Building the Tianmatai Temple annex is something that the entire Tianmatai Temple has neither thought of nor had the ability to do in the past. Building a temple requires a lot of money. After the temple is completed and put into use, the monks’ food and lodging, sesame oil, and daily expenses,
The cost of repairs, etc. is a large sum of money.
If a temple is built and does not have the support of a large number of believers, it will not be able to sustain it at all. It will simply be a consumable.
According to the suggestion of the owner of the Jinbo Club, the villa built does not rely on believers, but uses Tianma Medicine (well, the monks of Tianmatai Temple think this name is strange, they actually prefer "Tianma Medicine" and the like)
To maintain it through profit dividends, this can be considered.
But how much money is needed to build a villa in Xingqing Mansion? No one, not the abbot or the abbot, let alone the four leaders, has a clear idea of this.
But Aslan is the victim of Zhao Ran's "Nine Heavens Mysterious Dragon Forbidden Technique". He has long been confused by Zhao Ran's mouth-candy lotus. Recently, he has been obsessed with the project of repairing the villa. He has thought about it a lot, so he answered
It's rather detailed.
According to the current price in Xingqing Mansion, buying a smaller barren mountain in the suburbs, covering an area of about three or four hundred acres, costs only five hundred taels of silver. This has been agreed upon, and the Yeli family is willing to sell such a house.
hill.
Build a separate courtyard in the mountains, move into the courtyard five or six times, spend about six hundred taels of materials and labor, repair the mountain roads, purchase suitable items, etc. In total, it will cost you two thousand silver.
While the monks were listening to Aslan's excited explanation of the future, Abbot Long Yang suddenly reached out and put a white dot in his sleeve, frowning: "It's from Xuan Tan."
Tianmatai Temple is poor and rarely uses flying talismans to convey messages unless it is an important matter, so the monks are very worried and don't know if something happened at Xuan Tan.
I am excitedly painting a beautiful picture of future life here, but don’t make any mistakes!
Long Yang displayed the flying talisman, but it turned out to be a meticulous painting of a landscape.
On the hillside of a hill, there are springs flowing, flowers and green grass.
A two-story mountain gate stands at the foot of the mountain.
The horizontal plaque on the mountain gate reads "Cuiming Villa", and there are two vertical plaques on the left and right sides. On the left is "Tianmatai Temple Villa" and on the right is "Tianma Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical Factory".
The monks became energetic and looked at the picture carefully.
There is an open building complex on the hillside. Among the green trees and clear pools, there are small buildings, including the Infinite Light Buddha Hall, the Alchemy Hall, the Zen Hall, the Living Room, the Zhai Hall, the Yunshui Hall, the warehouse, and the Sutra Collection Building.
, Treasure Pavilion and other large-scale palaces, there are also small courtyards where monks live.
Buildings everywhere are connected by cloisters, pavilions, arch bridges, and moon gates. People feel as if they are in a fairyland, no, as if they are in a Buddhist kingdom on earth. When they look at it, they feel relaxed and happy, and when they think about it, they are so excited that they can't sleep.
Master Long Ji, the abbot, trembled with his white beard and long eyebrows, and murmured: "I can't bear to see it, I can't bear to see it."
Master Long Yang, the abbot, kept rubbing the scroll with his fingers and said with bright eyes: "Brother Abbot, would you like to live in this small building? There is a high pavilion behind you, and you can look out to the mountain... Junior Brother Xitang, this is
Do you want to live in this building? There is your favorite lotus in the pond next to it... Junior Brother Dongtang, do you like this building?..."
The first person in the west hall nodded frequently: "Okay, okay."
The head of the East Hall shook his head: "There is a bodhi tree in this small building. Doesn't the abbot love bodhi trees the most? I'll just change to another one..."
Abbot Long Ji coughed heavily: "Junior brothers! Let's talk business first. Don't indulge in materialistic desires and damage your cultivation."
The monks woke up quickly and all clasped their hands together: "Amitabha."
Long Ji sighed: "This courtyard is good, but how much money will be wasted? How can we afford it? How can we afford it? How can we afford to live in it? Isn't it mentioned in the Xuan Tan Fei Fu? What's going on?"
Long Yang hurriedly went to identify the flying talisman just now, and said after a moment: "The summons said that this is a blueprint designed by the owner of the Jinbo Club himself. Including the purchase of Cuiming Mountain, preliminary estimates indicate that the total cost is more than eight thousand taels.
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All the monks were shocked. Tianmatai Temple had no concept of large sums of money before, but after Aslan brought back the camel team, they had something to compare with.
The seventy-humped camels Aslan brought back, as well as the food, cloth, utensils and other items carried on the camels, were enough to sustain the monks in the temple until the end of the year. However, this was only the first batch of supplies to tide over the famine. It is said that there will be more to come.
Two batches of supplies.
The total price of the three batches of supplies was only 2,000 taels of silver, which shows that 8,000 taels is a huge amount of money.
Long Ji put his hands together and said: "Amitabha, fellow disciples, please put this scroll away. Since our ancestors went west, our Tianmatai Temple built a temple in this mountain. For six hundred years, we have adhered to the purpose of simple practice, and have been so extravagant and lustful.
It’s not something we can enjoy.”
Aslan said unwillingly: "Abbott, during this trip to Xingqing, my disciples went to Gaotai Temple to worship Buddha. Gaotai Temple is built on Zhuque Street in Xingqing Mansion. It occupies a wide area and is far more luxurious than this."
Long Ji said: "Gaotai Temple is an important Buddhist temple with a large number of believers and a strong incense. How many great virtuous people have attained the fruit of Bodhisattva? How many people have attained the status of Buddha? How can Tianmatai Temple be comparable? To us
It's a luxury for me, but it's nothing for Gaotai Temple. You should understand the difference."
Not to mention Aslan's reluctance, even though the four leaders were all monks, they were equally moved by such a villa.
The leader of the west hall said: "Abbott, maybe reduce the regulations in this picture by half?"
Long Ji sighed: "If you subtract half of it, it's still more than four thousand taels. How could our Tianmatai Temple get it?"
Abbot Long Yang had a very strange look on his face and said: "Senior brother...Xuan Tan said that Tianmatai Temple does not need to come up with this money."
Long Ji was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Is it from Jinbo Club Cheng Dong's family? That's even more unacceptable. How can I repay this favor!"
Long Yang said: "It's not from Jinbo Club. Xuan Tan said that Cheng Dong's family said, 'Others will provide the money, and we will stay in the hospital'..."
None of the monks in Tianmatai Temple understood this truth, so they put it aside for the time being, but the beautiful blueprint for future life that it brought filled the hearts of every monk.
As Xuantan sent the improved formula back to Tianmatai Temple, and as Tianma Pharmaceuticals sent the first batch of medicinal materials to Tianmatai Mountain, the refining of Wushen Pills began in full swing.
Zhao Ran's vision is very clear. The target group of the elixir refined by Tianma Pharmaceutical is 'mortal people', so in the original formula, many elixirs involving spiritual practice have been directly removed, and many steps that require advanced cultivation to refine have been removed.
Delete them together.
The fifty-three medicinal herbs in the prescription were reduced to twenty-three, and only the two most common elixirs, Dihuang Dihuang and Danzhupi, were retained from the original thirteen elixirs.
The refining formula has been reduced from eighteen steps to twelve, ten of which can be refined by a monk at the monk level, and the remaining two steps only require a few moments by a monk at the monk level.
The entire pharmaceutical process only took three days.
In fact, such black ginseng pills are no longer a panacea that can make up for the loss of mana and restore cultivation in a short time, but are oral pills that are more useful to ordinary people: they can nourish yin and kidneys, restore vitality, and treat physical weakness, dizziness, and tinnitus.
, soreness and weakness in the waist and knees, night sweats and spermatorrhea, etc., it is especially effective in aphrodisiacs. The most important thing is that it will have immediate effects after taking it, and it will not harm the body!
What kind of drugs are the most popular? Zhao Ran knows this very well based on his experience in that world.
Tianmatai Temple started refining small batches according to the new formula. The leader of the Xitang took the initiative, and more than ten disciples worked together to successfully refine twelve pills in three days.
Aslan rode a camel and rushed to Xingqing Mansion. Liang Xingxia immediately arranged for patients to test the medicine. After only taking it for three days, one pill a day, the patient immediately became more energetic and the effect of the medicine was extremely obvious.
The remaining nine pills were distributed by Tianbo Club under the name of "Strengthening Pill" among the rich and powerful who came to the club for a banquet. In less than ten days, they immediately became famous.
Since these rich and powerful people are hanging around the Jinbo Club, they all suffer from kidney deficiency. One pill will show immediate effects. Is there any reason not to buy such a good medicine?
When Cuiniang, the manager of the Jinbo Club Restaurant, kept complaining that there were not enough "strengthening pills", Jinbo Auction House officially launched the auction of pills in the first autumn auction.