The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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It took more than a month for the rebellion of serf farmers, chieftains, and temples that spread across spn to be suppressed. During this month, newspapers rarely reported what happened.

It's just a brief passage - reaching the decadent and oppressive class in Tibet.

In fact, most of the month was spent ransacking homes, and the national defense forces collected [-] million taels of silver by suppressing the rebellion.

Of course, it is Tibetan two.

15 Tibetan taels are equal to 1 silver dollar. [

It is equivalent to collecting nearly 2700 million Yanhuang coins. In addition, there are millions of taels of gold, which is equivalent to nearly 1000 million Yanhuang coins.

There are also a large number of jewelry, jade, fur and other luxury goods.

A total of no less than 6000 million Yanhuang coins were seized, which is basically most of Tibet's wealth. During this raid, chieftains and temples were hit hard.

The chieftain is a bureaucratic class and property is confiscated.

Monasteries are monks who practice. It is useless to ask for money. In the future, the state will support them.

In addition, a large part of the aristocratic class took refuge in the government of the Republic of China, and many nobles still supported the reforms of the Republic of China.

"If the serfs are all dead, the nobles will not be able to continue." One of the nobles said so at the previous rally, persuading a group of nobles to support the reform of the Republic of China in Tibet.

These seized properties were quickly sold by the government of the Republic of China to a consortium for disposal, allowing the central government to obtain nearly 5000 million yuan.

The 5000 million yuan was given to the local government of Tibet by the central government and used for infrastructure construction in Tibet.

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At the same time, the Republic of China also revised the religious law.

"Religion in our country must have the characteristics of self-cultivation and non-extremism. Religions that do not have the ability to practice and go to extremes are all defined as cults and prohibited..."

After the revision of the Religious Law, the area of ​​the Republic of China is loved, and only the two religions 'Taoism' and 'Buddhism' are allowed to continue to exist.

at the same time.On the issue of state religion, the Republic of China announced that Taoism was designated as the state religion of the Republic of China.

"Taoism originated from the Five Dou Rice Religion in the Han Dynasty. After Zhang Daoling's reform, various local public welfare construction customs were created, which has a strong educational significance. And the core of Taoism is taken from Laozi

But when looking at the two characters 'Lao Tzu', it is very weak, and when looking at 'Zhuang Zi', it is not at all.

That Taiwan research scholar gave a conclusion: God exists.

This conclusion is very absurd, even Guang Er Er has a divine light to see, how could Zhuangzi not?

Therefore, the real conclusion drawn is that these divine lights do not represent the existence of gods, but represent how many people worship these gods.

There are more people worshiping.Spiritual energy gathers in the cosmic energy field, and those magic sticks are like wire routers, receiving these energies, so as to cure diseases and save lives.

These religions use these miraculous means, and then continue to develop believers.

As long as the religious nature is extreme enough, the spiritual energy contributed by believers will be higher, because they are praying all the time.

In later generations, there are indeed many reports of divine power.For example, in a Christian church, a priest led a group of believers to pray and sing to a patient with cancer, and the cancer was miraculously cured.

This is actually the power of faith.

Regarding the issue of establishing Taoism as the state religion, the Republic of China also carried out some reforms on Taoism. Taoism uses the theory of Taoism, and Taoism talks about "hidden" and "indisputable".Natural law competes with other religions.

The reformed Taoism has joined Pangu and Yanhuang.

As an extreme religion, generally the 'single god' is the easiest to succeed, and Taoism has no way to engage in a single god.

Because of the native Chinese religion.It is non-extreme and relatively peaceful.The ancient Chinese sages knew very well the definition of gods, and it is impossible to blindly worship a certain god.

This is also the reason why the foreign monotheism religion could not be accepted in ancient China, because the upper class knew that it was fake.

Therefore, in this Taoist reform, Nuwa and Yanhuang were added to it, so that believers mainly worshiped Nuwa and Yanhuang, so as to gather the energy of faith, and then rely on these divine powers to make the people believe that the national ancestor Yanhuang still exists, and at the same time advocate some truth, goodness and beauty to educate people.

The "Taishang Laojun" worshiped by Taoism, that is, Lao Tzu Li Er, retreated to the second line.As a person who has become an immortal, Laozi himself does not value the power of these beliefs.

If Lao Tzu Li Er wanted this kind of confidence, he would have done it in the Spring and Autumn Period.

As a sage who has reached that level of wisdom, he will not fail to understand the essence of religion.

In a country, especially in the era of capitalism, people's money-worshipping thoughts are constantly deepening.From the perspective of historical development, from the Spring and Autumn Period to modern China.

People are becoming more and more ghostly, more and more materialized and realistic. [

During the Spring and Autumn Period, when the innate society was transitioning to the acquired society, people at that time were still very loyal, and there was full trust between people.

The folk customs in the Han Dynasty were also very simple, and the moral quality of the upper class was relatively good.

The further it develops, the moral quality of the ruling class begins to decline, and the common people become more and more realistic, and their minds become more and more ghostly.

This is the negative impact of the 'acquired way'.

Therefore, the Republic of China needs religious power to educate. At this time, there is already a large market for nationalist ideas, and local Taoism can also take the opportunity to develop.

Regarding the central government's decision to designate Taoism as the state religion, the whole country still supports it.

Only some intellectuals who have been poisoned by Western thought are still clamoring about the remnants of feudal superstition and vigorously opposing the development of indigenous religions in the Republic of China.

But the voices of these people have been ignored by the central government and the masses.

There is another group of people who are against the establishment of Taoism as the state religion, that is, the reformists in the late Qing Dynasty headed by Kang and Liang.

During the revolution in the late Qing Dynasty, this group of reformers was still holding their feet.

That is, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao's master and apprentice.

This group of people is a remnant of Confucianism.

Ancient Confucianism does have a positive side.Because the common people in Chinese society are active and belong to Yang.Confucianism is conservative and static, which belongs to Yin.

In this way, the yin and yang of the society will be balanced, and there will be no chaos.

But it was different in the Qing Dynasty. During the period when the Manchus entered the customs, they even wanted to use their own characters for administration, but later found that the government orders were not valid.That's when I gave up the idea.

However, after the Manchu Qing failed to use their own characters, they immediately castrated Chinese culture.

The essence is castrated, and the dross is preserved.

The Manchu Qing dug such a big hole, which led those enthusiastic youths who knew the traditional culture very well in modern times to blindly think that the traditional culture was all dross.And with and comprehensive negation.

Confucianism in the Manchu Qing period was a product of dross culture.

However, the masters and apprentices of Kang Liang and the following group of reformists are still very 'self-conscious', claiming that their talents and learning are comparable to Confucius and Mencius, and surpass Yan Yuan...

"I have always respected Confucianism in all dynasties in China, and established Taoism as the country. It is better to establish Confucianism as the state religion." Liang Qichao expressed his opposition in the newspaper.

Kang Youwei scolded immediately. "The central government's move is extremely absurd. China has practiced the teachings of Confucianism and Mencius for more than a thousand years, so Confucianism should be established as the state religion."

Confucianism and Confucianism are slightly different.

Confucianism does have some positive meanings. In ancient times, poor scholars read sage books when they were hungry to satisfy their hunger.

I got sick.Also read the books of sages and sages to recuperate from illness.

This is also the role of the power of faith in Confucianism. Every scholar in ancient society respected Confucianism. If you read more of these articles, you will naturally form a very strong power of faith. help with studying.

The war between religions is to a large extent to compete for the power of faith.

However, ancient Chinese society was civilized early.Guided by the theory of sages and sages, these religions are not easy to fool the upper class, and Confucianism does not use gods to deceive people, so religious forces do not control the state's violent machinery.Therefore, there are few religious wars in China.

The West is different. Many wars are caused by religion.

Religions rely on the power of faith they have won to fool the state's violent machinery, make the state's violent machinery under their control, and carry out activities such as collecting money.

Once a religion loses the power of belief, it can no longer show those "divine powers". Without "divine powers", how can it fool the rulers?

The ruler is not so easy to deceive, if there is, there is, and if there is no, there is no.

Once the divine power is gone, who will believe them?

Western rulers are relatively easy to deceive, because they don't have sages to explain the principles of these powers, so after seeing the powers they can't understand, they think that there are really those things.

The Chinese rulers are different. Even if you show all kinds of so-called "divine powers", the rulers understand the principles, and naturally they will not be fooled by these religions, and they will even be jealous of these religions, and thus severely suppress them.

Jiang Yu and the central government ignored the residual opposition of Confucianism such as Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. These guys had no market in the Republic of China at this time.

For Confucianism, especially the Confucianism that is left with only dross at this time, the Republic of China does not even allow them to enter the field of education.

People like Kang Liang were sent by the government of the Republic of China to North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Siam to fool those dependent countries.

Internally, what is advocated is the essence of Confucianism.

The dross is thrown to those dependent countries, which is an important part of the cultural invasion.

"The Taoist reform will also be the beginning of the outward expansion of our national religion. The purpose of our reform is to create a religion that can spread to the world." When Jiang Yu proposed the religious reform, he explained to Song Jiaoren .

This religion must not only have the ability to civilize the inside, but also have the ability to invade outside.

The interior mainly worships Yanhuang, and the exterior worships Pangu.

It is equivalent to denying the set of Western religions and spreading to the world that "Pan Gu" is the religious viewpoint of the Creator God.

External Taoism will take 'Pangu' as the only god and take an extreme route.

Internally, worshiping Yanhuang and Laozi are the main ones, and "Huangdi Neijing", "Tao De Jing" and "Nanhua Jing" (Zhuangzi) are the main classics.

The most popular classic in China is the "Huangdi Neijing".This is a classic book teaching people how to keep in good health, and it is the enlightenment of the basic theory of Chinese medicine.

The school of classics and prescriptions in China is based on the "Huangdi Neijing" and "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" as the main classics.

Jiang Yu said at the time of the religious reform: "As for whether the reform can be successful, it remains to be seen. But in the local area, there is basically no problem."

After Taoism was designated as the state religion, the Congress passed a Taoist reform fund with an amount of 3000 million.

First of all, all over the country began to demolish Guandi temples.

Guan Laoer is not a god at all.It's the god portrayed in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Baiguan's second child is definitely a super second.

The real Martial God is Yue Fei.

But after the Manchu castration, Guan Laoer replaced Yue Fei as the God of War.After the Taoist reform, Yue Fei was also included as one of the Taoist gods and became the god of war again.

As for the Confucius Temple.For the time being, the central government still dare not dismantle it.

But in the school, there will no longer be any activities of offering sacrifices to Confucius, but offering sacrifices to Taoist gods instead.

In the reformed Taoist system, Pangu is the god of creation, Nuwa is the god of creation, Fuxi is the god of civilization, and Yanhuang is the god of the nation.Laozi (Taishang Laojun) is the god of wisdom, and Yue Fei is the god of war.

Taoist culture is the cultural foundation of the Chinese nation. Confucianism and schools of thought all developed from Taoism. Taoism originated from Fuxi, or even earlier.Most of the hundreds of schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period talked about how to apply Taoism to the acquired way.Only Lao Tzu talked about what happened in ancient times, and still the innate way.

Therefore, Laozi is the orthodox Taoist school, and all schools of thought are the product of acquired Taoism.

It is very strange that Confucianism, which was born as the acquired way, yearned for the innate way in history, thus rejecting the development of science and technology.It is called a strange skill and obscenity, in order to hinder the thorough development of society and become an acquired way.

The way of the day after tomorrow is really not very good. Technology has appeared in less than 300 years, and it has made a mess of the earth.

But the problem is.Since the Tang Dynasty in China, the innate way can never be followed, because at that time the natural materials and earth treasures were already very scarce, and the clans could not train their children like the Han Dynasty, through the external alchemy to cultivate a large number of generals with super high force value .

Since the Song Dynasty, due to the scarcity of natural materials and earth treasures, the outer alchemy has become the inner alchemy. From the Spring and Autumn to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the model of using military as the backbone of the military has been unable to develop. Generals at the head of the generals, and the Sui Dynasty cracked down on the powerful families, and the poor family seized the right to speak. The so-called poor culture and rich martial arts, the poor family cannot cultivate top generals.

So the Song Dynasty began, and the military began to decline.

At this time, China should quickly switch to acquired ways to avoid being destroyed by foreign races, but Confucianism did not realize this problem in time. Although the Song Dynasty developed production and military technology, it was not an official movement. It could not rely on technology to defeat the Mongols. .

The basic context of Chinese civilization is still very clear.

The burning of books and pit warlocks in the Qin Dynasty destroyed the civilization of the innate way developed in China since the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and destroyed the product of excessive innate to acquired, which was the beginning of the tragedy of Chinese civilization and the greatest catastrophe.

The Sui Dynasty cracked down on the elites, and the military personnel training system was destroyed, or the high-quality family education was destroyed.

In the Tang Dynasty, the elixir resources were completely exhausted, the external alchemy technique declined, and the family was destroyed, making it even more impossible for top generals to appear.

The cultural catastrophe in the Qin Dynasty, coupled with the weakening of military personnel training in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, was a tragedy in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty could not handle military force, and could only revitalize the culture. The development of Chinese medicine and Yixue was the peak period since the Spring and Autumn Period, but Failed to fully enter the acquired society and was destroyed by the Mongols.

The Mongols were also a catastrophe, massacring a large number of people, interrupting the process of turning nature into nurture.

In the Ming Dynasty, even though it was already an acquired society, the development of the acquired society also needed the support of the innate society. Therefore, the acquired society in the Ming Dynasty was actually relatively frustrated, and the means of economic development were completely inferior to those in the Song Dynasty.

Then it was entered by the Qing Dynasty, and it was another super catastrophe.

After 300 years of rule by the Qing Dynasty, civilization has completely entered a trough.

The overall Westernization after the May [-]th Movement brought national culture into the lowest period in history.

Learning Western technology is no problem, it is just a process of transforming an innate society into an acquired society.But learning from the West culturally is a complete degeneration.

The task of the Republic of China at this time is to vigorously restore the essence of traditional culture while developing science and technology, so as to truly revive Chinese civilization.

The reform of Taoism was just to add a throttling valve to the acquired society developed by the Republic of China at this time, so as to make the people more simple.

The external development of Taoism is based on the consideration of cultural invasion, and the power of cultural invasion is no less than that of armed invasion.

Under the premise of not demolishing the Confucian Temple, the reformed Taoism will develop believers all over the country. Every year, schools will organize several activities to worship Taoism, thus gradually replacing Confucianism completely.

In terms of Buddhism, the state is only responsible for providing food, clothing, housing and transportation for monks, and repairing temples for them, and there will be no government support for missionary activities.

This year, in the Indochina Peninsula, Buddhism also entered into a thorough reform.

For this reform of Buddhism, the government of the Republic of China proposed reforms to the Kingdom of Annan and the Kingdom of Siam. Fortunately, in Vietnam, the influence of Buddhism there is not that great.

It is different in Siam. In Siam, Buddhism also controls a large amount of land and other assets. Even the king becomes a monk for a few days before returning to the vulgar.

Reformation in Siam was the most difficult.

However, since Siam is not the territory of the Republic of China, it does not require them to reform completely. It only requires that these temples should not occupy too many social resources.

As for whether Siam is willing to reform, that is their own business.

At least at the national level, the reform is beneficial.

But in the Central South Province of the Republic of China, it is absolutely necessary to reform, so the Buddhist temples in the Central South Province also completely handed over all their assets other than the temples this year, and the government began to provide them with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and prohibited They run business.

In the donation box of the temple, it was replaced by the donation box of the charitable association.

The explanation given by the government of the Republic of China is: "As a religion that saves all sentient beings, compassionate Bodhisattvas can't use the money. It's better to use it for charity, which can accumulate blessings instead."

It is equivalent to completely cutting off the additional income of monks, but the living expenses given to them by the state are still relatively generous, and they don't need too much money as monks.

This kind of reform has caused monks in many local areas to return to the vulgar. For the monks who have returned to the vulgar, they can only be called fake monks.In the Indochina Peninsula region, there are even more monks returning to secular life.

After this major reform, the religious chaos in the Republic of China was completely wiped out. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)

ps: This chapter is still about religion, and later it will be transferred to the description of military and economic fields.