At dusk, when the cold air rises suddenly, a xiǎo boat moves quickly from south to north.

On the Xiǎo boat, two men in Taoist costumes, both of whom looked like young people, stood at the bow of the boat, both sides blazing, staring at the two shores.

Looking at the temperament of the two of them, although they are Taoist priests, they are by no means ordinary people, these two monks with some Taoism are none other than the Pingzhen Tongxuan of the Hidden Mén faction in Shu.

Ping's real right direction is the direction of Jishui County, today's Jishui County, not yesterday, not only the people of the county have doubled, but there are more villages and towns outside the county.

Some of the residents of these villages and towns are refugees who fled from Dongyiju and settled here, and some of them are people who "migrated from Longjian" some time ago.

"Whether it is sacrifices or customs, the people who have migrated will inevitably have differences with the local people in a short period of time.

This difference is "nothing" to ordinary people, but it is a big deal for Wang Hongyi, the ruler of Shudi.

The major affairs of the country are in the worship and precepts.

However, there is a big difference between the main ritual and the yín ritual. Canonized in the past dynasties, it is generally a formal worship, or the strong is the king, and has been incense for a long time, or the ancient true gods, and the powerful ones, most of them cannot be deposed" This is the orthodox sacrifice of the people, and most of them are tolerated by those in power.

It is not the yín sacrifice that is sacrificed, but it is the destruction of what the power sees.

Anything that harms the luck of the people and the court, no one in power will not care.

On the day of the gathering, Wang Hongyi ordered Su'er to observe the ghosts and gods in the county and make a list for later use.

Originally, Dongyizhou had been cleared, but Wang Hongyi soon unified the east and west Yizhou, and recovered the Longjian area, and the people of several places moved several times, "followed by a lot of complicated work."

Su'er then ordered the hidden mén to cooperate, and the hidden mén was very active about the matter.

This is a major event of the original source, Wang Hongyi has unified Shu at this time, "is the king of Shu land" entrusted to handle this matter Su Er and Yin mén, can do this matter, the authority can be all over the Shu ghost and god realm "luck soared, hidden mén will not shirk, a shot to get Tong Xuan Pingzhen this trip, is to explore this matter.

It's winter, and it's dusk and sunset, and the wind is biting, and the cold makes people shiver.

The surface of the water can be drawn to the river, and the water is still flowing, and there is not the slightest sign of ice. A faint white gas constantly rises from the surface of the river, and the clear river water has never frozen, but it is a little colder than the ice surface.

The two of them stepped on the xiǎo boat and rode the wind, and the Taoist robe was blown by the wind, and there was a bit of a sense of the fairy wind of the Dao bones, because of the practice, but the two of them did not feel cold in this weather.

The Xiǎo boat is getting closer and closer to the county seat of Jishui.

Standing on the bow of the boat, the faint aroma of food faintly came from the smoke of the cooking in the town of xiǎo in the distance, which was lightly twisted into several white lines against the background of the clouds.

It was a good picture of a farmhouse at dusk, but it made the two of them look solemn.

"Senior brother, do you look at the direction of Jishui County in front of you, is it a little strange?", the innocent gaze, after sweeping in one direction, suddenly froze, and then said.

"This place shouldn't be too far from the Dragon NV Temple, right? There is also a yín worship? I really don't know whether to say that this god is bold or ignorant. Ping Zhen muttered, looking in the direction of Jishui County, his face changed slightly.

"I'm afraid this spirit is about to become a climate. It is the ghost that is produced by the death of a person, and the ghost becomes the climate, which is the yīn spirit, and at first it can only shelter one family at most.

The divine power is red, and it can shelter a township and a county, and the divine power is red and yellow, so that it can go out of the county, otherwise it is "detrimental to the people's movement."

When the world was in power, when the people in power fought frequently in the world and were too busy to take care of themselves, many ghosts and gods hoped to break through in order to expand their strength and improve their ranks.

For the lowly gods, "the large-scale expansion of faith is equivalent to a yín sacrifice."

The faint divine power that appeared in front of the two of them at the moment was none other than the red sè, which could be registered in the case, and there was only one Jishui Dragon NV Temple in Jishui County.

If you don't get out of the county level, but you come here beyond the grid, and you can't get the government's recognition, this is the yín ritual!

Tong Xuan frowned solemnly, he looked in the direction, and said lightly: "This yín ritual" is the thirty-third place found in Shu, but the strength is strong before. ”

Ping Zhen nodded: "It's up to Senior Brother." The xiǎo boat turned its bow and marched quickly" to return to Chengdu Mansion.

At night, Chengdu Mansion, in the Taoist Temple, is quiet.

A few ordinary helpers patrolled outside the Taoist temple.

In a piece of land outside the Taoist temple, fruit trees and crops are planted, and a river pond has been dug "There are some fish in it, and next to the river pond is a bungalow, which is a temporary residence for pilgrims built by the Taoist temple."

Therefore, the land is considered a land, although the god offered is a new god, but it is very effective, there are many people who donate silver on incense, and the area where the Taoist temple is located is quite remote, "there is no inn in the surrounding miles, in order to solve the problem of pilgrims living from afar, the Taoist temple itself built these houses, and hired people to patrol the night here, and the night is calm.

Several helpers, are looking for clever and decent men, strong and strong, and young to stay up late, at night, outside the Taoist temple to inspect the number of men in charge of inspection, the quality is good.

Taoist apse, one room.

In a faint burst of sandalwood, Ping Zhenpan sat on the ground, and Tong Xuan sat next to him. In front of them, there is a statue of a god "is a person."

"Senior brother, you and I invite a real person to come!" Tong Xuan said solemnly to Pingzhen beside him.

"Brother Yi. Ping Zhen nodded.

The two of them then used the mén tantric method to invite a real person to come to this place.

Ping Zhen and Tong Xuan, after inspecting the situation of the ghosts and gods in Shuzhong, "It's not good to make decisions directly, so Suo xìng invites a real person to come and ask about unknown things, or follow orders."

"Are you waiting to call me?" Soon a faint golden light shuffled out from the xiǎoxiǎo god statue opposite the two of them, and fell to the ground, chōu grew into a human figure.

The figure is made of golden light, which is no different from a real person" but the face is a little blurred, and the voice is real, it is a real person.

"Ping Zhen (Tong Xuan), I've seen a real person!" When Ping Zhen and Tong Xuan appeared, they had quickly got up, and when they saw the real person asking, the two of them hurriedly bowed and saluted.

"Plain, Tongxuan?" For these two people, the real person has some impressions. Although he is not a direct disciple, he is also a good inner disciple of Mén.

"You two call me late at night?" asked the real person lightly.

Because he is a fallen person, he is sacrificed by the people's incense, and on the real person, the image wrapped in a faint golden light, the expression is indifferent, and the figure is not deliberately chōu high, but it gives the two people in front of them a sense of oppression and majesty "Real person, the two of us are now instructed by the Duke of Shu to inspect the sacrificial temples in Shu, and after a while, I will work with the third lady to demolish or clean up many yín rituals in Shu, this matter is very important" It is related to the great movement of the ghost and god realm in Shuzhong, and I have just reported to Shi Mén, but there are some things that Shi Mén is not very clear, so I have come to ask the real person. Tong Xuan said slowly.

"I see. Thinking of the panicked atmosphere in the underworld of Shu that he had noticed before, the real person already understood the root cause.

"You two don't have to worry too much, the hidden mén practice mén faction, there are not many Taoist temples in Shu, there are very few people who participate in folk sacrifices, there are some ghosts and gods in the underworld and I have hidden mén roots are not shallow, but the main worship is the majority, as for the ignorant people, there is this difficulty, even if we are helpless, we don't have to take care of them. ”

"The Duke of Shu is also the lord of Shu, you must not be mysterious with ghosts" and have some concealment and slackness.

Just report it truthfully and ignore it. The words of the real person made Pingzhen and Tongxuan look even more solemn after hearing it.

The two of them thanked the real people for their teachings.

"My junior brother and I will definitely not live up to the teachings of the real people, and we will be cautious in this matter. Tong Xuan said. The real person encouraged them again, and Fang dispersed lightly.

The royal palace, a hall, covered with tents and flags.

The soft NV who was lying flat on the collapse opened her eyes suddenly.

"It's worthy of a real person, it's fallen, and there is still the aftermath of the day's storms. Recalling the past, Su'er's face was a little complicated.

Su Er used to be afraid of Yin Mén, but with the encounter in the world and the fall of the real person, Su Er has long since extinguished her revenge, and the grudge with the real person has long been written off.

The existence that frightened her in the past was just succumbing to the position of a ghost immortal, which made her sigh.

The major affairs of the country are in worship and Rong.

The key to the importance of sacrifice is faith and luck, and the orthodox dynasty must specify the list, sacrifices, rituals, and participants of the sacrifice in the rituals.

Legal sacrifices are called "zhengxi" or rituals, and those who are illegal are denounced as "yín rituals."

The imperial court should support all kinds of rituals from the central government to the local government, and also use political power to crack down on illegal rituals through various means.

Of course, Su'er didn't know that on the earth, the "General Dictionary" of the Tang Dynasty set up a special article "The Rise and Fall of Yín Rituals", which recorded the actions of various dynasties before the Tang Dynasty to crack down on Yín rituals.

The Song Dynasty paid special attention to it, and there were countless cases of the imperial court and local officials cracking down on yín rituals", and as long as a little comparison is concerned, it is not difficult to find that the official policy of the Song Dynasty towards the belief in the people's ancestral gods is particularly positive.

The imperial court had a strict system of divine resistance and gifts, and at the same time issued a large number of edicts and laws to suppress the beliefs of the people. One of the administrative affairs of local officials was to manage and control the beliefs of various ancestral shrines, or to help local people apply for titles for local ancestral shrines, or to crack down on yín rituals", which coexisted with the entire Song dynasty.

At the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Gu Yanwu wrote the "Rizhilu", "Banning the destruction of the YÍN SHRINE", listing the cases of the court and local officials cracking down on the YÍN shrine since the Han Dynasty.

In this world, "the issue of yín rituals is even more important.

The attack on yín rituals has almost always been a national policy adhered to by successive imperial courts, but it is not a blind attack, and the role of the imperial court is not to suppress ancestral temples outside the rituals, but to find and recognize the shrines of the gods.

To put it simply, it is also the responsibility of the imperial court to discover the deities who are qualified to hold the throne and to recognize and seal them.

What Wang Hongyi did was just to inherit the national policy of the previous kings and systematize it. However, this difference leads to a completely different authority" Su'er is happy in her heart, through this, she will gain great authority and room for growth.