Old Taoist priest Mu De had to let out a long sigh.

His feud with Zen Master Tie Jian has been going on for twenty or thirty years. When Zen Master Tie Jian had not yet become a Buddhist, he, the old Taoist priest Mu De, had not had any grudge with Zen Master Tie Jian, and there was no possibility that he would have any quarrel with him.

What grudges arise.

But later, after Zen Master Tie Jian was defeated by Feng Bu Ping, all thoughts were lost in an instant, so he became a Buddhist monk and devoted himself to practicing Buddhism. Fortunately, there was a bright future. After he entered Buddhism and started to practice Buddhism, Zen Master Tie Jian unexpectedly

He discovered that his talent in Buddhism was even better than his talent in archery, so it didn’t take long for Zen Master Tiejian to become the Zen master of Nanli Buddhism. It was also from that time that the old Taoist priest Mu De

He had a decades-long feud with Zen Master Tie Jian.

Old Taoist priest Mude has always been a Taoist leader in Dongxun. At that time, he was also a man of the hour among the younger generation of Taoism in Dongxun. At that time, Nanli was still in power as Emperor Laoli. Although the country's power was weak, it was still in power.

He was not someone that the mainland countries at that time could easily provoke, including Dongxun, which was also one of the three major countries.

Because of the policies set by the Fuxi clan of Taihao, Dongxun and Nanli have always been good friends for generations. Therefore, Dongxun proposed that the two countries hold a religious discussion meeting at the time.

Jinling City, the capital of Nanli.

The representative religion of Nanli Buddhism and Dongxun is naturally Taoism, so Taoism sent the old Taoist priest Mude, who was still a young man at the time, as the leader, and brought a group of young Taoist priests to Nanli Jinling City.

It was also at the religious discussion meeting between the two major countries in Jinling City that the old Taoist priest Mu De met his old enemy for the first time in his life - Zen Master Tie Jian.

At the religious discussion conference at that time, when the old Taoist priest Mu De met Zen Master Tie Jian in the early days, the two hit it off as if they were friends who had known each other for a long time. They talked about everything and often stayed up until dawn to discuss the matter.

When the old Taoist priest Mu De first started practicing Taoism, he always believed that Taoism and Buddhism could not coexist in the world. If the two collided, one sect would surely perish in a short time.

However, after a night talk with Zen Master Tiejian, Taoist Master Mu De accepted many Zen concepts for the first time. He once fell into self-doubt and felt that his original ideas were too old-fashioned and pedantic. Maybe Buddhism and Taoism just don't have the same

Find a way for both to coexist in the world.

At the same time, after the candle-lit night talk with the old Taoist priest Mu De, Zen Master Tie Jian also had a great change in his views on Taoism. For the Taoist priest in front of him who was about the same age as himself, Zen Master Tie Jian deeply learned from him.

I felt the true charm of a Taoist priest.

In the discussion parliament between the two major factions of the two countries, even when the believers of the two factions insisted on arguing with each other in the parliament and could not stop, what shocked them was that it was the two of them who were the first to reach a reconciliation.

Send their respective team leaders.

And what was the reason for the breakup between the two?

The old Taoist priest Mu De gave a bitter smile, looked at his eyes and suddenly smiled with a dazed look on his face. It seemed that the old bald donkey had not told the younger generation what happened to them.

At that time, the two of them were reading the scriptures of each other's sect together, and from time to time, they would explain to each other the profound meanings of some of the complicated sentences in the teachings. For a while, if they hadn't been wearing Taoist robes and the other Buddhist cassocks, they would have

In the eyes of outsiders, the two of them are a pair of good brothers who have an irreconcilable relationship. However, even though they are both wearing Taoist robes and cassocks, among the missions of the two countries, the eyes they look at the leaders of their respective missions are full of incredulity.

And a great deal of incomprehension in it.

They couldn't understand at all why they were facing each other in their respective teams.

The person who has the most thorough understanding of his own sect's philosophy is inexplicably like this with the leader of the other party.

What the two of them did was like a slap in the face of everyone in the two countries' missions, and they told them silently and loudly that the Taoism (Buddhism) you understand is too shallow. This kind of

Arguing is a complete waste of time and has no meaning at all.

Such a drama, in the end, even alarmed Emperor Laoli who had been away from political affairs for a long time.

The reason why Emperor Laoli agreed to Taihao Fuxi's request at that time was not because he saw that he was already old and could not survive much longer, so he wanted to take this opportunity to put a stumbling block for Dong Xun in advance to avoid his own death.

After that, the Nanli Society fell apart immediately, and then other countries invaded Nanli and plundered Nanli's territory.

As for what is this stumbling block?

Emperor Laoli's original idea was to take this opportunity to provoke a conflict between the two countries and create a rift in the friendship between Nanli and Dongxun. Although their national strength in Nanli is now stronger than before, in the eyes of Emperor Laoli

Here, against a country called Dongxun that has not experienced a huge war for a long time, Nanli will definitely have the upper hand.

Therefore, Emperor Laoli wanted this religious meeting between the two countries to become a trigger for the war between Nanli and Dongxun. Originally, Emperor Laoli thought that the reputation left by Zen Master Tiejian in the world was due to his anger and recklessness.

, otherwise he would not have fought Feng Buping alone. Emperor Laoli thought that if such a guy was to be the leader of the Nanli mission, he would definitely fight against the people from Dongxun because of their different religious beliefs.

By then, wouldn't this give Nanli a sufficient excuse to start a war?

Even if they didn't directly annex Dongxun in the end, of course Emperor Laoli didn't have much hope in directly annexing Dongxun. After all, Dongxun was still one of the three major empires. If Nanli were as prosperous as before,

Fortunately, Dongxun could not withstand Nanli's all-out offensive at that time.

However, if Nanli is in this state now, if he deals with Dongxun, the most he can do is to severely damage Dongxun and set his national power back by one or two eras. As for expanding the territory, although Emperor Laoli is not very wise, he is also

Not stupid.

Nanli's current territory is large enough. Unlike other countries that lack land, Nanli has been facing the embarrassing situation of having more land and less land since the last few generations of Emperor Li.

A hundred years have passed, and there is still a lot of wasteland south of the country that has not been developed. It is still barren and overgrown with weeds.

They haven't even digested the land in the country, so why should Nanli go to conquer Dongxun specifically for land?

Due to geographical reasons, there are not many places worth occupying on the Dongxun side, and the sky is high and the emperor is far away in that place, and the rivers also intersect the entire Dongxun border. Therefore, the land of Dongxun is, at best, worth occupying for the Nanli country.

It can only be said to be an enclave.

As the saying goes, chicken ribs are tasteless when eaten, and it is a pity to discard them.

Emperor Laoli expected that after taking this opportunity to successfully provoke a war with Dongxun, their Nanli army would follow his orders and continue to rob Dongxun after entering the territory of Dongxun.

They plundered the population and forced them to immigrate south, and also used some special means to turn all the lands in the East Sunda into saline-alkali land, slowing down the recovery of their national power again.

All these ideas have been calculated in Emperor Laoli's mind countless times. Emperor Laoli had even made arrangements for this. He secretly summoned the Dongxun delegation when they arrived at Jinling.

He summoned the Bai family's commander-in-chief and issued an edict overnight, mobilizing the garrison troops of the three prefectures from the south to immediately go to the border with Dongxun to stand by.

But after the old commander of the Bai family heard that Emperor Laoli wanted him to order the plundering of Dongxun's population, burning of Dongxun's houses and land, and turning the land into saline-alkali land, he

He refused the matter without hesitation.

With a firm tone, the old marshal of the Bai family refused to serve as the marshal of this army.

Not long after the old commander of the Bai family rejected the matter, Emperor Laoli learned from Jinyiwei about the close-knit relationship between Zen Master Tiejian and the old Taoist priest Mu De.

These successive changes completely disrupted Emperor Lao Li's wishful thinking, so Emperor Lao Li gritted his teeth, summoned the royal ministers in the palace, and gave him a death order, asking him to stay under the auspices of Zen Master Tie Jian.

When he was in the same place with the old Taoist priest Mu De, he disguised himself as a Dongxun militant and assassinated Zen Master Tie Jian.

This order, Emperor Laoli gave them a death order, which meant that no matter whether the matter was successful or not, they would commit suicide on the spot in the end.

Fortunately, the people who accepted this order were all dead soldiers of the Nanli royal family. After Emperor Laoli promised them that he would hand over a large sum of money to their family regardless of success or failure, they agreed to the matter.

Although this method was not very clever and could even be said to be a foolish move, Emperor Lao Li could not think of any other method at that time. In his opinion, Nanli's army mobilization order had been issued. Although the Bai family's elder

Shuai, the commander he most favored in his heart, was not there, but Nanli had no shortage of someone to deal with those soft-footed shrimps in Dongxun.

As the saying goes, an arrow must be fired when it is on the string. The reason why Emperor Laoli issued this order was just because he wanted to quickly find an excuse for the start of this war that would be acceptable to all countries. Even if there were many people in the countries

Seeing the truth of this crude excuse, Emperor Laoli was not panicked. Anyway, at that time, his Nanli army had already started to plunder Dongxun crazily.

At that time, even if the King of Heaven comes, he will not be able to stop their Nanli army!

This incident went according to Emperor Laoli's plan and went on smoothly. Although the cultivation levels of the royal ministers did not reach the top level, it was impossible for Emperor Laoli to send ministers of that level to do it.

This kind of thing, but their cultivation level is not bad, so when they disguised themselves as Dongxun radicals to assassinate Zen Master Tiejian, they did cause some trouble to Zen Master Tiejian at first.

However, at that time, Zen Master Tie Jian had already stepped into the top level. Without a few moves between the two sides, Zen Master Tie Jian quickly gained the upper hand. Later, with the help of old Taoist priest Mu De, the two of them

It didn't take much effort to kill the royal offerings on the spot, leaving no one behind.

However, the news that Dongxun radicals secretly sneaked into Jinling City in an attempt to assassinate Zen Master Tiejian and sabotage the mission meeting was not unexpectedly spread to everyone with the help of Emperor Laoli.

However, the dramatic scene that followed left Emperor Laoli dumbfounded.

Zen Master Tie Jian and Old Taoist Mu De stepped forward one after another and identified the identity of the monks who participated in the assassination of Zen Master Tie Jian that day as suspicious. The investigation would need to continue for a while. Not long after, Zen Master Tie Jian investigated one of the monks through his own connections.

Finally, after vaguely learning the truth of the matter, Zen Master Tiejian did not inform the old Taoist Mu De, but entered the Jinling Imperial City alone and paid homage to Emperor Laoli. After a night of

After the night talk, Emperor Laoli ordered the troops stationed in the three states at the border of the two countries to be transferred back to Yuanzhou, thus stopping the war that was about to break out.

After returning home, Zen Master Tie Jian saw the old Taoist Mu De’s urgent eyes and questions one after another. Zen Master Tie Jian chose to remain silent, and at the religious conference of the two countries the next day, he announced that Buddhism and Taoism had no relationship.

The possible fusion ended the more than month-long parliament.
Chapter completed!