Chapter 641: The miserable serf

On the twenty-third day of the first month, 20,000 iron cavalry of the Fifth Army led by Zhang Kuishan came to the city of Lhasa.

At this time, there were three main forces in Lhasa, namely the living Buddha of Tatsuse, the living Buddha and the king of Gushi, whether it was the two living Buddhas or the king of Gushi, they all regarded themselves as the reincarnation of the Buddha and the spokesperson of the Buddha.

To say that these so-called living Buddhas, they have neither three heads and six arms, nor do they have monstrous mana, why can they rule the Tibetan people from generation to generation since the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Without it, since you are the spokesperson of the Buddha, they will naturally be able to reward and punish the Buddha on behalf of you in this life or in the next life, there is a saying that you will be a human or a pig in the next life, the living Buddhas can ensure that you will continue to be a human being, and they can also decide whether you will become a nobleman or continue to be an ordinary commoner according to your contributions.

I have to say that since Buddhism was introduced and formed Tantra, Tantra has a very good set of rules in people's hearts.

Tibetans today may not care about their own present life, but they care more about future lives, and nothing is more important to them than reincarnation in future lives, so they will not disobey the living Buddhas in any case, so as not to affect their reincarnation in future lives.

Relying on this theory, the living Buddhas have firmly ruled the Tibetan people from generation to generation for seven or eight hundred years.

With the arrival of the Fifth Army, although the Living Buddhas did not come themselves, they all sent their henchmen to the city gate to greet them.

Zhang Kuishan reined in his horse and looked at the thousands of Tibetans guarding the city gate, including lamas, Tibetan nobles, and some ordinary Tibetans in ragged clothes. In fact, whether it was a lama, a nobleman, or an ordinary Tibetan, they undoubtedly did not welcome the arrival of the Ming army.

When many Tibetans who supported the Living Buddhas first heard that the Ming army was going to enter Lhasa, they were angry and wanted to confront, and if it were not for the orders handed down by the Living Buddhas, Zhang Kuishan and other 20,000 troops would not have entered Lhasa so easily.

Of course, the living Buddhas did not really welcome the arrival of the Ming army, but the Ming army was excessive, and they did not have the confidence to resist, so they did not have any intention of stopping the Ming army from beginning to end.

In any case, as long as the Ming army does not shake their rule, they do not want to fight hard, and they are also confident that even if the Ming army wants to, it will never be able to shake their position in the hearts of the Tibetan people, because they are the absolute faith of the Tibetan people.

If you want to say that the ** of the Tang Dynasty, it is really extremely strong, the strongest time with more than 400,000 armor, the greater Tang Dynasty has fought for decades without defeat, which can be called the main henchman of the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately, since the Tantric world, the situation has changed, and the Tibetans are not as good as the next generation of the living Buddhas. To be honest, thanks to the rule of the Living Buddhas, for seven or eight hundred years, ** has not been able to become the confidant of the Central Plains Dynasty again.

"Enter the city!" Zhang Kuishan solemnly ordered to enter Lhasa with 20,000 Ming army iron cavalry.

The predecessor of the Fifth Army was the Yinglong Army, the soldiers were well-trained, experienced in a hundred battles, and all of them were full of evil spirits, gathered together, and there was an imposing momentum invisibly, which overwhelmed many trumpets and Tibetans.

This is an invincible army, and the Tibetans cannot resist it by force alone.

The lamas and Tibetan nobles were originally a little sluggish, but now they immediately restrained their sluggishness and respectfully welcomed Zhang Kuishan and other 20,000 Ming troops into Lhasa and brought them to the garrison that had already been prepared.

The 20,000-strong army soon set up camp and officially began to garrison Lhasa.

In Dala Temple, several lamas reported the situation of the Ming army to the Living Buddha of Dase.

"The Ming army not only has war horses, but also uses a large number of firearms, and its combat effectiveness is extremely strong. Tatsuse Living Buddha said.

Although they were confident that the Ming army would not be able to shake their position in the hearts of the Tibetan people and threaten their rule over Tibet, in order to prevent accidents, Taise and other living Buddhas mobilized a large number of people under their command to Lhasa, all of which added up to about 80,000 people, and faintly had a momentum against the Ming army.

Although the Tibetan army, which was only 80,000 troops, was not taken into account, after being stationed in Lhasa, the Fifth Army did not make any moves for the time being.

After Zhang Kuishan and several generals of the Fifth Army symbolically met Tatsuse and several other living Buddhas, he paraded through the streets of Lhasa to deepen his understanding of the Tibetan people and pave the way for the upcoming move.

"Huh?" As he was walking, Zhang Kuishan's eyes suddenly froze in one place.

I saw a roadside dozens of meters away from them, there was a Tibetan mother and son and a lama, the son of the Tibetan woman was lying on the ground, pale, motionless, should have died, it was a corpse, the Tibetan woman was pulling the lama's clothes, was begging the lama for something, Zhang Kuishan did not understand Tibetan, so he asked a person who knew Tibetan to translate.

After translating, Zhang Kuishan learned that the Tibetan woman's son had been sick and dead for a day, and she was begging the lama to spend more time for her son, but the lama did not seem to buy it, and insisted on collecting the cashier, but the Tibetan woman's ragged clothes did not look like she could get enough money.

Without money, the lama refused to help.

Zhang Kuishan shook his head and sighed, did not continue to pay attention, and began to return to the camp with several generals under his command.

Along the way, Zhang Kuishan saw the same situation, either a nobleman dressed in luxurious clothes and a red face, or an ordinary Tibetan with ragged clothes and yellow muscles.

Zhang Kuishan has never understood why ordinary Tibetans don't ask about this life and only focus on future lives, and don't know that it is precisely because of this that they are so easily controlled by the so-called living Buddhas who are reincarnated by the Buddha.

In Tibetan areas, people are divided into three classes, the first class is a living Buddha and lama of a temple, the second class is a Tibetan noble, and the third class is ordinary Tibetans, ordinary Tibetans not only have no status, but also are exploited by the lamas of various monasteries and those nobles, whether it is grazing or farming, ordinary Tibetans have to pay at least seventy percent of the taxes to the temples or nobles, and they live a miserable life and do not know how to resist.

You must know that the current tax rate of the Ming Dynasty has dropped to the point of 20 taxes and 1 tax, and the tax of Tibetans is more than ten times higher than that of ordinary Ming people.

The most important thing is that the Tibetan people will not resist, but are willing to be exploited by the living Buddhas for the sake of an illusory afterlife.

"No wonder the emperor wants me to find a way to clean up those living Buddhas, indeed, those black sheep, if they don't clean up, they really can't completely merge the Tibetan area into the Ming Dynasty." Zhang Kuishan said with a sneer.

Back in the camp, Zhang Kuishan made some arrangements, prepared to start the action in two days, and started the plan to exterminate the Buddha that had been drawn up a long time ago!