"Lord, since you don't allow the Promise to return to the Silent Invitation, then please ask the Lord to allow the Promise Minister's other request!" After laughing, Zhuge Liang said.

"What, please?" Liu Xu was stunned for a moment, and then asked puzzled.

"The minister invites the lord to preside over the ceremony of canonizing the gods!" Zhuge Liang was right, but he said that Liu Xu was confused.

"The Great Ceremony of the Gods? Could it be that the prime minister has already watched the Romance of the Gods? Liu Xu asked in surprise, this Romance of the Gods is from the middle and late Ming Dynasty, he has never mentioned it, nor has he written it, let alone reflected the people after the Ming Dynasty, how did Zhuge Liang know?

"The minister doesn't know what the Romance of the Gods is!" Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, "The minister is to invite the lord to be like Guan Yu, the story of Li Jingzhi, and wait for us to be a god!" ”

"What?" Liu Xu was taken aback again, and Zhuge Liang continued, "The minister thinks that the matter of sealing the gods is imminent, if the lord gives me and other generals the gods, all the generals can become heavenly soldiers and generals, and the combat power will be greatly improved, and the strength of the lord can also be greatly improved." At the same time, the gods can also reassure the generals, and at the same time make the status of the lord stable again. ”

"Although all the generals are all generals under the lord, they actually have other princes who are loyal to each other, and there is only one lord who is loyal to the good generals, so their hearts are still in the princes, not in the lord."

"But if the lord presides over the canonization of gods, then the lord can be the sky, the heaven is the way of heaven, the father of the emperor, the son of heaven is the son of the lord, then the lord's authority is supreme, and no one can violate and touch!"

"Gods...... I didn't think about it at all! Liu Xu scratched his head, Zhuge Liang's suggestion came too suddenly, and this was something that Liu Xu had never considered.

The word Fengshen does not refer to the Fengshen in the Romance of the Fengshen.

In the Romance of the Gods, it was God who gave the god list, and then Jiang Ziya canonized the heroes of the world who died in the Shang and Zhou Wars and all kinds of qi refiners into the gods of the heavenly court, which is the gods.

But this is the god in the middle, not the god in the world.

The gods in the world are actually the rights of the emperor and various religions.

One of the simplest is that the emperor is a god, because of the Confucian doctrine of heaven and man induction, so the emperor is actually the son of God, and he is born with the right to God, not only to decide the affairs of the world, but also to canonize all kinds of ghosts and gods and gods, etc., to make great contributions to the world, canonized as heavenly immortals.

One of the simplest examples is Zhang Tianshi, Zhang Tianshi's lineage, at first it was just some wild Taoists, but later the Wudou Rice Sect prevailed, in order to envelop these disciples, later emperors have been given seals, and so on to the Yuan Dynasty, the successive heavenly masters of the Heavenly Master Dao have been canonized as real people by the imperial court, and they are recognized by the imperial court as living immortals.

In addition to canonizing religious figures, other civil and military generals have been canonized, such as Zhuge Liang, who has been canonized by later emperors.

In addition, there are many mortals who have also been named immortals by the emperor, and the most significant example is Mazu.

Mazu was originally a folk woman Lin Mo Niang, because she was able to talk about the blessings and disasters of the world during her lifetime, helping the poor and helping the needy, treating diseases and eliminating disasters, and was worshiped by the folk temple after her death, which was only a sacrifice in the Ming Dynasty.

However, in the seven or eight hundred years from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, various emperors have given more than 40 canonizations, first Song Huizong canonized her as the "Goddess of the South China Sea", and directly carried Mazu into the heavenly court.

Song Gaozong named her "Mrs. Linghui" and "Mrs. Linghui Zhaoying", Song Xiaozong named her "Mrs. Linghui Zhaoying Chongfu", "Linghui Zhaoying Chongfu Shanli Lady", Song Guangzong named her "Linghui Concubine" and so on, there are more than 20 kinds of various canonization titles in the Song Dynasty, and almost all the emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty have canonized Mazu.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Mazu was promoted to "Heavenly Concubine" by the emperor, and Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, named Mazu as "Protecting the Country, Ming, Linghui, Xiezheng Shanqing, Xianji Heavenly Concubine".

The Ming Dynasty continued to be sealed, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, named Mazu as "filial piety and pure heaven Fuji induction concubine".

Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty was not far behind, and crowned Mazu as "Protecting the country and protecting the people, Miao Ling, Zhaoying Hongren Puji Heavenly Concubine"

In this way, Lin Mo Niang, an ordinary folk woman, has directly become the premier goddess in the heavenly court after being crowned by the emperors of the dynasties, and her status is extremely high, and her status among the fairies in the heavenly court is probably second only to the queen mother.

Mazu from a folk girl to a concubine Niangniang, although it is just an example, if it cannot be generalized, the various dynasties and emperors have firmly canonized tens of thousands of city gods, mountain gods, and land.

In ancient times, passing through every city and every mountain and river, you could see the corresponding city god temple, land temple, mountain temple and river temple, etc., and these temples could get a lot of incense worship.

And if you are willing to take a closer look at the inscriptions in these temples, you will find that most of these city gods, land, mountain gods and river gods, except for a few gods and goddesses in myths and legends, are people.

These people made a lot of contributions when they were alive, or did a lot of good deeds for the people nearby, or maintained the rule of the dynasty, etc., so they were canonized by the imperial court after their deaths, and became local indigenous gods, and they could enjoy all kinds of incense worship by the people of later generations.

A very important job in the imperial court every year is to receive a request from various local officials to request the canonization of a certain as a local indigenous deity, and these excerpts will also record the detailed exploits of these people, and finally the emperor waved his pen, and then read out the names of these people when worshipping heaven and earth, and these people were successfully sealed by the emperor of the world and became indigenous gods.

This behavior seemed very foolish and ridiculous to later generations, but it was necessary at the time.

Whether the emperor believed that he could really canonize the gods, they knew at least one other thing, and that was after these people who had done all kinds of good deeds, made all kinds of merits, and at the same time had been praised for a certain aspect of their deeds through the ages, were canonized as gods.

Others will surely yearn for it, and at the same time long for their own deaths to be made gods.

After all, even modern people don't know what will happen after death, in case there is really a soul after death, and then there will really be heaven and earth, and there are 18 layers of hell waiting for you, what a terrible thing.

And the gods of the imperial court can change themselves from lonely ghosts to gods in the world, enjoy the incense worship of the people in later generations, and do not have to worry about falling into the 18th layer of hell after death, and can also become immortals, what a wowish thing!

Therefore, everyone else will follow the example of these sages who were canonized as gods, and work hard to serve the emperor, so as to be rewarded with gods thereafter.

This is also the reason why the emperors of later generations have tried their best to seal Guan Yu and forcibly lift Guan Yu to the throne of Guan Shengdi, that is, because Guan Yu has all the elements that the emperor loves and the courtiers need, the emperors can't wait for their generals to become Guan Yu, and the common people are all as loyal to themselves as Guan Yu.

Ahem, it's a bit far, Liu Xu doesn't understand the truth of these gods, but this is not the earth, and he is not an emperor, how can he make these generals of the Three Kingdoms gods!

"Why don't you write a book again?" Zhuge Liang saw Liu Xu's doubts, and smiled directly, "The lord just mentioned the Romance of the Gods, I think this is an excellent book title"

"The lord can make up a story, and in the story, all the generals such as us will be gods, then we will naturally be successfully crowned gods!"

Well, Zhuge Liang means that in "The Romance of the Gods", Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei and Cao Cao are gods...... This is indeed a suggestion that Liu Xu doesn't even know how to complain.

(End of chapter)