Early the next morning, Jiangma Huisheng took his entourage to say goodbye to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao did not keep it this time, but personally sent Jiangma Huisheng out of Shengang City.

When the two separated, they said a few polite words and made some superficial efforts, all for others to see, but in fact, after the two separated, what actions they wanted to do with each other, those actions, last night, everything had been discussed.

After sending Jiangma Frasers away, Li Xiao saw that the plan had been sold, which obviously made him take another step forward in the operation of Hida Country.

If the mutiny is successful, the day when the Jiangma family falls into Li Xiao's hands will not be far away.

It is true that compared with Vietnam and China, the land of Hida is barren and the people are poor, but no matter how small the mosquito meat is, it is not also meat. Li Xiao got his hand, and there was absolutely no reason to spit it out.

Li Xiaoda has a kind of Yuezhong I want, but Hida can't let go.

In addition, the location of Hida Province is extremely important to the Takeda family, which can connect the three countries of Mino, Echichu, and Shinano, and is surrounded by high mountains as barriers, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

If Li Xiao develops towards Vietnam, then Hida Country is the only channel connecting his family and Vietnam, Li Xiao is absolutely necessary to ensure the safety of his back road and the smooth communication with his family, otherwise his Yuezhong territory will be like a rootless place, and for the Takeda family, it is just an enclave, and sooner or later it will be lost.

Back in the city, Li Xiao was tired all night, just wanted to rest, and took advantage of the warm winter sun to prepare for a warm sleep.

At this time, the samurai under the castle reported to Li Xiaoyu that someone from the Zhaolian Temple in Shirakawa Township had come to visit.

When he heard that someone from Zhaolian Temple was visiting, Li Xiao almost jumped up, and said in surprise on the spot: "Honganji Temple, why did you come to me?" ”

Li Xiao sat cross-legged in the warm quilt, thinking back on a series of glorious deeds of this sect.

Even if he has always been as confident as Li Xiao, he finally couldn't help but sigh at this moment: "What should come is always to be faced." ”

Yixiang Zong, whose real name is Pure Land Zhenzong.

During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate changed its name to Ichijo for the sake of honoring His Holiness. The reason was that Tokugawa Ieyasu, who believed in the Pure Land Shinshu at that time, later suppressed the local Ichijo, so the shogunate forcibly changed the name of the Jodo Shinshu to Ichijomune.

The name of the Iljangsu Sect comes from the high monks of the Pure Land True Sect, and has always been a handsome and holy monk.

At that time, Honganji had established four strongholds in Hokuriku, Settsu, Mikawa, and Ise Nagashima, and its power was extremely large, and its followers were numerous.

If this force is united, its combination surpasses that of any of the Sengoku daimyo of the time, Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, and everything must be bowed to the upper hand.

And Terurenji Temple is also the mountain gate of Honganji Temple in Shirakawa Township, Hida Province, but Terurenji Temple's influence in Hida Country is not large, but the Uchijima family in Guiyun City and Teruren Temple are allies.

As long as you think about the example of Kaga Province guarding the Daimyo Toyama family, Li Xiao knows that these monks who don't eat fasting and chant sutras, and can only kill people and set fires must not be provoked.

Li Xiao met with the envoy of Renshoji Temple in the Honmaru Castle Tower.

The other party was a monk in his thirties, wearing a dark monk's robe, and when he saw Li Xiao, he clasped his hands together and said: "Amitabha, the poor monk Mingzhen, is the junior disciple of the abbot of Zhaolian Temple, Mingxin. Master Mingxin, I heard that the Takeda family had built a new city in my Hida country, so I came to congratulate him. ”

Li Xiao nodded and said, "It's an honor, master, please come in and talk about it." ”

"Thank you."

In the assessment room, Li Xiao sat down with this master Mingzhen, the guest host.

Li Xiao's right hand leaned on a table-like cushion, and he wondered about the other party's intentions in his heart.

As the saying goes, if you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, the monk of Honganji Temple has no friendship with Li Xiaoben, and there will definitely be nothing good in the future.

The two sides first had a bit of nonsense, as an omnipotent traverser, Li Xiao also had a little study in Buddhism, so he first discussed Buddhism with this master Mingzhen.

However, the Buddhist principles of this later generation are obviously too different from the Buddhist teachings of this master Mingzhen.

This master Mingzhen originally persuaded Li Xiao from the perspective of a Buddhist expert, but he was often dizzy by Li Xiao throwing out some strange Buddhist Zen questions.

For example, what refers to the finger of the moon, using the metaphor of taking a taxi and hitting a cow, to talk about meditation.

This Master Mingzhen was asked by Li Xiao and didn't know.

In fact, the Pure Land True Sect is not like the Rinzai Sect, which pays attention to the epiphany of the moment, and does not pay attention to the set of Zen meditation.

The monks of Honganji Temple, as long as they recite the Amitabha Buddha in the south of the mouth, so the monks and officials in the temple are not very exquisite in what Buddhist principles, and they usually fool the common people, and it is a little difficult to fool Li Xiao.

However, it is precisely because of the simplicity of this doctrine that it has always accepted the threshold and has a wide audience, so that ordinary people who could not read big characters at that time can join it, so it has a wide mass base.

This point is higher than that, and the Tiantai sect, the Rinzai sect, and the Dharma Xiang sect pay attention to the profound and subtle Buddhism. What they tell you all the time, all the appearances, wonderful hearts, one thought three thousand, talk so wildly, the ground gushes with golden lotus, you don't understand it's in vain.

It was all something that the samurai ministers could afford to play at that time.

And the Sect is different, as long as you don't have the six words of Amitabha Buddha, OK, you have met the conditions for a believer in the Sect, and the Western Pure Land of Bliss after death will be with you.

In fact, the success of any successful religion comes from the soothing of the dissatisfaction of the present society, and as long as there is a way to practice, then after death it can ascend to a better world to enjoy, so that people can accumulate happiness in this life and achieve bliss in the next life.

And since the Onin Rebellion, the war has been rampant, and it has provided countless people who are dissatisfied with the present world, and the simple practice method of Honganji Temple, plus the fact that there is no need to observe any precepts such as marriage, killing, drinking and eating meat during the monkhood, you can also know that it is the life of Dohapi.

Therefore, it has always been the only way to gain so many believers among the lower classes.

So this is also where Li Xiao is afraid of Honganji, such as Oda Nobunaga, who is so crazy that he can be said to be the biggest opponent who caused him trouble in his life, not Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, nor the Maori family, the Asai family, the Asakura family, the Miyoshi family, and the Rokkaku family.

And it is precisely these Honganji monks who are in this group.

This Master Mingzhen of Honganji Temple is not interested in Li Xiao's so-called Middle-earth Zen theory.

And seeing that Li Xiaodong talked for a long time, Master Mingzhen had also lost his patience, if this situation continued, Li Xiao could be involved for another two hours.

So Master Mingzhen decided to get straight to the point, get back to the topic, and take the initiative on his side.

"Lord of the City, the poor monk deeply admires the understanding of Buddhism, but I don't know Lord of the City, what do you think of my Pure Land True Sect?"

Li Xiao secretly sneered, thinking that he had finally revealed the fox's tail, so he shook his head in front of him and said directly: "I'm sorry, I don't know much yet." ”

Mingzhen smiled slightly, and then asked directly: "I'm sorry, I forgot Master Li Xiao, who is from the Ming Kingdom, then please let the poor monk explain it to you." ”

So Mingzhen talked about the origin of Honganji from the beginning.

Honganji Temple, born from the Enryakuji Temple of Mt. Hiei, the holy land of Buddhism, is the one that was set on fire by Oda Nobunaga, and Enryakuji Temple is the Tendai sect.

A monk who was originally a monk of Enryakuji Temple on Mt. Hiei founded the Pure Land sect with the doctrine of "teaching on the rooftop and returning to the Pure Land".

The name of Honganji comes from the meaning of the eighteenth of the forty-eight vows of the Mahamitabha Sutra, the wish of reciting the wish of the dead, the choice of the wish, the wish of the three hearts, the wish of the heart of faith, and the wish of the heart.

Renru, the eighth master of the Later Pure Land Shinshu, fled to Echizen Yoshizaki Mountain in order to escape the pursuit of Enryakuji Temple on Mt. Hiei.

When believers heard this, they gathered from all over the world and stationed at Mt. Yoshizaki and became the base camp of Hokuriku Motoji Temple, Yoshizaki Gobo.

Later, Hokuriku Honganji gradually expanded its influence, and in the neighboring Echizen province of Kaga, it set off a terrible peasant rebellion.

Countless improvised civilians, roaring from the mountains and tsunami with the loud Buddha cry of 'Nam no Amitabha', directly attacked the residence of the daimyo Fujian Masa, and forced the shogunate to appoint a country to protect Fukenmasa and kill him personally.

Since then, the monks of the Ichishu sect have created a precedent in the history of Kaga, completely pushing Kaga Province into a territory without a political axe, and realizing the pure land of bliss where the people turn over and become masters of their families, and the people are self-governing.

When she said this, Mingzhen couldn't help but show a hint of pride, and at the same time glanced at Li Xiao meaningfully.

Li Xiao naturally knew that the people were guarding a country, and the dignified name was overthrown by the peasant rebellion set off by the Venerable Master of Honganji in this way.

After that, Kaga Province was already the base camp of Honganji Temple in Hokuriku, and the power of Honganji Temple was still expanding in all directions, and their primary target, which is also very funny, was Kamiraku.

Well, that's right, Kamiraku opened the Kyoto Great Imperial Workshop, drove on top of the shogunate, and spread the Pure Land of Bliss in the four seas, what generals, stewards, and daimyos, everything is floating clouds in the eyes of the Lord of my Honganji Temple.

In the name of the religious wars, the believers of Kaga Honganji Temple picked up their kitchen knives and wooden boards as if they had been beaten with blood, and chanted the Buddha name of 'Nam no Amitabha'.

There is only one goal, Kyoto! Kyoto!

In the end, Kaga Honganji actually organized an army of 300,000 (the number is too exaggerated) in one go.

It's a pity that the grand cause of Honganji Temple was lost in the battle of the Nine-Headed Dragon River, and the famous general of the Asakura family, Asakura Sodi, defeated this Shangluo army in a battle, and the 300,000 army collapsed and scattered.

The great cause of Shangluo was shattered.

After that, Kaga Honganji has been fighting with the Asakura family in this direction, but there is no progress, and Honganji's offensive to Echizen has been frustrated, so it has to change to Noto, Echichu, and Hida The three countries of infiltration.

Now Li Xiao is one of the targets of Honganji's infiltration into Hida.

Now it is said that this Mingzhen of Lianzhao Temple said that he came to visit Li Xiao, but in fact he wanted to test his attitude towards Honganji, if Li Xiao had malicious intentions towards Honganji, then it was a pity that Li Xiao would soon fall into the sea of people's war.

The meaning of Mingzhen's next words is very revealing that those who follow me will prosper and those who oppose me will die, and he will let Li Xiao express his attitude, how about not following me under the banner of Honganji.

"So, Lord of the City, as long as you believe in my Pure Land True Sect, we will be a family, so Your Excellency can get a lot of support and help."

Li Xiao secretly sneered, of course he would not join the Pure Land True Sect, Buddhism is not a study of birth, not a monopoly in the world, and these monks have obviously deviated from the original teachings, using the ignorant people of the lower classes to sacrifice and shed blood to achieve their own interests and ambitions.

And Li Xiao also needs to consider Takeda Shingen's attitude.

Takeda Shingen believed in the Tendai sect and was honored as a monk of the Tendai sect. If Li Xiao expressed his intention to believe in the Pure Land True Sect, then it would obviously cause Takeda Shingen's displeasure.

At the beginning, the fierce general of the Takeda family, Yuan Huyin, was discovered by Takeda Shingen because of his belief in the Lotus Sect.

As a result, Hara Huyin was kicked out of the retainer group by Takeda Shingen, wandered to the Hojo family, and was recalled three years later.

Therefore, for the sake of the future of the Takeda family, Li Xiao can't believe in the Pure Land True Sect no matter what.

However, Li Xiao couldn't refuse in person, let alone rashly erect a great enemy like Honganji, and in the future, if he gained a foothold in Yuezhong, he would have to face Echigo Uesugi Kenshin.

At that time, Honganji will be his arm, so the monks of Honganji, Li Xiao can't be offended no matter what.

Li Xiao smiled slightly and said, "I admire and appreciate the purpose and principles of your sect, as well as the grand wish of your Dharma Lord to purify all sentient beings. ”

Mingzhen was overjoyed when she heard this, and said, "Lord of the city, do you really think so? ”

"It's true," Li Xiao nodded and said, "It's just a pity that when I was in the Ming Kingdom, I had already believed in other sects, so I only regretted your invitation." ”

"I see." Mingzhen nodded, since Li Xiao already believed in other sects, then he couldn't force it, but since he had gained Li Xiao's kindness to the Yixiang Sect, it was not a vain trip for him to come here.

So Mingzhen got up to say goodbye, and Li Xiaojian sent away this trouble, and he was also relieved.

When Li Xiao sent Mingzhen out, Li Xiao suddenly said: "I heard that Guiyun is the city lord of the inner island, and he is very close to your temple, I don't know when, can I get to know him?" ”

"Oh?" Mingzhen suddenly said in surprise, "Why do you want to know the inner island city lord?" ”

Li Xiao smiled and said, "Master Mingzhen, in fact, I am not an outsider in the Takeda family and Honganji Temple. My Takeda family sent troops to Echichu to complete the flank attack on Echigo, and many places have to ask for the support of your temple. You must know that Echigo Kamisugi Terutora is the common enemy of our Takeda family and Honganji. ”

Li Xiao said that the Takeda family and Honganji are not outsiders, because Takeda Shingen and the current Dharma Master of Honganji are like the Venerable, and the main room of both of them is a woman from the Sanjo family, and the two are still brothers-in-law.

And Takeda Shingen took advantage of this relationship to ask the Honganji forces of Kaga Echichu to attack Uesugi Kenshin's Echigo in the fourth Kawanakajima battle, a few months ago, in order to achieve the purpose of containment.

Uesugi Kenshin himself believed in Shingon Buddhism, and his relationship with Honganji Temple, needless to say, was that his grandfather died in battle, so the two families were incompatible.

Mingzhen heard Li Xiao ask the Uchijima family, and then smiled: "Lord of the city, you are going to attack the sister Xiaolu family, if the Uchijima family can be neutral, then Sister Xiaolu Lianglai will undoubtedly have an arm broken." ”

Li Xiao saw Mingzhen deduce like this, and laughed, not admitting or denying it.

Mingzhen replied, "Lord of the city, this matter is related to the grand strategy of the temple and the Takeda family, and such a matter is not something that a poor monk can decide. But in the following, you can convey your meaning to the host and let him reply, I don't know how? ”

Li Xiao nodded and said, "That's how it should be, then I'm looking forward to your good news." ”

(To be continued)