"This country, the climate is mild, the customs are still simple and simple, and the spells are proficient, oops! This one seems so mad! After Zhou Zeng finished reading it, he couldn't help but shudder. After coughing, he continued: "This country is split between Brahmans and Buddhists, but the king is a Shudra caste, who does not believe in the Dharma and only worships the gods. Big brother, no, can this Shudra caste also be a king? ”

This sentence in the Tang Dynasty Western Regions not only made Zhou Zeng wonder, but also aroused everyone's doubts. However, Wang Xuance knew this very well......

The king of the kingdom of Modi, Tygil Khan, did not go to this uncovered assembly because he did not believe in Brahmanism or Buddhism, on the pretext that he was ill. It was just that he sent his minister of state and brought Buddhist monks to go, so he and Wang Xuance had never met and were not familiar with each other.

The prince will have a kind of Xiangning! Since the time of Chen Sheng's Wu Guang uprising, this wise saying has spread throughout the land of China, and it has engraved this famous saying in the depths of every Chinese's heart. And in this India, there is also this feat in this country of Buluo.

About forty years ago, the king of the kingdom of Modi, Tegil Khan, was only an eighteen or nineteen-year-old hairy boy at that time, and he was born into this fourth caste. After toiling in the fields every day, more than half of the harvest went to the king and the high caste of Brahmins.

Every time before the next crop is harvested, there is always a green crop, and the stomach is hungry! Although Brahmanism is about the cycle of cause and effect, sometimes it is resigned to fate. But between heaven and earth, life is to survive, to eat, to live.

That being said, in this religiously supreme Five Indias, he still has this last glimmer of hope for God. Therefore, he worshiped not only Brahma, but also the Buddha, praying that he would be given enough food to fill his stomach. Unfortunately, there was no god who could help him fulfill his wishes, so he was disheartened......

Either starved to death, or killed, since both horizontal and vertical were dead, then the death was vigorous, so when he was really unable to be oppressed, he raised his arms and shouted, and many Shudra castes, as well as untouchables, all responded. Soon a rebel army of tens of thousands of men was gathered, and at the time of the grain harvest, when the Kshatriyas came to collect rent, they rebelled.

Because he advocated paying less rent, he won the hearts of the people, and soon the flames of the uprising swept through the entire painful Modi Buluo country, which was oppressed by the high castes. With the victory of the rebel army, they stormed the royal city, killed the king, drove out the nobles, and destroyed the high priest of Brahmanism!

In view of such a great cause, many rebellious soldiers elected him to be the king of this kingdom. When he sat on the throne, he felt the hardships of the people. Therefore, he reformulated the tax policy, cut the tax, and only used 15 to pay one, and in the face of such a light and meager tax, he naturally won the support of the people. From then on, he did not practice Brahmanism, nor Buddhism, but only believed in what he called the gods! And this country is also the only special case of the low caste king in the whole of the five Indias......

After listening to Wang Xuance's explanation, everyone admired this king a lot, and never thought that there would be such an earth-shattering story!

"Big brother, how do you know so much" Zhou Zeng asked casually.

"Say you're stupid, you still don't admit it, this must be what Master Xuanzang said to his eldest brother!" Chen Maocai replied with Zhou Zeng's words.

"Mao Cai is right, this is exactly what Master Xuanzang said to me a few years ago, and I was very curious at that time, in this hierarchical five Indian countries, why can a low caste still be king." Wang Xuance explained to them again.

After walking eastward for two more days, the people arrived at the city of the king of Modibula. Along the way, as expected, not only did we not see the strict caste system of other countries, but also the examples of untouchables that other countries wantonly abused.

The common people are working hard in the fields, not only with abundant food and clothing, but also with a lot of food. Therefore, taking advantage of this leisurely day, they are also planting flowers and grass before and after this house, which seems quite quiet, very peaceful, and a standard pastoral scenery. not only responded to that sentence: the edge of the green tree village is closed, and the green mountains are oblique outside; It also responds to the sentence: The land of thousands of miles of warblers is green and red, and the water village mountain Guo wine flag is windy......

At the gate of the city, according to the proper practice, Zhou Zeng turned over and dismounted, walked to the side of the city guard, explained his intentions, and handed over the letter of state, the city guard official was also a quite cheerful person. Looking at these thirty or so people, more than 100 horses, not only the horses are fat and strong, but the people are also very powerful, so they don't dare to be ambiguous at all, and immediately enter the palace to report......

Although the king of this kingdom, Tegil Khan, was in his sixties, his body was still quite strong. At that time, it was already a standard old birthday star, and at this time, it was also a child and grandchild around the knee, quite happy. I heard the announcement of the officials guarding the city, when the envoys of the Tang Kingdom came to the country. I was also very surprised, thinking that I had heard it wrong, so I asked again, and when I clearly understood that the envoy sent by the Tang Emperor was at the gate of the royal city, I was quite happy!

I never thought that such a large country would be able to send envoys to my small foreign country, so I decided to personally go out to greet me. So the old king came to the gate of the king's city with a golden scepter, in a gilded carriage, and under the guard of honor of Luan......

Wang Xuance and the others were also very moved to see that the king was so old and still met in person. Then he stepped forward and gave a deep bow as a token of gratitude. After some pleasantries, he was invited by the Tgil Khan to get into the gilded carriage and walk along the rather bustling street towards the palace......

This palace still seems to be quite luxurious to this day. It turned out that since this Tegil Khan seized the throne, he found that this former palace was not only magnificent, but also surrounded by golden columns, carved beams and paintings, all kinds of rare items, and the looted people's fat and ointment were also countless.

So, some of the extravagant places were demolished and decorated with bricks and wood; But it still can't hide the grandeur of the past. Therefore, we can only take these things to be vigilant to ourselves and keep our mission in mind, so as not to cause the disaster of destroying the country again......

After entering the palace, Wang Xuance led Zhou and Chen, on behalf of the Tang Dynasty delegation, to follow Tegil Khan into the palace hall. After some talking, Tegil Khan's understanding of Datang became much deeper. Looking at the intimate relationship that had been pulled, Wang Xuance motioned to Zhou Chen and the others and presented the state gift given to Tegil Khan by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

It is still these two national gifts: a volume of the Sanskrit and Tang Dynasty translation of the Tao Te Ching, a portrait of the Tang court painter Yan Liben Laozi, a set of purple pottery plain noodle tea sets for the palace royal court, and a high-quality Lingnan black tea!

The editor said: To read history is to analyze and think about problems from the perspective of the people at that time; Put yourself in his shoes, if you were him, would it be advisable to do such a thing?

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