After a few days, Liu Yu was busy with the affairs of the vassal king and the vassal lord, during which he also went to the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Officials to meet Li Yannian, Li Sha'er's father, and talked about the marriage proposal.

Li Yannian has always been worried about his daughter being occupied by Liu Yu for a long time, and his attitude is not very friendly when he sees Liu Yu, which is very abnormal with his philistine habits. Liu Yue could feel that Li Yannian had a kind of hostility towards him, and it was the disagreement of political opinions that led to their conflict, not Li Sha'er.

Regarding the marriage, Li Yannian did not object, but said that "everything is in accordance with the law of etiquette", although the empress has also appeared in history, but when the empress was in power, either her husband was mediocre and incompetent, or she was already the kind of husband who died and looked for face. But there is no precedent for the empress's husband to take a wife. Liu Yu thought to himself, the "etiquette" mentioned by Li Yannian, even if he discussed it with dozens of old scholars for a hundred days, there might not be a custom.

Li Yannian made it clear that he wanted to embarrass Liu Yu.

Liu Yu didn't care too much, the relationship between him and Li Sha'er didn't want to be swayed by Li Yannian. At this time, Luan Jia had also embarked on the road back to Chang'an City, and Liu Yu calculated that around October 20, the women in the family would return to Chang'an City.

By October 13, Liu Yu suddenly received a tip-off that there was a mysterious group of missionaries who had a very high status in the new religion, and many middle- and upper-class believers in Chang'an City secretly went to meet them.

This news was first discovered by Qu Shu's chariot and horse gang brothers, and then Liu Liniang also received the same tip. Liu Yu was startled, and first sent Qu Zhu to lead troops to besiege the secret stronghold of the new religion, and Liu Yu also went to check it out in person, because he felt that Su Zhe was likely to be mixed in.

But to the place. It's already people who go to the empty house. Only some charred paper ash remains. and some missionary tools that I didn't have time to take away. Liu Yu felt a little inexplicable about this fight, he was already trapped tightly, but when he arrived at the position, the person was gone, as if the world had suddenly evaporated, and people searched the places around the secret stronghold of the new religion, but they did not find a secret passage or an escape exit.

Liu Yuzheng was depressed, and Liu Liniang came with two entourages. These two entourages are Liu Liniang's secret intelligence agents in Chang'an City.

"Lord Wang, I brought two people for you, maybe it will be helpful to find clues."

Liu Yu looked at the two comers, very young, a man and a woman, as if they were a couple or brother and sister, and they looked closer than ordinary friends. And this pair of men and women, the clothes on their bodies are very ordinary, no different from ordinary people, and they are very inconspicuous in Chang'an City.

"Say hello to the prince." The two gave Liu Yu a gift. What Guan Zhong said was also pure, which made Liu Yue unable to guess. Are they Miao or Han.

"Tell the prince what you know." Liu Liniang commanded.

"Yes." The woman replied and said, "Back to the prince, we are from the opera troupe in the capital, and we perform some operas on weekdays, and we are responsible for running tricks on stage." Recently, the Three Puritans have spread in my troupe, and the guys in the troupe didn't believe in it at first, but when they saw miracles, they believed in them all, and they also went to listen to a few missionary puja meetings. Later, the head of our troupe became a member of the Dharma Mission, and he was still responsible for preaching and managing the surrounding area. ”

Liu Yu frowned slightly, and said coldly: "The Dharma Declaration, this hall is not bad, what are you talking about at the Dharma Declaration?" ”

"It's about the teachings of the Three Puritans, and there are some divine realizations, and there are prayers, and at the end of the puja, the elders perform miracles, which are actually ordinary little tricks to deceive the ignorant people. After the performance, the worship is carried out, and the puja is held every once in a while, and the members of the puja are the heads of the small local churches. ”

Liu Yu smiled, Liu Liniang's intelligence officers are very knowledgeable, and they know that the so-called "miracles" are not real, but tricks to fool people.

The woman continued: "The Three Puritas are the propagation of the teachings through the puja preaching, from the big puja meeting, to the puja meeting, and then to the following mission, each time there can be no one-on-one mission, but two believers and one non-believer must be present. Only then will they start preaching, and so there is a lot of contact in the organization, and it is through this mode of puja that the instructions from above are handed down. ”

Liu Yu asked, "Could it be that in addition to preaching doctrines, the Dharma Ceremony also has instructions to be issued?" ”

"Hmm." The woman said, "The prince doesn't know, the head of our drama troupe is also our person, because he was afraid of revealing his identity, he didn't come this time, but according to the class master, there has been a big action in the past few days, and it is related to a big man coming to Chang'an City." Some people say that the big man is the head of the sect, and some say that he is a messenger of God, because the head of the class does not have a high status in the puja preaching, so he does not get more accurate information. ”

Liu Yu nodded, and the situation described by the woman could only go so far.

In the new religion of Sanqingjiao, the status and division of labor are quite clear, and the Xuanfa meeting is already a gathering meeting of the middle and high-level, and the class master himself does not get too much information, and Liu Yu can only get so much information for the time being. This time he spied on the residence of the "big man", and he also tracked it down by following some elders of the Three Puritans. Perhaps it was the frequent change of secret strongholds of the Three Puritans, or the fact that the Three Puritans had discovered the actions of the imperial court, which made this operation fail.

Qu Zhu came over and asked, "General, are we going to arrest those disciples and interrogate them one by one?" ”

Liu Yu raised his hand to stop it: "Wait and see, we can't let the people within the new religion feel the crisis first, everything is according to the steps, don't worry." ”

Qu Zhu respectfully accepted the order and went to arrange for the continued search for clues. On the other side, Liu Liniang also asked the two entourages to go back first, while she herself walked in front of Liu Yu.

"Twelve young, now it seems that if it is not for high pressure, the believers in the city will continue to preach religion in secret. Unless someone can break into the interior of the new religion and gain the trust of the higher-ups, it will ...... We're just going to be led by the nose. ”

Liu Yu was noncommittal, mainly because religious matters were too tricky. Liu Yu has also seen the teachings of Sanqingism, which are very similar to Christianity, and can even be said to have evolved from Christianity, and even some myths and stories are almost exactly the same. This is the wisdom of the missionaries behind the scenes, with a slight change in the ready-made doctrine, and then spread to Middle-earth, taking advantage of the political and military chaos of the Shun Dynasty in the past few years, and constantly developing, until now it has spread a little bit and can no longer be tightened.

"Li Niang, didn't your master Wuding come to Chang'an City? Why don't you see her old man show up? Liu Yu suddenly changed the topic and asked.

Liu Liniang frowned slightly and said, "Twelve Shao, if you say that, don't you suspect that my master has something to do with this matter?" ”

Liu Yuxin said, it's strange if you don't doubt it. The master who has no cheeks is already cunning and cunning, a god of rivers and lakes, but what he does is to influence the political situation and help King Huai fight against the imperial court. Now that Master Wuding is the mastermind behind the scenes, Liu Yu will not have any doubts, because in his mind, Wuding is indeed a traitor who "does all evil".

"How so?" Liu Yu smiled on his face, "Master Wuding is your master Li Niang, that is, my master, we are a family, I just want to visit her old man earlier and say hello to her old man." ”

Liu Yu's words were very sincere, and even Liu Liniang, who was extremely smart on weekdays, was deceived by him at this time. This is mainly because Liu Liniang is in it, so she is a little lost, this is the reason why the authorities are confused. Because Liu Yu treats Liu Liniang very sincerely, it also makes Liu Liniang think that Liu Yu will treat her master so sincerely.

"Master, her old man did come to Chang'an City, but in the past few days, she has not yet passed the news with me, I think, her old man should have something urgent to do, and in a few days, she should give the slave family news. At that time, the slave family will take the twelve young you to visit, because the master said before that she would talk to the twelve young you again. ”

"Oh, I see, Na Liniang, you saw Mrs. Shi and greeted her for me."

Liu Liniang nodded.

Liu Yu turned around and continued to arrange for Qu Zhu to check, while he himself wanted to go back to the palace. This time the net collection operation failed, and it was obviously a surprise to the snake, and it was not easy to find the whereabouts of the traitor. Liu Yu was a little annoyed in his heart, and this anger was spread to Master Liu Liniang's body.

Liu Yu estimated that the old nun should be for her "illegitimate daughter" Su Min, and she should sincerely embarrass him, and even help Su Zhe, the king of Chu, to implement such a good show of a new religion in order to achieve her goal.

Liu Yu returned to the palace, holding the teachings of the Three Puritans in his hands, and the fire in his heart grew bigger and bigger. This is simply blatant plagiarism, copying all the good things of Christianity, and changing it into Three Puritanism.

"Is there such a shameless thing in the world?" Liu Yu angrily threw the pamphlet with the doctrine on the ground, "Cai Ming will find a few Western missionaries to come over and let you see the real religion!" ”

Liu Yu was originally an unintentional emotion, but it made his heart move.

Since the blockage is no longer blocked, why not really find some Western missionaries to debunk this religious deception, as this emotion says?

Liu Yu immediately called Sui Yu over and instructed: "Miss Sui, when this king came back a few days ago, didn't you show me the list of trade goods submitted to Chang'an City by Western merchants?" Where is that list now? ”

Sui Yu nodded and said, "In Xiaguan, is the prince useful?" ”

"Hmm." Liu Yu said, "This king remembers that there is a list of Western merchants on it, you find it and show this king, is there a person named Jason on it, in fact, this person has a little relationship with this king." ”

Sui Yu nodded again and retired to find the list.

In fact, the matter of Western trade with China and Turkey had begun decades ago, and Liu Yu only learned after he came to power that Western merchants actually came to China's ports to trade more than once, but it was only because of the obstruction of the local government that the trade has been in the initial barter stage, and the volume of commodity trade is very small.

This time, if the trade port was opened as a condition, in exchange for some Western missionaries to come and expose the scam of the Three Puritans, it would be a good choice for Liu Yu. (To be continued......)