Yamazaki returned to Buzhou Mountain and continued to live with Gu Linger and Yang Chuan.
Liu You worked hard for a year to appease the kings, and then officially proclaimed himself emperor (New Year's Day, 355th year of the Linghai Calendar). He then sent people to bring him a lot of gifts, and also granted him the title of Protector of the Country.
Yamazaki couldn't turn back - those people didn't dare to accept it, so they had to go to the imperial capital in person and throw everything into Liu You's palace.
Liu You and his beauty were woken up in the middle of the night and were frightened.
In order to have a stable life, Liu You gave up all his efforts. He withdrew the imperial edict the next day and stopped pursuing Yamazaki's idea.
But what has been said cannot be taken back, the legend remains, and the cause and effect is sown.
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Although Liu You's dynasty implemented benevolent policies, there was no peace. One after another struggle for power began around the throne of the emperor.
After he proclaimed himself emperor, he granted everyone the title of king as agreed, but then he was worried about causing chaos and became jealous, which led to war.
Because the people turned to him, he was able to put down the rebellion among the kings within a few years.
It was just retribution for his dishonesty. He was struck by a poisonous arrow, and by the time it was discovered that it was a poisonous arrow, he was already hopeless.
After his death (in the 362nd year of the Linghai calendar), his wife used his prestige and power.
When the Empress Dowager Lu was alive, she naturally had all the power in the world, and the Lu family dominated the court with one hand.
Someone from the Liu family secretly came to see Yamazaki, hoping that he would help the world.
Yamazaki saw him and advised him to go back and wait.
This matter is something that Liu You owes Empress Lu, and the Liu family owes to the Lu family. No one can control the cause and effect, so you can't kill the Queen Mother, right?
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Ten years later, Empress Lu sent people to find Yamazaki, asking her to live forever.
Yamazaki told the visitor that he had no medicine for immortality, but only one way to achieve immortality, which was to practice Taoism.
If Empress Lu wants to live forever, she must feign death and abdicate, retreat to the mountains and forests, and do ascetic practices in the mountains and wilds, so that she can realize the heart of heaven.
Whether he can succeed or not does not depend on him, but on the practitioner himself, depending on how willing he is.
The more worldly things you give up, the more likely you are to achieve eternal life.
If you can let go of everything, you will definitely live forever.
If you cannot let go of your family, country and the world, even if you are as powerful as Emperor Qin, you will not be able to live forever.
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Empress Lu believed it, but not entirely, so she sent someone to grind it.
Yamazaki just thought of it as training his mind, and he didn't pay much attention to it because he was convinced of his words.
Anyway, the other party's identity is an envoy, so the name is justifiable and the cause and effect are not many.
After five years of this (377 years of the Linghai calendar), the Queen Mother Lu died. Naturally, the Lu family could no longer suppress her. They preemptively attempted to usurp the throne, but were defeated by Liu Hao's veterans.
It was the fifteenth night of the first lunar month. In order to commemorate it, the new emperor held activities every year. Over time, it became a festival and was spread throughout the country by caravans, adding great excitement to the first month.
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Although the situation has stabilized, the princes are still there.
However, the new emperor promoted benevolent policies and convinced people with virtue, which suppressed the kings and was unable to resist.
After reigning for more than 20 years, he won a lot of popular support for the Liu family, reduced the area of the princes' territories, and expanded the number of counties directly under their jurisdiction.
Later emperors, in order to unify the hearts of the people under the rule of the princes, suppressed the princes and introduced Confucianism.
Use the monarch and his ministers to win over the people and unify the imperial power.
But the problem soon arose, and some thoughtful people came up with another explanation.
The ministers of the king are ministers, and the ministers of ministers are ministers of ministers, not ministers of the king.
The emperor can manage ministers, but he cannot manage ministers' generals. Otherwise, he is not a good emperor, let alone a gentleman.
Rather, he is an insidious villain who tries to figure out the minister's thoughts with a villain's heart every day and does not hesitate to control the minister's generals.
The emperor was very troubled by this. In theory, it was true, but if the family was going to take the blame for the master, it would be endless.
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The root of the world's chaos was thus planted.
However, what came first was the result of the concentration of imperial power - the emperor was tyrannical and no one could rule it, and no one in the clan could control it, otherwise they would be labeled as treason, seizing the throne, etc. The bad thing was that they would be claustrophobic for life.
Only powerful ministers dared to rule the emperor, but it was a thankless task. Learning from past mistakes, in the end the whole family was liquidated despite great glory.
Later, all the powerful ministers became relatives, and they were both prosperous and prosperous with the emperor. In the end, the relatives deceived the superiors and concealed their power, and got out of control.
The emperor's ambition fully exploded in the words of welcome and flattery, and he sent troops to the east to conquer the west of Shenzhou, and to attack the kingdoms of the descendants of the Zhou Dynasty.
They are not rivals, it's just that the descendants of the Zhou Dynasty also have Luzhou in Beiju. The two sides didn't deal with each other originally, but after all, they were named Ji. Now that they were attacked by the surnamed Liu, they naturally formed an alliance.
So the war on the three continents was ignited, and the Ji family followed the path of Taoism, and the Liu family followed the path of Confucianism.
In other words, it was Yuanshi Dao Zun who fought against Taishang Dao Zun, and Tongtian Dao Zun made his stomach hurt from laughing.
Yuanshi Dao Zun couldn't help it, it was cause and effect.
Back then, because Emperor Qin had practiced the Jie Jiao technique to guide cause and effect, an uninitiated disciple of the Chan Jiao went to assassinate Emperor Qin.
Later, he joined Liu Ye's army, helped Liu Ye conquer the world, and finally defeated Xiang Yu.
Although cause and effect were entangled, he did not achieve immortality in the end, but after going to the underworld, he still ascended to heaven and became a celestial being due to his merits, and he would become a disciple of Chan in the future.
This cause and effect is deeply involved, and it can be regarded as part of the destiny of Buddhism. After all, it is the internal fighting of Taoism, one is declining and the other is increasing.
On the other hand, this is also the day when Confucianism will gradually replace Taoism, because the emperors of the world are becoming more and more immoral.
In order to fight for power and maintain power, most emperors stopped being gentlemen.
Because of the entanglement of cause and effect, it is impossible to live past the age of 120, let alone live forever.
The important task of educating the world was transferred from the Taoist sect to the Confucian sect.
The Taoist door is still there, but the Tao is inactive. If it doesn't do anything, no one will know about it, and it won't be seen. It will just hide in the world naturally.
As for when it will disappear, God knows.
Maybe in a few thousand years, although Taoism is still in the world, it will become a legend.
Tao, inaction!
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The war has raged for more than twenty years. Although the Ji family's side has been wiped out several countries, it has not been defeated. The Liu family's side is still alive, but the people's livelihood is difficult.
Emperor Liu was getting old, and he suddenly realized that those things were all external things, and it was the people on both sides who suffered, and every life was lost.
The two sides ceased fighting, but did not negotiate peace. The hatred was so deep that there was no room for negotiation.
(Linghai Calendar 468) Emperor Liu went to Buzhou Mountain City to ask Yamazaki. Yamazaki told him that he had too many karma and could not live forever. Even if he faked his death and abdicated the throne, he would not be able to live forever.
This was probably due to the shock. He became more greedy for power and fearful of death. After returning, he disrupted the government, killed ministers, and even his son, thinking that he was treason.
So much so that after his death, the new emperor who replaced him was only seven years old.
How difficult it is for a seven-year-old child to become the emperor.
So much so that he died of illness early at the age of twenty-one, probably because he didn't want to stay in this cruel world.
Another new emperor of the Liu family was promoted to the throne by powerful ministers, but he was deposed by the powerful ministers because of his lack of etiquette and incompetence, and he only became emperor for twenty-seven days.
Later, the powerful officials appointed a new emperor.
The shortcomings of Confucianism and Taoism are fully exposed, but there is no way to reverse it within the dynasty.