Chapter 421 Emperor Yang arrived, and the Buddhas avoided it
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"Quick, take it all!"
Wu Sheng, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty in Myanmar, shouted anxiously.
The heavily armed Ming soldiers beside him were swarming in, and under the sad and angry eyes of the monks, they unceremoniously pointed the muzzles of bayonets at them, and several monks dared to protest, only to have the hard butts of their guns slapped in their faces, and in their screams, the other monks were silent, trembling under the threat of bayonets and began to pack their personal belongings.
Well, this is Shwedagon Pagoda.
Emperor Yang is coming.
Although His Majesty the Emperor treats the bald heads gently, but he is not allowed to appear these guys in his sight, as soon as he travels in the country, the gods and Buddhas in the sky also have to hide quickly, and now they will naturally be like this in these subject countries, if it is those small temples, it is better to say, just cover the outside and don't let him see or hang a sun and moon emblem, that he also acquiesces, but this Ruiguang Shwedagon Pagoda is different.
What is the shelter of the 98-meter-high pagoda covered with gold leaf?
The only way is to hang the sun and moon emblems and turn them into shrines.
But such a dazzling shrine, His Majesty the Emperor may want to visit in person, and then come here to see that it is full of bald heads, wouldn't it become a crime of deception? Wu Sheng didn't dare to joke about this kind of thing, although it would definitely not be beheaded, but his political future was estimated to end here. Therefore, not only will the Shwedagon Pagoda be transformed, but all the bald heads inside will also be thrown out, and the priests and a large number of deacons and servants sent by the Ministry of Rites and Religion from the country have been waiting for these bald heads to get out of the way and redress the Shwedagon Pagoda.
In fact, at this time, the sun and moon emblems had already begun to be installed on the top of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
"Premier Wu, a large number of believers have gathered outside, and they don't seem to be in a stable mood."
Xu Shou, the commander of the Burmese garrison, hurriedly walked in with a revolver and said.
"Leave them alone, if anyone dares to make trouble, shoot them, the Holy Lord's fleet will arrive soon, and there must be no mistakes at this time."
Wu Sheng said.
"But what if it provokes a civil uprising?"
Xu Shou said.
Indeed, their main principle is to serve the emperor's pleasure, and turning the Shwedagon Pagoda into a shrine is for this, but if this provokes a popular uprising and makes a mess of Yangon, the emperor will probably not be in a good mood when he arrives, so it is a dilemma!
"People who believe in Buddhism are not so stupid!"
Wu Sheng said with a sneer.
Indeed, as he guessed, when the Ming army escorted a large number of bald heads out of the Shwedagon Pagoda and sent them to a nearby temporary settlement, the tens of thousands of Burmese believers who knelt outside the Shwedagon Pagoda were just lying there crying like mourners, but none of them reacted irrationally. Obviously, although they were sad and angry, they were very sober, and knew that the rifles in the hands of the Ming soldiers around them were powerful, and they must know that Yangon was a military base of the Ming army, and there was an imperial city and a palace, and there was a local garrison of the army, an infantry brigade under the Ninth Army, and a detachment of the Fifth Fleet of the inland river, with a total strength of no less than 10,000 people.
That's enough strength to sweep through Myanmar.
Who dares to make trouble?
Haven't you lived too long?
Not to mention the common people, even the bald people themselves, none of them really dared to resist, they could only honestly carry their packages under their bayonets, and line up like prisoners of war to the temporary settlement.
As for when they will come back......
Well, they can't come back.
In fact, this is the second time they have moved, the last time Emperor Yang went to India, they have already moved once, but that time the king of Burma personally came and respectfully invited them to go out for a while, but this time they were forcibly expelled by the Ming army. But fortunately, after all, the whole Burma believed in this, so the Burmese king also promised to build them another small temple, of course, they had to stay in the settlement for a short time, after all, no matter how to solve their affairs, first of all, after the work of serving Emperor Yang was completed, in case they wandered outside and offended His Majesty the Emperor Long Wei, it would be troublesome.
So they should stay at the settlement site and recite the scriptures!
Well, you have to be quieter in chanting.
At the same time as the bald heads were escorted away, the envoy to Burma immediately brought a priest invited from China, as well as deacons and servants who came with the priests, and carried various items used in the shrine into the Shwedagon Pagoda.
The vast majority of these priests are the original Taoist priests, who were issued licenses after the assessment of Taichang Temple, in fact, at this time, there were no Taoist priests in the Ming Dynasty, and they all joined the Holy Religion, and all the Taoist temples became holy shrines, and the Taoist priests became priests and deacons of the holy shrine after the assessment. The shrine is also divided into a diocesan system, usually each province or each subject country has a parish set up a high priest, and each of the following shrines has a priest, as for the highest level of this system is the Taichang Temple directly under the jurisdiction of Emperor Yang.
This is the nature of the Vatican.
And Tai Changqing was appointed by Emperor Yang himself, which is actually similar to a cardinal, and he himself is of course the pope.
This is an important means for Yang Feng to control the country, so don't look at Emperor Yang every day who doesn't do his job and almost doesn't care about the government, he forgets what year the last time he went to the court, and now the power of the prime minister is greater than Zhang Juzheng, but in fact, his control over the country is not ordinarily strong, political, military, and ideological are all firmly grasped in his hands.
In the political system of the Ming Dynasty, the prime minister and the ministers seem to be in charge of all the power of the country, but in fact they are restrained by a lot.
For example, the Inspectorate.
As long as they propose impeachment, then the impeached person must be questioned, and if the impeachment case is passed, then it can be directly submitted to the Holy Tribunal, and Emperor Yang is lazy, so he usually seals this kind of twist and turn directly. Even the people's representatives simply went to Dali Temple to sue if they seized the handle of the cabinet members and had enough evidence, and the magistrates elected by the local inspectorate were often directly sealed back when they were dissatisfied with the orders issued from above.
As for the army, it goes without saying.
And the existence of Jinyiwei makes his dog spies all over the country, and even foreign countries are under his control.
The Holy Religion, on the other hand, is controlled ideologically.
Don't think that he is tearing down temples all over the world just for that little bad taste, he is unifying his thoughts, shaping himself into a supreme god, shaping his descendants into gods, always holding high the banner of divine monarchy, overriding the people from generation to generation, and being a parasite that exploits the working people.
His holy religion is actually based on ancient Chinese mythology, organized in a Christian way, and by the way, it is mixed with online novels, and his fairyland theory also avoids the conflict between mythology and science to the greatest extent, so that even with the rapid development of science and technology, his religious system can maximize the lifespan, as long as it can last for two hundred years, it will basically come true.
The gods exist, but the gods live in another dimension.
People can obtain the ability of the gods through cultivation and then enter the fairyland, but unless the genius of the heavens, it is not to be expected, but if you meet the standards of a large number of good people in the holy oracle, you can enter the fairyland after death and live with the gods, if you do a lot of bad things, the soul will also enter the fairyland, of course, the netherworld under the fairyland is specially set up for people like you to be tortured for eternity.
If a living person wants to obtain god-like abilities, they can study science.
Of course, you have to think that you are a genius of Tianzhong, you have to cultivate through Taoist classics, and then look forward to one day soaring in the sky, that is also up to you, anyway, even if you fail in the end, you can only say that you are not a genius of Tianzong, and it does not prove that cultivation is wrong, if you question this, then please look up at our esteemed Emperor His Majesty, please explain how he succeeded.
And he himself played the ......
In fact, it is similar to the role of the Islamic sealing prophet.
He is the only representative of the gods in this world, he is the god of the present world, but he is not of a high level among the gods, and he is more scientific, that is, he focuses on science and technology, which can also explain his limited ability, and many times he has to rely on science, and he likes women and other things that are quite different from the gods. But even if his level is not high, he is also a representative sent to the world by the gods of the fairy land, so the legitimacy of his rule is beyond doubt, and his descendants as gods, even if they do not have the ability of the gods, the legitimacy of that rule is also unquestionable.
The right of the king is divinely granted.
As a godborn, of course, he wants to be an emperor.
This truth can be said to be justified anywhere in the world.
There is nothing too wrong with such a system, especially if it can withstand the impact of the big bang of science and technology, unless human technology evolves to the point where it can shatter the void, no one can prove that the fairy land is fake, and similarly, unless someone can use science to explain why His Majesty the Emperor can kick the elephant as a ball, otherwise it will not be able to prove that the fairy is fake......
In other words, this Emperor Yang himself can't be explained by science!
And as long as there is no way to prove that the fairy realm and the gods do not exist, then his holy religion can be said to be indestructible, these two points are the protective shield that is immune to everything, and even the heaven full of loopholes in modern times has a large number of people who are convinced, not to mention his almost invulnerable fairyland. As for the development of science and technology, human beings have a deeper and deeper understanding of the world, which has also been explained a long time ago, fairyland and human beings are not the same world, and no matter how deep your research is, it has nothing to do with that side at all. So no matter how well you know the world, even if it evolves to the point of flying out of the solar system, you can't prove that fairies don't exist, well, it seems that even modern scientists believe in the existence of parallel worlds.
It is said that Emperor Yang also took great pains for this set of things. (To be continued.) )