Chapter 179: Theocracy, Imperial Power

Qiantai grew and developed in the north, including military and government affairs, as well as the arrangement of civil monks and the affairs of the 'Difu Temple'.

With the occupation of Youzhou by Qiantai, more and more believers are produced, and the temple of 'Difu Temple' is no longer limited to Zhuo County, and the entire Youzhou is built everywhere. In the whole people, Qiantai has gained countless believers, and the belief system in the Difu Temple is also very bloated and uncoordinated. The identity of the believers is chaotic, and there is no distinction between high and low temples, except for the upper shrine, the whole below is chaotic and disorganized. All kinds of problems are slowly revealed, restricting the upward and downward effects of the Difu Temple.

Fortunately, with the implementation of the detailed government system in Youzhou, the entire people's belief in the city god has also come to the right time to change.

On this day, among the demon generals, who served the Emperor of Yandu, the person closest to the gods, the head of the General's Mansion, Bixia Temple, entered the Taishou Mansion in a repaired garment, and handed over to the Taishou Lord a copy of some regulations on the determination of the identity of believers discussed and implemented by the temples in the General's Mansion.

In the study, Qiantai left the fold, saying that he wanted to stay and think about it all night.

The excerpt was handed over to the Qiantai study, and Bixia Temple Zhu left the official mansion alone.

Bixia is a real nun, and the person she asked her to find back then to take care of the Demon General's Mansion is very competent, and Bixia is one of the most pious among the many believers in Yandu.

In the matter of the belief in the prefecture, Qiantai has always been a special person who has done it alone, and these belong to his own beliefs. Qiantai will never allow others to interfere. Therefore, Qiantai will leave the fold to think carefully.

There are problems in the development of 'Difu Temple', and Qiantai naturally sees it in his eyes early. But this matter requires the believers to come up with their own innovations. It's also an exercise for a mechanism. Qiantai wanted a force of believers that could develop to all parts of the world, and the specific problems of the believers were best raised by this group of temple ministers. And it just so happens that now the doppelganger is cultivating in Qiantai's own body to absorb the power of faith and comprehend the law, these temple blessings are only under the command of the oracle, and they can only explore a little bit by themselves.

Qiantai carefully read the excerpts left by Miaozhu Bixia and thought about it slowly.

The fold mainly says that Bixia and this woman came in and out of the people to observe Qiantai's distribution of books. There are also many questions raised by the believers of the temple. After some temple discussions in the Demon General's Mansion that are still there, the issue of the current confusion of the forces of faith has been raised.

Speaking of the problems in the Difu Temple, such as the origin of the excerpt this time, you can see some. The excerpt is that most of the temples in the general's mansion participated in the discussion, and many of them did not have the opportunity to exercise power just because there was no general's mansion. In the General's Mansion, except that Bixia was the temple blessed by the emperor back then, the identity meaning is different. The rest of the temple blessings that come and go do not have a difference in identity at all. In the past, the development of believers was mainly concentrated in some areas of Younan. When encountering many things, the temple can be discussed. But now, with the expansion of the scope to the entire Youzhou, there is a lack of decision-making level figures on many issues.

The excerpt proposes that in order to respond to the clear distinction between the upper and lower levels of the government and the peace and order, the 'Difu Temple' deliberately proposed to grade the majority of believers in the world.

Just like in many sects outside the world, the people in the sect are divided into the real masters, elders, descendants, disciples, outer disciples, and so on. Believers who belong to the two Nether Emperors should also be divided into a hierarchy for the believers of the world according to the piety of their faith. (Among them.) Temple blessings and faith warriors are all one of the believers. )

Many temple blessings have proposed that believers in the world should be divided into ordinary people, shallow believers, believers, temple blessings, and big temple blessings. As well as some temple toasts that are nominally more special and similar to Confucian toasts, they can still be named Datoasts separately.

Ordinary people: Needless to say, ordinary people.

Shallow believers: Belong to the common people who worship the two gods during the New Year and festivals, and believe in the existence of the gods.

Believers: Devout believers who often go in and out of temples and are willing to believe in God and Monarch in body and mind.

Temple Blessing: Believers who have received divine grace from believers and received the grace of the gods can use divine magic.

Great temple blessing: The god is gracious, and the prestige among the temple blessings and believers can make decisions to deal with many matters.

Toast: "Toast" is modeled after the elders of the imperial dynasty who presided over sacrifices, major events, and friendship with the government, mainly to coordinate the relationship between the government and the temple. The identity is equivalent to the elder in the Difu Temple, and it belongs to the most noble level of identity among the majority of believers. Like the existence of a real person and an elder in charge of a sect outside the world.

The excerpt lists in detail the labels, responsibilities and obligations of the believers at each level, and finally writes that such a change will also be beneficial to the government, the great cause of the Hou Ye, and so on.

After reading carefully, Qiantai carefully considered that the hierarchical division of these believers was still very strict and reasonable, and it was undeniable that once it was implemented in this way, it would definitely be able to greatly encourage the spread of faith in Youzhou, and his own doppelganger would also have to obtain enough power of faith to cultivate.

Qiantai looked at the excerpt and thought again: "However, this excerpt only writes about the believers, and there is still a shortage of consideration for the problem. ”

On the excerpt, these temple blessings only wrote about the believers of the 'Difu Temple' and the 'Demon General's Mansion', but they subconsciously excluded the government, and Qiantai understood in his heart that this was also a problem of mutual exclusion of imperial power and divine power since ancient times. However, with Qiantai, these two aspects must also be integrated and operated under their own hands.

Qiantai sighed, picked up the pen and paper from the beginning, and pondered on the table, while sometimes adding to the writing.

In the room, Qiantai was sitting precariously, nodding and reading with his head down while holding the fold of Bixia Temple Zhu in one hand, while slowly writing on another sheet on the table, and handsome and powerful small characters appeared on the white paper. Here, every word is worth a thousand gold, and every paragraph is related to the major politics of Youzhou and the interests of these millions of people. sentence by sentence, he wrote his own suggestions and regulations.

The expression of Qiantai's writing is very serious and serious, with the demeanor of a superior person, and the heart is strategizing and eloquent.

Qiantai wrote on another piece of paper as a supplement to himself. Qiantai ordered the first approval of the innovation on the excerpt, but also made a supplement, when the "Difu Temple" and the "Demon General's Mansion" were changed, first, all the temples in the world need to put down their rights, only the right to spread the faith and do good deeds, not to interfere with the rights in the world, covet the red dust.

After the reform of the believers, these temples will inevitably gather greater power in their hands, and Qiantai has to order a ban on these temples from contacting the secular rights. In this world, the imperial court is the mainstream, and Qiantai himself is in the midst of the government's conquest, so it is impossible for Qiantai to let these temples threaten his own system.

Second, Qiantai pointed out that in the future, the folk temple fairs and sacrifices will be mainly presided over by the squires and the elders in the village, supplemented by temple blessings.

This is also the experience of the endless time in the previous life, in the desolate world of the previous life, the change of dynasties, and there are also cases where gods spread their beliefs. In previous lives, in order to limit the rights of folk temples, the imperial dynasty made such orders. This is the harmonious existence of the intersection of imperial power and divine power in the people after countless times of time washing in the previous life.

Third, in the future, the believers in the world will not have to worship the two Netherworld Sovereigns in everything, and the government does not encourage the construction of luxurious imperial temples in poor and remote areas, on the contrary, the simple 'land temples' in various villages are the places where many believers should worship.

Fourth, the hand-picked temple wishes Bixia as the first Youzhou toast.

Qiantai slowly wrote it out one by one, put the two pieces of paper together, and ordered people to copy it again, and sent them to Liu Boxi and the 'Demon General's Mansion' next to them.

In the Taishou Mansion, things are done quickly, and there is a full-time secretary to copy documents.

Soon, the documents were sent to the front yard of the government office, and Liu Boxi and they were working everywhere.

It is undeniable that this incident has made the Demon General's Mansion and the Quanzhou Chengxin Land. When this matter is implemented, it will completely turn Youzhou into a regime where divine power and imperial power coexist. Here, unlike the whole world, it is different.

Youzhou is indeed a very suitable chassis for Qiantai. Youzhou has always been barren, culture and power are also very weak, and the people lack knowledge, so the resistance to the development of Qiantai faith is not too great.

If further south, such as Yuzhou, Sili and other places where Confucianism is prevalent, if Qiantai had such a thorough innovation and change, it would have been refuted and slandered by the upper and lower Confucian scholars.

Even at present, some gate valves and families in the south are also looking at the changes in Youzhou, on the one hand, they are not optimistic about the emergence of many civil forces that have cut off the power of faith, and on the other hand, they are jealous of the changes in Youzhou over the years. For example, a few days ago, the brand-new books that appeared in Youzhou caused a stir.

Getting back to the point, it is said that the excerpt from Qiantai was soon sent to the nearby 'Demon General's Mansion', and the excerpt also wrote this hand-picked Bixia as the first toast.

When I saw the content of the excerpt, all the temples in the general's mansion were shocked for a while, and they had all kinds of thoughts.

At this moment, dozens of reds suddenly fell from the sky. Some of them fell to the temple in the general's mansion, and some flew to various parts of Youzhou.

In the darkness, there was a divine voice descending, it was the doppelganger Yan Du oracle, and said, "Quasi!"

All the temple blessings bowed down, and said piously: "Obey the oracle." ”

Youzhou is changing every day, and after the change, the incense of the land temple in the folk townships is also vigorous. And the biggest difference between the whole Youzhou and the south is the funeral of the people of Youzhou. Whenever an old man dies in each family, he will chant the 'Return to the Ruins' at the funeral, and the whole family will ask for the blessing of the gods after death for the deceased. The customs of Youzhou amazed the people of the southern world for a while.

And now, as Yan Du is approaching to break through to the Immortal Dao Fruit, the Yin Si world behind it has already almost taken shape, although the Yin Si Middle Area is not large, it has begun to accept the souls of Youzhou and form another Netherworld world. (To be continued.) )