Turbulent Times Chapter 64: Battle of Religions
King Bo Duo looked up at the blue sky and said, "Is everything ready?"
Atro, the guard of Gaochang City next to him, said: "Don't worry, the national teacher, everything is ready. Today, Shi Dao'an's reputation will be ruined, and Shifa Temple will become a place where everyone scolds."
"The origins of those women must not be revealed." Bo Duo Dharma King said solemnly.
"National teacher, don't worry, except for the two women we arranged, the other women will only appear in front of people as corpses. As for the five gangs of robbers and sand robbers who originally robbed these women, they were all killed yesterday. They didn’t stay.” Atro hurriedly said, but when he said this, there was a slight flicker in the depths of his eyes, yesterday he personally led people to kill people to silence them, and it turned out that a group of Han people were extremely powerful and rescued a Sha Pirate, but he shot an arrow at that Sand Pirate, but he was not sure if Sand Pirate was alive or dead. But he didn't dare to tell the truth to King Bo Duo, but he was just lucky that the Sand Bandit was dead.
King Bo Duo looked at the sky, so he didn't notice the change in Atro's eyes, but said: "Where is the person who went to silence?"
Atro felt a chill in his heart, and quickly said: "Don't worry, the national teacher, those who go to silence are the most fanatical believers of the Tianzun Dharma King. Even if they die, they will abide by every word the national teacher said."
King Bo Duo nodded in satisfaction, glanced at the Shifa Temple in the distance with disgust, put his hand on the top of Atro's head and said: "Go, use your fast horse sword to kill all those heretics. The Dharma King won the honor, as long as you do it, the Dharma King Tianzun can see it, as long as you kill enough heretics, you will become the venerable under the throne of the Dharma King."
Atero kissed the toes of King Podo, stood up, and said loudly with a pious face: "I, Atero, in the name of King Tianzun, kill all the heretics!"
The bell rang, and nearly half of the people in Gaochang City started to move. They put down what they were busy with, and rushed towards the Shifa Temple with inexplicable joy.
Surrounded by a group of monks, the abbot of Shifa Temple walked out of Shifa Temple, stepping on the cold gravel with his straw shoes, every step was very steady, with an inscrutable smile on his face, Go up to the high platform used to talk about the Dharma, put your hands together, and thank the people who came to wish him the Dharma.
"It's great, the teaching of the Pure Land method is also the teaching. It is the heart that becomes the Buddha, the heart is the Buddha, and those who directly point to the heart of the heart should be inferior to the strange ones. Just recite the Buddha, and then become a Buddha. , Yiyi should be its high wind. The upper, middle and lower roots are universal, governing law, teaching, Zen, and sect. It is like the moistening of things from time to time, like the Nachuan of the sea. All dharmas of partiality, circle, suddenness, and gradualness are all from this dharma realm. Flow. Big, small, powerful, and practical, all deeds will return to this Dharma Realm..." I have to say that Shi Dao'an's appearance is very good, the aura of the eminent monk is full, and his voice contains a unique charm. Although I didn't understand it very well, I was intoxicated by it, as if my soul had been purified.
However, at this moment, two ragged women rushed out from the temple, shouting for help. Then, a Persian man and a Tuyuhun man who were listening to the Dharma below suddenly rushed out shouting, hugging the two women in their arms, weeping each other excitedly, and finally turned into anger, so that they began to question Shi Daoan .
With the occurrence of the whole process, coupled with the words of the two women and the two men, everyone soon understood what was going on. It turned out that these two women had disappeared for half a month, and they were taken away by the monks in the Shifa Temple, and they were locked up for wanton humiliation. Today, when Shi Dao'an talked about the Dharma, the monks in the temple relaxed their guard, and two women escaped.
The most important thing is that according to what the two women said, there are more than 70 women like them imprisoned in Shifa Temple.
In a chaotic place like the Western Regions where the law of the jungle is truly ruled, many women disappear every day. The same is true in Gaochang City. Missing, under the leadership of some people with ulterior motives, more than a hundred women or missing daughters stood up and yelled loudly. Although they still had enough respect for Shi Daoan, they began to question Shifa Temple. Ask to search temples.
The scene was suddenly out of control. Although Shi Daoan vaguely felt that this was a conspiracy, he couldn't stop the crowd who seemed to have exploded in anger, even though he had already discovered that the dozen or so people who took the lead in making trouble were not his followers at all.
The whole process was completely in accordance with the arrangement of King Boduo. More than 70 women were discovered from a cellar in Shifa Temple. dead bodies, and they were not wearing any clothes.
"It was these bald donkeys who were worried that the matter would be exposed, and wanted to kill people to silence them, and transported the corpses away to destroy them, but they didn't have time." Someone shouted.
"Yes, it must be."
"These bald donkeys are sanctimonious monks, we were deceived."
Some people started to echo.
If many true Buddhist believers were still skeptical just now, the facts in front of them make them have to believe what these people said, especially when some true believers found their daughters and women who had been missing for many days in the corpses, All of a sudden, the faith of these Buddhist believers was really shaken, and they began to explode.
At this time, Gaochang city guard, the Turkic chief Atro "got the news" and expressed his willingness to make decisions for the people. He led 3,000 cavalry to surround the Shifa Temple, and a massacre began.
More than 500 monks were all killed, and the temple was burned to ashes by the so-called victims.
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In the Dongcheng District of Gaochang City, in the basement of a weapons shop.
Du Wei Wu San, Yu Bao, the leader of the caravan guards, and five centurions sat together, kneeling at the feet of a wounded man from the Western Regions. The last one alive.
"Master Captain, I have received definite news that the Shifa Temple was burned and Shi Daoan was killed by the Turks." A spy hurried in from the outside and said happily.
When everyone heard the words, they were all overjoyed, Wu San stood up and said: "Whether you can save the general or not, it's up to you."
Yu Bao has been tortured by guilt these days, and said with red eyes: "Your Majesty, please give an order! Even if you die today, you must rescue the lord."
Wu San said: "Yu Bao, you immediately take your men and disperse them all over Gaochang City, and the women in Shifa Temple were plundered by sand robbers and horse thieves near Gaochang City, and they were snatched by Turkic cavalry. And let’s talk about all the sand robbers and horse thieves being silenced. We don’t need to say anything about the Boduo Dharma King’s planting of the Shifa Temple. Those who originally believed in Buddhism will naturally think of it. At that time, these Buddhists will definitely go crazy and ask the Turkic people for questioning , if you continue to provoke, you can easily trigger the conflict between the Buddhists and the Turks in the city, as for how to turn the conflict into a war, I don’t need to say more!”
Yu Bao nodded, and said: "I understand the plan of Lord Captain, but I still want to follow him to the City Lord's Mansion to save the Lord."
Wu San shook his head and said, "Your one hundred men are not as strong as our five hundred men, so your task is to cause chaos in the city and attract and contain the Turkic troops to all parts of the city. It is most suitable for you to do it, because you have come to the Western Regions with the caravan many times and are more familiar with it than us. Don't worry, our five hundred people will definitely rescue the general."
"In this case, today we will not only rescue the lord, but also bring these Buddhists to burn the Turkic Gaochang City to a white ground, and bury it with the burned Shifa Temple." Yu Bao knew that what Wu San said was reasonable, Then he agreed.
In fact, this is not the first time that there has been a war in Gaochang City, and it is estimated that it will not be the last. And every time the reason is because of religious wars.
The cruelest and most violent war in the world is the religious war!
He has nothing to do with interests, but only with faith.
If the religious war between Nestorianism and Buddhism in Gaochang City is just a small wave in the ocean,
Then, more than three hundred years later, the Crusade that changed the world pattern and left permanent scars on the world should be a stormy sea in the sea. If King Boduo knew that there was such a religious war in the far west that lasted for two hundred years, he would be even crazier.
During that war, since the holy city of Rome, Jerusalem, fell into the hands of Christians, the pope allowed the lords and kings of Europe to launch a religious war aimed at recovering the holy city.
Most of the Crusades were against the Albanian countries, the main purpose was to retake Jerusalem from the XX religion. During the Eastern Expedition, the church awarded each soldier a cross, and the clothing of the participants was decorated with the red cross as a symbol, and the formed army was called the Crusaders.
However, no matter how noble the pretext for starting the war is, this war launched in the name of the gods finally returned to the original nature of the war—that is, robbery and plunder.
Many European feudal lords and knights who lacked land wanted to use the rich East as the object of plundering land and wealth.
Italian merchants wanted to control the commerce of the eastern Mediterranean and reap huge benefits. The Pope wants to merge the Orthodox Church and expand the sphere of influence of the Catholic Church.
Many serfs and refugees living in poverty, natural disasters, and tax oppression were called by the church and feudal lords to lure them to the east to find a way out and a happy land.
This is very similar to last year when King Boduo contacted the Western Turks, Tuyuhun and Qiang Gedao tribes to launch a war against the Sui Dynasty.
So, at the end of the war, whether it is the Crusades or the Western Turkic Expeditions, except for King Boduofa himself, the ultimate goal of each leader and tribe is to satisfy their own interests. As for the interests of gods, Only the corpses of pagans strung on crosses stretching for hundreds of kilometers can attest.
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