Taizong went straight to the underworld with a wisp of dead soul. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He was walking to the wilderness and grassland, when he suddenly heard someone shouting: "The Tang Emperor is coming this way, coming this way!"

When Taizong heard this, he followed the sound and saw a person kneeling down on the side of the road, and said to him: "Weichen Cui Jue greets Your Majesty." ”

Taizong said: "Which Cui Jue are you, and the widow has no impression of you?"

Cui Jue said: "I am Cui Jue, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites under the command of Gaozu, and now I have a small official position in the underworld, and I am here to help you today." ”

Taizong said: "Could it be that I'm already dead!"

Cui Qi said: "After the old dragon of Jinghe was beheaded, I went to King Qin Guang to sue you, and King Qin Guang sent me to urge Your Majesty to confront you. ”

Taizong saw that Cui Jue didn't say anything to death, and he didn't feel a trace of luck in his heart. He hurriedly stepped forward to help: "Sir, please get up quickly! Speaking of which, everyone is your own person, don't be polite! I am not familiar with this prefecture, and Mr. Lao will lead the way." ”

So Cui Jue took Taizong into the ghost city and walked along the street. On the road, he met the two brothers Jiancheng and Yuanji.

These two people were killed by the king of Tang when the Xuanwumen changed, and now when they see the king of Tang, they come to fight for their lives. King Tang couldn't dodge and was pulled by them, but fortunately Cui Jue rescued him in time and drove away the two ghosts.

Stumbling all the way, I finally came to the main hall. The king of the ten halls bowed down to greet him, and the king of Tang was panicked and at a loss.

The Ten Kings said: "Your Majesty is the king of the people of the yang world, and we are the ghost kings of the underworld, everyone is a king, Your Majesty does not have to be polite." ”

King Tang felt a little calmer, and then entered the Senluo Palace. King Qin Guang arched his hand and said: "The ghost dragon of Jinghe told His Majesty that he had no promise, and promised to save him, but he didn't save him. ”

King Tang hurriedly defended himself and told the truth. When the king of Yama heard this, he said, "That is the case, then it is a misunderstanding. After speaking, he ordered the judge to take a look at the life and death book.

After seeing the book of life and death, King Yama said, "King Tang, your longevity is over." ”

When King Tang heard this, his heart suddenly turned cold: "This time I am really dead!"

The King of Reincarnation asked on the side: "Could it be that you are mistaken, the life of the human king can not be sloppy." ”

King Yama looked at it more closely, and after reading it, he said: "Oh! I was dazzled for a while, and I actually made a low-level mistake, this Tang King should have twenty years of life." With that, he picked up the judge's pen and inadvertently changed it in the book.

King Tang was shocked when he watched from the sidelines, and said secretly: "Since he said that he was wrong, why did he have to use his pen to change it? Could it be that Cui Jue cared about my father's kindness and privately bought off King Yama?"

King Qin Guang said: "Yama, look at your mistake, it frightened King Tang. ”

King Yama bowed and said, "Your Majesty King Tang, I have lost my eyes for a while, and I ask for forgiveness." ”

King Tang was pleasantly surprised, and said: "No sin, no crime, Yan Jun works hard all night, and occasionally is in a trance, which is really right." ”

King Yama said: "Since it was a misunderstanding, we should send King Tang back to Yang, where is Cui Fujun?"

Cui Jue said: "The lower official is here." ”

King Yama said: "Tang Wang's Yang life is not over, so he orders you to send him back to Yang." ”

Cui Jue received the decree and brought the Tang King back to Yang. But it's not the way it came. Tang Wang was puzzled: "It seems that this path is wrong, right?"

Cui Jue said: "The road I just came to, there is a way to come, there is no way, I am now taking you to take the wheel path to return to the yang, and by the way, I can also take Your Majesty to visit the underworld." ”

So Cui Jue took the Tang King to go through the Netherworld and back the Yin Mountain, and the wind was miserable along the way, and wild ghosts were everywhere. Then he went to the eighteenth layer of hell, and those ghosts in the hell received the pain of the oil pot, the pain of pulling out the tongue, the pain of peeling the skin, the pain of cold ice, and so on, which made King Tang tremble.

After walking for a long time, I came to the Nai He Bridge again, and the blood waves under the bridge were surging, and the sound of crying was endless. I crossed the bridge, but I arrived at the city of vain death.

There were thousands of evil spirits in the city, and they all shouted: "Li Shimin is here, Li Shimin is here!" "Kill him!" "Kill him!" "Pinch him by the neck and stick him in the eyeballs!" ......

One of the ghosts shouted loudly: "I am Li Mi, the true dragon son of heaven, and I have been robbed of the throne by you, the pseudo-dragon Li Shimin. Li Shimin, give me back my life!"

King Tang thought to himself: "Since you are a real dragon, how can you be taken away by me?" ”

As soon as the previous voice fell, another ghost shouted: "Traitor King, I am the red-haired spirit official Shan Xiongxin, quickly return my eldest brother's life!"

King Tang thought again: "Your eldest brother was accidentally injured and died by my father, how can it be counted on my head?"

King Tang was frightened, and suddenly he was blocked by a group of ghosts who dragged their waists and folded their arms, and had no feet and no heads, so panicked that he shouted loudly: "Mr. Cui, help!"

Cui Jue said: "Your Majesty, these people were all sixty-four smoke and dust of the year, seventy-two heroes, and now they are dead in vain and unattended. If Your Majesty can give them some entanglement, so that they can have a place to go, I can persuade them not to pester you. ”

Tang Wang said: "I came here empty, where can I bring the money?"

Cui Jue said: "It's okay. There is a credit company in our prefecture, and as long as Your Majesty signs an agreement, we can lend you money. When you return to the yang world, you can burn more paper money. ”

The king of Tang was overjoyed, so he did what he said, and he was able to get out.

Bumped along the way, and finally reached the exit. Cui Qi said: "Your Majesty has achieved the throne and suffered countless injuries, and you must do good deeds in the future to live a long life." ”

Tang Wang agreed repeatedly.

Cui Jue said: "Tell Your Majesty that the Bodhisattva King of the Earth in my underworld once said: 'Hell is not empty, and you will not become a Buddha.'" 'After Your Majesty returns to the sun, if you can do a land and water conference and surpass these ownerless souls, the Bodhisattva King of the Earth will be grateful for Your Majesty's benevolence. ”

Tang Wangqi said: "Who is this Jizo King Bodhisattva?"

Cui Jue said with a smile: "It turns out that Your Majesty only knows that there are ten halls of Yan Jun, but he doesn't know that there is also a Jizo King Bodhisattva above these ten halls of Yan Jun. At that time, the Bodhisattva made a great vow to live his life, and in the spirit of the fearless spirit of not going to hell and who will go to hell, he threw himself into the underworld. He fulfilled his duties, worked hard, and won the support of the Ten Palaces Yan Jun, and finally became the boss of this underworld. ”

Tang Wang was shocked and thought: "It turns out that the boss of this underworld is actually a Buddhist man. Thinking about it in detail, the king of Yama increased his life for twenty years, but it was not Cui Qi who bought the king of Yama privately, but the king of the earth Bodhisattva wanted to favor me. So King Tang had a plan in his heart.

Cui Jue said: "Your Majesty, now that the front is the exit, I will send you here." ”

Tang Wang said: "There is Mr. Lao." ”

The captain guarding the door next to him shouted: "Now that you have arrived at the door, what are you still doing there? Hurry up, go quickly!" After finishing speaking, he pushed Tang Wang, and Tang Wang stepped on the air, so he took off the Yin Division and went back to the Yang World.

When the king of Tang opened his eyes, he saw that a group of royal relatives, princes and ministers were mourning and weeping there. Then he said: "The Qing family does not need to be sad, the widow is still alive." ”

Everyone was shocked, and heard Cheng bite Jin and shouted: "Oh no, no, Li Shimin cheated the corpse!"

Tang Wang said: "Okay, you Cheng Yilang, do you wish you cursed the widow to die early? I think that Yin Xiang's son-in-law Chen Guangrui can return to Yang, but as the emperor of a generation, I am not as good as him?"

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this, and they all complained that Cheng Biting Jin was reckless, and he didn't choose what to say, and hurriedly knelt on the ground to congratulate King Tang.

After the Tang Dynasty returned to Yang, he remembered Cui Qi's words, and wanted to make up for his knowledge of Buddhism.

One morning, the king of Tang asked the ministers: "I don't know which Aiqing knows the knowledge of Buddhism, and I will listen to it?"

So there was Zhang Daoyuan, the servant of the Imperial Servant, and Zhang Shiheng, the Zhongshu Ling, who respectively stepped forward to tell about the reincarnation of the five ancestors, the phenomenon of Dharma, how to work hard to start a business, preach Buddhism, and how the King of the Earth Bodhisattva made a great vow to spend his life and then threw himself into hell and so on.

When King Tang heard this, he thought to himself: "Cui Jue really didn't lie to me, it seems that if you want to live a long life, you still need to have a good relationship with the underworld." ”

After that, the king of Tang issued a decree to grant amnesty to the world, released more than 400 death row prisoners on parole, and ordered them to go home to deal with the aftermath of the funeral, and then to return to receive the punishment for a period of one year, and then to return to receive the sentence after the expiration of the period; then released more than 3,000 palace maids and made them marry on their own; and then issued a list of orphans, and wantonly set up nursing homes and orphanages throughout the country.

In short, as long as he can think of a good deed, he does his best. In just half a year after that, the whole eastern land scene was new, and the four seas were leveled, which was the rule of Zhenguan praised by later generations.

This Tang Wang felt that he had done almost all the good things he could think of, and suddenly remembered what Cui Qi said about the water and land conference, so he wanted to listen to the opinions of the ministers in the audience.

The next morning, Tang Wang said: "The widow wants to invite a virtuous monk to preside over a water and land festival for me, can Zhong Aiqing recommend a suitable candidate for the widow?"

From time to time, Prime Minister Xiao Yu came out of the class and said: "Master Xuanzang, the nephew of Prime Minister Yin, is a young monk, why don't Your Majesty ask him to preside over this land and water conference." ”

Tang Wang said: "What you are talking about is the little monk I have seen before?"

Xiao Yu said: "Exactly." ”

Tang Wang said: "He is young, I'm afraid he can't be qualified for such an important conference, right?"

Xiao Yu said: "Your Majesty doesn't know that Master Xuanzang is the beloved disciple of the famous Elder Fa Ming. He was a young and intelligent young man, well-read and strong-remembered, and he was able to speak well, and his Dharma was exquisite, and he was an unborn young monk. The minister also heard that some time ago, Master Xuanzang and his master, Elder Fa Ming, debated Buddhism and fought each other, but Elder Fa Ming failed to beat him, and unfortunately died of shame. ”

Tang Wang said in surprise: "Oh, there is such a thing? I don't know where this Master Xuanzang is now?"

Xiao Yu said: "I heard that I went back to Jinshan Temple." ”

At this time, Prime Minister Yin stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, this nephew of the minister is not in Jinshan Temple now, but in Zhenjiang Prison." ”

Tang Wang said: "Why is this?"

Prime Minister Yin said: "Recently, Zhenjiang cracked a large-scale case of making and selling fake certificates and arrested several suspects. My nephew was suspected of buying a fake certificate and attempting to smuggle out of the country, and he was also imprisoned. ”

Tang Wang said: "Why didn't Aiqing mention it to me?"

Prime Minister Yin said: "Some time ago, Your Majesty's Holy Sacrament violated the harmony, and he has just recovered recently, and the minister does not dare to disturb His Majesty with such a trivial matter. ”

Tang Wang said: "Your nephew is really willful, but the widow really wants to see him." Someone came, spread my will, forgive Xuanzang's sins, and let him quickly enter the capital to face the saint. ”

Immediately, a court official brought a holy decree and went to Jiangzhou to Xuanzang to enter Beijing in the starry night. The king of Tang sent another secret envoy to the area of Jinshan Temple to investigate Xuanzang's life.

Not long after, Xuanzang exonerated himself and came to Chang'an by order.

The next day, another messenger sent a decree, and the royal study was led by the messenger to see the king of Tang.

King Tang saw Xuanzang and said, "Master Xuanzang, I want to do a water and land puja, and I want you to preside over it, what do you think?"

King Tang didn't mention the past, and directly referred to him as a mage.

Xuanzang was not humble either, and said directly: "Your Majesty has this intention, and the poor monk dares to disobey his orders." The poor monk opened an altar for His Majesty to preach the Dharma with Theravada Buddhism. This Hinayana Dharma can save all the souls from the suffering of hell and bring blessings and longevity to His Majesty. ”