At the end of the seventh year of Yuanyou (1092), at the year-end meeting of Chenji Academy, Li Ji was listening to Sun Chang, who was in charge of the southwest region, report on the progress of various work: "What? India was discovered! What's so exciting about this, as early as the Han Dynasty a thousand years ago, China knew about India, and there were no large-scale exchanges, but small-scale constantly. ”

"I'm talking about the opening of a large-scale three-way transportation line, a direct sea route from Quanzhou to Ceylon and Pengjialuo, and a land route that can be reached by two routes through the northern route of Tubo and the eastern route of Dali. The study tour we promised to visit Nalanda Temple could be realized, and the light sea of this book wrote dozens of letters requesting exchanges at Nalanda Temple. Besides, we need to open up the market and digest the increased production capacity of various consumer goods in dozens of coastal states and counties. The calico produced by Guangzhou Prefecture alone in one year can supply the entire Guangnan East Road, what should I do with the extra ten times the production capacity? Sun Chang explained.

Liu Xin picked up the conversation, "The boss means to solve it through the industrial division of labor, but it takes a long time, a large amount of technology accumulation, a large number of professionals, and countless capital investment. Our investment in the textile printing and dyeing industry, which has quick results, short cycle, small scale and low technical content, is also in line with the laws of history, but it cannot be built on the basis of destroying the home textile industry internally, so we can only take the high-end route and foreign trade route. ”

"What does religious exchange have to do with trade dumping?"

"It's a big deal! If it weren't for the fervent evangelists of Spain and Portugal, who pushed for colonial expeditions in search of Christians and confused lambs, the two feudal countries of the West would not have been so determined and spent so much money on the expedition.

No one can be a hero of commercial and colonial history without the support of strong faith. Even Tang Xuanzang succeeded with the support of faith! Moreover, the guise of religious exchange as a foreplay for dumping is also a good move! "Zhao Shouzhong always speaks at the end before he says the main point.

"Theravada Buddhism is not Zen, and is it necessary to establish authority and the religious part of the East India Company's colonial system through the great fusion of Buddhist sects? This is a big project, and if it is not carried out by force like Ashoka, I am afraid it will be another century-old project.

None of us are Buddhists, and none of us have been ordained, but we have promoted technology, improved people's livelihoods, led our partners and their families to become rich, and made prosperity everywhere we went. I don't think the Buddha will blame us, and will even support our approach.

We have come to this era is a difficult secret, whether it is the blessing of the ancestors or the will of the gods and Buddhas, no one is sure, all we have always treated all religions and beliefs equally, a little biased towards Buddhism, after all, this religion is the mainstream of the Eastern world and the largest number of believers of the first religion! Purely probabilistic, it is a very good tool and ready-made network.

Lao Bai, you have the most contact with Western business travelers, and the business travelers who come into contact with Da Shi and Tianzhu every day must know some information about Nalanda Temple, as if you have traveled to India before joining the group, what is the key point. Li Ji named Bai Jia, an old fritter, not to evade the report.

"I'll just say a few words."

"Don't say that! Who does not know your virtues! A few words are half an hour. Your students respond that your mantra affects them to get out of class, or even delays their next class, not once or twice. Zhao Shouzhong, part-time chief provost, teased.

"That's good! The official tone will not be beaten. Nalandāvihāra, according to historical records, Nalanda Temple was founded in the 5th century AD. The highest institution of learning and learning in ancient Central India, near the ancient city of Magadha, 90 kilometers southeast of Patna (Fahrenheit), the capital of central India. Nalanda Temple is large-scale, there are as many as 9 million volumes of books, scholars have come out in succession, there are more than 10,000 monks and scholars gathered here at the peak, Xuanzang has studied here from Master Jiexian for many years, and Yijing has studied here from Master Bao for ten years; In addition, the monks of the Tang Dynasty who came here to study Buddhism also included Huiye, Lingyun, Xuanzhao, Daoxi, Daosheng, Mahayana Deng, Daolin, Zhihong, Wuxing and other masters. Xuanzang, the first senior monk of the Tang Dynasty in China, studied here for five years. Xuanzang's "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" and Yijing's "Biography of the Monks of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" both explain the Nalanda Temple, and Yijing's description of the layout and architectural style of the Nalanda Temple at that time is particularly detailed and accurate.

Legend has it that this place was originally the pear tree garden of the Anbu Luo family (the pear tree garden of the Anbu Luo family), and later 500 merchants donated money to buy the Buddha, and the Buddha said the Dharma here for three months. Later, Magadha King Shuogara Adiedo built a Buddhist temple here, the son Buddha Juduo King expanded in the south of the temple, and then the King of Tachata Judo built a temple in the east, the young king built a temple in the northeast, King Vajra built a temple in the west, the king of Central India built a temple in the north, and the emperor said that the king built a big temple in the east, and offered the Buddha statue in the middle. After the construction of successive kings, Nalanda Temple is magnificent and magnificent.

According to Yijing's account at the end of the 7th century, Nalanda Temple resembles a square city, surrounded by long corridors. The temple is three stories high, three to four zhang high, built with bricks, each floor is more than one zhang high. The beams were made of wooden planks and tiled with bricks for the roof. There are nine monks' rooms on each side of each temple, which are square in shape and about one zhang wide. There is a high door in front of the monk's room, and there is a window opening, but no curtains can be installed, so that they can look at each other, and there is no room for a moment**. The back wall of the monk's house is the outer wall of the temple, with windows leading to the outside. The wall is three or four feet high, and the statues of human figures are arranged on it, and the carvings are fine and beautiful.

When I visited the site, there were 8 large monasteries, 4 medium-sized monasteries and 1 small monastery excavated. The 8 major temples are arranged in a north-south direction, with the gate facing west. There are 9 monk rooms on each side of the large temple, as Yijing said, 7 monk rooms on each side of the middle temple, and 5 monk rooms on each side of the small temple.

The roof, eaves, and courtyard floor of the temple should be covered with special materials, this covering material is made of walnut-sized broken bricks and clay, covered and flattened, and then coated with soaked lime mixed with hemp tendons and rotten skin, covered with grass for three or five days, before it dries completely, polished with talc, and then coated with a piece of terracotta juice, and finally painted with paint, bright as a mirror. The temple floor that has been treated in this way is solid and durable, and can withstand people's trampling for twenty or thirty years without breaking.

There are more than 100 lectures at Nalanda Monastery every day, and the learning courses include Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, heaven, mathematics, medicine, etc.

If nothing else, in 1193, a hundred years later, the Turkic Bakhtiyarkhalji would lead an army to invade Nalanda Monastery, the monastery and library were severely damaged, and a large number of Nalanda monks fled to Tibetan Province for refuge. "Obviously, Bai Jia has been prepared for a long time, and when it comes to this holy land, it is the way.

"Indian monks were very poor, not as wealthy as the abbots in China, and many of the Indian monks who preached in China were ascetics, scarce and intermittent. When we open a new era, we naturally can't be stingy, spend a little money, and send a few more senior monks from East Asia to study in Nalanda Temple, which can greatly improve our colonization and popularity, and the absolute advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Yang Wenhui made a move.