Chapter 66: The Identity of the Enemy (4,000 words) A total of twenty Spitzers were installed on a ship, with an average of ten on one side, which means that in just a moment, each ship took ten hits to the enemy ships facing it, and the jets of such density were almost in the blink of an eye, and the entire enemy ship was engulfed in flames.
"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, sin and sin."
Watching the raging flames engulf the entire ship, and listening to the faint screams from the opposite ship, Li Daoyun folded his hands and began to chant sutras to the deceased.
"I'm a priest, you're kind of funny, they're enemies, you're a sin a fart?
You don't kill people on weekdays, why are you so compassionate today?
Seeing this, Cheng Chuliang couldn't help but laugh and joked: "Besides, what are you reciting?"
You are a Taoist priest and not a monk, a monk can give people excess, can you Taoist also exceed?
” "Immeasurable Tianzun, although the poor Tao is not a monk, but also a monk, naturally compassionate, not to mention that the excess is not the patent of Buddhism, Buddhism has the "Diamond Sutra", and my Taoist naturally also has the "Taishang Cave Xuanling Treasure Immeasurable People on the Wonderful Sutra" (that is, the Sutra of the people, I don't know when it came from, it was installed before the Tang Dynasty)."
Li Daoyun said lightly: "What's more, killing people is not a nod to the ground, usually we use the simplest method to kill, even if the enemy dies, we can't feel pain, but today ......"
"Gotta gotcha, don't talk about it."
Cheng Chuliang shook his head with a wry smile: "Actually, I don't want to do this, but the enemy is coming up, obviously there are better weapons that are not used, but the enemy has to get close and then put the opponent to fight, what is the reason?"
” "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, this truth is naturally clear, but this move is harmful to heaven and harmony after all, and it is better not to use it if you can use it."
"Do you still need to say this?"
Cheng Chuliang rolled his eyes: "You don't know, this is why we were calculated today, where have you seen me use it?"
” "......"
Li Daoyun was speechless, and said in his heart, I'm afraid it's not that you don't want to use it, but under the bombardment of naval artillery, the enemy can't rush to your side, right?
If you let the enemy rush to you, do you think you will use it?
"But who are these enemies?"
Cheng Chuliang didn't pay attention to Li Daoyun anymore, but set the target on the enemy's banner: "There are so many flags, one is more fancy than the other, what kind of force is this?"
Can you tell the difference between a Taoist priest?
” "Let's take a look at the poor road."
Li Daoyun took the telescope and carefully identified it: "The seven-colored cloud flag is the Qiyun Chamber of Commerce, the one with the shark skeleton should be the black shark big ship group, the one with the 'swastika' should be the Buddha pirate group, and the fist flag should be the fist shipping company, with the golden dragon flag......
Well?
How could there be a golden dragon flag?
This should be the emblem of the Royal Merchant Order, right?
How did they get involved?
” "I'll take a look......"
Cheng Chuliang hurriedly grabbed the binoculars, and sure enough, he found the banner of the Royal Merchant Group, and couldn't help but sneer at the corner of his mouth: "It's really a Royal Merchant Group, this is really interesting......
It seems that our Royal Highness not only has foreign enemies, but there are also many people within the royal family who want him to die, but I don't know which prince dares to be so blatant?
” The Royal Chamber of Commerce is not a business group established for Li Shimin, nor is it a real chamber of commerce, but similar to the consortium of later generations, it is those idle princes who saw that the Great Voyage was so profitable, and set up their own caravans, and finally under the proposal of a certain Li Shimin's elders, everyone jointly operated the name of the Royal Chamber of Commerce - everyone has the qualifications to hang this flag, but their respective caravans are still their own, but at the same time there are some public property, and everyone owns a part of the shares, which is a very loose alliance.
"Don't talk nonsense, maybe it's just someone else's fraud."
Li Daoyun was very nervous, and after looking around and finding that there was no one, he continued: "Besides, this is a royal family matter, let's not discuss it as courtiers, be careful that the wall has ears." ” "Huh......
Forget it, even if what you say makes sense, don't talk about it.
Cheng Chuliang is noncommittal, everyone knows this kind of thing, how can it be that the enemy is fake?
For example, the Qiyun Chamber of Commerce is a famous black merchant group, although it has the name of the merchant group, and occasionally does a little business business, but in fact it is an underworld business, over the years, I don't know how many merchant ships have died in their hands, but it's a pity that they do things too badly, every time they attack merchant ships, they will be wiped out, never leaving flaws, although the court knows that some things are done by them, but there is no evidence, But he has never been able to attack them - if it is an ordinary force, it doesn't matter if he really destroys them, the problem is that the Qiyun Chamber of Commerce is supported by Confucianism behind it, and even the imperial court does not dare to attack them.
The Black Shark Ship Regiment is a pirate alliance with hundreds of ships of all kinds, and even they have attacked the patrol fleet of the Hangzhou fleet once before, and grabbed two fourth-class battleships, but fortunately, the quality of the Hangzhou Fleet Navy is good, and they destroyed all the naval guns before they died, otherwise the cannons would have been lost outside.
But even so, having two fourth-tier warships has greatly increased their momentum.
At the same time, the Black Shark Ship Group is also the hostile force that the Tang Navy wants to eliminate the most, and it is also above the South Sea Pirate King Roger on the must-kill list, but because they don't know where their lair is, there has been no result.
What's more, this black shark big ship group is very mysterious, no one knows who their master is, even Li Zhen mobilized all the forces under him, but he can gather so many fleets, and he is not an ordinary person.
The fist shipping company is a chamber of commerce specializing in transporting goods to people, and the nature is a bit similar to the smuggling king Piero, the difference is that the fist shipping agency does serious business and does not participate in smuggling - of course, whether it is illegal or not, this does not need to be thought about at all, how to make money without entrainment of private goods in freight?
How much money can you make just by pulling goods for people?
Fist Shipping Co., Ltd. is one of the strongest freight organizations in the entire Datang Nanyang, with hundreds of large and small merchant ships alone, which is a big force in the Nanyang.
Of course, like other groups, the shipping company also has a behind-the-scenes boss, that is, the Blood Alliance - this is an organization jointly established by the seven great families (now there are only five, although since the Li family in Longxi has become a royal family, and the Fanyang Lu family has taken refuge in the imperial court, they have only five families), the establishment time is almost the same as Li Zhen's blood dragon guard, it is a very old-fashioned organization, integrating assassination, infiltration, intelligence, espionage, business and other industries, and it is an intelligence killer organization established by seven sects and five surnames, It is also one of the backhands they keep for themselves, even if the family declines in the future, there is a way back for the Blood Alliance.
Because of the Yindao Incident, there was a big civil strife in the Lingnan Branch of the Blood Alliance, Li Zhen took advantage of the weakness to enter, and the power of the Lingnan Branch was greatly damaged, so it was simply banned by the headquarters and retracted its power back to Jiangnan, so Lingnan completely became Li Zhen's territory.
After so many years of development, it finally saved such a big fortune, not only can it be self-sufficient, but also can provide various prohibited goods from Nanyang for the forces behind it through shipping.
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As for the Buddha pirate group, although it bears the name of the Buddha, it is not the power of Buddhism - think about it, Buddhism is not so stupid, if this pirate group is theirs, how can they be so blatant to hang their name?
Besides, the disciples of Buddhism value the Buddha the most, and others can't joke about the Buddha, so how can they put the Buddha and pirates together?
Isn't this defiling the word Buddha?
In fact, the real enemy behind the Buddha pirate group is Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism is also called Zoroastrianism in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Zhen originally had a plan to introduce foreign religions to balance the local religions of the Tang Dynasty, and they are one of the beneficiaries of this plan.
Because in the Tang Dynasty at that time, there were only two forces, Taoism and Buddhism, and only Taoism belonged to the local religion, but it was also rubbed on the ground by Buddhism.
Foreign sects of Buddhism are powerful, at that time in the Tang Dynasty can be said to be everywhere, almost every county has a big temple, incense is prosperous, but Taoism is not famous among the people, was completely suppressed by Buddhism.
So Li Zhen called himself the descendant of Zhenyuan Daxian, supporting Taoism to balance Buddhism, after more than ten years of support, the power of Taoism has made great progress, although it is not enough to suppress Buddhism, but it can be regarded as a fight to come and go, seeing that Li Zhen is already the prince, only one step away from the emperor, and Taoism is about to soar into the sky because of this, completely suppressing Buddhism under his body.
It's just that Li Zhen knows very well that whether it is Buddhism or Taoism, it is essentially something that fools people, religion is a double-edged sword, it can calm the people's hearts if it is used well, but it will hurt others and hurt itself if it is not used well, so no matter which force is strong, it is not what the ruler wants to see, only the three-legged support, and even how strong can the country really stabilize.
Therefore, Li Zhen plans to introduce foreign religions into the Tang Dynasty and balance the two major religions - anyway, even if he doesn't introduce them, when the Tang Dynasty becomes strong in the future and conquers their territory, in order to stabilize the people's hearts, they will also support them, it is better to have a good relationship now, maybe when the Tang Dynasty arrives in the future, people may surrender without a fight?
Of course, this is impossible, but in any case, with such a layer of affection, it will be very helpful to operate Central and West Asia in the future, so why not?
It's just that what Li Zhen didn't expect was that his move was not only protested by the two families of Buddhism and Taoism - this is for sure, there was only so much meat in the pot, and there was not enough for two people, and you still want to pull in a few more, so we all have to starve to death?
So not only Buddhism, but even Taoism began to protest, and Li Zhen was prepared for this.
However, what Li Zhen didn't expect was that Buddhism and Taoism were opposed, and even the imperial court was opposed, at the beginning, Li Zhen thought that the spokespersons of the two Buddhist and Taoist families in the imperial court were protesting, but later I learned that even Li Shimin was not very optimistic.
This makes Li Zhen very puzzled, it stands to reason that everyone should be able to see the benefits of doing this, which can completely cause a war between Buddhism and foreign sects, so that they will lose each other, so that they have no time to take care of anything else, let alone compete with the court for power and profit - but it is such an obvious reason that it was actually vetoed. why？
Later, when Li Zhen got the answer, she couldn't cry or laugh.
It turned out that the imperial court had been debating Li Zhen's proposal for a long time, but after nearly half a month of discussion and argumentation, after eliminating the resolute opposition of the spokesmen of the two major forces of Buddhism and Taoism, it came to a conclusion, which led to the overall opposition of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty - Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism were too aggressive, not in line with the golden mean that the Han people had always pursued, and in their place, the divine power could be juxtaposed with the imperial power, which the imperial court resolutely could not tolerate.
You can think about it, the court was originally a good uncle, but now there is a person who wants to be on an equal footing with you, how can Li Shimin, who has always been self-respecting, bear it?
Not to mention Li Shimin, even the foolish emperor Sima Zhen can't bear it, right?
As for the reason for the opposition of the hundred officials, it is almost the same - we can stand it enough to worship an emperor on weekdays, and now that you are here, you are not only asking us to worship the emperor, but also to worship your sect?
What is your deity?
A group of foreign monks are just a group of monks, why do we want to worship him?
This made Li Zhen speechless, the aggressiveness of Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism can be called too strong?
What is Islam?
You can't stand even the juxtaposition of the Pope and the Emperor, and if I tell you that in distant Europe, the divine right is still above the imperial power, and even the emperor has to bow down to the Pope, how would you feel?
Of course, despite the opposition of the imperial court, Li Zhen secretly supported Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, but also proposed to the priests of the two major religions to change some of their teachings.
Contrary to Li Zhen's expectations, he thought that these old scholars who had become obsessed with studying the doctrine should have sternly rejected his proposal, but who knew that Li Zhen had just put it forward and received a response from the two sects—there was no problem at all.
At that time, Li Zhen was stunned.
What about the festival?
What about your rituals?
Doesn't it say that the head can be broken and the blood can be shed, and the doctrine cannot be lost?
Where did your festival go?
In fact, Li Zhen didn't know that since the Tang Dynasty became more and more powerful, those Western religions have always wanted to enter the Tang Dynasty to preach, but the Tang Dynasty has long been occupied by Buddhism and Taoism, and they are foreign sects.