Chapter 840 The deep sea water washes away my soul
Chapter 840 The water of Cangming touches my soul
Author: Middle-aged paper tiger
Chapter 840 The water of Cangming touches my soul
Historically, the combat effectiveness of the men on the Batang Plateau seems to have declined very quickly.
In the eyes of people who don't understand the situation, they are almost warriors who fought violently in all directions since the days of the Tubo Empire. In an instant, they declined into existences that can be handled by a few hundred Mongolian cavalry.
It seems that the plateau giant that used to have a slight upper hand against the Tang Dynasty in Dafeichuan relied on the plateau climate, and later beat up the Uighurs and feasted on them. After the demise of the Tubo Empire, it became a Tibetan antelope that is harmless to humans and animals.
But in fact this is not the case. The Tibetan people's combat effectiveness did not decline so quickly, nor was they deceived by Tantric Buddhism as the public imagined.
The real reason, or the most important reason, is that on this plateau, after the fall of the Tubo Empire, there was no future for being a warrior.
After the Tubo Empire fell into pieces, the Tubo people no longer had the wealthy Hexi Longyou (relative to Tubo), and they no longer had Anxi where they could draw blood.
And due to the chaos of their own separatism, they lost the warm and humid colonies by the Ganges River, and lost this important way to make money from Tianzhu.
Without the nourishment of external wealth, the natural environment of the Batang Plateau, where gravel is as big as a bucket and is blown all over the ground by the wind, and snow is falling in August, does not require many warriors at all, nor does it require the use of force.
Soldiers piled up with large amounts of gold and silver.
What do we need so many soldiers for? With so little output, all given to the soldiers, what do the gentlemen eat?
Therefore, without the Tibetan empire that expanded externally and could grab a lot of wealth from the plateau every year, the Tibetan warriors became fatherless wolves.
Not only does this plateau no longer need them, it actually treats them as a burden.
This situation was first discovered by Li Cunhui.
Because since he went to the plateau and promulgated the plan of the imperial court to set up 20,000 households of soldiers on the border facing Tianzhu, countless soldiers came to join the army overnight.
Of course, these 'soldiers' are not real soldiers. Although they have armor, their bodies are not as strong as those of the Central Plains soldiers, and they do not have much military experience.
The armor in their hands is genuine Tubo-style armor, but it was all used by their grandfathers.
Martial arts may still be passed down to their generation, but the ability to break the muscles and bones is gone. Most people put on the armor of their ancestors and fight fiercely for a quarter of an hour without losing their strength.
However, Li Cunhui knew that they could still be saved, because the collapse of the Tubo Empire only lasted a hundred years, and their physical strength and combat experience could be trained, as long as they had adequate food and systematic training.
So after asking Zhang Zhao for instructions, Li Cunhui selected the soldiers who mostly had Jia in their families and whose families were already in dire straits.
It is planned to resettle them in an area roughly equivalent to the Ngari area plus Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan.
Li Cunhui believed that when Zhou gave these warrior families the dignity of a new life and gave them the opportunity to go down the mountain to seize wealth, these 20,000 households of Tibetan warriors would become Zhou's most loyal families on the Batang Plateau.
Fans.
This is also the most important reason why Guo Tiance and Li Cunhui were able to stabilize the plateau in such a short period of time.
The military power of the Tubo Empire has also collapsed with the collapse of the Tubo Empire.
When the Zhou army entered Luocheng, the only remaining flame was ready to resist.
But they suddenly discovered that they did not know whether the Zhou people were evil-doers, but they saw clearly that these Zhou people were here to restore their glory and dignity, so they quickly surrendered without resisting or saying anything.
Zhang Zhao's three moves to secure the Batang Plateau were also carefully considered.
First, Dafeichuan and Songpan were demarcated, and then the core areas of the plateau except Luosu were sealed off to stabilize the nobility. Finally, grassroots forces were brought to the border areas to control them.
In this case, Dafeichuan and Songpan will gradually lose touch with their logic. The force at the border will soon become a thug for the imperial court to control Tianzhu.
As for the other established nobles, you can do whatever you want, as long as you don't cause trouble, you will be rewarded during the holidays, and the court will help mediate any conflicts.
In this way, a three-pronged approach plus the assistance of the Six Methods Sect will work together.
It's just that the placement of 20,000 household soldiers on the border has to wait a little longer, because it is already September and the snow has begun to fall heavily, and the fight will not happen until next year.
So while Li Cunhui was working on the military reform of the Batang Plateau, he ordered the local nobles who had defected to the imperial court to give birth to Bei, the eldest son of Zampu Jidenimagun of the Guge Dynasty, the last of the three Shanggon kings who occupied the Big and Little Bolu area.
Jiri Bagon sent a message to persuade him to submit to the imperial court.
Historically, the Guge dynasty established by Jidenimagon was actually very short-lived. After Jidenimagon's death, his three sons divided the dynasty he left behind.
The eldest son, Begiri Bagon, controlled the Greater and Lesser Bolut areas, which later became part of Ladakh and Congling.
Begiri Bagon was the founder of the Ladakh dynasty. This place was occupied by Asan of India in later generations and has not been taken back yet.
The second son, Dezugun, controlled the core Ngari area and always claimed to be orthodox. The Guge Kingdom in history refers to Dezugun's lineage.
The third son, Tashi Degun, was assigned to the east of the Ngari area, including a large area of western Nepal, which was the predecessor of the Gongtang Dynasty.
Before that, during the Battle of Luoche, Begiribagon's third brother, Zahidgun, was instigated to become a Zanpu to save the crisis.
As a result, the 40,000-strong army was suddenly overwhelmed by a landslide, and he was captured alive. Now his whole family has been taken to Luoyang, the capital of the gods, to await his death.
After Tashi Degun was captured, Begirbagon's second brother Dezugun jumped out again.
However, Dezugun was much more cunning. He asked his son and son-in-law to come forward, while he remained ambiguous.
As a result, the coalition forces were still defeated, and Dezugun would still be moved to the Central Plains. However, since he had defected, and the Ali region still needed the support of veteran nobles like them, there might be one or two more obedient descendants left behind.
Some are mascots.
In this case, when the final choice came to Begirbagon, he made a decision after thinking for a moment in the face of his two younger brothers' personal statements.
He sent someone to tell Li Cunhui that as long as the imperial court could treat him favorably, he would accept the imperial canonization, go to Luoche and become a rich man, and the territory of Ladakh would be divided among his three sons.
He also allowed Rinpoche of the Six Dharma Sect to preach in the Kingdom of Ladakh, and allowed the imperial court to send officials from Khotan and Luoche to serve as garrison ministers in Leh.
And Li Cunhui immediately agreed to Bejiribagon's request.
Later generations who have walked through the Ali Central Line and the Ali North Line all know that the Ali Central Line, in particular, was a constant problem during the Republic, let alone this period.
Although Li Cunhui had a large number of local support, he once walked the central line of Ali and defeated the coalition forces on the south side of the Gangdise Mountains. It was difficult to drive his soldiers northwest to attack Ladakh and Congling.
If you have this energy, you might as well finish the military arrangements in the Guge area quickly, and then go back to attack the Lamen area (eastern Nepal + Sikkim) and the Yomen area (Bhutan).
He must complete the construction of Guge Military Palace, Lamen Military Palace, and Yomen Military Palace before next year.
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Far east of the sea, the scorching sun hangs high.
Looking around, there is nothing but blue water.
Monk Yanshou was wearing a simple single coat with his trouser legs rolled up to his knees. The waves on the sea were undulating, but he sat firmly in lotus position and was not affected at all.
He was thin, with cheekbones sticking out of his face like two pillars. Only the black eyes in his deep-set eye sockets showed a resolute look.
Monk Yanshou went to sea in the fourth year of Shaoming. He arrived in Japan in the fifth year of Shaoming. This year is the sixth year of Shaoming.
In these three years, Monk Yanshou spent all the gold and silver raised from the two Zhejiang provinces, the sponsorship from the Japanese Buddhism, and the reward from the Japanese Taizheng Minister Fujiwara Sanoyori.
The total amount of these gold, silver, brocade and silk items was no less than 50,000 guan, and measured by Chinese commodity prices, it was a considerable amount of wealth for the Japanese country at this time.
After spending all this money, Yanshou also used up all the aura he had from the eminent monks from the Central Plains.
It turned out that after he crossed east to Japan, whether it was his knowledge, debate on scriptures, or his bravery to cross the Japanese country eastward, he immediately killed all the monks in the Japanese country.
When he first arrived, Emperor Murakami of Japan, Emperor Suzaku of France, Fujiwara Minori who held the real power, and even a group of samurai from the Eastern Kingdom all regarded Enju as the second master of truth appraisal.
However, after Yanshou arrived in the Japanese country, Shen Nao said that he was looking for Cangming Water and Dongsheng Shenzhou, and after he put it into practice, the Japanese people began to think that Yanshou was mentally ill.
I have been waiting here to take root and sprout for hundreds of years. How come I don’t know that there is abundant water around me?
If there really is such a treasure in Dongshengshenzhou, the Japanese people can still wait for the people from the Central Plains to find it. They would have immigrated to Dongshengshenzhou long ago.
As a result, Yanshou soon gained the title of a crazy monk. Except for the disciples brought by Yanshou and the followers he developed in the Japanese country, almost no one believed in Yanshou.
In the midst of the strong wind and waves, Monk Yanshou took out a small golden Buddha from his arms.
When he first arrived in Japan, the Japanese Emperor presented it to him at Todaiji Temple in Nara. It was said that it was a golden Buddha cast from the purple gold (purple copper) left by the former master Jianzhen after his death.
Nowadays, the monks at Nara Todaiji Temple have long regarded him as a crazy person, but only this golden Buddha statue of Master Jianzhen is still inspiring to extend his life.
"This person falsely claims to be the last Buddha in the Age of Ending Dharma, which has led to the fall of all lands outside the Central Plains. The Six Dharma Sects do not debate the meaning of the scriptures, but only advocate the power of gods and Buddhas. It is obvious that they have completely betrayed the purpose of our Buddha."
Talking to himself in a low voice, as if to cheer himself up, another storm came, and Yanshou held the Buddha statue high.
"My Buddha is merciful, and my disciple Yanshou is determined to fight this heresy to the end. The Six Dharma Sects claimed that there is Cangming Water four to five hundred miles away from the country of Japan. Now that my disciple has gone four hundred miles away, there is still no discovery. This shows that Zhang Zhao
, that’s just nonsense!”
Yanshou had directly called him Zhang Zhao, but in his heart, he didn't know whether to be disappointed or happy.
What I feel lost is that there are no gods or Buddhas in this world. Although I knew there were no gods before I extended my life, now that my illusion is completely shattered, I still feel a little uncomfortable.
Suddenly, Fa Ming, a disciple of Yanshou who was standing at the bow of the boat, screamed and knelt down with a pop.
After being stunned for a moment, the forty-year-old monk suddenly began to worship crazily on top of the boat, still shouting crazily: "The water of Cangming, master really has the water of Cangming!"
Yanshou stood up suddenly. He ran to the side of the ship and looked into the distance. In the originally endless blue water, he saw an extremely wide black sea water, at least a hundred miles wide, like a black dragon, winding toward the northeast.
And go.
The sailors on the ship were so frightened that they knelt down, and countless people were praying in low voices, full of awe at the vision in heaven and earth.
This is the Japan Warm Current, also known as the Kuroshio Current.
In fact, ocean currents were not discovered in modern times. As early as the Han Dynasty or even earlier, coastal fishermen were aware of this kind of seawater flow hidden deep under the sea.
But after all, ocean currents are hidden deep in the deep sea, so even if an extremely experienced veteran fisherman can observe them to a certain extent, he cannot summarize or even understand their principles, and can only regard them as some kind of miracle.
And generally ocean currents are difficult to detect, so they are not widely known.
But the Kuroshio Current is different. First of all, it is obviously blue-black in color and is easier to observe with the naked eye than other ocean currents. Secondly, the Kuroshio Current moves extremely fast and is easier to sense.
Also because it is hundreds of miles away from mainland Japan, it is difficult for fishing boats at this time to go out to sea to fish so far.
Large warships are even less likely to go there. Japanese warships are basically on the side close to the Korean Strait.
More importantly, if an ordinary Japanese small fishing boat in the 10th century really encountered a large Kuroshio like today, it would be difficult to return to Japan due to its power.
Amid the prayers, the small boat of more than 100 tons that Yanshou was on, pushed by the sea water, went straight into the black tide.
At this time, Yanshou looked down carefully, and the originally very conspicuous blue-black color seemed to have turned into a clear and transparent colorless color.
Moreover, Yanshou clearly felt that there was indeed a huge thrust under the water, pushing the ship forward, so that it could sail forward without any help from the wind at all.
"Send a signal and ask the two boats behind to follow!" Finally finding Cangmingzhishui, Yanshou was surprisingly calm, although the fingers holding the golden Buddha turned white.
At the same time, he recalled in his mind what the Supreme God said after calling him there on the eve of his decision to return to Wuyue.
The emperor, who was wearing a crotchless shirt, said to him: "Cangming Water must exist, but even if ordinary people find Cangming Water, it will be difficult to follow it to Dongshengshenzhou.
Because the wind and clouds on the sea are unpredictable, a wave or a strong wind can kill people in the belly of a fish.
But I know that you must go to extend your life. You are a person with great perseverance and you will definitely succeed.
So remember, there will be no shortage of food when following the Kuroshio. As long as there are not many people, even fishing can provide food for many people. Drinking water and vegetables are the most scarce things on the sea.
Without the former, you will die of thirst, and without the latter, your blood will become corrupted. Therefore, I suggest you to store a large amount of spirits to mix with rainwater for drinking. Keep enough limes on the boat, and you can also use soybeans to make yellow rolls for later use.
And rainwater cannot be drunk directly, so I have a rainwater filtering method that may be useful.
But even so, it is still a near-death situation. Whether you can survive the next four and a half months depends entirely on your luck. If you are sincere, you may be able to reach Dongshengshenzhou."
"Why does the Supreme Heaven know all this even though he has never been to Dongshengshenzhou or followed the Cangming River? Is there really a Buddha?" Yanshou stood on the side of the boat, and everyone was crazy.
"Master, I know why brothers Fa Zheng and Fa Xin left and never came back. How can mortals escape easily after entering this water? They can't come back even if they want to report the news!"
Monk Faming suddenly burst into tears. Before Yanshou decided to go to sea to make a desperate move, three fleets, including Fazheng and Faxin, had gone to sea, but there was no news from them.
Among them, Monk Faxin is also the great pirate of Mingzhou who was inspired by Yanshou. If he didn't really encounter problems, he would definitely be able to come back.
Well, Monk Yanshou's boat, following Zhang Zhao's suggestion, was filled with spirits, citrus, charcoal, sand and gravel, etc. It was also made of Chinese hard sails and had no holes for rowing.
With such a huge self-respect, once you enter the Kuroshio, it is really not easy to leave.
Yanshou let out a long sigh and patted Fa Ming on the shoulder, "This is the fate of believers like us. If the Buddha protects us, we will be able to see Fa Xin and his companions in Dongsheng Shenzhou.
If you are martyred on the way, we will meet in the Paradise."
My whole body hurts. This two-yang is not much lighter than one! The whole family was affected. My mother, wife, and children felt like they just had a cold, but I was the only one in pain, as if I was tied up and beaten. Book friends wear
Wear a mask. If you hide for ten and a half days, you will probably be able to form an immunity barrier.