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Chapter 603 The Cloak of the New Religion

For several days afterwards, Liu Yu was busy with the affairs of the vassal kings and the vassal lords. During this period, he also went to the Minister of Personnel's Office to meet Li Zhe'er's father, Li Yannian, and talked about the proposal.

Li Yannian has always been resentful of the fact that his daughter was occupied by Liu Yu for a long time. Seeing that Liu Yu was not very friendly, this was very abnormal with his habit of being a philistine. Liu Yu could feel that Li Yannian had a hostility towards him, which was a disagreement in political opinions, which led to their conflicts, and it was not caused by Li Zhe'er.

Li Yannian did not object to the marriage, but said that "everything is in accordance with etiquette and law." Although the empress has appeared in history, when the empress was in power, either the husband was mediocre and incompetent, or the husband was dead and looked for a husband to have a marriage. However, there was no precedent for the empress's husband to marry. Liu Yu thought to himself that the "etiquette and law" mentioned by Li Yannian would not have a customization even if he asked dozens of old scholars to discuss for a hundred days.

Li Yannian clearly wanted to make things difficult for Liu Yu.

Liu Yu didn't care too much about it. His relationship with Li Zheer did not want to be influenced by Li Yannian. At this time, the imperial carriage had already set foot on the road back to Chang'an City. Liu Yu had a little plan. On October 20, the women at home would return to Chang'an City.

On October 13th, Liu Yu suddenly received a tip saying that there was a group of mysterious missionaries, and this group of missionaries had a high status in the new religion, and many middle and upper-class believers in Chang'an City had secretly received them.

The news was first discovered by Qu Shu's brothers in the carriage and horse gang, and then Liu Liniang received the same tip. Liu Yu was shocked and sent Qu Zhu to lead his troops to siege the secret stronghold of the new religion. Liu Yu also went to check it out in person because he felt that Su Zhe might be mixed in.

But when he arrived, the house was empty, leaving only some burnt paper ash and some missionary tools that he had not had time to take away. Liu Yu felt a little confused about the empty space. He was already trapped tightly, but when he arrived, the people disappeared, as if the world had suddenly evaporated. He searched for places around the secret stronghold of the new religion, but found no secret passages or escape exits.

While Liu Yuzheng was depressed, Liu Liniang came with two entourages, both of whom were secret intelligence personnel of Liu Liniang in Chang'an City.

"Prince, I brought you two people, which may be helpful in finding clues."

Liu Yu looked at the two visitors. He was very young, one man and one woman, who seemed to be a couple or a sibling, and looked closer than ordinary friends. The clothes on these men and women were very ordinary, no different from ordinary people. They were very inconspicuous in Chang'an City.

"Please pay tribute to the prince." The two of them gave Liu Yu a gift. The Guanzhong dialect was pure, making Liu Yu unable to guess whether they were Miao or Han people.

"Tell the prince what you know." Liu Liniang ordered.

"Yes." The woman responded and said, "Report to the prince. We are from the opera troupe in the capital. We perform some operas on weekdays, and we are responsible for running the supporting roles. Recently, the Sanqing Church has spread in my opera troupe. The troupe's staff didn't believe it at first, but later when they saw miracles, they all believed it and went to listen to several missionary propaganda meetings. Later, the headmaster of our opera troupe became a member of the propaganda meeting and was still responsible for missionary and management around."

Liu Yu frowned slightly and said coldly: "The Fa Propaganda Conference is a good name. What are you talking about at the Fa Propaganda Conference?"

"It is about the doctrine of the Three Pure Ones. There are also some God's understanding, and there will be prayer activities. At the end of the Dharma Propaganda, the Presbyterian Church performs miracles, which are actually some ordinary tricks to deceive the ignorant people. After the performance, the worshipers will leave. The Dharma Propaganda Church will only be held once every period of time. The members of the Dharma Propaganda Church are the leaders of small local churches."

Liu Yu smiled. Liu Liniang's intelligence personnel were very knowledgeable and knew that the so-called "miracles" were not real, but tricks to fool people.

The woman continued to preach: "The Three Pure Churches are to preach doctrine through the Dharma Propaganda Conference. From the large Dharma Propaganda Conference, to the Dharma Propaganda Conference, to the lower missionary missions, there are no one-on-one missions at each time, but two believers and one non-confucian must be present. Only in this way can they start preaching, and therefore the organization has a close contact, and it is also through this Dharma Propaganda Conference model that the above instructions are issued."

Liu Yu asked: "Does the Dharma Propaganda Conference not only preach the doctrine, but also issued instructions?"

"Well." The woman said, "The prince doesn't know that the head master of our opera troupe is also ours. He didn't come this time because he was afraid of revealing his identity. However, according to the head master, the Fa-Prosecution Conference has taken great action these days, which is related to a big man coming to Chang'an City. Some people say that the big man is the leader, and some say that he is the messenger of God. Because the head master is not in the Fa-Prosecution Conference, he has not received any more accurate information."

Liu Yu nodded, and the situation the woman said was the only one that ended.

In the new religion, the status and division of labor are quite clear, and the Propaganda Conference is already a gathering meeting between middle and high-level officials, and the headmaster himself cannot get too much information, so Liu Yu can only obtain so much information for the time being. This time he spyed on the residence of the "big figure" and followed some elders of the Three Pure Sects to follow it here. Perhaps it was because the secret strongholds of the Three Pure Sects were often changed, or the Three Pure Sects had discovered the actions of the court, which made the closing operation fail.

Qu Zhu came over and asked for instructions: "General, have we arrested those believers and interrogated them one by one?"

Liu Yu held his hand and stopped him: "Watch it and wait, we cannot let people within the new religion feel the crisis. Everything will follow the steps, don't worry."

Qu Zhu respectfully accepted the order and arranged for the continued search of clues. On the other hand, Liu Liniang also asked the two followers to go back first, while she herself walked to Liu Yu.

"Twelve Young Master, now it seems that if the pressure is not high, the believers in the city will continue to secretly promote religion. Unless someone can penetrate into the new religion and gain the trust of the top leaders, we will only be led by the nose."

Liu Yu has not argued that it is mainly because religious affairs are too difficult. Liu Yu has also seen the doctrines of the Three Puritans, which are very similar to Christianity. It can even be said to have evolved from Christianity, and even some myths are almost exactly the same. This is the cleverness of the missionaries behind it. With the ready-made doctrines, they have been slightly improved and then passed to Middle-earth. Taking advantage of the political and military chaos in the past few years, Shunchao has been constantly developing, and now it has become a bit radiant and cannot be tightened.

"Li Niang, your master Wuding has come to Chang'an City? Why didn't she show up?" Liu Yu suddenly turned around and asked.

Liu Liniang frowned slightly and said, "Twelve Young Master, do you say that because you suspect that my master is related to this matter?"

Liu Yu thought, it would be strange if he didn't doubt it. The master who had no ass was already a cunning master. He was a traitor in the world, but he did something to control the political situation and help King Huai fight against the court. Now that Master Wuding is the mastermind behind the scenes, Liu Yu would not have doubts, because in his mind, Wuding was indeed a traitor who "does all evil".

"How could it be?" Liu Yu smiled, "Master Wuding is Li Niang's master, that is, my master. We are a family, I just want to visit her earlier and ask her for peace."

Liu Yu said it very sincerely. Even Liu Liniang, who is extremely smart on weekdays, was deceived by him at this time. This is mainly because Liu Liniang was a little lost when she was in it. This is the reason why the authorities were confused. Because Liu Yu was indeed very sincere in treating Liu Liniang, it also made Liu Liniang think that Liu Yu would treat her master so sincerely.

"Master, she did come to Chang'an City, but in the past few days, she has not yet passed the news with me. I think she should have something important to do. In a few days, she should give me news. At that time, I will take you to the 12th Young Master to visit, because Master, she said before that I will talk to you in detail with you."

"Oh, so that's it. Then Li Niang, you meet the master and greet her for me."

Liu Liniang nodded.

Liu Yu turned around and continued to arrange for Qu Zhu to check, while he himself wanted to go back to the palace. This time, the net was not closed, and it was obviously alarmed. It was not easy to find the whereabouts of the thief. Liu Yu was a little annoyed, and this anger spread to Master Liu Li's wife again.

Liu Yu estimated that the old nun should have made things difficult for his "illegal daughter" Su Min, and would even help King Su Zhe of Chu to carry out such a good show of a new religion to achieve his goal.

Liu Yu returned to the palace, holding the teachings of the Three Puritans in his hand, and his heart became increasingly angry. This was simply a naked plagiarism of "ciluo". He copied all the good things about Christianity, and changed his appearance to the Three Puritans.

"There is such a shameless thing in the world?" Liu Yu threw the booklet with the doctrine on the ground angrily, "Gaiming finds a few Western missionaries to come over and let you see the true religion!"

Liu Yu was originally an unintentional sigh, but it made him feel moved.

Since the blockage is no longer blocked, why not really find some Western missionaries to expose this religious scam as this sentence said?

Liu Yu immediately called Sui Yu, the Minister of the Central Secretariat, and ordered: "Miss Sui, when I came back a few days ago, didn't you take the list of trade goods submitted by the Western merchants to Chang'an City to show me? Where is the list now?"

Sui Yu nodded and said, "Where is the prince useful to Xiaguan?"

"Yeah." Liu Yu said, "I remember there is a list of Western merchants on it. You can find it for me to see if there is a person named Jason on it. In fact, this person has some connection with me."

Sui Yu nodded again, stepped down and went to find the list.

In fact, the Western desire to trade with China and Turkey began decades ago. It was only after Liu Yu came to power that Western merchants actually came to China's ports to trade more than once. It was only because of the obstruction of local governments that trade was always in the initial barter stage, and the volume of commodity trade was very small.
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