Su Che has always believed in Buddhism. After retiring, he ignored the world and refused guests. He sat silently and studied Buddhist scriptures all day long.

When Su Shi arrived at Yi Laozhai on the Luoyang River, he had just passed Shenshi, and it was the time when the old man was meditating. So Su Shi entered Yi Laozhai and walked directly to the Buddhist temple in the backyard.

The Buddhist temple was not big behind a forest, the building was very simple and the surroundings were quite quiet. Su Shi walked to the door of the Buddhist temple, reached out and knocked on the door, and then listened to a hoarse and low voice from inside: "Come in."

Su Shi pushed open the door and walked into the Buddhist temple.

I saw a statue of Buddha in the Buddhist temple. In front of the Buddha's niche, an old man with white hair sat cross-legged on the cushion with his back facing Su Shi. Needless to say, it was Su Shi's good father, Su Che.

"Sir, my child Su Shi comes to pay his respects." Su Shi offered a respectful gift.

Hearing the voice of his baby son, Su Che turned around and showed a kind old face.

"Shi'er, sit down." Su Che smiled, "Please accompany your father to discuss Buddhist principles."

Of course, Buddha also has reason. If there is no reason, how could it be widely spread in the Central Plains?

Buddhism is not as good as Western learning. After all, Western learning in later generations only grew bigger when the Central Plains power was weak. Over the past few decades, Neo-Confucianism became a prominent scholar. However, Buddhism was introduced in the Han Dynasty, and it went through the Jin Dynasty, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and lasted for a long time until the Tang and Song Dynasties.

Moreover, the spread of Buddhism has nothing to do with the national strength of India's Ahsan.

This shows that Buddhism has its own truth, while Confucianism in Middle Earth has its own shortcomings.

Now the shortcomings of Confucianism have been basically supplemented by the "Theory of Heaven and theory" in philosophy, but there is still a process of making up stories. For example, how to construct the heaven and hell of the Heaven and the Heritage Church, and how to give a certain humanity to the concept of "Theory of Heaven". All have to be fabricated by the latecomers of the Hexi Heaven and the Great Zhou Doctoral Order...

And Su Che, a great scholar of this level, would certainly not be confused by the saying of going to the West or going to hell.

What fascinated him was the Buddhist theory of emptiness. It is indeed a tit-for-tat to the law of heaven with emptiness.

However, Su Shi had no intention of discussing Buddhism with his father today.

He sat cross-legged in front of his father, "Sir, it's a long way to go for a trip."

"Going a far-reaching trip? Going to Lugang?" Su Che frowned, "Is it a fuss on Taiwan Island that has started again?"

There are some primitive tribes on Taiwan Island, which mostly live in peace with the Han people on the island, but sometimes they will fight.

Of course, they cannot beat the Han people, and those who go to the island are not good people. They are all pirate gangs in Fujian (also maritime merchants). They are not convenient for them to set up strongholds along the coast of Fujian, so they simply built port forts on Taiwan Island, legally belonging to each company, and settled for a long time.

By the way, the legendary miasma did not cause much damage to these pirates.

Because it is the Little Ice Age, it often snows on Taiwan Island in winter, and there are no mosquitoes at all, so naturally it will not spread dysentery. Moreover, when the Coastal Maritime Control Department led by Wu Haogu developed Taiwan in the early years, it adopted the method of going to the island to the island in autumn and withdrawing to Penghu in spring to construct, which minimized the harm of miasma and dysentery.

This method was also used by later generations. It only started construction for six or seven months a year. After a relatively clean area was developed, it would settle for a long time.

Although dysentery is still impossible to avoid, it is within a controllable range.

As more and more areas controlled by Han people on the island were controlled by Han people, conflicts between the two and Han people were inevitable.

Su Shi, the "state leader", had to go to the island to be a peacemaker.

"It's not going to Taiwan," Su Shi said with a wry smile, "It's going to Jiaozhi."

"Go to Jiaozhi?" Su Zhe was stunned, "What are you going to do?"

"Go to investigate the crime of the rebellious ministers of the Prince of Jiaozhi."

"The Prince of Jiaozhi is not a minister?" Su Che frowned, "Then it is necessary to investigate? Who thought about this? Is there another treacherous minister in the court going to provoke the border? Wait for me to report to impeach him!"

"Sir, it's the eldest brother who wants to provoke the border this time... You'd better not impeach him anymore, he's also focused on the country."

"What? Big Brother? Su Chi?" Su Che's beard started to blow, "He, why did he want to start a quarrel? It's only been peaceful for a few days and he's going to fight again. He's still sending troops from all over the world. What's the point?"

"Isn't it that the student in the martial arts palace, and the Zhou Kingdom and Hexi families are making trouble?"

Su Shi said: "The court is in a dilemma now. Now the reform of the government soldiers has failed. The imperial guards in Hebei and Hedong have collapsed in battles with the Liao Kingdom. The Western Army can only maintain the strength of the six generals for a long time due to the reform of the government soldiers system. In addition to the four generals of Shuofang and the four generals of Kaifeng, the imperial court has only fourteen generals to fight. Even if they are full, they are only 70,000 combat soldiers... In order to firmly grasp the 70,000 combat soldiers, the court can only grit their teeth and run the martial arts academy.

But the martial artists are troublesome when they have knowledge. They think they are more capable than the heroes who sing the name outside Donghua Gate, and they have more dissatisfaction and complaints. So the elder brother thought of this way to find them some opportunities to make achievements so as to avoid the dissatisfaction of the ones who are dissatisfied with the other."

I am really not afraid of military officers being able to fight, but I am afraid of military officers being educated!

Military officers who are not well educated are always easy to manipulate, but from Murong Wangyou's establishment of the Military Academy, the military academy has been in charge for more than ten years. Not only has the level been getting higher and higher, but it has indeed cultivated a group of generals who can fight truthfully and well.

Although this group of new-style officers with both civil and military strength are difficult to control, the court did not rely on them, and was afraid that even the last 70,000 soldiers would collapse.

At that time, it will not be against Zhou, Liao and Hexi. I am afraid that no one can protect the court if it wants to run away.

Su Che sighed, "There is no general in the world, so peace can be achieved. The elite soldiers are born, and troubled times are coming! I am old and can always end up peacefully. You brothers, I am afraid you will watch the troubled times come.

Shi'er, you'd better not go to Jiaozhi... Jiaozhi people are fierce. What if Jiaozhi people are hurt, will I still want me to cry with my white hair?"

"Don't worry, my child has made arrangements." Su Shi said, "I mobilized 12 warships, 3,000 sailors, and moved to Shanghai. Please ask Ji Yi to send out 12 warships and 3,000 sailors."

24 gallopy warships, 6,000 fully armed sailors... Are you going to investigate or invade? Don't check it and then you will be able to investigate the Jiaozhi Kingdom!

Su Che frowned, "Are you going to fight?"

"It's not a war..." Su Shi shook his head, "Just go and consolidate our concession at Anbangkou, Jiaozhi."

Anbangkou is the Halong Bay in later generations! The scenery is beautiful and it is also a very easy to guard.

In the "Grain Trip Incident" last year, he was occupied by a fleet led by Mi Youren and Ji Yi.

This is a stronghold for trade with the Jiaozhi Kingdom, which is rich in rice! It is worth it, and it will not be spoken for itself.

So both families occupied a peninsula in Anbangkou, built fortresses, and left several warships.

Su Shi was jealous and wanted to get into it. In this era, Fujian was a large grain importer and imported grain from Jiangnan and Guangdong every year.

If you can extort a little from Jiaozhi Kingdom, even if you only have 100,000 s of Jiaozhi rice, you will have an income of more than 200,000 yuan if you get a sale in Fujian!

With this income, the warships in Taiwan have a year of expenses.

...

Just when Su Shi took the fleet to investigate whether the Prince of Jiaozhi was unjust. The "Proverb Begging for the Punishment of Zhao Baozhong" written by Tianli Zizhang Li of Hexi, and Zhao Baozhong's "Proverb Begging for the Punishment of Zhangli of the Heavenly Li Church" were also sent to Kaifeng.

Zhao Baozhong is Renduo Baozhong, the lord of Qing Tang who "defeated forever and became king".

Xixia has now become the Zhao Dynasty in the Indian country, but the Zhao Baozhong and Renduo family did not follow. They still spent their days leisurely in Qingtang City. Every year, they would give Kaifeng Prefecture some Qingtang dragon horses and other things, and everything would be fine.

Of course, Zhao Baozhong was in a heartfelt resistance to the great ecclesiastical group that occupied the old land of Hexi, Xixia. He was a Buddhist! In the later period of Zhang Yuan's rule, the Tianli Buddhism in Hexi began to dominate, excluding Buddhism, Taoism and other religions. Although it was not explicitly prohibited, it continued to seize temples, manors, and population from the various religions. And it also continued to send people to lobby Zhao Baozhong to abandon Buddhism and enter the Tianli Buddhism.

Of course, Zhao Baozhong refused harshly, and ordered the arrest and killing of several teachers from the Tianli Sect.

At that time, Zhang Yuan was seriously ill and naturally had no way to send troops. However, after Zhang Yuan's death, the Hexi Tianli Sect welcomed a violent lord!

After dealing with his brothers, he ordered preparations for war, gathering 10,000 knights, 3,000 yellow-headed Uighurs, Caotou Tatar tribe cavalry, and 2,000 Wanggu cavalry to prepare to attack Qingtang.

Zhao Baozhong, who received the news, summoned troops from Renduo's families, and asked for help from the nearby Tubo Achai tribe and Tusima tribe. At the same time, he also submitted a memorial to the court, accusing Zhangli of all kinds of illegality...

The two officials who received three bullets gathered in the East Mansion's capital hall today and started to discuss it with a sad face. This is the gathering of discussions between the two governments. After the discussion, the left prime minister Cai Jing and the magistrate Su Chi will report to Zhao Ji together.

"It's so inconsistent... Killing brothers, killing brothers, killing nephews, is so fierce! How can we not punish them severely? In my opinion, there is no need to send troops to attack Jiaozhi. Just send troops to attack Hexi!"

The first person to speak was Yu Shen, the Minister of the Secretariat. He and Zhang Yuan were Jinshi in the same subject, and they had always had good personal relationships. He also wrote a letter to persuade Zhang Yuan about what he did in Hexi. However, Zhang Yuan could go up and down, and Hexi's foundation was not easily abandoned.

Now seeing the Zhang family's rebellious son, killing brothers and nephews, is like killing gods again, so they naturally can't stand it, so they put forward the suggestion of siege.

"Yuan Zhong, whether he can attack Hexi depends on the Shaanxi Army and the meaning of the Shuofang Army!" Su Chi shook his head and said, "Among the 14 new generals of the imperial court, Shaanxi, Shuofang occupied 10 generals. The Shaanxi Army, Shuofang Army and Hexi Army have always had a connection... Many Hexi knights are from the Shaanxi Army. They may not be willing to attack Hexi! Moreover, most of the Shaanxi Army and Shuofang army are now deployed in Hedong and Hebei. How could they return in a hurry?"

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