Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

"You say it is impermanence, it is suffering, these are all transformations. Among these transformations, those who have learned much of the Holy Way will think that there is a 'true self', or 'belonging to the true self', or 'in which there are The real me, or what is included in the real me? Think 'this is me', 'this is me', 'this is my real me'?"

Daoyue has already begun to gasp for breath, and said with difficulty: "Go back to His Highness... I won't!"

"Then will you?" Li You looked at him with a smile.

"His Royal Highness, of course the poor monk won't either!"

Li You's question shot out like a barrage of cannons: "Then if we can't get rid of greed, desire, longing, love, craving, etc., all the aggregates of form, feeling, perception, and consciousness, once form When the aggregates change, will sorrow, sorrow and suffering arise?"

This time, Daoyue thought for a long time before answering with a trembling voice: "Go back to His Royal Highness, I will."

"Exactly!" Li You long laughed, "It's like a person who carries a lot of hardships on his back. He is always with hardships, constantly and reluctantly, and of course he will never be happy."

"I just want to find the truth in your argument, but I can't find it anywhere. It's like someone who goes to the mountains and wants to find wood with hard heartwood, but ends up cutting down the thick and straight trunk of a banana tree, peeling it off layer by layer, peeling it off. In the end, there is nothing in it, and there is no hard heartwood to get!?"

Daoyue was said to be unable to even sit still, his whole body was sweating like rain, and his face was full of hesitation that all three views had been subverted!

"Master Daoyue, your argument is like the banana tree!" Li You suddenly shouted!

"Although Gu heard that you are incomparable in eloquence, and even claimed to be able to defend everyone and make them tremble and sweat... but now look at it again! Who is the person who even drips sweat from clothes on the ground? No sweat at all! Can't you tell the difference here!"

Chapter 765 The Greatest Country in the World

These words were like a blow to the head, shaking Daoyue's head full of buzzing, and he couldn't come back to his senses after half a sound.

The surrounding officials, officials and ordinary people were all in high spirits and couldn't help applauding!

"Good! Good!"

"well said!"

"His Royal Highness talks!"

This is not a flattering remark, but just after several rounds of offensive and defensive debates, His Royal Highness indeed showed an amazing level, and in the end, he completely crushed Daoyue!

This fact also made all the monks, nuns and monks look ashen, but no matter which abbot presided over, they could not raise any resentment towards Daoyue.

Because after watching the whole process of arguing about Buddhism and Dharma, they asked themselves, even if they were replaced by themselves, it is very likely that they would lose even worse than Daoyue in the end!

At this moment, Daoyue also gradually reacted, and the whole person seemed to be sluggish.

"Yes... the poor monk lost."

This incomparably weak sentence was as loud and shocking as thunder to everyone present.

Because with the fall of this sentence, the battle of Ji Feng and Zen has been settled, and the winner has the result - there is no doubt that it is His Royal Highness!

"We won! We won! His Royal Highness, Chitose!"

All the civil and military officials who came to watch the battle shouted in surprise. They looked at each other in unbelievable unison. They did not expect that His Royal Highness not only won, but also won such an overwhelming advantage!

"The poor monk is also convinced..."

After Huiming was stunned for a moment, he could only sigh leisurely.

Huiming believes that it is not just him, but almost everyone in Buddhism can't imagine that His Royal Highness, at the age of fourteen, is more proficient in Buddhist scriptures than most Buddhists!

This is simply unbelievable. It is really hard to imagine how long it took His Royal Highness to read the Buddhist scriptures every day in the past to achieve such a state?

If Huiming knew that Li You actually only spent a day flipping through the Buddhist scriptures in the royal collection from beginning to end, and if he was able to have such a level, even his eyes would pop out in shock!

However, thinking about these things now makes no sense.

The victory of His Royal Highness the Prince means that the end of Buddhism has come, and Buddhism in the Middle Earth is estimated to be extinct from now on!

Thinking of this, the faces of all the abbots and abbots turned gloomy. Among them, there were some truly eminent monks like Daoyue, and they could not bear to close their eyes.

"Why is Master Daoyue so sad..."?"

At this moment, Li You's voice suddenly rang, and Daoyue, who was sadly closing his eyes and chanting sutras, opened his eyes.

He looked at Li You in astonishment, wanting to say that this was a mourning for Buddhism, but he felt that thousands of words came to his mind, and in the end he couldn't say anything.

Li You actually didn't need Daoyue to say it, he only needed to look at it to understand, and immediately smiled: "Looking at the appearance of the master, I am afraid that I have misunderstood Gu. Although Gu wants to destroy the Buddha, he never said that he would never give it to him. Buddhism is any way to survive."

"You...you mean what you said?"

Daoyue immediately asked overjoyedly, and Li You nodded in response to his expectant gaze.

"As long as Buddhism doesn't spread, it's certainly not an existence that must be eradicated—especially if there are more virtuous monks like you, then it's a good thing for the stability of the people."

When Li You said this, he didn't want to say more, but waved his hand and left the scene.

"Anyway, the specific treatment plan will come out later, you just wait."

……

In everything, extremes must be reversed. Even if the top Buddhists admit it, many believers who admit death will probably not agree, so everything can’t be done too much.

What Li You wanted was to suppress Buddhism so that it could be completely controlled by the imperial court, and at least hundreds of thousands of years would not be flooded again. That would be enough.

After hundreds of thousands of years, if the Tang Dynasty continues to exist, it must already be the greatest country in the world, and there is no need to fear the backlash of Buddhism!

"Thanks to Yang Jie this time, the court has achieved an unprecedented victory!"

On the next day's meeting, Li Shimin unabashedly praised Li You.

On the other hand, Li You was not at all arrogant or impetuous, and said lightly: "Father, the most important thing now is to quickly discuss the disposal of Buddhism."