In the ninth and twelfth chapters of Journey to the West, Lao Wu used a lot of space, as if he was introducing the Tang monk who sent him to seek scriptures in the west. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info But it's clear that this is what the Bodhisattva is tinkering with behind and that Guanyin is the real protagonist.

But there is quite a lot of content involved, in history in Li Yuan's martial arts years, Fu Yi for the first time put forward the Tang Dynasty's proposal to destroy the Buddha, the law of the Western Regions, there are no monarchs and ministers, father and son, with three ways and six ways, to lure stupidity, chase past sins, peep into the blessings of the future, and recite Sanskrit words in order to escape. And life and death, life and death, this is nature; Today, I heard that the laymen were pretentious, and they were all clouds by the Buddha. Since the five emperors and three kings, there has been no Buddhism, the monarch is loyal and loyal, and the years are long. To the Han Ming Emperor set up the god Hu, but only the Sangmen of the Western Regions, self-preaching its teachings, is really a crime against China, it is not enough to believe.

Gaozu (not Li Shimin in Journey to the West, but his father Li Yuan) heard this, so he sent this watch to the ministers for discussion. From time to time, Prime Minister Xiao Yu went out of class and said, "Buddhism has risen from many dynasties, promoting good and curbing evil, helping the country, and there is no abandonment." Buddha, saint also. Those who are not saints cannot, please be punished severely. Fu Yi and Xiao Yu argued, words and etiquette are based on the affairs of the family, and the Buddha turned his back on his relatives and became a monk, resisted the Son of Heaven with his husband, and rebelled against his relatives with his successor, Xiao Yu was not born in Kongsang, but obeyed the teachings of fatherlessness, and the so-called non-filial piety has no relatives. Xiao Yu clasped his palms together and said, "The setting of hell is just for people." This Xiao Yu was speechless, so he used hell to scare Fu Yi, and the "human" refers to Fu Yi.

Xiao Yu is proficient in Buddhism, with a very deep background, Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, is his great-grandfather, his brother, father and grandfather are considered to have been emperors, inherited genes, Xiao Yan is a Buddhist mystery emperor, almost the most Buddhist emperor among all emperors, he has become a monk many times, and even put on a vestment to participate in the uncovered conference and appear to lecture on the scriptures.

But at that time, the country had to have an emperor, and the ministers had to pool money to the temple to redeem Xiao Yan, and the amount was huge every time. Then Xiao Yu knew that the family was huge, and later defected to Li Yuan, made meritorious contributions, and ranked ninth among the twenty-four meritorious heroes of Lingyan Pavilion. Xiao Yu still has a big temper, Li Yuan didn't dare to provoke him easily, and later Li Shimin didn't have a good way to deal with others.

But the Tang Dynasty has just been established, and the power of believing in Buddhism is quite large, and there is no one who really echoes Fu Yi, Xiao Yu is resolutely opposed, only Zhang Daoyuan came out and made a thin mud, so he exposed this cold scene. Li Yuan originally attached great importance to Fu Yi's suggestion, and wanted to agree with it a little, but there were too many people who opposed it, and he did not agree to destroy the Buddha out of various considerations.

Zhang Daoyuan was originally a believer and had a good relationship with Fu Yi, but he did not stand firmly on Fu Yi's support at that time, and later died early, and passed away before Li Shimin ascended the throne.

In order to consolidate the country, the successor Li Shimin had limited development of Buddhism, especially after Master Xuanzang returned to China, he unintentionally pulled a lot of Buddhism to a large extent. Although when Li Shimin died, out of various considerations, he beheaded Xuanzang's beloved disciple and debate monk, but it did not bring any major changes, and the descendants of Gaozong and Emperor Zetian all believed in Buddhism, and since then they have been out of control. Later in the Tang Dynasty, Han Yu also advocated the destruction of Buddhism, but the emperor at that time believed in Buddhism and almost killed Han Yu.

Han Yu didn't believe in Taoism and Buddhism, but he especially liked that, and then his body couldn't keep up with his age, so he liked the alchemy of the Taoist Waidan School, and it was the same as Li Shimin, but he improved a lot, and he also tried to take medicine to live forever and aphrodisiac according to Taoism, but the result was the same for both of them.

However, Han Yue is quite interesting, he doesn't eat Nadan directly, but raises chickens, it seems that he has raised hundreds of chickens in total, let them eat alchemy materials, and when the chickens grow into big chickens, he eats chicken, and he starts to feel good, and he grows stronger. It's a pity that the accumulation of sulfur and mercury adds up, and in the end, it is also beaten on top of this golden pill.

When the Tang Dynasty was about to fall, there was Tang Wuzong Li Yan, who severely cracked down on the forces of the Jiedu envoys and Buddhism, and the Tang Dynasty once appeared in Huichang Zhongxing.

The great Buddha disaster in ancient history was also in ancient India, and the most powerful one was that the foreign invaders killed about 20,000 monks who protected the temple and protected the temple. Tubo two Buddha martyrdom, the most famous is Lang Dama to destroy the Buddha, this Lang Dama is actually called Dama, this Lang is the meaning of the Bull Demon King, translated as the Bull Demon King Dama. This is the origin of the prototype of the Bull Demon King in Journey to the West, so Nezha saw the death of the Bull Demon King wrongly. So in ancient China, there were also big Buddha martyrdom events such as the three martial arts and one sect, this martial arts, including the Tang Wuzong mentioned above.

Monks, Taoists and Confucians have had all kinds of difficulties in history, and they are not easy. Caesar also mentioned a little bit about the Taoist martyrdom and the Confucian martyrdom in the last book, and everyone knows better than me, so I won't repeat it.

However, Lao Wu must think that Li Shimin is a connivant of Buddhism, there is no doubt about it, and it is true that Li Shimin uses it against Taoist Buddhas. But Li Shimin is also a little wronged, how many years has the Tang Dynasty been established, and the power of the northern nobles is quite huge, especially the eldest grandson Wuji and their family. Now we all say that Tang Taizong admonishes, Wei Zheng admonishes, and the monarchs and ministers are harmonious, but in fact, it is not exactly like that. Li Shimin often has to look at the faces of the northern nobles. It wasn't until the time of Gaozong Li Zhi that with the help of Li Ji, that is, Xu Shixian, and his wife Wu Zetian's advice, they successfully attacked the eldest grandson Wuji.

In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan in history, Fu Yi, the pioneer of the Tang Dynasty, passed away, and before he died, he asked his children to never read Buddhist scriptures, and put forward the idea of destroying Buddha for the last time to the emperor, but it was still not adopted.

As for this Jisi year, there were five in the Ming Dynasty, namely 1389 (Hongwu 22), 1449 (orthodox 14), 1509 (Zhengde 4), 1569 (Longqing 3), 1629 (Chongzhen 2) years. There are two "Ji Si" in the Journey to the West book, the first one is written, "At this time, it has been thirteen years on the pole, and the age is in Ji Si." Not to mention that he had a heroic man who had a stable country before he drove, and a master who started a business and fought for the frontier"; Master Chen Xuanzang expounded on the great exposition, gathered 1,200 eminent monks, and all performed the wonderful scriptures in the Huasheng Temple of Chang'an City." Then there is reason to suspect that the allusion is 1389 and 1449 respectively.

In 1389, Zhu Yuanzhang basically completed the unification of the whole country, marked by the westward migration of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the establishment of Duoyan Sanwei in Wuliangha, the pacification of Yuezhou in Yunnan by Fu Youde, and the reconfirmation of the list of 57 moral heroes (those who seek rebellion and those who are corrupt are excluded). They are Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, Feng Sheng, Deng Yu, Tang He, Geng Bingwen, Wu Liang, Mu Ying, Li Shanchang, Zheng Yuchun, Wang Zhi, Fei Ju, Zhou Dexing, Zhao Yong, Qiu Cheng, Li Xin, Yu Tongyuan, Xie Cheng, Zhang Long, Wu Zhen, Wang Xingzu, Chen Huan, Zhang He, Zhu Shou, Liao Yongzhong, Chen De, Gu Shi, Tang Shengzong, Lu Zhongheng, Hua Yunlong, Fu Youde, Lan Yu, Ye Sheng, Zhang Wen, Wang Bi, Guo Ying, Cao Zhen, Cao Xing, Zhou Wu, Wu Fu, Jin Chaoxing, Xue Xian, Hu Hai, Zhang Yi, Zhu Liangzu, Chang Sheng, Kang Duo, Sun Ke, Pu Yu, Han Zheng, Cao Liangchen, Yang Jing, Lu Ju, Mei Sizu, Huang Bin, Hu Mei, Guo Xing, of course, this is also temporary, and Zhu Yuanzhang will continue to revise it in the future. All these are showing that the Ming Dynasty began to become truly "all-round" powerful. Coincidentally, it just corresponds to the description of "the heroes who have settled the country and the heroes who started their own businesses" in Journey to the West. Is it a coincidence?

However, in June 1449, Wara also first went south with 100,000 cavalry (not 20,000) to invade the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and Ming Yingzong stubbornly and hastily commanded more than 200,000 "semi-miscellaneous" troops (about one-third of the so-called elite, it was impossible to make full and comprehensive preparations in a month, and the Ming army claimed to have 500,000. Zhu Yuanzhang's second Northern Expedition, dispatched 150,000 elites, and still prepared for a month, the main reason for this defeat is that the three-way army's plan for cooperation and deployment measures is relatively hasty, from top to bottom are proud and complacent and internal contradictions have emerged, there is not much time to discuss in detail, let alone the tacit understanding of all parties. Zhu Qizhen wanted to send more elites, but the military discipline at that time had already deteriorated, and even among the elite troops, I am afraid that one-third of the rosters were empty. Such an army is actually a semi-rabble, most of them just know how to eat, drink, and flee in all directions, and a piece of stinky meat is still spoiled and full of soup, not to mention hundreds of thousands of miles? The so-called 500,000 elites are even more fantastical, but it is a pity that less than 100,000 real semi-elite soldiers) in July 16 pro-conquest, but on August 13 in the civil fort was besieged, and on August 14 broke through the siege failed to be captured, the history is called the change of their own (or civil change), September 3 confirmed that the peaceful solution is completely hopeless, only the soldiers will meet again, on the occasion of this crisis, on September 6, the Ming Dynasty Zong ascended the throne, Yu Qian's main battle, and the defense of the Beijing division in October. Although the war was won, the Ming Dynasty had already gone downhill since the early years of orthodoxy, and the efforts of Yu Qian and others only lasted less than eight years, so that Zhu Qizhen was weakened by at least half after the restoration. Then it is obvious that the description of these two "self-si" is the emotion of the old man Wu Chengen, only 60 years later, it is like heaven and earth. There is also a seemingly coincidence that the Ming Dynasty emperors corresponding to these two "Jisi" were Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Qizhen (and Zhu Qiyu). In Journey to the West, Lao Wu maps them all as the Monkey King with the "gold" attribute.

(The Ming Dynasty army has experienced all kinds of ups and downs, but in the past three hundred years, like the Song Dynasty, there has never been a shortage of excellent generals and soldiers, but due to the emperor's suspicion, more real "traitors" emerged in an endless stream, and they fell under the "joint efforts of their own people and enemy soldiers".) ）

This Ming Yingzong was later restored, but he loved both Buddhism and Taoism, and he loved Buddhism more. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a formal monk, but the number of places was limited, but there were relatively too many people who wanted to be formal monks. During the Ming Yingzong period, so much so that a degree of silver needed to be bought secretly for 5-25 taels of silver. Everyone wants to go, who will pay the money, of course, it is the temple, and use the money to give or something to buy from the government. Later, when Emperor Jiajing came, hey, not to mention, he didn't believe in Buddhism, he liked Taoism, so he suppressed Buddhism. However, the behind-the-scenes transaction of the purchase of Du Mu has become more secretive.

So here again, Lao Wu doesn't believe in Taoism and Buddhism, and he rejects it, in contrast, he has a greater opinion on Buddhism, and even assigned the source of connivance to Li Shimin, of course, this is likely to be the need to write novels. But it is also written in the book that Taizong has not only released the palace maid and released the death row prisoner, but also published the imperial list text, which has been spread all over the world. The list says: The universe is vast, the sun and the moon shine clearly, the universe is wide and the earth does not tolerate traitors. If you use your heart with skill, the reward will only be in this life, and you will be blessed and told to the future generations. A thousand kinds of clever tricks are not as good as being divided into people, and how can ten thousand kinds of strong people seem to be thrifty according to fate. If you want to harm others, you should read the scriptures in vain! Since then, there is no one in the world who does not do good. A wall box also issued a list of talents, recruiting people to enter the melons and fruits to go to the Yin Division; a wall box will treasure the treasury of gold and silver, and send Hu Jingde, the Duke of Hubei State, to Kaifeng Mansion in Henan Province to visit Xiangliang to pay off debts. It's called a dizzy, what was written in the front of the emperor list was Fu Yi's "modified version" of the Buddha extermination chapter, and the following followed by the list of Buddhas and sages.

The true and false writing in the fog of old Wu Yunli seems to be very messy, inconsistent, but it has a deep intention, Fu Yi is his old man's idol! But let us look at it now, but we can't find the north with our heads covered.

Regarding the six realms of reincarnation, Mr. Wu described it like this, knowing the heart and seeing the nature, it must be remembered, and it will be known to everyone in the yang world. This is called the six realms of reincarnation, the path of ascending immortals for doing good, the path of transcendental nobility for loyalty, the path of rebirth and blessing for filial piety, the way of rebirth and humanity for fairness, the path of rebirth and wealth for accumulating virtue, and the path of evil sinking ghosts.

But what the Buddhists themselves say about the six realms of reincarnation are actually the way of heaven, humanity, animal path, asura path, hungry ghost path, and hell path.

In the eleventh chapter, some of the situations of Tang Seng were mentioned for the first time, and he was known as the golden cicada, just to listen to the Buddha without intention, and to turn to the mortal world to suffer and suffer, and to be born in the world and be caught in the net. Reincarnation is a murderous landing, and before it comes out, it will be a bad party. His father is Haizhou Chen Zhuangyuan, and his grandfather is the head of the court. Born to fall into the river star, follow the waves with the waves. The island Jinshan has a great fate, and the monk of Qian'an raised him. At the age of eighteen, he recognized his mother and went to Kyoto to ask for foreign minister. The general manager opened the mountain to transfer the army, and Hongzhou suppressed the murderous party. The champion Guangrui took off the sky, and the son and father met to congratulate the award. Replying to the grace of the Lord today, Lingyan Pavilion is famous. The benevolent official is not willing to be a monk, and the Hongfusha will visit. The small character Jiangliu Ancient Buddha, the legal name is Chen Xuanzang.

In the twelfth round, the elder shook off his robe, draped it over his body, and stood in front of the steps with a tin staff in his hand. The monarchs and ministers were all pleased. Honest as the Buddha, you see him - dignified and majestic, Buddha clothes can be tailored. The glow is full of brilliance, and the colors are condensed into the universe. Lang Lang Pearl is in the upper and lower rows, and layers of gold threads are worn before and after. Along the edge, all kinds of rare shops are embroidered. Eight treasures of makeup flower binding buttons, gold ring collar climbing velvet buckle. The Buddha is high and low, and the stars are divided into left and right. Master Xuanzang has a great fate, and now this thing can bear it. It is like a blissful Arhat, and he has competed in the Western Zhenjue Show. The tin rod is nine rings, and the Pilu hat is rich. Sincerity is true for the Buddha, and it is better than Bodhi without deception.

Tang Seng's description actually implies a lot of information, ostensibly introducing the life experience of one of the protagonists of this book, but there are too many obscure things in it, which will be analyzed in the future. What does the last half of the sentence "better than Bodhi without deception" mean? Obviously, it is said that Patriarch Su Bodhi is false, so it can be regarded as a proof that the Buddha has changed into his appearance to teach Sun Wukong's skills.

Continuing to read the book, Li Shimin sealed the Tang monk and the royal brother respectively, and said that he would come back in about three years, and when converted, he would walk about 100 kilometers a day, neither fast nor slow, and Guanyin's expected speed of 50-75 km/day was not much different. are very optimistic, who knows that this will be 14 years. Why is this 14 years, Buddhism is 5040 days, so that it can be close to the number of 5048 in Tibet, in line with the wishes of Rulai, of course, it is also inseparable from the efforts of the Jade Emperor Laojun. But the true meaning of 14 years has not yet been understood. In a trance, I thought that maybe it was like this, it was not the so-called 14 years at all, but 5048 days, because the Tang monks and apprentices came back from Lingshan to learn scriptures and then returned to the West Heaven after the Tang Dynasty, and the road should be eight days. Since Zhu Di sent Zhiguang to the Western Regions in 1402, 5048÷29.53 ≈171 lunar months, but according to the words of Xizhou, I don't know the years and months, and if 171 months are converted backwards into adulthood, after learning from the scriptures, then it happens to be 1402+171-1=1572. Is it a coincidence that Zhu Lingjun, the fourth "golden" emperor of Wanli, ascended the throne that year?

The Tang monk in this book is 31 years old this year, he used to stay in Hongfu Temple and Huasheng Temple, and now he is practicing in Famen Temple, and when he said goodbye to his fellow disciples, the heart is born, all kinds of demons are born, and the heart is destroyed, all kinds of demons are destroyed. However, the Buddhist scriptures are the birth of all kinds of laws in the heart, and the destruction of all kinds of laws in the heart. If you don't say that Lao Wu is talented, the key places can always change one or two words for your Buddhist scriptures.

On the road, to the border of Hezhou, I met a monster, this is the only three little monsters in Nanzhou, the ability is average, but it is quite principled, can not exhaust the fish. Seeing the joy of the two servants crying, they ate it. Although Tang Seng was scared, he didn't cry yet, and he was secretly protected by Tai Bai Xing, so he escaped. met Liu Boqin's protection again, and did not let the tiger eat it. This is too platinum star is very slippery, and the relationship with the Buddhist family is also very good, and it is quite helpful to help. In fact, Lao Wu must have alluded to the officials or monks who were responsible for dealing with monks at that time, and it is estimated that he will eat a lot of kickbacks.

Regarding these goblins and Liu Boqin, let's discuss them in the future, and I won't mention them now.

Tang Seng doesn't love money, but he likes to eat, which is the foundation of survival. When I arrived at the Two Realms Mountain, it was actually Wuzhi Mountain, and I met Sun Wukong. Unveiled the six-character mantra, the monkey jumped out and worshiped the master, this is the monkey to the second person who knelt down, that is, Tang Seng, and there is another name of Sun Xingzhi.

This is considered to have stepped into the "Xizhou" area, or encountered a tiger and let the monkey knock it to death. Sun Wukong said, my old grandson, quite a means of subduing the dragon and subduing the tiger, the magic power of turning the river and stirring the sea, seeing the appearance and distinguishing the color, listening to the sound and reasoning, the big one is measured in the universe, and the small one is taken in the hair! The changes are gratuitous and unpredictable.

Pay attention, this is the first time in the book to talk about seeing and distinguishing colors, listening to the sound and reasoning, and the ninety-third monkey in the book commented on himself again, which is the characteristic of the six-eared macaque, so the six-eared macaque is the Monkey King.

Later, it was Sun Wukong himself who wrapped the tiger skin and the old clothes that Tang Seng planned to throw away around his waist, and he couldn't always be a bare-ass monkey, so he made a belt of rattan. The Great Sage's attitude towards Tang Seng is quite good now, and he is also thoughtful.

However, from the moment Sun Wukong killed the tiger in Xizhou, his heart was moved, and the suffering of the monkey began. A key point in the book Journey to the West is the process of the changes in the hearts of Tang Seng and Sun Wukong. The heart is born, all kinds of demons are born. One after another, connecting the previous and the next, with cause and effect, it will be endless. Until in the end, the heart is destroyed, and all kinds of demons are destroyed.

Along the way, the West Heaven is to apply the basic whole process of Buddhism's cultivation of the mind, and by the way, it is mixed with various Taoist sayings, as well as some manifestations of Confucianism, and it is also interspersed with the Jade Emperor and the emperors and demons in the world.

But throughout the book, there are very few descriptions of the poor people in the lower classes, basically only in Fengxian County, mentioning that two-thirds of the people starved to death because of the lack of rain for three years. Describing the lowest level of society is not what Confucianism is good at, and Lao Wu's original intention was not to let ordinary people read this book. I can't help but say that this is Wu Chengen's great flaw, and compared with the old Kong Shiye, there is a big gap.

From this point of view, then Journey to the West can only be ranked at the end of the four strange books, Water Margin, Three Kingdoms, Golden Bottle, and Journey to the West. However, the era is different, and the angle of looking at the problem is also different, which cannot be completely regarded as Lao Wu's fault, after all, Lao Wu lived in the era, the Ming Dynasty was still very strong, and most of the people were still able to make a living.

But then again, I haven't eaten pork and haven't seen a pig run away, and your old Wu is also poor, but why can't you think about the problem from this angle? Although Lao Wu was pragmatic, he didn't put this in the real place.

Starting from Zhu Di, the royal family has its own Huangzhuang industry, which was originally to reduce the burden of the common people, self-sufficient. But then it became more and more sour, more and more powerful, all robbing the land of the common people, in the Jiajing period, about 6 million displaced people lost their land. In the late Wanli period, the contradiction broke out, the conservative point of the displaced people is tens of millions, and it happened that after the drought for many years, the Chongzhen period increased sharply, how can there be 30 million, more than one-tenth of the national population, this quantitative change will lead to qualitative change, and eventually lead to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

also said that Journey to the West, Tang monks and apprentices continued on the road, and it was early winter. The social security in Nanzhou was okay, but when I arrived in Xizhou, I soon encountered bandits robbing the road. The monk was so frightened that he couldn't help but scatter, fell off his horse, and couldn't speak. One of the six thieves is called to see joy, one is called to hear anger, one is called to smell love, one is called to taste and think, one is called to be opinionated, and one is called to worry. This corresponds to the six senses that the Buddhists said, and as a result, the monkeys were killed.

Buddhism generally pays attention to the six consciousnesses, six roots, six dusts, and later the real Xuanzang Xitian Sutra came back, and added the end of the consciousness - the distinction and the alaya consciousness - Tibetan consciousness in the six consciousnesses, and developed into the domestic consciousness school, and then added the Anmana consciousness - pure consciousness, and the understanding of Zen Buddhism is not very different, but it gradually almost withdrew from the stage of history.

So what exactly are these "six desires"? When the Ming Dynasty was first established, Zhu Yuanzhang referred to the official system of the Yuan Dynasty, and later made some changes. The three dukes (Taishi, Taifu, Taibao) and Sangu (Shaoshi, Shaofu, Shaobao) are the staff departments of the emperor's clan, but they are all just fictitious titles; the highest government power department is the left and right prime ministers of Zhongshu Province, and later in 1380, Zhongshu Province and the prime minister were abolished, and the power was decentralized and delegated to six departments; the six ministries (according to the relative position order of officials, households, rites, criminals, soldiers, and workers) each have a Shangshu (Zheng Erpin) one, left, There is one person for each of the right waiters (three products), and there are a number of cleaning divisions under it, each of which has a person in Langzhong (five products), a person outside the Lang (from the five products), and a person in charge (six products...... The main supervision departments set up in parallel with the six ministries are the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, so I will not go into detail about them.

Let's understand, in fact, Lao Wu recorded that in 1380, when Zhu Yuanzhang disposed of Hu Weiyong, by the way, he would no longer set up a prime minister in the future, in case the ambition of the person in power was too inflated, so he delegated the power of the former Zhongshu Province to six departments.

However, it's not all, why did Tang Seng have such a big reaction? A few little thieves are just a few little thieves, and they are not fierce tiger monsters. It turned out that after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, he also destroyed the "six desires". In other words, he canceled the six false titles of Sangong and Sangu, and interestingly, after Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, he was restored.

Sure enough, Tang Seng's heart moved, and the monkey's heart moved, but the two of them had different experiences before, and they didn't think about it together. This monkey couldn't stand the popularity of his life, and when he saw that Sanzang only cared about the chatter, he made his temperament run away. In the year 1424, that is, on the fifth day of the eighth month of the 22nd year of Yongle, Xia Yuanji, the former head of the household department, was released from prison and the official was reinstated. Because he once blocked Zhu Di's last Northern Expedition, he was arrested by Ming Taizong. At this time, Zhu Di had died, and the crown prince Zhu Gaochi was in charge. Lao Xia told the reason, now that the country is poor, please suspend Zheng He's voyage to the West, and more importantly, it is recommended to take Nanjing as the Beijing division, and no longer waste people on the southern expedition and the northern expedition. Because Jiangnan was relatively wealthy, the war needed money, and at that time, the Grand Canal was responsible for transporting grain from the south to Beijing as military salaries and other things, which was indeed a huge expense. It was around this time that Zhu Gaochi changed the name of Beijing to Xingzai and began to discuss preparations for moving the capital south. At this time, it is interesting, the capital of the Ming Dynasty has nominally become Nanjing, but in fact it is still in Beijing. It was not until the early years of orthodoxy that Beijing's status as a capital teacher was officially restored, and the title of "Xingzai" was canceled. The current old dragon of the East China Sea, Natsuhara Yoshiya. There, I was moved by the allusion of the three entrances to the bridge, and went back to find Tang Seng (of course, the monkey was happy, because when Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, the capital of the Ming Dynasty was Nanjing. Therefore, Sun Wukong went to Tang Seng again).

I don't want Tang Seng to be Guanyin (at this time, the Guanyin in the book is still Zheng Heye. In 1424, Zhu Di ordered Zheng He to prepare for seven voyages to the West. However, Zhu Di died in July of that year, and Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne in September, and at the suggestion of Xia Yuanji, it was suspended. The reason is that it consumes national strength, and can no longer purchase gold beads in the South and Western Seas, and the Ming Dynasty government is short of money. In February of the following year, Zhu Gaochi ordered Zheng He to lead the original team to garrison Nanjing, which was preparing to relocate the capital to Nanjing. At the end of April and the beginning of May, the crown prince Zhu Zhanji was sent to Nanjing to pay homage to Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial mausoleum and was responsible for the relocation of the capital. Although Zhu Zhanji went, he was very opposed to this plan in his heart, and he also procrastinated. Coincidentally, Zhu Gaochi died suddenly on May 29. After Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, he was embarrassed to change Xingzai to Beijing, so he made do with Beijing as the actual capital) and handed it over to the hoop spell (the "money" spell is also a metaphor for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to save war and ocean expenses), and he was ready to put a set on the monkey, and he couldn't take it off when he put it on. After tossing back and forth for a few moments, he was temporarily honest, and the walker was desperate, shaking his spirits, and the master and apprentice continued to travel west.

Then let's see, this Monkey King is stubborn, but this process is inevitable. It's like a hunter, if you go up the mountain and don't care about what's going on, if you catch a monkey and don't clean up a few meals, will the monkey be honest and obedient? Unless it's an old monkey who is stupid and can't starve to death and can't take care of himself, but will the hunter be able to see it? If he doesn't stab him to death with a knife, he will turn a blind eye.

But Sun Wukong doesn't meet any of the conditions, not to mention that his ability is quite big, so it is completely understandable, and at the same time, the monkey's kind and grateful nature is also a lot. This also tells everyone that Sun Wukong is a monkey who can be good and evil, and it is normal to have two hearts.

At this time, the historical period described by Lao Wu should be between 1424 and 1443. To say a few more words, Mingrenzong Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne in September of the 22nd year of Yongle, and canonized Zhang as the queen in October. This Empress Zhang is a great figure, a virtuous helper of Emperor Hongxi, a good adviser to his son Zhu Zhanji, and the actual ruler of her grandson Zhu Qizhen when he ascended the throne as a teenager. It's almost time to listen to the government, but Zhang resolutely opposes the ministers' suggestion and is willing to be the heroine behind the scenes.

Zhu Di has always been dissatisfied with Zhu Gaochi's son, how do you look like "Liu Chan". Fat and slightly lame, sad and wiping tears at every turn, loving poetry and books, obsessed with women, and cowardly personality. If it weren't for Ming Taizong's 100% certainty that this was indeed his own son, I am afraid that he would never have made him the crown prince. To a large extent, Ming Chengzu's consideration is actually correct. The Ming Dynasty has just been established for less than half a century, and it needs a resolute and resolute emperor to inherit his throne. Fortunately, Zhu Gaochi has a good wife, Zhu Di is very satisfied with his daughter-in-law Zhang, and he is even more impressed with his grandson Zhu Zhanji. Without Zhang's, where did Zhu Zhanji come from. Therefore, Zhu Gaochi's ability to sit firmly on the crown prince's later succession to the throne is largely due to the Zhang family.

After the Zhang family married Zhu Gaochi, the two took on huge pressure together, treated their father, brothers and ministers cautiously, and it can be said that they went through many ups and downs and finally saw the rainbow. What it means is that Zhu Gaochi has always been mentally depressed, while Zhang has exercised himself, constantly providing advice to her husband and doing a lot of enlightenment work.

After Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, Zhang's son was mainly a staff officer, and in 1435, his grandson Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, but because he was still a child, his grandmother Zhang was responsible for managing the government, and the handling was quite good.

Unfortunately, Zhang died in 1443. When he was alive, he took strict care of Zhu Qizhen and Wang Zhen. In 1446, after all the three Yangs died, they were completely free from the restraints of others. Ming Yingzong began to really pro-government, just 20 years old.

The title of the fourteenth chapter of Journey to the West is, "The heart ape is corrected, and the six thieves are gone". From here, the heart ape has become the patent nickname of Sun Wukong, converted to Buddhism, and destroyed the demon of the six senses. It's time to go on the road to give birth to all kinds of hearts and destroy all kinds of demons. However, it should be noted that this is actually the first summary of the book, or a turning point in the connection. Moreover, in this book, there are a lot of "doubts and doubts" that we need to look for carefully.

These books of Journey to the West are nothing more than telling the story of Zhu Yuanzhang's unification of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di (Ming Taizong, later changed to Ming Chengzu by Jiajing) and Li Shimin (Tang Taizong) both launched internal strife in the clan, one was the Battle of Jingyan, and the other was the Xuanwumen Mutiny. These two Taizong were very weak-minded, so they expressed their favor for Buddhism. Wu Chengen has too much prejudice against Zhu Di, which can be seen everywhere in the book. That can't be helped, who let Zhu Di kill Fang Xiaoru and rob his nephew's country? However, Zhu Yunwen has been praised and supported by Confucianism, and Emperor Jianwen is not Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji of the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, this eight precepts are estimated to be the "Pure Altar Immeasurable Buddha".

Obviously, the ninth chapter of Journey to the West gradually turned the pen back and led to the situation of some famous ministers in the Ming Taizu period, such as Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, Liu Ji and others.

So is our guess in line with Mr. Wu Chengen's meaning? As mentioned earlier, it is about the story of Tang Taizong, Fu Yi, and Xiao Yu discussing Buddha in the main hall, in fact, it really happened in 624 AD, but at this time it was the seventh year of martial arts of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, not the thirteenth year of Zhenguan of Tang Taizong Li Shimin as mentioned in Journey to the West. One of the protagonists is Li Yuan, not even Li Shimin. Old Man Wu must have known, so why did he still write about Tang Taizong, is it for the sake of a good storyline? The purpose is mainly obscure, and who is the founding "Gaozu" of the Ming Dynasty, and who is "Taizong"? It is precisely the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang (not the Ming Gaozu) and the Ming Chengzu Zhu Di!

Thinking about it again, in the ninth to thirteenth chapters of the book, the thirteenth year of Zhenguan is mentioned three times. Then the thirteenth year of Zhenguan (the ninth chapter of Journey to the West) mentioned for the first time was actually the thirteenth year of Hongwu of Ming Taizu! In this year, the "Hu Weiyong" case broke out! Obviously, the dragon king of Jinghe was the villain Hu Weiyong, and Yuan Shoucheng was Li Shanchang. Because Hu Weiyong was the prime minister at that time, and Lao Li had retired and guarded the ancestral mausoleum for Lao Zhu. So the so-called rain in the book refers to Hu Weiyong's greed for ink. may also vaguely say that from the thirteenth to the twenty-third year of Hongwu, more than 30,000 people were killed at that time, and one foot is 10,000!

In any case, so many people died tragically, isn't there anyone who has been wronged? Is Zhu Yuanzhang really not clear? Obviously, Lao Zhu knows it in his heart, so there must be a shadow in his heart. And the people of the world also have a lot of discussions about this, so in the seventeenth and twentieth years of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Master Zhiguang to send an envoy to the Western Regions to highlight the king, perhaps just to block the mouth of the people, and also want to seek peace of mind.

Who were the "Jurchens" at this time? Guanyin Bodhisattva at this time should have been a reflection of the Mongol tribe of the Northern Yuan Dynasty or a certain leader in Japan, because Hu Weiyong's biggest crime was that Tongyuan and Tongwei tried to rebel. But it is estimated that it is not a very important person, so I will not study it in detail.

In 1368, the Ming Dynasty was established, and the civil and military ministers under Zhu Yuanzhang cooperated relatively tacitly at this time, and there was no major conflict. The two wise men who appeared in the ninth chapter of Journey to the West, the fisherman Zhang Xiao and the woodcutter Li Ding. The woodcutter Li Dingzhi and Song Lian Ye, the fisherman Zhang Xiaozhi and Zhu Shengye.

Zhu Sheng (the official worships the bachelor of Hanlin and the bachelor of the East Pavilion, the doctor of Jiayi, the knowledge of the system, the official is not big, but he is Zhu Yuanzhang's confidant) The old man has a lot of credit, and his heart is a mirror, so he asked for retirement on the grounds of old age. In March of the second year of Hongwu (1369), he returned to the mountains and forests and died a good death; Song Lian, although he was also a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, a doctor in the middle school, and a knowledgeable system, but he still couldn't see through the form, unlike Zhu Sheng, the old Song continued to serve in the court. In July 1370, he was demoted to the post of Hanlin editor, in February 1371, he was promoted to the position of Fengyi Doctor and Guozi Siye, in August he was demoted to Anyuan Zhi County, in 1372, he was recalled to serve as the head of the Ministry of Rites, and in the same year he was promoted to the prince Zanshan Doctor, and in 1373, he was re-promoted to the Hanlin Attendant Lecturer. At this time, Lao Song understood Zhu Sheng's approach, and he refused and did not dare to seek promotion anymore, but focused on helping Zhu Yuanzhang cultivate the crown prince Zhu Biao. In the same year, he resolutely declined the title of Dr. Zhongshun and did not return to politics. Song Lian retired in 1377, and since then, in order to protect himself, he has to go to Nanjing every year to meet Zhu Yuanzhang. In 1380, his grandson Song Shen was involved in the Hu Weiyong case, and as a result, Song Lian's family suffered a disaster, and his grandson and son were executed. Fortunately, the disciple Zhu Biao interceded with Queen Ma, and Lao Song was able to be driven to Maozhou, Sichuan. In May 1381, he died of illness in Kuizhou (which corresponds to a sentence quoted in the book below, "If I encounter a tiger and suffer", the tiger, Hu Ye, Hu Weiyong).

Look at the original Journey to the West, part of the content about Zhang Xiao and Li Ding. And the two of them, each with their own verses and verses, went to the place where they parted ways, and bowed down to say goodbye. Zhang Xiao said, "Brother Li, take care on the way! If there is some danger, it is the old man on the street tomorrow!' Li Ding said angrily when he heard this, "You are lazy! A good friend also lives and dies, how can you curse me? If I encounter a tiger and are killed, you will meet the waves and cross the river!" Zhang Xiao said, "I will never be able to climb the river." Li Dingdao, 'There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have temporary blessings and disasters. How can you keep it safe?" Zhang Xiao said, "Brother Li, although you say this, you haven't been able to find out, but if my business is unpredictable, I will not suffer such a thing." Li Dingdao, "You live on the water, it is extremely fierce and dangerous, faint and secret, what is the elusiveness?" Zhang Xiao said, "You don't know." In this Chang'an City, on Ximen Street, there is a gentleman who sells hexagrams. I gave him a golden carp every day, and he taught me a lesson, according to the direction, a hundred times. Today I went to buy a hexagram again, and he taught me to lay a net on the east side of Jinghe Bay, and cast a fish on the west bank, and I will return with a full load of fish and shrimp. Come to the city tomorrow, sell the money and sell the wine, and then talk to the old man.'" The two said goodbye ever since".

At this time, it must be Lao Wu who is playing back history, in 1369 Zhu Sheng retired and retired, and admonished Song Lian when he was leaving, this farewell is probably just a permanent trick. Sure enough, this "fisherman" Zhang Xiao was not wrong, and Zhu Sheng's "never be allowed to cross the river" preserved his first reputation, but it also caused his historical status and the minds of future generations to be not very high (this depends on how to say it, it is not easy to evaluate it.) However, Mr. Li Chunfang's idol is probably this Zhu Sheng, who imitates others everywhere, and after retirement, he used a lot of energy to help Wu Chengen write and proofread and repair "Journey to the West". If Lao Li learns from Song Lian, maybe one day he will encounter a "tiger" and suffer, then it is really hard to say whether this "Journey to the West" can still be handed down. What is success or failure, what is the loss of the horse and the blessing of misfortune, everyone understands it); but the "woodcutter" Li Ding ended sadly, and Song Lian finally died of coldness. Those who "make a living on the water", the officialdom in the early Ming Dynasty was also calm, the country and the people were peaceful, but the waves were turbulent and the undercurrents were surging. It seems that Zhu Sheng has seen through Li Shanchang's personality and knows that if he stays, he is afraid of bad luck.

In 1370, Ming Taizu was crowned a hero, which certainly showed that Lao Zhu did not forget the merits of everyone, but it is undeniable that the people below began to gradually look like gods. Four major gangs were formally formed, namely Huaixi, Zhedong, Longxi, and Jingxiang. Especially the first two, led by Li Shanchang and Liu Ji respectively. As the first meritorious hero, Li Shanchang became the left prime minister of Zhongshu Province and the title of Duke of Korea. Xu Da and others were the main figures of the Huaixi faction, Liu Ji was only a sincere man, and Song Lian and Yang Xian were also important representatives of the eastern Zhejiang faction.

Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang meant that Huaixi was in charge and Zhedong was in charge. However, the two factions began to fight among themselves, although not out of the original intention of Li Shanchang and Liu Ji. But others don't care about this set, they don't have that measure, and they don't have the ability to perceive the details, and they attack each other just because of their own good. Yang Xian originally had a good future, because he did a good job as a supervisor (or maybe a spy), and was entrusted with an important task by Zhu Yuanzhang. In order to restrict Li Shanchang, Lao Zhu used Yang Xian to enter politics to restrain Lao Li. As a result, Yang Xian and Li Shanchang bit up, and after a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang still defended Li Shanchang, so he killed Yang Xian in 1370. As soon as Song Lian saw this situation, he understood the meaning of what Zhu Sheng said to himself last year, and he was indifferent to his political career. It's a pity that Lao Song knew it in his heart, but he couldn't educate his children and grandchildren well, and he was finally implicated.

Li Shanchang and Liu Ji are both smart people, so they retired one after another to get rid of this right and wrong "making a living on the water". Wang Guangyang and Hu Weiyong went against the current and eventually died tragically.

The Dragon King of Jinghe in the Journey to the West book is Hu Weiyong. Lao Long was slaughtered by Wei Zheng in the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, and Hu Weiyong let Zhu Yuanzhang click off in the thirteenth year of Hongwu. These two "thirteen years" are not a coincidence, they were carefully arranged by Mr. Wu Chengen. For the first time in the book, Taizong asked Fu Yi and Xiao Yu to discuss the "Buddha War" in the palace in the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, which was actually a matter of the time of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, and it was definitely not Li Shimin.

The eleventh chapter of Journey to the West immediately said, "Taizong summoned Zhang Daoyuan, the servant, and Zhang Shiheng, the Chinese secretary, to ask what the Buddha should be." The second minister said, 'The Buddha is pure and forgiving, and the Buddha is empty.' Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty divided it into three religions: the Great Hui Zen Master has praise and far-reaching, and the people have been offering and all of them are obvious; the five ancestors are reincarnated, and the Dharma phenomenon is phenomena. Since ancient times, the three religions of the clouds are supreme and cannot be destroyed or abolished. His Majesty Fu begged for a holy judgment. Taizong was very happy and said, "Qing's words are reasonable. Whoever has something to show is guilty. Then Wei Zheng, Xiao Yu, and Zhang Daoyuan invited the Buddhas to elect a person with great virtue as the altar master, and set up a dojo, and everyone thanked them and retreated. "Since then, the law has been issued, but there are those who slander the monks and slander the Buddha, and their arms are cut off.

This allusion to the law really happened in the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, not in the Tang Dynasty, let alone the Ming Dynasty. But in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang specially beat Mr. Li Shilu to death for this reason, because Lao Li did not like the Buddha, and repeatedly tried to ask for a ruthless attack on the Buddha, so he forgot that Ming Taizu had also been a monk for several years. At this time, the 13th year of Zhenguan, that is, the 13th year of Hongwu, is not only talking about the dispute between Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism at that time, but also really expressing the handling of Hu Weiyong's huge case! In addition, in view of the fact that the 12th chapter of Journey to the West mentions the contents of Zhenguan's 13th year, the age of Jisi, and the third day of September, what is the allusion mentioned above about "since this time the law has been issued, but there are those who slander the monks and slander the Buddha and cut off their arms"? At the end of August of the 13th year of Hongwu, the Ming Shilu recorded that the "Da Ming Law" was revised in the month and promulgated and implemented throughout the country. No matter what, "Da Ming Law" is indeed cruel. Confucianism criticized this a lot, while Legalism believed that it was necessary to use heavy canons to govern troubled times. These can also show that Zhu Yuanzhang was a Legalist at that time, and he really looked down on those Confucians from the bottom of his heart. When the country and the people are safe, Lao Zhu will "integrate the three religions" and use monks, Taoism and Confucianism to assist in governing the world.

Pay attention to the eleventh episode of Journey to the West, the first Tang monk debuted, "Taizong heard his name, pondered for a long time and said, 'But is Xuanzang, the son of the bachelor Chen Guangrui?' Jiang Liuer kowtowed and said, "The minister is exact." Taizong said happily, "Sure enough, he is a virtuous and Zen-minded monk." I give you the position of the left monk, the right monk, and the great exposition of the world. Xuanzang immediately thanked him and received the title of the Great Interpretation. and a multicolored woven gold robe, and a hat of Piru. Teach him to worship the monks again with his heart, rank the head of the Jali class, write the will, go to the Huasheng Temple, choose an auspicious day, and start the scriptures."

In fact, what Lao Wu really said was that in April 1392, the prince Zhu Biaoxue died, Zhu Yuanzhang learned from the pain, and considered that it took nearly five months to establish Zhu Yunwen as the emperor's grandson on the seventh day of September (the failure of emotion, at this time there are more than 20 sons of Lao Zhu, the second, third, fourth, and fifth are still alive, not to mention the side. However, the second and third children have a bad reputation in the fiefdom, and there are many illegal things, Zhu Yuanzhang will never tolerate them, if Zhu Biao hadn't interceded with the two before his death, maybe he would have been really clicked or imprisoned, not to mention the possibility of being made a prince. The fifth child is completely out of action in Lao Zhu's eyes, but the fourth Zhu Di has a good reputation, but he is the fourth child after all, and there are two brothers in front of him. Zhu Yuanzhang once said that he wanted to pass on the throne to Changfang as orthodox, so if Zhu Di was appointed as the crown prince, wouldn't it be a slap in the face? And more importantly, the second and third children will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble. The family and the country are prosperous, and in desperation, they have no choice but to appoint Zhu Yunwen as the emperor's grandson, to be honest, it is really difficult to be Emperor Hongwu. However, Lao Zhu forgot that the virtuous are not yet avoided, not to mention the future of the country. Orthodox ideas, sometimes it will harm people and mislead the country) then the eleventh chapter of Journey to the West said at the end, "Choose the third day of September this year, the good day of the zodiac, and start the 7749-day water and land conference." At this time, the "Water and Land Conference" refers to Zhu Biao's large-scale funeral and the establishment ceremony of Zhu Yunwen's imperial grandson.

However, in the thirteenth year of Zhenguan mentioned in the twelfth and thirteenth chapters of Journey to the West, the mapping object of Tang Taizong Li Shimin has quietly changed from Zhu Yuanzhang to Zhu Di! Zhu Di sent Master Zhiguang to the Western Regions again after ascending the throne, and in 1405 Zheng He was sent to the West. In 1404, Zhu Gaochi was made crown prince, not in 1402. Zhu Di was not very satisfied with Zhu Gaochi, and often wanted Zhu Gaochu to replace him, but the ministers opposed it too much. In the thirteenth year of Yongle, Xie Jin died in prison, but the most important thing was to change the title of Han King Zhu Gaoxu to Qingzhou as the vassal king. The earliest fief of Zhu Gaoxu was Yunnan, and later Zhu Di was inked and stayed in Beijing. It wasn't until Zhu Di gradually noticed that Zhu Gaoxu was dissatisfied with the situation and had the idea of rebellion, so in the thirteenth year of Yongle (1415), he pushed him to Shandong to leave Beijing. This marked Zhu Di's real abandonment of Zhu Gaochu, and Zhu Gaochi's position as the crown prince was truly consolidated. The "Water and Land Conference" in the twelfth chapter of Journey to the West has become Zhu Gaochi's prince ceremony and "Zheng He's trip to the West".

The title of "royal brother" of Tang Seng in the book is just to show that Renzong Zhu Gaochi is the cousin of Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen. At this time, Tang Xuanzang was already in chaos, it was Zhu Gaochi for a while, and Zhu Yunwen for a while, it was very difficult to distinguish clearly, the lives of these two brothers were quite bumpy, and they were the same.

After all, if you go this time, what will you say later, please listen to the nonsense next time.