When Li Chen first ascended the throne, he recruited a group of Taoist priests to come in, including Pingdaoren, an old friend he had known since Yangzhou. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

These Taoist priests are not all to cover them up. Li Chen sincerely intended to reform Taoism in China. The spread of Chinese sects is really too weak. Not to mention Christianity and ****** religion, even Buddhism is not comparable.

No one knows what kind of nerves Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty had when he introduced it to China, probably to counter Taoism. However, as a religion that was introduced to China as a latecomer, Buddhism spread very hard, and in the end, it came from behind. Taoism is far inferior to Buddhism.

Originally, he first attached himself to Taoism. said that Buddhism and Taoism were originally a family, and also fabricated a book of Lao Tzu Hua Hu Sutra. In modern times, when I heard the name of this book, Li Chen thought that this scripture was fabricated by Taoism in order to say that Buddhism was inferior to them.

But Bencheng was in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In those years, Taoism was still very prosperous, which was fabricated by Buddhism in order to cling to Taoism and downplay its image of nonsense. Even, in this era, remember what the monks called themselves? All learn Taoist priests, and they all call themselves poor Taoists.

Buddhism, for the sake of preaching, is called a positive. Although they later became moving stones and mixing their own feet, they could not be allowed to be motivated. Even if Buddhism gradually became sinicized and its propagation weakened, their teachings included ferry, or preaching, which was still stronger than Taoism.

This time, Li Chen opened a golden finger, hoping to reverse the disadvantages of Taoist preaching at one time. Let's see if we can spread the sect beyond China.

'Hmm... Oh, uh-huh, ah-a. Li Chen is now in the Ayaqi Palace, summoned a Taoist priest headed by Ying Yijie, and listened to them introduce the new doctrine and Taoist organization.

He had no interest in the doctrine. It's not that he's disgusted with Taoist teachings, he's disgusted with the teachings of all the world's denominations, or rather, he doesn't have any comprehension of those philosophical ideas, cultural evolution, and inheritance. When he was admitted to the university, the biggest headache was to memorize those cultural evolutions, what ideas and the like, and he was annoyed. He only cared if he did what he asked.

After listening to it for a long time, it was generally fine. First of all, the various schools of Taoism were unified, and the Taoist immortal system headed by the primordial Tianzun was established. Li Chen didn't care who was the leader, but these Taoists were very persistent. Obviously, I haven't even seen my own boss, but he looks loyal to the Lord. So in order to avoid trouble, Li Chen simply asked them all to convert to the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, anyway, each of you thinks that the Primordial Heavenly Venerable is the greatest.

As for the immortal system, there was originally before, Liang Dynasty Tao Hongjing's "Cave Xuanling Treasure True Spiritual Position Industry Map". But that's not what it needs to be. Li Chen asked them to rearrange the immortal system according to the list of gods (of course, the version provided by Li Chen).

This is nothing, the most important point is to sort out the immortals of all dynasties, at least until the Tang Dynasty. All the famous Chinese gods were arranged into it, Nuwa, the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors, Kuafu, Shennong, these immortals, all of them were lined up. Also unified their deeds.

These Taoists are not all dry food. This thing has been compiled for two years, and there is also this factor, which needs to be sorted out and integrated. Make a unified version of the scattered myths and stories of China. In the future, this will prevail. This is a huge project, and it has been roughly completed so far.

If you ask, what's the use of this stuff? Li Chen can tell you very clearly, so it is convenient. It is convenient for proselytizing and debating with others. If a religion even has scriptures that contradict each other and conflict with each other, it is too detrimental to its development and promotion. If you are just starting out, you can't even figure out your own system, so how do you want him to preach with others.

A clear mythological system is also conducive to educating the people. Li Chen asked them to write the traditional benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, as well as the ways of loyalty, forgiveness, patriotism, and loyalty to the monarch. The project became more and more complicated, and Li Chen also added manpower, so that some Confucian students also joined it, and Confucianism was the best at doing this.

By the way, Li Chen recruited Confucian scholars not only to make up stories. He also began to compile Confucian classics, but this is a later story, and I will talk about it later.

Then, the new Taoist teachings confirmed the doctrine of heaven and hell. In this statement, Li Chen said that the eighteen layers of hell in later generations had been advanced to modern times. It also confirmed that the existence of the drunken capital must exist. And then it's heaven.

Heaven is different from what Buddhism has to be Elysium, the Western theory of paradise. The Taoist heaven is combined with the saying that the heavens and the earth are blessed.

Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, simply put, is self-sufficient, and the environment is beautiful. It's not as big as the real world, but it's far more comfortable than the real world. Except for those who have attained the Tao and those who have attained the Tao, the common people can only enter with their souls.

After all the dead are judged in hell, they can be blessed here for their guilt and innocence, and then they will be reincarnated. In every region, there is a cave. They can also be connected to each other.

Li Chen heard it very strangely, he knew that Taoism had such a saying, but why did it do this. Wouldn't it be nice to have a paradise? Li Chen asked. Ying Yijie explained. Dongtian blessed land, as early as the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there is such a saying.

The Peach Blossom Source in the Peach Blossom Land is a blessed land. They just turned the cave into a place like heaven. Li Chen understood, and he didn't interfere, anyway, there is heaven and hell, and there is reincarnation. He didn't know very well whether Westerners could be reincarnated when they went to heaven, and there was no need to imitate them, Chinese Taoism had its own characteristics.

Originally, he really wanted to imitate Western Christianity and ****** religion to reform. Imitating their original sin doctrine, everyone has original sin and is to be religious to atone for their sins. However, if you think about it carefully, most of the people who will go to religion will not have a good life in this life.

Even if you have no worries about food and clothing, and encounter some bad things in life, you will consider becoming reliant. These two types of people don't seem to make much sense to preach original sin. He who does not believe will not believe. No matter how deep your sin is, I will not believe it. Rather than changing it back and forth and not making it look like a Chinese sect, it is better to keep it as it is.

However, in some doctrines and organizations, he imitated Christianity. Basically, learn the organizational system of Christianity. It is hoped that this will change the situation of the poor spread of Taoism.

First of all, in terms of doctrine, there is a change, crossing people and helping people solve difficulties, there will be merit, and you can enter the cave to get the Dharma, so that the grassroots Taoists are enthusiastic about preaching. In other words, let the congregants also be zealous in preaching.

Then, organizationally, it imitated Catholicism, and then divided according to the local administrative regions of the Tang Dynasty. Each Taoist district is set up, and each Taoist district has a Taoist temple. This is the most basic organization, basically in a township, if it is densely populated, in a unit.

Then up is the main road area, and several road districts form the main road area, which basically corresponds to the county. And then there are the religious states, several religious states, forming the general religious state.

Then, the basic composition is that the Taoist priest and the Taoist child preside over the Taoist area. There are mages in the main road area, who are in charge of a general road area. In charge of Daozhou, he has to be a prestige master, which is a local administrative staff with more power and direct management. Further up are the lawyers.

It's not the lawyer we know, basically these are the regulations in the Tang Six Classics. There are three numbers of Taoist practice, which are the above three. The lawyer, like the Christian archbishop, has no capacity to intervene directly in the affairs of the local church, but only the position of inspector.

This is the same as the original intention of the early Tang Dynasty, when the Dao was first established. Originally, there were ten Dao in the early Tang Dynasty, and the security envoys and dethroned envoys of these Dao Dao were also sent by the Imperial Historical Observatory to inspect the locality. Xuanzong added many positions, and after Anshi, the local festival greatly increased its power, and gradually became a formal division of local administrative regions.

Basically, it's a local composition. If Taoism spreads abroad, there will be a group of lawyers in the general state and will meet regularly to discuss the issue of going beyond the state. Li Chen's plan is that if Taoism can spread far away, this will be the local assembly of Taoism.

In the Tang Dynasty, the highest level is a real person, leading a Taoist court, which corresponds to the Pope. There are a number of alchemists under it, which correspond to cardinals. If the Pope is equivalent to the emperor, then the alchemist is the minister. However, in the Tang Dynasty, if a real person wants to crown the emperor, then don't think about it.

In Christianity, after the death of the Pope, the cardinal chooses the next candidate. Of course, Datang doesn't think about it, the refiner can recommend a few real candidates, but it still has to be selected by the emperor. If the emperor is not satisfied, he can keep changing.

Then, there will be Taoist schools, similar to the Catholic schools. However, only a few large places in Chang'an and Luoyang will set up special schools to train Taoist priests, and other schools are just ordinary schools.

However, some basic Taoist concepts will also be taught, so a unified Taoist classic is needed, otherwise if students learn it and then come into contact with other concepts, it will inevitably be confused, and it will also give people who have a heart to take advantage of it.

In general, building a school can be regarded as a kind of subtle subtlety. These Taoist priests thought that Li Chen wanted to revitalize Taoism very much, and he wanted to start with the baby. But he didn't know that Li Chen mainly hoped to promote education for all, so that those who have money can run Taoist temples, and the burden on local governments can be reduced a little.

The other is the hope that Taoism will sustain a large empire. Those Catholic countries, don't look at the fights, but they are a little disconnected from each other, Li Chen hopes that in the future, this simple religious outlook can affect many places.

It's very complicated, in fact, Li Chen himself is a little confused, he didn't mention it to these Taoist priests, mainly because even he himself was very confused about this purpose.

In addition, in addition to fully imitating Catholicism, Li Chen also added some restrictions. (To be continued.) )