Zhang Zhongyao said again: "General Xin came to report, the elders of the Inquisition reached an agreement, but mortals who claim to be gods and confuse sentient beings are all evil demons, and should be punished with burning fire, please ask the military government to assist, and the elders of the Inquisition ask to open a school to teach the divine will." ”

Wu Yingying thought for a long time, then nodded: "The Inquisition's confirmation of the divine decree is progressing slowly, but this one is not bad. Let the military government allow the Inquisition to arrest evil spirits in accordance with this article, but if you want to use the power of the military government, you need to be arrested and the person who is arrested has also violated the criminal laws of the country. Burning at the stake was too cruel to advocacy, and God had the virtue of a good life, so the Inquisition was allowed to coordinate with the Orthodox Church to build stone towers to suppress demons in various states, and to imprison the identified evil demons in the stone towers, and not to have contact with outsiders for life, but corporal torture was prohibited. ”

Zhang Zhongyao wrote down Wu Yingying's instructions, and said, "The Inquisition also requires that the Inquisition send clergy to explain the divine decree to the soldiers and the people, so as to prevent them from being deceived by the evil way. ”

Wu Yingying frowned, and said in a deep voice: "This is suspended, now there are only two or three divine decrees, and they are all with profound intentions, and many issues are still being debated by the elders, what is there to talk about?" He paused for a moment and said to Zhang Zhongyao: "What the Inquisition is propagating is a divine decree, and it must be done without the elders fully discussing it to start preaching to the people, which will surely be full of mistakes and contradictions, and will discredit the Inquisition." Inform the elders that the Orthodox Christians are supportive of their own preaching of the Wu'an Xi Army, but it is not too late to arrange for them to expound the great doctrine of God in the name of the Inquisition, and to wait for the elders to learn more about how to perceive the divine will, so that it can be suitable for ordinary soldiers and ordinary people, to calm the minds, and then arrange for them to expound the grand doctrine of the divine will. ”

After Zhang Zhongyao wrote it down, Wu Yingying said: "The envoys who followed the caravan to the Hall of Wisdom in Baghdad to learn scriptures, and the envoys who went to Dashi and more western cities to find knowledgeable wise men have set off?" Zhang Zhongyao said: "General Xiao, the news from General Cai that the three teams of envoys each carried a large amount of gold, silk and tea, one group went to Damascus to buy books, one group went to the cities of Dashi to find and recruit knowledgeable wise men, and one group went to cities in the more western Mediterranean to search for and recruit wise men. All have departed. ”

Wu Yingying nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Although this matter is not urgent, it is a top priority, let the envoys pay attention to contact more with the Sincere Academy in the Great Food City, as well as the religious wise people on the Mediterranean coast." Although these wise men had their own beliefs in God, the elders of the Inquisition could temper each other so that they might know that there was a man outside of man and a heaven beyond heaven. Wu Yingying said, and a smile appeared on his face. At this time, most of the scientific theories of ancient Greece were in the minds of some Persian and Western religious sages, who believed in the principle that "science is the maid of theology".

On the other hand, the Orthodox elders of the Inquisition, under the protection and support of the Anxi Army, did seriously engage in a great deal of debate about what was truly divine will, and the Inquisition and the school run by Liang Zuoqiu were currently the most open-minded places in the Anxi Army. The elders of the Inquisition were mainly influenced by Indian Buddhism, with the exception of the original religions of the Central Plains and the mystical religions of Central Asia. The introduction of new religious ideas was also a shock to the original Orthodox elders of the Inquisition, and the more speculation and theory, the easier it was for the interpretation of divine will to break away from the "metaphysical" stage and produce a purely "metaphysical" theology, so that the Inquisition was not easy to conflict with the secular regime, and indirectly advocated the atmosphere of rational speculation. Wu Yingying doesn't mind religious leaders arguing all day long about propositions such as "How many angels can stand on the tip of a needle?" and "Can God create a stone that He Himself cannot lift?" And in the presence of such a religious elder who is proficient in theology and speculation, the heresy that deceives the world is like a thin piece of paper that can be pierced.

After Zhang Zhongyao wrote down all the matters, he sighed: "Watching the forbidden army attacking the city today, with the abundance of manpower and material resources in the Central Plains, and the power of attacking a corner of the world, this Taiyuan City is indeed ready to go." Wu Yingying said: "Otherwise, the armies have no siege method to reduce casualties, but plan to build a long causeway and lead Fen water to soak the city wall." Zhang Zhongyao was surprised: "It takes a long time to build an embankment and soak the city wall, 200,000 troops are outside, and the consumption of grain and grass is not a few.

Wu Yingying said: "Maybe it was the first official to lead the troops, and he didn't have any actual feelings about the fatigue of the army's protracted battle. And the important ministers either didn't know it, or they opposed the strategy of Youyan in their hearts, and they were intent on consuming the grain and grass in Taiyuan. ”

From the Zhou to the Song Dynasty, the Bianliang forbidden army has attacked Taiyuan for the fourth time. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial family declined, and the two great heroes Zhu Wen and Cai Ke competed for dominance in the world. In the story of the Taiyuan soldiers, the Hedong Army always played the role of a tragic hero who was not afraid of power. In Taiyuan City, scolding people as Bianliangzi is accusing them of being lazy and treacherous.

In the fourth year of neutralization, Xuanwu Town of Bianzhou was forced by Liukou Huangchao, and asked for help from Hedong Jiedu Cai Keyong, 50,000 Hedong disciples swore to go out to fight against King Qin, and defeated Huangchao in a row.

After that, Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty and called the emperor, the country was called the Liang Dynasty, and the Hedong Jiedu made Cai Ke loyal to the Tang Dynasty with his life, and gave three arrows to his son Cai Cunqiao when he died, and one arrow to beg Liu Rengong, because Youzhou was uneven, Henan was unprofitable; one arrow hit the Khitan, because Abaoji betrayed the covenant and attached the thief; one arrow destroyed Zhu Wen, who usurped the Tang Dynasty, and the self-reliance of the Tang Dynasty was not rewarded, and the hatred remained. His son Cai Cunqiao worked hard to govern the country, and finally destroyed the Later Liang and established the Later Tang Dynasty.

In the following hundred years, the Hedong Army repeatedly sent troops from Taiyuan to attack Bianzhou, the capital of the Central Plains Imperial Court, and played an important role in the frequent changes of dynasty. Three years of luck, 300,000 Kaifeng soldiers surrendered without a fight, the Khitan people marched into the Central Plains, it was the first town in Hedong to advocate the banner of righteousness, and the towns in the Central Plains attacked the Khitan army, forcing the Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang to withdraw from the Central Plains. Until Guo Wei became independent on behalf of the Han Dynasty, the Hedong Zhenbing maintained an absolute advantage over the forbidden army of the Bianliang Imperial Court in terms of morality and victory. In the battle of Gaoping, the Hedong army had just begun to attack, and the Bianliang forbidden army was worthy of their herbaceous color, and shouted at Liu Zhiyuan three times to disarm and surrender, but Zhou Shizong reversed the tide of the war with his comparable Cai Ke with that kind of violent immortal handsomeness, after the death of Shizong, Zhao Kuangyin followed, the Central Plains national fortune, between Hedong and Bianliang, the stars changed.

Although Emperor Yin of the Han Dynasty was brutal and unkind, Liu Chong, who occupied Hedong and established himself in the Northern Han Dynasty, was also defeated by Guo Wei, and the Northern Han Dynasty proclaimed itself orthodox according to Taiyuan and opposed the Bianliang court. It's just that the general trend of the world, even if there are the best fortified cities and elite soldiers in the Central Plains, under the all-out attack of the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty, the fall of Taiyuan is only a matter of time.

Looking out from the south of the city, a loess rammed earth embankment is gradually forming, the Song army requisitioned tens of thousands of people, taking the method of sub-sections, each section extends to the left and right, until finally all closed. The earthen embankment has not yet been built, the channel for drinking water from Fenshui has been completed for the most part, the Hedong army has repeatedly gone out of the city to destroy the Song army to build the earthen embankment, but it is always repelled by the superior Song cavalry who are watching and guarding, after thousands of dead and wounded, they have to live behind the city wall, watching this fatal embankment gradually take shape, Jinyang City has been repeatedly attacked by water in history, and the soldiers and civilians in the city have experienced a disaster of Song Taizu breaking the water to irrigate the city, and the Song army outside the city all gritted their teeth and cursed, but there is no way.

At the same time as the embankment was built, the Song army did not relax its attack on the city, and more than 200,000 forbidden troops took turns to fight, opening up the posture, and the advantage of the Great Song Dynasty in gathering the world's material resources was undoubtedly revealed. The Yangma City in the southwest corner of the city was first broken by Cao Han, and Liu Jiye was forced to retreat by the Jianxiong Army, trying to protect the southern city wall, and the west city wall of Jinyang, on which Liu Jiyuan's palace city depended, was directly exposed in front of the Song army.

Emperor Liu Jiyuan of the Han Dynasty tried to send an envoy to the Khitan for help, but the envoy was captured by Guo Jin, a subordinate of Shiling Guandu, and taken to Taiyuan City to be beheaded. Since then, from spring to summer, Pan Meidu has besieged the city from all sides, and hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops have been attacking in turn day and night, and the arrows in Taiyuan City are raining down, the city is full of battlements, and the houses in the city are broken by stone bullets, and there is almost no intact. Most of the adult men in the city went to the city to help defend the city, and only the old and weak women and children were left at home in fear. However, Hedong and Bianzhou have been fighting for a hundred years and have deep grievances, and in recent years have been attacked by the forbidden army four times, and have repeatedly heard that the Bianliang army will destroy the city and slaughter the city after taking Taiyuan, so although the defenders of the city are tired, they still fight hard.