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Chapter 438 The Dazed Second Prince (4000)

Inside the palace.

In a large room on the third floor, a young man with facial features somewhat similar to that of the King of Shanshan was holding a roll of wooden tablets that had just been brought in by the guards and inspected them carefully.

This young man was about eighteen or nineteen years old, and his hair and beard also inherited the unique autobiography of King Shanshan.

He is Chamu, the second prince of Shanshan Kingdom, the prince who is least liked by the king of Shanshan.

King Shanshan had six princes in total.

The eldest prince "Jia Fei" is good at riding and shooting, so he worshiped General Xia Hafu who had just passed away as his teacher, and learned the art of war and martial arts, which has a tendency to become the backbone of Shanshan. The soldier talisman of the mud city defenders.

The fourth prince "Jin Quanzhuo" is proficient in Buddhism, and he also worshiped the recently deceased Master Pushan as his teacher. Although he is only 16 years old now, he is already able to explain scriptures and interpretations to believers. Master Pushan is gone, and he will most likely take over Fumo Temple and become the most influential mage in Jiani City.

King Shanshan also placed high hopes on these two princes.

People in Jiani City generally believe that as long as there are no accidents, the next king of Shanshan will be born from the two princes "Jia Fei" and "Jin Quanzhuo".

It is worth mentioning that Jin Quanzhuo's status as a Buddhist disciple does not affect his succession to the throne.

Because Hinayana Buddhism is different from Mahayana Buddhism, the disciples of Hinayana Buddhism are allowed to marry and have children, and they are allowed to eat meat, which is basically no different from the lives of ordinary people.

And if Jin Quanzhuo can become the next king of Shanshan, with his identity and influence, it will be easier to realize the integration of politics and religion in Shanshan. In today's era, such a ruling method can realize the dual control of faith and law, which will undoubtedly make the political situation worse. more solid.

As for the remaining princes, they are much mediocre compared to these two, so there is no need to describe them one by one.

The only one worth mentioning is the second prince "Chamu".

He is an outlier in the royal family.

He did not believe in Shanshan's state religion "Theravada Buddhism", and slapped Shanshan King in the face.

They also don't believe in the "Fire Worship Sect" which is relatively popular in Shanshan, but they have to believe in the "Taoism" which only became popular and developed in the Central Plains in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

However, the "Taoism" that Chamu believed in was not the "Taiping Road" founded by Zhang Jiao and the "Five Dou Rice Road" founded by Zhang Daoling at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

He just borrowed some teachings from these two schools, took Lao Tzu's Taoist orthodox thought "Tao Te Ching" as the core, and then took the most powerful "Huang Lao School" among the many schools at the end of the Warring States period as a precedent, and selectively believed in Taoism. He seems to be of extraordinary significance.

So Chamu believes that what he believes in is only the most orthodox and primitive "Taoism", not some messy sect.

The "Taoism" in his eyes should not be divided into sects.

As the saying goes: "Taoism makes people single-minded, moving and combining invisible, and supporting all things. It is also a technique, because of the smoothness of yin and yang, the goodness of Confucianism and Mohism, the essentials of naming methods, changing with time, changing with things, Doing things in accordance with customs is omnipotent. It is easy to make appointments, and it is less and more meritorious.

Taoist inaction, also known as doing everything, is actually easy to do, but hard to understand its words.Its techniques are based on nothingness and follow the rules.There is no success and impermanence, so it can study the feelings of all things.Not for things first, not for things after, so can be the master of all things. "

Taoist inaction, also known as doing everything, is actually easy to do, but hard to understand its words.

The "Tao" aggregate is the emotion of all things and the master of all things.

The "Tao" is made by nature, and human beings are just a part of the "Tao".
Therefore, in his view, the so-called factions are nothing but the delusional actions of mediocrity in the world, which will only make the sky laugh.

If Wu Liang was taught to know Cha Mu's thoughts, he would immediately recall a saying in later generations that is similar to his thoughts: "When humans think, God laughs."

Looks like it should mean the same thing...

The reason why Chamu has an indissoluble bond with "Taoism".

Let’s start with the “Taiping Dao” founded by Zhang Jiao. At that time, the Yellow Turban Army spread all over the Central Plains, so that a small number of “Taiping Dao” believers appeared among the merchants traveling to and from Shanshan. He did not forget to preach, and even planned to build a Taoist temple in the city of Jiani.

Shanshan is a land of religious freedom. Even if Hinayana Buddhism is legalized as the state religion, it never interferes with the missionary affairs of other sects.

It was at this time that Chamu, who was just in his early teens, came into contact with Taoism.

He saw "Taipingdao" believers giving porridge and preaching in the city, and also saw "Taipingdao" believers using "talisman water" and "spells" to heal people, and even memorized the catchy slogan—— "Cang Tian is dead, Huang Tian should stand!"

Later, the Central Plains really messed up, and Shanshan Kingdom easily achieved independence and broke away from the control of the big man.

Since then, Chamu has developed a strong interest in "Taoism".

As a high-ranking prince, he can ask the merchants traveling to and from the Central Plains, and teach them to bring him books related to "Taoism", understand the knowledge related to "Taoism" in the Central Plains from ancient times to the present, and study the truth contained in it.

So over time, such a strange prince appeared in the royal family:
His room is covered with yellow talisman paper bought from the Central Plains at a great price, and various strange symbols that people cannot understand are drawn on the talisman paper.

The queen mother was ill, so he didn't ask people to find a doctor to come and treat him immediately. Instead, he drew a ghost drawing talisman, and after burning it, he mixed the ashes of the talisman into the water and took it for the queen mother, saying that it could cure the disease.

As a result, the queen mother not only did not recover, but began to vomit and have diarrhea.

In the end, the king of Shanshan learned about this matter, and when he was taught to kneel down and reprimanded him severely, he was still muttering something, saying that maybe he hadn't grasped the true essence of Taoism, and that maybe the empress mother had no way in her heart, and that's why the result was like this .

Later, he discovered that Taoism has a Taoist philosophy called "eating qi without eating grains". As the saying goes: "The one who eats meat is brave and brave, the one who eats grains is wise and skillful, the one who eats qi is gods and lives long, and the one who does not eat does not die and becomes a god."

In order to verify the feasibility of this kind of practice, Chamu decided to try it himself.

So he taught the guards to lock him in the room, and really started to go on a hunger strike, only using the way of exhaling and breathing that he had realized.

After all, Taoism has an ultimate theory of "Tao produces one, one produces two, two produces three, and three produces all things". All things in the world are interconnected, and Qi can produce all things in the world, not to mention the grains and meat that people eat, so they live by eating Qi In theory, it should be achievable.

After being so hungry for three days, Chamu can be regarded as a determined and persistent person. He was already so hungry that he lay on the ground unable to move, and still refused to ask for help.

In the end, it was Chamu's mother who found out that she hadn't seen her son for a few days, so she asked the reason from the guards and forbidden soldiers. She had to order someone to forcibly drag Chamu out of the room, and then forcibly fed him a bunch of food, waiting for him to eat. When I was full and felt that I should be able to hold on, I arranged a meal of "seven wolves" care.

There are countless similar things.

Chamu still didn't know how to repent, and blamed his own "understanding" for the failure.

Since then, he has been more persistent in asking the merchants from the Central Plains to collect a few words about "Taoism" for him, pursuing the truth of "Taoism" more persistently, and making all attempts related to "Taoism".

Over time, he became an outlier in Shanshan City.

Seeing this, his empress mother was anxious, and asked Master Pushan to come to teach and guide him many times, but not only could not change his mind, the son sometimes even used his "false reasoning" to make Master Pushan speechless. Words, trembling all over.

King Shanshan was very disappointed with him.

The other princes also looked down on him.

Even the people in the city would use him as a joke in private.

Chamu didn't care.

As the saying goes, "Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature." Everything in the world should be "natural", and so is man. Since he has chosen this path, he should accept the "natural" changes , "Do things without doing things, teach without words", only then can we see the "Tao Mind".

So many years passed in a flash.

The other princes are all married and have children, and handle some political affairs under the behest of King Shanshan. Only Chamu, who is nearly [-] years old, is still a bachelor. He hides in his room all day long to study books related to "Tao", draw those Messy spells, try those methods that only appear in a few words in books.

It's not that his mother didn't arrange a marriage for him, but Chamu gave him the reason that he hadn't realized the "art in the house" in Taoism, couldn't "return to his brain", and didn't deserve to enjoy the "joy of husband and wife". Sternly refused.

after this.

Even his queen mother felt that Chamu had been "demented", and no longer asked for this son, but only asked him to spend the rest of his life carefree...

……

After reading the contents on the wooden tablet, Chamu rolled up the wooden tablet again and put it in the alcove.

More than ten volumes of the same wooden tablet had already been stored in the alcove, which recorded the list of books that Wu Liang and others had read in the Golden Chamber Pavilion in the past half month, as well as their words and deeds.

Leaning on the Hu bed with his arms pillowed on his head, Chamu showed doubts on his face, and said to himself: "It's strange, the mysterious power that these Han people killed General Xia Hafu and Master Pushan probably has something to do with Taoism. The alchemy books of the pre-Qin period once recorded the event of the alchemy furnace collapsing and hurting people. The two seem to have the same purpose, but they stayed in the Golden Chamber Pavilion for half a month, and the books they read were not unusual. In every word and deed, there is no trace of any masters, are they not revealing, or am I wrong?"

"I really want to get the two bronze pots on my father's body and study them carefully. Maybe this is the only way to prove the identity of these Han Chinese as 'fellow daoists'..."

"It's a pity that the father will definitely not agree. If he is not careful, he will die like General Xia Hafu and Master Pushan."

"Now, I'm afraid there is only one way..."

"..."

……

Leave the soldiers of the Tuan army in the palace.

After coming out of the Golden Chamber Pavilion, Wu Liang only took a few backbones and rode fast horses to Lop Nur, southeast of Jiani City.

Now he has two maps in his hand, one is a map that he bought from the locals when he was about to leave Yangguan in the west, and the other is a map that he asked Apqiu to find for him after he arrived in Jiani City. Officially certified map of Shanshan Kingdom.

On these two maps, the location of Jianni City is exactly the same.

But in contrast, the location, shape, and size of Lop Nur are slightly different, and even the direction of the Kongque River north of Jiani City is slightly different.

Wu Liang temporarily characterized the differences between the two maps as errors.

After all, there are no satellites in this era, and there will always be some errors in the scale and terrain of the maps drawn, even the military maps currently used by Cao Jun are like this.

of course.

In comparison, Wu Liang is more willing to trust the officially certified map of Shanshan Kingdom.

After all, the map purchased from the locals in Yangguan, who drew it, and whether the method used was professional, are still unknown and can only be used as a reference.

After about two hours like this, Wu Liang and others have arrived at the shore of Lop Nur Lake.

It is said to be a saltwater lake, but in fact the salt content of the lake in Lop Nur is not high, and it certainly cannot be compared with the unknown small lake that Wu Liang and others encountered in Bailongdui.

Because Lop Nur is not barren of grass.

At this moment, there are many lush reeds and Achnatherum splendens growing by the lake. When you get close to the lake, you can also see a large group of small fish swimming away when disturbed. In the center of the lake, there are some wild ducks and waterfowls cruising and hunting leisurely. , a vibrant and beautiful scene.

Wu Liang walked to the lake, dipped a finger in the crystal-clear lake water, and then put it in his mouth to taste.

It does have a slight salty taste, but the salty taste is almost negligible, even much lighter than the salty taste of seawater...

Also.

"King Shanshan said earlier that the water area of ​​Lop Nur has shrunk in recent years. Have you seen any signs of the water area shrinking?"

Wu Liang turned his head and asked several backbones.

This is one of the purposes of his trip. He wants to see how the water area of ​​Lop Nur is shrinking, so as to verify whether this is directly related to the mysterious news of the ancient Loulan country.

But the current situation is.

He didn't see any silt shoals due to the reduction of the water area. Normally speaking, when the water area of ​​a lake decreases, there will definitely be silt shoals on the lakeside due to the drop in the lake level.

"Lop Nur?"

Everyone showed doubts on their faces.

This is the first time they have heard of this title. This is a later generation's saying, and only Wu Liang knows it.

"It can also be called 'Youze', it refers to this lake anyway."

Wu Liang didn't care about such innocuous gaffes, and said with a smile.

"Anyway, the old man didn't see it."

Yu Ji shook his head, and continued, "This lake is much larger than the Mingze that nearly killed us at the bottom of the lake a few days ago. If the water area has been reduced, it must be a big deal. How can the lake be like this?"

　There is another chapter today, which is being written, and may be finished later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)