Jianzhen's second eastward journey was about two years later. After a long period of preparation, in 744 AD, Jianzhen, fourteen monks, and eighty-five craftsmen, together they bought

A ship was about to go to sea. However, God did not realize what he wanted. As a result, the ship was sunk by wind and waves as soon as it reached the mouth of the Yangtze River. It seemed that the quality of the ship was not very good? However, Jianzhen and the others did not give up.

Instead, the ship was repaired. After the ship was repaired, it encountered strong winds after going out to sea. As a result, the entire ship was uncontrollably driven away by the wind and drifted to a small island in the Zhoushan Islands. It took Jianzhen and the others about five days to return to Yuyao.

, is the Asoka Temple in our modern Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Although the two Japanese monks still wanted to continue their eastward journey at this time, unfortunately, because temples in various places invited Jianzhen to give lectures, the second eastward journey was put on hold.

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The third trip eastward was to Yuezhou, which is our modern Shaoxing. This time it was also arranged by two Japanese monks, Rongrui and Amaterasu. Unfortunately, in order to save Jianzhen, the monks in Shaoxing sued the Japanese monks to the government.

Rongrui, the government put Rongrui in jail, and Jianzhen had to give up.

During the fourth trip to the East, Jianzhen’s apprentice Lingyou was worried about his master’s safety because Jianzhen was too old and could not afford to do anything. So Lingyou complained to the government and begged the government to handle the matter and get the government to stop it.

His master Jianzhen was left behind. The officials also felt that Jianzhen was too old and could not withstand the hardships, so they stepped in to stop him. As a result, Jianzhen's eastward journey failed again.

On the fifth eastward journey, Jianzhen and others took a boat out to sea, but encountered strong winds and blew them to Hainan Island. Jianzhen and others spent about a year on Hainan Island, and returned to Yangzhou a year later. These five

After many setbacks in his eastward journey, Jianzhen was already sixty-three years old at this time, and he had an old man's concept. He also suffered from eye disease and soon lost his sight. However, Jianzhen and the Japanese monk's ambitions did not change, and they vowed to

To cross eastward to Japan.

In 753 AD, Jianzhen finally arrived in Japan with Japan's envoys to the Tang Dynasty. Jianzhen was welcomed by the whole country of Japan, because the Buddhist culture in Japan was very prosperous at this time, and the Emperor of Japan made Jianzhen the capital of the great monks.

It became the Vinaya sect of Japan, which is a branch of Buddhism and the founder.

After Jianzhen arrived in Japan this time, in addition to spreading Buddhism, his entourage also taught our Chinese architecture, medicine, sculpture, painting and other technologies to the Japanese. And Japanese medicine regards Jianzhen as a medical way.

The ancestor of Japan, the medical bags are all affixed with authentic images. So we can see from here that all the cultural systems of Japan in this period, even the architecture, medical, military, and other series of systems are all from our Tang Dynasty China.

The copied version in Korea is the same, so Japan's development is very rapid.

Jianzhen lived in Japan for ten years and passed away peacefully facing the west in Toshodai Temple in Nara, the capital of Japan, in 763 AD. He was seventy-six years old.

Okay, after we talked here, we understand that Japan is developing very well, and is also willing to accept higher culture than them and even any other architecture, medical treatment, etc., and will not feel repelled by these things that are more advanced than them.

, but humbly learn and use it in practice. This is the strength of the Japanese, because few people can do this kind of thing, and this is a concept that can be implemented in Japan as a whole. At this point we

It is not difficult to see that the Japanese are really awesome! They are willing to accept higher culture with an open mind and make changes.

We now understand that some countries are willing to accept advanced culture and even technology and are pious. This is different from what we have seen before, whether it is Alexander, Persia, or even the Roman Empire, etc., and the concepts of these empires are different.

Yes, the wars between these empires also accelerated the advancement of culture while killing people, but the speed was very slow, because the main purpose of the wars was still burning, killing and looting. But Japan is different in this regard. The Japanese are open-minded and open to more

Countries with advanced cultures learn and imitate, thus avoiding large-scale civil wars in their own countries and more unnecessary deaths.

But regardless of whether we think other Western countries are wrong, or the Japanese are right, or that the Japanese are too opportunistic and use management models and technologies that others have summarized after war, no matter what we think, in short we

The world is like this, and history continues to advance step by step. Western countries are still in endless wars, and people at the top are dying in large numbers every day, not to mention civilians.

So we continue to talk about Western countries in this era. Why do we keep talking about Western countries? In fact, this is very simple. The wars in Western countries have never stopped in our high-tech modern era.

They like to burn, kill and loot, and they have made reflections, but they have never stopped wars because of the emergence of these reflections. We can also understand that all the management and even the advancement of science and technology done by Western countries are purely for the sake of

The only purpose is to burn, kill and loot.

We have always understood that Western countries have always been at war, and the powerful Roman Empire, that is, the Western Roman Empire, has split out of control again, so the war is still going on, mainly to snatch resources. After all, we humans are strange creatures.

Is it? We have made a more rational analysis many times before. We just like power, reputation, wealth, and even being high above others, like being extravagant and lustful, and we like to be extravagant.

So we move the historical time back a little. At this time, in the autumn of 633 AD, more than 3,000 Arabs heard that Syria was very rich and had many resources, and they wanted to plunder it. So far, this is

Starting from the Arabian Peninsula, we headed towards Syria in the north.

The Arab army encountered an expeditionary force from the Eastern Roman Empire in the depression south of the Dead Sea. This expeditionary force from the Eastern Roman Empire was also burning, killing, and looting, and then a big battle broke out between the Arabs and the Roman expeditionary force.

.Although they all came out to burn, kill and loot, people on both sides did not like each other. After the war started in this depression, it was simply terrible! In addition, the high-level officials of the Eastern Roman Empire at this time were still in a state of decay.

Moreover, the Roman army was almost all recruited through compulsory conscription, so its combat effectiveness was very low. The Arabs almost killed the entire army until it was annihilated! After the Arabs packed up the armor and even weapons around the Roman soldiers on the battlefield, they left here and continued to move forward.

When the emperor of Eastern Rome heard about this, he was very angry! Because the Roman emperor still thought that this expeditionary army would bring a wider territory to their Roman Empire, or more resources and slaves.

But the Arabs obviously ruined the dream of the Roman emperor. Although the top management of the Roman Empire at this time was in decay, unfortunately the entire Roman Empire was still a behemoth. Therefore, the Roman emperor sent his younger brother to personally lead a large number of troops in order to find the Arabs.

The army of the Roman army drove them all away. This time the Roman emperor was not joking with the Arab army. There were not many Arabs this time, so they were completely annihilated by the Roman army. There were corpses everywhere and rivers of blood. There were not even a few Arabs.

The Arab fighters fled, and the entire battlefield was horrific.

But will the Arabs just give up? No! They believe that although the Roman Empire was a giant, it was still some distance away from their Arabian Peninsula. Furthermore, the top management of Rome was simply decadent and unfit for long-term or large-scale operations. Therefore,

The King of Arabia, Caliph Bakr, of course refused to admit defeat. The army they went to rob was annihilated. Is this a joke? So the King of Arabia ordered the army that was looting in Iraq at this time, also known as: the Sword of Allah.

Khalid once again attacks Syria, this time he must seize resources.

This time, in order to surprise the enemy, General Khalid led his army across the desert instead of taking the main road. He then wanted to annihilate Damascus, the capital of Syria, and then march eastward to attack the Eastern Roman army for revenge!

So at the beginning of 634 AD, Khalid selected more than 800 very elite cavalry, each riding a camel, and only brought a relatively small number of horses with them, and set off. And each horse had a

There was a large skin bag filled with water.

This behavior caused a cavalry in the Arab army to question, so he asked Khalid: Dear general, our cavalry all fight on horseback. But now there are only a few horses, how on earth do we fight?

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Khalid smiled and gave an explanation: Only camels can cross the very arid desert, not horses.

At this point, the cavalry had been riding camels for a whole day in the desert, and they were hungry and thirsty. At this time, General Khalid ordered the team to stop and rest, and then killed ten more camels for meat and got water from the horses.

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At this time, another soldier was very confused, so he asked their general again: Dear general, what should I do about the horses? They also need to drink water.

Khalid smiled again and replied: There is enough water in the camel's stomach that the horse can drink.

It turns out that this is because Khalid considered that if he brought too many horses when crossing the desert, he would also need to bring more drinking water. Over time, drinking water would become difficult. But now he brought more camels and it was solved.

Regarding this question, the meat from the camel can be eaten by the soldiers, and the water in the camel's stomach can be given to the horse to drink.
Chapter completed!