can they be free from confusion? If you are confused and do not follow the teacher, it is confused, and you will not be able to solve it......"

When reciting the last sentence "There is a sequence of hearing the Tao, and there is a specialization in the art industry, as it is", Cai Yan couldn't help but praise it: "General, you not only created a new style of poetry, but you also created a new style of style, we don't have to write flashy fu all the time in the future!" ”

Cai Yan continued to read "Ma Said": "There is Bole in the world, and then there is Maxima." Maxima often has, but Bole does not often have ......"

After Cai Yan finished reading, there was another burst of praise that was pertinent but made Wei Yan's face hot.

Wei Yan was very ashamed in his heart, could he tell Cai Yan that this was written by Han Yu, the eighth family of the Tang and Song dynasties.

He could only smile mysteriously and be noncommittal.

Cai Yan originally thought that she was very talented in literature, except for her father Cai Yong, she had no children to spare, and even Wei Zhongdao and her father's disciple Ruan Yu were far inferior to her in terms of literary talent.

She never expected that Wei Yan, a man who has always appeared as a reckless man, would continue to surprise her, making her realize that she had been repeating the literary endowment of her predecessors, and let her realize that there was still a lot of room for improvement in her literary talent.

Cai Yan's eyes were full of admiration when he looked at Wei Yan, and that admiration made Wei Yan ashamed.

Fortunately, Wei Yan has been cultivating Houhei for many years, and he has a thick skin, since he has plagiarized the poems and songs of Han Yu and other cultural celebrities in the Eastern Han Dynasty and hung his own name, he should accept people's praise of these poems with peace of mind, especially the person who praises is a beauty.

Wei Yan snorted and said, "As long as Wen Ji, you don't dislike my article for lacking literary brilliance." ”

Indeed, with the gorgeous rhetoric that was popular during the Han Dynasty, Han Yu's argumentative essay is inevitably a little lacking.

Cai Yan smiled, shook his head lightly and said: "After reading the article you wrote, the concubine realized that the popular fu of our Han Dynasty is full of meaningless and gorgeous words, flashy, and simply text garbage!" ”

Wei Yan originally thought that Cai Yan was really here to ask for an article this time, so he racked his brains, imitated Han Yu's brushstrokes, and encouraged women to bravely walk out of the family and do some work within their power to shoulder the burden of the family and withstand half the sky.

Cai Yan looked at it and couldn't help sighing: "Senior brother, have you been too busy lately, although this article has a good idea, but the rhetoric is too far from the previous two articles, junior sister, I doubt that those two articles were written by you." ”

Wei Yan smiled calmly: "You just assume that those two articles were not written by me." ”

Cai Yan looked at Wei Yan with a smile: "If you didn't write it, who else could write it, Wang Cang is just gorgeous in words, but they don't have a lot of knowledge, and they definitely can't write such a profound article." ”

In the following days, Wei Yan slowly discovered that Cai Yan was looking for himself to write an article because the drunkard's intention was not in the wine, the talented woman's intention was not in the text, but in the lover, and Cai Yan was chasing himself in the name of discussing poetry and songs.

Cai Yan was originally not very old and had no desire to marry, but seeing that Wei Yan's wives and concubines were all pregnant, and he had not been married by Wei Yan for a long time, Cai Yan was extremely upset, and he couldn't help but hate Wei Yan a little in his heart, hate his busyness, hate his passivity, and hate his breaking his word and getting fat.

When Wei Yan began to found the Tongtian Sect, Cai Yan finally couldn't sit still, she said to herself, you have time to engage in boring religion, why don't you take some time to marry me, now everyone in the world knows that I Cai Yan is your Wei Yan's woman, why do you still pretend that nothing has happened.

Later, Cai Yan suddenly woke up, changed his previous reserve, and began to take the initiative to approach Wei Yan.

From this day on, Cai Yan came to the General's Mansion every day in the name of asking Wei Yan for advice.

As long as Wei Yan returns to the General's Mansion after he is busy with government affairs, military affairs, and teaching affairs, he arrives home with the front foot, and Cai Yan comes with the back foot, and after he comes, he doesn't talk about feelings with Wei Yan, just talks about poetry and songs.

Wei Yan saw that Cai Yan was just discussing poetry and poetry with him, and his heart suddenly felt a lot easier, so he let go of his guard and discussed literature with Cai Yan.

Since crossing over, Wei Yan couldn't suppress the great joy of the typical traverser in his body, and he couldn't wait to move all the good things in the later generations, and he couldn't wait to immediately make up for all the historical shortcomings in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

But the manic state could not last, it lasted for a year and a half, and recently finished the trivial work of founding the Tongtian Sect, Wei Yan suddenly relaxed, feeling physically and mentally exhausted, because in the end, in this late Eastern Han Dynasty, he had no soulmate, everything he did had to be persuaded with hard work, he had to coerce and seduc, he was really tired!

Of course, the biggest reason why Wei Yan felt tired was not because the people in the late Eastern Han Dynasty could not really communicate, but because he remembered some people in the 21st century.

Every time Wei Yan thinks of the people in later generations who never care about the future and destiny of the country and the nation, and only care about their own immediate interests, and every time he thinks of some young people who never cherish the labor of others, have no quality, no integrity, and no basic ethics of being a human being, he feels that everything he is busy with now is meaningless, especially engaging in this Tongtian Sect, because those people in later generations do not care about whether they have spiritual beliefs or not.

Wei Yan has always had a sense of mission, to make this country and nation the supreme in the world forever from the second century, but think about what there is to work hard for those shameless, despicable, and filthy garbage mixed with the country and nation, there is an irrepressible discouragement and despair permeating Wei Yan's heart, he even wants to give up completely and start to live like the natives of the second century, live like Cao Cao, don't think about so many problems of later generations, don't go to the thankless task of doing some useless historical work.