Chapter 55 Ranking of Credibility
Since he learned the results of the Battle of White Horse Mountain, Zhao Ran was very concerned about the losses of the Xia Kingdom, especially about the life and death of the little Marquis of Yeli. Beheaded 4,700 and captured more than 10,000, are there any wild Huaide among these people?
Zhao Ran wanted to send a flying charm to ask Xin Cheng'an last night, but Xin Cheng'an had already accepted Zhao Ran's suggestion and left Xingqing Mansion to avoid the limelight, and he didn't know whether it was in Tianmatai Temple or Jialan Temple at this moment.
According to the agreement between the two, Zhao Ran can't take the initiative to send flying charms to Xin Cheng'an, God knows what people are doing. It is very likely that Xin Cheng'an was sitting and drinking tea with a Buddhist monk, but Zhao Ran passed by with a flying talisman, "a white light suddenly sank into the forehead", and then Xin Cheng'an may be tragic......
Let's talk about the question of credibility again.
It's useless to complain about Dong Zhikun now, it's better to inquire clearly from the old capital. What is the ranking of the trustworthiness of the believers? In fact, it is also very simple, it is the measure of the credibility of the county Taoist institutes to absorb and hand over to the Lushan General Observatory.
More than 600 years ago, the expansion momentum of Buddhism intensified, in addition to occupying more and more blessed land, occupying a large number of elixir and spiritual ore and other resources, a large number of high-ranking officials, nobles, and ordinary people invested in Buddhism and became believers and disciples of Buddhism, which is the most deadly threat to Taoism.
Seeing the massive loss of believers' trust, the Daomen could no longer sit still, and finally struck a blow, triggering a decades-long war of Buddhism and Taoism, and finally won an unprecedented victory, taking the Central Plains into the palm of his hand.
After expelling Buddhism from the Central Plains, Daomen was also very dissatisfied with the Li Tang royal family. The Li Tang royal family, which originally respected Taoism as the state religion and recognized Laojun as the ancestor, played a very bad role in the growth of Buddhism, especially during the period when Empress Wu was in power, it was a strong support for Buddhism, and even encouraged the construction of Dayun Temple in various places, which was directly listed as an official temple.
After the Tang Dynasty, emperors such as Daizong, Dezong, and Xianzong all worshiped Buddha, so that Buddhism was further enlarged, and finally it could be compared with Taoism.
Therefore, after Daomen obtained the Central Plains, it directly ended the rule of the Li Tang royal family, and the Li Tang Dynasty, which had been inherited for more than 300 years, changed hands.
Back then, as one of the cores of the main battle of the Daomen, the fax great heavenly master Du Guangting once said a sentence that is still regarded as a guideline: "If you want the elixir and spiritual mine, I will present it with both hands: you build a temple and a temple in my cave and heaven, and I will be kind to my neighbors; But if you want my faith, don't blame the poor way for destroying you!"
Credibility is different from the merit absorbed by Zhao Ran, it is the willingness of believers to pray for blessings, and a pillar of incense, reciting a sermon, and making a vow will produce faith. These beliefs are absorbed by the specially refined magic weapon statues of the Daomen, and sent to the belief pool of the Lushan General View to be transformed into divine water.
When Zhao Ran established the Junshan Temple, Cai Yunshen made a special trip to investigate and refine the statue of the Jade Emperor after the test, which was for this reason.
According to Bai Du's statement, the credibility of Jiajing in Guyang County in 19 years was more than 863,000 gui, ranking tenth among the 92 counties in Sichuan Province. Gui is the unit of measurement of the reliability of this world Dao Gate, which is about the weight of ten grains of corn.
Among them, Junshan Temple contributed more than 336,000 gui, and if you dig out Junshan Temple, Guyang County's credibility storage figure is only more than 527,000 gui, as a county, ranking 57th in the province, which is seriously inconsistent with its Dingkou situation, compared with five years ago, a decrease of nearly 200,000 gui.
Zhao Ran felt very interesting after hearing this, and pestered Bai Du to talk and understand a lot. For example, every year, Jian Shanguan will issue a very high level of pamphlet, and those who are qualified to read it can make a comparison; for example, although there is no explicit rule on Jian Shanguan, the degree of credibility will often become an important indicator to measure the ability of the prison; and for example, the Daomen will use this booklet to discover and deal with problems such as the Eight Immortals Sect in various places in a timely manner......
Before returning to the Referral Bureau, Bai Du said in the end: "Since Junshan Temple is so good, there are some things that should be fought for." ”
What is "some things"? What do you want to fight for? Bai Du said this, which seemed to be meaningful, and it seemed that he had not said anything, which made Zhao Ran fall into deep thought.
After the Great Lent Jiao of the Bathu Heroes, the Sichuan Provincial Daomen Deliberation began.
On the 22nd day of the first lunar month, at three o'clock in the morning, more than 300 Taoist priests sat in three rows in the east and west compartments in the main hall of the promotion office. These Taoist priests are the helmsmen of the provincial temple, the palace, the county courtyard and even the township temple, representing more than 12,000 Taoist priests in the ten jungles of the entire Sichuan Province, and are the spiritual leaders of the eight million believers in the entire Sichuan Province.
Under the statue of Sanqing in the north are four yellow wooden chairs, the first chair from the left is the Governor of Western Sichuan Military Affairs Zhou, the second chair is Li Yunhe of the Xuanyuan Guanjian Yuan, and to the right is the Daomen Sichuan West Promotion Office with Yue Tengzhong and Xuanyuan Guandu Zhao Yunlou.
Zhao Ran is the lowest-grade temple zhu, and his position is in the third column on the west side. Because Junshan Temple has the least number of Taoist priests and fireworkers, and Zhao Ran is the youngest, he is ranked last among all the temple blessings, and he can reach the threshold of the main hall with his hand.
When arranging the seats on the first day, Zhao Zhixing originally wanted to adjust the seating order, and ranked him first among the temple celebrants on the grounds that Zhao Ran had the status of a pavilion monk, but Zhao Ran hurried to find Zhao Zhixing after learning about it and insisted on arranging the seats in the original order. Since he was fighting in the jungle of the Ten Directions, he didn't want to appear to be too maverick, and even wanted everyone to forget his identity as a monk if necessary.
The deliberations of the first day ended in the summing up of the war and the rewards and punishments. In the past eight years, in the entire Sichuan Provincial Daomen, there are more than 6,000 Taoist priests from the Ten Jungles who have entered the White Horse Mountain Theater to participate in the war, and in the list of rewards and punishments announced by Zhao Yunlou, the capital of Xuanyuan Guan, there are 318 Taoist priests who have been praised, accounting for about 5 percent.
These meritorious Taoist priests have been promoted, given pills, given land, rewarded with silver and other rewards to varying degrees, among which more than 100 people who have made special honors have also been awarded the opportunity to confer the Scattered Bone Pill and participate in the altar of ascension. Especially for the latter, the reward is quite generous, and it is also the first time in the history of the Daomen that a large-scale ascension altar has been held.
The rest of the people also have different levels of silver and two rewards, and add a resume to the pawn house file as an important reference for future promotion. Zhao Ran was also rewarded with thirty taels of silver because of the record of participating in the Battle of White Horse Mountain issued by the Commissioner, and it was recorded by Xuanyuanguan.
Of course, more than 50 Taoist priests were notified and punished, and the most serious was to recapture the Daoist and expel the Daomen. I heard that hundreds of Taoist priests were beheaded on the spot during the war, and these are not things that will be said in the big meeting.