Chapter 314: Going to the Peacock Kingdom: Danmo Lidi
Master Moye said, "I have understood the meaning of several donors. If my king learned that the donor came from the Great Qin, he would be happy. If all donors want to go to our country, they need to go northwest from here, through dense forests, cross mountains, and reach our country from Bangladesh; they will go southwest and arrive at our country by boat."
Yao Zhi asked again, "I dare to ask the master, which path is easier to follow?"
Master Moye said, "I have not walked the first path. I have heard from others that this path is quite difficult. There are many insects in the dense forest, deep grass, and many trees cover the sun, making it difficult to get through."
In other words, we have to take the second road and take a boat to the Peacock Country?
At this point, Master Moye should not have deceived them.
Because you can determine the truth by asking carefully about this kind of thing, and there is no need for Moye to deceive.
But if you have to take a boat, how long does it take to take a boat? Is it safe?
An accident on a ship is much easier than on land, and it is even less easy to escape. Yao Zhi and others live on land all year round and don’t have much contact with the ship. They are naturally worried when they hear about taking the ship.
Seeing Yao Zhi fall into thinking, Master Moye smiled and said, "All donors want to go to our country, I can help you. I am willing to return to our country with you!"
This means to lead them and take them to the Peacock Kingdom, but this will definitely not be free. This brother, the monks from the Peacock Kingdom must have the conditions.
Yao Zhi said, "I would like to thank the master for his kindness, but the master guides us. Wouldn't it delay the master preaching the Buddha and meditation here? We feel guilty and don't know how to repay the master!"
Mo Ye smiled and said, "What do you mean by the donor? My Buddha is compassionate and saves all living beings. As a disciple of my Buddha, I should help you when I meet someone in trouble. How can I talk about repaying you? But I am determined to go to the Great Qin Kingdom, but I don't know how to go..."
Oh, it turns out that you, a bald man, want to go to the Great Qin, and from us, we know how to go to the Great Qin and all kinds of news related to the Great Qin, such as what taboos do in the Great Qin and what preparations do you need to go to the Great Qin. You can't just understand nothing and go in one go. If you break the taboo...
The purpose of this bald man from the Peacock Kingdom to go to the Qin Dynasty is also very obvious. He is trying to spread the Buddhism to the Qin Dynasty.
Yao Zhi and his men now understand how Master Moye was looking at them. Most of them think that the Great Qin is a foolish barbarian, and he wants to spread the glory of Buddha to the Great Qin.
Being regarded as a barbarian, it’s quite strange that this feeling is. In the past, they also regarded other countries except the six countries? Those people are barbarians and do not know etiquette!
I never thought that they would be regarded as indigenous barbarians who have always regarded others as indigenous barbarians.
He knew that this was the condition offered by Master Moye: I will take you to the Peacock Kingdom, but you will also help me to the Great Qin and exchange them with each other.
After thinking for a while, Yao Zhi decided to agree to Master Moye, and he also had the same idea as Master Moye. Even if Master Moye came, he had bad intentions and had malice towards Daqin, Daqin was not afraid of him.
Because in the hearts of Yao Zhi and others, they firmly believed that the Qin Dynasty might not be the richest country in the world, but it must be the strongest country in the world, no doubt about it!
Especially along the way, when they saw those ignorant and even almost primitive tribes, they became more and more convinced that the Qin Dynasty was the strongest, most civilized and most polite country in the world.
All countries are barbaric, but the Qin Dynasty is a civilization, which makes them feel proud and proud. The Qin Dynasty, which they were born, was so powerful and advanced.
Therefore, Yao Zhi did not think that Master Moye could pose any threat to the Qin Dynasty after he really went to Daqin. Even if he had a plan, he could definitely solve it by relying on the wisdom of His Majesty the Emperor and Mr. Li Nian.
Yao Zhi was still a little careful. He wanted to see how Master Moye saw when he arrived in the Qin Dynasty.
You think your powerful and civilized Peacock Kingdom is not worth mentioning in the Qin Dynasty. Both sides are not on the same level, that is, your Peacock Kingdom is lucky and does not lean against the Qin Dynasty.
Yao Zhi smiled and said, "It turns out that the master is thinking like this. Yao has said just now, 'The Great Qin Sea embraces all rivers. As long as the master wants to go, he can go naturally'. How can he keep the guests away?"
Master Moye smiled when he heard this, knowing that Yao Zhi agreed to the conditions he offered.
In fact, he was willing to return to the Peacock Kingdom with Yao Zhi and others. His real purpose was not to guide Yao Zhi and others. Instead, he considered that going to the Qin Dynasty required a group of people and brought various scriptures and classics. It was not easy for him to go alone, so he wanted to go back and recruit a group of people!
After this day, Yao Zhi and others lived in this tribe. Here they learned the Mandarin of Peacock with Master Moye, learned about the culture, history, customs and customs of the Peacock Kingdom, and what taboos there are in Peacock Kingdom, what can be done, and what cannot be done.
Master Moye is also learning the elegant language of the Great Qin from Yao Zhi and others to understand the history and culture of the Great Qin...
Both sides were very interested in each other's cultural history, but they both sneered. For example, Yao Zhi and others were not very tempted by Ashoka, praised by Master Moye. Ashoka's achievements were nothing in the Qin Dynasty. Only those people in the Peacock Kingdom did not know about it, so they felt that they were amazing.
When he heard about the caste system of the Peacock Kingdom, Yao Zhi and others were even more surprised and gained their knowledge. There is a country in the world that implements this system? Can the people under his rule bear it?
This Peacock Kingdom is really magical. A king who seemed to be the master of the first half of his life, and believed in the ghostly Buddha and the strange caste system in the second half of his life.
Regarding Buddhism, Yao Zhi and others became more and more aware of it in their communication with Master Moye, and unanimously agreed that this sect must not be spread in the Qin Dynasty. If this sect takes root in the Qin Dynasty, it will sooner or later harm the Qin Dynasty. They do not want their descendants to forget their ancestors and believe in a foreign country.
Master Moye also responded to what Yao Zhi and others said. These Qin people were full of nonsense and made up stories. More than two thousand years ago, their ancestors had already fought in the battles of the south and the north, such as the battle of fighting, the Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs, and the Dayu controlling the flood. They also established three countries: Xia, Shang and Zhou...
It is true that from the mouths of these great Qin people, there is no truth. The Buddha came to the world and learned that the supreme wisdom was only a few hundred years ago under the Bodhi tree. How could a group of great Qin barbarians have had so many great wisdom so early? Is the Buddha actually a person from the same era as the Taoist Laozi?
This must have been made up by the Qin people, in order to gild their faces. Moreover, these relatives said that they had fought there for hundreds of years, and it was not until last year that the seven kingdoms were unified and unified for the King of Qin.
How is it possible? If it really takes hundreds of years to fight, how many people will die, and there are still people there?
But neither side exposed the other party, and still maintained harmony, thinking about one day revealing the other party's hypocrisy. In a flash, several months passed, Yao Zhi and others had initially learned the Mandarin of Peacock. Under the guidance of Master Moye, they boarded the ship to the Peacock Kingdom.
These ships are merchant ships of the Peacock Kingdom. At this time, merchants had traded with surrounding areas through sea boats. Monks of the Peacock Kingdom like Master Moye also arrived in later generations such as Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos by boat.
Because Yao Zhi and others had a large number of people, they waited a month before collecting all the ships that could send them to the Peacock Kingdom, but they also paid a "significant" price, paying thirty pieces of Hulin products as ship fees.
This time, Yao Zhi and others were not to underestimate other countries. The Qin Dynasty had not yet explored the sea, but these merchants from the Peacock Kingdom had already traded on ships.
They didn't know that the Daqin ship technology in history was also good. Although the purpose of the First Emperor built a ship was impure, how could he send 3,000 boys and girls overseas to seek immortality?
During the voyage, Yao Zhi and others felt the value of sailing on the sea and felt that it might be of great use to the Qin Dynasty. So they asked the boatman of the Peacock Country who was driving the boat, and sometimes they took the initiative in person, and recorded the technical experience they obtained in a book, preparing to bring it back to China in the future.
This voyage was free and disaster-free. It successfully crossed the Bay of Bengal and saw the city that appeared in its eyes from the telescope. Yao Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. From the time they set out from Daqin to the present, it has been more than half a year since they finally saw the territory of the Peacock Kingdom.
The city that Yao Zhi saw was called Danmolidi. It is a famous port city in the Peacock Kingdom and a Buddhist city with a strong Buddhist atmosphere. There are many monks from the Peacock Kingdom coming out from here.
Although before coming, Yao Zhi had heard Master Moye talk about the situation in Danmolidi. This is a city blessed by Buddha, and it is very safe. Although the donors from Daqin came to Daqin, Yao Zhi could not feel at ease.
He and the other four men each had a telescope, carefully observing the city, looking for possible hidden ambush and dangers.
But as Master Moye said, this is indeed a Buddhist city, and there are no signs of ambush. There are many ships moored at the port, and there are peacock citizens working in the port.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
The architecture in the city is completely different from that of the Qin Dynasty. It is of the same style as Master Moye’s temple, but Master Moye’s temple focuses on religious style. There are more civil-style buildings here. You can tell at a glance that this is a foreign city!
The ship slowly approached the port from the sea. The port found the ship approaching. Someone waved brightly colored flags at the ship on the high tower of the port to direct the ship into the port.
Yao Zhi saw someone running into the port through the telescope, as if he was going to deliver the news of the arrival of the ship. This made him look serious immediately and ordered: "Let the brothers cheer up, and they are about to enter the port. Go and don't be ambushed!"
But Yao Zhi's concern was unnecessary. He found that after those who were suspected of going to report the news, someone did come, but the person came not the army, but a group of monks, as well as local nobles and officials.
These people stood at the port, looking at the approaching ship curiously and excitedly. Yao Zhi knew what these people were coming: most of them heard that a group of Gentiles were coming, so he made a special trip to see the Gentiles.
But are these people so unwarranted? I didn’t bring a few guards, so I wasn’t afraid that they would attack, so I took the opportunity to capture them?
The question was in Yao Zhi's mind, and he thought of the answer: the prosperity of Buddhism in this city has led to a relatively peaceful environment here. These people have lived here all year round and have not experienced many storms and changes, so they are naturally not vigilant.
But this situation is also good. Yao Zhi does not want to go to war with others in Peacock country. Even if he wins, it may not be good. Not to mention losing, he still hopes to get along with each other in a friendly and harmonious manner for the time being.
Yao Zhi and others had already prepared their luggage and got off the ship in an orderly manner after the ship entered the port and stopped. The monks, nobles and officials at the port also looked at them curiously and kept giving advice.
These people are the rumored people from the Qin Dynasty. They look like this, what clothes are they wearing, their hair is so weird, what are they wearing on their heads? It seems that they have tied their hair up with that thing? Why do you need to tie it? Just put it on or cut it off?
That's armor, is it so strange? They should be soldiers from the Great Qin State, standing very neatly, like tree trunks.
Do they believe in Buddhism? Why do some of them wear armor and some wear those strange clothes?
Such talks were endless, which made Yao Zhi and others speechless, because in their eyes, these peacock people were also very strange.
I won’t say that the monks are not much different from Master Moye’s clothes. However, the nobles and officials wear clothes that seem to be casually draped on their bodies, and the left and right sides are very asymmetrical. They wear jewelry on their necks and heads. Some have no jewelry on their heads, but they are wrapped in cloth, and there are patterns such as red dots and flames on their eyebrows...
Some of them were also wearing ornaments on their ears and noses, decorated on their heads, and a white veil, which seemed to be used for masking.
Yao Zhi counted three times and everyone was there, and looked at Master Moye coming towards him. There were still a few people who came with Master Moye. Yao Zhi knew that this must be an important figure in Danmo Lidi.
After Master Moye approached, he introduced Yao Zhi to these people: "This is General Yao Zhi from the Great Qin State. General Yao Zhi came to serve as an envoy under the order of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qin State!"
After saying that, Master Moye added another explanation: "The emperor is the king of the Great Qin State, just like Ashoka!"
After listening to Master Moye’s explanation, several people had a thought in their minds: Is a king of a barbaric country worthy of being compared with Ashoka?
Yao Zhi performed a Qin etiquette to several people, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "The Qin man Yao Zhi was ordered by His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qin to be sent to Guibang!"
Master Moye introduced the identities of several people to Yao Zhi, "This is Master Karissia in Danmo Temple, and this is the mayor of Youzhan City..."
In addition to Master Kalisha returning the favor to Yao Zhi with Buddhist etiquette, several people returned the favor to Yao Zhi with the Peacock Kingdom: "Kariasha (Youzhan) has met General Yao Zhi!"
The atmosphere of meeting between the two sides was harmonious and harmonious. At the invitation of several people, Yao Zhi and others walked to the city. While walking, they introduced Danmo Lidi to Yao Zhi and others.
The city is indeed full of Buddhist atmosphere, with monks everywhere. They appear in various places in the city. Most monks lay a piece of cloth on the ground, and then sit on it, with their eyes closed, as if they are studying the so-called Buddhist teachings.
These monks were placed in front of them. When civilians passed by, they often put some things into the bottles and jars.
According to what Yao Zhi knew from Master Moye, this was not begging, but the monks were giving the world the opportunity to redeem their merits.
That’s right, you donated money and goods, not the monks thank you, but you thanked the monks: Thank you Buddha for giving us sinners the opportunity to donate money and goods to wash away sins!
(This chapter ends)