Yuejibei is an increasingly powerful Central Asian country, and its capital is located in Talas, where the famous Tang Dynasty general Gao Xianzhi was defeated. There are different theories about their origins, some say that they were built along the way by the Western Turks who were expelled to the Pontus Sea, and some people believe that they were the Western Uighurs of the Green Mountains in the Tang Dynasty, or the descendants of Shi and Kang in the nine surnames of Zhaowu. They occupy the Dawan Basin (Feigana Basin), a large area of the 'Kangju Grassland' west of Yibohai (Lake Balkhash), and a part of the Green Ridge area. Their royal family believed that they were the descendants of the heroes of the Great Food mythology, and they were recognized as a Celestial Sect country since they interacted with the Western Regions through merchants in Khotan, Xiaye and other places.

They were initially similar to the nomadic khanates, initially dominated by shamanism, and later became the mainstream under the influence of the Buddha kingdom of Wanli in the Western Regions. During the Ding Dynasty, it was suppressed to the west of the Green Mountains and the Tianshan Mountains, and it was difficult to advance an inch, so it had to fight with the fierce cannibal cavalry on the Persian Plateau from time to time. The Jichao border defense line shrank, but the Great Cannibal was unprecedentedly powerful and began to advance eastward. In the eighth month, the Great Khan Sabora was defeated by the Great Cannibals, and moved the capital to Tash (Tashkent) south of Talas, and his second son Kadir succeeded to the throne, still resisting and curbing the aggression of the Great Cannibal. According to tradition, Qadir Khan should appoint his elder brother's son Satunik as the prince, but in order to divide the Great Cannibals, Saturnik took in a prince of Great Eclipse, and under his influence, he and his subordinates gradually converted to the Celestial Religion, causing the hateful Celestial Khan to be alerted and confined him to the Almaty area. Saturnik, with the support of the followers of the Great Eclipse Prince and a small group of Celestial cultists in the western part of the Lunar Bees, defeated and killed Qadir Khan, seized power, proclaimed Bogra Khan, declared Celestial Religion the state religion, established Sharia rule according to the Great Eclipse model, and established religious courts and monasteries. Soon, he recaptured Talas from the Great Cannibals, and basically established his rule over the Hezhong region and the Seven Rivers Valley, and all 200,000 subjects joined the Church, officially opening the history of the first Heavenly Sect dynasty in the Western Regions.

Since we believe in Allah, it is natural to carry out the purpose of 'jihad' - to resort to force to spread the peace and justice of the Heavenly Sect to the land where Huda has not yet been favored, and the ignorant people who do not accept the teachings will face the punishment of death.

Under the leadership of the 19th Great Khan Salaman, the Xiongnu and the Xiongnu divided Yarkand, Kazakhstan and other places, and successfully entered the Western Regions of 'Three Mountains and Two Basins'.

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Today, the Western Regions are shrouded in the shadow of the Mengwu Iron Cavalry, and have become a battlefield for the Mongol army and the Xiongnu. Dayu was the only guarantee that they could sacrifice their wealth and life to avoid being slaughtered, so under the impetus of Jinyiwei, Han Chinese and Han merchants, the Xiongnu army was subjected to unprecedented resistance and harassment everywhere. This strategy is a good interpretation of the meaning of 'popular armament' in Gu Yao's "Theory of Strategy", and the old ordnance that Yu Juntao replaced was also sent to these elusive rebels through the big cannibals who 'saw the money'. Of course, the big cannibals also wanted to sell to the Mongolian army or the Xiongnu, but the ordnance that Da Yu gave them were all ordinary parts, such as blades, connecting firmware, etc., and the Yu army himself secretly sent them to the rebels. Therefore, with the support of the nobles and wealthy families in the city, only the rebels would pay for these old weapons, and it was useless for the Mughuls or Huns to buy them. The money from the sale of arms from the Great Cannibals, in turn, was used for refugee relief, which was 'taken from the people for the people'.

Li Fang admired the emperor's hand so much that he threw himself to the ground, and never shouted 'the treasury is empty' again.

However, the decline of the Xiongnu made Yue Jibei see the opportunity to promote the Tianfang Sect against the neighboring regions by force, and they were eager to try to regain the Xiongnu's territory as much as possible before the Mughal slaughter knife was cut down. Saleman Khan, who considered himself the strongest ruler in the world, felt that in terms of national strength and numbers, the Mughal people did not have an advantage in this land, and they could bully the Xiongnu, who were also fighting away. Not satisfied with the tributes of several countries in the Western Regions, he sent his eldest son Musuman and second son Yusu Yufu to Shule and Ningyuan respectively to promote the Heavenly Sect and occupy more territory.

Now Gebule's troops are in Changji, and the mediators are eyeing Qiuzi, and Bahei wants to take advantage of the fact that the Yu army has not been defeated and before the end, he will go south along the Yarkand River to sack Shache and even Khotan. The Xiongnu, who were attacked on three sides and fell into the 'sea of people tactics', were divided into several parts. Because the remnants of Dihua were led by Tu Xu to directly stick to the Jinghe, the Hun soldiers who were defeated in the hands of Yue from Ningyuan did not dare to approach led by Hu Yanjie, and could only flee east to Changji. Among these five people, Huyanjie and Tu Xu have a father's enmity with each other, Quan Qulu and Uwei fought for the turtle before they were defeated and retreated to Gumo, and Zhili Lake was the first tenon that instigated the Xiongnu to capture the Western Regions, and was regarded by the Huns as a 'mascot' that brought bad luck.

Soon Shule and Ning Yuan fell into the hands of Yue Jibi, and the people of the Western Regions at this time had not yet realized the danger of Yue Jibi, and their eyes were still focused on the murderous Mugwu.

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Khotan has been a great power in the Western Regions since ancient times, and after Shule disappeared as a country, it replaced it as the center of Mahayana Buddhism and was called the 'source of Buddhism in the Central Plains'. Khotan in the Tang Dynasty got rid of the domination of Tubo and was close to the Tang Dynasty, and later the kings were all princesses of the Tang Dynasty, and the surname of the country was Wei Chi. After the first Khotanese king of the Ding Dynasty, Wei Chi monk Wubo thought that he was a Han of the Tang Dynasty, he was officially canonized in the name of 'Li Shengtian', and since then he has been loyally serving the Central Plains as his ancestor, wearing Han clothes, practicing the Han system, and practicing Buddhism. They were the first line of defense to stop Yuejibi's eastward advance, and they were also the barrier that the Tibetans could not invade the Western Regions from the Kang-Tibet Plateau, and even the incompetent former dynasties and the early days of the appeasement of Dayu failed to cut off their ties with the Central Plains. If it weren't for Yueji's alliance with the Xiongnu who borrowed through Tibet, so that Khotan lost control over Pishan, Niya, Shache and other places, this oasis south of the Tarim Desert would not have fallen into the hands of foreign races. The Khotanese royal family relied on treasures to avoid the butcher's knife of the Huns, and now the opponent is weak and there is civil strife, and the family reinforcements are in the city, so what is there to hesitate, and the land should be combined with the outside to solve the Zhili Lake and its eight tent cavalry.

Before Fang Liangzhi and Guan San, who were leading the troops, were happy and discussed how to deal with the prisoners, a small chamberlain hurriedly ran in to report - Gebul began to attack Changji, Bahei arrived at Shache, Mingjin led the musket battalion and 20,000 cavalry to garrison Luntai, Gongwei Yanqi, and a Jingxi army also arrived in Beiting. In addition, the most urgent thing is that Yue Ji does not occupy Shule, the situation is very tragic, and a few monks who came to report are just outside the door. The sudden appearance of the moon did not make the two of them a little confused, and summoned the monks to ask, only to know that the Shule Buddha monk was killed.

Tang Xuanzang's "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" said that Shule 'believes in Buddhism and works diligently. There are hundreds of Jialan, more than 10,000 monks', the grand occasion of Buddhism is extremely impressive, and the high monks Faxian, Dao'an, Kumarosh, etc. have come to worship and worship. Several of the ragged monks came from Shule's most famous temple, the Dayun Buddha Temple.

The Dayun Buddhist Monastery was devastated in Mussuman's 'holy war' - the monks were escorted out of the monastery one by one, and the heavily armed turbaned soldiers would ask everyone the same question: Would you like to renounce Buddhism and convert to Tianfangjiao? The price of the answer 'no' is to pay with his life, to be nailed into the skull with a horseshoe, and to cut off the limbs. Nearly 5,000 monks in the whole temple fell in a pool of blood, soaked in shattered Buddha statues and broken Buddhist scriptures, the fanatical Yue Ji Bei army set fire to the rich collection of books in the Dayun Buddhist Temple, and other temples were not spared, and built a Tianfang Temple on the original site of the Dayun Buddhist Temple, forced the people of Shule to convert, and those who did not obey were all bloody slaughter.

These monks escaped a catastrophe because of their fate, changed into the regular clothes given by the villagers, covered their heads with turbans, and fled to Khotan all the way to ask Yu Jun for help. Fang Guan and the others immediately forwarded the information to Jingtian Boguan in Dunhuang, and began to reorganize the army, first recovering Pishan according to the established strategy, and then asking the Privy Council about 'the possibility of clashing with the Mughurs in advance when marching into Shache' and 'whether to abandon Shache to rescue Shule'.

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The news spread through the newspapers throughout the Central Plains and even in South Asia and the East China Sea, causing an uproar. In addition to joining the medical centers in the Western Regions under the protection of Dayu, many monks volunteered to follow Xuanzang's westward journey to receive refugees and comrades. Once again, the Celestial Cult was the object of verbal condemnation, and a passage in the Koran was repeatedly quoted as the slogan of the Celestial Cultists' 'call to kill the infidels': When the forbidden moon passes,......, you will be there, kill them, take them captive, and besiege them,...... Because they are an ignorant people.

In the name of justice, the three editors-in-chief chose the commentary of a senior imam of the Heavenly Sect to publish it - the "killing" in the scriptures means that under certain circumstances, the faith is trampled on, the believers are persecuted, and the holy city is defiled, so that the enemy can be beaten, and cannot be taken out of context.

Xiao Lu, on behalf of the most prestigious temple in Shangjing, made a defense against this statement - when the slaughter of infidels under the pretext of 'holy war' that month was not to be used, did other believers who believed in the peace and harmlessness of the teachings of Heaven try to stop or condemn such atrocities? If not, then the trouble of Shule is in accordance with the will of Allah Huda. The Koran, which is more of a book of laws and a political program, condemns us by faith, has a strong demand for power, and encourages believers to 'have the right to dispose of the property and lives of infidels at will' and to 'rationalize' their plundering and killing, which leads to the use of the moon as a pretext for expansion and slaughter. It is rumored that Tianfangjiao and Moses, Nestorianism and other religions of 'monotheism' have the same origin as the 'signs of apocalypse', so why not 'seek common ground while reserving differences'? Dayu never supported, interfered with, or oppressed various sects with national strength, and treated Tianfang Sect and Buddhism equally. Yue is not to use missionary as an excuse to burn and loot, set a precedent, then can Dayu or other places of national prosperity also slaughter Tianfang cultists in the name of a certain religion? 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'!

This made the Celestial Cultists silent, and some pro-Central Plains believers began to criticize Yue, that it would be counterproductive to spread the glory of Huda by violent means. However, none of the believers dared to accuse 'the massacre of infidels'. This unrepentant attitude, and the unrestrained continued killing of monks in the Western Regions, made the entire Han cultural circle unanimously reject and wary of the Tianfang Sect.

In the future, the Indochina Peninsula and Dongying used this as an excuse to make enemies of the Great Eclipse Generation, and resolutely refused to allow their merchants to enter the Asian seas. The Polo Dynasty, as the last defender of the Wei Da Sect on the Tianzhu Peninsula, also took this opportunity to shake hands with the Chola Dynasty and jointly snipe the Great Food Army from the sea and land.

The controversy filled with gunpowder, as well as the reminder before Gu Ci, made the emperor and the Privy Council finally make the decision to let the Muguls and the Heavenly Sect lose on the basis of striving for 'no city to be slaughtered'. Gu Xi, as the head of the Jinyi Guard, immediately set off for the Western Regions. On the surface, his duty was to accompany Yao Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple of the Ministry of Rites to negotiate with the Mughu, and in the battle report of the Privy Council, he was responsible for sending enough new muskets to the front line, and Shenzong issued a secret decree allowing him to cut it off by himself, and make Yuemeng a mortal enemy at all costs.

The worried Gu Ci deliberately explained to her husband in detail the horrors of the modern Tianfang Sect, and asked him to convey it to Gu Xi, such as kidnapping, assassination, and hijacking, which are all trivial, using women and children for suicide attacks, and indiscriminate violent bloodshed against civilians are completely for the purpose of creating large-scale panic. Tianfangism is a religion founded by nomadic peoples with a low level of civilization, so there is a strong emphasis on social justice and equality. In order to facilitate dissemination and understanding, its teachings are very simple, so they are easy to spread in poor areas with low literacy. Since the Prophet Muhammad established his religion with the aim of seizing political power, he attached great importance to joining the WTO and the integration of church and state, and his experience of persecution was reflected in the scriptures, which made the believers united and exclusive, and the strength of the whole religion was united with the outside world. This method of struggle has also become a model for the whole clan to remember, emphasizing 'holy war' and dedication to the religion everywhere, and has a strong control over the congregation.

Gu Ci takes the example of the Heavenly Sect's praise and dedication to the head of the sect, and incidentally expounds that the spirit of the Toei bushido also has such radical qualities, but they use their own honor and morality as the benchmark to 'sacrifice their lives for righteousness and uphold the right path', and even if the object of their allegiance to the emperor, they can also 'be a minister if the king is not a king'. Buddhism is stronger than these two in that even if it advocates 'feeding eagles with their bodies', it does not encourage bodhisattvas to hang their necks and die. The chivalry of the Nestorian Christians only emphasized 'fighting bravely for honor and dignity' and 'bravely sacrificing for the weak and for the family and country', and did not say that human life could be disregarded. In short, this aspect can be used as a reference by Mu Wanqing of the Propaganda Department, but the premise is to respect human life and respect people's freedom of choice.

After listening to her tirade, Yuan Yi pursed his lips and was stunned for a while, before he raised his eyebrows, summoned Mu Wanqing to discuss, and began to systematically and concretely consider what kind of 'martial virtue' to implement in the army.