"Wechen obeys the order~!"

Li Zexuan smiled on his lips, sold criticism in his heart, resisted the urge to complain, and bowed down to receive the order.

"Hmm~!"

Li Er nodded with satisfaction, maybe other kings would do their best to strangle unknown new things without asking, but Li Er, as a pioneering and enterprising Holy Lord, his first thought was not to strangle, but to develop the usefulness of Li Zexuan's new knowledge to the extreme.

As for whether Li Zexuan would threaten his rule, Li Er had no worries about this at all, he had confidence in himself, and he also had confidence in his courtiers and generals.

The only thing that disappointed him was that the magical world that Li Zexuan said was not the fairy world, so did there exist immortals~?

Li Zexuan thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, there is one thing that Weichen can be sure of, that is, there is absolutely no so-called immortal above the nine heavens, and above the sky is the vast and boundless space, and there are countless planets like the earth suspended in space, and the world in the dream, their technology has been able to reach hundreds of thousands of miles away from the ground, so Weichen is very sure that there is no true immortal in the sky~!" ”

Li Er's face was ugly and said, "Is this really the case~?" ”

"That's true~!"

Li Zexuan saw that Li Er didn't seem to give up on asking for immortals, so he continued:

"The family teacher exhausted his life's energy to pursue the immortal way, and in the end he gained nothing, and still died, his old man once said to Weichen before his death: The world wants to live forever, from the king to the ordinary people take the extension of life as the deepest dream, but they don't know that immortality itself is the biggest joke.

Buddhism demands extinction, Taoism requires inaction, and Confucianism is exploring the right way, and in the end it is to turn people into stones. The turtle lives because it is sluggish, the tree lives because it does not move, and the only thing that lasts forever is the stone.

Destroying people's desires, being inhumane, breaking the five senses, and blocking the audition, is this still human? I don't know the cold and heat, I don't know the smell of incense, I don't know right from wrong, I don't have the idea of a family and a country, I don't have the concept of family affection, I don't have joy, I don't have joys and sorrows, what is the difference between rotten wood?

The reason why people are different from beasts is that we have thinking, understand etiquette, know family affection, can work, can create, can transform heaven and earth, and can also create heaven and earth, so that everything in the world can be used by me, which is the duty of human beings.

Beyond their own abilities to vainly try to pursue ethereal immortality, but they don't know that God has already arranged it, if you want to live forever, you have to turn into stone, but the ridiculous world is as ignorant as a moth to a fire! ”

Yan Lide and Empress Changsun breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly praised Li Zexuan for his general knowledge and sensibility, and they felt that at this point, there was still so much sufficient evidence, Li Er should no longer have any thoughts about Immortal Dao Immortality, right~?

Facts have proved that this is indeed the case, Li Er listened to Li Zexuan's words for a long time, his heart was half cold, and he was silent for a long time before he sighed faintly and said: "The gods, Buddhas and ghosts recorded in your previous book "Journey to the West" are all made up~? ”

Li Zexuan was shocked, and said that Li Er suppressed Buddhism, but he didn't expect to see this kind of "deviant", Li Zexuan didn't print "Journey to the West" into a book and sell it, mainly considering Li Er's attitude towards Buddhism, he was worried for a while that Li Er would settle accounts with him after seeing this book, but he didn't expect Li Er not only to read it "secretly", but also to trouble him.

In fact, this is all his own thinking too much.

Later generations spread that Li Er suppressed Buddhism and emphasized Taoism, mainly because the Li family respected Laozi Li Er as an ancestor, and advocated Taoism to be conducive to the orthodoxy and sacredness of the imperial power of the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, Li Er did not have too much evil feelings towards Buddhism, on the contrary, the entire Li family still has a lot of origins with Buddhism.

Li Er's youth was the period when Buddhism swept the country. At that time, Emperor Wen of Sui and Emperor Yang of Sui believed in Buddhism, "the people of the world are swept by the wind and compete with each other." Folk Buddhist scriptures are tens of hundreds of times more than the six scriptures. ”

The influence of Buddhism has permeated all levels of society and all aspects of social life. At that time, the worship of Buddha had become a common practice both inside and outside the imperial court. The Li family, a big aristocratic family, is certainly no exception.

In the second year of the great cause, nine-year-old Li Er suffered from eye disease, and Li Yuan personally went to Chang'an Caotang Temple to worship Buddha in order to bless him. After Li Er's illness recovered, Li Yuan made a stone Buddha and sent it to the temple for worship. These can't help but leave a mark on Li Er's young heart. Later, he never forgot this childhood experience, and personally wrote poems to praise the patriarch of Caotang Temple, Kumarosh, to express his reverence and remembrance for the previous generation of monks.

The Li family respected Buddhism in the early stage, and it can also be seen from the milk names of Li Yuan's sons, Li Jiancheng's nickname is Bishamen, and Li Yuanji's nickname is Sanhu, which are all names related to Buddhist culture.

In the third year of Wude, Li Er, who was still the king of Qin, was ordered to go east to conquer Wang Shichong, and fought in Songluo the following year. Thirteen warrior monks stationed in the fiefdom of Shaolin Temple Baiguzhuang, Hui Ling, Tan Zong and so on captured Zheng General Wang Renze in one fell swoop, and dedicated it to the Tang Army, Li Shimin took advantage of the situation to defeat Wang Shichong, this is the famous thirteen stick monks to save the Tang King incident, Li Er also has a good impression of Shaolin Temple and Buddhism.

However, in the Xuanwumen Change, Buddhism secretly helped Li Jiancheng, which made Li Er very annoyed afterwards, and he also had a little bad feeling towards Buddhism, and at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he once respected Lao Tzu as the ancestor, and Li Er simply put forward the policy of "first the way and then the Buddha".

However, he has not yet issued any decrees that are clearly aimed at Buddhism, and in the Tang Dynasty, the Li family pursued a policy of coexistence of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and Li Er was the founder of this policy.

"Uh~! Back to Your Majesty, the plot on "Journey to the West" is indeed made up by Weichen out of thin air~! I hope Your Majesty doesn't take it to heart, asking for immortal immortality is just an illusory delusion after all~! ”

Li Zexuan wiped the sweat from his forehead and arched his hand.

"That's it~! I'm here today to see how your academy is prepared, but I'm not here to discuss with you what to ask for immortals. ”

Li Er waved his hand and said, only then did he notice the huge sand table in the house, he glanced at it roughly, and suddenly said in surprise: "Li Zexuan, what is this~?" ”

Previously, he and Empress Changsun were outside the door only hearing Li Zexuan's words describing the dream, and he didn't hear what Li Zexuan and Yan Lide had said about the academy drawings before.

Li Zexuan was secretly scolding Li Er for being shameless in his heart, and there was no one to explain this wave of forced explanations just now, when he heard Li Er's question, he replied:

"Your Majesty, this is the Yanhuang Academy designed by Wei Chen, and then I will trouble Yan Shangshu to send some skilled craftsmen to build it on the top of Yunshan Mountain in Meicun~!"

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(End of chapter)