One day in the midsummer of the eighth year of Zhenguan, in a small village in the north of the capital of the Tibetan Kingdom, the annual N-degree priestly meeting of the Shenming Sect was officially launched, according to the instructions of the head of the Shenming Sect and the practice of the past years, the whole village of active believers and believers should take out one-third of their family's food and money to sacrifice to the gods, otherwise their lives will not protect them, and their lives and property safety will not be protected by the gods.

In other words, take your time, or be robbed all at once, you choose for yourself, we are very merciful, and give you the right to choose, you just burn high incense!

After a period of terrorist attacks, the resistance of these people was ended by steel knives and doctrines, and the gods used various methods to make these non-believers become active believers and passive believers, active believers were mentally broken, and passive believers were forced to be helpless and gritted their teeth to persevere.

So everyone in the village became Christians.

The Divine Sect, a sect born seven years ago, was not originally like this, the original Divine Sect only advocated the theory of the Gods, and not many people believed in it, but with the passage of time and the increase of the number of cultists, the propaganda efforts have also been increased, and the level of propaganda has gradually improved, and four years ago, the number of followers of the Divine Sect has reached a very terrifying number, of course, relative to Tibet.

After that, the doctrine of the Shinmei sect changed, and the congregation was not originally required to give their own food and goods. But four years ago, they began to ask for one-tenth of their possessions or stored food, and some die-hard loyalists naturally agreed, but most people began to oppose it, and it doesn't matter if you believe in religion, but there is not enough food to eat, and money is not enough, so you still have to make sacrifices? The number of members of the Sect of the Gods has plummeted.

But three and a half years ago, this situation was reversed, and a group of members of the Cult of the Gods launched a movement in a place in the northern part of the city of Raksha, calling on everyone to join the movement of the Cult of the Gods. A number of opponents were also looted. At that time, some Tibetan officials who were resolutely opposed to it were arrested by the Shenming Sect in full view of the public and burned at the stake in public. Zamp did not intervene to prevent this from happening.

The Cult of the Gods seemed to have become quite violent overnight. A violent movement unfolded in the territories of the major lords of Tibet. Believers live, non-believers die, in a short period of time. Most of the people in the territory of southern Tibet began to believe in religion, whether they were forced or active, and the gods and sects initially lobbied, propagandized, and only used force when the effect was not good, and this method proved to be very useful.

The government did not move, the Shenming Sect was still raging, some hardliners who dared to resist were killed one after another, many high-level figures were also killed, the territory was seized, the people finally understood that there would be no one to support them, the momentum of the Shenming Sect sweeping through Tibet could not be stopped, and the power soared, with the expansion of power and the increase of believers, the demands of the Shenming Sect were also more, from one-tenth of the property at the beginning to one-third of the current one-third of the property, only three years before and after.

But there was never a big man who stood up to oppose it, but at least some lords insisted on not allowing the gods to enter their territory, patrolling the borders of the territory with their own private soldiers, and when they saw the people of the gods and sects, they would take action and resolutely confront them, which made most of the Tubo people who were forced to believe in religion flee from their original places of residence by any means and march towards these northern resistance lords' territories in order to be protected.

Among these people, Lu Dongzan is the most resolute one, he is the first lord who led the family private soldiers to hunt down and kill the members of the Divine Sect on a large scale, under his leadership, the four major lords in the north and more than a dozen small lords formed a regiment, and resolutely did not allow the Divine Sect to enter their territory, and in the face of such a thing, careful people found that Zampu Songtsen Gampo still did not express his position.

The northern territory is known as the Land of Hope, the dream of all the Tibetan people who do not want to be religious, and it is also a thorn in the side of the rulers and actual controllers of the Shenming Cult, who have organized more than one time to attack the Northern Land of Hope with their die-hard devotees, but they have all been defeated by resolute resistance, and the lord's private soldiers are real warriors, and the fanatical cultists cannot compete with them.

Zangpu Songtsen Gampo was oppressed by a large number of powerful people in Tibet, and had to compromise and did not interfere in the daily activities of the Shenming Sect, but when the Shenming Sect asked Zampu to order the Shenming Sect members to be allowed to enter the territory of the northern lord to preach the Shenming Religion, Songtsen Gampo refused with a sneer, so they would not obey their orders, and they had already made it clear that they would not interfere in the daily affairs of the Shenming Sect, which also belonged to daily affairs.

This is the only thing that Songtsen Gampo did that was not good for the Shenming Sect, and those powerful people who tried to use the Shenming Sect to control the entire Tubo gritted their teeth about it, but there was nothing to be done, Songtsen Gampo was not a puppet, and the few gods and disciples who disrespected him were divided by him to show their bottom line and dignity, and there were at least 50,000 troops in Tubo firmly held in the hands of Songtsen Gampo, which annoyed Songtsen Gampo, who knows what he would do?

Therefore, these magnates had no choice but to suppress Lu Dongzan and the leaders of the Northern Land of Hope to settle in the central power of Tibet, and could not change the status quo; During the northern expedition to Tuyuhun, the 30,000 people led by Lu Dongzan were the descendants of Songtsen Gampo and Lu Dongzan, which were used to fight prestige.

The follow-up 100,000 troops, most of them are troops who believe in the gods, Songtsen Gampo and Lu Dongzan feel that even if they lose some, they can destroy the 40,000 Tang army, and they will not feel distressed, but the strength of the Tang army makes them feel bad, if they really lose these 100,000 troops, Songtsen Gampo can step down.

However, as the Divine Sect's grasp of the south and central parts of the country strengthened, and the encroachment on the land of hope in the north also began to strengthen, Lu Dongzan gradually felt that he was a little powerless, and if he continued like this, it was likely that it would cause serious consequences, so at this juncture, Lu Dongzan made a decision and finally changed the situation.

July of the eighth year of Zhenguan. More than 1,300 members of the Tang Buddhist and Taoist missionary group arrived in the capital of Tibet, and were warmly received by Songtsen Gampo, the Tibetan Zanpu, and immediately said that they would use the country's manpower and material resources to build a temple and a Taoist temple for the Buddhist and Taoist missionaries to live in, as their base camp for the mission in Tibet.

This incident has attracted the close attention of the people behind the Shinmei Cult, and for this reason, they have held an important meeting. The results of the meeting were indicated. For the entry of the Tang Sect, it is necessary to exercise restraint, although their true purpose is not yet known, but they are also missionaries. It will definitely have an impact on the Cult of the Gods. No missionary work has yet begun. So I don't know how big the impact will be, but no matter how big the impact is, we must maintain a basic point - no one can cause death!

Joke. What kind of person is Songtsen Gampo, crazy and boundless, let the Tang Dynasty clean up and obey, obediently call the ministers and tribute, then these monks and Taoist priests of the Tang Dynasty can not be underestimated, let alone killed and injured, otherwise it is extremely easy to be sanctioned by Songtsen Gampo with the help of the power of the Tang State against the Shenming Sect, once this happens, the situation will change, they can fight against Songtsan Gampo, but they can't deal with the Tang State.

Judging from the current situation, the Tang State is definitely not easy to provoke, once it triggers an international dispute, it is very unfavorable to them, after all, Songtsen Gampo is Zampu, representing the central government, and the Tang State also set up a so-called embassy at the same time, a group of Tang officials were stationed, accompanied by five hundred mighty and majestic black-armored soldiers, that fierce momentum shocked all the Tibetans, and the magnates compared their own private soldiers, and the results made them very uneasy.

Therefore, they demanded that the missionaries of the Shenming Sect should not do anything to the Tang people, no matter what they encountered, they could not do anything, as long as they were Tang people, they must ensure the safety of their lives, and if they could not have disputes with them, they should not have disputes with them, and once there was a dispute, they would find the upper level supervisors to negotiate with them as soon as possible, and the lower level of the sect members would not allow them to have direct contact with a single person.

They are really worried that those fanatical believers who do not know why will cause damage to the lives of the missionaries in the Tang Dynasty, and these arrogant believers do not understand what an international dispute is.

The grassroots organizations of the Divine Sect quickly learned of this news, and then held a general meeting of the sect in many places, clearly announcing this instruction of the sect leader, no matter what the situation is, they must give three points of courtesy to the Tang people, and absolutely do not allow quarrels with them, let alone fists and feet, let alone killing, whoever dares to touch them will be punished by the gods!

The congregations don't know why, but since they have received such a notice, they just do it, and at the same time, the magnates are afraid of their fat sheep, oh no, the believers have been taken away by Buddhism and Taoism, and in order to strengthen the control, they have issued orders to the grassroots organizations that control the villages, to strengthen the monitoring of believers, and never allow them to contact the Buddhist and Taoist missionaries from the Tang Dynasty, so as not to happen unexpectedly.

The fatwa was conveyed to the grassroots organizations, and the original meaning was understood to be to intensify the exploitation of believers......

Therefore, the three times a year to enter the gods and priests was revised to N degrees a year, N is not capped, and there are no less than five times below.

This is the first time that I don't know how many times the gods have been assembled, and the believers in the village have been tortured to the bitterness, except for a few families who have become die-hard believers of the gods, and those who would rather starve to death to save their faith in their hearts, most of the remaining believers have expressed their dissatisfaction, the gods want to protect us, but we don't even have food, will the gods give us food? In that case, wouldn't it be better not to charge it and leave it to us?

In this regard, the grassroots leaders of the Shinmei Cult said that this is an instruction from the gods, and the gods should test their loyalty to life to ensure that they can bring blessings to the right people, and not the wrong ones to those who do not believe in the gods in their hearts, and the more you give, the more blessings the gods will send to you.

In fact, they will believe these words, and they will doubt them, but those who have a little power will not believe them at all, this is just nonsense, deception.

"Grandpa, I'm hungry!"

The crisp sound of the child's voice attracted the attention of a large group of believers who were actively or passively giving their food and belongings, and the members of the Shinmei Sect who were collecting food and belongings also heard it, and suddenly the whole scene was a little wrong.

The old man known as Grandpa hurriedly covered his grandson's mouth and scolded: "This is food for the gods, give it to the gods, and the gods will bless us!" Your aunt's illness will be cured! ”

The little boy who was about six or seven years old broke free of his grandfather's hand and shouted loudly: "But Bao's aunt died of illness, why didn't the gods save her?" Also, the eldest mother-in-law also starved to death, why didn't the gods give her food, obviously she gave all the food to the gods, and she prayed to the gods every day to give her food, I saw it all! (To be continued......)