Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1214 Beichen Faith
"So that's how it is! That's easy to handle." After sorting out the sympathetic chain of the formation, what Xu Fu did became easy to understand.

From a Roman perspective, Xu Fuli used the stars as a carrier to construct a sympathetic array, thereby completing the extraction, refining and utilization of the earth veins at a macro level.

"The stars are really convenient." Shangluo looked up at the sky. The key to this magic lies in the stars, because he encountered such a thing a few minutes ago -

He had no reason to defeat the gods and ghosts of other countries. After all, it had nothing to do with him. Confucius said that "offering sacrifices to ghosts that are not yours" is an impolite act. Because ghosts and gods have strong national attributes, their meaning is "orthodoxy". People outside the nation cannot benefit from defeating ghosts and gods, because orthodoxy between different nations is not shared, unless it is for "flattery".

But in other words, if they worship the same set of ghosts and gods, or the same set of ancestral gods, then to some extent they can be regarded as the same ethnic group.

What can be offered as sacrifices and what cannot be offered as sacrifices, what kind of rituals and etiquette to use when offering sacrifices, these are indeed the main areas of study for Confucianism.

Confucian means gentle and moist. Zheng Xuan, a Confucian scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, believed that this was the meaning of the word "Confucian". The profession of Confucianism has been related to sacrifice since its birth. So for a court composed of Confucian scholars, the Great Rites Debate during the Jiajing period was a natural duty, because the Great Rites Debate was about whether to enshrine the biological father of Emperor Jiajing as the emperor.

【I read in history books that the core focus of the Great Ceremony Debate was that the number of people that could be enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple was limited. If *silent*'s father was enshrined in, then Emperor Yongle would have to be moved out according to the chronological order. But if it was really moved, the lineage of the Prince of Yan would become a rootless duckweed, so Emperor Yongle's Taizong was changed to Chengzu, and the unfortunate Emperor Renzong was moved out. It wasn't his turn in the first place.】

"So etiquette is ultimately for the living. After all, the dead cannot speak. How to deal with this issue is related to whether the emotions and interests of the living can be properly settled. Xu Fu faced such a direct problem here - so although he talked about Confucianism, he still knew a lot about Confucian business."

Xu Fu's plan was very simple, but also very effective. He understood that ghosts and gods were the most direct source of belief, because people wanted to know where they came from, and it was natural to worship their ancestors. But Xu Fu was of a different generation from these Japanese, and like Shangluo, he could not gain power by defeating the Japanese ghosts and gods.

But instead, he directed these powers to the sky - although ghosts and gods are different, everyone lives under the same starry sky. As long as ghosts and gods are regarded as incarnations or subordinates of star gods in some way, the mixed wishes from the local area can be used to strengthen the stars that everyone can see.

"This is the role of the Pantheon." Phaethon said in a deep voice, "and this is why it is said that Xu Fu is creating a miracle - Shangluo, do you know that this is also one of the sources of Rome's power to some extent."

"Really? Which part?"

"Rule. This is an important source of power for Rome to rule half of the world - that is, Orthodoxy. You know, under the mysterious feudal system of Rome, people's wishes are extremely important, because what people think and yearn for will leave a projection in the spiritual world. If they are not unified, then the kingdom of elves will overlap with the kingdom of humans like the Celts in the British Isles. Therefore, Rome washed away the beliefs of the barbarians through the 'Orthodox' church and unified them under the five patriarchs."

"So how did you make use of this?"

"Well, theoretically, we can't say. This force is very strong, but also very fragile, just like the golden branch you saw before. A tall building is built on a shaky foundation - do you want to know?" Shangluo nodded.

"Wait, even though the confidentiality level has been reached, we still need to seek Victoria's opinion."

"Go ahead," Victoria replied, "I think this will be helpful to Shangluo's current operations. So, go ahead and say it."

"Then I'll tell you -" Phaethon took a deep breath, and the secret was about to be revealed to Shangluo through the power of words:
"The most central and crucial part of this entire layout is the Pantheon."

"Pantheon? You mean the system?"

"No, I mean the actual building called the Pantheon, the Pantheon in Rome, the one with the dome. This plan has two steps: the first step is that in 325 AD, the Council of Nicaea convened by Emperor Constantine I chose to use the Orthodox liturgy to reorganize Rome's own universal church. Here, it is not to honor the religion of Jesus of Nazareth as the state religion, but to use his liturgy to reorganize Rome's faith. This means that the reorganized universal church is still under the emperor.

"In the second step of the plan, in 609 AD, Emperor Phocas gave the old Pantheon to the Universal Church as the Great Temple, integrating it with the Empire. Do you know why it was the Pantheon? Not only because it is the old Pantheon - you may have noticed that there is a hole in the dome of the Pantheon."

"Ah, I know, it's leaking over there when it rains, right?"

[It can’t be said that it leaks. It was designed to be semi-open. There is a different view when it rains. But the key point is the hole. ]

"Yes." Phaethon nodded. "That hole is in the zenith - you can directly observe the center of the sky, which is the celestial pole. The so-called celestial pole is the image formed by the stars revolving around the Big Dipper. The celestial pole does not move, and the stars revolve around it, with the four assistants following it, and the four seasons flow. Therefore, the symbol representing the celestial pole is the cross. The celestial pole is the North Star, and the cross is the two yin and yang giving birth to the four images. Therefore, the god of the celestial pole is the Zhenwu Emperor. Emperor Chengzu is the incarnation of the Zhenwu Emperor, so he is the incarnation of God."

"???" Shangluo blinked violently, "So we both worship the same thing?"

"It can be." Phaethon emphasized, "This is the most critical point - within the range of can be, can not be, how to make the accidental become inevitable, this is the role of the array. The civilizations in the northern hemisphere all observe the same starry sky, so we can use the Pantheon in a different skin to govern the Orthodox system, and use one celestial pole to replace another celestial pole, because the celestial pole is equal to the celestial pole. This is one of the most massive Roman hoaxes. We deceived all the technological barbarians. They thought they were worshiping God, but in fact they were worshiping the city of Rome through the celestial pole symbol."

(End of this chapter)