"It's amazing, Heiankyo seems to be more prosperous than ever." Abe said as he walked down the road and looked at the shops around him.

Due to Shirakawa's rush to retreat, Abe Yasujin was not taken away by Shirakawa, but stayed behind and continued to serve as the imperial onmyoji of the imperial court.

"yes, the law and order has also improved... It's when the head on the city gate will be put down, it stinks every time you pass by. Yuan Weiyi said helplessly.

"The Marquis of Pingyin is really powerful, in troubled times, all those who dare to steal and other illegal acts are caught and all do coolies, and those who dare to rob are all beheaded for public display, and the people are summoned to repair the buildings destroyed because of the war, and distribute money and food, and the thieves who we have used for hundreds of years have not been able to solve, and they have disappeared in less than five days." Ampere Taiqing said with some emotion.

"How much does this buckwheat cake cost?"

"Two pennies!"

"Two pennies? It's a lot cheaper than before. Gen Weiyi paid for two buckwheat cakes and handed one to Abe said.

"Your little ticket, welcome to come back next time." The shopkeeper handed Yuan Weiyi a small receipt and said.

"Well, all merchants' business taxes only need to be paid during the transaction, and any entry taxes have been abolished, and this... It's called a small ticket, right? Abe took the receipt and said, "Take this as proof of income, and then draw a lottery from the small ticket every five days, with a maximum reward of 100 taels of silver, and the tax burden will be reduced, and business will naturally be easy to do." ”

"But if the tax burden is lowered, won't the money received be less?" Yuan Wei asked puzzled.

Abe thought for a moment and said, "I don't understand this, but Song Guo can be so rich, it must make sense for them to do this." ”

Yuan Weiyi looked around, and then said in a low voice, "It's been almost a month, will the Song people leave?" I heard that His Majesty the Emperor is already gathering the samurai of the Kanto region, and if it weren't for the Song people, I'd be really worried. ”

Abe looked at the bustling streets of Heiankyo and said, "Leave... I'm afraid it's time for them to leave. ”

"Yiyi..."Yuan Weiyi stammered these two words a little.

Yiyi, in the Japanese language, originally meant to work together and unite as one, but later it became a riot or uprising of peasants or other forces.

Undercurrents are surging!

On this night, the bells of Saionji Temple and Enryakuji Temple suddenly rang loudly, and thousands of monks gathered together, carrying Buddha statues and portable shrines, and marching in a procession through the city.

Some of them knocked on wooden fish, some held swords in their hands, wore hats, and chanted Buddha names, and the sound of scriptures in unison shook the whole of Heian Kyoto.

Listening to the faint sound of the Buddha's horn, Toba in the palace looked at Fujiwara in confusion and said, "Lord Sekihaku, is this really the case?" Isn't it almost a month? Isn't that a bit too risky? ”

Fujiwara faithfully shook his head and said, "The Song people are attacking everywhere in Kansai, dividing the fields and cutting the land, I'm afraid that after a month, there will be a new excuse not to leave, and we must give them some pressure." ”

Toba nodded, agreeing with Fujiwara's faithful statement, but he always felt uneasy in his heart.

The monks and soldiers of the brigade made the people also commotion, they looked at the mighty monks, some knelt down and kowtowed, some hid to the side, and some followed behind to watch the excitement, but when they found that the direction of the monks was the Pingyin Marquis Mansion, they felt that something was wrong.

Toba and others are still doing a good job of pushing the boat down the river, after Jiang De said that he wanted to live in Heiankyo for a while, he immediately found a die-hard Shirakawa minister's house for Jiang De to live, because of the control of the city gate, Jiang De was not worried about anything serious, only put a guard battalion by his side, and the other troops were stationed outside the city.

"Were these monks the first to do it?" Jiang De stood on the lookout and looked at the torches in the distance and said.

For more than half a month, Jiang De built this courtyard like a castle, and built a large number of lookouts and arrow towers, although Toba and the others were uneasy, they did not dare to step forward to stop them.

"The monks of Xiyuan Temple and Yanqing Temple have been dispatched, they carry Buddha statues and portable shrines, it is said that when Bai He was there, they also did this, and Bai He had no choice but to agree to their requests every time." Xu Guanzhong said to Jiang De.

"Hehe, if they think we are the Emperor of Shirakawa, then they are wrong, give the order, prepare for battle!" Jiang De waved his hand and said.

When the monk came to the Pingyin Marquis's mansion, Jiang De put on a mask and asked Xu Guanzhong to go out to deal with it first.

Xu Guanzhong walked out under the cover of a group of sergeants and said to the group of monks, "Who are you?" Don't you know that this is the mansion of the Marquis of Pingyin? Is it because you want to gather here to plot evil? ”

A kind-eyed monk walked out and said in Chinese, "The poor monk Tiantai Seat Lord Fajue, I heard that His Royal Highness the Marquis of Pingyin has a fate with the Buddha, and I have come to cross it." ”

"How to cross?" Xu Guanzhong asked.

"Please ask Your Highness and the poor monk to return to the mountain and shave your hair for three years."

"Bold!" Niu Gao, who was behind Xu Guanzhong, said angrily: "How can you be, since you dare to ask our Hou Ye to become a monk?" If we don't retreat, we will be blamed for being polite. ”

"Maybe it's fate that hasn't arrived, but please return 276 Buddha lands from Kansai countries, with a total of 110,000 stones." Fa Jue never thought that he could fool the marquis of the Song Kingdom into becoming a monk in the Wa Kingdom, so he told his true purpose.

"What you said is interesting, under the world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister, the Buddha land is only in the Western Heaven Elysium, I don't know where the master found the two hundred and seventy-six Buddha lands? Xu Guanzhong asked with a smile.

"Your Excellency wants to tease the poor monks, your army privately divides the fields in the Kansai countries, and many of those fields belong to our Yanqing Temple and other temples, do you want to become an enemy of the Buddha by doing this?"

With Fa Jue's words, the monks and soldiers behind Fa Jue roared in unison, looking at the scene in front of them, where was there any solemnity of Buddhism, it was more like a group of demons dancing.

"Buddha enemy, what a big hat." Jiang De said with a smile in the hidden place.

Tamamo, who was wearing a kimono, poured wine for Jiang De and persuaded him, "Your Highness, don't underestimate these monks, the Wa Kingdom is different from the Central Plains, the monks are very arrogant, and the people are ignorant, and most of them are towards the monks." ”

Jiang De said lightly, "You are wrong, the people will always be strong." ”

As he spoke, the people outside also gathered together, and they listened to the monks shouting in unison, "Buddha enemy!" They couldn't help but whisper to each other.

"What's going on? Do the masters say that the Song people are enemies of the Buddha? ”

"I heard that the Song people confiscated the land of the temple in various countries."

"The land of the temple belongs to the Buddha, this is really disrespectful, Amitabha, Buddha bless!"

"Yes, angering the Buddha will definitely bring disaster."

"Hey..."

"The land is not your temple's, but the people have worked hard to reclaim it, if you monks just don't do anything to produce, eat vegetarian food, fast, chant scriptures and worship Buddha, and purify all sentient beings, but you eat meat and drink wine, kill people with rods, plunder women, and rob the people, I want to ask, are you worshipping Buddha or demons?" Xu Guanzhong reprimanded angrily.

Fajue couldn't help but be a little annoyed and angry, the origin of Japanese Buddhism was to come to Prince Shotoku to determine its state religion, and sent Tang envoys to learn directly from the Central Plains, so many aspects are to imitate the Central Plains Buddhism, but combined with the local situation of the Wa Kingdom, in many canons have been restored.

Central Plains Buddhism eats fasting because of the will of Emperor Wu of Liang when he destroyed the Buddha, so it is understandable that Japanese monks eat meat, but there is no sect of the scriptures that say that you can kill people with a rod, plunder women, and rob the people, after all, Buddhism is not the other two sects, and it is eager to kill all the infidels.

In the final analysis, it was the result of the secularization of Buddhism in Japan due to the absolute rule of the aristocracy.

The nobles of the Wa Kingdom were extremely popular in the Heian period, but they hated the Qing rules and precepts to be observed after becoming a monk, so the Wa Buddhism tried every possible way to find a reason for these nobles to continue to enjoy themselves after becoming a monk, and at the same time, the Buddhist sects of the Wa Kingdom were mainly Shingon and Tiantai at this time, among which Yanqing Temple was the Tiantai sect, and its founding patriarch advocated the precept of no precepts, believing that the formal precepts were not important, and that as long as the bodhicitta was developed, all living beings had the opportunity to become Buddhas.

This theory led to the later development of Buddhism as a special profession inherited from father to son, and it is worth mentioning that the Vinaya inherited from the Tang Dynasty was already in decline during this period.

Therefore, Xu Guanzhong's words just now made Fajue and even more monks feel that Xu Guanzhong is towards the Vinaya, which is already a sectarian dispute.

And religious sectarian strife is often endless.

Fa Jue said, "The donor is ridiculous, the Buddhists are fateful, do you still want all the donors not to get meaty?" As for marrying wives, most of them are laymen, can't the laymen of the Song Kingdom marry wives? ”

What Fa Jue didn't expect was that Xu Guanzhong was also a person who was proficient in Buddhism, and said, "The Buddha said that the Buddha should change the scriptures: The Buddha told the monks. There are two things. Destroy the law. What is two. 1. Do not protect the precepts. Don't take their hearts. Do not cultivate wisdom. A wife raises a child. Rest assured. Jia Zuozhisheng. Live together. Second, accompany the party. Those who hate the law. Desire to fall. Therefore, it is the meaning of words. It's called deceit. Guilty of guilt. Outside the pretense of innocence. It's for two things. Destroy the law. Hum! I don't care what kind of sect you are cultivating, but it is definitely not a real Buddhist sect! But you are a Buddhist in the Wa Kingdom, and we don't care if you are a Buddha or a demon, but if you besiege it again, this place will be a river of blood. ”

Fa Jue was so angry that he only felt that his head was bruised, he just wanted to build momentum this time, but he didn't expect to be so humiliated, but thinking of the Song army stationed outside, he still couldn't help but say, "Since you are Song people, please return our territory." ”

"Unless you are also a Song person, how can we take care of your Japanese affairs?" Xu Guanzhong said.

Fajue couldn't stand it anymore, for so many years, even Bai He didn't dare to say that about him, he shouted, "Do you want to destroy the Buddha? ”

Hearing the signal, the monks chanted the Buddha horn in unison, and began to lift the Buddha statue and the portable shrine and approach forward.

Xu Guanzhong pulled out his sword with a sigh, drew a line on the ground, and shouted, "Die if you cross this line!" Don't be unpredictable! ”

"Crossbow ready!" Niu Gao shouted loudly, and after speaking, he drew his double mace, and the sergeants of the guard also aimed their steel spears at the monk.

Fa Jue looked at the archers who were already standing on the arrow tower with a bow against him with some worry, and the neat array of guns also made him feel dizzy.

But he didn't plan to retreat, or he couldn't retreat, it was a field of 110,000 stones, and if he couldn't get it back, he might not be able to sit firmly in the position of the lord of the Tiantai Throne.

The monk continued to approach, and finally, a monk's foot stepped over the line drawn by Xu Guanzhong.

"Shoot the arrows!" Niu Gao shouted.

"Boom!" Dozens of strong bows and crossbows were fired in unison, dozens of arrows and feathers shot at the monks, suddenly, dozens of monks were shot to the ground on the spot, these mountain mages were originally a group of people who were not afraid of heaven and earth, seeing that it was really fighting, the Buddha on his shoulder suddenly threw it to the ground, pulled out his weapon and began to charge.

"Thorn!" Niu Gao stood behind the pikemen and ordered, the extremely close pikemen of the platoon stabbed forward together, then the second platoon stabbed again, and finally the third platoon stabbed again, and the three rows of 100 pikemen blocked the gate of the mansion tightly, and the monks and soldiers suffered heavy casualties under the joint blow.

Looking at this scene, the people of the Japanese country were almost stupid, and many people knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, muttering and praying for the blessing of the Buddha.

Jiang De, who was standing on the arrow tower, looked at this scene and snorted coldly, he was deeply influenced by Han culture, he didn't look down on these Japanese monks at all, not doing anything was already the original sin, and he still wanted to occupy the land and affect the political situation, who would die if you didn't die?

"Put a signal and let the armies enter the city!" Jiang De shouted, and the sergeant next to him immediately took out a firework and released it into the sky.

Toba, who was in the palace, looked at the fireworks flying into the sky, and only felt that his heart sank, and after a while, someone came to report the battle that broke out outside the gate of the Pingyin Marquis Mansion.

"Haha, in this way, the Song people can no longer stay in our Wa Kingdom." Fujiwara slapped his face and laughed.

Toba felt that it would not be so simple, and he asked, "The Song people even dare to disrespect the Buddha, will they still be afraid of us?" ”

Fujiwara was speechless for a moment.

The Pingyin troops stationed in various places began to assemble as early as the appearance of the monks, and when they saw the signal, they immediately launched an attack, and the people of Heiankyo only felt that this scene was so familiar, as if it was repeated a scene a month ago.