Zong Zhenlei listened to Li Ruhui's rebuttal, stopped thinking for a moment, and said: "This is just a speculation of mine, and I also think that there is still a lack of basis, oh, didn't you give my speculative statement a proper name ...... a long time ago."

Li Ruhui hurriedly said: "'Play'! ”

Zong Zhenlei smiled and said, "Yes, 'play'." Since we have talked about 'play', then I will 'play' to talk about the speculation on the sponsorship of the tower, and also talk about my views on why Su Weilin can't point it out; there are only two situations of sponsorship: one is that the Empress Dowager Li only sponsored money; but the question is, when Su Weilin mentioned this statement, why did he pull another person and say that the person was more clear about the reason for the construction? So I think that Su Weilin must have had to say it, and he was worried that he would say it badly, which made him speak so carefully. ”

Li Ruhui didn't interject, obviously led into deep thought by his speculation.

Zong Zhenlei continued: "Another situation is that Empress Dowager Li sponsored both money and provided Buddha relics; But the crux of this problem is that if the Empress Dowager Li does not let her say that the Buddha relics come from her, so in the end, the Miaofeng Zen Master who hid the Buddha relics did not say the source of the Buddha relics according to her instructions, no one would know, and Su Weilin, who wrote the inscription, would not know, and would only say that the Empress Dowager Li sponsored money; Moreover, even if Zen Master Miaofeng told Su Weilin the source of the Buddha relics, but at the same time told him the advice of the Empress Dowager Li, he also did not dare to write on the inscription that the Empress Dowager Li provided the Buddha relics, and he would also treat this matter carefully, right? That's why I said Su Weilin couldn't point this out. Now the question is, if I follow my speculation, then, for what reason did Empress Dowager Li not let her say that the Buddha relics were provided by her? ”

Li Ruhui didn't respond to his question, and directly raised another matter: "Let me ask a question first, you said that Empress Dowager Li may provide Buddha relics, what is her reason for doing this?" ”

Zong Zhenlei raised his head, squinted into the distance and said, "Let me sort out the logical line." When I checked the inscription, I noticed that Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of Wanli's cabinet, left a stele in the Wutai Mountain Great Pagoda Temple, which said that the Indian Ashoka distributed the Buddha relics obtained to various places to build pagodas and hid them, and one of them was hidden in the Wutai Vulture Mountain Pagoda. Empress Dowager Li was going to build a temple here before, to recommend the well-being of the deceased Mu Zong, and to pray for a son for the current emperor, but later due to the long distance, she was replaced by the construction of Cishou Temple and Cishou Pagoda in the west of the capital. ”

"I'm sorry, interrupt, is the tower in the capital you said Linglong Tower? It seems to be a Buddha relics stupa too? Li Ruhui explained, "I have an impression of the tower in Xibalizhuang in the capital, and I went to it with my family when I was five or six years old. ”

"Yes, the Cishou Pagoda in Cishou Temple is also known as Linglong Pagoda, formerly known as Yongan Wanshou Pagoda. I still remember things so clearly when I was a child! Zong Zhenlei gave Li Ruhui a thumbs up approvingly, and then said: "According to folklore, the Linglong Pagoda is a Buddha relics pagoda, but I did not find a record of the Buddha relics hidden in the tower in the "Inscription of the Edict of Cishou Temple" written by Zhang Juzheng. ”

Seeing that Li Ruhui seemed to be asking a new question, he said again: "Okay, since Zhang Juzheng does not have a Buddha relic in the inscription, it should be considered that there is no one in it, this problem will be put down first, and I will continue to talk about mine; A year after the completion of Cishou Temple, the imperial court began to build a large tower temple in Wutai Mountain, about this matter, Zhang Juzheng in the inscription of "Monument to the Great Tower Temple of Wutai Mountain", said that the reason why the Empress Dowager Li wanted to build a temple in Wutai Mountain earlier was "to recommend blessings for Mu Kao, and pray for the prince today"; due to the long distance and inconvenient sacrifice, the construction of the temple in Wutai Mountain was suspended, and the Cishou Temple was built in the west of the capital. Later, considering that the Empress Dowager Li's first wish to build a temple in Shanxi was not fulfilled, the emperor later ordered the emperor to 'build a large pagoda temple' in Wutai Mountain, and praised Empress Dowager Li as 'the most pious and pious, not forgetting the original wish'......"

A car next to him was about to get out, and the two got out of the way. After the car left, Zong Zhenlei opened the car door and motioned for Li Ruhui to get into the car, and Li Ruhui said anxiously: "People are hearing something important......

Zong Zhenlei put down the hand that pulled the door handle again: "Okay, go on." From the two temples I just mentioned, I think it can be speculated that the practice of building temples as a blessing should be a long-cherished wish of Empress Dowager Li. But for this woman who went out of Shanxi to build a temple in the capital, her long-cherished wish seems to have not been fulfilled, firstly, because the temple is not in Shanxi, and secondly, there may be no Buddha relics in the temple in the capital, so the emperor ordered the construction of a large pagoda temple where the Buddha relics are hidden in Wutai Mountain, so it seems that her long-cherished wish has been completed......"

Li Ruhui listened carefully for a while, as if she didn't hear her eyebrows, so she interrupted his tirade and said, "I don't think you answered my question. ”

Zong Zhenlei took a deep breath and said: "Okay, to put it simply, Empress Dowager Li originally wanted to build a temple in Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province to pray for blessings, but considering the long distance, she built a temple in the capital; Since that temple was not in Shanxi, she later built a temple in Shanxi where there were Buddha relics according to her wishes. ”

Li Ruhui understood this time: "Well, I know, her real long-cherished wish should be both; The purpose of building a temple in Shanxi is to pray for her husband, because she went out of Shanxi and has a sense of nostalgia, of course, including praying for the royal family and her family; And in this monastery, there needs to be Buddha relics. ”

Zong Zhenlei smiled: "That's what it means." But there is a problem here, I don't know if you have noticed, at that time, there were already Buddha relics in the newly built Wutai Mountain Pagoda Temple, and if the Empress Dowager Li had her own Buddha relics, she would not be able to enter, so her long-cherished wish was still unfulfilled. ”

Li Ruhui lowered her head and thought for a while, and then Zong Zhenlei said: "Since the long-cherished wish has not been fulfilled, then we still have to build a temple." According to your reasoning, Yongzuo Temple was built in Shanxi, which met the first condition of her long-cherished wish, and she built the Xuanwen Stupa with gold, which needed to have Buddha relics in it, so as to meet her second condition; In other words, while she sponsored the construction of the pagoda, she also provided the Buddha relics for the pagoda, which is why you said that the Buddha relics here may be the reason she provided? ”

Zong Zhenlei felt that Li Ruhui had made peace with him now, so he didn't need to explain, and pulled the car door: "Yes, but I'm just speculating, and I can't reach a conclusion, and I still need more evidence to corroborate, and it is best to find the original text of Su Weilin's "Xuanwen Pagoda Relic Inscription of Yongzuo Temple" written by Su Weilin. ”

But when he saw that Li Ruhui didn't move, he stopped getting into the car and continued: "I also found a very interesting thing, Empress Dowager Li worships Miaofeng Zen Master as a teacher, and the two have a relationship with fellow villagers, from Empress Dowager Li allocated funds for Miaofeng Zen Master to build Fahua Temple and Iron Tower in Luya Mountain, Ningwu, Shanxi, and built Ten Thousand Buddha Caves in Ninghua Ancient City, to Feng Miaofeng Zen Master for Wutai Mountain Xiantong Temple to preside, it also shows that the relationship between Miaofeng Zen Master and the royal family, no, the relationship with Empress Dowager Li is really 'iron'!" The most intriguing thing is that Zen Master Miaofeng returned to Wutai Mountain after building Yongzuo Temple, and the emperor named him 'True Buddha', which seems to be the evaluation of his life's achievements by the royal family, I think it is actually a reward for him to complete the construction of Yongzuo Temple, of course, this must also contain the will of the Empress Dowager Li. ”

Li Ruhui didn't seem to listen to Zong Zhenlei's words, and her mind was still immersed in speculating on the source of the Buddha relics in the pagoda: "According to your statement, because of the name Xuanwen Pagoda, the Buddha relics are provided by the Empress Dowager Li?" I also think that there will be such a situation: Miaofeng Zen Master took the initiative to build a tower, and the Buddha relics in the tower were obtained by him, and others sponsored the funds for him to build the tower, including the Empress Dowager Li; In order to show respect for Empress Dowager Li's donation to Zuo Jin, he named the pagoda 'Xuanwen Pagoda'? ”

Speaking of this, she shook her head and denied herself: "No, no, no, no, in this way, if the Buddha relics here are obtained by Zen Master Miaofeng, but there is no clear record that he dedicated such valuable things to Empress Dowager Li, so quietly placing the Buddha relics obtained by Zen Master Miaofeng in the stupa named after Xuanwen is like putting your valuables on someone else's territory without telling others, does it make people feel a little unreasonable...... From this point of view, it is really possible that Empress Dowager Li provided the Buddha relics and built a pagoda here to worship. ”

Li Ruhui turned her head to look at Zong Zhenlei, but she didn't wait for him to speak, and then said: "From this point of view, building a tower here just fulfills the long-cherished wish of Empress Dowager Li, and also brings out the reason for her 'Zuojin'!" Hahaha, it's a big brain! I have another conjecture, maybe the Empress Dowager Li first had a Buddha relic, but in order to have a long-cherished wish, there is a stupa that was reported by the hand of the King of Jin and 'built' by the emperor. ”

Zong Zhenlei nodded, thinking and said: "It seems that the saying of 'King Jin please repair the big pagoda temple in the provincial capital' not only has the possibility that King Jin Mu built a temple here as a place to worship his ancestors, but also used the 'correction' of the Xuanwen pagoda to cover up something that is inconvenient to say, and this matter is probably around the Buddha's relics." ”

The two got into the car, Li Ruhui turned on the mobile phone and looked at it and said: "I forgot to tell you, about" skew "Correction", I found a source, in the Kangxi year "Yangqu County Chronicles", said that Miaofeng Zen Master built Xuanwen Pagoda is 'to Yongzuo Temple old tower micro side, more to build a new tower, so far the name of the Twin Pagoda Temple', that is to say, Miaofeng Zen Master saw the first tower slightly oblique, only to build the second tower. ”

Zong Zhenlei said: "The county chronicles of the Kangxi year? It was from the Qing Dynasty, who knows if this is the speculation of later generations about the reason why Miaofeng Zen Master built the tower, or the rumors deliberately left by the predecessors. ”

Li Ruhui said: "Yes, but this also shows that the Xuanwen Stupa that the person who is familiar with Yongzuo Temple said was built for the purpose of 'correcting the skew', is not groundless. ”

Zong Zhenlei knew in his heart that the difference between the correction and the southeast worship was naturally unrelated to the introduction of that person, because they were all derived from different sources in the past, but he couldn't blindly follow them when he did his own research, and he had to carefully analyze all kinds of statements.

His thinking did not stop at this question, but returned to the previous question that speculated that Empress Dowager Li would not let him say it: If it was indeed Empress Dowager Li who provided Buddha relics to this pagoda, but she was unwilling to let people point out this matter, what could be the reason? Or maybe the Buddha relics hidden here are so precious that they are worried about being stolen? Or is it the Buddha relics here that need to be deliberately hidden?

When he thought of the "source", he chuckled in his heart, and a voice asked in his heart, isn't this exactly the topic that the team is working on now?

The car drove out of the parking lot. Behind the shade of a tree not far away, a figure with a small head and sunglasses flashed by, as if he was making a phone call.