Chapter 426: The Appeal of the People
In the dynasties of the ancient Chinese country, people were almost no believers, even if they believed in Buddhism or believed, they were not devout believers, and the courts of all generations also tried their best to suppress the beliefs of the people, in order to fool the people and obtain the absolute support of the people.
Anything that goes against this will be criticized by society, condemned by public opinion, and even encourage people to sacrifice their lives for the sake of "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism" as the highest honor, which is a way that violates human nature.
What people should believe in is not a high god, but the human nature and life changes brought by this god, people can obtain inner tranquility and naturalness, inner forgiveness and yearning for a better future through their own beliefs, rather than blindly pursuing what so-called highest honor.
Even in the Shun Dynasty, the fate of the missionaries was generally politically motivated, and some missionaries who were only interested in salvation had no other intentions and never appeared in the territory of China. Who would have thought that a new religion would suddenly appear in the eventful city of Chang'an, and it would be out of control with the accumulation of disaster victims.
At first, the officials of Jingzhao Mansion did not perceive the meaning of this "Kingdom of Heaven", but after reporting layer by layer, in the court, some ministers of the Ministry of Rites discussed it, and thought that the seriousness of the matter was beyond imagination, and immediately found someone to investigate. Under the guidance of this teaching, people helped each other, and an orderly force was formed among the victims to resist the imperial court silently. And the previous conscription of the imperial court was blocked. It is also related to the development of this religion among the people.
There is also a central idea of this religion. It is the world as one family, without war and peace. If there is no peace, there is no war, so you should not join the army, so even the victims who can't survive have no one to respond to the call of the imperial court to serve the country.
After the investigation was clear, the Ministry of Rites hurriedly reported the matter to the emperor. Su Yan didn't care about these at all, and he didn't care about the people because of what god they believed.
"They can believe whatever they want." After hearing this, Su Yan said with an indifferent face, "Master once said that you can't control other people's thoughts. It's as if you don't want others to be at the mercy of others yourself. ”
The ministers were puzzled when the emperor encouraged the people to believe in a religion other than the supremacy of the monarchy? Su Bi felt the seriousness of the situation, she was not worried about the development of religion, but she felt that she underestimated Liu Yu's brainwashing influence on Su Yan, Liu Yu had already infected Su Yan with his open-minded style of dealing with people, so that Su Yan also subtly accepted Liu Yu's set.
Liu Yu's set of civilization is very high, but it is obviously unacceptable in feudal countries, especially in the emperor's head, this kind of thinking is even more unacceptable.
"Your Majesty, this matter must be thoroughly investigated. Some lawbreakers in Chang'an City must not be allowed to use any doctrine to confuse the people, and some people must be severely punished! ”
Su Yan frowned and glanced at the nervous Su Bi. A little impatiently waved his hand, meaning that Su Bi was in charge.
While Su Bi was receiving the order, she didn't know that she had upset Su Yan.
Originally, Su Yan used Su Bi's strength to do so, but it was because Liu Yu was now gone, and he himself wanted to fly alone from Liu Yu's control, soaring in the sky and being a good emperor who was in charge of himself. Later, he relied on Yuan Bolang because Yuan Bolang represented the Wenchen group, and as the emperor, he had to have a good relationship with the Wenchens. After Yuan Bolang's death, Liu Yu could only rely on Su Bi, because Su Bi was his sister and a family, and Su Bi had strong political skills and could help him deal with many things that he couldn't solve by himself.
But it was this strong wrist that made Su Yan feel as if he was imprisoned by himself, and he was not so comfortable. Now Su Bi is making his own decisions about everything, and he doesn't seem to have the existence of him as an emperor in his eyes, saying that he is helping him and tying up the Dashun Dynasty to stabilize the government, but Su Bi's toughness is too right, so Su Yan feels that this Su Bi is not as good as Liu Wenyan, the master of the powerful minister.
Anyway, Su Yan is not at the point of having a seizure with Su Bi now, because he can also feel that Su Bi is indeed helping him sincerely now.
The imperial court immediately convened to study the solution of the problem of faith among the victims, but encountered obstacles in formulating the plan. The first is that the victims cannot be resettled, they cannot be separated, and the spread of religion among the people cannot be stopped. Now the teachings of this religion are no longer spread by one person or a gang, but by the affected victims, everyone has become a communicator, and while they are helping the affected people, they are also subtly conveying their thoughts to them, so that they can know that the Taoist God wants their people to help each other. The victims were helped when they were about to die, their feelings about religion and God were indescribable, and they believed in it with devotion and conveyed it to more people.
The most important factor in the spread of religion is that it exploits the kindness and ignorance of people, as well as the feeling of compassion for others.
The imperial court had no money and food to provide disaster relief, so it could not block the source of the spread of the new religion, so they could only divide the victims into places and try to arrest some of the "leaders" among the victims, and these leaders were just local governors and squires trained by the imperial court itself.
The actions of the imperial court directly reduced the financial support of the people of Chang'an City to the victims of the disaster, exacerbating the suffering of the victims, but in disguise helped the spread of the new religion among the people.
By the 25th day of the lunar month, the third day after the imperial court purged the religious problems of the victims, the victims had already gone to the gate of the imperial court to petition several times, and on the 25th day of the lunar month, the victims began to spontaneously organize a "procession" in the streets. This is also the first time that the imperial court has felt the pressure of the people on the imperial court, because before that, ordinary people were always fart people, and they could only go to the yamen to complain if they had any grievances, and if the yamen treated them badly, they could only knock out their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs. Now they would organize themselves to confront the imperial court, and not by force, so that the imperial court felt the terrible nature of this new religion.
"Arrest the rebels!"
The next move of the imperial court completely intensified the conflict between the victims and the imperial court, although these victims had no weapons and they did not have the heart to resist the imperial court, but other problems arose after the imperial court took them to the prison cell.
The cells were too small and there was not enough food. (To be continued......)