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Chapter 168 The Buddha Kingdom of Milk and Honey
Monk Yuantong is also a strange monk. Bawu originally hated this monk who ate his own offerings. Qihu needs to support a monk, which is not a small expense.

The Buddhist hall enshrined by Bawu's family has not been completed for a long time, and the tax collectors often come to check, trying to blackmail them inside and out.

If it wasn't for the fact that Bawu's family had no surplus food, and his mother was forced to death by the tax collectors, seeing Bawu's stunned look, the tax collectors didn't dare to persecute him too much, so he had to leave a few harsh words and leave.

However, Monk Yuantong was always smiling. When he was free, he would build Buddhist temples by himself, and he never asked Bawu for food. He just farmed for alms by himself. After a while, Bawu didn't hate Monk Yuantong any more.

In addition to living in Bawu's house, Monk Yuantong also hangs out at nearby people's homes when he has nothing to do.

While helping others with farm work, Yuantong chatted with the people, and often told stories to the elderly and children, and soon became the most popular person in the neighborhood.

Bawu couldn't dislike such a monk, but the monk Yuantong had figured out the situation in this area.

The Tubo East Road led by Shang Qixin'er was not originally Tubo's territory.

This place was once called Tuyuhun, and the people who originally lived in this land were Xianbei people.

During the Western Jin Dynasty, the Murong family of Xianbei once established a country in this area, and the country name was named after the ancestor of the Murong family, Tuyuhun, which was called Xianbei Tuyuhun in the Northern Zhou Dynasty at that time.

Xianbei Tuyuhun professed his vassal to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and after the Northern Zhou Dynasty of the Sui Dynasty, Tuyuhun did not continue to submit to the Sui Dynasty.

The Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty attacked Tuyuhun many times, but because of the high altitude and complex terrain, the troops of the Sui and Tang Dynasties were unpopular here.

In the reign of Tang Gaozong, the rising Tubo attacked Tuyuhun.

The Tubo people, who were also in the plateau regime, quickly wiped out Tuyuhun, and the royal Murong family fled to the east of the Tang Dynasty, asking for help from the Tang Dynasty.

However, Datang sent troops several times, but the results were not satisfactory. The Tubo people had too much advantage in fighting on the plateau, and the royal family of Tuyuhun had no hope of restoring their country, so they gradually integrated into Datang.

The princes and nobles fled, but it was impossible for all the Xianbei people who originally lived in the Tuyuhun area to escape.

After the Tibetans occupied this area, they divided it into the East Road and appointed Da Lun, the prime minister of Tubo, to come out of the town to manage it.

Today's Dongdao Dalun is Shang Qixin'er, who is the most proficient minister of Sinology in Tubo. He is appointed to Tubo Dongdao, and he also has the idea of ​​seizing the territory of Tang Dynasty.

Monk Yuantong wandered around Bawu's manor, and got a little understanding of Tubo East Road.

After the Tibetans came to this area, the way they ruled was also very clever.

Tuyuhun was originally the kingdom of the Xianbei people, but the Qiang and Di people lived in this area for generations.

During the Xianbei dynasty, these Qiang people and Di people were naturally the bottom of society, and they were often bullied and enslaved by the Xianbei people.

But after the Tibetans came, they began to appoint castle owners and manor owners, and of course these were Tibetans.

But these castle owners and manor owners will also appoint local people to manage them, such as the tax collectors of the castle owners, such as the Bawu family, which originally had an old housekeeper.

The Tubo people promoted the Qiang people and the Di people to be officials, and ruled the Xianbei people who were the original masters of this land.

The result of this is that the contradiction between the Xianbei people and the Qiang people and the Di people is getting deeper and deeper, and the Tubo people mediate in the middle, pulling a sideways. In the end, the Xianbei people and the Qiang people and the Di people are in a big situation, but they all obey the rule of the Tubo people.

For example, in Bawu's manor, Bawu's family is from Tubo. Of the seven families under his rule, six are from Xianbei, and only one is from Qiang.

But the Qiang people are responsible for raising horses for the Bawu family, and their status is higher than that of the six Xianbei farmers. Therefore, when the monk Yuantong was teaching the scriptures, he discovered that the Xianbei people and the Qiang people hated each other and wanted to please the manor owner Bawu. .

Monk Yuantong couldn't help but sigh with emotion, isn't it the Tubo people who play the leftovers after a thousand years of playing with Ying?
Unexpectedly, Tubo started to play the game of divide and conquer so early, and the results were pretty good.

In addition to the Tubo, Qiang and Di people, there are also people of other ethnic groups nearby. These are slaves of the Han and other races.

Wenmo is the lowest class in Tubo, and most of Wenmo in the Tuyuhun area were plundered by the Tubo people from the Tang Dynasty.

These slaves live without any hope, and are used as consumables in various manors.

For example, in the manor of Bawu, there used to be two Han people, Wen Mo, who had to farm and work on weekdays, and when the Tubo people fought, they also served as civilian husbands and the vanguard of the slave camp.

Only a very small number of slaves can make meritorious service in the war and obtain the status of free people.

Tubo attaches great importance to military merit. In Tubo, if you want to change your identity and class, that is the way of military merit.

Therefore, during the visits, Yuantong discovered that almost from top to bottom, there was a wave of war fanaticism in Tubo.

However, the military system can only maintain the fanaticism of some people. Although the entire Tuyuhun area has been occupied by Tubo for nearly a hundred years, it is still very unstable.

This is also the reason why Shang Qixin'er asked seven families to support a Buddhist temple. He wanted to make up for the missing link in the Tubo people's rule through religion.

The monks sent to various places with Yuantong are either Han monks who escaped from the Tang Dynasty, or monks from India who came from Nepal.

They taught the people to obey the rule of the Tubo people, and only by doing good deeds in this life can they enter the Paradise of Paradise.

It has to be said that Shang Qixin'er is also a smart person. In the area of ​​Tuyuhun, the Tubo people are foreign rulers, the Xianbei people, the Qiang people and the Di people are the aborigines, and the Han people and slaves from the Western Regions are the oppressed.

This area has no sense of identity with Tubo. Although they rule this area, the largest population of Tuyuhun is not Tubo.

By vigorously promoting Buddhism and weakening the resistance of other local ethnic groups, this is what Shang Qixiner wants to do.

Yuantong mingled with the monks and came to Bawu's manor.

However, unlike other monks, apart from chatting and researching at people's homes every day, Yuantong doesn't give lectures on scriptures in the rest of the time. He just invites people to gather together and tell about the difficulties encountered in his family's life.

The area where Bawu is located is a relatively remote and desolate area. Although Shang Qixin'er asked seven households to support one monk, except for Yuantong, the other monks stayed by Shang Qixin'er's side to please the host. Wait until the Buddhist temple is built before coming here.

So this became an opportunity for Yuantong. He visited hundreds of households and held more than a dozen complaint meetings, and gradually these complaint meetings became complaints against the Tibetans.

The cruel Tubo nobles, the greedy tax collectors, and the complaints held one after another, and Yuantong gradually awakened the resistance consciousness of these common people.

Under the rule of the Tubo people, even if they worked hard for them, they would at most become the lowest level of "gui".

But these years the Tubo people have been mobilized to fight, and how many people can come back alive.

The biggest bonus of the war was eaten by the nobles at the level of castle owners and manor owners.

But this time the battle against Tang failed, and even many manor owners were on the verge of bankruptcy, but the castle owner was still vigorously exploiting everyone, and the tax collectors came more diligently.

Bawu had just sent the tax collectors away, and it was going to be summer soon. Because of the war, the crops could not be planted in time. When the tax collectors came again, what would they have to take to pay the summer tax?

Seeing Monk Yuantong come back in a hurry, Bawu didn't understand why this monk was different from the monk he had seen around the castle master.

He doesn't chant scriptures, doesn't do Buddhist work, doesn't love money or fame, and hangs out with mudlegs every day. Bawu even saw him helping farmers with farm work.

But this monk never came to bother him, and he was not like those monks around the castle owner, who would drag and preach every time he saw someone.

For this strange monk, after Bawu had a talk with him once, and after the other party babbled about "liberating Buddhism", Bawu also kept a respectful distance from him.

"Master, do you want to have dinner together?" Bawu thought about the face of the tax collector today, and felt a little annoyed. He suddenly wanted to chat with Monk Yuantong.

Monk Yuantong chanted the Buddha's name and said with a smile, "Manor Master, what's bothering you?"

Bawu sighed and said: "Today the tax collector came again and talked about building the Buddhist hall again, saying that it must be completed in summer. The noble castle owner built a gorgeous Buddhist temple in Tianjun City. I heard that Buddha statues are covered with gold, have you ever seen the great monk?"

Yuantong nodded and said: "The Buddha statue is several feet high, and incense candles are lit in the Buddhist hall, it is really a Buddha's light!"

Ba Wu showed a yearning look, and then said: "Is this what the Western Paradise looks like? If you do good deeds, can you go to the Western Paradise?"

Bawu originally sneered at the theory of ghosts and gods, but after returning from the battlefield last time, Bawu lost the courage of a warrior and instead began to favor the theory of ghosts and gods.

Yuantong folded his hands together and said, "The owner of the manor, instead of thinking about going to the Western Paradise of Ultimate Bliss after death, why don't you build a Buddha Kingdom of Ultimate Bliss on the ground?"

Yuantong continued: "The place where the castle owner of Tianjun City lives is no worse than the Buddhist country mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures. There are hundreds of slaves of various ethnic groups enshrining the castle owner's family. Tianjun City has a gorgeous Buddhist temple, there are A comfortable castle, as well as an endless supply of cattle, sheep and barley, this is almost the same as the Buddhist kingdom in the Buddhist scriptures."

Bawu was stunned for a moment. He remembered that before he went to the front line, he used to live in the castle owner's manor. Once, Bawu also wanted to make meritorious deeds. Like the castle owner, he became a sued warrior and was granted a larger territory.

But this time, the battle at Dangjinshan Pass made him see the cruelty of war.

Yuan Tong continued: "But the food and clothing used by the castle owner were collected by the tax collectors from hundreds of manor owners. The Buddha Kingdom on this earth not only flows milk and honey, but also blood and tears. !Amitabha!"

(End of this chapter)