readx; In the last book, Lao Wu deliberately put Confucian filial piety in front of people, and even Tang Seng sighed at the woodcutter. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Tang Seng couldn't help but have some ideas, and his heart was greatly advanced. Wukong Bajie Sha Monk is also the same now, and has a deeper understanding of family affection and mentorship.

The master and apprentice arrived at Fengxian County, a foreign county in Tianzhu, and Wukong introduced Lingshan to the master, "Although the place where it comes from is called Bliss, there is no city, but a big mountain, and there are buildings and palaces in the mountain, which is called Lingshan Da Lei Yin Temple." ”

Fengxian County is desolate, and the streets are deserted. Knowing that there has been a drought here for many years, the marquis of the county made a list here and asked the mage to pray for rain to save the people.

Wukong is now affectionate and righteous, and when he hears it, he reads the list. "The Marquis of Fengxian County of the Great Tianzhu Country is the official of the county, and he hires a master for the list and asks for the best things. Because the land of the county is wide and large, the army and the people are solid, there is a drought for many years, the drought is dry for many years, the land of the people is thin and the land is thin, the river is shallow and the ditch is empty. There is no water in the well, and there is no water at the bottom of the spring. The rich talk about the whole life, but the poor people find it difficult to live. The price of 100 gold is 5 taels of salary. A ten-year-old woman is easy to get three liters, and a five-year-old man is brought with him. In the city, they fear the law and pawn clothes to survive, and in the countryside, they bully the public, rob and eat people and care for their lives. For this reason, he gave the list of essays, looked up to the sages of the ten directions, saved the people from the rain, and repaid his kindness. I am willing to thank you with a thousand gold, and I will never lie. Those who must be on the list. ”

It is estimated that Lao Wu is reflecting a period of the Ming Dynasty, when there were places with severe droughts year after year, and the people were struggling to make a living, and there was turmoil and chaos.

Wukong looked at it and said to the officials, "Where is the county marquis Shangguan?" and the officials said, "Shangguan is the surname." This is also the surname of my county marquis. The walker smiled, "This surname is less." "My brother has never studied." There is a sentence Shangguan Ouyang after the surname of the hundred families. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, did not read much, and it was Lao Wu Cai who took the opportunity to mock his subordinates.

Sanzang Dao, "Apprentices, and talk casually." He who will ask for rain, and he will ask for a sweet rain with him, so that he can help the people, this is a good thing, if not, just do it, don't miss walking. The walker said, "It is very difficult to pray for rain! My old grandson turned over the river and stirred up the sea, changed the bucket and moved the stars, kicked the sky and made the well, spit out the fog and clouds, carried the mountains to catch the moon, called the rain and the wind, that is not a child's trick! What is rare!"

From the monkey's mouth, we can see that the monkey is a reflection of Zhu Yuanzhang.

When the Marquis of Fengxian heard about it, he hurried to greet him. Inform Tang Seng that it has not rained here for three consecutive years.

Wukong is energetic, and he wants to accumulate merit and send a heavy rain. The marquis of the county was originally very upright and virtuous, and loved the people, that is, he invited the traveler to sit down, bowed his head and bowed down, saying, "The teacher is merciful, and the lower officials will not dare to disobey morality." ”

There are not many Ming Dynasty emperors who can make Lao Wu think that they are honest and virtuous, and it is relatively easy to analyze.

Wukong brought Ao Guang, the old dragon king of the East China Sea, over and asked why he didn't give rain. That Ao Guang bowed and saluted, "The Great Sage of Qi learned that although I can do rain, I am a person sent by God. The heavens are not bad, how dare you come here to rain without permission?"

The monkey wondered, you didn't say that before, didn't you want to shirk it?

The Dragon King said, "How dare you prevaricate, but the Great Sage chanted the mantra and called, and he didn't dare not come." The great sage has the heart of pulling out the money, allowing Xiaolong to return to the sea to point troops, annoying the great sage to go to the heavenly palace to play accurately, please ask for a holy decree of rain, ask the water official to release the dragon, but I will rain according to the will. Seeing that he was reasonable, the walker had no choice but to send the old dragon back to the sea.

It seems that the Dragon King really didn't dare to give rain, because he knew that it was the Jade Emperor who didn't let it rain here, but the old dragon didn't dare to explain the truth, so he said so.

The monkey went up to the sky to ask what was going on, and when he went to the West Heaven Gate, he saw the Heavenly King of the Protector of the Country, Yin Tianding and Lux stepping forward to greet him, "Great Sage, is it all about learning scriptures?"

The Heavenly King who has changed the door has changed again, indicating that the Heavenly Court has changed again. In fact, they come from Buddhist allusions, the Eastern Heavenly King protects the Dongsheng Divine Continent, the Southern Growth Heavenly King protects the Southern Ganbu Continent, the Western Wide-eyed Heavenly King protects the Western Niuhe Continent, and the Northern Duowen Heavenly King protects the Northern Juluzhou.

Lao Wu must have thought that the word "holding the country" was not good, so he changed it to "protect the country"; by the way, he changed the word "more information" to "vigorously." From the time the book was opened, it was basically according to the above allusions to the southeast, north, west, and north of the Heavenly Court.

Later, it was often exchanged for each other, which was confusing. In fact, the change of the heavenly king in this heavenly court is that Lao Wu reflects the change of emperors of various generations in the Ming Dynasty, or some turmoil occurred during the reign of a certain emperor.

Lao Wu in the book, not only by changing the gate king to describe some things, but also other ways to describe, is quite obvious, but it is not easy to be discovered, and it will be discussed in the future, so I won't talk about it now.

The King of Heaven listened to Wukong's intention and said, "That wall compartment should not rain miles." I said to Shi Wen, "That prince of the county has sinned against heaven and earth, and God has set up a mountain of rice, a mountain of faces, and a great lock of gold, and it will not rain until these three things are broken." ”

Wukong walked to the outside of the Tongming Palace, and saw the four great heavenly masters greet him, "What is the great sage doing here? It shouldn't rain on that side." The walker smiled, "Should or shouldn't, bother to play and play, see what the old grandson's feelings are." Ge Xian Weng said, "As the saying goes, flies wrap nets, it's so big!" Xu Jingyang said, "Don't talk nonsense, and only take him in." ”

The conversation between several people is meaningful, and Lao Wu is reflecting something. I still don't understand it, so keep reading.

The Jade Emperor listened to the monkey's words and said, "On December 25, three years ago, I traveled to monitor the Ten Thousand Heavens, floated to the Three Realms, drove to the other side, and saw that the Shangguan was unkind, and made a sacrifice to the dogs, and made foul words, and committed offense. You lead Sun Wukong to see. If he breaks three things, he will give him a decree, but if he does not break them, he will not meddle in his affairs. ”

When the Four Heavenly Masters led the travelers to the Phi Xiang Temple, they saw a rice mountain, about 10 zhang high, and a face mountain, about 20 zhang high. There is a chicken with a big fist on the side of the rice mountain, where it is tight, slow, and eats that rice. There was a golden retriever pug on the side of the mountain, where he had one tongue and one tongue, and ate that noodle. On the left hung an iron shelf, on which hung a golden lock, about a foot three or four inches long, the shackl was the thickness of a finger, and there was a bright lamp underneath, and the flame burned the shackle.

The Heavenly Master said, "That guy has offended the heavens, and the Jade Emperor has set up these three things, and he will wait until the chicken has eaten all the rice, the dog has exhausted the food, and the lamp flame has broken the locks, and then it should rain." When the walker heard this, he was shocked and did not dare to start again. He walked out of the temple with a face full of shame.

What's weird, and what's even more inexplicable is the monkey's reaction, why should he be ashamed?

The Four Great Heavenly Masters smiled and said, "The Great Sage doesn't need to worry, this matter should only be solved by doing good." If there is a thought of kindness and kindness, which alarms the heavens, the rice and the mountain will fall immediately, and the lock will be broken immediately. Go and persuade him to turn to goodness, and blessings will come. ”

Wukong had to go back first and ask the marquis what was going on, but the marquis didn't dare to hide it, and said, "Three years ago, on December 25th, the offering was made to the fasting day, and it was in this office, because his wife was not virtuous, he fought with evil words, and he was angry and ignorant for a while, and he overturned the offering table, poured vegetarian food, and called the dog to eat. The memories of the past two years are in my heart, and my mind is in a trance, and there is nowhere to explain it. I don't know that God sees the sin and kills the people. When the teacher comes today, Wanwang makes it clear that the upper realm cares. ”

The words of this Shangguan Junhou are even more interesting, among which there is a lot of mystery in "because his wife is not virtuous, he fights with evil words".

Wukong said the punishment of the Jade Emperor, and Bajie smiled, "Don't worry, don't worry!" Brother Ken took me there, conjured up the Dharma Body, ate all his rice and noodles in one meal, broke the lock, and took the rain. ”

The old pig's words revealed some mysteries. Although he is a fool and greedy, he dares to go to heaven, which shows that Bajie thinks that when he is in heaven, he can sit upright. Then it can also prove that the old pig has been degraded to the lower realm, and there must be something greasy.

Wukong instructed the marquis, "If you turn your heart to goodness and recite the Buddha and read the scriptures as soon as possible, I will do it for you; "The marquis of the county kowtowed and bowed, vowing to take refuge. At that time, the monks of the department were summoned, the ashram was built, and each of them wrote and issued a document and performed for three days. The county marquis led the crowd to pay homage with incense, thanked the heavens and the earth, and blamed himself.

This county marquis obviously reflects the very high status of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the combined image of Zhang Heling, Hou of Shouning, and Zhang Yanling, Marquis of Jianchang.

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling are brothers, both brothers of Empress Zhang, the eldest wife of Ming Xiaozong. These two people relied on their sister's prestige and ran amok to lawlessness, and few people dared to provoke them. A eunuch accused them of stealing the emperor's hat to play, but Ming Xiaozong sent the eunuch to prison. The Zhang brothers followed Li Guang's path and killed this eunuch.

There have also been several officials who have participated in the impeachment of these two brothers, but they all ended badly, either in prison or demoted.

Ming Xiaozong admonished them in private, and it was good to promise in person, so how should they do it. Although no obvious evil deeds were found among these two people, the main thing was to indulge the domestic slaves in committing murder.

When Zhu Youzhu was in power, he took a lot of responsibility for them; after Zhu Youzhu died, his son succeeded to the throne, and he still couldn't discipline his two uncles. Until Ming Shizong Zhu Houxi succeeded to the throne, seeing that they were not pleasing to the eye, he wanted to clean up the lesson, anyway, they were not his uncles.

However, Zhu Youji's Empress Zhang was already the queen mother at this time, so she did everything possible to defend her younger brothers. Many ministers also interceded with the two brothers because of Empress Dowager Zhang (Empress Dowager Zhang and Yang Tinghe cooperated to eradicate Jiang Bin and others during the Ming Wuzong period, which can be regarded as a great contribution). Later, Jiajing couldn't help it, so he put both of them in prison, one died in prison, and the other was slaughtered after the death of Empress Dowager Zhang.

Lao Wu must have a very complicated opinion of these two brothers, on the one hand, he hates them as people, and on the other hand, he feels sorry for Queen Zhang. I really hope that the two of them can get lost and know that they are going to return to the shore, but unfortunately, the dog can't change the ****.

Old Man Wu looked at Queen Zhang's face, and described it very affectionately in the book.

What is the meaning of the Jade Emperor's setting of the rice mountain, the face of the mountain and the golden lock?

It turned out that Ming Xiaozong was very fond of a eunuch named Li Guang, Li Guang, not Li Guang of the Han Dynasty, but the eunuch who was once favored by Ming Xiaozong. He used the Taoist priest to deceive the emperor, wantonly appointed ministers, robbed the people's land, seized salt profits, and lived a corrupt and degenerate life. Because he always suggested that the emperor build pavilions, especially the Yuxiu Pavilion in Banzai Mountain, but the emperor's princess died not long after the repair. Later, in the imperial palace, the Qianqing Palace and the Kunning Palace caught fire one after another, which was also considered to be Li Guang's culprit, so Li Guang committed suicide in fear.

Zhu Youzhu was very sorry, but he suspected that Li Guang's house must have strange books, so he sent someone to find them. It turned out that there was a big cabinet, (it is easy to think of Tang Seng and a few people who also stayed in that big cabinet all night) There was an account book in it, which recorded the records of many food sent by officials. What this one gave a few hundred stones of yellow rice, and that one who gave a few thousand stones of white rice.

Zhu Youzhu was surprised at first glance, how much could Li Guang eat, why did so many people send so much food. Someone next to me told that this is a hidden word, the yellow is gold, and the white is silver.

Zhu Youzhu was greatly touched, so he immediately knew his mistake and corrected it, so that people could thoroughly investigate according to this account book. But the scope of involvement was too large and too wide, and Shou Ning, one of the Zhang brothers, waited for Zhang Heling to come out to intercede with the emperor. Zhu Youzhu looked at the face of his wife and brother-in-law, and did not pursue it further.

Then Lao Wu must be very dissatisfied with the results of this anticlimactic treatment, and he uses the novel to satirize one or two. The origin of the golden lock of Mishan Mianshan is just to confiscate the contents of the account book found in Li Guang's house.

When I came back to the book, everyone burned incense and recited the Buddha. From this moment on, a good voice filled the ears.

This is Lao Wu's hope that the Zhang brothers will change their ways, as for burning incense or something, it's just a pretense.

Wukong went to heaven again, saw the messenger of Zhifu early, held the Taoist documents, and the monks closed the door and passed them outside the gate of heaven. When the talisman saw the practitioner, he saluted and said, "This intention is the work of the great sage to persuade goodness." "The walker said, "Where are you going to send this document?" Fu said, "Send it directly to the Tongming Palace, and pass it to the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable with the Heavenly Master." ”

What kind of mess, does the so-called good deeds have anything to do with Taoist clerical monks?

By analyzing the behavior of the Jade Emperor, we will know. The Jade Emperor has to go back to the lower realm every few years to inspect it. It is to enjoy the offerings of the earth. As we mentioned earlier, each monk's degree can be worth 5-25 taels of silver, and the price of Taoist documents is estimated to be about the same. The Ming Dynasty issued a document every ten years, which was a lot of white silver. Of course, the Jade Emperor doesn't care whether you are a Buddha or a Taoist, just send me money anyway.

Wukong originally planned to go to see the Jade Emperor as well, but the Protector Heavenly King said, "Great Sage, I won't see the Jade Emperor anymore." You only go to the Nine Heavens Ying Yuan Mansion, borrow some thunder gods, and go straight to the thunder and lightning, and there will be rain on him. ”

This Heavenly King is interesting, but he really has an eye, knowing that the Jade Emperor is about to count the money, and he doesn't want others to be present, so just let the monkey go directly to the Nine Heavens Ying Yuan Mansion.

Wukong also understood, so he went directly to the Nine Heavens Ying Yuan Mansion, and Tianzun followed the Nine Phoenix Danxia and dressed up to greet him.

Wow, the monkey's face is big enough. Tianzun came out to greet him, it was outrageous. There is only one explanation, Tianzun can get a certain benefit from the Jade Emperor. And Wukong persuades people to do good, so there are more mortals who want to be monks and Taoists. Buddhists and Taoists can get benefits, so of course the power of money even Tianzun has to give face.

Tianzun passed the decree and let Deng, Xin, Zhang, and Tao lead the lightning lady handsomely, that is, to descend with the Great Sage to Fengxian County Bray.

In that Fengxian County, inside and outside the city, officials, soldiers, and civilians, etc., have not heard thunder and lightning for three years. Today, when I saw the sound of thunder and lightning, they knelt down together, with the incense burner on their heads, and some of them held willow branches in their hands, and they all chanted "Nan no Amitabha! Nan Wu Amitabha!" This kind thought really alarmed the heavens. It is that ancient poetry that gives birth to a thought in people's hearts, and heaven and earth know it. If good and evil are not rewarded, there will be selfishness.

Lao Wu's rhetoric is very slippery, but the final summary is that "there must be selfishness", and everything is in plain sight.

The messenger of the upper realm sent the documents of the monks and Taoists to the Tongming Palace, and the Four Heavenly Masters passed on the Lingxiao Palace. The Jade Emperor saw it and said, "That guy has good thoughts, look at how the three things are." As he was talking, the general who was in charge of the Phi Xiang Hall suddenly reported, "The mountains of rice and noodles have fallen." There was no rice or flour in an instant. The locks are also broken. Before the performance was finished, there was a heavenly official who led the land, city god, social order and other gods of Fengxian County to worship and play, "The county lord and the city are full of large and small Li Shu families, and there is no family who does not take refuge in good fruits, worship the Buddha and respect the sky." Today, we will be merciful, rain will fall, and we will help the people. The Jade Emperor was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately passed the decree, "The wind, the clouds, and the rain will each obey the order, go below, and according to the boundary of Fengxian County, that is, today and today, the sound of thunder and clouds will be spread, and the rain will be three feet and forty-two points." "From time to time, the four great heavenly masters were ordered, and they were sent to all departments to go down to the realm at any time, and each of them was mighty, and they cheered up together. The walker was playing with Deng, Xin, Zhang, and Tao, making the lightning lady play in the air, only to see that all the gods had arrived and met for a day. In the meantime, the wind and clouds will meet, and the rain will be surging.

Sure enough, the magic power of money naturally calls for wind and rain! The Jade Emperor received the benefits, and then he was satisfied to do what he should do.

One day it rained three feet and forty-two o'clock. Gradually, the gods withdrew. Sun Dasheng shouted loudly, "Those four gods, and suspend Yuncong, and wait for Lao Sun to go and call the county marquis to worship Xie and take the throne." The rank can clear the clouds and mist, and each of them will show his true body, and see it with his own eyes with this ordinary man, so that he can have the confidence to worship it. When the gods heard this, they all stopped in the air. The traveler went to the county according to the head of the falling clouds. I saw Sanzang, Bajie, and Sha Seng early, and they all came to greet them. The marquis of the county bowed step by step to thank him. The walker said, "Thank me slowly." I have kept four gods, and you may call many people to give thanks to them, and teach them to come back with rain. ”

The county marquis followed the news and called everyone to pay equally, and they all worshipped one by one with incense. I saw the four gods, enlightened clouds and mist, each showing its true body. The gods stayed for an hour, and the people worshipped them.

According to Taoism, the Nine Heavens Ying Yuan Thunder Puhua Tianzun is the highest god in charge of the thunder department, see "The Romance of the Gods" for details, Jiang Ziya will be Taishi Wen Zhong as the Nine Heavens Ying Yuan Thunder Puhua Tianzun, subordinate Deng Zhong, Xin Huan, Zhang Jie, Tao Rong and other twenty-four thunder generals. Lao Wu is using the content of the Romance of the Gods to make up a few miles, which is to the detriment of these immortals.

Sun Xingzhi rose up in the clouds again and saluted the crowd, "There is labor, there is labor! Lao Sun also paid for the people in the county, supported Gao Zhen, and thanked him in the season. Since then, there has been a wind for five days and a rain for ten days, and they have come to save and save. "The gods do as they say, and each of them does not have a title.

The monkey was also very helpless, knowing what was going on, but he couldn't tell it. The only way to let these immortals let mortals visit and calm their grievances a little. Wukong has been tossing these unlucky immortals for more than two hours, and it is estimated that they all have a wry smile on their faces and are aggrieved in their hearts.

The marquis of the county kept Tang Seng for a few and a half months, and also built a temple.

Tang Seng was surprised, "The work is huge, why is it so fast?" the county marquis said, "The lower officials are urging the labor, day and night, and the life is in a hurry, so I would like to ask the lord to take a look." ”

The walker smiled, "If you are a virtuous person, you can do a good virtuous marquis!"

Wukong is boasting but sarcastic, there must be unvirtuous people among this marquis and his wife.

The monkey was depressed and had no interest in naming the temple. Tang Seng suggested that it be called "Ganlin Puji Temple", and the county marquis praised, "Very good, very good!" On the left side of the hall erect the temple of the four sentient beings, worship at four o'clock every year;

Tang Seng's name is certainly reasonable, but Lao Wu's painstaking description must be subtle. Let's guess that Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen escaped from the palace in 1402 and became a monk, perhaps the name of that temple has a certain relationship with "Ganlin Puji Temple".

In addition, in 1488, the first year of Hongzhi, the Ministry of Rites discussed how to standardize the activities and scale of the worship to the heavens, and clearly put forward that several immortals and Buddhas such as Shakya, Manjushri, Shangqing, and Taishang Laojun should not build other prayer facilities; Zhang Daoling's birthday is no longer sacrificed; the big and small green dragon gods are not enough to worship him; and the Zitong Emperor removes the palace worship. The god of gold and jade should also be reformed.

In the first year of Hongzhi, there were supervisors of the imperial history Tang Nai and others who successively impeached the scholar Liu Ji and others, but to no avail. Later, Liu Ji, Wei Zhang and others falsely accused Tang Nai and others, and Ming Xiaozong sent Tang Nai and others to prison, and then sent them to distant places. For a long time, the officials were not lightly organized, so no one dared to go up for a long time in the two Beijing Taiwan Offices, which was a failure of Ming Xiaozong.

Liu Ji, Wan An and Liu Jue are known as "Papier-mâché Three Pavilion Elders" in the cabinet, among which Liu Ji has been the first assistant from 1475 to 1492, and has the nickname of "Liu Mian", which means that although he is always impeached, he just does not fall and is bulletproof. Later, it was Ming Xiaozong who planned to give his mother's mother's mother's family an official, but Liu Ji thought that the two queen dowagers had to be treated equally. angered the emperor and couldn't bear it anymore and made him retire. is a character who is even better than Yan Song, but his life is better than Yan Song.

Ming Xiaozong's father Ming Xianzong confiscated Cao Jixiang's property, but added it to the royal name, and the name "Huangzhuang" came from this, which is very different from Zhu Di's Huangzhuang. Therefore, Li Min, the head of the household department, said that there are now more than 12,800 hectares of land in Huangzhuang, and more than 33,000 hectares of land in Zhuangzhuang, a prince and eunuch. Please hand over the farmland to the people for cultivation, and levy three cents of silver per mu to replenish the use of each palace. But Xiaozong said, this is not easy to do. It is also true that the fat that has been swallowed in one's mouth can be easily spit out? As a result, the Ming Dynasty lost an excellent opportunity to weaken the internal contradictions, but unfortunately it backfired.

It's time to continue on the road to the west, this is exactly what the Shuode monk is staying in Puji, and the Monkey King is gracious. After all, there are still a few days before I can meet you in person, so please listen to the nonsense next time.