Chapter 128 Pair of Guests-2
"Bad luck." Wang Minyi spat and looked up at the crows hovering in the sky.
There seemed to be a heavy black curtain hanging in the air, and the deep night shrouded the earth, and the sky and the earth in the distance were even more pure black, and the boundary was blurry and unclear. In the eyes of Wang Minyi, the third master of the Wang family of the Yingyang Wang family, the Central Plains land, where the family has lived for generations, is so strange at this moment. The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the dim moon rings occasionally showed a little pale, but this cold moonlight seemed so permeable that it made people feel uneasy.
"If the light is blind, you won't run into the robbery, right?"
Wang Minyi was apprehensive in her heart, and couldn't help but secretly blame the ancestors, she had to say that the relocation of the family was a matter of shame to the ancestors and ancestors, and she couldn't publicize it during the day, and as a result, hundreds of people could only walk at night to the county seat at night, and then head to Luoyang the next day. The fourth master, Wang Minli, has already set up a manor in the suburbs of Luoyang. Wang Minyi's eyes fell on the group training of more than 100 people who carried firearms and guns on their shoulders, and her heart was a little calm, Xia Guo's governance in Luoyang, and others were mixed. The bandits swept away the mountain bandits and bandits, and the Beijing view built at the gate of the major prefectures and counties, although it has the meaning of Liwei, is really praised. You must know that the Central Plains is a flat land, there is no place to flee, and the scourge of bandits is really devastating. In some places, the bandits have not been cleared for hundreds of years, but not long after the Xia army was stationed, they were all wiped out.
The torches in the ancestral hall of the Wang family swayed, and the people of the Wang clan of the family bid farewell to the ancestral tablet, and came out of the ancestral hall and boarded the carriage at the gate. According to the arrangement of the ancestors, the second room master Wang Minshi and a grandson stayed in their hometown, serving the ancestors and taking care of the ancestral hall, and the other rooms had to be moved to Luoyang Mansion. Three generations of more than 100 people will be registered in Luoyang as Chengkuo household registration, which is commonly known as a merchant in Guanxi, although it avoids the embarrassment of taking refuge in a rude warrior who thinks he is a shady household. Moreover, the status of the Chengkuo household in the Xia State is not low, and many descendants of the founding princes are also Chengkuo households who make a living from industrial and commercial farming if they fail to become scholars.
The carriage procession at the entrance of the ancestral hall gradually filled with people, and from time to time there were female dependents poking their heads out of the carriage.
The third old man, Wang Minyi, kept looking towards the ancestral hall. If this big family sets off later, I'm afraid that it will be dawn when I arrive at the county seat. But at this turning moment in the future of the family, he didn't dare to enter the ancestral hall to urge his ancestors and brothers. Among the five rooms of the Wang family, Wang Minyi is neither as steady and deep as the eldest brother Wang Minzhong, nor as smart as the fifth brother, Wang Minshi, the governor of Huangzhou, he is only an ordinary person in the Wang family.
In the ancestral hall, Wang Wei stood on the side of the ancestral tablet, and the Wang family said goodbye one by one.
The old ancestor's face was sallow, his cheeks were deeply sunken, and he let out a long sigh as he watched the last family leave the ancestral hall. The body sat down with a slump of body. Wang Minzhong glanced at the old ancestor worriedly. The eighty-year-old man stood motionless for more than two hours with his waist straight, and his body really couldn't stand it. The clansmen said goodbye one by one, and the ancestors could rest, but it was also the saddest time. Wang Minzhong and his second brother Wang Minshi exchanged glances and sighed.
"Dad, the unfilial man will kowtow to you a few times." Wang Minzhong said, "I hope that the second brother will do his filial piety on behalf of us." ”
He stroked the hem of his robe with both hands, and knelt down uprightly, "Knock-knock-knock-" The three rings knocked down, Wang Minzhong was also in his sixties, but in front of the old ancestor, he didn't dare to pretend to be old at all, and the three heads knocked harder than those juniors just now. His hair was gray, and when he raised his head again, his forehead was already bruised, and his face was so desolate that he burst into tears.
The old ancestor Wang Wei didn't say much, just closed his eyes, waved his hand weakly, and signaled Wang Minzhong not to delay, and to take the Wang clan to the county seat as soon as possible. Wang Minzhong didn't dare to delay, glanced at his second brother Wang Minshi, his eyes were full of advice, and then he turned around and left. Soon, the carriages and horses outside the ancestral hall were noisy, the torches were shaking, and there were more than 100 men and women in the five rooms of the Wang clan in Yingyang County, and more than 100 loyal servants and slaves who refused to leave, under the escort of the 100 regiments of Yingyang County, embarked on the road of migration.
The sound outside gradually faded away, and the ancestral hall was so quiet that it could be heard falling, and Wang Yu was still sitting motionless on his chair.
Wang Minshi glanced at the old ancestor worriedly, and found that cloudy old tears flowed out of the corners of his closed eyes......
The night is in all directions, the mountains are towering, the strange stones may be like blades, and the forests are like monsters, hidden in the darkness, and they want to choose people to eat.
Dark clouds covered the moon, and a cavalry was galloping to the foot of Shaomuro Mountain. The cavalry seemed to have the intention of demonstrating, and when the vanguard arrived at the front of the mountain, not only did not hide it, but everyone lit the torches in their hands, and looked down from the top of the mountain, as if several ferocious fire dragons were born out of nowhere, circling back and forth under the mountain, the sound of hooves roared between the mountains, the war horses neighed, and there were several chirps, which surprised the crows inhabiting the dense forest to fly up one after another. Such a huge scene, the warrior monk on duty has never seen it, so shocked that he almost didn't fall down the mountain stream, he didn't care about the reality, so he climbed into the temple again and again to report to the leader of the monks and soldiers of Shaolin Temple.
Shaolin Temple is the world's famous Zen ancestral garden, since the Bodhidharma Patriarch passed on the Dharma to Hui can come, there have been countless virtuous monks in the past dynasties.
However, what the world is talking about is a story when the Sui and Tang dynasties were changing. At that time, the world was swinging, Shaolin temple production Baiguwu was the temple property given to Shaolin Temple by Emperor Wen of Sui, fifty miles northwest of the temple, because of its dangerous terrain, it belonged to the place where soldiers must fight. Therefore, Wang Shichong coveted it, Wang Shichong brazenly sent troops to seize the Shaolin temple Baiguwu, and built a city for his nephew Wang Ren to guard. At that time, due to the shortage of soldiers and horses, there was less alms, the temple property was lost, and fasting food became a problem. The Shaolin monks were unwilling, so they united with Zhao Xiaozai, the state Sima under Wang Renze, and joined forces with the outside, captured Wang Renze, and gave it to the Tang army; Three days later, Li Shimin gave 40 hectares of land in Baiguwu and a water mill to Shaolin Temple as a temple property.
This story is so miraculous among the folk that it even deduces the legend of "Thirteen Stick Monks Save the Tang King".
From the Tang Dynasty into the Song Dynasty, thanks to the imperial court rewards and countless almsgiving, Shaolin Temple occupies a large area of land in Dengfeng County, the court dignitaries and local officials are respectful to Shaolin Temple, this Shaolin Mountain almost into a Buddhist country world that has nothing to do with secular government. However, the temple is very famous, and the monks are particularly arrogant. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, because of the annexation of the land by the temples in the Central Plains, Taizu Li Yuan issued an order to abolish the temples in the Luoyang area, and recovered the land given by Li Shimin to the Shaolin Temple.
This time, the Xia court promulgated the "Law on the Redemption of Equal Fields", and all the landlords in Luoyang must sell their land to the court at the market price, and then the court will grant land to the people of Zhongzhou according to the standard of 60 mu per household. After the family resisted for a while, other places relented and accepted the imperial court to redeem the land, but the monks of Shaolin Temple have been dragging their feet and refusing to hand over the land deed. Because of the fierceness of the monks in the temple, the tenants who have rented the temple field for hundreds of years have accumulated great power, and they have not obtained the permission of the monks in the temple.
Shaolin Temple is one of the largest landlords in Dengfeng, and even in the entire Luoyang, which makes Luoyang Mansion like a fish in the throat, and the local families in Luoyang also faintly have the mind to see jokes. After Luoyang ordered Yuan Xingzong to send people to negotiate with the temple many times to no avail, he finally made up his mind and put the matter in front of the general Wu Jie and Chen Chong, the training envoy of the Luoyang regiment. Chen and Wu were all born in martial arts, and their attitude was very simple, Wu Jie's commander Yang Ren led 500 cavalry as the vanguard, Chen Zhong sent an artillery battalion, and ten fire battalion battalions followed. The army totaled 6,000 men and horses, and Chen Bing Shao was at the foot of the mountain. If the Shaolin Temple continues to resist the "Juntian Redemption Law", then forcibly enter the temple to search for the land deed.
Wu Jie has issued a military order, if the Kwantung monks dare to use force, the army can be immediately exterminated as horse thieves, and all of them can be killed to set an example. Yuan Xingzong also informed the Inquisition that in case the jade was burned, he could only invite some eminent monks from the White Horse Temple in Luoyang to preside over Shaolin. When Master Huizhen, the head of the referee heard about this, he rushed over from Chang'an in the starry night, and finally rushed to the foot of Shaomu Mountain before the official army started. Master Huizhen was the first of the Chang'an Inquisition and the elder of the National Inquisition. After he arrived, he immediately asked to see Yang Ren and asked him to stop his troops for the time being and not to attack Shaomu Mountain.
Although Yang Ren and Huizhen have an old relationship, after hearing his intentions, they refused: "Although Shaolin Temple is a temple, I am waiting for this matter to deal with only because the temple resists the 'Juntian Redemption Law', which has nothing to do with religion." Therefore, neither the mage nor the Inquisition has the right to interfere in this matter. After dawn, the Luoyang Mansion will send a scribe to the last ultimatum at the foot of the mountain, and if the monks in the temple are stubborn, we will attack the mountain. He shook his head, left Master Huizhen in place, walked to the side by himself, and checked the details of the attack with the marching Sima again, how to move the artillery to the established position, which parts of the temple should be bombarded, how the musketeers opened the net, let the monks flee to the plain, and then how to trample and kill with cavalry in turn, and so on.
Venerable Huizhen was a well-known monk in Guanzhong, but in the barracks, he could only watch from afar as the officers discussed how to attack the monastery.
The beating light of the fire illuminated the officers' faces uncertainly, and their shadows dragged long and tall to the ground.
Master Huizhen was stunned for a moment, and finally stomped his foot and stepped forward again. "Captain Yang," he said loudly, ignoring the sergeant's obstruction, "there is still room for change in this matter, and the old man will be persuaded by the envoy of Luoyang Mansion to the monks in the temple, and the old man is willing to take his life as a guarantee, and they will willingly hand over all the land deeds." ”