"You, you...... Are you going to rebuild the Manichaean See? ”

Because of the injury caused by falling from the horse, Ji Yi, who was lying on the bed to recuperate, heard the three "Demon Sect Demons" who came to visit in front of the bed say that they wanted to rebuild the Ming Sect in Jiehe Shang City, and suddenly had an urge to go to Lingao Dangzhi County.

Why are you so unlucky?

The black cauldron on Zhang's side has not been cleaned yet, and the black cauldron of Mingjiao has pressed up again, I knew that I should go to Lingao and hide far away!

"yes, Yizhi, isn't this a good opportunity right now?" Mo Niangzi smiled, "Isn't it just that your family has been active in officialdom all these years just to let the Holy Sect have a time to see the light of day?" Is today's Jiehe Trading Market a place where all religions are free? If the Holy Sect Altar can be reopened in the Boundary River, isn't it also following your family's wish for many years? ”

"Mo Li, if you want to build a Great Cloud Bright Temple in Jiehe Shang City, I won't stop you." Ji Yi was so bitter in his heart, how could he be unlucky? After stammering with Zhangdun, his old man has become a thorn in the side of the official family, and he is so tired that he is a villain in vain! The family has something to do with Mingjiao, and I was hoping to legalize Mingjiao and pick it up. But Mo Niangzi and the old monk Jingming now want to reopen the Holy See!

A Holy See and a temple, that's a completely different concept!

Don't look at the White Lotus Temple opening everywhere now, but it is a plate of loose sand, that is, the Mingjiao General Altar in Muzhou, and because it is too secretive, it is impossible to effectively mobilize the congregation - the vast majority of the congregation do not know what the Mingjiao General Altar is, nor do they know the foundation of the White Lotus Temple.

In fact, most of the White Lotus Temple is just a wild temple that cheats money, and it does not listen to the command of the Muzhou General Altar at all. Today's Mingjiao is actually just an unorganized scattered sand sect. It can even be seen as a branch of Buddhism.

Therefore, it is possible that the imperial court will agree to the regaining of the legal status of Mingjiao. But once the Holy See of the Ming Sect appeared in the Boundary River, then the nature of the matter would immediately be different!

Mingjiao will gradually become a well-organized sect...... Just like when Mingjiao was first introduced to the Central Plains in the Tang Dynasty.

Ji Yi knew that at that time, the Manichaean Holy See was in the Uighurs, and the Dayun Guangming Temples in all parts of the Central Plains were under the jurisdiction of the Tang Diocese. This is probably the reason why Manichaeism has been in a slump in Huichang to this day...... The imperial court can tolerate scattered Buddhism and Taoism, but it will never tolerate an organized religion!

"The Holy See definitely can't!" Ji Yi shook his head and said in a firm tone, "It can only be the Great Cloud Guangming Temple...... If you agree, I'll go and say hello to Wu Haogu. Otherwise, I will also go and tell Wu Haogu that you are not allowed to open the Holy See! I am the next Cangzhou judicial officer to join the army, and the police patrol of Jiehe Shang City, this official can also speak. ”

The state capital of the Song Dynasty had a "judicial army" and a "manager army" to jointly take charge of the security of criminal prisons. However, Jiehe Shang City is not under the jurisdiction of Cangzhou, and Ji Yi, a judicial member of the army, can manage it, that is, outside the dikes and ditches of Jiehe Shang City.

However, the power to manage the gate of Jiehe Shang City is not small, and Wu Haogu must not want to make too much unpleasant trouble with Ji Yi, a judicial member of the army.

Moreover, the appearance of the Manichaean Curia in Jiehe Shang City would not be of any benefit to Wu Haogu.

Mo Niangzi and Monk Jingming glanced at each other, and Mo Niangzi smiled and said, "Then let's build a Dayun Guangming Temple first."

In addition, the families of the Chosen People, who now live in Pingjiang and Mingzhou, will also move to Jiehe Shang City one after another. You and Pingjiang's family said hello. ”

Originally, there were more than a dozen Elective Houses, but due to the Manichaean tendency of "family planning", the number of Elective Houses has been decreasing, and now there are only seven families left, with the surnames "Mo, Xue, Sa, Lu, Yi, Ming, and Ku". The population is small, with less than 1,000 men and women combined, all engaged in shipbuilding, textiles (carpet weaving), gold and silverware, etc., all of which are industrial and commercial families.

Their relocation Ji Yi is supportive, although it will bring some inconvenience to the Ji family's business in Pingjiang and Mingzhou, but the benefits are also obvious.

Because these selection families have a very close relationship with the Ji family, if they move to Jiehe Business City, Ji Yi will be able to grasp the situation of Jiehe Business City through them.

If you really want to go to Jiehe and fight against Wuhao Gu in the future, these seven elective families and the Ji family's own power in Jiehe will become Ji Yi's help.

"That's okay," Ji Yi said after consideration, "it must be profitable for you to open a shipyard in Jiehe Merchant City...... You can also make some Persian-style gadgets there for the Khitans and Koreans. By the way, there is a lot of wool on the Khitan side, and a wool weaving workshop can be built in Jiehe Shang City. ”

Ji Yi had been in Liao for several months, so he naturally knew what products and needs were there.

Wool is a rotten street thing in Liao, and a big son can buy a bunch of them. Although there is also a wool weaving industry in Liao, the level is not high, and it is impossible to weave things like Persian carpets. Therefore, the carpets on the market in Liao are all transported from the Silk Road in the Western Regions, and the quality is not as good as the things that are selected from the seven families - they are authentic Persian fakes! If it can be produced in large quantities, it can definitely be dumped in Liao and Goryeo, and maybe it can be sold in the Great Song Dynasty.

In addition, there are many shipwrights in the seven selected families, all of whom are all craftsmen and master craftsmen. The shipbuilding industry of the Song Dynasty was very developed, and the ships manufactured were not only supplied to the Han Chinese maritime merchants, but also exported. Therefore, the style of the ship is not limited to the Chinese style, but also the production of Persian and Dashi style ships. Most of the ships that were active on the Maritime Silk Road, regardless of style, were produced in the Song Dynasty.

The ships of this year must be built at the beginning or end of the Maritime Silk Road, or they will have to be empty, and the loss of emptying can be much more expensive than the price of the ship! It doesn't matter whether the shipbuilding technology on the Arab side is good or bad, but there is not much forest to cut down on the Arabian Peninsula.

Therefore, most of the big food and Persian-style ships on the sea were also produced in the Song Dynasty. And the shipwrights who selected seven families were specially built Persian and big food style sea ships. This kind of sea boat uses a triangular soft sail, which has a certain ability to sail against the wind, and the speed is relatively fast, which is suitable for long-distance sailing. The disadvantage is that there are more sailors needed, and the operation is more complicated, and the average Han sailor can't control it. However, the sailors of the Ji family can control this kind of Persian, big food style sea ship. And there is nothing wrong with moving the origin of the Persian and Dashi style sea ships that the Ji family needs to the Jiehe Merchant Market, and then the Ji family's voyage fleet can start from the Jiehe Merchant Market and directly load Dingzhou porcelain of excellent quality in the Jiehe Merchant Market.

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Not long after Mo Niangzi, Monk Jingming and Fang La left the Ji family, the brothers Wu Haogu and Wu Haowen came to visit.

Although Wu Haogu was a little gloating about Ji Yi's fall, he still had to fulfill the courtesy. Wu Haowen and Ji Yi are both on the same list, and they are both too learned. And Wu Haogu and Ji Yi are colleagues who pat each other together, and soon the two will go to Cangzhou together to be officials. So there is still a lot of harmony on the face.

exchanged a few words in the bedroom where Ji Yi was cultivating, and talked about the injury for a while—Ji Yi's injury was not serious, but his leg was a little lame, and his back hurt a little—and then Ji Yi led the topic to Manichaeism.

"The Manichaean Holy See?" Wu Haogu didn't know what Manichaeism was in history, but he knew a little about the "Holy See" or something.

"It's the equivalent of the court of Manichaeism!" Ji Yi frowned and said, "During the Tang Dynasty, Manichaeism was controlled by the Uighur Holy See, but now the Uighur Holy See has long since collapsed, and the whole group of dragons has no leader, so some Manichaean monks want to re-establish the Holy See in the Central Plains." ”

"Isn't it good to have the Holy See?" Wu Haowen asked.

"Of course it's not good," Ji Yi shook his head and said, "The Holy See is a small court, in charge of the major affairs of a religion, private subordinates, some people are in charge of money, some people are in charge of subordinate officials, some people are in charge of construction, some people are in charge of missions, some people are in charge of the law, and there will be dioceses below, just like the state and county roads of the country...... I heard that some Western sects still have soldiers and horses! ”

"Isn't this a rebellion?" Wu Haowen was taken aback, "The imperial courts of those countries don't send troops to arrest them?" ”

Wu Haogu thought to himself: Capture the caliph and the Pope of Rome? I'm afraid I can't hold it......

But then again, there is still merit in the foreigner's approach! Wu Haogu suddenly thought again: Isn't it clear that Christianity, Tianfangism, and Manichaeism could spread all the way from the West to China, and that Christianity and Tianfangism later spread all over the world?

Why can't Confucianism? Why couldn't the way of Confucius and Mencius reach Rome and Baghdad? Not to mention Rome and Baghdad, even Malacca and Java do not believe in Confucius and Mencius now! On the earth now, only the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Liao, the Western Xia, the Dali and the Annam are propagated by Confucianism in Japan.

Doesn't this show the failure of Confucianism in propagation? Is Confucianism bad? I'm afraid not necessarily, right? Although Confucianism lacks great gods, it can be combined with other religions to spread.

Since there is nothing wrong with the reason, it must be a matter of the means of communication! Confucianism doesn't seem to have a special agency responsible for spreading the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, right?

Not to mention that the Great Song Dynasty is lame militarily now, even when the Han and Tang Dynasties were the most awesome in the past, it seems that they have never done this? Even a bull like Li Er didn't send Cheng to bite the gold, with an axe in one hand and the "Five Classics" in the other, to spread the Confucian truth to the people of the Western Regions?

Wu Haogu thought to himself: Sure enough, you can't rest on your laurels! Chinese Confucianism still has to learn from other people's Christianity, Tianfangism, and Manichaeism! This is the master's long skill to control the Yi! When I open up the situation in the Jiehe Commercial Market in the future, I must think carefully about how to make a Confucian Holy See? Hmm, maybe you can also start a Confucian Knights?