The Assassin Empire of the Three Kingdoms

Shi Xie has four brothers in total: Shi Xie, the eldest governor of Jiaozhou, Shi Yi, the second eldest governor of Jiuzhen, Shi Wei, the third eldest governor of Cangwu, and Shi Wu, the fourth eldest governor of Zhuya.Shi Xie also had four sons, the eldest son Nanhai prefect Shiqi, the second son Jiaozhi prefect Shihui, the third son Yulin prefect Shigan, and the fourth son Daner prefect Shisong.Shi Xie is over 70 years old this year, and calculated according to his age, he does not have a few years to live.So Li Shixie's three brothers and four sons had some ideas.

The most capable of them is Shi Xie's eldest son, Shi Ying. Shi Xie is over 50 years old this year, the same age as his third uncle Shi Wei.Shi Zhang is tall and powerful, with a big sword in his hand, he is fierce and fierce, and he is considered invincible in Jiaozhou.Since the Sun family occupied Jiangdong, they have repeatedly sent people to provoke them. Fortunately, the eldest son, Shi Ying, was stationed in the South China Sea to resist Sun Quan.

The shrewdest is Shi Xie's third younger brother, Shi Wei.Shi Wei is the most capable person, because his territory is close to Jingzhou, and many intelligence and news about the Central Plains will be sent to Jiaozhi through him.Shi Wei took advantage of it and copied some useful information before sending it to Jiaozhou.Also because Cangwu was the closest to Jingzhou, Shiwei secretly organized a team of people to travel between Jingzhou and Jiaozhi, and send Jingzhou's grain and salt to Jiaozhi.Some local specialties produced in Jiaozhi were also sent to Jingzhou.When the business grows, Cangwu becomes rich, and Shiwei becomes rich.

What Shi Xie likes the most is his second son, Shi Hui.Shi Hui, who is benevolent and filial, takes Shi Xie as his example in everything, pays respects to Shi Xie every day, and spends his spare time studying hard, and is proficient in various classics and histories.This was exactly what Shi Xie wanted, so Shi Xie kept his son in Jiaozhi and by his side.

These people in the Shi family are divided into two factions. As the eldest son of Shi Xie, Shi Xie has a great advantage in inheriting the position of state shepherd, and the other is that he has the support of Shi Wei. One is rich, the other is brave, Zhuya, Shiwu and Shisong of Dan'er have made it clear that they are willing to vote under Shiqi's command.These few people occupied half of Jiaozhou's territory.The second faction, headed by Shihui, gathered the second uncle Jiuzhen Taishou Shiyi and the third younger brother Yulin Taishou Shigan.This group has the support of Shi Xie, governor of Jiaozhou. Although there are not many people, they can still fight against Shi Xie.

After reading the information collected by Xu Shu, Long Fei suddenly realized: "No wonder! Shi Wei personally sent me to the South China Sea, and told me solemnly, if there is anything you can tell Shi Ying, it turns out that they are an alliance!"

Xu Shu nodded: "Exactly, according to Shi Wei's intention, we should stay in the South China Sea and negotiate with Shi Wei directly, but my lord didn't do that, we must go to Jiaozhi, so Shi Wei and Shi Wei thought we were going to negotiate with Shi Wei." The Shi Xie alliance is likely to be an assassin sent by them."

"No!" Xu Chu said, "The person who sent us to Jiaozhi was sent by Yulin prefect Shigan, who is from Shihui. Why did they want to harm us?"

Long Fei waved his hand: "Now I seem to understand a little bit. You continue to investigate this. Tomorrow I will go to pay a visit to this Shihui first. Feng Xiao will go with me. This Shihui is a master of Confucian classics. By the way, I will pay a visit to this Shihui from Cao Cao's house." Bring the white jade statue you got here!"

Shi Xie loved the study of Confucianism and attached great importance to the dissemination of Confucianism. He exchanged Confucianism with Confucian scholars who came to Jiaozhou for refuge, and wrote books and biographies, which set off the prosperity of Confucianism in Jiaozhou and created a golden age in the cultural history of Lingnan.Shi Hui was appreciated by his father because of his attainments in Confucianism.Shi Hui is also over 40 years old. He speaks kindly and does things quietly. He has the demeanor of his father Shi Xie, and is deeply respected by the people of Jiaozhou.

Shi Hui also has two good friends, one is called Mouzi, and the other is called Kang Senghui[Note], who have a lot of background.The eldest son of the Prime Minister of Kangju State in the Western Regions, his single name is Hui.He does not love wealth and honor, sees through the world of mortals, and aspires to become a monk and becomes a monk, known as "Kang Senghui".Kang Senghui will uphold the Buddha's purpose, come to China to spread Buddhism, and make good friends.He is not only proficient in Buddhist scriptures, but also dabbles in astronomical charts and latitudes.In the early years, he taught Buddhism in Jiangdong. Unexpectedly, the people in Jiangdong were deceived by Yu Ji. They believed in Yu Ji's Taoism, and Kang Senghui was driven out by Liu Yao, who was then the governor of Yangzhou.When he arrived in Jiaozhi, he was entertained by Shi Xie and paid for the construction of the temple, so the Kang Senghui stayed.

Mouzi is also a monk. During the years of Jiaozhi, he devoted himself to the study of Buddhism, communicated with monks from the Western Regions such as the Kang Senghui, and wrote "The Theory of Puzzled Eyes" which became a classic in the history of Buddhism.

Shi Hui also believes in Buddhism, because Shi Xie believes that Buddhist believers are kind-hearted and will not have too many intrigues.Therefore, Shi Hui got very close to Mouzi and Kang Senghui, and often went to temples to offer incense, and talked about Buddhism with Mouzi and Kang Senghui all day long, and never tired of it.Shi Xie was delighted to see it.

When Long Fei arrived, Shi Hui was discussing Buddhism with Seng Kang.The family didn't dare to disturb, so they had to ask Long Fei to wait in the living room first.After waiting for about an hour, it was really boring, so Long Fei strolled to the backyard.Shi Hui is the prefect of Cochin, and his mansion is naturally the best place besides the State Shepherd's Mansion.The prefect's mansion in the front yard is no different from the usual one, but the yard in the back is very different.There is a large lake in the middle of the yard, and the river flows through the yard to form a natural lake.All kinds of aquatic plants are all over the lake, and lotus flowers compete with each other.

There is a small island in the lake, and a pavilion is built on the island.From a distance, Long Fei saw two people sitting opposite each other, one was dressed in robes like a Han Chinese, the other had nine ring scars on his shiny head, and was wearing a red cassock, sitting cross-legged peacefully.When they came to the edge of the small bridge leading to the center of the lake, two servants hurried over to stop them. Dian Wei stared at him, and the two of them got out of the way in fright.

The two people in the pavilion, you and I are talking happily, Long Fei sounds like a book from heaven.Guo Jia hurriedly explained that the two were discussing Buddhism, and they were convincing each other through stories in Buddhist scriptures.This test is not only your understanding of Buddhist scriptures, but also the scope of your dabble in Buddhist scriptures.From the expressions of the two of them, it was obvious that Chu Shihui was already sweating a little as Kang Senghui said, and unconsciously reached out to wipe the sweat on his forehead.

Long Fei did not disturb the two of them, but stood aside and listened quietly.What kind of Bodhi tree, lotus stand, etc. Buddhist scriptures and stories he had never heard of one after another, it sounded a bit interesting.Seeing that Shi Hui was overwhelmed and was about to be defeated.Long Fei suddenly remembered a poem, and said casually: "There is no tree for Bodhi, and a bright mirror is not a stand. There is nothing in the first place, where can the dust be aroused?"

As soon as these words came out, the two people who were discussing Buddhism stopped talking at the same time, and turned their heads to look at Long Fei.Kang Senghui hurriedly got up, tidied up his monk robe, put his hands together, and bowed deeply to Long Fei: "Amitabha, this poem by General Long is really the original intention of Buddhism. I don't think I have worshiped Buddha for decades. Come to realize that if the general worships the Buddha, he must be more successful than me."

"My praise, my praise!" Long Fei actually didn't know where this poem came from, he just heard about it when he was in school.It is said that it was done by the sixth patriarch of Buddhism. As for who the sixth patriarch is, he has no idea.When I read it at this time, I just listened to the conversation between the two about the Bodhi tree.

Shi Hui also got up in a hurry: "General Long is really a man of great enlightenment, I am afraid there is no other Buddhist school in the world like him!"

Long Fei was even more embarrassed.Because of this poem, the distance between the three of them has been shortened a lot. Kang Seng would look at Long Fei like a heavenly man, while Shi Hui would look at Long Fei with emotion.Several people returned to the living room, and a servant brought tea.After a few words of politeness, the conversation turned to the Buddhist scriptures.Long Fei hastily waved his hands: "You two, I don't know anything about Buddhist scriptures. Those few words just now were purely accidental. This time I came here because I heard that the prefect likes to worship Buddha. I got something a few years ago, and it's useless to put it anywhere. I want to send it to the prefect."

Xu Chu held a box and placed it in front of Shi Hui.The badge was gently opened, and he was quite surprised when he saw it: "This...isn't this the Buddha statue carried by white horses when the two eminent monks from the Western Regions, Kasyapa Moten and Zhu Falan, came to Luoyang?"

Kang Senghui hurried forward.Inside the box is a figure carved from white jade, it is a beautiful woman, dressed in colorful satin, with one hand holding a ribbon, and the other hand placed on her chest like an orchid.At first, Long Feibing didn't think there was anything special about this white jade figure, but after seeing it, he thought it looked like Feitian in Mogao Grottoes, so he stayed. Today he came to Shihui's place suddenly, and he heard that Shihui believed in Buddha, so he brought it with him. up.After Kang Senghui watched it, he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, chanting Amitabha Buddha.Shi Hui also worshiped together, so that Long Fei and the others didn't know whether to worship or not.

According to legend, in the seventh year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Zhuang, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, sent envoys to the Western Regions to pray for Buddhism because of a night dream of a golden man.In 67 A.D., the envoys of the Han Dynasty and the two eminent monks of the Western Regions, Kasyapa Moteng and Zhu Falan, arrived in Luoyang on white horses carrying Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues. Emperor Han Ming personally greeted them.In 68 A.D., Emperor Ming ordered the construction of a monastery outside Yongmen in Luoyang. In order to remember the merit of the white horse carrying scriptures, it was named Baima Temple.This place is known as the "ancestral court" of Chinese Buddhism.

The jade statue that Long Fei took was exactly one of the Buddha statues brought by the two eminent monks from the Western Regions.I don't know why he was in Cao Cao's mansion, but Long Fei came here to visit Cao's mansion at night.This time it worked wonders.

Shi Hui liked this gift very much, and from that day on, Shi Hui often walked around with Long Fei.I learned from Shi Hui that Shi Xie maintained a neutral momentum towards the war between Long Fei and Liu Bei. As long as Long Fei does not harass Jiaozhou, Shi Xie will never send troops.However, his elder brother Shi Xie and third uncle Shi Wei have been urging Shi Xie to intervene in Jingzhou's affairs, thus capturing Guiyang and Lingling to prepare for continued expansion to the Central Plains.

With the "internal response" of Shi Hui, Long Fei's affairs in Jiaozhi went very smoothly.If Shi Xie's hole cards are correctly identified, he can naturally do a job with ease.In less than two days, after talking with Shi Xie three times, the two sides had initially reached an agreement.First, Long Fei will never send troops into Jiaozhou. Second, the two companies will always form an alliance. If Jiaozhou is attacked, Long Fei will send troops to rescue. Third, open markets in Guiyang, Cangwu and other places, allowing merchants from both sides to trade freely. .

Everything was ready, and when the alliance was about to be signed, Shi Qi suddenly returned to Jiaozhi from the South China Sea.

Note: Kang Senghui's ancestral home is Kangju, lived in Tiantangshi for generations, and moved to Jiaozhi with his father to do business. He became a monk in his 10s.Wu Chiwu went to Jianye for ten years to build a road.Sun Quan built the first temple for him, which is called the beginning of Buddhist temples in the south of the Yangtze River.Kang Senghui translated and compiled "Wu Pin" and "Liu Du Ji Jing" in Jianchu Temple, a total of 14 volumes in two volumes, and passed on the sound of Ni Huan chant, annotated "An Pan Shou Yi", "Fa Jing", "Tao Tree" "Three classics.Wu Tianji died of no illness in Jianchu Temple in April of the fourth year.Longhua Temple in Shanghai is the monastery where Kang Senghui lived.