Chapter 56: The Helpless Xuanzang
Li Yuanai did not scare Xuanzang.
A person like him with a firm will not be able to surrender by intimidation alone.
With his order, the soldiers who received the order did not hesitate too much.
These soldiers who had been on the battlefield had no respect for monks and Buddhism. They brought boxes of Buddhist scriptures and threw them into the Yellow River.
Xuanzang hadn't reacted at first, but when he saw that his nearly twenty years of hard work had been thrown into the rolling Yellow River, his mind was blank, and he suddenly rushed out, trying to jump into the Yellow River to save the Buddhist scriptures.
As for whether you can get water or not, it doesn't matter.
All of this is an instinctive reaction.
He is fast, but Liu Boying is faster.
Liu Boying, who had already received the order from Li Yuanai, hugged Xuanzang immediately and pressed him to the ground.
Xuanzang glared at the Buddhist scriptures floating on the Yellow River, and opened his mouth and screamed silently.
He was too pressed to move, so he could only rush his head to the deck.
Li Yuanai stood aside, indifferent.
He admired Xuanzang's fearless courage to seek truth and risked his life to go to India to seek scriptures alone. But he cared more about the future dominance of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions.
Li Yuanai was restricted by the peace era. Although he had fantasized about doing something grand and vigorous, he was limited to imagination and had no practical actions.
However, as a Chinese, he has an unprecedented sense of belonging to the motherland.
In this era, the people of the Tang Dynasty might think they were Tang people, but in Li Yuanai's heart, he was not a simple Tang people, a Qin people, a Han people, a Jin people, a Sui people and even a future Song and Ming people...
These countries are combined into China.
No one in this era knows the heaviness of the word "Huaxia" better than Li Yuanai.
It is also because of this that when Li Yuanai came to this era, he naturally integrated into it, and there was no barrier.
This is the inheritance of culture.
Xuanzang's hard work deserves sympathy, but compared to the strength of the country, what is it?
Li Yuanai dared not carry out cross-era reforms like Wang Mang, and could only do something within his ability within his ability.
After all, in China for 5,000 years, in addition to glory, there are also inhumane bullying and massacre.
This is also the key to Li Yuanai ignoring Yuan Qing.
It is undeniable that the Yuan and Qing dynasties are indeed part of China's history.
As a foreign race, what they brought was not the inheritance of culture, but the destruction of culture, which was breaking the backbone of China.
Li Yuanai is not unacceptable to being a foreign leader, but you kill the people and destroy culture indiscriminately, and almost ruin the inheritance of Chinese culture. How can future generations accept this?
"I wrote, King Shang, I dare not act rashly. I wrote "The Record of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" immediately."
Xuanzang's face was covered in blood and tears, grabbed Li Yuanai's trouser legs and kept begging.
Seeing the stubborn donkey surrender, Li Yuanai waved his hand and immediately went down the river to salvage the scriptures.
The soldiers assigned by Li Shimin to Li Yuanai all had experience in water battles. Some of the veterans even participated in the battle of Li Xiaogong pacifying the south of the Yangtze River and were extremely water-like.
Here is now in late autumn and there is little rain, and the water level of the Yellow River is gentle.
Soon the scriptures were rescued by the soldiers.
However, at this time, there was no paper. Papermaking was a unique invention in China, and it was the only one in China.
Tianzhu used bay leaves instead of paper, which are leaves that look like brown leaves, with uniform distribution on the outside in a fan-shaped appearance. The ancient Indians picked these leaves and boiled them in water, dried them, then polished the two sides of the leaves, and cut them into rectangles about eight to eight storages and about two or three feet long. They also had no meaningful writing pen, applying a mixture of oil and soot on the writing, and then wiping them with hot sand, so that the text will be dyed black.
Buddhists in ancient India engraved scriptures on Bay Leaves in this way, commonly known as Bay Leaves Sutra.
All Xuanzang asked for the Bay Leaf Sutra.
This kind of Bay Leaf Sutra is the least easy to preserve. How much can it be preserved after being soaked in water is left to fate.
Xuanzang rolled and crawled to the salvaged peacock sutra, carefully as if he was caring for the newborn children, separated the peacock one by one, looked at the sun in the sky, and trembled and posted the peacock one by one on the deck.
This situation seems to have existed in memory.
It seems that Tang Monk lets the big turtle overturn the scriptures on TV...
Bah bah bah bah bah!
Li Yuanai hurriedly shook his head and sighed sadly. He knew that he would have had the feeling of knowing why he had been today. He said, "You will also help the monk dry it together." As he said that, he asked someone to prepare paper and pen and specifically instructed: "Master Xuanzang, this "The Record of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty" must be written in detail. The details of all the city-states you know about in the Western Regions, different ethnic groups, and various countries and ethnic groups are best written one by one."
Xuanzang did not speak.
Li Yuanai saw that he was accusation.
Not saying goodbye is his last stubbornness.
Xuanzang in history also saw Li Shimin's thoughts, but the book "The Record of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty" was a geographical historical record written by him and compiled by Monk Bianji.
Now Xuanzang did not dare to deal with others, and it was obviously more delicate than the one in history.
The fleet went downstream, and it took only one day to reach Luoyang.
Li Shimin personally met Master Xuanzang in Yiluan Hall, Ziwei City, Luoyang.
There is no doubt that Xuanzang was indeed a great monk. His attitude towards Li Shimin was exactly the same as that towards Li Yuanai and even the people on the road. He did not change his attitude because of the difference in their identities.
Like Li Yuanai, Li Shimin also threw an olive branch to Xuanzang and even invited him to Liaodong to watch the battle together.
Xuanzang also refused without any room for maneuver and said that he "keep the precepts and expounded the remaining laws, this is his wish."
Seeing that Li Shimin couldn't do anything, he had to give up.
When Xuanzang saw that Li Shimin was moved, he immediately said, "Xuanzang obtained more than 600 Sanskrit books from the Western Regions, but he had not translated a single word. Now he knows that there is Shaolin Temple in the south of Shaoshi Mountain in Songshan, far away from the lunar mountain, and the springs and stones are leisurely. It was created by Emperor Xiaowen of the Later Wei Dynasty, which is the translation of the Bodhi Tripitaka. I hope to translate it for the country, and I listen to the order. The King of Shang asked "The Records of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty" and Xuanzang also thought about the past in this place of practice and compiled it with his heart."
Li Shimin pondered a little.
Li Zhi said on the side: "How tired is it to translate hundreds of scriptures with one person? Why would my father have to set up a translation institute in Chang'an and recruit people from all walks of life who are proficient in Buddhism and Chinese writing to participate in translation?"
Seeing that Xuanzang had rejected his father and wanted to run away, the black-bellied prince directly stuck him in Chang'an.
Li Yuanai threatened Xuanzang with the scriptures. Li Zhihao took advantage of the situation and left it in Chang'an, controlling the Buddhist master in his own hands.
Li Shimin had this intention, but he couldn't help but argue with a monk.
Now that Li Zhi said this, he immediately agreed.
Xuanzang could only recite one sentence, "Namo Amitabha."
Chapter completed!