Encounter Qin Shihuang on a deserted island

Chapter 648 He who wins the hearts of the people can win the world.

"My lord, it's time to visit. This place has been abandoned for a long time, and there has been no incense burning... My lord, do you really want to worship?"

In the mountains and forests, the peasant uprising army stood scattered. Although the order was not good, it also showed their unique momentum.

With the support of the general, Wu Guang dismounted from his horse, stood in front of the dilapidated temple, and looked at the long-abandoned temple.

"Unexpectedly, this remote mountain and old forest, which is inaccessible to people, actually has such a large temple. I guess it must have been very popular in the past."

The scale of the temple is neither small nor large. Looking in from the dilapidated gate, there is a lobby and four side rooms. It can be seen that it was prosperous in the past.

"It can be seen that the enshrined inside is that fairy, or which former king?" Wu Guang stood in front of Poguan and asked the general suspiciously.

"Ah," the generals shook their heads and said they didn't know, "wait for your subordinates to go in and verify!"

When several generals wanted to go in to investigate the danger, they were stopped by Wu Guang with a wave of his hand: "Just let me go in by myself."

"But my lord, in case there is danger inside..." Those generals couldn't hide their worry.

After all, this is a deep mountain and old forest, not to mention someone ambushing, even if it is a beast.

But Wu Guang waved his hand again and said no: "If there is danger, I can deal with it. If you disturb anything, it is my disrespect."

"My lord," those generals wanted to say something, but they were suppressed by Wu Guangbingran's expression.

Don't worry too much, Wu Guang is also a very powerful person, if there is danger, he can deal with it by himself, and the rebel army of ten thousand people is here.

Even if there are people in the broken view, I believe they would not dare to mess around, right?Since this was Wu Guang's insistence, they couldn't say much more.

Under the watchful eyes of several generals and more than [-] peasant rebels, Wu Guang walked slowly towards Poguan with a devout expression.

Although I don't know who is enshrined in Poguan, it must have been enshrined by the people here, and the prosperity of incense in the past can also be glimpsed from the dilapidation.

Before the Qin Dynasty, most of the temples enshrined the four great emperors, Baidi, Qingdi, Huangdi, and Chidi, as gods for blessings.

Other immortal gods, like the Queen Mother of the West, are assigned to Xiaofang Tiantian, they are not orthodox immortal gods, and will not be used as blessings.

Before the Qin Dynasty, there was the Shang Dynasty, and the Shang Dynasty evolved from a tribe into an orthodox dynasty. The earlier ones focused on the human king.

Heaven, earth, and people, the latter being the biggest.

People, ghosts, gods, the former is the biggest.

In the pre-Qin period, the Taoist temples enshrined did not have fancy immortals and gods, but some were four kings.

King Qin won the government, led millions of elite soldiers, swept across the six kingdoms, swept through the eight wastelands, and ruled the world! !

Under the witness of enshrining all things in the world as the great unification, he enshrined the former king on the top of Mount Tai and named himself: the First Emperor.

In this way, it should be the greatest human king, but the bad thing is that Qin Shihuang won the government, pursued immortality, and chased the ranks of ghosts and gods.

But you must know that the human king in the pre-Qin period was a being who could command ghosts, immortals and gods.

Although the status of the human king has plummeted, it is still no more powerful than the pre-Qin period.

All over the world, ghosts and gods appear, local scholars, different beliefs, spring up everywhere like bamboo shoots.

Under the opportunity of the First Emperor's search for immortals and the elixir of immortality, the whole world was in chaos.

Regardless of whether it was ghosts, monsters, gods or gods, they all jumped out and claimed that they had mastered the art of immortality in order to defraud people into offering sacrifices.

In the early years, the first emperor also seemed to be bewildered, and he was canonized all the time, and ghosts and spirits from all over the world asked him to build temples.

Later, under a certain opportunity, Emperor Shi Huang realized that the art of immortality is really a nonsense fallacy!
'Burning books and burying Confucianism' was born at this time, and it was also a point of controversy for the first emperor in later generations.

The books burned were all kinds of alchemists, known as the books of immortals, gods and strange powers, and all kinds of messy refining prescriptions were recorded in it.

The Confucians who are pitted are not Confucian scholars, but those alchemists who claim to be able to understand ghosts and spirits and master the art of immortality!

As a witness of history, Wu Guang certainly knows about these extremely ridiculous things that happened in the early years.

The deserted temple in front of me is obviously a product of that period.

After being "burned books and buried Confucianism" by the first emperor, the people who originally maintained the temple also ran away.

Thinking of this, many generals were worried about what kind of public opinion Wu Guang's worship would arouse, and they tried to stop them solemnly.

"My lord, the temple here has been abandoned by crooked ways."

"You are the founder of the new regime, and you should be among the kings!"

"So, if you worship here, if you spread the word..." The general was interrupted by Wu Guang before he finished speaking.

"Whether it is crooked or orthodox, the construction of the temple here shows that there was incense and carried the hearts of the people."

"As the founder of the new regime, it is destiny for me to pass by this place." Wu Guang waved his hand slightly and kept away the general's hand.

Stepping towards Poguan, his expression was slightly pious: "All the way to the south, all the way here, I will worship whenever I encounter temples."

"I don't ask ghosts and spirits to know, I just want to have a thought in my heart, and also to let the people who follow me know. I can pray like them."

"It's for the new regime, it's for the people, and it's for..." Wu Guang walked to the gate of Poguan, kowtowing devoutly on both knees.

This scene fell in the eyes of the ten thousand peasant rebels, their expressions and thoughts were complicated, and there was an indescribable feeling.

"grown ups!"

The general at the side felt a little distressed, and wanted to step forward to help, but Wu Guang waved his hand away.

"Just wait here. Regardless of the ghosts and spirits enshrined in the temple, since they exist here, they are the sustenance of the people."

"I rose for the people, and the new regime was also established by the people. Their expectations were placed on this, so I will follow the people's past."

"There is a saying that I have heard countless times, and now...I will tell you." Wu Guang stood up from the ground, not caring about the dust on his knees.

Standing in front of the gate of Poguan, he turned slightly sideways, with a pious and solemn expression, facing the group of generals and ten thousand peasant rebels, and said softly.

"Whoever wins the hearts of the people can win the world. If there is no support from the people, no matter how much power you have, it will be useless."

The establishment of a new regime comes from among the people. Without the support of the people, there would be no new regime, let alone the people they are now.

"Remember this sentence, we are not the masters of the world, the people of the world... are the masters of the world, we are just their choice."

Facing the complicated looks of the generals and peasant rebels, Wu Guang turned around and walked lightly into the abandoned temple.

(End of this chapter)