"But Liang Yifu?"

The sky on Ganghwa Island has gradually darkened, and the hot air balloon show at the Goryeo General Altar of the Heavenly Taoist Sect has ended, and most of the spectators who have watched the balloons fly into the sky, listened to the sermons of the Heavenly Taoist Taoists, and donated a little money, and received the two Heavenly Taoist scriptures "Taiyi Light Sutra" and "Heavenly Dao, Science and Empirical Evidence", most of them have dispersed. Liang Chongru also left with several Japanese monks and nuns. As soon as he walked onto the bustling street, he heard a familiar voice calling his name. He hurriedly looked back, and suddenly his face was full of surprise. It turned out that it was Liao Yingzhong, who was dressed as a guest, who called his name!

"Brother Qunyu, what are you ......" Liang Chongru looked around in a panic, he was Chen Dexing's sworn enemy - in fact, Chen Dexing had long forgotten about him as a sworn enemy, and he was not wanted in Goryeo, and of course he didn't know that he was coming to Goryeo - and Liao Yingzhong had a very close relationship with the Chen family's father and son!

"Don't panic, don't panic." Liao Ying leaned a finger on her lips and motioned for Liang Chongru not to be silent. "Yifu, these are ......"

"Oh, they're all friends from Japan." Liang Chongru sounds a bit like a traitor, but ...... The relationship between Song and Japan has always been good, and Japan at that time was a little brother who admired Chinese culture, and its own country was still in chaos, and a group of feudal samurai fought and played when they had nothing to do, and they had neither threats nor ambitions to the Great Song Dynasty.

Liang Chongru said to the Japanese monks and nuns: "I met an old man in Lin'an, I want to talk for a while, can you go back to the inn first?" ”

Of course, he spoke Chinese, and at this time Japanese monks and ministers were basically able to speak Chinese, write Chinese characters, and write Chinese poems, and the more advanced samurai were also proficient in Sinology - just as the masters of some culture in East Asia could come to a few words of English in later generations. Anyone who doesn't know a single letter of English is definitely illiterate.

The monks and nuns who came with Liang Chongru also respectfully bowed to Liao Yingzhong. Then they left to go shopping. The New Year has just passed in the past two days, and the taste of the New Year on Ganghwa Island has not yet passed. It's a time of hustle and bustle.

The current Ganghwa Island Commercial Port, like Jeju Island Commercial Port and Busan Commercial Port, is a merchant autonomous city led by the Hwangjia Chamber of Commerce. The tax is also contracted, and the city tax of the three major commercial ports, plus the import and export tax, and the income of the city, is a total of 120,000 copper per year.

In addition, all merchant ships running the China-Japan High (Goryeo) route and the South China Sea route, no matter what the origin, must pay a "ship tax" to the General Trade Department of the Great Song Dynasty of Chen Dexing Control every year according to the size of the ship, with a maximum of 2,000 pieces of copper and a small amount of 300 pieces of copper. Obtain a "ship tax flag" issued by the General Trade Department in order to trade at sea. Otherwise, it will be intercepted by the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet -- if it is the first time it enters the waters controlled by the Beiyang Fleet, the merchant ship will be ordered to pay "ship tax", if it is suspected of "smuggling", it will be fined, and if it dares to resist, it will be unceremoniously captured or sunk!

Through guò, this method of tax collection that is almost a roadblock and robbery, Chen Dexing has successfully turned the General Trade Department of the Great Song Dynasty into the most hated and the most profitable yamen in the entire Great Song Dynasty.

However, at the same time as the "barricade taxation", the original market system was abolished. Instead of forcibly buying importers' goods, they are taxed uniformly according to the size of the ship - in short, they are relatively easy to operate. It is still the double-headed supervision of the Navy and the Trade Division, and the difficulty of evading taxes is much higher than when the Municipal Department of Trade was under the jurisdiction of the Department in the past! And. Now in charge of the General Trade Department is Chen Dexing, who is the master of the six relatives who do not recognize, no matter what the background of those maritime businessmen. Don't want to evade taxes anymore.

Thus, this time. The Northern Expeditionary Army, which controlled the maritime trade, was still quite well funded.

As an institution for Chen Dexing to implement his ideas and ideas, the Heavenly Taoist Sect naturally received a considerable amount of funding. And the Heavenly Daoist Sect that received the grant. On the one hand, they vigorously recruited Taoist priests, and on the other hand, they launched propaganda in Goryeo and the Southern Song Dynasty with great fanfare, set up many tabloids, and advocated scientific superstition all day long.

As soon as Liao Yingzhong and Liang Chongru walked into a richly decorated restaurant, a guy handed over a Tiandao Sect recruitment notice and a free "Tiandao Daily".

The newspaper and the recruitment notice, the two of them found a secluded private room and sat down, ordered a few small dishes and a pot of soju, and closed the door to drink.

"Brother Yifu, I haven't seen you for many days, why are you mixed up with a bunch of monks and nuns from the Wa Kingdom?" Liao Yingzhong poured wine for herself and Liang Chongru, and asked with a smile.

Liang Chongru shook his hand and said with a wry smile: "Don't mention it...... In short, Liang had eyes and did not know Mount Tai, and offended King Chen Ming, so he could only go into exile in Dongying and attach himself to a few Japanese monks. The great monk knew that I had stayed in both Goryeo and the Song Kingdom, and asked me to escort a few little monks and nuns to investigate the affairs of the Heavenly Taoist Sect, could I not come? ”

It turned out that Liang Chongru didn't dare to tell the Japanese that he was Chen Dexing's sworn enemy, and those Japanese monks naturally didn't know about his grievances with Chen Dexing.

"Oh? Do the Japanese people also know about the Heavenly Taoism? Liao Yingzhong was stunned, and then thought about it. Chen Dexing's Heavenly Taoism was founded in Goryeo, and the original main altar was on Ganghwa Island. There are so many Japanese merchants on Ganghwa Island, it would be strange if Chen Daxian's deeds were passed back to the Japanese country.

"I know, why don't you know? Many merchants of the Wa Kingdom also joined the Heavenly Taoist Sect, and after returning to preach to their ministers and samurai. If it weren't for the opposition of Japanese monks, there would be a heavenly Taoist altar in Heian Kyoto. But...... Looking at the current situation, it is certain that Taoism will enter the Wa Kingdom on this day. ”

"Definitely?" Liao Yingzhong frowned, "Don't all the Japanese believe in Buddhism?" ”

Liang Chongru shook his head and said, "There are still Shinto, and there are many kinds of gods...... Moreover, the Japanese people have always liked to imitate our China, and since we have the Heavenly Taoism, which seems to be quite effective, they will naturally introduce it. By the way, why did Brother Qunyu come to Ganghwa Island? Isn't it also for the Heavenly Daoist Sect? ”

"Naturally, it's because of the Heavenly Dao Sect!" Liao Yingzhong sighed, "There are a few people who came with us, I saw the Heavenly Globe yesterday, and I went to Kaijing for a visit today." ”

Li Tingzhi, who came with Liao Yingzhong, went to Kaijing not for tourism, but for a diplomatic mission. However, Liao Yingzhong is inconvenient to elaborate, just a sentence.

"Brother Qunyu, what do you think of this Heavenly Taoism?" Liang Chongru asked. "This Heavenly Sphere ......"

"It's not a trick, it's definitely not a ......," Liao Yingzhong paused, and said, "But I still don't believe it's a spell." ”

"It's learning," Liang Chongru said: "The Heavenly Taoism itself says that it is learning, and the difference between immortals and us mortals is that they have great knowledge, and they know all the knowledge in the universe, so they become immortals." This statement...... It seems like that's what happened. It's just that the knowledge of this immortal is ......"

Liang Chongru frowned, and did not say anything further. He had enough of offending Chen Daxian, and he didn't dare to comment on it.

"It's all trails!" Liao Yingzhong didn't believe in this evil, "The Tao of Heavenly Taoism is not as good as the Great Dao, not like Confucius and Mencius, which directly points to the Great Dao." Its way is the principle of all things in the world, and it is the principle of things. ”

Liang Chongru thought for a moment, nodded and said: "The principle of Gewu is originally a small way, but if the Heavenly Dao Sect becomes bigger, the small path will also become a great way!" ”

Liao Yingzhong lowered her voice: "This is a battle for Taoism!" Chen Dexing wants to use Tiandao and Confucianism to fight for Taoism! ”

……

"Brother Ming Jing, this Tao of King Chen Ming, although it is not a great way, but it is a way that can be verified...... Those who cannot verify it are difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and they cannot know the truth. That's right! The avenue is difficult to prove, the trail is easy to pass, and it can be proved that hundreds of millions of trails are similar to gods, which can build the heavenly court on earth, govern the world and the great harmony, and allow the common people to enjoy the abundance of materials. Isn't this as good as Confucianism's way of ruling the world? ”

On the same night, in the upper room of an inn next to the main altar of the Heavenly Taoist Goryeo. Guo Shoujing was holding a copy of "Heavenly Dao, Science and Empirical Evidence" and was amazed. Looking at him, he seems to be confused by Chen Dexing's Scientology.

In the 13th century, Chen Dexing's Scientology was a bit of a high-level all-take-all meaning, and the ignorant common people would naturally be extremely convinced when they saw various "scientific miracles" and worshiped Chen Dexing as a great immortal. The high-end elite, on the other hand, will be confused by the book "The Way of Heaven, Science and Evidence". The main truth in this book is that science is omnipotent - omnipotence is naturally God! The second is positivist philosophical thought, which emphasizes feeling, experience, reality, and deduction, and despises metaphysical philosophical ideas that inquire into the fundamental way. It is believed that the fundamental road to heaven is so ambitious, and only by exploring the billions of small roads that can be verified can we seek the Tao and do learning in a down-to-earth manner. If you can prove the path of billions of people, then you don't need to explore the road to heaven, you can be similar to God, you can also make the world rule, and you can also make all the people in harmony.

Moreover, in the Taiyi Luminous Sutra, Chen Dexing also depicts an idealized heavenly world, where the material wealth of this world has reached such an abundance that everyone can get the material wealth they need. And the spiritual civilization of this world has also reached the highest level, people do not work for the sake of obtaining wealth, labor itself has become the first demand......

And this idealized heavenly world is not only "imagined", but can be gradually realized through the guò through the path of billions of small paths - because scientific knowledge can be transformed into production, and the more knowledge mastered means the more material wealth produced, and when the world has mastered enough knowledge, the material wealth they can produce will reach an unimaginable level!

Moreover, Chen Dexing also compared the barbarians who lived on fishing and hunting in the wilderness with the relatively wealthy people of Jiangnan, who produced far more material wealth than the whole of Great Mongolia, and the reason for this was that the people of Jiangnan had more knowledge and used this knowledge for production. (To be continued......)