The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 907
The Parthian Zoroastrian mission came to China, and Lu Heng had just finished dealing with the mission of Zoroastrianism.

Fang La found Lu Heng, who had been rumored to be the leader of the Ming Cult!

But now Fang La seems to be very interested in Anxi's trade, and of course Lu Heng is also very interested!
It is rumored in later generations that there were four Silk Roads for trade between the East and the West.

Someone questioned that there are so many Silk Roads?

The Silk Road in the Western Regions that everyone knows is also a well-known trade route. The Western Han Dynasty carried forward this Silk Road and influenced China for thousands of years.

The second is the grassland Silk Road. It is rumored that after the Huns were defeated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, they moved westward to Europe and established Hungary.

This is not the earliest one. The Da Yuezhi, who was defeated by the Huns, apparently also gained a foothold in the west. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian just to find the Da Yuezhi.

Mongolia fought from Asia to Europe, and Xiliao, ruled by Yelu Dashi, proved that the grassland to the west to Europe is a very mature route.

The third Silk Road is relatively unknown. The Silk Road to the west of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau crosses the Kunlun Mountains and reaches Europe to the west, but this road is almost all legendary.

And the last Silk Road is also very controversial in history. This road is not taken by land but by sea.

It is the Maritime Silk Road that has always been rumored, and it is generally believed that it was opened when Zheng He went to the West in the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, Zheng He has always been going south instead of going west. Whether there is a Silk Road going west to Europe has always been a question.

Both the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty controlled the Western Regions, so it is generally believed that the trade at that time was also the Silk Road of the Western Regions rather than the Maritime Silk Road.

It is also for these various reasons that the Silk Road from the sea to the West has always been in the legend, and it seems that it has not been confirmed.

Lu Heng was very surprised when he suddenly saw the Parthians coming from the sea. The Parthian Empire was already in the area of ​​West Asia and Iran in later generations, and to the west was Rome in Europe.

This means that the Parthian Empire has a sea route that can reach the east. Since it can come and go back, it is obvious that the Maritime Silk Road exists.

What was even more surprising was that Lu Heng learned from the Zoroastrian envoys that a fleet had arrived in the eastern Nanyue Kingdom hundreds of years ago, but because of the turbulent situation in Persia and Rome's continuous resistance to Rome, he did not continue to send envoys.

This is very surprising. The Eastern South Vietnam regime hundreds of years ago, obviously South Vietnam, that is to say, the Silk Road existed in the Western Han Dynasty. Is this possible?

You must know that this is more than 1000 years earlier than the era of Columbus's voyages!
What Lu Heng didn't know was that many Western Persian cultural relics were unearthed in the tomb of the Nanyue King of the Western Han Dynasty in Guangzhou, which proved the existence of this waterway during the Western Han Dynasty.

Closer to home, now that the Western Regions are occupied by the Liao people, the Silk Road is naturally also controlled by the Liao people, and now that they have discovered this trade route, they have to use it. Lu Heng feels that a large amount of gold is beckoning to him.

So Fang La is interested in the West, and Lu Heng is more interested in the West. Naturally, he wants to build a fleet to go to the West. The only concern is that Fang La's original time and space is the resume of the Mingjiao leader.

After some consideration, Lu Heng decided that since Fang La was going, let him go. It didn't matter if he could get a foreign degree or even become the leader of Zoroastrianism, Lu Heng, as long as he controlled the source of religion in China.

Of course, we can't just let Fang La and the Fang family have a fleet. The envoys from the Lu family and the Song Dynasty will naturally be sent as envoys, and there are already suitable candidates.

That night when Lu Heng called Zhuge Jin, there was no need to worry about his loyalty, and his achievements in going to the west were comparable to Zhang Qian's.

The spies of Jinyiwei and Huangcheng Division in the Song Dynasty's fleet are indispensable!

In this way, in 208, the Song Dynasty officially opened the sailing route to Europe. Today, the Song Dynasty has conquered the sailing routes to the east (to the island country) and south (to the Malan Islands), and now the route to the west is also officially opened.

It may not be a delusion to believe that after conquering the Jurchens one day, crossing the Bering Strait to reach the New World.

The emergence of Zoroastrianism is a major episode. In the Buddhist and Taoist Conference, Shaolin and Wudang first united to suppress the preachers of Zoroastrianism, and then the real Buddhist and Taoist conference began.

I don't have much interest in Lu Heng's discussion of Taoism and Buddhism. Although it is much better than Shaolin four years ago, it is a pity that the eminent monks of Xixia, Ananda, and monk Dehui are far behind Huaxia's Buddhism. Both Dali and Siamese Buddhism have their own understandings that have been broken one by one.

On the contrary, Wudang is a force headed by Yu Ji and Zuo Ci, assisted by Zhang Sanfeng and Luo Zhenren, and the Buddhists who argue are speechless.

It is worth mentioning that this year's Buddhist and Daoist Conference is much more advanced in martial arts, and the situation of making up numbers like Gongsun Sheng will no longer appear.

Lu Zhishen and Deng Yuanjue, the two great monks, were no match for Zhang Sanfeng, and if they were held by Tai Chi, even if they had a thousand jin of strength, they would not be able to use them.

Wu Dou was taken over by Zhang Sanfeng alone!
Zhang Sanfeng also became the second martial arts grand master who became famous all over the world after Zhou Tong. The scary thing is that the grand masters are all related to Taoism.

Although Zhou Tong did not explicitly join Wudang, he had a good relationship with Yu Ji, Zhang Sanfeng and others.

On the contrary, not to mention the master-level figures in Shaolin, even the masters who are qualified to participate in the Buddhist and Taoist Conference are all patchwork!

Wudang only produced Zhang Sanfeng, if Lu Heng summoned Chen Yi, then Shaolin would have nothing to play with.

From this year onwards, it has been rumored in the Song Dynasty that one must learn martial arts. One of them is Mr. Zhou Tong who joined the Royal Academy, or Zhang Sanfeng is a teacher of Wudang.

In short, the victory of martial arts in the world out of Shaolin will no longer exist, unless the ancestor Bodhidharma can jump out and make gestures.

However, Lu Heng clearly remembered that Bodhidharma was in the Nanliang period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and even Zhao Kuangyin's father's generation would be more than 300 years later!

Perfectly missed the scope of Lu Heng's system. In short, Shaolin wants to rise and Lu Heng has not thought of anyone who can turn out.

Zhang Sanfeng, who made Lu Heng most happy, played "Hua Monk" Lu Zhishen, "Baoguang Tathagata" and Yang Yande who doubted life.

It made Yang Yande doubt his belief even more, because Buddhism failed so badly because of this Buddhism and Taoism conference!

Ananda and Dehui, who came from Western Xia Buddhism, were not accepted by mainstream Buddhism, and the Buddhist thoughts of Dali and Siam were already very different from those of China.

Buddhism is divided into several sects fighting each other, and there are fundamental differences in their own Buddhist philosophy.

Internal instability is naturally no opponent of Taoism, and Yu Ji was relieved to lose in the debate. He clearly remembered that the last Buddhist and Taoist conference was won only with the help of Lu Heng's rules!
Yu Ji, who was severely beaten by Lu Heng at that time, is like a spring breeze this time. Buddhism will still be under the pressure of Taoism in the next four years.

(End of this chapter)