When the news of Yongli's abandonment of the country came in April, the city of Beijing was really jubilant, and fireworks were rarely set off in the palace. The young emperor www.biquge.info with a group of minions has been making trouble until late at night, if it weren't for the queen mother's speech, I'm afraid the emperor would have tossed until dawn. However, this joy did not last for a few days, and Huguang made a big mess. Hu Quancai's waste actually lost half of Hu's territory overnight, and almost called Kuidong's thieves to surround Wuchang City, if Shunzhi hadn't replaced Hu Quancai with Zhang Changgeng in time, I'm afraid Huguang would have a clear surname.

Wuchang was defended, but the war in the southwest did not end because Zhu Youlang abandoned the country, and the thief Xiucai did not lead his gang of bandits to Yunnan to protect him, but drilled into Huguang, cutting off the grain route of the Doni army, Guangxi also asked them to occupy, Huguang was also eroded, and the current situation has become that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of Doni seem to have gotten into the trap of Yungui and can't get out!

Prince An Yue Le has already gone to the south, and the will to call the foreign feudal Mongolia to send troops has also come out, and Shaanxi, Henan and other places have also sent the will, no matter what, Shunzhi must put together a large army to solve the crisis in Huguang, otherwise it is too dangerous. But coming and going, the Manchurian princes in Beijing realized a big problem, that is, the army that was raised again was mainly Han and Mongol, but there were few Manchurian children, and most of the generals who led the army were Han.

What is this?

The Qing Dynasty was in Manchuria at all, even if they hid behind to pick up the credit of the Han army and the green battalion, the Manchurian children always had to follow the battle, even if they didn't pick up the credit, they had to play the role of supervision, where could there be no at all.

Shunzhi also knew that this would not work, but he really couldn't draw troops. Since entering the customs, the casualties of the Manchurian disciples have also been very large, and now even the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division and the Eight Banners of the garrisons in various places, the Manchurian children are only tens of thousands at best. After the Battle of Hengyang, the Qing court never dispatched Manchurian children to fight on a large scale, and the war against the Southern Ming Dynasty was mainly based on the green camp, so in recent years, the Manchurian children have lived a few years of good life. Who would have thought that the Taiping Kou branch of Guangdong first wiped out more than 2,000 Manchurian children of Hahamu, and then completely annihilated more than 4,000 Manchurian children brought by Jidu, and Wu Sangui and Zhao Butai buried another 3,000 or 4,000 Manchurian children in Mopanshan. These three battles have caused the funerals of the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division, and so far they have not even been able to find the corpses, which is not miserable.

Full of Eight Banners, Shunzhi is really unable to smoke anymore, Doni has brought everything that can be brought with him, and now there are only Xiao Cavalry, Forward, Guard, Infantry Army, Good Fight, Firearms, Jianrui and other forbidden camps in Beijing City, and the other is the guards of the Three Banners, which really can't be drawn, really want to draw, Beijing is an empty city. At that time, Hugh said that it was the Ming army, and any bandit who burned incense gathered to shout could make the Forbidden City shake.

The old minister Fan Wencheng gave Shunzhi an idea, saying that as long as this policy was implemented, the Qing Dynasty would have hundreds of thousands of loyal warriors. The idea was to raise the flag, raise the flag on a large scale, and carry all the Han army and the Green Battalion into the Manchu flag, so that their children and grandchildren of the three generations and later generations would all become Manchurians. In this way, the Manchurian people are Ding Dasheng, and they have many privileges of flag salary, flag rice, and the Han people who are not afraid of being carried the flag do not regard themselves as Manchurians and do not work hard for Manchuria.

The idea of raising the flag is good, Shunzhi is very excited, but he can only be moved and dare not implement it, why? Because he didn't dare!

The foundation of the Qing Dynasty is Manchuria, if this Manchu mixes hundreds of thousands of Han people in at once, is it still Manchuria?

In the face of a much larger number of Han people, Manchu unanimously agreed that it must not be sinicized like the Xianbei of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the past, but to maintain the true character of the nation, so as not to be assimilated by the huge Han people. Therefore, although the large-scale raising of the flag can meet the current interests of the Qing court, it will completely bury Manchuria. Shunzhi doesn't want his descendants to become Han people after a hundred years.

I am the king of the Qing Dynasty, the lord of Manchuria, not the king of China, not the lord of the Han people, the Han people are just slaves, and even my slaves are not worthy of being them!

Fan Wencheng also knew that the large-scale flag raising encountered too much resistance, and the emperor was also sad for a while, so he no longer mentioned the matter, but wrote more letters with Hong Hengjiu in Yunnan.

A few days ago, the Eight Banners of the Beijing Division also made a fuss, but it was not for the imperial court to transfer them to the south, but for the flag. For a long time, the flag salary has been distributed from the southeast, and now all the money and grain from the southeast are used in the southwest. Without silver hair, without Lu Mi collar, can the Eight Banners not make trouble?

Those old guys moved out of their exploits one by one, saying that they had shed blood for Taizu and sweated for Taizong, the emperor couldn't ignore them, and there were many people who went to the queen mother to cry, and the princes and ministers were also red-eyed when they mentioned this matter.

After a thousand words, I finally got a batch of money and grain from the inner treasury and sent it down, so that the Eight Banners that made trouble could be stabilized. But this is over, the silver for the pensions of the soldiers who died in the battle is gone, and those orphans and widows are also screaming. What is even more fatal and urgent is how to spend and transport the money and salaries of the hundreds of thousands of troops in the southwest.

In short, there are too many annoying things, and the condition of Concubine Dong E has not improved, so Shunzhi was troubled, and naturally thought of the Ci'en Temple in Xishan.

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The Daxiong Treasure Hall of the Temple of Mercy and Grace is sculpted with a golden statue of the Buddha, there is a Bodhisattva who is resolute and serious and rides a hundred elephants, and Manjushri Bodhisattva who is wise and smiling and can straddle the lion. On both sides of the main hall are the four heavenly kings with jaw-dropping teeth and different shapes. At this time, there is no idle and miscellaneous people in the hall, the green light on the table in the middle is always bright, the smoke is filled, and only the sound of the light and crisp wooden fish echoes in the high hall. The solemn Buddhist hall, the sound of wooden fish in his ears, and the smell of incense in his nose made Wu Liangfu "plop" and fall to the ground, muttering: "The Buddha is above, and he will be worshiped by the small!" ”

Shunzhi looked back at the minion, Xu was infected, and when he turned back again, he also knelt on the cushion with weak legs, and bowed down at the feet of the Buddha who was the supreme purity of all beings. The old monk who knocked on the wooden fish has always maintained the appearance of a "high monk" of the monks, and has never been seen since Shunzhi entered the hall, but then he got up and said with a smile: "Long live the drive, the poor monk has lost his welcome, sin, sin!" ”

Shunzhi waved his hand and said, "I have come to visit Master Yulin Lu, and I would like to invite the master to come out and meet him." ”

The old monk rolled his eyes and said respectfully: "The master has been waiting for a long time, please go to the backyard with the poor monk." ”

As soon as he heard that Zen Master Yulin was waiting for him, Shunzhi was overjoyed and followed the old monk inside. Wu Liangfu saw that his master was in a good mood, and he was also very happy, and he was afraid that someone would disturb his master's good mood, so he asked Fei Yanggu, the commander of the palace guards who accompanied him, to immediately disperse in all directions, and no pilgrims were allowed to go up the mountain.

The temporary meditation room of Yulin Lu, the window is bright and clean, there are a few volumes of scriptures and paper inkstones on the long table, and there is a thin monk sitting cross-legged on the meditation bed, looking at his unsightly appearance, this person is the monk of the Linji Sect of a generation of senior monks Yulin Lu. After Shunzhi entered the house, Yulin opened his eyes and pointed to the bamboo chair opposite him expressionlessly: "Please sit!" ”

Yulin's steady meditation posture, long eyebrows and sparse hair, thin and serene face, and the otherworldly light shot from his slender eyes made Shunzhi, who had always been uncertain, instantly become happy and convinced, and he sat with his hands down in a regular manner, his body was tense and straight, like a schoolchild who had made a mistake and sincerely accepted the teacher's reprimand.

After sitting down, Shunzhi sighed with emotion: "Master, I think that my predecessor was indeed a monk, and now every time I go to the meditation room of the temple, I see that the windows of the monk's house are bright and clean, and everywhere is clean, and I am always envious and can't bear to leave." It's strange to say, there are hundreds of slaves and maids in my palace, why don't they feel so refreshing and clean? ”

Yulin Lu said lightly: "In the opinion of the old man, the emperor is the son of the Buddha's heart, and if he cultivates the practice of Buddhism for a long time, he will definitely be able to achieve positive results." ”

"I don't know anything, and I ask the master to solve my doubts." Shunzhi looked at Yu Linxiu seriously: "Since ancient times, the world has been passed down from ancestor to ancestor, and there are many opportunities for the day, and there is no leisure." My ancestors believed in the gods and served lamas, but I was good at learning the Dharma, why is this? From whom did I pass it on? ”

Hearing this, Yulinxiu's eyes lit up, and he said eloquently: "The old Emperor Guan is the reincarnation of the King of the Golden Wheel, who dreams of planting great good roots, great wisdom, and natural caste. ”

"Oh? Yes! ”

To be so praised by Yulin, Shunzhi was so unhappy, he said: "I have the heart to take refuge in my Buddha, but I can't leave the mortal dust for a while. May I ask the master, do I take refuge in my Buddha after I have done the dust, or do I abandon the dust and take refuge in my Buddha? ”

These words can seduce Yulin, the emperor wants to become a monk?

I was surprised in my heart, but I said, "If the dust is not over, if the heart is not pure, even if you take refuge, it will not be able to achieve positive results." In the opinion of the old man, after the emperor is not as good as the dust, he will convert to Buddhism again, and he will definitely achieve positive results in the future. ”

Shunzhi nodded when he heard this, and said the same, as the emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, how could he give up Jiangshan Sheji? He has always been interested in competing with the Ming monarchs in history, but he is naturally unwilling to follow the empty door like this.

He sighed softly: "Master, I am extremely unlucky, when I was five years old, the first Taizong had already been killed, and the empress dowager was only born to me, and she was extremely pampered and had no one to teach her, so she dropped out of school at a young age. It wasn't until Jiusan Xie Shizhen was in charge of the government that he realized that he couldn't read Hanchen's recitals, and he was thirteen years old at that time. ”

As he was talking, a little novice offered hot tea and a few plates of fruit snacks, Shunzhi took a sip while it was hot, and suddenly felt that his lips and teeth were fragrant, and a stream of heat rushed straight to his heart, and praised: "Good fragrance, good tea!" ”

Yulinlu's overly serious face finally showed a smile at this time, and he shouted outward, "Ci Weng, you can come in too." ”

As soon as the words fell, a monk wearing a big red pin and gold robe entered with one hand.

Yulin pointed at the monk and said to Shunzhi: "Your Majesty, this is Lao Gao's eldest disciple Mao Xisen, known as the Ci Weng monk. ”

"Mao Xisen? I seem to have read your verses somewhere, and they are wonderfully written. Life is like a dream and a play, what is the joy of life and what is the fear of death? It's like a dream, but when you wake up, you're in a dream. Shunzhi looked at Mao Xisen with some surprise.

Mao Xisen saw that his words were casually chanted by the current emperor, and he was also happy in his heart, and he laughed happily. His appearance is much better than that of his master Yulin Lu, but people can't look good, and the sea can't fight.

Yulin Lu suddenly said: "A hundred years of life, lightning and fire; There is nothing in itself, how can it be stained with dust? Everywhere you like, it is the building, and when you go by the will, you will become a treasure. In Lao Gao's opinion, it is not difficult for the emperor to participate in Zen and enlightenment. ”

Shunzhi's heart was shocked, and he looked at Yulin Temptation fixedly. In fact, just now he said that taking refuge in Buddhism was completely a temporary thought, just talking casually, but now, he feels that he and Yulin seduced the master and apprentice to fall in love with each other so much, and there is a great intention to see each other and hate each other, isn't this providence? Isn't it fate? Besides, this old monk kept saying that he would definitely be able to attain Taoism in the future, so it was better to worship him as a teacher. So, Shunzhi also said with a serious face: "In this case, the master will accept me as a disciple." ”

"It's... It seems too early. ”

Yulin Lu didn't expect the emperor to make such a request, and a look of hesitation appeared on his face.

Yulin was hesitating in his heart, accepting the emperor as a disciple was not a trivial matter. On the surface, Buddhism seems to have won over the Qing Emperor, and Christianity, which had flourished for a long time, was at a disadvantage in the Gyeonggi area. However, Buddhism is not monolithic, and the old contradictions between the various factions of Buddhism are further intensified around which sect to be accepted by the Qing Emperor, and these Shunzhi will not know. Zen Buddhism since the sixth ancestor Huineng, first divided into Nanyue Huairang and Qingyuan Xingsi two schools, after the Nanyue system is divided into Weiyang, Linji two branches, the Qing principle is divided into Caodong, Yunmen, Dharma Eye three branches, collectively called the five families. In the Song Dynasty, Linji was divided into two factions, Huanglong and Yangqi, and so far, Zen Buddhism was divided into "five schools and seven sects". In the future, the two branches of the Rinzai sect and the Caodong sect were unique, but the Zen learners believed in the Rinzai more, so the Caodong became a "solitary sect", so the early Qing Dynasty Buddhism had the saying of "Lintianxia, Cao Yijiao".

Since the Rinzai sect hated to favor Shunzhi, the Beijing division inside and outside the new temple to build a new temple, the large and small Buddhist temples are full of incense, and the wind of the Buddha temple in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is even more spectacular. In the Forbidden City, even the Empress Dowager sent her attendants to the Wanshan Hall several times to ask the monks to teach the essentials of Zen meditation, and there were more eunuchs and palace ladies in the palace who visited Zen and worshiped Buddha. As a result, the Rinzai sect wrote a "Five Lamps Strict Unification" by the master Fei Yinrong of Han Pucong, who misinterpreted the Zen family, claiming that the Rinzai sect was orthodox Buddhism, and wanted to use the power of the imperial court to bully the other sects of Buddhism.

And Yulinxiu knew that Buddhism had objections to this, and did not agree with Fei to tolerate them, so he talked about Buddhism in front of Shunzhi to envelop the young son of heaven, but he didn't expect that the young son of heaven only wanted to worship the Buddha wholeheartedly, and had no intention of caring about what "authenticity" and "orthodoxy" of Buddhism, how could this not make Yulin overjoyed? He was afraid that introducing the Qing Emperor into Buddhism would cause public anger and heavenly punishment, and he would be torn to pieces by the Qing Dynasty and regarded as a great enemy by those Manchurian princes, just like John Tang.

"Ask the old monk to agree!" Shunzhi saw that Yulin was delayed, and he was a little anxious.

"Master, accepting the Qing Emperor as a disciple is a grand event of Buddhism. It's just that in this way, Ci Weng is about to be the same generation as the emperor, hehe. Mao Xisen was also very excited.

"You and I hit it off at first sight, wouldn't it be better if we became senior brothers in the same sect?" Shunzhi grabbed Ru Xisen's big hand, and he was also very happy that he could be such a senior monk.

"It's okay, the old man is the emperor, but he only accepts apprentices, not shaving."

Yulin came up with a perfect idea, and accepted the Qing Emperor as an apprentice, but did not shave him, so that all aspects could be explained. Shunzhi thought about it, and felt that this method was good, after all, he was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, how could he really shave his head and be a monk. Shunzhi had no opinion, Yulin got up and walked to a few cases, thinking about choosing a law name for Shunzhi, while Mao Xisen was busy studying ink. Yulin lured the pen to go to the dragon twist, and wrote more than ten words in one go into the Shunzhi Imperial Review. Shunzhi didn't think about it, and pointed to the word "idiot" and said: "This name is very good." ”

"Hmm. In terms of generation, you are the fifth generation of the Longchi School of Zen Buddhism, the generation of the line, and the law name is the idiot. ”

"Idiot?" Shunzhi raised his black eyebrows, and then smiled: "Wonderful, wonderful!" Maoxi, I have really become the same senior brother with you this time! ”

"The master is not only profound in Buddhism, but also excellent in calligraphy, with round handwriting, the pen is in the center, and he does not fall into the clichés of calligraphy. I don't know what post the master Kaishu has had? ”

"Haha!" Yulin narrowed his eyes, and looked at the newly accepted disciple with a satisfied expression: "The old sleeve is not good at learning Huang Ting, continuing to learn the scriptures, and later coming to the temple monument of the master, he has always been unable to concentrate, so he has no words in his chest, and he often draws and goes away with his pen." By the way, the old man wants to see the emperor's calligraphy, and asks the emperor to teach him. ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, how dare a disciple sacrifice his ugliness on the spot?"

said so, but Shunzhi had rolled up his sleeves. Mao Xisen smiled again: "Hehe, senior brother, I'll grind the ink for you again." ”

"There's Senior Brother Lao."

Shunzhi stretched out his five fingers to pick up the brush, this trick is called "grabbing the pen", after a little thought, he immediately wrote a big "Buddha" word. The word "Buddha" is really not very authentic, because Shunzhi entered school very late, and has no strength in the way of calligraphy, and the word "Buddha" is only a medium at best.

I didn't want to, but Yulin Lu stroked his palms on the side and smiled: "This word is the best, beg the emperor to give it to the old monk." ”

Shunzhi was proud in his heart, but he even said "unbearable", and Yulin Lu had already gently picked up the big "Buddha" word, and thanked him again and again: "Thank you." ”

"Master is boasting. I'm just scribbling on a whim. When I wrote it, I felt more relaxed. ”

Shunzhi seems to have met a bosom friend, and he is very casual and unrestrained in front of Yulinxiu. The mood that had been depressed for a long time was relieved, and a rare smile appeared on his face. Before I knew it, a few hours had passed. Xiao Shami stood outside the meditation room, and his voice was low and timid: "Master, the meal is ready. ”

"In that case, how about asking Your Majesty to enjoy the light and fasting here?"

"Eating fast?" Shunji habitually raised his black eyebrows. "Well, since I am a disciple of Buddhism, I should be a vegetarian."

The group went out of the meditation room, bypassed the scripture building, and came to the dining hall on the side of the front yard, the room was already full of monks, around a large long table, and then looked, Wu Liangfu and the guard Fei Yangu were also sitting on a table.

"It's so fragrant, I'm going to feel hungry."

"Your Majesty, please use it slowly. These are vegetarian sausages, vegetarian ham, vegetarian chicken, vegetarian beef, as well as vegetarian fish and vegetarian shrimp, I wonder if they can suit Your Majesty's taste? ”

"Well, I'll try it first."

Shunzhi held the chopsticks and took a golden red and shiny vegetarian intestine, and bit it gently, hey, it is very tender and delicious.

"Don't you say it's a vegetarian sausage? Why did I eat a smell of meat? The fat meat is fragrant, delicious, fat but not greasy, and full of fragrant. ”

"Although the dishes of Buddhism are all vegetarian, after the careful blending and knife skills of the monks, the methods of steaming, boiling, boiling, frying, stir-frying, and exploding are used to cook the original ordinary tofu, flour and vegetables into delicacies with different colors and flavors, varieties and shapes. Your Majesty, Zhai cuisine is also used to dispel diseases and prolong life, which is more effective than immortal medicine. ”

"Well, the disciple believes. Simply let me take the two cooks in this temple back to the palace, so that I can eat this elixir every day? And wow, Master, please also go down the mountain with me, and live in the Wanshan Hall in the West Garden, so that I and Master can get along day and night, and talk about the scriptures. ”

"Do the holy thing."

Yulin lured his hands together and made a look of obedience.

"Master, don't turn it upside down, Master is above, please accept the apprentice's foolishness." Shunji smiled and folded his hands, worshipping decently.

Shunzhi who ate this vegetarian banquet was really unhappy, and after the banquet, a little monk brought hot water and a clean towel to ask Shunzhi to wash. After wiping his face, Shunzhi only felt that his eyebrows were refreshed, looking at the beautiful scenery outside the temple, he suddenly became proud, and turned to Fei Yanggu who was standing and ordered: "Go, ask them to hold a political meeting, I want to levy it in person!" (To be continued.) )