Chapter 482 Faith Position

Author: Gongsun Wujiu

The Hu religion's infiltration into the army had to attract the attention of Zhang Yue and the Han army in the Western Regions.

Especially Zhang Yue, who has the memory of later generations, attaches great importance to this matter.

The Tang Empire, also known as the Han Dynasty in later generations, suddenly declined at its peak due to religious issues.

The famous "Anshi Rebellion" was essentially a religious war.

The "An-Shi Rebellion" was actually a betrayal of the Tang Empire by the Manichaeans with An Lushan as their religious leader in order to establish a country that united politics and religion.

An Lushan, including Shi Siming who followed him, were able to incite his troops to rebel when the Tang Dynasty was at its strongest, relying on the power of religious belief.

Most of the largest so-called peasant uprisings in later generations also had strong religious backgrounds.

The Yellow Turban Uprising and Sun Enlu Xun were initiated by Taoism in order to establish a country where politics and religion were integrated.

The Anshi Rebellion, Fangla Uprising, and Zhong Xiang Yang Yao Uprising were initiated by Manichaeism.

The Six Towns Rebellion in the Southern and Northern Dynasties was closely related to Buddhism in the late Sui Dynasty War.

Why did Li Shimin compromise with the Shaolin Temple? It was because the Shaolin Temple had 170,000 troops at that time, which was more than the Tang army at that time.

Not to mention the White Lotus Revolt that lasted throughout the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

As for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, everyone in later generations knows that it was a religious organization that worshiped God.

The other Fujian Rebellion, Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion, and Xinjiang Rebellion in the late Song Dynasty are also religious wars.

Regarding religious beliefs, Zhang Yue had already made some assumptions earlier, but he was not active because religious issues were too sensitive.

But now that Hu Jiao has begun to get involved in the army, he has to take action.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Yue invited hundreds of scholars and famous alchemists from the Han Dynasty to come to Luntai to participate in this meeting.

Zhang Yue's purpose was naturally to give birth to a religion that belonged to the Han Dynasty in advance.

"My lords, people need faith to live in this world, but my Han people have different faiths in different places... I think this is not good for my family, country and the world..."

Zhang Yue first offered some advice.

After Zhang Yue's words fell, he aroused the recognition of all the alchemists who participated in the meeting.

Lu Guang, who was famous for helping King Yan make calculations, stood up and said:

"What Marquis Yunyang said is true. There are many gods believed in in various places of the Han Dynasty... There are different gods in various places..."

"Even so, there are similarities. It's just that the names are different due to different language habits in different places, but they are actually the same..."

Various alchemists, including several Huang-Lao scholars, also agreed with this.

Du Ling also stood up at this time and said, "In fact, all the Xia, including the Huns, believe in the same supreme god.

"It's just that in the Chu land, he was called Haotian God... The Qin people followed the Yin and Shang Dynasties and called him God... The Xiongnu called him Gaotian or Dachangtian, Changshengtian... Zhao and Qin are the same... Qi and Qin

Some people in Han and Wei also called him Taiyi God or Donghuang Taiyi..."

Finally, Du Ling concluded again: "There are local gods in various places in our Xia Dynasty, but the supreme god they believe in has been the same since ancient times..."

Zhang Yue also agreed with this, "What you all said is true, the supreme gods that all Xia believe in are all one and the same... I think it is good to have a unified name, do you think so!"

No one expressed any objection to this.

After some discussion, everyone finally reached an agreement on using the most widely circulated "Haotian God" as the unified name of the supreme god.

However, in order to take care of the people in various places in the Xia Dynasty, they also agreed to use the names of the various places as another name for Haotian God.

After the name of the Supreme God was unified, everyone began to discuss the immortals and gods under Haotian God and their specific structure.

At this time, Zhang Yue took the opportunity to throw out his improved Taoist system of immortals and gods of later generations.

In fact, the prototype of Taoism in this era had already appeared.

The concepts of the Three Pure Ones and Four Imperial Guards; the Netherworld; and various star gods have already appeared, but they have not yet formed a system.

Zhang Yue's introduction of such a complete system of immortals and gods immediately opened up everyone's thinking.

In particular, the alchemists from various schools are even more fascinated by this.

People like Huang and Lao were also very interested in this. Seeing this, Zhang Yue complained to everyone and left the venue.

After Zhang Yue left, the venue became even more lively. While everyone was discussing the system of immortals and gods left by Zhang Yue, they also speculated in their minds about why Zhang Yue knew so many things about immortals and gods.

Because the names of the gods and gods provided by Zhang Yue had accompanying myths and legends, even Lu Guang had never heard of many of them.

But obviously Zhang Yue shouldn't have made it up randomly, because these gods, myths and legends can also stand up to scrutiny.

After carefully studying the information provided by Zhang Yue, an alchemist couldn't help but express his guess.

"Do you think Marquis Yunyang has really seen the immortal god?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then their eyes became hot.

An old Huang scholar said: "After helping Emperor Gao to pacify the world, Hou Hou has been refining elixirs behind closed doors to seek the way to immortality... Could it be that Hou Hou Liu has not... but achieved the way to immortality..."

As soon as this person said this, the closer people were to Zhang Yue, the more reasonable they felt.

Zhang Yue has been quite mysterious over the years, and often gives people a sense of uncertainty.

As soon as these words came out, people couldn't help but think of immortals.

Lu Fang couldn't help but make calculations at this time. After some calculations, Lu Fang remained silent.

But after he came back to his senses, he inadvertently showed a fanatical look.

Although he quickly hid his emotions, he was still discovered by Yang You and Du Lingfa.

"You think that the system of immortals and gods established by Marquis Yunyang does not need to be changed!"

After repeatedly reading the information left by Zhang Yue, Lu Fang said categorically.

At this time, an alchemist asked, "Is Mr. Lu too arbitrary? Although the information provided by Marquis Yunyang is complete, there are still many gods in various places that are not included..."

Lu Fang heard this and said: "The ones not included must be the land of the mountain gods mentioned by the king...the others should be the evil gods!"

As soon as Lu Fang said this, most people agreed, but only a few people thought it should be considered carefully.

At this time Du Ling said: "Why don't you find Marquis Yunyang tomorrow and ask clearly!"

When Lu Fang heard this, he also agreed: "We are all mortals. I am afraid that only Marquis Yunyang knows about the things of immortals and gods in this world!"

As soon as Lu Fang said this, everyone was thoughtful.

"What did Mr. Lu figure out?"

An old man asked.

Lu Fang said: "The secret of heaven must not be leaked, and this matter must not be talked about... it must not be talked about!"

When he said this, everyone became more curious and asked Lu Fang again and again.

Lu Fang never answered, and finally left the venue early.

After Zhang Yue heard about this, he also murmured in his heart.

"Did Lu Fang really mean something?"

Then he rejected his idea in his heart.

"There is no God in this world..."
Chapter completed!