"Master, it's dark, and the Buddhist temples in Chang'an City have been banned by His Royal Highness the Prince, where are we staying tonight?" Jiashang's meaning is very clear, whether to go back to Xiao Mansion now.

Hearing this, Xuanzang sat down cross-legged and looked up at Tiandao: "The current weather, let's chant here tonight!" After saying that, he closed his eyes and chanted in his mouth: "Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a ......."

Several other monks looked at Xuanzang's style, and they didn't know what to do for a while, they had already thought of a place in their hearts when they heard Jiashang's question just now.

Puguang hesitated for a moment and said directly: "Master, this is not far from the mansion of Old Duke Xiao......

Hearing this, Xuanzang stopped chanting, looked up at the sky, and then looked at the disciples standing beside him and asked, "What is a Buddha?"

After saying that, Xuanzang looked up at the sky again.

"Buddha ......"

A few disciples looked at each other and didn't know what to say?

Xuanzang looked at the sky at dusk and said leisurely: "Buddha is everywhere!" ”

Jia Shang was stunned when he heard this, and his eyes lit up and said: "Master and disciple understand, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is telling us today not to be too obsessed with external objects, and the Buddha statues in temples are all foreign objects." ”

Xuanzang nodded slightly when he heard this, then closed his eyes and stopped talking.

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In the afternoon of the next day, Li Chengqian summoned Xuanzang in the Chongjiao Hall.

Li Chengqian looked at Xuanzang with a faint smile on his face and said: "Master Xuanzang has been really busy in the past two days, King Gu sent someone to invite you yesterday, but only now is he free to see King Lone." ”

Xuanzang said calmly when he heard this: "It's not that the poor monk is busy, it's His Majesty who summoned the poor monk in the morning." ”

Hearing this, Li Chengqian nodded and asked, "King Gu heard that His Majesty asked you to return to the rank of official, why did you refuse?"

Hearing this, Xuanzang folded his hands, lowered his head and said expressionlessly: "The poor monk has no intention of returning to the Buddha with all his heart. ”

Xuanzang thought that Li Chengqian would also force him to be a vulgar official, so he put on the appearance of a favoritist.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian chuckled and said: "The monk's dedication to the Buddha is indeed admirable, but the lonely king heard that the Buddhist family pays attention to purifying sentient beings, I don't know if the monk can have the wish of purifying sentient beings?"

Xuanzang was stunned for a moment, and then showed an excited look, but soon he calmed down again, and said calmly: "Although the poor monk has this wish, he is only capable and humble, and he may not be able to take on this great responsibility." ”

Li Chengqian looked at Xuanzang and sneered slightly: "The monk really doesn't have any good things, to borrow a sentence from Confucius, if you really can't do it, you should give up halfway, but you haven't done it yet, and you have drawn a boundary for yourself......"

This is the words of Confucius to teach his disciple Ran Qiu: Those who lack strength will be abandoned in the middle of the way, and now you are painting.

Xuanzang was erudite and knowledgeable, so he naturally knew that Li Chengqian was using the words in the Analects, so he also quietly said with a sentence from Mencius: "I don't know whether the prince's palace wants the poor monks to coerce Mount Tai to surpass the Beihai or break branches for the elderly." ”

This is the words of Mencius to the king of Liang Hui, which means that I really can't carry Mount Tai to Beihai, but I can do something like breaking a branch for an old man.

Li Chengqian smiled confidently and said: "With the Lone King here, even if he wants to blackmail Mount Tai and surpass Beihai, it is the Lone King and the ministers of the court to do it, and the monk only needs to do some small things to break branches for the elders." ”

Xuanzang didn't hesitate anymore when he heard this, folded his hands and bowed his head: "The poor monk is willing to serve His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Li Chengqian nodded with a smile and said, "So good!" Master, please be seated. ”

Xuanzang thanked him and sat down on the chair on the right side of the hall.

Li Chengqian glanced at Liu Kui, the little chamberlain beside him, and Liu Kui hurriedly picked up the "Legend of Heaven and Earth" and handed it to Xuanzang.

Xuanzang took it with both hands and looked at the book cover, then raised his head, looked at Li Chengqian, and wondered what he meant?

Li Chengqian looked at Xuanzang with a smile and said: "This is a scripture that the master took back from Tianzhu and the Lone King found someone to translate it, the master will take a look at it first and then preach this scripture well!" ”

Xuanzang's face showed joy when he heard this, and he held the book in both hands and said: This prince is really a person with deep Buddha nature.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly looked down, but I only turned a few pages and found that the content was very different from the Buddhist scriptures.

Xuanzang is proficient in Sanskrit, and although the scriptures he retrieved have not yet been translated into Chinese, he has long been familiar with them, and it is certain that there is absolutely no book given to him by Li Chengqian.

Xuanzang raised his head and looked at Li Chengqian suspiciously: "His Royal Highness the Prince, this, what is said in this book seems to be different from the Buddhist scriptures. ”

Li Chengqian still smiled and said: "Master, this is also a scripture for crossing people. ”

Xuanzang didn't know what Li Chengqian was going to do, or he wasn't sure what Li Chengqian wanted, so he said with an indifferent smile on his face when he heard this: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thinks that he was deceived by a villain, this is a strange force and chaos How can it be called a scripture of crossing people?"

Li Chengqian watched Xuanzang's face gradually become more stern, knowing that this monk has profound Buddhist theories, and if he just reasoned with him, he was afraid that he would not be satisfied.

"Strange powers?

Do you think the Lone King doesn't know what the Buddha is?

Which of the eighteen layers of hell that your Buddhism talks about is not a strange force and a god?"

"Uh......" Xuanzang was speechless for a moment.

"You say that the Eighteen Hells are Buddhist scriptures, and the Lone King says that the supreme of heaven and earth is the Jade Emperor of Heaven and the Emperor of the world, and that the gods are strange and chaotic?"

Yes, this "Legend of Heaven and Earth" was adapted by Li Chengqian with the help of the later generations of the Flood and Famine, but the central idea is that under the two emperors who classify all religions, the two emperors are the emperors of the jade of the heavenly court.

The heavenly part of each religion must be sealed by the Jade Emperor in order to be protected by the luck of heaven and earth, and the part on earth must be sealed by the emperor in order to preach to the world, and each religion must pay tribute to the heavenly court and the imperial court on time.

This is the relationship of vassals, and Buddhism has always relied on the fact that he is an outsider, and the monks who believe that they are outsiders, and they are all in violation of the Chinese emperor and the imperial decrees.

And because the Buddhists are in charge of the cause and effect of the eighteenth layer of hell, in order to be able to cultivate an afterlife, they are very respectful to the monks, and they have always turned a blind eye to their violations of law and discipline.

But if Xuanzang preaches according to Li Chengqian's scripture, then Buddhism will have no capital to confront the imperial court in the future.

After a few words of questioning by Li Chengqian, Xuanzang has understood Li Chengqian's intentions, and in Chang'an City in the past few days, he has also known some of Li Chengqian's methods, such as Li Chengqian's use of propaganda to suppress Buddhism, instead of just ordering the suppression of Buddhism like the previous imperial court.

Xuanzang looked at Li Chengqian, he could confirm that Li Chengqian really wanted to use Buddhism and him, but once he fulfilled Li Chengqian's wishes, then Buddhism would also disappear from the Tang Dynasty, and he would be a sinner of Buddhism.

Xuanzang got up calmly and then put the "Legend of Heaven and Earth" in his hand on the chair he was sitting on, then walked to the center of the main hall, folded his hands and solemnly saluted Li Chengqian: "Prince Xie is very kind, but he can't read this scripture poorly, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to complete the important task of transmitting the scriptures." ”

Without waiting for Li Chengqian to say anything, he turned around and walked out.

Li Chengqian's face turned pale, Xuanzang, the person who turned around and left after talking to him like this since he crossed over is the second, the first is the eldest grandson Wuji, and he is now on the way to Hainan Island.

"Monk, the scriptures that your mother came back are all in the East Palace!" Li Chengqian coldly reminded Xuanzang.

Xuanzang paused when he heard this, and then walked out of the palace directly.

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