If the world is in chaos, there will be many evildoers.
When people lose confidence in reality, they must place their hope in the ethereal gods, which provides a breeding ground for crooked ways.
Throughout the history of the development of Chinese religions, a very strange phenomenon occurred during the Ming and Qing Dynasties: authentic Buddhism and Taoism were gradually declining, but a wide variety of folk religions were rising in full swing. At least 90% of these folk sects were cults.
The reason can be traced back to the early Ming Dynasty, when the rulers strictly controlled Buddhism and Taoism. Although the government recognized and protected existing Taoist temples and temples, they rarely approved new temples and temples, and legal certificates were rarely issued, which greatly inhibited the practice of Buddhism and Taoism.
This has affected the development of orthodox religion. Not only that, monks and Taoist priests are also imprisoned in temples and cannot preach and preach among the people at will.
What are the consequences of this?
First, the population increased dramatically in the mid-Ming Dynasty, but the number of religious personnel and religious sites did not increase accordingly. Orthodox religion could no longer meet the people's growing spiritual needs.
Second, orthodox Buddhism and Taoism cannot penetrate deeply into the people and have close contact with the people, and gradually lose their ability to evolve and reform themselves.
Third, a large number of illegal folk religions have developed rapidly, and there are many crooked ways among them, which have occupied the social survival soil of orthodox religions.
The Qing Dynasty generally followed the religious policies of the Ming Dynasty, so that there were more and more private church organizations, which directly affected the religious situation in the Republic of China. The government of the Republic of China lost local control, coupled with years of wars and constant natural and man-made disasters, resulting in the
The prosperous illegal folk religion spreads more and more widely.
Among them, Shandong is an area hardest hit by evil cults, with frequent wars and starvation.
"The Communist Party" promotes the idea of the end of the world, believing that natural and man-made disasters are punishments from the gods on the mortal world, and only by believing in "the Communist Party" can one be saved.
Moreover, "***" is not a simple branch of Taoism. They claim to be "the unity of five religions" and the highest deity they believe in is Wuji Laomu. Wuji Laomu has five sons, namely Confucius, Laozi, Sakyamuni, and Jesus Christ.
, Muhammad. Not only are these five gods worshiped by "***", but also Bodhisattva, Guan Gong, Land God, and City God are all worshiped.
In other words, no matter which religion you originally believe in, you can join "***". This is the base camp where all religions love each other.
The more wars and disasters there were in the Republic of China, the more rapidly the "Christian religion" developed. Now it is no longer limited to preaching in Shandong, but spreads throughout the entire land of China.
The "Confucius and Mencius Taoism" founded by Liu Congyun, Liu Shenxian of Sichuan, is a branch of the "***" sect, also known as the "Confucian Xiantian Dao". "Confucius and Mencius Taoism" is still a little more moral, and does not promote the "unity of five religions" and does not recognize Jesus
Christ and Mohammed only recognized the "three religions in one": Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
Liu Congyun is not an old man. He will not turn 50 in another two years. But he has a long beard and a bun. I don’t know if it is natural or with hair dye. His beard and hair are a bit gray, and he looks like he has aged.
Very big.
Liu Congyun was from Xindian, Weiyuan County. He worked as a private school teacher in his early years and often relied on fortune telling and divination to defraud money. In the year when the Revolution of 1911 broke out, Liu Congyun took advantage of the influence of the emperor's abdication and claimed that the White Crane Immortal descended to earth to promote doomsday thoughts and then founded "Confucius and Mencius".
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Before colluding with the warlords, Liu Congyun already had tens of thousands of followers, established six main altars and 108 sub-alms, and was extremely powerful and prestigious in Sichuan.
At this moment, Liu Xiang really trusted Liu Congyun, because Liu Shenxian knew everything and everything he said was sure to hit the mark. He was able to become famous among the many warlords in Sichuan, thanks to worshiping Liu Shenxian as his military advisor. This was a career and spiritual success.
Dual faith.
In fact, the reason why Liu Congyun knew things so well was because his disciples were all over Sichuan, including various warlord armies. To put it bluntly, the information that Liu Shenxian could gather at a glance was just intelligence secretly transmitted by his disciples.
But Liu Congyun was dissatisfied with being just an intelligence chief. He packaged himself as a living god and used various means to deceive the Sichuan warlords.
According to historical development, in a few months, Liu Xiang will form a fourth force, the Divine Army, besides land, sea and air!
Liu Congyun had absolute control over the "divine army", and his soldiers were all "Confucius and Mencius" believers. He could even mobilize the "divine army" to attack Liu Xiang, which was equivalent to a small warlord in disguise.
But after all, "divine army" doesn't sound good, so Liu Xiang classified this unit as a "model division". He didn't know whether Chiang Kai-shek, who also worked hard to create a "model division", would be so angry that he would vomit blood.
Liu Congyun's influence on the Sichuan warlords became more and more important, until a few years later, except for Liu Xiang, all other warlords had to kneel and kowtow to Liu Congyun.
Demonic way!
Among the warlords in the "Air Force Exercise Observation Group", Yang Sen is the only one who understands. Although he nominally worships Liu Congyun as his disciple, he is just following the trend. On the one hand, he can win over other religious warlords, and on the other hand, he can appease religious soldiers.
Fourteen planes appeared on the runway. This thing was very rare in Sichuan and attracted admiration from warlords big and small.
This is also the ultimate purpose of Liu Xiang's formation of the air force and inviting warlords from all walks of life to visit and perform in order to scare other warlords.
Liu Xiang proudly said to Yang Sen: "Brother Zihui, what do you think of my air force?"
"Mighty and majestic." Yang Sen nodded in praise, but his heart was sour and he was very jealous of this.
I remember when they were in military school together, Liu Xiang was ranked last in every exam, while Yang Sen was often among the top.
But now?
Many old classmates in the class were overpowered by Liu Xiangqian, but the most incompetent "Liu Mendun'er" actually developed the best!
Liu Xiang showed off to Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao again, and turned to ask Zhou Hexuan: "Mr. Zhou, how does my air force compare with the central air force and the northeastern air force?"
Zhou Hexuan responded tactfully: "Each has its own characteristics."
Liu Xiang put a lot of effort into establishing the Sichuan Air Force. Three years ago, he sent someone to France with 200,000 silver dollars to order four aircraft. The aircraft parts were shipped to Vietnam for assembly. He originally wanted to fly them back to Sichuan, but...
The first plane crashed into a rice field as soon as it took off. The second plane flew quite far, all the way to the border between Guangxi and Guizhou, when its engine suddenly stalled and the plane crashed during an emergency landing. The pilot was seriously injured.
After two failed test flights, Liu Xiang did not dare to do anything exciting anymore, so he had to ask Lu Zuofu to send a ship for shipment. It was shipped to Shanghai under a British flag, and after passing customs, it was transported all the way back to Sichuan along the Yangtze River.
Now Liu Xiang already owns 14 aircraft, ordered from the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. He is a well-deserved "IWC" air force.
Fourteen planes took off smoothly and performed various "thrilling" flight performances. Sichuan warlords, big and small, looked up and were shocked with their mouths wide open. They were deeply afraid of Liu Xiang's military strength.
After the flight display, the next step is the live ammunition display.
The pilot swooped down with the plane, and the bullets hit the ground target. Although the accuracy was not enough, the sound was still very scary.
After shooting, the bomb is dropped. The plane flies over the crowd of spectators. The bombardier holds the bomb and aims at the target on the ground. When he feels it is in position, he lets go.
Biu!
"Holy shit!"
Seeing that something was wrong, Zhou Hexuan rolled and crawled back, lying down behind the stone steps to avoid the shells.
"boom!"
The shell fell on the teaching group watching the exercise, causing a sudden explosion. Dozens of people in the teaching group were injured and killed in an instant. Even the head of the teaching group, Chang Jiang Yousan, had one of his legs broken.
Liu Xiang was stunned for a moment, and it took him a long time to squeeze out a few words: "Mom sells batches, I'm an immortal like you!"
