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Chapter 4425 [Playing tricks]

Xiang Nan then left the bar and returned to Port Royal.

He can now confirm that he has indeed acquired Jack Sparrow's charm, which means that the Monkey God Chak Baba is indeed the God of Thieves and has the ability to steal both tangible and intangible objects.

In this case, I should help Him recruit believers and expand their faith. This way, when He regains His divine power, I, as His high priest and partner, will also gain more benefits.

When it comes to recruiting believers, Xiang Nan really has a way.

Firstly, he himself had been a religious leader. In "Tai Chi Master Zhang Sanfeng", he was the imperial teacher of the Ming Dynasty, the leader of Taoism in the world, and was familiar with the operation of religion.

Secondly, he is familiar with the routines of religious missionary work. There were many evil cults in ancient China, such as Mahayana, Maitreya, White Lotus, Wenxiang, Bagua, etc.

These cult leaders resort to fraud, posturing, fabricating miracles, and playing tricks to deceive the ignorant masses, defraud them of their money and sex, and even force them to rebel.

For example, Wang Sen, the founder of the Wenxiang Sect, was originally a leatherworker in Jizhou. He pretended that he had saved a fox fairy, who cut off its tail as a gift, and the strange fragrance gave him magical powers.

He used this opportunity to recruit believers and founded the Wenxiang Sect, which at its peak had influence in six provinces: Zhili, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, and Anhui. He also amassed a huge fortune, and the Wang family mansion in Shifokou, his hometown, alone was four miles in radius.

However, Wang Sen only wanted to amass wealth, and when it came to his son's generation, he began to think about rebellion and seeking power. His son Wang Haoxian and his apprentice Xu Hongru started a rebellion during the Tianqi period of the late Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately it was suppressed by the court in less than a year.

Even orthodox Buddhism and Taoism have many practices to deceive the people.

Yuan Mei recorded an incident in "Zi Bu Yu". A scholar went to a temple to burn incense. When he got up at night, he heard an old monk crying in the Zen room in the backyard, "I don't want to become a Buddha." Curious, he peeped in and saw a group of monks kneeling down to bid farewell to an old monk.

A few days later, the temple held a Dharma Assembly, saying that an old monk in the temple had achieved high spiritual attainments, and had sat in Nirvana, becoming a Buddha in the flesh. This attracted a large number of pilgrims to burn incense.

The scholar saw that the Buddha statue on the throne was the old monk who had cried a few days ago. He was suspicious and reported it to the government. The government sent people to investigate and found that the old monk was murdered by the monks in the temple.

The purpose is to pretend that the body has become a Buddha in the flesh, so as to defraud the believers of their money. In order to ensure that the body can sit on the lotus pedestal without falling, a several-foot-long iron bar is inserted from the buttocks to the top of the head.

These things were all recorded in books. Xiang Nan had read a lot of books, so he was naturally familiar with them.

And he also has an advantage, that is, those people are pretending to be gods and cheating, but Xiang Nan really understands magic, and the monkey god Chakbaba really exists.

That makes preaching easier.

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Xiang Nan then built two statues of Chak Baba and threw them into the central areas of Port Royal and Port Tetuga.

A sentence was engraved on the statue: "As long as you worship the monkey god Chak Baba devoutly at midnight, you will be able to obtain good luck from the monkey god."

People were indeed surprised to see a stone statue appear out of thin air, but they did not believe the words written on the statue.

After all, no one had ever heard of the Monkey God Chak Baba before, so how could he grant good luck to people? No one believed that good things would fall from the sky.

But there are those who are really desperate or extremely ill and are willing to give it a try.

"Monkey God Chak Baba, I am your believer. I hope you can grant me good luck and let me have a full meal. I haven't eaten for three days." A skinny and hungry beggar knelt in front of the statue of Chak Baba and prayed devoutly.

"My child, your wish will come true." At this moment, the statue of the monkey god Chak Baba spoke, and then a ray of light was emitted, and then a silver coin appeared in front of the beggar.

"Ah, it's a silver coin, it's really a silver coin, I can eat now." The beggar picked up the silver coin and shouted in surprise.

A silver coin not only allowed him to have a full meal, but also a few glasses of rum, which was a great blessing from heaven.

His shouting quickly attracted the attention of outsiders.

"Really rich?"

"Is it really a blessing?" "Does praying to Him really work?"

The people were amazed when they saw it.

I didn’t expect that the words on the statue were actually true. If you pray sincerely to Chak Baba, you will really receive blessings.

This really opened their eyes.

Soon, more people came to try.

In addition, some people even set their sights on targeting beggars.

A scoundrel stepped forward and snatched the beggar's silver coin. "Here, you deserve the silver coin too."

"My silver coins, my silver coins, oh my God~" the beggar burst into tears.

This silver coin was his only property. It was not only a hearty meal, but also his hope to survive.

But in the face of his miserable cries, no one extended a helping hand to him.

Everyone should mind their own business and not worry about other people's problems. When there is no conflict of interest, most people choose to stand aside and watch.

This is the most universal human nature, which is the same whether in the East or the West.

At this moment, a bolt of lightning suddenly struck, knocking the rogue to the ground.

"It's God's punishment, it's God's punishment!"

"He stole God's blessing, so he was punished by God."

"Yes, it is God who is punishing him~"

When people saw this, they all spoke up.

The scoundrel was struck half to death by lightning and had to kneel down to repent. The beggar picked up his silver coin and was so happy about the experience of getting it back that he couldn't stop smiling.

Seeing this scene, people kowtowed more devoutly. In a short while, a large number of people knelt in front of the statue of the monkey god Chak Baba.

Their requests are also different.

Most of them pray for wealth, hoping that the Monkey God Chak Baba can grant them wealth; some people pray to the Monkey God Chak Baba, hoping that he can cure their diseases...

In the 18th century, medical technology was relatively backward everywhere. A simple cold could kill a person. Dysentery, typhoid, cholera, tuberculosis, plague, and smallpox were even more serious.

In addition, there were diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea, and venereal disease. After all, men at that time liked to go to red-light districts, and even took pride in having syphilis.

For example, French nobles called syphilis "the blessing of Cupid", believing that only masters of love were qualified to have this disease. Therefore, many nobles competed to have this disease to show their charm.

As for these people's requests, Xiang Nan basically satisfied them all, except for those that were too excessive, such as wishing for a thousand gold coins, immortality, or a merchant ship.

For a moment, most of those kneeling before the statue were blessed.

Those who sought wealth got it, and those who were seriously ill were blessed by the Monkey God and felt much better.

Even a blind old man had his sight restored by Xiang Nan.

After witnessing so many miracles with their own eyes, people's attitude towards the Monkey God Chak Baba changed from doubt to certainty.