Chapter 18 Final Strike Eighteen

Patriarch Yide happened to build a temple independently, so he offered to go to Yong'an Temple. Although Patriarch Yide is not an official disciple of Shaolin Temple, Patriarch Yide's request has been tacitly approved by the senior management of Shaolin Temple. Patriarch Yide is a British prince, and besides, he volunteered to build a monastery, which in itself is a great good thing. Shaolin Temple issued a certificate for Patriarch Yide and appointed Patriarch Yide as the acting presiding officer of Yong'an Temple. Patriarch Yide took over this task in front of everyone, but he didn't expect that such a takeover would cost him the rest of his life.

Since his enlightenment, Patriarch Yide has decided to give up his British public office, and anyway, there are several younger brothers in the family, and anyone can take over the British public office in his place. He thought that it would be easy to build a small temple, and as long as he had the money, as long as he personally supervised it, it would not be long before he could build a good temple. At that time, even if Patriarch Yide is not the master of the temple, he can still be an ordinary monk and stay in this temple to practice Buddhism and learn Buddhism.

Patriarch Yide returned home and found a few younger brothers to talk about his thoughts. Regarding Patriarch Yide's voluntary renunciation of his status, the younger brothers had no opinion but were very happy. However, when Patriarch Yide said that he wanted the British government to fully fund the construction of a temple, several younger brothers felt embarrassed. In the end, Patriarch Yide made a decision, and at the price of giving up his inheritance, he obtained one-third of the British public property as the fund for the construction of Yong'an Temple. Patriarch Yide personally wrote down the recitals of voluntarily giving up the title and extending the title to his younger brother. After the approval of the imperial court, the funds for the construction of Yong'an Temple will be left.

Soon after, the imperial court agreed, and the new British Duke also happily handed over the money to Patriarch Yide. Patriarch Yide rushed to Yong'an Temple overnight with a few subordinates who volunteered to practice with him. Although the dilapidated Yong'an Temple surprised everyone, Patriarch Yide still decided to stay. It was also on this night that Patriarch Yide made a great wish in the dilapidated Yong'an Temple hall. When the construction of Yong'an Temple was completed, it was the day when Patriarch Yide officially became a monk.

Yide Patriarch thought that the funds were enough, and it would always be easy to endure, and the materials could be bought at a large price, but he didn't expect things to be so simple, Yong'an Temple was not only dilapidated but also owed money to many people. If you want to work in Yong'an Temple, you must first make up the money you owe, and you can repay the debt with 10% of the total funds. Patriarch Yide inquired privately and learned that the problem of materials and manpower was also very serious. Because the sea is not very peaceful, the mountain road is difficult to walk, even if there are materials, they can't be transported in, not to mention that the price of materials is now expensive every day. The main problem with manpower is that people are not willing to work for nothing. The people here are so poor that they are embarrassed to let them work for nothing. There are not many people who believe in Buddhism, and of course they are not willing to go up to the mountains to work. If Patriarch Yide used the power of the yamen to force him to work, it would make everyone even more reluctant to believe in Buddhism and lose the original purpose of establishing a temple here. If everyone leans forward to work for the common people, the salary alone will be 30% of the total funds in a year, and the money of the ancestor Yide seems to be far from enough.

Patriarch Yide decided to buy materials while she personally went to the fate and asked the rich people to fund the construction of Yong'an Temple. Patriarch Yide first built a local relationship in Fu, but he did not expect that not only did he not persuade a rich man to help, but was arrested as a liar and entered the yamen. Although in the end, the people of the Yamen confirmed the identity of Patriarch Yide and released Patriarch Yide, but Patriarch Yide, a dignified British public heir, did a thing of turning into a monk, which made everyone sigh. When Patriarch Yide saw that the local people could not get money, he went home to persuade his younger brothers to donate money. But this time, Patriarch Yide didn't ask for too much money, and his younger brothers avoided him like a plague. Patriarch Yide simply went to Beijing to make a fortune to the nobles, hoping that everyone would help Yong'an Temple tide over the difficulties for the sake of their own face and the purpose of doing good deeds.

Patriarch Yide finally felt the sorrow, these nobles would rather be drunk and dream of death than do something meaningful. The nobles like to see the down-and-out appearance of Patriarch Yide, and hope to see Patriarch Yide low, but they just don't want to be superficial. Everyone who used to be very polite to Yide Patriarch commanded jokes or sarcastic Yide Patriarch. There are even a few noble ladies who were not selected by Patriarch Yide, and in order to humiliate Patriarch Yide, they said very ugly things. For the sake of Yong'an Temple, in order to let everyone donate money, Patriarch Yide endured everything. The result was only a few hundred taels of silver, but Patriarch Yide became the laughing stock of the entire aristocracy.

In the end, it was the younger brother of Miss Xuejia, the wife of Patriarch Yide, who learned about this incident and persuaded his father to take out half of the family property to help Patriarch Yide. Patriarch Yide took the money back to Yong'an Temple and began her next plan. After knowing that the money was not easy to come by, Patriarch Yide did not dare to spend it lavishly. He personally selected the materials, negotiated the price personally, and calculated the freight to every cent. In order to save labor, he took everyone to personally carry the materials up the mountain. In just a few years, the handsome and dashing noble son was gone, and in front of everyone, he was a sturdy and calculating layman.

While building monasteries, Patriarch Yide spent his spare time helping the common people, and tried his best to explain the Dharma in a superficial way that everyone could understand. With the efforts of Patriarch Yide, more and more local people began to believe in Buddhism. These people became believers in Yong'an Temple and volunteered to come over to help, and they were also the first batch of disciples of Patriarch Yide. Patriarch Yide was twenty-seven years old that year, but people who didn't know his age thought that he was past middle age.

Patriarch Yide started a family at the age of 14 and lost his parents, wife and children at the age of 18. At the age of nineteen, he first came into contact with the Buddhist scripture "Jizo Bodhisattva Honwish Sutra" in Wuyi Mountain. At the age of twenty-one, he became enlightened in Jiuhua Mountain. At the age of twenty-three, he woke up in Songshan Shaolin Temple and took on the task of building Yong'an Temple. At the age of twenty-four, he left the British Duchy and renounced the British dukedom. In Yong'an Temple, he made a great wish to build a new Yong'an Temple. At the age of twenty-five, Patriarch Yide entered Beijing and became a laughing stock of honors. At the age of twenty-seven, Patriarch Yide officially accepted his apprenticeship for the first time. The 35-year-old Patriarch Yide officially announced the construction of a new Yong'an Temple on the basis of the original Yong'an Temple. When Patriarch Yide was sixty-seven years old, Yong'an Temple was finally built. The new Yong'an Temple was built one to one according to the pattern of the Songshan Shaolin Temple at that time, and it was almost exactly the same as the Songshan Shaolin Temple except for the direction and location.

The day when Yong'an Temple was built may be the happiest day for Patriarch Yide, but it is also the day when Patriarch Yide feels the most empty. The great wish is completed, the task is completed, and the heart is over, but Patriarch Yide has nothing to do. On the day when the monastery was officially consecrated, Patriarch Yide officially ordained her last wish. For this promise and wish, Patriarch Yide spent 44 years of time and energy, and the effort and energy paid are difficult for outsiders to understand and bear. The name of Patriarch Yide is not discussed according to the ranking of Shaolin Temple, and the name of the law is given to himself by Patriarch Yide himself. He wants to remember and always remember the past, especially his loved ones and family. Originally, this "virtue" should be "de", but later Patriarch Yide changed it to this "virtue" with his own perception.

Now there are three treasures in South Shaolin, the first is the "Dizang Bodhisattva Sutra" left by the ancestor of Yide, the second is the experience of the unity of Zen and martial arts left by the abbot of Xiaoshan, and the third is the military flag of "Shaolin Temple Monks" in South Shaolin. This military flag is the best proof that Southern Shaolin helped the imperial court deal with the Japanese invaders, and it is also the handwritten inscription of Qi Jiguang, the leader of the Qi family army at that time. However, the disciples of Southern Shaolin all knew that there was still a military flag, and a military flag more precious than the military flag inscribed by Qi Jiguang was enshrined in the Iron Blood Hall. The Iron Blood Hall is incompatible with this Southern Shaolin when he hears the name, but that place is a forbidden place in Southern Shaolin, and ordinary disciples are not allowed to enter it casually. It not only enshrines the disciples of Shaolin Temple who died in the counterattack against the Japanese invaders, but also several mages who returned from the war and were disabled. They volunteered to stay in the Iron Blood Hall to take care of their comrades who were no longer there, and they volunteered to stay in the Iron Blood Hall to protect the Heroic Spirits.