Chapter 175: Dayue’s Experience (1/2)
At the border between Dayue and Dazhou, in Dayue Tunzhou Parish, Crescent Army, and the camp of the Third Knights.
Li Yan mixed in with the followers of the Moon God Church, kneeling on the ground, making a semicircular gesture with his left and right hands, and then joining them at the forehead to form a circular pattern.
In this way, he stood upright on the ground.
Beside him, there were endless followers of the Moon God Church who were doing the same thing as him.
At the same time, he was reciting the prayers of the Moon God Church to pray to the Moon God.
"Moon God, your light shines on the world. It is because of your light that we believers can see in the darkness."
"It is your light that protects us and brings us light in the darkness."
"..."
"You are so powerful, yet so kind that you can let a humble person like me look directly at your face."
"..."
"Moon God, your believers pay you the most respectful worship."
The murmured prayers of tens of thousands of people, like brainwashing Sanskrit, buzzed in everyone's ears.
After saying this last prayer, tens of thousands of people bowed to the ground together.
After three breaths, everyone stood up slowly.
Li Yan could see that some people's heads had even bleed.
This was not an accidental knock, but they knocked on purpose.
Because the Moon God Church has propaganda, if you have something to ask the Moon God, but there is no way to go to the Moon God Temple in various places to pray, then you have to offer your sincerity to the Moon God.
When can you show your sincerity so that the Moon God can see it?
It is naturally when you pray to the Moon God.
Therefore, such people are generally those who have something to ask of the Moon God.
Of course, if you have shown your sincerity but still have not realized your wish.
That can only mean that your sincerity is not enough and you are not pious enough to the Moon God.
Therefore, this has led to some people who have been completely brainwashed, and they may even kowtow to death in this last kowtow.
"Hurry up and ask the Moon God waiter, someone has returned to the embrace of the Moon God."
Suddenly, Li Yan heard someone shouting like this.
This made the people around Li Yan start to rush to the place where the sound came from, they all wanted to see the true face of the pious person.
And Li Yan chose to go in the opposite direction of them.
Li Yan looked at the crowded crowd over there and couldn't help but sighed: "Well, another fanatic who kowtowed himself to death."
After coming here for seven days, Li Yan saw three fanatics who kowtowed themselves to death like this.
This made Li Yan deeply aware of the terrible spiritual control that the Moon God Sect had over the people of Dayue.
It can be said that the Moon God Sect has infiltrated every aspect of Dayue.
Even in the military camp, you have to thank the Moon God when you eat, pray to the moon before going to bed, and shout "Bless the Moon God" when you go to battle.
More importantly, in the military camp, the people of the Moon God Sect are the ones who make decisions, and the senior officials of the Dayue army are often just people who execute orders.
This is why, no matter how desperately the soldiers of Dayue fight, the Great Zhou Kingdom can always hold on.
The people of the Moon God Sect have a way of fooling people, but leading troops to fight is another matter.
And the people of the Moon God Sect cannot take the initiative to give up the command, which is likely to cause some scenes that the Moon God Sect does not want to see.
You know, there was once a senior official of the Dayue Army who gained the trust of the person in charge of the Moon God Sect in the military camp and obtained the command of the Dayue Army.
That man first won several beautiful victories, and when the head of the Moon God Cult in the military camp completely let down his guard, he raised the flag to rebel.
In the end, he naturally failed. The reason for the failure was not because of his weak strength, but because the lower-level soldiers were brainwashed too seriously.
In an important battle, he turned his back and was defeated directly.
However, this man did not die, but fled to Da Zhou and continued to fight with the Dayue Cult.
That is, after this incident, the Dayue Cult established the rules of the church that military power could not be delegated to any believer.
This also led to the fact that the people who gained the most credit in the army were not the various senior officials of the Dayue Army, but the Dayue believers in the Dayue Army.
Therefore, after learning the news, Li Yan prepared to choose a believer to replace him.
"Zhuo Xinzheng, don't you like to join in the fun?"
"Me too, those who knock themselves to death are not the Moon God's devout followers at all. The real devout followers should stay useful and serve the Moon God for life."
"Don't you think so?"
When Li Yan was walking towards his residence, someone suddenly patted his shoulder and asked with a look of seeking approval.
Li Yan turned around and found that this person was from the same room with him, so he replied: "Yes, Fang Shangli, I think so too. As a believer of the Moon God, although I am not afraid of death, I don't want to die in my own hands."
"I hope to die in battle and die in the process of clearing out non-believers."
"May we all enter the Moon God's Pure Land after death, Moon God is above."
As Li Yan spoke, he made a gesture of gratitude to the Moon God.
The gesture is very simple, the hands form a circle, then put them on the heart, then put them in front of the forehead, and finally put them together.
The hands form a circle, representing the moon, that is, the Moon God, and the head and heart are the most critical parts of the human body.
The whole gesture of gratitude to the Moon Goddess expressed the meaning that the Moon Goddess created us, and we should thank the Moon Goddess with all our heart.
Fang Shangli, who was opposite, also made a gesture of gratitude to the Moon Goddess and returned the gift to Li Yan.
After returning the gift, he was a little excited and said in surprise: "Did you also join the army under the guidance of the Protestant Church? Then we have to have a good chat."
"Yes, it was because of the guidance of the Protestant Church that I came here."
Li Yan responded.
Then, the two of them chatted about the Protestant Church and various other topics while rushing towards their residence.
Zhuo Xin was the name Li Yan gave to his clone, and the clone's current position in the Dayue Army is a knight attendant.
It is equivalent to the captain of the Great Zhou Army, managing ten soldiers.
Above the knight attendant is the knight class, and the knight is equivalent to the centurion in the Great Zhou Army.
The reason why only a knight attendant was replaced instead of a knight was because Li Yan did not know much about the various aspects of the Dayue Army.
If you rashly replace the knights, the lower-level of such an army will easily be discovered by the subordinates and superiors.
When the identity is exposed, you can't escape in a place like the army where there are so many masters.
Through the information that Li Yan has inquired these days, Li Yan has preliminarily sorted out the division of positions in the Dayue Army.
In the Dayue Army, the lowest level is the soldiers, and above the soldiers are the knight attendants, knights, great knights, titled knights, moon knights and God-given moon knights.
Needless to say, the knight attendants and knights, the great knights can be in charge of a thousand-man regiment, which is equivalent to a thousand households in the Great Zhou Army.
The titled knight can be in charge of a ten-thousand-man camp, and the camp name of the ten-thousand-man camp is the title of this titled knight, which is equivalent to ten thousand households in the Great Zhou Army.
For example, the titled bloodthirsty knight, the ten-thousand-man camp controlled by him will be called the bloodthirsty camp to the outside world.
The titled knight of the ten-thousand-man camp where Li Yan is now is called the Silver Wolf, so the ten-thousand-man camp where he is is called the Silver Wolf Ten-thousand-man Camp.
However, the title of knight is the end of the struggle of ordinary people. As for the Moon Knight and God-given Moon Knight above it, without the canonization of the Moon God Church, even if they have outstanding military achievements, they can't think of promotion.
The Moon Knight can control a legion of Dayue. Like the Great Zhou, Dayue's legion is also more than 50,000 people, composed of five 10,000-man camps.
The last God-given Moon Knight is very powerful. Let's talk about his power first. All the armies of Dayue are under his nominal rule.
In other words, as long as it is the army of Dayue, it is under the jurisdiction of the God-given Moon Knight.
At the same time, the status of the God-given Moon Knight in the Moon God Church is second only to the leader of the Moon God Church, and even the status of the nine bishops is slightly inferior to it.
Therefore, the God-given Moon Knight will appear in Dayue every hundred years, and this person must have the blood of the leader of the Moon God Church and the royal family of Dayue at the same time.
Otherwise, the royal family of Dayue will not give up power, and the Moon God Church will not hold the canonization ceremony.
Therefore, every God-given Moon Knight is either surnamed Yue or Yin.
The surname Yue is the surname of the Dayue royal family, and the surname Yin is the surname of the leader of the Moon God Cult.
However, the leader of the Moon God Cult is not inherited by the family. Each leader of the Moon God Cult is elected by the previous leader and the nine bishops.
The elected leader will automatically inherit the surname Yin.
And this surname Yin is inherited from the first leader of the Moon God Cult, Yin Qiye, who is also the founder of the Moon God Cult.
As for the new religion mentioned by Zhuo Xinzheng, it is a new doctrine that has been circulated in the Moon God Cult.
The core proposition of the new religion is to keep the body alive in daily life to nourish the spirit, and to sacrifice the body in wartime to repay the grace.
It means that when the world is peaceful, you should preserve your useful body to support the Moon God; and when the war starts, you should take the initiative to sacrifice yourself and go to the battlefield to kill the enemies of the Moon God, those who have no faith, to repay the Moon God's creation.
After hearing the proposition of the new religion, Li Yan understood that it was created by the Moon God Cult for conscription.
The citizens of Dayue, as the people of the Moon God, neither the Moon God Church nor the court of Dayue dared to use the simple and crude war tax to collect a large number of soldiers like the Great Zhou.
However, the Moon God's teachings can be used to brainwash these people and voluntarily join the war.
This is a more effective measure than the war tax of the Great Zhou.
One is forced, and the other is voluntary. Just think about it and you will know which way of conscription is more advantageous.
After Li Yan and Fang Shangli returned to the room, they chatted for some time and then went back to their rooms to sleep.
He lived in a four-person room, a room of more than 100 square meters, divided into five areas, four single rooms and a public area.
In the single room, there was nothing else except a bed, a table and a wardrobe.
Li Yan was the last one to enter the room, so his relationship with the other three people was just a nodding acquaintance, and he only knew each other's names.
Li Yan has also been looking for opportunities to integrate into the network of these people and obtain more intelligence.
Li Yan seized the opportunity today. After a conversation with Fang Shangli, the relationship between the two sides can be called fellow believers.
Later, Li Yan can get to know more people through Fang Shangli's interpersonal relationships.
Among them, Li Yan most wants to know the Moon God servants of the Moon God Church, or even the priests.
There is a clear hierarchy in the Moon God Church.
The highest level is naturally the leader of the Moon God Church, followed by the bishops who control the nine dioceses.
After the bishop, there are the high priests, priests and numerous moon god servants, also known as believers.
Under a bishop, there are often three to five high priests, and the high priests can be in charge of one or two church domains, the area of which is equivalent to a state in Da Zhou.
The priests under the high priest are divided into five levels, which are divided according to the changes in the moon phases.
They are the new moon priests, the waning moon priests, the lower crescent moon priests, the waxing moon priests and the full moon priests.
The new moon priests are naturally the lowest priests, and the full moon priests are the pinnacle of the priest class.
Among the five levels of priests, the waxing moon priests can be in charge of a church alone, the area of which is equivalent to a county in Da Zhou.
The full moon priests can be in charge of two to three church domains, and are also candidates for the high priests.
Once the high priest dies or is demoted because of making mistakes, the full moon priests have the opportunity to replace him.
Apart from those two situations, the high priest can stay in the position forever. There is no such thing as retirement in the Moon God Church.
Below the church leader is the church city, which is the most basic administrative unit of the Great Moon Kingdom.
There are actually more or less villages and towns under the church city, but these villages and towns are not able to build the Moon God Temple.
Therefore, every time they want to pray to the Moon God, when they pray, these people will rush to the church city closest to them.
In this way, the church city has a strong siphoning ability for the population of the surrounding villages and towns.
As long as they are able to live in the church city, they will never return to the village or town.
For this reason, the Great Moon court began to classify different church cities according to the number of villages and towns around the church city.
Therefore, there are three levels of church cities, small church cities, medium church cities and large church cities.
Generally, the new moon priests can only be responsible for small church cities, while the waning moon priests are responsible for medium church cities.
As for large church cities, they are naturally responsible for the waning moon priests.
There is no mutual subordination between priests, which means that even if you are a full moon priest, you cannot order a new moon priest to do anything.
The Moon Temple of a religious city is very large, even if it is a small religious city.
This naturally requires a lot of manpower, so there are the Moon God servants who are the most numerous in the Moon God Church.
There are two or three hundred Moon God servants in the Moon Temple of any small religious city, but there are only a few priests.
In order to allow these Moon God servants to better serve the Moon God Church, the Moon God Church divides the Moon God servants into three levels.
The first-class Moon God servants have the lowest status and do the most things, while the third-class Moon God servants are already part of the management of the Moon God Temple.
Time flies, and soon, the next day arrived.
Before dawn, the military drums had already sounded.
After the three drums sounded, those who have not arrived at the parade ground will be beheaded.
Therefore, after hearing the sound, Li Yan immediately put on his military uniform, took his weapons, and pushed the door out.
At this time, the people in the other three rooms also came out.
"Zhuo Xinzheng, good morning, are you going together?"
Fang Shangli greeted Li Yan first after seeing him.
"Sure, let's go together."
Li Yan responded with a smile.
"You guys go together too."
Fang Shangli also called two other people, and it was obvious that the three of them had a good relationship.
The other two looked at each other, and saw surprise and confusion in each other's eyes.
However, they still followed.
At this point, Li Yan can be said to have truly integrated into Dayue's new circle.
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