Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has been 12 years in Jian'an.

This year, good news spread frequently in Dahan, the people's lives were stable, and the country became more prosperous and stronger.

It is said that when the two concubines gave birth, they were personally taken by the goddess doctor Zhao Ai'er, which shows the harmonious relationship between the emperor and the emperor's uncle Liu He.

When the two princes were full moon, Liu Xie put on a ceremony in the palace and asked the emperor's uncle Liu He to personally cut off the fluff on his child's head, so as to bless his son to grow up healthily.

At this time, Liu He, the uncle of the Han Emperor, was already the father of seven sons and nine daughters, and the most commendable and enviable thing is that none of Liu He's children were congenitally deficient, nor did they die early, all of them were like strong saplings, growing like a competition year after year. Liu He's eldest son, Liu Xiang, has reached the age of sixteen, not only is he diligent and studious, but also has superb martial arts, and what is even more rare is that he has a generous and benevolent heart like his father Liu He and grandfather Liu Yu. Liu Xiang was regularly sent to the countryside to work by Liu He since he was a teenager, and sent to the Biansai military camp for exercise, so he could not see the arrogance and arrogance of the rich and noble sons, but he could see the quality of perseverance and hardship, which undoubtedly made the best example for many of Liu He's children.

Liu He has a good parenting style, which naturally gives many "fans" who worship him another place to imitate. Everyone thought to themselves: We can't be admirable generalissimos, it's no problem for us to have a few more promising sons, right?

Unexpectedly, the emperor also announced in public that he and his children would from now on believe in Tenshoh Christianity and become faithful believers in Tenshoh Christianity. The emperor's speech undoubtedly recognized the status of Tianzheng Church as the state religion in the Han Dynasty.

Soon after, some heavyweights in the DPRK also announced their identities as followers of the Tensho Sect. Subsequently, local officials and generals in various prefectures and counties openly declared that they had joined the Tenshod Church.

At this time, the Tenshod Sect was secretly organized and led by the members of the core group of the Tenshodo. It already has a very good mass base in the Central Plains and north of the Yellow River, and it is only a matter of course that it will develop into a state religion. Because from the very beginning, Liu He formulated the teachings and purposes of this sect rigorously without violating human nature, and also absorbed the strengths of other religions, and did not exclude advanced science and technology and culture, so whether it is a noble scholar or an illiterate low-level people, everyone can understand and accept it from the heart.

To put it bluntly, the Tianzheng Sect, which Liu He deliberately created, which combines various factors such as religious shell, political party core, and school alliance, is definitely to confront foreign sects and restrict the unlimited expansion of imperial power. The ultimate weapon to bridge the gap between social classes and ensure the continuation of civilization.

With the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Confucianism, which had dominated the ideological world for nearly 400 years, began to lose its charm. Fascinated by metaphysical philosophical debates. This kind of debate is like a salon for later generations, and the famous "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" represented by Ji Kang and Ruan Ji are the embodiment of the demeanor of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and they get together to talk about Xuandao. It was called "Qing Tan" or "Xuan Tan" by the people of the time.

Liu He accurately grasped the context of the beginning of the transformation of the ideological field of the Han Dynasty, and integrated the core essence of Confucianism's pursuit of cultivating the mind to govern the country, Taoism's emphasis on the unity of heaven and man, and other miscellaneous schools advocating academic research. It also adopted the extremely powerful political party development and organization method in later generations to spread and expand, and now it is also using the supreme imperial power, if this cannot occupy the ideological position of the Han Dynasty. Liu Hezhen didn't know what else could be done to keep the country intact and unified after hundreds of years of development.

With the continuous development and growth of the Tenshod Church, the Tianzheng Hall began to be built in the cities of each prefecture and county, next to the market town square in each township, and near the public shrine of each village, and the temple was dedicated to the position of the main god of Tensho. Liu He borrowed from the practice of the one of the three major religions of later generations that was widely spread in the Arab world, and demanded that the followers of the Tianzheng Sect should not sculpt or paint statues of the main god of the Tianzheng Sect, and the main god of the heavenly righteousness only existed in the hearts of everyone, and the specific appearance in the world was ever-changing, and there was no fixed image.

Since there were no idols in the temple, the spacious hall was filled with futons for people to sit cross-legged, and the devotees gathered in the hall on the morning of the seventh day, the last day of the week, to recite aloud a scripture called "The Heart of the Heart." After the recitation of the scriptures, everyone will also talk about the current affairs of the court, about new technologies, about geographical discoveries, etc...... In the eyes of the believers, it is really good to talk about these topics in front of the Lord God, not only to appear righteous and bright, and not to be suspected of forming a party for personal gain or conspiring with the organization, but also to be able to communicate with each other and reach a unified ideological consensus.

Providing a place for believers to gather, a kind of ritual held on a regular basis, is a practice of any organization with religious overtones to unite people's hearts, Liu He just told Xu Miao the mystery of this, and the first minister of culture and propaganda of the Han Dynasty could understand it, immediately carefully package it, and then promote it to all parts of the world.

Just imagine, when an idea with great openness, inclusiveness, and advancement spreads outward with the help of imperial power and theocracy, what kind of terrible power will it produce? And when this kind of thinking is gradually accepted and recognized by the people, and subtly integrated into their souls and blood, what kind of far-reaching impact will it have on the entire Han Dynasty?

In later generations, before launching the snake swallowing elephant war that shocked the world, the footbasin country first deified the imperial power, and called the eight-character bearded emperor of the footbasin country the emperor, known as the only spokesperson of the fork god in the world, and then turned the people of the country into emperors. Then, the emperor of Footbasin Province instilled the tyrannical elements of bushido's cruelty and murder in all the imperial people, and then fooled everyone that as long as they were loyal to the emperor and the country, not only could they enter the evil shrine after death and become so-called gods, but they would not be punished for any sins they committed during their lifetime. After these tricks, some careerists in the Foot Basin Country concocted the idea of "Eight Pillars and One Universe" to instill in all the imperial people that the entire Blue Star should be bathed in the divine light of the Fork Fork God. The so-called "Eight Hung One Universe". It is actually similar to the sentence we said, "The whole world is not the king's land, and the whole world is not the king's minister", the difference is that one emphasizes that all the one qiē is attributed to the fork and the fork god, while the other emphasizes that all the one qiē is attributed to the Son of Heaven.

The Foot Basin Kingdom fused imperial power with divine power, and then mixed bushido into it, and then agitated the people with the arrogant idea of "Eight Pillars and One Universe", and finally formed a terrible militarism. Liu He would not lead the Han Empire down the evil path of militarism, but in order for the Han to remain spiritually vigorous and strong, he would vigorously promote the convergence of imperial power and divine power, so that the Han Dynasty, with agricultural civilization as the main body, would face nomadic civilization and Western maritime civilization in the future. It has a strong ability to fight back and counterattack.

Liu He clearly remembered that many dynasties in later generations of China led to collective impotence in the superstructure of the country because of their belief in Buddhism, and the officials did not think about how to revitalize the country and strengthen the army, but they ate fasting and recited Buddha every day, yearning for the Elysium after death, and it was strange that such a country would not be slaughtered by aggressive nomads. As a native of Taoism, it has pursued personal transcendence from the very beginning. The cold avoidance of politics cannot support the survival of a large empire. In this time and space, it is impossible for Liu He to take out the things that are too advanced in socialism and communism, and can only lay a solid foundation of faith and thought for China in a roundabout way.

By the end of the year. Zhongshu made Liu Biao, who was also the pastor of Jingzhou, feel that his body was getting weaker and weaker, perhaps because he wanted to live a few more years, or because he wanted his soul to return to the arms of the Lord God of Tenshoh after death, in short, he also began to believe in Tenshodosh.

Liu Biao, who believes in Tianzheng Christianity. Xiang Xiang and the Tianzheng Hall in Luoyang submitted a table at the same time, asking to return to Luoyang, and the court and the sect agreed to Liu Biao's request. Jia Kui was appointed to Xiangyang to replace Liu Biao as the pastor of Jingzhou, and at the same time Zhao Yun was appointed as the governor of Jingchu and led the army into Jingzhou.

Liu Biao's general Huang Zu refused to accept Liu Biao's decision and rebelled before Zhao Yun led his army to Xiangyang, but was beheaded by his subordinate Wei Yan, and Huang Zu's son Huang Shot fled to Jiangdong in chaos. Sun Jian learned that Huang Zu's rebellion failed, and Huang Shot came to vote, but without saying a word, he asked Huang Shot's head to be cut off and sent to Xiangyang.

Jia Kui was originally a civil minister, but later commanded the Shen Xi Army, and now he has become a civilian official, so he is naturally familiar with the road. After he arrived in Xiangyang, he successively visited Cai Mao, Kuai Yue, Ma Liang and others, and reassured everyone, but the positions of these people in Jingzhou were not immediately adjusted, and they still operated according to the personnel arrangements when Liu Biao left. Zhao Yun, as the biggest backing behind Jia Kui, when he came to Jingzhou, Liu He asked him to take the Youyan Army, the Shenxi Army, the Zhenyong Battalion and the Zhenwei Battalion, which can be described as majestic soldiers and horses, not afraid of any force.

After Wei Yan killed Huang Zu, he quickly mastered Huang Zu's troops, he was originally a dark chess piece that Liu He had arranged in Jingzhou, and now that Liu He's army came, he naturally immediately expressed his allegiance clearly.

Liu Biao also had several generals such as Wen Ping, Huang Zhong, Huo Jun, and Liu Pan, all of whom had received letters from Liu Biao before Liu Biao left Jingzhou, so they were not as resistant to the army sent by the imperial court to take over Jingzhou as Huang Zu. What Wenpin, Huang Zhong and others did not expect was that after Zhao Yun came to Jingzhou, not only did he not confiscate the military power in their hands, but instead read out the news that Liu He promoted them to military positions. Wen Ping, Huang Zhong, and Huo Jun were promoted to generals of Zheng Erpin, Liu Pan and Wei Yan were promoted to generals from Second Pin, and their Chinese Ping and Huang Zhong each commanded 30,000 soldiers and horses, while Wei Yan, Huo Jun, and Liu Pan each commanded 20,000 soldiers and horses.

In this way, when Liu Biao left Xiangyang, he handed over at least 120,000 soldiers and horses to Liu He, and if you add the 80,000 elite troops brought by Zhao Yun to Xiangyang, the entire Jingchu land would have gathered 200,000 troops.

When Liu Zhang and Sun Jian of Jiangdong learned that 200,000 heavy troops were stationed in Jingzhou, they could only describe it as restless and worried. The previous rebels, like Liu Bei and Cao Cao, have become dry bones, do they still want to resist? It's just that if you don't resist, do you have to learn from Liu Biao, hand over the military power in your hands, and go to Luoyang to be controlled by others? (To be continued......)