Chapter 535: What Benefits Can We Get?

Wang Ping'an rested in the side hall of Chongxian Pavilion, and slept insincerely, and he got up early the next day, and after washing, he had breakfast, and waited for Li Zhi to come.

But until the third pole of the sun, Li Zhi didn't come, he had to send a little eunuch to urge, there are still many things to do today, how can I sleep lazy!

The little eunuch came back soon after he went, and told Wang Ping'an that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince slept late yesterday, and that he had to sleep a little more today, so he couldn't come too early, so Wang Ping'an would go first if he had something to do, and there was no need to wait for him.

Wang Ping'an had no choice, when he met such a lazy prince, he really had nothing to do, so he had to leave the East Palace and return to the Inspiration Temple.

Today's Inspiration Temple, and yesterday is not the same, many people come to worship the Buddha and incense, pray for the safety of the whole family for the new year, although it is morning, but thousands of people have come here, men, women and children. And Tang Xuanzang is very good at taking advantage of this opportunity, he asked someone to set up an altar for himself and give a lecture on it.

The vast majority of the people believe in Buddhism to pray for blessings and hope that the gods and Buddhas will protect them, but they don't know much about Buddhism, and they don't plan to understand it, and it is not easy for Tang Xuanzang to attract more good men and women through preaching.

Tang Xuanzang is not ignorant of world affairs, he understands that the fundamental reason why he was so warmly welcomed when he returned to Beijing was not that the people were interested in the scriptures he retrieved, but that he admired him for going west to learn scriptures. Therefore, this time he was on the altar of the law, not talking about the scriptures, but about his experience, about the various customs and customs he saw along the way, and all kinds of strange anecdotes, which should be a popular saying at that time to attract the people.

This trick is quite good, as long as the people enter the Inspiration Temple, even if they see this dilapidated temple, they are not disappointed, on the contrary, they don't want to leave, they all stand in the courtyard, find a place, and listen to Tang Xuanzang's story.

Wang Ping'an was far away from the temple gate, and saw countless people crowded at the temple gate, and it was estimated that they did not crowd into the courtyard, so they had to surround the door. Knowing that he could not enter through the front door, he took a detour through the back door and entered the temple.

As soon as I came in through the back door, I heard someone laughing, ran up, and said, "Prince, the old man sees that you are here, you have a good New Year!" ”

Wang Ping'an looked at the people who came, and saw that it was Hamiti, and he was followed by Ayidin, both of whom were smiling and came over with a lot of smiles.

Wang Ping'an arched his hand and smiled: "Ha master, brother, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you all okay?" ”

Ayidin said as he ran: "I told my brother-in-law just now, saying that unless you don't come back today, if you come back, you will go through the back door, and wait here, but don't you really let me say it!" ”

Hamiti ran forward, grabbed Wang Ping'an's hand, kept shaking, very affectionate, he smiled: "Prince, don't call me that anymore, you call me Master Ha, this is to break my yang life!" ”

They are old acquaintances, they have always had something to say, they can make any jokes, Wang Ping'an saw his friends in Xuzhou, he was naturally happy in his heart, and said with a smile: "Don't call you Ha Master, then what do you call you, you can't call you Ha Grandma!" ”

Hamiti was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Then forget it, I don't dare to be the title of Grandma Ha, but I can't do it!" ”

Wang Ping'an smiled: "Yes, you are a pure master, it is impossible to change from a grandfather to a milk!" Suddenly, I remembered Shi Aiguo and couldn't help laughing.

He knew very well in his heart that he had become a duke, and his status had been greatly improved, not to mention that ordinary people, even officials in the court, most of them had to call him a prince, and if they wanted Hamiti to call him disease-free like before, and it was no longer appropriate for him to call him Master Ha, even Hamiti himself would not call him like this anymore.

Wang Ping'an said: "Otherwise, I will call you Ha Weng in the future, Brother Ah is still called a nephew to play a lantern, as usual!" ”

Hamiti nodded hurriedly, and said: "Okay, then I will call it that, from Lianwu, the old man is a generation older than you, and if you call me Ha Weng, it will not be a loss, and it will save the old man from embarrassment." He was very sincere, and whatever he thought in his heart, he said it.

Ayidin said, "My nephew is playing lanterns? Why did the prince suddenly say such a thing? He was slightly stunned, then understood, and said with a smile: "My nephew is playing a lantern, and it is my uncle who shines on it, so it turns out that this is the saying, yes, let's just take care of my uncle!" ”

Wang Ping'an thought to himself: "I have a niece, ready-made, but I don't dare to let her make a lantern for me." He took the two of them by the hand and walked together to the backyard.

didn't take a few steps, and a few more people rushed out of it, but it was Yin Jiushang, a big bookseller, as well as Qiu Tingxuan and Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi.

Yin Jiucheng stepped forward and shouted, "Prince, the old man sees that you are here, how are you doing for the New Year?" ”

Wang Ping'an thought to himself: "No matter what, it's this sentence." He smiled and said, "Brother Yin, you are not old, why do you call yourself an old man?" ”

Yin Jiucheng ran to him quickly, not only shouted the same words as Hamiti, but even the movements were the same, holding Wang Ping'an's hand and shaking it constantly, and said with a smile: "If you have a son, you will naturally be the master, so if you don't call yourself an old man, you still have to call yourself a young man?" ”

Wang Ping'an laughed a few times, looked at the few people behind him, Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi stammered all over their faces, and the prince and prince screamed all the time, and slapped their ass!

And Qiu Tingxuan was still the leader of the "well-educated", walked over slowly, bowed his hand to Wang Ping'an, and said: "No disease, the foolish brother knew that you would be busy two days ago, so he didn't dare to come to disturb, today it is estimated that you should be almost busy, so I came here to visit." ”

Wang Ping'an thought to himself: "If you want to talk about character, this one is the best, whether I have a high status or a low status, he has this expression, and there is no change." He smiled and said, "Brother Qiu, that Miss Ma family has been doing well lately, can you go to her house to pay New Year's greetings?" ”

Qiu Tingxuan's face turned red, Wang Ping'an said Ma Mingmei, who was his sweetheart. Qiu Tingxuan nodded and said, "Naturally, Master Ma saw that I was alone in Beijing, so he asked me to go to his house for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and I was old!" ”

Wang Ping'an said with a smile: "In this way, Brother Qiu's good things are coming!" ”

Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi saw that Wang Ping'an ignored them, and they were anxious, everyone was classmates, and they couldn't favor one over the other, they knew that they were not authentic before, which aroused Wang Ping'an's disgust, so they naturally wanted to make up for it.

Zhao Bi stepped forward and stammered: "Prince, junior brother heard that you are also about to have a good thing, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is eaten in the palace." ”

Lu Xiuzhi was not to be left behind, and also said: "Yes, yes, the prince is really lucky, he can accompany the emperor to keep the New Year." What's like in the palace, can you tell the younger brother? ”

Wang Ping'an was very annoying to them, but he didn't want to turn his face and offend, besides, they didn't have any other skills, but they had the ability to spend money, and they had money at home, and they just happened to build a pedestrian street, so they had to use their skills, so let them spend some money.

Since he wants people to pay money outside, he naturally can't show his face to others. Wang Ping'an smiled at the two of them: "Look at what the two brothers said, I went into the palace to keep the New Year, I went to serve people, served tea and water, and I can really sit at the same table with the emperor to eat, you also look too highly up on the younger brother!" ”

Seeing that Wang Ping'an's attitude was very good, Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi immediately became happy, squeezed Hamiti and others aside, leaned on Wang Ping'an on the left and right, and patted the sycophants, first saying that ordinary people who wanted to enter the palace to serve the emperor could not get it, and the prince was not satisfied, and then began to recall the past, talking about their study together in Xiantong Academy, and desperately making friends with Wang Ping'an, so that the prince must not forget, we are classmates, and we are the kind of classmates with the most iron relationship.

Talking and laughing, they entered Wang Ping'an's house together, everyone huddled together, talking about new things, Hamiti and Ayidin naturally talked about business, while Yin Jiucheng talked about publishing books, Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi talked about the interesting stories of the scholars in Beijing, and Qiu Tingxuan didn't say a word, just listening.

After listening to it for a while, Wang Ping'an began to talk about his affairs outside the gate, picking out interesting things and causing everyone to laugh. After a while, Wang Ping'an changed his words and said: "Everyone, I have a good business, I want to introduce it to you, let's have money to make together!" ”

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard it, Wang Ping'an had the most means to make money, and his vision was very high, and he didn't do ordinary business at all, if he used the word "good" to describe any business, then this business must be good.

Wang Ping'an was very happy to see that they were all very happy, so he told him about the construction of Tongtian Futu, first talking about building the tower, not about building a pedestrian street.

After listening, there was silence in the room. Zhao Bi and Lu Xiuzhi lowered their heads, thinking: "Building Tongtian Futu is a matter of spending a lot of money, we can't do it, let's listen to others first!" ”

The two of them didn't dare to squeak, and others had to think about it even more, everyone was a good businessman, and they would never invest money in vain.

After a long time, Hamiti said: "Prince, of course it is a good thing to build Tongtian Futu, there are countless good men and women in Beijing, and there are countless rich people. If you want to ask them to donate money to build a floating slaughterhouse, repair the afterlife and seek good retribution, everyone will donate, then we will donate too, and this money is not reluctant to spend. But what do we get from a business perspective? ”

Wang Ping'an said solemnly: "You can get the protection of the gods and Buddhas. ”

Everyone nodded together, and after a long silence, Hamiti said, "Then what benefits can we get besides getting the protection of the gods and Buddhas?" ”

Wang Ping'an said more solemnly: "When future generations see Tongtian Futu, they will remember your merits and remember you!" ”

Everyone nodded again, and then there was silence, and after a while, Hamiti asked again, "What else can we gain?" ”

Wang Ping'an said: "All the good men and women in the world will thank you, and your name will be engraved on the tower." ”

Everyone paused and slowly nodded again, but they all thought in their hearts: "That's no good, how can this be considered good business!" ”

After being silent for a long time, Wang Ping'an looked at everyone's expressions, suddenly smiled, and said, "There is countless money!" ”