Chapter 198: Preparations for the Conference
After Wei Beifeng and Tang Zichen arrived at Songshan Mountain, where the Shaolin Temple was located, the two did not go up the mountain directly, but joined up with the palace offerings sent before.
You must know that the lowest worship of the Dao has also entered the day after tomorrow, so at this time, after receiving Wei Beifeng's order, they have already rushed here in the starry night. And during this free time, I also took the opportunity to understand the terrain near Songshan clearly.
And those who got the Tiger Talisman for the transfer of troops and were ordered to mobilize the army have also been brought to the army at this time. Fortunately, the Great Song Dynasty strengthened the training of the army during this time, and the time given to them by Wei Beifeng was also sufficient, so the army also lurked at the foot of Songshan Mountain according to the plan.
Of course, in the process, these soldiers still attracted the attention of some people in the martial arts, after all, the training time of these armies was too short and the number of people was too many. Well, there is the Tiger Talisman of the Empress Dowager Gao, so under the cover of the county and city governments along the way, although the troops who rushed to it still received some attention, they did not show too many flaws.
Hearing the reports of these subordinates, although there were slight flaws in them, it would not affect Wei Beifeng's plan in the end, so Wei Beifeng also praised him.
Then Wei Beifeng and Tang Zichen led these offerings and continued to lurk near the Shaolin Temple, waiting for the moment when the world's heroes gathered in Shaolin.
In other words, why did Wei Beifeng go to such great lengths to besiege Shaolin Temple? To know the current strength of Wei Beifeng and Tang Zichen, if you want to deal with these martial arts people, you don't even need to use that powerful mental power. With only the two of them now at the peak of the Grandmaster realm, they can use their own martial arts to crush these martial arts people.
After all, he has reached the realm of an innate grandmaster. The number of people is basically useless. Unless this innate grandmaster is surrounded by a large army. And it is necessary to add a large number of strong bows and crossbows. Only in this way can it pose a threat to the Innate Grandmaster.
But in the Shaolin Temple, although there are a lot of these martial arts people, there are none of them who have stepped into the innate realm. Moreover, the imperial court has extremely strict control over military weapons such as bows and crossbows, and it is impossible for them to get them in large quantities.
In addition, Wei Beifeng and Tang Zichen have the assistance of mental power, so even if the sweeping old monk makes a move, as long as one of Wei Beifeng and Tang Zichen entangles them, then the other person can still cause a one-sided slaughter of these martial arts people. And it's the kind that can't run away.
Therefore, in order to deal with them, Wei Beifeng and Tang Zichen gathered in Shaolin Temple to not only use a few innate masters, but also bring a large number of acquired top masters, which is indeed a bit overkill.
What's more, Wei Beifeng actually used a formed army, with a strong bow and a crossbow, to deal with this group of rabble in the martial arts, is it just to deal with these martial arts people?
Of course not, the reason why Wei Beifeng did this was also because of his considerations.
Do you want to know what kind of struggle is the most cruel in this world? Except for ethnic struggles, I'm afraid. That is, the religious struggle is the most brutal. And in some ways, even religious struggles are in some ways more brutal than the former.
Think about the methods of the Holy See in the Middle Ages against witches. Think of the crusades of the Crusades, and the methods of the infamous Inquisition against the infidels, from which we can see how cruel the religious struggle was.
Even in modern times, religious sects in the Middle East, because of their different beliefs, have caused social unrest and a large number of wars, and even carried out mass murders in some places.
You must know that these religious madmen actually cut the butcher's knife at their compatriots of the same race because of their different beliefs, which is even more inhumane than racial struggle.
Not to mention a madman who turned himself into a suicide bomber for the sake of his beliefs and didn't even want his life.
And if Wei Beifeng wants to establish his own Martial God Sect in the Heavenly Dragon World Realm, then it is inevitable that he will have to fight against other religions. Moreover, it is important to know that the Martial God Sect of Wei Beifeng is the state religion established by the imperial court, so other religions are not opponents of the Martial God Sect at all, after all, the imperial court is the largest authority of the Great Song Dynasty.
But will these religions be tied up and watch the Martial God Sect swallow them up little by little? Certainly not, they certainly won't resign themselves to the disillusionment of their faith.
Therefore, in order to protect his faith, the Great Song Dynasty, as the biggest help of the Martial God Sect, will bear the brunt. For the sake of their own development, these religions will naturally want to subvert the current regime and make the Martial God Cult lose the greatest help of this world.
As a result, the Great Song Dynasty inevitably fell into civil strife. Therefore, Wei Beifeng's expansion plan will of course be destroyed because of this. Even if he relied on the back hand left by Wei Beifeng, the Great Song Dynasty calmed down the civil strife after the most reluctance, but at that time, he would definitely be greatly injured.
At that time, let alone go to invade others according to Wei Beifeng's plan, it would be good to be able to protect himself from being invaded.
Moreover, Wei Beifeng has long regarded the people of the Great Song Dynasty as his own disciples, and if there is civil strife, it will inevitably cause a large number of deaths and injuries to his own disciples.
There is a way that there are thousands of miles without accumulating steps, and even if the mosquito legs are small, they are still meat, so of course Wei Beifeng will not let this happen.
Therefore, whether Wei Beifeng wanted his plan not to be destroyed, or to prevent a large number of deaths and injuries among his followers, he had to come up with a plan to solve this matter and prevent his Martial God Sect from falling into a religious struggle from the beginning.
In the Tianlong world, there were basically two religions in the Great Song Dynasty at this time, one was local Taoism, and the other was foreign assimilated Buddhism.
Taoism is good to say, after all, their own purpose is to go with the flow and do nothing. Moreover, most of the Taoists are secluded from the world, so they will not pose a big threat to Wei Beifeng's Martial God Sect.
But Buddhism is different, and the reason why Buddhism flourishes so much depends on the supply of secular people. Moreover, the ancient temples and Zen monasteries did not have a large amount of land and fertile land. Not to mention the Buddha statues in the temple, in addition to being cast with a large amount of bronze, some of them are even cast in gold.
Therefore, whether it is to protect one's own property or for the sake of secular believers, Buddhism is simply inseparable from the support of the imperial court. It is precisely for this reason that Buddhism must intervene in secular regimes.
Just like Emperor Wu of Liang, who was sold by Buddhism four times and starved to death at the end, and Li Shimin's political speculation when he established the Tang Dynasty, these are all a means for Buddhism to infiltrate the regime.
Therefore, Buddhism will inevitably conflict with Wei Beifeng's Martial God Sect at that time, until the struggle between the two will lead to the chaos of the entire Great Song Dynasty into civil war.
In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, thereby causing losses to his own interests, Wei Beifeng of course had to make means to deal with it. And for the sake of maximizing his own interests, Wei Beifeng decided to completely exterminate Buddhism.
This is the same as Jehovah's Ten Commandments in the Bible, the first of which says, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt as slaves, and thou shalt have no other gods than me." ”
Rule 2: "Thou shalt not carve an idol for thyself, nor shall thou shalt make any image like that which is in heaven or in the earth, or under the earth or in the waters." Do not bow down to those images, nor serve them, for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God. and I will revere him who hates me, from father to son, unto three or four generations; And to those who love me and keep my commandments, I will show mercy to them until a thousand generations. ”
It was Jehovah's threats and warnings that led him to eliminate the influence of the prophet Moses and dominate the world's faith. It is precisely because of this that Christianity has become the only denomination in the West.
Therefore, in order to dominate the belief in the Heavenly Dragon World, Wei Beifeng must of course become the only true god in the world like the Lord. Therefore, it is impossible for him to allow other religions to exist, and it is impossible for other religions to pose a threat to the Martial God Sect.
And Shaolin Temple is in the Tianlong world, and it is the symbol of Wulin Buddhism in the entire Central Plains, so Shaolin Temple is of course on Wei Beifeng's must-kill list.
Therefore, before Wei Beifeng left the Tianlong realm, of course, he had to completely remove the Shaolin Temple and give Buddhism the biggest blow.
After Wei Beifeng left, these masters and armies began to advance to the entire Central Plains in all directions, with the Shaolin Temple as the center, thus completely erasing the entire Buddhism from the Central Plains.
As for the problem of encountering new religions with the pace of expansion of the Great Song Dynasty, there is no need for Wei Beifeng to deal with it. After all, as long as the Martial God Sect has passed the Xinsheng stage, then with the support of the imperial court, the Martial God Sect will of course become more and more powerful, and when the time comes, those new religious struggles, of course, will not need Wei Beifeng to worry about.
Of course, Wei Beifeng came to besiege Shaolin Temple with these masters and armies, in addition to wanting to completely eliminate Buddhism, there was another reason.
You must know that these people who came to Shaolin Temple to participate in the martial arts conference this time basically included five or six out of ten masters in the entire Central Plains, so of course Wei Beifeng would not let go of these people.
After all, as long as these martial arts people are recovered, then Wei Beifeng's Martial God Sect will immediately be able to replenish a large number of fresh blood. Moreover, these martial arts people are wealthy families from all over the world, and most of them have good power and fame.
Therefore, as long as these people are recovered, it will not only make the Great Song Dynasty's control over the local government more firm, but also allow the tentacles of the Martial God Sect to quickly extend to the past, so that the Martial God Sect can promote the faith more quickly.
But it is not so easy to recover these martial arts people, after all, except for some scum, most of these people have to take care of their own face, so of course Wei Beifeng can't just use violent means. (To be continued......)