The next day it rose in the east, but it couldn't melt away the snow that had accumulated that night.

Dong Cechen returned to the house after practice, wiped his body with a warm wet cloth, changed his clothes, put on a black sheep fur and walked outside the house, and asked a guard to find Mayor Fan.

"Say hello to the national teacher." Mayor Fan smiled and walked over to give a salute.

Dong Ce nodded and said, "Let's go, let's go shopping." ”

"Yes!" Mayor Fan knew that the national teacher was going to choose a location.

Fanjia Town is not big, seventy percent of the people are surnamed Fan, it can be said that it is still an ancestor, after the founding heroes of the previous dynasty, now there are more than two hundred years, these years, all the famous Fan family people here, after death are enshrined in the Fan family ancestral hall, but also make the ancestral hall built unusually generous, incense all year round.

"There are now 930 households in Fanjia Town, but when the population was registered half a year ago, it was less than 3,000."

Dong Ce nodded and said, "It seems that he has been implicated a lot." ”

"Alas, first the evil way Taiping drug addiction broke out, and then the White Lotus demonic words confused the public, many children of the Fan family have entered the White Lotus Sect, and they are killed everywhere in these three states, they are dead and crippled, and when the orphans and widows at home have no one to take care of them, they suddenly wake up!" Mayor Fan sighed, raised his head and said, "There's nothing to complain about, the old man is looking forward to it, don't happen in the future, forget about the past." ”

Dong Ce paused, looked at a dilapidated inn and said, "It's good here." ”

"Of course!" Mayor Fan smiled, looked at the inn and said: "A few years ago, it was lively here, it was the best inn in our Fanjia Town, and the owner was also a cousin of the old man, ranking nineteenth, but unfortunately, he listened to the White Lotus Sect, and in order to buy the herbs, he went bankrupt, and this inn was also mortgaged to my third brother, that is, the town guard Fan Kangzhi and his father, the national teacher wanted, and the old man could make the decision for him." ”

"Oh, no, about money, I'll negotiate with him, and you don't have to be in a dilemma." Dong Ce doesn't like to talk about favors.

Mayor Fan didn't insist, and pointed to the inn and said, "You want to go, the national teacher will go in and have a look?" ”

"Okay." Dong Ce nodded and stepped into the inn.

"In terms of scale, only four classrooms can be built, but the sound insulation is a bit poor, open a few more windows to allow air circulation, and the sound of reading will not affect the classroom next door."

After hearing this, Mayor Fan asked, "Dare to ask the national teacher, how many children can be accommodated in each classroom?" ”

"Thirty at the least, fifty at most, the rear courtyard and kitchen are demolished, the thatched house is rebuilt, and a three-story teaching building is built, so that the children in the town can also be supplied to school, which does not spare the mayor to worry, but to persuade the parents of the children, the town mayor is indispensable."

"Deservedly!" Mayor Fan nodded, he also knew that although they also wanted their children to study, some families would let their children do things if they didn't have a strong man, and if the children didn't help the family for the sake of their studies, how could they live?

Anyway, the state religion is free teaching, and this generation has no hope, so the next generation, and there are some things that it can't rush to.

But Mayor Fan knows very well that it is because he has not received education that it is so easy to listen to the fallacies of the White Lotus Sect, and he can't stop it!

Out of the inn, Dong Ceyou and Mayor Fan went to some dilapidated workshops, and after talking about some future plans, they took a carriage back to the house with Mayor Fan.

As soon as he got out of the car, Dong Ce saw Zhong Xiaoyi coming in a hurry, came to him and said, "Sect Master, that monk wants to see you!" ”

"Oh, bring him here." Dong Ce arched his hand towards Mayor Fan as he spoke, and then walked towards the courtyard where he lived.

In the house, Dong Ce used bamboo tongs to remove the ashes in the brazier, revealing a few pieces of burning coal, and then added black charcoal and set up an iron kettle.

Soon, Zhong Xiaoyi took the monk Xingyuan to the outside of the house, and after Dong Ce let Xingyuan in, Zhong Xiaoyi also wanted to follow up, but was called outside by Dong Ce to stand guard.

"What's the matter with the Master?"

Xingyuan went down to the cottage with the women and children, and then was transferred here, he didn't say anything from beginning to end, but now something suddenly happened!

"Amitabha, what are you doing like this, national teacher?"

"Sit." Dong Ce pointed to the small chair next to the brazier, and only after Xingyuan thanked him and sat down did he say: "At this time, bringing these people to Dongping Mansion will only add to the chaos, and Lin Xun he can't afford to raise it, so I can only help him raise it." ”

Xingyuan is not stupid, and he understands the pros and cons in a word.

"The national teacher is powerful, the old man admires, Lin Da's family is the enemy of the Shi family, it is irretrievable, if you use the Shi family's money and food to feed the cottage women and children, you will be hated by the whole house, now, the women and children don't have to take care of him, he can also help other people with these money and food, the national teacher is the real benevolence and righteousness!"

"You're welcome." Dong Ce smiled faintly, took out a box of Longjing tea leaves from the wooden box, and spooned it into the purple clay pot, while saying: "I do this, but also to avoid the misery of life, they are all the people of Daning, killing and killing, in the end it is the people who suffer, the people are not rich, where do we people come from to worship the incense, some things, can not be done too much, such as your Buddha, in the previous dynasty because it was too much, the result was destroyed Buddha, that is really a bloody storm!" ”

Xingyuan knew that Dong Ce was talking about the previous dynasty, there was also a national teacher at that time, or the Buddhists were the big heads, and because of this, the Buddhists were exempt from taxes, but in this way, many people became monks in order to escape the heavy taxes, resulting in a few years, there were more monks than the people, but how many real monks were there?

These monks only gave the taxes to the imperial court to the temple, of course, much less, but because of this, Buddhism ushered in a catastrophe.

You say, is this for the sake of the people not to be oppressed by heavy taxes, or is it for themselves? Or both, but as a result, everything that is not conducive to the imperial court will be wiped out!

This is true even if there is a change of dynasty.

"I help the White Lotus, is it for the common people? Is it for yourself? In the end, the old man couldn't see through it, and asked the national teacher for guidance! ”

Dong Ce made tea, handed a cup to Xingyuan, pointed to the tea in his cup and said, "For it, for everyone in the world can drink it." ”

Xingyuan was stunned for a moment, shook his head and wondered: "Why?" ”

"Simple." After Dong Ce took a sip of tea, he said comfortably: "Those who can drink it can solve the problem of food and clothing, which is the luck of the world, and I, as a tea seller, don't worry about running out of money to make, what do you say?" ”

"Huh! The truth is still the same, but it's hard to have both fish and bear's paws! Xingyuan shook his head.

"It is precisely because of the difficulty that you have to do it, such as you monks, come to Tianzhu, where is Tianzhu? 108,000 miles to the west, thousands of miles of yellow sand, thousands of miles of danger, jackals, tigers and leopards, horse thieves and small nights, and countless tribulations to preach to Middle-earth, do you say it is difficult? ”

Xingyuan was shocked, and lost his mind and said: "A thousand difficulties! ”

"You also know that it is difficult, but the predecessors did it, because they only have one idea, to preach, and in order to achieve their goals, they can only rejoice in suffering, and they give you only one hope, to carry it forward, that's all."

Xingyuan finally raised his hand to drink the tea, and said with a smile: "The White Lotus Sect, with the Holy Mother He Qian Chu is honored, but few people know, where is she from?" It was also a coincidence that Lao Wei learned that she was the wife of Gao Zu! ”