Chapter 231 Daxing Buddhist Events
() Under the deception of Master Lu Junyi, a god-making movement was quickly launched in Dali, and the uninformed Dali people were resolutely resisting the Liangshan army.
At this time, the 130,000 mixed Liangshan army had just arrived at the junction of Chengdu Prefecture and Jianchang Prefecture.
After receiving the news, Song Qing immediately ordered the army to stop advancing. What he wanted was a complete Dali, not a sea of corpses and blood, nor was it a hatred with the people of Dali for generations.
Lu Junyi, you are really a storm that cannot be beaten. No matter where you go, you will be in trouble.
This matter is indeed a bit difficult to deal with. Fortunately, Shuzhong is already in his hands, so he is not afraid of confronting him for a long time, but it is not advisable to station troops on the border for a long time.
After pondering for a while, Song Qing ordered Guan Sheng to lead his troops back to Chengdu, and the Shanyue soldiers also returned to their tribes. When needed, they would find Kangba's head man to recruit him.
Zhu Wu was a little dissatisfied with Song Qing's order. The Liangshan army had already arrived at the gate of Dali. How could it not affect the morale of the army if it retreated without fighting?
Wang Yin’s suggestion was to station troops at the border and wait for an opportunity to move.
People say that they are not in charge of the family, and they are not in charge of the family, so of course they cannot understand Song Qing’s mood. How much food does the 130,000 army need to consume every day?
Since Song Qing once promised that the people in Shu would not collect taxes for three years, the Shu road was in turmoil. How many days could the grain transported from outside Sichuan alone support the army?
The Liangshan army was not a bandit, so they could kill and rob. Song Qing wanted a complete Dali, so in this case, he had to temporarily withdraw his troops.
However, there are heavy troops stationed in Chengdu Prefecture and Jianchang, which is close to Dali, can always maintain a deterrence against Dali. Once the time is ripe, you can also send troops in the shortest time.
After knowing Song Qing’s thoughts, Zhu Wu and Wang Yin felt relieved, so they began to take over the work in Shuzhong according to Song Qing’s division of labor.
Zhu Wu and Wang Yin were busy, but Song Qing fell into deep thought again.
Lu Junyi's scourge must be eliminated. Judging from the momentum he has created, it is obvious that it is not appropriate to use force. Dali will also be his own territory in the future, and it must be like Shuzhong. It must find ways to make it last forever.
Remember there is a saying that if you want it to perish, you must first make it crazy.
Mr. Lu, you are crazy first! Let’s see which of us can laugh to the end?
Chengdu is Yizhou in the early Song Dynasty. Because it is close to Tubo, Buddhism is also very popular here. It is said that the first engraved version of the Mahayana Buddhist scripture comes from here.
As a ruler, Song Qing always advocated faith in religion. However, because in the Central Plains, religious believers could not say that they could influence politics, he did not attach much importance to it, but it was not possible here. The entire Tubo region believed in Buddhism, and politics and religion could not be completely separated, so he could not ignore it.
With Wang Yin's reminder, Song Qing found the former Chengdu Prefecture officials and found out that there was also the yamen of the Monks and Political Department in the Prefecture, and the supervisor was the chief and the deputy monks.
So Song Qing picked a son and ordered someone to find the two monks.
Although these two monks are in charge of monks, they are not monks. In today's words, they are just two lay Buddhists.
The two monks, whose official position is Wu Daoquan, and their deputy position is Chang Youli.
It is really hard to say that these two brothers are now, because their wealth has been cut off since King Liang entered Shu. The reason is that King Liang has issued an order not to allow the people to become monks at will. In this way, they will not be able to make money by trading certificates.
Song Qing issued this order not to them, but before entering Shuzhong. Because he felt that after the war in Hebei, the population was severely lacking, and once he was ordained as a monk, he could run around with the certificate of tribute and not even need to plant the land, so he issued the order.
However, unexpectedly, as the Liangshan army entered Shu, his decree also followed.
Wu Daoquan, Chang Youli, these two brothers were very bored! Suddenly, they heard the summons of King Liang, and were shocked. They were not naughty and did nothing to harm the world. What did the prince ask us for?
I heard that this King Liang likes to play tricks that make people lose their bones. People with such hobbies are scary when they think about it. Even though they are scary, the prince summoned him, how dare they say they wouldn't go? So they came with fear.
Song Qingzheng thought about Wang Yin's advice, and when he saw the two of them coming, he ordered them to serve tea and sit down. For a moment, they were a little flattered.
Wu Youdao bowed and said, "I have sent a thousand years to the end, and I will never refuse to die."
Song Qing couldn't help but smile and said, "It's not that serious. I'm here to come to you. I want to talk to you about something. Sit down! There are not so many rules in front of me."
Seeing that King Liang was so kind, the two of them felt relieved and sat down on the chair.
"I heard that many people in Shu believe in Buddhism. Although I am not a Buddhist believer, I also respect Buddhism's peace and kindness and the desire to save all living beings. Therefore, I plan to spend money to build a temple in Chengdu and publish various Buddhist scriptures. What do you think?"
The prince wants to build a temple and print Buddhist scriptures. I heard it correctly?
The two of them looked at me, and I looked at you, and their eyes were filled with ecstasy. They stood up together, bowed and bowed and said, "The prince's actions are deeply in line with the hearts of the people. I am also grateful to the prince for the 500,000 Buddhist disciples in Shu."
There are more than 500,000 Buddhist children in Shu, but many of them are! However, I haven’t heard of Buddhist children causing trouble yet, so as long as the policies are adapted, they can still guide them to use for their own regimes well.
At first, Song Qing didn't understand why the two of them were so happy, but then he figured it out and couldn't help but sneer in his heart. There were those who were not afraid of death. Let you be busy first, and then let you spit out even the principal and profits for me.
Chai Jin, who was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, did not follow him into Shu, but Jiang Jing was with Song Qing, and his military supplies, money and other things were under his control.
Song Qing ordered the two of them to find Jiang Jing, and at the same time passed the imperial edict to Luoyang, and transferred the former governor of Dengzhou Lei Zhiyuan as the governor of Chengdu. Guan Sheng temporarily appointed Sima of the Chengdu Prefecture to march.
First support the Chengdu government, and you can free up your hands to do other things.
Building temples and publishing Buddhist scriptures is not a trivial matter, especially once the temple is built, a monk must be invited to chant scriptures and consecrate the Buddha statues, etc.
Before Lu Junyi was eliminated, Song Qing was reluctant to leave, and now there were more problems with Tubo.
So while he was in charge of various affairs in Shuzhong, he closely monitored Lu Junyi's movements in Dali, and ordered people to go to Tubo and in his name, he invited some well-known monks to come to Chengdu to jointly promote Buddhist affairs.
It is simply unrealistic to advance to Tubo now. All Song Qing has to do now is to establish good relations with the living Buddhas in Tubo first, and at the same time to demolish Lu Junyi's divine platform from another perspective.
Speaking of which, after the Liangshan people retreated, Lu Junyi, the divine master, has been praised in Dali so much that he is as popular as a Buddha in all families.
Lu Junyi also took the opportunity to take the Gao brothers into his younger brothers. Now he is the hot commodity in the eyes of the Gao brothers, and it is delicious to fart.
However, Lu Junyi was not proud of himself. He knew Song Qing's ability very well, so he began to expand his private soldiers in the name of God, especially focusing on absorbing the original Dali officers and soldiers. His purpose was to slowly turn Dali into his own kingdom.
There is no need to think about the Central Plains, it would be a good place if you can live in a corner.
Chengdu Prefecture is close to Tubo. The Tubo nobles of Chengdu Prefecture have known this change of regime, but knowing it is one thing, and whether they have the strength to intervene is another.
Nowadays, Tubo has become fragmented after Jiaosiluo's death. Some nobles have less control over the Tubo people than those living Buddhas!
Therefore, when news of Song Qing's invitation of major living Buddhas to Chengdu as King Liang came out, it still caused a great deal in the Tubo area.
Living Buddhas are also human beings, and they also have their own pursuits, but Tubo is located on the plateau, with barren land and poor people, and they also hope to get help from the Central Plains.
In the past, the Song Dynasty court only gave various rewards to Tubo nobles, but rarely mentioned Buddhist disciples. The Liang King Qiansui was obviously different from the Song Dynasty court. Judging from his actions, he obviously attached more importance to the development of Buddhism.
So living Buddhas from various sects of Tubo came out to Chengdu to participate in the great Buddhist affairs organized by King Liang.
In fact, Song Qing wanted to make a trick like being a reincarnated living Buddha to buy the hearts of the Buddhas. However, after finding someone to learn about it, he realized that there is no saying that reincarnated living Buddhas in Tubo Buddhism. So he gave up this idea.
The first one to arrive was Zhuopuba, who came from Luoshecheng and was the living Buddha of the Red Sect of Tubo. It is said that there are countless believers under his seat and are very influential among the Tubo nobles.
After learning about his background, Song Qing went out of the city to greet him.
Zhuopba also knew the situation in the Central Plains very well, so when he heard that King Liang Qiansui went out to greet him personally, he could imagine his inner excitement.
You must know that this is a person who even the Great Golden Emperor has to go to see himself, the Great Song Emperor retreating!
Song Qing gave Zhuopba enough face. Of course, Zhuopba couldn't pretend to be too big. He got off the car early and met King Liang Qiansui who was waiting in front of him.
He folded his hands together and bowed, "The prince is not afraid to ask for trouble, he is guilty of being a crime."
Song Qing smiled and said, "Where is what the Living Buddha said, although you and I have different ethnic groups, they are both inspired by the Buddha to benefit the people. In this way, we should be considered a family, haha!"
After hearing Song Qing's words, Zhuopba was both surprised and happy. Could it be that this most powerful prince in the Central Plains intends to worship me in front of my Buddha?
But when Song Qing waved his hand, a servant immediately came to hold a package behind him.
Song Qing handed the package to Zhuopuba with his own hands and smiled: "If you send a living Buddha gold and silver, it would be a blasphemy of the living Buddha. This is the best Yazhou famous mountain tea prepared by the king for the living Buddha, and the gold silk robes customized in Jiangnan. Please accept it with a smile."
The robe and other things are secondly. Tubo people like tea, and they almost never have tea, and they especially like famous mountain tea in Yazhou, so Song Qing's move was considered to be his favorite.
Of course, Zhuopuba would not be fooled by Song Qing for a few kilograms of tea, but she was also grateful to Song Qing for his respect for him from the bottom of her heart.
Chapter completed!