Chapter 386: Monk Dao with the Army

"Thank you, Boss." Chen Zhu'er's face was full of excitement, he was just a captain. It is said that it is a captain, but the cavalry group has three troops, and there are only three people in the first army, and there is a deputy commander under him, in fact, the first army is two captains in charge of one soldier. But if you can enter the lecture hall for training, even if it is only the lowest-level Wu Gang Leader Pre-training Group, then you can at least be promoted to a gang leader after you come out.

Next, Zhao Heibei made another night of battle arrangement and pre-war mobilization with his subordinates. However, they are just a small guy, and the battle arrangement is just a name, all they need is to obey the above arrangement and fight according to the order. After this meeting, everyone was free to rest, chat, and sleep, as long as they did not leave the camp, no one cared.

Guo Xiaoke and Huang Dexing, the head of the former capital, had been standing behind a tree behind the camp tent of Zhao Heibei's gang, and listened quietly to the gang's regular meeting from beginning to end. After listening, he was still very satisfied with this guy, and nodded at Huang Dexing. In the end, he didn't show up, but took out his notebook and wrote down the names of the former left team and the front team of the former capital, as well as Zhao Heibei, Liu Laosan, and Chen Zhuer. After writing down the name, he went to the next place, and in front of him was already a small camp separated from the cavalry of the Eighteenth Regiment, which was a prisoner's camp.

The prisoner camp was guarded by cavalry on duty, and several huts were built out of tree branches, in which the prisoners were disrupted and imprisoned, and in another wooden hut, in which the Marquis of Tuan Yu and his military police squad interrogated the prisoners. The guards on duty saw Guo Xiaoke passing by, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Guo Xiaoke nodded and went directly into the wooden house where the interrogation was held. Tuan Yu waited for Wang Yue to get up and salute, "Tuanza." The matter was done, and the situation in the Wei Su camp was clearly examined. The captives were also willing to cooperate with the group's plan. ”

"That's good. I originally planned to kill a few chickens to scare the monkeys, but Brother Wang had already solved all of them. ”

"A group of auxiliaries looking for Grass Valley. Except for a few old cunning points, the rest didn't take much effort to settle out. But I didn't dare to take credit, but the great monk and the old Taoist were powerful, and in a few words, I persuaded the old black and the old one-eyed. Wang Yue said with a smile.

"That's hard work for the two of them." Guo Xiaoke also smiled. I didn't expect that these two people still had this ability, but they underestimated the two.

Speaking of these two people, it is also very interesting, the two are not deserted soldiers. Rather, it is a monk who follows the army. With the rise and prosperity of Huaihuang, many monks and Taoist priests began to come, wanting to establish a mountain gate here, recruit believers, and spread incense. Yi Feng is also welcome to these people. However, he did not believe in Buddhism like the current emperor and Yang Guang and others. To put it bluntly, Yi Feng in later generations was an atheist at all and had no religious beliefs. So even in this era. He had a completely different understanding and view of the Buddha and the Tao than he did at this time. But he is not like Emperor Wu of Zhou because of this to destroy the Buddha or something, although he does not believe in the Buddha, but he also knows that the Buddha actually has a positive side, the key is to see how to use it.

Yi Feng believed that Buddhism could be a means to help him control the wilderness. Therefore, I am also very attentive to these people.

He agreed with the monks to establish temples and Taoist temples in Huaihuang, establish sects, and spread teachings. Absorb the incense. But he also has a lot of conditions, such as that they want to build a mountain gate. It is necessary to register here in Yifeng first, and then pass the guò review before allowing the temple to be built. In addition, there are also restrictions on monks and Taoists. In these temples and Taoist temples, monks and nuns must have a degree. Du 牒 is something that has appeared in the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it is a certificate issued to monks and nuns by various dynasties in order to prevent private monks and nuns and effectively control the number of monks and nuns. It details the origin, common name, age, monastery to which the monks and nuns belonged, the names of the ordination masters, and the official offices to which they belonged. Monks and nuns who possess the degree disc not only have a clear identity, but also receive the protection of the government and the privilege of being exempt from taxation and forced labor.

The Sui Dynasty also had this system, but Yi Feng was more strict in Huaihuang, which was originally an independent kingdom. Therefore, Yi Feng has higher requirements for these monks who come to Huaihuang to settle down. Regardless of whether they had an official degree plate in the Sui Dynasty or not, in short, if they wanted to establish a temple and Taoist temple in Huaihuang, they had to apply for a new one in Huaihuang. Not only monks and nuns have to apply, but also Taoist female crowns. And there is another premise, to apply for the degree, you must first establish a temple in Huaihuang. You also have to pay a high fee for each dish, one hundred discs, no discounts. At the same time, it is also stipulated that the number of monks in each temple is controlled, and too many monks are not allowed. In short, Yi Feng is to control the number of monks, so as not to let these extraterrestrial forces become too strong, and become more powerful than the local families like the Shaolin Temple in the Central Plains. He even took precautions early on, and within the specific scope of each place, there can only be a few temples. At the same time, the amount of land that the temples can own is also strictly controlled, and each monk who holds the official degree can have 100 acres of land under his name, and the temple can only obtain the corresponding land within this range according to the number of official holding the degree of the monk in the temple. If it is exceeded, it will be acquired at the official market price directly. Even if the incense is vigorous, no matter how much donations can be received, you can't buy land at will, you can't expand the temple at will, and you can't build Buddha statues and gods at will.

The most stringent conditions for Yi Feng are not these, but all monks and Taoists who have obtained the degree of monks, Taoists, nuns, and nuns have to undergo a one-year study in the Huaihuang Monastery and the Li Taoist Academy, and the content of the study is that Yi Feng and some senior monks and old Taoists have studied and discussed some monk and Taoist management regulations, constraints, and so on. Of course, after completing this one-year study period, after a year of training and indoctrination for these newly acquired monks, Yi Feng still has a strict requirement for these people. They had to go to the army to be military monks for two years. Only after two years of serving as a military monk can they truly attain ordination and become official and legal monks. But after that, they were only exempted from forced labor, and the land allocated to them still had to pay rent.

Monks and Taoists follow the army and receive a certain amount of military training, but they do not belong to the combat personnel. They accompany the army, and their duties are similar to those of the military chaplains in Western, and they also have the duties of some political commissars. They are not responsible for fighting or fighting, but they are responsible for calming the morale of the soldiers, relieving the pressure of the soldiers, and doing some psychological counseling and similar work. In addition, there is an important job, that is, when the soldiers are wounded, they also have to accompany the army doctors to help treat the wounded. If a soldier dies in battle, they must also be responsible for cremating the body that is inconvenient to bring back after the battle, and do a simple ritual to give the soul of the dead soldier in battle. Although Yi Feng didn't believe in this, he knew that there were still many soldiers who had faith, and even worshiped God and Buddha when they saw God. In the army, having such a monk with the army can undoubtedly give a lot of comfort to the soldiers and relieve a lot of pressure.

In Guo Xiaoke's eighteenth cavalry regiment, there are two monks who accompany the army, one monk and one monk. Because they had already obtained the official degree in the Sui Dynasty, Yi Feng gave them some convenience for the first batch of monks who entered Huaihuang, and after paying the degree money, the one-year study period became half a year, and then they entered the army with the army. The two of the eighteenth regiment accompanying the army, one is the monk Buzhen, who was originally a monk in Wutai, and the other is Yu Hui, a Taoist priest from Louguan, both of whom are in their fifties, although they also have some opinions on Yi Feng's strict requirements, but in the end, in order to spread the teachings in the emerging land of Huaihuang, they still fully accepted Yi Feng's conditions.

Although the old one-eyed and the old black man originally surrendered, they were unwilling to accept the Han people's plan to cooperate with them to lead the way and go to the camp at night. Wuyue was originally going to kill one, but Yu Hui and Buzhen, who were appeasing the captives in the prisoner camp, offered to help persuade them after knowing about it. As a result, one monk persuaded one by one, and after a while, the old one-eyed and the old black man were completely persuaded.

"The two masters are really masterful, powerful, powerful." Guo Xiaoke personally met with the old one-eyed and the old black man, and after confirming that they had indeed agreed to cooperate with the plan, he was very happy, and even with this monk, he couldn't help but admire it.

"Please also ask Lord Guo to be merciful, and it is better to kill less." Buzhen held his palm and saluted.

"Of course, of course." Guo Xiaoke laughed and nodded.

Leaving the prisoner camp and on the way back, Guo Xiaoke said to Huang Dexing: "Don't say it, I always felt that it was a little strange to bring two monks with the army, but I didn't expect that these monks were really useful." ”

Huang Dexing also nodded again and again, "Indeed, when marching and fighting, casualties are always inevitable. Especially in many cases, after the death of the war, the body could not be brought back, and had to be cremated on the spot, only the ashes could be brought back, and some even had no chance of cremation, so they could only be hastily buried in a foreign land. Many brothers are not afraid of war or death, but what is terrible is that they cannot return to their roots when they die, and they will die in a foreign land and become a lonely ghost in a foreign land. Now that there is this monk with the army, not only can he calm the hearts of the soldiers in peacetime, but the most important thing is that in case he dies in battle, there are also mages who have passed the soul and don't have to worry about being a lonely ghost, which is very important for many brothers. The regiment may not know that the brothers took good care of them during the march in peacetime, and even when they were fighting, they tried their best to protect them. ”

Guo Xiaoke thought thoughtfully, "It seems that even if it is a Hu person, he has a lot of respect for these monks." Perhaps, these monks who accompanied the army will not only save the souls of the brothers who died in battle, but may also be able to help us persuade the enemy to surrender in the future. ”

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