Chapter 1354 If We Don't Occupy the Position of Public Opinion, the Enemy Will Occupy It
In fact, the situation was even worse than Abbot Baozhi imagined.
For a long time, the people's anti-golden sentiment has been far stronger than that of the imperial court. After all, ordinary people are not like the imperial court. Their wish is actually very simple, that is, to protect their families and relatives. Before the Jin soldiers went south, many people in the Song Dynasty were in panic all day long. Many people donated money, food and materials, and even volunteered to join the army or organize teams to fight against the Jin soldiers.
And right now Yue Fei and Fang Zheng are leading the Song army to go north, which is quite popular. Many people are looking forward to seeing the Kingdom of Jin completely wiped out, because only in this way can they feel relieved. Otherwise, who knows if the golden soldiers will come to attack them again after decades,
If it was Jin Guo who took the initiative to send people to ask for peace, then the common people would understand to some extent, and even mocked that these Jin people were nothing more than that, and begged for mercy out of fright.
However, you, a monk from the capital, came here to mix in what? !
Clearly, the destruction of the Kingdom of Jin is just around the corner, yet you fucking ran in front of the emperor and said that the common people are the most important thing? I pooh your face! !
You must know that Fang Zheng "live-streamed" the whole debate to every corner of the Great Song Dynasty. Almost all the citizens of the Great Song Dynasty saw the vision from the sky with their own eyes and heard the debate between Abbot Baozhi and Fang Zheng. In the minds of ordinary people, of course they tend to be square!
After all, as Fangzheng said, your monk eats, drinks, and wears well every day, but when you serve the country, you start to say that your family is clean and away from the world of mortals?
coward! Traitor! !
All of a sudden, criticism of Buddhist temples erupted within the entire Song Dynasty, and Jinci Temple was naturally the first to bear the brunt. The gate was directly smashed by the angry people, and even the Buddha statues inside were smashed. burnt. In the face of the atrocities committed by the people, the county magistrates and government servants in most places just watched with cold eyes, saying nothing, as if they hadn't seen it.
Their reasons are also very legitimate, public opinion is difficult, and the law does not blame the public. Besides, your abbot himself said that monks should stay away from the world of mortals, so if this is the case, you don’t care about the affairs of the mortal world, do you? Not to mention smashing a few temples, even beheading a few monks, isn't it also a dharma difficulty you should have?
For a while, even monks became street rats, and everyone shouted and beat them. After all, traitors and traitors are much more hateful than invaders. We contribute money and efforts to the front line, but you eat and drink well in the back and hold us back? !
Under this kind of pressure, many monks also saved their hair and returned to the vulgar. Some were forced to do so, but some were greatly disappointed in Buddhism. Even many country gentry and merchants who used to worship Buddha have severed their relationship with Buddhism and no longer communicate with each other. It can be said that since Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains, it has never encountered such a crisis!
What made these monks even more miserable was that Abbot Baozhi had no way to do anything in the face of such an offensive of public opinion!
If he is a politician, then he can open his eyes and tell lies, saying that this is the work of evil spirits and heretics, and every word he said is not true.
But the problem is that monks don't lie!
This is not the real world, but the world of celestial beings, where one can really become a celestial being, and so are these monks. If they can't strengthen their beliefs, then it means that their cultivation base is abolished and they become useless people!
Take Fa Hai as an example, because he couldn't refute Fang Zheng's mockery of "putting down the butcher knife and becoming a Buddha immediately", his cultivation base was greatly reduced. Cunyi, right now I'm still lying on the bed like a vegetable and can't get out of bed.
If Abbot Baozhi dared to deny his own words against his conscience, it would be tantamount to throwing away the sentence "monks don't tell lies", which would also lead to an unstable mood, and they might explode on the spot at any time up.
So it became like this...he didn't know what to do.
After this "live broadcast", the prestige of Abbot Baozhi and Buddhism among the people suffered a crushing defeat, but the reputations of Yue Fei and Fang Zheng rose to the top in an instant. Especially Fangzheng, he was already quite prestigious among mortals before, and the story of destroying tens of thousands of golden soldiers in a flash has already been publicized by storytellers in various restaurants, almost comparable to Guan Yunzhang Wen Jiuzhan Hua Xiong is generally popular.
However, compared to these stories, Fang Zheng's performance in the "live broadcast" is easier for ordinary people to accept.
Originally, most people thought that Fangzheng should be just like the gods they imagined, belonging to the kind who is high above the sky, talks like a cloud, looks like a fairy, but actually has a male thief and a female prostitute in his bones——yes, just like Baozhi Abbot like this.
But after watching the "live broadcast", people were surprised to find that this "immortal teacher" not only looked very young, but also spoke humorously, quite down-to-earth. Unlike many government officials who can't understand what the other party is talking about for a long time, but what Fang Zheng said, they can completely understand what it means! Not to mention that this immortal teacher has such abilities, but is still a good-natured person, which makes ordinary people feel admiration.
This is also what Fangzheng did on purpose. As a producer, he didn't hate sunspots and trolls on the Internet at the beginning. You must know that not everyone can afford such things as the public relations department. There is also a quarrel between Xianxin and Heizi. So Fangzheng basically went into battle with his sleeves rolled up and went all the way from home to abroad. He was better at talking nonsense than anyone else.
In fact, in Fangzheng's view, these monks are really not challenging. They just know what to say and what to say, and they just rely on going around to make people faint. This kind of trick is completely incomparable with the small environmental protection female boxer Ren Quan fighter of the later generations. They really stick to their hearts. No matter what you say, you will never regret it. If you hit the south wall, you will not look back. Play with double standards The one who slipped away than anyone else, a hundred Abbot Baozhi went to the sound of vomiting blood or died of vomiting blood.
It's a pity that there is no Internet in this era. Otherwise, if Fangzheng is violent on the Internet, I am afraid that these Buddhist temples will disappear without a trace in the Central Plains.
The Buddhist temple was just done by Fangzheng. Now that the public opinion foundation of the masses has been laid, he can also guess that Buddhism will not be reconciled to failure, and will definitely make a comeback. But right now he doesn't care about these, but still leads the army all the way north, and continues to clean up those golden soldiers.
It's just that what Abbot Baozhi said before made Fangzheng more aware. Obviously, as he said, this is a copy of King Wu's defeating Zhou. At the beginning, he taught and helped the King of Wu to defeat Zhou, but now, this golden soldier is afraid that there will be gods from outside the sky to help.
However, considering the prevalence of Buddhism and Taoism in the Kingdom of Jin, I don't know which guy would dare to come to trouble him, but Fangzheng didn't care.
Come here if you are not afraid of death, I only have less black unicorns, and wearing a one-eyed patch will send you to heaven!
It's just that what Fangzheng didn't expect was that the other party came faster than he imagined.
Although there was no Song Bing's assistance, but with the help of his subordinates and Yue Fei, Fangzheng took Yanjing easily, and then went all the way north, directly attacking Huining Mansion, the capital of the Kingdom of Jin!
However, shortly after everyone set off, suddenly, a gust of wind blew up, and then the surrounding sky was filled with dazzling brilliance. A huge golden ball of light like the sun burst out of the clouds and blocked the airship army. in front of. Afterwards, the radiance gradually dissipated, and a tall figure emerged from it.
He is golden all over, sitting on a pure white lion, holding an umbrella in his right hand and a mouse in his left hand, wearing a crown on his head, and the treasure looks solemn.
Accompanied by his appearance, the entire world seemed to have lost its voice, and not even half a cloud of clouds could be seen around.
Immediately afterwards, the man opened his mouth, and a sound like a bell resounded through the sky.
"I am the well-known Venerable Heavenly King in the north, can I ask Fang Zheng, the immortal master, to come out and see me?"
Sure enough, Fangzheng snorted coldly upon hearing this.
It's really sending firewood from thousands of miles, the gift is light and the affection is heavy...