Water Margin people

Chapter 1320 Preaching

Great Wall of China.

"Master Lu, was this where you once fought against the Xixia people?"

Deng Yuanjue looked at the plateau outside the mountain and asked Lu Zhishen.

"Yes, the Sa family served in the Western Army before and fought here!"

Lu Zhishen laughed and said.

"The northwest is really different from Jiangnan!"

Deng Yuanjue shook his head and said, he has been in the south of the Yangtze River all year round. It has green mountains and green waters and a pleasant climate. However, although the northwest is also lush and green, it has a sense of wilderness no matter how you look at it.

"Haha, Sajia still thinks this place is more comfortable! Last time I went to Jiangnan, I always felt soft and not grand at all! Look at this place, this is where a man should gallop!"

Lu Zhishen pointed to the ground in front of him and said.

"Everyone has his own merits. Jiangnan is more suitable for ordinary people to live. It's too desolate here!"

Deng Yuanjue said.

"By the way, Master Deng, Your Majesty has a tip bag that I should give to you before the battle!"

Gongsun Sheng smiled and took out a tips bag and handed it to Deng Yuanjue.

"For me?"

Deng Yuanjue was very surprised. Shouldn't this pre-war tips bag belong to Lu Zhishen? Why should the strategies for defeating the enemy in it be given to him?

Although Deng Yuanjue was confused, he still took the bag and opened it and started reading.

"You want me to go to Xixia to preach?"

Deng Yuanjue looked at the information on the paper with a look of astonishment. He didn't expect that Sun Lei was talking about this before the battle.

"Preaching? It seems that the Sa family brother mentioned this matter and asked the Sa family if they were willing."

Lu Zhishen touched the beard on his chin and said.

"You want to go on a mission too?"

Deng Yuanjue's face was overjoyed. As Lu Zhishen, if he was willing to go to Xixia to preach, he would definitely get the full support of Qi State.

"Sajia won't go, preaching is too troublesome!"

Lu Zhishen waved his hand, he was the most afraid of trouble.

"Trouble? You are a monk. You preach, promote Buddhism, guide people to do good, and save all sentient beings. This is your responsibility!"

Deng Yuanjue looked at Lu Zhishen seriously. He was very dissatisfied with Lu Zhishen's excuse for trouble.

"The Sa family is just a monk. When he was ordained, the elders did not say that the Sa family wanted to preach. As for promoting Buddhism, the Sa family thinks that fists are better to use."

Lu Zhishen waved his fist. He was not good at preaching. If he really wanted to go, he could only use his fists to make others believe in religion.

After hearing Lu Zhishen's words, Deng Yuanjue could only shake his head helplessly.

"You are practicing Hinayana Buddhism!"

Deng Yuanjue looked at Lu Zhishen and said.

Mahayana Buddhism believes that Sakyamuni is a mighty, boundless, omniscient and omnipotent Buddha; Hinayana Buddhism believes that Sakyamuni is a master and a fully enlightened person.

Mahayana Buddhism seeks to universally save all sentient beings and takes Buddhahood as its highest state; Hinayana Buddhism pursues personal liberation and ultimately wants to achieve "Arahantship".

Lu Zhishen is pursuing his own cultivation to achieve the right result.

"What's wrong? My brother said that Buddha is not omnipotent and cannot control the affairs of the world. Why do we, a group of Buddhist monks, think that we can do things that even Buddha can't do? So we still care. Just be good to yourself!”

Lu Zhishen said nonchalantly that he was different from ordinary monks in that he lacked respect for the Buddha. In these years of practice, he had seen many followers who were just like flies and dogs. Among them, he could see the darkness of Buddhism. He knew that everyone had private messages. , monks are no exception. When there are too many people, scum will appear, so he is not interested in preaching.

"Master Deng, your Majesty naturally has your Majesty's intention in asking you to preach. Xixia people believe in Buddhism, but the Xixia nobles and Buddhists use this method to enslave believers, ignore the suffering of the people, and overhaul Buddhist temples and pagodas. At this time, Master Deng's Mingjiao is needed to save them. ”

Gongsun Sheng looked at Zheng Yuanjue and smiled.

"Mr. Gongsun doesn't want to go on a missionary journey?"

Deng Yuanjue looked at Gongsun Sheng in surprise again. Lu Zhishen's dislike of preaching may be due to his personality, but Gongsun Sheng should be interested. "Of course I have to preach, but I never force Taoism."

Gongsun Sheng smiled.

"Master Deng believes in Mahayana Buddhism? This is in line with the teachings of Mingjiao."

Gongsun Sheng looked at Deng Yuanjue and asked, "There are many branches of Buddhism in the Central Plains, but Mahayana Buddhism has become the mainstream. This is not because Buddhism can really save people, but because some people need Buddhism to save them."

The Mahayana advocates not only self-transcendence, but also the salvation of others, and believes that as long as they believe devoutly, everyone can become a Buddha; the Hinayana advocates that all living beings can save themselves, and everyone can enter Nirvana through cultivation, but not everyone can become a Buddha.

"Amitabha!"

Deng Yuanjue performed a Buddhist ritual.

"Then it depends on Master Deng!"

Gongsun Sheng nodded and said that this was also a way to rule foreign races that he and Sun Lei came up with after discussing it. It was a good tool for the uncivilized foreign religions, and what they had to do was to hold that religion in their hands.

At first, Sun Lei actually wanted Lu Zhishen to preach, but Lu Zhishen was not that material, so Sun Lei approached Gongsun Sheng, and Gongsun Sheng became very interested.

But after thinking about it carefully, I realized that it still didn't work. Taoism was not suitable for doing this kind of thing. Taoism advocates that Taoism is natural and does nothing without fighting. This kind of pure heart and lack of desire cannot help Qi to rule foreign races.

Finally, after thinking about it, I found that only Buddhism was more suitable, so I thought of Deng Yuanjue, who would definitely be able to preach.

"Amitabha, preach the Dharma and save all sentient beings. This is the lifelong ambition of this young monk!"

Deng Yuanjue performed a Buddhist ritual and said with a smile, he had no shirk in this matter.

"Let's defeat the enemy first and then talk about it!"

Lu Zhishen pointed into the distance and said, Xixia will not let them go to preach, and Xixia must be destroyed before going.

"The Xixia people don't seem to be in a hurry to come to a decisive battle?"

Deng Yuanjue looked at Lu Zhishen and asked. He had never been on a real battlefield and didn't quite understand what to do.

"The Xixia people actually bully the weak and fear the strong. We have lured the enemy several times, but they just hid in Hongzhou and refused to come out."

Lu Zhishen said.

"What should I do?"

Deng Yuanjue asked.

"Then we can only fight. Anyway, we have to win Xixia."

Lu Zhishen said that he did not expect the Xixia people to be so cautious. In his expectation, after luring the enemy several times, the Xixia people should enter the mountains to meet the security forces, and then advance to Yan'an Prefecture.

The 200,000-strong army moved toward the north and reached the border smoothly.

"Master Lu, we found Xixia scouts ahead!"

Hao Siwen looked at Lu Zhishen and said.

"Scout, near the border?"

Lu Zhishen touched his chin and started thinking.

"According to the habits of the Xixia people, the scouts should not be more than a hundred miles away from the central army. Calculating this, the main Xixia force is still in Hongzhou and has not moved!"

Liu Fa said.

"Do you want to fight us on the plateau?"

Lu Zhishen looked at the plateau in the distance. A dozen miles ahead there were mountains and flat plateaus.

"Tang Bin, Hao Siwen, you guys take 30,000 troops to Helanyuan and retreat from there."

"Sun Li, Qin Ming, you guys take 30,000 troops to Shilijing and retreat from there."

"Chinese army, follow me forward, to Changcheng Ridge!"

Lu Zhishen looked at everyone and ordered.