Kawakami Harano sent Li Haocheng out of his courtyard, and when he returned to the house, he heard the samurai behind him say curiously: "Dare to ask why did your lord keep his mouth shut just now and ask for advice?"

"Do you think Lord Li Haocheng didn't see what I meant?" Kawakami Harano sighed, and said a little helplessly: "That bowl of tea just now is the answer that Lord Li Haocheng gave me, a character like him is not a person of my calibre, who can be retained, even if he is in charge of our Daimyo Kujo family here, he may not be able to keep it." ”

"This..."The samurai was a little dumbfounded, in his opinion, the Hojo family, who ruled more than ten cities including Odawara Castle, was already an unattainable existence, but listening to his own lordship, he couldn't keep this Lord Li Haocheng, so he couldn't help but be surprised.

On the other hand, Li Haocheng, who had left the Kawakami Plain, was not in a hurry to go to Ono Mountain, after all, he had told the Fuso merchants on the official ship that he had come to Fuso in the hope of preaching, and now that he had arrived in a city, he had to show an attitude even if he was pretending.

The preaching process was expected to be difficult.

After all, there is only so much land in Fusang, and the worship of eight million gods is close to the limit, and later Buddhism was introduced, and it was also the blurring of the boundaries between gods and Buddhas that it flourished.

For example, the Bull-headed Heavenly King and the Hachiman Great Bodhisattva, the former is the product of the fusion of the local gods of Fuso and the Buddhist protectors, and the latter directly blurs the boundary between the Bodhisattva and the gods.

However, although the preaching process was difficult, during the days when he stayed in Odawara Castle, every day the nobles in the city would come to the banquet for Li Haocheng, either for themselves or for the sake of the big people behind him, to test Li Haocheng and ask him if he intended to stay and become a leader. This exchange not only made Li Haocheng gradually become a recognized person of great wisdom in Odawara Castle, but also gradually gained the goodwill of many nobles, which made it much more convenient for him to act in the city.

In addition to this love, there are also villagers living in the surrounding area, who came to Li Haocheng after hearing the news, hoping that he can help him get rid of some monsters and funeral gods who are entangled in the vicinity of the village.

Although these monsters and Fu Fushen are some inappropriate characters, they are still invincible to ordinary Fuso people.

Li Haocheng, who had the intention to appear as a saint, naturally agreed, and as he retreated more and more monsters, Li Haocheng's fame became more and more serious, and one day, he suddenly discovered that the belief in the god of the dark moon had left traces in these villages.

Some villagers will also open and close their mouths to say the words blessed by the god of the dark moon, although this kind of words are only verbal and cannot provide any incense wishing power, but it provides Li Haocheng with a way of thinking, and he suddenly remembered a kind of god statue unique to the Earth Star Island Country - the small statue of Jizo.

Although I don't know how many incense sticks and believers are collected every day, the number of idols scattered throughout the island and abroad alone is enough to crush all the gods in the island country.

The heart-warming Li Haocheng began to declare that the god of the moon can bless the child who died young, and declared that the god of the moon is merciful and compassionate, and there is no need for shrine worship, as long as a small statue of half a foot high to two feet high is placed on the side of the road, or outside the house, and then a piece of clothing worn by the deceased child is made into a shawl, scarf or bib, preferably with the child's surname, first name, milk name or birth date.

In the local mythology of Fuso, there is a view that after the child dies at an early age, because of the sadness of the parents, if the priest is not baptized and purified, he will not be able to cross the river of the three ways to the underworld, forever wandering in the river of Sai, under the compulsion of the ghost to stack the stone tower, when the ghost is about to fold a stick to knock down, and then continue to re-fold, so repeated, endless.

At this moment, hearing that there was a god from Middle-earth who could save their children, and that the price required was only a small idol and a rag, and did not even require the material of the idol, which made the common people of Fuso very excited.

At this time, there happened to be a parent with an average family background and a child who had just died, and couldn't help but come to ask Li Haocheng about his specific requirements for worshipping the statue.

Li Haocheng did not hesitate to personally carve a statue of a god for him, because of the low-end public route, Li Haocheng did not carve how exquisite, but used the simplest method to carve the most basic appearance.

Then he cut out a piece of the cloth that the couple had brought, made it into a shawl, wrote the name, the name of the breast, and the date of birth, and then draped it over the idol of the god and stood it in front of their door, and instructed them how to worship.

Miraculously, shortly after the statue was erected, the couple dreamed that their children were thankful to them, and they were happy to tell their friends and relatives the news and go to help them carve the statue and show them how to worship.

In this way, the belief in the god of the moon began to spread around the countryside outside Odawara Castle.

Some of the nobles in Odawara Castle who were inclined to the shrine expressed their embarrassment at Li Haocheng's move, admiring Li Haocheng's knowledge on the one hand, and on the other hand, being ordered by the shrine not to allow them to help the wise man from Middle-earth preach and build the shrine.

Now that the belief in the god of Middle-earth has suddenly spread outside the city, these nobles who themselves rely on the shrine naturally cannot be regarded as unsightly like those nobles who have a high status and have no good feelings about the shrine.

According to the system of Fuso Shintoism, there are no gods and temples, and they cannot be regarded as righteous gods at all, from this point of view, Li Haocheng's preaching seems to be a failure.

On top of that, the nobles generally cared little about the lives of the residents outside the city, and if it weren't for the fact that they paid special attention to Li Haocheng, they would have ordered people to check the places he had visited regularly.

Perhaps after the entire area around Odawara Castle was shrouded in the belief of the Stygian Moon God, none of them noticed anything wrong.

But now it is not easy to expel the faith of the Stygian Moon God.

First, Li Haocheng is still in Odawara City, forcibly expelled, that is, he tore his face with Li Haocheng, and the more than a dozen monsters and Fu Fushen who were retreated during this time have proved that this wise man from is not only extremely wise, but also very powerful, and his swordsmanship is sought after by the samurai in the city.

Second, the belief in the god of the Stygian Moon is only rooted outside the city, and there is no sign of spreading to the city, and the people outside the city have a relatively low status in Fusang, just higher than the unrecognized wild people and untouchables, which really makes the nobles in the city spend their hearts and minds to constantly destroy those gods and expel the faith, they can't do it, and they don't want to do it.

This group of nobles pondered and thought for a long time, until Li Haocheng stayed in Odawara Castle for two months and left, and did not make up his mind to expel the belief in the god of the moon, but let the belief in the god of the moon gradually spread in all directions with the exchange of merchants.