There will be many stormy battles in the Three Kingdoms period, and a random number will be related to Zhang Zhao Ma Huang, Zhang Liao Lü Bu Dian Wei Xu Chu... These people are famous because of their strong strength, outstanding military achievements, coupled with the publicity of the drama and become a household name. Unlike them, the first despicable warlord of the Three Kingdoms was known for being ungrateful and killing benefactors.
This person is Zhen Rong. People who are familiar with the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" may have a slight impression of this name, he is just an unknown figure under the Yangzhou Mu Liu Shu account, but in the real history of the Three Kingdoms, Jing Rong made a "big cause", and finally became shouted and beaten by everyone.
This cause of Jing Rong may be somewhat unexpected, because he is murderous and sinister, but he is a loyal Buddhist, and his career is to promote Buddhism. Initially, Jing Rong worked under Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, and within the jurisdiction of Xuzhou, there were three counties of Xia Pi, Guangling, and Pengcheng, and what we are most familiar with should be Cao Cao's release of water to capture Lü Bu's Xia Pi alive.
At that time, Cao Cao had not yet called, and under the appointment of Tao Qian, He was responsible for sending the grain and tribute of these three counties to Xuzhou Prefecture. As a result, He was very bold, and he took these things and took them all for himself. It was only to accumulate wealth, but not for pleasure, he took these assets and vigorously built Buddhist temples.
The Buddhist temple was mainly built in Xia Pi, and he asked the people of Xia Pi to recite buddhist scriptures day and night, so the monks in the vicinity also moved to Xia Pi. Every morning on the eighth day of April, the Buddha's birthday, a grand "Buddha Bathing Festival" is held in the local area. Some people at the time were puzzled and thought about it, but there was no other explanation than his deep belief in the Buddha.
But what He did later was completely different from the Buddhist compassion that people remembered. In 193, Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou because his father was killed by Tao Qian. Jing Rong had no choice but to take the soldiers and civilians of Xia Pi with him and go to Guangling County to guard Zhao Yu. Zhao Yu welcomed The arrival of Jing Rong and set up a banquet to entertain him.
It is reasonable to say that at this time, Zhao Yu accepted the outlaw Jing Rong, which was considered to be a favor, and did not want To Rong to see the abundance of goods in Guangling County, and he had evil thoughts, killed Zhao Yu when he was toasting, let his soldiers burn and loot, and after occupying Guangling's property, he continued to lead the soldiers to defect to Xue Li of Moling.
Xue Li also accepted Ji Rong, who painted the scoop according to the gourd, killed Xue Li again, and robbed the local property assets. After this, he defected to Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou. Liu Xuan saw that There were soldiers under Himong, accepted his surrender, and asked him to go with Zhu Hao, the shou of Yuzhang County, to fight Liu Biao, and someone advised Liu Xuan that Liu Rong was not credible, but Liu Xuan did not listen.
Sure enough, Zhen Rong used the same method to kill Zhu Hao and then rob Yu Zhang. When Liu Xuan learned of this, he was furious and personally led his troops to fight Feng Rong. After the defeat of the army, he hid in the mountains, and the mountain people had long hated him to the bone, so they cut off his head and gave him to Liu Xuan. All his life, He was killing and plundering, and the assets he stole were used to build Buddhist temples, cast Buddha statues, and hold Buddhist activities.
It seems that Tsurugi has a mission to carry forward the Dharma. The Zongshan Zen Temple in Jiangsu province was originally a floating temple, which was built with great efforts by Jing rong during the Three Kingdoms period. Nowadays, in some monasteries, there are statues of Jing Rong to enjoy offerings. He contributed to the promotion of Buddhism in our country at that time, but while brutally killing and plundering, I don't know what his origin is, so he can be so contradictory?