Since ancient times, faith has been a force that does not exist, but is extremely powerful.

People can live for their faith, fight for their faith, overcome everything for their faith, and give up everything for their faith, including their precious lives.

A long time ago, some people discovered that faith was a potential ruling force, and so various denominational churches appeared.

Each sect has its own unique doctrine, including Buddhism and Taoism, which advocate that the common people pursue the true meaning of Buddhism for the sublimation and salvation of themselves or sentient beings, and there are also evil sects such as Changshengjiao, which use the ethereal immortality as bait to induce sentient beings to use it for their own use.

In the ancient Oriental Continent, each sect for its own preaching and continuation, it can be said that the Eight Immortals crossed the sea to show their magical powers, and this is not only to compete with other sects for believers, but also to divide many branch sects under their own bishops, such as Yang Yi's previous life known Taoism is divided into Zhengyi Sect, Quanzhen Sect, True Dao Sect, Taiyi Sect, Jingming Sect and other five major Taoist sects, if these five major Taoist sects are further subdivided, dozens or hundreds of branches can also be divided.

Buddhism, on the surface, seems to be reciting Amitabha, but in fact, it is also divided into many schools, such as Theravada Buddhism and Mahacheng Buddhism, Esoteric Buddhism and Sutra Buddhism, Han Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.

In Daguang, the origin and development of Buddhism may be different from Yang Yi's previous life, but there are still many schools of thought.

Buddhism in the Western Regions, Buddhism in the Central Plains, and Buddhism in the Eastern Regions are the three major schools of Buddhism on the Eastern Continent.

Yang Yi was not interested in studying the differences in the teachings between these three schools of Buddhism, and how many grievances there were between the ancient and the present, he only knew that these three schools of Buddhism seemed to be from the Buddhist family on the surface, but secretly they were incompatible.

This is enough, as long as they have contradictions, Yang Yi will have a chance.

In a further understanding, Yang Yi learned that Buddhism in the Western Regions and Buddhism in the Central Plains have the same views on some key issues, so the relationship between the two families has been good for a long time, and Yang Yi finally understood why the Dejing host of Qingchen Temple would spare no effort to help Zen Master Basang.

In addition to Basang's secret promise of unknown benefits to Dejing, their common enemy, Dongyuan Buddhism, has grown in strength over the years with the strength of the fierce Di people, making both Western Regions Buddhism and Central Plains Buddhism aware of an unprecedented sense of crisis.

Moreover, Yang Yi was not at all worried that this Western Regions Buddhism would compromise with the fierce Eastern Plains Buddhism, because Yang Yi knew better than anyone how powerful and terrifying the power of religious belief was. In the past life, those countries in the Arab region of the Middle East have been fighting for hundreds of years over religious beliefs, and there is no sign of stopping at all.

After figuring out the origin of everything, everything is much easier, this is actually a transaction, Yang Yi only needs to quote his own price, and whether the transaction is successful or not depends on whether the countries of the Western Regions are willing to pay such a reward.

However, Yang Yi did not directly summon Basang, but ordered someone to find Master Jingde, the abbot of Qingchen Temple.

Yang Yi asked Master Jingde to tell Basang that Shuzhong was willing to send troops to help Xishen and the countries of the Western Regions resist the invasion of the Kuojiao Department, but in addition to the various rewards such as property and commercial tax exemption proposed by Basang before, Yang Yi asked the countries of the Western Regions to provide war horses to Shuzhong every year, and the specific number was subject to the number of war horses provided by the countries of the Western Regions to the fierce people in previous years.

Master Dejing wanted to say something, but after hesitating for a long time, he still didn't say it.

Master Dejing understands that since Yang Yi summoned him, it means that he already knows about the dispute between Buddhist factions, and Master Dejing, as a monk of the Shuzhong Zen Academy, secretly helped Basang, which has greatly touched the sensitivity of the ruler, and if Dejing helps Buddhism in the Western Regions to bargain with Yang Yi, it will really be clueless.

Therefore, after talking with Yang Yi, Master Dejing hurried back to Qingchen Temple without stopping for a moment.

Back in Qingchen Temple, Zen Master Basang had been waiting at the temple gate for a long time, and he was eager to know Yang Yi's answer.

After listening to the news brought back by Dejing, Zen Master Basang did not speak, but closed his eyes and began to recite the scriptures.

"Amitabha, Senior Brother Basang, do you think there is still room for maneuver in this matter?" Master Dejing said lightly.

Zen Master Basang opened his eyes and shook his head helplessly: "Since Yang Yi asked Senior Brother to bring a message to me, but he didn't see me, his attitude was already very clear, this matter was not discussed, what he wanted was the war horse of the Western Regions." ”

Master Dejing was worried: "Is this matter difficult to handle?" ”

"It's not hard to say, but it's not difficult to say." Sighing, Zen Master Basang said again: "War horses are not extremely scarce in the Western Regions, and the number of war horses that Yang Yi wants is also within the tolerance range of the countries of the Western Regions, but..."

"Just what?" Dejing wondered.

Zen Master Basang said: "It's just that once the countries of the Western Regions agree to Yang Yi's request, they will be completely tied to him and stand on the opposite side of the fierce Di people, and then this great war in the Western Regions will be inevitable." ”

Not only are the war horses on the grassland not allowed to be sold to Daguang, but also the countries in the Northwest and Western Regions are strictly forbidden to sell war horses to Daguang, once someone dares to sell war horses to Daguang, they will be retaliated against by the fiercest Di.

The countries of the Western Regions have been subjugating to the fierce Di all these years, and the resistance to the fierce Di people is not as strong as imagined, if it is not the brutal Kuohetai who goes to the Western Regions this time, maybe the nobles and people of the Western Regions will not have much resistance, even so, it is obviously not an easy task to make them and the fierce Di people become mortal enemies.

Master Dejing recited the Buddha's name, looked at Zen Master Basang and said, "This matter is related to the continuation of the orthodoxy of the Buddha, and Senior Brother Basang must do his best." ”

Dejing didn't care whether there was a war in the Western Regions or not, what he cared about was whether the orthodoxy of Buddhism in his eyes could be maintained.

People are reading that the monk has no desire and no desire, but after all, the body of the fetus is inseparable from the entanglement of the world, these years because of the strength of the fierce Di, the Eastern Plains Buddhism continues to become strong, if the Western Regions Buddhism is annexed and integrated again, then the Central Plains Buddhism will become isolated.

A monk who does not have a believer is no longer a monk.

Zen Master Basang bowed with his hands and nodded: "Senior Brother Dejing, don't worry, even if Basang sits and becomes a Buddha, he will never let the Western Regions fall into the hands of Dongyuan Buddhism, and when I go back, I will gather all the monks and believers and let them fight with me against the Asura from the grassland." ”

Zen Master Basang must give Master Dejing a reassurance, and if the Western Regions wants to fight against the fierce Di, they must get support from all sides.

Sure enough, Master Dejing was not discouraged when he saw Basang, and he also said firmly: "Senior Brother Basang can rest assured to go back, I will help you take care of the affairs in Shuzhong, although Yang Yi is a strange person, he is also a person who keeps his promises, since he promised to send troops to the Western Regions, he will never regret it innocently."

In addition, I will contact the monasteries in the Central Plains, and we will do our best to help you. ”

"Senior Brother Dejing's great wisdom and great compassion, Basang Dai Hundreds of thousands of poor people in the Western Regions thank you, as long as I Basang is here, Buddhist orthodoxy will definitely not be easily lost."

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