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Chapter 539 "Fengshen Yanyi", but it is the Zhuge version
"My lord, since you don't want Nuochen's request to return to Nirvana, then please ask your lord to give Nuochen another request!" After laughing, Zhuge Liang said seriously.

"What please?" Liu Xu was stunned for a moment, and then asked in confusion.

"I invite my lord to preside over the ceremony of conferring the gods!" Zhuge Liang said seriously, but lied to Liu Xu.

"The Great Ceremony of the Conferred Gods? Could it be that the prime minister has already read the Romance of the Conferred Gods?" Liu Xu asked in surprise. The Romance of the Conferred Gods was a novel in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. How did Zhuge Liang know about people who have not reflected on people after the Ming Dynasty?
"I don't know what the story of conferring the gods is!" Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, "I am asking the master, such as Guan Yu, Li Jingzhi's story, to confer the gods for us!"

"What?" Liu Xu was taken aback again, and Zhuge Liang went on to say, "I think that the matter of conferring gods is imminent. If my lord confers gods on generals like me, all generals can become heavenly soldiers and generals, and their combat power will be greatly improved. My lord The strength of the master can also be greatly improved. At the same time, conferring the gods can also make the generals feel at ease, and at the same time make the lord's position stable again."

"Although the generals are all generals under the lord's command now, they actually have other princes who are loyal to each other. There is only one loyal minister and good general, so their hearts are still with the princes, not with the lord."

"But if the lord presides over conferring the gods, then the lord can be the sky, and the sky is the way of heaven. The father of the emperor, the son of heaven is the son of the lord, and the lord's authority is supreme, and no one can violate and touch it!"

"Fengshen...I haven't thought about it at all!" Liu Xu scratched his head, Zhuge Liang's suggestion came too suddenly, and it was something Liu Xu had never considered.

The word Fengshen does not refer to the Fengshen in Fengshen Yanyi.

In the Romance of the Conferred Gods, it was God who bestowed the Conferred Gods list, and then Jiang Ziya canonized all the human heroes and various Qi refiners who died in the Shang and Zhou Wars as heavenly priests, which is called Conferred Gods.

But this is the Conferred God in the novel, not the Conferred God in the world.

The deification of gods in the world actually belongs to the rights of emperors and various religions.

The simplest of these is the conferment of gods by the emperor. Because of the theory of the relationship between heaven and man established by Confucianism, the emperor is actually the son of heaven, and he is born with the rights bestowed by heaven in his hands. He and the gods, etc., canonize those who have made great contributions in the world as gods in the sky.

The simplest example is Zhang Tianshi. Zhang Tianshi’s lineage was originally just some wild Taoist priests, but later the Five Dou Rice Sect became popular. In order to win over these believers, later emperors successively granted titles. The celestial masters are all canonized as real people by the court, and they are living gods recognized by the court.

In addition to the canonization of religious figures, other civil servants and military generals have been canonized, such as Zhuge Liang, who has been canonized by later emperors.

In addition, there are many mortals who were also named gods by the emperor. The most notable example is Mazu.

Mazu was originally a folk woman, Lin Mo Niang. Because she was able to tell the misfortunes and blessings of the world, she helped the poor, cured diseases and eliminated disasters. After her death, she was worshiped by folk temples.

However, during the seven or eight hundred years from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, various emperors successively granted more than 800 canonizations. First, Song Huizong canonized her as the "Goddess of the South China Sea", and directly carried Mazu into the heaven.

Song Gaozong named her "Mrs. Linghui" and "Mrs. Linghui Zhaoying". Song Xiaozong named her "Mrs. Linghui Zhaoying Chongfu" and "Mrs. Linghui Zhaoying Chongfu and Shanli". "Concubine Linghui" and so on, there were more than 20 kinds of titles in the Song Dynasty, and almost all the emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty had canonized Mazu.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Mazu was elevated to the title of "Heavenly Concubine" by the emperor, and Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, named Mazu "Tianfei Concubine of Protecting the Country, Mingling, Linghui, Zhengshan, Qingxianji".

The Ming Dynasty continued to confer titles, and Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang named Mazu a "holy concubine of filial piety and pure heaven".

Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty was not to be outdone, and named Mazu as "the miraculous spirit Zhaoying Hongren Puji Tianfei who protects the country and protects the people"

In this way, Lin Mo Niang, an ordinary folk woman, became the number one goddess in the Heavenly Court after being conferred by successive emperors, and her status was extremely high, probably second only to the Queen Mother among the goddesses in the Heavenly Court.

Mazu's transformation from a commoner girl to a heavenly concubine, although it is only an example, if it cannot be generalized, then the various dynasties and emperors have solidly canonized tens of thousands of city gods, mountain gods, and land.

In ancient times, when passing through every city and every mountain and river, one could see the corresponding City God Temple, Earth Temple, Mountain God Temple and River God Temple, etc., and these temples could receive a lot of incense and worship.

And if you are willing to carefully observe the inscriptions in these temples, you will find that these city gods, land gods, mountain gods and river gods, except for a small number of gods in myths and legends, most of them are human beings.

These people made a lot of contributions when they were alive, or they did a lot of good things for the nearby people, or they maintained the rule of the dynasty, etc., so they were canonized by the court after their death and became local officials. Aboriginal gods can enjoy all kinds of incense worship from the people of later generations.

The imperial court has a very important job every year, that is, it receives invitations from various local officials, requesting that someone be canonized as a local aboriginal god, and these documents will also record the detailed achievements of these people. With a wave of the pen, and then reading out the names of these people when worshiping to heaven and earth, these people were successfully conferred gods by the emperors of the world and became indigenous gods.

This kind of behavior looks very stupid and ridiculous in later generations, but it was a very necessary thing at that time.

Regardless of whether the emperor believes that he can really canonize the gods, they at least know another thing, that is, following these people who have done all kinds of good deeds, made various contributions, and at the same time, their deeds in a certain aspect have been praised through the ages After people are canonized as gods.

Others must yearn for it, and at the same time long for being able to become a god after death.

After all, even modern people don't know what will happen after death. If there is a soul after death, there will be heaven and hell after death, and there are 18 layers of hell waiting for you. What a terrible thing that is matter.

And the conferment of the gods by the imperial court can transform oneself from a lonely ghost into a righteous god in the world, enjoy the incense worship of the people of later generations, and don't have to worry about falling into the 18th floor of hell after death, and can also become a god. What a wow! thing!

Therefore, other people will follow the example of these sages who have been conferred gods, and work desperately for the emperor, so that they will be rewarded by conferred gods.

This is also the reason why later emperors tried their best to seal Guan Yu, and forcibly lifted Guan Yu to the throne of Guan Shengdijun. It is because Guan Yu has all the elements needed by the emperor's favorite courtiers. Everyone has become Guan Yu, and the common people are all as loyal to themselves as Guan Yu, so it is natural to publicize Guan Yu's role model and make all kinds of gods.

Cough cough, it's a bit far away. It's not that Liu Xu doesn't understand the principles of these gods, but this is not the earth, and he is not an emperor. How could he confer gods on these generals of the Three Kingdoms!
"My lord, why don't you write another novel?" Zhuge Liang saw Liu Xu's doubts, and said with a smile, "My lord just mentioned the Romance of the Gods, I think this is an excellent title."

"My lord, you can make up a story, and in the story, you can enshrine all the generals like me, then we will naturally be enshrined as gods!"

Well, what Zhuge Liang meant was that in "Fengshen Yanyi", people like Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei and Cao Cao were made gods... This is indeed a suggestion that Liu Xu didn't even know how to complain about.

(End of this chapter)