"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must not mistakenly believe the rumors, the poor monk is an ordinary man, if the flesh of the poor monk can really make people immortal, the poor monk will not hesitate to sacrifice his heart to help His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince live forever." Xuanzang saw that Li Chengqian was not joking, thinking that Li Chengqian believed the words of Xue Yi, the master of the Purple Mansion, and wanted to persecute him, so he hurriedly folded his hands and bowed deeply.

Li Chengqian looked at Xuanzang's panicked expression, smiled indifferently, and walked back to his seat and sat down.

Li Shimin hurriedly smiled and said, "Mage don't panic, the prince is joking with you." ”

Xuanzang looked at Li Chengqian and didn't look like he was going to eat him, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then took Li Chengqian and said: "There is no joke in the capital, how dare the poor monk use the words of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince as a joke." ”

Li Shimin frowned when he heard this, and glanced at Li Chengqian, Li Chengqian sneered in his heart, didn't answer Xuanzang's words, and asked directly: "I heard that you went to Tianzhu to get a lot of scriptures?"

Xuanzang thought that he had shocked Li Chengqian, and said calmly: "Exactly!" ”

"It just so happens that the Chongxian Pavilion of the East Palace is repairing the books, and the Lone King sent someone to take the scriptures and books you took back to the Chongxian Pavilion for preservation, and after they have finished revising the subset of Chinese scriptures and history, they will also translate and print the Buddhist scriptures you took back."

Tang Seng hurriedly said when he heard this: "His Royal Highness the Prince, these scriptures don't need to be sent to the Chongxian Pavilion, the poor monks can translate them......

Li Chengqian was unmoved, and said with a straight face: "Let Xue Rengui take the East Palace Guard to the Song State Mansion to bring the scriptures, Buddha statues and relics that Master Xuanzang took back from Tianzhu to the East Palace." ”

Hearing this, the old ghost hurriedly bowed down and said, "Obey the order!" Then he lowered his head and walked out in small steps to make arrangements.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, absolutely not!

Your Majesty! ”

Xuanzang was shocked when he heard this, he never thought that Li Chengqian would be so unreasonable.

If Li Shimin had come forward to stop Li Chengqian's misdeeds before, but now his trust in Li Chengqian has reached a new height, although he is very sympathetic to Xuanzang, he just comforted him and said: "Master don't worry, the prince has always been careful in his affairs and will not burn your scriptures." ”

Li Shimin didn't say that it was okay, but when he said that he might be burned, Xuanzang was even more frightened, and he couldn't care about any Buddhist etiquette anymore, so he knelt down on his knees and said with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness the Prince, those scriptures are all poor monks who walked tens of thousands of miles to get them back from Tianzhu, in order to return to the Buddhism of my Datang translated into Chinese characters and magnify my Datang and purify all sentient beings." The poor monk has never violated any of the laws of my Tang Dynasty, why is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince so ......" Xuanzang said this, seeing Li Chengqian's face getting colder and colder, he really didn't dare to say the words behind, he was really afraid that Li Chengqian would burn the scriptures he took back.

"Master Xuanzang, what do you want to say?" Li Chengqian asked lightly.

"The poor monk and the poor monk have nothing to say...... "No matter how many calamities Xuanzang has experienced to learn the scriptures, he absolutely can't bear the burning of the Buddhist scriptures he retrieved at this time."

"In that case, Master Xuanzang will go back first, and then come to the East Palace to see King Gu in a few days." Li Chengqian said expressionlessly.

Xuanzang wanted to say something when he heard this, but he was in a state of confusion at this time, and he couldn't say a word when he looked at Li Chengqian with an expressionless face, so he had to get up from the ground and walk out of the hall dejectedly.

Li Shimin couldn't bear to whisper to the attendant next to him: "Go and send Master Xuanzang, and give him a gilded red robe." ”

Hearing this, the chamberlain quietly bowed out.

Watching Xuanzang walk out of the palace gate, Li Shimin asked Li Chengqian angrily: "Chengqian, what are you doing to embarrass him?"

Li Chengqian smiled mysteriously when he heard this: "The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first work their muscles and bones......

"You want to reuse him?" Li Shimin immediately understood Li Chengqian's purpose, but he couldn't help but teach him: "Chengqian, this is your fault, since you want to reuse him, you should appease him well, why do you embarrass him?"

Li Chengqian looked at Li Shimin's bitter appearance, sighed and said: "Erchen doesn't want to embarrass him, but if someone like Xuanzang doesn't embarrass him, how can he be willing to be used by me." And if we blindly favor him, he will inevitably intercede for the monks in Chang'an City, what will the ministers do then?"

Li Shimin hurriedly said: "This is your mistake, knowing that he will intercede for the monks in Chang'an, you just need to use this as a bargaining chip to let him do things for you, why take away the scriptures that he worked so hard to get back?"

Li Shimin has always been ashamed of Xiao Yu and the monks in Chang'an City, it was he who asked Xiao Yu to find a way to corrupt Li Chengqian's popularity, and later Xiao Yu and the whole

Chang'an Buddhism was retaliated against by Li Chengqian, but he and Li Chengqian reconciled......

Li Chengqian glanced at Li Shimin and knew what he was thinking, and said with a low smile: "Father and Emperor don't know that the household department expects that the silver money collected by the imperial court today is not enough, and the sons have already ordered the bronze objects in the temples seized in Chang'an City to be melted down and minted money, including those Buddha statue......s and some gold dust."

Li Shimin stretched out his finger and pointed at Li Chengqian when he heard this, and was speechless for a long time, and finally said hatefully: "Why are you so lawless?

Didn't you cut off the roots of Chang'an Buddhism?

How can the Buddhists in this world rest with you?"

Seeing this, Li Chengqian sneered in his heart and said: If it weren't for you, I would still let the Buddha be born in the world?

But he said with a smile on his face: "So Erchen has to subdue Xuanzang." ”

Li Shimin pondered for a while when he heard this: "What are you going to let Xuanzang do?"

Li Chengqian smiled mysteriously and said, "This son hasn't thought about it yet. ”

Li Shimin said angrily: "Say it quickly!" I will listen and see if it is feasible, if it is not feasible, I will find a way. ”

Seeing this, Li Chengqian no longer sold Guanzi, and said directly: "The sons want Xuanzang to admit that their father and sons are Lafayettes." ”

Li Shimin was puzzled when he heard this: "What are you doing as Lafayette?"

"Father, you think, Chinese Confucianism and Taoism both call Your Majesty the true son of heaven, only this group of monks does not respect the monarch's father, does not follow filial piety, and says some kind of false reasoning and heresy such as karma.

The monks did not accept the conscription, and the monastery's land did not pay rent and tax to the imperial court, but they did not accept the people's donations, and the land was rented out and the people's tenants were collected, and they got it all day without work, and some monks secretly married wives and had sons, and they lived more comfortably than the royal family.

They must be controlled, otherwise in a few years, all the lazy people in the world will enter the temple, and the fields and properties will be hung in the name of the temple, and the court can only raise a butcher's knife to destroy the Buddha. ”

Li Shimin nodded while listening, but in the end he still said: "It's okay to control Buddhism, it's just that I can be called Lafayette by them." ”

Li Chengqian thought about it, Lafayette was a title for the later Manchu emperors, and it was indeed unacceptable to put it on Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty. Then I can only make up a script, but this script has to be endorsed by Xuanzang, saying that it is the scripture he took back from Tianzhu.

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