The first emperor is Liu Xie's father, Emperor Han Ling, Emperor Han Ling loved Wang Meiren back then, and loved Wang Meiren's son Liu Xie, Liu Xie had a deep father-son relationship with Emperor Han Ling, and immediately showed a memorable expression: "I miss the first emperor very much." ”

In front of everyone's eyes, Zuo Ci turned into a puff of green smoke and disappeared in place, and everyone in the hall was stunned.

After a while, a familiar voice came from outside: "Xie'er, my father has come to see you!" ”

From outside, a man of about thirty years old, dressed in a dragon robe, had a handsome face, and his face was overly green with wine.

Liu Xie couldn't cry and fell to the ground: "Father! ”

The court ministers present were all stunned, could it be that the first emperor came back from the dead, and when they saw Liu Xie kneeling, they had to bow down and worship: "Your Majesty the first emperor!" "It's an extremely weird scene.

Soon, the man's figure gradually dissipated, and Liu Xie cried bitterly, crying very sadly.

After a long time, Zuo Ci's trace slowly appeared in the position where Zuo Ci was sitting.

Zuo Ci also asked the court ministers present with a blank face: "What happened just now?" ”

All the ministers of the court and Liu Xie looked at each other, not knowing how to describe the strange scene just now, the man just now was indeed the first emperor.

A courtier who was bribed by Wei Yan took the first step, walked in front of Zuo Ci, bowed down and saluted: "Daoist Zuo, worthy of being a person with great magical powers, can actually communicate with the heavenly realm, invite the first emperor into the mortal world, and meet with the young emperor!" ”

He turned his head to Liu Xie and the ministers and said, "Your Majesty, such a person with great magical powers, if he is not named a national teacher, will he not yield his talents?!" ”

The Emperor Ling of Han who came out just now made Liu Xie feel a short-term father's love, Liu Xielong's face was happy, and he said with a happy face: "I will make the head of the left Taoist a national teacher and lead the Taoist priest in the world." ”

Among the ministers of the court present, a large part of them regarded the Taiping Road and the Five Bucket Rice Road as flood beasts, but most of them had been officials in the court for many years, and they knew that they could not disobey the holy will for the time being, but a few of them jumped out without opening their eyes, and said sharply: "Your Majesty, you must not, you must not, these techniques are all side doors, and they are just tricks and tricks, and they can be established as the right way." ”

Liu Xiezheng was overjoyed, and saw those Qingliu ministers kneeling below, shouting no, he couldn't help but be furious, especially when he heard that his father Emperor Han Ling invited the great supernatural powers of the mortal world to be said to be the side door and the left way, and even offended the little emperor's rebellion, he slammed the dragon case, and roared: "The left Taoist chief is a land immortal-like figure, so condescending to show you his supreme supernatural powers, you don't know awe, you are so slanderous, you are so disrespectful, despise the Dao, I don't condemn you today, so worthy of the first emperor!" Where are the imperial guards, pull out these rebels who slander the national teacher, and punish them with fifty rods! ”

The commander of the imperial guard strode to the front of the stairs and knelt down on one knee: "Obey the holy commandment!" ”

After fifty rods, these beam-jumping clowns broke their skin and screamed.

Originally, those ministers of the family also imagined that they would stand up against it like those people just now, but seeing the miserable appearance of those people after being scolded by the rod, these guys all shrank their heads.

The holy decree of the Son of Heaven Liu Xie bypassed Cao Cao's Sikong Mansion, passed through Wei Yan's propaganda channels, and was issued to the whole country, and the holy decree officially took effect.

After Zuo Ci was promoted to the national teacher, the first thing he did was to recruit all the Taoist priests who had magic and Taoism in the whole world to Yiyang New Town.

Wei Yan ruled the four prefectures of Sizhou, Bingzhou, Shuozhou, and Yongzhou, and had 200,000 regular troops and nearly one million county and township soldiers under his command, and his military prestige could be described as the first in the world.

Those Taoist priests were not afraid of the crusade of their fellow Daoists, but they were afraid that Wei Yan would send an army, so whether they had magic or not, they all came to Yiyang.

Most of the Taoist priests under the rule of the Han Dynasty received the notice and came to Yiyang, only Zhang Xiu and Zhang Lu turned a deaf ear to the Wudou Midao in Hanzhong, and they claimed to be the descendants of Zhang Daoling's Heavenly Master, and did not take Zuo Ci, a Taoist who stood on his own, in his eyes.

They forgot that the current Zuo Ci was no longer the Zuo Ci of Tianzhu Mountain's cultivation, and the current Zuo Ci had Wei Yan's support behind him, and Zhang Xiu and Zhang Lu's current behavior had doomed them to doom in the future.

To Wei Yan's delight, Yu Ji, who saw the beginning and the end of the dragon, also came to Yiyang this time.

This old man was keenly aware of the intention of the Yiyang court to support the revival of Taoism, and not only brought hundreds of disciples to Yiyang, but also brought a revised version of the "Taiping Qing Lingshu" to Wei Yan.

After Wei Yan's observation, and after Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing's secret inspection, this Yu Ji is indeed over ninety years old, judging from his age, he is indeed Yu Ji who emerged during the period of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty.

Wei Yan and Zuo Ci discussed the Dao with this Yu Ji again, although this Yu Ji is over ninety years old, he is more flexible than Zuo Ci in his thirties, and his superb magical powers are even more than Zuo Ci.

Zuo Ci admired it so much that he wanted to worship Yu Ji as a teacher, but Yu Ji refused: "How can a national teacher ordered by the Son of Heaven worship others as a teacher." ”

Zuo Ci insisted on worshipping, Yu Ji insisted on refusing, Wei Yan persuaded him, and Yu Ji finally decided to take his teacher and accept Zuo Ci as his junior brother.

Wei Yan also asked Yu Ji to meet Liu Xie, the son of heaven, and after Liu Xie saw Yu Ji's magic and Taoism, he happily canonized Yu Ji as the left immortal master of the country, and Zuo Ci as the right immortal master of the country.

Wei Yan suggested in the book: "Your Majesty, the two national teachers have the ability to reach the heavens, and it is better to be immortal masters than to be heavenly masters." ”

At Wei Yan's suggestion, Liu Xie changed the title of Yu Ji to the Auxiliary Han Heavenly Master, and Zuo Ci to the Zuo Han Heavenly Master.

Wei Yan's move was to break the unruly and self-righteous Taoist Five Bucket Rice Dao into a land of no return.

The religion of this country is different from the religion of the West, and in this country, religious belief is always a vassal of political belief, and do not think that you can be above politics with a clear high ground.

Wei Yan had been to Longhu Mountain in later generations, and had seen the process of Zhang Daoling's creation of Taoism, which was the same as other religions, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was full of pretending to be gods and ghosts, and it was very possible to see Zhang Daoling's ambition to create a country within a country that was not governed by the Han Dynasty when he founded Taoism, and the ideals that were not realized in the two generations of Zhang Daoling and his son Zhang Heng were temporarily realized by their grandson Zhang Lu, and Hanzhong, where the Wudou Rice Sect flourished, had been independent for more than ten years, and even after Zhang Lu surrendered to Cao Cao, The Five Dou Rice Sect also spread to the Central Plains.

Zhang Daoling was once named the Auxiliary Han Heavenly Master, but because of the stupid actions of his grandsons Zhang Xiu and Zhang Lu, it is no longer possible for him to be named the Auxiliary Han Heavenly Master, but because of his pioneering position in Taoism, he reluctantly left a place for him.

Wei Yan carefully read the teachings of the Wudou Rice Sect, very imperfect and not specific, the teachings of the Taiping Tao are also very incomplete, no wonder Taoism can not get Buddhism, Buddhism after the East into the Middle Earth is determined to innovate, has been following the ignorance of the Chinese people to change, even at the expense of Guanyin Bodhisattva The original male body into a female body to adapt to the maternal worship of the Chinese people.

The teachings of Taoism must be changed, and there must be no more mysticism, and no more mysticism can be so mysterious that the general public is not birdish.

Wei Yan is very confident in the popularization of Protestantism in the Han Dynasty, Zuo Ci and Yu Ji, the two most good at pretending to be angry and playing fairy wind and bones, coupled with the unity of their disciples and grandchildren and other Taoist priests, Protestantism is definitely a gathering of believers, and Wei Yan will support it in the back, dealing with the children of those families who are against Taoism, and will definitely be able to make Protestantism the state religion of the whole people.

The reason why Wei Yan is going to establish the Protestant Church was born out of Taoism is that there are two ready-made Taoist masters of Zuo Ci and Yu Ji to help him, and secondly, Taoism still has a lot of things suitable for China, its teachings are closely connected with the local Chinese culture, deeply rooted in the fertile soil of China, and has distinctive Chinese characteristics, it is also a polytheistic sect, and many of the gods are familiar to the people.

Reform Taoism and unify Taoism is also Zuo Ci, Yu Ji has always been wishing, the big faction of Taoism now seems to have only five buckets of rice Dao, Taiping Dao two branches, but other such as Zuo Ci to create the Danding faction of the small faction there are dozens, each faction of the doctrine is not very different, is not conducive to the people to believe, nor is it conducive to the concentration of Taoist power to defeat the increasingly rampant Buddhism, so Zuo Ci, Yu Ji intends to use a certain secular force to unify Taoism to overwhelm Buddhism The idea has been for a long time, and now Wei Yan took the initiative to support them, This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity not to be missed.

However, in determining the name, deities, and doctrines of Protestantism, Wei Yan had a dispute with Zuo Ci and Yu Ji.

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji still wanted to use the previous name, called Taoism, Wei Yan shook his head very decisively and said: "Taiping Dao, Wudou Mi Dao, these Dao, because of Zhang Jiao's riot, because Zhang Xiu raised the flag in Hanzhong to respond to Zhang Jiao, these two Dao have become evil demons in the eyes of most people, we should no longer use Dao as a religious name, Dao Ke Dao, very Dao, name can be named, very famous, although we don't have to stick to his name, but we also have to consider whether most of the Han people can accept it!" ”

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji both remembered that before Zhang Jiao raised the flag and rioted, the Han people were very receptive to Taoism, so Zhang Jiao was able to mobilize millions of sectarians to rise up at once, but with the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army and the plundering of places and the fall of bandits, the reputation of Taiping Dao also plummeted, and it is indeed inappropriate to use the name of Taoism now.

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji asked, "May I ask the general, what do you think?" ”

Wei Yan said with a smile: "Two Heavenly Masters, naming Protestantism should be linked to the doctrine, I think the core doctrine of Protestantism is to guide people to goodness, as long as people join our Protestantism, and then accumulate goodness and virtue, they can ascend to the heavenly realm after death, and believing in our Protestantism is a smooth road to the heavenly realm, so the name of Protestantism might as well be called Tongtianjiao?" ”

After Wei Yan said the name Tongtian Sect, his heart was strange and inexplicable, because he couldn't help but think of the Tongtian Sect Master in "Romance of the Gods".

In "The Romance of the Gods", after the death of Pangu Kaitian, Hongjun Daoist took charge of the Heavenly Dao and accepted three disciples, called the Three Friends, namely Taishang Laojun, Yuan Shi Tianzun and Tongtian Sect Master. The three friends each have a teaching, which are the three teachings of people, interpretation, and interception.

The master of Tongtian Sect is in charge of intercepting the sect, living in the Biyou Palace on Jinao Island, and obtained the four swords of Zhu Xian and the Zhu Xian array diagram on the Fenbao Cliff, and he is also a master of refining, and he has relied on the merits of sanctification to refine the acquired merit to the treasure Qingping sword.

The author of "The Romance of the Gods" is the same as Wu Chengen, the author of "Journey to the West", who used the past to satirize the present, and the focus of the description of "The Romance of the Gods" is the controversy between the exposition of religion and the interception of religion, which is the main line throughout the whole process of the Shang and Zhou wars, and the so-called two major sects of exposition and interception of religion are precisely the author's fabrication.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Shizong had given his favored Taoist Shao Yuanjie, a Taoist priest of the Qing Palace on Longhu Mountain, the jade seal of "expounding the teaching and assisting the country", probably because this incident had too much influence at the time, so the author of "The Romance of the Gods" continued to use the name of "expounding the teaching", "expounding" has the meaning of elaboration and clarification, and the interception of "intercepting the teaching" refers to the insight into the meaning of the way of heaven, and then on this basis, the things that deviate from the way of heaven are intercepted.

The struggle between exposition and sectarianism, in essence, represents the struggle between different sects, maintaining the dignity and status of the sect, is the common reason for the sectarians to oppose the sect, the sect disciples usually call themselves "qi refiners", so it is generally believed that it is the dispute between the Danding faction of the Ming Dynasty Taoist priests and the excluded Tuna faction, in addition to the Southern Sect, the Northern Sect, the Tianshi Tao and the Quanzhen Sect.

Obviously, the Tongtian Sect proposed by Wei Yan has nothing to do with the Tongtian Sect Master in "The Romance of the Gods", and it is purely obtained to mean "believe in my religion and enter the smooth path to the heavenly realm".

As for the gods, there are too many Taoist immortals, what are the three Qings, the six emperors, the five elders of the five directions, the four heavenly kings, the four heavenly masters, the four values of Gong Cao, the five Yue Emperors, etc., there are thousands of gods, in fact, strictly investigated, most of them are made up of nothing, such as the three Qings, said to be three people, in fact, they are all the incarnations of Lao Tzu Li Er.

Wei Yan has analyzed the religions since ancient times, all the religions that have developed to the strong vitality of later generations are monotheistic religions, such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, even if they are not monotheistic religions, but there are only a few gods, like Taoism, so many gods, it is too child's play.

In fact, Taoism is a very primitive sect, in the primitive society where human beings are generally in the stage of ignorance, there are many tribes, human ideology has not yet been unified, and it is still in a scattered and chaotic situation, each clan religion has its own gods, and even there are a variety of gods in a clan, with the development of society, people unconsciously desire to have a strong appeal of thought and belief can appear, play a role in unity, call, unify clans and tribes and stabilize social order, monotheism gradually replaced polytheism, In particular, the emergence of Jerusalem's three apocalyptic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islamism, has caused the world to rapidly turn to monotheism, and most of the current democracies have monotheistic beliefs, especially Christian beliefs, which are the pillars of freedom and human rights in Western democracies.

The emergence of monotheism has played a calling and inspiring role in the formation, unity and unification of nations, the progress of society, and the transmission of civilization.