Everyone gasped when they saw it clearly.

Well, that's what happened.

At this time, Li Shimin naturally understood that he had been fooled, but when he saw Li Chengqian looking at the middle vividly, he seemed to be laughing at himself, so he said angrily: "Wan Che go and see." ”

Xue Wanche saw Cheng Wuting breaking a large piece of charcoal with one hand, and his heart was already itching, and when he heard this, he immediately walked to Dading and bent down to take out a piece of charcoal, and with one force with both hands, a lot of slag fell from the side of the charcoal, but the main part of the charcoal was still intact.

Xue Wanche's face immediately turned red, he stomped his foot suddenly, and finally broke the charcoal in his hand in half, and looked down to see that it was still black and swarthy, where was the shadow of gold?

Looking up at Li Chengqian in confusion, Li Shimin and the others all looked at Li Chengqian suspiciously.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian smiled faintly and said: "These bald donkeys are very thieves, and only a few pieces of such a large pile of charcoal have put gold in them. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to Da Ding and said, "Pour out all the charcoal inside, and the Lone King will tell you what kind of gold is in it." ”

When Xue Wanche heard this, he bent down and grabbed Da Ding's two legs, stared at him with two round eyes, and raised the two or three hundred catties of Da Ding above his head, and then leaned towards the open space next to him, and all the charcoal in it fell to the ground.

In the end, he shouted again and threw Da Ding into the open space where there was no one on the side, and Da Ding was thrown more than a foot away by him, and then he looked at Cheng Wuting triumphantly with both hands.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian touched Cheng Wuting with his cane and said, "Go and pick up the gold on the ground." ”

Everyone was stunned by Xue Wanche's infinite power just now, and when they looked down at it, there was a little yellow light in the coal pile, and they didn't know why they were all exposed.

Li Chengqian lifted his crutches and walked in front of Li Shimin while saying to everyone: "This is also a little trick, they first smashed the charcoal and then kneaded it with the mud to wrap some gold in it, and when the mud was dry, put it in the coal pile, ordinary people can't see it and think it's all coal mined from the mountains."

When they saw that they had burned gold out of the coals, the people who did not know it mistook it for magic. ”

Li Shimin was so angry that his face turned blue and glared at Xiao Yu angrily, Xiao Yu was also frightened at this time, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "Your Majesty's old ministers are also in the hands of these monks. ”

Xiao Rui, the commander of the horses, also hurriedly knelt behind Xiao Yu.

Li Shimin stared at Xiao Yu deadly, and his chest was full of thought about how to punish him.

Li Chengqian said lightly: "Mrs. Xiao, did you give them these golds?"

"The old minister didn't, the old minister didn't!" Xiao Yu hurriedly explained, if he admitted it, it would be a conspiracy to bully the king.

Li Chengqian turned his head to look at Xuanzang again, Xuanzang still calmly folded his hands and said, "The poor monk doesn't know either." ”

Li Chengqian nodded when he heard this, and muttered: "It seems that the monks of Famen Temple have hidden a lot of gold!" ”

"Song Guogong Xiao Yu does not know the general situation, believes in Buddhism, ignorance and ignorance, and even caused the monk to bully the monarch in person, it is advisable to stay away from the court, out of the small herd, remove its seal, and go out of the history of Shangzhou. The rest of the monks were disposed of by the crown prince. Li Shimin held back for a long time and finally punished Xiao Yu, which was to demote him from all official positions and become the assassin of Shangzhou.

Among the dozens of relatives and nobles who were invited today who usually have a good relationship with Xiao Yu, none of them came out to say a word for Xiao Yu.

Li Chengqian looked left and right, sighed and bowed to Li Shimin: "Father Xiao Yu is guilty of the people of Shangzhou, how can he be innocent?"

Father is going to send him to plague him?"

Xiao Yu, who was kneeling on the ground, listened to Li Shimin's words, his face was like ashes, and it took a long time to react that he should be grateful.

But suddenly heard Li Chengqian say that he went to assassinate the history of Shangzhou to harm the people, and he was so angry that he couldn't breathe, spit out a mouthful of blood and fainted.

"Father, father, Your Majesty ......" Xiao Rui, the captain of the horse, knelt on the ground and helped Xiao Yu with a crying voice.

Seeing this, Li Shimin snorted angrily and waved his hand, signaling to take Xiao Yu down.

Then he looked at Li Chengqian and said, "What does the prince think should be done with Xiao Yu?"

Li Chengqian took a deep breath when he heard this: "Meritorious service is meritorious, passing is excessive, Xiao Yu is already in his seventies, and he should not participate in the government for a long time, he will be demoted to a commoner, and he will never be hired and arranged to go to Jiucheng Palace for retirement." ”

Li Shimin thought about Xiao Yu vomiting blood and falling to the ground just now, nodded silently and turned to leave.

When Li Chengqian saw that Li Shimin was gone, he turned around and looked at Xuanzang and the monk with a smile, wanting to hear what else they had to say.

The other people who came to Xiao Yu's banquet followed Li Shimin out when they saw Li Chengqian's busy eyes, for fear that they would be contaminated with these monks and be cleaned up by Li Chengqian.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the poor monks, was also deceived by these monks, and begged His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to be gracious......" The monk said while kowtowing to Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian didn't look at him, sat down on the arhat couch brought by Liu Kui, and asked Xuanzang with a faint smile on his face: "Xuanzang, this is the Buddhism you believe in?"

Xuanzang looked calm, sat down cross-legged without saying a word, and then folded his hands and began to chant the scriptures silently.

Li Chengqian sneered, knowing that Xuanzang was pretending to be a dead pig, of course, some of them were pretending to be profound.

"Since you haven't returned to the territory of the Tang Dynasty, you have said that you have retrieved the Buddhist Mahayana scriptures from the Rotten Ketuo Temple in Tianzhu Kingdom, and it turns out that it is the art of these fools!" Li Chengqian said this, looking at Xuanzang's self-reciting scriptures.

Then he continued: "In the opinion of the lonely king, these scriptures you got back do not need to be translated, and they are just burned to clean up." ”

Xuanzang opened his eyes suddenly when he heard this, and saw the expression on Li Chengqian's face that seemed to be smiling, so he slowly closed his eyes and said slowly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knows that today's events have nothing to do with those scriptures, so why do you have to destroy them?"

"Huh!" Li Chengqian didn't expect Xuanzang's psychological endurance to be so strong, it seems that it is impossible to subdue him with words.

"Wang Fangyi brought the Buddha bones you brought back from Famen Temple and showed them to see if they were true or false."

Famen Temple hides a piece of relics that are said to be the finger bones of Shakyamuni Buddha, in history, when Tang Wuzong destroyed the Buddha, he ordered Famen Temple to destroy this Buddha bone, and the monks of Famen Temple only destroyed a fake Buddha bone at that time.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, every few decades, the imperial court had to hold a welcome Buddha bone, that is, the Buddha bone was welcomed from Famen Temple into Chang'an City, and each time the Buddha bone was very grand and costly.

Han Yu was once degraded to Chaozhou by Tang Xianzong because of his book to welcome the Buddha's bones, and there is a poem of "A book plays nine heavens, and the eight thousand Chaozhou roads are degraded at night".

Li Chengqian previously sent Wang Fangyi to Famen Temple to tell the monks left behind in Famen Temple to use Buddha bones to show supernatural powers and rescue the monks in Chang'an City, so he deceived this Buddha bone to come to Chang'an.

As soon as the monk heard that Li Chengqian had asked him to take the Buddha bones of Famen Temple, he didn't know what Li Chengqian was going to do, so he hurriedly climbed in front of Li Chengqian and said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, what are you going to do?"

Li Chengqian ignored him, Wang Fangyi took out the Buddha bone from the box and handed it to Hongfa and said, "Monk, see if this Buddha bone is true or false." ”

Kobo hurriedly took it carefully, took it carefully, lit the torch and looked at it carefully, nodded for a while, and said, "It's true!" As he spoke, he was about to carry it into his arms.

Wang Fangyi's eyes were quick, and he stretched out his hand and snatched it back from the hand of the Dharma propagation monk.

Li Chengqian looked at all this and said expressionlessly: "Smashed!" ”

When the monk heard this, he couldn't care about anything else and said loudly: "His Royal Highness the Prince, no! ”

Wang Fangyi also looked at Li Chengqian with some hesitation and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ......"

Li Chengqian turned a blind eye to all this, and said directly: "Please support you!" ”

"Yes!" Cheng Wuting snatched the Buddha bone from Wang Fangyi's hand without saying a word, turned around and walked out two steps, put the Buddha bone on the bluestone slab, and then grabbed a newly paved bluestone slab on the ground with his five fingers like a hook, and raised it high to smash it on the Buddha bone.

"His Royal Highness the Prince's Grace ......" The monk has been in tears, although he has used some treacherous techniques, but he can come to Chang'an from Famen Temple to rescue the monk who was imprisoned by Li Chengqian in Longshouyuan, and his character is actually not very bad.

Li Chengqian was still unmoved, glanced at Cheng Wuting and said, "Smash!" ”

"Slow!" I don't know when Xuanzang has gotten up and come to Cheng Wuting, hugging Cheng Wuting's arm to prevent him from smashing down.

Li Chengqian looked at Xuanzang expressionlessly and said, "Do you think you can stop it?"

Today, the lone king smashed this Buddha bone, and His Majesty will definitely issue an order to destroy the Buddha tomorrow morning. ”

Xuanzang knew that what Li Chengqian said was the truth, the Buddha bones of Famen Temple were too important to the Buddhism of the Tang Dynasty, if it was destroyed by Li Chengqian, the Buddhism of the world would inevitably be the enemy of Li Chengqian, and Li Chengqian's person would inevitably strike first.

It just so happens that Buddhism has just made a farce of 'turning stones into gold' here, which is equivalent to giving the knife to Li Chengqian.

Xuanzang is familiar with the Confucian classics and understands Li Chengqian's sentence "Spring, the general is like a tang watching fish", and it is not only Xiao Yu who asks but also the Confucians in the court.

Xuanzang lowered his head and silently kicked the Buddha bones on the ground with his feet, let go of Cheng Wuting, folded his hands and saluted Li Chengqian: "The poor monk is willing to serve His Royal Highness the Prince, and I also ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to command." ”

(End of chapter)