Volume 5 The Qilin Dedication Chapter 4 Parents are short
After the rescue returned to the dynasty, when Bingzhong returned to Chengdu Mansion again, it was also the summer season. According to the current situation, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet and others played a plan. This method is mentioned by Zhao Pu, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, in his excerpt to Song Taizong, "China is safe, and the people are self-serving." If the deceased husband wants to go outside, he must first settle inside. When faced with internal and external difficulties and major crises of governance, in order to cope with the crisis and maintain their rule, the rulers of successive dynasties often focused on the internal and external affairs, and carried out both "internal security" and "external security". If there is no support from the people, then the regime will not exist. Therefore, it is not advisable to blindly go outside and to be safe. In addition, Yan Ximing and Wang Zhaolin also cited the case of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: During the Spring and Autumn Period, in the face of external Rongdi intrusion, the decline of the internal royal family, and the contention of princes, the first hegemon of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons, Qi Huangong, put forward the slogan "Respect the King and Conquer the Emperor";
At present, to implement the law of "the outside must first be inside", we must first use the method of appeasing the elders of the Shi clan within Sichuan and Shu, after all, Sichuan and Shu have been the place where the old generals of the court have been raised since ancient times, so as to talk about the Xuanhuang Buddha. There are two major advantages to being close to these scholars. First, they can get the economic support and support of the major families; second, in terms of people's livelihood and reputation, through the propaganda of the elders of the noble clans, the righteous army can receive the help and support of more people, as well as stronger credibility. It is a strategy that kills many birds with one stone, and it is a good strategy that can really quell civil strife and suppress external disturbances.
Hearing this, Bingzhong smiled and hurriedly asked: Have you considered it? Are there any specific methods and measures? As soon as these words came out, both of them rushed to publicize their strategy implementation methods to Bingzhong. It is nothing more than the way to usher in the send-off, first invite the local scholars to gather, and then go to the major famous mountains to worship the ancestors, especially the famous places such as Emei Mountain, Qingcheng Mountain and Leshan Giant Buddha.
After waiting for the two of them to finish telling one by one, Bingzhong smiled and said: "Coincidentally, even if you don't say it, I have already thought of it on the way back; of course I will do the same, but everyone says it, and their minds are all together, which is very good! The weather is about to enter the summer, and I just take this opportunity to go into the mountains to go to the summer." Just don't know where to start?
Hearing that his master was so generous and considerate of his subordinates' suggestions, Chanaya said. Yan Ximing and Wang Zhaolin both said in unison that they should first go to Mount Emei. It turned out that Mount Emei was originally called Qingliang Mountain, and later because of the Jin Dynasty Li Daoyuan's "Water Jing Note": "Mount Emei went to Chengdu for thousands of miles, but the autumn was clear, and the two mountains were facing each other, such as Emeiyan." In the southwest of Emei County, Sichuan Province, there are mountain peaks that are relatively like Emei, hence the name. Although this statement has a certain authority and many people believe it, it lacks basis. Because Li Daoyuan lived in the Northern Wei Dynasty during the period of the division between the north and the south, he never went to the south, let alone Sichuan and Mount Emei, so this statement is almost taken for granted. Mount Emei can be called "born out of thin air" in the territory of Emeishan City, and Li Baishi said that "'there are immortal mountains in Shu, and Emei is difficult to match" is very correct. Mount Emei is thousands of miles above sea level, and there is no mountain around her to compete for height, and the neck is facing each other. There is no mountain to match it, and "such as an eyebrow" is empty. The name comes from the owner, and the good name of Mount Emei comes from another root. Mount Emei is the branch of Qionglai Mountain that stretches from Minshan Mountain, to a mountain flying in Emeishan City, the Dadu River under the mountain passes through the northwest of Yuexi County, the south of Hanyuan County to the northwest of Ebian County, will cross the West River and flow to the foot of Emei Mountain, turn east and flow north to Leshan Hui Qingyi River, and then flow east to Lingyun Mountain, Wuyou Mountain before Hui Min River. The Dadu River was called Shushui in ancient times, and Mount Emei was on the edge of the Dadu River, so the original name of Mount Emei was "Weimei Mountain", which means the big mountain of Weishui. That is to say, Mount Emei was originally named after the water. Although the mountain is named after the water, the mountain is a mountain after all, so it is customary to "Shumei Mountain" to become "Emei Mountain". This is what the ancients said: "Believe what you hear, and don't re-examine what you have heard." "Birds and birds, aquatic fish, naturally Lingfu plus mountain, become "Emei Mountain". Later generations do not know the original and create a conjecture that "two mountains face each other, such as an eyebrow", which is thousands of miles off topic. In the sixth year of Emperor Yongping of the Ming Dynasty of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was recorded: "On June 1, there was a dangong who collected medicine in Yunwo, and saw a deer trace like a lotus, which was different and chased without a trace." Because he asked the Baozhang monk who practiced on the mountain, the Baozhang monk said that it was the Fuxian Bodhisattva who appeared "according to his wish and appeared in Mount Emei". After Pugong returned home, he gave up his house as a temple, so Mount Emei developed into a dojo of Puxian Bodhisattva. Another information says that when Pugong of the Jin Dynasty was collecting medicine on the mountain, he saw an old man riding a white elephant and disappeared. The subsequent accounts are largely consistent. According to beliefs and legends, when temples were built in successive dynasties, they were centered on Fuxian Bodhisattva, and developed into one of the four famous mountains of Chinese Buddhism. Jinding is the main peak of Mount Emei, the altitude is thousands of miles high, it is the end point of Mount Emei, and the scenic spots are gathered. Huazang Temple towers on the top of the rock, built in the Tang Dynasty, the roof is covered by tin tiles, and it is also called the "silver roof" in the Yuan Dynasty. On the side of the temple, there is a woyun hermitage, and there are canteens and guest rooms for tourists to eat and stay. At the Golden Dome, you can watch the four wonders of Emei - sunrise, sea of clouds, Buddha light, and holy lamp. The golden top is adjacent to the top of a thousand Buddhas and the top of ten thousand Buddhas. Among them, Wannian Temple, also known as Fuxian Temple, Baishui Temple, Baishui Puxian Temple, is located on the camel ridge of Mount Emei, Sichuan, China, and is the largest Buddhist temple on Mount Emei. One of the national key monasteries of Buddhism in the Han area. The temple was built in the Jin Dynasty during the Long'an period, Huiyuan's younger brother Hui Zhi into Shu to build a temple, originally named Fuxian Temple. In the third year of Tang Qianfu, Huitong Zen Master changed its name to Baishui Temple, which was repaired many times during the Northern Song Dynasty, and was called Baishui Puxian Temple. Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty celebrated his mother's 70th birthday, gave gold to build a beamless brick hall, and inscribed a gold plaque of "Shengshou Wannian Temple", after which the temple was changed to Wannian Temple. There is a bronze Fuxian riding elephant cast by the monk Maozhen in the Fuxian Palace. The "Buddha's tooth" (similar to the fossil of the upper jaw of the saber-toothed elephant in ancient times), the "Bayeux Sutra" (the Siamese version of the Sanskrit "Lotus Sutra" in the Ming Dynasty), and the "Imperial Seal" (the imperial seal of Zhu Yijun, the Emperor of Wanli), are the three treasures of the temple.
With the set goal, Yan Ximing and Wang Zhaolin began to discuss the affairs that followed-banqueting the elders' meeting. For this reason, there is also a series of interesting things, so far there is a folk saying in the old Chengdu that "Zhang's family is short", which means that if there is nothing to do, don't discuss the length of the Zhang family, the short of the Li family, and don't care about the gossip of others. Originally, this sentence had nothing to do with Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, but it was so interesting in history, and this sentence really had something to do with the two of them, and many people couldn't help asking: What is the situation?
Originally, after Zhang Xianzhong became the emperor in Sichuan, in order to open the cabinet elders' association, he began to manage night security, and generally sent soldiers to conduct night patrols in the old city of Chengdu to prevent all kinds of accidents. Late one night, a small couple living in the patrol area had a quarrel, the man drank a little wine, and naturally talked more, and the east and west were endless, and the woman scolded the man loudly without being annoyed: "Are you annoyed, it's the middle of the night, and you are still here Zhang's family, and the Li family keeps talking!" Unfortunately, this sentence happened to be heard by the patrolling soldiers. The next day, the man was arrested as a prisoner and taken to the government's mansion, and when he went in, he was tortured: What did he say last night, "Zhang's family is short," and did he want to do something unfavorable to the government? The interrogation naturally did not lead to anything in the end, and the case was reported to Bingzhong, and Zhang Bingzhong laughed when he heard about it, and applauded: Listen, this is the voice of the people. Zhang's family, Li Jia's short, clearly means that my Zhang's family has done more than the Li family's country, and this is the proverb that I will definitely outperform Li Zicheng in the future! Then he rewarded the male prisoner and declared him a good citizen, and immediately acquitted! After the man came out, he showed an innocent face: I don't know why he was arrested, and I didn't know why he was rewarded, and it felt as if he was in a dream! Although this incident passed like this, since then, the vernacular slang of "Zhang's family Li Jiashort" has been circulated in the Chengdu area to this day. In fact, this sentence has evolved in many places, and there are many sayings that follow this slang, such as similar proverbs in various places: "Zhang's family, Li's family is short, don't worry about other people's affairs." "Zhang's family, Li's family is short, I don't care about people's idle business!" "Zhang's family, Li's family is short, three toads and six eyes. "Zhang's family, Li Jia's short, Wang's daughter-in-law shameless, Han's rich Zhou's family, and Zhao's family will immigrate tomorrow" and so on.
Through the cabinet meeting formulated by the prime minister, everyone saw that the righteous army really thought about the common people, and they all readily agreed to contribute funds to help the construction of the Great Western Kingdom. Later, because these people were the roots of the scholar clan, they were all local wealthy families. They all know each other and climb each other's branches. Gradually, they came together to form a specific non-governmental organization, the Cabinet Elders' Association. Later, due to historical reasons, it gradually evolved into the Elder Brotherhood, and the Elder Brotherhood in Sichuan and Chongqing was called Brother Pao. Later, the Elders' Association had a huge influence in the Sichuan Army and the Hunan Army, and the Elders' Association was a social group led by the nobles and formed spontaneously by the lower-class masses, and was a secret society among the people. The question of the origin of the Church of the Elders is also a difficult mystery that has long puzzled historians. The reason for this is similar to the question of the origin of the Heaven and Earth Society. First, the Brotherhood is a spontaneous association of the lower classes. Second, during the Xinhai Revolution, in order to contact and guide the Elder Brothers' Association, the revolutionaries vigorously publicized that the Elder Brothers' Association was founded by Li Xiucheng, Li Shixian, and others from the Hongmen of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who infiltrated the Hunan army; third, during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the Hongmen, the Qinggang, and the Elder Brothers' Association infiltrated and merged with each other, and some people in the gangs tried their best to propagate that the Hongmen and Hanliu (Elder Brothers' Association) originated from one family, and all of them were pioneered by Zheng Chenggong. This statement was later accepted by scholars of the Church of the Elderly, and the question of the origin of the Church of the Elders was lost to its original identity. Therefore, the origin of the Brotherhood needs to be re-explored, and it is not discussed here one by one, but all as a joke to entertain the world.