Three Kingdoms

Chang'an, the palace of the General Hussar.

"This is the message sent by the fast horse..." A guard handed over the information in his hand.

Fei Qian took it, opened it, looked up and down, and nodded.

Just having Qiao and going to find out the details is only one aspect of information. Fei Qian also needs other information to supplement it, and this other source of information is Yang Fu from Xining.

This piece of information is just a supplement of details sent from Xining.

The pilgrims did not move quickly and slowly traveled from Longyou to Longxi. Fei Qian was able to send carrier pigeons to contact Xining. He first obtained some relevant information and then asked Yang Fu to continue sending people to the snow area to investigate. Some questions learned.

First of all, it is certain that there are people who seek scriptures.

The matter of pretending to be an envoy to defraud is actually not a rare thing in Chinese history.

Most in the Ming Dynasty.

Why was there the most in the Ming Dynasty? Because the sea was banned in the Ming Dynasty, but there was a carrying number (except for tribute), so naturally there was a large group of people dedicated to this business, and they also deceived the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and wrote some lion odes, originally just to show off. , and as a result, he slapped himself in the mouth.

Of course, it was not only found in ancient China, but also in foreign countries. There were Hu Jian's maritime merchants who pretended to be officials and went to the South China Sea, and there were Arabs who pretended to be Chinese envoys and went to the Mediterranean to defraud. There were too many. So don’t think that ancient people didn’t know how to use information asymmetry to make things happen...

The pilgrims are indeed from the snowy area.

Yang Fu described the relevant investigation in the letter and said that there were traces to follow. It was not the kind of "foreign envoy" that appeared after a few people thought about it in a tent.

As for the detailed identity of this scripture seeker and his status in the snow area, further detailed verification is needed.

Because people have social attributes, Fei Qian needs this Buddhist scripture learner, but that does not mean that he only needs his identity as a "scripture learner"...

After Fei Qian read the information, he handed it to Pang Tong and motioned for Pang Tong to take a look as well.

After these two days of adjustment, Pang Tong gradually recovered, and decided to take some time after finishing some things in the spring, preferably before midsummer. After all, midsummer has relatively fewer things, and then He can quickly take the Wuguan Road to Wancheng.

In order to achieve this goal, Pang Tong now needs to lose weight and exercise every day...

The road to Wuguan is not very easy to walk. It is okay to walk on horseback. There are even places where you have to dismount and walk. If you want to ride comfortably in a car, it is definitely not possible. Therefore, Pang Tong first had to lose at least one or two chins, otherwise he would not know whether he or the horse would die of exhaustion first.

However, exercise is not something that can be accomplished overnight. Otherwise, if it causes muscle ablation, there is really no hope for a big man.

At present, we still need to deal with the matter of the Buddhist monks first.

When humans think, God laughs.

Shi Yuan was thinking and Fei Qian was smiling.

The gods of the five directions are also God.

The hussar general is also Party A.

Religion has the inherent ability to corrode thoughts. It is like a double-edged sword. How to use it well is now placed in front of Hussar, and also in front of all the middle and upper class people involved in this Buddhist scripture incident. In front of officials.

Most officials do not believe in any religion. At the same time, it is also very interesting that once officials start to believe in religion, a large part of them will not be able to be officials.

Therefore, Fei Qian was unwilling to vigorously promote religion in China.

Especially when leaders and people in power believe in religion, it is often a sign that their regime begins to collapse. Many emperors in history have personally verified this, and once those in power believe in or are obsessed with religion, it will also cause middle- and low-level officials to take advantage of the opportunity to commit corruption and make money on a large scale...

The virtues of these officials in China are generally considered to be traditional. Those who have no benefits are just thundering without rain, forwarding and forwarding, learning and learning and learning, and that's it. Rain, the crime of human trafficking by officials can also be evaded by orders and procedures, while cutting down a tree at the door of the common people can be punished by ruining their entire family.

Therefore, Fei Qian did not mention anything about the so-called real people of the Five Directions Catholic Church. It was only for the sake of overall strategy that there was no such flattering behavior as the following scolding Qiao Bing and others.

Taoism is a tool, and Confucianism is also a tool. If you regard the tool as your own destiny, you are naturally putting the cart before the horse.

"Yellow scarf, five buckets, Taoist scriptures are good, but those who use them are not good." Fei Qian said slowly, "Bewitching life and death, making false claims about the kingdom of heaven, in the end, they are just a small group of ambitious people... Now that I think about it, I should take a warning..."

"The so-called fabricated scriptures cannot be used..." Pang Tong nodded silently, and after a moment he said, "This is the "true scripture"... What should I give?" 』

In Qiao Bing's meeting in Longxi, he said that Fei Qian had already set some scriptures, which was actually a lie. He was just trying to deal with Wei Kang.

In fact, Fei Qian still has a headache about this problem.

This is a big and difficult question.

In fact, it is not just the Yellow Turbans and Five Dou. Religions in many feudal dynasties in history have eventually led to fooling the people. They used methods such as deception, deception, and fraud to absorb money, divide accounts between 30 and 70, bribe officials, and even become localized. It's a regional thing...

In fact, it's not that the officials can't see clearly these guys who are cheating under the guise of religion, nor is it that the superiors are completely deceived, but sometimes the superiors don't really want the subordinates to think, let alone push away the pressure on the people's wisdom. Those stones.

If people really start to think about it, there won’t be enough street lights!

Therefore, compared to enlightening the people, the superiors of the feudal dynasty preferred to use religion to paralyze them.

Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism.

Yes, Confucianism became similar to a religion in its later stages. Aren’t the various etiquettes and rules that the gods are talking about just the same rules and precepts as other religions? In the end, Confucianism was unable to get rid of the troubles of idealism. When it came to Wang Mingyang, "the heart is the reason", and they also advocated that they are born with knowledge. Except for freaks like Fei Qian, who else can be born with knowledge? Past, present and future? Is it similar to the "Buddha in the Heart" of Buddhism?

In later generations, some people don't like to go around and around, and like to go straight. Whether it is being stabbed or stabbing someone else, it is best to see blood when the knife goes down. Then see the ancient times, or other times when you go around. They feel unhappy, irritable, and a waste of time when they go around things. However, these people have never considered why they become impatient and anxious. They like simple and direct things and don't like to use their brains. When did it start to become like this? Has it been like this since childhood? When did that little person who was once full of curiosity about the world and liked to ask why, be defeated, crushed, and disappear?

As the old saying goes, which kind of people are the rulers of a feudal dynasty more willing to accept, those with a thief's heart or those with a thief's courage?

To a certain extent, in the feudal dynasty, these people were cultivated who like to simplify, do not like to think, and have no curiosity about the outside world. However, the overall social trend of thought gradually deteriorated, making China difficult to move forward and closed to the outside world. .

Therefore, what Fei Qian wants more is to use the enlightenment effect of religion, rather than the other function of religion, the paralysis effect.

Class is inevitable, but as long as class can remain mobile, society as a whole will still have a certain degree of activity.

With surplus value, classes will inevitably emerge. In times of social turmoil, anyone has the opportunity to break the class gap. However, in a relatively stable stage, it is not possible to cross classes through "simple efforts". .

At best, "simple efforts" can only keep the original class from falling. To break through the original class and reach a higher level, not only "excessive efforts" are needed, but also a certain amount of luck. After all, in this world, efforts are not guaranteed to be rewarded.

There is no reward. The harder you work, the more painful it will be.

So the paralysis of religion...well, or the effect of "fun" is revealed. Different eras have just different laws, but their functions are still the same, and the groups they correspond to are also the same.

Fei Qian thought, this is just like Confucianism. There is nothing wrong with Confucianism itself, but it becomes a religion...

After all, in an era when most people do not have access to education, the natural gathering effect of religion can replace part of the intellectual enlightenment, of course, only a small part. Although this small part also includes knowledge distorted by religion, for those ancient people whose eyes and ears were blindfolded since birth, it was a little light in the darkness, supporting them. Able to survive.

Therefore, we cannot blindly veto it, nor can we blindly condone it.

To use it well, you must have a system.

If you want to have a system, you need to have Taoist scriptures as a basis.

Fei Qian said slowly, "Although the gods of the five directions are imaginary, this sect... is all real." Since it is true, there should be norms... There should be meaning in the true scripture..."

"This is the current difficulty. Temporary editing is obviously inappropriate. If there are any mistakes in the scriptures, they will have to be added later..." Pang Tong glanced at Fei Qian and said, "Can I use... Well, what I mean is to replace one scripture with another scripture first. 2... It's just that this way, I always feel that... something seems inappropriate, but I can't figure out what is wrong..."

"replace? Fei Qian frowned. He didn't know why, but felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this method.

Travelers are not omnipotent.

Although Fei Qian knew a lot, that was because he was blessed with abundant information in later generations, and as an office worker, he chatted and spanked all day long, so he naturally developed some skills. Not to mention, Fei Qian’s level is really nothing. If you don’t believe it, just go to Kyoto and find a taxi. Just ask the taxi driver and the taxi driver will tell you that all political and current events at home and abroad are not repeated in one day...

It was normal for office workers to make overall plans, make personnel arrangements, and replace one wall with another. However, Fei Qian didn't know why at the moment, and felt that it was not very good to just replace someone like this.

Although there is indeed a big hole in the Dao Sutra.

Quite a big hole.

These are all issues left over from history.

Buddhism does not have this problem. Of course, Buddhism is not yet flourishing.

The scriptures that those Buddhist disciples in later dynasties took were all foreign products. They chanted them over and over again. Do you understand? I'm here to coax you, do you understand? It’s easy to handle even if you don’t understand. Uh, you’re wrong. You don’t understand what I’m teaching you. Look, this is a so-and-so scripture. There is another scripture here that is also a scripture. There is another scripture here. The true scripture...

Therefore, there is no need to worry about Buddhist scriptures.

As for the Confucian disciples on the other side, everyone knows that virtue.

This book belongs to my master, this book belongs to my master’s relatives, this book belongs to my master’s relatives’ friends, and that one also belongs to my family!

Originally, Confucianism only had the Five Classics. Later, it quietly became the Six Classics. Then, in a blink of an eye, it became the Nine Classics. In the blink of an eye, it became the Thirteen Classics! If future generations hadn't turned pale looking at it, there were so many scriptures, plus a bunch of annotations, and a mountain of explanations, which would have been impossible to read or memorize. It's hard to say that all Confucian students would want to Come up with some forty-two sutras.

In comparison, the disciples of Taoism are quite pitiful.

When Fei Qian thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh. What did those old Huangs and those who founded the Han Dynasty do?

Where is Zhang Liang? Stand up and tell me, even if you make up your own story, you still have to do it from beginning to end. Just make a "Plain Book" and you're done? Who can understand it? Even those readers who shout about water every day and like to be dry and sloppy can't understand it. How can it be promoted? And that "Three Strategies of Huangshi Gong", that's too polite, only three strategies? Is this the third strategy? !

Moreover, the "Su Shu" and "Three Strategies" were also made too targeted, which made the emperor think, "If a smart person can read this, then what's the point?" So with a wave of his hand, everything was over, and people behind him couldn't find the full text even if they wanted to search for pirated copies...

As for the "Su Shu" of later generations, that's haha. After all, people pretended to be written by ancient people. This was what some people did during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Fei Qian scratched his head and felt a little annoyed. It was all caused by Fei Qian's random chat with Zuo Ciqiao and others. Everyone thought that he already had an idea in mind, but in fact, Fei Qian had not thought about it at all...

What Fei Qian, Zuo Ciqiao and others were talking about before was the basic teachings of Taoism.

It is not difficult to discuss these. What is difficult is the specific scriptures.

For example, what is "Tao"? Lao Tzu said it in one sentence, only five thousand words.

If you still feel that the five thousand words of Lao Tzu seem to be unreliable, then it can be simpler. The pursuit of "Tao" is the goal of belief, the "Tao" is the method of cultivation, the "Tao" is the thought to inform and educate all living beings, and the pursuit of Harmony, peace in the world, and finally achieving peace and happiness with "Tao", eternal life, attaining Tao and becoming an immortal...

This is what Fei Qian and Zuo Ci were discussing, and only this.

What did Zuo Ci do originally? He himself couldn't explain clearly, and he didn't even say what he believed in. The method of cultivation is also very confusing. It involves bigu, golden elixir, swallowing clouds and mist to collect the essence of the sun and moon, etc. It is impossible to say what goal is to be achieved. As a result, I met Fei Qian and went through it from beginning to end. , and immediately named Fei Qian as a fellow disciple...

Well, this word, forget it, that’s probably what it means.

As for Fei Qian, Qiao Bing and others who discussed and determined the five gods, the main thing is to determine the origin of "Tao".

After all, the original Taoism tells that Taoism existed before the heaven and earth were divided. It started before the catastrophe and passed through the five stages of Taiyi, Taichu, Taisu, Taishi, and Taiji. Qingqing It floats up, condenses under heavy turbidity, and then opens up the sky and the earth. From the beginning of Xuanyuan, San Qi was transformed and reborn for three days. Laojun transformed his eyes into the sun and moon, his hair into stars, his muscles into fertile soil, his bones into hard rocks, his breathing into wind and clouds, his voice and the divine light in his eyes into thunder and lightning, and the blood in his body Turned into rivers and lakes, hair turned into vegetation...

Wait, Laojun?

Isn’t this Pangu’s job?

Then the primitive Taoist guys murmured for a long time, and Zhengyi Lingran said that Pangu was transformed by Laojun. Later, Laojun also transformed into Xuanyuan, Huangdi, and Laozi in the Spring and Autumn Period...

As for the eighty-one incarnations of Laojun, it was at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. At that time, Wang Fu, a Taoist, debated with Bo Yuan, a monk from an aristocratic background, but they repeatedly lost. In desperation, he forged the "Laozi's Transformation of Hu Sutra", claiming that Laozi traveled west and was reincarnated as Sakyamuni Buddha. The Buddhists were not to be outdone, and retaliated with tit for tat, claiming that Lao Tzu was actually a disciple of the Buddha. Both parties immediately began to manifest "Great Transformation", and everything became transformed.

Fei Qian was not so arrogant. He pointed out at that time that the confusion between the specific gods and the system of Taoist gods in primitive Taoism was not conducive to the development of religion. The more Laojun transformed, the more complicated the system became, and there were even differences between them. kind of contradiction. The simpler it is, the purer the belief will be. Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, the Five Directions God Religion was proposed. On the one hand, it is combined with some foundations of primitive Taoism, and on the other hand, it is simple and easy to implement.

Laojun's eighty-first incarnation, such a complicated process, so many complicated incarnations, really speaking, which class in the feudal dynasty can be expected to remember it? That's right, only the nobles who can read and master a certain amount of knowledge can understand it and understand the ins and outs of these eighty-one incarnations, or understand its storyline.

But this is equivalent to the fact that Taoism had the wrong goal at the beginning. To accept followers of this kind of gentry disciples is actually to compete with Confucianism. How could it be possible to win over Confucianism, which has been arranged for a long time?

For example, when he was preaching, there was nothing he could not do to call the gods of the five directions directly. This was simply an idea that only Bang Gui came up with. What Fei Qian wanted was an upright sect, not a secret cult in private. He was most likely persecuted. Only those who are used to it and are ready to run away at any time can develop such a pattern.

Because there were no standardized key points for preaching and no specific goals found, Taoism did not develop well in the late Chinese period, and even Buddhism was unable to do so. The root lies here. After Buddhism was introduced to China, it turned out that there was no way to go up, so it immediately turned around and came up with a set of templates for achieving enlightenment. Even the meaning of the scriptures was lost. Just one sentence, "I have a destiny with my Buddha". It became...

Fei Qian corrected such problems one by one without having time to touch on the Taoist scriptures.

Now, after Fei Qian came up with the new system of the Five Directions God Religion, the development of Taoism has expanded rapidly. Whether it is the preaching of Taoism itself or the belief of ordinary people, it is more convenient and faster than the original model. More effective.

This also attracted scripture seekers from the snowy area, but here is the embarrassing problem. The scripture seekers came, but they had no scriptures to give...