Volume 10 The Controversy of Buddhism and Taoism Chapter 43 Visiting the Taoists

Outside Luoyang City, a dazzling cloud rose up, the temple that was still famous all over the world a few days ago was directly destroyed, no one knows what happened here in the end, only the iron tile temple was all blown into pieces, even a piece of intact tile can not be found The fact that it tells the world that something incomprehensible must have happened here, who dares to imagine that the tiles cast with pig iron are all broken into pieces, and there is no complete piece of what a drastic change.

The moon sets and the stars sink, and the golden crow rises above the Tang Valley. A new day has come, and Chang'an City has become noisy again. With the creak of the city gate opening, Duan Zhixuan was the first to lead his soldiers into the gate of Chang'an City. What they saw on this trip completely overturned all their previous outlook on life. Although in this era of ignorance, people believe that there are really immortals in this world, but the real so-called immortals are really unseen. Even if someone swears that they have seen what Wushan goddess and what Luoshui god. But those were all just the imagination of these people, because no one could come up with enough evidence to prove what the gods they saw looked like. Even a few people who met immortals together, the immortals they saw were also strange.

But this time, all the people of the Tang Dynasty have seen the so-called gods and Buddhas, and in the Tiewa Temple on the outskirts of Luoyang, a big Buddha lies across the sky, like a Mount Tai suppressed in everyone's hearts, and only Buddhist believers will happily secretly steal fun. So this time, not only the people in the court were uneasy, but even the Taoists, who had been in the same trench as the Buddhists before, also felt a great threat. For this big Buddha, he gritted his teeth with hatred. Because Buddhism and Taoism are prosperous, then Taoism is bound to be affected, because the world is so big. The belief of the entire Tang Dynasty people is the battlefield of these two families, and the Buddhists have created the blessing of the Buddha. Then the Taoist maid will decline. So for this place, Taoist eyeliner can be described as dense. From the very beginning, after receiving the report, he began to monitor it closely, until the imperial court sent the Imperial Forest Army to kill the Buddha.

So a few old Taoist priests hidden in the mountains and forests saw a scene that stunned them: no one thought that the mortal body could actually defeat the gods and Buddhas. In any case, it was a Buddha who protected the monks of the entire iron tile temple from the thunder, which was a great magical power. But such a Buddha actually looked so vulnerable in front of hundreds of royal forest troops. Directly slaughtered...... And what about his enemies, the mortals? None of them were injured, it was like a dream. Whether it is in the scriptures of Buddhism or the classics of Taoism, these things of the gods and Buddhas are all possessed by great magical powers, three hundred and sixty-five gods of Zhou Tian, as well as millions of heavenly soldiers and generals, and these immortals of the mountain gods and lands are all magical. As long as it is an immortal, then it is absolutely impossible to be killed by a bow and arrow, this is recognized. Unless it's a special bow and arrow. But this time, these Imperial Forest Army are only using the standard equipment of the imperial court, and such bows and arrows can actually kill Buddhas?

Several old Taoist priests were all dumbfounded, but in the blink of an eye, they knew that these bows and arrows were just a cover. The real main force is actually the white tiger: the power that came from the very beginning, or the terrifying body, is completely a powerful creature that can compete with the Buddha. So this time this battle is not so much about the Tang army shooting the Buddha. It is better to say that the white tiger bit this Buddha to death. And the last blow was also done by the same white tiger, which bit off the Buddha's head. Only then did the reliance behind this iron tile temple directly return to bliss.

"What a white tiger full of violent! was already contaminated with the monstrous evil qi of the world, and now he actually began to kill the Buddha. With such a bad spirit, I am afraid that the entire Tang Dynasty will be bleeding in the future!" It's all at this time, and this group of old Taoist priests is still playing dumb riddles. This has become a habit, as a Taoist figure with a head and a face, if you say everything bluntly, then it is not a loss of identity, so just like such a sentence is half-said, or said in the clouds, let people guess and think for themselves, only what they come up with will make them believe. This is also a small method that Taoists have always used. People are always like this, what others tell you, you will never fully believe it, and what you come up with is almost everything you think right. This is a kind of suspicion, and everyone is not immune to vulgarity, regardless of your status.

The sages of Taoism found this interesting habit, and all the Taoist priests everywhere were able to skillfully make this ambiguous word, thus making the spread of Taoism much easier. Because they have come into contact with the category of psychology, every Taoist master is an authority in psychology, and they will unconsciously lay a psychological trap, and then watch you step on the trap and fall into it, at this time he is pretending to pull you, and you will be grateful to him. The inheritance of Taoism has been in this way for nearly a thousand years, whether it is Qin Shi Huang burning books and pit Confucianism, or Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposing a hundred schools, all of them can not shake the foundation of Taoism, it has been in this land for nearly a thousand years.

Of course, these Taoist 'masters' don't know that the initiators behind this have quietly left, and it is their turn to bleed.

Chang'an City, with its cars and horses, and crowds of people, is so busy that the world's largest city is so busy, and countless people linger here, because there are countless opportunities here. Whether you want to go into politics or dream of making a fortune, you can achieve your life goals here, even if the opportunity is only small, but for the faint hope, these people all sharpen their heads and drill here. Because there are the most powerful people in the Tang Dynasty here, and countless high-ranking officials and nobles live here, if one day his character explodes and he is appreciated by one of these people, then his life will be very different.

Li Kuan was wearing a azure robe, and he walked leisurely on the streets of Chang'an City like this, without a trace of hurry, and he was now thinking in his mind about how to make Taoists also eliminate from the power game of the Tang Dynasty. This deep-rooted behemoth, which has lasted for thousands of years, is not so easy to shake. Li Kuan has a different feeling about this local religion, and he is unwilling to crush them to death as he did with a foreign religion like Buddhism. After all, this is a religion born under the thoughts of the Chinese people, and it has its own unique philosophy of life contained in it.

Although the Taoist preaching of attaining the Tao and ascending to immortality was scorned by Li Kuan, it is undeniable that all kinds of Taoist myths and stories have also made Li Kuan in later generations have a different kind of vision. Therefore, when dealing with Taoists, Li Kuan will not directly pull out the Three Qing Dao Ancestors and kill them again, so he can only change a safe way: let the Taoists themselves spit out the national interests they have encroached upon. As for Buddhism, there is a lot of power between Buddhism and the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty's army has destroyed the spiritual idol of Buddhism, the Buddha, so what else is there to say, no matter whether Li Er was really saved by the eighteen stick monks of Shaolin Temple, now he has only one attitude, that is, to completely suppress Buddhism to death.

Therefore, when Li Kuan returned to Beijing, there were countless Hongling urgent reports directly from Chang'an, and all the states and counties of the Tang Dynasty would receive orders to directly suppress Buddhist temples, no matter what, the biggest force in this land was still the imperial court, although the Buddhist family seemed to be transcendent, but it was still within the scope of the imperial court's rule. Now I am afraid that in the entire Tang Dynasty, countless Buddhist monks will all be directly arrested by the imperial court, and then these bald heads will grow hair in a short time, and they will also marry wives and have children, and finally become completely secular people, and no longer Buddhist disciples.

In the northwest of Chang'an City, Li Kuan paced here, and in this fang market called Xiuzhenfang, there lived representatives of Taoism, as well as his disciples. He is here to let the Taoist make a choice, and in the future, he will see if there will be traces of Taoism in the Tang Dynasty.

"Distinguished guests are coming, and the old way is far away!" Li Kuan was about to step forward and knock on the door, but an old voice came from inside, and Yuan Shoucheng spoke directly in the courtyard. At the same time, the courtyard door was wide open, and Li Kuan saw three old Taoist priests sitting in the courtyard at a glance, and a middle-aged Taoist.

"Mr. Yuan is polite, this time the king is uninvited, and I hope that Mr. Haihan will come!" Although Li Kuan came to the door to force the Taoist to express his position, when he saw the three old Taoist priests, he knew that this time he might not be able to use force. Because there are not only Yuan Shoucheng and Zhang Daoqin, the two great teachers of the Tang Dynasty, but also a Taoist whom Li Kuan respects very much - Sun Simiao, the king of medicine. This is a truly pure person, who has dedicated his life to the medical Tao, in order to save the world, this old Taoist priest has traveled all over the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in the Tang Dynasty. It can be said that in places where there are people in Datang, he has left footprints.

Once in Lingnan, smallpox broke out, in this era this is an incurable disease, everyone has to wait for death, the Feng family who was in charge of Lingnan at that time, the smallpox epidemic area was completely isolated, if someone wanted to escape, directly killed on the spot. The spread of smallpox was avoided, and the old Taoist priest trekked directly to the mountains and rivers to get there, studied it carefully for a long time, and wanted to enter the isolation area more than once, wanting to find a way to treat it, if it wasn't for the people of the Feng clan to block him out, I'm afraid he would really go directly to the smallpox epidemic area to treat those people.

And over the years, this old Taoist priest has also treated many of Li Kuan's relatives, first Li Xiuning, then Li Er, the eldest grandson, the son-in-law, and also conditioned Li Li's body, Li Kuan remembers these things, so because Sun Simiao is here, he will be so polite. Otherwise, he would have kicked in the door. Now this is already the greatest courtesy to the Taoist for Sun Simiao's face, but the next goal he wants to achieve will not be to give up half a point for Sun Simiao. Taoism must satisfy his mind in order to continue to exist in the Tang Dynasty, a religion that controls endless resources will be an existence above the imperial power, which is absolutely not allowed. Because in the Western Regions, in the land separated by the nine surnames of Zhaowu, a country of religious supremacy is rising, and the reign of religious terror is not a joke. (To be continued......)