Kumarajiva sighed softly: "Master Huiyuan, you have never met Liu Yu, so you don't know his arrogance and arrogance. Before I met him, I thought he was someone who rose from the bottom.
A person with a sense of awe, who knows the general trend of the world, never expected that he is an arrogant fanatic who relies on his little fighting ability to want to change the rules and order of the world for thousands of years. His arrogance and
His boldness far exceeds the spread of our Buddhism in China. If he comes to power, it will cause more terrible consequences than demon kings like Shi Hu and Fu Sheng, because what he wants to overthrow and destroy is not just one or two barbarian countries.
, but the whole order.”
Huiyuan opened his eyes wide: "Is it so exaggerated? What does he want?"
Kumarajiva gritted his teeth: "He has been spreading the idea that all living beings are equal in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Although we Buddhists also say that all living beings are equal, we are here to promote good and evil to be rewarded, the cycle of life and death, the karma created in this life, and the suffering in the next life.
This theory does not say that everyone is really equal in this world. An ordinary farmer can have equal power with the emperor and nobles. Even I, the Buddha, have to use my boundless magic power to punish evil and promote evil.
Goodness makes people believe in him and obey him. What would happen if every living being felt that he could challenge or even replace Buddha?"
Huiyuan shook his head and sighed: "That will inevitably lead to chaos in the three realms and chaos of demons. The Buddha is above and uses boundless magic power to frighten all the little demons in the sky. Just like the human world, there is also a need for kings to rule and restrain the people. Even our temples
, we, the abbots and abbots, have to manage the monks and arrange different monks to do different things. Otherwise, everyone only thinks about chanting sutras and eating fast. Who will clean the Buddhist temple, who will collect the money for incense, and who will plant the fields and water the vegetables.
To provide food for all the monks in the temple?"
Kumarajiva nodded: "Yes, this is a truth that everyone understands, but Liu Yu doesn't want to abide by it, or in other words, he wants to use this set of fallacies to make those ignorant lower-class people, especially those who can't read in Chinese characters,
He wanted to protect every common people, and he even said that he would save every common people so that they would no longer work for the manor owners of the noble families, but would instead grow their own crops.
The land was allocated to them by the country, so they had to serve the country, be soldiers, fight, and kill!"
Huiyuan gritted his teeth and said: "Isn't this the same thing as the Qin Dynasty in the past? The Legalists ruled the world and gave the people some land to be kind to them, so they were asked to pay heavy taxes and work as cattle and horses. In order to get tax exemption,
You have to serve as a soldier, you have to kill people, you have to attack and plunder other countries, kill enemy soldiers and even civilians, and use their heads as your own military merit. After returning home, you can dominate and become a little boy.
Officer, in the fish and meat village."
Kumarajiva nodded: "Yes, this is what Liu Yu calls protection and kindness to the people. In the final analysis, it is just using the righteous name of the country to describe the rights and interests that the people already have.
The country gave them charity. And Liu Yu himself, who holds the power of the country, can act in the name of the country. For example, the major event of conquering Southern Yan, let alone the people, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty openly opposed it, even his
Beifu Army colleagues, comrades-in-arms, and generals also stopped him, but he was able to go through with it. Did he ask the people for their opinions on this war? Why did he fight when he said he wanted to fight, and didn't talk about peace when he said he didn't want to?
?Did he ask for their opinions on the soldiers and civilians who died in vain because of his will? Even the more than 2,000 captured civilians he kept saying he wanted to save? He, Liu Yu, is the country, aren't these people?
?”
Huiyuan gave a high five and his face turned red: "That's so good, Master Luo Shi. From this point of view, Liu Yu is just a gangster who uses the name of the country to realize his personal ambitions. He beat Nan Yan
, I just want to realize my great success in conquering the enemy country, but..."
At this point, Huiyuan frowned slightly, and seemed to have regained some rationality from his excitement: "However, after all, Liu Yu sent troops to eliminate a barbarian country and regained the territory of the Han people that had been lost for a hundred years.
Although I have escaped into Buddhism and no longer care about worldly affairs, I was very happy when I heard the news. This kind of race, blood and other feelings come from the heart and cannot be suppressed. Maybe Master Luo Shi, you are from the Western Regions
People cannot understand this kind of thinking of us Han people. But I must say that although Liu Yu's move goes against my Buddhist teachings, to ordinary Han people, he is a great hero and will also be rewarded by the Jin Dynasty.
unanimously supported.”
Kumarajiva nodded: "I agree with what Master Huiyuan said. The Northern Expedition is your fundamental national policy of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. No matter what the reason or excuse is, as long as you can win the Northern Expedition, you are a great hero. You generals and powerful ministers do not agree.
Liu Yu's Northern Expedition was not due to his mastery of swordsmanship and the loss of lives, but because all previous Northern Expeditions over the past hundred years could not defeat the northern Hu cavalry. Even in the Battle of Feishui, he relied on the water network in the south of the Yangtze River to defeat the northern army.
But on the Hebei Plain, they were still defeated by the Yan army's armored cavalry. This time, Liu Yu's country had not yet been pacified, so he had to use tens of thousands of troops. After years of civil war and the country was in dire straits, he
No one would think he could win against Nan Yan, who had 400,000 troops and 100,000 cavalry. In the end, what they were afraid of was losing, not harm to the people."
Huiyuan smiled slightly: "That's right, but Liu Yu won the battle, and then surrounded Guanggu, and the whole territory of Nanyan surrendered, leaving only an isolated city. Under such circumstances, it is understandable that he would not retreat.
.”
Kumarajiva shook his head: "Master Huiyuan doesn't know something. It seems that only the isolated city of Guanggu is left in Nanyan. However, this city is extremely strong and difficult to attack. All the Xianbei people in Yan have also withdrawn to Guanggu for defense.
, those powerful Han people from all over Qingzhou who nominally surrendered to Liu Yu were actually waiting and watching, changing their banners. If Liu Yu finally failed to defeat Guanggu and retreated back to Jin, it would be the same as when Shihu attacked Jicheng, or
Just like Huan Wen's attack on Chang'an, it will lose troops and generals, and all previous achievements will be wasted."
"It's not that Liu Yu has never attacked Guanggu City. He exhausted all his tricks and killed and injured tens of thousands of soldiers under the city, but he couldn't get into Guanggu. In this case, it is a taboo for military strategists, regardless of whether it is out of concern for the two countries.
The lives of the people are still due to the military principle that it is taboo to fortify a city with troops. It is even due to the fact that Tianshi Dao raised troops in the rear and captured Jingzhou and Jiangzhou, approaching Jiankang, let alone facing us.
The Qin Dynasty's 100,000-strong cavalry stationed troops at the border. If external forces forced him to withdraw, he would have no choice but to retreat." (End of Chapter)