White Lotus Enlightenment in the Ancient World

Now the throne of the human emperor has been passed down to the Shang Dynasty's son, King Zhou of Shang. He is the twenty-eighth great-great-grandson of Shang Tang. It is said that he has the ability to replace beams with pillars.

Of course, his immense strength is also due to the feeding of black birds for generations. With the support of rare and exotic fruits, there are always a few descendants with magical powers.

It's just that Xuanniao rarely visited the Shang Dynasty in recent years. The blood relationship passed down from generation to generation has become too thin. Unless it is a matter of life and death, she rarely gives away treasures.

However, the proverb "The black bird of destiny descends and gives birth to Shang" has been passed down. After Shang Tang's victory in the Holy City, the black bird was designated as the auspicious sign of the Shang Dynasty. Even the totem flags everywhere were in the shape of the black bird.

The ministers followed the example and gradually spread the birth of the Shang Dynasty into a fairy tale, with several versions.

The capital of the Shang Dynasty today is not in the holy city of the Xia Dynasty. This is because when Shang King Pan Geng was in power, he felt that the holy city was so lucky and had the descendants of the Five Emperors multiplying in it. The people were really rude to Shangyan Xia.

So he moved the capital to Yin against all opinions, and it took several generations of hard work to build this extremely magnificent Chaoge City.

At this point, the Shang Dynasty was also called the Yin Shang Dynasty, and it completely established the foundation of the Great Shang Dynasty.

The original holy city was converted into a place of worship. Only when natural disasters continued, the emperor would go to pray for blessings and send incense. But now that the weather is good, the Shang kings have not gone to worship for several generations, and the place has gradually become deserted.

At this time, King Zhou had been on the throne for less than ten years. When he first ascended the throne, he was still a little energetic, but after several years of hard work, King Zhou had already shown some mediocrity.

He was no longer interested in government affairs. In addition to the routine court meetings, he went to ride horses, hunt, drink and have fun every day. Thanks to several veteran ministers who assisted the Zuo Dynasty, the situation was stabilized.

It's just that no matter how hard the emperor's mediocre ministers tried, it was useless. In February of this year, Beihai Yuan Futong and other seventy-two princes rebelled and wanted to separate from the Great Shang and establish a new country.

After hearing that Grand Master Lao Cheng solemnly asked for his decree, he led the Shang army to sweep north, so now all major affairs in the court are decided by Shang Rong, Huang Feihu and others.

At this moment, in the main hall of the Shang Dynasty, the civil and military ministers lined up in two groups. Among them, the civil minister was headed by Shang Rong, and the military general was headed by Huang Feihu. The ministers held ivory wat tablets one by one and entered the court to manage the affairs. No one dared to play and make noise.

"There is a book to tell you to withdraw from the court without incident——"

The palace attendants recited the edict loudly, and the ministers below explained the trivial matters sent from various places one by one. However, it was said that it was a pilgrimage, but in fact they still went to see the old Prime Minister Shang Rong. King Zhou had long ignored these mundane matters.

After waiting for three sticks of incense, King Zhou in the Golden Palace was already yawning all day long. He was hungover late at night yesterday. He didn't want to go to court today, but the old prime minister came to invite him in person. He was actually a little resentful in his heart.

When the chamberlain preached again, the old prime minister stood up alone.

"Your Majesty, tomorrow, March 15th, is the Christmas period for Empress Nuwa. Your Majesty was busy with government affairs in the early years. Now that the weather is good, it is time to drop incense and pray for blessings!"

King Zhou frowned immediately when he heard this.

"What kind of immortal saint is Nuwa, who actually wants the lonely king to go and twist incense with the dignity of ten thousand chariots?"

Why would he go to the outer city to offer incense if he was impatient with government affairs? It's really boring.

Shang Rong was not surprised to hear this. Now that the immortal saints have gone into hiding and left the world, they have indeed lost their respect for the great gods. However, the status of those fox immortals is relatively high.

So he bowed respectfully and told the story of Nuwa.

"Your Majesty, Empress Nuwa is an ancient righteous god. When the Gonggong clan hit Buzhou Mountain, the sky collapsed to the northwest and the earth collapsed to the southeast. The water of the Tianhe River poured down from the cave in the sky, and the world became a vast ocean."

As he spoke, Shang Rong bowed to the sky: "It was the Empress Nuwa who made the five-color sacred stone to mend the sky and resolved the catastrophe of heaven and earth. My king is the lord of the world. It's time for me to go and pay homage!" "

Hearing this, King Zhou found it difficult to refuse. Shang Rong was an old minister who had Tuogu for three dynasties. Normally, he would bow respectfully when he saw him. Now that he had come to specially invite him, he had no choice but to endure his impatience and agree.

"Then, as the old prime minister said, tomorrow we will prepare all the chariots and horses to pay incense and retreat from the court!"

Without waiting for other ministers to come forward to start the memorial, King Zhou waved his sleeves and walked towards the inner courtyard of the palace, intending to catch up on his sleep.

Seeing this, the ministers had no choice but to retreat and wait until King Zhou was in a better mood to give them some advice.

King Zhou has fallen asleep here, but the ministers and officials headed by him are busy working.

One of them, Shang Rong, was very happy. He had never paid homage to Nuwa Empress since King Zhou's registration. It was a good time and place, so nothing could go wrong.

So the old prime minister personally took care of the car and driving ceremony to ensure that everything went smoothly.

The news of the emperor's offering of incense soon spread from the court to Chaoge City, and the people actually lit up lanterns and streamers.

Today's kings are not as strict as those of later generations. In addition, King Zhou rarely leaves the palace, and the people also want to see how majestic the emperor's chariot is.

For a time, the whole Chaoge City became as lively as a festival. People went to Nuwa Palace to burn incense. Although they were a little early, they thought that the gods would not blame them.

The world is in turmoil, but the Nuwa Empress is not in a hurry.

At this time, she was playing the piano and discussing Taoism with Fuxi and several emperors. One of her clones was also meditating and resting in the Lishan Palace. She knew that the Holy Master had already arrived in Central Continent. It seemed that this calamity was not as simple as imagined.

On the second day, King Zhou gathered everything, and the palace servants got into the chariot. With a shout, the majestic king's honor guard went from the imperial city to the Nuwa Temple.

At this moment, there are heavy security guards in the temple, and even the temple ministers who usually look after the temple have been cleared out, for fear that some young people will hurt the king.

The soldiers and generals who were just the handlers looked casual, thinking that the combined strength of dozens of them could not match the strength of His Majesty's one hand, so who could hurt him in the slightest?

At this time, in the crowded crowd outside the city, a young man in white led his maid and a boy to watch in the crowd. The boy who was waiting for King Zhou's car to arrive was actually a little surprised.

This scene is really magnificent. If the ordinary horses were replaced by immortal birds, I am afraid it would not be comparable to the saint!

"Sir, it seems that human emperors no longer respect immortals and gods."

When Chang Yi heard this, he didn't realize anything. The human world should be like this. How can immortals and gods with their vast supernatural powers keep interfering with mundane things.

"Let's go and see Nuwa Palace."

Upon hearing this, the book boy quickly stepped forward and pulled the reins. As Chang Yi stepped onto the sandalwood carriage, the black horse in front of him immediately screeched away in the air, his figure as agile as a celestial horse.

The people around such a large formation turned a blind eye, and some cleverly avoided the shafts of the carriages and continued to watch the emperor's carriage.

When King Zhou and his entourage arrived at the gate of Nuwa Palace, there were no ordinary people around, and the rest were all high-ranking princes and ministers.

They came here to wait before dawn. Some veterans' legs and feet began to tremble. But seeing that the old Prime Minister Shang Rong didn't even complain about being tired, they didn't dare to sit down and rest, so they had to hold on.

But King Zhou casually entered the palace to worship, trampling the sincerity of his ministers like mud.

At this moment, Chang Yizheng, the old god who was sitting in the chariot, was just a spectator, but he didn't expect that the evil wind didn't blow until King Zhou finished worshiping!

"Why is this?"

Seeing that King Zhou was about to leave and the Great Catastrophe of Conferring Gods was about to deviate, Chang Yi's eyes flashed and then he tapped his index finger. A breeze cleverly lifted the gauze curtain in front of the statue, revealing the face of Nuwa to King Zhou.

At this time, even King Zhou, who had many wives and concubines, couldn't help but froze on the spot. How could there be such a beautiful woman in the world!

"Go, get pen and ink!"