At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was divided into three parts. It is precisely during this period of war and chaos that many heroes of the popular population have emerged. One of the most talked about is probably the military generals on the battlefield. For example, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others, the reason why the names of these people can flow for hundreds of years is not only because of their bravery on the battlefield, but also because of their loyalty.
However, during the Three Kingdoms period, there was a warrior who killed his benefactor, and this person was Jing Rong. If it weren't for the people who were extremely familiar with the Three Kingdoms, they might not have much impression on him. But those who knew him well must have deeply despised him.
He was born in Danyang County, Xuzhou. At first, it was a local bully, and the world was turbulent at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so Jing Rong also led the crowd to raise an army, but because his power was too small, he finally defected to Xuzhou Mutaoqian.
Tao Qian had also heard about Jing Rong long ago, and knew that the other party was a capable general, so he was also quite important to him. After His surrender, he was appointed Minister of State of Xia Pi, roughly equivalent to the post of Taishou.
In addition to being a well-known high-ranking official, He also received a fertilizer difference for transporting grain and grass. He was responsible for transporting grain from Guangling County, Xiapi County, and Pengcheng County to Tan County, but after Receiving grain from these three counties, he did not deliver it to Tan County but swallowed it himself.
This is a huge amount of money in conversion, but what is surprising is that in addition to enjoying so much money, he also spent most of his spare time to build Buddhist temples in Xuzhou to Yangzhou. Therefore, this person is highly controversial in history, he is both cruel and greedy, but at the same time he is unusually devout to Buddhism.
According to the official history, Tsurugi spent a huge amount of money to build the Floating Tu Temple. Each temple is built with great luxury. The temple is green brick and jade tile, and the buddha statue is golden and bronze. The chanting hall can accommodate more than 3,000 people to chant the sutras and worship the Buddha.
At the same time, in order to expand the number of believers, whenever he arrived at the Buddhist meeting, He Rong also vigorously fasted monks and placed hundreds of tables of flowing water mats on both sides of the Buddhist temple road. Sometimes tens of thousands of people come to worship the Buddha.
His position in Buddhism at that time was pivotal, but no one could have imagined that only a faithful Buddhist believer would be an ungrateful villain.
In 193 AD, Cao Cao sent troops to attack Xuzhou, and in the face of Cao Cao's army, Xuzhou was like a bird with a frightened bow. Jing Rong took the lead in leading his soldiers to deploy more than 10,000 people south to Guangling County. Zhao Yu, the governor of Guangling County, honored Him as a guest of honor and hosted a grand banquet for Him and his soldiers and subordinates.
Seeing that Guangling County was rich in materials, He killed Zhao Yu at a banquet and ordered his soldiers to burn and plunder. With his men and the stolen wealth, He defected all the way to Xue Li's territory of Moling, and The matter of Jingrong drawing gourds in Guangling County was repeated again.
In 195 AD, Liu Xuan was at war with Liu Biao in Jingzhou. It just so happened that Zhen Rong brought his troops to surrender, and Liu Xuan was naturally very happy. He asked him to go with Zhu Hao, the sheriff of Yuzhang County, to fight Liu Biao. When He arrived at Yuzhang Commandery but designed to kill Zhu Hao first, Liu Xuan was furious and personally sent troops to attack Zhu Rong.
The soldiers fled in fright. He hid in the mountains and was finally captured and killed by the people of the mountains, and finally dedicated his first rank to Liu Rong. However, although He rong did many disgraceful things, he made many contributions to the development of Buddhism in China, and the floating temple that Wasrong built in the past still enshrines the statue of Jingrong today.