Chapter 1008: Chess Talk
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"Ahem! Are you kidding?" The Jade Emperor dry-coughed a few times to hide his embarrassment.

I was just tasting the fairy tea prepared by Queen Mother Wang.

His mind was extremely relaxed, he admired the graceful dance of the fairies in the hall below, and at the same time he casually listened to the Clairvoyance and the Superb Ear observing the situation of the Journey to the West.

When the Clairvoyants told the Jade Emperor that Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty in the lower world was planning to send 500,000 troops to kill all the way... ahem!! He personally went to the West to obtain the scriptures.

The Jade Emperor reacted so violently upon hearing the news only because he knew Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty.

All the achievements and thoughts of Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty were not worth mentioning to him, but he had to admit that he had achieved the ultimate at the level of mortals.

Therefore,
In the eyes of the Jade Emperor, Li Shimin was definitely a rational and intelligent emperor.

It is impossible for a rational and intelligent emperor to issue such an outrageous order.

Fighting all the way from the Tang Dynasty in the East to the Lingshan Mountain in the West was an extremely unreliable decision.

The battle line is 18000 miles deep, which is simply a joke.

If we send 500,000 troops, there will definitely be more than 500,000 going to the battlefield. There will also be countless corvée labor to transport food and supplies. All together, at least three times the number of logistics personnel as the army will be needed.

Only in this way can a war be guaranteed to proceed.

Five hundred thousand troops, plus three times the number of troops, is one and a half million. A total of two million people may not seem like a lot, after all, in later generations, there would easily be over 100 million people.

But at that time, the Tang Dynasty had only more than three million households.

A country with more than three million households has to send more than two million able-bodied men to fight in a war. It can be said that the country is basically ruined.

"Is Li Shimin crazy?" asked the Jade Emperor.

At first the Jade Emperor did not believe it, but then he thought that the Thousand-Li Eyes and the Wind-Hearing Ears did not have the courage to lie to him.

"yes!
Regardless of whether Emperor Tang Li Shimin could win this battle, the land he conquered was completely useless and could not be effectively managed. It was a waste of time to conquer it.”

The Queen Mother, who was almost sprayed with tea by the Jade Emperor, also spoke.

The territory of the Tang Dynasty in the East, plus the total area of ​​all the land all the way to India, would be extremely terrifying.

It is difficult to intuitively feel how big it is, so just think about how much it took Tang Sanzang to travel all the way from Chang'an to the Great Leiyin Temple.

14 years!
Moreover, Tang Sanzang didn’t have to walk for 14 years.

It is riding a white dragon horse that will never die of hunger, fatigue, illness or aging.

This type of transportation has been used for 14 years.

It can be imagined that once a war breaks out on the border, it will take 14 years to pass on the message.

Fourteen years is enough for a girl to become a young woman, and a young woman to become a hot mom...

"Ah! Actually, it's not strange whether you think about it or not." The Jade Emperor sighed.

"Isn't it strange?" Queen Mother asked doubtfully.

There is a clear difference between Li Shimin's style of doing things and Wang Ming's style of doing things, especially after Wang Ming gave up treatment and simply stopped acting.

If it weren't for the fact that Wang Ming's aura of a human king could not be faked, they would never have thought that it was Li Shimin who was sitting on the throne at this time. "Before the Journey to the West calamity came, the secret of heaven had not been hidden. We all calculated that Li Shimin's character and style were definitely not like this. This order is too stupid."

The Jade Emperor laughed and said, "Calamity! Calamity! If there is no change, it is not called calamity. The existence of calamity is something that the heavenly way has derived in order to make the solidified world have new changes.

Li Shimin was indeed a rare benevolent monarch who worked hard to govern the country.

But he was sent to the eighteen levels of hell in the underworld by Buddhism, and witnessed all kinds of tortures that made him unable to live or die. I'm afraid his three views, beliefs, and ideals were almost destroyed at that time.

Especially when the judges in the underworld said that he had committed serious sins and would go to hell and suffer torture after death.

How would you feel from his perspective?"

After hearing this, the Queen Mother thought for a moment and said, "Of course, he is seeking immortality."

The Jade Emperor nodded and said: "It is true that he is seeking immortality. However, Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty did seek immortality at the beginning. He just wanted to eliminate his sins and did not want to go to hell to suffer after death. However, the Buddhist sect later made the Jinghe Dragon King attack again, which completely ignited his ambition.

Emperors are inherently the most greedy and overbearing beings.

Unfortunately, it was his ignorance that ultimately led to his failure.

The Queen Mother thought about it and instantly understood what it meant.

I couldn't help but sneer, "Yes! He actually believes in the so-called Mahayana Buddhism of Buddhism, which can help the dead ascend to heaven, save the distressed from suffering, cultivate the body of infinite life, and achieve no coming and no going."

The Jade Emperor also mocked, "They are not lying. They can help souls to enter the Buddha Kingdom in their hands. In the Buddha Kingdom, they can naturally get rid of suffering, obtain an infinite life body, and live without coming or going."

The Queen Mother rolled her eyes at the Jade Emperor and said, "Those who enter the Buddha Kingdom in her palm will become stupid after chanting the sutras. Once they enter, they are nothing more than captive believers. What's the point of transcendence? It's better to enter the cycle of reincarnation. At least there is still a chance to break free."

The Jade Emperor shook his head and said, "It seems that Emperor Tang Li Shimin has given up his obsession with the empire. I'm afraid he has even given up his obsession with his descendants. He is going to go all out and bet everything on a future of eternal life for nine lifetimes without falling into the cycle of reincarnation and hell!"

"Snap!" The Queen Mother dropped a white piece, completing the encirclement of the black dragon on the chessboard.

"Unfortunately, Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty was heading in the wrong direction from the very beginning. When the direction was wrong, the further and harder he went, the more wrong he became. After all, he was just an ignorant mortal, or he simply did not see clearly his fate as a chess piece." The Queen Mother spoke slowly in a calm tone.

"Tang Emperor Li Shimin has obviously deviated from the original direction of his destiny. Do we need to correct it?"

The Jade Emperor frowned and glanced at the chess piece that had been eaten.

"A chess piece that stands out too much is always the most dangerous piece."

After he finished speaking, a black piece was close to the Queen Mother and at that moment the white piece fell. The black pieces around the white piece were connected again and the white piece was surrounded and killed.

"Let him be! Buddhism will take care of it. There's no need for us to dirty our hands.

The luck of Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty would be consumed. As long as we ensure that he does not die in the next ten years, nothing else matters.

Sending troops to attack the Leiyin Temple in Lingshan Mountain in the West is really ridiculous.

There are more than ten countries along the way, and if he conquers two or three at most, he will realize how stupid he is.

No matter how Li Shimin struggled, there would only be one result.

The strength of the protagonist of heaven and earth is better to be weak. If it is too strong, it will only join the three tribes of dragon and phoenix, and the two tribes of witch and lich. "

(End of this chapter)