Chapter 352 - The Alba Team (XXXVII)
Hongyi used Buicto's mouth to verify the accuracy of the historical materials in his memory, and he was unwilling to waste time on school examination work.
"Nikon seems to be in a position to be strong at the moment, but I don't think his good days are left."
Hongyi made up his mind and did not pursue it again. After all, ten years later, the patriarch would be exiled to Siberia, and for years before that, he would have no real power. However, if Peter the Great is a big opponent in the future, Alexei I can't be unguarded at the moment - this kid is also very old-fashioned!
"That's what the master said! That...... Sergey......, as an Orthodox priest, how are you going to arrange him? Buicto never forgot his invisible opponent.
"Oh, what the hell ......"
Hongyi suddenly understood that the shepherd of Moscow was the first to pursue the clerical power and the royal power, and even a head higher, and Father Sergei, who was far away in Beijing, naturally became the potential force that seemed to be able to compete with the Buicto.
However, in the current situation, Hongyi cannot allow him to develop like this. In China, where the feudal monarchy lasted for thousands of years, the imperial power was high, and religion could only be a vassal and a tool. By analogy, as part of the Eight Banners system, how can Alba Niulu first come up with a "separation of powers"? After all, the time has not yet come!
"Buicto, what do you think?" Hongyi remembered the "killer feature" of being a leader in his previous life - when encountering thorny problems and undecided attention, "brainstorming" is the most high-sounding trick! So, he changed to a confident look. "Deliberately" asked.
"Master, I am the leader of the coat, so naturally I will only be loyal to you, the royal family, and the Qing Dynasty! Not only that, but so will my brothers, who will never break our vows! Buicto first sorted out the relationship between himself and Xiao Xuanye, and swore by it.
"Well, that's a good point!"
"But Sergei also made an oath before the Virgin, and he needs to swear allegiance to the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Patriarch of Moscow!"
Buicto is smart! Hongyi is deeply concerned. Again, there are vows. But it's important to target different objects.
"You mean ......"
"Master, Sergei, as a priest, will naturally bow down to the Patriarch of Moscow! It is now that the Patriarch of Nikon is in full swing in the Rakshasa country. It is even above the Alexei first rank. If this wind spreads to the capital division. I'm afraid it's not good for you...... Master, you can't afford to guard against this! ”
As he spoke, Buicto matched his tone. He fell to his knees, prostrate on the ground, and twisted his neck again, wanting to give the little one a serious glance......
It must be said that Buicto's words came too timely, and it is also in line with Hongyi's thoughts!
"Yes, Orthodoxy is different from Catholicism, after all, he is too closely bound to the Rakshasa Kingdom. In my opinion, Orthodoxy is the state religion of the Rakshasa country, and the Rakshasa is the possession of Orthodoxy! I really have to guard against ......" Hongyi muttered thoughtfully.
Unlike superficial statements on the Internet, Hongyi has his own set of understandings of the "separatist movement" caused by Patriarch Nikon -
Under the Soviet system, the separatist movement caused by Nikon was described as negative and reactionary. In the second half of the 17th century, a large number of peasants and businessmen left their homes and fled to the Volga River valley and desert areas and forests such as the Eastern Urals and Siberia, where they built some old ceremonial monasteries. At the end of the 17th century, various cruel collective and individual suicides began to occur widely, including self-immolation, drowning, hunger strike, and starvation. The government's crackdown on the separatists has exacerbated such exodus and suicides......
But as a representative of the early separatist movement, High Priest Awakum still has a positive significance for Hongyi. At that time, Awakum angrily denounced the persecution of the separatists, saying: "It is strange how they do not want to understand, how can they build their faith with fire, whipping, and gallows!" Which saint taught this, I don't know. My Jesus did not teach our saints to use fire, scourging, and gallows to promote the faith. ”
He wrote to Tsar Alexei I: "Please stop torturing us in this way, arresting the infidels who destroy your soul, burning them as vicious dogs, Latins and Jews, and freeing us as our own." But when he learned that the Tsar had decided to adopt Nikon's ideas, he turned his plea into a bashing. He wrote: "The beast has two legs, and two powers are marked: one is Nikon the victor, and the other is Alexei the accomplice. …… Although he was merciful, he touched the church with his feet and changed the constitution of the church. ”
He was convinced that it was the tsar who was guilty, and that the tsar had to pay for it and suffer. Awakum said, "Burn the religious believers with fire, and you yourself will be burned by the fire of God." Awakum later pinned his hopes on a new heir to the throne, and when he found that nothing was going on, he switched from anti-Nikon to anti-Tsar. But he was not involved in secular politics throughout, but only opposed the Tsar as a religious "antichrist".
However, behind him, all kinds of complex contradictions in Russian society left a deep imprint on this religious dispute, which gave this religious dissident movement an increasingly rich and far-reaching connotation. One of them was the protracted "separatist movement" led by the brutal suppression of the tsarist regime and the official church, which had a great impact on the popular resistance movement in Russia, where it has always been known as the "crusade movement". Many people went from being "dissidents" in the Church to "dissidents" who opposed the Tsar, becoming the largest opposition in pre-modern Russia.
Since the official Church does not recognize the Folk Church, calling it a "schismatic" and those who are loyal to the old religion "schismatics", the State deprives the separatists of all their rights and imprisons or sentences them to death by priests who propagate the teachings of the Old Religion. However, the more persecution there became, the stronger the people's revolt, and the suppression and persecution of the separatists won respect and sympathy in the minds of the lower classes.
Thus, beginning in the second half of the 17th century, a group of people who did not agree with the official ideology appeared in Russia, believing that the tsar did not represent the real Orthodox Christian state, but a vicious force that controlled the state in the name of power and false religion, which caused a split between official and folk religion. And they have the obligation and responsibility to search for the truth among the people, among the silent people, to find the city of Kijesh (a pious Orthodox city at the time of the Mongol invasion, in order not to be trampled by the Mongol iron hooves, the whole city sank to the bottom of the lake, and in the future, whenever the country was in danger, the sound of the Weiche bell would be heard at the bottom of the lake), looking for a pure, unpolluted, undistorted true Orthodox dynasty.
These schismatics firmly believed that "every individual has an image of God" and that the unity of God did not contradict the pluralism of humanity itself. Their spearhead was directed at the Tsar, and they also had a program, a goal, an organization, and an action.
It is particularly worth mentioning that the ideal kingdom of many schismatics is a communist system with strong monastic overtones, but because it is too spiritual, the propaganda is more metaphysical. A lot of literature and materials are circulated as religious documents, and when one religion (state religion) dominates the situation, they are also destroyed as cult propaganda materials, leaving few things behind.
Because the dominance of the official Orthodox Church, the establishment of a centralized monarchy, and the disappearance of the free peasantry, i.e., the establishment of serfdom, were basically synchronized in the history of Russia, the forces opposing these three forces, namely the religious opposition against Nikon Protestantism, the political opposition against the absolutist imperial power, and the social opposition against serfdom, were often mixed.
This shows that the schism of the Church began a deep schism in Russian life and Russian history, and the schismatics always disagreed with the tsarist system, seeing them as the usurper of the Moscow aristocracy of the "Antichrist". The practical edge of the old liturgy was directed not only against the pathological and false feelings of the liturgy of the Church, but also against the kingdom of the devil, Tsarist Russia, which could not have any positive religious element.
In Hongyi's eyes, the religious opposition movement in Russia provided a profound religious background for the protest cry of humanistic intellectuals. "Modern humanistic intellectuals"! What a beautiful word! It would have been even better if such "modern humanistic intellectuals" had appeared earlier in China......
And the current high priest Avakum and the "spiritual ancestor of modern Russian intellectuals" behind him, the separatist movement, will be put to good use by Hongyi!
"Master, in this way, this Sergei is ......"
Seeing that Xiao Xuanye was silently and fell into deep thought, Buicto quickly rearranged his full set of plans to deal with Sergei, which had already been hastily cured.
"Oh, what do you think?" The expression on Hongyi's face at this time is not clear to him, but in the eyes of Buicto, it is simply unfathomable!
"The minion thinks that he should be forced to swear allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor, not just the Patriarch!"
"What if he doesn't agree?"
"He doesn't agree? Then he is Moscow's lackey and minion, then it ......" Buicto surged into his heart, and with his own insidiousness, he also made a very exaggerated action of cutting off his head with his right hand.
"It's not so serious," Hongyi almost didn't laugh, it was terrible, he had never thought about killing himself, as for this? "I think he will still understand the stakes, and he doesn't have to swear allegiance to my emperor Amma, the key is what he will do in the future, whether he will serve the Patriarch or serve his own future!"
"Future?" This time it was Buicto's turn to think it through.
(Chapter to be continued)
"A limerick poem. Hidden Head
Reading literature and reading history is only a long breath
I was saying that there was an opportunity back then
The layout is a long-cherished wish
It's hard to come and go
Get up and spend a hundred years
Point out the suffering and diseases of the world
The edge of the town was razed to the sea
Wen'an Wuding happy teardrops (to be continued......)