Chapter 745: Teach without teaching

"This is not a bargain, I am not looking at this as an emperor, I am the founding patriarch of the Catholic Church, how to deal with religious affairs, you have to allow me to speak......"

Jiangning Heavenly Temple, Li Xi said this to Xu Lingti, who was concentrating and looking ready for battle.

Yiming Lao Dao fell ill, there were already many doctors in the sect, and there were second-generation miracle doctors like Ye Chonglou, and when Li Shi arrived, his condition was also stabilized. But Li Xian was not at ease, so he still sent someone to invite Ye Tianshi to come for diagnosis and treatment, and at the same time escorted Old Man Duan into the ward for care.

After the two old men settled down, seeing that a large group of Catholic priests were gathering in Jiangning Heavenly Temple, Li Shi simply found Xu Lingti and Daoyin and other figures at the chief priesthood level to discuss the future of Catholicism together.

"Confucius once said that the name is real, and Mo Zhai said that the problem of Catholicism is between the name and the truth."

Xu Lingti relaxed slightly, and began to talk about the Catholics' own reflections.

Catholicism was originally established in the Heavenly Sacred Religion, and then under the roots of Catholic thought, it shifted life and death from ghosts and gods to heaven, and expanded the bloodline from the clan to the descendants of Yan and Huang. During this period, it absorbed the nutrition of Confucianism and Taoism, supplemented by the expression and rational logic of Western religion, and developed into a belief that was close to religion, but deliberately blurred the figurative worship.

Because of the close relationship between the Catholic Church and the Ying Charity Monastery, it has developed a set of rituals that the people "like to see", "good quality and low price", and advocate friendship and mutual assistance in life and death, such as root walls and root knots, cemetery sacrifices, and downplay aggression, not seeking to stand side by side with Taoism and Buddha, which has developed rapidly in the past ten years. ”

The Catholic gathering in Jiangning came with more than 30 parade sacrifices and more than 100 main priests, which was almost a "Catholic Anglo-Chinese National Congress". According to the preliminary statistics of the conference, there are more than 300 heavenly temples and more than 2,000 heavenly pavilions set up in remote places in the countryside throughout the territory of Yinghua, more than 3 million pan-believers who have "taken root" in the heavenly temples, and more than 20 people who worship professionally. ”

Such a force is naturally not comparable with Buddhism and Taoism, but the momentum of Catholicism is jaw-dropping, and if it continues to grow at this rate, ten years later, Catholic believers are afraid that it will increase to 20 or 30 million, surpassing Taoism and Buddhism, and becoming the largest sect in the country.

The reason why Catholicism has developed so amazingly, in addition to its own characteristics, is that the idea of heaven advocated by Anglo-Chinese and Catholicism complement each other, so that although there is no explicit text in the country, everyone regards Catholicism as the Anglo-Chinese state religion. On the other hand, the Anglo-Chinese colonized the South Seas, and Catholicism was an excellent tool to gather local Chinese forces and resist Western churches such as the Roman Catholic Church. One-third of the believers and sacrifices of Catholicism are in Nanyang, Funan, Luzon, Malacca, and even the newly occupied Aceh, and the local Chinese have all joined the Catholic Church.

After the restoration of Jiangnan by Yinghua, how to promote the development of Catholicism in Jiangnan, and at the same time standardize the doctrine and rituals of the Heavenly Temple, where there have been many differences, Yiming Lao Dao and Xu Lingti and other chief priests were in Jiangning, convening representatives of Catholicism across the country to prepare for collective efforts.

Unexpectedly, during this period, the White Lotus Sect suddenly rose, which made the conference suddenly change its direction and began to consider the positioning of Catholicism itself.

There are vivid examples of the White Lotus Sect in front of them, and everyone's worries are very obvious. The teachings of the White Lotus Sect originated from the original White Lotus Sect, and it was originally regarded as the right way to cultivate the mind to save the suffering, but because the teachings were simple and conducive to spreading, ghosts and deceptions were easier to cling to, so it became a cult that lasted in China for hundreds of years.

Although Catholicism is absorbing the old Confucianism and condensing the sects of Rational Qi, the Holy Spirit, and the Confucianism, and does not touch ghosts and gods at its roots, and does not embody worship, the reformed form is more conducive to the acceptance of the people, and it is difficult for people with good intentions to cover up the cult.

The name and reality that Xu Lingti said are actually the key choices that Catholicism is now facing. …,

"Since it is called teaching, it must establish a religious heart, worship God, divine punishment and divine grace, this is the religious heart, and Catholicism does not have it now, it must have, with the current quality of Catholicism, in Europa, it is like the Catholic Church of foreigners, and the history of Catholicism has been written very clearly. In my Huaxia, it should be like the White Lotus Sect, although the form of means does not have the ignorance and ugliness of the White Lotus, but the essence is the White Lotus. ”

"If we want to avoid this evil, then how can we become a religion? Each sect is sorting out its own doctrine and learning, each has its own way of life and death, and if there is no sect, each sect must revise the original doctrine and rituals with its own way, and then create a hundred schools of thought in life and death matters, which will confuse people's hearts. ”

Xu Lingti talked about the current predicament of Catholicism, and he felt a little unable to advance or retreat. It became a monotheistic religion, and monotheism is a religion of closure and fighting, at least for now, and it is inherently to meddle in the world with the way of life and death.

What about retreat? At present, the structure of Catholicism is the chief sacrifice, the parade sacrifice, the main sacrifice of the heavenly temple, the sub-sacrifice, and then the village patrol sacrifice. It seems to be rigorous and complete, but this is only a nominal division. In fact, the heavenly temples were loosely assembled, and the chief sacrifice and the parade sacrifice regulated the relationship between the heavenly temples with prestige, and supervised and revised the doctrine and rituals of the heavenly temples. As the Catholic Church continued to expand, it was difficult to manage this loose structure effectively.

Once retreated, it would be a situation in which the Heavenly Temple was in its own right.

"Therefore, we have discussed, and it is time for the court to intervene......"

Xu Lingti came up with a plan, and Li Shi looked at the proposed charter and was silent.

"Zhang Tianshi came to me before and asked me to give them the position of Dragon and Tiger Sect and make him a national teacher. I wrote a plaque to them, but I didn't give it to the national teacher, and I told him that all matters related to life and death in this dynasty are subject to the "Religious Decree". The plan you put forward is actually the same as Zhang Tianshi's idea, and it is still the way for the sects of previous dynasties to climb the imperial court and imperial power. ”

After a long time, Li Xian spoke up, which made Xu Ling's fetal Daoyin and the others tremble in their hearts.

If you think about it, this is indeed the way. Their plan was to bring Catholicism under the formal jurisdiction of the imperial court, which would give scrolls to the priesthood to ensure the unity of Catholic doctrine and at the same time promote the benefits and eliminate harm.

"I have great expectations for Catholicism, and I hope that it will become a faith that Chinese people rely on from birth to death, and a habit from childhood to old age. By Catholicism, the Chinese people do not forget their ancestors, do not forget how their ancestors created this world, and take trustworthiness, courtesy, benevolence, integrity, and self-improvement as virtues. Ethics often cannot reach the country, but it cannot reach the people......"

"But this ethics is no longer the Confucianism extended to a country, when the monarch and the ministers are no more, the father, the son and the son will also return to the human, there is only love and respect, only the old and the old, the young and the young."

"I hope that in Yinghua, no matter how the times change, how prosperous all industries are, how enterprising people's hearts are, and how close to manpower are in the sky, we Chinese people can still keep this humanity and morality, whether it is bureaucracy, capital or the law of the future, it is difficult to shake such a bottom line. This is also the right of heavenly promise that everyone goes up and protects it, not the right of heavenly promise that is guarded by the emperor and the imperial court. ”

Li Xian said leisurely, Xu Lingti and others were even more fascinated, but they didn't expect the emperor to have such expectations for Catholicism......

"Therefore, I, the emperor, and the official government of the country, can't stretch out too much of my hand, this should be a matter of the people."

"What you just said is in my opinion, to achieve the great achievement I desired, Catholic ......"

Li Xi said his plan: "You can't become a religion again!" ”

Xu Lingti's suggestion is to follow the Tao of Confucius, to be true to the name, and if there is Catholicism, then it will be a religion, and it is to let Yinghua adopt it as the state religion, which is to make Catholicism go further, and the country is in danger of integrating politics and religion. And Li Shi's solution is to take the Mo Zhai Road, in order to name it, since Catholicism is not a sect in nature, it should no longer be called a religion, and go to build a wall of people's hearts in China with Confucianism. …,

Xu Lingti and the others smiled with relief, this was actually a plan for them, but they didn't think it as thoroughly as Li Xian, and they didn't realize that this was actually about to usher in a more magnificent prospect.

On the 20th day of February in the 11th year of the Holy Word, Catholicism ushered in its home, but at the same time it was also reborn. Later generations said that the most important step of China's innovation actually began on this day.

Yinghua no longer has Catholicism, only the Temple of Heaven remains, originally the two Taoist and Buddhist families, because of the growth of Catholicism and the heart to speak, but suddenly lost the goal. The rest of the Heavenly Temple is a complete integration of the Chinese dynasties, official and folk rituals.

The official only set up the Temple of Heaven, the Taimiao, the Heroic Martyrs, the Shengwu, the Zhongyi and the Wende Temple and other six temples, and then did not set up any official places of worship, all by the people to build their own temples. The "scriptures" and rituals of the Heavenly Temple are jointly regulated by the official and the chief sacrificial committee set up by the sacrifice. The internal affairs of the folk heavenly temple are not officially taken into account. ”

The newly revised "Religious Decree" established the general principle that "life and death matters are not related to customs", and the Department of Religion oversees the "incense industry" throughout the country to ensure that the Heavenly Temple, Taoist Buddhas and other families do not interfere in secular politics. ”

The core of the emperor's treatment of Catholicism is actually one point: "the name is true", and the Heavenly Temple does not teach but teaches, and there is no religious name, and it is difficult to fight for the truth of the sect. The Temple of Heaven has thus become a stage based on Chinese history, bloodline, and life and death, holding up the previous Catholic sects, so that they can start with their own "scriptures" and study their own metaphysics. In the future, the so-called "philosophy of scripture and righteousness" in China originated from the Temple of Heaven and was widely used in the world. ”

It is still February of the 11th year of the Holy Word, and the change of Catholicism will be postponed for a long time. When Xu Lingti and others were relieved to usher in the rebirth of Catholicism in Jiangning, Liu Lun, the supervisor of Songjiang Prefecture and the deputy chief priest of Jiading Heavenly Temple, was gritting his teeth because Catholicism was so insulted.

"Four thousand six hundred and sixty-five ......"

Liu Lun's forehead was almost vomiting blood, not to mention that this Zhang Jiu Mazi used the Heavenly Temple as a business name to discuss business, let's just say that the amount of silver, why is it so weird?

"This person has ruined the reputation of my Heavenly Temple, and has been expelled! I also hope that the law department will enforce the law impartially and return the reputation of my heavenly temple. ”

Liu Lun dropped this sentence, waved his sleeves and left, and the bailiff smiled cruelly and surrounded Zhang Jiu Mazi and Zhong Shangwei, who were already stupid.

"Dare to use the name of the Temple of Heaven to defraud! Sin after sin! ”

Peng Peng ...... "If you have silver, you can bend the law!?" Dream! ”

Bang Bang ......

Zhang Jiu Mazi and Zhong Shangwei were beaten half to death, and hugged each other and cried in prison.

"God, why are you so unfair!?"

On one side is the board, on the other side is the evidence, Zhong Shangwei called in his heart, but his hand trembled to sign the testimony, and he might be able to save a small life if he admits it, but if he doesn't admit it, the two hundred catties will have to be explained here.

When the pen fell, Zhong Shangwei was about to confirm the charge of Bailian's accomplice, and one person broke into the class room and shouted: "Wait! ”

The Jiangnan Xingying Inspector was suspended for investigation on suspicion of taking bribes and perverting the law, and Shi Yizhi, the legal envoy, rushed to Songjiang to preside over the trial, and pressed several inspectors led by Hang Shijun to reorganize the case, and suddenly stopped this wave of persecution with the White Lotus case.

The emperor has just promoted the tide of people's hearts in the country, condensing Jiangnan and Lingnan as one, but the local officials in Jiangnan have taken advantage of the White Lotus teaching plan to bite and bite and have personal grievances, which makes the emperor very angry, and there are even rumors that the emperor's next work will focus on sorting out the law department. Of course, Shi Yizhi couldn't sit still anymore, and went out in person to press down the limelight.

Based on the spirit of the emperor's speech at Huaiyang Academy, the law department readjusted the policy of handling the White Lotus teaching plan, that is, there is a difference between the north and the south, and there is a difference between the inside and outside. …,

The White Lotus Sect members who came from the north were the main targets of the punishment and were treated as cult cases, while the Jiangnan people in the south, and even other citizens, were carefully screened and dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

The principle is clear, and the acquaintances who are waiting for Zhong to take the upper position have also taken action, and they have guaranteed the upper position of the bell.

"I must live well, I must do good deeds, repay God's kindness, and repay the emperor's benevolence......"

Zhong Shangwei was released from prison, looked up at the sky, and made an oath with tears in his eyes.

"Who is stumbling behind my back to kill me!? Away from the Fire Hall? Dongsheng? Or other directors of Annam Coal!? Examine! Find out that I'm going to skin him and cramp him! ”

Then he roared at the shopkeeper who had come to pick him up, his eyes blazing with rage.

Zhong Shangwei escaped by luck, and Zhang Jiu Mazi was also blessed.

Because he and the villagers of Huangjia Village were already British and Chinese nationals, the case was carefully interrogated, and the murderer was separated from the person who was just being coerced. Zhang Jiu Mazi did not kill anyone personally, but also explained the ins and outs of Mi Wuniang's activities in Huangjia Village best, so he was exempted from the death penalty.

Twenty-seven villagers, including Xu San, along with more than 160 northern sect members, were sentenced to death by the Ming Dynasty. At the execution ground outside Songjiang City, Xu San also shouted "No Biological Mother Protection", and then was interrupted by the sound of gunfire. ”

More than 600 members of the White Lotus Sect in the north were sent to Qiongzhou, Luzon, and Boni, and more than 100 people from Huangjia Village were sentenced to several years of hard labor. And in Huangjia Village, which is almost empty, a public cemetery has been erected, the location is in the small forest outside the village, outside the public cemetery, is a small heavenly temple, Zhang Jiu Mazi got his wish to be a sacrifice, but he can never leave Huangjia Village for the rest of his life. He will guard those dead all his life, and guard this land that has been polluted by cults for the rest of his life.

In order to let the world not forget this white lotus case, the government and Jiading Heavenly Temple have made great efforts to repair this public cemetery, and the Yin Forest has been repaired to be quiet and elegant, and the coffins are buried deep underground, and only a stone tablet is erected on the ground, on which the name of the deceased, deeds and the cause of death are written.

What amazes the audience is that not only the victims of Huangjia Village are buried here, but also the White Lotus cultists who committed the victims, which is naturally in line with the righteousness advocated by the Catholic Church. Among the tombstones of the White Lotus Sect, there is an inconspicuous stone tablet with the name "Mi Wu Niang" engraved on it. ”

In March, not long after the public tomb was repaired, Zhang Jiu Mazi ushered in a group of distinguished guests.

"I don't know if she's down there, whether she's looking for her lifeless mother, or if she's ...... God"

Sanniang stood in front of Mi Wuniang's tombstone and put down a bunch of white lotus, which looked holy and immaculate in the spring light.

"I think it's more likely that she's leading the ghosts to rebel against Hades."

Li Shi joked casually, and was given a roll of the eyes by Sanniang.

"Rebellion...... We're still rebelling. ”

Sanniang looked to the north, and the Manchu Qing was still there.

"That's right, we've always had to rebel, make that braid."

Li Xi looked up at the sky, the sky was too high and too far, and it was endless.