Chapter 414: [Savior]
Although Wei Yan, the sect honorable, is under Pope Liu Xie, he is the actual sect leader, Tongtian Sect has been recognized by all levels, and there are 10 million believers, and he deserves his name.
Under the Tongtian Sect are the Auxiliary Han Heavenly Master Yu Ji and the Zuo Han Heavenly Master Zuo Ci.
There are four archbishops under the two heavenly masters, who are in charge of the teaching affairs of Sizhou, Yongzhou, Shuozhou, and Bingzhou, among which the archbishop of Sizhou and Yongzhou is concurrently served by Ji and Zuo Ci, and the archbishop of Shuozhou is Ge Xuan, the eldest disciple of Zuo Ci, and the archbishop of Bingzhou is Gong Chong, the eldest disciple of Yu Ji.
Under each archbishop there are several bishops, scattered in each county, and each county is a diocese in charge of these bishops, and the political status of the bishop is very high, and he can sit on an equal footing with the county governor and the county lieutenant.
There are several priests under each bishop, scattered in the counties below the county, and are responsible for the affairs of each county.
There are several high priests under each priest, scattered in the townships below the county, and are responsible for the teaching affairs of each township.
There were several priests under each high priest, scattered in the pavilion below the township, and were responsible for the teaching affairs of each pavilion.
There is a chapel in each pavilion, and there are statues of four gods in the church, because the place is small, there are no statues of other gods for the time being, and a priest is a deacon in it, who is responsible for preaching, and conducts weddings, funerals, confessions, and other ceremonies for the believers, and worships them every five days.
There is a church in each county town, which contains statues of all the gods and immortals, and the priest is a priest, who is responsible for large-scale worship, and is responsible for the baptism and confession of important people in the county.
There is a cathedral distributed in each state city, which enshrines the statues of all the gods, celestial immortals, and earth immortals, and the archbishop is in charge of the large-scale worship in the state and the baptism and confession of important people in the state.
There is a super church in Yiyang, which enshrines the statues of all the gods, heavenly immortals, earth immortals, and human immortals, which are in charge of the two heavenly masters, who are responsible for all the large-scale heavenly worship ceremonies in the country, and are responsible for the baptism and confession of important figures in the imperial court. After the recovery of Luoyang, another super church will be built in Luoyang, and one of the Heavenly Masters will be in charge.
At this stage, Wei Yan could only train a group of missionaries from the Taoist priests, and train them for half a year, so that they could systematically master the knowledge of Tongtian doctrine, mythological system, Taoism, theology, psychology, etiquette, etc., and then assign them to various counties and counties to carry out missions.
But among the more than 1,000 Taoist priests, not all of them were willing to give up their original Taoist beliefs and accept Tongtian in favor of Tongtianjiao.
There are more than 300 Taoist priests who are unwilling to join the Tongtian Sect, for such Taoist priests, Wei Yan asked Yu Ji and Zuo Ci to do the persuasion work, if they can't be convinced, they will be treated as evil sect members, Wei Yan trained missionaries from those Taoist priests who are willing to join the Tongtian Sect, because the missionary of the Tongtian Sect has to cover every pavilion, and the existing seven or eight hundred missionaries are simply not enough, according to the budget, to cover the more than 50 million people of the Han Dynasty, at least 20,000 missionaries are enough to use.
At present, he is preaching in the counties and counties of the four prefectures under the control of Wei Yan, and then waiting for the trained missionaries to be in place, and then going to the townships and pavilions below.
To this end, Wei Yan opened a seminary in the Central University Hall to train professional missionaries.
Of course, priority is given to selecting students from the families of Taoist priests who are willing to join the Tongtian Sect, and each seminary student must study in the seminary for three years, and then practice for one year in the county church, and after the approval of the county pastor, can he be sent to the pavilion-level chapel to preach independently.
Except for the 700 who turned from Taoist priests to Tongtian bishops and pastors at the beginning, all subsequent bishops, priests, and high priests must have attended seminaries, and they must all have the experience of preaching in pavilion-level chapels, and they must all be promoted one level at a time.
Wei Yan used this strict organizational structure to completely set Tongtianjiao as an efficient and super-organized religion, and gradually became the only choice for the religious beliefs of the Han people.
Tongtian Sect was established, and problems followed, Yu Ji and Zuo Ci found Wei Yan: "Jiaozun, Buddhism has the Huayan Sutra, Taoism has the Tao Te Ching, what classics do we have in the Tongtian Sect?" ”
Wei Yan said indifferently: "The two Heavenly Masters are here, wait for me to ask the Emperor of Heaven." ”
Pope Liu Xie, Auxiliary Han Heavenly Master Yu Ji, and Zuo Han Heavenly Master Zuo Ci now position Wei Yan as the only messenger in the human world who can communicate with the gods, referred to as angels, Wei Yan really wants to change this point, but the big fools he threw out before are difficult to recover, so he has to accept this positioning head-on, and he has to continue to pretend.
Wei Yan spent a whole night recalling the Christian "Bible" and the "Ancient Ran" of Yijiao, using these two great religious classics as a blueprint, blending the myths and legends, the god system, and the Tongtian Sect doctrine that had been set before, racking his brains, revising it again and again, and finally concocting the Tongtian Sect's bible "Tongtian Sutra".
When Wei Yan recalled the history of the development of the major religions in later generations, he suddenly found that he really had to set himself as the only messenger who could communicate with the gods.
Tongtian Religion is different from Buddhism, Buddhism is founded by Sakyamuni himself, set himself up as the supreme god, the so-called Buddha was born, in each direction of seven steps, the right hand points to the sky, the left hand points to the earth, saying heaven and earth, only I respect, by the founder and become the supreme god, this can not be applied to Tongtianism.
Tongtian is different from Christianity, Christianity was founded by Jesus, and later followers of Jesus regarded Jesus as the son of Jehovah and practiced the Trinity.
Wei Yan had no choice but to follow the prophet of the Great Food Sect and vaguely mention in the "Tongtian Sutra" that every time there is a turbulent era, the heavenly god Fuxi will always send an immortal from the heavenly realm to descend to the world, and this immortal will save the whole world and restore peace to the world.
Wei Yan understands the character of the Chinese people, unlike the people in the Middle East, the people on the other side of the Middle East want Muhammad to tell them personally, while the people of the Han Dynasty believe more in some specious and vague things, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is the most popular proverb, the people believe in some prophetic things, if they are told clearly, they will be more suspicious.
When the people were speculating whether this person was Wei Yan or not, Wei Yan's attitude was neither to admit nor deny, the more mysterious it was, the more the people recognized Wei Yan as the savior in the "Tongtian Sutra".
When Wei Yan handed over the "Tongtian Sutra" to Zuo Ci and Yu Ji, the two heavenly masters were deeply impressed when they unfolded it, especially Yu Ji, he recalled that he wrote the "Taiping Qing Lingdao" alias "Taiping Sutra", compared with this "Tongtian Sutra", it is really incomprehensible, but think that Zhang Jiao can still develop millions of believers using that "Taiping Sutra", this "Tongtian Sutra" should be able to develop more believers for Tongtian Sect.
Many of the contents of the Tongtian Sutra were taken from the previous "Tao Te Ching" and "Taiping Sutra", which made Zuo Ci, Yu Ji and other Taoists feel more cordial, but Wei Yan added a lot of private goods to the Tongtian Sutra, and the biggest private goods were to tell the Han people through the "Tongtian Sutra" to strive to sprinkle the care of the gods to all places where the sun shines, in other words, to tell the Han people that we should be an aggressive nation.
Wei Yan learned this from the Great Food Sect (the name given to a terrible sect in ancient China), an army with faith can defeat an army without faith, and with the support of strong faith, the army is invincible.
Historically, the armies of the Great Food Sect had very low individual combat ability and very little training, but their teachings were very strong, and they turned a group of rabble into extremely fanatical, fearless and even willing to sacrifice, so as to defeat one after another armies with no faith or weak faith, and successively took out the nests of Manichaeism, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Tianzhu and other religions.
In the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", many of the Western Heavenly Buddha countries became the world of the Great Food Sect overnight, and all the original ecological civilization and culture were destroyed.
Since ancient times, Central Asia has been a channel of communication between the East and the West, and it is also a place where various cultures meet.
The people of the Great Food Sect say that their teachings are stronger and are the result of free competition, but in fact they are the result of those Great Food Sect members burning down monasteries, driving out monks, destroying scriptures, and dividing history, with the aim of making people unable to see anything else except the things of the Great Food Sect. In this environment, all the heterogeneous civilizations that are not the Great Food Sect are gone, and what choice do the local people have but to believe in the Great Food Sect?
The development speed of the Great Food Religion has been far beyond Buddhism and Christianity, its extremely aggressive doctrine determines that it has great diffusion ability and possession performance, as long as it has been ruled by the Great Food Religion in history, it has been basically a Great Food Religion country until now, at the same time, it is still slowly spreading, some countries in Africa are beginning to become the Great Food Religion countries, and the population of European and American countries believing in the Great Food Religion is also increasing rapidly.
On the other hand, other religions, Buddhism, Taoism, etc., could only retreat in the face of the Great Food Sect, and Christianity in general was gradually eroded.
Look at the Shinto religion of the Japanese people, Shintoism, the national religion of the Japanese people, believes that the world is given to the Yamato nation by the gods, so the Japanese people have never stopped the war of aggression against foreign countries, and the Buddhist doctrine distorted by Shinto believes that as long as people die, they will become Buddhas, so they have created a large number of Japanese samurai who are not afraid of death, and also created a large number of Japanese devils who kill people without blinking, that is, after the death of the Class A war criminal Tojo-Hideki, he will also become a Buddha, and the war of aggression is also in line with the interests of the Japanese country, so he is also a national hero, So it is enshrined in the Yasukuni-shrine.
Although in the eyes of the Han people, such a belief of the Japanese people is not wrong, but as the smartest and most industrious Han people in the world, why must we be humble, why must we endure it, why can't we shout to the surrounding small countries, my Han wants to conquer you!
Counting on such eloquent emperors as Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty to stir up the bloody nature of the nation and instigate the Han people to expand their living space in war, after all, it can only last for decades, and cannot maintain this spiritual head for hundreds or even thousands of years.
How to maintain the momentum of the Han nation's external expansion for hundreds or even thousands of years is to learn the Great Food Religion and establish a strong religion.
Although the peace-loving Han people always look down on those great food religions that wage war at every turn, we must admit that in the era of cold weapons, if the Han nation could have such a strong religious belief and with the wisdom, industriousness and courage of the Han nation, it would surely sweep across the whole of Asia and even the world.
In religion, if you add something positive, you can stir up the whole nation to be active.
In the process of founding the Tongtian Sect, Wei Yan's heart has always been uneasy, and what he is most worried about is the attitude of his people towards the gods.
Think about the 21st century, those good men and women who burn incense and worship the Buddha seem to be sincere, they seem to be very pious, in fact, they do not believe from the bottom of their hearts, and their attitude towards the gods is naked utilitarianism.
Wei Yan thought about it deeply, and he was relieved, it is only the second century in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, not the twenty-first century when science is prosperous and people's hearts are not ancient, maybe the Han nation in the twenty-first century has no religious belief at all, and believes in everything but does not believe in anything, but this is not the case with the Han nation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
In the Xia, Shang and Zhou eras, religious belief was very popular, the emperor sacrificed to the sky, and the people worshipped their ancestors, and the Chinese people at that time were still 100% religious. However, because the Chinese people did not understand how God and the heavens ruled the universe, the founding theory was very pale, so the "aphthism" of Confucius was created. Since Confucius, he has not casually talked about strangeness, power, chaos, and gods. When Confucius's students asked him how to deal with ghosts and gods and life and death, Confucius said, "If you can't do anything to people, how can you do ghosts?" "Unknown life, unknown death?" Confucianism is neither pious theism nor atheism, but atheism.
However, Confucianism has only mastered the ideological field for more than 200 years, and the so-called aphthism is only active in the upper class of scholars, and in the psychology of the middle and lower classes, there is still the worship of gods, after all, the problem of birth, old age, sickness and death, and the problem of ghosts and gods are a kind of spiritual need of people, especially in the two Han Dynasty periods, disasters continued, wars continued, and the people's life and death were uncertain, and spiritual belief was needed.
If it weren't for the fact that Buddhism and other religions were all passed down by the Hu people and rejected by the Han people, I am afraid that Taoism would have ceased to exist a long time ago, and the current Han Dynasty is in great need of a perfect and active religion to fill the gap in people's spiritual world.
Moreover, there has always been a deep-rooted religious belief in the bone marrow of the Han people, that is, ancestor worship, you can not worship any gods, but you can't help but worship ancestors.
Moreover, the Han people believe in the Mandate of Heaven the most, and the older they get, the deeper their belief in the Mandate of Heaven becomes, and the more they believe that there are gods in the world.
When Wei Yan figured out all this, he no longer worried about anything, but vigorously developed the Tongtian Sect without hesitation.