Chapter 647 Li Shimin Wants to Live Together with Heaven and Earth
On the surface, the Journey to the West project has been a perfect success.
But Feng Zhou's sudden appearance changed everything.
He established a powerful country covering an area of thousands of miles between Datang and Lingshan. This country not only had a prosperous country and strong people, but also paid attention to the introduction of advanced Eastern culture, and at the same time established a rigorous intellectual (scientific) system.
Although Taoism is strong in this country, Buddhism also occupies a sufficient share.
A poet once praised: "There are 480 temples in the Ming Dynasty, and how many towers are in the mist and rain."
It is enough to show the strength of Buddhism.
But all this has nothing to do with Lingshan.
No matter how prosperous the Buddhist temples in the Ming Dynasty were, no matter how many people worshiped him, and no matter how devout their beliefs were, it was the Buddha Feng Zhou who was worshiped.
Those who worshiped were also many monks who preached scriptures and realized Buddha, Bodhisattva and Arhat.
Lingshan cannot feel or enjoy it at all.
If this is the case, the Blessed One will recognize it.
After all, Fengzhou is the supreme being in the world, the country is unparalleled in strength, the people are prosperous and prosperous, and the power of Buddhism is no weaker than that of Lingshan.
Even with the risk of division, Lingshan Buddhism may not be able to do as well as Ming Dynasty Buddhism.
So Tathagata had no choice but to swallow his breath.
However, the lack of control between Tang Monk and his disciples made Tathagata feel the danger of the split between Western Heaven Buddhism and Eastern Earth Buddhism.
Sanzang of the Tang Dynasty was originally selected as the most proficient in Buddhism among the hundreds of thousands of monks in the Tang Dynasty. If after he completed the study of sutras, he would be consecrated by Tathagata Buddha and grant the five of them one by one the enlightenment and fruition status.
The leadership role of Tang Buddhism will be further deepened.
The degree of participation of Guanyin Bodhisattva in it made the Buddhism of the Eastern Tang Dynasty almost under the control of Xitian Lingshan.
However, because of Kassapa and Ananda's demands for personnel, the five masters and disciples saw the wordless scriptures and became Buddhas themselves, which caused Lingshan's control over Eastern Buddhism to gradually weaken.
Although Tang Sanzang's true identity is Luo Luo, the legitimate son of the Tathagata Sakyamuni, this does not mean anything.
When it comes to the struggle for ideas and the struggle for power, the blood connection between father and son is simply not worth mentioning.
Throughout the ages, due to the struggle for ideas and power, there have been endless dramas of father and son killing each other.
Tang Sanzang's sworn elder brother is a good example of killing his brothers and imprisoning his father to gain power.
Especially in the Main Hall, facing the Buddha's downplaying of "asking for personnel", this Luoluo directly said, "We have no personnel, can you fax the sutra?", directly confronting the rift between East and West Buddhism among the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats.
before.
The two venerables Kassapa and Ananda who were the main culprits of all this are currently being held down at the foot of the Five Elements Mountain next to Lingshan Mountain.
And the master of these two is none other than the World Honored Tathagata!
Therefore, after the news spread throughout the three realms, everyone believed that the person most responsible for the journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures was the Blessed One.
As for what Amitabha, the ancestor of ten thousand Buddhas in the Asura world, would think?
Of course he would be indifferent.
Because no matter it is the Buddha Realm of the Middle Earth, the Buddha Realm of the Western Heaven, or the Buddha Realm of the Ming Dynasty, people who worship Buddha devoutly will chant "Namo Amitabha."
Therefore, he would not care at all if the Blessed One Tathagata bears a thorn to apologize.
It was when he saw this that he asked Amitabha to apologize.
Naturally, Ran Deng and Maitreya have nothing to say about the various responses of the politician Tathagata. After all, Tathagata is the Buddha and the World Honored One. Although one of them is a past Buddha and the other is a future Buddha, neither of them has any binding force on the present Buddha.
Maitreya Buddha watched the Vanishing Lord Tathagata disappear under the bodhi tree. He suddenly sighed and made a verse:
"My heart is the Buddha. He is the most spiritual being in the world of the ten directions.
The wonderful use of Zongheng is pitiful. Everything is not as true as the heart.
Teng Teng is free and doing nothing. He is a monk after all.
If you see the true great road at present, it would be a big surprise if you don't see any traces of it.
How different are all the laws and how different are the minds? Why bother searching for the meaning of the scriptures?
The King of Hearts inherently knows a lot. A wise man only knows without learning.
If you are not a saint, then you are nothing more than a saint. No distinction is made between saints and saints.
The priceless heart pearl is originally round and pure. Everything with different appearances is empty and empty.
People can spread the Tao and the Tao is clear, and have immeasurable noble and noble feelings to praise the Tao.
If you take Xiruo with you and climb the road to your homeland, don’t worry that you won’t be heard anywhere.”
The ancient Buddha of Ran Deng glanced at Maitreya and knew that he planned to experience the world of mortals, so he just smiled slightly and said nothing.
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When Tang Monk and his disciples rode the wind and clouds and returned to the Tang Dynasty, they were suddenly surprised to find that the territory of the Tang Dynasty had expanded to the Western Liang Kingdom.
The entire Northern Silk Road has fallen into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
In this way, the territories of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty intersected, firmly occupying most of Nanzhan Buzhou and one-third of Xiniu Hezhou. In this vast land, hundreds of millions of people lived, and this
Hundreds of millions of people all believe in Chinese culture.
Their country is rich and their people are strong, their army is powerful, and their culture is developed. They are the heavenly kingdom in the hearts of all the nations in the world.
What's even more rare is that these two countries are brothers. The emperors of both sides are sworn brothers. There are only a few thousand troops on each other's border, also to guard against horse bandits, mountain bandits and the like.
In fact, Tang Wang Li Shimin even dared to kill his own brother. How could he care about this sworn brother?
In fact, he had seen Feng Zhou's heroic appearance in causing trouble in the underworld, and had seen him submissively suppress the king of hell in the underworld.
If it weren't for the help of this "adopted brother", he would have only been able to be emperor for a few years.
With the force of oppression from his "adopted brother", the King of Hell allowed him to enjoy the throne for forty years. This allowed him to maintain brotherly love with the Ming Dynasty and at the same time, he was ambitious and intended to create a "prosperous age of Zhenguan".
When I died at the age of sixty-eight, my son's age, body and energy were in his prime, so he could take over.
Therefore, Li Shimin destroyed Goryeo in the east, defeated Xueyantuo in the north, and conquered Tuyuhun, Baoxiang, Wuji, Chechi, and Xiliang all the way to the west. While destroying the country, he sent Taoist priests, eminent monks, and Confucian scholars to educate them.
The country was completely Sinicized into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
Because Li Shimin realized that if the Tang Dynasty only destroyed countries without conquering them with civilization, these countries would fall into the hands of the Ming Kingdom a hundred years later.
When the time comes, all the water in the bamboo basket will be in vain.
Feng Zhou's main focus was also on governing the country.
So in the 28th year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty and the 15th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Li Shimin personally led an army to conquer the Xiliang Women's Kingdom, and moved all the officials of the Xiliang Women's Kingdom, including the king, grand master, and other officials to the east, scattered them in the various states of the Tang Dynasty, and made betrothed
To officials at all levels.
And the Queen of Xiliang, who was deeply in love with "Brother Yu," committed suicide in anger because she was forced to become a concubine by Hou Junji.
Eventually it disappeared silently into the long river of history.
At this time, Feng Zhou asked the Bull Demon King to extinguish the flames of the Flame Mountain forever, lead an army of three thousand, cross the 800-mile Flame Mountain, and hunt here with Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty.
"I didn't expect this world to be so vast. It's so big that I almost lost confidence!"
He said this, but his face was full of confidence.
Li Shimin is already fifty-six years old, but the years of fighting in his youth and the maintenance of the destiny of the underworld have kept his body in peak condition and his energy still very strong.
Even he knows that he still has at least twelve years of glorious career left.
Because there was a map of the Northern Silk Road sent by Fengzhou, Li Shimin carefully arranged it, and every battle was fought with lions and rabbits. Therefore, he was able to destroy countless countries in succession, and also made the Uighurs, Xue Yantuo and other tribes in the north respect and fear him.
Therefore, although it took sixteen years to conquer the Northern Silk Road, his conquest was a complete one, and the number of local Han people already occupied an absolute advantage.
"Yes, the world is very big. Under the control of my brother, the influence of the Tang Dynasty has quickly spread to Hezhou, Xiaobanxi Niu!"
Feng Zhou chuckled and said: "In terms of martial arts, Your Majesty can say that there is one emperor throughout the ages. Even the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors cannot compare. The fortune of the dynasty is prosperous. I hope the Tang Dynasty can continue to be so glorious!"
Nowadays, not only the four major continents, but also distant Persia, Dashi, and Qin all know the name of Tang Emperor Li Shimin like thunder and know that he is a prosperous and wise emperor.
"My dear brother, although I am the emperor of the human world, I have heard about your status in the immortal world. They say that even the Tathagata Buddha dare not teach you the Dharma. It shows that you are powerful and knowledgeable, so I have something to ask you."
"Brother, please tell me."
"Since my dear brother mentioned the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors just now, I want to know, after I die, will I be able to live as long as the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors did?"
The Three Sovereigns and the Five Emperors have great reputations due to their contributions to the human race. After their merits are completed, they are all famous in the Fire Cloud Cave. They live as long as the heaven and the earth, and shine with the sun and the moon. They will be envied by future emperors!
Li Shimin was naturally one of them. Especially as he got older, he yearned for immortality even more. But he was relatively rational and knew that the emperor had no chance of achieving immortality. In ancient times, many wise emperors were unable to protect themselves at the end of their lives.
Do Teochew operas cause turmoil and chaos to people's livelihood?
There are too many legends about this wise brother in front of him, and Li Shimin saw Feng Zhou causing trouble in the underworld with his own eyes, so he naturally had such doubts and wanted to ask for advice in person.
"Brother, you really have great ambitions. Let me tell you, I want to live as long as the world and the world like the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, but!" Feng Zhou said with a smile.
The reason why the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors can live as long as the heaven and the earth is that they have established great merits and have a very high status in the minds of the Chinese people, so they can obtain the qualification to shine with the sun and the moon by virtue of their merits.
"I...understand!"
Li Shimin's eyes lit up after listening to Feng Zhou's analysis.