How unique is it to completely integrate the Ming Dynasty 1566 into Journey to the West?
Five hundred years after causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace, Sun Wukong became the "Haigang Peak" in the Heavenly Palace.
There is a huge shortage of incense in the three realms. The Jade Emperor has not ascended to Lingxiao for ten thousand years. He hides behind the alchemy furnace in the Tongming Palace and uses power to control the two forces of Taoism and Buddhism, firmly sitting on the supreme position of the three realms. The Supreme Laojun leads the Taoism and controls the government. He uses elixirs to win over hundreds of officials and uses heaven's decrees to fill his private pockets. He is the chief minister of the Heavenly Palace that no one dares to challenge.
In order to make up for the shortfall in the Heavenly Court, the Taoist party launched the imperial edict of "reforming ancestral halls and erecting temples": demolishing all the scattered ancestral halls built voluntarily by ordinary people in the world, rebuilding the official Heavenly Temple, and monopolizing the incense revenue from the three realms. This government order called Futian has actually become a tool for corruption from above and below, and it has also become a disaster for ordinary people.
In order to enforce the administrative order, the Taoist party withheld the rain edict. Fengxian County had no rain for three years, and people died of hunger everywhere, becoming the first scorched earth in the power game.
The Buddhist sect worked secretly and sent Sun Wukong to Fengxian County as the patrol envoy. The Great Sage Qitian, who dared to cause trouble in the Heavenly Palace, took the "Articles of Heaven" and marched all the way from Fengxian County, which was full of disasters, to the court hall of Lingxiao Palace.
He stopped the decree of forcibly demolishing the temple, exposed the conspiracy of detaining rain to harm the people, and uncovered the corruption of the Taoist Party. In the end, he wrote "The First Book of Frankly Speaking in Heaven" to wake up the entire numb world.
This time, his golden cudgel does not attack the heavenly soldiers or cause trouble in the heavenly palace, but only cuts down corruption and protects the common people.
When the chess game of power in the Three Realms is decided, who is the chess piece and who is the chess player?
