Chapter 419 418【Death-Defying Exercise】

The world is in chaos, and there will be many evildoers.

When people lose confidence in reality, they must place their hope in the misty gods, which provides the living soil for crooked ways.

Throughout the development history of Chinese religions, a very strange phenomenon appeared in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: authentic Buddhism and Taoism were declining day by day, but a wide variety of folk religions were in full swing, and at least 90% of these folk sects were cults.

The reason can be traced back to the early Ming Dynasty, when the rulers strictly controlled Buddhism and Taoism. Although the government recognizes and protects existing Taoist temples and temples, it hardly approves new temples, and rarely issues legal certificates, which greatly inhibits the development of orthodox religions. Not only that, but monks and Taoist priests were kept in captivity in temples, and they were not allowed to preach among the people at will.

What are the consequences?

First, the population increased sharply in the mid-Ming Dynasty, but religious personnel and religious sites did not increase accordingly, and orthodox religions could no longer meet the growing spiritual needs of the people.

Second, orthodox Buddhism and Taoism cannot go deep into the people, cannot get in touch with the masses of the people, and gradually lose the ability of self-evolution and reform.

Third, a large number of illegal folk religions are developing rapidly, among which crooked sects and heretics proliferate, crowding out the social living space of orthodox religions.

The Qing Dynasty largely followed the religious policies of the Ming Dynasty, so that there were more and more civil church organizations, which directly affected the religious situation in the Republic of China. However, the government of the Republic of China lost its local control, coupled with successive years of wars, natural and man-made disasters, which led to the spread of the already prosperous illegal folk religion.

Among them, Shandong is a hard-hit area for cults, where wars are frequent and starvation is everywhere.

"Yiguan (Harmony) Tao" promotes the thought of the end of the world, and believes that natural disasters and man-made disasters are the punishment of gods on the mortal world, and only those who believe in "Yiguan (Harmony) Tao" can be saved.

Moreover, "Yiguan (Harmony) Tao" is not a pure branch of Taoism. They claim to be "the integration of five religions", and the highest god they believe in is Wuji Laomu. Mother Wuji has five sons, namely Confucius, Laozi, Shakyamuni, Jesus Christ, and Muhammad. Not only are these five gods worshiped by the "consistent (harmonious) way", but also Bodhisattvas, Guan Gong, land, and city gods are all worshipped.

That is to say, no matter which religion you originally believed in, you can join the "Yiguan (Harmony) Tao". This is the base camp where all religions love each other.

The more wars and disasters there were in the Republic of China, the faster the "Yiguan (harmony) Tao" developed. Now it is not limited to preaching in Shandong, but spreads all over the land of China.

The "Confucius and Mencius Tao" founded by Liu Congyun, the Immortal Liu of Sichuan, is a branch sect of the "Yiguan (Harmony) Tao", also known as "Yiguan Xiantian Dao". "Confucius, Mencius, and Taoism" is still a bit virtuous, and does not engage in "five religions in one", does not recognize Jesus Christ and Mohammed, only recognizes Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, "three religions in one."

Liu Congyun is not an old man, and he will not turn 50 in two years. But he has a long beard and a bun. I don't know if it's natural or if he has used hair dye. His beard and hair look a little gray, and he looks very old.

Liu Congyun is from Xindian, Weiyuan County. He was a private school teacher in his early years, and he often cheated for money by fortune-telling and divination. In the year when the Revolution of 1911 broke out, Liu Congyun took advantage of the influence of the emperor's abdication, and claimed to be a white crane immortal, preaching the idea of ​​doomsday, and then founded "Confucius and Mencius".

Before colluding with the warlords, Liu Congyun already had tens of thousands of followers, set up six main altars and 108 sub-altars, and had great power and prestige in Sichuan.

At this moment, Liu Xiang really respects and believes in Liu Congyun, because Immortal Liu knows things like a god, and every word is sure to hit the mark. He was able to become big among the many warlords in Sichuan, thanks to the worship of Immortal Liu as a military adviser, which is a double belief in career and spirit.

In fact, the reason why Liu Congyun predicts things so well is because his disciples are all over Sichuan, including various warlord troops. To put it bluntly, the information that Liu Shenxian calculated by pinching his fingers was just information secretly transmitted by his disciples.

But Liu Congyun didn't bother to be an intelligence leader. He packaged himself as a living fairy, and used various methods to deceive the Sichuan warlords.

According to historical development, in a few months, Liu Xiang will form the fourth army besides land, sea, and air—the Divine Army!

Liu Congyun has absolute control over the "divine army", and the soldiers are all followers of "Confucius and Mencius". He can even mobilize the "divine army" to attack Liu Xiang, which is equivalent to a small warlord in disguise.

But the "Shenjun" sounds bad after all, so Liu Xiang compiled this army as a "model teacher"-I don't know if Lao Jiang, who also worked hard to build a "model teacher", would vomit blood with anger.

Liu Congyun's influence on the Sichuan warlords was growing, until a few years later, except for Liu Xiang, all other warlords had to kneel and kowtow to Liu Congyun.

Yaodao!

Among the warlords in the "Air Force Exercise Observation Group", only Yang Sen is a sensible person. Although he worshiped Liu Congyun as his teacher in name, he just followed the trend. On the one hand, he could win over other religious warlords, and on the other hand, he could appease religious soldiers.

Fourteen planes appeared on the runway. This thing is very rare in Sichuan, and it attracted admiration from warlords big and small.

This is also Liu Xiang's ultimate goal of forming an air force and inviting warlords from all walks of life to visit the exercise-to scare other warlords.

Liu Xiang proudly said to Yang Sen: "Brother Zihui, what do you think of my air force?"

"Mighty and majestic." Yang Sen nodded in admiration, but his heart was sour, and he was very jealous of this.

Back then when they went to the military academy together, Liu Xiang was always the last one in every exam, while Yang Sen was always at the top.

But now?

Many old classmates in the class were overwhelmed by Liu Xiangqian, and this most incompetent "Liu Menduner" actually developed the best!

Liu Xiang showed off to Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao again, then turned his head and asked Zhou Hexuan: "Mr. Zhou, how does my air force compare with the central air force and the northeast air force?"

Zhou Hexuan replied tactfully: "Each has its own characteristics."

It took a lot of effort for Liu Xiang to form the Sichuan Air Force. Three years ago, he sent someone to France with 200,000 silver dollars to order 4 aircraft. The aircraft parts were shipped to Vietnam for assembly, and I wanted to drive back to Sichuan, but...

The first plane had just taken off when it plunged into the rice field. The second plane flew quite a distance, all the way to the border between Guangxi and Guizhou, when the engine suddenly shut down, the plane crashed during an emergency landing, and the pilot was seriously injured.

After two failed test flights, Liu Xiang didn't dare to play exciting anymore, so he had to ask Lu Zuofu to send a ship to ship. It was shipped to Shanghai with the British flag, and after passing the customs in a foolish way, it was transported back to Sichuan along the Yangtze River.

Now Liu Xiang has 14 aircraft, ordered from the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, and he is a well-deserved "Wanguo brand" air force.

Fourteen planes took off smoothly, doing various "thrilling" flight performances. The big and small warlords in Sichuan looked up and opened their mouths in shock. They were deeply afraid of Liu Xiang's military strength.

After the air show, the live ammunition show will follow.

The pilot swooped down with the plane, and the bullets hit the ground target. Although the accuracy was not enough, the momentum was still very scary.

After the gun is shot, the bomb is dropped. The plane flies over the crowd of spectators. The bomber holds the shell and aims at the ground target. After feeling the position, let go——

biu~~~

"Fuck!"

Seeing that something was wrong, Zhou Hexuan rushed back, lying on the stone steps to avoid shells.

"boom!"

The shells landed on the teaching group watching the exercise, and a center blossomed. The teaching group suffered dozens of casualties in an instant, and even Jiang Yousan, the teacher of the teaching group, had a leg broken.

Liu Xiang was dumbfounded for a moment, and it took him a long time to squeeze out a few words: "Mom sells batches, I'm sure you're an ancestor!"