Chapter 4425 Chapter 4427 [Pretend to be a ghost]
Xiang Nan then left the bar and returned to Port Royal.
He can now confirm that he has indeed obtained Jack Sparrow's charm, which means that the monkey **** Chuck Baba is indeed the **** of stealing and has the ability to steal tangible and intangible things.
In this case, I should help him recruit followers and expand his faith. In this way, after he regains his divine power, as the high priest and his partner, he will also gain more benefits.
And when it comes to recruiting believers, Xiang Nan is really good at it.
Since then, he has been a religious leader himself. In "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", he is the national preceptor of the Ming Dynasty, the leader of Taoism in the world, and is familiar with the operation of religion;
Secondly, he is familiar with the methods of religious preaching. In ancient China, there were many cults, such as Mahayana Sect, Maitreya Sect, White Lotus Sect, Wenxiang Sect, Bagua Sect, etc.
These cult leaders use deceit, pretentiousness, miraculous powers, and ghosts to deceive ignorant people, defraud them of money and sex, and even coerce them into rebellion.
For example, Wang Sen, the founder of Wenxiang Sect, was originally a cobbler in Jizhou. He pretended that he had saved a fox fairy, and the fox fairy cut off his tail and gave him a gift. The fragrance was so fragrant that he also had magical powers.
He used this to recruit believers to establish the Wenxiang Sect. At its peak, its power spread across the six provinces of Zhili, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu and Anhui. As a result, he accumulated tremendous wealth. The Wang family's mansion in his hometown of Shifokou alone had a radius of four miles.
However, Wang Sen was just amassing money. By his son's generation, he began to want to rebel and seek power. His son Wang Haoxian and his apprentice Xu Hongru rebelled during the Tianqi period in the late Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately they were suppressed by the court in less than a year.
Even orthodox Buddhism and Taoism have many attempts to deceive the people.
Yuan Mei described an incident in "Zi Buyu". A certain scholar went to the temple to burn incense. When he got up at night, he heard an old monk crying in the Zen room in the backyard, "I don't want to become a Buddha." He peeped out curiously and saw a group of monks kneeling. Farewell to an old monk.
A few days later, the temple held a Dharma assembly, saying that an old monk in the temple had achieved spiritual enlightenment, attained nirvana, and became a Buddha in the physical body. This attracted a large number of pilgrims to pay incense.
The scholar saw that the physical Buddha sitting on the seat was the old monk who had cried out a few days ago. Confused, he reported it to the government. The government sent someone to investigate and discovered that the old monk had been murdered by a gang of monks in the temple.
The purpose is to pretend to become a Buddha in the physical body to defraud believers of their incense money. In order to ensure that the corpse would not fall down while sitting on the lotus platform, an iron bar several feet long was inserted from the buttocks to the top of the head.
These things are all recorded in books. Xiang Nan has read a lot of books, so he is naturally familiar with them.
And he also has an advantage, that is, those people are all pretending and cheating, but Xiang Nan really understands magic, and the monkey **** Chak Baba also really exists.
That makes preaching easier.
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Xiang Nan then built two statues of Chak Baba and threw them into the central areas of Port Royal and Port Tetuga.
And a sentence was engraved on the statue, "As long as you worship the monkey **** Chak Baba devoutly at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, you can get the good luck bestowed by the monkey god."
People were indeed surprised to see a stone statue appear out of thin air. But people don't believe the words on the statue.
After all, no one had ever heard of the monkey **** Chak Baba before, so how could he give people good luck? No one believes that there will be good things falling from the sky.
But there are those who are really poor and impatient, or who are dying of illness and seek medical treatment in a hurry, and are willing to give it a try.
"Monkey God Chak Baba, I am your believer. I hope you can grant me good luck and allow me to have a full meal. I have been without food for three days." A skinny, hungry beggar knelt down In front of the statue of Chak Baba, he prayed devoutly.
"My child, your wish will be fulfilled." At this moment, the statue of the monkey **** Chak Baba said, and then a ray of light emitted, and a silver coin appeared in front of the beggar.
"Ah, it's a silver coin, it's really a silver coin. I can eat now." The beggar picked up the silver coin and shouted in surprise.
A silver coin not only allowed him to have a full meal, but also allowed him to drink a few glasses of rum, which was a great gift.
"Really rich?"
"Really blessed?" "Praying to Him really works?"
The people were amazed when they saw it.
Unexpectedly, the words on the statue turned out to be true. If you pray sincerely to Chak Baba, you can really receive blessings.
It was a real eye-opener for them.
Immediately, more people came to try.
In addition, some people directly took up the idea of begging.
A scoundrel stepped forward and snatched away the beggar's silver coins. "Here, you have silver coins too."
"My silver coins, my silver coins, my God~" the beggar suddenly cried.
This silver coin was his only property. It was not only a hearty meal, but also his hope for survival.
Faced with his miserable cries, no one came to help him.
Everyone sweeps the snow in front of their own door and doesn't care about the frost on other people's tiles. When there is no conflict of interests, most people choose to stand aside.
This is the most common human nature, whether in the East or the West.
At this moment, a bolt of lightning suddenly fell, knocking the rogue to the ground.
"It's divine punishment, it's divine punishment!"
"He took away God's blessing, so he was punished by God."
"Yes, God is punishing him~"
When people saw this, they all said.
The scoundrel was struck half dead by lightning and had to kneel down to repent. The beggar picked up his silver coins and the experience of recovering them made him happy from ear to ear.
Seeing this scene, people worshiped even more devoutly. Within a short time, a large number of people knelt in front of the statue of the monkey **** Chak Baba.
What they want is also different.
Most of them pray for money, hoping that the monkey **** Chak Baba can give them wealth; some people pray to the monkey **** Chak Baba in the hope that he can cure their diseases...
In the eighteenth century, medical skills everywhere were relatively backward. A small cold can kill someone. It would be even worse if it was dysentery, typhoid, cholera, tuberculosis, plague, or smallpox.
In addition, there are diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea, and leucorrhea. After all, men at that time liked to go to sleazy places and were even proud of getting syphilis.
For example, French aristocrats called syphilis "Cupid's blessing" and believed that only those who were masters of love could get the disease. Therefore, many nobles rushed to get this disease to show their charm.
As for the prayers of these people, except for the excessive ones, such as wishing for a thousand gold coins, immortality, and a merchant ship, Xiang Nan was basically satisfied with all of them.
For a time, most of the people kneeling in front of the statue were blessed.
Those who asked for wealth got it, and those who were seriously ill also received blessings from the monkey **** and felt much better.
There was even a blind old man whose sight was restored by Xiang Nan.
After seeing so many miracles with their own eyes, people's attitude towards the monkey **** Chak Baba changed from doubt to belief.