Chapter Eighty-Seven: Lang's Internal Worries

Until the seventh year of Xuande, this rule never changed, but in the seventh year of Xuande, Dzhaba Gyaltsen, who reigned for forty-seven years, died of illness.

The era in which he lived was the most prosperous and stable era of the Lang family, and he paid tribute five times before and after. Contacts with Daming are also quite frequent.

But after him, Lang was plunged into civil strife.

At that time, the lord suppressed the contradiction and let the position of the first be passed to Zaba Janai, but Zhaba Janai's father, Saji Sanjay, was unwilling.

He wanted to be the first to know.

But he is a layman in the testimony, a layman who has been passed down from generation to generation, and should not take the place of Dizi.

With the presence of the Lord, the contradictions were suppressed.

But this lord did not live long, and in the seventh year of Orthodoxy, Sajay Sanjay finally ascended to the position of the first Si, which was a violation of the law of the Lang clan.

So his position was very unstable, and even for the sake of his own power, he let the position of the lord be vacant for more than 20 years. A three-year-old baby of unknown blood was lifted into the throne.

As a result, the Pazhu regime was plunged into civil strife and division.

And there is a more important hidden danger, that is, the Lang family's bloodline is withering, and each generation of the Lang family has a person to inherit the lineage, but Saji Sanjay only has two sons, and the eldest son, Zaba Qiongnai, died of illness on the throne.

The Lang family, which is thinly populated, can't hold on to power.

Nature hates vacuums, and in politics, power hates vacuums. The power that Lang can't hold will naturally be held.

That's for later, of course.

Some of the things Li Wen said Yu Qian knew, such as the history of the Lang family, but some of them were unknown. For example, the current situation of the Lang family.

Or the cause of the civil strife in the Lang family.

Don't say that Yu Qian doesn't know, and the Daming Rites Department probably doesn't know too much.

After all, the officials of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty have always had their nostrils facing the sky to the vassal states, if it weren't for Xu Youzhen, the North Korean coup d'état was close at hand, and the Ming Dynasty would know the inside story, and it would be many years later. Don't even want the inside story of Uszang.

It's just that this inside story is not friendly to Qian.

As Yu Qian's main goal, the object of the tea and horse trade, if Lang's is stable, then there will be more tea that can be bought, and now this situation, how much tea can Lang's buy is not sure in his heart.

So Yu Qian asked: "Do you know the current situation of the Lang family?" ”

Li Wen said: "After all, the Lang clan is remote, and it takes a year or two for a caravan to come and go, so I don't know the inside story, but." It seems that Saji Sanjay's body is not very good, and Saji Sanjay's wife has a tendency to sit big. I don't know much more. ”

Yu Qian pondered for a moment, he felt the need to understand the situation of Wu Sizang.

have to

Acknowledging that people influence each other.

Yu Qian and Zhu Qizhen have been together for several years. Zhu Qizhen was heavily influenced by Yu Qian and other civil officials. I slowly understand how to be a king.

And Yu Qian was also influenced a lot by Zhu Qizhen.

If there is no customs precedent, there are already millions of taels of customs tariffs per year. Yu Qian may not be able to think of this.

Now I want to take the initiative to understand the inside story of Wu Sizang.

Yu Qian asked: "Are there any high-ranking monks in Xining?" ”

Yu Qian asked, not because he was interested in Tibetan Buddhism. He is a standard Confucian disciple, and he does not speak of strange gods. It's just that he also knows the dominance of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibetan areas.

It's enough to show your appreciation in politics, but you don't necessarily want to get in touch with it in private.

He asked, but he was choosing a diplomat. Diplomat on mission to Uszang.

There was continuity in the governance of Tibet by the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.

The Yuan Dynasty established the right to dispose of Tibet, and the Ming Dynasty was a monk at all levels because of the custom, so the Ming Dynasty sent envoys to canonize and use lamas.

It's also a routine. The Qing Dynasty went further.

Yu Qian wanted to send someone to find out about Uszang, although he was not an official envoy, but according to the usual practice, he wanted to choose a lama, and he could talk when he arrived in Uszang.

Li Wen said: "There is a senior monk in Xining. Zen Master Gezang, now resting in Xining. He was originally a native of Xining, and he was ordered by the imperial court to go to Wusizang many times, and practiced in Beijing for a period of time, and when he was old this year, he returned to the monastery in his hometown and wanted to die old. ”

Yu Qian may not believe Li Wen's words.

He estimated that the reason for the monk's return to his hometown was not his old age, but his current attitude towards Buddhism.

Nowadays, there are no more monasteries in the city of Beijing, and even if there are new monasteries, there are no donations from the imperial palace.

After all, if you want to build a temple in the city of Beijing, it is impossible without the emperor's nod, and most of the land in Beijing is the emperor's official residence.

Although Zhu Qizhen did not look like he was forbidding Buddhism, he put it on a posture, you can believe it if you want to, but it is absolutely impossible for the government or the royal family to express it on some matters.

As a result, the development trend of Buddhism and Taoism in Beijing has been suppressed a lot.

Taoism is okay, after all, Taoism does not have such a big motivation to preach and build monasteries, and Beijing is not without Taoism, isn't Baiyun Temple?

But Buddhism was suppressed.

During the Xuande period, and in the early years of orthodoxy, the scene of building monasteries one after another disappeared.

Because of the special political status of the lama, it was not much shaken, and even the lama temple was funded by the imperial court for maintenance. But there is no greater development.

In Zhu Qizhen's view, the Ming Dynasty raised lamas, just for

appeased Uszang. The attitude is enough, but more inclination is impossible, not to mention, Zhu Qizhen has suffered from the financial crisis most of the time. If he was asked to add an honorific title to King Interpretation, Zhu Qizhen would not be willing.

But if you want the court to pay for it, you don't even think about it.

Under such circumstances, how much Lamaism can develop in Beijing?

It is natural for this Gezang Zen master to return to his hometown from Beijing.

Yu Qian immediately asked people to invite Zen Master Gezang, and Li Wen naturally resigned when he saw this, and immediately prepared to go to other guards to summon various officials to Xining.

And Zen Master Gezang did not dare to refuse Yu Qian's summons, and it would be there in a while.

The Zen master of Gezang was wearing a white striped robe, and he looked a little solemn, looking a few years younger than Yu Qianhao, and he didn't know if he was really old, or he was well maintained.

Yu Qian first talked with Gezang Zen Master about the scriptures, although Yu Qian is not devout to Buddhism, but it is not that he has not read Buddhism, after all, today's Confucianism has long been not the Confucianism of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but the miscellaneous stream of the three religions, so the scholar talks about Zen, which is already a basic skill.

It's just that Yu Qian talked a few words with Zen Master Gezang, and some words are not speculative.

After all, most of the Buddhism that Yu Qian read is Central Plains Buddhism, and there is naturally a contradiction with the scriptures of Lamaism.

Of course, maybe it was Yu Qian's good reputation that made Ge Zang a little bolder.

After Yu Qian discovered this, he spoke less and listened more to Buddhist teachings. Except for asking a few incomprehensible questions from time to time, he was almost listening to Gezang's lectures.

It's not that Yu Qian can't say that Ge Zang, but Yu Qian has no intention of arguing with Ge Zang in the first place, and he will also have to deal with Wu Sizang in the future, and it would be good to know more.

The two talked for half an hour. Yu Qian suddenly asked, and said, "What are the similarities and differences between the teachings of the master and the teachings of the king?" ”

Gezang said: "It's just the same lineage. ”

This is also the reason why Gezangdu has been sent as an envoy by the imperial court many times.

After all, the imperial court raised these monks for the sake of Uszang. And not for the true meaning of Buddhism.

Yu Qian said: "I took over as the governor of the three sides, reforming the tea law, related to Wu Sizang, lest the king of interpretation misunderstand, I want to find someone to meet the king of interpretation, express the meaning of this dynasty, can the Zen master be willing to take a trip?" ”

Ge Zang said: "It is the honor of the old man to run for the imperial court, but recently there was a Dharma preaching conference, please prepare for a few days. The old monk also wanted to invite adults to come and discuss the scriptures. ”

Yu Qian said: "Okay. ”

The Qinghai-Tibet Road is also very difficult to walk, thousands of miles away, so naturally you have to prepare well. And in Xining, you also have to follow the customs, and the Tibetan Buddhism here is also a tool for the Ming Dynasty to rule the place, which is under the jurisdiction of the monk Gangsi, and Yu Qian also has to give some face.