Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2600 learning from scriptures, lack of scriptures

  Chang'an, Hushi General's Mansion.

  『This is the letter sent by the fast horse...』 A guard presented the information in his hand.

   Fei Qian took it, opened it, looked up and down, and nodded.

   It’s only one aspect of information, and Feiqian needs other information to supplement it, and this other source of information comes from Yang Fu in Xining.

  This information is the supplementary details sent from Xining.

The people who learned the scriptures did not move quickly, and slowly traveled all the way from Longyou to Longxi, and Fei Qian could send pigeons to get in touch with Xining, first to obtain some relevant information, and then asked Yang Fu to continue to send people to the snow area to investigate. Learn some questions.

  First of all, it is confirmed that there are "some" people who learn from the scriptures.

  Pretending to be an envoy to cheat is actually not a rare thing in Chinese history.

  The Ming Dynasty had the most.

  Why did the Ming Dynasty have the most? Because the sea was banned in the Ming Dynasty, there was a sign (except for tribute), so naturally a large group of people specialized in this business, and they also lied to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and wrote some lion Fu, originally wanting to show off , As a result, he crackled and slapped himself on the mouth.

  Of course, not only in ancient China, but also in foreign countries. Hu Jian’s maritime merchants pretended to be officials and went to the South China Sea, and there were Arabs who pretended to be Chinese special envoys and went to the Mediterranean to cheat. There are too many. So don't think that ancient people didn't know how to use information asymmetry to do things...

  The people who learned the scriptures really came from the snow area.

  Yang Fu described the relevant investigation in the letter, saying that there were traces to follow, and it was not the kind of "message from foreign countries" that appeared after a few people pondered in the tent.

  As for the detailed identity of the person who learned the scriptures and his status in the snow area, further verification is needed.

  Because people have social attributes, Fei Qian needs this person who learns from the scriptures, but it does not mean that he only needs his identity of "learning from the scriptures"...

   After reading the information, Fei Qian handed the information to Pang Tong who was at the side, and motioned Pang Tong to read it too.

After these two days of adjustments, Pang Tong gradually recovered, and decided to take some time after he was busy with the previous things in spring, preferably before Zhongxia, after all, Zhongxia has relatively few things to do, and then He can quickly take Wuguan Road to Wancheng.

  In order to achieve this goal, Pang Tong now needs to lose weight and exercise every day...

  The road to Wuguan is not very easy to walk, you can walk on horseback, and even in some places, you have to dismount and walk. If you want to take a car comfortably, it is definitely not possible. Therefore, Pang Tong had to lose at least one or two chins first, otherwise he would not know whether he was exhausted first or the horse was exhausted first.

  However, exercising doesn't happen overnight, or if it becomes muscle ablation, there is really no way for Dahan.

   Right now, let’s deal with the matter of the Buddhist scriptures first.

  When humans think, God laughs.

   Shi Yuan was thinking, and Fei Qian smiled.

  The five gods are also gods.

   General Hussars is also Party A.

Religion inherently has the function of eroding thought. It is like a double-edged sword. How to use it well is now placed in front of the hussars, and it is also placed in front of all the upper-middle-level people who participated in this incident of learning from the scriptures. In front of officials.

  Most officials don't believe in any religion. At the same time, it is also very interesting that once the officials began to believe in religion, a large part of them could not be good officials.

   Therefore, Fei Qian is unwilling to vigorously promote religion in China.

  Especially when the leaders and those in power believe in religion, it is often a sign of the beginning of the collapse of their regime. Many emperors have personally verified this point in history, and once those in power believe in or are obsessed with religion, it will also cause large-scale corruption and amassing money by middle- and low-level officials...

The virtues of these Chinese officials are generally regarded as traditional, and those who have no interests are just thunder and no rain, repost and repost, study, study and study, and it's over. Rain, the crime of human trafficking by officials can also be evaded to the order and process, and the common people can be fined to lose their entire family if they cut down a tree at the door.

  That's why Fei Qian didn't mention the so-called real people of the Wufang Catholicism. It's just because of the consideration of the overall strategy that there is no such sycophantic behavior of reprimanding Qiao Bing and others below.

  Taoism is a tool, and Confucianism is also a tool. If you say that tools are your own destiny, you are naturally putting the cart before the horse.

  『Yellow scarves, five buckets, although the scriptures are good, the users are not good. Fei Qian said slowly, "Bewitching life and death, falsely claiming the kingdom of heaven, in the end they are just a small group of ambitious people... Now that you think about it, you should take it as a warning..."

  "The so-called fabricated scriptures are naturally not usable..." Pang Tong nodded silently, and after a while he said, "This is the "true scripture"...what should I give it?" 』

  In Qiao Bing in Longxi, he was lying when he said that Fei Qian had decided on some scriptures. He was just trying to perfunctory Wei Kang.

   In fact, Fei Qian still has a headache about this problem.

   This is a big and difficult problem.

In fact, it is not just the Yellow Turban and the Five Dou. In the history of many feudal dynasties, the religions have finally gone to fool the people. They used methods such as bewitching, deceiving, and defrauding to ingest money, split accounts, bribe officials, and form localities. It's regional so what...

In fact, these guys who cheat in religious cloaks are not because the officials can't see clearly, nor is it that the superiors are completely deceived, but sometimes the superiors don't want the inferiors to think, and they don't want to push away the pressure on the wisdom of the people. those stones.

  If the people start to think about it, then there won’t be enough streetlights!

  Therefore, compared with the matter of enlightening the people, the superior of the feudal dynasty prefers to use religion to paralyze.

   Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism.

  Yes, Confucianism has become similar to religion in the later period. Aren't the various etiquettes and rules that the gods talk about are the same rules and regulations as other religions? In the end, Confucianism couldn’t get rid of the problem of idealism. When it came to Wang Mingyang’s place, “mind is reason”, there is still some kind of inborn knowledge. Except for freaks like Fei Qian, who can know it from birth? Past, present and future? Is it also similar to the Buddhist "Buddha in the heart" and others?

Among the later generations, some people don’t like to go around, they like to go straight, whether they are stabbed or stabbed by others, it’s best to see blood when they go down with a knife, and then they see the ancient times, or when they go around When things go around, I feel very unhappy, irritable, and feel that it is a waste of time, but these people have never considered why they become irritable, anxious, like simple and direct things, and don't like to use their brains? Since when did it become like this, was it like this from childhood? When was that little person who was full of curiosity about the world and liked to ask why was defeated, shattered, and disappeared?

   It’s still the same old saying, which kind of person would the ruler of a feudal dynasty prefer to accept, the one with evil intentions or the one with courage?

To a certain extent, in the feudal dynasty, it is to cultivate these people who like to simplify, don't like to think, and have no curiosity about the outside world. However, the trend of thought in the whole society gradually degenerates, making it difficult for China to move forward and close the country. .

   Therefore, what Fei Qian wants more is to use the enlightenment effect of religion, rather than another effect of religion, the paralysis effect.

  Classes are inevitable, but as long as classes can still flow, society as a whole will still have a certain degree of activity.

After having surplus value, classes will inevitably be created. During times of social turmoil, anyone has the opportunity to break the class gap, but in a relatively stable stage, it is not the so-called "simple effort" that can cross classes. .

  "Simple effort" can at most keep the original class from falling, but to break through the original class and reach a higher level requires not only "excess effort" but also a certain amount of luck. After all, in this world, if you work hard, you will definitely be rewarded.

   There is no reward, the harder you work, the more painful it will be,

  So the paralysis of religion... well, or the role of "***joy" is reflected. Different eras are just different institutions, but their functions are still the same, and the corresponding groups are also the same.

...

  After all, in the era when most people have no way to receive education, the natural collection function of religion can replace part of the knowledge enlightenment, of course, only a small part. Although this small part also includes knowledge distorted by religion, for those ancient people who were blindfolded and plugged their ears at birth, it was a little light in the darkness, supporting them able to survive.

  So, you can't blindly veto, and you can't blindly condone.

   To use it well, there must be a system.

   To have a system, you need to have Taoist scriptures as a basis.

   Feiqian said slowly, "Although the five gods are fictional, the congregation... are all real." Since it is true, there should be norms...in the scriptures, there should be meaning...』

  『The current difficulty is like this. Temporary editing is obviously inappropriate. If there are mistakes in the scriptures at that time, it will be added later..." Pang Tong glanced at Fei Qian, "Can you use...well, I mean, first replace one or two with other scriptures... It’s just that in this way, I always feel that… it seems a bit inappropriate, but I can’t think of what’s wrong…”

  『Replacement? 』Fei Qian frowned, not knowing why, but felt that there seemed to be some problems with this method.

   Travelers are not omnipotent.

  Although Fei Qian knows a lot, it is because of the blessing of the rich information of later generations, plus the office staff, chatting and spanking all day long, so naturally he has developed some skills. Not to mention, the level of Feiqian is really nothing. If you don’t believe me, go to Kyoto and find a taxi, just ask a question, and the master will say that all kinds of international and domestic political and current affairs will not be repeated in a day...

  Office staff, overall planning, personnel arrangement, tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, it is normal to do this kind of replacement work, but Feiqian doesn't know why at the moment, and feels that it doesn't seem very good to just replace it like this.

  Although there is indeed a big hole in the Taoist scriptures.

   A fairly large hole.

   These are all problems left over from history.

  Buddhism does not have this problem. Of course, Buddhism is not flourishing yet.

  The scriptures that those Buddhist disciples took in the future are all foreign goods, and they read it all over, do you understand? Om, muddy, do you understand? It’s easy if you don’t understand, er, wrong, I’ll teach you if you don’t understand, look, this is a so-and-so scripture, here’s another scripture, and there’s another scripture here the scriptures...

  So there is no need to worry about Buddhist classics.

   Confucian children on the other side, everyone understands that virtue.

   This one belongs to my master, this one belongs to my master’s relative, this one belongs to my master’s relative’s friend, and the other one too, all belong to my family!

  Originally, Confucianism only had the Five Classics, but later it quietly became the Six Classics. When I turned my head, hey, it became the Nine Classics, and in the blink of an eye, it became the Thirteen Classics! If it weren't for the later generations looking pale, so many scriptures, coupled with a large group of annotations, and then deriving a mountain-like explanation, it is really impossible to read or memorize. Come up with some forty-two classics.

   In comparison, the disciples of Taoism are quite pitiful.

  When Fei Qian thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh. What did those Huang Laos, those big men who founded the country, go to do?

  What about Zhang Liang? Stand up and talk about you, even if you make up the story yourself, you have to do it all, and you can just make a "Sushu" and you're done? Who can understand it, even those readers who shout for water every day and like to dry out dregs can't understand it, so how can they promote it? And that "Three Strategies of Huangshi Gong", it's too polite, only three strategies? This is the three strategies? !

   Moreover, the "Plain Book" and "Three Strategies" are also too targeted, so that the emperor read it. If a smart person reads it, then it's okay? So with a big wave of his hand, all the stars and stars are gone, so that even if the people behind want to search for a pirated version, they can't find the full text...

  As for the "Plain Book" of later generations, that's just haha. After all, it was written by the ancients, and this was done in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period.

   Fei Qian scratched his head, feeling a little annoyed, it was all caused by Fei Qian and Zuo Ciqiao's chatting together before. Everyone thought that he already had an idea in his mind, but in fact Fei Qian didn't think about it at all...

   What Fei Qian, Zuo Ciqiao and others were talking about before is the basic teaching of Taoism.

   It is not difficult to discuss these, but the specific scriptures are difficult.

  For example, what is "Tao", Laozi talked about it, only five thousand words.

If you still feel that the five thousand words of Lao Tzu seem unreasonable, then it will be simpler, with the pursuit of "Tao" as the goal of belief, "Tao" as the method of cultivation, and "Tao" as the thought to inform and educate all living beings, and the pursuit of "Tao" Harmony and peace in the world, with the "Tao" to finally achieve peace and happiness, longevity and vision, attaining the Tao and becoming immortal...

   What Fei Qian and Zuo Ci discussed was this, and only this.

  What did Zuo Ci do in the first place? He didn't even know what to say, not even what he believed in. The way of cultivation is also very chaotic, it is bigu, golden elixir, swallowing clouds and mist to collect the essence of the sun and the moon, etc. It is hard to say what goal to achieve, but in the end, I met Fei Qian, and I went through it from beginning to end , and immediately named Fei Qian as a fellow...

   Well, this word, forget it, it’s probably the same thing.

  As for Fei Qian, Qiao Bing and others discussing and confirming the five gods, the main thing is to confirm the origin of "Tao".

After all, it is said in the original Taoism that Taoism existed before the world was divided. It started before the insignificant catastrophe. Floating up, turbid and condensing down, and then breaking out of heaven and earth. And from the beginning of Xuanyuan three qi, transformed into three days. Laojun’s eyes are turned into the sun and moon, hairs are turned into stars, muscles are turned into fertile soil, bones are turned into hard rocks, breath is turned into wind and clouds, voice and the light in eyes are turned into thunder and lightning, and the blood in the body is turned into Turn into rivers and lakes, hair into vegetation...

  Wait, Laojun?

   Isn't this Pangu's work?

  Then those primitive Taoist guys groaned for a long time, and righteously said that Pangu was transformed by Laojun, and later Laojun transformed into Xuanyuan, Huangdi, and Laozi in the Spring and Autumn Period...

  As for the eighty-one incarnations of Laojun, it was near the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. At that time, Taoist Wang Fu debated with Bo Yuan, a monk from aristocratic background, but lost repeatedly in the debate. In desperation, he forged the "Lao Tzu Hua Hu Jing", claiming that Lao Tzu traveled westward and reincarnated as Sakyamuni Buddha. And the Buddhists were not to be outdone, and fought back, claiming that Lao Tzu was actually a disciple of the Buddha, and the two sides immediately began to show "great transformation", and everything was transformed.

Fei Qian was not so bad. He pointed out that the confusion of the specific idols in primitive Taoism and the system of Taoist gods was not conducive to the development of religion. kind of contradiction. The simpler the religion, the purer the belief. Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, the five-party religion is proposed. On the one hand, it is combined with some foundations of the original Taoism, and on the other hand, it is simple and easy to implement.

   Laojun’s eighty-one incarnations, such a complicated process, so many complicated incarnations, really speaking, which class in the feudal dynasty is expected to remember? That's right, only the children of the gentry who can read and have a certain amount of knowledge can understand, and understand the ins and outs of the eighty-one incarnations, or understand the plot of their stories.

  But this is equivalent to the fact that Taoism had a wrong target at the beginning. To accept this kind of believers from the gentry is actually competing with Confucianism.

For example, when preaching in the past, why not call the names of the five gods directly? This is simply an idea that came up with a stick. What Fei Qian wants is an upright sect, and it is not a secret sect. Most of them are persecuted People who are used to it and are ready to run away at any time can come up with such a pattern.

  Because there is no standard missionary point, and no specific goals have been found, so Taoism did not develop well in the late Huaxia period, and even Buddhism could not do it. The root lies here. After Buddhism was introduced to China, seeing that it was impossible to go up, it immediately turned down, and then came up with a set of templates for heart realization and epiphany, which even lost the meaning of the scriptures. became...

   Such problems, Fei Qian corrected them one by one, and there was no time to touch on the Taoist scriptures.

Today, after Fei Qian came up with the new system of the five-party Catholic religion, the development of Taoism has expanded rapidly. Whether it is the preaching of Taoism itself or the channels of ordinary people, it is more convenient and faster than the original model. More effective.

   It also attracted the Buddhist scriptures from the snow area, but this is the embarrassing problem. The Buddhist scriptures came, but there were no scriptures to give...

  (end of this chapter)