"No, no, it was told by a few colleagues who came back from China and said that there are three strongest forces in the Han Dynasty today, one is Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, the second is Sun Quan of Jiangdong, and the third is Uncle Liu Huang of Shuhou.

There are already a certain number of temples in the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty, Jiangdong Sun Quan advocates Taoism, and the reason why we come from the southwest is to want to extend Buddhism to Jingyi Hanmin, and also ask Shu to be fulfilled. ”

"You go on a mission yourself, as long as you don't break the law and discipline and incite people's hearts, I won't stop you."

Even if Buddhism is really harmful to the Chinese nation, the introduction of Buddhism is inevitable, after all, the teachings of Buddhism are attached to the spiritual pursuit of the broad masses of toiling people, and how can they stop it.

What's more, I still think the core concept of Buddhism is ...... Kindness is good for maintaining the simplicity of the people's hearts.

There was a bitterness on the face of the great monk, if I can preach by myself, what do I come to beg you to do, the fact is that it is very difficult to preach.

Buddhism was first introduced, and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Christianity was introduced to all parts of the world, missionaries were very hard, and it was very difficult to preach, in fact, Buddhism had entered the Han land as early as the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, and many monks came to preach the doctrine, but because of serious violations of the local faith.

The monks did not know how to be flexible, and they clung to the classical teachings, of course, they were out of place, and there was no progress for hundreds of years, until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Buddhism was initially supported by the emperor, and it was only improved and became popular among the nobles, and the Han court also had Buddhist rituals.

But this is far from the ideal of Buddhist missionaries, who want Buddhism to penetrate into the toiling masses, to develop believers from top to bottom, and to make the whole world a Buddha.

So batch after batch of missionaries poured into Dahan from the body poison. Seek to promote doctrine. In the difficult process of proselytizing. The monk slowly learned to be flexible, respected the customs of the Han people, and achieved some results.

However, compared with Taoism, the native religion of the Han Dynasty, it was still too far away, so the monks had to find another way to find the rulers of the Han Dynasty to promote Buddhism.

Now that the Han court is being held hostage, Cao Cao is obviously not superstitious, and Sun Quan was not religious when he was young. Many people in Jiangdong believe that Jiangdong has great respect for Taoism from the family to the common people, and even Sun Quan also preaches Taoism, and it is difficult for Buddhism to be inserted into Jiangdong.

At this time, in this Shangada, the great monk actually saw one of the three powerful figures of the Han Dynasty, how could he not make the great monk overjoyed, at this moment he really believed that it was arranged by Buddhism, God was destined, and the cause and effect of the previous life was achieved. How can you not seize the opportunity, if you can make Liu Zhang believe in Buddhism. If you return to China, you will definitely be promoted as an archmage.

Then his own Buddha name is about to be recorded in the Buddhist classics.

The great monk said to Liu Zhang: "Shu Hou, you know, our Buddha is by no means a demagogic cult, we only teach people to be good, I believe that Shu Hou also hopes that the people under his rule have a good heart, right?"

All the scriptures of our Buddhism, just a "good" word, there is no harm to the content of the Shu Hou regime, and never provoke interference in the Shu Hou government, I and the disciples traveled thousands of miles, can meet Shu Hou here, Shu Hou does not think it is a kind of fate? Please also ask Shu Hou to be fulfilled, don't do too much, as long as Shu Hou honestly says a few words to interpret for our Buddha, and does not let the Han people distort our meaning, we will be satisfied. ”

"To put it lightly, isn't it just about taking advantage of the celebrity effect?" Liu Zhang thought in his heart, he was about to refuse, and suddenly Huang Yueying pulled Liu Zhang, Liu Zhang paused, remembered what Huang Yueying said, these two monks are useful, and said to the great monk: "Okay, let me think about it, you guys rest first." ”

The two monks ran away just now, and they were tired of running, so they went to the side to sit and blow the wind, and the wingman girl brought a bamboo tube of water, and the two monks drank it.

"Yueying, what's the use of these two monks?" Liu Zhang looked at the two ragged monks and said to Huang Yueying: "Buddhist teachings, pay attention to karma, pay attention to obeying the mandate of heaven, pay attention to this life and the next life, there are too many negative things, now is the war, Buddhism is easy to make people lose their blood." ”

"Husband, why are you so familiar with Buddhism?" Xiao Furong was strange from the beginning when Liu Zhang's mouth popped out of the Prajna Sutra, and now she feels more and more that Liu Zhang understands so many Buddhist things, you must know that Buddhism is not widely spread in the Han Dynasty now, and it is estimated that it is similar to the Five Fire Sect.

"Rong'er, don't interject yet." Liu Zhang hugged Xiao Furong and kissed her forehead, Xiao Furong pouted.

Huang Yueying said: "The lord can foresee such a deep harm of Buddhism, Yueying admires it very much, but we should also know the benefits of Buddhism, it can stabilize the people's hearts." ”

"That's called paralyzing the people's hearts." Liu Zhang said.

Huang Yueying shook her head: "In a sense, what the lord said is right, but objectively speaking, the lord is wrong, the lord should know that some objective things cannot be changed, even if we think he is wrong."

Just like the people, the lord started with the Jiangzhou massacre and ended the Xiangyang massacre, the lord must feel that he is dedicated to the people, right? But do the people support the Lord's actions? Not necessarily, right?

In the face of the rebellion of the world, the people who usually hate the exploitation of the world will not stand up to help the lord, unless their own safety and interests are not harmed, or even the world is killed, and those whose lives are temporarily affected may also oppose the lord, such as those who are dependent on the world.

There is an objective thing in this, the short-sightedness of the people, they just want to live a peaceful life, the lord may have hated, but this is completely unnecessary, this is objective, we should only regard it as a phenomenon, and should not touch it, and even adapt to him.

Therefore, Yueying felt that the best way to govern the people was to weaken their minds, bend their hearts, worship them, give them faith, and let them immerse themselves in their suffering and take it for granted.

Otherwise, the people will be enlightened, and those people will inevitably be unstable, because this world can never be fair, even if under the rule of the lord, the world is cleared, and the next interest aristocracy will inevitably be produced, depending on whether this new aristocracy can lead the development of the whole society, or hinder the development of society like a cancer of the world.

If it is unfair, coupled with the karma of the past and present lives, the people will have an outlet, and they will think that those who are powerful and blessed will be retributed in the next life, and they will be able to feel good in their hearts.

In this way, as long as they are fed, or the majority of the people are fed, the people will be able to compromise and work hard, and the cost of ruling will be greatly reduced. ”

"If we can meet the needs of the people, improve their living standards, and try to meet their needs for fairness, then even if the people are intelligently enlightened, won't it be just as stable?"

"My lord." Huang Yueying looked at Liu Zhang and said: "The lord didn't understand Yueying's words, not to mention whether the needs of the people are so easy to meet, absolute fairness is impossible to achieve, I just said, the objective facts, the people are short-sighted, as a vulnerable group, they can only see, and can only look at the immediate interests, the lord has to govern them as sages, this is unrealistic."

This kind of fact is difficult to accept, but it must be accepted, because it exists objectively, and we cannot ask the people to do a great and far-sighted thing on their own, such as the Qin Emperor building the Great Wall, and the lord punishing the clan, so that the people immediately support it and fully support it.

We should be prepared for their short-sightedness.

In the same way, we should also take this into account in the way we govern, and we should not be wishful thinking. ”

"I see what you mean, the people are short-sighted, we can't ask them for more, in order to rule better, so we can use Buddhism to paralyze them, right?"

Liu Zhang said, looked at the two monks who were fanning the wind with tattered clothes, and said softly: "Yueying, what you say is reasonable, but I can't accept it." ”

"My lord misunderstood what I meant." Huang Yueying said: "I mean to say that the ignorance of the people is an objective fact, and they don't care about one more Buddhism, and the ruler specially makes a set of tools to paralyze the people's hearts, and Yueying can't accept it." ”

"What are the benefits of Buddhism that Yueying said?"

Huang Yueying said: "My lord, everything has advantages and disadvantages, everything has two sides, and the same is true of Buddhism, if we make good use of it, it can bring us great benefits."

Now we Jingyi, because after the large-scale rebellion, the transformation was smooth, the people's lives did not have much impact, and they had the right to land and the right to enter the examination, and after the lord's policy of revitalizing agriculture and commerce, the people's lives generally improved.

In this way, the people of Jingyi, whether it is into the office, land, or life, have formed a sense of superiority over the states other than Jingyi, and at this time the people remembered the disadvantages of the clan, so the support of the people of Jingyi for the lord has reached a very high height.

The issue of people's hearts and minds does not need to be stabilized by Buddhism, but Buddhism can help us to achieve government decrees, such as encouraging entry, encouraging courage, and encouraging hatred of the world......"

"Wait, wait, wait." Liu Zhang said: "Where did you go?" How do you encourage courage? Buddhism is a person who preaches living and working in peace and contentment, working hard and not complaining, and encouraging courage. ”

Huang Yueying smiled incomprehensibly: "Actually, Yueying just said so much, it was all about the disadvantages of Buddhism and the solidification of our people's hearts, and Yueying's meaning is to use Buddhism to change these two things."

The first is the disadvantages of Buddhism, and I both know that Buddhism has many disadvantages, but can we stop Buddhism from coming in? Unless the lord orders the extermination of the Buddhists, but this can only stop for a while, and it is a corner of the southwest, in other places, or a hundred years later, Buddhism will still be introduced.

The introduction of Buddhism will still fool the hearts of our Han people, so we might as well change it from the beginning, change its teachings, and let them be used by us. ”

"Change doctrine? It can't be, right? Liu Zhang was surprised. (To be continued.) )