"They have invaded the land like wolves, and even the fiercest beasts of the past have not dared to gasp loudly when they face them......"

Seventeen years ago, when the group of soldiers wearing armor and holding weapons crossed the mountains and mountains to Tianzhu, no one could have imagined what kind of changes this group of lost dogs would bring to this land. But now, seventeen years later, the natives, who had known nothing about them, have come to realize that they are a much more warlike army than the bravest troops of the Mughal emperors.

More than ten years ago, this beggar-like army even needed to curry favor with the Mughal emperor, but now, they can directly challenge the Mughal dynasty and the "conqueror of the world" Emperor Aurangzeb.

Despite more than a decade of Aurangzeb's continuous conquests, the Mughal Empire stretched from Persia in the west, Bengal in the east, Dakashmir in the north, and the Kofri River in the south. The South Asian subcontinent and Afghanistan were almost entirely united under the Mughal Empire.

However, everyone knows that in the northeast of the mainland, the "Zhou State" with the square characters written on it stares at the "World Conqueror" like a poisonous snake.

In fact, not only it, five years ago, another group of people with square characters also broke into this land, in the Deccan Plateau one by one sultans, kingdoms were threatened by the conquest of Aurangzeb, the local sultans, the king of the land have turned to the Ming - the Ming Dynasty, which only controlled the area of Tianya City (Ceylon Galle), has completed the conquest of the entire Ceylon, and established the "Straits Settlements" with Tianya City as the capital, and began to try to establish a colonial base on the other side of the strait.

Faced with a plea for help from the mainland, the two governors of the Straits Settlements did not refuse, and took the opportunity to break into the mainland and become another participant in the continental game. This participant did not arouse Aurangzeb's alarm, in his view, as a group of people who, like the Dutch, Portuguese, and English, were just for commercial gain, and the real threat to Aurangzeb, who had just completed his conquest of Hyderabad, was another group of people who spoke the same language as them, who had dug up a piece of meat from Aurangzeb's body five years earlier and taken Bengal.

In Linhai City, every Han person who comes here will feel extremely close - Ming-style buildings can be seen everywhere in the city, and the square characters of the Ming Dynasty can also be seen on the streets. Only the passers-by on the street, with their dark skin and Han people's very different appearance, remind people that this is not the Ming Dynasty.

This is the Zhou State, of course, it is not the Zhou State of Nanyang, although the Ming Dynasty has never officially recognized this country, but in the Ming Dynasty merchants, sailors here is called "Wu Zhou", when Wu Sangui and his subordinates fled to Tianzhu after having no way to escape in the southwest, defeated the country established by the local king.

Although this country is not recognized by the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of profit, the merchants opened a route to Linhai City more than ten years ago - this port was taken by Wu Sangui from the Portuguese more than ten years ago, and it was once the largest port in Wu Zhou. Ships from Daming sail in here every day.

Although the authorities had never had any contact with Wu Zhou, or even supported these connections, Master Miao Cheng, as a monk, still came here with a dozen apprentices.

"Revive Buddhism in the ancestral land of the Buddha!"

Eight years ago, Venerable Mahasi from Wu Zhou began to teach in the Ming Dynasty, and it was at his instigation that hundreds of monks came to Wu Zhou, to Bengal, a place where there was almost no trace of Buddhism for a long time.

Although Buddhism flourished here hundreds of years ago, there were 200 monks and 30 ashrams in the capital alone. However, in the past 400 years, it can be said that it is the "dark age" of Buddhism in Bangladesh, Buddhist temples were destroyed, believers were slaughtered, and people who once believed in Buddhism have converted to Tianfang, and after Wu Zhou seized Bengal, with the support of Wu Sangui, Master Mahasi promoted the revival of Buddhism in Mengjiala, reorganized the Bengali Sangha community, and in the past few years, a large number of monks from the Ming Kingdom joined, and Buddhism slowly rekindled its vitality.

As Master Miao Cheng, who had entered the palace to preach the Fa for the emperor, as soon as he came to Linhai City, he immediately attracted the attention of Wu Zhou officials, from Linhai to Suide, the capital of Wu Zhou, for hundreds of miles, Master Miao Cheng and his entourage continued to preach the Dharma and preach Buddhism along the way, although in the eyes of the vast majority of local people, they believed in heresy, but the preaching was still extremely smooth, because Buddhism was an official support sect of Wu Zhou, and in the past five years, more than one million Bengalis have converted to Buddhism.

Again, after leaving a temple that was no different from the temple of Daming, Master Miao Cheng asked Master Mingde beside him without doubt.

"Master Mingde, this is the hometown of Venerable Atisha, and the customs are completely different from my Ming Dynasty, why are these temples all Ming-style temples?"

Because he has seen Buddhist buildings that are very different from those of the Ming Dynasty in various parts of Nanyang, Master Miao Cheng is a little curious about this.

"Master, this Wu Zhou is different from other places, the monasteries here were destroyed by the Tianfang Sect hundreds of years ago, when the Zhou King occupied Bengal, the local Buddhist believers were only more than 10,000 people hiding in the deep mountains and dense forests, and most of the locals believed in the Tianfang Sect...... Now the temples of Wu Zhou are all built under the funding of the king, after all, unlike the Ming Dynasty, there were very few believers here, and without the funding of the government, the temple would definitely not be built, but now with the increasing number of Buddhists in Wu Zhou, there will be more and more Buddhist temples here......"

Venerable Mingde is no different from the Chinese Venerable, but his appearance is very different from that of the Han Chinese, he is a Bengali, but he has studied Buddhism in the monasteries of the Ming Dynasty for nearly ten years.

"Now my Wu Zhou Buddhism can have today's prosperity, thanks to the king's determination to promote Buddhism back then, otherwise, how can there be a million followers, in a few decades, I think I Wu Zhou must everyone believe in Buddhism......"

"Promoting Buddhism, King Wu's merits are immeasurable."

Master Miao Cheng nodded in agreement, even if Wu Sangui's reputation in China is extremely stinky, but he has to admit that under the promotion of Wu Sangui, Buddhism, which has almost disappeared from Tianzhu, has flourished again. For example, when he was preaching the Dharma on this road, he used to preach in the ruins of a Tianfang Temple, which was destroyed by the local Buddhists because they needed a place and bricks to build a Buddhist temple.

However, what Master Miao Cheng did not know was that Wu Sangui was also forced to promote Buddhism, and as an outsider, in this place with a strong religious atmosphere, he had two choices, one was the local Hinduism, and the other was the Mughal-backed Tianfang religion, although he had tried to establish himself in Tianzhu by making his son religious. Eventually, however, he determined the basic strategy of abandoning the Celestial Sect and uniting with the native Hinduism.

The reason for this choice was the deep-rooted influence of Hinduism in Tianzhu, and at the same time, at the same time, at the suggestion of the ministers of the DPRK and China, the missionary movement of Buddhism was promoted, and the basic strategy for spreading Buddhism against Tianfangism and Hinduism was determined.

In order to promote the spread of Buddhism, as early as five years, Wu Zhou began to follow Aurangzeb's missionary methods, increasing the tariffs of Tianfang merchants, and two years ago ordered the destruction of Tianfang temples and schools in the capital and other large cities, and the levy of a poll tax on Tianfang believers.

And this is also the reason for the intensification of the conflict with Wu Zhou and the Mughal Empire, after all, Aurangzeb is a devout believer, Wu Zhou did this, it is simply offended by his rebellion, but he won the favor of the Hindus in the Mughal Empire.

This is a seemingly extremely shrewd calculation. For Wu Sangui and others, who were familiar with the history books, they knew how to win over the majority of the Tianzhu people, induce them to transfer their dissatisfaction with Aurangzeb to their dissatisfaction with the Mughal dynasty, and then incite their hostility and strengthen themselves at the same time.

"Master, when you arrive in Suide, the king will personally listen to your teachings."

As the capital of Wu and Zhou, Suide, was the capital of Bangladesh, the city was built more than 70 years ago by the Mughal Empire Bengal Governor Subeda *** Khan, most of the buildings in the city are Persian style buildings, five years ago Bengal was occupied by Wu Sangui, and then the city was renovated. Many of the Persian-style palaces in the city were destroyed in the war and razed to the ground, and the original Han-style palaces were built.

"Dhaka is a Mughal, Suide is a Great Zhou, and people living here can not speak Chinese, but the city must be Han-style ......"

Who said that?

Even now, no one knows whether Wu Sangui said it or not, but one thing is for sure, the current Suide does not seem to be much different from the city of the Ming Dynasty, and even this city used to be known as the city of Tianfang Temple because the city was full of Tianfang Temple, and the Tianfang Temple can no longer be seen.

The Buddhist monasteries and the sound of the lawsuits echoed in the city, this place is changing, although Wu Zhou is not like the Ming feudal Nanyang countries, from the feudal day has the obligation to educate the local people, but it is also learning the Nanyang countries to educate the local people.

Both Buddhism, which once disappeared here, and Chinese, as a foreign language, have changed Suide to some extent. Maybe the people here once resisted all this, but the reality of life forced them to choose to accept it.

"In fifty years, maybe a hundred years, most of the people here will be able to speak Chinese......"

When the carriage was running on the streets of Suide, Xie Sixin looked at the local natives outside the window who looked very different from himself, and said silently in his heart.

As the prime minister of Wu Zhou, in the past five years, Xie Sixin is most concerned about things, the first is to preach, the second is the Chinese school, both are to consolidate the rule of the Zhou State, the former in order to let the native people not exclude them because of religion These outsiders, and the latter is also for the needs of rule, of course, the latter is to learn from the Ming Dynasty, after the feudal states of the Ming Dynasty took up the country, the first thing is to set up Taixue, establish a school, teach the native Chinese, but in just ten years, it has successfully educated many native people into "familiar fan", In a few decades, they will inevitably become Han Chinese.

After witnessing the success of the Nanyang Zhuxia, after the Zhou State seized Bengal, Chinese language schools sprung up all over Bengal, they did not need to teach the Four Books and the Five Classics, they only needed to teach them Chinese, and by the way, they learned some concise versions of the Four Books and Five Classics - this was also learned in Zhuxia, after all, the natives did not need to participate in the imperial examinations, only needed to master the basic Confucian knowledge through concise textbooks.

Of course, the purpose of comprehensively promoting the Chinese language in Bangladesh is not to allow those Bengalis who speak different languages to communicate freely, but to cultivate a small group of elites who are proficient in Chinese, and to assist the Zhou court in managing the 20 million ordinary people who do not know Chinese in Bangladesh. Those Bengalis who can speak "Chinese" are different from Han Chinese in blood and skin color, but their tastes, opinions, moral sense, and manners and speeches are all marked by Chinese in the end, with continuous education.

All this takes time, five years is not enough, it will take ten, twenty, even a hundred years......

"It seems that Emperor Xingqian has long been in the chest for all this......

Thinking of the hundreds of Chinese schools established in the southern part of Tianzhu in the Straits Settlements, Xie Sixin once again secretly admired His Majesty, and in addition to admiring, he looked out the window again, looking at those dark-skinned natives, and thought silently.

Soon, Xie Sixin's carriage came to the largest temple in Suide City - Da Bao En Temple, its name is the same as Nanjing's Da Bao En Temple, as for the kindness of whom, naturally there are different opinions, but Xie Sixin knows that the king has said that this is the grace of Emperor Lie.

However, how can this cover up the mistakes of the year?

After entering the temple, Xie Sixin, as usual, first worshiped the Buddha in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and then went to the backyard of the temple. After the little monk led him into the presiding meditation room, the two first greeted each other, and then talked about Buddhism there, as in the past, after the night slowly fell, Xie Sixin looked at the host in front of him, and then said softly.

"Wu Sangui's body is getting worse day by day, if nothing else, he will definitely not be able to survive this year."

"Oh?"

The benevolent host replied, and then asked.

"Who's going to succeed you?"

"Naturally, it's Wu Yingxiong, he's the son."

"Hmmm......"

The host nodded, then said.

"Wu Yingxiong must die, he can't inherit the throne of Zhou, otherwise he will definitely merge with the Manchu Qing, and the family has already decided to ......"

Regarding this arrangement, Xie Sixin did not say anything. Wu Yingxiong is inclined to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this person can't stay! Including his son.

"Other than that, are there any other instructions at home?"