If someone knew the identities of the two people standing face to face, I'm afraid everyone would feel a little absurd. One was the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty who was supposed to have died for many years, and the other was the great Tianzun of the Buddhist sect who was supposed to have died the day Yang Qi entered the Dalun Temple. This is the meeting of two dead people in the world, but they are both living people.
Da Zizai looked back and pointed to the distance: "This world is yours, but why is it so chaotic now?"
Without waiting for Yang Jian to speak, Da Zizai said solemnly: "Because the world lacks reverence."
"Awe?"
Yang Jian asked, "What is reverence?"
Da Zizai said: "Everyone in the world knows that there is a bottom line that cannot be touched, and it is out of awe."
"IMHO… "
Da Zizai smiled indifferently: "Your Majesty has always taught the people of the Central Plains to be proud, and the people of the Sui Dynasty were indeed very proud for a long time, but your Majesty made a mistake in not telling the people why they were proud. That is because of you, You created this empire and gave your people the best life possible, freeing them from any enemy to fear. But their pride is shallow and soulless."
Da Zizai talked eloquently: "The pride of the people of the Sui Dynasty is a kind of unreasonable pride. It is only because you told them, Your Majesty, that the people of the Sui Dynasty should be more proud than the people of any country. However, they forgot Where does this pride come from?"
"Because of you and the powerful army of the Sui Dynasty, they have the right to be proud. Because they only know pride but not why they are proud, so they will suddenly collapse when the war comes. That pride is all fake .To put it bluntly, Your Majesty... If everyone respected you like a god, would the situation like this be like this?"
He still didn't wait for Yang Jian to speak, and said firmly: "No! If you are in awe, you will be in awe of the Yang family. If this awe exists, no one will rebel and no one will cooperate. Even if someone's ambition is causing trouble, how can there be countless people?" Millions of people follow?"
Yang Jian's eyes flickered for a moment, but he didn't speak.
Da Zizai saw that his expression seemed to be moved, smiled and continued: "If you want the people to obey, you must let them have a god in their hearts. And this god is their belief, their sustenance and their pillar. God is in their hearts , They are truly fearless and truly proud.”
"Who is God?"
Yang Jian asked.
Da Zizai lowered his head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, you are God, as I said just now."
"I am human."
Yang Jian replied.
"Your Majesty, do you know the difference between humans and gods?"
Da Zizai pointed to the outside again and said: "Your Majesty should have passed away two hundred years ago, but he is still alive now. In the hearts of the people, this is a god. If Your Majesty thinks he is a human being, and the people also think that He is a human being, then Your Majesty will continue to live." When you appear in front of the common people, what do they think of you? I'm afraid they won't regard you as the Taizu Emperor who created the two hundred years of prosperity of the Sui Dynasty, but a... monster."
Yang Jian frowned: "The world cannot be bullied."
Da Zizai shook his head and smiled: "The world is the most deceitful."
He looked at Yang Jian and said: "The people follow blindly. As long as you give them a direction, they will go in that direction. It's like a flock of sheep... the sheep at the back follow behind the head sheep. No matter where the head sheep goes, the sheep behind will follow. Follow regardless. I don’t know if Your Majesty has ever seen a strange phenomenon in the flock of sheep. The head sheep is walking in front, and the voles pass by, and the head sheep jumps in fright. The voles fly past, and the sheep behind obviously don’t look When it comes to voles, they will also learn to jump like the leader sheep, they don't bother to think at all, they just need to follow the lead sheep to do it."
"Regardless of whether there is a pit in front, if the leading sheep pick it, they will also jump. This is blind obedience. The same is true for the people in the world... On the ground that has just snowed, the first person walks over and leaves a series of footprints. People who pass here will walk in the footsteps of the first person, because they will feel that walking in the footsteps of the first person will be more secure, which is also blind obedience. On the contrary, children with undeveloped minds like to walk in the footsteps of the first person. Walk where you stepped on."
"What do you want to say?"
Yang Jian asked.
Da Zizai smiled and said, "My little monk thinks that what the people in the Central Plains lack the most is a leading sheep. If there is a leading sheep, they will feel that it is the best thing to follow, and they don't have to find the way by themselves."
"You think I'm a sheep?"
Yang Jian asked coldly.
"No… "
Da Zizai shook his head, and said very seriously: "Your Majesty still doesn't understand the meaning of the little monk. How can Your Majesty be the head sheep? Your Majesty is the one who shepherds the sheep from beginning to end. However, if there is no head sheep in a flock, the shepherd It can be a headache, too."
He pointed to himself: "I would like to be the sheep driven by His Majesty's whip."
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Yang Jian's eyes were flickering, and it was obvious that Da Zizi's words touched him a little. Ever since he went south to suppress the rebellion, Yang Jian felt regretful and even angry. When he founded this empire, no matter where he led his troops to attack, the people would welcome him. They will hold hot steamed buns and hard-boiled eggs for laborers, and they will present old wine that has been buried in the ground for many years and was prepared for marrying daughters, and they will wave flags and cry with tears in their eyes.
But this time going south, Yang Jian was very annoyed by what he saw and heard. According to reason, shouldn't the common people welcome Wang Shiping's rebellion? Shouldn't they take the initiative to work in the army? Shouldn't you be willing to give
However, what Yang Jian saw was indeed avoidance or even disgust.
The people of the imperial court passed by, and the common people stayed away as if they were avoiding the plague god, as if they would be infected with an incurable disease if they got closer. Yang Jian couldn't accept that feeling. This is the empire he founded, and no matter how many generations the people of this empire last, they are all his people.
The imperial court represents the authority of the empire and orthodoxy. But those common people would rather help the rebels than the imperial court. This is all treason!
Yang Jian glanced at Da Zizai, and what Da Zizai said just now echoed in his mind.
Why
Because the people have no awe in their hearts!
Did not treat him, the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, as a god to be in awe of!
If, as Da Zizai said, the common people firmly believe that he is a god who controls everything in the world, then is everything he faces still the same? Does Li Yuanshan dare to rebel? If Li Yuanshan did not dare to rebel, would there be such a disaster in the Sui Dynasty? Jin Shixiong waved his flag in the northwest, with 200,000 followers. Jin Shiduo raised troops in the south of the Yangtze River, and the common people flocked to him. Even that lowly Luo Tu proclaimed himself emperor in Liuzhou, there were actually some people willing to be courtiers!
These things, if the people were in awe, would not have happened!
"Are you the head sheep?"
Although Yang Jian agrees with Da Zizai's words, he knows what the people of the Buddhist sect are thinking: "It's like, when King Dalunming was the leader of the Quoketaimeng family on the grassland? Do you think I will listen to you?" Bewitched? The Kuoke Taimeng family has been dominated by King Dalunming for thousands of years, like puppets on a string. Is that the god you said in the hearts of the people? I am afraid that even now that Mengyuan is destroying Buddha, most herdsmen I still think that god should be Dalun Mingwang instead of Quoketai Mengge!"
"Ha ha."
Da Zizai looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "Your Majesty, how can you say such unreasonable things?"
"No reason?"
Yang Jian's eyes turned cold: "You come and tell me, there is no reason!"
Da Zizai stood up straight and said solemnly: "Why did Meng Yuan destroy the Buddha? It was because of King Dalun Ming and not because of Buddhism. King Dalun Ming lived for too long, so long that he naturally thought that he was a god. Therefore, Meng Yuan The situation in Yuan is that King Dalun Ming is the one who shepherds the sheep, and the Quoke Taimeng family is the head sheep... But will Tai Sui be like this?"
Da Zizai shook his head: "Absolutely not! First, who was your Majesty who assisted you in creating the Sui Dynasty? It was Wan Xingchen. If Wan Xingchen was like King Dalunming back then, I'm afraid there is one in the Sui Dynasty now The Buddhist sect of the Buddhist sect, Wanjiantang is the Buddhist sect of the Sui Dynasty. It is the Wanjiantang, not the imperial court, that controls the world of the Sui Dynasty. But Wan Xingchen does not have the same thoughts as King Dalunming, and he is already dead. This It is the first difference between the Great Sui Dynasty and the Meng Yuan Dynasty, and it is also the difference between you, Your Majesty, and the Great Khan of the Meng Yuan Dynasty."
"Second..."
Da Zizai pointed to himself: "I am not the Great Wheel Ming Wang either! What His Majesty is worried about is that I will control Chao Gang like the Great Wheel Ming King? If Your Majesty thinks that way, it may be that I am missing some of the great talents of an emperor through the ages. I don't know how to escape Reincarnation, I only have one life to live. But I don't want to lose this life to King Dalun Ming, people in Jianghu have the ambition of people in Jianghu, Your Majesty should understand."
Yang Jian sneered and said, "Don't you think it's absurd that you came all the way from Daxue Mountain Dalun Temple in the western regions grassland to meet me in the Central Plains and tell me these things?"
"No!"
Da Zizai shook his head: "Not at all."
He looked at Yang Jian and said seriously: "If your majesty thinks it is ridiculous, it is because your majesty has not started to think about what I said. Regardless of how King Dalun Ming is, just why is Meng Yuan so powerful? With the support of a comparable sect, hundreds of millions of believers support it, does your Majesty think so?"
Yang Jian didn't speak, because he knew that Da Zizai was right. The strength of the Mongolian Yuan lies in the unity of politics and religion. Pastors are believers, and believers are people.
"Why should I trust you?"
Yang Jian asked: "What qualifications do you have to say these things? Now the Buddhist sect has been almost wiped out by the Quoke Taimeng family. You are just a person who can't protect yourself in the Western Regions and has to come to me for help. You dream that I can help you. You have fulfilled your wish and restored the status of the Buddhist sect."
"I can make the people believe that Your Majesty is God."
Da Zizai said: "I came from the grasslands of the Western Regions and stayed in the Northwest of the Sui Dynasty for four months, and stayed in the Southwest of the Sui Dynasty for two months. Does Your Majesty know how many Sui people believed in my words and deeds in the past six months? I just changed the name of the Buddhist sect, and what I preached was still the essence of Buddhism, so the common people believed me, Your Majesty guessed... just half a year, how many believers do I have in the northwest? How many believers in the southwest?"
"Those who believe in you are fools."
Yang Jian said.
"Your Majesty... If the whole world is a fisherman who regards you as a god, what a wonderful thing it will be?"
Da Zizai smiled: "What's more, it seems that only the Buddhist sect can change you from an immortal person to an immortal god? After the death of King Dalunming, too many people knew that he could escape reincarnation and live for a thousand years .But not many people know how Dalun Mingwang did this, they will guess that it is the Buddhist sect who has such a secret method."
"if… "
Da Zizai said slowly: "Your Majesty re-ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. Don't you need a reason to come back to life from a human to a god? This reason can be given by the Buddhist sect. I can tell the world that I was resurrected with the secret method of the Buddhist sect. It’s up to you to clean up the mess of the Sui Dynasty, so that the common people will accept it even though they are frightened, isn’t it?”
He looked at Yang Jian and said word by word: "The most important thing is, Your Majesty, your current cultivation is so high that no one in the world can compare... You can kill me at any time. I just want the Buddha sect to be immortal, but You also want to live forever in the Sui Dynasty."