Great Mercy & Grace Temple.

"The eldest princess rejected our offer?" Master Sanzang's tone sounded flat.

Well, she said that the views in the Fengshen list are only the author's, and the serialization does not represent the attitude of the newspaper. She also said that we can also find an author to write a book to worship Buddha, as long as the writing is as good as the list of gods, then Chang'an Newspaper can also print and serialize. The governor monk of the Great Ci'en Temple said with some anxiety that he had gone to the Chang'an Newspaper several times to give him the matter handed over to him by the abbot, but he had not been able to negotiate it once.

Master Sanzang's name is Xuanzang, and the layman's name is Chen Yi, Xuanzang is his Dharma name, and Master Sanzang is an honorific title given to him by others.

In the Tang Dynasty, Master Sanzang was an honorific title for those who were proficient in the scriptures, Vinayas, and treatises on the Three Tibetans in the sacred texts of Buddhism, also known as the Sanzang Bhikshus, the Sanzang Holy Master or the abbreviated Sanzang, and the monks who translated the Buddhist scriptures from India and the Western Regions into Chinese were often called the Sanzang or Sanzang Master.

Xuanzang is just one of the more famous Sanzang masters.

Xuanzang, 54 years old this year, once traveled 50,000 miles west in the first year of Zhenguan, and arrived at Nalanda Temple, the center of Indian Buddhism, to obtain the true scriptures, and learned all kinds of theories of the great and small Theravada at that time in 17 years, bringing back a total of 150 Buddha relics, seven Buddha statues, 657 scriptures, and has been engaged in translating Buddhist scriptures for a long time.

He and his disciples translated a large number of Buddhist songs, among which the famous translations include the Great Prajna Sutra, the Heart Sutra, the Profound Tantric Sutra, and the Yoga Master Treatise.

"Do you want to write a book about Buddha?"

Xuanzang was thoughtful.

Since he presided over the Great Mercy and Grace Temple, he founded the Faxiangzong, and has been actively engaged in translating the scriptures brought back from the scriptures, and he is not too concerned about the mundane affairs in the temple.

But the recent popularity of the god list has had a great impact on the Buddhist family, and even affected the incense of the Great Ci'en Temple.

As a monk, no matter how indifferent you are, you can't be indifferent enough to see the loss of believers.

What's more, Xuanzang has also read the chapters of the Fengshen List that have been serialized, and thinks that this is this god and demon Zhiwei, which is not a factual history at all, but he also has to admit that this book is very wonderful, but it does have serious private goods, and many Buddhas of the Buddhist family are written as disciples of their Taoist immortals, which is too much.

"Abbot, the little monk thinks that the eldest princess of Tamase still holds a grudge against the past." The governor of the monk's way.

The so-called events of the year are naturally the absurd things that Tamase had with Xuanzang's apprentice when she was still Princess Gaoyang. Originally, although the affairs of the two were full of wind and rain, they would not make trouble to the end, but later some people in their Buddhist family couldn't get used to this matter and did something tricky, so the golden pillow that Gao Yang gave to the debate machine was stolen by a thief, and then the thief was caught by Yongzhou Mansion again, and the golden pillow was pulled out, so in the end, the princess and the debate machine cheated in court, and finally let Xuanzang's proud disciple be beheaded, and the princess was ghosted.

Originally, the debate monk was Xuanzang's proud disciple and assisted him in translating many Buddhist scriptures, and even Xuanzang's book of the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions written based on his westward journey to seek scriptures was also dictated by him and compiled by the debate machine records.

Xuanzang once regarded the debate machine as his successor, the next generation of abbots of the future Daci'en Temple.

Back then, it was the Buddhists' own people who did it inside, the debate machine was killed, the reputation of the Great Ci'en Temple was greatly damaged, Xuanzang lost his beloved disciple, and Gao Yang was also severely punished and was imprisoned in the house for several years.

It is normal for the eldest princess to have grievances.

"I have a debate machine to write the Tang Dynasty Western Regions Twelve volumes, is the debate machine according to my dictation and collated and written, the time is the time to describe my journey to the west personally experienced more than 110 countries and rumored 28 countries of mountains, rivers, land, products, customs, etc., this book is not a Buddhist scripture, but it is also well written, you take it to the eldest princess to read, just say that our Great Ci'en Temple wants to serialize this travelogue in the Chang'an News."

"I'm afraid they may not be willing to publish serialization."

"You are the governor monk who deals with these mundane affairs, don't you know how to be flexible? Louguan Taoist Shengguan spent a lot of money to buy the copyright of the Fengshen List, and also spent a lot of money to buy advertising space on the Chang'an News Newspaper, and we can too. Louguan Dao out of the money Li family's printing workshop to print the Daozang, we can also print Buddhist scriptures, this printing printing scriptures, is indeed fast and cheap, we can also print. ”

Tang Seng retrieved those scriptures back then, there were more than 600 of them, and more than 70 of them have been translated over the years, with more than 1,300 volumes. Only a few copies of these retrieved scriptures have been copied over the years, and the translated scriptures have likewise only copied a few copies of the collection.

And the people of Lou Guan Dao now began to print a large number of Taoist collections, at every turn a Taoist scripture printed thousands of copies, distributed everywhere, the spread of this influence is huge, people also through the newspaper advertising, serial Chongdao, Xuanzang believes that these are worth learning from.

The Temple of Great Mercy and Grace was built by the current emperor, so it is very large, the incense is very prosperous, and there is enough money to support it. What the Zongsheng Temple can do, of course they can do.

They print the Taoist Tibet, and the Great Mercy and Grace Temple can print Buddhist scriptures.

They published the god list, and the Great Ciyin Temple can serialize Journey to the West.

Didn't Chang'an Newspaper say that it was neutral? Then throw money, as long as there is enough money to smash down, they will naturally be neutral.

The influence of Buddhism can also be bought with money, for example, if you have money, you can build magnificent monasteries, if you have money, you can translate more scriptures, you can do more rituals, you can spread Buddhism more widely, you can compete for more believers, and you can even make friends with the powerful people in the court and speak more for them.

After all, he is a monk who has walked 50,000 miles, Xuanzang is not the kind of person who only knows how to recite the Book of Death, he is a person who knows how to be flexible.

The governor monk is like an initiation.

"Abbot, speaking of advertisements, I heard a message in the Chang'an newspaper today. It is said that Li Xiao, the pacification envoy of Anton Jinglu and the assassin of Wuzhenzhou, wanted to place an advertisement in the Chang'an News, saying that a grand slave auction would be held next month in the port of Chishanpu in Dengzhou, and that 8,000 slaves would be auctioned at that time, so that interested people from all over the world could go to the auction. ”

After Xuanzang listened, his brows furrowed.

This is indeed quite amazing news.

"Is the news true?"

"Absolutely."

"In this case, you can go to Dengzhou yourself, and if the price is right, you can buy more slaves and come back."

Don't think that Buddhism and Taoism are all monks, so they are really beyond the world.

In fact, neither of the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism is truly transcendent from the world. Some Taoists are more transcendent, but few Buddhists are truly transcendent.

In the monasteries of the Tang Dynasty, a large number of slaves and maids were generally raised, and the ratio of monks to slaves and maids was more than two to one, while the ratio of monks to slaves and maids in some famous temples was even one to two and one to ten and higher.

Ordinary temples have an average of about 20 slaves and maids, and as one of the royal temples, the Great Mercy and Grace Temple, although the temple was established only eight years ago, because it was built by the emperor, the temple was huge from the beginning, and it has a huge temple property.

It was given a large number of fields, slaves and maids, and was presided over by Xuanzang, which became famous, attracting a large number of believers to offer incense, so that the money of this great temple of mercy and grace has increased continuously over the years. Xuanzang personally designed and built the Big Wild Goose Pagoda before, but it only cost a dime.

Ordinary temples have dozens of slaves and maids, but well-known temples such as Daci'en Temple and Daxingshan Temple have thousands of slaves and maids.

The Daxingshan Temple, which was once the royal temple of the Sui Dynasty, is said to have more than 3,000 slaves and maidservants at its most prosperous time.

And now the Great Mercy Grace Temple, there are more than 1,000 slaves and maids, so many slaves and maids are not only engaged in some chores in the temple, but also a large number of production and labor in the temple fields and temples outside the temple.

Although the internal law of Buddhism prohibits the keeping of slaves and maids, the monasteries have used a document to change the name of slaves and maids to pure people.

Those Buddhists used this way of secretly changing concepts to enslave slaves and maids, and said to the outside world that the temples were all pure people, and there were no servants. But the actual pure man is a slave and a maid. For example, in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, Taizong gave Ximing Temple a hundred houses for purifying people, and gave hundreds of slaves and maids to one hundred households at one time.

The temple needs slaves and maids to farm and cultivate the land, slaves and maids need to work, and slaves and maids need to clean and serve, and the larger the temple, the larger the temple property, the greater the demand for slaves and maids.

In addition to the rewards from the imperial court, the pure people of each temple took the initiative to buy them outside. There is a cattle and horse market in Chang'an City, and there are slaves and maids in it.

However, in recent years, the world has been relatively peaceful, the source of slaves and maids has decreased greatly, and the price has risen, so it is not so easy to buy and sell slaves and maids.

And Li Xiao wants to hold a slave auction in Dengzhou, auctioning 8,000 slaves and maids at a time, this news is amazing. Even Xuanzang, who usually doesn't care too much about secular affairs, was surprised and personally instructed the governor monk to go to Dengzhou to buy slaves and maids.

"If the price is right, lower than Chang'an's, then buy more."

The Great Ci'en Temple has money, a lot of land, and even a lot of their own workshops, although they have more than 1,000 people, but it is still far from enough. Daxingshan Temple has more than 3,000 pure people, far exceeding the Great Mercy Temple.

Chang'an News has not yet been officially printed and sold, but an advertisement in this latest issue has already been widely advertised.

The news that there were 8,000 Goguryeo slaves and maids to be sold in Chishanpu in Dengzhou did not go away, and in a blink of an eye, it had spread throughout the entire Chang'an City.

Hearing the news, many people were ready to move.

In these years, slaves are in great market demand, there is no market, slaves and maids are in demand at all times, but the market supply has been insufficient, especially in recent years, it is more and more in short supply.

Eight thousand slaves and maids appeared all of a sudden, how could this not be a sensation.

Like a shark that smells fishy, the families of the nobles and magnates in Chang'an have been asking for the news everywhere.

Even Li Zhi, the emperor in the Taiji Palace, was shocked by the news.

"Who? Li Xiao wants to auction 8,000 slaves in Dengzhou, Goguryeo slaves? Where did he get the eight thousand slaves and maidservants? What the hell is going on? ”

The emperor asked Master Zhang, the commander of the Hundred Cavalry Division, with a bewildered look.