"Why do these female nuns from Yunmengze want to prevent the Donglin Giant Buddha from landing?"

Before Ouyang Rong could speak, Xie Lingjiang asked sharply.

Li Xian thought for a moment and Xu said:

"Do you also think that I broke the tacit old covenant without saying a word during Holy Week, and what I did was unethical?

"Or maybe you are disgusted with Buddhism? I remember that in the history of the Southern Dynasties, many emperors flattered the Buddha, built Buddhist temples, worshiped the Buddha excessively, and squandered a large amount of treasury wealth on Buddhist affairs, which affected the production of the people.

"Yunmeng Jianze has experienced that period, and he may hate it deeply, especially Emperor Chengfo."

As soon as this was said, the dining table was strangely quiet for a while.

Especially when they heard the four words "Emperor of the Buddha", everyone made "unreasonable associations" with it. It's so familiar.

Li Xian, who was sent by the Queen Mother to monitor the Donglin Buddha, realized what he had realized, covered his mouth and coughed, and said no more.

"That makes sense."

Li Bao'er responded with a crisp snap of her fingers.

Everyone looked around and saw that she took a sip of broth with a silver spoon and carefully put it into her red-lipped mouth. After drinking the sip of soup, she was about to speak to everyone again and frowned slightly.

Li Bao'er seemed to have kicked away someone who was "sneaking" under the table and rubbing her calf under the hem of her skirt.

With two fingers, she took a piece of pastry from the pastry plate placed on the edge of the dining table and dropped it at her feet.

After sending it away, he continued:

"In addition, didn't they say that the Empress Gui is the Empress, and Yuanjun is Gui Yuanjun? They had an old agreement with our Li family before, and they probably have always regarded this land of Wuyue and the hometown of the Southern Dynasties as their own back garden.

"How can we allow others to snore next to the couch? No need to maintain the majesty of Yuanjun for thousands of years? To some extent, the strong incense of Buddhism in Jiangnan will definitely affect them.

"There are only so many believers. If there is more Buddhism, there will be one less for them. Moreover, everyone only has so much time every day to burn incense and worship Buddha. How can they still have time to see their Yunmeng Yuanjun?

"It's obviously a conflict of interests. As my father said, they hated the Emperor Cheng Buddha in the history of the Southern Dynasty. This is probably the same reason. If the Emperor Cheng Cheng of the Southern Dynasty was not the Buddha but their Yuanjun, then it would be fine.

"In the final analysis, it is still a naked struggle for interests. It is like this in the whole world. How big do you think the pattern can be?

"Grandma sent us to build the Donglin Buddha in Jiangzhou this time, which almost indicates that the Buddhist incense in Jiangnan will become more prosperous, and more people will worship the Buddha.

"This is simply digging into their foundations, although it will not be achieved overnight... Rather than being replaced and slowly waiting to die, it is better to give it a go and destroy the Donglin Giant Buddha and knock the mountain to shake the tiger. This is in line with the rumored Lady Yunmeng.

character.

"As for the grandma and the two kings of the Wei family, this time they built the Great Zhou Songde Tianshu and the Sifang Buddha. In fact, they were not targeting Yunmeng Jianze or Tiannan alone. The world is so big, and the Sifang Buddha statues will fall in all directions. How can they only focus on it?

In this place in the south of the Yangtze River.

"However, Grandma and the others must have never imagined that the response to the statue creation was the most intense in Jiangnan Road, Lingnan Road, and there is actually a group of rebellious and unruly Yunmeng Yue girls here in Tiannan."

Li Bao'er shook his head, twirled the silver spoon, and took another mouthful of hot soup. His mouth was slightly pouted, and he blew gently into the silver spoon.

Ouyang Rong ate quietly and kept picking up dishes. During this period, he silently listened to Li Xian and Li Guo'er's analysis.

Didn't speak immediately.

In fact, the construction of the Great Zhou Songde Tianshu and the Four Directions Buddha was entirely proposed by the Wei family. Apart from Her Majesty the Queen, only the Wei family and Si Tianjian who assisted them knew the specific details.

At first, he completely kicked out the DPRK-centered security faction and did not take any advantage of the Prime Minister's Palace.

The Xunyang Palace was able to participate because Her Majesty the Queen gave the golden mouth.

But they can only serve as local executors. The specific details, the governor-general Wei Wang and Si Tianjian are all hidden and cautious.

For example, Ouyang Rong has not been close to the "facially damaged" golden Buddha head in the Xunyang Grottoes now. Every time he went there, he was accompanied by Grandma Song, so naturally he could not take a closer look.

If Ouyang Rong and Prince Xunyang simply take the credit for building the Donglin Buddha and use it to return to Beijing, then they really don't have to worry about it...

"I always feel it's not that simple."

Everyone turned around and saw Ouyang Rong speaking. He was chewing food and his words were a little unclear:

"This time Yunmeng Jianze's reaction was too fierce. It was not a wise move to directly confront the court. The eldest lady is unruly, but there is a female queen inside Yunmeng Jianze." It is impossible for a king’s palace to be without wise people.”

He sighed softly:

"However, what Her Royal Highness the Princess said is not unreasonable. It may be partly due to one reason."

In fact, Ouyang Rong still has one detail that he hasn't elaborated on yet.

It is also something that Li Guoer, Li Xian and others don't know.

That means Yunmeng Jianze may not hate Buddhism very much.

At least I am not disgusted with the Lotus Pure Land Buddhism represented behind the Donglin Buddha.

The reason why we came to this conclusion is because of the former Lotus Tower Alliance.

From the last words left by Master Zhongma in the Pure Land Palace, it can be seen that during the Southern Dynasties, the relationship between Yunmeng Jianze, Donglin Temple and the swordsmith family Longcheng Meijia was not bad.

It was also because of this that, under the leadership of the Southern Dynasty royal family, Yunmeng Jianze was able to safely hand over a [cauldron] to the Mei family of Longcheng to forge the sword, and at the same time allowed the Qi practitioner monks from the Taoist lineage of Donglin Temple to serve as sword holders.

Although later, judging from the way the old swordsmith of Longcheng's Grade A Sword Furnace presented his sword, the Lotus Pagoda Alliance has not yet been completed.

The Donglin Temple Taoist lineage and the Mei family swordsmith's Taoist lineage were also destroyed by some kind of retribution curse.

But Yunmeng Jianze will not allow Donglin Buddhism to spread in Jiangnan because of this.

After all, looking at what the old swordsmith and Master Zhongma have done, it can be seen that the heirs of the two powers have tried their best to fulfill their covenant... although they have failed.

Anyway, there should be no enmity between Yunmeng Jianze and Donglin Buddha himself, who promotes the Lotus Pure Land Buddhism.

Then the problem can only lie with the Imperial Si Tianjian and the Wei family.

"I agree with Senior Brother's point of view."

Xie Lingjiang nodded, lowered his eyes and poured a glass of wine for Ouyang Rong, and said in a clear voice:

"This kind of hidden sect that has stood for thousands of years is not that simple. The key to its existence for so long lies in the word 'hidden world'. It rarely interferes in the worldly disputes under the mountain, and its ambitions are not that small, otherwise Buddhism would not be so powerful.

Exists till now...

"And once they really interfere in the affairs at the foot of the mountain, it must be something they consider serious and they have to end."

Being tactfully refuted by the two of them, Li Guo'er didn't look annoyed at all.

A thoughtful look appeared in her eyes, and she said curiously:

"What you two mean is that...in addition to the pros and cons above, there are also some things we don't know about, such as the Qi practitioner level?

"If this is true, it is indeed beyond our understanding."

Ouyang Rong narrowed his eyes and said nothing, and the bronze dagger that was taken away by Rong Nushi and engraved with a painful evil dragon appeared in front of his eyes unconsciously.

What exactly does Yunmeng Jianze want?

If it is said that they are coveting worldly power and position, why do they retreat to Yunmeng collectively, stand by and watch the secular world for a long time, and be a secluded sect with peace of mind.

If you say you have no desires and only pursue the immortality of practicing qi, then why do you need to issue something like Yunmeng Order, which obviously has a strict organizational color, to coordinate the scattered strength of qi practitioners in the Tiannan Jianghu under the mountain to fight against the imperial court?

Boycott the Donglin Giant Buddha.

Looking at it from another angle, does the Yunmeng female cultivator need earthly Qi refining resources in pursuit of immortality?

Not necessarily, in terms of resources, there are many uncivilized places in Yunmengze, which contain thousands of strange things, so there should be no shortage of Qi training materials.

So what about faith? Faith is actually an expensive resource.

The popular beliefs cultivated by Yunmeng Jianze in Jiangnan and Lingnan are almost all concentrated on "Yuanjun". Many simple people in the land of Wuyue actually only know "Yuanjun" and only know the legendary vast Yunmengze.

There is such a goddess living in the palace, but I don’t know that there is Yunmeng Jianze, and I don’t know that the master of Yunmeng Jianze, "Yuanjun", is in most cases inherited by the virgin of the generation in the female monarch palace.

Yunmeng Jianze has carefully created and maintained the folk belief of such a "goddess", and there is nothing false about it. From the perspective of a qi practitioner, is it possible to gather some kind of "qi" and provide it to this goddess?

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From this point of view, Yuanjun's Qi training level should not be low. Maybe he is a legendary third-level divine being from China? Or, to be bolder, "Yuanjun" is the name of a certain third-level Yuenu Dao lineage. It needs to be

The "qi" of faith comes to supply...

At present, this is the only conjecture that can explain why Yunmeng Jianze, while standing aloof, reclusive and independent, watching the world with cold eyes, issued Yunmeng Orders and maintained the belief in the "Yuanjun" in the hometown of Wuyue for thousands of years.

However, there is another small problem here. Doesn’t the Zhou court know about it?

Judging from the court's reaction and preparations before and after the collapse of the Xingzi Lake Buddha... Luoyang should have been caught off guard.

When we first decided on the plan to assist the Great Zhou Songde Tianshu with the Sifang Buddha statue, we did not expect that Yunmeng Jianze would have such a big backlash in Tiannan Jianghu. At that time, Her Majesty the Queen and the Wei family kings who were far away in Luoyang were just busy.

Purge the stubborn opponents within.

In other words, we expected that there might be people in the southwest who would oppose the Donglin Giant Buddha and cause trouble halfway, but we never expected that Yunmeng Jianze, the hidden sect, would end up directly.

The unexpected development of this situation is like, you and I have two families living next to each other. I was just greedy for petty advantages and secretly occupied a little more land in front of your house one day. When you saw it, you went home immediately without saying a word.

He came out with a kitchen knife and pointed it at my head. I couldn't hold it back.

People can't help but reflect, could this extra bit of land be occupied by other people's ancestral graves? But they certainly didn't know that beforehand.

In the final analysis, we still need to find out whether the Donglin Buddha has any additional role besides spreading the Buddhism of the Lotus Pure Land Sect.

I remember that Rong Nushi seemed to have mentioned in private before that she was sent to Jiangzhou to supervise the construction of the Donglin Buddha by him and the Prince of Xunyang. She occupied a special quota.

Special quota?
To be continued...