Nestorianism, also known as the Assyrian Church of the East, is a branch that split from the Greek Orthodox Church. It was widely spread in the Central Plains during the Tang Dynasty, with hundreds of thousands of followers at its peak.
Especially in Chang'an, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou, it is more prosperous. There are Nestorian Cross Temples in Chang'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou and other places.
However, starting from the Daizong era, the imperial court vigorously promoted Taoism and suppressed Buddhism and Zoroastrianism, so that Nestorianism was gradually suppressed. Many people who originally believed in Nestorianism also gave up their original beliefs and converted to Taoism.
Of the five Nestorian temples in Chang'an, only one remains.
Although the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce believes in Nestorianism, it does not mean that Nestorianism is the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce. Guo Song is very clear about this.
"The other party is just using Nestorianism to control members and brainwash them. It cannot prove that Nestorianism is the Tanghe Chamber of Commerce."
In the political hall, Guo Song introduced the Hanzhong operation to the prime ministers. In response to the prime ministers' doubts, Guo Song explained, "But Nestorianism is indeed an entry point, which is helpful for us to start the Tanghe Chamber of Commerce. We
The internal guards have been ordered to investigate Nestorianism, but the more important reason for calling everyone together today is to discuss with you how to deal with the more than 3,000 young people captured this time."
"Can't we send them back to their respective families?" Cao Wannian asked.
Guo Song shook his head, "Judging from the registration results, they are basically orphans from various places. They were taken to the Hanzhong training camp for brainwashing and simple military training. After reaching the age of twenty, they will be sent to another base for military training.
Training, according to the clues obtained, this training camp is in Lanzhou, Hedong. The Taiyuan Internal Guard has been conducting a comprehensive search for this training camp. Everyone, please tell me! How to place these children? "
Zhang Qianyi, the Minister of Household Affairs, said slowly: "Your Highness, Wei Chen feels that these children must first be classified. Brainwashing for one year is definitely different from brainwashing for ten years, and then determine their harmfulness. If the content of their brainwashing is only loyalty, but not
Instead of destroying and being hostile to the imperial court, things would be much easier to handle.
Wei Chen suggested that young children, such as those aged eleven or twelve, should be sent to school. If they are a little older, they can learn various skills and learn a skill. If they are a little older, they can be sent directly to the government.
Workshop? So that they can support themselves, after all, there are not many people."
Pan Liao also said: "Your Highness? I think these children are not very old? They should be able to be corrected. If we use Nestorianism to re-guide them, I mean the children who have been brainwashed for a long time.
And those eleven or twelve-year-old boys are sent directly to school to learn a skill? I heard that there are many girls. If they are not old, they can read and read, and then learn a skill. If they are a little older, they are sent to work as female workers.
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Guo Song nodded, "What everyone said makes sense? I will hand this matter over to the Political Affairs Hall. We will come to a unified understanding as soon as possible. We will come up with a complete plan, and then hand it over to Zongzheng Temple and Jiangsu Supervisor for implementation."
Is Taichang Temple responsible for various sacrificial ceremonies? Zongzheng Temple is mainly responsible for religious management and Salesian affairs? The Craftsman Supervisor is mainly responsible for training technicians and various official workshops? As for the construction of various large-scale projects, that is the matter of the Metropolitan Water Supervisor
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Guo Song returned to his official room, where Wang Yue and Zhou Min were waiting. Guo Song returned to his seat and sat down, waved his hands and said to the two of them: "Sit down and talk!"
The two of them sat down. Wang Yue leaned forward and said: "From what we know so far, the training camp in Hanzhong has been established for five years. It has sent three batches of more than 400 young men. I doubt the training in Lanzhou."
The battalion also used Nestorianism for control, and I ordered the Taiyuan internal guards to search for the Cross Temple in Lanzhou, which was a very important breakthrough."
Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "The key is that we don't have much time. The other party has suffered successive defeats in Hanzhong and Chang'an. They will inevitably take emergency measures to destroy all evidence and relocate people. We must expand the search scope, not only Nestorian, but also Nestorianism."
Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, farms, livestock farms and other places must be searched. Manpower must be transferred from Chang'an, and ruffians from counties near Lanzhou and Taiyuan must be bribed to let them participate in the investigation. There will definitely be gains. The key is
We must seize the time without any delay.”
"I humbly obey the orders, let's make arrangements now!"
Wang Yue bowed and retreated first. He was about to lead his army to the east of Hedong.
Zhou Min is responsible for tracking down the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce in Chang'an. He started the investigation by selling soldiers and armor on the black market. However, their clues have been cut off now. But after Zhou Min's painstaking investigation in the past few days, they found another clue. According to Li Wulang
Explain that a martial arts gym in Xinfeng County may also be a member of the Tangzhou Association, but this martial arts gym was closed last year, but as long as traces are left, clues can be found.
"Beizhi searched for more than a dozen young people from Xinfeng who had studied martial arts at this martial arts gym. One of them told me that the instructor who taught him martial arts is now at the Changying Martial Arts School in Chang'an. Then I investigated the Changying Martial Arts Hall and found out that he
It was established five years ago. Last year, we bought a vacant land next door, doubled the size of the martial arts gym, and increased the number of people a lot, which coincided with the closure of Xinfeng Martial Arts Gym."
"You mean, Changying Martial Arts School and Xinfeng Martial Arts School merged into one?"
"Is this what humble position means?"
"Have you started investigating?" Guo Song asked again.
Zhou Min nodded, "I got the news this morning that the martial arts gym had put up a suspended sign early in the morning, but our brothers monitoring the martial arts gym reported that no one left the martial arts gym. In addition, there is another detail, including the students of the martial arts gym.
, the instructors all live in the martial arts hall, no one lives outside."
Guo Song took two steps and said decisively: "The other party is likely to evacuate Chang'an. You immediately lead five thousand internal guards to surround the martial arts hall and arrest everyone inside. The Jin Wei Mansion will also participate in the operation."
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Changying Martial Arts School is located in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an City. Since Guo Song ordered the cancellation of the curfew and the closing of the city gates, land prices in the suburbs of Chang'an have risen rapidly. Many foresighted small and medium-sized aristocratic families from all over the country have bought land and built houses in the suburbs.
The suburbs of Chang'an have gradually become lively, especially in the east, along Zhuguan Road, where the dense buildings have extended to more than ten miles away, close to Baqiao.
Changying Martial Arts Hall is three miles east of Chang'an City, covering an area of about ten acres. It originally had five acres, but it bought another five acres and expanded it to ten acres.
Just half an hour after Guo Song gave the order, 5,000 internal guard soldiers and 300 Jinweifu warriors, led by Zhou Min, quickly dispatched and surrounded the Changying Martial Arts Hall in a moment. Several Jinweifu warriors
Just as he climbed over the wall, more than a dozen crossbow arrows were fired through the air. A warrior was unable to dodge and was hit in the left shoulder by an arrow, causing him to fall off the wall.
"It's a crossbow!" the soldiers shouted.
Zhou Min didn't expect that the opponent actually had a crossbow. He was startled. He immediately stopped the warriors of the Jinwei Mansion and said to the inner guards: "Break open the gate, and the sword and shield troops will rush in. Anyone who resists will be killed without mercy!"
Dozens of soldiers held huge battering rams and slammed into the door. With a muffled sound, the door was knocked open.
Five hundred soldiers with swords and shields rushed in. There was a shout inside, and hundreds of martial arts warriors came out with various weapons. Three hundred warriors from the Jinwei Mansion also participated in the battle, and two thousand soldiers from the inner guard immediately came from two sides.
Enter through the side door and the back door.
The martial arts warriors resisted desperately, but they were too weak and were killed by thousands of internal guards in less than a quarter of an hour.
A general led a hundred soldiers into the backyard. He kicked open a door and saw someone burning paper in the room. General Lang rushed in, kicked over the stove, and threw the man to the ground with his backhand.
stand up!"
Several soldiers swarmed up, pushed the people in the room to the ground, and tied them up.
Most of the documents have been burned, but there is still part of it. It can be seen that the people in the martial arts school resisted desperately in order to buy time for this person to burn the secrets.
Zhou Min ordered a thorough search, and they unexpectedly found an underground palace under the newly built martial arts hall, which contained more than one million taels of silver and thousands of weapons.
But Zhou Min was more concerned about confidential documents. He personally led people to search carefully and brought all valuable things back to the inner guard. The most valuable secret among them was a roster with more than 300 people in it, but not
Do you know what they do?
Soon, the internal security personnel who studied the roster found clues that the four clerks from the Bashu Chuanxiang Tea Shop were also among them.
This immediately aroused Zhou Min's strong interest. He realized that this was probably a list of people sent by various shops to the martial arts hall to learn martial arts. Through this list, it was possible to trace the shops of the Tanghe Chamber of Commerce, and then through each shop
By conducting background checks on the shops, the mystery of the Tanghe Chamber of Commerce may be slowly revealed.
Zhou Min immediately organized thirty civil servants, and transported a large amount of store information from the county government and city offices, and began to compare and search overnight.