At this time, it is the time when various gods are born in various parts of the world.

The Dead Sea Scrolls on parchment may be being written thousands of miles away in an arid land; The ancient Shu kingdom crossed the moist and rich land of the jungle to the south, and Buddhism and Jainism, which opposed the caste system, spread like wildfire; The Heavenly Emperor in the land of Zhuxia is still the only true god belief, and the King of Chu is still looking forward to the ladder of heaven is still unbroken; In the shattered land of Greece, the gods of Mount Olympus still protect the city-states that believe in them; The flame of Mazda was burning with the expanding Persian Empire.

Mythology and religion are not the same thing, but they are inextricably linked.

I feel that being a god is not interesting, and it is not enough to force the grid, and I think that it is easy to cross once, and I must always have enough force.

The ultimate thing God can do is nothing more than creation.

If creation is something like "God said there should be air, and the water was turned into air up and down," then I think I can do it now.

However, it is not enough.

For an organization that relies on the collection of people can have the qualifications to make God exist or not.

It is appropriate to know that with the development of productive forces, with these new technologies he brought, the days when the world island will be linked together will come sooner and earlier.

It is also inevitable that those religions will spread to the land of Zhuxia, and people must always have a certain spiritual life.

And what he wants to do is not to rely on holy war to expel heretical heretics, but when one day these religions inevitably spread to Zhuxia, whether it is a temple, a temple, a church, or a holy fire temple, the outer walls of the Zhuxia characteristics are painted with such slogans: Without the certification of the Mo, there will be no Buddha, God, and Lord......

At this time, it is impossible for the people to completely lose their faith in the emperor, God, ghosts, and gods.

Even among the more literate scholars, nobles, and kings, beliefs in gods and ghosts still existed.

It can only be done slowly.

Mythology and religion are not the same thing, but they are inextricably linked.

Mythology uses imagination and imagination to conquer natural forces, dominate natural forces, and visualize natural forces; Myth is the natural and social form itself that has been processed in an unconscious artistic way through the fantasies of the people.

And the story of this variant of Dayu and Tushan Nujiao spread by the ink artist is not an unconscious artistic method, but deliberate.

In this story of Dayu's water control, there is no mountain axe, but instead the wisdom of a great witch who knows the will of heaven.

He knew that the power of the Heavenly Wills was no less than the axe that people could think of under the constraints of the productive forces of the times.

Looking at the people in the audience with piety, respect and a hint of fear, I thought that the divine power at this time is just like that, and productivity limits people's imagination.

If you live in the era in which you live, an excavator, a car, an airplane, a hydrogen bomb, and all of them are miracles placed here, and they are all gods of unimaginable power at this time, which is higher than the coercion of every god.

Since there are still some people who believe in the existence of ghosts and gods, then there is no need to be completely free of ghosts and gods at this time, as long as there are no gods who can manifest spirits.

At the same time, the Ming ghost attaches great importance to non-fate, believing that people's fate can be changed by their own efforts.

In this way, a silent Reformation can be brought about: it does not matter whether ghosts exist or not, it is only nature, not manifestation, and the fate of man can be changed by his own efforts.

Tianzhi has been resolved to not the preference of the ghost god and the Heavenly Emperor, but the public will launched through the benefit of all people, and the rest is to transform the Ming ghost.

This kind of existence that turns ghosts and gods into nature will eventually become a non-existence.

It's a long process, and time has it, so it doesn't need to be that radical.

With the help of the deterrence of gunpowder, with the help of the widely spread story of Dayu's water control, Shi once again told the story of nonsense.

When people master the Celestial Will, they can have the power of the gods in mythology, and those mythical gods are just some people who have mastered the Celestial Will.

He didn't immediately say what he had faked, but told the stories of the ancient sages in front of the people.

"In ancient times, people drank blood, and in the cold of winter, there were always wild beasts. The Suiren clan sacrificed to the Emperor of Heaven and asked the Emperor to let the winter die and the night to have warm sunshine. But the Emperor of Heaven cannot change the rules of the world. ”

"Before the Heavenly Ghost died, he had already given the Heavenly Will, which he knew, to the minds of everyone, but he needed enlightenment to make people understand it. Everyone has a treasure trove in their head, but they need a key to open it. ”

"The Suiren clan looked at the woods ignited by the thunder fire outside, and saw the spark when they smashed the stones, so they understood the heavenly will, so the Suiren clan took the fire. The winter is not cold, and the night is not cold, so it is holy. ”

"After the Suiren clan, there is a Chao clan. At that time, the weather was humid and rainy, and people lived in caves, even if there was a fire, it was cold and unbearable. Youchao saw birds weaving nests and comprehended the will of heaven, so he learned to build houses. After that, the lewd rain is not worried, and the summer is wet and not cloudy. ”

"After the Chao clan, there are sages. By the time of Dayu, people had already comprehended a lot of Tianzhi. At that time, heavy rain poured down, and Hechuan was blocked. The cang's blockage method cannot control the water. Dayu watched the water flow from the bottom, and finally comprehended the will of heaven, opened up the river, and finally cured the world's floods......"

In the silence after the explosion, the stories of many sages were told slowly, but the loud noise when Dayu opened Tu Mountain bypassed.

But what people have heard are myths that can be described as myths, and what they have heard are all kinds of sages that are suitable for talking about them, and even if they don't say it, there are still many people who think of what the ink masters want them to think: that great witch really only comprehended the will of heaven, and after planting the thunder that could explode the mountains and rocks just now, he did not dodge it and was blown up.

While talking, he silently told this variant of knowledge.

The methods he said of obtaining the Celestial Wills were closely related to the myths he had fabricated.

It is essentially idealistic dualism plus partial rationalism, which belongs to the standard Enlightenment thought.

The foundation of enlightenment is the Renaissance, but now that Zhuxia is the time for a hundred schools of thought to contend, why is there a need for this step?

In addition to dualism and rationalism, there is also a part of innate epistemology in these stories.

Here, the human spirit and the material are connected, but they are also separated, and they are still idealistic in nature.

Human knowledge has been stored in the human brain chaotically since birth, which is the theory of talent.

But because of the chaos, it can't be expressed directly, and it requires some kind of special key. This particular key may be experience, learning, reasoning, the influence of external objects, and so on.

Mathematics, for example, requires logic, theorems, and the first few geometric definitions.

Technology, for example, may require the enlightenment of pre-existing natural principles to activate the chaos in the mind.

For example, geometry, physics, and so on, which are based on rational reasoning, can be separated from this mythological system without any stagnation, and are in accordance with the will of heaven.

These contents have become the internal philosophical outlook of Mozi, and compared with the various contents that Mozi did not summarize, he applied his own way to summarize and integrate, and did not produce much rejection.

It doesn't matter if the people can understand it now, and one day they will be gradually influenced by this kind of thinking, and they themselves may not know it.

With the previous explosion and the fascination of the people at this time, Shi finally exposed the various miracles demonstrated half a year ago in front of everyone.

In everyone's astonishment, Shi said: "I am not the so-called Zhu Rongxue and Golden Crow Wings, but I just know some Tianzhi and have done what only people who really have Zhu Rongxue and Golden Crow Wings can do." ”

"It's like the witch who helped Tu Shan Nujiao open the mountain, he can't directly ask the Emperor of Heaven to come to the world to help, but because he has mastered the will of heaven, he can use this method to blow up Tu Mountain and help Dayu open up the blocked river."

"Before the Heavenly Ghost disappears, I hope everyone can master the Heavenly Will. And the highest thing in the Promised Land is that everyone understands what it will look like after mastering the Heavenly Will. ”

"Are there any ghosts or gods in the world?"

"Maybe there is, maybe not. But we sacrifice to ghosts and gods only for profit. If you can master the Celestial Will, then why put your hopes on those who claim to be able to communicate directly with ghosts and gods? ”

Speaking of this, he pointed to the witches who had been killed by the bombing and had not yet been hanged, and everyone understood what he meant, and because the ink had given enough hope and the weather had been good this year, they were not angry.

Shi then apologized, and everyone accepted Shi's apology, and only asked, "Then if a person has the will of heaven, can he still make it rain where it doesn't rain?" ”

Shi said with a smile: "All things in nature are in line with the will of heaven. I can't explain to you why it's raining, so I can't let it rain where it doesn't for the time being. But I can make ice on this hot day. ”

He diverted everyone's attention, and temporarily made ice from saltpeter, and passed it on to everyone to see, and in everyone's amazement, they believed the right words.

Perhaps, one day someone will know why the rain is falling, and then there will really be no worries about drought and flooding.

If even ice can be made in such weather with the help of Tianzhi, what else is impossible?

Hot and cold, summer and winter, drought and rain, in the eyes of everyone, are all the same relative relationship, as long as one can be solved, the rest seems to be really solved.

Shi did not talk about the principle of uniting to prevent rain and drought, but only talked about ghosts and gods and heavenly will.

Looking at these people who have already believed in his words, they know that they can't say that there are no ghosts and gods at this time, because the ink master has not yet unified his thoughts, and he can't do anything alone, so he must rely on the power of the ink man, so he can only make corrections secretly.

"It's hard to tell the ghosts. Sages such as Moshi, Confucianism, Yang Zhu, and Lie Yukou argued such issues every day. ”

"You know that the ink is not destined to do such a thing, and you think that there is no such thing as a destiny. The reason is also very simple, because it can be verified. ”

"But how can the ghosts and gods verify it?"

"Ghosts and gods are hard to verify.

"However, those who claim to be able to communicate with ghosts and gods can be verified."

"The ink can't communicate directly with ghosts and gods, but it can verify whether those people can really communicate with ghosts and gods, just like these witches who collect wealth."

"A person who doesn't cook doesn't necessarily know if the food is delicious."

"A great witch who can really communicate with Zhu Rong will not be poisoned by Zhu Rong's blood, and he will definitely be able to turn his fingers into fire, blend water and fire, and not be afraid of frying. I can't do it, I can only rely on Tianzhi to pretend that I can do it with the help of the power of heaven and earth, but the ink master can verify whether others are really communicating with Zhurong or just relying on Tianzhi to deceive everyone. ”

"Is there anyone like that? There may or may not be. If so, it is best that we will offer it; If you don't have it but claim to have it, it must be to accumulate wealth or do something harmful to the world. ”

"Such people will insult your daughters, plunder your money, and burn your children, just like these witches, and you will have to trust and respect them."

"Are you willing to be deceived like this again?"

After receiving an unwanted answer from everyone, Shi retreated to the side, and Mozi read out the first special decree in the name of the Pei County Government.

"There are people in Fanpei County who claim to be amiable to ghosts and gods, and they can be reported in Peiguo Township. Those who are verified to be counterfeit will be rewarded with 400 yuan. Whoever is verified to be true will also be rewarded with four hundred. Whoever is found to be false shall serve twenty years' hard labor. ”

"Those who are verified to be true can be issued a cursive silk name book by the inkman, and those who do not claim to be true must be verified first."

"The ink is both love, and this is also for the love of the world, including those who may claim to be able to reach the heavens. It is better for them not to be harmed if they are found to be false than to be killed for the sake of harming and then committing forbidden crimes, as these witches do. ”

After Mozi finished speaking, he said to the inkman near the gallows behind: "Let's execute." ”

There was a sound of pulling the rope behind him, and Mozi said indifferently: "It's better to be verified as fake by the ink than to die like this after being forbidden, this is to take advantage of the harm." ”