Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Li Ji immediately reacted. Was this Zuo Rong calling him?

Li Ji stroked his chin, then supported his chin with the back of his hand, and looked at Zuo Rong with eyes as calm as a windless lake.

In name, Li Ji was the county governor, and Zuo Rong was also the county governor.

However, at this moment, the status of both parties seemed to be in different dimensions. Li Ji sat high up in the main seat and looked down upon those below, while Zuo Rong knelt on the ground, trembling with fear.

But neither Xu Chu and the other guards who were standing by to watch, nor Zuo Rong himself felt that there was anything wrong.

The troubled times have arrived, the winner will be the king and the loser will be the bandit.

A moment later, just when Zuo Rong felt that his back was about to be completely soaked with sweat under that vague gaze, Li Ji said something playfully again.

"Repeat the name you just addressed me."

Li Ji had always been quite suspicious as to whether this was something Zuo Rong had made up on the spur of the moment, and even Zuo Rong himself would have difficulty repeating it.

"In compliance with the order of the great and virtuous Lay Buddhist Yuanzhi Guangming Pushan, I dare not disobey."

Can you really repeat it accurately?
Li Ji was a little surprised, and then asked, "Where does this name come from?"

"This is not something I have decided, but a name that was given by heaven. The so-called great virtue is the great virtue, the great compassion, the virtuous name, the far-sighted, the bright, the universally kind, the lay Buddhist who is covered with the virtue of blessing all the people, and his kindness is like the sun shining everywhere..."

Without waiting for Zuo Rong to finish speaking, Li Ji waved his hand to interrupt Zuo Rong's spell.

OK!

I didn't expect that Jiangdong is really full of talented people. I didn't expect that in addition to Zhu Zheng, there is also a master like Zuo Rong, and it seems that Zuo Rong's rank is much higher than Zhu Zheng.

At least Zhu Zheng still had plenty of time to prepare his speech, but Zuo Rong was temporarily released from prison.

It was at Li Ji's signal that the guards took Zuo Rong to wash up and told him that they were going to meet him. Time was very urgent.

"Compared to this messy title, I prefer the title of National Scholar and Marquis bestowed by the Emperor of the Han Dynasty." Li Ji said casually.

"Yes, a national hero." Zuo Rong replied quickly.

"But Lord Zuo took so much trouble to give me such a name. Could it be that he is trying to convert me to Buddhism?"

Immediately, Li Ji asked with a smile, which frightened Zuo Rong, who had just straightened up, so much that he almost fell down again.

If you ask Zuo Rong whether he wants to or not, he would certainly dream about this possibility.

If Li Ji recognized and supported the existence of Buddhism, it would mean that Buddhism could spread unimpeded under Liu Bei's rule.

However, Zuo Rong was more aware that it was not yet dark and it was too early to dream now.

"No, I dare not. It's not that you, the Lord, are converting to Buddhism, but I hope you, the Lord, can point out a clear path for Buddhism. I will definitely follow your lead." Zuo Rong replied hurriedly.

"I dare not say what the bright future holds, but I know that if I continue on this path, Lord Zuo will end up with a dead end..."

As Li Ji spoke, he pushed the bamboo slips on the table to the ground.

Zuo Rong looked in the direction he was looking and was shocked to discover that what Li Ji had pushed to the ground were the various doctrines and Buddhist scriptures that Zuo Rong used to recruit believers.

At this moment, Li Ji's eyes were quite cold. In a sense, there is no real Taoism now, but with Huang-Lao Taoism as the core, the Taiping Dao, Tianshi Dao, Wudoumi Dao and other primitive Taoism began to form, and then after a long period of integration, Li Ji's later Taoism was formed.

However, even the Taiping Dao, which caused the Yellow Turban Rebellion, still generally taught people to do good. The same was true for the Tianshi Dao and the Wudoumi Dao.

Of course, even if the doctrine is generally positive, it can still be a tool for chaos if it falls into the hands of an ambitious person. Therefore, after experiencing the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the princes in various places now have a wary and rejecting attitude towards Taoists.

The situation of Buddhism and Taoism is completely different. It has been less than two hundred years since Buddhism was introduced into the Han Dynasty and the White Horse Temple was built during the reign of Emperor Ming of Han.

During these two hundred years, Buddhism had not even completed its localization. Most of the theories of the scriptures were still those of ancient India, and the teachings were still quite simple and crude, preaching that the secular world was full of suffering and that one should be liberated from it as soon as possible in order to seek blessings in the next life.

It was through this doctrine that Zuo Rong continuously attracted believers, who abandoned the secular world, donated money and grain to build Buddhist temples and pagodas, and then sought liberation of their souls in exchange for blessings in the next life.

This made Li Ji, who had a deeper understanding of the situation, frown.

Moreover, in times of chaos, this kind of belief has no shortage of believers, and there are certainly no shortage of people who are tired of the world. This is why Zuo Rong was able to establish a preliminary scale of Buddhism in Lujiang within less than a year of becoming the prefect of Lujiang County.

Today, there are six Buddhist temples built in Lujiang, and there are seven or eight more under construction. They have not only attracted a large number of believers, but also occupied a considerable amount of land.

If we say that Taoism at this time was thinking about making trouble, making big things, and making things happen in the world; then Buddhism during this period was thinking about enclosing land to build temples, and then enclosing land to build temples, and continuing to enclose land to build temples.

"Yangzhou seems to... not have the right soil for Lord Zuo to spread his teachings." Li Ji said calmly.

"I change!"

Zuo Rong answered without hesitation. "Whatever doctrine the Lord of the State likes, I can change it!!"

This made Li Ji slightly stunned. He never expected that Zuo Rong would not even have the slightest hesitation or bottom line.

Zuo Rong didn't wait for Li Ji to speak, and kept talking without stopping.

"The Buddha's compassion is to benefit all people in the world, so that everyone can ascend to the Pure Land as soon as possible and obtain blessings in the next life."

"Now that I can get the guidance of the state scholar, it must be the blessing of my Buddha and the will of my Buddha. How dare I not follow it?"

"Furthermore, with the guidance of the great men of state, my teachings will surely spread far and wide, bringing benefit to the world!"

At the end, Zuo Rong carefully looked at Li Ji out of the corner of his eye to confirm whether Li Ji's reaction was satisfactory.

Zuo Rong did not have the slightest aversion to kneeling before Li Ji.

Unlike some old stubborn people who are conservative and only know how to translate scriptures every day, Zuo Rong knows that the right way is to successfully spread the doctrine and allow Buddhism to continue to exist in troubled times.

And who is the national hero Marquis Li Ji?
Zuo Rong knew very well that no matter how the troubled times would develop, the national hero Marquis Li Ji would already have left a strong mark in history books.

Now, if I can be firmly tied to the national hero Marquis Li Ji, then no matter how high the price is, it will be worth it.

According to Zuo Rong's speculation, Li Ji, the state scholar, must have used Buddhist teachings as a tool to promote Liu Bei's benevolent ideas, and Buddhist teachings do have the potential to become such a tool.

Therefore, Zuo Rong was not afraid that Li Ji would not change.

As long as Li Ji opened his mouth, Zuo Rong would immediately change the teachings into the form that Li Ji liked best. (End of this chapter)