Chapter 225: The Creation of Teachings

When the situation in various places was turbulent, after months of painstaking study of the information provided by Wei Shuo at the beginning, coupled with the existing classics of the Kou family, Kou Dunzhi finally reorganized a set of religious theories.

According to the previous agreement, Kou Dunzhi appointed Protestantism as the explanator, and the explanator, Mingye, has the meaning of expounding, expounding, and opening up. The Sect will worship a main deity, namely the Yuan Shi Tianzun, also known as Pangu the Great, referred to as the Great Tianzun.

"Lord, please see, this is the theory of creation that I have sorted out."

Wei Shuo took a few stacks of paper in Kou Dunzhi's hand and opened it, only to see that it was written: "...... Before the chaos opened, Yuan Shi Tianzun (Pangu the Great) opened the world with supreme mana, and incarnated into all things in the world in the flesh, and human beings were also one of them. Then the Great Heavenly Venerable Yuan Shen returned to the universe and lived in the ...... of chaos."

“…… After the birth of mankind, the Great Heavenly Venerable repeatedly descended to enlighten his people and guide mankind from barbarism to civilization...... All the miracles in the ancient civilization were the work of the Great Celestial Venerable......"

In the new teaching, it will lead the persuasion of people to be good, and preach that good people have good rewards; Those who do good deeds live and die well, and after death, they are ranked in the immortal class and directly enter the heavenly court; And the bad people or evil people will not only not die well in their lives, but after death, they will fall into the eighteen layers of hell, and in the next life, they will be able to give birth to livestock, and even more serious ones will not be able to live forever.

In addition, according to Wei Shuo's instructions, the teachings will preach to the world such valuable qualities as diligence, frugality, bravery, kindness, and humility, encourage the world to live with a positive attitude, and praise all those who change their lives through labor.

Wei Shuo nodded while looking at it, very satisfied with what Kou Dunzhi had sorted out, and he said with a smile: "Dunzhi, since you are ready for theory, let's start preaching!" First try it out in Liaodong and Youzhou, you see how it goes. My future Great Celestial Master? ”

Kou Dunzhi saw that the theory he had sorted out had passed Wei Shuo's verification, and finally put the hanging heart back in his stomach. He pondered for a moment and replied: "My lord, if you want to quickly spread the teachings in the two places, you must first build Taoist temples in various places, and at least one Taoist temple in a county must accommodate thousands of people praying at the same time. ”

In the Taoist temple where the county or state seat is located, there must be tens of thousands of people who can pray. As a result, the cost of building a Taoist temple at the county level alone is astronomical. Can...... But where does the money come from? ”

Wei Shuo sighed slightly: "Now there are six counties under the rule of the county guard, and at least six large Taoist temples must be built. A Taoist temple that can accommodate 20,000 people has a budget of at least 30,000 yuan, so the county guard government has to allocate at least 200,000 yuan. ”

Kou Dunzhi listened to Wei Shuo talking to himself on the side, and couldn't help but secretly speak, he didn't expect that it would cost so much to promote a religion. However, when he thought about the prospects for the development of teaching in the future, he couldn't help but be excited.

"Fortunately, I made a windfall from the sea trade some time ago, otherwise the county guard would not have been able to get this money even if it smashed the pot and sold iron."

Wei Shuo reluctantly allocated a budget from the huge amount of money he had just obtained and handed it to Kou Dunzhi to build a Taoist temple, 200,000 guan was not a small amount, almost the sum of the officials of the county guard for a year. Moreover, the county's finances are not loose at the moment. Money is urgently needed everywhere, and he can give Kou Dunzhi this money, which shows that Wei Shuo attaches great importance to teaching.

The establishment of at least one Taoist temple in each county will not only allow believers to receive spiritual guidance, but also allow them to carry out other activities based on the Taoist temple. For example, using the Taoist tradition of being good at medicine, providing low-cost or even free medical services for believers in Taoist temples to increase believers' sense of belonging to the teachings.

Providing medical care in Taoist temples is for the majority of ordinary believers. It's so attractive. Nowadays, there are too many poor people who have no money to see a doctor, and even Wei Shuo and Kou Dun believe that as long as the medical plan can be implemented smoothly. The teachings will certainly be quickly accepted by the people at the bottom.

In the new expositional teachings, every time the Chinese subjects faced a life-and-death situation, the Great Heavenly Venerable would descend to save his people. Under the influence of Kou Dunzhi, intentionally or unintentionally, the new doctrine proclaimed Wei Shuo as a hope to save the people of Li from fire and water.

After the creation of the teachings, the first to accept its teachings were the upper classes in Liaodong. Under Wei Shuo's semi-coercion and half-persuasion, the civil and military families of Liaodong and the powerful families took refuge in teaching. And those who belonged to the Karasuma people and the Xianbei people were all forcibly believed in the teachings. In this way, they can strengthen their sense of identity with the Chinese family.

In fact, Wei Shuo has always done a good job in ethnic integration, and now if you go to the folk of Liaodong, you will find that you can basically no longer see the scene of Hu and Han mixed living everywhere you saw at the beginning, and the image of Han people is everywhere you look.

The reason for this situation is that all the ethnic specialties related to the Xianbei people and the Karasuma people have been completely destroyed. This also brought great suffering to future historians studying other Xianbei and Karasuma histories.

Later historians agree that the reason why the grassland peoples such as the Karasuma, Xianbei and Xiongnu who were once active in the north gradually disappeared and merged into the Chinese family began with a series of ethnic integration policies implemented in Liaodong at present. It is precisely thanks to the implementation of this policy that the later generations of China have become a single nation.

The emergence of exposition will inevitably greatly enhance the sense of identity of the people under his rule to Wei Shuo, and play an important role in stabilizing the order of the two places and establishing personal prestige. At the same time, the emergence of exposition will inevitably reduce the influence of the family on the public opinion of the common people everywhere.

In order to prevent the exposition of teachings from harming himself, Wei Shuo has set up several rules to restrict exposition in certain places. First of all, it is clearly stipulated in the explanatory texts that clergy are not allowed to participate in political, economic, and other secular activities, and those who violate them will be deprived of their clergy at least and lose their lives for doing so.

Second, as for the source of funds for teaching, in addition to openly accepting incense money donated by believers, one can only apply for funding from the government. Moreover, all expenditures must be subject to the supervision of the government's auditing department.

Wei Shuo kept flipping through the papers in his hand, and soon came to the various rules and regulations that Kou Dunzhi had formulated for the teaching. According to Kou Dunzhi's design, the priesthood is divided into sectarians from top to bottom: head of the sect, heavenly master, real person, and Taoist leader.

The head of the sect is the supreme leader, and is currently held by Kou Dunzhi. Under the head of the sect, there are heavenly masters stationed in various state administrative offices, responsible for the handling of a state's educational affairs; The real person is generally an authoritative believer who is responsible for the teaching affairs of a county; The Taoist chief is the highest person in charge of each Taoist temple and the most basic clergy of the teaching.

As for the supreme religious affairs, it is not the responsibility of the head of the sect, but the church composed of the head of the sect and the heavenly masters and real people. All major matters must be passed by the Church, and then announced and carried out by the Church.

Wei Shuo was very satisfied with what Kou Dunzhi had sorted out, and he was not too worried that the Sect of Interpretation would threaten him. In fact, even if Wei Shuo does not plan to support another religion, the exposition of religion is not a monopoly. What really affected all aspects of China was Confucianism, and the Confucianism preached by the sage of Confucius had completely become the mainstream thought of China after Dong Zhongshu's efforts.

In Wei Shuo's view, although Confucianism has great development prospects, it still cannot be compared with Confucianism. Confucianism and arithmetic are the two major compulsory basic disciplines in eastern Liaodong, and any scholar who intends to enter the county guard government as an official must master these two knowledges.

With the deep-rooted official-oriented ideology of the Chinese people, Confucianism does not need to be propagated at all, and it will naturally become the first major religion!

This is where Wei Shuo's confidence lies, in his opinion, no matter how hard he tries to expound Buddhism, it is only the second largest religion, and he will have to face competition from Buddhism and other religions in the future.

In addition, Wei Shuo and Kou Dun are committed to making the teachings of a very inclusive, peaceful, and non-aggressive religion, and after multiple restrictions, Wei Shuo believes that they are enough to keep the teachings within an acceptable range.

With the strong support of the county guard, the low-level people and the naturalized Hu people quickly accepted the teaching, and within a few months, the religion became a very influential religion under Wei Shuo's rule.

When the exposition was on the right track, Fan Yang Lu finally sent someone to Jicheng, Wei Shuo couldn't help but be overjoyed when he learned that Lu was coming, in his opinion, Fan Yangguo was afraid that he would not be able to escape from the palm of his hand. (To be continued.) )