Shaolin Temple, the ancestral garden of Chinese Zen Buddhism, is the headquarters of a huge religious organization similar to St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Although there is no possibility of Piping donating land and establishing a theocratic regime, as a long-established religious organization that has been established for nearly 600 years, the wealth accumulated over the years is also extremely staggering. Compared with the relatively junior Daixiangguo Temple in Tokyo, the Shaolin Temple, which was established earlier, mainly relied on the rent and income collected from the temple's land property to maintain itself. If you are like the Great Xiangguo Temple, you are interested in usury and are keen on operating all kinds of money-making industries, it is impossible to maintain the leading position and high prestige that will last for thousands of years.

Guanzhong took a fancy to the relatively good talent pool here, and specially rushed to select talents, hoping to get enough religious people to enrich the faith marketing network and business network in eastern Japan. The Caodong sect is the general trend in the future, but the largest sects in reality are still the two sects of Yunmen and Rinzai, so the talents selected are also circled among these three sects.

Those who are advanced in Buddhism are generally middle-aged and elderly, and their health is poor, so it is not suitable for them to travel overseas all year round, so they choose some enthusiastic young monks to serve as exchange monks and scripture translators in the poorest places in eastern Japan. In fact, it is to entrain Shaolin's own Zen martial arts, Zen tea, Zen music, and Zen farming, to buy people's hearts with cheap medicine, to increase local economic productivity with high-yield seeds and new agricultural techniques, to brainwash the people with ritual music and compulsory education with various private goods, and to promote the leap of the market economy with commercial and financial networks.

Japan's temples are different from China's, and although Japan's temples are not as rich as China's, they are very independent and politically powerful, and often express their political opinions and tendencies through various channels. In China's successive dynasties, Buddhism was always suppressed by secular powers, and several extermination of Buddhism curbed the basis for Buddhism's intervention in government, so Buddhism's influence on politics could only arise in the era of secession in a corner of peace. The same was true in Japan, but the period of a unified centralized dynasty was too short, and the struggle between the Fujiwara regent and the emperor was like a civil war that drained the power of the imperial court, and the temple became a bargaining chip in the political struggle with the samurai family.

The Japanese monks are so poor that they always maintain their privileges and status under various banners, and there is almost no shining point in the real self-discipline. The traversal people can't believe their discipline at all, so they have to hope that the monks in the country can give some strength. Hundreds of capable monks who are determined to propagate the Dharma and save the world are recruited to enrich the management team in eastern Japan, and exchange monks with some of the more powerful monasteries in eastern Japan and Heiankyo. (It is young people who go to Japan, and those who come to China are relatively old temple leaders, in order to retain these high-level people to enjoy retirement in China with peace of mind, and by the way, reduce the main decision-makers of the major local orders in East Japan, and provide opportunities for their own people in various places to mix sand in East Japan), through this kind of cross-border exchange of personnel and the transfer of interests behind it, a set of effective and reliable East Japan remote control network can be established.

This kind of colonialism under the cloak of religion was achieved by borrowing from the medieval Christian monastic economic system and the colonial era by arranging compradors to go deep into the Chinese mainland to engage in dumping. In Japan, there is the support of ministers at all levels and the Emperor, and there are no political constraints, so as long as he does not express his political opinions and concentrates on construction and management, I believe that the Emperor is very happy to see the "quietness" of the temple.

Economically, with the support of technology and trade, the large amount of land, manpower and material resources owned by the major temples can create great wealth and productivity. Imports and exports of goods can drive the economy of the entire region; imported cement for building bridges and paving roads, cheap seeds and fertilizers for infrastructure and agriculture; The export of fired bricks, tiles, clay utensils, and various seafood and mountain delicacies has led to local employment.

Militarily, the Crossing Crowd can provide a large number of opportunities for Eastern samurai who are interested in gaining status through warfare to enter the 'navy' where the Crossing Crowd is in desperate need of talent and soldiers. You must know that the development of Dongyi Island and many overseas islands, and even Dali and the South China Sea countries, requires a large number of skilled sailors and mercenaries. As long as these samurai who are keen to change their fate get on the ship, the traversers will use countless ways to make them follow them with all their hearts.

Culturally, the temple education under the cloak of religion is a place to export dry goods, and the main teachers who teach students are not monks, most of the teachers are students who travel through the congregation, teaching arithmetic and various professional livelihood techniques, such as accounting, machinery, smelting, agronomy, shipping, etc., and the only few are also window dressing, and they are also taught astronomical calendars, history and various common sense. Make comprehensive preparations and talent reserves for the export of ideology.

Shinto, which completely suppressed the theory of blood in religion, is a traditional national religion in Japan, which was originally based on nature worship, ancestor worship, emperor worship, etc., and belongs to the pan-polytheistic belief (spirit worship), which regards various animals and plants in nature as gods, and also endows all generations of Japanese emperors with divinity. After absorbing Chinese Confucianism and Buddhism in the 5th and 8th centuries AD, a relatively complete system was gradually formed), and this polytheism, which was more inclusive than Buddhism, did not fit the context of the centralized era. Therefore, in order to completely destroy the roots of Japan's independent native culture ideologically and pave the way for future mergers and colonization, the Crossing Sect decided to eliminate Shintoism by various means.

Of course, the most important means of this is the economic means that have the fastest effect and the lowest negative impact. For example, a large amount of funding for Buddhist temples and spending financial and material resources to engage in public services: fighting price wars on various festivals and rituals; Material incentives were given to Buddhists who clearly stated that they did not believe in Shintoism, such as preferential loans, reduction or exemption of land rent, the provision of unified purchasing and sales treatment, the placement of more orders, preferential prices for large expenses such as housing and education, property insurance, medical insurance, and so on.

Almost overnight, all of the folk Shinto shrines (small shrines that worship non-mainstream gods such as nature spirits and small people) were greatly reduced, and the number of believers was in danger of reaching zero every few days. The ancestral shrines of the families did not die out, but their activities were greatly reduced (insufficient funds to maintain the high level of high-intensity activity in the past). Only less influential areas such as Saikoku and Kyoto were able to hold up, and the shrines in eastern Japan were beaten by Zen monks almost overnight.

Some of the big shrines with a bit of strength, such as the Ise Jingu Shrine, which worships the Imperial Family, realized that the dragon of Zen Buddhism was about to crush many shrines and other head snakes, so they began to panic. It is obviously impossible to win the competition at the economic level, and behind the wealthy Zen Buddhism stands the Emperor Taishang, who dominates the Japanese economy. Politically, the ministers who have not been able to do so and many related nobles will not be able to get along with Buddhism because of the number of believers, after all, the identity of the emperor is not a decoration. Militarily, it is not an opponent of the Wanderers who have a large number of samurai and hired ronin allegiance. Culturally, not to mention, the desert is not enough to describe the shrine culture. Zen Buddhism, which has the support of a powerful cross-poll, is almost invincible in the competition for adherents, and almost all non-Zen Japanese Buddhist sects have been converted, and the young monks who go there are busy preaching Zen Buddhism and healing the sick and wounded every day. It is almost impossible to notice that the people who have already sold dog meat have gained de facto control over the entire East Japan region.