Chapter 27: Immortals also have conflicts of interest
Looking at Feng Fenghuohuo's wife who left the room, Yun Zheng knew that Ge Qiuyan must have no good fruit, but now the Yun family's pregnant woman is the largest, so Ge Qiuyan is scolded at most.
The family’s troubles are just like this. What makes Yun Zheng’s headache now is the edict he received to return to Beijing to report his duties.
It is inappropriate to leave Dousha Pass at this time. Not to mention the remaining remaining soldiers under Zhao Yannian, Liang Ji alone plundered the area in Erhai Lake in Dali, so he could not easily leave Dousha Pass East and go to Kaifeng City.
Others thought that Liang Ji had made a fortune by this time, but only Yun Zheng knew how determined the Dali monks' group resisted.
Dali religious belief is reflected in the worship of the Lord. As Yun Zheng knows, the religious beliefs worshiped by the Lord were formed and the Nanzhao period, and were continuously improved with the development of society, and the content became more and more abundant. The worship of the Lord was a kind of multi-god worship.
Each village has its own main god, and some of them have several or dozens of villages who believe in one main god. The main gods are also diverse, such as: natural main gods include stones, buffaloes, monkeys, etc.; the main gods include mountain gods, valley gods, sun gods, etc.;
The heroic lords include Du Chaoxuan, Duan Chicheng, etc.; the Buddhist and Taoist lords include Guanyin, Li Jing, etc.
In other words, people in Dali believe in all kinds of gods and worship all kinds of gods. Whenever they encounter phenomena that they do not understand or understand, they will treat them as miracles.
But now, Chongsheng Temple, the largest temple in Dali Kingdom, has joined forces with large and small temples such as Huanglong Temple to form an inexplicable group of monks.
According to the news sent back by Liang Ji, these monks sacrificed themselves and forgot to die. Even if they died in large patches of gunpowder bombs, they were unwilling to take a step back.
Especially in the battle to seize the pure golden republic and golden-winged bird on the top of Chongsheng Temple, more than 300 Dali monks were killed, and the subsequent monks still lined up to die while chanting the Buddha's name. There was no hesitation at all.
The fierce soldiers of the Jingxi Army, who dared to rush through the sea of fire, had the first unprecedented situation of hesitation.
Yun Zheng didn't care how many monks died or injured in Dali. Even if they killed another thousand, ten thousand wouldn't matter much. Once the war started, there would be no such thing as a division of races.
But this time it was really different. Once the tragic situation of the monks in Dali Kingdom was transmitted back to the Song Dynasty, the local monks in the Song Dynasty would definitely go crazy, and even their friend, Monk Wugou, would immediately break up with him.
The monks in Dali are different from the primitive monks in Jiaozhi Kingdom. They are almost in line with the monks in the Song Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, Indian Buddhism was introduced to this place, with many temples and the ancient name was the Miaoxiang Kingdom. The military newspaper that Liang Jitong returned said that he saw portraits of Kashyapa, Ananda, Damo, Huike, Sengcan, Daoxin, Hongren, Huineng, Shenhui and others at Chongsheng Temple. It can be inferred that Zen Buddhism has entered the local area and is very popular.
This is the real thing that poked a hornet's nest, or the one with poison. It is said that the Song Dynasty respects Taoism. How many people know that in March of the eighth year of Kaibao, Taizu Zhao Kuangyin returned to the capital from Luoyang and wrote the Diamond Sutra by hand, and often read it. Prime Minister Zhao Pu saw it after reporting the matter. Taizu said: "You don't want the men with armor to know it. You can just say that you can read military books frequently."
Hanlin scholars Li Fang, Xu Xuan and others entered the "Taiping Guangji", and during which they recorded thirty volumes of Buddhism. From the Han Ming Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, such masterpieces of the Song Dynasty, did not dare to delete Buddhism. They used thirty volumes to explain the great wisdom and principles of those who have learned the mind and enlightenment in ancient and modern times, the monks' sutras and theories, the study of concentration and wisdom, the trust and destruction of the king and ministers, the signs of good fortune and fault, etc.
In February of the ninth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, the monk Tianjue of the northern Tianzhu Kingdom was filled with the monk Tianjue, the monk Miaode of the southern Tianzhu Kingdom, and the monk Jiacao of the western Tianzhu Kingdom came to visit each of them to enter the Buddhist scriptures and relics. Each of them gave purple clothes and gold coins. In March, the monks of the Tianzhu Kingdom had a long life. Zhiyou paid a piece of the Buddhist scriptures, Buddha bones, and a statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva was carved, and a niche of the Mala wood of the Tianzhu Kingdom. Purple clothes and silk were given.
In the middle of April, the monks of the Sabuluo Kingdom in India came to their birthday and entered the Buddhist scriptures and gave them purple clothes (this article may be a mistake in the previous article).
In May, the monks from the neighboring country of Na from East China came to the east. They entered the Buddhist scriptures and were given purple robes.
The monk returned from the west and obtained the Buddha's relics and built a pagoda in Yangzhou.
Yun Zheng's purple robe was finally obtained after countless wars and wandering between life and death for a long time. The monks only went to India and got the same special encounter after returning. If they said that the Song Dynasty had no good impression of Buddhism at this time, they were really deceiving themselves.
Buddhism talks about compassion, and the army talks about killing and plundering. These two are incompatible. If Liang Ji really killed monks in Dali Kingdom, Yun Zheng believed that it would be difficult for him to have a foothold in the land of the Song Dynasty.
This was a real big event. At first, I thought that the Dali Emperor stored the treasures of the country in the temple was a stupid manifestation. Now it seems that they are actually very smart. Many princes and royal families in the Duan family have the habit of becoming monks. This is clearly helping the royal family to take care of their own treasure house. Otherwise, there would be so many nobles who believe in Buddhism and are willing to become monks.
Liang Ji is destined to return in vain this time. Even Emperor Zhao Zhen cannot bear the blame for killing all monks. He is better off taking the blame as a general.
These days, Yun Zheng tried his best to keep his door from going out without going out of the second door. He had issued a military order to convert the target of attack. I believe that the honest Liang Ji would no longer have the idea of attacking the golden-winged bird on the top of the Chongsheng Temple pagoda. There is not much time left for Liang Ji. I hope he can achieve satisfactory enough harvests in the Dali Palace.
Yun Zheng did not go to Wugou, but Wugou came to Yun's house as a guest. When Yun Zheng saw that his face was as usual, he smiled and recited "The three hundred and sixty temples in Dali. The bells ring in the middle of the night, the three thousand halls of the Galan Palace, and the eight hundred Prajna Palace." These poems that were widely circulated in Dali, and then Wugou looked at Yun Zheng very strangely.
"This is a poem by the Nanzhao national teacher Zanduoduo. It is very rare. It is not that there are not many people who know about Dali nobles and monks. Where did you know about it?"
Yun Zheng smiled dryly and said, "I have an army that is now fighting on the Erhai Lake in Dali, and I have sent back many useful things such as these poems."
"If you can bring back the golden-winged bird on the top of the three towers of Chongsheng Temple, you must let me take a good view."
Yun Zheng was surprised and he did not expect that the news of the monks would spread so quickly. There was Hai Dongqing in his army. It was normal for the news to take one step earlier than others. The fastest foot from Erhai Lake to Dousha Pass also took fifteen days to walk. According to the time when the incident happened, only eight days had passed.
Wugou sat on the chair and said with a smile: "Jia Lan's urgent news, although the speed cannot keep up with your Harrier Eagle, its speed of delivering messages is also very impressive.
The monks bleed on the Erhai Lake, and the Buddha was stained with dust. More than 640 monks died under the power of the thunder and fire. General Yun, you poked a big hole in the sky."
Yun Zheng calmed down and smiled indifferently: "Under the fierce and powerful soldiers, there will inevitably be accidental injuries. Every war, there will be rumors of Buddhist death. Since you, Buddhism emphasizes forgiveness, so what if you forgive me once? It's amazing that I just put down my butcher's knife and became a Buddha."
Wugou smiled and said, "You are always misunderstanding Buddhism and suddenly realizing the Buddha's mind does not mean that all karma has been purified! As the saying goes: Karma is originally empty, and you still have to pay for the past debts before it is over. However, some great practitioners could have escaped the killing disaster, but they did not escape, such as Master Ke, the Second Patriarch................"
Yun Zheng was overjoyed and said, "Can you say that the more than 600 monks who have been killed have sins and deserve to die? If so, can I kill some more so that I can bring back the Golden Winged Bird for you to visit?"
Wugou laughed and said, "Yaksha's heart yesterday. Today's Bodhisattva's face is not separated by a line. The Bodhisattva and Yaksha. You kill people, so the sin is yours, and the mistake is also yours. The monk happened to know that you are a very responsible person, so you don't have to take the deaths of those monks to heart. You just need not regret it when you accept the burning of the red lotus karma fire in the future."
Yun Zheng frowned and walked around Wugou and said, "What will happen in the future is that I want to know how you think about this matter now. To be honest, I don't attach much importance to others' opinions. The reason why I ordered the stop to kill monks was that I was worried that I would be attacked by the Buddhist sect of the Song Dynasty and didn't want to do anything."
Wugou sighed and said, "If you want to kill, you should kill it completely. The Buddhists in Dali Kingdom are not quiet. Some believe in the Galan teachings and some believe in the Tantric teachings. People from this country are close to India when they go west. Most of them advocate the Dharma of Buddha. There are no wealth and wealth in the family. People do not think that they are old and strong, and they cannot put down their beads. They are almost half fasting for one year.
It’s a pity that they went astray and introduced the Buddhism in Dali, mainly Tantric Buddhism. The Buddhism in Dali was mixed with the main belief and local culture to form a belief called "Azhali Buddhism". This belief is closer to the way of faith in Tantric Buddhism, and has fundamental differences with our Song Dynasty Buddhism.
If you slaughter all the monks of Dali, the Buddhists of the Song Dynasty will only praise you as a lay Buddhist of goodness. Do you know that in order to place portraits of Kashyapa, Ananda, Damo, Huike, Sengcan, Daoxin, Hongren, Huineng, Shenhui and others in Chongsheng Temple, what price did Zen pay?"
Yun Zheng naturally didn't know these secrets of Buddhism. He heard what Wugou said very strangely, so he quickly shook his head and said he didn't know.
Wugou smiled and said, "Monkey, I don't know either. I only know that my mentor, Ji, can't let go of this obsession even before his death. It can be seen that the price they paid must be extremely high!
I know one thing. Every war and military disaster can always bring new changes to a place. Dali Nanzhao is already a stagnant pool. Now, your army is burning, killing and plundering in Dali. Although it is cruel, it may be a chance. Monks are not afraid of death. Death is just a great relief for us."
Yun Zheng shook his head and said, "You are bewitching me to kill people. My army will only kill people who must be killed, and will only kill people for my military purposes. As for other reasons, it has nothing to do with me! But you are very strange today, it is completely different from the Wugou I know!" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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