The weather in early May was suddenly windy, dark clouds swept the future, bottomless darkness shrouded the entire plain, on the outskirts of Yecheng, Cheng'en Temple, a group of monks solemnly waited in front of the door, countless soldiers and horses poured into the temple, and guarded the places where people could stand.

The horse's hooves were like a torrential rain, the earth seemed to tremble, and a long procession revealed the true face of Lushan from afar. The iron-clad Praetorian Army rode on tall horses and guarded the two carriages in the center, surrounded like iron barrels.

Black sun, black horse, black armor, the former drives the war horse, and the latecomer only sees the predecessors and cannot see. Suddenly, the knights in the front row reined in their horses, and the horses neighed mournfully and stopped, and the ranks behind them also stopped. The procession was lined up directly in front of the temple gate, and with one hand lifting the curtain from the inside, a young man stepped out of the carriage and stepped on the shoulder of the sergeant and landed on the ground.

The wide robe is embroidered with gold moire on the bottom, and the jade belt around the waist is brilliant, and the emperor is undoubtedly coming.

The indifferent gaze swept in front of the monks, and the monks humbly lowered their heads, and the old presiding officer stepped forward, clasped his hands together and said: "Old man see Your Majesty's ......"

Gao Wei raised his hand from afar and said, "Don't be polite and flat......"

"Your Majesty Xie......" presided over the retreat behind Liu Taozhi, consciously gave way to the position in the center, and waited for the emperor to enter.

Gao Wei looked behind him, and the carriage behind him did not move at all, and the people inside had no intention of stepping out of the carriage. On the side of the carriage, a few little chamberlains were anxious, and they whispered something to the carriage, but there was still no movement for a long time.

Gao Wei frowned slightly: "Baoqing? After a moment of silence, the curtain finally opened, and a little girl wearing a conical hat and a silk cloth jumped directly from the car, causing the surrounding attendants to let out a suppressed exclamation......

With a cute little white face, she shook off her inner servant Gong'e and walked to Gao Wei's side, huffing and puffing, deliberately not looking at him. Gao Wei pretended to be angry, pinched her little ears like ingots with two fingers, lifted it, and said: "It's an important event later, don't patronize and mess around, what will you do later, what do you do, understand?" ”

"Oh, I know, sister-in-law told me, you told me again...... Don't pinch my ears, I'll not grow tall! Gao Yuanyuan shook her head and covered her ears to prevent Gao Wei from pinching.

Cushman and Wakefield laughed: "Who told you all this mess?" Obviously, it will not grow taller if you touch your head......" Gao Wei's left hand was placed on the top of her head again, touching it like a puppy. Baoqing rolled his eyes and glared at his brother, Gao Wei spread his hand, lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Go to worship the Bodhisattva in first, go through the motions, huh?" ……”

"I see......" she looked reluctant. How can you not notice that an important person is suddenly missing around you? She's having an awkward relationship with Cushman right now. Gao Wei asked the queen to play with Baoqing some of the princes' families of the same age in Yecheng, just to prevent Baoqing from making trouble with him when he remembered this stubble one day, but Baoqing still remembered it, and the queen talked about it, and even coaxed and deceived and educated, which finally made her stop.

But there is still resentment, these days there is no less Gao Wei look at the back of the head, a few days ago I told her to take her out of the palace to play, she also did not appreciate the boss, the mouth can be hung with oil bottles, and the temper is not small.

The gate of Cheng'en Temple is magnificent, and this façade alone is worth a lot of money, and Cheng'en Temple and White Horse Temple are not the most famous temples in Yecheng. Yecheng is the center of Buddhism in northern China when it is in the Northern Qi Dynasty, after Gao Yang established the Northern Qi Dynasty, he worships Buddhism extremely much, a large number of temples are built inside and outside the city, there are Miaosheng Temple, Qili Buddhist Temple, Daci Temple, Daxing Holy Temple in the city, there are famous temples such as Da Presiding Temple and Solemn Temple outside the city. The pomp is bigger than the other, the decoration is more luxurious than the other, and the main hall of some temples is exquisite in craftsmanship, even more than the imperial palace.

White Horse Temple and Cheng'en Temple are just one or two of many temples, and the reason why Gao Wei chose White Horse Temple and Cheng'en Temple is because the abbots of these two temples are virtuous monks and have a very good reputation in Yecheng.

Buddhism has not been passed down in China for a long time, but it is quite legendary. One said that in the first year of Emperor Yuanshou of the Han Dynasty, Yi Cun, the envoy of the King of the Great Moon Clan, dictated the "Futu Sutra" to Jing Lu, a Chinese doctoral disciple, and Buddhism began to be introduced into China. One said, during the Yongping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty dreamed that there was a god with a golden body and a light on the top, flying around the beam in front of the palace. The next day, when the ministers were inquired, the knowledgeable minister Fu Yi told him that he was a Buddha. So Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty sent an envoy to the west, found two monks, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty in order to welcome, built a Buddhist temple in Luoyang, called the White Horse Temple.

The Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang dynasties were the pinnacle of the development of Buddhism, and during the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, Buddhism was not introduced for a long time, and the area of circulation was limited, and there were few Buddhist believers. Later, due to the translation of a large number of Buddhist scriptures, Buddhism spread more and more widely, as well as the construction of many monasteries and the excavation of grottoes, Buddhism was more widely spread. Buddhism has become the first major religion and has developed many faithful believers, including Xiao Yan, the emperor of Xiao Liang.

In his later years, Xiao Yan suffered one blow after another, and began to believe in Buddhism, not only built more than 500 temples in the capital, but also almost became a monk several times. The top is good, and the bottom is effective. Buddhism flourished in the Southern Dynasties for a time, and even suppressed the Taoist Heavenly Master Sect

Not only the Southern Dynasties, the royal family and nobles of the Northern Dynasties were also generally superstitious about Buddhism, more than the Southern Dynasties, the Northern Wei Dynasty often built Buddhist temples, carved Buddhist caves, and its luxury was more than that of the Southern Dynasties.

The main reason why Buddhism has achieved such vigorous development is that the ideas of Buddhism cater to the thinking of the toiling people who want to be passive and avoid the world in troubled times, and the rulers also need such a tool to paralyze the minds of the people and facilitate manipulation.

Today, during the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou dynasties, there were 10,000 temples in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, more than 30,000 temples in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and nearly 4,000 temples in Guangye City. According to the statistics recorded by Zhaoxuan Temple, there are more than 2 million monks and nuns in Northern Qi, which is a very terrifying number! At this time, the Northern Qi Dynasty only had a population of more than 20 million, and nearly one-tenth of those who joined Buddhism! At this time, the development of the monastic community was unprecedented.

Of course, the rapid growth of Buddhism is also related to policy. At that time, regardless of the north and the south, the monks did not have to pay taxes, so the toiling people who were suffering from heavy taxes and high pressure took refuge in Shamen, and in the Northern Dynasties, the monks were a type of people who were at large and unpunished, and often, when people committed serious crimes, they would hide in the temple and not be subject to the law.

Therefore, in this era, the temple has a lofty status but is transcendent, holding a large number of people and land in its hands but never paying taxes, and accepting the offerings of believers from all over the world, like a gold-swallowing beast, only entering and not leaving...... If tens of thousands of temples are also under control one day, then the imperial court can increase a large amount of taxes, how can Gao Wei let them go?

Gao Wei was respectfully invited into the temple by the monks, and what caught his eye was like a large hall with a large scale, a grand space, and a cascading arch. With the tower as the center, the cloisters on all sides, the north and south halls, the atmosphere is magnificent.

There are many flying patterns on the walls of the inner hall, which are lifelike, graceful and luxurious, and the wrinkles of the clothes are also smooth lines and rich in rhythmic changes. The gods in each of the texts are described, and they are colorful, bright and generous. I don't know how much it costs to use this material alone.

"Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasties, how many buildings are ...... in the smoke and rain" Gao Wei looked around, sighed softly and leisurely, looking at this mural, you can feel a legacy of the Wei and Jin dynasties, which is the evolution of the times and the accumulation of years...... It's just that extravagance is a little too much!

As he spoke, he pulled the corners of his mouth with a wry smile, on the number of temples and the number of monks, the Northern Qi Dynasty was eight or nine times that of the Southern Dynasty, and it was even better, and he laughed ten steps in a hundred steps? He withdrew his gaze and looked at it again.

The abbot's ears moved, but there was no expression on his face, he held Baoqing's hand in his hand, looked at it carefully, and finally said: "Your Highness has a relationship with Buddhism, why don......'t you enter Buddhism?" Gao Wei directly rejected him, how could he agree to this? Besides, there is no such part in the content that was told to them before...... What does this host want to do?

Gao Wei couldn't help but be vigilant, the abbot looked at it again and again, and said again and again, "Your Highness had a rough and tumble early years, and only by being taken care of by His Majesty can he grow up safely, and the time and luck are also ...... The poor monk looked at her palmistry, she should have had an illness before, but now she is safe and sound, this is the blessing of your majesty's atmospheric luck......"

The old monk folded his hands and said to Gao Wei seriously: "Your Highness's fate was sad in the past, with ups and downs, and you need to take good care of it, otherwise it will be easy to die, and she ......" The old monk glanced at Baoqing deeply, "The people around him are also ......."

"The old man suggested that she should not leave the cabinet until she was twenty years old, and that before that, she would lead the practice of Buddhism, which might be able to cleanse her body of bad luck ......"

"No contact with outsiders?" Cushman asked.

"No, no, no, as long as she recites the scriptures and meditates every day, she will naturally be safe...... the old monk quickly explained.

This is the original track...... Although Gao Wei never asked Baoqing to lead the practice, in general, the results were what he wanted. Then, if something goes wrong, it won't make Cushman feel uncomfortable.

Gao Wei thanked the abbot, rewarded a string of rosewood prayer beads, asked the old monk to give Baoqing the Dharma name, ordered Huigen, and left Cheng'en Temple in a car.

Before leaving, the old monk said a very strange thing: "Your Majesty also has great luck, and there are only three people in the world who have such luck as Your Majesty...... One day, Your Majesty will be able to call your ancestors ancestors...... Build an immortal meritorious ......"

Gao Wei said in his heart that this old monk can really say kind words, with a smile on his face, thank the old monk for his auspicious words, and finally heard the old monk sigh and said: "The old monk has nothing else to ask for, and what he does is to ask His Majesty for one thing......

Gao Wei paused and asked what was the matter, and the old monk said:

"The poor monk is not for himself, the poor monk will not live for this year...... The poor monk is for the Buddhism of the world......

Over the years, they have done too much of a thing, they are no longer Buddhists, and they have gone astray, but they ...... After all, it is still a living human life......

Save someone's life, and win the seventh-level floating slaughter...... The old monk had no choice but to ask His Majesty for a favor......

Sometime...... Please don't kill too ......much, Your Majesty! ”

Gao Wei's gaze was firmly nailed to the old monk, scrutinizing, killing, and so on, and the old monk was always humble like a tree, peaceful like a pool of water, so that Gao Wei couldn't get angry.

After a long time, Fang Cai said: "I am not a person who likes to raise butcher knives without permission, as long as the Shamen monks keep their duty, they will not be ...... sword."

The old monk was satisfied, folded his hands, and said: "Your Majesty's golden mouth, the old monk has thanked Your Majesty for ......"