Chapter 372: The people are united with the king, and matters are decided by the law
Wu Jing's words left Bajie speechless and retreated, saying in his heart: I didn't expect that even the most honest Junior Brother Sha would become like this, Amitabha.
In the end, the master and the disciples disguised themselves a little, and if it was daytime... they held the ultimatum and entered the city. Even monks could go straight into the palace.
But after all, there are many inconveniences at night, and besides, they are still in the countryside at the moment. If someone really encounters them, they will naturally not be afraid. However, the situation in France is such that it will inevitably cause unnecessary twists and turns.
It wouldn't matter if they were asked as masters and disciples to torment the princes, nobles, gods and ghosts; but after all, they don't want to ask these ordinary people to bother themselves.
Wujing's separated spiritual bodies scattered in all directions.
The Great Sage held the little white dragon where he was and turned into a breeze and left. Only the Great Sage's voice was left in the wind: "I, old grandson, are going to explore the way."
Xiao Bailong raised his hand, as if he wanted to pull his senior brother back, but finally put it down.
It's been a long time since Senior Brother took away his job as a pathfinder. This was just a careless move, and he stole the opportunity...
"Ao Lie, how can you be so lazy?!" Xiao Bailong swore secretly in his heart, but also showed a little bitterness on his face. After all, there are too many things that he needs to keep in mind all the time.
After sorting out his emotions, Xiao Bailong bowed to his master and said, "Master, I'm going to find out if there are any evil spirits causing trouble in this country."
"Pay attention to safety." Fahai told him.
The little white dragon turned into a white snake and ran away.
Let us also say that the great sage went straight into the clouds, looked down from the city, and saw that the city was full of joy and auspicious light... He thought in his heart: This can be regarded as an auspicious place, but it gave birth to such a decisive king.
Annihilation, Annihilation... just the name of this country makes people feel uneasy.
The main streets intersect each other. Although it is already dark, the lights are bright and brilliant.
The Great Sage looked up and saw only the brightness in the city, which was no less bright than the bright moon in the east for a moment; there were urchins playing in the streets who did not return home, and couples returning to their embroidery curtains... and the fireworks rising from the evening meal, and the misty night sky.
faint.
When the Great Sage saw this scene, he could not help but sigh in his heart: Apart from the fake monks who were killed, Kangding, which destroyed France, was at the forefront among the countries that the Great Sage had experienced before.
winter!
winter!
winter!
Above the nine-storey high palace, the fragrant bells are ringing——
With a thought in his mind, the Great Sage turned into a flying insect and fell into the crowd.
Yunxia is the Sixth Street and Third City, and there is no curfew in this city... Therefore, pedestrians and vendors are constantly coming and going. The Great Sage is close to the eaves and corners of the houses, trying to avoid people, but his ears are straight up, and the people are...
The words are heard in the ears and filtered in the heart.
He has always been concerned about two aspects, one is that the king kills the monk; the other is the king's reputation among the people.
People don't talk much about the former, and when they do talk about it occasionally, their tone is ordinary, as if they are talking about something ordinary. However, some people inevitably speak in a cheerful tone when talking about these monks who have been rectified.
As for the reputation of the monarch among the people, he is also very good...but a few people will say that his majesty is self-willed and kills innocent people indiscriminately...
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And the Great Sage also noticed another point, that is, the country was not only removing Buddhist temples and killing monks... but also, the Great Sage searched the whole city, but he never saw even Taoist incense.
On the contrary, it has a bit of literary spirit.
And it is completely different from Mr. Ziyu’s Confucian spirit that I have seen before. If you take a closer look...it seems that the two sides are somewhat antagonistic.
While the Great Sage was thinking, he suddenly saw a group of houses at the corner with a lantern hanging on the door. The Great Sage flew close to him and took a closer look. On the lantern of the middle house, there was a word "rest" written on it.
There were six characters for "Trade and Merchant", and four characters for "Wang Xiao'er Store" below. The traveler realized that he owned a restaurant...
If it was just an ordinary restaurant, it would naturally not be able to attract the attention of the great sage.
It's just that the shopkeeper Wang Xiaoer was stained with karma. The Great Sage followed the investigation and found it directly in the palace... After looking at it with his Dharma eyes, he realized that the shopkeeper Wang Xiaoer turned out to be someone who was spread among the people in the palace.
's spy.
The store has a darkroom, and many of the documents contained in the records are information about people and guests... Some are simple and have only a few words, and some of them that are focused on even have the names of the other parties in separate books, which are carefully recorded.
The other person’s words and deeds.
Among these people, some are serious businessmen, some are born angry, and some... are villains with evil intentions.
And they each have their own fate.
The Great Sage carefully looked through several volumes and found a special record scroll about "Buddhism", which recorded many illegal things performed by monks.
Most of them are gangsters pretending to be monks, but those real monks who have ultimatums are not without their implication.
At the end of the file, there was a record of the disappearance of some named monks, and his mission at the moment was to find these missing monks. He suspected that the monks who committed crimes had returned to secular life and were hiding among the troublemakers.
Otherwise, how could people disappear for no reason?
The great sage used the photo-taking technique to rub this part, and planned to take it back to the master later... It turned out that this king was also a very sophisticated man, and even planted spies into his capital.
There is by no means only one spy like Wang Xiaoer.
The Great Sage coincidentally met and accidentally discovered Wang Xiaoer's identity. As for the other spies, the Great Sage had no intention of exploring their secrets.
What's even more interesting is that the identities of the people in this store are all different.
In addition to the fact that the shop owner Wang Xiaoer is a spy in the palace, the people in that hall, those who carry water, and those who light the fire... are thieves who have entered the city and are hiding here.
Moreover, the shopkeeper Wang Xiaoer had already seen through their hidden secrets. The reason why they were not exposed was that the shopkeeper Wang Xiaoer wanted to use them to fish out the criminal monks who were hiding behind their backs and never showed up.
Unfortunately, it has been more than a month since they entered the store, but they have not seen any results.
The Great Sage came out of the shop, without thinking much, and went directly to the inner courtyard of the palace. He wanted to find out whether the king of the country was really wise.
The king was lighting candles and correcting memorials, and there was an ancient book beside him. The great sage took a second look and saw the book "Shenzi"... Even the erudite great sage saw this book for the first time.
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It can be seen that it is named after "Zi", so it must be a famous work.
The Great Sage wanted to see what was in the book, so he attracted a breeze, opened the pages slightly, and looked over -
"The way of heaven is great when it is caused, and it is small when it is transformed. It is caused by people's emotions. People can't do it for themselves. If they transform it and refer to it for themselves, then they can't get it and use it."
What does it mean?
See also - "If the great king obeys the law but fails to obey the law, then the matter will end due to the law."
The Great Sage felt that this book was somewhat interesting. It seemed like a Taoist classic, but it also seemed that... there was something else at the core.
"His Majesty."
The queen came to His Majesty with a bowl of hot porridge and said with a worried look on her face, "Your Majesty, the night is already deep."
"There is no rush." The king rubbed the acupuncture points at the corners of his eyes and said to the back: "These are important events in the country, and I should personally take care of them."
The queen put down the hot porridge, picked up "Shenzi" and said: "Your Majesty reads this book every day, scolds this book every day, and carries this book with you every day... But why bother?
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The king sighed softly and said: "This classic is no small matter. It is a legacy of the Central Plains China. Fortunately, it fell into the hands of a few people... I have benefited a lot from it, but I can't agree with some of its views."
"I am a woman who does not understand the ways of this country." Seeing the melancholy look on the king's face, the queen said, "But if your majesty is worried or upset, you can complain to me... maybe it will help you to understand your thoughts."
resentment."
The king did not speak.
"Your Majesty is determined to be an upright and enlightened ruler. Don't you know that you are hurting yourself because of resentment?" The Queen stretched out her hand to pinch the shoulder of the monarch and said softly: "Your Majesty is still young. If you go through such a long time...how can you show your mind to accept it?"
The world?"
"This book was sent by the prime minister." The king took "Shenzi" from the queen's hand and said only one sentence: "The book says: respect the law, emphasize the power, and value the cause. The people should be united with the king, and the affairs should be settled with the king.
Law..."
"Isn't this great?" After all, the queen still has some knowledge and can understand a little bit of the meaning.
"The book is a good book, but it also says... Therefore, the emperor is established as the world, not the world as the emperor. The king is established as the country, and the country is not established as the king... The king's way is inaction, while the minister's way
Yes." The king looked at the queen and said, "Why do you think the prime minister sent this book to me before he died of illness?"
The Queen thought about it seriously and said: "In any case, the Prime Minister was able to send this book to His Majesty before he died of illness, which shows the loyalty of his veteran minister."
"Once he dies, everything will be over, leaving a big mess for me to clean up." The king's expression was complicated, and it was obvious that the relationship between him and the prime minister was not simple.
The king swung his pen and wrote the word "Buddha" on the table.
The queen wiped it off directly with her hands.
"The matter of destroying the Buddha cannot be left entirely to the Prime Minister alone." The Queen smiled bitterly and said: "The final decree was not made by Your Majesty yourself? After killing 9,996 monks in two years, Your Majesty
His reputation is now probably unique in the entire Xizhou Buddhist realm."
"Ha." The king said coldly: "There are just more than nine thousand fake monks... There are no less than a thousand fake monks like this in prisons all over the country... There are also those who are still fleeing in the mountains and fields.
Or maybe he just fell into the trap and became a bandit, who knows how many times."
"But...what about the real monks?"
The queen didn't know what to say. The fact was that the real monk was in the realm of the extermination of France and disappeared.
How could the ruler not be concerned about such strange things?
He is the leader of a country. Since these monks have committed crimes, they are subject to the laws of the country. Now they have all disappeared quietly... If he is an ordinary fatuous king, the mediocre king may ignore it.
But he was different. Although he did not take any action on the surface, he secretly sent orders to spies in the country and did not relax the investigation of these disappeared monks.
At this point, the Great Sage roughly understood something.
The most intuitive thing is that the king really deliberately left four pits unkilled...but he was not targeting their masters and disciples.
The Great Sage stayed in the palace for a long time, and then flew out of the palace gate... only to see that Master and the others had already entered the city and were going to Wang Xiaoer's shop.
ps: Fa Xiao got married, so I went to help out today... There are a few updates missing, I will make them up later.