Chapter 5: Shinto
After meditating, the steward brought food, there was nothing else on the Mumba grassland, mutton, beef, horse meat, eating in turn, only three months after eating, he was a little greasy, I really don't know what it feels like for Mumba people to eat for a lifetime.
"How far is it from the edge of the desert?"
"Returning to the Immortal Master, according to past experience, it will be almost three or five days in another day!" the steward returned respectfully.
Wan Qingping waved his hand to let this person retreat, originally planned to fly away with the Qingyun umbrella from today, after all, out of the grassland, there is still a long way to go from the first big city of the Chahar tribe "Zhanghuankou", but I heard the coachman say that once out of the grassland, although the water and grass are not lush, there is also a small tribe, relying on the trade between the Mumba grassland and Jiuli is quite prosperous, you might as well go and see, experience the customs and customs on the grassland, anyway, it is only three or five days.
"Senior, this camel cart is too shabby, and the junior has already ......" When he was about to set off, the leader monk came over and said with some flattery, with such a master in charge, this journey is safe enough.
"No need!" Wan Qingping waved his hand, and the car was hoisted at the end of the line, so that it could be cleaner when he was in a hurry, so that he could easily read the classics.
Just as this person was about to leave, he was stopped again: "Tell me about this Mumba grassland, especially the Chahar tribe!"
Hearing this, the team leader was overjoyed, and he was struggling to tie up with this master, so he really wanted to come to something, so he said: "Senior, there are a total of ten tribes in Mumba, and they are the No. 1 Naiman tribe...... , my Chahar tribe ranks third, except for the absence of a great monk in the late Yuan Infant period, it is the strongest of the four tribes in the southern grasslands. Although we Mumba people live by water and grass, there are also a few places where there are cities, such as Zhanghuankou, where a large number of monks gather, where the leylines are crossed, the aura is quite strong, and it is in the northernmost part of the Chahar tribe, adjacent to the Qiyan tribe, the West Gobi tribe, and the Tatar tribe, plus there are two rare rivers on the grassland around, and the water and grass are luxuriant, so it is faintly the center of the four tribes in the south, there are millions of mortals, and there are seventy or eighty thousand monks of all kinds who live there!"
"It is said that you are divided into nobles and commoners in the Mumba grassland, and I have heard that the conflict between commoners and nobles extends to the cultivation world, what do you mean?"
"Ahem, this ......" The leader monk was a little embarrassed, if he said it, it could be regarded as a family scandal.
Just when he was thinking about how to express it to whitewash it a little, he heard Wan Qingping say unhappily: "What, don't you want to say it?"
Hearing this, Monk Zhuji was shocked, and hurriedly said: "The younger generation doesn't dare, talking about the contradiction between the tribal nobles and the commoners, in fact, it has a long history, it can be traced back to nine thousand years ago, when my Mumba Great Khan ruled the grassland, at that time, my Mumba tribe army not only conquered the surrounding large and small foreign races, but even the Western Regions Plateau trembled under my Mumba iron horse......"
"Stop!" Hearing this, Wan Qingping interrupted this person's speech: "It is said that the Mumba grassland is vast and boundless, even if the Yuanying Monk flies from south to north, it will take several months, how can a mortal emperor drive and control a huge cavalry, and there is still a way to make it conquer various tribes?"
"Qi senior, this specific junior is not clear, but there are some clues vaguely mentioned in the classics, as if it involves Shinto, it is said that once the emperor has more than 100 million people under his command, and then there is virtue and politics, he can uphold the will of the people and carry out the gods, the ghosts and gods have great magical powers, and it is not difficult to carry mortal soldiers to travel thousands of miles a day!"
"I see, Shinto!" Wan Qingping nodded, his face showing a look of surprise.
Gods are special beings, colloquially made by mortals, and the word "made" may be a bit too ugly, but it is.
Mortals seem to be weak, and monks can kill a large number of them at will, but few monks dare to do this, because a large number of mortals are slaughtered, and mortal resentment will be added to this person, not only is it easy to go mad when cultivating, but also the thirty-nine heavenly tribulations when the golden pill is in time, and the sixty-nine heavenly tribulations when the gods are ascending, will increase in power under the attraction of resentment, and the specific increase will depend on the amount of resentment entangled in the person's body.
The reason why the Absolute Spirit Island became a place of spiritual energy extinction back then was because a powerful monk cut off the leyline, which invisibly led to a large number of resentments.
This is resentment, on the other hand, if someone is a great good person, **** does good, the person who gets his help will be grateful and revered to him, and this kind of belief will be added to this person, it will invisibly produce benefits, such as a monk dares to kill such a person, and he will occasionally get the resentment of the person who receives the favor of this person, and the gain outweighs the loss.
According to ancient classics, there was even a peerless great good man in ancient times, and there were too many people who were favored by him, and under the blessing of good thoughts, even the evil ghosts who had cultivated into ghost babies did not dare to approach the front half of his body, which is also the origin of the saying "the heart is righteous, and the ghosts and gods are easy to change".
An emperor, if he is admired by hundreds of millions of people, how many beliefs are blessed on his body, not only the evil ghosts dare not approach, but the gods are also not a problem!
Of course, if the emperor is unscrupulous, the people will have resentment, and if the resentment counteracts the admiration, then the dynasty is not far from destruction, and this is what it means to have demons in troubled times, because without the blessing of faith, demons and ghosts dare to approach the emperor, can they not be destroyed?
"Then why is there no god in the Momba grassland now?"
"Senior, after the death of the Great Khan, his descendants did not have the same ability as him, and the originally unified Mumba grassland fell into fragmentation again, so ......," said the monk who led the team.
Wan Qingping nodded, without the blessing of the people's faith, it is indeed impossible to become a god, just like the sea of ten thousand islands, the islands are scattered, it is difficult to form a unified trend, and there is naturally no emperor.
And he dared to conclude that the Mumba grassland still maintains a trend of division, not only because the golden family, the descendant of the Mongolian Great Khan, was too wasteful, but also because eighty percent of the monks on the grassland did not want to see the unification of mortals, if the mortals were unified, even the monks had to submit to the royal power, after all, the emperor adhered to the will of the people, you dare not kill him, but he dared to kill you, being suppressed by mortals like this, it is uncomfortable to think about it.
Yes, it should be like this, I saw a classic book about the introduction of the Han Empire in Wandaohai, saying that the Han Empire still maintains unity, and the major immortal sects have been suppressed by the royal power, although they have all kinds of magical powers, but they live very aggrieved, not only the emperor often instructs the various sects to do this and that, but even officials at all levels can drive soldiers to destroy the immortal gates, so the Xiuxian sect has planned to overthrow the Han Empire several times, just like when they overthrew the pre-Qin.
Seeing that the senior masters came back to their senses, the leader monk continued: "Although the once-prosperous Mumba Empire has been destroyed, the aristocracy of the Great Khan's canonization of the meritorious people who assisted him in unifying the Mumba has been preserved. This kind of system, how to say, when the unification of Mumba is a good system, it can stimulate morale, but after the unification is completed, it is not suitable, and it is easy to stimulate the contradictions between the nobles and the commoners......"
Four days later, the convoy was out of the desert, the water and grass began to increase, and the caravan came to the small tribe, where Wan Qingping saw for the first time the conflict between nobles and commoners......
(I was going to change it three times, but something happened to my colleague's family today, I went to help, updated 4500 words, and I will change it again tomorrow!)