The drilling team was looking for oil on the coast of the Bohai Sea, which was obviously just a move by Zhu Youxiao's luck, after all, many oil wells had to be drilled two or three kilometers below to find one. There are also some shallow wells of seven or eight hundred meters, which the current Royal Drilling Team can hit, so it is purely a matter of luck.

If oil wells can be drilled, the refining industry can be developed. Since Zhu Youxiao compiled the chemistry textbook, oil refining is still not a problem, but a matter of technical level. But technology has always been driven by commercial interests, and with slow development, technology will naturally become advanced.

The oil in these years can be used to refine kerosene, which can replace the vegetable oil used by ordinary people for lighting. In these days, it is common for people to use vegetable oils for lighting, such as cottonseed oil, which cannot be eaten.

Obviously, for a while, it is unlikely that oil will be drilled. It's like a lottery, but even if you can't drill oil, you can at least hone your drilling skills.

If there is no demand for a technology, it will not be developed. And such drilling activities, supported by the state apparatus, are still affordable in terms of cost. The development of drilling technology will also lead to the development of machinery manufacturing and other aspects, and this money is obviously not spent in vain.

After a period of development, the drilling technology of the Royal Drilling Team at this time has made significant progress compared with the previous technology. In terms of drilling tools, there has been a significant increase in the number of artificially manufactured steel machinery. The development speed of the drilling technology in Sichuan is relatively slow because the local materials are enough to meet the demand.

At this time, the Royal Drilling Team had a higher demand for drilling depth, and there was also a certain industrial base, and the drilling technology suddenly made a significant progress. This technological advancement. Nothing has changed in the nature of the drilling technology. It's just that the tools have improved. You can drill deeper.

The first well drilled by the Royal Drilling Team in the Bohai Bend soon broke through 1,000 meters and reached more than 1,100 meters, but it was disappointing that there was no oil at all, and not even the oil sands were seen.

"It doesn't matter, just keep drilling in another place." The captain who led the team was not discouraged, anyway, the task given to him by the emperor. It's just looking for oil, and he doesn't have to think about the funds.

Historically, when Americans developed oil fields, businessmen invested in drilling. Sometimes, if an oil well can't drill oil, it is likely to go bankrupt. And those who drill into oil may get rich overnight. At this time, Daming's oil drilling was supported by the state apparatus, and failure did not stop the continued drilling.

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After the rebellion to exterminate the Wenxiang Sect, follow-up accountability was also underway, and local officials abandoned the city and fled. All of them will be searched and questioned. The captured Xu Hongru and a group of Wenxiang Sect backbones should be asked and beheaded. The labor reform of the labor camp. Wei Qi was granted a pardon because of his merit in capturing Xu Hongru. However, those backbone of the Smelling Fragrance Sect who surrendered will be exempted from capital crimes, but living crimes will inevitably be avoided, and they will face the end of labor reform.

However, the Wenxiang Sect was not completely eliminated, the founder of the Wenxiang Sect was called Wang Lin, who was previously imprisoned by the imperial court and died, and the Wang clan was still the high-level controller of the Wenxiang Sect. It's just that this rebellion, Xu Hongru was discovered by the government in advance, and he had to start an incident in advance. And the Wang clan is still at large.

Historically, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Wang clan hugged the Manchu thigh, and after defecting to the Manchu Dynasty, they were rewarded and became a legal religion, and later participated in political events before being suppressed by the Manchu Qing.

How to deal with these cults is a headache for Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao quickly summoned Zhang Xianyong, the head of the Zhengyi Sect in Wudang Mountain, to meet him, and after some questioning, he was slightly disappointed with the current Taoism.

At this time, Taoism seems to be relatively prosperous, and there are Taoist temples everywhere. After all, Taoism, as the official religion, especially the Zhengyi Sect of Wudang Zhang Tianshi, is even more glorious to the royal family, and the temples of the Zhengyi Sect are almost royal private temples.

However, the generous treatment made the Zhengyi Church go to 'degenerate' and was mixed into many cunning people in the market.

And that's not even the most important thing, the most important thing. At this time, Taoism had completely lost the extremity of religion, and it was not like a religion, but like an institution for the study of Taoist scholarship.

As soon as religion loses its extremity, it weakens. The more popular a religion is, especially a cult that can spread rapidly in a short period of time, the more extreme it is.

Taoism in the Ming Dynasty also made some efforts in preaching. That is, the Taoist Neidan technique has been secularized, so that ordinary believers can also recuperate their bodies to a certain extent by practicing the 'simplified version' of Neidanshu. Actually, this is also a Taoist thing, and it has little to do with religion.

Moreover, the simplified version of the Inner Dan Technique is often adopted by cults. For example, the Smelling Fragrance Sect, which had just made a wave, copied the 'simplified version' of Taoism's Neidan technique. A certain wheel in later generations claimed to be able to cure diseases without injections or medicines, but in fact it was just a copy of the Neidan technique popularized by Taoism in the secular world.

The official propaganda is naturally all negative, fake, and it is impossible to explain to the people what Neidan technique is. But so many years after the wheel was suppressed, there are still many people who have been in contact with this cult who are puzzled by this, because these people have indeed seen it with their own eyes, and some people's condition has improved after cultivating Neidan, but they don't understand what Neidanshu is, and they don't know that this thing is not a wheel, but a thing popularized by Taoism during the Ming Dynasty.

During the Ming Dynasty, Taoism had moved closer to the academic direction more thoroughly, and it did not use the religious energy field to preach. It has become an official 'mascot'.

But Zhengyi taught this mascot for a long time. In the 21st century, Zhang Tianshi still enjoys the official vice president of the Taoist Association.

At this time, Zhang Xianyong, the head of the Zhengyi Sect, was the sixty-fifth generation.

This hereditary iron rice bowl is obviously the root of depravity. In contrast, the Quanzhen Church, which does not have an official iron rice bowl, is much more successful than the Zhengyi Church. However, the Quanzhen Religion is also moving closer to the academic direction, and its missionary ability is much worse than that of Buddhism.

This kind of religion without extremism is no problem as a mascot, but it is obviously not very effective to use it to govern the yin god.

Since ancient times, China has called it the 'Paradise of Kings', and the reason why there is such a saying is because China is not like a land of barbarians outside the country. There is no management of these supernatural forces. Chinese tribes in ancient times. It is a Taoist civilization in itself. It's just that some of them don't want to practice anymore. So life can't go on. The Datong society then came to an end and was divided into the spiritual and secular worlds.

Almost all of the elites of ancient China stayed in the cultivation world. When the secular world was first separated, because there was no writing, productivity was low, and pleasure was desired, it became a slave society. Later, with the development of writing and productive forces, it was the transition to feudal society.

Before the Qin Dynasty. There are still some official contacts between the cultivation world and the secular world, and the cultivation world will even intervene in the secular world, and then they simply let it go, and the two sides will not get along with each other.

Originally, even if this was the case, the 'Heavenly Court' established by the cultivation world still had management over the secular Yin Gods and cultivators, and those Yin Gods maintained a harmonious order under the management of the Heavenly Court. It was only later that after Taoism in the secular world was officially co-opted, Taoism, with the official support of the secular world, competed with the heavenly court in business. The cultivation world simply withdrew the business of the Heavenly Court in the secular realm and lost all its brains to the secular officials.

When Heavenly Court still existed. The yin gods of the secular world are all canonized by the heavenly court. After the Heavenly Court revoked the secular business, the Yin God became canonized by Taoism, which enjoyed the official establishment, as was the case during the Tang and Song dynasties.

During the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court still canonized the local yin gods. In the instructions for officials written by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, officials should also visit local temples and carry out sacrificial activities such as 'spring sacrifices' after taking office, hoping that the yin god will not disturb the normal climate because he has not paid protection money.

It's just that this kind of management of the Yin God, in addition to canonization, obviously also has punitive measures to punish those bull ghosts and snake gods who make trouble on the ground. It's a pity that Taoism is no longer angry, and it has fallen and corrupted under the iron rice bowl system. So much so that at this time, Zhu You had nothing to do with the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods who were making waves in North China.

To put it bluntly, Chinese religion, since ancient times, has not taken an extreme line. It is a 'sub-feudal system', and the local yin gods divide the territory and build temples one by one. It is not like the Westerners, who adopt a 'monist' religious monopoly system of trust.

When people worship too much, they worship a large group of yin gods. If there are not so many people to worship, the Yin God will not be able to obtain the power of incense, and it will naturally dissipate. Therefore, if you believe it, you will have it, and if you don't believe it, you will not have it. This sentence does not mean that if you don't believe in this thing, there will be no such thing, but if everyone does not believe it, this thing will not exist.

When people don't believe in the Yin God, as long as one person believes, the person who believes can taste the sweetness, so smart people have begun to trade with the Yin God, to be a propaganda team member for the Yin God, to attract more people to burn incense. Some imps with relatively low mana, because they can't appear in front of people, and they are hungry and crazy, they will choose to trade with rich merchants. It's just that ordinary people play a pen fairy game, and there are little ghosts who respond to the dojo. It's just that those children who play the pen fairy game, they don't know the truth of 'it's easy to please God, it's hard to send God', and later generations of news reported that a group of students learned to play the pen fairy game in the movie, and as a result, they were scared to be hospitalized collectively.

Obviously, the movie only taught them how to ask God, but not how to send God. People think, grandma, come all the way to answer your questions, you don't even mean to worship, let me go? So he angrily punished!

In addition to being more industrious, culture is obviously also an important factor in the fact that the Chinese are better mixed than the natives in Southeast Asia. Overseas Chinese, before going abroad, had the most contact with the culture of the Chenghuang Temple, and knew how to trade with the Yin God, and Chinese temples in Southeast Asia were almost everywhere. After all, a group of Chinese people are helpless overseas, so everyone chooses a yin god to worship and keep them safe.

The yin god in the southern region can still play a wide range of functions as a guardian. As long as you don't do bad things, in the territory of the Yin God, those messy things don't dare to harm people. And many criminals who commit crimes with extremely bad impact are often arrested because of various coincidences, and many of them are also the result of punishment by the Yin God.

After all, the people on the territory have some incense with them, even if they don't give you a wish, when you encounter danger, the Yin God is likely to help.

In the 21st century, due to urbanization, the incense of rural temples gradually declined, and many yin gods began to develop the faith market in the city, usually to find a spokesperson as a bridge to communicate with believers, to provide people with fortune-telling, divination, healing and other services, and then obtain incense trust, while the spokesperson gets money, and both parties take what they need. If it is said that it is a deception, there are indeed liars among them. But you can invite the yin god in the temple. are less likely to deceive. The yin god inside the temple. The quality is still stronger than the lonely ghosts outside.

Those who invite gods, as long as they can invite a yin god with good mana, it is very easy to buy a house in a few years. This also led to many people in later generations looking at asking God to make money, and they ran to learn from God. Some people don't have that talent to be tough, and it's not the yin god who is invited, but the messy little ghosts, and they are made crazy. Some of the people invited were imps, and their mana was too low. It's useless, so you can only rely on flickering.

Making deals with God has existed since ancient times. This is also where Westerners have been criticizing Chinese people later, saying that Chinese have no faith and have an improper attitude of worshipping God. In fact, this is the stupidity of Westerners, who have not yet gotten out of the level of being deceived by religion.

On the other hand, is the other party a god going to rush up and kneel and lick it? China has the heritage of Taoist culture, and is very aware of the nature of these gods, gods, ghosts, and ghosts, and there is no sense of mystery, so naturally there will be no faith from the heart.

The Chinese believe everything. But in fact, I don't believe in anything, and worshipping God is really a bargain with God. The only thing that the Chinese believe. I guess I believe in my ancestors.

The problem Zhu Youxiao faced at this time was that there was not much to do with these Yin Gods. A blanket ban would obviously be too extreme. The Yin God system still has a certain positive significance for the locality. At this time, the Yin God Order in the south is obviously very good.

"Your Majesty, it's easy to deal with the Yin God, just come to the bottom of the kettle and tear down the temple of the Yin God." After Shen Yun, the first assistant of the cabinet, learned that the emperor was worried, his eyes rolled and he thought of a way.

"Is this method reliable?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"It's not completely reliable, but it's still relatively reliable." Shen Yan replied, "After dismantling for a while, I can't prevent them from starting to find another one." But if the temple is demolished, there will be a loss of incense, which the court can still handle. If the emperor carried out in-depth reform of local administration, from extensive management to precise management, the specifications of temples could be controlled. Those who cooperated with the local government allowed them to build bigger temples, and those who dragged their feet demolished their temples or forbade them to build larger temples. ”

"The temple is big and the temple is small, don't the people all worship the same?"

"That being said, the temple is a façade to the Yin God, and the bigger the temple, the more pilgrims it can attract." Shen Yu said, "When ordinary people go to a decent temple, they usually have the mentality of keeping peace, and they will worship whether there is a god or not." And the small temple on the side of the road is usually not much to care for. Therefore, the size of the temple is like the façade of the shops on the street, and there are naturally many high-grade customers, and people disdain those who are not high-grade. ”

"This time the Shandong Smelling Incense Sect is in turmoil, Your Majesty can issue an order prohibiting the people from worshiping that childless old mother. At the same time, the Yin God with a good reputation in Shandong can be widely canonized, and he has been canonized by the imperial court, at least he has a little affection with the imperial court. Shen Xiao's suggestion was entirely from the perspective of ruling interests, and as in previous dynasties, the Yin God was tied to the same chariot of interests to maintain the stability of local rule.

After thinking about it, Shen Yu continued: "The missionaries are the key to the rebellion of the Smelling Fragrance Sect this time, and the imperial court can also strictly control the mission. Once this abnormal rate of transmission is detected, it can be suppressed immediately. It can stifle the turmoil at the source. ”

"Haha! Aiqing's method is very good, so she will do it according to this plan, and the cabinet will immediately come up with a plan. Zhu Youxiao didn't bother with this problem in an instant, and then handed it over to the cabinet to deal with, and he didn't need to continue to have a headache about this problem.

"Obey." Shen Yu said. The plan he put forward is actually what all dynasties have been implementing. Da Ming has also been engaged in the management of missions. First of all, the Ming Dynasty of this era forbade Christian missionaries in China. Suppression of imported religions. At the same time, there are also preventive measures for cults that have emerged internally. Wang Lin, who had previously founded the Wenxiang Sect, was imprisoned by the imperial court.

In Zhu Youxiao's heart, there is actually a better plan, that is, to open up the people's wisdom. Let the people thoroughly understand what these things are about, otherwise why monopolize this information?

The main reason for the official monopoly on this information in later generations can be traced back to the 'May Fourth Movement' instigated by Sun Dacang, which was a farce instigated by a group of immature students who drank a little foreign ink casually, and were instigated by Sun Dacang's revolutionary party to slander traditional culture.

China is also based on Taoist culture, and those who are really capable are too lazy to argue with that group of hot-headed students. Later, Jiang Guangtou sat on the country for 28 years, and the May Fourth Movement became a banner representing orthodoxy, and in that era, Sun Dacang was a saint-like existence among those groups who accepted Western culture, so that later, he could only continue to carry this banner, and since then China has begun to completely Westernize. Westerners practice atheism, and China also practices atheism, and there is no need to consider any national conditions, the more simple and crude it is, the easier it is to implement.

As everyone knows, Westerners engage in atheism because with the development of capitalism, capitalists want to seize power from religion. Just as the Western capitalists were trying to overthrow religious authority, Darwin wrote a book called "The Theory of Evolution", which was immediately accepted as the truth. In his later years, Darwin admitted that it was the work of his young and immature minds.

In contrast, little Japan saw it more thoroughly, and during World War II, it did not recognize the theory of evolution. However, little Japan also went crazy and came up with a system in which the emperor was the incarnation of Amaterasu.

To put it bluntly, religions around the world are linked to the interests of the ruler. Just look at whether the rulers are stupid or not, the stupid ones are played with religion, and the smart ones are played with religion.

As long as the people understand the nature of religion and the yin gods, whether to worship or not to worship when the time comes, that is their freedom. But if the yin god wants to make trouble, no one will respond. It's not so easy for the god stick to cheat money.

As for Taoism, since it is no longer extreme, it is good to maintain such a state. There is nothing wrong with engaging in academics and moving closer to Taoism. The court is not short of that money, continue to be a mascot! (To be continued......)

PS: The second update is here!