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"Shangzhuguo has been waiting for a long time!"

Dao Ji said with a smile and clasped his hands together.

"Stop talking about this and drink!"

Lu Zhishen waved his hand. He didn't like these etiquettes. Being too polite would make him drink unhappily.

Dao Ji smiled and didn't bother to be polite, just sat down on a cushion.

Sun Lei also sat down with a smile.

Duan Yu looked at everyone sitting down, and carefully sat down in the first position. He dared not be careless in such a high-level game.

"Come on, have a drink first!"

Lu Zhishen directly poured four bowls of wine and took one bowl himself.

Sun Lei also picked up a bowl of wine with a smile, Dao Ji followed suit, and Duan Yu finally picked up his too.

"cheers!"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"Dry!"

Lu Zhishen touched one and drank it all in one gulp.

Sun Lei also drank with a smile, Dao Ji and Duan Yu also drank it all in one gulp.

"This wine is still the best! Brother, why do you always hide the good stuff you have?"

Lu Zhishen smacked his lips and then spoke with recollection.

"If I hadn't hidden it, you would have drunk it all in two days!"

Sun Lei smiled and said that good wine must be hidden, otherwise it would be drunk by Lu Zhishen on the spot.

"How can I finish all that wine? I think you are just stingy!"

However, Lu Zhishen refused to admit that he could drink, and thought that Sun Lei was stingy and controlled his drinking.

"I'll put you in a wine jar when I get home and let you drink as much as you want!"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"It has to be this kind of good wine!"

Lu Zhishen said nonchalantly that if it was good wine, one jar would not be too much.

"It really is a good wine."

Dao Ji also sighed. He was a wine lover, and he had never tasted such fine wine before.

"I should have treated you to a drink a long time ago, but I had a lot of things to do when I got back, so I only had time now!"

Sun Lei looked at Dao Ji and said that Dao Ji had made great contributions during his journey to the west, so it was not an exaggeration to congratulate him.

Dao Ji had been invited to the palace banquet before, but he declined on the grounds that monks should not participate in state affairs. If a monk went to the court celebration, it would have a bad influence. The Buddhism, which had finally been settled, could not be disturbed again.

"Amitabha, Your Majesty is in charge of everything and has a lot of things to do every day. You don't have to worry about me."

Dao Ji performed a Buddhist salute and spoke.

"Rewards are given for merit, this is for you!"

Sun Lei took out a gold medal and threw it to Dao Ji.

Dao Ji quickly caught it and took a closer look. It was an exquisite gold medal with the word Dao Ji engraved on it and a swastika on the north side.

"Your Majesty, what is this?"

Dao Ji looked at the gold medal in his hand in surprise.

"I'll give you this certificate so that you can travel more easily."

Sun Lei said with a smile. "Your Majesty knows?"

Dao Ji was a little surprised, and he didn't tell anyone else that he was leaving to travel.

"If you want to spread the new Buddhist teachings, you can't stay in Liangshan City forever. It's only a matter of time before you leave."

Sun Lei looked at Dao Ji and said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I am preparing to leave and travel around. Your Majesty wants to improve Buddhism, and I just want to take a look along the way and spread the Dharma."

Dao Ji accepted the gold medal and then said that with this gold medal it would be much easier for him to promote the new Buddhism.

"Master Daoji, don't you want to read these scriptures?"

Duan Yu looked at Dao Ji and asked, since they had brought back so many Buddhist scriptures from the West, shouldn't they first convene a debate conference and summon famous monks from all over the world to comprehend these scriptures?

"The scriptures are just external things. Indian Buddhism has long since fallen into decline. These Indian Buddhist scriptures are actually full of errors and omissions. This is why after Master Xuanzang, China rarely went to India to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Instead, China has its own "Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch", and Buddhism is becoming more and more prosperous."

Dao Ji looked at Duan Yu and said that although Chinese Buddhism originated from India, after thousands of years of development, Chinese Buddhism has become a unique branch of its own and no longer needs to refer to India. These Indian Buddhist scriptures are not of much significance either.

"Master Daoji wants to write the sutra himself?"

Duan Yu was shocked and thought that anyone who could write scriptures must be a Buddha.

"I have this idea, but I have no clue yet."

Dao Ji did not hide the fact that he wanted to write a Buddhist scripture. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a symbol of the improvement of Chinese Buddhism to the present day.

Now that the emperor has new requirements for Buddhism, reform is imperative, and he is willing to take on this responsibility for Buddhism.

Duan Yu looked at Dao Ji with a kind smile on his face and his face was full of admiration. Because of his family education, he had a natural affinity for Buddhism and admired the enlightened monks even more.

"Write it out sooner, I want to see it too!"

Sun Lei looked at Dao Ji with a smile. He was very curious about what kind of Buddhist scriptures Dao Ji would write.

"I think writing Buddhist scriptures is not as good as understanding them yourself. Life is so different, how can we understand the same thing?"

Lu Zhishen shook his head and said that he was not planning to write any Buddhist scriptures, because he himself was a Buddhist scripture.

"The Shangzhu Kingdom has wisdom and profound Buddhist teachings, so they can naturally comprehend on their own, but ordinary people can't, so they still need guidance. The goal of Buddhism is to guide people to be good."

Dao Ji smiled and said that not everyone can comprehend Buddhism on their own like Lu Zhishen.

"I don't have that stuff, I just drink and fight, but it's a pity that now I can only drink and not fight."

Lu Zhishen waved his hand and said that he was a latecomer and did not have much wisdom, but he had a heart of justice.

"You were told to go train but you didn't go!"

Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen and said that Lu Zhishen was not suitable for going out for rotation, so he arranged training for Lu Zhishen, but Lu Zhishen was still not satisfied.

"Training soldiers is so boring. Your guns have already started mass production, and no one wants to learn my Zen staff anymore!"

Lu Zhishen took a sip of wine and spoke, after the New Year, the Qi army began to change their equipment again, this time they were directly equipped with firearms. This made Lu Zhishen and other generals feel that they were abandoned by the times. The days when he rode a horse on the battlefield and swung his Zen stick to chop down the enemy were gone forever.

"What you said is not wrong. It's not like we don't practice physical fitness and cold weapons. Equipment is external things. War is a human matter!"

Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen and said that even with cold weapons, the army still needed to have good physical fitness and cold weapon fighting skills.

"Then will the cavalry charge?"

Lu Zhishen asked.

"That's the last resort. You have to know that the lives of soldiers are also lives. If you can destroy the enemy from a distance, don't get close. If you get close, there will be casualties anyway."

Sun Lei shook his head. A large army charge was not a tactic he liked. Casualties in close combat were inevitable, and he did not like casualties.

Lu Zhishen remained silent. He didn't want to see soldiers die in battle, and he knew very well that war would result in death.

"You slowly adapt. Have you ever thought about getting another weapon? How about a sniper rifle? The kind that can shoot two miles away? Just imagine, Master Lu, shirtless, wearing a flowery dress, with a Zen stick stuck in the ground next to him, holding a sniper rifle, firing a shot, and the enemy's head exploded two miles away, isn't it cool?"

Sun Lei watched Lu Zhishen tempt him, but the monk was still a little stubborn and resisted new things. He was reluctant to accept everything from cars to guns and artillery. (End of this chapter)