Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Wind Blows Eggshells

No matter how Emperor Zhengde competed with the hundred officials, he sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info leave the capital every morning, go to Yuquan Mountain to survey the leylines, come back in the evening, rest and meditate without asking about miscellaneous matters. Occasionally, supervise and consider the cloud fox's homework, or explain Taoist classics to the queen mother. The days are also leisurely.

It wasn't until more than ten days later that a holy decree stone broke through the sky, causing hundreds of officials to shake and the world to attention.

Zhengde won his first victory against a civilian official since he ascended the throne. After several fights, under Liu Jin's unprecedented pressure on civil officials, Li Dongyang and Jiao Fang intended to make concessions. Zhengde and the cabinet cabinet reached an agreement.

"Those who are not Hanlin are not allowed to enter the cabinet, and they are not allowed to enter the cabinet unless they have been appointed by the state government. Those who are not excellent in local performance evaluations must not be transferred to Beijing. Those who have been successful in the poor areas of the frontier will be given priority in entering the cabinet. A holy decree made the nobles of Hanlin feel like mourning, and they spoke out against it, but they unexpectedly received strong support from local officials. In the face of the clear questioning of the Beijing teacher, Zhengde said: "If you love the Beijing teacher and are unwilling to drive for the country, why do you have to work in the cabinet?" "Blocked a group of guys who regarded themselves as princes, and their faces were red, but they were speechless.

The officials who were imprisoned in the palace gate turmoil were released one after another, and before they could spread their name of "daring to whisk the dragon's beard" in Beijing, they were regarded as the seeds of "scholars" one by one, and they were sent to the places to "exercise" one after another. The matter of forcing the palace, not only Zhengde is concerned, but the cabinet elders will not forget the "grace" of the persecution that day!

After dealing with the turmoil, Zhengde also reverted to the early dynasty in a sound of amazement - a victory that never came in vain.

Just when the dust thought that everything had settled, there were suddenly more monks in the capital, and they chanted every day: "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south!" The monks holding the bowl wandered around, and the Buddhist temples around the capital were also unprecedentedly lively, preaching the scriptures, giving alms in front of the temple, and the Buddhist patriarchy (river crab) would continue, and there was always a trace of strange atmosphere under the excitement.

If you want to say who is most sensitive to the monks' abnormal gathering of Jingshi, then it must be the major avenue temples in the capital. Buddhism and Taoism have been competing for thousands of years, although it is not incompatible, but it is always frictional. When Buddhism flourished, we couldn't forget to suppress Taoism, and when Taoism flourished, it was indispensable to destroy Buddhism. Until the Mengyuan era, four Taoist and Buddhist debates, Taoism, the Han religion, was ruthlessly suppressed, and the Quanzhen disciples who participated in the debate were forced to become monks, and countless Taoist solitary books were destroyed in one fell swoop, thus Taoism declined greatly, lost most of its inheritance and came to an end.

If not, Taizu drove the Tartars to the north, recovered the Han family, and established the Ming Dynasty. Under such suppression, whether Taoism can continue to be passed on is a question.

Now, with the two Chen's entry into Beijing, he lived directly in the palace, and was deeply respected by the two generations of emperors. The news spread, and all the "famous monks and great virtues" from all over the world flocked to Beijing.

The battle for Taoism is difficult to give in. As the Quanzhen Ancestral Court, Baiyunguan naturally couldn't stay out of the matter, and together with the various palaces of the Jingshi, he issued countless Dharma texts, inviting colleagues from all over the world to gather in the Jingshi. Whether it is true or positive, the three Qingdao are in front, and the external humiliation cannot be given up!

The Jingshi is surging, and the main observers of the various avenues of the Beijing Division go to the palace gate to ask to see the real people who protect the country. For the first time, Xuanguang Guan has the status of a recognized leader within the Daomen, and no matter how powerful he was before, he was just a monk with advanced cultivation. After all, the name of Xuanguang Temple is not well known. On the post this time, the words "Xuanguang watched the real people" were written respectfully. In other words, Lichen is no longer just a high-level Taoist, but also a master of a mountain.

But Lichen was not happy at all, and after sending away the various Taoist masters, Lichen looked serious.

"Master, why are you upset?" When he received the masters of Jingshi, Yunhua, as the eldest disciple of Lichen, naturally accompanied the master. This can also be regarded as an expression of introducing Yunhua to the same door in the world.

"The wind and rain are coming, and all the poor Taoist Buddha sees is always only one acre and three points of land in front of his house, and he has no heart to turn outward!" Lichen sighed.

Yunhua didn't seem to understand, and Lichen didn't explain. Who would know today's Daming? Who cares? There are also two religions in the world that hold the scriptures in one hand to persuade people to do good, and the other hand to hold the sword to convert people! Especially the Green Sect, they are about to surround the Ming Dynasty, and the Taoism and Buddhism are still facing each other in the Ming Dynasty, which is three points of land, and they still don't know whether they are alive or dead!

The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, this will not be a hundred officials forcing each other, but the Taoist and Buddhist two teachings have set up a basket. Outside, Taoism and Buddhism behaved abnormally, and naturally they couldn't hide it from the hundreds of officials in the imperial court, nor from the ears and eyes of the three factories and one guard.

The officials were afraid that the Taoist monks would cause **** in the capital, and they asked the court to intervene. However, there are many Buddhists in private, and there are many people who are close to Taoism. This will finally not embarrass Zhengde, and they will tear it up themselves. Most of the non-religious officials, on the other hand, watched the show on the sidelines. It is not like the same enemy when facing the monarchy.

Zhengde left all the chapters about Taoism and Buddhism, but the situation in the capital will not calm down because Zhengde ignores it, but the dark tide is becoming more and more turbulent.

"Can a real person know what's going on outside?" Zhengde specially accompanied Chen to read the Taoist scriptures all morning today, and finally couldn't help but ask.

"Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! Poor Dao naturally knows? Lichen nodded.

"The dispute between Buddhism and Taoism is about to start, and hundreds of officials are in an uproar, can real people have a way to eliminate it?" Zhengde looked a little worried. The Ming Dynasty is not like the previous dynasty, it has always been very strict in the control of religion, and the Taoism and Buddhism have been calm for a hundred years, but they did not expect that now the conflict will arise again, and Zhengde is naturally worried.

"The dispute between Dao and Buddha is only about faith, not about the world, Your Majesty can rest assured." Lichen replied.

"But how can people be panicked?" Zhengde asked again.

"Your Majesty, what do you think of the four times of Mengyuan Dao Buddha's teachings?" Lichen did not answer Zhengde's question, but asked Zhengde's true views on the two religions.

"This..."The Ming Dynasty was established on the basis of the expulsion of Meng Yuan, not far from that period, but more than a hundred years. Zhengde has naturally read history books, so he naturally knows what Chen is talking about. But because of Chen, a disciple of Sanqing, it was inconvenient to say it in person.

"Meng Yuanmin has four grades, and Han people are the lowest. suppressed the Daomen and fought for the authenticity of "Lao Tzuhua Hu Jing". Not for the Tao Buddha, just for the debate of Huayi! Lichen said with a long sigh.

"I see." Zhengde nodded yes.

It's just that he knows it or not.

"Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! Your Majesty need not worry, but it is just an argument. Your Majesty can speak from the middle, and there is no need to worry. Lichen gave Zhengde a guarantee.

Zhengde breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you for the real person!" ”

Zhengde left satisfied, but Lichen was not necessarily happy. After a while, Yunhua came with the fox in his arms, and when he saw the master's serious face, he asked very strangely, "Master, what are you worried about?" ”

Lichen smiled and said: "Perhaps, the poor road entered Beijing twenty years earlier."

If it was the Jiajing Dynasty, there would not be the current situation of Taoist and Buddhist contention. If there is no dust, Zhengde should have believed in Buddhism in history, and it is Tibetan Buddhism. But it didn't let Zhengde really stand on the side of Taoism.

Otherwise, why ask today?