Chapter 15 Different Concepts of God and Buddha
Sun Chengxun opened the curtain of the sedan chair, watched the scorching sun slowly climb to the top of his head, and hurriedly wiped the sweat beads from the bald head with a handkerchief again, and the master next to him hurriedly handed over the fan, Sun Chengxun asked:
"What time is it?"
"Back to the master, there is still a quarter of noon left. , ”
"Oh!"
Sun Chengxun waved his hand to let the master leave, and secretly scolded Yuan Shikai in his heart, you said that if you want to leave, you can leave, if you want to enter the city, you can enter the city, why do you have to stay in the camp outside the city? This stay is a morning, so that I, the governor of Texas, have to accompany you to bask in the sun? Just now, the master came to offer advice by thinking cleverly:
"My lord, do you think you are going to say hello to Lord Yuan?"
was scolded and scolded back by Sun Chengxun, the average Shangguan can go out of the city for thirty miles to greet him, but what kind of person is this Yuan Shikai, the governor who came to the post with an army of 50,000, there are few in the Qing generation, you fool stupidly ran to greet him, saying that you have nothing to do but want to flatter Shangguan It is light, and you will lose your head if you are sentenced to collide with the army.
"Zhao Maxia, get out of here!"
"Hey, the little one is here!"
Sun Chengxun's master is also interesting, he really rolled over on the street, fortunately, there are officials all around, otherwise Sun Chengxun would have to cut him to death and embarrass himself.
"Master, hasn't it been noon yet?"
"You take my jade Ruyi to the camp to find Master Zhang Xun Zhang, and help me inquire about Lord Yuan's tricks."
"Master, that was given to you by the Holy Lord the year before last in recognition of your loyalty and integrity!"
"It's because your lord and I are too loyal and honest, so apart from this jade Ruyi, there is nothing that can be taken out to present to Shangguan!"
Zhao Maxia was speechless for a while, Sun Chengxun is a rare Qing official in the Qing Dynasty officialdom, although he is not good at doing the economy, but he is really an official with clean sleeves. This Qingguan is very afraid of death, and in the middle of the year, Yihequan made trouble, and he was still making trouble in Jiaonan, so this Lord Sun packed up his belongings and prepared to run away from the capital, and went north to take refuge.
"What if the saint is investigated。。。。。。"
"Let's take one step at a time."
Hey, Zhao Maxia sighed. Following such a scumbag of clean officials, it is really not famous, and there is no profit. When Lord Yuan Shikai arrives, he still has to find a way to transfer, or he will either be starved to death or scared to death if he still follows Sun Zhifu.
At that moment, he had no choice but to take Sun Chengxun's letter, go back to Sun's mansion to take the jade Ruyi given by Guangxu, put on a small sedan chair and went straight to Beidaying.
"This Sun Chengxun even gave the emperor's wish."
Yuan Shikai sat in the big tent of the Chinese army. Playing with the jade Ruyi offered by Zhang Xun, he did not treat this Qin gift as a dish between his words, Feng Guozhang, who was sitting at the bottom, still followed the principle of being idle and bored and patting more, and opened his mouth to be:
"The handsome man is highly respected, and it is expected that Sun Chengxun must admire the prestige of the handsome。。。。。。"
Yuan Shikai waved his hand, stopped Feng Guozhang's sycophancy, and asked Wang Shizhen:
"Everything can be arranged?"
Wang Shizhen smiled and shook the goose feather fan in his hand, and the old god was saying:
"Everything is under control."
"Hmm. With the words of the hired secretary, I am relieved. It's also time to see how muddy the water in Texas is. ”
The winter of the twenty-fifth year of Guangxu. Yuan Shikai was transferred to the governor of Shandong, passing through Dezhou, Tun 50,000 troops did not enter the north gate, Sun Chengxun, the prefect of Dezhou, offered jade Ruyi to show his sincerity, Yuan Nai was greatly relieved, and entered the city with the generals under his command to guard the battalion.
Although at this time, there was no civilian honor guard that held high flower flags and lined up with large banners and shouted "welcome, welcome, warm welcome" like in later generations. However, in order to show that the whole of Texas is looking forward to the arrival of the new governor, Sun Chengxun specially instructed the two most famous good people in Texas, ---Master Hongsu and the Rice Shrimp Bodhisattva, to lead their good men and women to both sides of the street, burn incense and carry the Tao, and pray for Governor Yuan.
The rice shrimp Bodhisattva is good to please. Just asked Master Zhao to go to the gospel hall, and told him how vicious the governor Yuan was, how to kill people without blinking, if he offended him, even tens of thousands of gospel churches would be razed to the ground, this foreign monk listened, and immediately organized thousands of local congregants, holding the holy water of the cross Bible, and came to the north-south avenue in full armor, ready to sing hymns in the middle of the road.
And Master Hongsu was not so easy to fool, thinking that I was waiting for the monks, ignoring the world, and waiting for Master Zhao to repeat his old skills and shout how Governor Yuan was, the master recited a sentence I don't go to hell, who will go to hell, and then went to eat fast.
In the end, I couldn't, so I had to take the prefect's place to admit five hundred taels of sesame oil money, and then I invited this big Buddha, and the poor Texas prefect had to give an IOU to the monk, and even the novice who was in charge said disdainfully:
"Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, Lord Sun is really diligent and thrifty."
When Master Hongsu came to the North-South Avenue with the monks of all the great and small novices, he saw that Father Michel's congregation and ordinary citizens had already set up a grass platform, a choir composed of dozens of orphans was practicing hymns there, and some devout believers were holding the Bible and reading it.
Master Hongsu was furious, scolded the evil demons, and beckoned a group of large and small novices to start sitting on the ground and chanting, knocking on the wooden fish to knock the wooden fish to help the gang, burning incense without money seems to be lit in bundles, the whole street is full of smoke, quite a piece of the momentum of the Buddha country.
Hannah volunteered to take out Father Michelle's smoking camera and was taking pictures of the orphans, when a flash of green smoke came over several monks across the street and shouted:
"These monsters of yours dare to capture people's souls, let the Buddha accept you today!"
After saying that, he took a wooden stick and came up to beat Hannah, and the congregation knew that Miss Hannah was the goddaughter recognized by Father Michelle (in fact, the relationship between the godfather and the goddaughter), where could these monks beat people, and they also rushed over with a few benches.
"What are you doing, what are you doing, is there any royal law in your eyes?"
Tired like a dog, Zhao Maxia ran over with two officials out of breath, stood in the middle of the road, separated the two gangs, asked about the original, and knew that these monks had never seen the camera, so he kindly persuaded him, and finally asked Hannah to cover the camera with a black cloth and not allow it to take pictures again, so as to end the dispute.
However, the two groups of people do not like each other, and there are constant troubles on weekdays, many congregants and good men and women have clashed in vegetable fields, teahouses, and wine shops, the most obvious is that the neighborhood is good for the original courtyard, since the belief in different gods and Buddhas, the two families have become more and more maliceful, and finally built a brick wall in the courtyard.
In addition to these good people waiting for the arrival of Governor Yuan in the street, some lazy scoundrels also took the opportunity to come to the street to fish in troubled waters, and they were not afraid of the officials with a straight face, or grabbed a few residual incense sticks and chanted Oh Mida Buddha, or tied a cross branch and shouted Hallelujah, and when they walked in, they hit people, touched their cuffs and took out their clothes, and they were active.
"You guy, you actually touched the Buddha?"
A novice grabbed a thief, and when he saw the thief holding a cross stick in his hand, he immediately shouted:
"You see, those foreign religions are the work of teaching people to steal!"
And the thief was wise, and cried out:
"O merciful Lord! This monk asked me to come over and apologize, but who knew that he suddenly grabbed me and framed me as a thief. As a devout believer, how will I clear my name? ”
A group of hooligans followed and coaxed, and the unknown church members really thought that their church brothers were being bullied, after all, there were so many church members, the gospel hall was so small, and the church brothers who did not know each other were divided into dozens of batches. It's just that these monks are too hateful, they want to beat the goddaughter of the Great Bodhisattva, and now they slander the brothers in the sect for stealing, you must know that stealing is the biggest original sin that the Lord said, this is simply like slandering the eunuch to go to the Qinglou, which is unbearable.
"Bald donkey, do you think my lord's servant is easy to bully?"
Zhou Tu, who killed pigs, only entered the church last month, because Father Michel relied on an injection to revive the dying old lady, Zhou Tu regarded the great Bodhisattva as a god, and immediately threw himself at the feet of Christ, went to church every day to listen to the gospel, and prayed with everyone on weekends, so that he suddenly felt that his life was no longer a bloody slaughter of living beings, but a noble cause of saving life (God knows how he understood it).
The monk over there is respected and is used to it, where is he afraid of Zhou Tu coming, he shouted a few monks with wooden sticks and was about to fight, and the surrounding officials hurriedly came over to maintain order, Zhou Tu saw the opportunity to grab a piece of cow dung and threw it at the monk's face, and with a bang, the cow dung burst open, splashing all the novices.
"Haha, what a bunch of bald donkey dung eggs!"
"The thief kills you, if you don't clean up today, I don't know how many eyes the Buddha has?"
After scolding, regardless of the pull of the officials, the two groups of people finally each guy, each showed their magic and fought, and a group of scoundrels were also drumming in it, so that more and more people joined the group fighting, and the original peaceful chanting and singing sound was completely gone, leaving only a scolding street, huha, and screaming.
Gravel, cow dung, flat shoulders, rotten vegetable leaves, flying over the streets, monkeys stealing peaches, black tigers digging out their hearts among the neighbors, the entire north-south road has become a battlefield between the Buddha and God, everywhere is-for-tat crowds, and gradually some people turn this matter into smashing and robbing.
Sun Chengxun was pressed by people, and the officials carried water and fire sticks and sabers to finally separate the chaotic people, and the scene was already a mess. At this time, the sound of gongs and drums came from the north gate.
"Shandong Governor Yuan has arrived!"
With a loud singing of harmony, one of Sun Chengxun's stars was raised to his throat, and he was unable to care about these Diao people anymore, so he hurriedly led a group of officials of all sizes to come forward to ask for peace.
The pro-guard battalion of the right army of Wuwei entered with the flag officer, and there were seven or eight sedan chairs in the middle, Sun Chengxun was puzzled, this rumor Yuan Shikai was flaunted as a skilled bow and horse, and everywhere he went was to replace the official system with the military system, why didn't he change his clothes and angry horses into sedan chairs? (To be continued.) )