On the third day of walking on the red dirt road leading to Fulou Shawang City, the cottages and grass liao in Siye slowly increased.

Deep in the trees on both sides of the roadside, the laughter of farmers can be heard from time to time.

However, these natives are not farming, sowing seeds, or harvesting, but picking wild fruits from trees, water and grass, and rice millet.

As he spoke, several young women had already passed by the side of the horse caravan with a harvest of rattan baskets on their backs.

They were all peaceful-looking and plump, and they did not have the slightest fear or indifference when they saw a foreign visitor.

Instead, he folded his hands and smiled, paying homage to us with Buddhist etiquette, and his devotion and compassion were like the free Avalokiteshvara Buddha worshiped by the world.

We quickly slowed down our horses and returned the salute.

A large north-south river appeared in front of it, clear as a sparkling blue wave, and from time to time large flocks of gulls and herons swept over the water.

There are monks meditating on the shore, and Brahmin devotees in the river holding their hands high in prayer to the river god.

There were also the boatmen who ferried us across the river, and the Shudras who were washing the golden sand on the river beach in the distance.

What a pure land of Buddhism where all the people are practicing and living in harmony!

Standing on the wooden boat and looking at the slow flowing water, our souls seem to have been washed, and we have no desire to chase fame and fortune.

I really want to let go of everything, build a grass house on the bank of the long river, find a fairy couple, and spend the rest of my life practicing meditation and chanting Buddha every day.

After the long river, Fulousha, the old capital of the Kushan country, is not far away.

The continuous trade routes extending from the surrounding countries continue to converge on this official road, and bring us into the rolling red dust.

The caravans of camels and horses slowly increased, Persians, Semites, Romans, Cypriots, and those brown-skinned, black-skinned Kunlun slaves.

It made me, Duo'er, Qin Chong, and them have an illusion of returning to the city-state of Beloea.

However, the periphery of Bay City is full of gray-yellow desert, and even the westerly wind blowing from the Mediterranean Sea exudes a murderous aura.

And here, the hometown of the Buddha, is a boundless paradise where the wind and sun are beautiful, the green fields are thousands of miles, and even the red soil on the ground is transformed by spices.

"The Buddha said: From the West, there are more than 10 trillion Buddha lands with world names called Bliss. There is a Buddha in its land, called Amitabha. In the land of bliss, there are seven treasure pools, eight merit waters, full of them, and the bottom of the pool is pure gold sand! Uncle Su, this Jiandra Buddha Kingdom is what the Buddha called the Elysian World, right? ”

After crossing the long river, Duo'er and Uncle Su walked side by side and recited the "Buddha Says Amitabha Sutra", which is an introductory classic of Buddhism.

"What the young lady said is very true! In the whole world, only the people of this Buddha country are the most favored by God, hehe. There is no government and yamen, and the people are not subject to forced labor and taxes. Farmers don't need to work hard to get a good harvest. Everyone in the world loves gold and jade, and this Tianzhu long river is full of golden sand! Ay! The Buddha loved sentient beings, but he loved the keys even more! ”

Uncle Su smiled and lamented the injustice of the Buddha of Compassion.

"Everyone in the world loves gold, and it is for three wives and four concubines! But this Jiandra people are good, Jinsha only has two uses for them, one is to shape the golden body of the Buddhas in various temples, and the rest is to buy the world's strange incense from merchants from all over the world to worship the Buddha in the incense market of Fulousha! Uncle Su, am I right? Hey!

"Miss knows more than I do, hehe, that's what happened!"

The old and young chatted endlessly, and Tian Lu on the side could neither understand Tocharian official dialect nor Han Yayan.

had to ride the horse behind stupidly, with a look of grievance on his face.

"My Qingfeng Ze Inn, the merchants from the south to the north whenever they talk about Tianzhu Buddha, only for three things!"

Duo'er said happily that she was sincerely pleased to be able to visit this sacred place of Buddhism.

"Doer, those three things? How did I not know? I also stepped forward and interjected.

"Big brother, you can remember! Buddha, spices, and golden sand, just three! ”

Duo'er is very proud, her knowledge is indeed unmatched in the team.

For the Tianzhu Buddha country south of this green ridge, I only know that this is the hometown of the Buddha.

Later, from Uncle Su, I learned that Tianzhu is still the distribution place of spices in the world.

I have always wondered why the subjects of this Buddha country are not engaged in agriculture and commerce, and they have no special products such as silk and pearls, so how can they have the money to buy expensive foreign fragrances?

Today, I know that the abundance of the golden sands here is in the world, and it seems that the Buddha and Bodhisattva, who are merciful and compassionate, have already arranged all the things in this world.

"Miss Doerr! Did you miss it? The Tianzhu Divine Elephant is also a wonder! The pot helmet added cheerfully.

"The beauty of Tianzhu's beauty, Miss is not counted! Isn't it the Tianlu girl who wronged us! Hahaha! ”

The gags in the boring business journey have never been indispensable to our General Qin Chong Qin.

And Mai Tianlu, a Guishan woman, didn't understand anything else, but she still heard her own name.

He hurriedly asked Duo'er for help, and the two exchanged words in Sanskrit.

After listening to Duo'er's translation, Miss Tian Lu's face was like a spring peach, her eyes were colorful, and she smiled coquettishly for a long time, and suddenly fell into a bunch of heroes.

"The six virtues of a gentleman, respecting God and loving people is for benevolence! The world exchanges golden sands for strange fragrance to serve the Buddha, which can be described as respecting the sky! The Buddha also gave the people here an inexhaustible supply of food and golden sand, which can be described as a loving person! From this point of view, Buddhism's study of compassion and compassion for all sentient beings to practice bliss is very similar to the Confucianism of the Han Kingdom in the East! ”

I talked eloquently that since I was a child, I studied under Confucian masters like Xin Fuzi in Qingfengze Academy, and I have been exposed to Khotanese Buddhism for a long time, and I have long been a lay disciple of Buddhism.

But I have never thought about the relationship between Buddha and Confucianism, and today I am in this pure land of Buddha and listen to the lectures of Duo'er and Uncle Su, and I seem to have suddenly become enlightened.

The way of self-cultivation and family governance, whether it is Buddhism or Confucianism, lies in the word "benevolence".

Respect God and love people, and the benevolent are invincible!

"The young master is wise, hehe. Your grandfather led us to walk the rivers and lakes back then, and benevolence and righteousness have always come first, and the word "profit" has always been put in second place. Therefore, whether it is your family's business, or the net worth of your Yi descendants, you can meet nobles wherever you are, and you can also turn evil into good fortune when you walk on the sea of swords, mountains and fires! There is also this key Buddha country, if the world is unkind and unrighteous and selfish is too heavy, the golden sand in the long river of Tianzhu has been washed hundreds of years ago, how can there be such a weather today. Amitabha! The cycle of reincarnation of heaven and effect is really unpleasant! ”

After Uncle Su of the Fire Zoroastrian finished speaking, he folded his hands like Duo'er and sang the Buddha's horn sincerely.

In this way, the seven treasure boxes that the Buddha said are the eternal rivers of heaven! Bagongde water is the water of this long river, and the bottom of the pool is covered with golden sand, which is the meaning of describing the abundance of golden sand at the bottom of the long river! Eldest brother! Uncle Su! The compassionate Buddha did not deceive us! This is what the Buddha called Bliss! ”

As if she had suddenly met the Buddha, Duo'er danced and cheered on the horse.

"Miss, although your dismantling is a bit far-fetched, if there is really a world of Elysium in the world, it must be this Tianzhu Buddha Kingdom!" Uncle Su sighed.

"Uncle Su, Elysium should be what it was like at the beginning of man! In Rome there is heaven and the Garden of Eden, which is Elysium in the eyes of Christians! In our Eastern Han Kingdom, the Elysium in the eyes of Taoist Lao Tzu is: small countries and widows knot ropes, neighbors look at each other, chickens and dogs hear each other and old and die do not get along. And all of this is the beginning of being human! ”

Most of the guys in my caravan don't know how to write and ink, and every time I talk about the past and the present with Duo'er and Uncle Su, these old guys will stay away, for fear of interjecting and making some jokes.

So just when the three of us were swinging the dragon gate, even Qin Chong, who loved to join in the fun, also went to the front and didn't stay with us.

"It's a pity that if the following countries are in dispute today, surrounded by heroes, this paradise is estimated to not last long!"

After listening to what Uncle Su said, I began to worry about the future fate of the Pure Land of Tianzhu Buddha.

Over the years, we have traveled from west to east and from east to west, and we have traveled almost all over the world.

In such a world of great contention, it is a miracle that a country with huge wealth can still be so peaceful.

"Yes, this Pure Land can survive to this day, and in the eyes of Lao Suo, it is all dependent on the gift of God. Look, young master, there are endless Kunlun Mountains and Green Mountains and Ice Fields in the north of the country, blocking the southward advance of the northern Xiongnu and your Han Empire. To the south is the vast and boundless sea, with occasional island country wild people, and it is also a barbaric tribe that has not yet been cultivated by slash-and-burn farming, which is simply insignificant! The Dayue people from the northwest mountains established the Kushan Dynasty, and for hundreds of years they have been worshipping Buddhism as the state religion, so that this Tianzhu country has become the source of Buddhism in the world and a holy place for people to worship! ”

It was almost noon, and Qin Chong and Sha Mihan commanded the caravan in front to rest on the spot and prepare for lunch.

I was chatting with Uncle Su and Duo'er, so I asked Tian Lu to lay carpet by the river by the roadside.

Everyone sat on the ground facing the water of the long river, and their thoughts were like springs.

"Now Sassanid Persia in the west is in full swing, the Kushan Empire has fallen apart, and some small Buddhist kingdoms in Northern Tianzhu are also in decline. However, to the west of the Persian state, the Roman Empire, an old enemy, was born, and there was no respite for the Persian sultan to march eastward. The powerful countries contain each other, and this Jianda Buddha country has more room for survival. Hehe, this arrangement is all providential! ”

Following Uncle Su's train of thought, Duo'er and I, who are very familiar with the state of Rome and Sassanid Persia in the west, can't help but sigh at the Buddha's compassion and the miracle of creation.

The Western Heaven Elysium of the Jianda Buddha Kingdom can exist in this world, just as it was when it first opened.

It is in response to the words of Meng Sheng of the Eastern Han Kingdom: angels, geographical advantages, and people!

All three are indispensable.