16. Manjushri Bodhisattva Meaning
After finishing speaking, Gao Yue was also very majestic, waved his hand and said, "This is also the will of Manjushri Bodhisattva. ”
Manjushri Bodhisattva is now "purple air from the east", thousands of miles from the east of the river Wutai Mountain descended to the mortal, and then held a sword to ride a lion, first liberated the Helong land to become the late Wen Tang people, but did not forget the same suffering of the vast Xibo more and mediocre, Manjushri Bodhisattva does not talk about the reincarnation of the next life, only about the salvation of this life, the Maitreya he sent, in this world.
Of course, if some of you miss your family and children in the plateau Dongdai, this road will not be reluctant, give a collar of cotton clothes, let you go back to your hometown along the ridge Mochuan, of course, if you are willing to stay for the farmers or Kuofang households, not only give a collar of cotton clothes, but also a piece of cloth, money five times, and you can go to the Huguo Temple in Xingyuan states and counties with the certificate to borrow calves, seeds, and farm tools without interest, and settle down and buy a house.
These 500 Yonghe watchmen who were summoned looked at each other, and then whispered in Tibetan dialect, it was not that they did not want to stay on the plateau, but just a cotton coat, even if they returned from the Pingrong Road Lingmo River, the distance would be 2,000 to 3,000 miles, and I was afraid that before they saw their families, they would have to die in bitter cold and hunger.
At this time, a group of soldiers came over with cotton cloth, and several brave men stretched out their dirty fingers, touched them, and felt that every strand was so warm and soft, so they mustered up the courage to ask Lang Xixi: "We can also weave such cloth and wear such cloth in the future?" From now on, my children and grandchildren and I will not have to be blackheads? ”
The proflamée decorated with gold and silver said loudly again and again, "This is natural, not only do you not have to be a blackhead, nor do you have to pay the cow leg tax, nor do you have to be obliged to serve the fields, orchards, or pastures of the head of the family, the head of the family, or the temple every year, but the grain you grow in the fields, the wine you brew, and the cattle and sheep you raise, except for a small part of the "regular endowment" for the state, the rest belong to you, such as working in the cotton weaving supervisor or the tea garden, and calculating your salary every day, even if the army of Ji Gong wants to go out to fight in the future, let you go to build a camp to carry the baggage, that is also to give money or exempt you from taxes, this is called "and hire" understand? Moreover, most of you know the art of raising horses and cattle, and if each household can keep a horse or two or three calves, and send them to be sold, you will be rich—if you still don't believe me, look at me, look at me, and fiddle with the gold and silver objects on your body as you say the rest of the day.
"This Ji Gong's words, but he will never break his word, for example, he is equivalent to the position of our Xifan Five Paths General Treatise, how can such a noble figure lie?"
In the end, under Gao Yue's assurance and Lang Xixi's persuasion, most of the five hundred Yong and more people put their palms together and expressed their willingness to stay in Tang Tu, and then pressed their fingerprints on the books.
Gao Yue was very satisfied, as a traverser, he understood better than anyone that the seemingly powerful martial arts of the so-called Western Fan Empire were based on the cruel and gratuitous oppression of the vast number of slaves, and the cornerstone of this country was the tragic death of the slaves. According to the data of the Zampu Red Book, the population of Xibo in the entire Gaoyuan region is about 3 million, and there are 420,000 soldiers who can go to war, and the ratio of soldiers to people has reached an eye-popping 1 to 7.
Therefore, when the Tang Dynasty encountered the Anshi Rebellion and fell into a downturn militarily, it was temporarily difficult to win the confrontation with Xifan head-on, but Gao Yue was first in Xingyuan, and Wei Gao was first in Xichuan, through the innovation of the military and tax system, and the use of advanced weapons, the offensive of Xifan was thwarted regionally, and then the superficially powerful plateau empire of Xifan was suddenly fatally deterred - the internal exploitation of slaves has reached the limit, and the original extreme squeezing through the victory of foreign wars can also "return to the original", and can also dilute various sharp contradictions, But once the foreign war was defeated, it was followed by the rapid collapse of high-rise buildings.
Like a shark, it must swim and hunt all the time, and once it gets stuck on the reef, it will immediately starve to death;
Don, on the other hand, is like a lion, when it fails in a wild area, it will migrate to another predation area, first to hide and slowly become strong again, although its teeth and claws are not as sharp as before, but it can still regain its former majesty.
"It is impossible for Xifan to find a developed 'wild area' again, although it has temporarily conquered Helong, but the vast number of more civilized and advanced Han people, will not turn back at all, willing to let it squeeze the end of Wen, now all over Helong Shanshui village uprising is the best proof, so that Xifan not only can not draw blood from the newly conquered areas, but to transfuse blood, and the exploitation of the slaves of their own country is almost to the top, it is impossible to have new blood, first shortage, then cracks, instantly, self-explosion - so a country like Xifan, The time to retain victory is even shorter than the time it has been victorious. Now Zampu rules the country, although it is also modeled on my Tang Dynasty to establish a set of official system, but in his bones there are still more than a dozen aristocratic families in the joint government, Zampu can only rely on the alliance to maintain power, now the military fiasco, political and economic embarrassment, coupled with religious infighting, make the young empire of Xifan, rise as fast as it rises, and it falls as fast as it falls...... I used to tell Wei Chengwu that I hoped to see the revival of the Tang Dynasty and the peace of the world in Jing'er's generation, and now all I can be sure of is that in my generation, I can nail the coffin board of Xifan! ”
Next, Gao Yue said to the 500 captives of Western Tibet (all of them were freemen of a class higher than the slaves, and a small number of wealthy Gui, i.e., warriors): After the Battle of Huating, Bendao had slaughtered thousands of prisoners of war in the northern plains of Weishui in Qinzhou.
These words sent chills down the spine of these five hundred people.
But Gao Yue smiled and said that the purpose of this Dao this time is not to kill, but to restore the land, so your life will be returned to Zampu at a price.
It means that let Zampu exchange the land of Longyou for your life.
"Your total number is twenty-nine thousand, immediately go with the army of Ben Dao and Wei Gao, give my Tang army a horse and drive, carry grain and ammunition, and go to Lanzhou, if Zampu orders not to resist there, Ben Dao will let 5,000 people go back, if Hezhou and Minzhou do not resist, Ben Dao will release another 5,000 men, if Shanzhou does not resist, Ben Dao will release another 10,000 people - finally, if Ganzhou and Suzhou in Hexi do not resist, Ben Dao will release everyone who remains. On the contrary......" Gao Yue's slender eyes showed a fierce light at this time, "Don't blame this Dao for killing instead of living!" ”