The land of Qingqi, that is, the hometown of the Warring States represented by Qingzhou, the land of Qingqi worships the Buddha vigorously, there are many reasons, all in all, the present world makes the people desperate, so hope for Maitreya to be born, hoping that Maitreya Buddha can bring peace and prosperity.

In the very popular "Maitreya Sutra" in Qingzhou, there are many descriptions of the pure land on earth after Maitreya's birth, which makes the people fascinated.

There are many scenes of the Pure Land on earth, such as clean streets, and no closed doors in cities and settlements; No water, fire, sword, soldiers; No hunger; The crops are lush and free of weeds; A kind of seven harvests, with little effort, a lot of harvest, and so on.

Compared with the ethereal Maitreya Pure Land in the last life of Maitreya, the common people are more willing to believe that Maitreya was born in the world to create a pure land on earth, and everyone shares a peaceful and prosperous world.

Since the rebellion of Yongjia in the Jin Kingdom, the family followed Emperor Sima to cross to the south, but the ordinary people could not escape the south of the Yangtze River, and could only endure in their hometowns.

The emperor in Jiankang changed his surname to Liu, and the country name was Song, and the Northern Dynasty was bounded by the Yellow River, and Qingzhou, which was located south of the Yellow River and east of Mount Tai, became the front line and was devastated by war.

Later, Liu and Song Dynasty infighting, Xue An, the assassin of Xuzhou in the Song Kingdom, rebelled, and together with Shen Wenxiu, the assassin of Qingzhou, defected to the Wei State of the Northern Dynasty with the land of Qingxu, and Qingzhou has since been ruled by the Northern Dynasty.

A large number of local wealthy clans in Qingzhou, who were interested in the Liu Song dynasty in the southern dynasty, rebelled and were suppressed by the Wei army, and then the Wei state moved these wealthy clans and a large number of people to Pingcheng, the national capital, and set up Pingqi County for resettlement.

These people, known as 'Pingqi people', lived a humiliating life in Pingcheng as captives, and were not allowed to return to their homeland.

At the same time, Wei moved a large number of Hebei wealthy families to the land of Qingqi in order to consolidate their rule, and these outsiders had fierce friction and fighting with local families, making the land of Qingqi unpeaceful, and Qingzhou, as the front line of the north-south conflict, was still in flames.

Both Xiao Qi and Xiao Liang are trying to find a way to 'recover' Qingzhou, and the long-term Civil War has made the people of Qingqi miserable.

It was not easy to survive until the Zhou State was leveled, and the land north of the Yangtze River was all in one territory, and Qingqi was no longer the front line of the war, so everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the result was that it stopped for less than three years, and a civil war broke out in the Zhou State.

This battle lasted for seven or eight years, and the Wei Chi clan, who occupied the Qingzhou Governor's Mansion, constantly attacked the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion and other Sui-controlled territories in the south, and the people of Qingzhou were either requisitioned to the battlefield or requisitioned to transport grain and grass as coolies.

It was not easy to survive until the fall of the Sui State, but the Zhou State used troops against the Chen State again, and the Qingzhou Governor's Office sent the navy to the south through the sea route, and entered the Yangtze River to fight with the Chen State Navy.

Before the Chen State was taken, the civil war broke out in the Zhou State, and the endless war made the people of Qingqi more and more desperate for the present world, so they became more and more eager for the idea of Maitreya creating a pure land on earth in the next life.

Buddhist scriptures say that Maitreya will not be born until 5.6 billion years, and the people can't wait so long, and they desperately hope that Maitreya will be born in advance, so they make a Buddha statue and make a wish, hoping that the Buddha can sympathize with the suffering of the world, and this is the main reason why the belief in Maitreya is popular in the land of Qingqi.

There are many Yiyi in the land of Qingqi, some of them have only a few dozens, some have hundreds of people, and it is common for the larger ones to have more than 1,000 people.

As for the larger Dadu Yiyi, no one knows how many members there are, and probably even the government doesn't know.

The members of Yiyi, both ordinary people and ordinary officials, all despaired of the present world and joined Yiyi to seek some comfort, so although the Qingzhou Governor's Office began to restrict the number of Yiyi more and more, it actually had little effect.

Buddhism is the mainstream in the Zhou State, not only most of the state and county officials believe in Buddhism, even the magnates of Yecheng and Chang'an also believe in Buddhism, when Emperor Wu of Zhou destroyed the Buddha, caused the dissatisfaction of many magnates, not long after his death, Buddhism flourished again in the Zhou State, and now the officials of Qingzhou, how can they control the development of Yiyi in various places?

For hundreds of years, it is not that no one has gathered ignorant people through Yiyi to do that great rebellion, but for the government, so many Yiyi can't all be banned, and when the time comes, the officials will force the people to make a civil uprising, and they will be unlucky.

With an organization like Yiyi, it can guide the people to be good and resolve their anger, and for the local officials, it can also be regarded as a help to appease the people, so as long as there is nothing wrong with the behavior of Yiyi in various places, the officials will turn a blind eye.

And this Duyi Yi, which is preaching outside the city of Dongyang, is the Buddhist society that the government has turned a blind eye, and this Duyi has set up a library of righteousness and called on Yiyi members to help each other, attracting more and more believers to join.

At this moment, the believers who listened to the lecture of the Yi Shi filled the open space in front of the Yi Shi, and when they saw the arrival of the lord of the capital, the believers stood up and saluted.

The lord of the capital is a good person, this is the consensus of everyone, so they have sent their most sincere greetings, the lord of the capital kept returning the salute, and finally waited until the scene calmed down, he sat next to the master of the city, signaling to continue.

In Yiyi, the Yishi is responsible for promoting the Dharma and preaching the scriptures to the believers, while in the Yiyi, which is dominated by ordinary people, the people are basically illiterate, do not know a single big character, and basically cannot understand the content of the Buddhist scriptures, so they need to explain the content of the Buddhist scriptures to them in easy-to-understand sentences.

The level of the Yi master's lecture determines the attraction of this Yi Yi to believers, and in this lecture held in Gaomi Village, the level of the Yi teacher's lecture is undoubted, and the believers and villagers can listen to it.

Until a bad news came, which broke this peaceful scene: the official army was stationed in Guangling on the north bank of the Yangtze River, but was defeated by Chen's army, and the young and strong soldiers of the army suffered heavy casualties, and floating corpses were all over the river

This bad news made many people present and listen to the lecture cry, their relatives were conscripted by the government to serve in the military, and went south with the navy army to station in Guangling, or they were conscripted to serve in labor and transport grain and grass to Guangling south through Surabaya.

These people are the pillars of their families, strong laborers, and now the official army has been defeated in Guangling, with heavy casualties, perhaps among them, there are their relatives.

Their loved ones may never come back.

This bad news, it is said that not long after it reached the Governor's Office, the official army was defeated, it should have happened a few days ago, there were many officials in the government, and the news came out in an instant, so what measures the government would take next, the villagers could think of it.

Continue to recruit the common people to serve in the labor and military, and follow the officers and soldiers to fight!

The cruelty of reality makes many people sad from their hearts, and the scene of Maitreya in the Pure Land of the world that Master Yi just said makes everyone look forward to it more and more, and from time to time some people ask how to let Maitreya be born early and save the toiling masses.

The master did not answer, but put the Buddhist scriptures and asked people to bring an empty tile bowl, and then filled the tile bowl with water in front of everyone.

I saw that the master closed his eyes, and there were words in his mouth, and after a while, a green lotus grew out of thin air in the tile bowl, and this green lotus bloomed with gorgeous colors, which made everyone stunned.

Master Yi opened his eyes and said in his mouth: "Maitreya was born, descended to the dragon and accompanied him, polluted the world, and turned into a pure land on earth..."

The voice murmured, as if there was a kind of supernatural power, which attracted the people present, and they joined their hands together and read along with the master.

"Maitreya was born, descended with the dragon, polluted the world, and turned into a pure land on earth..."

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