Great Tang Southern Emperor

Yes, it is true that we led you to this path, but don’t forget, if you weren’t too greedy and daring to sell us the general’s equipment, none of this would happen now...so it’s not us who killed you. For you, it was your own greed that brought you to this point... I kind of believe that even if we didn't guide you on this road, with your greedy character, you would have to go on this road sooner or later... Uh ..."

Chapter 965 Taoist believer Xue Rengui?

Chapter 324 Taoist believer Xue Rengui?

Li Siqian hadn't finished his sentence before, but the stern Hou Junji had already stabbed Li Siqian's chest with a knife, and also interrupted his next words... Although everyone would understand what he said next, but at this moment There is still a slight regret in my heart...

It's not that he regretted that he died without seeing the success of the great cause. To die, Li Siqian had already prepared for it. In fact, when he was close to Hou Junji, facing the moody Hou Junji, he had already realized that he might die. So he is not afraid of death.

What he was thinking at this time was actually another thing: "It's really a good method. It easily resolved our painstaking planning, and turned back an army, driving us to a dead end... There are such heroes under Li Zhen's command. , can the young master's great cause really... be successful?"

"I am the man of destiny, no one can defeat me, I am invincible..." Hou Junji raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, and fell head-on—although he kept saying that he was the man of destiny, he was still flesh and blood after all. Where is the opponent of the flame?Even though there was a wet wipe to cover his face, he was only awake for a while longer than others. When the masked wet wipe could no longer block the penetration of smoke and dust, when he absorbed enough smoke and dust, he finally passed out from choking, and If there were no accidents, he should have been choked to death in his sleep like this, but—an accident happened after all...

In other words, the accident itself was under Xue Rengui's control...

Xue Rengui stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the billowing smoke in the forest and remained silent.

Fang Yi'ai stood behind him and said, "According to the forecast of Ling Tailang (an official responsible for observing changes in the sky, similar to the current meteorological observer), it will rain here in another quarter of an hour."

Only then did Xue Rengui come back to his senses, and said as usual: "In this case, let everyone get ready, it's time for us to go down and arrest people."

However, the two have been partners for more than ten years, and they are very familiar with each other. Although Xue Rengui hides it very well, he still cannot hide it from Fang Yiai's eyes.

"I said...you don't blame yourself in your heart, do you?" Fang Yiai looked at Xue Rengui suspiciously: "When did you become such a saint? Didn't you just burn a hundred thousand animals to death? Why are you so compassionate? Not the Xue Rengui I know."

Although Xue Rengui knew that Fang Yiai was provoking him, he still rolled his eyes and said, "What nonsense? I have been on the battlefield for so many years, how can I feel sad because of such a small injury? But..."

The tone changed in vain, and Xue Rengui said with a little worry: "However, after all, these are [-] lives, and now they are being burned by me. It is really hurtful. I am a little worried. What if What should I do if I report early?"

"Pfft~" Fang Yiai sprayed directly, her eyes widened, and she looked at Xue Rengui in disbelief: "What's the matter with you? When did you believe in this thing? Oh~ I remembered, you were in Yuezhou At that time, you used to live in Wuzhuang Temple, could it be that you were brainwashed by the Taoist priests there? You shouldn’t be...You Xue Rengui is also so easy to be brainwashed?"

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and get ready." Xue Rengui blushed when Fang Yiai guessed what was on his mind, and said rather angrily.

However, Fang Yiai did not guess wrong. Xue Rengui's change of mind was indeed persuaded when he was discussing with Li Chunfeng when he was in Wuzhuang Temple, but he was not brainwashed-in fact, the world also No one dared to brainwash Xue Rengui, but he was indeed persuaded by Li Chunfeng's remarks, and then tried to get in touch with some Taoist theories, and the result...

Taoism is also a religion. Since it is a religion, it is inevitable that there will be some demagogic words in the teachings. In addition, Xue Rengui failed when he discussed Taoism with Li Chunfeng, and Li Chunfeng left a hole in his heart, so he was just rejected by Taoism teachings. He was infected and became a Taoist believer like he is now—but he is just an ordinary believer, and he is not yet devout. He only believes in the theory of cause and effect in Taoism, and believes that the retribution of heaven is not good. Just be careful with your words and deeds.But it is still not enough to reach the level of devotion of three kowtows every morning and evening, and one stick of incense in the morning and evening.

Because of this, his behavior as a believer was not discovered by Fang Yiai and others, but if this continues, he will eventually become a fanatic of Taoism one day.

This transformation of Xue Rengui also means that the status of Taoism in the Tang Dynasty has begun to improve. The real situation is that in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism is still the overlord of beliefs. Compared with Taoism, it is really a bit worse. Although the two can compete, if life and death are divided, Taoism will 100% be the dead one.

This embarrassment continued until the appearance of Li Zhen. Since he pretended to be the successor of Zhen Yuanzi, Taoism took the lead and successfully included Zhen Yuanzi into the Taoist immortal system. Then in the name of Li Zhen, their belief It is considered a little improvement.But because of this, Taoism is completely tied to Li Zhen. In order to tie Li Zhen, he even gave him the title of Zhenyuan Shengzi, allowing him to have the rights equivalent to the leader of Taoism.

Later, when Buddhism was suppressed by Li Zhen, and after the Yindao incident, the power of Buddhism was severely damaged, and Taoism was able to stand against Buddhism. Until now, it has barely occupied a little advantage in front of Buddhism, but it wants to completely To suppress Buddhism, Taoism still has a long way to go.

However, if the Buddhist Association can be successfully established, perhaps this process may be decades earlier, but it is a pity that Xuanzang is dead...

That's right, both the imperial court and the Buddhist sect treated Xuanzang as a holy monk—this is quite normal, after all, a wise man who can travel [-] miles and painstakingly seek Buddhist scriptures can be called a wise man no matter what age he is in. A saint.

However, when Xuanzang met Li Shimin, everyone was stunned—the first thing he said when he saw Li Shimin was to establish a Buddhist Association. The name of the Buddhist Association might be thought to be a place for studying Buddhist knowledge , however when Xuanzang explained the function of the Buddhist Association...

The entire court was blown up—this is tantamount to breaking the foundation of Buddhism. If everything is really carried out as Xuanzang said, then the entire Buddhist sect will be confined to a small circle, and eventually everyone will be wiped out... …

No one thought that Xuanzang, as a Buddhist monk, would actually put forward a proposal to restrict Buddhism, and judging from the perfect rules and regulations he put forward, he probably didn't come up with this behavior in a short time. this thought...

This……

It's really unbelievable...

Chapter 967 Rise of Taoism

Chapter 325 The Rise of Taoism

Originally, Li Shimin was very interested in the Buddhist Association, but he did not agree on the spot, because immediately after Xuanzang proposed the concept of the Buddhist Association, there were a large number of Buddhist believers who could not sit still, or they were simply Buddhists in the court. Even if Li Shimin knew their plan, Li Shimin had to compromise and give in because of too many people, and put this proposal on hold...

Then the next day...

Xuanzang died in the residence that Li Shimin arranged for him...

No one knows who did it, but everyone has one object of suspicion, who is also the most likely person to attack Xuanzang—Buddhism, after all, the Buddhist Association is weakening the power of Buddhism, and His Majesty the Emperor is also very moved It seems that the Buddhists in the imperial court tried their best to stop Li Shimin for a while. If they don't take the opportunity to start, maybe tomorrow's court meeting, the Buddhist Association may really be established. By then, should their Buddhism follow? What about the regulations of the Buddhist Association, or should we resist the Buddhist Association?

It is definitely impossible to obey, after all, it will weaken the power of Buddhism, but it is also impossible to disobey - after all, the image of Buddhism left to the world is to stand aloof from the world, if it confronts the court at this time, Buddhism will not only violate the law, Their own image is about to be lost.

Then, in order to prevent the emergence of the Buddhist Association, there is only one way, and that is to kill the person who made this suggestion, that is, Xuanzang.

Although Xuanzang's prestige is very high because of the incident of learning Buddhist scriptures, killing him rashly will cause public anger, but for the sake of the prosperity of Buddhism, this is the only way to do it——Buddhism will be suppressed by your proposal and weakened , who cares if you are a Buddhist monk?

What's more, there is such a thing as a scapegoat in this world - on the second day after Xuanzang was killed, a non-governmental Buddhist organization called the Mercy Hall declared responsibility for the incident...

Then the matter ended here, except that the imperial court sent troops to kill the high-level officials of the Mercy Hall as a punishment, and it was also an explanation to the boiling folks. This matter has been settled so far, and no one has mentioned it again...

Li Zhen felt it was a pity about this, it would have been great if Li Shimin could persevere for a while.However, Li Zhen can also understand that although there are not many high-ranking officials among the opposing officials, there are too many of them, and since they can enter the court, they must be at least the fifth rank or above ("Tang Huiyao" quoted "Yi "Zhiling": "All the civil and military officials in Beijing have nine ranks or above, and look forward to the sun; their civil and military officials with five ranks or above, as well as supervisory censors, Yuanwailang, and Dr. Taichang, attend the court every day." This sentence means: Civil and military officials in Beijing Including nine ranks and above go to court on the first and fifteenth day of each month (Shuowang day court), other civil and military officials above five ranks and supervisory censors, Yuanwailang, Dr. Taichang, go to court every day, except for rest days), this is already the court The mainstay of the church, each of them is very weak when taken out, but once their opinions are all in agreement, even Li Shimin and those big guys have to compromise.

But this matter is not without gains, at least the actions of these officials let Li Shimin see the power of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty - when he thinks that his Buddhism has mixed so much sand in his own country, and then counts the Confucian family and others. The spokesperson of the power... During that time, Li Shimin was so worried that he could hardly sleep at night.

It's a bit far away, let's get down to business, Xue Rengui began to believe in Taoism, which is actually a good thing-at least in a short period of time, Taoism can contain the influence of Buddhism when Taoism becomes stronger, and there is another point, the future Li Zhen is destined to be To conquer the world, this means that in the future, more nations and lands will be included in the Tang Dynasty.

And once this is the case, you have to worry about another issue, that is, the belief of these ethnic groups. Each ethnic group has its own different beliefs, and those small religions are nothing more than that. The problem is the future of Christianity and Christianity. It can be passed on for thousands of years without weakening, which means that their brainwashing ability is quite powerful, at least the means of fooling the common people are very powerful, since they can develop so powerfully in Central Asia and Europe, then they will definitely be in the Tang Dynasty. There will also be better markets (this has been well documented in history).

However, the Tang Dynasty was an era that respected freedom of belief—in fact, throughout most of China’s period, neither the imperial court nor the people cared much about beliefs, and they didn’t resist foreign gods very much. We worship gods whenever we see them Good tradition, whether you are spiritual or not, it is always good to say goodbye first, what if you are spiritual?

Therefore, except for some extremely evil sects, most foreign sects can do very well in the Tang Dynasty (Nestorianism, Aojiao, Mingjiao, Judaism, Christianity, etc. have all done very well in the Tang Dynasty), It was also at this time that some religions took root in China and flourished (such as Jiao and Mingjiao).

Therefore, Li Zhen must first support the local religions of the Tang Dynasty before these religions are introduced into the Tang Dynasty, and form a comprehensive suppression of foreign religions. After a hundred years, Datang will become their world.

Therefore, the rise of Taoism is imperative, and the rise of a religion is always easier to implement from top to bottom (Christianity was valued by the Roman royal family, so it began to develop, and religion directly means that the Caliph is the messenger of Allah. It was introduced into China by Emperor Han Ming on his own initiative, and then became stronger after the support of the royal families of all dynasties), so Xue Rengui's belief in Taoism is actually a relatively good sign. With more sects entering the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhen can also ensure that the culture and values ​​of the Tang people will not be eroded by Western religions, and that the court will not be controlled by foreign religions.

Of course, the rise of Taoism is also limited. It is impossible for Li Zhen to cultivate an uncontrollable freak for herself. Religion is inherently opposed to royal power. Taoism can rise, but it must be within the controllable range of the court. Within the period, once Taoism tends to get out of control, although the imperial court will not immediately turn its face and deny people, it will also suppress Taoism by supporting other sects—just like it is now suppressing Buddhism by supporting Taoism.

But at present, these are too early. Compared with Buddhism, Taoism is still a bit too weak. Although it has a profound foundation, it still needs the support of the court if it wants to rise rapidly.

And Xue Rengui has made a good start, coupled with Li Zhen's own support and Li Shimin's concerns about Buddhism, I believe it will not take long for Taoism to form an absolute suppression of Buddhism.

Chapter 968 Success

Chapter 326 It's All About You

Without further ado, let's turn our attention to the battlefield—or the field of fire.

A quarter of an hour passed quickly, and the originally gloomy sky became even more cloudy, and the clouds were so low that you could almost touch them with your hands. , Even the fire scene in the distance seemed to be affected by this momentum, the sound of the flames burning could not help but reduce a lot, and the smoke that filled the sky was suppressed and could not float up.

"Crack!"

There was a crisp thunder, and then "patter" raindrops fell, which became as dense as a bead curtain in a short time, and finally became like a stream of water, and the rain poured down.

On the hill ten miles away from Rili City, the people who had escaped from the city were scattered in various places to take shelter from the rain. Because they witnessed the destruction of Hou Junji and his [-] troops, the mood of the people It was much better, and the panic caused by the massacre disappeared with this rain. At this time, they were hiding in the rain shelter and talking about the pouring rain.

"My God, such a heavy rain is rare even in Nanyang."