sweeping the world

Chapter 783 Your gods are not good enough

Zhu Xia is a pan-belief, and he believes in everything, but it is really a joke to say how loyal his faith can be, including the belief in his ancestors.

"..." The white and fat Asan Brahman also had a dull expression after listening to the translation. He said with a hesitant expression and tone: "You have so many great gods? Are they all gods in charge of war?"

"At least your Lord Shiva didn't bless the Gupta Dynasty." Yuan Qiao was relatively new to theology, but that didn't stop him from saying with a haughty expression: "Perhaps you can change your beliefs and believe in our gods."

The fat and white Ah San shook her head firmly this time: "I am loyal to Lord Shiva."

Yuan Qiao didn't care how loyal this Ah San's beliefs were, but he understood why this was the case.

Asan's caste system is based on religion. As the top caste, the Brahmins are firstly the servants of the gods of the religion, and then they replace the lower classes under the rule of the gods. The direct consequence of giving up or changing their beliefs is the rule. shake.

"You are not a monotheistic religion." Yuan Qiao smiled cheerfully and said, "There is no harm in believing in some gods who can truly protect you."

The fat and white Ah San hesitated and did not speak, he was eager to know what the gods of Han were like.

Yuan Qiao didn't know much about Zhu Xia's divine genealogy. Seeing that the white and fat Ah San was interested, he picked up some that he knew how to explain.

The images and functions of Pangu, Nuwa, and Taiyi (Donghuang Taiyi) had been shaped as early as the Shang Dynasty.

Goddess Nuwa was the main god of the people of the Shang Dynasty, and there was also a temple specially built for sacrifices.For the people of the Shang Dynasty, worshiping God Nuwa was a very sacred and serious matter. They firmly believed that their ancestors were fabricated by God Nuwa out of divine mud, and they must treat God Nuwa as if they respected their mother.

There is a story in "Fengshen Yanyi", which tells that King Zhou wrote a poem to offend Nuwa God, which caused Nuwa God to be displeased, and then the way of heaven destroys business. What is said is that the novel is actually based on reality. King Zhou did something inappropriate when he worshiped the God Nuwa, but he never dared to write a poem or something (it was weird if there were poems at that time, and it was also a eulogy). An excuse for merchants in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

The more ancient the era, the more serious the beliefs, and countless wars were waged because of different beliefs. Even in modern times, religious wars are still taking place.But to say that King Zhou was bad enough to ooze pus, it was because he got the right to write history after the victory of the Western Zhou Dynasty.Di Xin has been committed to destroying the Yi people and the Rong people from the prince to the king. On the contrary, the Western Zhou Dynasty has always colluded with the Yi people. Who is good and who is bad is just victory and defeat.

Naturally, Yuan Qiao would not talk about the role played by God Nuwa in the process of the downfall of the Shang Dynasty, and he didn't even talk about the process of the downfall of the Shang Dynasty, focusing on the story of Nuwa's creation of man.

"Create human beings?" The fat and white Ah San nodded thoughtfully: "Our existence is also a gift from Lord Shiva. It seems that some of the divine powers of the gods are consistent."

Yuan Qiao hadn't realized this just now, and was slightly surprised by the translation that the gods they believed in had the same abilities between two races that had never communicated with each other.

There are many peoples on the earth who have never been in contact with each other, and they all have the same legend.Among them, the gods use their own abilities to create a strange unity among human beings, which makes people have to wonder if there is such a thing, or if there is no connection, how can there be the same legend?
"God Shiva not only created us, he is also the creator of this universe." The white and fat Asan seemed to have thought of something, and said arrogantly: "Everything in the world is the creation of God Shiva, including light. and dark."

The word "universe" appeared very early, and it has been explained many times by many great powers in Zhuxia in different periods.

"Wen Zi. Nature" said: From ancient times to the present, it is called the universe, and the four directions are called the universe.

"Zhuangzi. Geng Sang Chu" expresses: There is no source for exit, and no aperture for entry.There is truth but no place, there is long but no plagiarism.Those who come out but are ignorant have the truth.Those who have reality but no place, Yu Ye; those who have strengths but no roots, Zhou Ye.

"Zizi" holds that: the upper and lower directions are called the universe, and the past and present are called the universe.

Explanation of "Huainanzi": The past and present are called the universe, and the four directions are called the universe.
The Hindu religion Ah San believes in is even more simple and crude, and the universe is everything.

The current state religion of Persian Sassan, that is, Zoroastrianism, because of the overlapping of doctrines with Hinduism, they believe that the universe is everything, and even Christianity, which is about to rise, has a similar view.They all believed that their main god created the universe.

"The sharp ax split the darkness and brought light, and the chaos of the universe formed the world..." Yuan Qiao did not show weakness at all. He looked at the white and fat Ah San with contempt, and said proudly: "The Great God Pan Gu can easily Split any universe."

"And then?" The white and fat Ah San was half curious, half surprised: "Just split it, and there's nothing left?"

Yuan Qiao actually wanted to express a meaning: what's so amazing about your gods being able to create the universe, our great god Pan Gu can end it in minutes.

At present, the great god Pangu split the chaos, exhausted himself and turned into all things, and some other things have not been shaped into stories. There are only legends about the great god Pangu who can end the universe.

Because the image is destroyed, Pangu God has always existed as a legend. Although some people believe in it, they don’t pay much attention to it. To some extent, it overlaps with Chi You. He is regarded as the main god of the "lord of soldiers". high.

Seeing that Yuan Qiao could not tell the follow-up, Ah San, who was white and fat, felt that he had won, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

Only at this time did Yuan Qiao notice that the music had stopped, and those singing, dancing, men, women, young and old returned to where they were supposed to be.

The white and fat Ah San who felt that he had won, made a gesture of asking Yuan Qiao to sit on the golden throne.

Yuan Qiao stood motionless at the same spot, and he began to talk about another great god.

The Great God of Tai was not regarded as the main god until the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty. Before that, the sense of existence was lower than that of the Great God of Pangu. During that period, not only the Han Dynasty worshiped the Great God, but also quite a few tribes of the Huns on the grassland believed in the Great God. The latter was regarded by Sima Qian as evidence that the Huns were actually descendants of Zhu Xia.

According to legend, the Great God Tai was the first emperor of heaven, the ruler of the ancient heaven, controlling the creatures of heaven and earth.So far, Donghuang Taiyi is not a monster race, but roughly all come from chaos, and there is no Dijun, let alone Hongjun.

Of course, no matter which gods they are, their images are shaped and supplemented by people. The more extensive the beliefs they receive, the more vivid and full the image of the gods will be.

To put it bluntly, the Eastern Jin Dynasty happened to be a period of rapid development of the Zhuxia religion. Buddhism invaded from the west, and some local people devoted themselves to compiling local theogonies for confrontation.Such as Pangu, Nuwa, Donghuang Taiyi, Dijun, Daodetianzun (Taishang Laojun, Taiqing), Yuanshi Tianzun (Yuqing), Lingbao Tianzun (Tongtian Jiaozhu, Shangqing), etc. There are gods... that is, many characters in "Fengshen Yanyi" were actually written during this period. It must be said that most of the gods have their prototypes. For example, Guankou Erlang is Li Bing.

Xu Zhonglin, a novelist of the Ming Dynasty, wrote "Fengshen Yanyi" based on the divine genealogy compiled by the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Not only him, many novelists wrote books about gods and monsters, basically they also referred to the divine genealogy compiled by the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and then added Contemporary geography and the like.

Yuan Qiao said that Zhu Xia's gods must be stronger than Ah San's gods, not only he himself believed it, but also his companions took it for granted, even the Persian translator thought it must be so.

The reason is of course that Zhu Xia beat Ah San so hard that he couldn't find Bei, but Ah San's gods didn't perform any miracles. Could it be explained that Zhu Xia's gods also beat Ah San's gods so hard that they couldn't find Bei, or Talking about how much Ah San believes in the gods, Ah San's gods should definitely not be silent.

The ancients really believed in the existence of gods, even the most casual Han people believed in this. When they fought a war, they would sacrifice to the main god they believed in before starting a war, and they would even predict whether they would start a war or not. Let's do a hexagram, but under the premise of human operation, the result of the divination must be because of people's needs to predict whether the hexagram is suitable for war.

To a certain extent, the high-level officials of the Han Dynasty are certain about the existence of gods, so they cannot understand and explain the secrets of Liu Yan.The high-level thinking will affect the subordinates. They are invincible again and again, and they firmly believe that they are blessed. They go to war repeatedly because they wear BUFF on their bodies. Even in adverse situations, they will show stronger tenacity and will to fight.

After Yuan Qiao finished talking about the Great God, he talked about the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, but he didn't talk about the gods of local mountains and rivers.

The white and fat Ah San, including everyone present, was purely a story, but there were more people who took it seriously.

The Asan people wonder how the Han people know so much about what happened to their gods. According to their own ideas, they believe that the Han people can directly communicate with the gods.

Ah San, who attaches great importance to religious beliefs, once they think that is the case, their attitude will show a serious side.The direct manifestation is that Ah San has obvious respect and fear for the Han people who can directly communicate with the gods and receive blessings, no matter on the surface or in their hearts.

"Chang Shi is too powerful."

"Isn't it? You know so much!"

"Those Asan are basically stupid."

"Don't talk about them, I'm stupid too."

The real Asan actually has a cute side. For example, the brahmin Ah San, who is fat and white, has already carefully considered which gods of Zhuxia he should choose to enshrine besides his own Lord Shiva.

Yuan Qiao would say so many things about Zongyi. Firstly, Ah San brought it up by himself, and secondly, it was necessary to talk about it based on the analysis of Ah San's intelligence.

The Han State completely suppressed Jitanado in the military, and the Asan would choose to surrender because they were not opponents. If they could suppress religion, things would be easier to handle.

There are no more complicated things in the future. The white and fat Ah San not only expresses his defection to the Han Kingdom verbally, but also signs Misap Kudlaus Dirang Khan Ke in the form of a contract. Sihan's name is ultimately a series of seals and the like.

Yuan Qiao was able to impress Misap Kudlaus Dirang Khan Kesihan with the "white and fat Asan" just now. After confirming the cooperation, he must remember that his appearance is a bit too much name.

It is necessary to leave words. Not only Misap has to sign, but also the Kshatriya who arrives. As a result, strings of names appear on the "Letter of Allegiance".

From the moment of signing, Misap is the "custodian" recognized by Han. The area under his trusteeship will increase with the expansion of the Han army in Jitanado, and he will be responsible for raising supplies and supplies for the Han army. Call for labor.

The other Kshatriyas became the "urban management" of the Han army. Wherever there was resistance to the rule of the Han people, they needed to bring their own dry food and bring their private troops to suppress them, and they were also responsible for the security of the areas occupied by the Han army.

In return, the Han would recognize the continuation of their privileges in Guitanado and promise to respect their customs.

After the matter is finalized, there will be scenes of eating, drinking and having fun. Some Han people have indeed done what they did before, for example, the one who wants to hug a few exotic dancers and play with Shuangfeng.

Yuan Qiao tasted the camel hump that was specially served. He heard that only the most honored guests were eligible. It was true that only he and Misap could eat it. The rest of the people ate camel meat and other sheep, chicken, duck, Goose.

"We should attack the city of Sart as soon as possible." Misap said that it was the capital of Gitanardo: "Only by ending the rule of the Della royal family can this piece of land be restored to peace."

Yuan Qiao didn't care at all whether this small country was called Jitanado or what, let alone the name of the royal family that ruled this land. He nodded slightly and asked, "How many people did you gather?"

"Thirty thousand!" Misap looked at the Han army outside the circular shed from his height, but said with self-knowledge: "Of course it is impossible to dispatch about two thousand Kshatriya troops like those armies, and the rest are all A pariah."

Yuan Qiao at least knew that only the Kshatriya Army was considered a regular army in Ah San's place, so he had to ask, "How many Kshatriya Army can the Dara royal family recruit?"

"[-]? Or [-]?" Misap smiled wryly, and said, "Your landing force came with no less than [-] Kshatriya Legion, which is about five times as many as ours. I also know that [-] is more It's just an insignificant number for a big man, otherwise... I wouldn't consider standing with you."

Yuan Qiao wanted to give Misap a thumbs-up. As an invader, the more scum like Misap who knows the current affairs and is a hero, the better. When Han Guo really has nothing to do, they will definitely clean it up.

(End of this chapter)