Chapter 265: Dividing the Priesthood!
With the determination of the two six-grade gods in the north and south of Fucheng, now there are six six-grade gods, and only one of the five islands and lakes is left.
Needless to say, it has to be Anyun Mountain.
Xu Yanzhe glanced at An Yunshan, who was full of white hair, and a wry smile appeared on his face. On the contrary, An Yunshan had a smile on his face, and he also had an excited look, and he didn't care at all.
If you fail, you can still become a Shinto god. The position of the sixth rank is comparable to the Venerable of the Martial Fire Tribulation Realm. What else can't he see after he lived his life?
The battle for the gods has come to an end.
The three empty six-rank gods were all pardoned, and at this moment, the twenty-two six-rank gods of the Yanping Divine Court finally gathered for the first time. Among them, Li Hongji, the big land in the north of Yanping Mansion, Wang Xuance in the big land of the south city of Yanping Mansion, and the three gods of Anyun Mountain, the water god of Wudao Lake, were the gods at the beginning, and they were the gods of the six products, and they were a little excited between their expressions.
Follow Han Wujian, Chu Wenyao and other veteran gods to stand solemnly in the hall, not daring to make a sound.
"They—"
"Could it be that there is something other important besides pardoning us this time?"
An Yunshan, the newly promoted water god of Wudao Lake, glanced over and found a trace of abnormality, and secretly guessed in his heart.
Li Hongji and Wang Xuance are also not ordinary people, and they can also see the clues. It's just that they don't know what this is more important than pardoning the gods of the six grades, and what it is.
Lin Zhao sat high.
The pardon of the three positive and six-grade gods, he naturally has considerations.
As he said, between Li Hongji and An Yunshan, there is no doubt that Li Hongji, who was born recklessly and rose from the end of the world, is even more outstanding. He pardoned Li Hongji as the land of Beicheng in Yanping Mansion, but it was not because of Han Wujian.
For Lin Zhao, pardoning the gods is all for the development of Shinto. Li Hongji was able to grow from a reckless man to the lord of the three eastern realms, and his luck would never be less. In comparison, An Yunshan is inferior.
It's just the way of the emperor, in addition to the gold list in his hand, he also needs a little balance. Li Hongji was chosen this time, but Xu Yanzhe and An Yunshan also had to give some sweetness, so as not to make the two gods feel cold, and also make the rest of the gods feel that Lin Zhao is unfair.
As for the sweetness, Lin Zhao had already considered it.
He waved his sleeves, and a divine light suddenly unfolded and spread in the air of the temple. Naturally, this is not the Shinto Gold List, it is just the division of the Divine Court Department that Lin Zhao sorted out a few days ago.
On the top of the list, the words flashed with golden light.
The eyes of the gods converged, and their faces suddenly showed a look of thought. Some people have a glimmer of joy in their eyes, while others are expressionless and can't see their emotions.
Lin Zhao took the expressions of the gods into his eyes, and said loudly in his mouth——
"Yanping Divine Court is growing stronger and stronger. The existing Chenghuang system is no longer applicable. This monarch plans to change the priesthood and divide it into three divisions and nine departments. ”
"Priesthood!"
"Three Divisions and Nine Divisions!"
The gods were stunned, knowing that if the information on this list was activated, it would definitely affect the entire Divine Court!
Originally.
At the beginning of the rise of Shinto, because there was no heavenly court, Lin Zhao himself was sometimes promoted to the mountain god, and sometimes he was a city god, so that the gods and goddesses were chaotic. There are many clerical conflicts between them.
For example, between the city god and the mountain envoy, and the envoy of the scriptures.
The former rules the gods of a county, a state and even a prefecture, but the mountain envoys and the envoys of the economy control the mountain gods and water gods in the counties, prefectures, and prefectures, and are the supreme governors of the gods of mountains and waters.
In this way, there is overlap in terms of authority.
Another example is the god of three mountains, two rivers and four lakes, although it is a god of the six grades, but the god's domain is in the state and county, and it has become an independent territory.
In this way, various negative problems such as the intricate intersection of theocracy, the confusion of functions and powers, and the lack of subordination of the gods have also been formed.
In the early stage of the rise of Shinto and the creation of the Divine Court, this had no effect. However, with the expansion of the Divine Court, if the hidden dangers are not solved, these chaos will sooner or later drag down the Great Divine Court, and even produce internal friction.
Lin Zhao was unwilling.
As a result, he made a more detailed division of the priesthood.
From then on, whether it was the county city god, the state city god or the government city god, they were only in charge of the living and the dead, rewarding the good and punishing the evil, life and death, and promoting happiness and interests.
The county, the state, the prefecture, the god of mountains and rivers, and the god of the land, but all the duties related to these aspects are under the jurisdiction of the city god. As for the other aspects, it has nothing to do with the Chenghuang, and the Chenghuang has no right to intervene.
This is undoubtedly a great weakening of divine power for Han Wujian, Chu Wenyao and other city gods, and from now on, they will no longer have the huge power to control the Shinto of Yizhou. In the Yanping Divine Court, or in the Shinto, the situation where the city god is honored is gone forever!
On the temple, the faces of the seven state city gods were bright or dark. Such a policy of reducing theocracy naturally has ideas in their hearts. But in Shinto, Lin Zhao is the absolute supreme. Even if they are dissatisfied, they can only accept it.
But fortunately, even if the divine power of the city god is reduced, it still dominates the huge city god mansion, directly governs many lower-level city gods, and has not completely broken the influence of the mountain god, the water god, and the land.
Among the many gods, it is just that there is no absolute power overriding the previous one, but it is still the number one god among the gods of the same level!
As for the god of mountains and rivers, it is the god of mountains and waters, managing the yin and yang of a mountain and a water.
High-grade mountain gods and water gods do not have the right to rule over low-level mountain gods and water gods, unless it is the relationship between large mountain ranges and branches, large water systems and tributaries, they have the right to govern.
For example, the gods of three mountains, two rivers and four lakes are all gods of large mountains and large water systems, and the small gods of mountains and rivers belong to their control.
The same goes for land.
As for the county, the state city, and the prefecture city, it is to divide the higher-level city god to dominate and control the land in the four directions, which is somewhat similar to the responsibilities of the mountain envoy and the economic envoy.
Mountain envoys, economic envoys, control a state, a prefecture mountain gods, water gods, inspectors, obsolete, have the right to depose, appoint and dismiss low-level mountain gods, water gods.
In this way, the authority of the gods is clear. From the situation of the monopoly of the city god, it has also evolved into a situation in which the city god, the big land, the mountain envoy, the economic strategy envoy and the great god of the landscape stand together.
As for the internal disputes among the gods, there is a joint resolution of the divine court under the leadership of Lin Zhao.
To this end, Lin Zhao took the original 'three divisions and six halls' as the skeleton and reopened the 'three divisions and nine departments'.
Among them, the three divisions are the merit division, the fighting division, and the heavenly dao division.
Among them, the meritorious division records and disposes of the merits and mistakes of the gods, and holds the general register of the gods, and has greater authority. Even the rise and fall of the gods and goddesses is due to the management of the division.
The Fighting Division, as the name suggests, is in charge of Shinto soldiers and horses. The eight Yin Soldiers, the Divine Court Martial Arts, and the Immortal Division, as well as the Demon Expedition Army (Conquering the Demon Realm) and the Tianshu Army (Exploring the Underworld) that were independent after the division of divine power, are all under the control of the Fighting Division, which can be described as the General Administration of the Three Armies.
It's no worse than the merit.
Among the three divisions, the merit division and the fighting division are all responsible for the power within the divine court. or gods, or yin soldiers, warriors, and war immortals (Buxu Dao).
But the Heavenly Dao Division is different.
The Divine Court rules the Yin and Yang, and everything in the Yang World is also managed by the Divine Court.
And the Heavenly Dao Division manages the world's martial artists and monks, and is in charge of the world's cultivators. Whether it is a Buxu Dao monk or a martial arts martial artist, they are all under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Dao Division.
This range is extremely wide, and it is enough to see Lin Zhao's ambition.
The Heavenly Dao Division is to use the Divine Dao to dominate the martial arts and step the Void Immortal Dao!