Liang Ji knelt in front of Yun Da and knocked his head deeply on the ground. Before he led his troops back to the Song Dynasty, he knew that he had caused a big disaster for the commander.
Pan Liang, who was inspected by the Ministry of War, was already waiting on the grassland of western Yunnan with his official duties. This was the only way for the army to return.
Under the cover of Peng Jiu, the frightened Liang Ji led the army to quickly pass through the western Yunnan grassland. All the armies also returned to their bases on the way. By the time Liang Ji returned to Zhanlong Gorge through the Yuanshan camp, there were not too many subordinates around him.
There are a hundred or ten people.
Yun Zheng put down the book in his hand, walked around the table, helped Liang Ji up and said with a smile, "What's wrong? You came home with a full load, but why does it seem like you've lost the battle?"
Liang Ji made a pop and knelt down on the ground again and said hurriedly: "In my humble position, I dug a big hole in the sky in Dali. Please punish me, Commander-in-Chief."
Yun Zheng raised his head with a smile, looked at the blue sky outside the door and said, "No, right? The sky is still sunny, there is no such thing as the Milky Way pouring in."
"Monk..."
"Kill, kill. Are you only allowed to kill monks but not monks? Jiazi camp has long had a rule that as long as an enemy is found on the battlefield, no matter who he is, they only have one common name: enemy!
Well done, Lao Liang, take off your armor and go home to rest. Your family members are also in Zhanlong Gorge now. Just relax your muscles and bones, and nothing will happen to you."
When Liang Ji heard what the commander said, he couldn't help but grin. After all these years, he had completely blindly followed Yun Zheng. As long as the commander said there was no problem, there would be no problem and he would feel at ease.
After that, he struggled to pick up a package from behind and put it on Yun Zheng's case, and then went to find his family with a smile.
Yun Zheng opened the baggage and found a wooden box wrapped in the baggage. The box was rough in workmanship and it looked like it was made by the military craftsmen themselves. The bark on the edge of the board was not removed.
After opening the box, a golden-winged roc appeared in front of him.
Yun Zheng chuckled, this thing should be the sacred bird on the top of the Dali Buddhist pagoda. Judging from the marks of swords and guns on the base, Liang Ji must have spent a lot of energy in capturing the golden-winged roc.
The golden-winged bird is also called the Garuda bird, also known as the wonderful winged bird and the gall bird. It is ridden by the Hindu god Vishnu. In Buddhism, it is one of the eight tribes. It has golden wings and three wings wide.
Three to sixty thousand miles away, it lives at the lower level of Mount Sumeru. According to the Nineteenth Anniversary of the Chang Agama Sutra, this bird has four types: egg-laying, viviparous, wet-born, and transformation-born. It often feeds on dragons whose eggs and fetuses have become wet.
Because Dali is located in the south of Caiyun, the climate is humid and there are many snakes and insects in the forests. There are records that Dali was once killed by a snake ten feet tall. Therefore, this kind of Garuda, which specializes in eating poisonous dragons and pythons, was eaten in Dali.
Given a more sacred mission.
Wugou said that this golden statue of Garuda was brought from South Tianzhu. It was used by 1,800 monks to recite Buddhist scriptures for 81 days. It is the supreme treasure of Buddhism. As long as it is a temple, no one would not want to get it.
This is a seated statue of Garuda.
Yun Zheng frowned as he looked at the marks on the bottom of the statue that were cut by swords and spears. These places still need to be repaired.
The Buddhist monks had no resistance to the ornately decorated Buddha statues. Yun Zheng decided to make the Buddha statue more gorgeous. Anyway, Liang Ji brought countless Buddhist treasures back from Dali.
I don’t know whether the money that Buddhist monks pay homage to is the Buddha. In short, wherever incense is flourishing, there are always countless Buddha Dharmakayas carved in gold and jade.
This trend is especially true in Dali.
Chongsheng Temple is located at the foot of Yingle Peak in Cangshan Mountain, Sanli City, north of Dali City. It is backed by Cangshan Mountain and faces the Erhai Lake. The Three Pagodas are composed of three pagodas, one large, two small and three small. They stand in a tripod shape. From a distance, they look outstanding and graceful.
, is one of Cang'er's scenic spots.
Although Liang Ji did not have time to attack Dali City in the end, judging from the statue of the Garuda, he had already arrived at Dali City.
It is said that when the Chongsheng Temple and the main pagoda were built, the base of the temple was seven miles wide. The holy monk Li Chengmei built three pagodas, 890 rooms, and 11,400 Buddha statues. It cost 40,500 and 90 kilograms of copper.
It was built from the 10th year of Fengbaohe, the Tenth Lord of Nanzhao, to the first year of Tianqi. It took six years and more than 708,000 yuan of work, and consumed gold, silver, cloth, silk, brocade and satin worth 43,134 kilograms of gold.
If these legends are true, Yunzheng has no doubt about the title of Dali Buddhist Kingdom.
However, it was a matter for Dali people to like to worship Buddha. He was not prepared to interfere more and could not control it. Buddhists always said that the person who tied the bell should be the one who untied the bell. Now he wanted to pull Liang Ji out of this secular dispute.
, it all depends on the power of this Garuda.
Nowadays, there is fierce criticism of Yun Zheng in the court. Countless people with no connection to it have come to impeach Yun Zheng. They are also some old monsters who have not been born for a long time. For example, this time even She Taijun came to accuse Liang Ji of killing too much.
Buddhism has no respect whatsoever.
Some officials who like to talk nonsense even say that the reason why the emperor is alive today is because of the blessing of the Buddha. Now, Liang Ji slaughtered three hundred monks in Dali and caused endless injustice. This cause and effect will still be blessed.
In the case of the emperor, he needs to accept retribution.
Not only that, this time even the Crown Princess, who had always favored Yun Zheng, did not side with Yun Zheng, believing that Liang Ji was a tyrannical man who did not obey military orders and needed to be escorted to Tokyo for trial.
For some reason, the queen behaved extremely peacefully this time. Not only did she not join the army that attacked Yunzheng, she went to Daxiangguo Temple in person to pray for the emperor.
Liang Ji's military exploits in conquering the Dali Kingdom were ignored by all the people of the Song Dynasty. Over the years, the Song Dynasty was almost invincible and conquered everything. Conquering the small Dali Kingdom had long since ceased to inspire the people of the Song Dynasty. Victory
, it is nothing new to be defeated. Only if one is beheaded like Cao Rong can it attract the attention of the people. Now everyone's attention is focused on the incident of Liang Ji's massacre of monks.
It was under such a background that Pan Liang, the Ministry of War's prosecutor, intervened in the massacre of monks in Dali. Otherwise, he would not have dared to intervene rashly, given his courage.
There were many eminent monks and virtuous people who came to attack Liang Ji. This was why Pan Liang dared to enter the grasslands of western Yunnan to question Liang Ji directly.
Han Niu walked into the back house carrying a heavy wooden box. Lu Qingqing looked at their master and servant strangely. When Han Niu put the box on the table, Lu Qingqing heard the rattling sound from the table. The box seemed to
Very heavy.
Ge Qiuyan wore a bandage on her forehead and held her little son in her arms. She looked like she had a son and everything was ready. She didn't seem to be interested in anything else. She just lowered her head and teased the child who had just woken up.
He said that the child in his arms is his most important treasure.
"What is this?" Lu Qingqing put down the brush in his hand and asked with a smile.
"The golden-winged roc on the top of the three towers of Chongsheng Temple."
"It's just a piece of gold. Why are you taking it so seriously?"
Yun Zheng smiled and opened the box and pointed at the golden Garuda and said: "To us it is just a piece of gold, but to some people it is different.
At that time, there was a philanthropic man named Sudatta in Savatthi City. He was deeply moved after hearing the Buddha's sermons, so he bought another prince's garden covered with gold bricks and used the most beautiful flowers in the world.
Jinbao built a garden called the Garden of Solitude, which was specially used to worship the Buddha. The Buddha told Sudatta here:
It is better to make offerings to one hundred evil people than to one good person; to make offerings to one thousand good people is not as good as to one who holds the five precepts; to make offerings to ten thousand people who hold the five precepts is not as good as to offer one sotapanna; to make offerings to one million sotapannas is not as good as
One Situagam; offering ten million Situagami is not as good as offering one Anagami; offering one hundred million Anagami is not as good as offering one Arahant; offering one billion Arhats is not as good as offering one Pratyekabuddha; offering hundreds
Billions of Pratyekabuddhas are not as good as making offerings to one Buddha.
Therefore, I came to the conclusion that making offerings to the Buddha is a very luxurious thing. Liang Ji killed more than 300 monks, weren't they the more than 300 people who held the Five Precepts?
If we make the Garuda extremely gorgeous, isn't this the same as making an offering to the Buddha? Therefore, Madam, it depends on your method. Make the Garuda as gorgeous as you want.
, as precious as you want, as solemn as you want, as solemn as you want.
Let the world drool when they see it and want it, let the monks worship the Garuda when they see it. Let me tell you, whether Liang Ji can survive depends on your methods."
Lu Qingqing is an extremely intelligent woman. When her husband said this, she smiled and said, "Are you trying to tease those monks? It may not be easy, right? Many of the monks are eminent monks with calm minds, and your methods may not be effective."
Yun Zheng took his youngest son Yun Zhang from Ge Qiuyan's arms and kissed his little face. When he saw the child barking at him, he smiled and said, "Qing Qing, everyone in this world is actually
It is valuable. If your heart is as calm as water, it's just because you didn't do what you like.
Believe me, as long as you use the treasures of Dali to dress up this golden-winged bird with incomparable luxury, they will definitely forget about Liang Ji killing the monk."
Lu Qingqing circled around the golden-winged bird, imitating her husband and rubbing her chin: "Since you said so, I will definitely take great care to make this bird look like never before in this world."
The rarest thing ever."
While the couple was chatting and laughing, Yun Luoluo ran in from the outside, took a look at the golden-winged bird on the table, and felt that there was nothing good about it, so he turned around and jumped to see his little brother in his father's arms. When he saw his father,
He hugged her so high that he wouldn't let himself see it, and in a rage he climbed up on the table and rushed towards his father condescendingly.
Yun Zheng was laughing when he suddenly found that the table seemed to be tilting. He was shocked and hugged his eldest daughter with one hand, and stepped aside. Then the heavy golden-winged bird fell to the ground with a crash and covered the bluestone floor.
The ground was smashed into pieces. (To be continued)