In the prince's mansion, the sun is shining.

Master Ran and the others had lunch with Wei Huang, and before they had gone to rest, news came:

Cui Ming of the Great Pillar Kingdom welcomes the Buddhist monks at the middle gate, and recruits auspicious from the sky, so Emperor Wu is very happy, and specially sends someone to bring a rich reward to Cui Wangfu, and the award is a mile long, causing a shock in the city of Junzhou.

Immediately Cui Ming of the Great Pillar Kingdom personally went to the Taiwu Bridge in the south of Yuntai to advise the people who admonished him, telling Emperor Ming Wu about his hardships and reasons, and he also said that Buddhism has made a lot of contributions to the Dawu Empire, leading people to be kind, purifying all living beings, and the people see the temples that are all over the place, but only a few people who do not follow morality, and after today, they will ask Beizong Temple to punish and set an example.

Immediately afterwards, Cui Ming pulled the household secretary over, and the household department promised on the spot that he would definitely take the affairs of the victims as his own business, and before the famine of the victims was resolved, his family only ate a meal of clear soup and little water every day.

So the ministers led the victims to disperse, and Cui Ming returned to the palace of Emperor Wu to explain the matter to Emperor Wu, and a farce dispersed.

After Wei Huang heard the news, he was silent, and Master Ran sighed when he heard it.

Yifeng also quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but at the same time, he was anxious and embarrassed, so he did not solve any problems.

Although Tobe Shangshu said so about the problem of the victims, he has not been unable to solve the problem because he has not wanted to solve it.

Most of the money and grain taxes of the Dawu Kingdom are stored in the temple. The famine was not only for monks, but also for ordinary rural villagers in the imperial court, and there were a large number of them.

The fact that the Hubu Shangshu had done everything he could to forgive all the taxes for these ordinary victims, but they were still begging along the way with the monks, which means that it was not that the imperial court did not want to solve it, but that it could not solve it.

From this point of view, the imperial court is still too busy to take care of itself, where will the money and grain come from to help the monks and households?

Therefore, the most critical way is to ask the temples everywhere in Buddhism to open warehouses and release grain, they are the largest landlords in the Great Wu Kingdom, and now Emperor Wu and Cui Ming are not thinking about doing it, and the problem of the famine victims will inevitably not be alleviated.

The problem of Buddhism and Taoism changing the law, instead of being solved, in the farce jointly performed by Emperor Dawu and Dazhuguo, the weight of the favor of Buddhism and Taoism was increased, and the imperial doctor and more than a dozen court ministers suffered unwarranted disasters, which was more like cooking oil in a hot fire, which made the contradiction between Buddhism and the court ministers deeper.

At this moment, the calamity was not a single line, and the chaos was added, and some eunuchs hurriedly entered the prince's mansion and read out the oral edict of Emperor Dawu, and the queen mother was seriously ill, so that all the imperial relatives and relatives rushed to the palace of Emperor Dawu without a moment's delay.

Everyone was taken aback, Wei Huang hurriedly changed into auspicious clothes and hurried to the Dawu Emperor Palace.

A wind seems to feel that many things have begun to change since a sudden heavy rain last night.

In the past two days, the Dawu Emperor's palace and the imperial court, these endless changes seem to be brewing, just like the raging wind before the storm, blowing people can't open their eyes and are unconscious.

What is the truth behind this storm?

In the palace of Emperor Wu, in the Buddhist hall where the Queen Mother lived, Emperor Wu Wei Yu knelt under the edge of the bed, and other imperial relatives led by the crown prince Wei Huang knelt behind Wei Yu layer by layer, looking sad.

Wei Yu took the hand of the Queen Mother, who was already unable to speak, just staring at Wei Yu with gloomy eyes.

Wei Yu shouted angrily to the side: "When the Queen Mother watched the fireworks in the Foyan Pavilion last night, wasn't she okay?!Why are you so seriously ill today?!What is the use of asking you to be a bunch of waste!"

The dozen or so imperial doctors next to him kowtowed in fear, and after kowtowing, they trembled and said: "Emperor Wu Mingjian, I don't know if Emperor Wu has ever heard of 'returning to the light', which is also the language of Buddhism, plus last night's abnormal rainstorm and thunder, so the Queen Mother ······"

At this time, the fifth prince who was kneeling behind Wei Huang raised his head and said, "Yes, father, grandmother is about to practice and become a Buddha, you should be happy!"

Wei Yu said angrily: "Bastard, what do you know! What kind of cultivation to become a Buddha, can't you live well?"

At this time, the Queen Mother pulled Wei Yu's hand, Wei Yu immediately turned his head, squeezed out a smile, and comforted: "Queen Mother, if you cultivate Buddhism in this life, you will have meritorious results, don't be afraid." ”

The Queen Mother looked at him, her eyes revealed helplessness and desolation, and she no longer had the calmness and compassion she usually practiced Buddhism. In her eyes are the golden Buddha portraits in the side room of the Buddha hall, the goddess Buddha flowers, and the Sanskrit Buddhist talismans all over the sky, but her eyes are gloomy.

This Buddha is still not cultivated.

Seeing this, Wei Yu finally couldn't bear it anymore, his face was sad, his brows were tightly locked, his lips were tightened, and there were tears in his eyes, but he gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Queen Mother, if you can't hold on, then go with peace of mind!"

At this time, the sun was about to set, and the people who were busy on the other side of the Yuntai were shrouded in the blood-like sunset, and everyone seemed to be wearing a blood-red mask.

Suddenly, they heard an unusually heavy brass horn whimpering from the Dawu Emperor Palace, followed by a huge bell ringing in the Taiqing Palace of the Dawu Emperor Palace.

All the people stopped and looked in amazement at the towering Dawu Emperor's Palace, which was dyed red by the setting sun.

At this moment, as if responding, in the Baoxiang Temple in the north, Huang Zhong Da Lu roared in unison, accompanied by the grand Sanskrit chanting, I don't know how many monks are chanting, resounding through Junzhou City.

Directly west, a colorful cloud rose, dyed blood-red by the setting sun, and golden thunder and lightning rumbled, shaking the western sky.

In the eastern sky, countless unusually shining bright stars suddenly appeared, and the light cast by the stars shot towards the Dawu Emperor Palace, illuminating the entire Dawu Emperor Palace into a snow-white color, even overshadowing the golden light of the setting sun.

When the light of the stars was projected, Yuntai remembered a huge dragon roar, and the high-pitched and loud dragon roar soared into the sky, shaking the entire Junzhou City.

These rare visions of heaven and earth attracted all the people of Junzhou, and they poured into the streets, looking around, wondering why there were so many miracles and wonders in the sky of Junzhou City this evening.

In the chanting of bells, golden lightning and thunder, the silver light of the stars and the high-pitched chanting of dragons, when they saw clearly, all the people were shocked by this scene of heaven and earth vision, as if their souls were fixed, their eyes were straight, and they stared blankly at the splendid and magnificent spectacle that they had never seen in their lives.

Until the depths of the Dawu Emperor's Palace, a huge and powerful voice came: "Dawu Empire, the Queen Mother is —— passed away"

All the people of Junzhou City understood the reason for today's miracle, and at the same time shook their heads and sighed.

However, outside the Dawu Emperor's Palace, outside the Buddha Hall, next to the golden scriptures with eighteen pillars, Cui Ming of the Great Pillar Kingdom and Yan Guizhen, the national teacher, did not sigh, their eyes were deep, and they stood side by side in the center of these golden scriptures, raising their heads to look at the golden scriptures that surrounded them.

Yan Guizhen said lightly: "Is it really okay if the two of us don't go in?"

Cui Ming raised his eyebrows and said, "Didn't you hear? ”

Yan Guizhen sneered: "Yes, the Queen Mother has cultivated Buddhism all her life, and we will be suspicious if we go in." What's more, there is also the Juekong monk of the Beizong Temple inside. ”

Cui Ming said coldly: "Today, aren't you planning to ask Concubine Yan to blow the wind in your ears?"

Yan Guizhen snorted coldly and said: "How can I have such a means as the Great Pillar Kingdom, layer upon layer, methodically, instigating those ministers who don't want to die to move, I have penetrated Emperor Wu's mind, and I also used the Buddha to obey Emperor Wu's mind to worship Buddha." Xiao Qing has to speak out to dissuade him at this time, he really doesn't know the current affairs!"

Cui Ming said: "Then you still let the Yellow Dragon Guan Master open the Star Luo Tiangang Array and lead the dragon to roar the sky?

Yan Guizhen said: "The heaven and earth golden thunder of King Cui's mansion is also extraordinary, presumably all the fish in the rainbow pond are dead, right?"

Cui Ming laughed and said unabashedly: "In order to please Emperor Wu, what is the point of dying a few divine fish!"

Yan Guizhen said: "But today's things are undoubtedly adding weight to the Buddha's way, so if you want to move the Buddha's way in the future, I'm afraid it will make the people feel that Emperor Wu is capricious!"

Cui Ming said: "Have you ever scooped water?"

"What?" Yan Guizhen wondered.

Cui Ming said: "You cover the scoop and press it hard in the water tank, the deeper the pressure, the greater the momentum it will bounce out!"

Yan Guizhen suddenly asked, "Is this also what Emperor Wu meant?" It seems that he really supports Buddhism. ”

Cui Ming didn't answer directly, but asked: "Look at these golden scriptures more than ten zhang high, the two of us are surrounded and sandwiched in the middle, is it just like the situation of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism today?"

Yan Guizhen nodded.

Cui Ming continued to ask: "Today, the Queen Mother is 'round away', what do you think will happen if I break these prayer buildings?"

Yan Guizhen exclaimed: "How dare you be so arrogant, Emperor Wu won't-"

Before the words fell, Cui Ming's arm waved, and a mighty power rushed out, and a prayer building made of a whole piece of gold more than ten zhang high suddenly exploded, followed by the second and third ······

In the blink of an eye, the eighteen golden scriptures outside the Buddha hall all exploded and shattered, and the gold nuggets flew suddenly!