In the northeastern corner of Africa, on the west coast of the Indian Ocean, the original wooden bones were built, and now Izumo City, the capital of the Chu Kingdom, was built on the basis of the original wooden bones.
Standing on the seaside on the west coast of the Indian Ocean, although it is very close to the equator, the climate is very cool, comfortable, and the trees are green.
Whenever the sun rises over the eastern sea, the clouds and mist rising from the sea are layer upon layer and glowing red. Therefore, the King of Chu occupied this place and renamed it Izumo Castle.
In the early morning, the golden sunshine shines on Izumo City. Looking from a distance, the whole city seems to be covered with golden gauze. The Chu Palace on the top of the mountain has a large number of glass windows shining with dazzling light.
It looks like you are bathing in a golden ocean.
"Dang~dang~"
On a hill slightly lower than the palace, there was a burst of bells from a Buddhist temple.
The king of Chu, Zhu Junhua, believed in Buddhism. After establishing the vassal state of Chu here, he also imitated the Middle East. Countries in the Western world also regarded Buddhism as the state religion of Chu. They built temples here to promote Buddhism, and at the same time banned local original practices.
The spread of sylj requires everyone to convert to Buddhism.
Therefore, Buddhism has a very high status in Chu State, attracting a large number of eminent monks from the Ming Dynasty, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Japan, and Korea to come to Chu State to spread Buddhism.
As the bell rang, the entire Izumo City seemed to wake up and gradually became lively.
The forty-year-old King of Chu also got up early. As a devout believer, he got up every morning to worship Buddha. After worshiping Buddha, he would go to the morning court to discuss state affairs with ministers.
"My lord, you seem to have a lot of things on your mind."
Master Huiming looked at King Chu who was worshiping the Buddha. He could tell at a glance that King Chu was gloomy and gloomy. It was obvious that his life was not comfortable.
"To be honest, Master, I have been very troubled recently."
King Chu stood up and saluted Master Huiming in front of him. This was a truly eminent monk.
He was already quite famous during the Ming Dynasty, and later followed Du Mingen's fleet to Sri Lanka, hoping to find the place where Sakyamuni preached on the Tianzhu continent.
However, after traveling around Tianzhu Continent, he felt very disappointed, because the people on Tianzhu Continent no longer believed in Buddhism, and even tried their best to reject Buddhism and burned all Buddhist classics.
Later, Master Huiming went to Persia, Afghanistan and other regions. However, these regions were similar to those on the Tianzhu continent and had no Buddhist heritage for a long time.
In response to this, after careful research and learning about many sects such as Catholicism, YSLJ, and Hinduism, Master Huiming put forward a brand-new point of view. He believed that the reason why Buddhism was cut off from its inheritance in mainland China, Persia, Afghanistan and other regions was that
The main reason is because Buddhism emphasizes fate, and whether you believe in Buddhism or not is entirely up to you.
However, these religions are extremely aggressive and exclusive, so once the secular regime expands, these religions can expand rapidly and exclude Buddhism.
Therefore, Master Huiming called on Buddhist monks from the Ming Dynasty, Korea, Japan, Nanyang, Uszang, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and other places to actively spread Buddhism and let more people believe in Buddhism. Otherwise, in the future, Buddhism will definitely be
Other religions are excluded and squeezed out.
He wrote many letters to famous eminent monks from all over the world, telling them about his discoveries and proposing his home field. He also received strong support from eminent monks from all over the world.
In Buddhism, a new school is gradually emerging, the Buddhism-only sect!
The Buddhist-only sect, headed by Master Huiming, based on the eight traditional schools, absorbed many classics from traditional sects, and at the same time combined a large number of teachings and views from several other world religions to put forward an extremely distinct point of view.
That is to vigorously spread Buddhism and enlighten the world with Buddhism.
For this reason, Buddhist monks followed the ships of the Ming Dynasty to spread Buddhism to various places around the world.
Because people in the Ming Dynasty generally believe in Buddhism and Taoism, wherever there are people from the Ming Dynasty, Buddhist monks will build temples and spread Buddhism to everyone.
In recent years, with the Ming Dynasty's global expansion, a large number of temples were built outside the Ming Dynasty. Almost all of them were built by Buddhist monks.
Whether it is in the vast grassland towns in the north of the Ming Dynasty, or on the top of the snowy mountains in the Western Regions, or on the coastline of the Golden Continent, or in the vassal states and colonies on the African continent, you can see the temples built by the Buddhist-only sect.
Temples were built and Buddhism spread. Buddhism also spread throughout the world with the expansion of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, not only Buddhism, but the Taoism native to the Ming Dynasty also spread around the world. However, Taoism has always paid attention to fate and practice in deep mountains and old forests, so it is naturally far less prosperous than Buddhism.
Among many places, Chu State was the most prosperous.
The King of Chu of Chu State believed in Buddhism and positioned Buddhism as the state religion of Chu State. This greatly promoted the development of Buddhism in Chu State, but it also caused a problem.
The State of Chu was established on the basis of the original Mugu Dushu, and the people here originally believed in the YSLJ religion, which was extremely xenophobic and rejected foreign religions.
Now the King of Chu wanted them to believe in Buddhism, which met with strong opposition from the local indigenous people. For this reason, religious uprisings and wars broke out one after another.
Fortunately, the King of Chu had an army of 10,000 people, which was well-equipped and had retired Ming soldiers and officers for training and guidance. It had strong combat effectiveness and easily suppressed the resistance of the local indigenous people time and time again.
But all this is not stable. The basis of King Chu's rule here is very weak. There are too few Han people here, only 50,000 Han people. Most of them are still distributed around Izumo City. In other places, the rule of King Chu
The force is very weak.
This was an internal worry. In addition, external worries also made the King of Chu anxious.
Coming from the Ethiopian Empire in the north, the Ethiopian Empire was an enclave of Christianity. Starting from the 4th century AD, the emperor of the Axum Empire at that time began to believe in Christianity and gradually promoted Christianity.
After the rise of the Arab Empire, Christianity was rapidly disintegrated in North Africa, leaving only Ethiopia, a region that still believed in Christianity.
By the 13th century, the Aksumite Empire gradually collapsed and was replaced by the Solomonic Dynasty. The Solomonic Dynasty claimed to be the direct descendants of King Solomon of Israel and the Queen of Sheba, and also believed in Christianity.
Up to now, the Ethiopian Solomon Dynasty has been very strong and powerful. It is actively expanding externally. On the one hand, it intends to reconnect with the Christian world. On the other hand, it is constantly at war with many sultanates in the north and east to resist the invasion of the Arabs.
Naturally, the Ethiopian Empire vigorously opposed and suppressed the Chu State that suddenly came to Mugudusu, quickly occupied it, and vigorously promoted Buddhism here.
In just a few years, the Chu State fought dozens of battles with the Ethiopian Empire. Although it relied on a powerful army, the Chu State often won, but the number of people was so large, coupled with internal worries.
At the same time, Adal and other sultanates in the northeast were extremely unfriendly to Chu because of Chu's rejection of the YSLJ religion, and would often go to war against Chu.
Amid the internal and external troubles, life in Chu was not going well, and the King of Chu was naturally worried.
"Master~"
"Originally, I was attracted by the frankincense and myrrh here, so I chose to establish a vassal state here. In addition, I believe in Buddhism, so I vigorously promote Buddhism here."
"But you also know the current situation. The local indigenous people are trying their best to resist our rule. The external enemies are also the Chu Kingdom. If Izumo City is attacked that day, our Chu Kingdom will be doomed."
King Chu sighed and explained the situation at hand to Master Huiming helplessly.
"What makes me even more angry is that Naod from Ethiopia actually sent people over, threatening to marry my daughter and make her his princess."
"This is simply a toad trying to eat swan meat. I am the King of Chu in the Ming Dynasty and I am of royal blood. How can I mix my children with these lowly barbarian natives?"
"I really want to lead my army to kill this Naod, but I only have these 10,000 troops in my hands. It is already good to be able to defend the territory of Chu. Once the army goes north, these local natives will most likely be killed early.
At the same time, external enemies will take the opportunity to attack Chu."
"I am now humiliated and unable to avenge my shame. I am truly ashamed of my ancestors of the Ming Dynasty!"
When he said this, King Chu felt extremely ashamed.
He is the noble Prince of the Ming Dynasty. The blood of the Ming Dynasty royal family flows in his blood, and his status is extremely noble.
However, now that he was humiliated, he was unable to cleanse and humiliate his enemies. This made the King of Chu feel very ashamed and had no face to see his ancestors.
Master Huiming listened carefully and understood immediately.
In these years, with the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty people were active all over the world. Because of its powerful force, the Ming Empire conquered too many places, wiped out too many countries, tribes, etc., and wiped out all the countries.
The people of the country were reduced to slaves.
The people of Ming Dynasty are aloof, and in addition, people of Ming Dynasty are very proud, so naturally they develop the character of people of Ming Dynasty who are aloof and proud.
In the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty are naturally the most noble, and the others are all uncivilized barbarians. In addition to the Ming Dynasty, people from all over the world are divided into three, six or nine grades.
Like the Koreans, the Japanese are very similar to the Ming Dynasty people. They also learned the Ming Dynasty characters, customs, language, etc., so they are naturally second only to the Ming Dynasty people.
Then there are many tribes within the Ming Dynasty that surrendered to the Emperor of Heaven. These tribes are loyal to the Emperor of Heaven. Now that they are learning Chinese etiquette, they are naturally more noble.
Next are the people outside the Ming Dynasty who can build powerful countries and civilizations, such as the Ottoman Empire, Persians, Europeans, etc.
Next came those who did not establish their own strong countries and civilizations, but still developed decent ones, such as the people in Nanyang, the Tianzhu people, etc.
At the bottom are the Kunlun slaves in Africa. These Kunlun slaves are too dark in appearance and do not conform to the aesthetics of the Ming people. Secondly, they have not developed any decent civilization or country. Therefore, the Ming people despise and look down on them.
, even the people of the Ming Dynasty did not even like to use these Kunlun slaves, but preferred to use Bai slaves and Tianzhu slaves.
The king of Chu has a noble status. He is the prince of the Ming Dynasty and the blood of Emperor Taizu. This status is noble and extraordinary no matter where he is.
However, now, the Kunlun slaves, who are native Africans, are clamoring for marriage and marrying their own daughters. In the eyes of the King of Chu, this is absolutely an insult and the greatest shame.
Such a thing, let alone it happened, even if such a rumor came out, it would be extremely insulting to the King of Chu. If this matter spread, the King of Chu would be laughed to death.
