Volume 1 A Hundred Battles Yellow Sand Wears Gold Armor Chapter 64 The Battle of Religions
King Porto looked up at the clear blue sky and said, "Everything is ready, right?" β
Atro, the guard of Gaochang City next to him, said: "The national teacher can rest assured, everything is ready, and today will definitely ruin the reputation of Na Shi Dao'an, and make the Shi Dharma Temple a place for everyone to spit on." β
"The origins of those women must not be revealed." King Portofa said solemnly.
"The national teacher can rest assured, except for the two women we arranged, the other women will only appear in front of people with corpses. As for the five bandits and sand thieves who had robbed these women, they were all killed yesterday, and not a single one was left alive. Atro hurriedly said, but when he said this, the depths of his eyes flickered slightly, yesterday he personally led people to kill people, and as a result, a group of Han people were extremely powerful, and rescued a sand thief, but he shot an arrow at the sand thief, but he was not sure whether the sand thief was alive or dead. But he didn't dare to tell the truth to King Porto, but he was lucky that the sand thief was dead.
King Porto looked at the sky, so he didn't notice the change in Atro's eyes, but said, "What about the one who went to kill the mouth?" β
Atro felt a chill in his heart, and hurriedly said: "The national teacher can rest assured, the people who go to extinguish the mouth are the most fanatical believers of the Heavenly Venerable Dharma King, and even if they die, they will abide by every word that the national teacher says." β
King Bodo nodded with satisfaction, glanced at the Dharma Temple in the distance in disgust, put his hand on the top of Atro's head and said: "Go, use your fast horse sword to kill all those heretics, and win honor for the Heavenly Venerable Venerable, as long as you do it, the Venerable Venerable Tianzun can see it, as long as you kill enough heretics, you will become the Venerable under the throne of the Tianzun Dharma." β
Atro kissed the tip of King Porto's toes, stood up, and said loudly with a reverent face: "I, Atrol, in the name of the Heavenly Venerable King, will kill all the heretics!" β
When the bell rang, nearly half of the people in Gaochang City began to move, they put down the things they were busy with, and rushed to the Dharma Temple with joy and inexplicably.
Surrounded by a group of monks, the abbot of the temple strolled out of the temple, his shoes on the cold gravel, every step was very steady, with an unfathomable smile on his face, he went up to the high platform used to speak the Dharma, folded his hands, and thanked the people who came to listen to him.
"Great, the Pure Land method is also taught. It is the heart that is the Buddha, the heart is the Buddha, and those who point directly to the hearts of the people are still inferior to their peculiarity. That is, to recite the Buddha, that is, to become a Buddha, and those who have experienced the calamity of cultivation should be able to take advantage of their high wind. It is rooted in the upper, middle and lower levels, and governs the law, teaching, Zen, and Buddhism. Like the moisturizer of the rain, like the Nachuan of the sea. Deviation, circle, pause, and graduality all flow from this Dharma realm. Big, small, power, and all the actions of the real are all returned to this Dharma realm...... "I have to say that Shi Dao'an's appearance is very good, the aura of the monk is very sufficient, and the voice contains a unique charm, although the audience does not understand it very well, but they are intoxicated by it, and they feel that their souls have been purified.
However, at this moment, two ragged women rushed out of the temple, shouting for help. Then, a Persian man and a Tuyuhun man who were listening to the Dharma below suddenly rushed out with a shout, took the two women in their arms, and wept excitedly to each other, until they turned into anger and began to question Shakti Dao'an.
The whole thing happened, plus the words of the two women and the two men, and soon everyone understood what was going on. It turned out that these two women had disappeared for half a month, and they were taken away by the monks in the Shifa Temple, locked up and wantonly abused themselves. Today, Shi Daoan said Buddhism, and the monks in the temple relaxed their guards and were escaped by two women.
The most important thing is that, according to the two women, there are more than 70 women like them in the temple.
In the Western Regions, where the law of the jungle is really the law of the jungle, there are many women missing every day, and the same is true in Gaochang City, where tens of thousands of people who listen to Buddha Dao'an say that some people's women or daughters are also missing, and under the leadership of some people with ulterior motives, more than 100 women or daughters in their families are missing on the spot, standing up and shouting loudly, although they still maintain enough respect for Shi Dao'an, but they began to question the Buddha Temple and ask for the temple to be searched.
The scene was suddenly out of control, and although Shi Daoan vaguely felt that this was a conspiracy, he couldn't stop the crowd that seemed to have exploded, even though he had already discovered that the dozen or so people who took the lead in making trouble were not his followers at all.
The whole process was exactly as arranged by His Holiness Hatta, and more than 70 women were found in a cellar of the temple, but these women, who were devastated at first sight, were found with more than 70 corpses, and they were not wearing any clothes.
"It's these bald donkeys who are worried about the revelation of the matter, and want to kill people and kill them, and transport the corpses away to destroy the traces, but the results have not yet come." Someone shouted.
"Yes, it must be."
"These bald asses are all sanctimonious demon monks, and we have been deceived."
There are some who are beginning to echo.
If many true Buddhists were still skeptical just now, the facts in front of them made them have to believe what these people said, especially when some true believers found their daughters and women who had been missing for many days in the corpses, which suddenly really shook the faith of these Buddhists, and they began to explode.
At this time, the garrison of Gaochang City, the Turkic commander Atro, "got the news" and expressed his willingness to make decisions for the people, and led 3,000 cavalry to surround the Shifa Temple, and a killing began.
More than 500 monks were killed, and the temple was burned to ashes by the alleged victims.
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In the basement of an armory shop in the eastern district of Gaochang City.
Commander Wu San sat with Yu Bao, the leader of the caravan guard, and five hundred commanders, and at his feet knelt a wounded man from the Western Regions, the last of the group of sand thieves who had been wiped out by the Turks.
"Lord Duwei, I have received definite news that the Shifa Temple has been burned and Shi Daoan has been killed by the Turks." A spy hurried in from the outside and said with a happy face.
When everyone heard this, they were all overjoyed, and Wu San stood up and said, "Can you rescue the general, in one fell swoop." β
Yu Bao has been tormented by guilt in his heart these days, and said with red eyes: "Lord Duwei, give an order!" Even if you die today, you have to save the lord. β
Wu San said: "Yu Bao, you immediately take your people to disperse all over Gaochang City, and tell the story that those women in the Shifa Temple were plundered by sand thieves and horse thieves near Gaochang City, and were robbed by the Turkic cavalry, and all sand thieves and horse thieves were exterminated." As for the fact that King Hata planted the temple, we don't need to say anything at all, and those who have already believed in Buddhism will naturally think of it. When the time comes, these Buddhists will inevitably go crazy and ask the Turks questions, and if you provoke them again, you can easily trigger a conflict between the Buddhists and the Turks in the city, and as for how to turn the conflict into a war, I don't need to say more! β
Yu Bao nodded and said, "I understand Lord Duwei's plan, but I still want to follow Lord Du to the City Lord's Mansion to savior the lord." β
Wu San shook his head and said: "Your 100 people are not as strong as our 500 people, so your task is to make chaos in the city, attract and contain the Turkic army to all parts of the city, this matter is most suitable for you to do, because you have followed the caravan to the Western Regions many times, and you are more familiar with this place than us." Don't worry, our 500 men will definitely rescue the general. β
"In this case, today we will not only rescue the lord, but also take these Buddhists to burn the Turkic city of Gaochang to the ground for burial in the burned down temple." Yu Bao knew that what Wu San said was reasonable, so he agreed.
In fact, it is not the first time that there has been a war in Gaochang City, and it is estimated that it will not be the last. And every time the reason for this is because of religious wars.
The most brutal and fierce war in the world is the war of religion!
He is not concerned with profit, but only with faith.
If the religious war between Nestorianism and Buddhism in Gaochang City was just a small wave in the sea,
Then, more than 300 years later, the crusade that changed the world pattern and left a permanent wound on the world should be a stormy wave in the sea. If King Porto had known that there was such a religious war in the far west, which lasted for two hundred years, he would have been even more insane.
In that war, since the Roman Catholic holy city of Jerusalem fell into the hands of the XX, the Pope allowed the lords and kings of Europe to wage a religious war aimed at recovering the Holy City.
The crusades were mostly directed against the Albanian state, and the main purpose was to recapture Jerusalem from the XX cult. During the Crusades, the Church awarded every warrior a cross, and the soldiers were decorated with a red cross in their clothing, and the army formed was called the Crusaders.
However, no matter how noble the pretext for going to war, this war waged in the name of the gods eventually returned to its original form - that is, robbery and plunder.
Many land-starved European feudal lords and knights wanted to use the rich East as the object of plundering land and wealth.
Italian merchants wanted to gain great profits by controlling commerce in the eastern Mediterranean. And the Pope wanted to merge the Orthodox Church and expand the sphere of influence of the Catholic Church.
Many serfs and outcasts living in hardship, natural disasters, and oppression by taxes were called upon by the church and feudal lords to go to the East to find a way out and a happy land.
This is similar to how King Bodo contacted the Western Turks, Tuyuhun and Qiang Gedao tribes to wage war against the Great Sui last year.
Therefore, in the end of the war, whether it was a crusade or a Western Turkic crusade, except for King Potopha himself, the ultimate goal of the various chieftains and tribes was only to satisfy their own interests, and as for the interests of the gods, only the corpses of the pagans strung on the cross stretched for hundreds of kilometers can prove it.
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