Three Kingdoms

Originally, Fei Qian just wanted Pang Tong to look for a place called Qinglong Temple near Chang'an, because in his impression of later generations, it seemed that there was such a temple near Chang'an, but he was not sure when it existed. Maybe it's the Han Dynasty, maybe it's the Tang Dynasty, maybe it's the Ming Dynasty?

In the end, Pang Tong did find one. Although it was not Qinglong Temple, but a thatched hut where ascetic monks practiced. However, this ascetic monk turned out to be the earliest transmitter of Buddhism passed down in the Han Dynasty. He came from Kasyapa Mateng's family. This is It attracted Fei Qian's attention, and following the discussion with Pang Tong, a new question also emerged.

What did Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty want to do when he introduced Buddhism?

As the son of Emperor Guangwu, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty created the era of Mingzhang rule. On the one hand, he had a tough and enterprising attitude externally. On the other hand, he was politically clear and responsible internally. How could such a person have such a leisurely life? The pursuit of spiritual liberation through Buddhism, and from a time perspective, is full of doubts.

Just like Fei Qian, no matter what you do now, you need to consider whether it has any meaning, what effect it will have if you do it, and what will happen if you don't do it, and then decide to implement it.

For example, in Chang'an, a martial arts school is currently under construction. It will become the largest, and probably the first in China, to award martial arts skills and primary-level certifications to military officers.

This is a brand new attempt and another path Fei Qian wants to pave outside of the imperial examination.

Monopoly will inevitably produce a high profit difference. When reflected in politics, it can basically be said to be equivalent to corruption. The root cause of this corruption does not lie with a single person, but with problems in the entire system. Just like later generations used the imperial examination to monopolize the way to promotion, what followed was a large number of political groups assembled under the imperial examination. These groups formed by the collusion of disciples and teachers influenced the government and even ignored the development of the nation. In the future, only seeking personal short-term benefits, he did many things that will make future generations sigh.

The fundamental reason is that those who came through the imperial examination, coupled with the so-called disciple-teacher model, created a very strong bond with each other. This bond became one under the imperial power. Although the emperors of all dynasties only had a little Those who are capable are constantly wooing one faction to suppress the other, but in the end they are still wandering in this circle, unable to get out of this strange circle.

The imperial examination was indeed an effective means to break the monopoly of political circles, but it instead formed a monopoly of Confucianism. This model of replacing one monopoly with another, especially progressive, naturally has its limitations.

As the son of Emperor Guangwu and Yin Lihua, during the struggle for the throne, there were some events that were not recorded in the history books. Because of the relationship between time and inheritance, it is completely impossible to test. However, one thing that can be confirmed is that Queen Guo was deposed...

Queen Guo was married by Liu Xiu in order to win over King Zhongshan and Yang'an Sihou. She was the daughter of Yang'an Sihou Guo Chang and the niece of Zhending King Liu Yang. In order to appease the Jizhou gentry, she was canonized as queen after the founding of the country.

However, in the 17th year of Jianwu, Liu Xiu found an excuse to depose Empress Guo. Two years later, the former crown prince Liu (the eldest son) abdicated, and Liu Zhuang, the eldest son of Yin Lihua, became the concubine in one fell swoop. Becoming the legitimate son means he has officially entered the stage of history.

So as the representatives of the interests of people in Jizhou, did Queen Guo and his faction do anything during this process? There must be some, because when faced with the lack of interests, not everyone can accept it calmly, especially when it is not one person, but a group of people, a clan, or an entire region.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty welcomed Buddhism and quickly published forty-two chapters of the Sutra. The entire chapter warned that it was necessary to abstain from desire and cut off the so-called greed, delusion, and anger in order to obtain the position of Arhat. Does it have some other meaning?

Who did Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty want to cut off greed, ignorance, and anger?

The answer is ready to come out.

However, it is obvious that Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty made the intention of this action too obvious, and the result was that it did not have any good effect, and it did not allow this Kasyapa Mateng, this foreign monk to recite the sutra well...

After all, there were still some big differences between Han culture and Gu Tianzhu culture at that time.

Therefore, after the White Horse Temple, Emperor Han Ming's successor, Emperor Han Zhang, did not continue to write any articles on the Forty-Two Chapter Sutra, but turned around and used the White Tiger Temple.

In the fourth year of the founding of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, he ordered Taichang, generals, officials, doctors, Yilang, Langguan, other scholars and scholars to gather at Baihu Temple to discuss the similarities and differences of the Five Classics. Almost all the great Confucian scholars at that time participated. , including Jia Kui, Ding Hong, Yang Zhong, Ban Gu, Li Yu, Lou Wang, Cheng Feng, Huan Yu and dozens of others, including scholars of modern classics and classical classics.

The White Tiger View argument is that, firstly, due to the resurgence of ancient classical classics, there were differences with the modern classical classics school in terms of writing, thought, and teacher theory, and the mutual attacks became more and more intense. However, the modern classical classics school had occupied a higher position since the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Confucian classics, in order to maintain their status, also urgently needed to use the authority of the emperor to overwhelm ancient classics.

Another aspect is the lack of faith. Emperor Guangwu established another ancestral temple, which made it clear that although the Han Dynasty is still the Han Dynasty, the royal family is no longer the royal family of Liu Bang. For many people, this is not a small matter. The old relationship is the same Since it was abandoned, new connections had not yet emerged. Therefore, in order to prove the orthodox status of the Guangwu bloodline and to maintain the imperial power, the mixture of feudal theology and vulgar classics became the mainstream of the White Tiger View, and Ban Gu finally wrote it into a book. , was forcibly implemented and has been passed down to this day.

In other words, from these successive events, Fei Qian can vaguely see a dark line, and this line is that more than a hundred years ago, as the leader of the Han family, he tried to reform and improved action trajectories. Although their actions have achieved certain results, they also bring many side effects...

Therefore, never underestimate the ancients, and never deny the things the ancients did for the continuation of Chinese civilization, even if these things were also mixed with their personal desires.

"So, Shiyuan, look, isn't it very interesting now?" Fei Qian chuckled and tugged at his fingers and said, "There is Taoism, there is Buddhism, there are modern scriptures, ancient scriptures, and the study of prophecy... …In ancient times, there was the White Tiger Temple, and today there is the Qinglong Temple… It must be quite lively this time…”

Pang Tong nodded, paused for a long time, and suddenly sat down on Fei Qian's side in frustration, saying, "It's so lively, I'm afraid it won't end!"

"Oh, Shiyuan, are you scared?" Fei Qian glanced sideways.

"How could I be afraid!" Pang Tong immediately rounded his eyes and retorted. Then he was defeated by Fei Qian's gaze. He rubbed his face with his chubby palms. Then he was silent for a moment and made gestures with his fingers. A thin crack, saying, "Yes... it's a little bit... just a little bit..."

"The more I know, the more uneasy I feel..." Pang Tong raised his head, looked at the sky outside the courtyard, and said, "Taoism is rooted in Huang Lao's theory, but this method is like It's you who said it, my lord, it's not appropriate anymore...and Buddhism, hehe, hehe..."

"Jin Wen Jing, that's it. Even if I don't talk about my lord, you know..." Pang Tong murmured, as if he finally spoke out the thoughts that had been rumbling in his heart for a long time. On his fat black face, With a sense of relaxation and relief, but also a little bit of guilt and helplessness, "The ancient scriptures... are too obscure, either missing words or broken chapters, and it is something from the Spring and Autumn Period and Pre-Qin Dynasty. Can it really be said today... still How long will it last? How many more hundreds of years will it be used? As for the prophecy, ha, ha, ha, it’s just a piece of cloth that deceives oneself and others. It can only be used to cover the eyes and cannot be used for anything else..."

"The more I think about this, the more my head hurts..." Pang Tong turned around, looked at Fei Qian, and pointed to his forehead, "What can we use? Use part of it? Use that part? Are these people willing? No What do you want to do? I am a counselor, a counselor! But now I can’t come up with any strategy for this matter! I’m still a bad counselor! Hi!”

Pang Tong turned his head and closed his eyes.

"Uh..." Fei Qian looked at Pang Tong, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly said, "The weather seems to be good today. Would you like to have a slate barbecue? Zijing sent a deer yesterday..."

"Okay, okay!" Pang Tong immediately turned around, "Do you have any minced rice? I still have some at home, do you want to bring them over?"

Fei Qian seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

"My lord, are you playing tricks on someone? Are there no deer?" Pang Tong's black face darkened, and then he laughed out loud, "There are some cattle and sheep too! Since my lord has said it, today we must eat stone barbecue! Look at the red and white silk-like Embroidery, listen to the sound of beams on the stone slab, wait for the strange fragrance to hit your nostrils, and pick up some fermented rice to moisten your belly!"

Pang Tong grunted, swallowed, and then looked at Fei Qian.

"There really is a deer..." Fei Qian laughed, "But we should also call him Zijing, right? Zijing just came back yesterday to take a rest, and he should still be at home now."

Pang Tongyi clapped his hands and said, "Let someone call me right now!" After saying that, he stood up and trotted out of the courtyard. After roaring a few times, he quickly turned back and moved to the pavilion in the backyard with Fei Qian. , while letting people prepare the utensils to be used...

Pang Tong was very enthusiastic about eating from beginning to end.

While waiting, Fei Qian and Pang Tong sat in the pavilion, holding hot tea in their hands, drinking while continuing the topic.

"This is a circle..." Fei Qian drew a circle in the air with his finger and said, "When the troubled times just ended, Huang Lao was used to recuperate, and then modern and ancient texts set the rules, and then came the prosperous age, greed and greed. Using Buddhism to abstain from sexual desire naturally has no effect. As more and more rules are introduced in modern and ancient texts, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Only the prophecies and ambitious people are left. Then they started to rise up one after another, and then continued to the next troubled times..."

"And what's very interesting is that some people don't believe it, but they also express their belief..." Fei Qian laughed, with some emotion, "What is the purpose? Is it not to let more people believe it, and then achieve his own goals?" the goal of?"

Although what he said is a bit convoluted, the truth is not very different. Pang Tong also nodded and said: "There are so many stupid people in the world..."

"So, Qinglong Temple is a battlefield..." Fei Qian smiled, patted Pang Tong on the shoulder, and said, "Don't think about using them or not using them... Shiyuan, you only need them, these are not the best. They are not adapted to the current situation... Then you only need to regard these people as soldiers and generals on the battlefield, as the opponents of the Han Dynasty in the future, and lead them to fight with each other..."

"Xianzong obviously wanted to do this at the time, but he couldn't do it well...and Suzong continued to do it, but the result was a little off..." Fei Qian moved the new ribbon around his waist and said, "Xianzong At that time, Zong wanted to focus on supporting Buddhism, but his actions were too obvious, which caused the rest of the people to disagree, so he ultimately failed... And Suzong not only served as the referee, but also got off the field himself... Well, that's it... …”

Fei Qian suddenly remembered that the referee or something was actually the words of later generations, but he couldn't find any replacement words for a while. Instead, Pang Tong nodded and said: "As the saying goes, great virtues are not officials, and great virtues are not weapons. Great faith but no promises, great times inconsistent! If you lose your integrity, you will lose your position, what you do is unreasonable, and what you do is unreasonable!"

"What Shi Yuan said is true!" Fei Qian laughed.

"But..." Pang Tong shook his head, "How can you be sure that these guys will definitely come?"

"They will come, our place is free..." Fei Qian said calmly, "Everyone who is supposed to come will definitely come, and they will not think that the free price is actually more expensive... Even if they thought of it, they still will come……"

Human nature is greedy, lazy and slanderous, and not everyone can resist it and understand it correctly.

Free stuff is terrifyingly powerful!

People's eyes are on the head and in front, in order to better observe the movement in the distance and better see the direction of the future. However, many people still only lower their heads and stare at the only things in their hands. .

Now that Feiqian has provided such a place, you can transmit and disseminate your thoughts, let yourself gain a higher and more respected status, and at the same time bring more power and more wealth. Who doesn't want to come? Wouldn't it be a loss if he didn't come?

First the little devils fight, and then they inevitably attract the King of Hell.

"What's the point of just looking at a deer?" Fei Qian laughed, pointing to the deer that was served in the yard, "When everyone's eyes are only staring at the deer, it's ours." Opportunity... Do you still remember some of the issues we once talked about under the Deer Mountain?"

"Pioneering people want to find the other side alone in the vast sea, and they want to cut a road in the thorny land..." Fei Qian patted Pang Tong on the shoulder and said slowly, "Know what is wrong. , correct and avoid it, know what is right, record it and pass it on. This is the essence of Chinese civilization that can be passed down from generation to generation... Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall..."