Chapter 228 Lei Huang’s Trouble

Not long after Guanhaishan arrived in Xiling, the temple of the Leiyin Demon Sect started construction. This is the first time that the Leiyin Demon Sect has developed its forces in the north of Xiling to build a special religious building. Before this, although the Leiyin Demon Sect set up branches in many towns, they all purchased the original courtyards and slightly transformed them, and at most they were converted into chapels. Members of the priests of the Leiyin Demon Sect can live in these courtyards. Although the conditions are difficult to accommodate a large number of people, everyone also thinks that the Leiyin Demon Sect, which has always been simple and practical, should be like this. In addition, these courtyards often have to receive ordinary believers from all over the world, and the utilization rate of these courtyards has always been very, very high after buying them.

In fact, the local believers in Xiling initially had a bit of controversy over whether they would build a temple complex like Leiyin Hall. Although Leiyin Demon Sect has always been able to receive funding from Yunzhou, at least on the surface they cannot show a wealthy appearance. Because the Leiyin Demon Sect implements a very rigorous membership management system, in the early stages of development, when the number of believers has not reached a certain number, especially when the donations of the believers are still quite limited, the management cost of Leiyin Demon Sect is quite high. Those courtyards located in various places still have considerable pressure on the finances of Leiyin Demon Sect at least on the surface. Even if everyone decides to build a temple, the expenses will be freed up from there.

However, what made everyone determined to build the temple was the annual large-scale memorial of Emperor Daomingzong. Although last year, Guan Huan killed the people of the Eagle Hall in front of the Zhujun Palace in full view of the public, accusing the Daomingzong of the Eagle Hall of Emperor Daomingzong of the violent and domineering Eagle Hall, which greatly damaged the influence of Emperor Daomingzong in the north. Then, the Daomingzong assisted the government in suppressing the people and other behaviors made Emperor Daomingzong increasingly distrustful, and these also made the Leiyin Demon Sect proudly seize the opportunity to compete with Emperor Daoming in the north of Xiling in a short time. However, by the end of the year, Emperor Daomingzong was vigorous. Compared with last year, the scale was still as high as last year.

The grand ceremony also attracted an astonishing number of believers to gather together, and cheered for every word of the monks who preached the scriptures in a fanatical atmosphere. In that atmosphere, even the most rational person could not help but be shaking his heart, doubting whether he should abandon his original doubts, join the many believers of the Daomingzong, become one of them, and become one of the people who pursue great truth and eternal life. In that atmosphere, even the believers of the Leiyin Demon Sect who went to the Zhujun Palace to observe the preaching situation of the Daomingzong were a little shaken.

The missionary process is indeed similar to the sale of a product, especially in the absence of innate factors such as the country, nation, family, etc. Religion is a kind of sustenance, and a kind of psychological security with one's own investment in spirit, time and money, and expect some kind of "well-being" consumption behavior. And since this is the case, ordinary people naturally have to compare with each other, see which god is greater, see which sacred word can impress itself, and see which sacred word can protect itself. Even though the original trust of the Mingzong among the people is not high, the power displayed during such large-scale memorial activities, especially those small courtyards and simple activities of the Leiyin Demon Sect, can obviously capture people's hearts more. This is the same as the large investment in advertising of modern enterprises.

The achievements of the Leiyin Demon Sect in just one year have made them who are considered a sect of the Daoming Sect, especially those with relatively high status among them, see a different vision. The highest level from Dongping is naturally secretly happy that the Leiyin Demon Sect has already stood up. It has been able to have a certain influence on local government affairs through its own organization, and has gathered many people who are dissatisfied with the system of becoming increasingly united in Xiling. Those believers have experienced the various joys and sense of accomplishment that can be brought to themselves by gathering more religious people and helping more religious people. It seems that the road to heaven is at their feet; and those who enter the Leiyin Demon Sect with some ambitions are seeing the power and wealth they can master through more and more religious people... Even those ordinary religious people are not willing to be convinced that the landlord of Leiyin Demon Sect is actually shabby and can only live in a simple shrine.

The previously unresolved funding issues were all implemented in less than a month, and most of them were donated by senior members of the Leiyin Demon Sect. Lei Huang originally wanted those poor and low-level members and peripheral scholars to keep some money in their hands and not to suffer their lives because of donations. However, this instruction became the first time that Lei Huang had been understood but resisted in his history... What Lei Huang did not expect was that the last gap in the temple budget was actually Xiling's senior official: Sun Boping, the governor of Taizhou.

Sun Boping actually did not want to have any contact with groups like the Leiyin Demon Sect, or the Daoming Sect, which still dominated most of Xiling, but he failed to withstand the tender offensive from his daughter Sun Meier. While visiting various places in Taizhou, Sun Meier accidentally encountered a rare lecture held by Lei Huang himself. Sun Meier was just wondering why so many people gathered together and ordered the carriage to park on the side of the road, but after only a short section of Lei Huang's lecture, he was firmly attracted by Lei Huang's passionate but simple and close sermons.

Lei Huang was not as arrogant as the children of Xiling officials who Sun Meier usually contacted. He always looked at people with his chin. If he hadn't stood on the platform and wore the clothes of the high-level priest of the Leiyin Demon Sect. If he hadn't been wearing a black cloak in addition to the simple clothes, he would have almost no different from the servants in the shop. But once Lei Huang began to speak and began to say his half-prepared and half-prepared words little by little, there would be a kind of delusion power in it.

Lei Huang's words were not at all literary. If it were Ye Tao or Tan Weixin, it would be the language of the working people in a very accurate and fashionable way. Lei Huang told the stories of ordinary people, especially those absurd things, which made ordinary church members present with similar experiences laugh and empathize. Various dialects, local dialects, folk songs, and Lei Huang could read them easily and turn them into materials in his sermons without any trouble. He even compiled a sixteen-sentence song.

In a limerick, each sentence is pronounced in a dialect or local dialect to the best effect. This ordinary Lei Huang can make everyone present constantly change their emotions as he says, from sadness to joy, from low to high, from disappointment to hope... And when he recited a folk song that once circulated widely in a painful tone, the sound seemed to echo in everyone's ears, making the venue where two or three thousand people gathered so quiet that everyone's own breathing sounded abrupt.

"God, you're old

The ears are deaf and the eyes are blurry,

You can't see people or hear!

Killing and setting fires enjoy the glory,

Those who eat vegetarian food and read scriptures starve to death!

God, you can't do it, you're going to collapse!

You can't do it, you're going to collapse!"

——After reading this folk song, Lei Huang's tone became fierce. The entire audience was mobilized by Lei Huang, yelling "no" at the injustice mentioned by Lei Huang again and again, and bowing his head ashamed of his cowardice and inaction under Lei Huang's reproach. During the entire sermon, Lei Huang did not even mention the Lei Yin Demon Sect many times, and ask everyone to believe in Lei Yin Demon Sect, but ask everyone to believe in himself and start from small things... But such Lei Huang involuntarily makes everyone trust.

After listening to such a preaching, Sun Meier became a fan of Lei Huang. Relying on the identity of the governor's wife, he repeatedly sought to see Lei Huang. As she continued to contact Lei Huang, she became more and more obsessed with this young "pope". After several long talks, although Sun Meier also realized that Lei Huang was unwilling to offend him because of his status, she also felt Lei Huang's understanding and sympathy for the lives of the people, and Lei Huang's unique ambition to help the world.

With a completely public daughter of the Leiyin Demon Sect, it is so embarrassing to have Sun Boping's status. Even with a father like Sun Boping, Sun Mei'er was not able to be taken care of, and he still accepted the assessment of ordinary believers becoming members step by step. After meeting Lei Huang twice, Sun Boping didn't know whether he really liked this simple and pragmatic young man or was also bewitched by Lei Huang's words. He himself became very interested in the Leiyin Demon Sect and began to find those simple prints to study. When Sun Mei'er begged his father to give a considerable sum of money to support the Leiyin Demon Sect in building the temple, even though he knew

This will cause great dissatisfaction from Emperor Daoming, and will also make the court's excuse for the officials who were promoted to this position with great power and authority. He easily agreed after several requests from Sun Meier. Not only that, because Sun Boping is still optimistic about Lei Huang, he feels that it is not a solution for his daughter to be with Lei Huang. Moreover, the rise of the Lei Yin Demon Sect is also an opportunity for him in the future... Just after the New Year, just a few days before the Lei Yin Demon Sect Temple in Lion Mountain welcomes his chief engineer, Sun Boping found someone to formally propose marriage to Lei Huang, wanting to marry Sun Meier to Lei Huang.
Chapter completed!