Chapter 208 The fate of Tubo and Tianzhu

"It was not for nothing that Tantra flourished on the plateau, and the Tibetan kingdom of Zampu (king) needed a foreign religion with less than a strong material need as a tool as a centralized spiritual weapon against the insatiable local slave-owning aristocracy of Bon. Although Buddhism is not as dominant as Tsongkhapa has since then, it is not bad, and the situation is gratifying. Zhao Shouzhong said at the Imperial Senate Affairs Committee, which is in charge of religious affairs, while presiding over a meeting on highland affairs.

"The indigenous primitive religion has not been completely eradicated, and many die-hard Bon supporters have gathered in various remote mountainous areas to persist in the struggle. Now that Tibet has disappeared from the name, we have to establish control over the land in all spheres in practice. How can more than one organization be tolerated in our territory for the collection of taxes, the administration, the legislative, the judiciary, the diplomatic, the self-defense, and the sending of troops?

Song Taizu said, 'How can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch?' All the lands on the plateau were nominally vassals and empires, and the existence of the kingdom of Guge was like a couch for others to snore. Although Buddhism is an international organization without borders, we have no direct and effective means of permanent control, and we can only use soft power such as culture and faith to control this only land that cannot be conquered through colonization. ”

"Can the Buddhist scriptures include the content of maintaining unity and national unity? Obviously, it is nonsense, and it is impossible for the international surname organization to take the initiative to add this kind of anti-globalization '** thought' to the core idea. Our goal has been made clear, not to create a single empire that directly rules the world, but to build a global system with empire at its core. All religions have the status of a tool in this process, and whether a tool is useful or not is the only criterion that it does not conform to our needs. At this stage, what we need is a polytheistic religion that can draw on strong assimilation and tolerance of caste as a tool of faith. Bon is too primitive, too barren, too simple, and uncompetitive in the face of the reality of capitalism's ultra-rapid development, and naturally it will be eliminated. As long as Buddhism is not like the fools who have taken the wrong line in India, it can definitely be detached from reality and the masses, and it can definitely support itself until the information age. Li Ji flicked his fingers and said to the many practical religious affairs bureaucrats who were holding the meeting.

The introduction of Buddhism was opposed by the Bon forces, who took every opportunity to set off an anti-Buddhist movement. This struggle between the two religions has been up and down for hundreds of years.

More than 300 years ago, Indian tantric master Padmasambhava was invited by Tsangpo Trisong Detsen to come to the plateau to spread Buddhism. He skillfully used the doctrine and magic of Tantra to subdue Bon, and named the gods worshiped by Bon as the first god of Buddhism, and accepted the most basic ritual of Bon - fire sacrifice, making it equivalent to Buddhist burning. In this way, the Tibetan people's sense of strangeness to Buddhism has been eliminated, and Buddhism has spread in the world. Samye Monastery was built at this time, and Changzhu Monastery was built at the same time.

Repajian (r. 815-836 AD) succeeded him as Tsangpu, who continued to promote Buddhism and reuse monks. The struggle between the two religions has once again intensified. The noble ministers of the Bon religion eliminated the ministers, princesses, and princes who believed in Buddhism around the Tibetan king, and finally hanged Repajian to death, and installed his brother Dharma (reigned 838-842 AD) as the king of Tibet. After Dharma ascended the throne, he wantonly destroyed the Buddha, ordered the destruction of temples and burned scriptures in various places, and forced the monks to return to the laity. From Songtsen Gampo Xing Buddha to Dharma Buddha Annihilation, about two centuries, Tibetan historians call this period the pre-propagation period in the history of the development of Buddhism.

Later, Dharma was stabbed to death by a monk, and Tibetan slavery** collapsed, and slave and civilian riots spread throughout the territory. Since then, the region has fallen into a long situation, and society has slowly developed towards feudalism. It was not until more than 120 A.D. that Buddhism was gradually revived under the auspices of some new feudal lords, and many sects and sects were formed. There are mainly Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu, Sakya and several smaller schools. Tibetan historians refer to the re-emergence of Buddhism after 1828 in the republican calendar (978 years after Christmas), which is called the post-propagation period in the history of Buddhism. At this point, a kind of Buddhism (also known as Tibetan Buddhism or Lamaism) with the characteristics of the first region was formed, and Bon was no longer able to fight against it.

"Now that these branches of Buddhism are spreading on the plateau, it is indeed difficult to unify them, and there is no need to unify these sects, as long as they focus on the construction of spiritual civilization, and their means only need to be limited to the field of education in art and architectural technology. Our goal is to completely harvest all the rights in the hands of the local chieftains, slave owners, and turn them into ordinary citizens and capitalists. The abolition of slavery is a must, just as we insist on the abolition of the Hindu caste system, which conflicts with our values.

In my opinion, the inhabitants of the plateau have only two things, one is to pursue a better life, and the other is to pursue the life of other people. In a slave society with very low productivity, I don't see any difference between them and primitive society, the only difference is that the spirit and culture brought by Buddhism make people more emotionally stable and look down on life and death. ”

"They (the secular and religious high-level on the plateau) are all seeking more power, wealth and territory, and their realm is often lower than that of many illiterate fanatics, and they can't see the reality and what they really want. Many of them are still in the realm of desire, far from those who do not ask about the world or care about the suffering of the people. Do we still need to rely on these laymen to consolidate our rule? Liu Jiao asked.

"We must grasp both hands and be firm with both hands, and the construction of spiritual civilization will be responsible for those eminent monks and great virtues, and the material civilization will be responsible for those laity who are unrestrained in material desires. We must not only bring the emptiness and hatred of loss to the leaders, but also bring them the satisfaction and gratitude they have received. After slave owners have been eroded by the wealth and high quality of life brought about by technology and prosperity, who can compete with us when loss is more terrible than death? Is it a problem to get rid of these slave owners in ten years? Zhao Shouzhong asked.

"You've got the best idea of wearing shoes. When these slave owners went from being barefoot to shoeed, it was difficult for them to give up their close economic ties with us. The sovereignty of those villages and towns can be easily recovered, where can it be used for ten years. Before North India is taken over to us, the plateau will be a backyard forever. ”

"I have never believed that there is anything in the eyes of the people that can compete with the important surnames of the people who have improved their living standards, nor have I believed that anyone can make a mistake in the face of this general trend. Religion is not only a tool for spiritual control and centralization, but also a tool for people to fully understand themselves. It seems that the core elements of the reactionary backward conservative forces have not fully grasped the self-positioning ability of religion, so send them to religious universities to reform and study for a period of time.

Letting go of the wall-riding and pro-Chinese factions does not mean that they are exempted from the obligation to accept the advanced education system of the Empire, and send their children to schools opened in various ports to receive bilingual education in the Empire. ”

"Is this going to be a political system that enforces surnames?" Liu Xin asked.

"Nope! All we have to do is use economic means, the opposition directly blocks their territory economically, and the population of their territory is completely lost, and the wall-riding and pro-Chinese factions are governed by a hierarchical partnership system with our empire. Trade quotas and investment quotas are tied to their choice and everything will be done, after all, who can resist the power of God Manny?

Education must be grasped from an early age, the caste system must be eradicated from the roots, and all information about the caste system must be erased from the cradle. Brahmins must lose not only their economic roots, but also their cultural and ideological quotient foundations in order to disappear completely. It is no joke that educational work will fundamentally change the surname and destiny of a nation. What did the backward, barbaric and chaotic German states rely on to become the center of European science and philosophy in just a few generations after the unification of the Kingdom of Prussia? How can an illiterate society build imperialism? ”

"Although the Tibetan language has appeared for hundreds of years, the literacy rate of the millions of people in Tibetan areas is only 2,000 people, so we simply teach Chinese directly, not bilingual, only teach Chinese, and all courses above grade 3 are taught in Chinese.

India's poor literacy rate can copy this system! Teachers in the lower grades are difficult to recruit, and bilingual teaching is at least 10 times more difficult than monolingual teaching. Our translators who have passed the oral test can't even meet the needs of business activities, so where is the spare energy to engage in bilingual teaching? Zhao Shouzhong said truthfully.

"Yes! Our domestic demand for educational resources is almost insufficient, so how can we have extra resources for bilingual education in colonial and ethnic minority areas? Why do we ignore the poor market and resources on the plateau, and the input-output ratio cannot be lost too much. India can also pay more attention. We have too few treaty ports, only 17 cities. The largest trading port city is Calcutta, a colonial city built entirely by us, and even this city has a population of just over 20,000, and many of the more populous cities in the interior cannot afford to establish a trade network. ”

"This is determined by the speed of our development at this stage, those coastal fishing villages that have little value will not become big cities in the future, and we should take the route of cities surrounding the countryside under the premise of limited resources. In India, it is self-defeating to go through the countryside and surround the city. ”

"The current India has a population of only 80 million, and it is not appropriate to describe it as vast and sparsely populated, but compared with later generations, it is simply a paradise of primitive society. There is basically no commercial production. The subsistence smallholder peasant economy looked up to India at this time. The latest survey data shows that slave-stricken India now does not even have much floating wealth for the large rural landowners, where can they afford to consume our industrial goods? Compared with the time of British industrialization, it is simply a Mongolian tribal country with a low level of urbanization. Fortunately, the Delhi Sultanate had been feudal for many years at that time, and there was at least a minimum of floating wealth to be looted.

Years of war and war have almost drained India's savings, and there are few surplus resources and a market of more than 2 million inhabitants of the empire who have spending power. It will be a long road to turn this place into a sweatshop and a dumping market, and ten years will at most be to control the army and the political axe department of all India, and it is delusional to keep the whole economic, cultural and religious organization in mind. Sun Chang had to stress the difficulty.

"If it doesn't work in ten years, then it will take Chinese New Year's Eve twenty years, in short, two or three generations can change the experience and laws of a nation, and it is not a joke. If we want to rule the world in this century, we cannot do without the support of India's population, which is now only 500 million. The population of 160 million in our empire itself, plus the population of the ten allies in the North and South, is 200 million, plus the population of India and the next twenty years, there is no problem with more than 350 million. So what capital does the other 150 million people have to turn around? Now our GDP is more than 88% of the world's, and India's GDP is more than 95%. Bai Jia is very proud. (To be continued.) )