"The poor monk (poor Taoist) pays homage to the king!"
Zen Master Debao and Zhou Yuzhen were both invited into the palace to see Wang Yuan, who had been back in Beijing for a month.
Yin Bingheng and Qi Jiguang stood at Wang Yuan's left and right with swords in their hands.
Yin Bingheng scolded: "Your Majesty!"
The monk and Taoist were stunned, "Your Majesty" is over the limit. The King of Tianzhu is equivalent to the King of Korea, and can only be called "King" or "Your Highness". "Your Majesty" is exclusive to the Ming Emperor.
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter."
Zen Master Debao and Zhou Yuzhen were very sensible, and they both called you Your Majesty. They were also told by Wang Yuan that in the future, when meeting the king, there is no need to kneel down and kowtow unless there are important occasions such as sacrifices.
Zhou Yu really thought: If you hadn't told me earlier, I would have knelt down twice just now.
Wang Yuan asked them to sit down and said with a smile: "Master Zhou, long time no see."
Zhou Yuzhen also said: "Yes, the last time I met His Majesty was a few years ago during the Great Sacrifice of Heaven and Earth."
Wang Yuan lied again and said: "The name of Zen Master Debao is well known in Beijing, and I have been admiring him for a long time."
Zen Master Debao said: "It is a name that is not worth mentioning."
Wang Yuan directly appointed him an official: "You two condescended to come to Tianzhu, so you should be treated with great respect. They also entered the Hanlin Academy and became Hanlin bachelors and were appointed to the religious department. Zhenren Zhou was also appointed as Zuo Zhengyi, the Taoist priest.
Zen Master Debao also taught the monk Lu Sizuo Shanshi."
Zuo Zhengyi and Zuo Shanshi both held religious positions in the Ming Dynasty. The former was the top Taoist priest in the country, and the latter was the top monk in the country.
During the Ming Dynasty, Wudang was indeed at its peak, but Wudang was similar to the emperor's family temple.
It can be seen from the official positions in the imperial court that Zhengdao is the leader of the Taoist sects, Quanzhen Tao can only succumb to it, and Wudang happens to belong to Quanzhen Tao. As for Longhu Mountain, the title of "Tianshi" was banned by the court, and Long
The Celestial Master of Hushan is called "the real person of Sijiao".
Zhou Yu really understood the religious official position, and he asked doubtfully: "Your Majesty, can a Taoist priest also be a Hanlin bachelor?"
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Okay."
"The poor Taoist is frightened." Zhou Yuzhen was secretly happy, feeling that this trip was the right one, and he would one day become a Hanlin bachelor.
Wang Yuan warned: "You two are highly virtuous, but I have only one request."
"Your Majesty, please speak clearly." Zen Master Debao and Zhou Yuzhen said in unison.
Wang Yuan said: "While you are developing believers, you should also urge believers to learn Chinese and write Chinese characters. Gu's requirements for the naturalization of indigenous people are very low, as long as they are willing to give up their original beliefs, can communicate in Chinese, and can write including
Just a few dozen Chinese characters including your own name. You two high virtues, I don’t care how many believers you develop every year, I only care how many of your believers convert into Han Chinese every year!”
This can be regarded as setting the assessment indicators, based on the number of Han Chinese who are naturalized every year.
Zhou Yuzhen was overjoyed. If he took the grassroots route to gain momentum, he really couldn't beat Monk Debao. But he could take the mid-level and high-level route. He would win based purely on the quality of his followers. At least the middle-level and high-level ones would have an advantage in learning to write Chinese characters.
It's a pity that Zhou Yuzhen didn't understand the situation. The middle and high-level people in India either believe in neogreen religion or Hinduism. It is very difficult to convert them to Taoism.
On the contrary, it is the people at the bottom, and it is very easy to trick them into converting, but it is more difficult to learn Chinese and Chinese characters.
Of course, as long as the letter is accepted, untouchables can also forcibly memorize Chinese characters. This is not nonsense. Christianity is illegally preached in rural areas of China, and many illiterate old ladies can slowly learn to read the Chinese version of the Bible (the author Jun was raped when he was a child)
The grandma next door is so annoying. She can ask you for some very simple Chinese characters dozens of times. She remembers them one day and forgets them the next.)
After meeting Wang Yuan, the monks each received a sum of money and an abandoned temple.
They were not picky and took the monks and Taoists to live in the house, and hired craftsmen to make clay statues of gods.
Zhou Yuzhen enshrines Lingbao Tianzun, accompanied by Wang Lingguan and Sa Celestial Master (Sa Shoujian). For the time being, the Taoist temple will only build three statues of gods. Taishang Laojun and other statues will have to wait until the business is developed.
Zhou Yuzhen found another translator, and while learning the indigenous language, he used the translator to develop believers.
Three months later, the Taoist temple finally gained some popularity. Unfortunately, they were all Han immigrants and there were no local Indian believers. This guy's medical skills were useless, because there were Han doctors in Peiyang City for a long time, and most of the medicinal materials were still there.
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Zhou Yuzhen finally panicked, called his disciples and asked, "Why don't you see Debao Bald Donkey these days?"
The disciple replied: "Zen Master Debao has led the believers to Fuzhou."
Fuzhou is a small green country in the north of Tongzhou. After the Sudanese coalition forces slaughtered the city and destroyed the country, a large amount of land was deserted. Wang Yuan immigrated a group of people there and renamed it "Fuzhou", but it was still very deserted.
Just the opposite of Zhou Yuzhen, Zen Master Debao absorbed too many untouchables into the religion.
These untouchables can only make a lowly living, and often cannot find a job, so they can only make a living as beggars from meal to meal.
At the beginning, Zen Master Debao used his missionary funds to buy food to relieve the hungry untouchables. This move immediately attracted more untouchables to join the religion, directly eating up all Zen Master Debao's funds.
In desperation, Zen Master Debao met with Wang Yuan again and asked for a piece of land to be leased to the untouchables. He also wanted to borrow seeds and farm tools.
Wang Yuan readily agreed, and even made a gracious promise: after cultivating the wasteland for three years, you need to pay taxes according to regulations. If you pay taxes for five years, the wasteland will belong to the cultivator.
As a result, Zen Master Debao took thousands of untouchables who could not farm, and carried a large number of farm tools and seeds to Fuzhou in the north to open up wasteland for farming. Along the way, he continued to recruit untouchables into the religion, and the number of believers soon exceeded 10,000, and the hardships began.
pioneering career.
The monk himself did not know how to farm, and the food he grew in the first year was not enough for the believers to eat.
Zen Master Debao rushed back to train and asked Wang Yuan to send several farming experts to Fuzhou as farming teachers. Under the guidance of Han farmers, they not only cultivated intensively, but Zen Master Debao also personally led the untouchables to dig aqueducts.
Zen Master Debao kept teaching (washing) the Dharma (brain) to the untouchables, making them firmly believe that their ancestors were kings, and they were punished as untouchables only because they offended the Buddha. As long as they are dedicated to good deeds, work hard, and learn to speak Chinese
, if you can write dozens of Chinese characters, you can get rid of your untouchable status forever.
And this monk himself no longer practices Zen Buddhism, but practices Pure Land Buddhism with all his strength. He also reformed the Pure Land Buddhism method. They don’t want to be reborn in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. They want to build a Pure Land on earth in Fuzhou!
Two years later, hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the northern suburbs of Fuzhou were all reclaimed by Buddhist believers, and a small number of Sudra castes were also added.
It was also in this year that two Han people were naturalized by indigenous Buddhist believers.
Zen Master Debao solemnly announced that the two naturalized Han people had got rid of their status as untouchables and gave them his lay surname "Wu". The two naturalized Han people were overjoyed and carried their Han waist badges with them all day long.
The waist badge is the naturalization certificate issued to them by the government.
While Zen Master Debao's Buddhist followers exceeded 20,000, poor Taoist Zhou Yuzhen only had two indigenous Taoist followers...
However, these two believers were of high quality, one was Rama, the cabinet minister, and the other was Kapati, a doctor in the Ministry of War. The father and son were forced to give up Hinduism, and they felt empty and panicked, so they muddleheadedly embraced Taoism.
With this reminder, Zhou Yuzhen finally had an idea and attracted Rama and Kapati's whole family into Taoism.
Then he went to Peiyang University founded by Huang E, as well as the school for reforming prisoners of the Sudanese royal family, specializing in the development of those indigenous people with special status.
The results were dumbfounding, and the efficiency of naturalization was very high. In just half a year, eight indigenous Taoist believers passed the imperial examination and were naturalized as Han citizens, leaving the Buddhists far behind.
It's just that in the third year of their mission, Zen Master Debao came up with a big killer weapon.
Zen Master Debao returned to Beijing to meet Wang Yuan and requested that teachers be sent to open schools in his missionary areas to teach the children of believers to read, hoping to convert a large number of indigenous children into Han people.
When Master Zhou heard the news, he was speechless for a moment. He really couldn't fight this time!