The reason why Zhao Xing asked Zhang He not to interfere with Zhang Lu's spread of the Wudou Rice Sect in Hanzhong County. That's because he knew very well that the common people of this era still lacked basic scientific and cultural knowledge, and they were very superstitious about witchcraft, gods, and chèn, and that it would only be counterproductive to forcibly dissolve the Wudoumi Sect without sufficient education and guidance.

Until basic scientific knowledge is universal, the best way to deal with one religion is to create a more powerful one!

Zhao Xing has already received information from the Western Regions, and some of the Western Regions are now believing in Buddhism that has been passed down from the Tianzhu Kingdom, and this trend is spreading from west to east, and now it is approaching the Yumen Pass. What's more, according to Zhao Xing's understanding, in Luoyang City, there are Shamen (Buddhist names) from Tianzhu, Anxi, and Kangju who are preaching the scriptures and preaching Buddhism, and they are supported by Emperor Liu Bian.

Wudou Mijiao is also a religion founded by the Han people themselves, and some of the contents of the Huang Lao doctrine are worth promoting to the people, and they are easy to control, but Buddhism will cause great trouble to the political ideas he wants to achieve in the future.

Zhao Xing felt that instead of waiting for Buddhism to spread from outside the Yumen Pass, it was better to support the Wudoumi Sect to gain a foothold in the northwest region first. With these two major religions there to confront and debate, Zhao Xing could calmly carry out his great cause of unification without worrying that the common people under his rule would be confused by others.

is also supporting the Wudou Rice Sect, but Sima Yi's motives and purposes are completely different from Zhao Xing's.

Sima Yi forced Zhang Lu to speed up the spread of the Five Dou Mi Sect and expand the spread of the Five Dou Mi Sect, his intentions were not only sinister, but could even be called vicious!

The common people believe in the Five Bucket Rice Religion because they will have many diseases, and many diseases cannot be cured by seeking medical treatment, so they have to use witchcraft, proverbs, and even superstition to support their hope and confidence in life. Before people don't know what psychological suggestion is, many times it is impossible to explain why seeing a doctor and taking medicine cannot cure a disease, but as long as the faith is sincere and firm, people can survive the pain.

Even in the 21st century, with the development of science and technology, there are still many ways to cure diseases without taking medicine that cannot be explained by modern medicine, because the human mood is really difficult to understand.

Some people are in a bad mood and have no desire to live, even if they eat the elixir every day, they will still die; some people have a strong desire to survive despite having no money to see a doctor, and with their spiritual support, they can even survive the pain. Examples of this have been found throughout the ages, even in ancient times.

It is indisputable that religion can control the human spirit. Religion can make normal people go crazy, and in the same way, religion can also make people who feel bored to live a life in a down-to-earth manner. And once a person embraces a certain ritual religion, he has strong beliefs, and it is not easy to die so early, because religion can carry out psychological suggestion.

For example, a certain member of the Wudoumi Sect had a strange disease that even the divine doctor Hua Tuo could not say, and he saw that he could not do it, but the treacherous order and sacrificial wine in the sect came to tell the congregation, "Because you are guilty, you need to think about it in the ashram, and you need to build a bridge and repair the road for a hundred steps." As long as you're done with that, you won't die!"

The congregation who got this psychological suggestion hurriedly thought about it, repaired bridges and paved roads every day, and no longer focused on his own physical feelings, after a while, he might still die, but he might also get better.

If a sick member dies, the edicts and sacrificial drinkers will say to the other congregants, "He still did not fully recognize his mistakes, so he died." If the sick man recovered, the edicts and the sacrificial drinkers would proclaim: "Look, he has been forgiven because he has moved Heaven because of his sincerity of faith!"

Everyone instinctively yearns for life and hates death, so more often than not, you will hear rumors that someone who will be cured without taking medicine because of joining the religion, and will not hear about someone who died because of joining the religion. It's like people in later generations buying lottery tickets, obviously the probability of winning the 5 million jackpot is negligible, but everyone thinks that the person who wins the lottery next time will definitely be themselves!

Because joining the Wudou Rice Sect can "cure diseases", Sima Yi is ready to launch a war without gunpowder smoke, forcing the common people in Liangguo to also start believing in the Wudou Rice Sect. Because the Wudoumi Sect opened a righteous house, they could eat and live for nothing, so Sima Yi was ready to force the people in Liangguo to migrate to the Guanzhong region.

Sima Yi sent people to secretly go to the area of Xihai (Qinghai Lake) to secretly contact the remnants of the Zhuodang and Zhongcunqiang people there, and tricked them into entering Jincheng County and Longxi County in Liangzhou with a very terrible devil!

The name of this devil is the plague, also known as "hemorrhagic fever". Although people at that time did not call the plague that, everyone knew that it was a terrible devil. According to historical records and later research, the most vulnerable area of plague in China is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and Yizhou is adjacent to Qinghai and Tibet.

Back then, Yuan Shao secretly did the bad thing of secretly releasing plague to Bingzhou, but because Zhao Xing personally sat in Bingzhou and had rich experience in preventing and fighting such plagues, he did not cause a catastrophe in the end. This time, Sima Yi was obviously inspired by Yuan Shao, but he set his sights on the plague, which the Qiang people had heard of.

There is a song that sings well: "Dead rats in the east, dead rats in the west, people see dead rats like tigers." Rats die within a few days, and people die like demolition."

Plague is a disease endemic to wild rodents. Bubonic plague is introduced into the body through human skin through rat fleas as a vector, or pneumonic plague occurs through the respiratory tract. Patients with plague present with fever, severe poisoning symptoms, swollen lymph nodes, pneumonia, and bleeding tendencies, and in the terminal stage develop sepsis. Because of its highly contagious nature and high mortality rate, plague is one of the most serious infectious diseases that endanger humans.

The plague of plague was recorded as far back as 2,000 years ago. In the history of the world, there have been three pandemics of plague that have killed hundreds of millions. The first occurred in the 6th century AD and spread from the Mediterranean region to Europe and killed nearly 100 million people, the second occurred in the 14th century and spread to Europe, Asia and Africa, and China was also affected at that time, and the third was in the 18th century and spread to 32 countries.

Because the Sima clan wanted to win over the nearby ethnic groups to fight against Zhao Xing, they would often send some dead soldiers to the Qiang tribe west of Yizhou to carry out activities. They stumbled upon a description of a terrible devil by the local Qiang people, and then someone happened to see a Qiang tribe from afar who had died because of the devil's descending on them. After these dead soldiers returned to Yizhou, they reported what they had seen and heard to Sima Yi, which attracted Sima Yi's attention.

In Sima Yi's view, as long as the "devil" is sent into Liangzhou and the people of Liangzhou are infected with the plague, then they will panic and chaos, and then a large number of people will flee to the Guanzhong area, and the Wudoumi Sect, which is in the ascendant in Guanzhou, has become a lifesaver for these displaced people. At that time, even if Zhao Xing saw the loss of people and the death, he would not be able to return to the sky.

If Zhao Xing forbade the Five Doumi Sect, he would offend the vast number of ordinary people in the western region; if Zhao Xing let it go, the population of the Liang State would drop sharply, which would directly lead to the Liang State's inability to attack Yizhou in the future.

This time, Sima Yi seemed to have pinpointed Zhao Xing's death hole.