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Seeing that Zhao Liang brought Anu back, Daika was so happy that he was so happy that he was busy asking the villagers to set up a banquet to entertain Zhao Liang, saying that it was a banquet to entertain him, but in fact, it was also some coarse tea and light rice, Miao Zhai was too poor to take out anything decent, but fortunately, Zhao Liang was also from a poor family, and he could eat bird's nest shark fin and coarse tea and light rice.

After the banquet, Dai Ka gave Anu an explanation, asking her to be Zhao Liang's guide and accompany Zhao Liang to Tianzhu, of course Anu was so happy, she wanted to learn art from Zhao Liang, and was thinking about what reason to use, so she didn't even need to find a reason, and she was directly justified.

Zhao Liang saw that the explanation was almost over, so he took Anu to continue the journey, the Xuanlei Sword rose in the air, carrying the two of them to fly into the air, Anu was elated again, and the noise made Zhao Liang's brain hurt, Zhao Liang threatened Anu and said that if he quarreled again, he would throw her down, and Anu closed his mouth angrily.

Zhao Liang flew southwest under the guidance of Anu, and according to Anu, the Himalayas are ahead, and in Sanskrit, the Himalayas are the homeland of snow.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the two of them arrived in the sky above the Himalayas, only to see dozens of peaks below, and the peaks were full of icicles and ice towers dozens of feet high, like thousands of horses, looking extremely spectacular.

However, in Zhao Liang's view, the Himalayas are still too far from the Olympus Mountain in Qingcheng Immortal Mansion and the Ethereal Peak of the Tianshan Mountains in Kunlun Wonderland, after all, this is just a high mountain in the secular world.

It took a quarter of an hour for the two to fly over the Himalayas, during the flight, the cold was pressing, fortunately Zhao Liang was well prepared, and took out a set of cotton clothes from the ring for Anu to put on, so as to avoid freezing her into a popsicle, even so, Anu was frozen enough, his teeth chattered up and down without obeying the command, and he couldn't stop if he wanted to.

Flying over the Himalayas, it is another kind of scenery, the foot of the mountain is lush everywhere, as if to the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and then fly south for a quarter of an hour, you will see a big river, this is the largest river in Tianzhu Ganges.

On the banks of the Ganges River, there is a large capital city where people come and go, which is the capital of Tianzhu, Fahrenheit.

Zhao Liang couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded when he looked at the tall coconut trees on both sides of the street, as well as the war elephants that chirped loudly from time to time on the street, he couldn't imagine that there was such a powerful empire here.

Anu looked at Zhao Liang with a surprised look, couldn't help but be proud, and began to play her role as a guide, introducing Zhao Liang to the basic history of Tianzhu and clearing him for literacy.

More than sixty years ago, Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, invaded northwestern Tianzhu after the destruction of the Persian Empire, and two years later, Alexander the Great withdrew from the Indus Valley and set up a governor in Punjab, leaving behind an army.

After another ten years, a young man named Chandragupta, a Kshatriya nobleman from Magadha, led the local people to rise up, organized an army, defeated the Macedonian army in the northwest, and then led the army to the city of Fahrenheit, the capital of Magadha, overthrew the rule of King Nanda, seized power, and established the Mauryan Dynasty.

Chandragupta laid the foundation for the establishment of the Mauryan Empire, and he himself embraced Jainism in his later years, but later abandoned the throne and became a monk, and he was succeeded by his son Bintou Sara.

Bintou Sara suppressed the popular uprising in the Yaksha Sira region and maintained the empire's rule in the northern region.

Emperor Ashoka was the third emperor of the Mauryan Empire, and he had a Buddha-minded Buddha nature from an early age, but his early actions did not reflect this, and at the age of eighteen, he was appointed governor of Abanti Province, and later played a great role in suppressing the rebellion in the city of Dancha Shira, accumulating political capital.

During the seven-year period, his father Bintou Sara was seriously ill, and Emperor Ashoka returned to China to compete for the throne, and legend has it that he only sat on the throne after killing ninety-nine brothers, which is of course an exaggeration, but the bloody fierceness of the struggle for the throne can be seen from this, after four years of fighting, Ashoka finally eliminated the opposition and held an empowerment ceremony.

Emperor Ashoka, who killed countless people, could not change his fierce and murderous style after ascending the throne, he specially selected the most vicious cool officials to set up a human territory to kill the people, he launched a series of wars to unify the big 6, and conquered the Shiva country, etc., the largest one was last year's expedition to the Kalinga country off the coast of Bengal.

This war enabled the Mauryan Empire to basically complete the cause of unifying India, but it also caused a human tragedy in which 100,000 people were killed, 150,000 people were taken captive, and several times as many people died.

The Kalinga War had a great impact on Ashoka, this battle was a turning point in Ashoka's life, Ashoka was shocked by the scene of ambushed corpses and rivers of blood, deeply remorseful, the Buddha nature buried in his heart since childhood, once covered by the desire for power, then finally awakened by the heart of compassion, and after many long talks with the Buddhist monk Yubo Blanket, he was finally inspired and determined to convert to Buddhism.

After the end of the Kalinga War, Emperor Ashoka changed his original statecraft, abandoned an aggressive military campaign, and devoted himself to political stability and economic development, adopting Buddhism as his religious philosophy, and instead of sending troops to neighboring countries, he sent high monks to preach Buddhism, and he himself became a benevolent prince of compassion.

Emperor Ashoka soon proclaimed Buddhism as the state religion of India, ordered the erection of stone pillars in the royal palace and all parts of India, and engraved his edicts on them, and he also gathered a large number of Buddhist monks from all over the country to compile and organize Buddhist scriptures, and built many Buddhist monasteries and stupas in various places.

It has been more than 300 years since Shakyamuni founded Buddhism, during which he has experienced seven Dharma holders and carried out two great gatherings, and the ideas of Buddhism's four truths, five aggregates, eight sufferings, and the equality of all beings have also been widely spread to thousands of households in Tianzhu, but compared with other major religions such as Jainism, Brahmanism, and Ajakunja, it has not achieved an overwhelming advantage, let alone spread to areas outside Tianzhu, and with the spread of it, it has also divided into different sects.

After Ashoka converted to Buddhism, the spread of Buddhism made a qualitative leap, and in order to promote Buddhism, Ashoka sent a large number of envoys and monks, including princes and princesses, to neighboring countries and regions to preach.

When the Indian princess went to Ceylon to preach, she not only brought many monks and Buddhist scriptures, but also a branch of the sacred Bodhi tree, which she planted in Ceylon herself.

After much propaganda and envoy exchange, Buddhism spread not only throughout Ceylon, but soon throughout the world.

In addition to propagating Buddhism, Ashoka also adopted various humane methods of rule, such as establishing hospitals and political reserves, amending laws, setting up national granaries and warehouses near the intersection of main roads for emergency use, planting trees on both sides of roads, digging wells about three miles apart, and setting up places for pedestrians to rest.

Emperor Ashoka announced that he would no longer take the initiative to go to war, and that even if it was a last resort, he would minimize casualties, declared Buddhism as the state religion, and engraved the spirit of the edict and the Dharma on the cliff walls and stone pillars, which became the famous Ashoka Cliff Edict and Stone Pillar Edict.

The Dharma advocated includes the following basic elements: love and compassion for people, including filial piety to parents, kindness to relatives, friends, and others, respect for the lives of animals, as they are also part of the "equality of all beings"; to do more good deeds that will help the public, such as building bridges and roads, planting trees and pavilions, etc.; to be tolerant of other religions, giving Jainism, Brahmanism, and Ajakunka their rightful place, and prohibiting attacks between different sects.

Emperor Ashoka donated a large amount of property and land to Buddhism, and also built Buddhist buildings throughout the country, and it is said that a total of 84,000 Buddha relics stupas were built to enshrine Buddha bones.

In order to dispel the controversy between the different sects of Buddhism, Emperor Ashoka invited the famous monk Elder Moggallam Zi Tesu to gather a thousand bhikshus and hold a great assembly in the city of Fahrenheit, expelling the outer ways, sorting out the scriptures, and compiling the "Treatise on Things".

After Anu's introduction, Zhao Liang became interested in this Ashoka and really wanted to enter the Tianzhu Palace to meet this king with legendary experience.

After Anu introduced the basic history of Tianzhu, he introduced the basic situation of the Peacock Dynasty to Zhao Liang.

The Mauryan Dynasty was an empire of monarchs, the king held the supreme power in all aspects, the king decided important policies, appointed important officials, and had the highest executive power; the edicts and decrees issued by the king became laws and had the highest legislative power; the king was the decision-maker and supreme commander of the country's military operations, and had the highest military power; the king also tried important cases and had the highest judicial power; the king sent secret agents to all parts of the country to spy on the actions of officials and people, and had the highest supervisory power.

The king was assisted by a group of advisers and officials, and there were three types of officials: the first was the governor in charge of local affairs, who was responsible for the construction of canals, the measurement of land, and the supervision of the equitable distribution of irrigation water, the management of hunters, and the granting of rewards and punishments as appropriate, the collection of taxes and supervision of land-related trades such as logging and mining, and the construction of roads, and the second group of governors in charge of the city, who were divided into six groups of five people each, each responsible for handicrafts, aliens, registration of births and deaths, market transactions, and weights and measures. The third group was the military chiefs, who were divided into six groups of five men each, and each group was responsible for the navy, the logistics baggage, the infantry, the cavalry, the chariots, and the elephants.

During the Mauryan period, the army consisted of six parts:

1. The Moro, i.e. the professional army or hereditary army, they are the standing army and the basic armed force of the country.

2. Brito, that is, mercenaries, they are strong in battle, but they fight for profit.

3. The shlenny, i.e., the guild army, was made up of urban craftsmen who served the army with artisanal skills, the equivalent of logistical soldiers, who served for a shorter period and were in fact a kind of militia.

Fourth, Amidoro, the foreign ** team of the alliance.

5. Midoro, the army provided by the vassal king or his allies.

6. Athabija, refers to the army of the forest tribe (barbarian tribe), which is said to be brave and good at war, but it is not easy to command, and there is no accurate number of troops during the imperial period.