Chapter 161: The Three Treasures of Mongolia

After a long time, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse said happily as if he had just woken up from a dream: "I originally thought that Xiaojie was still young, although he had superb martial arts, he couldn't understand political affairs, and I was going to let you go to Guozijian to be a prisoner first, so that you could cultivate good students, and then come to help me when you have achieved something in your studies!

Luo Sigong also smiled bitterly at this time: "Weichen has always felt that Xiaojie is indeed talented and extraordinary, but he didn't expect it to be so rebellious!"

Wei Zhongxian also smiled: "When Weichen listened to the play, he heard that there was a young prime minister Ganluo in ancient times, who knew that today I saw with my own eyes that there was a genius boy Xiaojie in the Ming Dynasty!"

Gao Jie's face was flushed with praise, and he said: "There is a saying in my hometown that the higher you hold it, the worse you fall!

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, the three of them looked at each other and laughed.

After laughing, Zhu Youxiao's joy was a little reduced, and he said to Luo Sigong: "Luo Aiqing, the details of the alliance with Mongolia this morning have basically been negotiated, and the amount of remuneration they proposed this time has not been increased, but reduced, but there is a premise, that is, we must first assist Mongolia to complete a major matter!"

Luo Sigong said: "The gratuity is naturally a good thing, but I don't know what the Mongolians want me to help me accomplish, it is estimated that the difficulty will not be small!"

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "Indeed, the Mongols have never been so easy to make concessions, and the things proposed this time are quite difficult, which is also the third reason why I summoned you to the palace!"

Not only Luo Sigong, but Gao Jie also listened attentively to the words of the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

Zhu Youxiao pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice: "The Mongols ask me to send a master to assist their envoy who came to Beijing this time to infiltrate a secret place in Houjin and seize the important magic weapon of Mongolia - Kangyur!"

In the eyes of Lin Dan Khan and other Mongolian great khans, Mongolia has three magic weapons, namely the jade seal of the country and the golden Buddha of Maha Kala, and the Kangyur.

The so-called jade seal of the country, that is, after Qin Shi Huang destroyed the six countries and unified China, he carved the Heshi Bi into a jade seal, and ordered Prime Minister Li Si to seal on it "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and Yongchang" eight insect and bird characters, engraved to the top by the jade worker Sun Shou, so as to make the jade seal for the emperor. As a symbol of "divine authority of the monarch", the jade seal of the country is ranked first among the many important treasures of various dynasties. With the change of dynasties, this heirloom jade seal in the hands of the emperors of various dynasties kept changing hands, in the hands of Wang Mang of the Western Han Dynasty, it was also broken a corner, and then inlaid with gold. In March of the 14th year of the Great Cause (618), Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, was killed in Jiangdu (now Yangzhou), and the Sui died. Empress Xiao and Prince Yuande fled into the Mobei Turks with the jade seal of the country. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Taizong Li Shimin did not have a jade seal of the country, so he engraved several jade seals such as "Destined Treasure" and "Destined Treasure", and talked about **. In 630 AD, Li Jing led the army to crusade against the Turks, and in the same year, Empress Xiao and Prince Yuande returned to the Central Plains with the Turks, and the jade seal of the country was returned to the Tang Dynasty. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the heroes were everywhere. After Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, the jade seal of the country suffered bad luck again. After the Tang Dynasty was defeated by the Khitan, he ascended the building**, and the jade seal was also burned, and his whereabouts are unknown. After Guo Weijian was built, he searched for the jade seal of the country and could not find it, so he had no choice but to engrave the seal of the "Emperor's Divine Treasure" and other seals, which were passed on to the Northern Song Dynasty. During the reign of Zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty, a farmer found a jade seal of the country while plowing the field and sent it to the imperial court. According to the records of the previous dynasty, 13 scholars determined that this was the jade seal of the country made by the first emperor. In the first year of Song Jingkang (1126), the Jin soldiers broke through Bianliang, the second emperor of Huiqin was plundered, and the jade seal of the country was also plundered by the Dajin country, and then disappeared. In the more than 100 years of coexistence of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, there has been no news of the jade seal of the country. In the first month of the third year of Jin Tianxing (1234), the Mongols attacked and destroyed the Jin Dynasty, and Jin Aizong committed suicide, but did not find the jade seal of the country. In the first month of the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1276), the Yuan Dynasty defeated the Southern Song Dynasty, and Emperor Gong of the Song Dynasty surrendered the jade seal of the country, but this was the jade seal made by the Southern Song Dynasty itself, not handed down by Qin Shi Huang. In the first month of the 31st year of Yuan Shizu (1294), Kublai Khan died, but the jade seal of Qin Shi Huang mysteriously appeared in Dadu. In the summer and April, at the Mongolian princes and nobles conference held in Shangdu, Cui Yu presented the jade seal to the emperor's grandson Timur, and his text said, "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity". Timur ascended the throne for Yuan Chengzong. Since then, the jade seal has been passed down to several generations of emperors in the Yuan Dynasty. In the first month of the first year of Hongwu (1368), Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing and established the Ming Dynasty. In leap July, Yuan Huizong fled to the Mongolian steppe, ending the rule of the Yuan dynasty in the Central Plains. In the first month of the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1372), Taizu of the Ming Dynasty did not get the jade seal of the country in the past dynasties, and sent Xu Da to lead 150,000 elite soldiers to attack Mobei in three ways, and pursue the fleeing Northern Yuan court, in order to get the jade seal of the country. The two sides fought until November, and the Ming army finally returned empty-handed.

Therefore, the jade seal of the country is now in the hands of the Mongolian Khan Lin Dan Khan, ranking first among the three magic weapons.

And the Maha Kala Golden Buddha is the national teacher of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, Pasipa (containing the meaning of a spirit child. Common name: Luo Chai Jianshen, the inventor of the Mongolian script) lama, raised thousands of catties of gold to design and engrave it himself. This golden Buddha weighs sixty-four catties and two taels (commonly known as a thousand taels of golden Buddha, and the old system of 16 taels is 1 catty). It is said that whoever can get this "Maha Kala" will get the world. At the beginning, the Mongolian nobles of the Yuan Dynasty relied on this golden Buddha "Maha Kala" to conquer the world, rule the whole country, and establish the Great Yuan Empire, which is famous all over the world and intimidates the world. The Jurchen Khan king Nurhachi outside the gate also dreamed of obtaining the golden Buddha "Maha Kala", hoping to annex the world with the help of the holy power of the golden Buddha. This highly decorated "Maha Kala" Golden Buddha was enshrined in Wutai Mountain in Shanxi Province after the Mongolian nobles of the Yuan Dynasty won the world. Later, the power of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty was shaken, and when they were facing their imminent destruction, they had no choice but to scatter and retreat to the Saibei grassland to call themselves the Northern Yuan, and recuperate in an attempt to make a comeback. The Maha Kala Golden Buddha could not be taken away and remained in the Wutai Mountains. It was not until two years ago that the Grand Lama of the Red Sect, Shar Hutu, entered Wutai Mountain alone, and after defeating five eminent monks in succession, he finally succeeded in bringing the Golden Buddha back to Mongolia, and the Great Lama of Shaerhu was also named a national teacher by Lin Dan Khan.

In addition to forming an alliance with the Ming Dynasty and working together to resist Jin, there is also an important secret task, which is to ask the Ming Dynasty to send a master to assist in going to the hinterland of Houjin to find a way to retrieve the Kangyur. Kangyur is the most important and core part of the Zhangzhung Tripitaka, covering Buddhism, philosophy, logic, literature, art, astrology, medicine, science, engineering and other fields, summing up the local cultural knowledge of the Tibetan people, is a panoramic encyclopedia equivalent to the ancient Zhangzhung period of Tibet. Ancient Zhang-zhung Buddhism originated in the ancient Zhang-zhung Dynasty 18,000 years ago. It is the Nyorai Dharma preached by the Buddha Xinrao Miwo (the teacher of the "White Son of Heaven" in the previous life of Shakyamuni Buddha), and is also known as the oldest Zhangzhung Buddhism in Tibet. The Zhangzhung Kingdom was a tribal state that dominated the Tibetan Plateau before. Its history dates back 18,000 years. According to historical records, in the period of the Eighteen Kingdoms of Zhangxiong, "the upper Xinhuan are noble, and the lower kings are mighty...... which can be seen that Yongzhong has a high social status in the Zhangzhung Kingdom. Many of the customs and lifestyles of the Tibetan people today have also been handed down from the Zhangzhung era, such as turning the sacred mountain, worshipping the god lake, inserting wind and horse flags, inserting colorful prayer flags, carving stone scriptures, placing mani piles, playing hexagrams, and fortune telling, all of which have the shadow of the relics of this religion. The origin of the Tibetan script is also inseparable from the Zhangzhung civilization. The Tibetan language originated from the Zhangzhung script, when Songtsen Gampo sent his minister Thonmi Sambuzha to create the Tibetan language, which can only be called an improvement of the Zhangzhung script at most. Zhangzhung is the birthplace of the "Ancient Zhangzhung Buddhism", which occupies the supreme position in the traditional Tibetan culture, is the oldest Buddhism in Tibet, and is also the oldest Buddhism in human history and the source of all ten thousand laws. The Zhangzhung Tripitaka is a Buddhist scripture of the ancient Zhangzhung Buddhism, which is a "living dictionary" covering philosophy, astronomy, geography, medicine, art, architecture and other fields to describe the ancient Zhangzhung civilization, and has rich historical and cultural value. The Kangyur is the core part of this Buddhist scripture, which fell into the hands of the Jurchens in the competition between the Mongols and the Jurchens for nearly a hundred years, and is now collected by Nurhachi in a very secret place in the hinterland of the Later Jin.

After Lin Dan Khan succeeded to the throne, in order to unify the various tribes of Mongolia and become the real Mongolian Great Khan, he has always wanted to gather all the three magic weapons in his hands. It's just that Houjin is strong, brave and good at fighting, and if he sends troops to rob, it is really difficult for Lin Dan Khan to reach the sky with only the troops of the Mongolian Chahar Department that he can control. Ming couldn't rob it, so he could only outwit it, so Lin Dan Khan sent his brother Jintu to lead the team, and the powerful envoy of the Shaerhu division was sent to the Ming Dynasty, asking the Ming Dynasty to help go deep into the hinterland of Houjin and seize the "Kangyur" Buddhist scriptures.

After Zhu Youxiao told the story for half an hour, Gao Jie knew what "Kangyur" was, and at the same time knew very well how difficult this action was. Since Emperor Tianqi told Luo Sigong about this matter, the meaning was obvious, that is, he wanted to hand over the second important task to him.

After listening to this, Luo Sigong's face did not change, and he said without hesitation: "In the brocade clothes and guards in charge of Weichen, there are many masters in the Ming martial arts. Please rest assured that Your Majesty will do his best to complete the mission!"

Zhu Youxiao said with some emotion: "Luo Aiqing has just returned from Shanxi to thoroughly investigate the important case of Jin Shang's collaboration with the enemy, and before he has time to rest, he will go to the dangerous place again, forgetting his life and death, and he is really heartbroken

It's hard to be safe!"

Luo Sigong smiled heartily and said: "Your Majesty is sympathetic to the ministers, and the ministers are smeared with their brains, and it is difficult to reciprocate, such important matters related to the alliance between the two countries to resist Jin, Your Majesty can let the ministers go, and it is too late for the ministers to be happy in their hearts!"

Wei Zhongxian arched his hand and said: "Lord Luo is loyal and courageous, and the old minister admires it!" Because we don't know anything about the situation of the Mongolian Buddhist scriptures, Lord Luo had better communicate with the Mongolian envoy in advance, learn more about the details of this trip, and be prepared!"

Luo Sigong replied and thanked: "Thank you Gonggong Wei for reminding me, the old man will be saved, and he will be well prepared before he can make the trip!"