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Chapter 440 Religious Naturalization

Li Junwei did not hide too much. His goal was to make the Yellow Cult power in the empire balance too many Orthodox and Tianfang Cultists. During the war, Li Junwei successively destroyed two major ethnic groups, Kazakhstan and Crimean Tatars, who believed in Tianfang Cult, and then swept and swept Russia. After three battles, the annexation of nearly two million people.

In the past three years, the empire has been continuously immigrating from the traditional Han areas of the empire, and the inner Xinjiang has moved to Mongolia and the Jurchen Zasak. On this basis, it has controlled the newly annexed population, but it has also caused a fact that foreign vassals of all sizes have been formed in the western Xinjiang of the empire. They have their own flag servants, Junggar, Mongolian and Jurchen tribes, and at least 800,000 people were given to them.

This kind of reward has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the foreign vassals who believe in the Yellow Cult will transform the newly acquired population from the Tianfang Cult and Orthodox Church into the Yellow Cult faith, and it is conducive to controlling the newly opened land that has not yet been stable, fighting with the surrounding indigenous peoples and forces, and defending the empire and borders.

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And these populations cannot be transformed into inner vassal populations on the spot, because this will form a new ethnic or religious group within the empire, especially when the empire has just made enemies with them. If the empire could accept it from the beginning, it would not have chosen such violent and complex annexation methods at the beginning.

So Li Junwei thought of these Huang Cult monks under the Religious Bureau. He thought of a way to not allow foreign vassals to gain advantages in the Western Xinjiang region, but also ensure that a time bomb would not be buried. It is to put some of the population into the Huang Cult Banner. These monks themselves have a certain population and force, and can be used as units to manage these aliens. Moreover, these Huang Cult monks will not tolerate the aliens who only have the status of serfs under their rule have the power to believe in other religions, and will inevitably carry out full suppression and faith transformation. Of course, this process will be full of violence, but for beliefs, religious people are obviously much more professional than the army. Under violence, brainwashing and subtle influence, these new attached populations will gradually transform the Huang Cultists, and this is a category that the empire can fully accept.

"You mean, let some Slavs and Tatars be incorporated into our Yellow Cult Banner." Master Zhangjia was so happy that he was filled with joy. His old face squeezed out his sincere heart, but he was very ugly.

Li Junwei nodded slightly and said, "That's true, but not so."

Master Zhangjia knew that the Your Highness in front of him was cynical on the surface, but his ability to play political means was excellent. He immediately restrained his greed and listened carefully to him. Li Junwei said: "I have two special requirements for the new Huangjia Banner. The first is your carrying capacity. Master Zhangjia, I have carefully checked. At present, the population that has been moved with you and given to the foreign vassals, whether it belongs to you or several temples, has only twenty-five lords and seven and a half lords. There are less than two lords. The total number of men and women is only more than 20,000, most of them are serfs and craftsmen. With such a large population, how many naturalized people can you control for the imperial court? To be honest, I will give you 100,000 people at once. Maybe in a few years, when you see me, you will have to tell me that the pork cannot be eaten."

"This..." Master Zhangjia's face was also ugly. In fact, since the founding of the Supreme Emperor Li Mingxun swept the south of the desert and accepted Master Chelun at Yinfo Temple, the Huang Sect, especially the three branches of the Huang Sect in the inner and outer worlds, have become tools for the Imperial Religious Affairs Bureau to assist the Empire in ruling internal and external worlds. However, in the past twenty years, the performance of the Huang Sect can be described as having more stability and lack of progress.

For example, when the empire was conquering the North Road of Tianshan, the monks of the Huang Cult did a very good job of appeaseing the Weila tribes such as Junggar. Many times, as long as the yellow-hat monk arrived, many Junggars would no longer resist and accept the adaptation and rule of the empire. During the expedition of Li Junwei, the surrender and support of Turgut were inseparable from Master Zhangjia's outstanding performance.

It can be said that among the ethnic groups who already believe in the Yellow Cult, the influence of the Yellow Cult is fully exerted, but in the "religious war" against the outside world, the performance of the Yellow Cult can only be described as fighting against the Five Slags, especially in the case of the Orthodox and Tianfang Cult, the One God Cult is completely unable to compete with the other side in a head-on manner.

For example, in the Siberian region where the empire opened, many of the local natives were baptized and became Orthodox people. The empire wanted them to restore their original religions, and hoped that the Yellow Cult could play a role. After so many years, the effect was not good. Although there are many factors such as language and customs, it is undeniable that polytheistic religions such as the Yellow Cult are not the opponent of the Monotheistic religion at all.

The opposite example is that in the forty years when the Turkut moved west to the Volga River, many Orthodox religions converted by the Turkuts became Orthodox churches, or some nobles were forced by the Tsar and converted, but they almost never saw the Slavs becoming Yellow church members. You should know that Turkuts have not broken off contact with Tibet in the past few decades.

Master Zhangjia finally understood why Li Junwei had just instigated himself to ask for his subordinates and cattle and sheep from Turgut and the foreign vassals. It turned out that this was the idea.

Li Junwei finally said: "You have a family under you, so I will give you a naturalized citizen. You have more than 4,000 households now, so I can only give you more than 4,000 households. It's a one-to-one exchange. Master, work harder."

Master Zhangjia was panting by Li Junwei's encouragement, thinking that he would not only ask for more tribes from the Turkuts and the outer vassals, but also write to the inner Xinjiang and even Tibet, so that they could bring their tribes to the western Xinjiang as soon as possible. After making up this determination, Master Zhangjia asked, "What is the prince's second requirement?"

"It's very simple. Master, the imperial court no longer gives you the yellow flag, but the naturalized flag. The two cannot be confused. These naturalized people accept the missionary of you and your masters, and naturally they should also contribute themselves and wealth to serve you Buddhas' projections in others. But one day the master's sect returns to the Buddha's arms and goes to the Pure Land, then the naturalized people have nothing to do with you." Li Junwei said with a smile.

The Huangjiao Banner is a sacred flag servant who was granted to high-quality Huangjiao monks or temples by the Lifan Academy. They are essentially private property of masters or temples. All production and life are for supplying these monks. If the flag servants of the foreign vassal have the same status as the flag servants, they have the autonomy. Obviously, the empires that do not accept the expansion of the foreign vassal will not accept the expansion of the Huangjiao. Therefore, the new population has turned into a special yellow vassal flag, which is the naturalized flag. These flag servants will not be given to a certain temple, but to the Huangjiao monks.

The temple can exist forever, but the monks will eventually die. When they die, the naturalization flag will be re-administered under the Lifanyuan and will not be inherited.

Master Zhangjia nodded and said, "Your Highness, it's fine for other monks, I......"

"Are you going to tell me that you are a reincarnated Buddha?" Li Junwei said with his cheeks in his arms.

Li Junwei knew what Master Zhangjia meant. He wanted the naturalization flag he obtained to inherit. Although he could not have children himself, Zhangjia was reincarnated. After he died, the children he gave birth to when he died were his reincarnation. In Tibet, there were many masters of this level, and there were less than ten in the empire. However, only Chelun, Zhangjia and Zhebuzundanba of Mobei were the three who were truly managing regional religious affairs.

Master Zhangjia hesitated. He knew who he had fooled, and he could not fool Li Junwei. But Li Junwei really wanted to hear his explanation. He wanted to know what scientific principles there are in the process of reincarnation, and whether it was the same as his father's "time travel". His father traveled from more than three hundred years later to the present, but only once, the reincarnated Buddha was everywhere in Tibet. So many samples could help him figure out the mystery.

"This... Your Highness, let's discuss the issue of naturalization flag." Master Zhangjia didn't want to continue debate with Li Junwei. How could a person who didn't even think of gods, believe in reincarnation? Master Zhangjia couldn't forget the situation when he first met King Yu in the capital.

At that time, King Yu was still a young child. Master Zhangjia was a learned young monk who told King Yu that the wind, rain, thunder and lightning were the Buddha's anger. King Yu asked how to avoid the Buddha's anger. Zhangjia thought that King Yu had wisdom, so he explained to him that devout believers could. King Yu asked him if Zhangjia was a devout believer. Zhangjia naturally expressed his devoutness to his faith without hesitation.

Master Zhangjia thought he could get the trust of the young King Yu, but he didn't expect that at that time, King Yu asked someone to find a spear and tie an iron chain to the spear. He took him to the wide farmland on a rainy day with lightning and lightning, saying that as long as there were similar thunder and lightning weather, Zhangjia dared to tie the spear to his body, hold the chain in his hand and stand on the wide farmland or grassland ten times, and not be struck by lightning, he believed that there were Buddhas in this world.

Master Zhang Jia didn't understand the principle of metal conductivity. He regarded this behavior as disrespect for himself. Until he visited the Empire's North Sea Fleet in Tianjin and saw a lightning rod hanging on the mast of the main battleship, he realized that he was almost become the lightning rod of King Yu.

However, that time, Master Zhangjia came to the capital of the empire on behalf of his teacher. After he returned, he told the teacher and asked him to understand it, but it was not the case. Master Zhangjia tried it with serfs in Qinghai, but someone was really struck to death by lightning. Zhangjia no longer dared to spread religious beliefs to the imperial family. A small child had so many methods, and he didn't know whether other older royal members were more ingenious.

Master Zhangjia did not dare to be clever in front of Li Junwei, or in other words, he was like this in front of the imperial royal family members and the high-level officials of the empire. The central high-level officials of the empire also gave enough face to these religious people, and supported and helped each other to have a good situation today. Master Zhangjia sat opposite Li Junwei, and selected personnel for him through his interpersonal relationships in the empire and Xinjiang for many years, and moved these yellow sect flags and yellow sect monks to Western Xinjiang through the Lifan Academy and the Religious Bureau, rather than enjoying their happiness in the inner Xinjiang region.

This is also in line with the interests of the Lifanyuan. In many towns in the south of the desert, due to the influx of a large number of nationalities, the Yellow Cult Banner and the monks are actually less popular. Not only the nationalities, but also some young people from the inner and outer vassals who grew up in the imperial environment. They grew up in school and learned scientific knowledge. At least those people dare not stand on the grassland where lightning is tied behind them. Their attitude towards religion is more respect than obedience and superstition.

Master Zhangjia has a deep understanding of this. The first generation of Mongolian nobles who surrendered to the empire were willing to contribute wealth to the monks, such as cattle, sheep and Dingkou. However, after this generation passed, the second generation of Mongolian nobles who graduated from the Guihua Church in the capital returned to their hometown to take charge of the tribe, their attitude towards monks was not so enthusiastic. When facing them, Master Zhangjia felt more like facing officials from the religious bureau. He had already convinced and could not deceive them by relying on Buddhist scriptures. Sitting with these new generation of nobles was a political negotiation and balance of interests in the cloak of religion.

"There are several masters in the capital. They are also of the reincarnation level, but they are not allowed to master regional religious affairs. If you are willing to give them some opportunities, I believe someone will bring their disciples to Xijiang." After setting the list, Master Zhangjia said to Li Junwei.

Li Junwei nodded slightly. He knew very well this. Those masters had not shown loyalty to the empire yet, and would not be as open-minded as Master Zhangjia, so they might not be highly valued. Li Junwei asked: "Master, in the Tibetan area, do your masters and brothers have this intention?"

"Master will definitely not participate in this kind of thing, but you brothers may not want to have your own teachings." Master Zhangjia said, but he said: "In recent years, few monks from Tibet have come down. The masters you met when you moved west and returned from making tea with Mrs. Ayuqi Khan. Originally, they were determined to come back, but when you go to Tibet, there was no news."
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