The sea of sand rises with the wind to urge the world, and the stone pillars stand in a forest, like a sharp sword piercing the sky, and the camel bell is melodious.

On the cliff peak of tens of hundreds of meters high, there are grottoes everywhere, the gods and people in the grottoes are surrounded, there are the gods of the snake body and the human head, there are the goddesses of scattered flowers, there are the goddesses of the flying sky, there are Yingluo, there are lotus, and more are the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the solemn treasure phase, the protector of the Vajra.

Xuanzang stood in the largest grotto, looking up at the tallest Buddha here.

This Buddha statue is six zhang tall, which is a very extraordinary number in Buddhism.

The Buddha is built with a majestic appearance, and when you stand under the Buddha statue, you can feel that the Buddha statue is looking down on you from any angle.

The Buddha statue is depicted in bright colors.

In Buddhism, this is said to be the human body of Emperor Suwang, the source of ten thousand Buddhas, between birth and death.

It's the art of sculpture!

Therefore, this Buddha statue is in the center everywhere, just like the Emperor Suwang Datianzun in Taoism.

Ji Lingjun is a great Bodhisattva, King Zhaosheng is one of the Buddhas, and many gods and goddesses from the Central Plains are Dharma Protectors.

In Xuanzang's view, compared with the real King Su, this Buddha statue cannot be said to be unrelated, but can only be said to be irrelevant.

But this is not a big problem, myths are just word of mouth, and the image of God is constantly changing.

In this world, except for Duke Wen, no one has ever seen the real King Su.

The reason why he came here was to see one of his biggest opponents next.

How far has it gotten now.

Although Duke Wen didn't say it explicitly, he knew that the goal of going to the Western Regions was very simple, that is, the Sect Master of Ten Thousand Laws, above all of them, he had to beat everyone else down with his own strength.

As for how to do it, there are different ways.

Looking at these magnificent buildings at this moment, Xuanzang gave up the most radical method.

Both Buddhism and Taoism have become more than just religions, but are integrated into culture and blood, and are an inseparable part of the west of Liangzhou.

Radical eradication is no less than digging out the flesh and draining the blood.

For hundreds of years of development, Taoism and Buddhism have their own system.

If you want to destroy directly, you can only start a religious war.

It is easy to conquer the Western Regions, it is easy to bring the Western Regions under rule, but it is absolutely impossible to destroy the Western Regions.

Even the central dynasty, which was at its peak, was bound to fail and would be dragged down in the war.

It doesn't have to go that way.

Rock's is not yet capable of producing extremist ideas that are more hateful than heretics.

Since this is the case, then you can only take the path of multiple doppelgangers, Xuanzang finally glanced at this statue of the Emperor of the Prime King.

All the way to the west, the sound of chanting kept ringing.

At Xuanzang's insistence, he only took fifty daring soldiers and ten spirit soldiers to the west.

Because the spirit soldier doesn't matter, but the dare soldier has a family, and he has to do such an important thing all the way west, even if it is the fastest, he will not see his family for at least ten years.

The people Xuanzang took away were all people who wanted to establish a career in the Western Regions in the future, and they were all talented in scriptures and other aspects in the clan.

On the way to the Western Regions, Xuanzang consciously began to exercise his talent for religion.

For more than 30 years, he has been guiding himself into the field of domestic affairs talents, focusing on down-to-earth work, so his sophistry is low.

Now that we want to engage in religious aspects, then the debate of the Bible is one of the most important things.

His talent cashed in quickly, especially the ability to quibble, and in just a few months, he broke through the 90 mark.

He is only in his thirties, and he has not yet reached the peak of his life, and after entering the Western Regions, his attributes have already reached-

[Luo Xuanzang (former name: Luo Xuanzhao):

Power Fight: 82; Governance: 83; Mito: 84.

Command: 73; Force: 84; Military strategy: 78.

Sophistry: 88→90; Academic: 93→94; Glamour: 95→96. 】

After Xuanzang entered the Western Regions, he quickly showed his talent as the head of the Luo clan religion handpicked by Luo Su.

In the vast land of the Western Regions, there are a lot of strong people, and it really fulfills that sentence, under the true Buddha, there are demons.

Under the cover of the reckless yellow sand, there are all kinds of strongmen roaring.

The costume Xuanzang wore was not a monk or a Taoist robe, but a kind of clothing that combined these and many styles of sacrificial clothing.

The same clothing reinforces an identity.

In the Western Regions, the status of monks is not low, but in fact, the monks who die the most are monks, because monks like to travel, and strongmen do not care about these beliefs, and there are often monks who are intercepted and killed on the road.

Xuanzang is obviously regarded as a traveling monk.

Most of the spirit soldiers in Luo's family followed Luo Su, and the spirit soldiers brought by Xuanzang had not yet been activated, and they were still hidden in Xuanzang's body in a statue state.

Warriors are normal human beings, and of course they will not wear armor when marching normally.

The armor is placed on the vehicle and may be treated as cargo.

Facing the murderous strongman who came to rob him, Xuanzang just wanted to laugh, okay, now is the time to verify what he has learned.

Xuanzang never let the brave warriors and others step forward, he stepped forward alone, his tongue was like a lotus, and then began to reason with these strongmen.

"You evil beasts, do not make haste to kneel down and hear the word of God."

His roar was like thunder, like a lion and tiger in the jungle, shocking his heart, and at this moment, he felt as if he had returned to Winterfell!

The strongmen fell to their knees in front of him.

It was a man who wept bitterly and repented to the extreme of the wrongs he had committed.

He said, "I am willing to teach from the master, I am willing to recite the Xuanmen Sutra, abandon evil and follow good, and change my mind from now on, and I am willing to be a lackey under the master." ”

Xuanzang held a wooden scepter in his hand, slammed it on the backs of these people, and shouted in his mouth: "The crime of karmic fire will be eliminated from here!" ”

The scepter in Xuanzang's hand is solid wood, and he is strong and heavy, and if this blow goes down, it will immediately rupture the liver and gallbladder, even a strong man can't withstand this blow.

Almost instantly, he was killed on the spot.

"The sin is too great!"

With a kind expression on his face, Xuanzang looked at some of the strongmen who died under his staff, and the rest of them followed Xuanzang to recite scriptures.

Some survived and kept prostrating.

Xuanzang felt that it was not refreshing enough, he was completely unilateral, and these people didn't understand the reason: "You people have never understood any avenue, just some sentient beings, cattle and horses." ”

What Xuanzang wants to meet now are those who can fight with him, he stepped on the open-air car, and under the sun, continued to go west.

Behind him, there was the sound of chanting.

"The emperor has a calendar of 128,000 eons, and each calamity has 128,000 years, an immeasurable year, the emperor was born from birth, and this so-called first queen has heaven."

"The emperor opens his eyes and there is the sun and the moon, the exhalation and the wind and clouds, the sound and the thunder, the body of the gods moves and the mountains and rivers are fully revealed, the thoughts are made Xiwa, and the thoughts are the birth of the Taiyi."

The so-called scriptures are nothing more than a solution to several problems of believers.

How the world came to be.

What is God's position in this process?

And what power does God have, that is, why believers should believe?

Throughout world mythology, it is always the creation myth, then the myth between the gods, and the priesthood of the gods.

The final question to be solved is what kind of god system this is, and how can believers get close to God.

In this regard, there is a natural reason why Buddhism was born in Tianzhu, that land is more developed in mathematics, there are many natural disasters, and special geography and culture have created it, and it can really brag about it.

And being able to brag is quite awesome in creating myths.

So Buddhism can invent so many large numbers, there are so many worlds in Buddhism, and it is normal for Ganges sand to appear in Buddhism.

But Luo's is different, it's just making up stories, who is afraid of whom, there is a true god in my family!

Although this true god is actually a family god, he only cares about the family, regardless of the outside, but outsiders don't know it, and the current Su Wang is not only a family god, his power is really incredible.

A person who has been dead for more than a thousand years can still be reborn in the world, this is the horror of Suwang Ancestor.

Xuanzang, as a religious master, has no problem writing a creation scripture, but this scripture cannot be returned to the Central Plains, otherwise it will be a little difficult to do.

After all, these things are fake!

It should be fake, right?

Xuanzang himself is also a little unsure, it seems that Suwang Ancestor is really a little too strong.

Taoism and Buddhism are all about detachment.

Needless to say, Taoism thinks about becoming an immortal every day, Buddhism is actually the same, wanting to become a Buddha, but Xuanzang himself is very clear, that is, it is impossible.

Luo's true gods can't be achieved, and other people are even more impossible, so the Taoist Buddha can only say that he is sincere and spiritual, or he will play the afterlife or the bliss of the afterlife.

But the problem is that there must be no such thing in the afterlife.

As for the bliss of the afterlife, whether it is the Taoist Eastern Extreme Emperor's Palace or the Buddhist Western Heaven Bliss, this thing is fake, and the only possible Bliss in this world is King Su's.

The appearance of Duke Wen proves that there really is a world that can accommodate the dead, but whether he can enter it, Xuanzang is not sure.

But at least it's much stronger than the pure deception of the Taoist Buddha.

Now all he has to do is to knock everyone else down, and then co-opt him, so that the last ultimate faith in the entire Western Regions will fall to him.

He named his sect Xuanmen.

When this name appeared in his mind, he felt that it must be the arrangement of fate.

……

Xuanzang's westward journey was not on the table, and in Chang'an City, under the instigation of Li Yuanji, Li Jiancheng's suppression of Li Shimin became more and more serious.

A very outrageous thing happened in between, that is, Li Yuanji actually wanted to kill Li Shimin directly.

Moreover, when Li Shimin accompanied Li Yuan to the Prince's East Palace, Li Yuanji arranged a knife and axe hand, preparing to directly hack Li Shimin to death.

After Li Jiancheng knew about this, he knew Li Yuanji's temper, and Li Yuanji could really do this kind of thing.

Li Jiancheng hurriedly stopped Li Yuanji and said: "My father is in the palace, you killed the King of Qin so openly, isn't this looking for death?" ”

Li Yuanji was very angry and said, "If it weren't for the eldest brother, why would I kill King Qin?" ”

Li Yuanji's hatred for Li Shimin is too deep, although Li Jiancheng doesn't know where this hatred comes from.

What made Li Jiancheng think that it was more outrageous was that Wei Zheng actually agreed with this matter, and he also directly told Li Jiancheng to let Li Jiancheng do it to King Qin as soon as possible, as long as King Qin died, King Qin's mansion would be a plate of loose sand.

Although the merits of the generals of the Qin Palace's mansion are high, their official positions are not high.

The reason why the Qin Wangfu is so strong now is because of the prestige of the King of Qin, which makes the Son of Heaven also a little jealous.

But the forbidden army of the imperial court is in the hands of the Son of Heaven after all, and if the King of Qin is alive, with his great military achievements and prestige, he can still compete with the Son of Heaven.

If the King of Qin died, then the army would immediately turn its neutrality to the Son of Heaven, and the Qin Wangfu would only have to wait for death, and most importantly, the Qin Wangfu would actually have no heirs.

Li Chengqian, the son of King Qin, is still too young.

It is completely impossible to inherit any of Li Shimin's political legacy.

This made Li Jiancheng also hesitate, but he still rejected this thing that sounded very abnormal.

This made Wei Zheng feel very pity, and he had already advised Li Jiancheng several times to kill Li Shimin and not hesitate any longer.

But Li Jiancheng has always hesitated and did not follow Wei Zheng's advice, what he thinks is different from Wei Zheng.

Wei Zheng saw a great threat from the King of Qin, and then this threat was difficult to solve.

Just as a month ago, Wei Zheng admonished Li Jiancheng, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, whether it is weakened or otherwise, but as long as King Qin does not die, then the matter will not be over."

Because King Qin stood there, it was power, and this power came from his merits, and this power came from the hearts of the people.

This power is called a boom!

This power can only be destroyed by himself, not by us.

As long as the king of Qin did not die, once he fled to Shandong, those assassins and county orders would attach themselves to him wherever he passed, and a letter from him might cause the army to rebel.

Your Highness the Prince, don't you know what kind of opponent you are up against?

Kill King Qin, and the future Son of Heaven will be yours! ”

Li Jiancheng thought that what Wei Zheng said was very reasonable, but he retorted: "Lone is the prince, Lone is the right position, there has never been a prince in this world who attacks the prince, where is the prince afraid to attack the prince?"

Wouldn't that be a lonely and unvirtuous person, and at that time, I'm afraid that King Qin will be given a chance.

As long as Lone doesn't make mistakes, the world is lonely after all, what can King Qin do?

What Mr. said is a bit too mysterious, King Qin is indeed famous, but if it is really strong to such a degree, how can he fall into a disadvantage now? ”

Wei Zheng, who heard this, was anxious, he knew this, he might as well go directly to the king of Qin, he must persuade the king of Qin to strike first and kill the prince and the king of Chu.

He regretted helping the prince become stronger, causing the prince to have a trace of contempt and neglect for King Qin.

Li Shimin's current situation is indeed not good, and his base camp in Eastern Shaanxi Province is in Luoyang, Shandong.

But he is now in Chang'an.

There are two thousand guards in the East Palace, and Li Jiancheng has been recruiting warriors, and after Li Yuan knew about it, he just reprimanded Li Jiancheng, but Li Jiancheng was still doing it.

There are also outlaws in Li Yuanji's mansion, and the two of them add up to more than three thousand, and it is quite terrifying to have such a huge force in Chang'an City.

There are only eight hundred warriors in the Qin Palace, and once the fight starts, this is not a level of combat effectiveness at all, and the guards of the East Palace are also elite, worthy of the guards of the Qin Palace.

Li Yuan is also constantly pressing Li Shimin, and in the process of Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin's struggle, he has been pulling the sidelines, causing Li Shimin to be very uncomfortable.

If it weren't for the Turkic invasion of the Tang Dynasty in the middle of the way, Li Yuan had to let Li Shimin lead the troops to attack, Li Shimin would almost be unable to bear it.

The Turks, the sworn enemies of the Tang Empire, became Li Shimin's savior, which is really a joke.

Li Shimin endured these things in silence, and he had been waiting for an opportunity.

Finally he found the most suitable opportunity, in order to prevent the prince and the king of Qin from having a dispute again, when Li Yuan went to escape the summer, he took Li Shimin away and let Li Jiancheng stay in Chang'an, Li Shimin took this opportunity to tell Li Yuan: "Father, the prince colluded with foreign vassals to rebel!" ”

At the same time, he sent someone to Li Jiancheng to say that the King of Qin had denounced him for rebellion, and the Son of Heaven had sent someone to arrest him, and if Li Jiancheng panicked, it was likely that he would really rebel, and if it was really like that, Li Shimin would laugh out loud directly.

Even if Li Jiancheng does not rebel, but the problem is not big, Li Shimin still has a backhand, that is, the foreign domain that colluded with Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin knew that this general was used by Li Jiancheng to deal with himself, and Li Jiancheng still had a lot of such foreign aid.

Especially in Hebei, many people in Li Jiancheng are there.

But this is good, so that when the general Yang Wengan rebels, he can put the basin on Li Jiancheng's head.

This ring sounds very simple, but it requires a lot of arrangement, and Li Shimin doesn't know how much effort it took to achieve all this.

The candles in the hall were flickering, and everyone else in the hall was trembling and didn't dare to make a sound, Li Yuan's old face was full of pain and incomprehension, but with the letter about Li Jiancheng presented by Li Shimin in his hand, what should he say?

He didn't expect to wait for the prince to rebel, "King Qin, you immediately send someone to investigate this matter, no, bring the prince here, I will ask him personally."

If he really participated in the rebellion, King Qin, I really want to make you the crown prince this time. ”

Li Yuan only felt that he was a little difficult to breathe, Li Shimin had a look of grief on his face, and slowly withdrew from the hall, his face was expressionless, he recalled the past.

Abolishing the position of the crown prince this time is probably the end, kill Yuanji, exile the eldest brother, and let this dispute end.

Li Shimin does not pay special attention to Li Jiancheng.

In his opinion, as long as his father approved of him, the prince was nothing at all, and he had absolute confidence to let the prince's old subordinates defect to him.

is like the heroes he recruited in the process of unifying the world in the Tang Dynasty.

Most of these people were not his people, but now they are loyal to him.

Li Yuan in the hall sat deeply on the mat, he was angry in his heart, he was built for the prince, he thought that he was benevolent to Li Jiancheng, and he had not abolished the completed prince's throne until now.

Why did the prince rebel?

Suddenly, an idea popped into his mind, could it be that the prince didn't think about rebellion at all?

The crown prince Li Jiancheng was very confused and was taken to the palace, he knew what was going on almost instantly, on the one hand, he was curious about why the matter of his collusion with the border general was known by the king of Qin, and on the other hand, he had endless fear in his heart.

"Father, my son is wronged, I have never thought of rebellion!"

Li Jiancheng knew that there was nothing to say now, he just kowtowed over and over again, there were bright blood stains on the ground, his forehead was full of blood, and there was dust on it, he kowtowed down and down, with a will to die, declaring to the emperor that he had absolutely no rebellion.

Li Yuan quickly relented, he opened his mouth and said: "King Qin, maybe there is some misunderstanding in the news above, but the crown prince still knows, he is benevolent and filial, and it is impossible for him to rebel." ”

Soon the matter of Yang Wengan really raising troops to rebel came from the border, Li Jiancheng fell into the ice cellar, he didn't understand why, was Yang Wengan crazy?

But in any case, Li Yuan, who had just believed in the crown prince, was furious again, put Li Jiancheng under house arrest in the palace, and said to Li Shimin instead: "King Qin, Yang Wengan's rebellion will be pacified by you to lead the troops, and when I come back this time, I will canonize you as the prince."

If he is immoral, he is no longer suitable to be the prince of the Tang Dynasty, I will seal him to Shu or Jiangnan, and let him be a rich king in the future. ”

Li Yuan's voice was a little sad.

Li Shimin suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and agreed to this, as long as he can ascend to the crown prince normally, these are not problems.

When Li Shimin informed the Qin Wangfu of this matter, Luo Xuanye said: "King Qin, Pingding District Yang Wengan, just let me go, you better stay in Chang'an." ”

Luo Xuanye is an intuition, because Li Yuan didn't shake Li Shimin with the prince at one time, and here in Luo Xuanye, Li Yuan's words have no credibility.

In the end, Li Shimin embarked on the road of pacifying Yang Wengan.

As soon as he left on the front foot, the three of them, Concubine Zhang Yin and Pei Lian, began to intercede with the crown prince.

"Your Majesty, the crown prince is already in the East Palace, why do you want to rebel? And he is benevolent and filial, how can he rebel against His Majesty? ”

If these words could not shake Li Yuan, then Pei Lian's words would be a lore.

He directly tore apart the question that Li Yuan had been trying to cover up, "Your Majesty, the minister thought that the battle between the crown prince and the king of Qin was now known to everyone, and no one knew about it.

Your Majesty, you have always been on the side of the crown prince, and when Wude was in the fifth year, if it wasn't for the Turkic invasion, King Qin might have been an idler now.

At that time, you also said that the king of Qin was 'holding the Turks hostage to threaten you', and the minister still remembered these words.

Since this is the case, then you are the prince's biggest backer, if it weren't for you, maybe the prince would have been no match for King Qin now.

What good is the prince's rebellion?

This is quite unreasonable!

At that time, Your Majesty, you and King Qin were in the palace outside Chang'an, could Yang Wengan really attack Chang'an?

Even if he has a calculation or no intention, Yang Wengan drives straight in, but can he really catch His Majesty and King Qin?

Even if you can take Chang'an City, what is the use?

As long as His Majesty and King Qin are there, where is this Tang Dynasty not Chang'an?

The prince's rebellion will never succeed.

Even if the prince's rebellion captures Chang'an City, it will not have the slightest effect, and he has no possibility of dealing with you, so why did the prince rebel?

The minister dared to say that even if the prince did it, it would be against the King of Qin, how could it be done to Your Majesty?

Please think again, Your Majesty!

The prince's rebellion is full of suspicions, don't become a pawn of someone with a heart, so as not to fall for the trick! ”

Naturally, treacherous schemes are made by traitors.

Who was the traitor, I didn't know before, but now the traitor himself jumped out!

One is the King of Qin, and the other is the King of Qin's sworn friend, Luo Xuanye, the Duke of Zhou!

Pei Lian's analysis was really reasonable, which made Li Yuan have to believe that he became even more angry, in order to become the crown prince, the king of Qin actually framed the crown prince, which was completely disregarded by him, the emperor.

Pei Lin was too familiar with Li Yuan, and as soon as he saw Li Yuan's expression, he knew that Li Yuan had listened to it, Li Jiancheng was fine this time, and he had thwarted another conspiracy of King Qin.

Li Yuan and Pei Lin didn't realize one thing, that is, the so-called "Erfu dispute" between the prince and the king of Qin was actually completely a wrestling between Li Shimin and Li Yuan, once Li Jiancheng lost Li Yuan's help, he would be defeated by Li Shimin in a short period of time.

Yang Wengan's rebellion is like a joke, if it weren't for the fact that the world is now decided, Li Yuan is worried that the hearts of the people who have not yet been cleaned up will fluctuate again because of Yang Wengan, and Li Shimin would not be needed to play at all.

Li Shimin led the army and didn't fight at all, and after seeing the arrival of the King of Qin, the sergeants under Yang Wengan directly cut off Yang Wengan's head and sent him over.

After quelling the rebellion like a parade, Li Shimin once again proved his prestige in the army, and returned to Chang'an with great interest to take the position of prince of his own.

But let him down.

Li Yuan seemed to have completely forgotten about this matter, not only did he not give Li Shimin the position of crown prince, but even reprimanded Li Shimin for not knowing the way of filial piety, and even accused his brother, and he used an incorrect thing.

Yang Wengan's rebellion has nothing to do with the crown prince.

Of course, Li Shimin was not convinced, he knelt under His Royal Highness, and said loudly: "Please ask Your Majesty to go to the law department to check whether the crown prince and Yang Wengan's rebellion are related." ”

These words made Li Yuan's face even more difficult to see, it was impossible for him to publicize this matter, Li Shimin was openly confronting himself.

Li Yuan glanced at Li Shimin deeply, and left here with a cold snort.

Li Shimin walked out of the palace, looked at the palace that was obviously daytime, but the darkness was like a beast, and suddenly roared in a low voice.

Chrysostom Yuyan, the Son of Heaven, how can he be deposed so easily, and why is he still unwilling to give me the position of crown prince until now.

Is it really important for a mere chief to be so important?

Obviously, everything can have a good result, but you just don't want to, Your Majesty, Father, what are you thinking?

Is it really as Gong Wen said?

Are you worried that if I am the crown prince, you will lose power?

Could it be that our father and son are really so estranged because of power?

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In the second year of Wude, Taizong will attack Liu Wuzhou, and Gaozu said: "My son has a prince." ”

In the fourth year of Wude, Taizong wanted to go east, and Gaozu encouraged, saying: "If you take the Central Plains, it will be difficult to reward the merits, and the storage position can be matched." ”

In the sixth year of Wude, the Turks invaded, and Gaozu said: "Retreat from the Turks, there should be an East Palace." ”

In the seventh year of Wude, Taizong Pingwengan, Gaozu said: "Return to Cedong Palace." ”

Gaozu has no faith, and Taizong mourns. - "Tongjian: Tang Ji"

(End of chapter)