Although Pujing and other monks helped Wei Yan make great contributions in fooling the Hu people, Wei Yan only gave them some gold and silver rewards, and only gave them small monk temples in those Hu people's gathering areas, and never allocated them monk fields, let alone built famous temples for them in those famous mountains and rivers, let alone let them keep monks and soldiers.

Because Wei Yan knew the harm caused by the uncontrolled development of Buddhism during the Northern and Southern Dynasties in history.

During the period of great turmoil in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Zahu regime lifted the ban of the Han regime, forced the Han people to believe in Buddhism, and used Buddhism to capture the Chinese people as Buddha slaves ideologically, and their life, etiquette, and thoughts were completely assimilated with the Tianzhu Buddhas.

In addition, the intensification of social and political turmoil has also caused ordinary people to seek refuge from relatively safe religious entities, so that there are as many as 30,000 Buddhist monasteries in the country, and the number of monks and nuns is as high as 2 million, accounting for about one-tenth of the country's population.

After the failure of the Zhangjiao Taiping Dao Rebellion, Taoism was strongly suppressed by the government, which was also a major motivation for the prosperity of Buddhism.

Wei Yan can use severe punishment to restrain his compatriots from believing in negative thoughts, but after all, this is a symptom rather than a root cause, and the root cause is to establish a new and positive religion to replace Buddhism and Taoism, and even become the state religion of the Han Dynasty.

Prior to this, Wei Yan had done many pioneering deeds that transcended the times, such as army establishment, military rank system, and strict military discipline, and asked people at all levels to join the army every day to give lectures to soldiers at all levels, and to give frequent ideological guidance, but Wei Yan was still uneasy in his heart.

Because, he found that compared with the army in later generations that was not afraid of hardships and sacrifices and had the world's first will to fight, there was still a long gap between the troops under his command.

What is the gap between the Wei army, the army of the cold weapon era, and the modern army?

The difference in weapons and equipment is only an external performance, and discipline is actually only an external performance, relying on Wei Yan's own words and deeds, and leading by example, can only be managed for a while, and when recruiting more troops in the future, when fighting farther away, what can discipline rely on to guarantee? It is far from enough to rely on external propaganda and punishment, and the source of military discipline should be mainly internal, supplemented by external.

What's inside? It's faith.

An army without faith, without a goal for which it can die desperately, the discipline that is maintained for a moment and a half will not last long.

The revolutionary martyrs of later generations defeated the Japanese invaders, the White Army, the American Army, the Vietnamese Army, and the Indian Army, and were almost undefeated, relying on the belief in building a perfect society.

The Tianping Heavenly Kingdom of that year has been in a slump since the Tianjing Rebellion, not because some generals died, but Hong Xiuquan himself took the lead in destroying the religious beliefs he established, according to what the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did back then, their religion was heretical, but heretical beliefs were also beliefs, so the early Taiping army was able to step on the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion under the same civilization, the same equipment, and the same training conditions, and even defeated the Hunan army of Zeng Guofan under the leadership of the military genius Shi Dakai.

However, the Tianjing Rebellion proved that this religious belief was made up by a group of careerists to fool the people below into working for them, and the believers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not believe it, and the soldiers of the Taiping Army also did not believe in it.

Wei Yan has especially studied, why are the modern Western democracies so arrogant and powerful, and what magic weapons do they have besides strong ships and sharp guns and muskets?

The obvious answer is their religious beliefs.

The reason why democracies have become the craziest aggressors in the world in modern times, and the executioners of almost all the massacres in the world, lies in the democratic system of Western countries, which is not a people's democracy based on mass politics, but an elite democracy based on group politics. It is guaranteed that the Caucasians will become colonizers and not colonies in the world colonial wars of the jungle.

The model of meritocracy based on bloc politics is particularly suitable for the Christian Caucasian society, which, to borrow the fashionable phrase, is the political development path of a Christian country with Caucasian characteristics.

The unified values of Christianity have formed a unified national code of conduct, which also has a binding effect on the rich and the poor, eliminated the root cause of civil strife in multiple sets of codes of conduct in centralized countries, made the country a strong unified whole, and ensured that the butcher's knife is always external, which is the reason why Nazi Germany killed Jews but did not kill Germans, and Nazi America killed Indians but did not kill Caucasians. The conquest and massacre of other nations will never be changed.

It is precisely the democratic system of modern Christian countries that has always attracted more and more countries, especially backward countries, to embark on the road of Westernization, and the result is that there are many losers and few successes, and the reason is that the premise of Western democracy must be to have a unified national faith, and in order to consolidate its world dominance, the Western countries that are well versed in this way always take the lead in defeating the unified faith of the other country under the banner of freedom of belief and turning the other country into a plate of scattered sand. The more complete the Westernization, the more they deviate from the historical development path of the Western countries, the more they become a vulnerable piece of scattered sand, the more they fall into endless turmoil and strife, and in the end they have no choice but to be colonies and vassals of the Western countries.

The Westernization of the Qing Dynasty's Westernization Movement and the Reform of the Qing Dynasty was a hundred years of war and chaos, and the country was almost wiped out, while the Japanese Kingdom produced an emperor in Cologne, the God template of Western Christianity, and had the belief of national unity, thus becoming one of the very few non-Christian countries that really embarked on the development path of European and American countries.

After thinking about these problems, Wei Yan decided to set up a sect, a God Religion with Chinese characteristics, of course, it was definitely not Hong Xiuquan's Belief in God Religion, but Hong Xiuquan's Religion could still attract so many believers, and the religious effect that Wei Yan was about to engage in would be even better.

In order to build a sect that attracts people to participate, it must be different and have Chinese characteristics.

Look at what religions were in the territory at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are the three major sects, and if you really want to develop the sects, you must analyze the strengths of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and learn from each other's strengths.

Confucian scholars generally pay attention to the gods and ghosts, so they basically do not believe in that kind of godhead religion, and the fundamental reason why they believe in Confucius is that this can bring them political benefits, many Confucian scholars read Confucian classics every day, but deep down they do not believe in it, those Confucian scholars have "benevolence" and "courtesy" to the majority of ordinary people, they only talk about benevolence and etiquette to the fierce forces of foreign races and upper forces, and engage in this kind of religion that believers do not believe in at all, which is the sorrow of China, a very fundamental sorrow.

Buddhism, the connotation of this religion, is still very deep, has its significance, but most of the people in the lay do not have this understanding, they can not understand the true essence of Buddhism, can only be infringed by the negative thoughts of Buddhism, and most of the Chinese people believe in Buddhism is to talk about "temporary Buddha's feet", no one really believes in Buddhism at all. Not only China, but other countries that are very Buddhist-minded are now backward and not good, look at those small countries in Southeast Asia.

The influence of Buddhism on China is more bad than good, not only in the ideological anesthesia and restraint of the ordinary people, but also its organization has a very bad impact on the socio-economic and political affairs of the whole country, like the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the monasteries are malignantly expanded, the monasteries occupy all the famous mountains and fertile fields, do not produce, neither output nor circulation, the possession and waste of social production resources are very prominent, especially in the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the monks who should have worked hard and done nothing sat on a large amount of real estate, became large landlords, and became rich and rich. Ten of the world's wealth, and the Buddha has seven or eight.

At that time, the common people were faced with heavy taxes, had no land to cultivate and had nowhere to make a living, and many chose to become monks, so the idle and redundant situation of the monastic personnel was also quite serious, and even to the point that there was no labor when they wanted to plough the fields, and there was no source of soldiers when they had to fight, and the prosperity of Buddhism and the depression and chaos of the social order produced a fundamental conflict of interests.

In the sixth century, after the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty, the policy of exterminating Buddhism was immediately implemented, limiting the number of monasteries, and three million monks and nuns returned to the laity, which was one-tenth of the total population at that time.

During the Tang Dynasty, 260,000 monks and nuns were forcibly returned to the laity, tens of millions of hectares of fertile land were confiscated, and 4,600 temples were demolished, so that the labor force and production wealth in the society were multiplied out of thin air.

Not only that, but Buddhism is also a place where privileges are concentrated. When the Northern Wei Dynasty suppressed the Gaiwu uprising, a large number of weapons were found in a Buddhist temple, and a large number of private belongings deposited by local officials and wealthy people were found, as well as the premises of "private adultery", which gave Emperor Taiwu of Wei an excuse to violently destroy the Buddha.

When the Tang Dynasty was founded, there was a rule that those who entered the Buddhist gate "could avoid death", so many rebels were defeated and took refuge in the temple. During the "Anshi Rebellion", Guo Ziyi reached an agreement with the Zen Buddhist Association at that time, acquiescing to the latter's method of exchanging money for money, and the number of Buddhists was out of control.

As a result of all kinds of internal and external troubles, a religious organization that was supposed to be indisputable and operating benignly became a social tumor, which was not only independent of the political power, but also conflicted with the interests of the secular society.

As a religion, Buddhism has grown out of control because it has expanded too quickly, and has escaped the scope of its own power and functions as a born religious organization, competing with secular society for resources and wealth, and even with the political power for control of society.

Therefore, Wei Yan naturally has no good feelings for Buddhism, but he has a different view of Taoism.

Taoism is a native religion of China, the Eastern Han Dynasty in the folk rise, founded by Zhang Daoling, the ancestor of Zhang Lu, the leader of the current five-meter Dao, the Taoist thought of Laozi Li Dan and Zhuangzi Zhuang Zhou during the Warring States Period and the immortal magic of the pre-Qin Dynasty, it advocates self-cultivation and refining pills, in order to become immortals. In addition to coaxing the emperor to cultivate the elixir of immortality for a while, the impact on the culture of later generations is much weaker than that of Buddhism and Confucianism.

The Tao Te Ching is good, the basic teachings of Taoism are also good, and the concept of self-cultivation and the pursuit of Taoism can also be extended and transformed into a positive outlook on life, worldview, and values.

Wei Yan was ready to reform Taoism so that this indigenous religion could play its proper role.

Taoism is to be reformed, especially Zhang Jiao's use of one of the Taoist factions, Taiping Dao, to rebel, so that all the princes and people in the late Eastern Han Dynasty have a prejudice against Taoism, if it is still Taoism, it is simply unacceptable.

Although Wei Yan himself is familiar with some brainwashing methods such as psychological suggestion, and also has the help of the seed artifact elves, he is not the most suitable person to establish a new sect, he can only be a behind-the-scenes operator, and there are other people performing in front of the scene.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were several powerful figures in Taoism, the three brothers of Zhang Jiao were all in the past, and they were not mentioned, and the Zhang Lu brothers could not be used in Hanzhong, and there were still two characters with great magical powers, one was Zuo Ci, and the other was Yu Ji.

As for Guan Lu and Ge Xuan, they are still young, and Nanhua Old Immortal and Purple Void Master are made up by Romance and do not exist.

Wei Yan has always had doubts about Yu Ji, he is not sure whether this Yu Ji is the Yu Ji who survived during the period of Emperor Han Shun, or a fake Yu Ji who pretended to be in the name of Yu Ji during the period of Emperor Han Shun.