Chapter 1 Monk Zhu

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Tell a story that almost dropped.

There is a mountain in the west, and there is a temple in the mountain, and there is a monk in the temple. The story was heard from the old monk in the temple, it was very bizarre, I don't know if it was true or not, but people have physical evidence. What physical evidence? The old monk said that the physical evidence is under the spiritual pagoda of the temple, and he will open the underground palace after his death, saying that if you are willing to listen to the story, he can write a road to keep, and when he is buried, you can see it if you want to, and I am afraid that there is only one chance in a person's life.

The old monk is almost seventy years old, and he is in good spirits, and he will not die soon. Fool people, don't say wait for decades, now we feel like years when we wait for a day; Make an appointment to meet up with friends, and more than an hour feels like a long day; It will be annoying to delay the delivery of the order for a few minutes; If you go on a date with your girlfriend and miss an appointment, you will have to be slapped in the face, and you will never turn over. Can't wait!

In fact, the old monk agreed to tell the story when he knew that I was a writer, and he hoped that someone would record the story and not be discarded, not someone who wanted to hear it. Whatever he is, take a gamble, just believe in the old monk once, and listen to stories today. I swear that after listening to the story, I will definitely visit the spiritual pagoda, and I will definitely write the story and send it to which novel network first, in case a businessman with a burned brain sees this book, it is not necessary that a whole bestseller will be published.

I couldn't wait, so I had to listen to the story first, whether it was true or not.

The old monk said that Monk Zhu stayed in the monastery for one night.

Who is Monk Zhu? The old monk opened his eyes, looked at me in surprise, and said Monk Zhu, you don't know either? I shook my head and said I really didn't know. He smiled faintly, and this smile was meaningful, perhaps laughing at me for being unheard, or laughing at me for being a fake writer.

Monk Zhu is Zhu Yuanzhang!

I was taken aback. China is a country of etiquette, no matter what, after all, people have been emperors, their status is noble, they don't shout long live, they can't be so despised, although they have been dead for hundreds of years, the heroic spirit lives on, how can you call the emperor Monk Zhu? He who was to be beheaded in that year.

Why not? Back then, Monk Zhu was just a wandering monk, he just stayed in the monastery for one night, and the old man is now the abbot. The old monk closed his eyes again.

It is said that in the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1344), the great drought in Huaibei, the plague epidemic, the parents and brothers of Monk Zhu died one after another, and at the age of seventeen, he entered the Huangjue Temple as a monk, purely to survive. Later, he became a traveling monk and traveled in the Guang, Gu, Ru and Ying prefectures of Huaixi for more than three years, and only he knew the hardships in his heart. One day, Monk Zhu inadvertently entered Lingguang Temple. Lingguang Temple was the name of the temple during the Ming Dynasty, and it has now been changed to Lingchan Temple by the government.

In fact, because of the war and famine, Monk Zhu's Huangjue Temple could not raise monks, and people with a little brains came out in the name of traveling. Monk Zhu has been out for three years, and he has endured all the hardships and seen all the hardships in the world. When he arrived at Lingguang Temple, he was already hungry, his eyes were dizzy, and he only felt that there was a house and someone in front of him, so he struggled to move forward and fell under the ginkgo tree outside the temple.

In recent years, there have been many people who have cheated to death, eaten and lived, and the monks have suffered greatly from it, and they dare not come close to investigate.

Seeing this scene, and seeing that he was dressed like a walking monk, he ordered someone to carry him into the monastery. Monk Zhu was hungry, the soup and food entered his stomach, and his spirit returned. Monk Zhu walked around the monastery and fell in love with this monastery, and he begged the old monk Yinming to take him in.

At that time, the world was chaotic, the temple was too busy to take care of itself, many people opened their mouths, and Yin Ming was also in trouble and refused to agree.

As early as the second year of Taiding (1325), the uprising of Zhao Chouguo and Guo Bodhisattva in Xizhou, Henan Province put forward the slogan of "Maitreya Buddha should have the world", which opened the prelude to the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Since the crime was committed in the name of Buddhism, the monasteries were afraid of being implicated, and they were all rumors, closed their doors to protect themselves, and since then, Lingguang Temple has no longer accommodated a person. After more than ten years, the old people in the temple passed away a few, Yinguang thought about adding a few monks to the temple, unexpectedly, Emperor Shun to the third year of the Yuan Dynasty (1337), there was an uprising of Zhu Guangqing and Nie Xiuqing in Guangdong, called "Dingguang Buddha was born", and it was also the name of Buddhism, which was menaceous. In the same year, there was an uprising in Henan Banghu, Banghu burned incense to gather people, and the rebels held the "Maitreya Small Flag", which was also related to Buddhism. In the fourth year of the Red Turban Uprising (1338), Monk Peng and Zhou Ziwang revolted in Yuanzhou, and more than 5,000 peasants rebelled. In recent years, the rebels have been under the banner of Buddhism, and the local yamen has come to check the temple twice in three days, and in order to avoid trouble, Yin Ming had to close the temple gate again.

Monk Zhu saw that the old monk did not accept him, and he was anxious and refused to leave the temple, and his face was wrapped around Yin Ming.

Yin Ming was forced to be anxious, and had to call Monk Zhu to the abbot's room the next day.

Yin Ming told him that not far from here is called Haozhou, and there is a person from Guo Zixing who is pulling up a team to rebel, so you can go and vote for him.

Monk Zhu is also afraid of dying in battle, and besides, the family is almost dead, so he wants to keep the incense of the Zhu family, and he is willing to be an idle monk and refuses to go. Yin Ming had no choice but to tell the truth. Although Monk Zhu has a relationship with the Buddha, but his appearance is unusual, according to the birth date of Monk Zhu, the future will be rich and noble, how can the small temple be accommodated?

Monk Zhu still didn't believe it, thinking that this was an excuse for Yinguang to drive him away. This is the same as when young people are looking for jobs now, employers often praise people as talents who help the world, and suddenly the conversation changes, and the temple of the unit is too small to accommodate the excuse of great talents.

Monk Zhu didn't believe it, Yin Guang pondered for a while and said, if you don't believe it, if you come back in two years, the old monk will give you a presiding position.

The promise of a high-ranking official is another kind of excuse, it is obvious that the great monk really doesn't want to keep him, it seems that it is really no fun. Monk Zhu felt a little angry in his heart, and he was helpless, and he was even more reluctant to stick a cold ass with a hot face, so he walked out of the temple in a huff.

Haozhou is only a few days away from Lingguang Temple, fortunately brought some dry food from the temple, Monk Zhu came to Haozhou with trepidation, it happened to be the spring of 1352.

Guo Zixing's father, Guo Gong, traveled around the country as a diviner, married a local blind girl as his wife, and when he gave birth to Guo Zixing, Guo Gong calculated, it was a good fortune, and the future of this child was unlimited. Sure enough, when Guo Zixing grew up, he liked to make friends. Looking back on history, many heroes of the world have this habit and hobby, they don't study well, they like to make friends and drink, they like to dance with guns and sticks, according to the current words, "not satisfied with the status quo", "many friends and many roads", "one fence with three piles, one hero with three gangs".

In this year, when the court was not having a good time, Guo Zixing organized thousands of brothers and friends to get a place to play, so he captured Haozhou City.

Monk Zhu thought to himself, since Monk Yinming asked him to vote for Guo Zixing, maybe he had a reason, he might as well try, so he went straight to the city gate and shouted to see Guo Zixing. The city gate guard saw that it was a monk, dressed in tatters, and suspected of being a spy, so he asked people to tie him up. The guard interrogated several times, and saw that the monk didn't understand anything, so he couldn't recite the Diamond Sutra, let him recite the Heart Sutra and couldn't read most of the words, and let him pose a few Dharma postures and couldn't do it, it must be a fake monk, so he ordered to be beheaded.

At this time, seeing the executioner take out a shiny big knife, Monk Zhu was afraid and regretted, his wife had never married, he had no offspring, he had never been to a big city, he had not made a few friends, and he had never tasted good things. Seeing that he couldn't reverse it, and his life was over, he cried on the spot and scolded Monk Yinguang.

What a Yin Ming bald donkey, you killed Zhu Chongba, and Lao Tzu will not let you go when he arrives in the underworld.

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