Chapter 330 What exactly is the Peacock Kingdom?
Ye Zhuo and others couldn't help but turn their eyes to Gan Yu and others, as if asking: Do you care about this Peacock Man so shamelessly bragging in front of you?
But he saw that Gan Yu and others seemed to have not heard what Master Mo Ye said, and continued to eat and drink, calmly and calmly.
Seeing the Qin people's reaction, Ye Zhuo and others' expressions became subtle. It seemed that the Peacock people had also boasted in front of the Qin people, making the Qin people too lazy to refute them.
This also reveals another message: the Peacock people do not seem to know the power of the Qin people, so they have the nerve to brag about themselves in front of the Qin people.
No, it may also be that the Qin people told them that the Qin people were so powerful, but these peacock people didn't believe that there was a country stronger than them in the world, and regarded it as the Qin people making up lies to deceive them.
This is even more likely. It is impossible for the Qin people not to introduce their origins and some news about Qin to the Peacocks. However, what the Qin people said was regarded as a lie by the Peacocks.
From this point of view, Ye Zhuo and others felt that they could see some of the personality characteristics of these peacocks: they had certain knowledge, but not so much. Like the well frogs in the stories told by the Qin people, they were content with their own world, and they only thought that their well was the strongest and best, and they did not admit that there was a better and broader world outside their wells.
This also made Ye Zhuo and others feel deeply interested and curious. They want to know what reactions will be if these Peacocks truly know the strength of the Qin people?
Although these peacocks did not say it clearly, some of the attitudes they showed were obviously to regard them as ignorant barbarians who knew nothing or knew nothing.
This made Ye Zhuo and others feel quite unhappy. They may not be able to compare with the Peacock Kingdom behind these people, but Daqin can compare, just like I am not as good as you, but I have a friend who is worse than you.
What's more, the Baiyue tribes nowadays almost all want to rely on the breath of the Great Qin. They are not friends, but should be called "Daqin, my father!" What's wrong with the son's father's glory?
At that time, when they learned that the Qin Dynasty was stronger than them and that the achievements of King Ashoka were nothing compared to the kings and generals of the Qin Dynasty, would these Peacock people become angry or would they continue to deceive themselves, cover their ears and eyes, and not listen or believe them?
Master Moye said while paying attention to the reactions of Yezhuo and others. How much knowledge can a group of native barbarians have?
They will definitely be shocked by the strength of their Peacock Kingdom and the greatness of Ashoka, and will be admired and envious.
However, what surprised Master Moye was that these indigenous barbarians were not as surprised and shocked as he thought. Instead, they showed a kind of contempt and disdain, as if they were sneering at what he said.
This made Master Moye feel a little uncomfortable, and he feels that he has been despised by a group of native barbarians. It doesn’t matter if he despises him much, but he actually despises their Peacock Kingdom and the great Ashoka.
Your land is our Peacock Country, and there are many people. You are more kind and kind than our Peacock Country. Have you ever produced great people like Ashoka?
Moreover, what do you think of the Qin people doing? It means that the Qin people are stronger than our Peacock Kingdom. Let the Qin people save you face? Unfortunately, the lies of the Qin people have long been seen through by us!
This group of indigenous barbarians is really backward and ignorant, has little knowledge, does not understand the strength of their Peacock Kingdom, and does not know the greatness of Ashoka.
But this cannot be blamed too much. Who made them not grow up in the Peacock Kingdom, and their tribes have never had great existences like Buddha and Ashoka.
It is precisely because they should save them and get rid of barbarism and ignorance. This is definitely the Buddha who guides them here in the dark.
Master Mo Ye suddenly felt enlightened. Not only did he not express any dissatisfaction, but he looked at Yezhuo and others more kindly and happily, which made Yezhuo and others feel inexplicable.
Ye Zhuo asked intentionally, "Listen to the words of the distinguished guest, then the Buddha is a person of great wisdom. How dare he ask what wisdom he has?"
When he heard this, Master Moye immediately became energetic and said, "The Buddha's wisdom is unparalleled in ancient and modern times. Before the Buddha, no one was wiser than the Buddha, and after the Buddha, no one was wiser than the Buddha."
Isn’t this to mean that the Buddha has never been before and after, and that, Zhuo and others naturally do not believe in this. If the Buddha is really so powerful, why did the Peacock Kingdom not become a country of superior goodness when the Buddha is fully awakened, and have to wait until the time of Ashoka?
Even the Qin people never said that Qin was the best country. The Peacock people dared to speak out loud. While they were not self-aware, they were also quite arrogant.
Master Moye continued to talk about the greatness of the Buddha and the profound mystery of the Buddhist scriptures. He heard Ye Zhuo and others in a fog. What are these? "Awareness, awareness of others, awareness of action", "suffering, accumulation, extinction, and path"?
If you don’t understand, you really can’t understand. Moreover, the Qin people didn’t seem to be deliberately translating and making them unable to understand. So there is only one explanation: the wisdom of the Buddha is something that people don’t understand very well, and it is not very practical.
Ye Zhuo and others were immediately indifferent, but they did not show it too much. However, Master Moye also saw that these barbarians seemed not very interested in the Buddha's wisdom. After talking for a while, he took the initiative to stop and sighed in his heart: I want to spread the glory of my Buddha to these barbarians, and I have a long way to go!
After the banquet ended, after Master Moye and others arranged a rest place, Yezhuo and others gathered again with Gan Yu and others.
Ye Zhuo said, "Empress, are all the people in the Peacock Kingdom so arrogant?"
They wanted to ask this question just now, but Master Mo Ye and others were still there at that time, so it was difficult to ask directly in front of him. When they were waiting, they naturally didn't have to worry about it.
Gan Yu smiled and said, "Most of the people in the Peacock Kingdom that Gan saw were like this. They were arrogant because they were indeed a bit of strength. They were the strongest country in their location, and there was no country that could confront them. They naturally developed the arrogant nature of them."
"The second is that they are confined to their own world and refuse to open their eyes to the outside world, believing that the only one in the world is the strongest and most prosperous, and other countries are all barbarians and small countries. Even in the eyes of them, our Great Qin is also a barbarian country and a barbarian country."
Hearing this, Ye Zhuo and others showed a strange look on their faces, "It's true!". Even the Great Qin was regarded as a barbarian country by these peacocks. It would be no surprise that they were foolish barbarians.
No wonder the Qin people were too lazy to speak out when the Peacock Man boasted about themselves...
I guess it was when the Qin people went to the Peacock Kingdom to go on a mission to Peacock Kingdom that I encountered too many situations and no longer wanted to try my best to argue with the Peacock Kingdom.
Thinking of this, Ye Zhuo and others' expressions became even more strange, because they thought of the scene where the Qin people were on a mission to the Peacock Kingdom but were regarded as a barbaric country by the Peacock Kingdom. The Qin people must have been in a complicated mood at that time.
Unexpectedly, their great Qin envoys would one day be presented with a look of "You are a barbarian country, and I am the country of the heavenly kingdom."
Ye Zhuo asked curiously again: "Empress, what is the situation in this Peacock Country?"
Gan Yu said, "It is not the best country that Namoye said is the best, and the people of his country are not good-natured. Everyone..." Gan Yu paused, looked at Yezhuo and others, and then continued, "It is best not to listen to Namoye's words. The Peacock Kingdom implements that caste system, that is, people are divided into several different castes. High castes are strictly divided from lower castes. If they can do something different, if they cannot intermarry, and which caste they are born, they will always be that caste, and they can hardly change it."
But this seems to be nothing unacceptable. It sounds quite beneficial to them. Dividing everyone into ranks is conducive to ensuring that future generations are prosperous and prosperous. After all, those who can be responsible for receiving Gan Yu and others are senior figures of the Yueshang tribe.
Gan Yu knew what these people were thinking and said, "In Peacock Country, there is a caste called 'Dalit', and this caste is also called 'invisible'."
The senior executive of the Yiyuechang tribe asked, "What is the 'invisible person'?"
Gan Yu said: "The literal meaning is that people who cannot be contacted by high castes. Under the caste system, those who are considered dirty and dirty are only worthy of living in the shadows of the corners."
"When walking, you must avoid people, because they cannot let their shadows fall on people of higher castes, and they must also carry brooms, because they must sweep away their footprints while walking..."
This made Zhuo and others dumbfounded. This twisted system was just outrageous. Although it seemed as cruel as if it was not handcuffed and broken hands and feet at any time, it felt even worse.
Ye Zhuo and others looked at each other with serious expressions. This surname system seems to be beneficial, but this disadvantage is also a big disaster. If they are their own family to fall into this "Dalit" caste...
Another senior executive of the Yueshang tribe asked, "This surname system is so... absurd. How could the Peacock people, who are 'Dalit', be willing?"
This surname system is beneficial to the higher castes, but it is really not friendly to the Dalit. The peacocks of the Dalit castes are definitely unwilling to be willing!
Gan Yu looked at them and said, "This is also another strange thing about Peacock Country. You think Dalit is inferior and not as good as livestock, so will he feel resentful? However, this is not the case. The Dalits in Peacock Country not only do not have resentment, but even take the initiative to defend it."
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This made Ye Zhuo and others dumbfounded again. The caste system of the Peacock Kingdom was already outrageous enough. What’s even more outrageous is that Dalit of the Peacock Kingdom was actually willing to accept it and took the initiative to maintain it.
It's simply outrageous to open the door, outrageously home.
The high caste of this Peacock Kingdom has a great "education" of the lower caste Dalit, making them so obedient. If their descendants are inscribed into this Dalit special caste and are treated like this, wouldn't it mean that they will never be able to turn over?
No wonder the upper part said "almost impossible to change". If this is the case, there is really almost no way.
The senior officials of Yiyue Shang Ministry said contemptuously: "The Peacock people are also embarrassed to say that their country is a good country, and their country has good character and good nature..."
This sentence attracted the consent of the senior officials of the Yue Shang Department. He was not as good as his own people, so he was embarrassed to say this?
Ye Zhuo said, "Empress, who is the Buddha? Listen to the words of the peacock people, it seems that there are many believers in the peacock country?"
Gan Yu smiled and said, "The Buddha was originally a wise man in the Peacock Kingdom. He was born more than 300 years ago. He established a religion called 'Buddhism'. 'Buddhism' is to gather the believers of Buddha and spread the sects of what he said, thought and thought. The Buddha also became the gods believed in by Buddhist believers."
Isn’t that the Buddha was an ordinary person, but after establishing Buddhism, he was regarded as a god by Buddhist believers and became a god from ordinary people?
Gan Yu continued: "In the beginning, Buddhism was not as brilliant as it is now. Its doctrine advocated that all beings are equal, and no matter what caste they are, they can enter the religion. In the Peacock Kingdom, only high castes can be used to join the sect and believe in gods."
The senior officials of the Yiyue Shang Department disdained: "Equal sentient beings? Did Dalit ever be equal? Then Buddhism must have only this false name, but no reality."
Gan Yu nodded and smiled, "That's true. The teaching that the Buddha established equality of sentient beings. No matter what caste he had, it seems very good. But it is not the case when he actually did it."
"As far as Gan knows, although Buddhism seems to allow lower castes to enter the religion, it sets up strict entrance tests, which are generally difficult for those with lower castes to pass, and even if they pass, the status of lower castes in Buddhism is different from those with higher castes."
The disdainful senior member of the Yue Shang Department smiled and said, "It seems that Buddhism is also hypocritical. If he truly holds the equality of sentient beings, he will not deliberately set up tests."
This is an inevitable problem in the development of Buddhism. It is not a social revolution that directly disintegrates the caste system, but promotes individual practice to achieve spiritual liberation. If the caste system does not collapse, it can only adapt to the caste system and make a certain degree of compromise on the caste system.
Gan Yu said again: "Buddhism advocates hard practice of meditation, which means sitting in a certain place and meditating. What Moye said, "The Buddha reached the fullness of enlightenment under the Gayabipaluo tree" is that according to this method, he kept thinking hard under the tree and realized the so-called great wisdom."
The senior executive of the Yiyue Shang Department asked at this time: "Why do you think so hard, don't you need to eat or drink?"
Gan Yu smiled and said, "According to what Gan saw in Danmoli, those monks still need to eat and drink, but they hardly do anything for production, that is, they do not hunt or farm, they only go to the door to beg for alms or someone worships food and drink for them."
"He believes that some people worship him to eat and drink because this person is accumulating merit for himself. Therefore, in the Peacock Kingdom, the offerings to monks should be better. Most people cannot afford to worship them at all, so naturally there will be no merit to accumulate."
This made Zhuo and others look at each other in a hurry, and they don’t have to produce, which means that this group of people has no production and they have to eat and drink well. If Buddhism is carried forward in a certain country and there are too many lazy people who are lazy, there will be problems sooner or later.
Isn’t the Peacock Kingdom so prosperous now?
Ye Zhuo immediately asked, "Empress, isn't it a disaster for the Peacock Kingdom to be so prosperous?"
Gan Yu smiled and said, "The situation in the Peacock Kingdom is slightly different. Although Buddhism is prosperous in the Peacock Kingdom, there are tens of thousands of Buddhist temples and occupy a large amount of land and property, the Peacock Kingdom's products are indeed rich, and there are many people in the country who cannot join the church, so the situation can be maintained for the time being."
"But in the long run, there will be disaster. Monks do not work for production, do not pay taxes, and occupy a large amount of land. If many people want to join the church, they will not be far from disaster."
After hearing this, Ye Zhuo and others looked serious. If Buddhism was spread to their Yueshang tribe and a large number of tribe members became monks, the Yueshang tribe would not be far from decline or even collapse.
(This chapter ends)