Xuanzang's return became a grand event of Buddhism in Chang'an, Li Er ordered to build a Great Mercy and Grace Temple in Xinjing Kangfang, and to build a nine-level floating slaughter of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to commemorate Xuanzang's great achievements in exploring Mingzhu for the Tang Dynasty.

The Ministry of Industry mobilized more than 5,000 laborers, working day and night, using cement, stone bricks, and various wooden carvings to build a large Ci'en Temple covering an area of more than 30 acres.

At this time, Datang embodied the state of prosperity that had developed over the years, with great material abundance and a great improvement in people's living standards, which made the entire Datang social atmosphere close to luxury.

The palace should be built huge, the clothes should be exquisite, and the wife should be married to the rich, and these changes in social values are more and more similar to the prosperous Tang Dynasty during the reign of Li Longji, Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.

In line with this kind of social values, the Great Ci'en Temple is also built extremely large and extravagant, with golden glazed tiles, a bright hall, and three high golden-bodied Buddha statues, it is no exaggeration to say that Li Er's generous treatment of Tang Seng this time is also extremely rare among many courtiers......

"Your Majesty, the Great Ci'en Temple has spent a total of 59,000 yuan on the Ministry of Works, and the concubine thinks that such a wanton reward for a religious organization still needs to be considered?" Through a huge screen, Empress Changsun was dressed in a pale pink silk gauze dress,

Slowly walked to Li Er, who was sitting in front of the table, and whispered.

Li Er was sitting in front of the table at the moment, staring intently at a book in his hand, as if he hadn't heard the words of the eldest grandson beside him, and was still reading with relish.

"陛xià~." The eldest grandson's voice was rarely coquettish, and he held the book Li Er was reading with his hand. Jiao said: "What are you looking at, so fascinating?" ”

Lee's second-hand book was held up. I want to scold. When I looked up, I saw the eldest grandson beside me, and said with a smile on his face: "When did Guanyin come, I didn't find out." ”

Empress Eldest Sun asked curiously, "What kind of book is Your Majesty reading, why are you so fascinated?" ”

Li Er smiled, spread out a book in his hand, and saw that the five big characters "The Legend of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" were written on the book cover, and the font was strong and powerful. It seems that there is a thousand powers, and it can be seen that the author who wrote these words is also a person with an extremely firm mind.

"The Tang Dynasty Western Regions?" Empress Changsun was puzzled for a moment, and then said: "Didn't the concubine hear that this is a book written by Master Xuanzang, who returned from studying scriptures in the West Heaven?" ”

"It's written by Xuanzang." Li Er had a smile on his face, and judging from his smile, it seemed that he was very satisfied with the book.

"What is this book about?" Seeing the smile on Li Er's face, Empress Changsun became more and more curious about this book.

"At the beginning, Guiguzi and I said that when this Xuanzang returned, he would definitely write down what he saw and heard all the way west, but I didn't think about it, and I thought that this monk's westward journey had something to write. But now when I see the book "The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" written by Xuanzang, I sigh how prescient what Guigu said at the beginning. ”

"Oh?" heard Li Er praise Xuanzang's books like this. Empress Eldest Sun was also curious, "Then what exactly does this book say and write that makes His Majesty feel like this?" ”

Li Er said with a smile: "This book of the Western Regions can be described as fascinating, every word is beautiful, this Xuanzang wrote everything he saw and heard all the way from the Tang Dynasty in this book, and also wrote about many small countries that I have even heard of, among which the customs, religion and culture, and military history are completely different from the Central Plains, which can't help but make me feel novel." ”

Hearing Li Er's comment, Empress Changsun was also a little itchy, "The concubine body is revising the "Ten Volumes of Women's Rules" these days, which already contains the code of conduct of the queens of the Central Plains and the thin views of the concubine, the concubine body wants to take a look, the deeds of the mother of these small countries in the Western Regions, can it be recorded in the "Records of the Western Regions"? ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Li Er laughed out loud and patted the wide chair beside him, "Guanyin can read the ...... of Xuanzang's journey to the west with me......

The ancient temple Xuanjia, the incense is endless, there is still undried cement in front of the gate of the newly built Daxiong Treasure Palace, one side of the four corners of the big tripod stands in front of the gate of the Daxiong Treasure Palace, three or four monks wearing monk's robes are sweeping the dust on the ground, in just less than two months, the entire Great Mercy and Grace Temple has been almost completed, this piece of imitation of the small Mercy and Grace Temple and the construction of the enlarged version of the building complex can be said to be completely subverted the small Mercy and Grace Temple, the magnificent building complex, the towering Buddha Forest, the small Mercy and Grace Temple and here can not be compared at all.

At this time, in the apse of the Daxiong Treasure Palace, a monk with beautiful eyebrows and a delicate body was sitting on a futon with his hands folded, and in front of him sat a middle-aged man in a brocade robe and jade robe, which was Xu Yang.

"Xu Guigu can come to visit today, which makes the temple shine." The monk seemed to be very happy, waved his hand behind him and said, "Jueyuan, show Lord Xu Shi tea." ”

"Nuo~" A little monk behind the monk hurriedly put down the wooden fish in his hand, got up and went to the front hall to make tea for the two.

Soon, the little monk brought two cups of tea, respectfully presented them to Xu Yang and Xuanzang, and then committed himself and slowly retreated.

Xu Yang picked up the purple sand teapot, picked up the teacup in front of him, blew lightly, and seemed to sigh with emotion: "It's been ten years, I didn't expect you to really come back." ”

Xuanzang seemed to be very excited, playing with taste: "Does Xu Guigu think that the poor monk can't come back?" ”

"No, I've always believed you'll come back." Xu Yang said lightly, "It's just that I didn't expect you to come back so early, isn't Tianzhu's fifteen-day uncovered conference not attractive to you?" ”

Hearing Xu Yang mention the Uncovered Conference, Xuanzang was also stunned for a moment, and then said with some admiration: "What Guiguzi said is really amazing as always, don't hide it from Guigu, this Uncovered Conference does have a great attraction to poor monks." ”

"Then why are you coming back?"

"Because the poor monk saw that the king of China and India in Tianzhu seemed to be more and more unwilling to let the poor monk leave Tianzhu, if the poor monk continued to shine at the uncovered conference, the poor monk felt that the king of China and India would not let the poor monk return to China."

Hearing Xuanzang say this, Xu Yang also laughed, and said with some playfulness: "It seems that Master Xuanzang still can't jump out of the causal cycle, and the miscellaneous things in this world can still affect the master's decision-making." ”

Xuanzang didn't seem to hear the banter in Xu Yang's mouth, and still said indifferently: "It is strong and it is strong, the bright moon shines on the river, it is horizontal, and the breeze blows on the hills, this is a Buddhist mantra that Guigu told the poor monk at the beginning, and the poor monk feels that there should be two sentences in this sentence, that is, forget where it is, follow its heart, remember its power, and turn into a hall." ”

"Uh......" Xu Yang suddenly felt as if Xuanzang's realm had risen several grades all of a sudden, fearless, unfazed, everything in the world can become a Buddha, and the mantra is even more handy, I don't know if such a master is good or bad...... "Okay, today this county is here to return this "Tang Dynasty Western Regions", now that the rubbings of this book have been carved, the printing house of Nanshan Academy may print your book into a book at the end of this month, At that time, the people of the world will also be able to see what you have seen and heard along the way. By the way, when the time comes, the manuscript fee of your book will be directly added to the budget of the construction team of the Ministry of Industry, and you promised the Chang'an Business Club that you will inscribe a pair of signs for them, and it is best to notify them to let them pick it up in a few days. Xu Yang chatted with Xuanzang for a while, but he felt a little unable to talk, after all, Xu Yang does not believe in Buddhism, let alone ghosts and gods, since he used the mobile phone computer Internet in later generations to change the world, there is no concept of ghosts and gods in his outlook on life, let alone Buddha and Taoist ancestors, so in the end, after explaining some matters, he planned to get up and leave.

Hearing that Xu Yang was leaving, Xuanzang was a little unsatisfied, stood up from the futon, folded his hands, and respectfully bowed to Xu Yang.

Some were a little unclear, so they hurriedly helped up Xuanzang, who gave gifts. "What are you doing here?"

"The poor monk walked to Tianzhu eight years ago with the map given by Guiguzi, it can be said that the grace of Guigu is like regenerating parents, putting aside the view of the door, the poor monk also wants to thank the master of Guigu...... map"...... (To be continued......)