The green pothos pulled Long Shaocong out of the teahouse, and when he got a narrow alley, there was a burst of laughter like silver bells.

Long Shaocong was a little confused about this sudden laughter, so he didn't know what this little woman was doing, but he didn't want to disturb her happy appearance.

At this time, two wild warriors walked over on the opposite side of the narrow alley, one of them held a notice and said excitedly: "This time we have finally come to the end of the day, as long as we find Long Shaocong, we will definitely be appreciated by Lord Guangxiu, become his retainer, and from then on we will soar." ”

"Are you sure we're going to find this guy?" The other person is obviously lacking in confidence, and the "guy" in his mouth is certainly worthy of Long Shaocong.

"How do you know if you don't give it a try, this dragon young man is so bold that he dares to seduce Princess Hideko, and His Royal Highness Nobunaga already hates him to the bone."

"I heard that this person is young, so he became a close member of His Highness Nobunaga, and he is very appreciated by His Highness, how could he ......" After the man finished speaking, he shook his head and sighed.

"For a while, we don't care about those, as long as we go to the cliff behind Gangshan and find him, whether we live or die, our wealth will come."

"How did I hear that his body has been fed to wolves."

"It was Lord Guangxiu in order to make a deal, and later after careful verification, I found that it was a corpse of Orion, not Long Shaocong, and I secretly gave an order again and again to continue to arrest Long Shaocong......"

While talking, the two walked past Long Shaocong and Luluo and turned out of the narrow alley......

Watching the two walk away, Long Shaocong said worriedly: "It seems that I am no different from a fugitive, it is estimated that it is difficult to come out of Kyoto, I think, let's break up here, so as not to affect you." ”

The pothos smiled and said, "I have a way, follow me." ”

The two walked out of the narrow alley in the other direction, but they didn't want to be blocked by a long line. Long Shaocong saw a group of samurai, with an extremely pious and sad expression, slowly moving forward, a god in a ceremonial robe was wearing a Taoist robe, singing a babbling Noh song, because he was wearing a mask, Long Shaocong couldn't see this person's face clearly, only glanced at it, and looked at the back of the team, but he didn't know that this person was Akiyama Hongyi, the head of Shintoism.

In the center of the procession, everyone carried a large sedan chair, the sedan chair was open all around, and an old man sat on his face, dressed in yellow, and accepted everyone's worship with an expressionless face.

Driven by the samurai in front, everyone knelt down one after another, and as a last resort, Long Shaocong and Green Pothos also knelt down.

"What are they doing here?"

The pothos blinked and said, "You don't understand this, they are doing the sacrificial ceremony." ”

"Sacrifice, to whom?"

"Of course, it's the dead god, Shinto is to inherit the will of Amaterasu, and the god is the messenger of Amaterasu, and when the god passes, the emperor must attend the sacrifice event."

"The Emperor?" Long Shaocong was surprised for a moment, "The one sitting in the sedan chair is the emperor?" No wonder he looks like he's pretending to be forced. ”

"What did you say?"

"Oh, nothing." Long Shaocong knew that he had made a mistake for a while, so he hurriedly covered it up and said, "It's just a god master, and he actually alarmed the emperor?" ”

"Japan is the people of Amaterasu, the emperor is the embodiment of Amaterasu in the world, and Shintoism is the state religion of Japan. When she spoke, the pothos looked reverent.

Perhaps this is the power of faith. This scene can't help but remind Long Shacong of the fanatical spirit of the Japanese kamikaze drones in later generations, once in college, Long Shaocong went to the library to borrow a study on the Japanese national character, which talked about the fanatical belief of this nation in the native religion.

According to Christianity, faith is the fundamental difference between humans and animals. Doctrines based on faith are used to judge "right and wrong", morality based on doctrine is used to judge "good and evil", and laws based on morality are used to judge guilt or not.

Shintoism, Japan's state religion, is often referred to by the Japanese as a "custom," that is, a religion that is "past and afterlife."

It can be said that Shintoism is a polytheistic religion, and in the Japanese concept, flowers and plants are gods, and houses and puddles are also gods, "everything has a god, and the emperor is the greatest". The so-called polytheism is that although the religion has one largest god, there are many other gods at the same time, such as Greek mythology, ancient Chinese mythology, ancient Russian polytheistic worship, and so on.

Correspondingly, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are the three major monotheistic religions in the world, that is, they only recognize that there is one god in the world, and Confucianism in China can also be regarded as a monotheistic religion.

After living in the later life and experiencing it personally, Long Shaocong found that the difference between different people should not be underestimated, and it greatly affected the psychology of a group.

Long Shaocong clearly remembers that the book said: polytheism is replaced by monotheism in other parts of the world, often because of the need for unified rule of political power or religion, because there is only one god, then this "spokesman of God" can be exalted, is the only orthodoxy, conducive to the rule and unity of the country, to resist foreign enemies or natural disasters, this is the advantage of monotheism. The disadvantages of monotheism are absolute obedience to the "spokesman of God" and mistreatment of inhuman beings. The advantage of polytheism is the reverence for all things in nature, but the disadvantage is that it produces a double worship psychology of the master and the emperor, and it is easy to produce extreme psychological contradictions.

Because he knelt there and had nothing to do, Long Shaocong thought of the Celestial Empire from Japan. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period can be regarded as the period of polytheism, and after the unification of Qin Shi Huang, China entered the period of monotheism. However, because Confucianism also quoted some elements of the original "worship of heaven and ancestors", the polytheism of the Celestial Empire did not disappear completely, but evolved into various "customs".

In Japan, on the other hand, there was not much introduction of Confucianism, imperial examinations, etc., due to the political system at that time. For a long time, Japan was ruled by the shogunate and divided by the daimyos, and the emperor had no actual political power and military power, which became a "religious symbol".

This state is quite similar to the Spring and Autumn Period of the Celestial Empire, the Warring States Period and the Three Kingdoms Period. Confucianism was the exclusive belief of the Son of Heaven, and the imperial examination was a method of making the nation's elite loyal to the emperor, and if the shogunate introduced this system, there was a danger that the emperor would seize power, and the position of the daimyo would become unstable.

Thinking of this, Long Shaocong raised his eyes again, and walked past the emperor in front of him, this figure who was already high in the later generations, but in the eyes of Long Shaocong, he was a puppet who couldn't do anything.

However, in Japan, the emperor has always been the first family of noble blood, and he is highly deified and called "one of the ten thousand generations". In other words, "the emperor is here, Japan is here, the emperor is not, Japan is not", he is the only realistic god, and his allegiance to the emperor is allegiance to the Japanese nation.

This can also explain why Japan often uses loyalty to the emperor as an excuse to do unscrupulous things that defeat its conscience. In the book, Long Shaocong saw that if the emperor was produced by unnatural methods, the mentality of the Japanese people would suddenly become impetuous, and it was not an exaggeration to say that a great calamity would come.

The same thing often happened in the history of the Celestial Empire, such as the controversy that the emperor has no direct descendants, and the controversy when the emperor wants to set up the crown prince is not the eldest son, but it is far from the feeling that the sky is falling, and the emperor has no heirs, so he can set up the nearest side branch.

Throughout the history of Japan, the emperor had no real power for a long time, and the success or failure was all the responsibility of the shogunate, especially during the Warring States period in which Long Shaocong lived, various daimyo forces attacked each other, and the people had no ill feelings towards the emperor, which also bought the seeds for the later Meiji Restoration, overthrowing the shogunate, and of course, Long Shaocong's accidental crossing changed everything that had happened.

The spirit of bushido, which is derived from allegiance to the emperor, is even more interesting. Long Shaocong still remembers: A scholar said that Japan used to be like a bowl of soybean milk, and the introduction of Tang culture was like brine, and Japan was turned into a piece of tofu, and the culture of this country was officially formed.

In this way, although it has a bit of the flavor of the Heavenly Empire, it is also appropriate in Long Shaocong's opinion. Moreover, the "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism" that Japan talks about has also been regarded as "samurai regulations", "samurai customs" and "samurai habits" since the Tang Dynasty in China, and because of the addition of the "loyal monarch" factor, "bushido" has a sacred flavor, that is, "samurai sacred law".

On the other hand, Japanese civilians like to extremize all things, which makes the degree of sadness and sadness naturally higher, and the degree of love for all things in Japan is extremely high......

"Let's go!" Luluo saw that the sacrificial procession had already passed, but Long Shaocong was still stunned, kneeling motionless, and couldn't help but pat him.

Long Shaocong woke up from the memories and thoughts just now, and said secretly, the first time he saw the emperor of Japan, he didn't expect his thoughts to surge like a tidal wave, evoking so many memories of future generations, is it destined in the dark......

He stood up and just wanted to leave, but he heard someone shouting behind him: "It's them, give me ......"

Why is it the word "Shang" again, Long Shaocong didn't understand why he was so sensitive to this word, so he was pulled up by the green pothos and ran up.

"They've found me, so let's go." Long Shaocong thought that he had been discovered, and urged the pothos to leave quickly.

"They're not coming at you, they're coming at me." The pothos said without looking back.

"Huh? Why? ”

"Wood, didn't you find out, are they from the tea house?"

Long Shaocong looked back, it was really familiar, and asked again, "Why are they chasing you?" ”

"Because I cleaned them up a little." After saying that, the pothos suddenly ran into a remote alley and stopped.

Long Shaocong couldn't stand it for a while, and almost bumped into the pothos, but fortunately, the reaction was confidential, and one of them hit the wall sideways, "Why didn't you run away?" Long Shaocong asked angrily.

"I'm going to teach them a big lesson this time." There was a hint of cold light in the soft eyes of the green pothos.