He Hun looked back and saw that the person who said "oops" was the old monk Buddha Chenghe who came from Qingzhou with He Hun Leopard.

He Hun Leopard and He Hun are worthy of being nephews and uncles, both of whom believe in Buddhism.

He Hun was also very familiar with the Buddha Chenghe, and originally thought that his "oops" was aimed at the soldiers who were arrayed in the audience, so he asked: "Why did the monk scream?" But what are my shortcomings? ”

Buddha Cheng and Dao looked like a monk, with his hands folded in front of his chest, his eyes slightly closed, and said: "Qi Qi Heavenly King, this exclamation of the poor Dao is not because of the Heavenly King. ”

"Then what did you suddenly call for no reason?"

"Listen, King."

He Hun listened attentively, only heard the rhythmic shouting and killing sound of the soldiers in the formation with the sound of drums, and other than that, it was a small sound of the wind, and there was no other sound, and he didn't understand the meaning of Buddha Chenghe's words, and asked, "What are you listening to?" ”

Buddha Chenghe pointed to the Zen staff in the hands of the monks, and the bell was hung on the Zen staff, which was blown by the wind, and there was a light sound from time to time, and said, "Listen to this bell." ”

He Hun was more puzzled and said, "What is there to hear about the ringtone? ”

"Heavenly King, the poor road heard from this bell that Dongpingling County, Jinan County, Qingzhou, was on fire somewhere in Fangcai, the county."

"Huh?"

He Hun Leopard couldn't help but interject and said: "Buddhist Master, I know that you can hear the auspicious omen from the bell, but there is a fire in Dongpingling County?" This is ......, but is it true? ”

Dongpingling County is the county of Jinan County, and He Hun Leopard is the northern country of Jibei from here.

Buddha Chenghe took the Zen staff, stood on the high platform, walked a few steps to the side, in front of everyone's eyes, he muttered something in his mouth, just like the practice, waved the Zen staff suddenly, and then returned the Zen staff to the monk, returned to the previous position and stood still, still with his eyes down, and said: "Poor Dao slightly cast a spell, the fire has been extinguished." ”

He Hun and He Hun looked at each other.

Buddha Chenghe said: "If the king and the general don't believe it, they can send an envoy to Dongping Mausoleum to investigate. ”

He Hun looked at Buddha Cheng and a few times in disbelief, and said in his heart: "I have heard that this old monk is good at reciting mantras, can make ghosts, and can listen to the sound of the bell to say things, all of which are not verified. According to what Buddha Chenghe said, he chose a servant on the spot and ordered him to rush to Dongping Mausoleum to investigate.

Buddha Chenghe watched the official go down to the ground, turned over and rode a horse, led a few pawns, bypassed the big array, and went straight to the direction of Dongpingling, but he was not panicked and calm.

He Hun and He Hun Leopard couldn't see anything from his appearance, and they didn't know what he was thinking in his heart: "The one in Dongpingling is on fire, this is a certainty; If my prediction is correct, there will be rain in Dongpingling today, so that my fire extinguishing will not be false; In case I didn't predict accurately, there was no precipitation, it didn't matter, the few sand gates I left in Dongpingling, they had already laid several water hoses in the surrounding houses of the house where the fire started, and they would sprinkle water at the right time to extinguish the fire. ”

But it turned out that this was the thing that Fo Cheng and Congjun had carefully arranged before they left Qingzhou.

At the same time, if Fo Chenghe's forecast for the weather is not accurate, and there is no rain in Dongping Tomb today, then the houses around this family have already been bought by Buddha Cheng and secretly, and most of the monks who stayed in Dongping Tomb are hidden in it, so they will start a water wheel and water to extinguish the fire.

This layout can be described as comprehensive and seamless.

Therefore, Buddha Chenghe has absolute confidence and can ensure that nothing goes wrong.

He squinted his eyes, and turned around the bodies of Zhang Shi and a few other Tang people next to him without moving, and thought in his heart: "Youhou people, uphold the old track of the Tang people, count into the Heavenly King, and say, 'The Buddha goes out of the Western Regions, the god of foreign countries, the merit is not given to the people, and it is not the shrine that Zhuhua should worship', and the Tang people are not allowed to become monks at will, so that my Buddha cannot benefit all sentient beings." I have been trying to refute it for a long time, and the right marquis has won the trust of the king of heaven with his strategy, but he can't, and now he has to come up with this strategy, hoping to get the attention of the king through my magical powers, so as to change this system and magnify my Buddha! ”

Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains, up to now, it has been two or three hundred years, but in these two or three hundred years, whether it is the Qin Dynasty before Buddhism first arrived, the later Cheng Dynasty, or the Tang Dynasty that moved to Jiangzuo, the Chinese regimes of successive dynasties have only allowed the monks of the Western Regions to build temples in the country to worship their gods.

Later, Zhuhu invaded the north, and the Xiongnu Qin State established by it, and the current Wei, Qin and other countries, all fought frequently, and they were in great need of people's power, and although Zhuhu was the conqueror, the population of the Tang people accounted for the majority after all, in order to avoid too many Tang monks, resulting in insufficient taxes, soldiers, and labor, they would not change this rule, because it was the old Xia people's regulations, at least on the bright side, still unchanged.

- Of course, there are not no Xia people who have become monks, and there are not only men who have become monks, but also women who have become monks, such as Dingxi, which borders the Western Regions, and there are some Xia men and women who have become monks in its territory, and Jiangzuo, which is separated by 108,000 miles from the Western Regions, and there are many Tang monks who have close contacts with Jiangzuo's celebrities, and there are also quite a few nuns who enter and leave the court and the back houses of the nobles, but these monks and nuns are still a very small minority of the Tang people, and the vast majority of Tang people are still not allowed to become monks and nuns.

Buddha Chenghe was very dissatisfied with this situation.

He and another favored monk from the Western Regions under He Hun Leopard's tent, that is, Shamen Wu, who advised He Hun Leopard to kill more Tang people and labor more Tang people in order to cut the Tang people's destiny, has a superficial difference in pursuing this aspect.

What Shamen Wu pursued was to establish a state entirely composed of people from the Western Regions on the land of the Central Plains.

Buddha Cheng and not.

In his opinion, although Middle-earth was large, there were too few Hu people, and it was not beneficial to establish a country composed purely of people from the Western Regions. Thinking that at the age of sixty or seventy, he entered Middle-earth in the east and rushed around in this troubled era of China, was this to establish a country of the people of the Western Regions? He's not, of course. What he pursued was to seize the opportunity of the troubled times in Middle-earth and the Duohu people, who were in power in the north, to convert all the hundreds of millions of people in the Central Plains into followers of the Buddha. In other words, it is to "influence" the original habits of the people of the Central Plains to worship their ancestors and believe in Confucianism and Taoism, etc., so that they all take the initiative to abandon them, and know that Buddhism is the only way of truth, so as to truly take root and carry forward Buddhism in the land of the Central Plains, and even immerse themselves in Jiangzuo, and it is best to be like the countries of the Western Regions, from the royal family to the small people, all of whom believe in Buddhism and worship Buddha, and in the end, turn Huaxia into a Buddhist country on the ground. He believes that this is the greatest glory to Buddhism.

Because of this, since he came to the Central Plains, he has been thinking about how to break the old rule that the Tang people are not allowed to become monks in this China.

In terms of ideals alone, from the standpoint of Buddha Chenghe, his ideal can be described as very lofty.

However, Fo Chenghe has no strengths in military affairs, and he can't get He Hunxie's words and plans through offering advice, and after thinking about it, if he wants to realize his lofty ideal and defeat Zhang Shi and other opponents, he can only start from the "supernatural power".

If you want to talk about "supernatural powers", it is the old business of Buddha Chenghe.

With the introduction of Buddhism to the Central Plains for a long time, and with the difference in the situation between the north and the south, the monks in Fangjin have gradually divided into two major factions.

One is the south, the monks of Jiangzuo, because the people are not allowed to leave the house, and the other is also because there is a moat between the scholars and the scholars, in order to enhance the influence of Buddhism, they can only communicate more with the royal family and the scholar class, and the royal family and the scholar class generally have high cultural cultivation, are proficient in the classics of Confucianism and Taoism, and like to talk, so all the famous monks of Jiangzuo are also familiar with the theories of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and are known for their Qing talks, or in other words, these famous monks put the theories of Buddhism on the coat of Confucianism and Taoism, or find the three in the outlook on life and the worldThe similarities in values have made a name for themselves by expounding Buddhism and discussing philosophy.

The other is the Buddha Cheng and this kind of monks in the Western Regions who are all over the northern countries, one, they are not like the famous monks of Jiangzuo, many of them are the children of the scholars in the Tang Dynasty, most of them are not familiar with the classic books of the Xia people, the rulers of the northern countries are basically Hu people, most of the cultural cultivation is not high, Confucianism, Taoism, Qing talk or something, they don't know, they won't, but they believe in the witchcraft of their own people, so this kind of monks still maintain the same as the "Zoroastrianism" when they were in the Western Regions before, relying on "supernatural powers" and "magic" In order to attract believers and raise one's reputation. - The Western Regions are already famous for illusions, but they are familiar with these things.

The monks in Dingxi were also the same in their early years.

There was once a famous monk, good at practicing meditation, and meditation is different from other schools within Buddhism, it is known for being able to cultivate supernatural powers, this monk is known as the supernatural powers, the palm can produce water, fingers can produce incense, etc., and is known as the number of disciples under the seat, 12 excellent people, and each has cultivated excellent supernatural powers, as if imitating the Confucius disciples 3,000, sages 72 people said, and that wisdom, although he is an honest man, but in the early stage of his study of Buddhism and preaching, but he can't help but deceive, his "dream to give the Bodhisattva vows", In fact, it is just a fake thing, all kinds of absurd styles, which are difficult to describe in one word. It's just that Xin Er is not interested in this kind of so-called supernatural power at all, especially after the establishment of the monks, he strictly restricts the monks in Dingxi, and prohibits the monks in the country, especially those from the Western Regions, to coax the people by pretending to be gods and ghosts, because the monk atmosphere in the current Dingxi Kingdom is very different from the monk atmosphere in the evil rule of Qin, Wei and He Hun, such as Kumarosh, who was famous in the Western Regions when he was a famous monk in various countries, and now in Dingxi, but there is no "supernatural power" exposed, under the guidance of Xin Er, I just buried myself in the translation of Buddhist scriptures day and night.

Needless to say.

In the troubled times, the lives of the people are like grass, even if the high-ranking officials and nobles are also precarious, and their lives are always in danger, so in order to get temporary anesthesia, they seek to Buddha and Tao, and believe in the afterlife and become immortals.

Therefore, today, it is true that the northern and southern countries are constantly fighting in chaos, and those in power are engaged in conquest and killing, while the people are prosperous and prosperous. At present, there is He Hun Evil's ambition, and Buddha Chenghe's ideals are ambitious, but the two are not back, forming a wonderful mixture.

Gallop to Dongping Mausoleum, to find out whether there is a fire, if it is a fire, Buddha Cheng and the messenger who put out the fire go back and forth, not to mention four or five days, what is the truth of the matter, although it is not yet known, but since Buddha Cheng and dare to say these in public, He Hun thinks that he must be sure, but because of this, he has a little more high regard for him.

The military parade that day, when discussing the military in the tent at night, He Hun Xie specially explained He Hun Leopard and took Buddha Chenghe with him.

In fact, there is nothing to discuss in the military, the battle strategy has been set, Murong Zhan has also led his troops to the north as He Hun evil expected, and when he led his troops to arrive, the two armies fought fiercely, and won the defeat, as for the victory or defeat, He Hun evil has full confidence, and can defeat Murong Zhan in a field battle with his high courage, so he simply reiterated the previous deployment of the battle, He Hun sat on the Hu seat majestically, looked at the Buddha Chenghe who was sitting at the end of the tent, and asked a question he was concerned about, and said: "The Buddhist master has great powers, I have a concern about the future, and I want to ask the Buddhist teacher, but does the Buddhist teacher know what my concern is? ”

Buddha Cheng said peacefully: "The Heavenly King's concerns, if it is not Murong Zhan, if the poor Dao is good, it should be in the south." ”

He Hun touched his thick beard, nodded, and said: "The Buddhist master is really powerful, yes, what I am worried about is Jiang Zuo!" Before I raised the army, I sent Jiang Zuo several times, hoping to form an alliance with Jiang Zuo, but Jiang Zuo Tang'er was arrogant and arrogant, but he repeatedly rejected me and refused to ally with me. Now I have been raising troops for nearly two months, and I will fight with Murong Zhan to determine the victory, Murong Zhan, this little thing, is nothing more than a chain of horse formations, turtles do not fight with me, but only to defend Kang's father, and the field battle, its chain of horse formations is of little use, I will definitely be able to win, only Jiang Zuo, will it take the opportunity to attack me Xuzhou? For the benefit of the fisherman? Buddhist teacher, can you teach me? ”

Buddha Chenghe closed his eyes and groaned, like a fugue, after a long time, he opened his eyes and said: "Poor Dao is suitable to fall into a dream......

He Hun was very surprised, and said: "Buddhist master, you just closed your eyes and didn't speak, did you fall asleep?" ”

"The dream of the poor road is different from the sleep of ordinary people."

"What's the difference?"

"The dream of the poor path is to dream of the Buddha."

He Hun let out an "oh" and said, "I see. He asked, "What did the Buddha say?" Can there be a word about Jiang Zuo? ”

"The Buddha is silent when he pulls flowers, but shows that a painting is in the poor road."

"What painting?"

"In the painting, a small turtle (yuan) is depicted, which looks like crossing a river, but fails to enter; Another person played drums, although he crossed the river and finally returned. ”

He Hun didn't know what Buddha Cheng meant by this, and asked blankly, "What does this mean?" ”

"The Buddha's will can only be understood by God. With the poor road, the little turtle is also Huanmeng; Those who play drums are also Yin dang. The meaning of this painting is that Huan Meng deliberately crossed the river to commit crimes, but Jiang Zuo did not get permission; Yin Dang led his troops across the river, invaded our borders, and finally returned defeated. ”

Crossing the river did not enter, crossing the river and returning, these two are easy to understand, but how can the people of Xiao Yuan and drum music be sure to be divided into Huan Meng and Yin Dang? He Hun was inexplicable, scratched his head and asked, "Why is Xiao Yuan Huanmeng, and the person who plays drums Yin Dang?" ”

"Yuanzi, this Huanmeng word is also, so the poor road thinks that the little turtle should refer to Huanmeng; Yin, there is the meaning of happiness, so the poor road thinks that the person who plays the drum should be Yindang. ”

To be a monk and to be a scholar, to be a Taoist, or to be in politics, in the army is the same, there is no great intelligence, great intelligence, it is difficult to stand out, not to mention anything else, only the vast Buddhist scriptures, if you want to understand it, understand it, you have to memorize outstanding, intelligence is outstanding, it is a famous monk, are extremely smart people, like Kumarosh, to Dingxi only two or three years, has been the Tang people's Confucianism, Taoist classics systematically studied very thoroughly, now can sit with the Yin Master such Dingxi Confucianism and discuss the Tao, Buddha Chenghe is no exception, Although the time he spent in the Central Plains was not very long, he was already quite familiar with the military and political figures of the northern and southern countries and the book allusions of the Tang people.

Yin Dang, a feudal official in Jiang Zuoxin's upper position, was a few years older than Huanmeng, when he was young, the two of them were equally famous, but they were not convinced by each other. Huan Meng once asked Yin Dang, who is better than you and me? Yin Dang replied: I'd rather be myself. The arrogance is beyond words. However, Huan Meng despised him quite a lot, and once said to people: When I was young, I rode a bamboo horse with Yin Dang, I threw the bamboo horse away, but Yin Dang picked it up, so he is not as good as me. It is precisely because the two of them are famous in Jiangzuo at the moment, and the experiences of the two are slightly similar, both have been subordinate officials in the second Yu's mansion and studied military affairs, so after the success of Huanmeng's war against Shu, the important ministers in the Jiangzuo Dynasty were worried that Huan Meng would rely on Jingzhou's geographical advantages to do the stories that those Jingzhou assassins had done before to threaten the royal capital, so they pushed Yin Dang out, and some time ago, let him fight against Huan Meng for the sake of General Jianwu and Yangzhou Assassin History.

Yangzhou is in the east of Jiangzuo, and Jiangzuo's capital Jiankang is in this state; Jingzhou is in the western part of Jiangzuo.

Jing and Yang are both large states in Jiangzuo, and there is only a small Yuzhou in the middle. Although this Yuzhou has solid land, it is not quite similar to most of the overseas Chinese states and overseas Chinese counties, but there are only three counties in the country, and the area is not large. This is equivalent to saying that Huan Meng and Yin Dang are now separated by a small Yuzhou, separated from the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, facing each other from east to west.

He Hun also knew about Jiang Zuo's recent political changes, and after listening to Buddha Chenghe's explanation, he pondered for a while, and then said to Zhang Shi: "Right Hou, what the Buddhist master saw in his dream is the same as the analysis that Right Hou did to me before. It seems that I don't need to worry about Jiang Zuo invading my territory, at least for the time being, and taking advantage of the opportunity of my fierce battle with Murong Zhan, they will benefit from it. ”

Zhang Shi glanced at Buddha Chenghe, and said in his heart: "This monk is a ghost, what to say about dreaming of the Buddha, it is really absurd and vain, but he can see that Jiang Zuo will not allow Huan Meng to send troops to attack me, in order to balance Huan Meng, let Yin Dang make military achievements, but it is very likely to send Yin Dang to lead the troops to the north, and Yin Dang's use of troops, not as good as Huan Meng, is really not my Xuzhou enemy, because there is no need to worry about this, but it is still a little vision, insight." ”

Although he disdained the Buddha's pretense of Xuanxuan, Zhang Shi knew that this monk had won the trust and love of He Hun Leopard, and looked at the current momentum, as if He Hun Evil also looked at him differently, so he refused to say what he thought in his heart, and he Hun Leopard and He Hun were unhappy, so he shook his feather fan and said, "The Buddha is a monk who has attained the Tao, and when he heard that the Buddha was in the Western Regions, he was said by the Buddhists in the Western Regions that he had already cultivated into a Buddha. ”

He Hun thought so, so he let go of his worries about Jiang Zuo's attack and redirected his energy to the war that was about to start.

……

In the south of Gucheng County, about 100 miles away, under the cover of night, a large camp that avoided the farmland and was set up on the wasteland.

One person is outside the tent, looking at the moon.

This person is about forty years old, with his hair in braids, hanging down behind his shoulders, wearing a plain round-necked robe, a sash, a brocade hakama, black soft boots, and the hilt of the sword at his waist is inlaid with tortoiseshell, jewelry, etc., revealing the atmosphere of wealth and wealth, it is Murong Zhan.

A servant, dressed in similar clothes, waits behind him.

Looking at the moon for a long time, Murong Zhan sighed.

The servant was Murong Zhan's eldest son, Murong Mei, so he asked, "Father, why are you sighing?" ”

"Mo Helang, in the early years, you traveled from me to Liaodong and returned to the Great Thorn City, which was the hometown of our ancestors. Do you see this month, is there any difference between it and the month of Great Thorn City? ”

Murong Mei smiled: "Father, there is only one moon in this sky, whether it is the moon in Thorn City or the moon here, what difference can it be?" Self is the same. ”

Murong Zhan looked at the bright moon in the blue night sky like a jade plate, looked at it for a long time, then retracted his gaze, looked at the tents that stretched for miles in the camp for a while, and the military flags that stood in each camp, looked back with his sword, and said to Murong Mei: "Mo Helang, do you remember the battle of Thorn City that I told you about back then? ”

"That was my Murong clan's battle to make a fortune, of course the child remembers."

"Yes, that battle was indeed the battle of my Murong clan. Before the Tang Dynasty's Pingzhou assassinated Shi Cui, he thought that Nanzhou Shiwang had a plan to divide the territory, and the exiled people attached themselves to my Murong, but they did not attach to him, he thought that it was my Murong clan who forcibly detained the exiles, so he conspired with Goguryeo, Yuwen, Duan and other tribes to destroy my Murong to divide my land. When the three parties were strong, my Murong clan was in danger, and I had to make a divisive plan, so I first defeated the Yuwen Department, followed by the defeat of Cui Qian, and then won the Liaodong, and gradually now, into the Central Plains!

"Counting on my fingers, my Murong clan has entered the Central Plains, representing the Xiongnu Zhao clan, and I have had the mandate of heaven for decades! But I don't mean that today, the danger of the thorny city of the year is reappearing in the present! The Di Pu in the west, the slave in the east, and the Tang family in the south are three strong enemies! And that generation of North Tuoba also has a different heart! This honest group of wolves watched, and the enemy situation was better than in the past. …… Alas, Mo Helang, the reason why the danger of Thorn City was solved in the past was all because of the wisdom of the ancestors, but now this danger, how can it be completely resolved? ”

Raising his eyes to look at the moon again, Murong Zhan was worried, and said, "Although the moonlight is no different, it is still the same as when it was in Thorn City in the past, Mo Helang, Mo Helang ......"

He didn't finish his words, and here it was.

Although the second half of the words were not spoken, knowing that the father was better than the son, Murong Mei knew what he was worried about, and said: "Father, the situation today is definitely different from the past, but He Hun evil is brutal and unkind, although Pu Mao is now taking advantage of He Hun evil turmoil, he came to invade our country violently, but he can't even beat the small country of Dingxi, and he has been defeated by Xin Youzhu several times, as expected by the child, there is the king of Hejian guarding Luoyang, and he will be difficult to advance, as long as our army can exterminate He Hun evil and move to battle, it is likely to be easily defeated." As for Jiangzuo, the princes of the court and the central government have restrained each other, and they have violated our land several times before, and they have all been defeated and returned, and there is no big concern. As for the Tuoba clan, my Murong servant and slave are not to worry about.

“…… Father, in two or three days, our army will arrive in Gucheng, He Hun evil and He Hun leopard have joined forces in him, and when the time comes, please be the vanguard and break the battle for Father! ”

But when Murong Yan forced Murong Zhan to go north to Jibei, it was Murong Mei who advised Murong Zhan to simply not listen to this order, but Murong Zhan considered the overall situation and was unwilling to regenerate infighting at a time when this was a serious problem, so he chose to obey the order, but now that the war is coming, in turn, it is Murong Mei who explains and comforts Murong Zhan.

This is not because Murong Zhan is hesitant and lacks decisiveness, on the contrary, it is because Murong Zhan is insightful and knows that if he fights with He Hun in the field, he may be difficult to win, so he will express this emotion on the eve of the battle, such as "Although the moon is no different", "The reason why he was able to solve the danger of Thorn City in the past was all because of the wisdom and wisdom of his ancestors".

Hearing Murong Mei's words, Murong Zhan slightly pressed down his worries about the future of Wei, smiled, stroked Murong Mei's head, and said affectionately: "Okay, if the war starts in Japan, I will be in the Chinese army, see you break the formation and kill slaves for me!" ”

The moonlight was like water, sprinkled down, reflecting the shadows of father and son, stretching out on the ground.