The reason why Zhao Xing asked Zhang He not to interfere with Zhang Lu's spread of the Five Dogs of Rice Cult in Hanzhong County was because he knew very well that the people of this era still lacked basic scientific and cultural knowledge. They were very superstitious about witchcraft, gods, prophecies, etc. Before they were perfect and sufficiently educated and guided, if they forcibly disbanded the Five Dogs of Rice Cult, it would only backfire.

Before basic scientific knowledge is popularized, the best way to deal with a religion is to create another more powerful religion!

Zhao Xing has already obtained information from the Western Regions. Some foreign countries in the Western Regions are now believe in Buddhism that has been spreading from the Tianzhu Kingdom, and this trend is spreading from west to east, and is now approaching Yumen Pass. What's more, according to Zhao Xing's understanding, in Luoyang City, there are monks (Buddhist names) from Tianzhu, Anxi, and Kangju who are preaching scriptures and preaching Buddhism, and are supported by Emperor Liu Bian.

No matter how much the Five Dogs of Rice Sect is a religion created by the Han people themselves. At least some of the contents of the Huang-Lao theory that they believe in is worthy of promoting to the people and is easy to control. However, in Zhao Xing's view, Buddhism will cause great trouble to the political concepts he wants to realize in the future.

Zhao Xing felt that instead of waiting for Buddhism to spread widely from outside Yumen Pass, it would be better to support the Five Dok Rice Cult to take the lead in the northwest region. With these two major religions there to support and debate, Zhao Xing could calmly carry out his great cause of unification without worrying that the people under his rule would be messed up.

He is also supporting the Five Dogs of Rice Sect, but Sima Yi's motives and purposes are completely different from Zhao Xing's.

Sima Yi forced Zhang Lu to speed up the spread of the Five Dog Rice Sect and expand the spread of the Five Dog Rice Sect. His intentions are not only sinister, but they can even be called vicious!

The people believe in the Five Dogs of Rice because everyone will suffer from many diseases. Many diseases cannot be eliminated if they seek medical treatment and medicine. They have to use witchcraft, prophecies, and even superstitious means to support their hope and confidence in living. Before people know what psychological hints are, they often cannot explain why taking medicine cannot cure diseases, but as long as their faith is sincere and firm, people can survive the pain.

Even in the 21st century when science and technology were developed, there are still many methods that can cure diseases without taking medicine that cannot be explained by modern medicine, because this thing is really hard to understand.

Some people are in a bad mood and have no chance to survive. Even if they eat elixirs every day, they will still have to die; some people have no money to see a doctor, but they have strong survival and can survive the pain with their spiritual support. This kind of example has been around forever and even particularly prominent in ancient times.

Indisputable, religion can control people's spirit. Religion can make normal people obsessed with it. Similarly, religion can also make people who feel boring to live a life steadily. Once a person believes in a certain ritual religion, he will have strong beliefs and will not easily die so early, because religion can make psychological suggestion.

For example, a sect member who believed in the Five Dok Rice Sect had a strange disease that even the miraculous doctor Hua Tuo could not say. It seemed that he could not do it, but the traitor and the priest from the sect came to tell the sect member, "Because you are guilty, you need to think about your mistakes in the quiet room, and you need to repair bridges and roads for 100 steps. As long as you finish these, you will not die!"

The religious believers who received this psychological suggestion hurriedly thought about their past, built bridges and roads every day, no longer focused on their physical feelings. After a while, he might die, but he might be able to get better.

If the sick believer dies, the genitals and the priests will say to other believers: "He still has not fully recognized the mistakes he has made, so he still dies." If the sick believer recovers, the genitals and the priests will proclaim: "Look! He moved God because of his sincerity in his faith, so he was forgiven!"

Everyone instinctively yearns for rebirth and hates death, so more often people will hear rumors that someone who has entered the sect and has not taken medicine to cure his illness, and will not hear anyone who has entered the sect but still dies. This is like people from later generations who buy lottery tickets. The probability of winning the 5 million prize is so low that it is negligible, but everyone thinks that the person who wins the next time will definitely be himself!

Because joining the Five Dogs of Rice Sect can "treat diseases", Sima Yi is preparing to launch a war without gunpowder, forcing the people in Liang Kingdom to begin to believe in the Five Dogs of Rice Sect. Because the Five Dogs of Rice Sect can start a charity house and eat and live for free, Sima Yi is preparing to force the people in Liang Kingdom to migrate to the Guanzhong area.

Sima Yi asked someone to secretly go to the Xihai (Qinghai Lake) area, secretly contacted the remaining Shaodang and Zhong Cunqiang people there, and bewitched them into Jincheng County and Longxi County in Liangzhou with a very terrifying devil!

The name of this devil is plague, also known as "bleeding fever". Although people at that time did not call plague that, everyone knows that this is a very terrible devil. According to historical records and later research, the area where the most prone to plague in China is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and Yizhou is adjacent to Qinghai and **.

Yuan Shao secretly did a bad thing to secretly release plagues for Bingzhou, but because Zhao Xing personally took over Bingzhou and had rich experience in preventing and fighting such plagues, he did not lead to a major disaster in the end. This time, Sima Yi was obviously inspired by Yuan Shao, but he turned his attention to the plague that the Qiang people had turned their eyes to the plague that changed their eyes when they heard it.

There is a song that sang well: "Rats die in the east and rats die in the west. People die in the face of a rat like tigers. Rats die in a few days, and people die in the face of a block."

Plague is a disease that is prevalent in wild tooth-biting animals. It is transmitted through rat fleas as a vector to the body through human skin and causes bubonic plague, or passes through the respiratory tract to occur. Patients with plague show fever, severe symptoms of toxicemia, lymph node enlargement, pneumonia, bleeding tendency, and develop into sepsis at the end. Because the plague is highly contagious and has a high mortality rate, it can be said to be one of the most serious infectious diseases that endanger humans.

The disaster of the plague outbreak was recorded as far as 2,000 years ago. In world history, there were three pandemics of plague, with hundreds of millions of deaths. The first occurred in the 6th century AD, and nearly 100 million people were killed in Europe from the Mediterranean region. The second occurred in the 14th century, which affected Europe, Asia, Africa, and China at that time. The third occurred in the 18th century, spreading 32 countries.

Because the Sima family wanted to win over the nearby tribes to fight against Zhao Xing, they often sent some dead soldiers to the Qiang tribe west of Yizhou to engage in activities. They accidentally learned the description of the local Qiang people about a terrible devil, and then someone happened to see a Qiang tribe who died from the arrival of the devil from afar. After these dead soldiers returned to Yizhou, they reported what they saw and heard to Sima Yi, which attracted Sima Yi's attention.

In Sima Yi's view, as long as the "devil" is sent into Liangzhou and the people of Liangzhou are infected with the plague, they will be panic and confusing, and then a large number of people will flee to the Guanzhong area. The Wudou Rice Sect, which is in full swing in Guanzhong, has become a life-saving straw for these refugees. At that time, even if Zhao Xing saw the people's loss and death, he was powerless to turn the world back.

If Zhao Xing banned the Five Dogs of Rice Sect, he would offend the vast majority of people in the western region; if Zhao Xing let it go, the population of Liang State would drop sharply, which directly led to the inability of Liang State to attack Yizhou in the future.

This time, Sima Yi seemed to have found Zhao Xing's desperation.
Chapter completed!