Everyone with a discerning eye knows that this is the benchmark set by the Great Ming Sage.
Some people even deliberately fabricated rumors to cause trouble and slandered the two as having an improper relationship, but within a few days they were submerged in the tide of the times.
The times are progressing. Whether it is the surviving old and young, or people with ulterior motives, anyone who wants to hold us back will not be able to defeat this overwhelming trend, and will eventually be shattered into pieces and their spirits will be destroyed.
The Great Ming Sage's methods were ruthless, and he suppressed the three main branches of the three avenues and forced the leaders of the two saints to death, causing the vitality of the two lines to be severely damaged and fell into a depression.
Even the Shaolin Temple, the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism, did not dare to raise its head. It dispatched the four holy Buddhas as vanguards at one go, chanted Buddhist scriptures day and night, and saved the souls of the dead. It is said that they almost exhausted them to death. They have not come forward yet and are still doing free work.
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But under such ruthless tactics, those opposing voices became less and less.
It is conceivable that with the passage of time, not to say that it has been completely eliminated, but at least on the surface, no one will arbitrarily arrange and criticize the Great Ming Sage.
The fundamental reason is that the great Ming Sage's methods are not only capable of killing people, but also satisfy most people.
Now, Confucianism has tasted the sweetness. Putting aside Wang Shouming, a newly promoted saintly figure, Confucian disciples in the past thought that they could only be teachers, reading and writing, but now they are happy with it.
What’s the explanation?
The fundamental way of education - enlightenment!
Open up the wisdom of the people, open up the wisdom of all spirits, open up the wisdom of heaven and earth!
Now, it is only the preliminary stage. Some great Confucian scholars have already foreseen that the next step of the Great Ming Sage will be to prepare to open up the wisdom of all spirits.
How to open?
In the words of the Great Ming Sage, it is a cultural invasion.
Use human culture to educate alien races, influence hundreds of millions of creatures, and fundamentally change the minds of alien races.
Just imagine, if the Confucians achieved such great achievements, wouldn't they be unhappy?
If they had not been severely suppressed before, Confucian disciples would probably be grateful to the Great Ming Sage now!
Therefore, Confucianism actively cooperates with various propaganda tasks assigned by the Holy Temples.
As long as the alien territory is conquered, the holy temples will support Confucianism and establish pure Confucian academies.
Of course, it is only limited to the territory of foreign races and the orthodox territory of the human race in China. Such academies are never allowed to be established. This is an iron law of the temples and an edict issued by the Great Ming Sage himself.
It’s not that the Confucian people have never thought that when the Confucian energy is restored, they can use the power of foreign races to counterattack the human race.
But in the eyes of the saints, this is just wishful thinking.
All people are enlightened. The new generation of students has gone through systematic education and has been influenced by generations. It has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. How can they go back?
What's more, everyone can see that as long as the Great Ming Sage is around, this situation will never happen.
If a great master in the holy realm dies of old age or has an accident, Confucian disciples may not have the chance to see this day even if they endure for dozens of generations.
But in any case, after Confucianism suffered several major blows, it still gained new life.
Besides, although Taoists do not have as many disciples as Confucianism, and they do not have the ability to teach and educate people, they cannot help but have so many cool Taoist techniques!
Under the guidance of the Great Ming Sage, the development of various magical talismans was in full swing and entered thousands of households.
The tenet of Taoism is to be quiet and inactive, without fighting against the world.
Even if a strong person can live without food, his disciples still have to eat, drink, and worry about food, clothing, housing, and transportation, right?
As a result, various new industries based on these novel talismans have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, providing countless labor positions.
Buddhism has also suffered suppression, and it is also extremely unpopular with the Great Ming Sage. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that.
But during this period, a great Buddhist monk also saw an opportunity.
Confucianism can open academies in foreign countries, but why can't Buddhism open temples and promote Buddhism?
For this reason, even the various prohibitions issued by the Great Ming Sage that made Buddhism miserable, they pinched their noses and accepted them before getting permission.
What ban?
Except for the monastery itself, the monastery is strictly prohibited from owning private property of land. Monks have no right to purchase any permanent land and houses, but can only rent them, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., a series of decrees that everyone considers to be extremely strict.
Just when there was a lot of commotion over this matter, someone from the historians spoke up, clearly pointing out the various dangers of Buddhist temples.
It's all trivial to deceive believers and steal money from incense.
In those dark places where the golden Buddha's light cannot shine, temples lend money one after another, destroying countless families.
What’s even more outrageous is that Buddhism does not pay taxes.
In China, where Buddhism flourishes, in one town, if there are many, there will be four or five large and small temples with thousands of monks around.
Even if only half of them are young and strong, they are still a huge labor force. However, if these people do not engage in production or pay taxes, they will have a huge impact and even destroy the local economic environment.
Moreover, more than half of them are not real monks, but are using the name of Buddha to evade taxes and corvee.
Well, now, the Great Ming Sage has decreed that Buddhism must not only pay taxes, but also must go to the local government and issue a shockingly detailed certificate before the government can issue a certificate and become a monk.
Otherwise, he is a fake monk and will go to jail!
As soon as this incident came out, the whole country was in an uproar. At the same time, the people had another thing to talk about.
The sage had nothing to do, but was in charge of women giving birth to children, getting married, dividing and inheriting family property, and now he was in charge of the monks!
But let’s not talk about it yet, Buddhism was so stunned that he didn’t even dare to say a word of rebuttal.
In the past, temples that had never been taken seriously by local officials are now mostly deserted and their incense has faded.
Why do you say?
Now everyone worships the saint, who still worships those clay sculptures?
It has to be said that the Great Ming Sage went to great lengths to suppress Buddhism. He even forced those extremely evil people who had committed many evil deeds and hid in Buddhism to be escorted by Buddhism themselves to the Security Department to surrender.
Putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha immediately would not work with the Great Ming Sage.
As long as you do evil, even if you escape into Buddhism, the sage will rescue you and punish you properly.
When the order from the various temples was issued to investigate Buddhism, you would not know if you did not investigate, and you would be shocked if you did.
There is no temple that does not harbor rogues and criminals. What's more, the temples are full of gangsters. They eat fast and pray during the day, rob believers at night, kill people and set fires. They do everything they can.
Even in the Shaolin Temple, the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism, two semi-holy Buddhas were found out and paraded through the streets in public by all the temples. In the end, they were tortured without even being given a chance to do labor camps.
At this point, the prestige of Buddhism has almost dropped to a freezing point. It can be said that among hundreds of Buddhist traditions, it is the only one that has not reaped any benefits.
It’s no wonder, after all, how many normal people can tolerate the clear rules and precepts of orthodox Buddhism?
Don't look at the fact that the whole human race is recruiting soldiers, but life is getting better day by day. You can eat meat, drink wine, marry a wife and have children. How stupid do you have to be to become a monk?
Ever since, when word leaked out that the Great Ming Sage had opened the door for convenience and was preparing to allow Confucians to open orthodox academies in foreign lands, a group of old monks who were about to be driven crazy could not sit still.
I don’t know how unequal the treaty was signed before the Ming Dynasty changed its mind and agreed that Buddhism and Confucianism should enjoy equal treatment.
After continuous elimination and stimulation, the three avenues were all submissive and there was no more noise.
Even the three major sects were defeated, not to mention the other sects. Legalists, military strategists, political strategists and other younger disciples took the lead in charging into the battle, and they all benefited greatly.
Not to mention the preachers and military strategists, the strategists and strategists have received the guidance of the Great Ming Sage and have now become the top people in the human race's foreign ministry. The number of saints is increasing day by day, and it is said that some people are preparing to be canonized.
Although I don’t know if it’s true or not, it’s true that I got great benefits. Who wouldn’t be jealous?
Now, all the orthodox schools know that no one can stop the Great Ming Sage, and they all know that following the Great Ming Sage will have meat to eat.
The three great principles are indeed strong, but they cannot stand up to the wall and everyone rejects them.
There used to be three religions and nine schools, which made other schools hate the three religions. Why are you the top three religions and we can only be the bottom nine schools?
The conflict has been planted for a long time and is even deep-rooted, but the three religions have big fists and dare not speak out in anger.
Now it's good, the saints descended from heaven, no one can compare with the great Ming Sage's fist, even the three religions have been conquered, if we don't develop now, when will we wait?
Just like now, there are rumors that there is an unclear relationship between the Valkyrie Bai Xing and the Great Ming Sage, which makes hundreds of families unhappy.
But unfortunately, the common people who don't know the truth are really happy like this. The saint is not a mortal. What's wrong with marrying a Valkyrie? Only such a woman is worthy of the saint.
The common people may think so, but hundreds of schools of thought do not think so. The Taoist companions of the Great Ming Sage are extremely valuable, and they are truly top-notch.
For this reason, each family even launched a vigorous and vigorous election. Compared with the emperor's selection of concubines and other fierce handsome selections, no one was willing to lag behind.
The commotion was so big that the Great Ming Sage personally took action to suppress this 'evil trend'.
But in the end, there was another rumor that spread like wildfire, with noses and eyes.
Xu Qiulan, the newly promoted farmer saint of the peasant family, is the Taoist companion of the Ming Dynasty Saint. Now, the people of China are excited about it, especially the ordinary people's families, they are even more happy.
To say that the legalists and military strategists benefited the most from this era of change would be an injustice to them.
The biggest one is undoubtedly the farmer who has made a lot of money in silence and has never had any sense of existence.
All kinds of new crops are like blooming flowers, vying for beauty in the farmland, and the accompanying by-products are countless, and farmers are indispensable.
As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for people.
If you don't have enough to eat, let alone go to school and respond to the military draft, I'm afraid chaos will break out and bandits will be everywhere!
Especially when Xu Qiulan, the newly promoted peasant saint of the peasant family, succeeded in breaking through the realm and becoming a saint, and became the head of the new Ministry of Agriculture in the temples, becoming the head of a department, and together with the Valkyrie Bai Xing, became a role model for women in the world.
The reason why no one thought of linking this person with the Great Ming Sage at first was because they were afraid of the saint’s power, and secondly, this person was too low-key!
It is low-key and does not have much of a presence. It usually researches and develops emerging crops and how to increase yields.
Today's farmers are no longer the forces that used to manipulate public opinion and cause chaos in the name of uprising. Instead, they are truly devoted to the vision of how to benefit the people.
Just like this war, the Ministry of Agriculture also played an indispensable role. If they had not been working day and night to develop new crops and increase production, how would they have ensured sufficient food and grass so that the soldiers had no worries? (To be continued)