"Praise be to the Lord, Almighty God, King of the universe......"

In an ordinary village hut in North Korea, Lee Seung-hoon, dressed as a Korean peasant in short clothes, is preaching. He was dressed in a coarse white cloth that had been dyed yellowish by dust, a traditional North Korean short jacket, with a kan shoulder, and bloomers with wide trouser legs. But he didn't look like a clergyman at all.

Lee Seung-hoon, who was born in two classes, was wearing a fourth-grade official robe in Pyongyang five days ago, and he was a majestic Lord Lee, but now, in addition to his fair skin, he is not like a hard-working lower-class peasant, and he is an authentic old peasant in terms of clothing and body shape.

People are disguised.

However, Lee Seung-hoon's spirit was extremely excited, and his nose and cheeks were slightly red from excitement. The opportunity to preach and rally was not easy to come by, especially since there were so many people today, and as the leader of the current organization, Lee Seung-hoon was very relieved and excited.

It's a traditional North Korean village cottage with sixteen or seventeen people in a bedroom of up to 20 square meters, which is almost all the monotheistic believers in the entire Lelang province, centered on Pyongyang. They looked at Lee Seung-hoon with reverence and respect, and looked at the scriptures and crosses in his hands with fanatical expressions as if they were martyrs.

This is the only monotheistic organization in the two provinces of Lelang and Andong today, 'Mingdaohui'.

One of the initiators is Lee Seung-hoon, who is surrounded by a group of believers at the moment.

As a child of two classes of nobles, Lee Seung-hoon came into contact with monotheism under the influence of the "heavenly learning" culture generated by the Korean envoys to China during the Manchu Dynasty, who brought back monotheistic books such as "The True Meaning of One God".

And his wife, that is, Ding Zaiyuan's daughter, has also been more or less exposed to monotheism. At that time, Ding Jaeyuan was famous for his research on 'heavenly science' in North Korea.

Later, when the mountains and rivers were broken and Korea sent more envoys to China, Lee Seung-hoon was entrusted by the astronomical scholar Li Bai to take the opportunity of his father Li Dongyu, who served as the secretary of the third mission, to Nanjing with the mission to Nanjing to contact the monotheistic missionaries in Nanjing, so as to gain more knowledge about monotheism. At that time, the bleak future of North Korea did not know how many people were heartbroken, and there was no light in their hearts. And this is precisely the time when the spread of faith is most advantageous, and the salvation of a heart full of 'despair' is often obtained by a sacred heart that is extremely pious. This is the case with Lee Seung-hoon. He visited the Jesuit Gulamau at the Monotheistic Church in Nanjing, where he learned the doctrine of monotheism and was baptized in his hands, and his holy name was Peter. He can be said to be the first monotheistic believer in the history of North Korea to be officially baptized, after which he shipped a large number of monotheistic artifacts, books, and icons back to North Korea.

But the situation is changing too quickly.

Lee Seung-hoon's missionary activities in North Korea had not been going on for a few days, and as soon as they saw results, the whole of North Korea ceased to exist. Then into the Joseon of the Chen and Han dynasties, the restrictions on all aspects were too much.

To this day, monotheism is still not recognized by the Church Administration, which means that monotheistic 'preaching' in this situation is illegal.

But there is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of those who have a heart. It is hard to imagine how a noble child from two classes of powerful people is obsessed with a god, Li Chengxun not only did not die in the face of the predicament, but the more frustrated he became, the more courageous, and he also took the initiative to initiate the Mingdao Society with Li Bai, the name is taken from the past China's secret missionary organization 'Dominican', it can be said that he has taken a huge risk and has always been carrying out secret missionary activities.

Previously, he took the opportunity of his vacation to disguise himself from Pyongyang City and quietly walked to this gathering point for activities, and his face was always pale all the way, which was caused by fear. Spreading monotheism, which is caught, is not a light sin.

At the beginning, he and Li Bai, one south and one north, Li Chengxun was still in Andong Province last year.

However, the activities of the Mingdao Society have alerted the police and intelligence services, and some of their colleagues have been arrested and imprisoned, such as Li Bai. Some of them defected to the Lelang government and confessed some of the Catholics they knew, while some of the unyielding ones were punished for labor reform, while others said they were secretly executed.

Anyway, those who were caught, none of them appeared in public again. This is a great deal of terror for a lot of people.

Almost all of the people who first came into contact with the 'monotheistic' in North Korea were aristocrats of two classes, and the first to become 'believers in monotheism' were almost all nobles of two classes. There is a huge disparity in the willpower of these people, and you may have thought it was fashionable at first. But the harsh reality has sobered many people. Fortunately, the specific names of the members of the Mingdao Society are only mastered by a very few high-level officials, for example, the list of Le Lang's members is in the hands of Li Bai, and he also knows the list of some high-level members of the Anton Mingdao Society, but Li Bai definitely did not betray the Mingdao Society, otherwise the Mingdao Society would have been uprooted.

So, the resulting losses are not devastating. Many people come to the event in the name of the 'Holy Name', and even if there are traitors, there is not much to lose.

The sources of the Mingdao Society are very well-informed, but Lee Seung-hoon has never known the current situation of Li Bai. A high-pressure atmosphere of white terror began to spread rapidly within the Mingdao Society, whether it was Le Lang or Anton.

As time passed, the pressure on the hearts of the members of the Mingdao Society became more and more significant. Some people did not dare to face this danger, and they chose to withdraw from the association. But as long as they still hold on, they are all in the middle of the irons of the Mingdao Society, and they are all devout believers in one God.

Even though they are terrified, they still hold on to their beliefs, but on the other hand, they are tormented by this dangerous and exciting underground behavior to the point of madness.

Many people envy the treatment of the Ding family, Ding Zaiyuan has long exposed his close relationship with the same theological religion, and when he was in China in his early years, he hooked up with the Jesuits under Chen Han, so that when it came to all the showdowns, he was not in danger.

But unlike now, if their identities are leaked, the government will first convict them of participating in the spread of 'cults' and illegal assemblies, and then their families will also be marked and recorded in the government's archives and become the targets of suppression and suppression.

The whole family would have been hit hard because of them.

Unless, one day, monotheism can be accommodated by the Church Administration.

However, the problems left over from the Manchu Dynasty have not been solved, although Emperor Chen is not like Kang Mazi, he considers himself a great protector of Confucianism, and has visited the Confucian Mansion many times, but the monotheistic play of 'disrespecting ancestors' has undoubtedly touched his bottom line.

Because Chen Ming feels that the core of Chinese civilization is a history of ancestor worship.

The tradition formed in China for thousands of years, and the spirit forged in China for thousands of years, are the 'ancestors' that have been remembered in history.

Their figures appear in the official history, in the wild history, in myths and legends, in folk tales, their names are revered by countless people, and the name itself represents not a 'person', but a specific spirit, a specific power.

This is like Second Master Guan, no matter how he ascended to the throne, in later generations, among the Chinese, when it comes to Second Master, it means 'loyalty and righteousness'.

And if it is like monotheism, everything belongs to the Lord......

Hehe, is China still China?

Whether it is from the indignation in Chen Ming's bones, or the value of his own rights, or the interests he represents, it is impossible to allow this.

As an emperor, leading China, a nation that is prone to rebellion against emperors, there are really some Alexanders, and he can't be a little sloppy.

In the Chinese world, there is no Lord and no God.

It was Pangu who started the world, and it was the axe he wielded with both hands that tore apart the chaos of the universe!

All the myths and legends in China originate from the 'man' who stands between heaven and earth, the 'man' who stands up to the heavens and the earth!

Pangu is not the true god of the Lord, he will die.

But his death created the world, his eyes turned into the sun and the moon, and the iron bones turned into the heavens!

This feeling is like saying to someone: there has to be a wind! Let there be light! The gods are completely different from the good fell.

In the myths and legends of the East and the West, there are floods to destroy the world, Westerners are left with the help of the Lord to leave the fire of mankind, but the people of the East are Dayu himself to dig the mountain to open the road, three through the door without entering, and finally help the world.

The sky in the east is broken, and they all refine stones to make up for it; In front of the Emperor of Heaven, the severed head of Xingtian's breasts left eye, navel, wielding a giant axe, was still fighting.

Fire is obtained by drilling wood, herbs are tasted in one mouth, and the sun in the sky can shoot down nine, and drowned by the sea, and they can be a little bird to swear to fill the sea.

The Chinese fear heaven and earth, but never fear heaven and earth.

Respecting the heavens and ancestors is a tradition of the Chinese for thousands of years, and who are the ancestors who were taught by the Chinese? That's the people above, so they can 'have a kind of prince and general Xiangning', and they can 'dare to pull the emperor off the horse'.

Monotheism is not clear on this point, and they will never develop in China in this time and space. The East, which has grasped the pulse of the times, will not give the West another chance to dominate the earth and slaughter the East at will.

Who dares to say that the monotheistic religion that spread in Japan and South Korea in later generations does not have political and military buff bonuses?

In this respect, the Orthodox Church has a slight advantage over the monotheistic Holy See in Rome. In the Byzantine Empire, for example, the tradition was that the monarch had better control over the church and appointed a patriarch.

On the Internet in later generations, Chen Ming even saw some Orthodox texts, using the Spring and Autumn Period to prove the doctrine, using Cheng Zhu to explain the works of the godson, using the theory of consciousness to discuss the Trinity, and reconciling ancestor worship and monotheism. Moreover, the Orthodox Church has never been in opposition to the government, and if the Orthodox Church is like China, it is not impossible for the "Cathedral of St. Confucius and Mencius the Prophet". However, orthodox education is inferior to others in terms of technology and strength.

However, in this era, Orthodoxy has no chance to be introduced to China, and the question of monotheism remains unresolved. The harsh situation meant that everyone here had to be careful, but all the people present were devout believers, and no one seemed to intend to renounce their faith.

Today, North Korea's per capita standard of living is constantly rising, the current government's prestige among the people is growing, and its control over the local and rural areas is becoming more and more entrenched. Not only did the missionary activities of the Mingdao Society not improve, but they also had to guard against being denounced. Many people do not dare to easily spread the organization to the outside world, and it takes a lot of time to imperceptibly, and a group of people who take Lee Seung-hoon as an example lack the most time that can be freely disposed of.

This is true of many members of the Mingdao Society.

Because at this time, almost all the people who can become believers in one god are people who don't worry about eating and drinking, and they are all people like Lee Seung-hoon. Because they don't have to work hard for their lives, they have that extra time to study theology.

This is like the first group of people in China to come into contact with the Horse Sect in the original space-time plane, and none of them were from authentic clay legs.

Moreover, in North Korea now, Buddhism has been revitalized, and Taoism, which had barely spread before, has also poured in, and with the addition of rural work teams and literary and artistic groups, the spiritual life is still very sufficient. There really isn't room for Mingdao, a little mouse living in the dark, to churn.

Li Chengxun can still know a little bit about the situation in Chinese mainland. There, too, the situation with monotheism is not rosy. The same is true of the beliefs of ordinary people, who will sooner or later fall into the arms of backward and brutal polytheism if there is no good religious atmosphere around them (hostile to the gentry and landlords) and many temptations around them (such as preferential conversions).

Because the vast majority of parishioners are more concerned than the Lord about how much money they can earn this month and how much money they can earn next month, and so on, and they have no spiritual pursuits at all—if they still have the strength and spirit.

All this made Lee Seung-hoon, a devout believer, extremely angry and sad, but unfortunately they all have family burdens, otherwise these people would rather leave North Korea and change places, even if they don't go out of the 'country', the two capitals and Guangzhou are also more relaxed than the religious atmosphere in North Korea.

Today's North Korea is a paradise for millions of people at the bottom. Life here is rich, the law and order are excellent, there is no oppression and wanton humiliation of the aristocracy, there are no wars and riots, and it is no longer only about 'blood', and the government gives everyone a 'fair' opportunity to study for exams, even if you don't get into the right school, you can go to night school and Hongzhi class to study.

The latter is a new initiative launched by the Ministry of Culture and Education, during the school holidays, after students leave school, textbooks and classrooms can be vacated for out-of-school children to use, the latter learning knowledge is very basic and shallow, but it is a valuable opportunity.

Although the population of the Koreans was small, their overall literacy rate was not higher than that of China under the former Manchu rule.

Only people like Lee Seung-hoon who have forgotten their ancestors can feel the strong oppressive atmosphere here, and can give birth to the desire to escape from this 'hell on earth'.

"Hallelujah!

Hallelujah, praise God!

Where there is love, there is heaven. God is love. People blessed by God have positive energy in their hearts, high character and good behavior, and abundant and strong life. People do not live on material food alone, and the blessed cannot be eaten. The intangible wealth of life is everything. The salvation of souls is fundamental. To embrace God is to be freed from the pull of hell. Life travels, it is better to go to heaven than to go to the underworld. God is the God who created the heavens and the earth. Those who trust are blessed with great blessings. ……”

With the chanting of praises, the group ended their meeting.

Dressed in the clothes of an old peasant, with a hat on his head, and a basket of nuts from the mountains and some herbs on his back, Li Chengxun bowed his head to avoid the main road and ran towards a nearby town.

It was a county seat in the Joseon Dynasty, and now it is a small town, but it also has a government office.

The war has destroyed everything here, but in just a few years, the people's livelihood here has been revitalized.

Lee Seung-hoon has a hidden stronghold here, where he can revert back to being a fourth-rank official and get on a carriage and run straight to one of his annexes outside Pyongyang, regardless of whether he is spotted on the way or not.

After all, his exact identity is not clear to many of the Mingdao Society's own people, and in the Mingdao Society, he is Peter, not Li Chengxun.

Chen Han has a lot of officials, and the people of the Mingdao Society are very scattered, and the team here in Pyongyang itself is the foundation laid by Li Bai, and Li Bai trusts him very much, after losing his official position and going to prison, Li Chengxun went to visit Li Bai as an old friend - such a person does not know him, and he got the list of personnel developed by Li Bai, and reorganized the Pyongyang Mingdao Association, which can actually be said to be the Lelang Mingdao Association.

Lee Seung-hoon has been facing them with the identity of Peter, hiding his true identity as much as possible.

Lee Seung-hoon can't see a bright future, and it is too difficult for the holy light to shine in the east.

But as a devout believer, silently holding on in the darkness, waiting for the light to come one day, that is also a kind of faith.