Although Chen Dexing has never been to Tianzhu and has not studied Hinduism and Indian Buddhism, he also has an empty mother Hani Polo by his side, who is the cousin of Dharma Polo. To be able to be a goddess of the sky, it is not enough to rely on a beautiful face and a graceful body and the skills that have been rigorously trained since childhood, but also to be proficient in Buddhism - they are not ordinary women who love monks, but female practitioners who have extremely high cultivation themselves, can improve Daoheng through love, and have spiritual exchanges with the Buddha in the process of love! Therefore, Hani Polo, the empty mother, is very familiar with the situation and rules of Tianzhu Buddhism.

It was through his interactions with her that Chen was able to devise a so-so Buddhist system that could be used to limit the growth rate of the Tianzhu untouchable population.

The first is the theory of practicing in this life and elevating caste in the next life. According to Brahmanism, untouchables are "lifelong people" and have no afterlife. Only the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaishyas of the three castes bred by the Aryans are the "reborn races" that can be reincarnated. Therefore, gaining the right to reincarnate in the next life through the practice of this life is a certain attraction to the Tianzhu untouchables.

The second is that monks are not equal to each other. According to Brahmanism, Brahmin castes are born monks, and Shudras and Dalits are not qualified to become monks at all. In Tianzhu Buddhism, although the three castes of Brahmin, Kshatriya, and Vaishyas can be ordained, those with the Shudra and Dali special castes are still ostracized, and by the time of the Bala Dynasty, they were basically unable to become monks.

Now Chen Dexing wants to make the untouchables in Tianzhu qualified to be monks and nuns, of course, he has to treat them differently from the monks and nuns of the upper castes - in Tianzhu, the monks are high masters! To raise a untouchable monk as a master, Chen Huaiqing, the king, must be bankrupt.

Therefore, Chen Dexing wanted high-caste monks and nuns to live in the ornate upper courtyard of the temple, where they could practice double and enjoy the service and offerings of lower-caste monks. The low-caste monks lived in the lower courtyards of the rudimentary temples. They can't double practice, they have to serve high-caste monks, they have to do production, they have to build temples for the Buddha, and they can't preside over religious ceremonies and activities - they have to work and practice all their lives so that they can become "reborn" in the next life. In fact, they are the slaves of the temple!

Chen Huaiqing gave out all the reform plans of Tianzhu Buddhism proposed by Chen Dexing, and then looked at the Polo father and daughter with a calm expression, and said seriously: "Allowing lowly people to become monks and practice in the next life is a necessary strategy for Buddhism to revive in Tianzhu. ”

That's not a trivial remark. What Chen Huaiqing means is that if Tianzhu Buddhism can't defeat Brahmanism and Tianfangism, then why doesn't Daming cooperate with Brahmanism?

Damar Polo thought for a moment and looked at his father again. Nodding slightly, Kuma Zhipolo smiled and made a Buddha salute, "The Buddha once hoped that all beings would be equal and that they could become Buddhas. A person of low blood is always one of the sentient beings, and of course he can become a monk and practice, but if he has practiced, he may not be able to become a Buddha after a few lifetimes. It's just that the outer Taoism of Tianzhu is strong, and Buddhism is in decline. It is not easy to propagate the Dharma, and it is difficult to defeat the Brahmanical ...... for a while."

Chen Huaiqing sneered. "Gu Mozhi, don't worry, the Lone King has his own means to promote Buddhism! The Buddha and the Brahmins are one family, and when Buddhism flourishes, all the Brahmins enter the Buddha. When Buddhism dies, the monks and nuns enter the Brahmins. As long as my Buddha's precepts are sharp enough. I'm not afraid that no one will believe me! ”

It was very difficult to get the Tianzhu Brahmins to convert to the Heavenly Way, and Chen Dexing was not very interested in it, which in Chen Dexing's view was an overly positive religion, not suitable for a passive, poor and happy people.

But to convert the Tianzhu Brahmin believers to Buddhism, or to have the Tianzhu Buddhists convert to Brahmanism. It's very easy. Because the two are one. Buddhism was born out of Brahmanism, and is technically a branch of Brahmanism, the result of a reform movement in Brahmanism.

Historically, Tianzhu Buddhism has not so much perished as it has once again merged with Brahmanism. In fact, including the Buddha himself, most of the senior monks of Tianzhu Buddhism were born in high castes, and many of them were simply Brahmins, and it was not difficult to return to Brahmanism.

Now, Chen Dexing and Chen Huaiqing just want to use another model to integrate Tianzhu's Buddhism and Brahmanism...... It is mainly Buddhism, absorbing the addition of Brahmanism. Finally, the integration of Buddhism and Brahmanism was completed, turning Tianzhu into a Buddhist state, and at the same time introducing Confucianism to educate the upper echelons of Tianzhu Aryans.

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At the end of November of the second year of the Great Ming Dao, Nanjing, Jiangdu City.

Jiangdu is an expanding city, and its foundation is the original Yangzhou City. However, the original old city of Yangzhou was not demolished, but a new city was built on the east bank of the canal in the south of the city. It is called Jiangdu New Town.

Important buildings including the Imperial Palace, cabinet ministries, the Advisory House, the Fourth Military Department, the Nantiandao Palace, the Tiandaozhuang Head Office, and the Grand Judge's Court will all be built at the site of Jiangdu New Town. Moreover, these buildings will all be concentrated in the northernmost part of Jiangdu New Town, forming the administrative district of Jiangdu City. These important buildings are still in full swing, with countless laborers gathering here, and countless pieces of wood, stone and cement are transported through the canal and the Yangtze River, and piled up everywhere on the construction site.

In addition to the administrative district, Jiangdu New Town will also have various functional areas such as business district, port area, industrial area, residential area, college area and military district. Among them, the business district will unfold along the Grand Canal, stretching from the opposite bank of the old city of Yangzhou to the bank of the Yangtze River, with a length of more than 30 miles. There are dozens of canal wharves along the line, which are used to load and unload miscellaneous goods, rice grains, livestock, fruits, vegetables, fish, wood, wood, charcoal, iron, porcelain, silk cloth, gold, jade, pearls and stones, fine wines and other utensils. Relying on these wharves, there are commercial markets. Of course, there was no separation between the commercial street and the civilian residential area in this era. The layout of the front shop and the back house is very common, and this area will be a fairly densely populated area in the future. However, now, most of the plots have not been sold, and the land that has been sold is also in full swing.

All the commercial streets are connected by a wide main road - Jiangdu Royal Street, which leads to Jiangdu Banzhong to the north, that is, the administrative district.

To the south of Yujie is the port area of Jiangdu, which is different from the canal wharf in the business district, and the port area of Jiangdu is docked with large ships that can enter the sea. There will be dozens of berths along the river, and each berth will have a supporting warehouse. A series of piers are also led by a special stone road to a main road connected to Royal Street, called Riverside Road. Royal Street and Riverside Road have a T-shaped layout.

To the east of Yujie and north of Jiangbian Road, a large open area is divided into a high-end residential area by two main roads connected to Yujie - close to the forbidden middle and called Anle Fang, this area is the residence of heroes and high-ranking officials, there are dozens of small alleys in the square, and there are as many as three or four thousand large and small residential lands, but most of them are still under construction. To the south of Anle Fang is an east-west main road called Zhenwu Street, the west of Zhenwu Street goes directly to the canal, and is connected to Dongguan Road in the old city of Yangzhou by a stone bridge. To the east of Chun Mo Street, Cheung On Road is connected to Cheung On Road, another main north-south road.

To the south of Zhenwu Street is the planned college area, Jiangdu Tiandao Academy and the Jiangdu Education Institute (which specializes in training teachers), Jiangdu Taixue (a comprehensive university like Tiandao Academy), Jiangdu Jingxue (the same as Taixue), Jiangdu Law (training judges, arresting fast and lawyers), Jiangdu Engineering (as the name suggests, it is a university that focuses on science and engineering), and Jiangdu Business School are six large colleges that are relatively close to later universities. These academies are now under construction and preparation, and the development of education is urgent, so we can only do it step by step.

At first, it was the Suiying Military Academy, then the Army and Navy Military Academy and the Mingdu Tiandao Academy, and then the Yanjing Tiandao Academy, and now the Mingdu Tiandao Academy and the Yanjing Tiandao Academy have been running for several years, and there are two or three thousand students who have graduated. In this way, there will be enough faculty to open more universities.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Education, there are currently 12 universities in South Beijing, including the Institute of Education, Taixue, Beijing Studies, Law, Engineering, and Commerce. plus the three Tiandao Academies of Mingdu, Yanjing, and Jiangdu. Coupled with the Army and Navy Academy, it won't be long before there will be seventeen universities in the Ming Empire! Although these universities cannot be compared with those of later generations, they were estimated to be first-class in the 13th century.

To the south of the college district, there is also an east-west main road called Xuechang Street. A large area south of Xuechang Street, east of Yujie, west of Chang'an Road, and north of Jiangbian Road is the camp of the Guards, called Dajiaochang. Nearly 20,000 Guards can be stationed here.

The area east of Chang'an Road is the workshop area of Jiangdu City. In fact, it is the place where handicraft workshops gather, a river that flows from Gaoyou Lake and leads directly to the Yangtze River, and a river called Jiangdu River passes through the Jiangdu Workshop area, and the river can be used to travel boats and build waterwheels. Large areas of land in the workshop area are still barren, but they are only circled into small plots by hitting the wall. It can be used as a workshop or as a dwelling for craftsmen.

Dozens of more streets are also being paved, all of which are gravel and cement - after the "invention" of cement, it was much easier to build roads and houses.

However, Chen Dexing did not use cement to build a city wall for Jiangdu New Town, in fact, this emperor with two vertical, three horizontal and five main roads has no city walls! (To be continued......)