Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 184 Two Important Witnesses
"Scholar, do you have any extreme prejudice against Manichaeism?"

Seeing that Zhao Cheng was thinking strangely and did not answer, Cai Wenji asked again.

Zhao Cheng stared at Cai Wenji for a while, and his heart moved. In fact, troubles will soon come about these matters, and Cai Wenji's identity happens to be used, and it will be difficult to tear it apart without her help.

Thinking of Zhao Cheng, he smiled slightly, cupped his fists and said, "Miss Cai, you haven't read enough about these things, Zhao Cheng has some different understandings, and I will talk to you in detail when I have time."

Cai Wenji was really flattered, now that he was much more pleasing to the eye, she was excited, "Why don't you talk about it now."

Zhao Cheng looked at He Zhi's hesitation for a while and ignored it, saying, "It's mostly a question of doctrine."

Cai Wenji shook her head and said, "I don't really understand. Is there any difference between them and Buddhists? They are all abstinent monastics."

Zhao Cheng talked eloquently: "The overall difference is still very big. These Hu people's culture can't be put on the table, especially the most extreme Central Asian thought among Hu people. Buddhist abstinence, it can be regarded as violating ethics, but fortunately they are gentle. , in the category of strict self-discipline and lenient treatment of others. Manichaeism is the opposite, they basically treat themselves leniently and strictly discipline others.”

"Well, you seem to have question marks all over your head. It doesn't matter."

Zhao Cheng continued, "I know this because I know Mani, no, strictly speaking, my immortal-level master is very familiar with him. Speaking of which, Mani himself has a negative attitude towards the whole world. He believes in light, and believes that the human body imprisoned light elements, so his final theory is: the world dominated by humans must perish, and after releasing all the light, everyone can go to the great light world of bliss together. Get detached."

Cai Wenji was very curious, and was taken aback for a while.

He Zhi scoffed at this, but it was inconvenient to confront him now.

Zhao Cheng continued, "So about 800 years ago, before Mani was executed, a judge asked him: Do you want the world to be destroyed by advocating the prohibition of marriage and abstinence. Mani replied: Yes, the human world should have no children and grandchildren. Only then can all evil be eradicated and the world regain its light."

Khan, the 24-year-old Mani, who was inspired by God in his birth year and claimed to be the comprehensive successor of Buddha and Jesus, thought so and answered truthfully.In the end, the surprised judge sentenced him to hang a street lamp.

Because this is obviously a very aggressive cult theory, and it belongs to the category of stubbornness and unrepentance.Not to mention that in the third century AD, even in the courts of the civilized era, he would definitely be severely sentenced for "holding anti-humanity teachings".

In fact, in the barbaric era when the people's wisdom is not open, the elders of the family will sacrifice the children of the family in the ancestral hall. Therefore, in this era, the leader of a religion and the leader of a gang who hold anti-human and human doctrines, what is he? Who knows how many bloody things have been done.So in theory, there is nothing wrong with the judge in the third century AD who sentenced him to hang on the city wall.

Given that its teachings are quite extreme, after being introduced to the Central Plains, it is particularly aggressive when facing the thinking of the Han family.Just as deer and horses are somewhat similar at times, so Manichaeism and Buddhism are also somewhat similar.This is difficult for those in charge of religious policy to grasp the measurement.

In particular, through the development of the prosperous Buddhist culture in the early Tang Dynasty, Buddhism had a very important discourse power at that time, and Manichaeism, a heterogeneous species like horse and deer, merged and influenced it, which gradually led to the overall religion becoming aggressive at that time. Sexuality and extremes are very strong, gradually uncontrollable.

In this way, there was nothing new under the sun, and when Emperor Wuzong Huichang was in prosperity, he began to formally list this group.The history of that incident is called: Huichang Fa Difficult.

In the Huichang incident, in addition to native Buddhism, Manichaeism was naturally also included in the scope of the clean-up, but all Hu monks were "expelled", including Japanese monks who were the most harmonious in ancient times.Since then, Buddhism in the Central Plains, including Manichaeism, has officially entered into localized development.

The so-called localization development is actually to formally break away from the influence of "Central Asian religious culture", to be regarded as an independent variant, and to begin to explore its own program.Then, including Manichaeism, after the Huichang incident, there was a process of gradual change in dogmatic theory towards the habits of the Han family.

Mou Yong mentioned in "Guo Daxia's Knife and Sword" that "the local Ming religion developed independently of the Persian general religion", referring to this incident.That is to say, since Tang Wuzong's Huichang Movement, due to political changes, he officially cut off contact with the head teacher of Central Asia.It’s just that the historical level of this over-admired writer is a bit unflattering. He didn’t quite understand the difference between Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism.

No, this is like the Zhao Gao incident that Cai Jing mentioned, isn't it?It's really not just Zhao Gao who likes to do this.

He Zhi didn't take much notice of these things, but his political sensitivity was still very strong.

After hearing what Zhao Cheng said, and convinced everyone, including Cai Wenji, He Zhi deliberately approached and whispered, "Xiao Zhao, I don't know if you're catching wind and talking nonsense, but it depends on your rescue." For my sake, don't blame me for not reminding you: If you don't revise your rhetoric and insist that the bandit leader in the Battle of Lingyang Mountain is the word 'Mani Cult', you will get in trouble. Coming soon."

Zhao Cheng nodded, but did not speak.

This was for sure, and it was within Zhao Cheng's expectation.That's why I deliberately said something nice to Cai Wenji just now.She was at the scene of this matter, and she needed her help to correct her so that her father, Cai You, could be involved.

Because Muzhou does not belong to Jiangnan East Road, but belongs to Liangzhe Road.For bureaucrats like Cai You who don't want to cause trouble, the battle of Lingyang Mountain happened as soon as it happened. Fortunately, only two hundred troops were killed, and Zhao Cheng really led the team to come back. It was close to annihilating the opponent and taking prisoners an important backbone.

If we don't talk too much about it, and simply conclude that it is "the counterattack of the Chizhou bandits", then it will be much simpler for Chizhou, Muzhou, and the Wuwei Army.It can be advertised as a strong counterattack by the government and the army against the bandits after the Battle of Xishan.

However, in the first military meeting, Zhao Cheng intentionally or unintentionally identified those that Wen Yanbo killed in Beizhou as Manichaeans, and said that they have been lurking in the southeast since then. After Shan came back, he insisted again that it was the Mani cult that caused the trouble.

Then the Manichaeism, whose main altar is located in Bangyuandong, Muzhou, is bound to be pushed to the forefront.This has nothing to do with Chizhou and the Wuwei Army. Muzhou Zhizhou, Liangzhe Road Criminal Division, Shuaisi and other institutions are passively involved.

Because there is a problem: since Wen Yanbo's master in Beizhouping was considered Manicheism, the Manicheism in Muzhou Bangyuandong territory has grown so courageous to such a frenzied point.From He Zhi's point of view, this incident was either that Zhao Cheng was biting people with nonsense, or that the officials of Muzhou Zhizhou and Shuaisi were all blind.

So there is no doubt that this lawsuit will definitely make waves in the middle hall.

The problem that drives He Zhi crazy is that Zhao Cheng seems to have really stunned and brainwashed the beauty of Miss Cai now.She has a very ambiguous identity, and she is at the scene by accident. If she believes Zhao Cheng's words and insists that she is Manichaeism, it will obviously make the bureaucrats of Liangzhe Road who are hanging high and watching the chaos in Chizhou , and dragged into the quagmire of this bandit suppression war together.

He Zhi didn't know anything else, but he knew that once Zhao Cheng and Cai Wenji's remarks were truly confirmed, Muzhou would also be faced with war.

If the people from the two Zhejiang departments don't want to end shirtless, their counterattack will come soon, which is inevitable.And the only ones who can help Zhao Cheng in this incident are Cai Wenji and the He family!

Thinking of this, He Zhi's eyes turned black, and he felt that Zhao Cheng was too treacherous. The boy of affection said earlier that "the He family will not be held accountable for the blind command" in order to gain another heavyweight in the political battlefield. "witness".

"The surname is Zhao... Xiao Zhao, you are really insidious. You seem to know some big tricks, and you are deliberately trying to get me and Ms. Cai involved in it, and fight you together? That kind of person can be stabbed !"

After finally figuring it out, He Zhi muttered to Zhao Cheng's dissatisfaction.

Cai Wenji didn't know it was serious, anyway, she felt that He Zhi was a big embroidered pillow, and Zhao Cheng was a beautiful scholar with a wicked personality and a hero.

"Do you know what you're doing?"

Seeing that Zhao Cheng didn't answer with a strange expression, He Zhi asked again.

Zhao Cheng thought for a while and said, "If you want to ask, then I don't have any bold words. I can only tell you that if you don't stab now, there will be chaos in the southeast in a few years. At that time, you will really be powerless to recover from internal and external troubles."

He Zhixun thought: This shit is none of my business, just don't let my He family be flooded in this pit.

Thinking about it this way, He Zhi could only show relative concern for state affairs, "Well, it is recognized that Mr. Zhao is concerned about the country and the people and loves to do things. The problem is that this is just what you think, what you think, and what you advocate. How far is your persuasive power? How big is it?"

Zhao Cheng said: "To be objective, I was not very persuasive in the past as a scholar, but recently I have advocated and believed to be right on several important issues. Besides, Mrs. He and Mrs. Cai are now supporting me. Get on my thief ship... Actually, I mean the official ship, then the possibility of my success will be much higher. I thought you knew these things."

He Zhi felt that he was simply Wang Xiu, or that this kid was not much better than Wang Xiu.Wu Zhixiang said he was a hooligan, Huang Wenbing said he was good at extortion, Wang Fu said he was good at deceiving women, Cai You said he was extremely talented, Zhang Ji said he was amazing, Cai Wenji said he was hateful, all these are true.

No matter who he listens to, he will cry blind. Only when everyone's evaluation of him is combined, he will be a three-dimensional him...

(End of this chapter)