Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 314 History
"There must be a lot of important things recorded on the stele, otherwise it wouldn't have been deliberately dismantled like this." Fan Meng immediately understood what Liang En meant to express by those words just now. "But this ruin is so big, where can we find the stele?"

It's just a matter of luck. "Liang En said with a sigh, and at the same time put two hands on the base of the stele, and then used a [Detection (R)] card.

Soon, the effect of the card showed the location of the treasure. Unexpectedly, the location of the treasure was not too far away. Compared with the situation of the previous drone investigation, it was soon found that it seemed to be the ruins of a building.

"We can start searching from these rooms first." Liang En said, pointing to the ruins of those buildings. "Especially the houses that didn't burn, but collapsed."

"I guess that although such taboo words should be destroyed and discarded, ordinary people probably won't waste time and effort dragging those heavy things far away."

"So the most likely thing to do is to find a room or something like a well and throw the fragments of the stele into it, and then destroy the room or fill the well."

"Your analysis makes sense." Fan Meng and Joan of Arc nodded after listening to Liang En's analysis, and then dispersed and began to investigate the surroundings centering on those stele pavilions.

"There's something here!" Just over half an hour later, Joan of Arc found something in the ruins in front of her. Although she didn't know Chinese characters, she at least knew what kind of fragments the stone tablet engraved with Chinese characters should be. what it looks like.

"That's right, you found the right one." Liang En said excitedly after reading the text on these pieces of rubble, because this place is where he used the card to mark it, and more importantly, those things can clearly be seen as steles part.

When it got dark, Fan Meng and Joan of Arc quickly built a camp with the help of the wreckage, and began to heat up the field food packs.

Liang En used the light of the strong flashlight to clean up the soil on the steles, and then used the light to check the words recorded on the steles one by one.

"Dinner is ready, Liang En—" Just as he was concentrating on examining the writing on the stone tablet, Jeanne of Arc came over with the hot broth and biscuits and placed them beside him, and said.

"This kind of research work often takes a long time to complete, so you should eat first, and then you will have time to study after eating. There is no need to hurry like this now."

"Thank you, but you are wrong about the second point. This kind of research is really in a hurry." Liang En said after taking the food from Joan's hand.

"After all, we didn't get any permission to excavate here, so at most we have to report this site to the local cultural relics management agency by tomorrow morning, so the time we can study is only tonight."

So after eating, Liang En devoted himself to the research again. The god of good luck favored him, so at around 11 o'clock in the evening, he successfully found the most important thing from a stone tablet. information.

"Persuasion is pure and bright, with great wisdom. Supreme and true, Mani Light Buddha." These few lines on the remnant stele let Liang En know what was going on here and what happened to the war that year. thing.

Obviously, from these few lines, it can be deduced that this place is not a Buddhist temple as Liang En thought before, but a temple belonging to Manichaeism, and the previous relief is also the image of Mani.

Manichaeism is a religion that has disappeared in modern times. Its founder, Mani, was born on April 216, 4 in Southern Babylon, the territory of the Persian Empire at that time.

According to legend, before he was born, an angel appeared in his mother's dream, saying that he would have a noble mission. At the age of 12, the angel made him break away from the heresy of Christianity that he originally believed in. At the age of 24, the angel gave instructions again. , asking him to openly come forward to found a religion.

From then on, he regarded himself as the incarnation of the Holy Spirit and all knowledge, the messenger of light sent by the gods to the world, and began to preach to the people around him.

At first, only his father and a few other believers were willing to believe in him, so he began to travel far away. He first arrived at Tessiphon, the capital of the Sasanian Persian Dynasty, and then went to India and Central Asia.

In India, he successfully converted King Duran to Manichaeism, and then won the friendship of the brother of Sasanian king Shapur, the governor of Khorasan, and was introduced to the king.

From the book "Shabulgan" presented to the king, we can clearly see the establishment of Manichaeism, which absorbed the teachings of Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Buddhism.

And Mani aspired to create a universal religion that contained the essence of all existing religions and was not bound by national and ethnic boundaries.

Apparently, this kind of religious teaching just met the needs of the nascent Sasanian dynasty to strengthen centralization and external expansion, so Mani became an important minister of King Shabul.

With the support of the Persian Empire at that time, Mani sent his disciples to Egypt, Mesopotamia and even Central Asia to preach, and this religion began to spread to various places.

From the documents handed down now, it can be seen that the dualism of good and evil within Manichaeism, the eschatology of the creation of man by gods, and the theory of salvation basically all came from the several major religions that existed at that time.

But the biggest difference from other religions is that Manichaeism believes that the future of the world is also pessimistic, and the best ending is to return the world to its original state.

And this kind of absolute pessimism will naturally deviate from the requirements of secular rulers and mainstream major religions, and will naturally not be welcomed by mainstream society.

Therefore, after the death of Shapur and his eldest son Hormizd, Bahran I immediately opposed the policies of his father and brother after he succeeded to the throne, and persecuted Manichaeism with the support of the Zoroastrian monk group.

Mani himself was imprisoned and tortured, and was killed in prison on February 61 at the age of 2.Legend has it that he was skinned to death and stuffed with straw over the city gate.

After his death, the believers were persecuted and massacred on a large scale. Mani's successor, the French king Sith at the time, was also tortured and executed by mutilation. Afterwards, many believers fled abroad and established churches in North Africa, West Asia, Europe and Central Asia. group.

Manichaeism has a huge religious organization, which is usually divided into five levels. The first level is 12 light messengers, the second level is 72 guardians, and the third level is 360 elders.The fourth level is ordinary monks, and the fifth level is ordinary believers.

From this setting, it can be seen that the 12 Lightbringers should imitate the 12 apostles of Christianity, and the division of believers into clergy and general ordinary lines may be influenced by Buddhism.

The spread of this religion around the world has aroused the serious anxiety and vigilance of the rulers and mainstream religions of various countries, and launched persecution actions in their respective countries.

As for this religion, although it spread westward to Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece, Italy and France, and eastward to the Amu Darya River Basin in Central Asia, almost all of them were finally suppressed.

Around 1000 A.D., Manichaeism was almost completely wiped out in this world, and only China had believers and religious organizations of this religion.

(End of this chapter)