In the anticipation of many eminent monks and monks, Elder Shu finally came back from negotiation.

According to the policy of monks and criminals, Elder Shu can be a military doctor in the city leisurely and decently, or teach the army martial arts to help improve the personal martial arts quality of the military Han.

Zhao Gonglian saw Lu Zhishen's face and the elder's own good conduct, and had already instructed Tong Gang to secretly give him extra care. Elder Shu also understood this kindness, but he did not stay in the city.

After coming back, under the questioning and even reprimanding of one after another senior monks, he practiced closed-mouth meditation and did not say anything, and since then he has become mute, struggling to participate in the autumn harvest all day long. The detained soldiers scolded and drove and even beat and scolded without saying a word, listening to the daily arrangements and working hard without joy or sorrow.

According to his strength to toss himself like this, with his old body, even if he is relatively strong in martial arts, I am afraid that he will not be able to resist for long.

Tong Gang was ordered to be in his body, first watching the performance of Elder Shu coldly, and then he saw that this is a monk who really has the true meaning of the Buddha in his heart, and he is using practical actions to reflect and repent, and he is also trying to pay off a little debt for the sins accumulated in Buddhism for thousands of years. Only then did Tong Gang vigorously publicize the industrious deeds of Elder Shu to more than 500,000 monks and prisoners, praised the elders' positive reform behaviors and improved their treatment, so that the elders could be taken care of in terms of food and lodging.

But the elders did not enjoy it, and insisted on living in the original houses and broken beds that had been excluded, but distributed the food to the frail and sick monks to replenish their nutrition and strength.

Tong Gang did not shy away from other monks, he was deliberately taking care of Elder Shu.

Talents with special skills and such outstanding performance should be cared for, protected and treated accordingly according to Cangbei's labor reform policy. It is also an example.

He said to the elders: "It is a good thing to want to atone for the sins of Buddhism with all your might, and it is also a great virtue to work hard to serve the country and serve the border army, which indirectly reduces the burden of the people to support the country and our border gates." But you'll have to try to live longer. The longer you live, the more and better you will be able to do your best for Buddhism. So you have to eat the good food that is specially distributed to you and make your body better. Otherwise, if you die soon, will the Buddha treat you with this sacrificial act of seeking death for the Buddha? What is the great impact and positive significance of the way out for the whole monk to repent and rehabilitate? ”

The advanced people who worked hard to reform did not live well but died of exhaustion early, which has no meaning of positive guidance, and it will only be counterproductive if the majority of monks know it.

Elder Shu was obviously touched, and remained silent as a mute, but he no longer wanted to destroy himself and die as soon as possible.

Immediately, Tong Gang emphasized that the old man should go to the city to be responsible for seeing a doctor.

But Cangbei now has more monks and doctors. The officers and men in the army are all strong and hygienic, and rarely get sick. There are not many people in the countryside, and after the autumn harvest, they began to move south to Cangzhou spontaneously. Under the strategic intention of not leaving serious people in Cangbei, a very small number of households who are unwilling to leave will eventually be gone. There are no ordinary people in Cangbei, and it will become a pure border military town equipped with Tuntian monks, and there are few serious people who need to see a doctor at the moment. Therefore, the elders are actually very idle when they work in the city's medical center, but they refuse to be idle to enjoy happiness in disguise, and they want to go back to participate in the autumn harvest to do hard work.

But Tong Gang didn't allow it, and asked him to teach the little monks in Qingzhou City to be a medical apprentice, and to write a medical book, requiring the old man to record his lifelong medical experience and experience.

This is an order in the army, bargaining is not allowed, it is also work, you must obey the arrangement to do it, and you must show medical skills and sincerity to do it well.

The old man remained silent, and kept doing whatever he wanted, and only when he saw a doctor and taught medical skills did he not speak dumb again, but he was still dumb in other respects.

The elder's behavior fell on Zhao Gonglian's ears, and Zhao Gonglian was slightly surprised, but he didn't feel unexpectedly surprised, but he was very relieved.

Buddhism still has real virtuous people who are both practical, talented, and virtuous. It's a pity that there are too few.

For these monks, whether they are good or bad, he and his brother have discussed them a long time ago, and they have already been used by the empire. are all useful.

In Zhao Laoer's eyes, there are no useless people, it depends on how to use them and what role they play. Even if it is killed, it will also have the effect of killing.

Elder Shu's behavior frightened the monks.

Who can be mixed into a monk, which one is not better than a monkey? There is really no lack of intelligence, nor experience and insight.

Although Elder Shu refused to say anything from beginning to end, the senior monks did not know anything about the meeting between Elder Shu and Zhao Gonglian, but this did not prevent them from judging. They are all keenly aware that Zhao Gonglian's toughness and ruthlessness cannot be shaken, and they are even more keenly aware of the great danger hidden here.

The more Elder Shu refused to reveal the slightest bit of information, the more frightening this matter became.

It's scary to think about.

A senior monk and wise man who did not approve of blackmailing Zhao Gonglian to make concessions before said: "I have said that Zhao Gonglian cannot be persecuted by means. The bones of the Cangzhao family are as hard as steel, and when the heart should be hard, it is as unenlightenable as a stone, how can it change this time? It is definitely useless to play tricks and fools and be tough as a high monk, and it is useless to pretend to be sad and pitiful and sympathetic with conceited wisdom and scheming. It's all a joke in vain, and it will only lose the last bit of face of our senior monks. The only correct way is to listen to the arrangement calmly and make a gesture of actively cooperating with Cangbei, which may change some preferential treatment in the situation. But no one listened. Now it's okay......"

"Zhao Gonglian obviously just won't give in. What to do? Could it be that we still rely on the fact that hundreds of thousands of Buddhist disciples have gathered in Cangbei, and really incite the monks to make trouble and even rebel? ”

"That's sending us to death, and it's even more evil, which is contrary to the purpose of our Buddhism's peaceful establishment in the world, and it will only make the court think that destroying Buddha is right and change it without guilt, and it will also make those officials who actually sympathize with us in their hearts and even still believe in our Buddha lose support for us, and they won't have the opportunity to speak for us. When the people are implicated and suffered, they will also scold us for being false and compassionate, and they will say that our Buddhism is indeed a cult that is holy on the surface and dirty in the dark, as the court said. If you lose the hearts of the people in the world, then my Buddhism will really be completely finished, and there will be no possibility of turning over, and the great religion that has stood proudly in China for thousands of years will really have no place to stand and completely disappear from China. In that case, when our sins are great, the Buddha's compassion will not forgive us......"

The vast majority of the eminent monks who were criticized were naturally not convinced, but for a while, the crooked and crooked acts of playing idiotic masters or scoundrels were gone, and they all worked hard and hard.

The leader of the monks did not dare to make a fuss, and the other monks immediately became honest, one by one, with fear in their hearts, and carefully worked hard to complete the autumn harvest task of the day every day.

These ordinary monks who stayed in the Great Song Dynasty could mix comfortably in the monastery, and they were reluctant to leave the temple and turn to pirates for a new life, naturally none of them were fools.

It is very clear: even the senior monks have no safety guarantee, and if they do not obey, they are very likely to be severely punished, and even the senior monks are scared and honest, and they are all obedient, and they will do whatever they are told to do, and they will not have a temper when they are beaten and scolded, so if they dare to be restless, it will only be worse, and it is not impossible for them to be killed by officers and soldiers at will.

After all, to this day, Zhao Gonglian has not taken the monk's prestige.

And Wei will stand sooner or later, but don't kill yourself who doesn't have long eyes.

A nobody like himself can be killed casually, who cares?

It can only be the unlucky chicken that is terrifying, and if he dies, he will be ridiculed by other monks instead of arousing the indignation of the monks.

More than 500,000 monks and men (including the warrior monks who took away the single list and included in the army) harvested honestly in the autumn.

When the senior monks saw that the single group of warrior monks was working nearby, more active, more willing to endure hardships and hard work, and more organized, disciplined, and obedient to management and arrangement than ordinary monks, they were shocked, and they really couldn't figure out what means the Cangbei government led by Zhao Gonglian could so quickly transform the warrior monks who were deeply influenced by Buddhism into loyal border soldiers in such a short period of time.

It's hard to accept.

After all, Buddhism is the best at preaching and confusing people's minds. No matter how powerful Zhao Gonglian is, how can he be able to defeat the wisdom and means accumulated by Buddhism for thousands of years?

But the facts are in front of you, and if you don't accept it, you have to admit it, and if you don't accept it, you have to accept it.

As a result, the hearts of the monks were also cold, and the hearts that secretly refused to obey at all finally gave up after losing the hope of the warrior monks, and they resigned themselves to their work.

What they don't understand is that the warrior monks who stayed in the Great Song Dynasty and refused to defect seem to be devout Buddhas, loyal to the monastery, superstitious and worship them, but in fact, only a small part of them are truly devout and want to completely dedicate everything to Buddhism, while most of the others just rely on the Great Song Dynasty Buddhism to earn a living.

Such a group of warrior monks, after the destruction of the Buddha in the imperial court, the warrior monks who begged for life saw that the Buddha had no hope, and the good days of being a warrior monk in the temple were gone.

The remaining truly pious warrior monks entered the Cangbei Army to reflect on the mistakes of Buddhism, and naturally wanted to make up for and fight for the way out of Buddhism and their own beliefs, but they would not do anything, only a body of force, after seeing the honest performance of the vast majority of other warrior monks, they naturally went along the flow and worked hard to be a good soldier who defended the country and the people first.

Zhao Gonglian always ignored the monks who could only recite scriptures and talk, and refused to meet those high-ranking monks, but he attached great importance to all kinds of monks who were incorporated into the army.

"I am Zhao Gonglian, the marshal of Cangbei, and what I want to tell you here is that in my heart, no matter who you are, what you believe in, and what is the survival mode of the relevant modeled religious group, it is a sin to have the ability but not to get it for nothing."

"To be honest, I don't have a good impression of Buddhism, but I'm also not prejudiced. In the past, the Great Song Dynasty had a large population, rich and strong, you Buddhist disciples said that they taught people's hearts and enjoyed the offerings of the people, the court did not say anything, the people were willing, and the society needed, and I Zhao Gonglian naturally didn't care about the life of Buddhism. In the past, I didn't pay attention to your Buddhism at all. You Buddhism have nothing to do with me. If I had to say something about it, it would be that my grandmother was an old man who was proficient in Buddhism, and although she was not a disciple of Buddhism, she was a great compassionate person who truly adhered to the concept of Buddhism, and was by no means under the eminent monks of the world. If you have brains, you should not believe the rumors you heard on the way here, and you should not hate me. ”

"You all know that the status of me and my family in the Great Song Dynasty is different from the past. To tell you the truth, I don't know how many officials in the imperial court inexplicably hate me for not dying. Before, I had to resign and go home to work as a farmer in order to avoid suspicion and disaster to ensure that my family has a chance to survive, and I'm sure you've heard of this. Once again, I was in charge of Cangbei military affairs, but the border was critical, and the saint believed in my ability and inspired me, so I had to come out under great pressure and risk to lead the loyal Cangbei army to defend the country and alleviate the crisis of the Great Song Dynasty, and also to do a little bit for our great nation. But in any case, my influence on the decision-making of the imperial court is almost equal to zero, and with my embarrassing situation in the imperial court, how can I have the ability to promote such a major event as the destruction of Buddha? ”

"I'm coming to see you, the most important thing and the most urgent thing to tell you is that the situation is different now, and everyone should see that the Great Song Dynasty is in danger, and it is the national disaster that is at the head."

"If the Great Song Dynasty dies, it is not just a country and a dynasty that will die, but our nation is facing extinction, that is, each of us is facing the danger of being wantonly slaughtered, plundered and enslaved by foreign invasions. This calamity has nothing to do with whether you are a religious disciple or not. ”

"The country forgets that this nation has no resistance, the people are suffering, the society has no normal production environment and capacity, the fields are barren, the producers themselves have no food and clothing, they are displaced, hungry and cold, and the tragedy of changing children and eating has been staged many times in history, and the national sorrow of the five chaotic Chinese is reproduced, and the government and dignitaries are still too busy to take care of themselves. How can you have no worries about food and clothing? How can you sit in a mountain monastery and watch the world turbulent? ”

"History has long proved that every Chinese national catastrophe is also an era when Buddhism is in trouble and withering."

"How could a monastery escape the flames of war that burned all over the land of China? How could a rich temple property escape the red-eyed greed of a ferocious beast-like alien race? ”

"Even if the alien race does not burn and loot the Buddhist gates, how can the hungry and crazy people who have lost their humanity and the robbers, rebels, thieves, and robbers who are bound to rise everywhere let the rich monasteries not kill you? You people are monks, but you are also a member of the Chinese people, you can't change this ethnic identity, how can you be alone in the invasion of foreign races? “

"At that time, even if there is no matter of the imperial court destroying the Buddha today, you have to flee from the monastery, what ability to do in the chaotic world, what ability to make a living, personal care for oneself to make a living, the same to bear the same suffering as others, the same to bear the same thousand miles without a rooster crowing, the terrible bones exposed in the wild, there will be white bones exposed in the wild, and the strong attachment to the temple will only wait to be starved to death, robbed and killed. It may not be useful to roll up money and grain, hide in the mountains to spend a day, wait for the troubled times to pass, and then come out and continue to enjoy the worship of the world. You can escape into the mountains, why can't others? “

"There must be many more people than you who have also taken refuge in the mountains, and have gathered together to form a huge number of bandits to strengthen their survival."

"In troubled times, we only talk about survival, but we don't care about the spirit of faith. There is food and clothing, and all means are used to live above all else. The society is out of control, there is chaos, etiquette and shame are just trivial things, killing people and setting fire are not evil, and it is only idle to do no evil, and it is very likely to be the supreme glory. The more you can fight, kill, and rob, the more glorious you are, and even have great merit. As long as you have the ability to let yourself and your family and fellow villagers survive in the troubled times, you are heroes and heroes, and you are the leaders of great virtue that everyone believes in and loyally follows. At that time, where did you come from to be able to fall into madness and even cannibalism despite the troubled times, hunger, poverty, despair, and even cannibalism, but still firmly defend the followers of the monks? You Buddhists have money, food, food and drink, why aren't you targeted by other mountain forces and slaughtered and looted? ”

"When the nation fell, no one could escape the punishment of disaster. Therefore, don't say that the safety of the country and the nation has nothing to do with Buddhist disciples like you, who talk about the equality of all sentient beings, regardless of race or country. Let's just say that you Buddhism itself, you are willing to treat other races as the same as your own race, but people in foreign Buddhism of different races will not be equal and friendly to you. If the nation is weak and loses its power and dignity, the Buddhists of this nation will automatically be reduced to lowly and inferior and deceitful, so how can they be qualified to sit on an equal footing with the powerful and the people of the same religion of different races? “

"There is no universal world. All beings can never be equal. Don't take ideals for reality. Don't have unrealistic illusions. ”

When the national crisis is at hand, everyone must do their best, do they still have to divide their beliefs?

Should a monk hide in the temple and eat for nothing, regardless of the safety of the country and the nation? If you have this thought, you should be damned and killed.

"I incorporated you into the army just to give you a chance to contribute to the nation, and also to give you a way out."

"I also lack capable soldiers and all kinds of talents at the northern border pass. You are needed here. On behalf of the four military prefectures and the whole army in Cangbei, I sincerely welcome you to join us, and I also hope that you can quickly integrate into this glorious and truly sacred and great fighting group and make your due contributions as a member of the Chinese nation. ”