Chapter 42 Tang Seng on the Past Life, the truth is gradually revealed

Benevolence is received by all fates, and the reputation is spread in the four continents. Wisdom and light landed on the other side, fluttering, and slamming the clouds to the sky. All the Buddhas pay each other and live in Yaotai forever. Break the butterfly dream in the world, rest, and cleanse the dust without worrying.

Sure enough, Lao Wu was sighing again, and the title of the sixty-seventh chapter of the book was to save the camel Luo Zen and stabilize his temperament, and to get rid of the filthy Dao and have a clear heart. This is to pay attention to, even from the surface content of the title, this Zen stability can not be talked about, just scuttled to a monster that has not yet turned into a human form, and there is nothing to do with Tang Seng, it can only be said that it is barely hung a little, after all, the monkey is considered a Buddhist, but where does this Taoist heart start? There has never been anything to do with Taoism, although there is a Taoist priest to fight monsters, but the python gave the whole soup to a dead chicken. This is also too obvious, Old Man Wu is simply making fun of Buddhism, and he is serving the content implied by his novel.

The book now says that there are a lot of eunuchs who interfere in politics and disorder, but which eunuch in the Ming Dynasty was the first to take the lead? When Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, the eunuchs were the most honest, as if there was a eunuch who had served Lao Zhu for a long time, and he inadvertently talked about the affairs of the court, and asked the emperor to drive him back to his hometown on the same day. Lao Zhu also once had a minister named Du Andao, who was a masseuse who shaved the emperor's face, and served the emperor carefully for decades, and he was quite respectful when he saw the minister, and there was no mistake, so Zhu Yuanzhang liked him very much, but then he thought that such a person could not stay by his side, so he made him a Guanglu Temple. There are also eunuchs Zhao Cheng and Qingtong who are trusted by the emperor, but they are petty officials sent to the border area and responsible for exchanging horses with the Wara and other tribes.

The same is true of the successor Emperor Jianwen, who is very strict with the eunuchs, but he is too bad as a deterrent compared to his grandfather, and once the eunuchs make a small mistake, they will immediately serve with sticks, so the eunuchs have taken refuge in Zhu Di openly and secretly.

When it came to Zhu Di, it was okay, but because these eunuchs made a lot of contributions to themselves, they began to give the eunuchs a relatively large number of officials, and they also went out to do errands. For example, the eunuch Li Xing once sent an envoy to Korea, Zheng He went to the West (legend has it that there was also a mission to find the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen overseas), and then sent some henchmen and eunuchs to sit on one side, and around 1420, the eunuch was set up as the head of the secret service.

Later emperors slowly carried forward this bad beginning, it should be the time of Ming Xuanzong, he liked those eunuchs who had a little knowledge and culture, and in the second year of his succession, he ordered to set up an "inner study hall" for eunuchs to study and study. This eunuch is educated, it is really terrifying, he has a bad stomach, and now he has the potential to become a human goblin with great powers.

When Ming Yingzong became the emperor, Zhu Qizhen trusted Wang Zhen quite a lot. So this Wang Zhen became the first eunuch in the Ming Dynasty to disrupt the government, and even pulled down the iron sign that Zhu Yuanzhang warned his descendants to prohibit eunuchs from interfering in politics, and finally instigated the emperor to become a prisoner of Wara, and Wang Zhen also died in the chaos. However, the change of Tumubao did not wake up Ming Yingzong, on the contrary, after the restoration of Nangong, Wang Zhenping was rehabilitated, and he saw the memorial temple and set up a monument to engrave it. This Wang Zhen became the idol of the eunuchs later, and the characters emerged one after another, like leeks one after another, and they couldn't be slaughtered.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, that is, Cheng Jing, a eunuch with a high status trusted by the Ming Dynasty, is called quite honest, but he was born as a Jinshi, and he was implicated in the rebellion of his boss after just two years of being an official. But Cheng Jing didn't want to affect his descendants, so he asked to be executed. Ming Xuanzong was touched, and changed the corrupt sentence to Cheng Jing, and later let him be a eunuch to teach his son Zhu Qiyu to read. Fortunately, he was not affected by the vicious influence of the eunuchs, and the queen mother at that time and Yu Qian were also strictly guarded, but this Cheng Jing also died early in 1455.

The words of the three Tibetan masters and apprentices, wash the filthy alleys, go on the road of leisure, and time is like an arrow to the summer. On this day, when they came to the outside of Zhu Ziguo, the master and apprentice chatted for a while, and the relationship between the four of them was already quite harmonious.

When the masters and apprentices were walking up the street, they saw that the characters were lofty, neatly dressed, and their words were clear, which was really no less than the Tang world.

It seems that Old Man Wu is pointing something again, and he needs to look down carefully.

When I came to the hall, I explained my origin and stayed for the time being. The monkey complained that they were received in the lower hall, and obviously did not pay much attention to the master and apprentice. I only prepared one meal for free, and I needed to buy my own food and cook in the future.

Sanzang asked if your king can be in the palace? The steward replied, "Long live my grandfather has not been in court for a long time, and today because it is a good day of the zodiac, there is something to discuss, and tomorrow will be enough to choke."

As soon as Tang Seng heard this, he hurriedly went by himself. Soon arrived outside the end gate of Wufeng Tower, and the annoying official conveyed to the Heavenly Court, wanting to check Guan Wen. When the king heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "The widow has been sick for a long time and has never ascended the throne.

It seems that this king is quite superstitious, and likes to be particular about everything.

Tang Seng went to the hall and will close the literature. After reading this, the king was very happy and said, "Master, how many dynasties and how many generations of ministers and sages have you been in the Tang Dynasty?"

Tang Seng even boasted about the benefits of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin came back to life or something, why did he want to learn scriptures from the west. But it goes into too much detail to raise suspicions.

Pay attention, Tang Seng mentioned that there was a virtuous minister who dreamed of slaying the dragon's body, and when the king heard this, he suddenly groaned and asked, "Master, is that virtuous minister from that state?" Sanzang said, "It is the prime minister before my king's driving, surnamed Wei Mingzheng." He knows astronomy, geography, yin and yang, and is the great zaifu of the founding of the country. Because he dreamed of beheading the dragon king of Jinghe, the dragon king sued Yin Si, saying that my king promised to save and kill him, so my king got sick and gradually felt that he was in danger. Wei Zheng wrote another book, took it to the underworld with my king, and sent it to Cui Yan, the judge of the capital city. When he was young, the king of Tang died, and he was brought back to life in three days. Thanks to Wei Zheng, Judge Cui changed the documents and added the king to 20 years of life. ”

The king groaned and sighed, "Cheng is a **** big country, a monarch and a virtuous minister! ”

Seeing this, my heart brightened, Lao Wu turned out that this was talking about Ming Chengzu Zhu Di and Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen, who was using the mouth of this king to lament that there were so many civil and military ministers at that time, and there were few who really helped Zhu Yunwen.

So why did Tang Seng say it again here, why did the ninth to eleventh chapters of Journey to the West say it so carefully, without sparing pen and ink, and then Tang Seng officially appeared on stage in the twelfth round. So Tang Seng, who Lao Wu used to map, it is self-evident.

I continued to read the book, but I said that the monkeys were cooking and found that there was no seasoning, so they went out to buy it. Sha Seng was in charge of cooking, and Wukong fooled Bajie to go with him.

The Monkey King Bajie walked and walked to a crowded and lively place. The old pig was not happy to go any further, "Brother, I won't go, the people there are yelling, I'm afraid it's the monk." What's the matter with someone with a suspicious face who took it?"

Although this is the prevarication of Bajie, it is an allusion to the fact that the law and order in Nanjing at that time in the Ming Dynasty was very tense, and the wind and rain were coming.

The monkey asked Bajie to find a place to rest for a while, but he came to the Huangbang Zhang Hanging downstairs, and it turned out to be a medical list. Wukong was happy when he read it, and he knew that this was the case, so he stopped buying spices and went to see the king. revealed the emperor's list, but secretly carried it in Bajie's arms. The eunuch who kept the list went to look for it and found that it was in the arms of the old pig.

Bajie listened to the eunuch's question, looked down, and knew that it was the monkey who teased him. The old pig went mad and made a fuss with the eunuchs.

Later, there were two old eunuchs, after all, they were old, so they asked the old pig in a relaxed tone, and went to Sun Hou'er with Bajie to settle accounts.

There is a small episode in the middle, the old man Wu pretends to be stupid by the old pig and deliberately damages the eunuchs. Bajie said, "You two grandmothers are governors. The lieutenants said, "This monk doesn't know how to read the goods, why did he rush his father-in-law to call his grandmother?" Bajie smiled, "Don't be ashamed! You are the opposite of yin and yang! His two old mothers don't call him a mother-in-law and grandmother, but call him a father-in-law!"

Bajie led a group of eunuchs and captains to find Sun Wukong. The eunuch lieutenants bowed upwards and said, "Master Sun, today my king is destined, and the heavens send the lord to descend, so he will show his hands and apply three folds of the humerus to cure my king's illness. ”

The three-fold humerus is said to be a clever doctor, but there are allusions, and the earliest meaning is not how to see a doctor.

Its original intention was to break the arm three times, in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Jin Kingdom, there were two big clans of the Fan family and the Zhongxing clan, ready to rebel and attack the Jin Dinggong. At that time, it was pointed out that the key to the success and failure of the war depended on the support of the people, and if it could not win the trust and support of the people, it would be a certain defeat. The Fan clan and the Bank of China clan are a kind of rebellion, and the people will not support them. What's more, Jin Dinggong himself once led to failure and ended up in a foreign land, so it can be said that he has experienced failure. Just as a person who has broken his arm three times, although he has been cured after medical treatment, he has already tasted the taste of breaking his arm, and in the experience of folding his arm several times and treatment, he has learned the reason for breaking his arm, and the process and method of treatment, in other words, he has become a doctor after a long illness.

Then Lao Wu must have some implication, let's pay attention to the next child, and then look down.

Sun Wukong played a profound role, so he asked the eunuchs to teach the king to invite him, so that he would have the ability to get rid of the disease. When everyone heard this, they were all shocked, they were too bold, maybe they really had the ability. So he sent someone to the emperor to report the good news, and the king was naturally happy when he heard this. Tang Seng is trembling, when will this monkey see a doctor?

Because the king was sick, he asked all the ministers of civil and military affairs to invite Elder Sun to come to see him, and he must not be dismissive, calling him a monk and Elder Sun, and they all met with the courtesy of the monarch and ministers.

This is obviously still foreshadowing, to continue to pave the way for the mapping of some Ming Dynasty figures. Then at least you can understand that the implied character must be an unlucky emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

The ministers received the decree and went to the hall to pay homage to the monks. The eight precepts were bluffed and hid in the wing, and the sand monk flashed under the wall. The great sage, see him sitting in the middle of it and not moving. Bajie secretly complained and said, "This beast is being tortured alive! Why are so many officials praying, not to mention returning the salute, and not standing up!"

Why should Bajie be resentful, is it a contradiction with the monkey again? Judging from the following text, it is not at all. Then it can only be said that Lao Wu had no choice but to describe it like this. Otherwise, it will be a big rebellion, and the book Journey to the West is very likely to be really banned.

The four strange books of the Ming Dynasty, only "Water Margin" is called unlucky, around 1641, the Ming Dynasty was about to fall, at this time Li Zicheng and their rebellion was too powerful. There is an official named Zuo Maodi, who suggested to Emperor Chongzhen that the rebellion of the homeless people is the one that they learned after watching "Water Margin", so it was banned. How could the emperor of the Ming Dynasty have the spare time to read novels, he couldn't take care of it at all, at that time, the novels went to the sea, and the ministers came to give the emperor ideas to make decisions. Zuo Maodi, a model of loyal ministers in the late Ming Dynasty, was Wen Tianxiang of the Ming Dynasty, and he was also a great national hero.

Wukong put on a stand for a while before getting dressed up. Bajie said, "Brother, don't climb out of us." The walker said, "I won't climb you, as long as you two take medicine with me." Sha Seng said, "What kind of medicine do you receive?" the walker said, "Anyone who sends medicine to me, take it according to the amount, and wait for me to come back to get it." The two of them did not make a promise.

Sure enough, Bajie and Sha Seng don't mean to be jealous of the monkey now, the old pig is just worried that he will be implicated, and Sha Monk is just cautious.

When Sun Wukong arrived at the top of the main hall, he heard others ask who he was, so he said sharply, "Lao Sun is." "When the king heard the fierceness of his voice, and saw that he was so tricky that he trembled, and fell on the dragon's bed, and bluffed the widow!

The monkey read some medical theory, which is estimated to be told to Lao Wu by the old man Li Shizhen.

Everyone felt that the monkey had a point, so they went to negotiate with the king. But the king was too scared to see his face!

When Wukong heard it, it's okay, if you can't see the face of the person, I will hang the silk to diagnose the pulse.

Everyone is curious, I've heard of it, but I've never seen it.

Tang Seng scolded him, "You monkey, you hurt me! You have been with me for the past few years, who has seen you heal! You don't even know the properties of medicine, and you haven't read medical books, how can you boldly hit this catastrophe! You have seen "Su Wen", "Difficult Scripture", "Materia Medica", and "Pulse Formula", what kind of chapters and sentences, how can you make annotations, just such nonsense, what kind of suspense will you diagnose the pulse!"

From here, it can be seen how many books did Mr. Wu refer to in order to write Journey to the West. Therefore, Lao Wu must have basically completed this book in his later years, and he didn't even think about it without ten years of hard work.

Wukong's hair turned into a golden thread, and he went with the eunuch to see the king. It is that, the heart has a secret recipe to govern the country, and the secret hidden inside is immortal.

Lao Wu is telling us through the words of Tang Seng that the simple diagnosis of the pulse of the suspensory filament is pure nonsense, otherwise, what else does Chinese medicine want to ask? And this rope cutting and the real cutting of the patient's pulse with a finger cannot be compared at all. But it's not that it's useless at all, if you use the current high-tech means, use sensitive response meters, cooperate with giant computers, and add an old Chinese medicine doctor, it can still be achieved. However, if this is to treat the patient like this, it will not cost 10,000 or 20,000 just to cut the pulse?

There were really some about this suspenseful pulse diagnosis in ancient times, but they were all fake, fooling the emperor, and showing that they were skilled in medicine.

But because Sun Dasheng is a demon fairy, that must work, and if he uses the method of diagnosing the pulse with a hanging silk, he diagnosed it according to Li Shizhen's statement that the king is a proof of food and drink and panic and worry, which is called the evidence of 'two birds lost their group'. It can be seen that Lao Wu really hopes that the monkey can treat this king well, and even at the cost of absurdity, he can also express that the character of this king is not simple.

When the king heard this, his heart was filled with joy. Cheering up, he replied in a loud voice, "Finger understands! Finger understands! If this is the disease, please go out and take medicine." ”

The monkey prescribes medicine, so that everyone can see that each flavor of medicine is three catties, a total of eight hundred and eight flavors and three catties of each flavor and medicine mill, medicine grinding, medicine Luo, medicine milk and milk bowl, milk mallet, etc., are sent to the museum, one by one to deliver and receive.

But the king is also quite capable, what should I do if you poison me? Then the inner palace sent a decree to teach the mage to keep and stay in the Wenhua Hall together. After taking medicine in the Ming Dynasty, he was rewarded for his illness and sent off by Guan Wen.

Tang Seng naturally understood that he was a hostage, so he quickly told the monkey not to mess around, this is not a joke.

This bunch of descriptions should have been told by Li Shizhen to Lao Wu, and he must have also said the so-called suspensory silk diagnosis, in fact, this was also seen by the imperial physician in the Ming Dynasty for the concubines of the inner palace. However, it was the imperial physician who asked the eunuch and palace maid who served the patient in advance what the illness was, so he pretended to be the one and prescribed the medicine.

This saying of diagnosing the pulse of the hanging filament should have been circulated since the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the emperor was very protective of his own women, and the harem concubines could not be casually let the imperial doctors see and touch them, it was immoral and inconsistent with the etiquette law, but people always had to get sick, and they still had to find the imperial doctor, so they came up with such a trick, and they tossed this group of imperial doctors miserably.

Regarding whether men and women give or receive kisses, although Mencius was the first to put forward, Yasheng does not mean that men and women cannot kiss each other at all, but do whatever they should do in accordance with the etiquette and law, and there is another important principle, that is, special circumstances outside the etiquette and law are also to be weighed and weighed, and not to drill the tip of the horns. But even so, for quite a long time, no one took it too seriously, because the position of Confucianism was tortuous and bumpy.

In the Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi pulled it out again, and even more standardized how to strictly abide by etiquette and law between men and women. Because Zhu Zi saw that the Southern Song Dynasty at that time "if a person is seriously ill, he has a heart inside and a limb outside, and there is no hair that is not affected by the disease", so he released his own science, the purpose is to "promote discipline, change customs, and love and support the people." "This man and woman are not intimate or not, it is just a small corner in the theory of Zhuzi, it is just a downward extension. Although there are certain limitations, it must not be deliberately distorted to understand

When you experience "preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires", you must not take it out of context, otherwise it will be over, and it will be understood in the sorghum field. Zhu Xi is an extension of the statement of "The Book of Rites and Music", in which there are "those who turn into human things, and those who destroy the principles of heaven and the desires of the poor." So there is rebellion and deceit, and there are sexual immorality. Only by reading this content can we correctly understand Zhu Xi's statement. What they mean is that they want to endure the principles of heaven and to eliminate bad desires such as lewdness and disorder.

Zhu Zi thinks that the heart is the heart and reason is the reason, and Wang Yangming thinks that the heart is the reason; the cognition of the two is finally the same, but the angle of personal understanding is different. Lao Wu is more obviously inclined to Wang Yangming, and his understanding is more in line with reality. All three of them were worried about the current situation of the Song and Ming dynasties, and only then did they educate the world. Because the methods used by Zhu and Wang are mainly theories, ordinary people can't understand them at all, and only students can do it, and Lao Wu is determined to use the vernacular novel Journey to the West to teach more people in the world. However, for the lowest strata of society, it is a pity that no one can really convey the teachings, because only after the theory is put into practice can everyone accept it.

Let's also read the book, after the good sage came back to the pavilion, he first told Bajie why he wanted so many herbs, just to keep the prescription secret. Of course, this time, when the envoy saw the monkey, he quickly knelt down and asked for a meal, and the three brothers were very useful.

Sha Seng was cautious and thoughtful, worried that the master would blame the three of them for being stunned, so he asked, "Senior brother, where is the master?"

When I came, he already had three elders to accompany him, please go to the Wenhua Palace. "Bajie said, "In this way, it is still Master's mile." He has an old man to accompany us, and we only have two envoys to flatter. Don't worry about him, let the old pig have a full meal. ”

Hehe, as soon as the old pig said this, it verified that Sha Seng was indeed afraid that the master would give him small shoes to wear, and his high merit could not cover the master, not to mention that he had not made any meritorious service. The brothers were at ease.

After eating, wait until the dead of night to start working. The monkey asked Bajie to be responsible for testing the medicine, but Sha Seng knew a lot about the medicine, but he couldn't get through, he only knew the fierceness of the drug, and he didn't know how to make it taste supplemented.

In the end, I kneaded three walnut balls. It was named 'Ugindan'. The next day, the king ordered someone to come and fetch the medicine, and the officials asked, "What kind of introduction do you use?" said the walker, "The medicine can be used in both ways." There are generally easy to take, which is sent down by the decoction of six things. The crow fart flying in the air, the carp urine with tight water, the queen mother's face powder, the alchemy ash in the Laojun furnace, the jade emperor's broken turban to three pieces, and five sleepy dragon whiskers, six things decoction to send this medicine, you Wang is sick and so on. ”

Well, this medicine primer is ridiculous, and it's impossible to find it. It's just that Lao Wu is sarcastic. In the end, the monkey said that it would be enough to use some rain that fell from the sky that did not stick to the ground, that is, rootless water.

But said that Wukong said to Zhu Bajie, "Allow him to fall from the sky at the right time before he can use medicine, at this time in a hurry, how can he get a rain?" I think this king is also a great sage and a virtuous king, I will help him with some rain and medicine, how about it?"

It seems that this figure reflected by the king of Zhu Ziguo, Lao Wu has a very high evaluation. So who else can make Confucianism think that he is a great sage and a virtuous man, and who else can there be after Zhu Yunwen?

The monkey let the Bajie sand monk make a big move, one Tao to be an auxiliary star, and the other to be a Bisu. Wukong then recited a spell and slipped Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the East China Sea, over.

The great sage asked him to give a little rain, and the old dragon let out two snots, spit out some saliva overflowing, and then turned into rain. Next, the people of the palace received the rainwater. The king ate the "Ugindan" and Ganyu, and the root of the disease came down!

is a good old Wu, he does not hesitate to use absurdity and absurdity to reflect the status of this king in his own heart.

The king was very pleased, and hastened to eat something, and he felt well. Seeing Tang Seng, he knelt down and kowtowed to thank him, and also wrote the Gu Jian of "Bow to the head again", and invited the Bajie Sha Seng to also come to eat.

Bajie was overjoyed when he saw the official vote for Jane, "Brother, the fruit is a wonderful medicine! Sha Seng said, "The second brother said there! As the saying goes, 'One person is blessed, and he has a house.'" 'We are all meritorious people who combine medicine here. Just use it, and then don't talk more. "Ah, you see that his brothers are all rejoicing and coming into the court.

Ah, it seems that Sha Seng's words mean something else, so look down and ponder it.

Lao Wu rarely depicted this banquet, the scene was huge, and it should be the old man Wu's sincere hope that the king would recover. All the officials are here, and the four vegetarian tables are all feasts for eating and seeing ten, and there is a meat table in front of them, which is also a delicacy for eating and seeing ten. There are four or five hundred single desktops on the left and right, which is really neatly arranged.

Everyone drank happily, Tang Seng wanted to say that wine is the first precept of the monk's family, and it was very annoying. The three of them had a few drinks before slowly changing the subject and revealing their true thoughts.

It turned out that Zhu Ziguo called the main palace in the emperor's harem the Golden Sacred Palace, the East Palace as the Jade Sacred Palace, and the West Palace as the Silver Sacred Palace. Nowadays, only the silver and jade queens are in the palace.

The monkey was curious, so he fell into the king's trap, but even if the monkey knew, he didn't care. Wukong asked why the Golden Palace was not in the palace? The king said with tears that it had been three years since he was gone. Three years ago, on the occasion of the Duanyang Festival, I and the queen were playing in the imperial garden, and suddenly a goblin appeared, claiming to be Sai Tai Sui, saying that he lived in the Qilin Mountain Pig Cave, and visited my Golden Sacred Palace, and was born beautiful and delicate, and wanted to be a lady. If you don't offer it three times, you will eat the widows first, and then the ministers, and the whole city will be eaten by the people. At that time, I was worried about the country and the people, and I had no choice but to push the Golden Sacred Palace out of the Hailiu Pavilion, and was taken away by the demon sound. The widow was frightened and confined the rice dumplings, and he was constantly worried day and night, so that he suffered for three years.

The walker was full of joy and volunteered to catch the monster. The king thanked the monkey, Bajie was beside him, and couldn't help laughing, "This emperor has lost his physique! Why don't you want to be a monk for your wife?"

There is something in the words of the old pig, the iceberg is gradually emerging, this implied emperor is a contradictory character, does he love beauty or love the country more? It is strangely written, Zhu Yunwen's queen should have died in the palace fire. Then this Golden Sacred Palace obviously does not refer to her, there are other people. I can't figure it out for a while, and I can't figure it out.

After that monster went to the Golden Sacred Palace, he asked for a lot of palace ladies and said that he wanted to wait for his mother. The king saw that the monsters were coming, and he also built a special demon shelter building.

The demon avoidance building mentioned in the book is actually a tunnel, what can this do?

As a result, Sai Tai Sui came at this time, and he looked really ugly. The walker said, "He is like the golden-eyed ghost with a good face who guards the door under Dongyue Tianqi." Wukong jumped up. Exactly, Anbang was sick first, and he had to get rid of love and disgusting to keep the way.

It's too obvious to say, Lao Wu's heart to advise the emperor can be seen everywhere.

After all, I don't know where to go, how to capture the monster and save the Golden Sacred Palace, if you want to know, please listen to the nonsense next time.