Chapter 326: One hundred thousand
Appointing a state religion and an Imperial Preceptor was a true affair of state. A piece of bright yellow silk appeared in Zhu Youlang's hand, and after he swept his other hand over it, several lines of writing appeared on its surface.
The decree was admittedly rather crude, but it had been formed from genuine imperial qi, which made it an imperial edict.
Although everything had happened in haste, the Great Ming had already been gone for more than two hundred and seventy years, and this emperor was merely the lingering soul of an emperor who had himself been hastily thrust onto the throne before his death; although the state religion was even called the Jiba Sect, and the fact that a state religion could bear such a name said all that needed saying about the Imperial Preceptor's character, something this important still required its proper procedures and ceremonies.
Even with such rudimentary conditions, they at least needed a eunuch to read out the decree.
But where were they supposed to find a eunuch in the middle of this deadly battle?
The golden-eyed Zhu Youlang was clever, however. He found a little snail spirit in the Register of Soldiers and Horses to read the decree. Snails were hermaphrodites, after all, which more or less counted as being eunuchs.
The long-necked, wide-eyed snail spirit transformed into a tiny person three inches tall, stood on Cui Jiuyang's shoulder, and shouted at the top of its lungs:
"By the mandate of Heaven, the emperor hereby decrees:
"We have heard that Heaven's Mandate is not fixed, but rests upon virtue alone; to spread enlightenment far and wide, the true faith must be made manifest. Now, as our mountains and rivers fall and our people suffer in dire straits, there