Chapter 704: Jiangdu City Without City Walls Seeking Guarantee
Although Chen Dexing had never been to India, nor had he studied Hinduism and Indian Buddhism, he also had a dakini Hanipolo around him, who was the cousin of Damapora. He could be a dakini, relying on his beautiful face and graceful figure, and his rigorous skills since childhood. He also had to be proficient in Buddhist principles. They were not ordinary women who loved monks, but female practitioners who had extremely high practices, could improve Taoism through love, and communicated with Buddha spiritually during the process of love! Therefore, the dakini Hanipolo had a very good understanding of the situation and rules of Buddhism in India.
It was through communication with her that Chen Dexing was able to design a Buddhist system that could be used to limit the growth rate of the population of Indian untouchables.
The first is the theory of practicing in this life and improving caste in the next life. According to the Brahmanism, the untouchables are "lifelong tribes" and there are no afterlife. Only the three castes reproduced by the Aryans are the "rebirth tribes" that can be reincarnated. Therefore, obtaining the power to reincarnate through practicing in this life is of certain appeal to the Indian untouchables.
Secondly, monks cannot be equal. According to the teachings of Brahminism, Brahmin castes are born as monks, Shudra and Dalit special castes are not qualified to become monks at all. In Indian Buddhism, although Brahmin, Kshatriya and Vaishya can all become monks, Shudra and Dalit special castes are still rejected, and they are basically unable to become monks and practice in the era of the Polo dynasty.
Now Chen Dexing wants the untouchables in India to be qualified to be monks and nuns, so of course they have to treat them differently from monks and nuns of higher castes in India. Monks are noble masters! To raise the untouchable monks as masters, the king Chen Huaiqing must go bankrupt.
Therefore, Chen Dexing wanted the monks and nuns of high castes to live in the magnificent temple upper courtyard, and could practice both in both practice and enjoy the service and offerings of monks of low castes. Monks of low castes could only live in the simple temple lower courtyard. They could not practice both practice, they had to serve monks of high castes and had to engage in production. They had to build temples for the Buddha, and they could not preside over religious rituals and activities. They could only work and practice for life in the next life. In fact, they were slaves to the temple!
Chen Huaiqing told the complete plan for the reform of the Indian Buddhism proposed by Chen Dexing, then looked at the Polo father and daughter calmly, and said seriously: "Allowing lowly people to become monks and practice in the next life is a necessary strategy for the revival of Buddhism in India. If you can't even do this, how can Buddhism defeat the Brahmins and the Tianfang Sect?"
This is not a big deal. Chen Huaiqing meant that if the Indian Buddhism could not defeat the Brahminism and the Tianfang Buddhism, then why didn’t the Ming Dynasty cooperate with the Brahminism?
Damapora thought for a moment, looked at his father again, nodded slightly, and Jumachipara smiled and performed a Buddha ceremony, "The Buddha once hoped that all sentient beings could become equal and all of them could become Buddhas. People with low bloodlines are always one of the sentient beings, and of course they can become monks and practice. If they practice, they may not be able to become Buddhas in a few lifetimes. However, the Indian heretics are powerful and Buddhism is in decline. It is not easy to spread the Dharma, and it is difficult to defeat the Brahmins in a while..."
Chen Huaiqing sneered, "Jiumozhi. You don't have to worry. The Lone King has its own means to promote Buddhism! Buddha and Brahmins are originally one family. When Buddhism prospers, Brahmins will enter Buddha. When Buddhism perishes, monks and nuns will enter Brahmins. As long as my Buddha's precepts and swords are sharp enough, I will not be afraid that no one will believe it!"
It is very difficult to make the Indian Brahmin believers convert to the way of heaven, and Chen Dexing was not very interested in it. In Chen Dexing's view, this Tiandao religion is an overly active religion and is not suitable for the negative and poor people to believe.
However, it is very easy to change the Indian Brahmin believers into Buddhism, or to change the Indian Buddhists into Brahminism. Because the two are originally one. Buddhism was born from Brahmins. Strictly speaking, it is a branch of Brahmins and the result of a reform movement of Brahminism.
Historically, rather than perishing, India Buddhism was more integrated into Brahminism again. In fact, most of the monks in India Buddhism, including the Buddha himself, were born in high castes, and many of them were simply Brahmins. It was not difficult to return to Brahminism.
Now, Chen Dexing and Chen Huaiqing just want to use another model to integrate Buddhism and Brahminism in India... mainly Buddhism, absorbing the participation of Brahminism. Finally, the integration of Buddhism and Brahminism was completed, turning India into a Buddhist country, and at the same time, introducing the Aryans of the Indians in the upper class of Confucianism education.
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At the end of November of the second year of Daming Tiandao, Nanjing and Jiangdu City.
Jiang is an expanding city, and its foundation is the original Yangzhou City. However, the original Yangzhou old city was not demolished, but a new city was built on the east bank of the canal in the south of the city. It is called Jiangdu New City.
Important buildings including the Royal Palace, Cabinet Department, Consultant House, Fourth Army Department, Nantiandao Palace, Tiandaozhuang Headquarters, Grand Judges Office and other important buildings will be selected and built in Jiangdu New City. Moreover, these buildings will be concentrated in the northernmost part of Jiangdu New City, forming the administrative district of Jiangdu City. These important buildings are still busy construction sites, with countless workers gathering here, through the canal and the Yangtze River, and countless wood, stone and cement are transported here, and piled up on the construction site.
In addition to administrative areas, Jiangdu New City will also have various functional areas such as business districts, port areas, industrial areas, residential areas, college areas and military areas. Among them, the business district will spread along the Grand Canal, extending from the other side of Yangzhou Old City to the bank of the Yangtze River, with a length of more than 30 miles. There are dozens of canal docks all over the line, used to load and unload groceries, rice, grains, livestock, fruits, vegetables, fish and fresh wood, stone carbon, iron and iron materials, porcelain, silk cloth, gold, jade, pearls, fine wines and other various utensils. Relying on these docks, there are commercial streets. Of course, the commercial streets and civilian residential areas in this era are inseparable from the layout of front and back houses. This area will be a very densely populated area in the future. However, most of the plots have not been sold yet, and the land that has been sold is also a lively construction site.
All commercial streets are connected by a wide main road, Jiangdu Yu Street, which leads directly to Jiangduanzhong to the north, which is the administrative region.
To the south of Yujie is the port area of Jiangdu. Unlike the canal docks in the business district, Jiangdu port area is docked by large ships that can enter the sea. A large area along the river will be distributed with dozens of dock berths, and each dock berth has a supporting warehouse. A series of docks also lead to a main road connected to Yujie by a special stone road, called Jiangbian Road. Yujie and Jiangbian Road are arranged in a T-shaped shape.
The large open area east of Yu Street and north of Jiangbian Road is divided into a high-end residential area by two main roads connected to Yu Street, close to the ban, called Anlefang. This area is all the residences of heroes and high-ranking officials. There are dozens of alleys in the yard, and there are as many as three or four thousand residential lands of all sizes, but most of them are still under construction. To the south of Anlefang is an east-west main road called Zhenwu Street. The west of Zhenwu Street reaches the canal and connects to the Dongguan Road of the Old City of Yangzhou through a stone bridge. The east side of Zhenwu Street is connected to the Chang'an Road, another north-south main road.
On the south of Zhenwu Street is the planned college district, Jiangdu Tiandao Academy and the Jiangdu Education Academy (specially trained teachers), Jiangdu Taixue (like Tiandao Academy is a comprehensive university), Jiangdu Kyoto School (like Taixue), Jiangdu Law (training judges, constables and lawyers), Jiangdu Engineering (as the name suggests, is a university that focuses on science and engineering), Jiangdu Business School and other six large academies that are relatively close to later generations. These academies are now under construction and preparation, and the development of education is unimpressed, so they can only do it step by step.
At first, it was the Military Academy of the Suiying, then the Army and Navy Military Academy and Mingdu Tiandao Academy, and then Yanjing Tiandao Academy. Now, Mingdu Tiandao Academy and Yanjing Tiandao Academy have been in operation for several years, and there are two or three thousand graduates. In this way, there are enough faculty to open more universities.
According to the plan of the Ministry of Education, the current education academies, Taixue, Jingxue, Law, Engineering, and Business are all one in southern Beijing, with a total of twelve universities. In addition, the three Tiandao Academy in Mingdu, Yanjing and Jiangdu. In addition, the Army and Naval Academy, there will not be long before the Ming Empire has 17 universities! Although these universities cannot be compared with those universities in later generations, they are probably first-class in the 13th century.
To the south of the college district is also a main road that runs east-west, called Xiaochang Street. A large area south of Xiaochang Street, east of Yujie Street, west of Chang'an Road, and north of Jiangbian Road is the camp of the Guards, called Daxiaochang. Nearly 20,000 guards can be stationed here.
The area east of Chang'an Road is the workshop area of Jiangdu City. In fact, it is the place where handicraft workshops gather. A river flows from Gaoyou Lake and leads directly to the Yangtze River. The river is called Jiangdu River. The river can be shipped and used to build water trucks. The large area of land in the workshop area is still deserted now, but it is just a circle of small plots of land that can be used to rush to the wall. It can be used as workshops and also to build houses for craftsmen and workers.
There are dozens of streets that are also being paved. The road surfaces with gravel and cement were "invented" by cement, and it was much easier to build roads and houses.
Chapter completed!