As soon as they heard Liu Hong's words, Liu Qian and all the ministers began to think about how to solve it. But if this problem is easy to solve, Liu Hong can't solve it in two years. Therefore, above the main hall, there was a direct silence

Thinking about it, there was no way, Liu Hong even wanted to learn from future generations, directly preached atheism, and banned all sects. But Liu Hong knew that it couldn't be done, so let's not talk about his crossing, which made him deny atheism. Religion itself, Liu Hong also believes that it is a very necessary thing, and the benefits definitely outweigh the disadvantages for people. After all, except for a small number of cults, the vast majority of religions lead people to goodness, which is very helpful to social harmony.

Of course, it is not the primary role of religion to lead people to goodness. Liu Hong believes that religion is necessary because he feels that the greatest use of religion is to alleviate people's fear of death.

There is a great terror between life and death, but as a mortal, you will never be able to escape death. And that's when religion is the best way to alleviate that fear.

It is often said that fear comes from the unknown. People's fear of death is also due to ignorance. Whether it is the Western theory of heaven or the ancient theory of the underworld, it can reduce people's fear of death. In Liu Hong's view, this is quite a wise approach. But the afterlife, regardless of these benefits, dismissed all of them as superstitions, and forced people to accept the idea that death would lead to complete extinction. And what is the consequence, is that people have lost all their faith. Doing things, especially doing bad things, no longer has scruples, so that people's morality has no bottom line, and any kind of thing can be done.

Besides, even if Liu Hong doesn't care about these things at all, this religion is not something he can ban if he says it's forbidden. After all, the prestige of the Red Sun in later generations is only higher than that of the current one. Even his ban on religion did not succeed. In the end, those famous sects had to be retained, so that the rich and powerful people believed in ghosts and gods, that is, faith, and ordinary people believed in ghosts and gods, which was the four dissimilarities of superstition. If he also forbade religion now, he believed it would be no better than that.

Just as Liu Hong was pondering, Hu Zhao spoke, "Your Majesty, most of the current religions are branches of Taoism. Even that Taiping Dao is in the name of Taoism. You see if we can bring Taoism under the supervision of the imperial court in the form of His Majesty's canonization of Taoism. Then the imperial court can rest assured to support Taoism, and then guide the people to believe, so as to replace those cults that only know how to cheat money? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty," the other ministers said one after another, "as long as these religions can be brought under the supervision of the imperial court." The imperial court could transform these religions. If they want to develop believers, they must follow the rules set by the imperial court. If they are disobedient. We can not only ban them. It can also allow Taoism to crowd them out in the religious circles, so that they have no way to live at all. ”

"Yes, it's a solution."

Hearing Hu Zhao's words, Liu Hong's eyes lit up. He finally realized that his previous ideas had fallen into a misunderstanding. After all, the later generations of Buddhism were extremely powerful, and now they have just entered the Han Dynasty. It's not time to develop yet. Taoism, on the other hand, believes in non-action and is not keen on developing believers. Although the name is extremely famous, all of them are cheap cults like Taiping Dao.

"In this case, I only need to ordain a puppet pope. This religion is not just being reformed according to my wishes! Thinking of this, Liu Hong was a little excited, "Since religion is free for me to reform, and the rules are for me to formulate, then it is not a simple matter for me to leave a religion that is beneficial to the Han nation for future generations." ”

However, Liu Hong also knows that there are two sides to everything, and things are definitely not as good as they seem. This may be beneficial to the Han nation, but not necessarily to their royal family. After all, although he has reformed religion now, religion will also develop greatly through it. And with the demagogic nature of religion, the Pope is bound to wield enormous power as a result. In this way, if the Pope's throne is entrusted to a non-human, it will be a disaster for future emperors. Therefore, he must think properly now, neither let religion hinder the development of the Han Dynasty, nor let religion threaten the safety of their royal family.

"It's really not good, I will support Buddhism as well, and let it be a rival to Taoism. The royal family balances this so that the threat to the royal family from the religious chiefs is minimized. ”

The more Liu Hong thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible. Don't look at the current power of Buddhism, even the name of the Futu Sect, to change the name of Buddhism, a promising name, it will take many years to wait. But even so, they are definitely a well-known sect in Dahan. Not to mention elsewhere, in this Luoyang City alone, they have a White Horse Temple covering an area of more than 200 acres. Therefore, if he wants to reform his religion, this Buddhism will definitely not be able to go beyond it.

And judging from what has happened over the years, history has an astonishing inertia. Therefore, in Liu Hong's view, the development of Buddhism is also inevitable. In this way, instead of letting it develop like later generations, it is better for him to transform it now and let it develop together with Taoism. At the very least, if he reforms it, he can remove the negative side of Buddhism.

"For a big religion, these two are absolutely enough. Other denominations can only exist as their branches. Moreover, it must accept the constitution and administration of the archacitor and the imperial court, so that religion is basically harmless. The sect problem is solved, and Liu Hong thought of those running orders again, "The big problems have been solved, those gods and goddesses, and fortune tellers or something, don't keep them, take this opportunity to take care of them together." ”

Like those gods and goddesses in the township, and fortune tellers or something, Liu Hong feels that their existence definitely has more advantages than disadvantages. Of course, if you have to say that they are all liars, no one will raise the bar for you, because most of them are liars, and almost everyone understands that.

And why lie to people, and say that they do more good than harm. Because in Liu Hong's view, they are very similar to the role of psychiatrists, and they do relieve the mental pressure of many people. As for the money they cheated, to a certain extent, it can be counted as medical expenses, after all, it costs money to find a psychiatrist. As for saying that some people don't know the height of the sky, they assign indiscriminately, and cause greater harm to others, this is the disadvantage side, and they need to be guided. And Liu Hong also wants to manage them in this aspect, and bring them into the supervision of the imperial court to remove their disadvantages. (To be continued......)