Han Shizu

After so many years of contact and understanding, at least most people at the top level in Anxi know that the biggest difficulty and obstacle to governing Anxi is the YSL religion.

In order to suppress the religious bandits, this is only a temporary solution, not the root cause. No matter how many troops are sent, it will not be able to maintain high-pressure security operations for a long time.Those "religious bandits" who gather in the mountains and forests are actually not scary. What is really troublesome is the "popular base" these bandits have.

Many YSL remnants transitioned between civilians and bandits without hesitation, and it was common for even those servants and lackeys who surrendered on the surface to work secretly and collude with bandits to cause chaos.

There are two main reasons for this situation. First, the governor's office did not make concessions to the old rentier class. With so many surrenders, only the Tuqi Shiren in the north were really given certain preferential treatment. Even with this preferential treatment, all Meager.

The second is the YSL religion. Although belief in this kind of thing is relatively mysterious and worthless if you don't believe it, once you arm it, its power is also huge.

In Liu Min's view, the latter factors account for the vast majority, and it is based on the same belief that the "religious bandits" who are active in the weak areas of Anxi's rule have sufficient public support. The more stubborn.

Of the two causes, the former is easy to solve. It only needs to offer certain benefits to the surrenderers and unite around them through interests, mainly targeting the nomadic tribes in the north.The difficulty lies precisely in the second point, which is how to break the foundation of public opinion bound by faith.

To say it is difficult, it is not that difficult. There is the easiest and most trouble-free way. All you need to do is put aside your prejudices and embrace YSL. All you need is a government order to repair the damaged temple, ask the imams to return, and allow them to preach normally.

In this way, those stubborn "religious bandits" may be hopeless, but ordinary Yisl survivors and believers have the possibility of joining. Without the conflict of beliefs, most people would prefer to live a stable life. Bribing some imams and elders can speed up this process.

However, can the Governor's Mansion do this?First of all, Liu Min has to put an X here. This is a shortcut method, which is essentially a compromise.This is inconsistent with the current folk customs of the Han Dynasty, and compromise that is degrading to the national dignity is not advisable.

Even if the blood feud that has been forged can be resolved through compromise and peace, Liu Min can conclude that once he does so, Anxi may fall into division and internal strife, and if it spreads to the country, it will inevitably be spurned by the imperial court.Even the small Khotan Kingdom has such hard bones and has fought religious wars with Black Khan for so many years, but the majestic Anxi Han army can be so soft that they can compromise?
Of course, as a mature politician, if he can strengthen his rule over Anxi, he can try even if he makes certain compromises.However, can reconciliation with MSL achieve this goal? On the contrary!

The deeper he understood YSL, the stronger Liu Min's fear became.This sect has too much erosion of secular power and has too strong control over the ignorant people. In the Han Dynasty, there is no tradition of divine power overriding royal power. In Liu Min's knowledge, only Emperor Liu suppressed the world's sects and purged evil gods and prostitutes. The strength of the temple.

For Liu Min, the most disgusting thing about YSL is not the doctrines and taboos, nor the extreme expansionism, nor the extreme understanding of the fanatics. It will never be acceptable to confront the secular kingship.

Compromise is impossible, at least at the moment. So, how to solve the situation Anxi is facing now?Probably, the only way is to go from this extreme to that extreme.

In fact, Liu Min had already made plans in his mind. Under the rule of Anxi, a more thorough transformation must be carried out, and the transformation of the Ysld sect can also be called "cleaning up" if translated.

At that time, Liu Min's "extermination of religion" operation was limited to Suiye. Even if it later spread, it was still limited to a few towns.No further action has been taken in the suburbs and rural areas. Among the people, among the remnants, a large number of people are still reciting scriptures and worshiping their Allah.

In fact, Liu Min has already carried out some actions, such as introducing Buddhism from Khotan and the three religions from China, and achieved certain results. At least those servants who joined the Han Dynasty have changed their beliefs.This does not seem to be too difficult. At least the Black Khanate was fully transformed into a syllable. Before Liu Min’s Western Expedition, it was only about twenty years ago. Even earlier, it was not his family that was the only one. Mani, Fire Worship, and Buddhism were all There is living soil.

Now, what Liu Min has to do is to make those ignorant people who need faith walk the opposite path again.

Of course, this process requires a steel knife to clear the way. Liu Min and Anxi don't have the patience to spend 30 to [-] years slowly transforming it.What is being solved is an urgent need, so it is understandable that the methods should be more drastic.

At this moment, two words were repeating in Liu Min's mind: Destroy the religion!Destroy the religion!Destroy the religion!

It is conceivable that taking drastic measures will inevitably arouse strong resistance. However, why is Anxi afraid of the hatred and revenge of the ysl world?The bridge has long been formed, and it is getting deeper and deeper.

In the past, it has been planned to balance the population structure through immigration and increase the foreign population, so as to gradually replace the rule of the Black Khan and the Samani people on this land and eliminate the influence of the YSL religion.

But now, it is no longer possible to seek large-scale domestic population support, so we can only take another approach.

From a mathematical relationship point of view, if you want to change the population results and adjust the population ratio of each ethnic group, in addition to increasing your own population, you can also reduce the other party's population. The final result is the same.
Let’s see how the imperial court solved the party issue in Yulin!

The influence of the Central Han Dynasty's policy adjustment on the Western Expedition was progressive, from Luoyang to Helong, then to Gaochang, and finally to Anxi.From this, we can also see how deformed Anxi was in politics, military, economy, and people's livelihood in the past. If we want to survive and operate on this land for a long time, a reform is inevitable.

At the same time, when changes are initiated at this time, the external environment is relatively "friendly" to Anxi.Nowadays, the biggest threat to Anxi is the YSL world to the west, and the Samanid dynasty facing directly is in the midst of civil strife. There are already several local forces who have made clear their flags for separatism and separatism. The Samanid dynasty does not care about revenge at all. Anxi, on the contrary, was afraid that the Anxi army would continue to advance westward.

Several other ysl kingdoms also had their own problems and constant internal strife. The only decent one was that of the Ghaznavid dynasty.However, if this country has strength, will it not be busy drawing nutrients from the Samanid dynasty to expand its national power, and then rush to the east to engage in "holy war" with the powerful Anxi army?Anyone with a normal mind will choose a choice that is more beneficial to themselves.

Overall, today's YSL world is in a relatively chaotic "weak period". There are lessons from the failure of the previous coalition's holy war. Before a new Gu King appears, no matter how Anxi persecutes their church members, it will directly It is impossible to trigger a large number of jihadists to come eastward.

Liu Min has somewhat learned and understood these things, otherwise he would not have been able to make up his mind to implement more drastic policies.

That night, Liu Min sent someone to notify the senior leaders of the Anxi Army in Suiye City to gather at the Qinzheng Palace to discuss matters tomorrow morning.Although Liu Min has an idea, he still needs the support and endorsement of the Anxi Army.