As Zhao Kuo expected, after completing this ritual, Ma Xingde fell into silence.

It is obvious that before this, Ma Xingde was the prince of the Mauryan Dynasty, so what he saw was actually viewed from the perspective of the Mauryan Dynasty. In this way, even if he was the so-called living Buddha, he would still inevitably turn to the Mauryan Dynasty.

This bias will lead to a problem, that is, when Ma Xingde saw the enemy of the Mauryan Dynasty being killed, he was somewhat indifferent because his butt was just sitting on the side of the Mauryan Dynasty.

But now when he witnessed with his own eyes how the Mauryan Dynasty collapsed and how vulnerable it was under the attack of other countries, and how those who wanted to fight for the Mauryan Dynasty were easily defeated and killed, all of this still posed a great challenge and impact to him.

You should know that Ma Xingde is just a young man in his 20s after all.

If it were a young man in his 20s in his later generations who had experienced so many bombardment of explosive information on the Internet, he would have already had his own idea in his heart.

But in this era, Ma Xingde did not have so many channels to obtain information. All he knew was some information within the Mauryan Dynasty, and also the knowledge from Buddhist scriptures.

To be honest, his knowledge is actually relatively short-short.

Of course, even Zhao Kuo's short-sightedness in his eyes was far beyond that of most people in the Mauryan Dynasty. This short-sightedness is only relatively short-sightedness.

Although Ma Xingde will definitely feel at a loss when he encounters such a huge impact, as the saying goes, no destruction will not be established. After Ma Xingde has experienced this worldview reshaping, it will have two possibilities.

The first type is to move towards the opposite of Zhao Kuo and the Han Kingdom, launch a rebellion in a solid manner, and to restore the glory of the Mauryan Dynasty.

The second word is the one Zhao Kuo hoped that he would take the initiative to devote himself to the Han Kingdom, hoping to help the Han Kingdom conquer the Mauryan Dynasty in a more moderate way, so that the people of the Mauryan Dynasty could be killed or injured less.

No matter what, Zhao Kuo thinks that Ma Xingde is a smart person, and smart people should eventually make smart decisions.

It only takes him a little time, of course this time will not be too long. If Ma Xingde still hasn't made a smart decision after Zhao Kuo conquered the entire South Asian subcontinent, then Zhao Kuo has to take action himself and make a good transformation of this Buddhism.

In history, Buddhism has actually undergone many times of self-innovation. The most typical example is the emergence of Mahayana Buddhism, which directly derogates primitive Buddhists like Ma Xingde to Hinayana Buddhism.

On the second day, Zhao Kuo led the troops of the Han Dynasty and headed south in a mighty manner.

Mao Sui quickly reported a news.

"Your Majesty, that Ma Xingde did not follow, but stayed in that city. Should he send someone to monitor him?"

Zhao Kuo thought about it and shook his head with a smile.

"There is no need for that. If he really wants to oppose me and the Han Kingdom, then let him go."

For Zhao Kuo, he was a conqueror after all, and had an undisputed advantage in force.

Even if Ma Xingde really opposed Zhao Kuo and the Han Kingdom, at best, Zhao Kuo would just let his soldiers be busy for a few more years and kill more people who want to resist.

For Ma Xingde's attempt, it can only be said that success is not very good, but it doesn't matter if it fails.

"What's more, it's too early to say that failure is now."

Then Zhao Kuo continued to lead his troops south.

The four continents in South Asia have a terrain that is low in the north and high in the south. The north is mainly composed of India and plains, and the Ganges plain. In the south, it is a large area of ​​mountains.

This is why India has been relatively short in history, because all the indigenous people on the northern plains were killed, while the indigenous people in the mountains were relatively short due to the terrain.

This is not as good as Guang Guang's subcontinent in the South Asian subcontinent. In fact, the same is true for any continent. The races of people living in the mountains will definitely be lower than those living in the plains on average. It was not until modern society had great development of productivity and great abundant food that they broke through this law.

The cities on the plain are completely undifficult to Zhao Kuo. As long as the musketeers come forward to suppress the long-range firepower on the city wall, and then send someone to blow up the city wall with explosives. Finally, the servants rushed up to the city to carry out the final close combat mission, everything was so flawless and impeccable.

Zhao Kuo led his troops south all the way and conquered 4 or 5 cities in succession. At this moment, Ma Xingde actually appeared again.

Zhao Kuo looked at Ma Xingde in front of him and said with a smile: "I thought you wouldn't show up again."

Ma Xingde stared at Zhao Kuo very calmly and said, "Your Majesty, I have been looking for the Buddha's revelation these days, thinking about how to make the people of our country integrate into your country?"

Zhao Kuo smiled and said to Ma Xingde in front of him: "Actually, I have given you the answer. You must give up all your civilizations, just keep your religion, and then join us in this posture.

But don’t worry, your civilization will not die, but will be integrated into our Chinese civilization. In the end, you and me will create a stronger civilization. This is what I have always wanted to do and what I am doing in other places that have been conquered."

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Ma Xingde's expression became quite strange.

"Your Majesty's remarks are actually very unexpected to me. In my opinion, you should directly cover our civilization with civilization and erase our civilization directly."

Listening to Ma Xingde's words, the smile on Zhao Kuo's face became stronger and stronger.

"There is a saying in our China that the sea embraces all rivers, and tolerance is great.

If our Chinese civilization is the sea, then other civilizations like you are the rivers that flow continuously into the sea. We cannot say that we block your estuary, so that you can form a new ocean yourself. What we need to do is to integrate you into us and become a part of the new ocean."

Ma Xingde was silent for a long time and said, "I don't think this is an easy thing, and the person who does this will definitely be hated by all his compatriots."

Zhao Kuo nodded in agreement: "This person is even in danger of his life. He will be criticized by the traitors of wealthy businessmen for the rest of his life, because everyone feels that she has betrayed her civilization and wants to integrate her civilization into other civilizations and become a puppet of civilization."

Ma Xingde looked at Zhao Kuo and said, "But your Majesty, you chose me and want me to become this puppet."

Zhao Kuo nodded and said without any concealment or hesitation: "That's it. Every civilization needs a guide. This guide may be full of infamous, but it can help your entire civilization integrate into our Chinese family as soon as possible.

You won't say that, you have to know that we have conquered the ancients of Seliu, the Ptolemy, and the Anticos. In the future, we may have to conquer Carthage, the Romans and many other different races. These races must be integrated into our Chinese civilization.

However, whoever integrates faster will be able to take the lead and whoever integrates more slowly will probably not be so important in the future, and it is likely that his position in our Chinese civilization family will be even at the bottom of the bottom."

After listening to Zhao Kuo's words, Ma Xingde once again fell into a long silence.

In fact, he was very clear about saying these words in order to convince him to become the guide for the integration of this civilization.

But he must also admit that what Zhao Kuo said is indeed the truth.

As conquers, the Chinese will naturally choose clans who are more willing to integrate into China as their helpers to govern the vast territory. Those who are not very willing to integrate into China will inevitably be suppressed. This is a very normal measure that any ruler will take.

What's more, considering that the ancient Seliu Empire had been destroyed for several years, this means that the ancient Seliu people were ahead of the Mauryan Dynasty in this matter.

Ma Xingde sighed a long time later and said to Zhao Kuo very sincerely: "Your Majesty is indeed a very eloquent person. I am convinced of this. I wonder what Your Majesty wants me to do?"

When Ma Xingde said this, Mao Sui, who was standing beside Zhao Kuo, brows slightly jumped, and the expression on his face was obviously a little surprised.

Mao Sui is actually not very catching a cold for this kind of charlatan, but Mao Sui is also very clear that these charlatans generally have very firm beliefs in their hearts and are difficult to be influenced by external language.

So when he saw Zhao Kuo, he could actually say a few words and shake the foundation of his faith in this charlatan in a few days, and he could choose to vote for the Han Kingdom. This really made Mao Sui feel like he was eye-opening.

"I didn't expect that even these believers could fool you. Perhaps Your Majesty was already qualified to become a new sect and become the founder of this sect."

Mao Sui's thinking began to spread here before. Perhaps Zhao Kuo could become a Buddha, so Mao Sui should be a small Buddha or an envoy under the Buddha's association. By the way, it is said that there are other Bodhisattvas, or maybe Bodhisattvas.

Just after Mao Sui was thinking about it, he heard Zhao Kuo's voice.

"Actually, what you have to do is very simple, after all, you are a living Buddha.

As far as I know, there are only 4 or 5 living Buddhas in the entire Mauryan Dynasty, aren’t they?

As long as you can convince other living Buddhas, Buddhism will be allowed to continue to exist and spread on any land in our great Han Kingdom.

But if you want to get everything, you have to pay. I think you should be very clear about what you want to give."

Ma Xingde nodded and said very seriously: "I understand Your Majesty's words. Please give me a month. I need to call on several other living Buddhas to discuss."

A month later, Fahrenheit.

Several monks sat in the hall. They were of different ages, heights and appearances, but the only thing that was the same was their identities.

All of these people are living Buddhas from all over the Mauryan Dynasty.

In fact, there is more than one living Buddha. As long as they can be loved by local believers, and they have enough ability to fully interpret the mystery of the Buddhist scriptures to believers, they can be considered a living Buddha.

But these living Buddhas all had obvious uneasiness on their faces.

A living Buddha said to Ma Xingde: "Why is it that we are summoned to this place occupied by the enemy?"

Although the other living Buddhas did not speak, they could tell from the expressions on their faces that they should have similar ideas.

Ma Xingde smiled and said, "This time I summoned everyone here, mainly to discuss how we should transform Buddhist scriptures so that he can better integrate into Chinese civilization."

After hearing this sentence, the other living Buddhas suddenly changed their faces.

A living Buddha couldn't help but scold, "This is really outrageous. The kind in the Buddhist scriptures had already been decided by the Buddha at that time. How could he easily say it would be transformed?

We are just believers of Buddha and cannot do such things on behalf of Buddha.”

Although the other living Buddhas did not speak, they could be seen from the expressions on their faces that their opinions were actually similar.

This is actually very normal. As living Buddhas, they are already vested interests, so why bother to carry out reforms?

For them, maintaining the status quo is the best.

Ma Xingde spoke calmly: "Didn't you discover how powerful the soldiers and horses of the Han Kingdom are these days?

If we really want to oppose them, their emperor will directly destroy our religion. Is this the result you want to see?"

After hearing Ma Xingde's words, the other people fell into silence at the same time.

After a while, another living Buddha spoke, "The Buddha was watching us in the Western Paradise. If he was really so cruel, the Buddha's punishment would come."

Ma Xingde did not give in at all and said calmly: "Maybe the Buddha will really have punishment, but do you really think that the Buddha's punishment is enough to destroy such a powerful country?"

Another silence.

All living Buddhas present, in other words, they are actually very smart people. It is precisely because of smart people that they don’t need to play puzzles.

The Han Dynasty was powerful, and these living Buddhas saw it all, and they did not really resist it, because the person who really wanted to resist had already died.

There are 5 living Buddhas present now. Before the outbreak of this war, there were actually 9 living Buddhas in the Mauryan Dynasty. Some of the other four have died in the war, and some are leading the believers to resist fiercely.

Ma Xingde said, "What we must be clear about is the determination of His Majesty the Emperor. I have been in contact with His Majesty for nearly 10 days, and his determination is incomparable to any king.

The Seleucid Empire, the Ptolemaic Dynasty, and the Antik Empire, are all enough to fight against us, but they were all defeated by the Han Kingdom in just two years.

Our Mauryan Dynasty is also very powerful, but in just three months since the war started, everyone knows that our demise has become a foregone conclusion.
To be continued...