No matter how good his patience is, listening to Qi Song talk about the truth for nearly an hour, Xu Ping is also a little tired of it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info used to be in the court, he liked to reason with others the most, but the main thing was to discuss, and Xu Ping had never had this posture of talking for several hours.

Just when Xu Ping and Liang Qian were a little unable to stand it, Yicheng came to report again, saying that someone outside the door asked to see him, and handed over the name thorn.

After taking the famous thorn, I saw that it was a local scholar named Zhang Zai, and I heard that the new Marshal of Benlu was Xu Ping, and I came to meet him.

Unfolding the famous thorn, it turned out to be after the official eunuch. Born in Kaifeng Mansion, his grandfather is Zhang Fu, a bachelor of Jixian Academy, and his father is Zhang Di, who is a scholar in the palace and knows Fuzhou, and lives here.

Xu Ping felt that this name was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember what the identity was for a while, so he handed the name thorn to Liang Qian.

Liang Qian smiled and said: "This is a talented talent in this county, his father Zhang Di died of illness in Fuzhou, this Zhang Zai and his younger brother Zhang Jian because they were young at the time, they could not afford to return to their hometowns, and they lived in Hengqu Town in this county after leaving Sichuan. This talent is extremely talented, he has read poetry and books since he was a child, and is deeply respected by the township. Yuan Hao rebelled, the West despised the use of soldiers, the scholarly spirit, Zhang Zai was young and vigorous, recently he liked to read military books, on the art of war, often said that he wanted to join the army with like-minded righteous people, serve the country, and extinguish the rebellion of the party. Yun Xing took the scholar as his handsome minister, and he came to the door. ”

"Hengqu Town? Jang Jae? Xu Ping suddenly came to his senses and finally remembered who he was.

Among the academics living in this era, half of Xu Ping had no impression of his previous life, such as Shi Jie, Sun Fu and others, including Li Jing. In this era, I learned that they have been famous all over the world since they were young and prime, and their academic ideas are the ancestors of a faction, and it is impossible for future generations to be nameless. But there are also some people who still have an impression because they have learned it in textbooks, such as Zheng Xiang's nephew Zhou Dunyi and others. And this Zhang Zai is because he has four sentences that are particularly famous in later generations and are remembered by Xu Ping.

Since he had an impression in his previous life, of course he couldn't be an ordinary person, Xu Ping hurriedly asked Yicheng to invite people in.

In a moment, a young man of about twenty years old, dressed in a half-new green shirt, walked in proudly. looked at Xu Ping and Liang Qian, and knew that it was Xu Ping who was sitting in a higher official position, so he stepped forward to give a salute: "Student Zhang Zai, I have seen the Jingluo Xianggong." ”

Xu Ping nodded in return, ordered his entourage to set up a seat, pointed to Qi Song and said to Zhang Zai: "This is Master Qi Song, a monk with Taoism, who came thousands of miles to the west to follow the army. He is profound in Buddhism, and he is also familiar with Confucian classics, and I heard Liang Tong say that you are famous for being studious in the township, and you just happened to talk about learning with the master. ”

Zhang Zai looked at Qi Song and said indifferently: "The sage books that students read and the Confucian righteous way they learn, what is there to talk about with Yijiao?" ”

The two words Yijiao hit Qi Song's sore spot, and he stood up suddenly. However, the monk is profound in Buddhism, and he does not commit the precept of anger, but just takes Zhang Zai's hand and says: "Come, come, come, young man, let me tell you that the two schools of Confucianism and Buddhism are originally the same, and the Tao of the world is of the same origin, but they are used differently." It's not that the Tao is different, it's that people use different methods. Although the Buddha family is somewhat weak in the Central Plains, in fact, in other places, it is the time for Buddhism to flourish—"

Hearing this, Zhang Zai couldn't help laughing: "The mage still needs to walk more and go to more places, so that he won't say this kind of dream talk plainly." The Buddha has already been destroyed in Tibet, the Buddha is being destroyed in the Western Regions, and the current Buddha family only has a foundation in the Central Plains. However, this dynasty rules the world with literature, and the famous religion is flourishing, and it is already obvious that the release of the door is weak. ”

"How could Xifan destroy the Buddha? The public recruitment of monks to accompany the army this time is precisely because the people of Fan Qiang believe in my Buddhism! ”

Zhang Zai shook his head again and again: "The master thought badly, now Buddhism has long been weakened in Xifan, and only Hehuang and Hexi are close to China and Muhua customs, so they still respect monks." They don't believe in Buddhism, but in Chinese customs, and when they are taught the rites of famous teachings, they will naturally abandon Buddhism! ”

Qi Song has always traveled in the south, and only recently came to the north, where does he know about the far west wilderness? It's just that from the Buddhist classics handed down from generation to generation, I know that Tubo in the Western Regions is a place where Buddhism prevails, but I don't know that it is already the old emperor's calendar.

Tubo started Buddhism from Songtsen Gampo, but it did not flourish for long, so he followed the Central Plains Tang Wuzong to destroy Buddhism, and cut the grass and eradicated Buddhism in Tubo itself. The Western Regions is with the westward advance of the Persian forces, in addition to the elimination of the Buddha country, the power has reached the edge of the west of the river.

Now the only places where Buddhism is really flourishing are Hehuang, Hexi, Dangxiang and other places, which have become isolated islands. They were able to preserve this belief because they still had the support of the Central Plains Dynasty and the advanced culture of the Han nationality as a feed, so that they could compete with foreign cultural invasions.

This news was unexpected, and he couldn't help but be a little dazed.

Zhang Zai said: "The land of Longyou and Qiang, because it is connected to China, has admired Chinese customs since it was born, and it still respects Buddhism. The Prime Minister invited you monks to come, and did not let you go to preach Yiyi, but to teach Chinese customs. Master, you have to do things under the public account of the scriptures, and you must put the mind of promoting the Dharma in the second place, and the transmission of Chinese customs is the first place. ”

Qi Song advocated the Confucianism and the Shi family, and it was not difficult for him to put the national court in front, but he couldn't accept the reality that Buddhism had declined to this point. He muttered in his mouth: "Fan Qiang believes in Buddhism, naturally because the Buddhist family purifies all sentient beings, and it is good to admire Chinese customs, but believing in Buddhism is not for this-"

Zhang Zai smiled: "Why not? Now that the local temples in Tibet have long been demolished, the so-called monks of Hehuang actually do not abide by the precepts at all, and marry wives and have children, but they are just in the name of a monk. Hehuang was originally the old land of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and it was close to the Central Plains, so the customs were different from those of Tubo. The Tibetan headquarters is usually polyandry, and several brothers marry one wife, and only the Tibetan people in Hehuang and Hexi have one husband and several wives, which is the custom of the Han people to learn. They worship Buddhism and study the law by the Han people, and as long as the Han people don't believe it, they naturally don't believe it. Therefore, when the Master is here, only by letting the Tibetan people respect you as a senior monk in the Central Plains can he pass on the Dharma. ”

The Privy Council's intelligence collection around the area is very poor, and Xu Ping does not know what is going on around Qinzhou. Listening to Zhang Zai talk about the customs of the surrounding Fanqiang, Xu Ping also felt fresh. The Tubo ethnic groups in Hehuang and Hexi, which are now related to the Song Dynasty, are actually very different from the native Tubo, and the Han people under their rule are Huhua, and the Hu people are also Sinicized, and the boundary between Tubo and Han is different. The marriage custom system is the most obvious, and the habits of the Tibetan people have always been polyandry, and several brothers in the family marry one wife, which has been followed in Xu Ping's previous life until the founding of the People's Republic of China. Tubo, which is related to the Song Dynasty, is polygamous, and as long as you have money, you can marry many people. For example, Li Lizun married twelve wives, and he had three wives. However, they do not distinguish between wives and concubines, and they are truly polygamous, which is different from the Han land. Buddhism is the same way, the Buddha has been destroyed in Tubo itself, only Hehuang and Hexi Tubo and Dangxiang people still worship Buddha, in fact, it is the influence of the Han people in the Central Plains.

This kind of situation is very favorable to Xu Ping. Hehuang Tubo has nothing to do with the mainland, in fact, it is a new tribe, an isolated island sandwiched between the Central Plains Dynasty and other big forces, and they don't need to consider the influence of other forces, they can do it freely.