Xuanzang was sitting in the wind pavilion of Qingfeng Temple, looking at the rustling trees and asked the old Taoist opposite: "Is this the wind of several hundred miles?"
Li Chunfeng smiled and shook his fly whisk and said: "Ten miles."
Xuanzang said again: "How do you know that such a wind can travel ten miles in a day? What if someone only travels eight miles?"
Li Chunfeng said: "How do you know that after your death you will definitely be able to see the Buddha instead of the Sanqing?"
Xuanzang smiled and said: "What belongs to the monk belongs to the monk, and what belongs to the Taoist belongs to the Taoist."
Li Chunfeng said: "I can't tell the difference now. What belongs to a monk belongs to a monk, and what belongs to a Taoist priest also belongs to a monk."
Xuanzang added: "In times of trouble, Taoist priests go out to the mountains and travel around the world to seek a glimmer of hope for the people in troubled times. When the prosperous times come, the Taoist priests hide in the mountains and forests, drink from the clear springs, and read Huang Ting's works without being seen by others. This is not a preacher.
method."
Li Chunfeng chuckled and said: "You, a monk, sent the monks from the north to the Western Regions, and brought the monks from the south to the north. Now, don't you think it's not enough, so you have decided to contact me?"
Xuanzang said again: "The Dharma-Xiang Consciousness-only Sect monopolizes the Buddhist kingdom in the Western Regions. Don't you, an experienced Taoist, feel the decline of the Taoist sect?"
Li Chunfeng laughed loudly and said: "If your Buddhism continues to prosper like this, there will be no real Buddhist practitioners. Your Dharma-Xiang Consciousness-only sect is just that. It still needs some wisdom and opportunity, like those who put down the butcher knife and became a Buddha immediately.
Are people who can become Buddhas worried that there are too many people in hell?"
Xuanzang smiled and said: "A virgin under me said that the so-called missionary work is to recruit more of our people. The poor monk believed it."
Li Chunfeng smiled and said: "Isn't she just a tired foreign woman? I became your disciple by chance. What's there to show off?"
Xuanzang said: "Buddhism is flourishing in the Western Regions. Aren't fellow Taoists happy for Buddhism?"
Li Chunfeng said: "After all, it's all in vain. Xuanzang, I heard that you got a glimpse of the secret, why don't we take it out and study it together?"
Xuanzang clasped his hands together and said: "There is a giant baby in the Western Region, ten feet long and three feet high, all red. There are iron birds flying in the sky, iron dragons winding underground, giant black mirrors in the desert, and giant windmills... It is not like the human world.
realm.”
Li Chunfeng frowned when he heard this and said, "Monks don't lie."
Xuanzang clasped his hands together and said, "Monks do not lie."
Li Chunfeng shook his head and said: "For decades, a certain family has been stargazing every new year, and the star map has not changed."
Xuanzang said: "There is no moon in the new moon, and you don't even look at such a huge moon. Do you want to see the movement of heaven from those dim and uncertain stars?
This is like a blind man touching an elephant without knowing the reason.
Since there is a secret in the Western Regions, why don't fellow Taoists go to the Western Regions to investigate, but why do you always stay in the Central Plains?"
Li Chunfeng looked at Xuanzang and said: "Chang'an was in chaos, it was unspeakably chaotic, the qi movement was disordered, and the earth's veins were rushing. It was about to get out of control, but suddenly the qi flow was smooth, and the earth's veins were docile. This is the root cause that the old Taoist is looking for.
As for the great opportunity you mentioned in the Western Region, so what if it is left to you and Buddhism alone? The more prosperous Buddhism becomes, the more cruel it will be when the Age of Ending Dharma arrives.
It’s not that you, Xuanzang, don’t know this truth, but Buddhism is now prosperous with flowers and brocade, and burning oil is like burning fire. But you don’t know that these flowers are the lives of your descendants in future generations, and this fire is the lifeblood of Buddhism burning in your future generations.
Once the Age of Ending Dharma comes, your Buddhist sect will no longer be able to resist, and destruction is right in front of you, don’t you know?”
Xuanzang frowned and said, "You won't listen if you talk nicely, right?"
Li Chunfeng said: "Tao follows nature, who would go north with you? Since Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty dug the Grand Canal, the qi of the north and south merged, there is no longer heat in the south, and there is no bitter cold in the north. What Pindao wants to do is to go south, not
Go north.
Your Buddhism has the opportunity of your Buddhism, and I, the Taoist, also have my Taoist destiny, the two have nothing to do with each other."
Master Xuanzang raised a copper bowl and smashed it... Li Chunfeng fought back with a fly whisk.
In short, Master Xuanzang knew that he could not persuade Li Chunfeng to go fishing in the Western Regions with him, and Li Chunfeng also knew that he could not persuade Master Xuanzang to go fishing south together.
They are all experts who have never been born in the world, so naturally they can only compete on fists and feet.
The Chang'an incident was a catastrophe for both Buddhism and Taoism.
The Daxingshan Temple of Buddhism only suffered a deficit from Xiangji Kitchen this time, which has wiped out many years of savings of the Buddhist sect in the north.
Because, when Yunchu and Wenwen borrowed money from Daxingshan Temple on behalf of the two counties, the price of goods was not bad. When Yunchu and the others borrowed money from Daxingshan Temple, the price of rice was only twelve yuan. Yunchu, Wenwen paid back the money.
At that time, the price of rice was 120 yuan, but at this time, Daxingshan Temple Xiangji Kitchen did not accept copper coins, only supplies. Therefore, sixteen supply warehouses in the two counties were evacuated, and the cotton spinning mills in the two counties were evacuated for the next six years.
The cotton textiles were forcibly collected at the current prices.
Then, Yunchu stabilized the price of grain in one day. Then, Daxingshan Temple would purchase the cotton textiles produced by the cotton mill for the next six years at a premium of six times, and also gave all the money in advance.
Therefore, if merchants still want to borrow money from Daxingshan Temple, they will not be able to borrow even half of the money. There are also countless people who have left their money in Daxingshan Temple and come to withdraw money.
The Xiangji Kitchen in Daci'en Temple is relatively better. Previously, Prince Li Hong had exchanged a batch of copper coins for gold in Naha's name.
Went to fill the huge farmland of Lou Shide.
Before Da Ci'en Temple could replenish its copper coins, the disaster in Chang'an broke out. In this way, Da Ci'en Temple escaped disaster.
It's a pity that although Daxingshan Temple and Daci'en Temple have different sects, they are still part of the Buddhist family. After helping Daxingshan Temple Xiangji Kitchen with 200,000 taels of gold, they finally saved the Buddhist reputation of Daxingshan Temple Xiangji Kitchen.
Immediately, problems arose. The Daci'en Temple lineage could no longer continue to cultivate the fertile soil of the Buddhist Kingdom in the Western Regions.
Therefore, Master Xuanzang wanted to give Li Chunfeng a good advice, hoping that the Taoist sect could increase its investment in the Western Regions. They would first turn the Western Regions into a world like the Central Plains. Then the Buddhist sect would rely on its own means of preaching, and then gradually
Take back people's hearts.
As a result, Li Chunfeng was not fooled, and he planned to send a large number of Taoist disciples, with Zhang Daoling's lineage in Longhu Mountain as the vanguard, to enter the south first.
"Master Xuanzang couldn't beat Li Chunfeng, and his head was hit by a bowl. When he tried to catch Li Chunfeng, he fell down, and two of his teeth were not safe."
The story of Xuanzang's fight with Li Chunfeng spread throughout Chang'an for some reason. Now after listening to Naha's story about the result of the fight between them, Yunchu was very sure that the news must have come from the Taoist sect.
The fight between gods did not become a popular story among the people. On the contrary, it scared many people to tears.
Because everything is going wrong in Chang'an City recently, even the prostitutes in Pingkangfang have been whipped, and they can't entertain the public. Naturally, everyone can't be happy.
After finally waiting for the price of food and supplies to drop, everyone is spending money desperately to hoard supplies, fearing that there will be another horrific experience where money is worthless.
Nowadays, when doing large-scale transactions, everyone is risking breaking the law by using gold.
"Master Xuanzang took the initiative to ask me and borrowed 60,000 taels of gold. Li Hong took the initiative to return me 100,000 taels of gold. Master Xuanzang gave the borrowed gold to Daxingshan Temple, and Daxingshan Temple returned it with interest.
Return me 80,000 taels of gold. My gold was left untouched in the warehouse of Daci'en Temple, so I got an extra 120,000 taels."
Naha fiddled with a small abacus and finally calculated her accounts clearly. The child was still kind-hearted and did not count the 60,000 taels of gold borrowed by Master Xuanzang as his own property, but returned Li Hong to him.
One hundred thousand taels is counted as income...
Therefore, she actually lost money.
But it was such a misunderstanding that made Wu Mei, who was calculating the property of each family, very satisfied, and decided to put Naha's money into another book, not to be calculated together with the other account books.
Anyway, that's a complete mess.
When Yun Chu heard that Master Xuanzang was suffering, he specially carried a medicine box and prepared to treat Master Xuanzang's injuries as a doctor of the Tang Dynasty.
I thought that Master Xuanzang would use various excuses to evade it, but unexpectedly, Master Xuanzang received Yunchu naturally with a big green bump on his bald head.
Yun Chu felt pain when he looked at the big bag and wanted to speak, but because there was an extremely slovenly old monk sitting opposite Master Xuanzang, he knelt down quietly and sat aside, picking suitable medicinal materials from the medicine box and preparing for Xuanzang.
Master Zang made a pot of good decoction to relieve pain and remove blood stasis.
"Master has been practicing Qing Dynasty for many years and must have gained something. I wonder if Master came from the original path. What did he teach Xuanzang?"
The old monk in black robes took out something from the sleeves of his wide robe, held it up in front of Xuanzang and said, "What is this?"
Master Xuanzang watched attentively for a long time before he said doubtfully: "Shit?"
The old monk in black said: "Monks have Buddha in their hearts and see all things as Buddhas. You only have shit in your chest, so everything you look at is shit."
Just when Yunchu thought that Master Xuanzang, who was getting increasingly bad-tempered, would hit the bald head of the old monk in black with the alms bowl at hand, he discovered that Master Xuanzang said in surprise: "The letter covers the universe and cuts off the flow of people."
, you want to find another way?"
The old monk in black said proudly: "The Northern Buddha has already gone to the Western Regions, so the old monk has no choice but to go to the south to find the door to the wonders."
As he spoke, he took out a dark, dirty iron bowl from his arms and placed it in front of Xuanzang. Xuanzang sighed and put a string of Buddhist beads polished from Hetian jade seeds that Naha had given him on his black clothes.
In the old monk's alms bowl.
The old monk in black didn't even say a word of thanks, as if it was natural for Xuanzang to do this. He got up and left the temple. When he walked to the door, he still held the door frame and looked at Xuanzang and said: "Poor, pitiful."
After that, he stepped on a pair of broken straw sandals with a fishy body odor and walked away.
Yunchu saw that Master Xuanzang was deep in thought. When Master Xuanzang suddenly realized it, he whispered: "Master is not good at martial arts. It would be better if we leave this kind of matter to his disciples."
Master Xuanzang looked at Yunchu as if he were looking at shit and said: "The poor monk has a Buddha in his heart. This poor monk has no doubt about it. The monk in black said that I only have shit in my heart. That means that in his heart,
The Buddha is a piece of shit.
Where did my Buddha come from? He came to enlightenment after reciting countless Buddhist sutras. Since he said that my Buddha is a piece of shit, it means that he thinks that my Buddha practice is wrong. If my Buddha practice is wrong,
If so, it means that all the Buddhists in the north have practiced Buddhism in the wrong way... He has made great ambitions and is willing to reorganize Buddhist theories.
Amitabha is truly a supreme virtuous person."
Yunchu looked at Xuanzang suspiciously and said, "What if he is talking nonsense?"
Xuanzang looked into Yun Chu's eyes and said, "Do you think that an eminent monk who has achieved enlightenment has come all the way from Yunmen Mountain and Mercy Peak in the south of Lingnan just to talk nonsense in front of me?"
Under Xuanzang's sharp gaze, Yunchu had to lower his head and admit that he had judged a gentleman with a villain's heart.
I just feel very unconvinced. Just the string of white jade Buddha beads carved from the finest seed material that Master Xuanzang threw into the alms bowl of the old monk in black was enough to fool a dozen old monks in black who came to Chang'an from Lingnan.