Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

After this war is over, maybe you will be able to understand what kind of method the people on this land will use to resonate with me. "

Ma Xingde didn't object, and didn't speak any more, but turned to Zhao Kuo again, and then retreated.

Zhao Kuo glanced at Mao Sui beside him, and said, "Arrange his residence and try to meet his requirements. Except for the secret department, let him go wherever he wants in other places in the camp."

This order obviously surprised Mao Sui. He didn't really understand why Zhao Kuo trusted a monk who didn't seem to have much effect, but he still responded very respectfully, and then retreated.

Living Buddha Ma Xingde lived in the military camp of the Han Kingdom.

As a respect for the Living Buddha, Mao Sui told Ma Xingde that he could bring two servants to stay, but Ma Xingde politely refused.

"I am the servant of the Buddha, how can I let others be my servant?"

After Ma Xingde settled down, he found a group of Seleucid soldiers next to him.

As the prince of the Mauryan Dynasty, Ma Xingde learned many languages ​​since he was a child, and the Greek language of the Seleucids was one of them.

So, Ma Xingde chatted with this group of Seleucid soldiers from the Han Kingdom very smoothly.

"You Peacock Dynasty can't resist the Han Dynasty."

"Our Seleucid Empire is much stronger than yours, but we still lost."

"We don't miss the Seleucid Empire, because the current Han Dynasty is a stronger country."

"Moreover, the various novelties in the Han Kingdom are also shocking. They are good things that will not appear in the Seleucids for 1000 years."

"Have you heard of trains, Living Buddha?"

Listening to these inexplicable questions, Ma Xingde kept smiling, but at the same time he was a little puzzled.

Why do I feel that what these Seleucids said seems a bit...outrageous?

Chapter 1275 The Hope of Assimilation, Ma Xingde

In the following time, Ma Xingde continued to act with the Han army.

Ma Xingde soon discovered that the Han people did not pay much attention to his whereabouts, as long as he wanted, he could even leave the camp at any time.

But it is obvious that Ma Xingde is not willing to do this, because as Zhao Kuo said before, what Ma Xingde hopes to do is to observe the army of the Great Han State at close range, and see what is it that allows this country to defeat the Peacock so smoothly. dynasty.

Three days later, when he was in the middle of another city, Ma Xingde witnessed the two ace weapons of the Han Dynasty, explosives and muskets.

Although it is true that most of the Buddhists are very obedient, the problem is that this obedience mainly lies in what kind of people they regard the army of the Han Dynasty as.

If it is regarded as a conqueror, then obedience is actually no problem.

But if the army of the Han Dynasty is regarded as pagans who came to destroy Buddhism and blaspheme the Buddha, then there is a big problem.

The officials in this city took advantage of this argument. They declared that the Han army would kill all the Buddhists after capturing the city, tear down all the temples, and throw all the monks into the sea.

It sounds like this argument is a bit nonsense, but everyone in the city panicked and chose to believe it.

Ever since, everyone in this city united and organized a line of defense.

When Zhao Kuo saw the bows and arrows pouring down on the city wall, he couldn't help shaking his head, and said to Ma Xingde beside him, "How many days do you think this city can last?"

Ma Xingde shook his head, and said to Zhao Kuo: "The poor monk does not know how to fight, but if he is more willing, the poor monk can try to go to the city to persuade them."

Zhao Kuo laughed and said to Ma Xingde: "As a living Buddha, I certainly believe that you have the ability and eloquence to explain them, but don't forget that I am actually a conqueror.

What do conquerors rely on to conquer the world?

Of course it is powerful force, so this time I want you to take a good look at what kind of force I used to defeat the most elite 20 soldiers in your country. "

After listening to Zhao Kuo's words, Ma Xingde showed a regretful expression on his face, and then stood there quietly watching the war that was about to break out.

As a prince of the Maurya Dynasty, it is not that Ma Xingde has never seen war before, but the war that is breaking out now is completely beyond Ma Xingde's expectation.

The muskets fired intensively, and the archers on the top of the city were completely suppressed and couldn't lift their heads.

Taking advantage of this musket suppression, a large number of Han and American soldiers pushed carts full of explosives and placed them at the city gate.

Then there was an earth-shattering explosion, which brought up billowing smoke and dust.

Ma Xingde's eyes widened in surprise as he looked at the completely collapsed city gate after the explosion, he couldn't believe what he saw in front of him.

"Amitabha."

After seeing all this clearly, Ma Xingde couldn't help but recite the Buddha's name.

In his opinion, this explosion definitely came from the power of the gods, but the question is why the power of the gods is on the opposite side of the Buddha believers?

Ma Xingde watched this scene and fell into a long thought.

Zhao Kuo did not bother Ma Xingde, but continued to order the Musketeers to retreat, while the other infantrymen who had been waiting for a long time swarmed forward, waving their swords and began to break through.

These Seleucids, the Ptolemys, and the Antikians, after all, they have just joined the army of the Great Korea, and their loyalty has not been fully proved, so the musket is the most powerful weapon of the Great Han Kingdom It is not available to them for the time being.

But under the current situation, even cold weapons are enough for them to conquer this city.

The war was completely stopped in one day.

Zhao Kuo entered the city from another relatively intact city gate, and the strong smell of blood just entering the city made Zhao Kuo frowned involuntarily.

The streets are littered with corpses, and most of the corpses belong to the defenders in the city.

After seeing this scene, the expression on the face of Ma Xingde next to Zhao Kuo became more serious. He took down the rosary in his hand and kept chanting the scriptures, as if he was trying to save these dead souls.

Zhao Kuo did not stop Ma Xingde, but said to Ma Xingde: "Now you should understand, whether it is your father or your brother, they are completely vulnerable to weapons like ours."

Ma Xingde stopped chanting.

After thinking for a moment, Ma Xingde let out a long sigh.

"Your Majesty, what you said is not wrong. Although our Maurya Dynasty is indeed very powerful, loyal, and firm, but in front of your army, these are completely worthless."

Zhao Kuo said: "I asked you to read and write, not to let you praise how powerful our army is, but to ask you the question I asked you before.

Do you think your Buddhism is ready and ready to meet the rule of Zhen and Han? "

Ma Xingde didn't speak for a long time.

That night, Ma Xingde stayed up all night, and took dozens of surviving monks like Chengchi to perform chanting for the people who died in the war.

When Zhao Kuo woke up the next day, he found that Ma Xingde was still reciting scriptures, so he kindly persuaded him.

"You need to rest, otherwise if you die, more people in the whole country may die because of you."

What Zhao Kuo said is not a curse, but a fact. After all, Ma Xingde is a living Buddha, and living Buddhas have countless believers. Once they hear the news of the living Buddha's death, it is hard to say what these believers will do.

After listening to Zhao Kuo's words, Ma Xingde opened his eyes and said to Zhao Kuo, "Your Majesty must have killed a lot of people in his lifetime of fighting in the world. I don't know what kind of feeling your Majesty has in mind when he recalls these people. How do you feel?"

Zhao Kuo said very calmly: "I don't have any regrets in my heart, on the contrary, when I look at this huge country that I have brought down, I am full of pride.

Because my success has enabled tens of millions of people in my country to live a happy life. For those lands that I conquered, many people will die at the beginning, but after a few years, When my country establishes a new ruling order in these places, they will find that the new life they get is actually richer than the original life, and it will enable them to continue to survive in this difficult world. survive. "

Ma Xingde stared at Zhao Kuo, and said after a long time: "Your Majesty is actually the same kind of person as my father, but my father has actually had some thoughts of repentance in recent years under my persuasion, maybe Your Majesty will also There is a day of repentance."

After hearing Ma Xingde's words, Zhao Kuo laughed again: "Actually, I understand what you mean very well. What you want to say is to put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha immediately, but it's a pity that I don't believe in these things. .

It's not that I don't respect Buddha, but for us Chinese people, we have our own way to understand the world and understand the present and the future.

What you're doing is useless to me. "

If Ma Xingde lost something, he didn't speak again, but closed his eyes, and seemed to have fallen asleep.

Zhao Kuo smiled and nodded towards Ma Xingde, then left the scene.

Mao Sui followed Zhao Kuo, and said with some incomprehension: "Why does Your Majesty have to talk so much to this stubborn monk?

As far as the important minister is concerned, it is better to directly torture and extract a confession, and let this monk help us establish a new order here. "

After hearing Mao Sui's words, the expression on Zhao Kuo's face gradually became serious.

"Give up that idea, Mao Sui.

Because your idea is absolutely wrong.

You have to know that what we are facing is not a country, but a religion. Religion has a characteristic, that is, it looks more loose than a country, but in fact it is more loyal than a country.

The believers are brave enough to die for their religion, which will lead to a high upper limit for them, you know what I mean? "

Mao Sui was obviously puzzled, because he didn't really understand why his majesty was so tolerant of religion.

Zhao Kuo looked at Mao Sui and he could actually understand Mao Sui's doubts. You must know that in this era, among the three major religions in the world, only Buddhism exists, and the other two major religions have not yet been created.

Therefore, even after conquering Jerusalem and the Middle East, most people in the Han Kingdom still have little experience in dealing with religion.

This is actually very bad, because religion will continue to be created sooner or later. If officials in Korea don’t know how to deal with religion, then what should they do when facing new religions in the future? Woolen cloth?

Zhao Kuo decided to carry out a religious literacy program starting from Mao Sui.

Zhao Kuo spoke very calmly and made a long speech.

"First of all, we need to determine one thing, that is, what is religion?

I think the answer is very simple, it is a ruling tool as a ruling tool, what we have to do is to make it our ruling tool, but you can also see that this living Buddha is obviously not very willing to let this religion become ours tools of domination.

Under such circumstances, we have to show our merits to this living Buddha, let him tell his other colleagues, let them know that resistance is meaningless, and let them be willing to become our tool of domination.

Of course, if you only hold such a goal, it is actually relatively easy to achieve, but where is the real problem? That is, this ruling tool may be more useful for the Maurya Dynasty, but for us It's pretty bad.

As a ruling tool, the system established by our Han Dynasty has completely crushed the relatively primitive way of Buddhism in all aspects, so we must transform it so that it can keep pace with the times and be able to Keep up with the pace of the rule of our Han Dynasty, so that it can finally be integrated into the culture of our Han Dynasty. "

Mao Sui thought about it for a while, and then said, "Why can't we just destroy this religion?

Is it because His Majesty is worried that the resistance they caused is too serious? "

Zhao Kuo nodded with a smile and said: "Knowledge is the truth. You have to know that the territory of our Han Kingdom is getting wider and wider. What we have to do is to make this territory as safe as possible.

It is not an easy task to achieve this. First of all, we need to ensure a very good system. However, a foreign system alone is not enough, because you need to know why a place can form a local unique system. culture, that is because this place has its own unique characteristics.

Therefore, if you really want to live in this place for a long time, you must integrate the characteristics of this place into our Han Dynasty, so that people in these places feel that their culture is actually exactly the same as our Han Dynasty's culture. Yes, they are of the same language and the same species, so that they can reduce their resistance to our Han culture, understand? "

When Zhao Kuo said these words, it was actually because he remembered the colonial system in history.

In history, colonies are basically Western, or some countries in Western Europe. The colonial system of these countries is actually very rough. They simply promote their own language and characters locally. Simply carry out a dumping of cultural civilization.

This is of course very useful. In the modern world, the languages ​​of those colonial countries still dominate the mainstream, which is an obvious expression of extroversion. However, doing so also has infinite disadvantages, that is, although the language and The writing is the same, but because the civilizations between the two sides are completely different, even after hundreds of years, these conquered colonies will still not be integrated into the colonial suzerains.

In other words, the people in these colonies always feel that we are here. For example, Brazilians are Americans, while the suzerain is Europeans. We are different civilizations, but we are conquered by them That's all.

Since everyone is not a family, as long as these suzerain countries become weak one day, the independence of the colonies is foreseeable.

Now that Zhao Kuo has learned the lessons of these colonies, then of course what he does will be different from the guys in these colonies.

What Zhao Kuo used was actually the experience of the expansion of the Chinese nation in history. Although the Chinese nation did not establish such a thing as a colony, don’t forget that in the final analysis, the real core area of ​​​​the Chinese nation is actually the Central Plains.

The Chinese nation was able to expand from the Central Plains all the way to the 960 million square kilometers of the later generations, and relying on cultural recognition, most of the people in the 960 million square kilometers believed that they were a real Chinese. Compared with those colonial countries, I don't know how high it is.

The recognition brought by force can only be superficial recognition, and it is absolutely impossible to become inner recognition. Only by absorbing all these people into the Chinese people through civilization, let them all believe from the bottom of their hearts that they are One of the Chinese people, only in this way can we achieve the true unity of the world.

As for the skin and blood, such things are not so important to Zhao Kuo or to Chinese civilization.

To put it bluntly, we are all Homo sapiens who came out of Africa together tens of thousands of years ago. Our ancestors are all the same, but because we lived at different latitudes and different climates, so the skin color It's just that the separation from the bloodline slowly appeared. Since everyone is the same ancestor, it is really stupid for you to talk about these external things to find a sense of superiority.

After listening to Zhao Kuo's words, Mao Sui suddenly realized.

"For a long time, I didn't know why His Majesty was able to make so many correct assimilation decisions, but now that His Majesty said this, I understand. It seems that religion is indeed a very special thing, and it also guides us to treat it specially. .”

After listening to Mao Sui's words, Zhao Kuo nodded slightly, agreeing with Mao Sui's understanding.

In fact, as long as the truth is said, everyone who is not a fool can understand what he means. However, there are often very few people who can really discover this truth.

This is why people often say that pioneers are very important, because what pioneers open up is a brand new path that others have never traveled before, and it can lead the whole society forward in a true sense.

Zhao Kuo let out a long breath, and said to Mao Sui: "Actually, this matter is also some of my thoughts and attempts. It's too early for you to say whether it is right or wrong, but no matter what, someone has to come." Those who do these things, we can't do things. People in this land have always regarded us as conquerors, and they have been thinking about how to resist one day. We absolutely can't do this.

We must let them identify with Huaxia from the bottom of their hearts in the near future, feel that they are a Chinese from the bottom of their hearts, and be willing to make contributions to China from the bottom of their hearts.

Only in this way can the rule of our Han Dynasty be able to maintain long-term stability in these lands, understand? "

After Zhao Kuo finished speaking so much in one breath, he did not continue to look at Mao Sui, but turned his attention to Ma Xingde who was not far away.

Zhao Kuo had a feeling that this young living Buddha might be the key to the true assimilation of Buddhism in the Han Dynasty.

Many things are like this, as long as there are some moths inside you, then disintegration will be inevitable.

Ma Xingde, you can't live up to my expectations.

Chapter 1276 The Reformation of Buddhism

As Zhao Kuo expected, after finishing the ceremony, Ma Xingde fell into silence.