Chapter 10: The Xixia Kingdom Relying on Murder to Rejuvenate the Country
Golden Pavilion Temple on Mount Wutai.
Whenever he goes to Yanmen Pass, Yun Zheng will always stay here for a day. No matter how tight his time is, he still likes to spend a day alone in this ancient temple at the foot of Mount Wutai, just to calm down his anxious heart.
The Golden Pavilion Temple is not the largest temple on Mount Wutai, but it is one of the most secluded temples. The entire temple is nestled among pines and green trees. However, it is late autumn now. Except for pines and cypresses, the rest of the temples include elms and locust trees.
The trees had long since stripped off their leaves, revealing their skinny branches standing abruptly.
There are not many monks in the Golden Pavilion Temple. Although Wutai Mountain is a holy land of Buddhism, the Song Dynasty did not give many monks' certificates to the Wutai Mountain temple. Pang Ji, Han Qi and others were very dissatisfied with the monks who did not engage in production and just chanted Buddha's name and practiced. Even if they
Prince Aoxiang Anshi also had no favorable impression of monks and Taoism.
Other temples rely on the huge funds of Jixiang Kitchen to make loan sharks everywhere. Even without the huge temple property in the temple, they can still live very richly.
The Kinkakuji Temple is different. This temple practices hard meditation. The monks in the temple all hold the precept not to catch money and live by hard work. If the people at the foot of the mountain encounter a famine, the Kinkakuji Temple will also vigorously
To help the victims, I would rather eat less than one bite, and never miss this opportunity to save all sentient beings.
In Yun Zheng's view, this is the real monk who only makes people respect him, unlike those fat-headed and big-eared monks who chant Amitabha in their mouths but think about how much charity you can give today, two
His eyes turned into Brother Kong Fang’s.
For some reason, Su Shi had a very good relationship with Monk Foyin. Yun Zheng also admitted that Foyin was a talented monk, not only in Buddhist scriptures. Because he was a scholar, he also knew a lot about the world. Since he was gifted as a monk by the prince,
, within a few years this guy became famous all over the world.
In the past, Yun Zheng felt a little pity for this guy, but after seeing this guy once in the capital, he wholeheartedly agreed with Zhao Xu's handling of Foyin.
If this guy hadn't shaved his head and put on monk's robes, he would have harmed many decent women. A monk with red lips and white teeth is basically a monster-level existence.
Anyway, after this guy stayed at the Yun family for five days, Lu Qingqing and Ge Qiuyan donated more than a thousand dollars to the temple where he lived. Compared with these stupid, big and thick monks in the Golden Pavilion Temple, the Buddha's seal is obviously more beautiful.
Deceptive.
The Wei Tuo Hall is full of ghosts, and the tall Wei Tuo statue almost reaches the roof. No matter who is looking at it, they all have lowered eyes, which can definitely squeeze out the secret hidden under everyone's leather robe.
Yun Zheng liked to stay in the Wei Tuo Hall, not because the monks said that Yun Zheng wanted to transform into Wei Tuo to protect the world, but because the scenery outside this hall was superb.
The leaves of the elm locust tree have all fallen, but the red maple leaves are still hanging stubbornly on the treetops. The maple leaves are naturally more beautiful after the frost, but now in late autumn, the frost leaves are already so red that they are almost turning black. At a glance, I can see the south slope.
It looked like it had been splashed with blood, and coupled with the bursts of pine waves, it perfectly performed a battlefield tragedy.
It was evening class time in the temple at this time, and it was unclear what scriptures the monks were reciting, but the sound of wooden fish and the bursts of Sanskrit sounds could really calm people down.
Su Xun sat down on a futon and was reading a piece of Zhang Jun's newspaper. When he saw Yun Zheng standing in front of the window looking out for a long time, he coughed and said: "Li Qing is suspected of murdering Huer. He didn't hide it."
He is suspected of murdering Wei Ge Ning Ling."
Yun Zheng turned around and said with a smile: "It's not surprising that Pang was accused of murdering Wei Ge Ning Ling and Shun Jun Si of the Youxiang Dynasty. The Xixia Kingdom has always been a country divided by tribal elders. Because of their combined interests, they will also
It fell apart because of interests, so the killings in that country have never stopped since Li Yuanhao came to power.
Li Yuanhao wanted to establish a country with a centralized system, so he killed the Yeli family. However, the Xixia people had a tradition of relying on marriage to deepen their relationships. Therefore, his inner palace was stained with blood, and the cause and effect
The cycle was extremely heavy. Yuan Hao killed his mother, uncle, wife, son, and ministers. As a result, he died in the hands of the prince, and the prince died in the hands of important officials, and the government fell into the hands of his relatives."
Su Xun frowned and said: "Wuzang Yipang is also a wise man. Can't he see that doing this will damage Xixia's strength in his eyes?"
Yun Zheng smiled and said: "Li Yuanhao is a great hero. Why would he do this? It's impossible that he doesn't know how much damage killing the Yeli family will cause to Xixia."
Su Xun sighed: "After all, my heart is not big enough to encompass the world!"
"Wrong! Killing is the characteristic of the Xixia country. They rely on killing to enhance the vitality of the entire country.
The old nobles had reached the point where they no longer wanted to make progress because they were extremely wealthy. Therefore, in order to give the new Xixia nobles a chance to advance, the killings had to be carried out.
You have studied the political affairs of Xixia for many years, haven't you seen the fact that Xixia has become stronger and stronger because of killings?
The Yeli family was finished, so an extra Zhang family emerged. They defeated the Tibetan presence on the sandbank in one fell swoop and expanded Xixia's power beyond the Great Wall.
After the six armies of Yuanzhai were finished, the Ganzhou and Gansu Army appeared. After the Ganzhou and Gansu Army were defeated by me in Lanzhou without Zang Yipang, they defeated the land of Loulan all the way and extended Xixia's tentacles to the Mesopotamia.
Between a gain and a loss, the gain is always more than the loss. Therefore, people now regard killings on this scale as nothing. Wei Ge Ningling has been imprisoned for ten years, and the army has completely collapsed. Is that right?
Zang Pang said that the army was just a piece of rotten flesh on his body, and it really didn't matter whether he was dead or not.
Keeping it might endanger your life, so it is better to use it as waste. On the one hand, it will give the Liao Kingdom a signal to come to help the war, and on the other hand, it will tell us that this army that has been castrated by him can be killed as much as it wants.
They are polite, and there is an explanation from both sides, so why not do it?"
"Poor those soldiers, they were born and raised with the sperm of the father and the blood of the mother, but in the end they were sent to be slaughtered like fattened pigs and sheep."
Su Xun threw the military newspaper in his hand heavily on the table and sighed.
Yun Zheng chuckled and said: "Who told you that we must kill Wei Ge Ning Ling? There is a principle on the battlefield. As long as the enemy wants us to do it, we will never do it. What the enemy wants to see, we will
You must not let him see it.
Not only can Wei Ge Ning Ling not be able to kill this person, but we will help arm this army. Once this guy Guo En can be of some use, Wei Ge Ning Ling can play a far greater role than if we sent 30,000 soldiers to attack Wu Hide.
The effect of blackmail is much greater."
Su Xun frowned and said: "We are about to march to the north. I'm afraid there is no such thing in this world to do it. He meander is still more than 600 miles away from us. It will take at least a month to go back and forth. The war in Hebei is tight, and Di
The handsome 160,000 men are being besieged by nearly 800,000 troops, and the Northern Expedition cannot be delayed for even a moment."
"Who is going to do these things? Haven't you noticed that Chen Lin, the devil with hanging boots, can't be found? The secret service under the old guy has become so powerful in recent years that you can't believe it.
This kind of thing of arming the enemy has always been a big taboo of the border army. If we do it, we will be impeached by the officials. We can only let people like Chen Lin do it. The court will not have any objections and His Majesty will not do it.
Suspicious in my heart."
Yun Zheng sat opposite Su Xun, poured a cup of tea for Su Xun and said: "You really don't think about going overseas with me to live a happy life after the war?
Su Shi is salivating and ready to go out to sea together to hang the whale."
Su Xun smiled and said: "He can't go either. Before I died, he didn't even think about it. He left the solid land and went to the misty sea. He couldn't find his body after he died. His soul couldn't return to his hometown, even overseas.
There are fairy mountains, and I don’t care about them either.”
Yun Zheng knocked on the table and said angrily: "The Song Dynasty was made lifeless by you pedantic old guys. Do you know that wealth comes from the sea, and danger also comes from the sea. If you don't use this vast space,
It's such a pity.
Whatever is produced on land is found in the sea, and whatever is not produced on land is also found in the sea..."
"That's nonsense. I just want to eat some cabbage. Is there any in the sea?"
"You've never heard of sea cabbage..."
He couldn't talk about the sea with Su Xun. When he talked about the sea, he seemed to smell the fishy smell of the sea and felt like he was about to vomit. According to his idea, people should live on land and take it one step at a time.
Move forward steadily, any thought that deviates from this idea is heresy and should be thrown into the fire and burned to death.
The only reason why Yun Zheng was not burned to death was that Yun Zheng was doing too poorly on land. If he didn't run away quickly, he would be beaten to death by everyone in Tokyo after returning from the Northern Expedition. God is kind enough to give Yun Zheng a chance.
Survival is a must, so no one pays attention to Yun Yue, the second young master of the Yun family, who is killing everyone on the sea.
This is also the unanimous opinion of the scholars. After all, Yun Zheng has made great contributions to the Song Dynasty. If he was killed in Tokyo, it would not be easy to write in the history books. Since he proposed that he was willing to go to sea, then go ahead and bear the burden.
It's not impossible for a prince's hat to scare the savages on the sea.
"Wang Anshi is coming to the army to help you transport military supplies and grain. What do you think?" Su Xun stopped talking to Yun Zheng about things at sea and started talking about business.
"It's good to be here. Your Majesty can't stand it anymore when Wang Anshi is humiliated in the capital. It will be a torture for him to continue to let Wang Anshi stay in the capital.
It's great to come to the Northwest. There is no doubt about Wang Anshi's talent. The position of logistics officer will be his as long as he comes, so I can rest assured."
When Su Xun saw that Yun Zheng was unsure, he knew that Yun Zheng didn't care about the political significance of Wang Anshi's arrival, and was not prepared to think about those strange things. As long as Wang Anshi came, he planned to use him as a logistics officer.
Another surveillance mission, he doesn’t care at all. (To be continued)