Chapter 302: Weng Gon
The attention of the people of Jiuyuan was diverted from the currency crisis on the evening of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.
As soon as the sun set on the sixth day of June, the coalition forces held a ceremony for the martyrs to enter the shrine as planned.
Due to the small area of Jiuyuan County, there is only a unified martyr's shrine to worship all the martyrs' spiritual seats, and the location is located in front of the Shimen Waterway.
Under the light of the four electric candles, one by one, the spiritual seats were sung into the martyrs' shrine, and the ordinary people of Jiuyuan were boiling. - Because at this time, it is not allowed to sacrifice to Weng Gon on the grassland at all!
Ongon is a shamanic deity.
Shamanism believes that everything has a soul, and that some souls can be sublimated into ungon after physical death.
For example, the soul of a person who has done great good will become a good man, and the soul of a great evil person will become an evil man. The good man ascended to heaven, and the evil man wandered on earth all day long.
Evil Men can kill children, and when they invade people's bodies, they cause pain. When the wicked man is harassing people, he must use the power of the good man to fight against the evil man and drive him away.
When the shaman invites the good mangon, he sings:
Run, run, run, run,
Kind-hearted Onggon, fly over.
Run, run, run, run,
The sandalwood table has been set, the nine pillars of incense have been lit, and the wise Onggon has descended.
The shaman, when banishing the evil man, would sing:
You evil ghost, your vital point has been caught.
You wandering Onggon, your vital point has been caught.
The beautiful stand-in has been made, it is pierced with human bones, and it will be handed over to you on the way to harm you, and you will leave quickly with the stand-in block.
In addition to the soul of some people can become Wenggon, mountains have Wenggon, rivers have Wenggon, plants and trees can have Wenggon, and animals can also have Wenggon, such as ox Wenggon, Ma Wenggon, tiger Wenggon, sheep Wenggon......
The steppe people used various materials such as felt, silk, fur, wood, and metal to make humanoid Wengon idols. When the wengon is made, all the prairie housewives will religiously come together to work together. When they were done, they would kill a sheep for a feast and burn the sheep's bones on the fire.
The protector of the grassland people is generally the ancestral Wenggon, who will be enshrined in tents; The Onggon, the protector of the animals, would be placed on either side of the tent portal, or in a beautiful covered cart in front of the door; As a kind of wengon to ward off diseases and demons, most of them are metal, ranging in size, and they are strung with leather ropes to make them easy to carry.
When worshipping these Wenggon, the steppe people will reverently smear Wenggon's lips with **. If someone is disrespectful to Wenggon, such as Weng Gon who steals tents, it will immediately arouse the anger of the steppe people, and the steppe people will directly execute this person.
However, since Altan Khan converted to the Tibetan Yellow Religion, the Yellow Sect monasteries and the Mongol aristocracy have joined forces to take various high-pressure measures to prohibit the worship of Onggon.
For the Mongols, this meant that they could not worship all kinds of wengon gon offerings; For the Han Chinese, it meant that they were not allowed to worship their ancestors. Not only that, but all the idols of Wenggon, ancestral spiritual seats, shaman totems, and ritual weapons must be burned.
But how easy is it for people to break thousands of years of tradition?
The common people still secretly keep the idols and ancestral tablets, especially the Weng Gon skewers to ward off diseases and demons. In some remote grasslands where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, there are still stories among the people about the heroic and epic Weng Gon fighting against the Buddha.
Now that the Federation and the Coalition are openly offering sacrifices to the martyrs' shrines, they strongly agree with two points:
First, from now on, the people of Jiuyuan can openly worship Weng Gon and worship their ancestors!
Second, after the death of those who sacrificed for the country, the soul of the person who died could become a wengon and be worshiped by future generations!
The custom of the steppe is that only the soul of a big man can become a weng gon after death. Ordinary people are dead, dust to dust, quietly leaving, just as they came quietly at the beginning, without taking a cloud with them, like an ordinary animal.
Now that sacrificing one's life for the country can become a Onggon, it shows that the martyr is fighting against the evil Ongon and ascending directly to heaven after death.
This aroused the enthusiasm of the steppe people to sign up for the army, and the competition in the equestrian assessment of the cavalry wing of the coalition army immediately became fierce the next day. The nomadic housewife sat at the mouth of her tent to recreate the various once lost idols of Onggon, and awaited with joy the good news that her husband had been selected for the cavalry wing.
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Sun Yi was worried.
Because the flower head cabinet that returned to Jiuyuan brought detailed information about the big board ascension city. It turned out that although there was an exchange of information between Dabansheng City and Jiuyuan every day, the old man Mo Rigen, who was sitting in Dabansheng, had been reporting good news and not bad news.
Happily, because of historical reasons, there have always been two political centers in the eastern and western regions of the Tumut steppe. The political center to the east is Kuku and Tun, which were named naturalized cities in the Ming Dynasty; The political center of the west is Dabansheng City, which was named Fuhua City in the Ming Dynasty.
Since the time of Altan Khan, the two political centers of the East and the West have been in constant turmoil. After the conquest of Tumut by Lin Dan of Chahar, Omu Buhong Taiji of Likuku and Tun was the new prince of Tumut, and Dabansheng City did not buy it.
Therefore, when Mo Rigen arrived in Dabansheng, he showed the seal of Altan, played the banner of the Dajin Kingdom, and recruited the army with the identity of Sun Yi Tabu Bag and the qualifications of Mo Rigen's old Tumut prince, and the people in Dabansheng did not feel that this was a betrayal of Tumut.
On the contrary, because the Omu Buhong Taiji of Kuku and Tun wanted to surrender to Manchukuo, and the Dajin army of Sun Yi Tabu Nang wanted to protect their homeland, the number of Mo Rigen's men and horses increased rapidly under the contrast. By the time the flower head cabinet left Dabansheng City, Morrigan's cavalry had reached no less than 2,000 people.
The worry is that there is also a silver Buddha temple in Dabansheng City.
The silver Buddha enshrined in Kuku and Tun is the Buddha of the present world, and the silver Buddha enshrined in Dabansheng City is the Maitreya Buddha of the next life. Maitreya Buddha Mongolian language is Mei Dai Zhao, so the Silver Buddha Temple in Daban Shengcheng is also called Mei Dai Zhao.
Dabansheng City is the first city on the grassland, and Meidaizhao is the first Huangjiao temple on the grassland. At that time, because the development space of Dabansheng City was too small, Altan Khan and Sanniangzi built Kuku and Tuncheng and moved to live, so the influence of Tibetan Huangjiao around Dabansheng was very great.
Originally, the lama summoned by Meidai turned a blind eye to Mo Rigen's actions on the surface, but in fact helped secretly, so Mo Rigen quickly gained a foothold in Dabansheng.
However, when the lamas learned that Sun Yi Ta Bu Nang's Iron Kingdom actually worshiped the white old man of the Shennong clan, they immediately issued a stern warning to Mo Rigen, asking Mo Rigen to strictly prohibit all kinds of Weng Gon in his cavalry ranks, and told Sun Yi Ta Bu Nang to immediately burn all the idols of the Shennong clan.
To this, Morrigan replied very simply: Impossible!
The lama, who was so angry that Mei Dai Zhao, immediately wanted to declare Sun Yi Ta Bu Nang and Mo Rigen evil heretical demons.
When Mo Rigen heard the news, he immediately led his troops to surround Mei Dai Zhao.
There are monks and soldiers in Meidaizhao, and at the moment the two sides are tense, and Dabansheng City is in a panic.
In fact, Mo Rigen did not dare to really attack Mei Dai Zhao, for fear of causing a backlash from the devout people around Da Bansheng; The lama summoned by Mei Dai didn't dare to really push Mo Rigen.
Most of Mozhigen's cavalry came from the remote steppes, and they were still full of shamans, and even some of the cavalry were refugees who had fled directly from the Kuku and Tun regions, having lost relatives to the surrender of the Ombu Lama. Angered these people, they really dared to light Mei Dai Zhao.
The two sides confronted each other for three days, and in the end it was over, but the relationship quickly fell below freezing.
The lamas of Mei Dai Zhao still turned a blind eye to Mo Rigen's actions on the surface, but secretly began to slander them, constantly creating friction between the believers and the Mo Rigen cavalry, and cutting off the supply of the followers to the Mo Rigen cavalry.
On the one hand, Mo Rigen had to organize the evacuation of the people on the grassland, on the other hand, he had to monitor the enemy situation in Manchukuo in the direction of Kuku and Tun, on the other hand, he had to recruit troops and horses, and on the other hand, he had to guard against the demolition from behind the scenes of Mei Dai Zhao.
The old man has no skills, works all day long, and becomes sick from hard work.
In order not to let the coalition commander be distracted, Mo Rigen kept concealing his illness and insisted until the beginning of June, when the news of the victory of the 39 Yuan reached Dabansheng City, and the old man breathed a sigh of relief and finally couldn't afford to get sick.
Now that the news of Mo Rigen's illness is still being blocked, Huatou Cabinet hurriedly returned to Jiuyuan's secret mission is to inform the coalition forces and quickly send someone to Dabansheng to preside over the overall situation!