On the seventh day of December in the thirty-second year of Hongwu, Shuntian Jiaohua Mansion.
The sound of the gong is loud and the horses' hooves can be heard. As the sounds of silence and avoidance resounded everywhere, the Song Dynasty's Tiannan Proclamation sent Dongguan County Prince Zhao Yi's chariots and horses through the city in the capital of the Tiannan Emperor. Tiannan people with dark skin, protruding cheekbones, and thin bodies crowded on both sides of the road, stretching their necks to look around, as if they wanted to catch a glimpse of the Chairman King of the Song Dynasty and the Southern Emperor who went to Dazhankou Pier to greet him. Zhao Chen's style.
South Emperor Zhao Chen and Chair King Zhao Chair were half a horse away from each other. Surrounded by a large group of Tianli knights, they majestically passed through Dazhankou Shang Town and entered Shuntian Jiaohua, known as the First City of Tiannan. Mansion's castle.
Zhao Chen looked around and found that the Shuntian Educational Palace was indeed worthy of its name. Within the castle, academies, Tianli halls and ancestral halls could be seen everywhere. These buildings related to the Southern Confucian sect were all tall and majestic, showing the principles of Tianli everywhere. Most High, Most Great and Most Holy!
There are obviously more Confucianists on both sides of the street than in Dazhankou Shang Town, and even more than on the streets of the northern and southern capitals of the Song Dynasty! They were all dressed in commoners, wearing scarves on their heads, with long swords hanging from their waists, and looked arrogant. When the team of Zhao Chen, Zhao Yi and others approached, they would salute and bow, and shout, "The Southern Emperor is out, and the Heavenly Order will be prosperous!"
The entire Shuntian Jiaohuafu Castle is filled with the atmosphere of Confucian religion.
Today, Southern Confucianism took a sectarian line from the beginning, not a school line. Of course, the sect line of Tiannan Confucianism is not simply about dancing to the gods, nor is it like Taoism, refining elixirs and cultivating immortals, or building a system of heavenly gods, but based on the world view of Neo-Confucianism (the laws of heaven create all things, and all things have their own existence). On the basis of Tianli), he developed his own theory of "Apocalypse", which is the time when "the Southern Emperor emerged and Tianli prospered".
Although this "apocalypse" was a bit crude, the heavenly laws did not send any angels with wings, nor did they send down any scriptures. But for Tiannan Confucianism, it is enough for this "Apocalypse" event to prove the existence of heavenly principles. The rest can be made up by oneself, no, discovered!
In other words, "Heavenly Principle" exists, "Heavenly Principle" is conscious, and "Heavenly Principle" supports the Southern Emperor and Confucianism. These are enough!
With these three items, Tiannan Confucianism can compete with Tianfang Sect, Brahmanism and Buddhism in Tiannan area.
Because it is impossible for scholars of Tianfang Sect, Brahmanism and Buddhism to use "gods" to oppose "sages", and it is impossible to prove the falsity of "Tianli Apocalypse" - who can prove that Tianli does not exist? Who can prove that the laws of heaven are unconscious? As for whether Tianli supports the Southern Emperor and Confucianism, it must be falsified by "divine judgment", which is also launching a war!
The army that believes in heavenly principles has been invincible in the past ten years, sweeping across Tiannan and Nanyang. Except for the Annan Protectorate, which originally believed in Confucianism and now believes in Confucianism, the rest of the major countries in Tiannan have suffered. Violent beatings, including Angkor and Moluoyu, the capitals of Chenla and Srivijaya, were successively defeated by Tiannan Confucianism! The Champa and Boni countries simply became vassals of Tiannan Confucianism.
Even in the direction of the Western Ocean (Indian Ocean), the Tiannan Confucian army repeatedly defeated the original maritime overlord of the Chola Dynasty, and also captured the Colombo port on the island of Ceylon (originally controlled by Tianfang Sect merchants), and spread the belief in Tianli. Arrived on the island of Ceylon.
Of course, the expansion of Tiannan Confucianism in recent years is not only to spread the belief in Tianli, but also to "collect tuition fees" and occupy territory. Of course you have to pay for education, so how can you make your hard work go in vain?
Therefore, those countries or city-states that convert to Tianli or accept the protection of Tianli must pay Tiannan Confucian religious tuition every year!
The land occupied was to house Tiannan warriors and control maritime trade, so as to collect more tolls and commercial taxes.
At least half of the tuition fees, tolls and commercial taxes collected by the Tiannan Confucian Sect were collected in Sunchon Jiaohuafu, where the headquarters of the Tiannan Confucian Sect was located. Part of it has turned into tall city walls, wide streets, magnificent buildings and luxurious palaces.
Zhao Chen, Zhao Yi and his entourage walked through the beautifully built Shuntian Jiaohuafu City for another half an hour, and finally arrived at the Tiannan Confucian headquarters, where the Nandi Palace is located, with loud gongs and drums. Outside "Tianli Palace".
Unlike Zhao Kai's approach of dividing the Confucian Zongting and the Song Dynasty into two lines, Zhao Chen, who only had a few hundred thousand people in total, did not have the conditions for "separation of politics and science."
At the beginning, he actually wanted to follow Zhao Kai's example and separate Tiannan Confucianism from the Southern Emperor's court. But the reality is that it is impossible for Zhao Chen to have both the school and the imperial court system at the same time. The cost is too high and the manpower required is too much. This is not just two sets of central teams. Confucianism and the imperial court are all There are also a bunch of institutions and grassroots organizations. With only a few Chinese people joining the Communist Party, how can they all do double duty?
Therefore, after Zhao Chen moved to the south, he chose the route of feudalism in politics and centralization in school. That is to say, the school is at the grassroots level, and the political power only reaches the capitals of the eight prefectures in the south of the country. Over time, the Southern Emperor's political power gradually weakened, and the school managed more and more things.
Twenty years after Hongwu, the Southern Emperor's court simply shut down Zhang, and Tiannan Confucianism became the assistant to the Southern Emperor, and ordered the central organization of Tiannan and Nanyang regions, that is, the integration of politics and science.
A large group of "great Confucians" in cloth clothes and scarves, with long swords hanging from their waists, dressed similar to Confucius in the portrait, were arranged neatly according to size and rank outside Tianli Palace, set up incense tables, and waited respectfully.
When the large group of people led by Zhao Chen and Zhao Yi arrived on Tianli Street outside Tianli Palace, the musicians began to play and play, and several trumpets sounded at the same time. At the same time, these great Confucian scholars from Tiannan shouted in unison, "When the Southern Emperor comes out, the laws of heaven are established, I will respectfully welcome His Majesty the Southern Emperor, and respectfully welcome His Highness the Prince of Dongguan!"
Zhao Chen and Zhao Yi looked at each other, dismounted their horses with a smile, and gave a slight humility. Then, with the King of Chairs in front and Emperor Tianli behind, they strode towards the Tianli Palace with their heads held high.
The Tianli Palace has an elegant facade, and there is a very broad square when you enter it. To the east of the square is the Confucian Temple and to the west is the Martial Arts Temple. They are both dedicated to the civil and military sages who have been benevolent and righteous for the cause of Tianli. They are also enshrined in it. The two Wen and Wu temples are equivalent to the great ancestral hall of Confucianism in Tiannan.
On the north side of the square, facing south, is the Tianli Hall!
This is not a place for going to court, but a place for reasoning, which is equivalent to the Tianli Hall of Tiannan Confucianism.
In the spread system of Confucianism in Tiannan, ancestors are worshiped in ancestral halls and the principles of heaven are preached in Li halls. The functions of the two are different, but they are two in one.
The Tianli Hall "connects to the sky" and leads directly to the Southern Emperor, while the large ancestral hall "connects to the ground" and takes root in local clans. The combination of the two gave Tiannan Confucianism extremely strong organizational and mobilization capabilities.
The Confucian scholars of Tianli Hall are often the hosts of large ancestral halls.
While Zhao Chen accompanied Zhao Yi into the Tianli Hall, he introduced with a smile, "Uncle Twenty-Six, this hall was only completed last year. It can accommodate thousands of people to listen to the truth. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, there will be There are thousands of people listening here, it’s extremely spectacular!”
The first and fifteenth day of every month are the "listening days" and "sacrifice days" of Tiannan Confucianism. During these two days, all Confucian believers have to go to Tianli Hall to listen to the teachings and go to the ancestral hall to pay homage to their ancestors!
In the remaining days of January, Confucian believers have to burn two sticks of incense in the morning and evening to worship heaven and ancestors.
In addition, all children of Chinese people must enter academies run by Confucianism to study and practice martial arts. These academies, together with the ancestral hall and Tianli Hall, form the "three-piece set of Tianli". The deans of the academies are generally the managers of Tianli Hall and the ancestral hall.
In addition to worshiping ancestors, reasoning, and educating (teaching), the Confucian scholars of Tiannan Confucianism are also responsible for helping the poor, providing disaster relief, hosting weddings and funerals, adjudicating neighborhood disputes, and other matters.
Of course, all these “services” are chargeable!
Including Chinese people, believers in Tianli must pay one-tenth of their income to Tianli halls, ancestral halls and academies. In addition, Confucians must pay additional fees when they host weddings and funerals and adjudicate neighborhood disputes.
In addition to the "charges" of Tiannan Confucianism, the Chinese and barbarians under the governance of Tiannan Confucianism must also pay taxes to their respective lords or undertake military service. This part of the taxes and military service will be paid upwards layer by layer, and finally part of it will be handed over to the Southern Emperor Zhao Chen.
In addition, Southern Emperor Zhao Chen can also obtain income from the commercial markets of the eight prefectures in Tiannan, tolls from Western ports, and from the city-states of various countries that rely on Confucianism in Tiannan. It is no exaggeration to say that he is extremely rich!
Zhao Chen looked at the majestic Tianli Hall and nodded repeatedly, "The main hall of Jinling Palace is nothing more than that, and the Daqing Hall in Shuntian Imperial City is not even as good as your Tianli Hall!"
Zhao Chen stroked his beard and smiled and said, "Uncle twenty-six, don't be joking. My nephew also lived in the Imperial City of Jinling, so he still knows how grand the Imperial City of Jinling is." As he spoke, he sighed softly, "My nephew Spending huge sums of money to build Shuntian Jiaohua Palace and Tianli Palace are actually to alleviate the homesickness of the Supreme Being!"
"Tai Shang" is Zhao Huan. I don't know whether he is "Tai Shang Huang" or "Tai Shang Wang". In short, everyone here in Hue calls him "Tai Shang".
"Is your Majesty feeling better?" Zhao Yi asked with concern.
Zhao Chen shook his head and said, "It's not good! I'm too old and ill. I'm afraid I won't die soon. All I want now is to return to my roots. I don't know if I can get the approval of a high official?"
"Falled leaves return to their roots?" Zhao Yi was stunned, "Your Majesty, do you want to return to Nanjing Yingtian Mansion?"
"No," Zhao Chen shook his head, "Your Majesty, Bianliangzi has been away from home for decades, and now he wants to go back to Kaifeng for a visit. Uncle Twenty-Six, can you fulfill my father's request?"
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