After learning about the outcome of the Battle of Baima Mountain, Zhao Ran was very concerned about the losses to the Xia Kingdom, especially the life and death of Ye Li Xiaohou. He beheaded 4,700 people and captured more than 10,000 people. Was there Ye Li Huaide among these people?
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Zhao Ran wanted to send a flying talisman to ask Xin Cheng'an last night, but Xin Cheng'an had already accepted Zhao Ran's suggestion and left Xingqing Mansion to avoid the limelight. At this moment, he didn't know whether he was at Tianmatai Temple or Jialan Temple.
According to the agreement between the two, Zhao Ran could not take the initiative to send flying talismans to Xinchengan. God knows what he was doing. It was very likely that Xinchengan was drinking tea with a Buddhist monk, but Zhao Ran passed by with a flying talisman and said, "A
"The white light suddenly penetrated the forehead", and then Xin Chengan might be in tragedy...
Huantou returns to the issue of credibility.
It is useless to complain about Dong Zhikun now. It is only right to find out more clearly from the old capital. What exactly is the ranking of believers' trust? It is actually simple to say, it is the measure of the trust that each place absorbs and submits to the Lushan General View.
More than six hundred years ago, the expansion of Buddhism became more and more intense. In addition to occupying more and more sacred caves and a large number of elixirs and minerals and other resources, a large number of high-ranking officials and ordinary people joined Buddhism and became followers and disciples of Buddhism. This is the right response.
The most deadly threat to Taoism.
Seeing the massive loss of trust among believers, the Taoist sect could no longer sit still, and finally launched a violent attack, triggering a decades-long war between Buddhism and Taoism. In the end, it won an unprecedented victory and took the land of the Central Plains into its hands.
After expelling Buddhism from the Central Plains, Taoism was also very dissatisfied with the Li Tang royal family. The Li Tang royal family, which originally respected Taoism as the state religion and recognized Laojun as their ancestor, played a very bad role in the growth of Buddhism, especially when Empress Wu came to power.
During this period, they strongly supported Buddhism and even encouraged various places to build Dayun Temple and directly listed it as an official temple.
After the mid-Tang Dynasty, Emperors Daizong, Dezong, Xianzong and other emperors all worshiped Buddhism, causing Buddhism to further grow in size, and finally became comparable to Taoism.
Therefore, after the Dao Sect took over the Central Plains, it directly ended the rule of the Li Tang royal family, and the Li Tang world, which had been inherited for more than three hundred years, changed hands.
Back then, as one of the core leaders of the Taoist sect, Du Guangting, the great fax master, once said something that is still regarded as a guideline: "If you want elixirs and mines, I will give them to you with both hands: you can build temples and temples in my cave heaven and blessed land.
I am good to my neighbors; if you modify my scriptures for your own use, I will read them carefully for you. But if you want my trust, don't blame me for destroying you!"
The power of faith is different from the merits absorbed by Zhao Ran. It is the power of the believers' wishes to pray for blessings. Putting a stick of incense, chanting Taoist scriptures, and making a vow will generate faith. These faith powers are specially refined by the Taoist magic weapon -
-It is absorbed by the statues and sent to the faith pool of the Lushan General View to be converted into divine water. The Lushan General View can measure the amount of faith absorbed by each statue through the special faith transformation magic weapon - Jiuzhou Fangyuan Ding.
When Zhao Ran built the Junshan Temple, Cai Yunshen made a special trip to inspect and test the statue before refining it. This was for this purpose.
According to Bai Du, Guyang County's credibility in the 19th year of Jiajing's reign was more than 863,000 Gui, ranking tenth among the 92 counties in Sichuan Province. Gui is the unit used to measure the credibility of Taoism in this world.
, about as heavy as ten grains of corn.
Among them, Junshan Temple contributed more than 336,000 Gui. Excluding Junshan Temple, Guyang County’s revenue was only more than 527,000 Gui. As a top county, it ranks first in the province.
Fifty-seven, which is seriously inconsistent with the situation of Dingkou, a decrease of nearly 200,000 Gui compared with five years ago.
Zhao Ran found it very interesting after hearing this, and pestered Bai Du to explain it and learned a lot. For example, Jian Jiguan issues a highly confidential pamphlet every year, and those who are qualified to read it can use it for comparison; another example is
Although there are no explicit provisions in Jianji Guan, the amount of credibility often becomes an important indicator to measure the ability of the prison; for example, the Taoist Society will use this booklet to promptly discover and deal with problems such as the Eight Immortals Sect that arise in various places...
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Before returning to the promotion office, Bai Du said the last thing: "Since Junshan Temple is so outstanding, there are some things that should be fought for."
"Something" - what is it? "Fight for it" - what are you fighting for? Bai Du said these words, which seemed to have profound meaning, but also seemed to say nothing, making Zhao Ran fall into deep thought.
After the great fasting ceremony for the heroes and martyrs, the Sichuan Province Daomen Grand Conference began.
On the twenty-second day of the first lunar month, at three o'clock, in the main hall of the Titiao Office, more than three hundred Taoist priests sat in three rows on the east and west sides facing each other. These Taoist priests were the helmsmen of provincial temples, palaces, county courts and even rural temples.
Representing more than 12,000 ordained Taoist priests in the jungles of the entire Sichuan Province, he is the spiritual leader of the eight million believers in the entire Sichuan Province.
Directly in the north, under the Sanqing statue are four yellow wooden chairs. On the first chair from the left is the Governor of Western Sichuan Military Affairs Zhou Gao, on the second chair is Li Yunhe of the Xuanyuan Guanyuan, and to the right are Yue Tengzhong, the colleague of the Daomen Western Sichuan Promotion Office.
, Xuanyuan Guandu is in charge of Zhao Yun Tower.
Zhao Ran is the lowest-level temple priest, and his position is in the third row on the west side. Because Junshan Temple has the smallest number of ordained Taoist priests and fire-working lay practitioners, and Zhao Ran is the youngest, so he is ranked among all
The last person in the temple can reach out and touch the threshold of the main hall.
When arranging the seats on the first day, Zhao Zhixing originally wanted to adjust the seats and put him first among the temple blessings on the grounds that Zhao Ran was a monk in the temple. However, when Zhao Ran learned about it, he quickly went to find Zhao Zhixing and insisted on following the arrangement.
The original order of seating. Since he was hanging out in the jungle of ten directions, he didn't want to appear too unique. When necessary, he even wanted everyone to forget his identity as a monk.
The first day's discussion ended with a summary of the war, rewards and punishments, merits and demerits. In the past eight years, there were more than 6,000 jungle Taoist priests from all directions who entered the Baima Mountain War Zone to participate in the war in the Daomen of Sichuan Province. They were in charge of Zhao Yun Tower in Xuanyuan Temple.
In the announced list of rewards and punishments, a total of 318 Taoist priests were commended, accounting for about 5%. This shows that the Taoist sect's assessment of military merit is quite strict.
These Taoist priests who have made meritorious deeds have been promoted to varying degrees and given elixirs, land, silver and other rewards. Among them, more than 100 people who have achieved special honors have also been awarded Sangu Dan and the opportunity to participate in the Ascension Altar. Especially
For the latter, the rewards are quite generous, and it is also the first time in the history of the Taoist sect that the Ascension Altar has been held on a large scale.
The others also received different levels of silver rewards, and a resume was added to the dianzhuofang file as an important reference for future promotions. Zhao Ran was also rewarded because he had a record of participating in the Battle of Baima Mountain issued by the Promotion Department.
Thirty taels of silver, which was recorded by Xuanyuan Guan.
Of course, more than fifty Taoist priests were notified of punishment, and the most serious ones were to take back the Taoist ultimatum and be expelled from the Taoist sect. I heard that hundreds of Taoist priests were beheaded on the spot during the war, but these would not be mentioned in the big meeting.