Chapter 49: The Footprints of the Buddha
Before leaving the prison mountain, the old monkey pricked blood and wrote Buddhist scriptures has spread throughout the entire convoy, Ding Dayou, who originally ignored the old monkey, after hearing about this matter, specially invited the old monkey when he was drinking at night.
The old monkey has a wide range of knowledge, and he can tell the local people and customs vividly and interestingly everywhere he goes.
"Go here to the north for more than 40 miles, connect the mountains and a river across the water, there are two garans, the same name is notorious, and the east and west are commensurate. Buddha statue ornament, more than artificial.
The monks are clean and honest, and they are diligent. There is jade in the Buddha Hall of Dongzhao, the face is more than two feet wide, the color band is yellow and white, and the shape is like a sea clam.
There are traces of Buddha's feet on it, the length of the ruler is eight inches, and the width is more than six inches. Or there may be a fasting day, and the candles will shine. β
Ding Dayou, who was drinking, stopped his wine glass, he didn't understand the words of the old monkey Wen Bar, and as if he had heard something terrible, he turned his gaze to Yun Chu.
Yun Chu put down the leg of mutton in his hand, wiped his hands with a handkerchief, and frowned to clean up Naha, who was eating with oil on his face, and then said to Ding Dayou: "Mr. Shi said that there are two temples more than forty miles north of this place, and these two temples are on both sides of the river.
There is also a footprint left by the Buddha on the jade, which is one foot eight inches long and six inches wide, and every time the Buddha's birthday comes, it will shine brightly.
It's a rarity! β
Ding Dayou immediately turned his head and asked the old monkey, "Is this the case?" β
The old monkey nodded and said, "This thing is a treasure of my Western Regions, as long as this thing stays in the Western Regions, then the prosperity of Buddhism in the Western Regions is just around the corner."
I heard that the lord of the Tang Dynasty built the Great Mercy and Grace Temple to pray for his mother, but unfortunately there is no such piece of jade, no matter how well the Great Mercy and Grace Temple is built, it is not enough for the lord to read the voice of his mother and reach the sky. β
Ding Dayou turned his head to look at Yun Chu and said: "The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, right?" β
Yun Chu frowned and said, "Your Majesty will definitely be very happy if you hear Du Wei say this." β
Ding Dayou poured the last glass of wine into his mouth and sighed: "The best, the most beautiful, and the most glorious will all belong to my emperor." β
Yun Chu nodded and said, "This is true, as a courtier of Your Majesty, I will naturally work hard for Your Majesty." β
Ding Dayou smiled and said, "You go, or I, or send a brigade commander?" β
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Zhechong Mansion is Your Majesty's eagle dog, you can't do this kind of personal work, dirty work, naturally you need dirty people to do it." β
"Dirty?"
"yes, aren't there bad people in our team who specialize in dirty work? They all call themselves fucking bad people, they don't do this job, who will? β
Ding Dayou said: "Actually, there is no need to hide it like this, our Majesty is the most selfish, as long as we are dedicated to the Tang Dynasty and do some ugly things in this wilderness and borderland, Your Majesty will naturally help us cover up." β
"Then you can't let Your Majesty help his courtiers cover up by getting angry every time, right? Good people, who can withstand eight fires a day? β
"Well, then let the bad guys take them." After speaking, he looked at the old monkey and said, "It's the temple in the east, right?" β
The old monkey nodded and said, "It's in the middle of the Garan Palace, there is a white jade lotus seat at the bottom, and that thing is not bad, so be sure to bring it back together." β
Ding Dayou said with a smile: "I like Hu people like you, if all the Hu people in the world are like you, where can there be so many Jingguan in this world." β
Yun Chu thought so, and the old monkey also had a clean face and a leisurely expression.
When Ding Dayou was busy arranging the robbery, Yun Chu smiled and said to the old monkey: "You really killed the seventy-six monks in the Horseshoe Temple in Ganzhou?" β
The old monkey shook his head and said, "They are all disciples of Buddhism, so they won't be so ruthless." β
"So, the person who killed the monks of the Horseshoe Temple was a green wolf?"
"No, the green wolf has worked very hard to hide in Tibet in order to avoid the pursuit of the Hui Khan over the years, and besides, he is not qualified to enter the Yumen Pass, let alone Ganzhou."
"Since you didn't do it, why do you want to toss those bad people?" "I just want those people to move, didn't they say I killed the monks of the Horseshoe Temple? Now, they are also going to kill the monks of the Great Temple, and we may be able to see a clue from this. β
Yun Chu looked at the old monkey and said, "Those monks are too innocent. β
The old monkey laughed and said, "You know, the Buddha said that the era of the end of the Dharma is coming, it is a dark age, in that era, the Buddha will not save the monks who are in danger, but will only let them enter Nirvana this morning, waiting for the dawn of the prosperity of the Dharma in reincarnation." β
Yun Chu was puzzled and said: "Could it be that killing the monk now is not saving the monk?" β
The old monkey said, "If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense." β
After speaking, he looked at Naha, who was constantly napping, with a smile and said, "Do you want to play with the stick with me?" β
Hearing that she was going to play with a stick, Naha suddenly stopped sleepy, stood up from behind Yun Chu, and followed the old monkey in a hurry.
Yun Chu took the opportunity to check the wealth he had hidden, and felt that it was very stable, so he immediately went to sleep, he felt that as long as he fell asleep, many things in this world had nothing to do with him.
The next day, Yun Chu really didn't see any bad people in the team, and some of the jumping soldiers in the government soldiers were also missing.
There are generally not too many jumping soldiers in the government soldiers, but each of them is a sharp pawn, not to mention that they can be ridden on foot, and they are mainly used to smash the enemy's military formation and open the way for the follow-up army.
It's actually a pity for such a group of people to be horse thieves.
However, Ding Dayou didn't seem to care, and Yun Chu pretended not to know about it.
Anyway, an ultra-low-level official like Yun Chu is not qualified to see the emperor, and after Ding Dayou returns to Chang'an, it is possible for a five-rank general like this to stand outside the Taiji Palace and take a look at His Majesty the Emperor from a distance, it seems that this guy is ready to dedicate that magical jade to His Majesty the Emperor.
Li Zhi has been the emperor for more than a year, and Yun Chu came to a conclusion after looking through the documents for more than a year, Li Zhi is extremely unfriendly to senior officers, but he is very fond of middle-level military attachΓ©s like Ding Dayou.
Even when it was time to liquidate some high-ranking military generals, they never touched the military attachΓ©s of the level of the Chongfu Prefecture, and even issued rewards to comfort their frightened hearts.
Because of this, Ding Da has this group of middle-level generals, and he also respects his emperor, but whenever there is anything good, he will never forget their emperor.
The name of the river that separates the two large temples is Dongchuan Shui, because the snow on the Tianshan Mountains melts quickly this year, even if there is not a drop of rain in this area of Qiuci after entering the summer, the water of the river is still abundant, almost isolating the communication between the two banks.
Fortunately, when Liang Jianfang came, a wooden bridge was built on the open land downstream of the Dongchuan River, which allowed Yunchu's camel team to cross the river smoothly.
Ding Da did not let the team camp on the edge of the Dongchuan River, but continued to walk forward for twenty miles before setting up camp in a place full of poplars.
This place was named Populus euphratica at the beginning of the clouds.
The Hu people who escaped from the war-torn areas of Qiuzi and Khotan basically settled here temporarily.
As a result, a poplar forest has created a brand new town.
The old monkey took Naha to pick and choose among the little girls, sometimes he would look at the little girl's teeth, sometimes he would look at the little girl's calves, and more often, he would pinch the little girl's body with his hands like monkey paws.
These little girls are very young, and they often have a straw rope around their necks, and they lean meekly against the roots of the old poplars like lambs, waiting for someone to come and pick them away.
The old monkey was a mature slave trader, and when he chose slaves, many Hu people surrounded him and recommended their children to him.
The old monkey was unhurried and kind to any child, until Yun Chu saw that he had exchanged a stack of naan cakes for a little girl, and he took Naha away.
Because, Naha always asked the old monkey if she could exchange two stacks of naan cakes, and after getting the old monkey's exact answer, the stupid boy laughed and told Yun Chu that she was more valuable.
Yun Chu felt that there was something wrong with this child's brain!
Whether it was a boys' market or a girls' market, Yun Chu didn't have the heart to go shopping.
Therefore, he used golden sand here to exchange a lot of pigments and white cloth unique to the Western Regions.
Neither the pigment nor the white cloth is on the tax list of the Yumen Gate.
It's a pity that there aren't many goods here, otherwise, I would want to exchange all the gold on hand and all the goods that need to be taxed for those that are not taxable.
Gold is undoubtedly the most dangerous, but as long as gold can be brought into the Tang Dynasty, this thing can be exchanged for more good things, even if the Tang Dynasty government prohibits gold and silver from being traded as currency, but its value is unchanged, especially loved by the noble clan.
Ding Dayou is also doing what Yun Chu is doing, but because he has a lot of gold, Yun Chu's acquisition plan has been greatly affected.
During the day, the weather was hot, and Ding Dayou did not order the tent to be set up, and everyone slept on the spot with a sheepskin or wolf skin on the sand.
In order not to be affected by the ghost screams of the government barracks, Yun Chu took Naha to tie a hammock to the poplar tree, and the brother and sister whispered in the hammock.
"Are they beating the women?"
"Well, that's right."
"Why did they beat those women?"
"Because, the women took their naan."
"Do you have naan bread to eat when you are beaten?"
"Yes, you have to learn to be frugal and store food in the future, so that you don't have to be beaten for food."
"I don't think there will be anything to eat in the future, we can still grab it!"
"This makes a lot of sense, my sister is so smart, but how did you follow the old monkey to play with the stick?"
"I can beat the sheep, the old monkey said, I can kill the wolf in the future, I think I can kill a wolf soon."
"Well, play with the stick well, and in the future, you will not only be able to kill wolves, but also kill people."