When Emperor Dingwu was in charge of the country in Guangzhou, the Hubu Shangshu at that time was concurrently served by Wu Yingdian University scholar and second assistant Lianchengbi. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info after the death of the city wall, Guo Tianxu, who was formerly the imperial history of the left capital of the Imperial Palace, was transferred to take charge of the household department, but he did not enter the cabinet.

This Guo Tianyu was the head of the Ministry of Rites of the former Chongzhen Dynasty, and when he was picked up from the countryside by Zhou Shixiang, he was already over fifty years old. At that time, there were no original Ming Dynasty officials in the Taiping Army who took the initiative to vote, only a few low-level Manchu officials who were captured, no one understood the etiquette system of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhou Shixiang needed someone to explain these things for him, so Guo Tianxu was old and developed, and he rose step by step, and finally became one of the six departments of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the household department has no real power, even Guo Tianxu, the official of the court, has to receive it from the Qi Palace, and he can't see any oil flowers from top to bottom in the ministry, but in any case, Guo Tianxu is already an important minister of the imperial court, so he is very satisfied with his current life.

The people of the household department know that Shangshu is a person who believes in Buddhism, and the main hall of the house is dedicated to the statue of the Buddha, and the Shangshu Lord must burn two pillars of incense before the sun goes down every day, which can be described as extremely pious, which is very similar to the city wall. As long as the Qing army came to attack, the first thing he did was not to convene his subordinates to discuss the way to retreat from the enemy, but to worship the Buddha first and save the Buddha to keep him safe.

Guo Tianxu worships the Buddha, he is also pious, in addition to hoping that the Buddha can keep him safe, but also wants the Buddha to bless him to go further, and he can return to his hometown as a cabinet scholar after the office, so that it is not in vain that he has been worried about the Taiping Army in recent years.

However, outsiders don't know that the Buddha that Guo Tianxu believes in is actually not the Buddha, and the statue of the Buddha in his house is just a prop he uses to hide his true faith.

Guo Tianxu is a Luo, and he worships his motherless mother in his heart.

The mother-in-law is the god of Wuweijiao, and the Wuweijiao is known as Luojiao in Lingnan, and the mother-in-law is called Luofu.

There were Luo followers in the Taiping Army, and the general Tie Yi was a believer in Luo, and at least more than 80 officers of more than 100 households in the army believed in Luo. Most of them were miners like Tie Yi, concentrated in the second town, one of the elite old four towns of the original Taiping Army, and now they are scattered among the various armies with the restructuring of the Taiping Army.

Zhou Shi was supportive of Luojiao, firstly, Luojiao's teachings absorbed a lot of Buddhism and guided people to good, not to persuade people to do evil. Second, the organization of Luojiao is very tight, very similar to the early Taoism of rebellion. The third point is that a large number of followers of the Luo sect are members of the Taiping army, and these believers, under the guidance of Tie Yi and other high-level generals, deliberately advertised that Zhou Shixiang was the reincarnation of Yue Wumu and the embodiment of Luo Fu's rescue of the suffering Han people. The fourth is that Luojiao is extremely xenophobic and very resistant to foreign races, and its teachings have the view that "if you are not of my race, your heart will be different".

These four points are very in line with the interests of Zhou Shixiang and the Taiping Army, so as early as Guangdong, Zhou Shixiang secretly instructed Tie Yi to strengthen Luojiao, and formed his own system, cutting off the original Luojiao. With the continuous expansion of the area occupied by the Taiping Army, the new Luo religion, which had been controlled by the military, continued to infiltrate various places, using official support to continuously recruit followers and form Luo religious institutions in various places.

However, strictly speaking, the Luo religion supported by Zhou Shixiang is no longer the Luo religion of the past, and the worship is no longer a childless mother, but Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor. The doctrine is also constantly being revised, and every once in a while, Zhou Shixiang will add some new doctrines drawn up by him to the canon of Luojiao, which is called "The Book of Heaven and Earth", which is much more systematic and advanced than the original canon of Luojiao. The so-called doctrine of lifelessness has changed beyond recognition.

Luojiao is no longer the old religion, and after Zhou Shixiang successfully prepared for the Northern Expedition, he renamed Luojiao as Hanjiao. Of course, Zhou Shixiang, who was very repulsive to religion, naturally could not make himself the pope and Han China the state religion and interfere with the future secular regime. His purpose in building the Han religion was only to hope that in the future, the Han people in China would have a tool that could fight against foreign cults.

In the absence of government support and clan support, there is such a religion that can unite the Han people and stand up for them. Even if, in the end, this Han religion rebelled and messed up the country like early Taoism, but as long as it is beneficial to the inheritance of the Han people, Zhou Shixiang thinks it is worth it.

There is no shortage of sages in the world, sages of today, and of future Marys.

Zhou Shixiang, who is extremely disgusted with religion, single-handedly created religion, which has to be said to be a great irony.

The reason why this is so is that it is an unforgettable memory of Zhou Shixiang's past life. In the previous life, the almost extinct Semu Sect had tens of millions of people in just two or three hundred years, and caused a tragedy of more than 10 million Han casualties, which cannot but be said to be painful. However, the bitter lesson did not arouse the vigilance of the rulers, but instead raised tigers to cause trouble, causing the Juche nation to be oppressed, and the slightest resistance would hit the top with a big stick.

Heaven can see, those high-ranking so-called religious people are actually all Han people, but none of them recognize themselves as Han people!

In his previous life, Zhou Shixiang was powerless, but in this life, he has to try hard, even if it is wrong, he has to do it. It is only that one day in the future, the people will also have the power to resist foreign religions.

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There are many followers of Luojiao in Lingnan, and there are a large number of believers in Guo Tianxu's hometown. It's just that at that time, many officials in the imperial court thought that this Luo Sect was a branch of the White Lotus Sect, a cult, and advocated banning it.

During the Wanli period, Liu Tianxu, a Wuwei disciple, deliberately took action in Fengyang, claiming to be the "leader of the Wuwei Sect", saying that the "Huangji Buddha" would be born, gathering people to preach the scriptures and teachings, raising funds from the people, and attempting to loot the government.

This incident directly led to the Luo religion being banned by the Nanjing Yamen at that time, and after that, anyone who was caught worshipping the childless mother would be treated as a thief. In this way, after Guo Tianxu became an official, he did not dare to offer his motherless mother at home, but found a statue of the Buddha to offer. After becoming an official of the Taiping Army, Guo Tianxu always remembered the events of that year, and the Taiping Army killed people like hemp, so he did not dare to disclose his identity as a Luo follower.

Last year, Guo Tianxu suddenly heard that there was a Luo sect in the east of Nanjing, and the government did not prohibit it, he was a little excited, so he secretly ran to listen to the scriptures, and found that the teachings of these people were fundamentally different from those he had been exposed to since childhood, and there was still a shadow of Luo religion. In a fit of anger, he secretly sent his old family members to Lingnan to find the authentic Luo Sect, and repeatedly told the old family to find the three Venerable "Empty Space", "Space", and "Clear Void" in the sect.

As a devout believer, Guo Tianxu very much hopes that the three Venerable Masters in the sect can stand up and tell the believers that what those people outside are doing is fake, their god is not Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, and Yue Fei is not a disciple of the Yellow Emperor, they have only one god, that is, the lifeless old mother.

Because of the discovery of the "false teaching", coupled with the fact that the household department has no real power, there is nothing to do in the ministry at all, so Guo Tianxu has been very idle recently. He knows what happened in Beijing for a while, but he doesn't bother to get involved.

Guo Tianxu doesn't want to be a person on both sides, because in the eyes of the gentry in Jiangnan, he Guo Shangshu is a Cantonese, and the Cantonese are naturally the Zhou Party. Therefore, even if Guo Tianxu was opposed to these things that Zhou Shixiang did in Jiangnan, and he wanted Gu Yanwu to die as soon as possible, he didn't dare to jump out like Huang Zongxi.

But that's fine, at least Guo Tianxu doesn't have to worry that Jinyiwei's people will find him. He Guo Tianxu can't do anything else, but he can still be cautious and keep to himself. People, you still have to do your part, and you have to be interesting. How can there be a knife handle in the hands of others, but they want to change the world with a three-inch tongue.

If there is no ghost in my heart, I naturally can't talk about worrying about being afraid, and living like a year. As usual, Guo Tianxu cleaned his hands early at home, wiped his face, pinched three pillars of incense and offered them to the Buddha, then changed his clothes and bathed and went to the ministry to work.

Idle and idle, as a hall official, Guo Tianxu still has to do his job well. As soon as I entered the house, I didn't have time to ask someone to make a pot of hot tea, but I heard a commotion outside, as if someone was shouting something, and I vaguely heard someone scolding something.

When did the ministry become so unruly?

Guo Tianxu frowned, his face was displeased, and he turned his head and shouted outside: "Who is arguing outside?" ”

Hearing Lord Shangshu's call, Lang Zhongjiang, who was looking outside with his colleagues, hurriedly ran over and said respectfully: "Back to my lord's words, it seems that he is a pro-army person." ”

"Pro-military people!"

Guo Tianxu's heart "fluttered", his expression panicked, and he became a little nervous, "What are they doing in my household?" ”

Jiang Yiqing shook his head and said, "My lord, the people who are pro-army are going to the Ministry of Rites, not to our Ministry of Households. ”

"Oh? …”

Hearing that it was not from the Ministry of Rites, Guo Tianxu exhaled, raised his hand and waved his hand, and instructed Jiang Yiqing: "Go and see, what happened to the Ministry of Rites." ”

"Yes, sir!"

Jiang Yiqing agreed without hesitation, and hurriedly went outside the department to investigate, not wanting to be blocked back before he left the door of the department.

Look around: my good one!

It turned out that outside the yamen, there would be a lot of brocade guards with knives and guns, they were five steps to one person, ten steps and one post, and they actually surrounded all the six yamen, whether it was the household department or the ritual department, or the military department and the criminal department.

Rebellion?

Jiang Yiqing was so frightened that his face turned pale.

Jiang Yiqing agreed without hesitation, and hurriedly went outside the department to investigate, not wanting to be blocked back before he left the door of the department.

Look around: my good one!

It turned out that outside the yamen, there would be a lot of brocade guards with knives and guns, they were five steps to one person, ten steps and one post, and they actually surrounded all the six yamen, whether it was the household department or the ritual department, or the military department and the criminal department.

Rebellion?

Jiang Yiqing was so frightened that his face turned pale.