"Master, what should we do now?" After Chen Deli left, Hanxiang asked with worry on her face. In fact, she was very happy in her heart. She felt that she was one step closer to freedom.

Playing on the spot is what brothel girls are best at.

I just don’t know who this person named Chen is? Is he from the Taiping Army or from the Chinese ethnic group?

Wu Jianzhang sighed and said: "Let's wait and see. Now is a troubled time, and the imperial court itself cannot protect itself. It will be good if we can save the family business."

"Go and call Wu Yong to me. I have something to explain."

"Yes, sir." Hanxiang replied and walked out gracefully.

Wu Yong is a confidant of Wu Jianzhang's servants. He is powerful and majestic, and he also serves as the head of Wu Jianzhang's bodyguard.

Hanxiang went out and found Wu Yong quickly. She didn't care that Wu Yong's eyes were looking at her body wantonly, and calmly told Wu Yong that Wu Jianzhang had called him.

When he heard that it was Wu Jianzhang who was looking for him, Wu Yong did not dare to neglect and hurried to the study.

Seeing that there was no one around, Wu Yong deliberately rubbed Hanxiang's body when he passed by.

Hanxiang didn't say anything. There was no man in this mansion who was not greedy for his own body. She grew up in Chu Palace and knew how to use her body as a weapon. This kind of weapon was specially targeted at those lustful men.

It's just that all the men in this mansion are lustful but not bold, and the only one who is lustful, Wu Jianzhang, is incompetent.

Wu Jianzhang still kept a secret. He did not tell Chen Deli that the Jiangnan Camp sent troops to support him.

He just gave an order to Shanghai County Magistrate Yuan Zude, saying that he would send people to form a militia in Shanghai County. The militia would be organized by businessmen and Yuan Zude would be the supervisor. This was a stumbling block for Chen Deli.

But Chen Deli didn't care. As long as he organized his armed forces, it would be useless for Wu Jianzhang and the others to engage in any conspiracy.

Dong Liang told them that political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

After Chen Deli came back, he immediately started preparations. Liu Lichuan pulled out the people who had been prepared long ago. These former dock workers turned into a Shanghai militia, and a team of 2,000 people was organized in an instant.

After only a few days of training, I began to go to several surrounding counties to "counter-insurgency".

Outside Fuzhou City, a trench surrounding the city has been built, and people in the city are now unable to escape.

Dong Liang was busy with matters in Xiamen and took a boat to the outside of Fuzhou City. He was not here to intervene in the battle, but only to support his men.

The place where Dong Liang settled was Yongquan Temple on Guling. Zhao Liewen and other frontline generals were on their way there. Dong Liang had nothing to do for the time being, so he presided over a few games of chess with Fa Yin.

Dong Liang's chess game was not very good, but Abbot Fayin was preoccupied and he also played poorly.

"Zen Master, in today's world, Westerners believe in God, people in West Asia, Central Asia and North Africa believe in Allah, and we Buddhists believe in Buddha. Why are there more and more believers in the first two, but fewer and fewer people believe in Buddha? Even

In the subcontinent where Buddha was born, the followers of Buddha have been replaced by the followers of God and Allah?" Dong Liang's mind was not on playing chess, he thought of the religious issues of the Chinese people.

"Amitabha, our Buddha is compassionate, all living beings are equal, and everyone is free. How can we force them to believe in it? If forced belief does not come from the heart, how can it be pious?"

No wonder the word "Buddhist" has a new meaning in later generations. It turns out that this is what people originally meant.

Dong Liang actually wanted local Buddhism and Taoism to take the initiative to go out and participate in the spread of Chinese culture.

Because the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have long been integrated together in terms of cultural roots, they are actually part of Chinese culture.

"Zen Master, you serve the Buddha and claim to save all sentient beings. Then how can you save all sentient beings while you are hiding in this temple? There are still a large number of indigenous people living in ignorance on the islands in Southeast Asia. Why don't you let the monks go out?

, spread the compassion of Buddha to them, and let them break free from the shackles of ignorance."

"You live in this splendid temple and enjoy the offerings of pilgrims. Do you violate the original intention of the Buddha? You must know that the Buddha also traveled around the world to spread Buddhism. These offerings should have been used for good deeds, but they were all used for good deeds.

Used to maintain a comfortable life for the monks..."

There was a layer of dense beads of sweat on Abbot Fayin's forehead.

He tremblingly dropped a sunspot in his hand and placed it in a restless position.

Then he said with an apologetic look: "What the head of state said is true, I am guilty."

"Don't be nervous, Zen Master. I'm not against beautiful temples. At least the door of the temple is open to everyone, regardless of rich or poor. People can find spiritual sustenance here. This is the value of your existence. It's just that I feel that whether it is Buddhism or Taoism,

We should all go out and spread the gospel like foreign missionaries. I hear

It is said that many Chinese people converted to foreign religions when they arrived in Nanyang. They may have been devout laymen. This is because after arriving in Nanyang, they could not find a temple suitable for them. We Chinese people will in the future

Spread all over the world, Zen Master, have you ever thought about whether you should also go out?"

Abbot Fayin finally breathed a sigh of relief. The head of state had been talking for a long time, and it turned out that this was what he meant.

You must know that there have been several movements to exterminate Buddhism in China in history, and the current Taiping Army is also destroying temples and Taoist temples in the occupied areas.

Fayin suddenly discovered that the head of state's thoughts were different from others, and he was encouraging himself to promote Buddhism.

In fact, Dong Liang not only hoped that local Buddhism could go abroad, but he also wanted Taoism to go abroad. Both of these are integrated with Chinese culture and are conducive to the expansion of Chinese civilization.

Just as he was talking, Guan Yan walked in and reported that the people from the former enemy headquarters had arrived.

Guan Yan glanced at the chess game between the head of state and the abbot, and thought it was a mess, like two people who didn't know how to play chess.

But he didn't say anything, he just secretly warned himself in his heart not to play chess with the head of state. He didn't like to act stupid in front of others.

Guan Yancai had only been with Dong Liang for a few days. Wang Ziyu left in a hurry and had no time to hand over the work. Fortunately, Yang Yingying knew the work of the attendant's office very well and took Guan Yan to work for a few days, allowing Guan Yan to hand over the work.

Straighten out.

Guan Yan was an experienced staff member, and he quickly sorted out the work of the Attendant's Office. The Attendant's Office was actually equivalent to the shogunate of the head of state.

It's almost the same as a small cabinet, except that the attendants' office does not participate in decision-making.

"stand up……"

The conference room is located in a larger reception room in the temple. There is a long table in the middle of the house and a circle of chairs around it, just like the conference room of the Heads of State.

Seeing Dong Liang come in, Zhao Liewen ordered everyone to stand up. Dong Liang came to the top position and motioned for everyone to sit down.

"Führer, the city is ready. We will launch tonight. The general will surely take down Fuzhou City completely..." Zhao Liewen took the lead in reporting the preparations to Dong Liang.

The escort troops surrounded Fuzhou City for so many days without attacking. In fact, they were waiting for preparations in the city.

With the firepower deployed by the escort fleet on the river, it wouldn't be much of a problem to blast through the city wall.

However, this is not the best way. Fuzhou is the first provincial capital city controlled by the Chinese, and Dong Liang hopes to capture it completely.

"Don't be superstitious about plans. We have to be prepared for unexpected events. Chief of Staff Zhao, do you have a backup plan?" Dong Liang asked them to come over for a meeting to check for leaks and fill in the gaps.

"Yes, Head of State, we have dug a tunnel outside Dongwu Gate that leads to the bottom of the city wall. If the internal response inside the city fails, we will blow up this section of the city wall and then break into the city."

Digging tunnels and blasting open city walls was also a common method of destroying cities at this time.

Dong Liang nodded and looked at Xu Shu. This little fellow of his also had a beard. This guy was only eighteen years old, even younger than Dong Liang.

"Commander Xu, I heard that your men and horses exceed 20,000?" Dong Liang said with a smile.

"Führer, my men are all militiamen, even worse than our militiamen on Dongfan Island. Half of them don't even have guns." Xu Shu said with embarrassment, rubbing his head.

"Führer, how will these people be arranged after the war?"

Xu Shu asked next. What he asked was what everyone wanted to ask. This time, each detachment recruited a lot of militiamen, each with tens of thousands of people.

If we send people away as soon as the war is over, it would feel like burning bridges across rivers.
Chapter completed!