Chapter 1 Eating Noodles
Where there are interests, there are differences and struggles, Tantra is not monolithic, and there are also anti-thieves in Tibet. One of the most powerful, the leader is called Wanggu.
Wanggu is also a living Buddha, passed down from generation to generation, the prestige is quite high, in the last ten years he has been moving around the plateau, escaping the blow of the great living Buddha Bojie at the same time, going around to incite the people's hearts, the crime of counting the Bojie, has now gathered a terrible force.
Under Wanggu, there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers.
They call themselves the Volunteers, and they have exhausted their lives to overthrow the hypocritical Bo Jie, but in Bo Jie's view, these people have embarked on the path of demons, are trapped and hopeless, and the Tibetan officials and major temples call the troops and believers in Wanggu ghosts.
At dusk, Wangya was sitting in his tent, silent...... Suddenly, the curtain was lifted, and his general walked in and said softly: "Master, the convoy has arrived, we have already seen it, and it is the same as we agreed in advance." ”
A huge convoy from Dayan, loaded with ordnance and supplies. With these weapons, Wanggu was able to arm thousands more believers; With these supplies, his army was able to hold out in this desert Gobi for a while.
With a smile, the wrinkles on the face of the old living Buddha of Wanggu seemed to be about to shatter...... Wanggu let out a sigh: "Master Yan is true to his word, very good. ”
After checking the goods, his subordinates went to hold them, and the general stayed in the tent and asked hesitantly: "Master, I can't figure out something, should we really attack Dayan?" Wanggu didn't say anything, but just glanced at the general and motioned for him to continue.
This question has been depressed in the general's heart for a long time, and since he has already spoken, he simply said it in one go: "Dayan soldiers and horses are majestic, it is difficult for us to do anything alone, once we go east, I am afraid that we will not be able to return to our homeland. ”
Wanggu's voice was very deep: "If you don't have a chance, if you go west, you will definitely die." ”
"Going east is not sending people to death, and fighting without any meaning......" The general is proficient in warfare, but he is a reckless person in his bones, and he speaks in a hurry regardless of his tone, which has a bit of a reproachful taste.
However, Wanggu was not moved, but laughed: "You are the real good sons and daughters on this plateau, and you are the warriors favored by the gods and Buddhas, how can I take you to death?" As he spoke, he made a gesture and motioned for the general to sit beside him, and continued: "You should have also heard that there are two masters in the Yan Kingdom...... The Buddha and the monarch Jingtai have been intriguing and fighting for many years. ”
The general responded: "I know, back then, Jingtai wanted to get rid of the national teacher, but it led to a riot in the city, and even the palace was razed to the ground in a fire. ”
"What you don't know is that there's a fire down there. At the end of last year, on the eve of Jingtai's accession to the throne, Jingcheng caught fire again, and the palace that had just been built was burned to the ground again. ”
The general was surprised when he heard this, he has been busy with soldiers and horses recently, how can he have the heart to pay attention to his neighbors, he is completely unaware: "This fire... Could it be that the national teacher put it? "No one doubted anything during the first fire, but the second fire made people with a heart start to wonder if it would be a means of the national teacher. After all, except for Song Yang and others, the entire Middle-earth world thought that Yanding and Jingtai were full of contradictions. Song Yang also knew for a long time that although the chaos on September 8 made the enemies embarrassed, but thinking about it from another angle, it also helped them: it made outsiders think that Yan Guoshi and Yan Emperor were incompatible.
Wanggu nodded first, and then shook his head: "Anyone thinks so, but Jingtai can't get real evidence, so there is no way to take Shengjing Monk, but after the second fire, the two Yan lords are really in flames, and there is no room for relaxation, Jingtai has already begun to prepare, from Kyoto Da Lei Yintai to the twenty-one Sumeru Temples are monitored by the army, and they will be exterminated at any time." ”
"In terms of strength, the national teacher is far behind, the monks and soldiers he raised in various Zen monasteries, all add up to only tens of thousands, it seems to be a lot, don't forget at first, these monks are divided into twenty-one state capitals, how can they be against the elite Yan Qi, not to mention that the army is eyeing each other, and the monk has no chance to shoot at all."
"But in terms of influence, there are countless believers in Buddhism in Yan, and the status of the national teacher is respected... This is the power of Shengjing monk, he is like oil, if there is no fire, there is no huge power in the air, therefore, if he wants to succeed and bring down Jingtai, someone has to help him put a fire. ”
The living Buddha's words are mysterious, and the general seems to understand it, but he can understand the general meaning: "We are this fire?" ”
"Yes, it was the Yan State Master who invited us to attack Dayan, but we didn't hang our own banner, and pretended to be soldiers and horses who annihilated thieves and soldiers...... As for what Yan Guoshi has to do, there will be threefold: one is to do internal response for our army, with his help, the plateau warriors are invincible in the horseshoe, and they will win one after another. ”
"With fire, Yan Guoshi's oil will really show its strength... What will he do exactly, I don't know very well, in short, together with the sword soldiers, he called on the believers to add chaos, and he is fully sure that he will take advantage of the situation, and Emperor Yan Jingtai is in danger. This is the second weight that Yan Guoshi has to do. ”
Speaking of this, the smile of the Living Buddha of Wanggu was even bigger: "In Shengjing's calculations, neither Bojie nor Da Shan Yu on the grassland can help him catch fire, their strength is too strong to control at all, maybe they will occupy his Han family." Only we are the most suitable, with our men and horses, if there is a Shengjing internal response, it is not a problem to enter the Yan Realm and plunder, but it is impossible to defeat the Great Yan, let's help the Shengjing monk put the fire up, and when he straightens out the situation, we will withdraw. ”
"When Monk Shengjing sits firmly in the country and the Yan Kingdom regroupes, the new Emperor Yan will help me overthrow the thief Bojie, this is the third thing he has to do." With that, Wanggu stood up and walked out of the tent.
The general also hurriedly shouted in unison, followed him out, and frowned at the same time: "This is us to help him first, and then he will help us, what if Sheng Jing betrays his trust and does not admit it?" ”
Living Buddhas are all good-tempered, Yunding is like this, Wanggu is no exception, without the slightest impatience, smiling and explaining: "It's still three... First, what's the loss to me? Go around the territory of Yan, get silver money and grain and grass, and this alone is worth the price of sending troops. ”
"Second, don't forget, we are fighting the banner of destroying thieves and tying up, and the Yan people claim to be the country of the top, so can they swallow their anger after this great humiliation? If Sheng Jing wants to sit firmly on the dragon chair, he has to appease the people and invite the hearts of the people, and he must find Bojie to take revenge, but with them alone, how can he kill the plateau and refuse to seal the grassland? Therefore, plateau affairs still have to be done by the plateau people, and the Yan State will have a great help to help me fight against the hoe, but if you want to say that you will annex Tibet, they can't do it. ”
"The third is the most important, no matter whether the prosperity can succeed or not, he has brought foreign soldiers and horses into the country as a cruelty...... Do you think that this handle is pinched in our hands, and he dares to make a promise? Over the years, I have exchanged a total of 73 secret letters with him, and all the letterheads have been properly kept and hidden in all corners of the plateau. ”
"Sheng Jing is a smart person, but also a shrewd person, knowing that the handle will fall into my hands, but still doing this, it can be regarded as a sincerity that has not been explained." Bojie breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "Anyway, my cooperation with Shengjing is risky, but it is also an opportunity, as long as it is a chance to bring down Bojie, I am willing to try." ”
The general still doesn't understand very well, the situation in the five countries is complicated, and the Yan Guoshi colludes with foreign enemies to cause trouble in the homeland, so isn't he afraid that the steppe wolf pawns or the plateau soldiers will take advantage of the civil strife in Dayan to kill and destroy his Han dynasty?
But the general thought about it again, Sheng Jing is not a fool, it is estimated that he also has a countermeasure in his heart, then again, whether Yan Guoshi has a countermeasure, and what does it have to do with himself, just as the Living Buddha Wanggu said, just one trip to Dayan to plunder is enough to pay back the price of sending troops!
At this time, the Living Buddha of Wanggu had already walked out of the tent, climbed a nearby hill, looked in the direction of Yan Kingdom first, and said with a smile: "According to the agreement, it should be the cold season for us to go to Yan Kingdom, and the east is warm and rich, just right." As he spoke, he turned around again and looked towards the west, his voice quietly ethereal, and muttered, "Rinka Shuchuan......"
Rinkha Shuchuan, which means 'city in the clouds' in the Tibetan language, means holy city.
The Han people of Middle-earth are not interested in shouting 'holy city' one by one, and they don't have to raise the status of this city so high, so they simply call it Rinka. The capital of the Tibetan Kingdom on the plateau.
Generally speaking, cities are built in all parts of Middle-earth, and if there is a mountain nearby, the city is built at the foot of the mountain, but Rinkha is different in that it encloses a mountain.
In the middle of the city of Rinka, the Chaitsoka Ta Mountain is eye-catching.
Three years ago, when Song Yang first entered the iron cage, he joked with the Uighur warrior Axia to divide the two countries in Tibet.
The temple has seven floors.
With the level of craftsmanship in the Middle Earth, it was impossible to build a seven-story grand hall anyway, but the Chaitso Tower Palace is different, it is built by the mountain, the mountain is divided into seven layers, and the hall stands up layer by layer, which is to take the seven layers of the temple and take the meaning of the seven tricks of the exquisite sky.
There are countless large and small living Buddhas on the plateau, except for a few who are too miserable to mix like a cloud top, almost every living Buddha has their own 'quite chapter', which is also the Tubo dialect, which means 'mansion', 'temple' or 'palace', the 'quite chapter' of the big living Buddha Bojie is the Tchai Tso Pagoda Palace.
At the top of the mountain, on the seventh floor of the Chaitso Pagoda Palace, in the middle of the grand hall, the statues of the Buddhas of the heavens stand all around, and under their gaze, the big living Buddha Bojie is eating noodles.
Bo Jie loves to eat noodles, and the toons pickled in the secret method are chopped and crushed, thrown into the soup and boiled with the noodles, even if the noodles on the plateau can only be cooked until they are half-cooked at best, he still eats extremely sweet. The Great Living Buddha is in his fifties, very short but fat, just looking at his back, he is somewhat similar to Song Yang's loyal servant and mute from a foreign land.
The sound of sucking and eating noodles was incessant, Bo Jie was sweating profusely, and a tantric monk knelt opposite him.
Kneeling, with both knees, arms, hands, and forehead touching the ground, is more like lying on your stomach than kneeling. Before the noodles were ready, Bo Jie passed him into the temple, but when he arrived, the noodles happened to be out of the pot...... The monk didn't say a word, from his posture to his expression, he was extremely pious, waiting for the big living Buddha to eat noodles.
It wasn't until all the noodles in the basin had been eaten that the Great Living Buddha took a long breath, threw the empty basin to the ground, burped comfortably, and said to the kneeling monk, "Uda, get up." ”
(To be continued)