Feng Timu said: "In the past, the red thief was trapped in Xu and Su, and many of the ministers of the two states were forced to surrender to the thief because of helplessness, and there were two of them, and the villain had a good relationship with each other. ”

"Oh?"

When Chahan heard this, he was immediately interested, but he was still unhurried on the surface, and asked, "Which two are they?" ”

"Lu Ju and Liang Shiyin."

The Feng family lives in Xuzhou, the ancestors have also been officials, full of books, rich and wealthy, and are famous local wealthy families, and it is natural for Lu Ju and Liang Shiyin to be friendly. Under the table, Wang Baobao and Li Weixin glanced at each other, and they both saw the unexpected joy in each other's eyes.

Troubled times are not as good as peacetime, and the strong are kings.

In the Taiping era, it was necessary to emphasize "loyalty" and "righteousness". In troubled times, few people talk about this. ——The world is strife, and the battle is undecided, so why should we be loyal to someone? The so-called "the king chooses the minister, and the minister also chooses the king" is this truth. Therefore, there is a saying: "Success is the king, and defeat is the king."

Unless it is because of a certain relationship that the interest groups are united, such as fellow villagers, relatives, old departments, etc., the centripetal force is relatively strong, relatively united, and it is difficult to differentiate one. It can be said that most of the other heroes and generals, including the subordinates of the shogunate, are masters of seeing the wind and steering the rudder.

Since the confrontation between Chakhan Timur and Deng She, it is not short or long, and it has been almost a year since then, and he has fought many times in the middle. Chahan also thought about whether he could rebel against a few generals and think tanks of the Yan army? First, it was possible to achieve a certain military victory; Second, and most importantly, there is also a certain political victory.

After all, if nothing else, let's just say that from the beginning of the war to the present, Deng She has captured a number of important generals of the Yuan army, which is undeniable and has dealt a great blow to the morale of the Yuan army.

If you want to completely reverse it, you can't just rely on one or two victories, at least a few Yan generals must be captured, right? Not to mention that so far, none of them have been captured. If at this time, the general of the Yan army suddenly took the initiative to surrender, wouldn't the effect be better? It's just a pity that Deng She's subordinates, the generals and colonels of the army, are either old men who are horse thieves, or his righteous brothers, and they want to rebel, which is basically fantastical.

Yes, there are also many Guan Duo and Wang Shicheng's old departments. But Guan Duo and Wang Shicheng were all red scarves before, and they didn't share the sky with Meng Yuan. Moreover, Deng She's employment seems to be open-minded, but in fact he is cautious, looking at the several members of the Guan and Wang Jiubu that he reuses, Liu Yang, Xu Ren, Li Jing, Chen Yutou, and Gao Yanshi, without exception, all of them are loyal; Those who have slightly different aspirations, such as Liu Guo and others, either do not matter, or let go of Liaodong and Haidong, and do not give them any real power at all, and do not give them the conditions for betrayal.

There are also many former Goryeo old departments, but there are several famous generals from Goryeo, and only Qing Qianxing can be called famous.

Who is Qing Qianxing? As early as when Deng Sheshang was in Shuangcheng, this person had already surrendered, and he was an old "traitor". Chakhan Timur should have passed the Jinshiju, read the documents to the fullest, and knew the founding history of the Mengyuan Dynasty very well. At that time, all the Song generals who surrendered to the Mongol Yuan were often even more loyal than the Mongol generals. Therefore, he also knew that although Qing Qianxing did not have a red scarf background, it was too difficult to rebel against this kind of person, even more difficult than to rebel against Chen Yu, and it was basically impossible.

At this time, I suddenly heard that Feng Timu claimed to be familiar with Lu Ju and Liang Shiyin, and it was conceivable how surprised Chahan Timur, Wang Baobao, and Li Weixin would be.

Li Weixin said: "Mr. is familiar with the mainland prince and Liang Shiyin? ”

"Exactly."

Feng Timu paused and added, "After the defeat of the Sesame Li army, the mainland town of Xuzhou, relying on the remnants of the ancestors, and the grass people's family were quite popular in the local area, and they gave him great help. As for Liang Shiyin, he has a close relationship with the grass people's family, and his wife is the grass people's sister. Speaking of which, he still has to call me brother-in-law. ”

The custom of the Yuan Dynasty, talking to strangers, for example, asking for directions or something, no matter how old the other party is, how much he is called "brother-in-law", just like the "comrade" of later generations. Feng Timu was respectful, and it was quite funny to say such a sentence. However, everyone present was attracted by his words, and no one realized that it was ridiculous.

Chakhan Timur said: "I don't think Mr. has such a relationship! So, Nai ordered his own soldiers again, and said, "Sir's tea is cold, take it away, go and change a cup of good tea and serve it." ”

Feng Timu was flattered and said, "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

Chakhan Timur was pleasant, smiled, and said softly: "Why don't you dare? The gentleman gave the old man such a big gift, what is a good cup of tea? But thank you. ”

"Panic, panic."

"I wonder when Mr. plans to enter Yidu?"

"......, huh?"

Chahan Timur's question came abruptly, and after Feng Timu was dull for a short time, he reacted and was startled, as if he wanted to raise his eyes to look at Li Chahan, but he didn't dare, and said, "What does the master mean?" ”

"Huh? You said that you are familiar with Lu Ju and Liang Shiyin, didn't you take the initiative to ask Ying and want to go to Yidu to say surrender for the old man? ”

Feng Timu's courage is insufficient, and even Li Chahan is trembling, how can he have such courage to take the initiative to invite Ying and go deep into the tiger's den? But since Chahan said it, he didn't have the courage to refuse, he was embarrassed for a while, it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be, he didn't know how to answer.

If the gentleman has no opinion, the matter will be settled as such. Tomorrow, get up and go to Yidu City! You don't have to worry about security. The old man will choose a few people to accompany you as your bodyguard. Luckily? ”

"Ahh

"Come, take two plates of silver, and make a passage for the gentleman. ......, when the matter is completed, the old man will play the emperor and ask for credit for you! ”

In a few words, it was decided.

Feng Timu was dumbfounded, and secretly shouted: "Bitter, bitter!" Originally, I wanted to seek fame, but how did I get into it? Oops, stealing chickens doesn't make rice, this time it's going to kill the old man! ”

Chakhan Timur is now on the march, everything is subject to military law, and he is doing things vigorously and resolutely. In less than a quarter of an hour, he picked out two bodyguards for Feng Timu from the pro-soldier team,—— named bodyguards, which were actually surveillance; In less than half an hour, two plates of silver were served; Then he instructed Li Weixin to prepare a table of wine banquets, and asked Feng Timu to eat and drink to his heart's content, accompanied by the two "bodyguards", and with the silver, he went out of the camp.

Early the next morning, the reinforcements went to the Yellow River, not to mention.

……

Just said that Feng Timu, left the barracks that night, took two bodyguards, had a heavy heart, and returned to the temple outside Lijiadao at night. The hour was still early, and the monks in the temple had not yet gone to bed, and the abbot master Monk Jinghui heard that he had returned, taught a little novice, and invited him to meet in the abbot's room.

In the abbot's room, it is very clean, there are not too many furnishings, a Buddhist shrine, a wooden fish, two futons, a few Buddhist scrolls, and a green lamp.

There is a bamboo forest planted outside the window, and the night breeze blows, and the bamboo leaves rustle. In the quiet night, listening to the sound of bamboo leaves, lighting the lonely lamp, reading Buddhist scriptures at night, and pushing the window to watch the moon are all very emotional things. This great monk Jinghui in the snow field seems to not only have profound Buddhism, but also have the elegant feelings of a literati and ink writer.

When Feng Timu came with a sad face, Jing Huiben was sitting cross-legged on the futon reading the scriptures, looked up, was not surprised, and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ......, didn't you see Li Pingzhang? ”

"Definitely."

"Li Pingzhang refuses to accept your advice?"

"Definitely."

"Accept your advice and refuse to give you credit?"

"Definitely."

"So, you saw Li Pingzhang, and Li Pingzhang also accepted your advice and promised to give you credit?"

"Yes."

"Then what are you dissatisfied with? What do you do with a face? ”

"The great monk doesn't know anything."

At that moment, Feng Timu told the story of his rare encounter with Richard as it was. Jing Hui was silent for a moment and said, "It turns out that you are worried about going to Yidu. ”

"Exactly, exactly. Those who know me, the great monk! ”

Feng Timu and Jing Hui have been friends for many years, no better than Li Chahan, the two of them talked, very relaxed, and their speech and demeanor seemed to be a different person. In fact, Feng Timu is also a person who is also somewhat talented and interesting, otherwise, it is impossible for him to be familiar with famous people like Lu Ju and Liang Shiyin, and it is impossible for him to be friends with famous teachers and apprentices like Monk Jing Hui.

"That's easy! Why worry? ”

"What do you mean by this, the great monk?"

"If you are told to go, you will go. A Yidu, and not a Longtan tiger's den, why be afraid? ”

"The great monk said it easily! It's not you who goes. Think of the Deng thief, everywhere he passed, burned, killed, plundered, Goryeo, Liaodong, Shandong, how many gentry and famous families were ruined because of him, the brutality is outrageous, and the crimes committed are too numerous to mention! Why did I abandon my family property and flee Xuzhou? Isn't it just to save a small life? This time I went to give advice to Pingzhang, originally to gain a little fame, and it was not in vain that I lived in troubled times. Unexpectedly, he got such a task, which is really a mistake in the calculation of the agency! ......, alas, I knew this was the case, so why bother in the first place? I knew I wouldn't have gone to the barracks! ”

"Lao Feng, Lao Feng, you are good at everything, but you are timid!"

"I am a scholar, not a brave man. Zi said: A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. ”

"You are a Confucian scholar, quoting scriptures, and monks cannot compare with you. However, when the monk asks you, 'A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall' and 'If you are not destined to be right, you will obey it, so those who know your fate do not stand under the rock wall', do these two sentences have the same meaning? ”

"Of course."

"So, what is the next sentence of 'If it is not fate, obey it, so those who know their fate do not stand under the rock wall'?"

"This ,......。"

"A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall", Confucius said. "If it is not fate, obey it, it is the one who knows the fate and does not stand under the rock wall", it was Mencius who said, and the next sentence is: "Those who die in their own way are also destined to die; shackling the dead is not the right fate."

"The monk asks you again, what is the right life?"

"This ,......。"

"Zi said: 'Prevention of disaster is the first and not the subsequent injury.' Know and act carefully, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, and he can ignore it'. Not only Mencius, but even Confucius, only taught Confucianism to 'know and act prudently', but did not teach you to 'be greedy for life and afraid of death'! Lao Feng, you claim to be a protégé of a saint, how can you not know that 'Master is brave'? ”

"Master Dayong" means "although tens of millions of people have gone to me".

"Mencius, Gongsun Chou": "The former Zeng Zi said to Zi Xiang: 'The son is so brave? I have heard that the master is brave: self-reflection does not shrink, although brown and broad, I am not worried; self-reflexive, although tens of millions of people have gone to me. ’”

What does a monk do? Born as a striker, specializing in debate. After a few words were spoken, Feng Timu was speechless.

However, there is a question, Jing Hui is a son of Buddhism, why is he so familiar with the Confucian classics?

To put it bluntly, it's not surprising.

There is a Yuan generation, and the "three religions in one" prevail. Which three teachings? Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism. For example, the Quanzhen Sect, which flourished at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and its founding patriarch Wang Chongyang was an active advocate of this statement. He wrote a poem, two of which said: "Confucianism and Taoism are connected, and the three religions have always been one ancestral style."

Therefore, it is not surprising that monks and Taoist priests are familiar with the Confucian classics, or Confucian scholars are familiar with the Buddhist and Taoist classics.

After a long while, Feng Timu reluctantly said: "Although what the great monk said is very right, the truth is only the truth after all. If everyone can do it, isn't everyone a saint? ”

Jing Hui smiled and said lightly: "A saint is also a human being!" Why can't everyone be a saint? Where my Buddha heart is, I am a Buddha. As long as you are willing to do it, you can also become a saint! ”

Later, when he was 12 years old, a 500-year-old sage asked his teacher a question: "What is the first thing?" The master replied, "Only read the book and go to the ear." At that time, the sage, who was only a child, bluntly retorted: "It is not a matter of first order to ascend to the top, or to study and learn from the ears of the sages." "To be a "sage" through reading and learning is the first thing for a scholar. This sage is Wang Yangming, who has really become a generation of saints.

It's just that Wang Yangming's "study of mind" has not yet appeared at this time, although Confucius once said: "There is no class in teaching"; Although Mencius once said: "Everyone can be Yao Shun"; And Zhu Zili is also teaching people to be saints, but as far as most Confucian scholars are concerned, after all, no one has lifted the mystery of "saints" and clearly proposed: "Everyone can become a saint".

Hearing this, Feng Timu was taken aback and said, "How can a saint and a saint do it so easily? ”

Jing Hui put down the Buddhist scriptures, knocked on the wooden fish, and said, "Duh! The idiot hasn't woken up yet! ”

"Please ask the great monk to guide me."

Feng Timu waited for a long time, but did not see Jing Hui speak, and wondered in his heart, and then asked: "Please ask the great monk to make it clear." ”

"Shhh

The two sat cross-legged on the futon, facing each other, staring at each other with big eyes. The night is deep, and the distance is quiet. Siye didn't hear the human voice, but the breeze shook the bamboo forest and rustled. It swept into the room, blowing the lamps and swaying. After a long while, Jing Hui said slowly, "Do you understand? ”

Buddhism pays attention to: "Don't spread it outside the church, don't set up words." Pointing directly to people's hearts, seeing nature and becoming a Buddha". However, Feng Timu "lacked understanding", his eyes widened, as if he was trapped in the fog cover of the clouds and mountains, he was not at all puzzled, he blushed, and said: "Wind, wind,......。 ”

"Is the wind moving, or is the bamboo leaf moving?"

Is it the wind moving, or the leaves moving? This Buddhist allusion, Feng Timu is known. It is recorded in the "Sutra of the Altar of the Six Patriarchs": At the lecture meeting, there is a wind blowing from time to time. A monk said that the wind moved, and a monk said that the banner moved, and the discussion was endless. Huineng said: "It's not the wind that moves, it's not the flag, the benevolent heart moves."

He replied, "It's not the wind, it's not the leaf." The benevolent are excited. ”

"Duh! Are you really excited, or are you pretending to be excited? If the true knowledge of the heart is moving, the heart is not moving, and the calm is like water, then the Buddha becomes a Buddha, Confucianism becomes holy, and the Tao becomes the Tao. It's just that although parrots can learn to speak, they can't know human speech. It seems that the answer is good, but it can't be said that you have understood. ”

"The great monk Buddha is mysterious, and he admires it very much."

Feng Timuzui said that he admired, and his brows were still worried.

Jing Hui knew what was on his mind, gently put down the mallet, smiled like a flower, and said, "You don't have to worry!" Go to Yidu, and the monk will accompany you. ”