In August 1900, the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Beijing, and the Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an with Guangxu and the princes and ministers. On the one hand, she ordered the Qing army to kill the Boxers, and on the other hand, she ordered Li Hongzhang to sign a traitorous treaty for the ministers of peace to sign a traitorous treaty of land reparations and loss of power and humiliation of the country, which won the favor of foreigners. The city of Beijing calmed down for a while, and she was shocked for a while, and then set off to return to Beijing. On the way, she was on a whim, and wanted to take Guangxu and the ministers to the ancient city of Bianliang for a visit, and by the way, go to the ancient temple Xiangguo Temple to pay incense to the Buddha.

When the decree reached Kaifeng, the prefect of Kaifeng was in a hurry and immediately posted a notice: "When the saint arrives, all the streets that Luan drives through must be paved with red felt, and the doors must be hung with colors; The women, children, old and children of the whole city must go out of the city, with bright candles on their heads, and kneel on the side of the road to greet them; Regardless of whether they are rich or poor, they will pay two taels of silver per person according to their heads, in preparation for the gift of Lafayette Cixi. If there is any disobedience, severe punishment will be given. This time it can be miserable for the people of the city, all of them are bitter, so they have to go to Xiangguo Temple to worship the Buddha and pray for the Bodhisattva's blessing to avoid this disaster.

Zhiqing, the elder of Xiangguo Temple in Kaifeng, is in his fifties, chivalrous, resourceful, and has a plan: he asked the prefect to exempt the people of the city from two taels of silver each, and he was willing to offer the treasure of the temple to Cixi. The prefect listened to it and thought secretly: The people of Kaifeng can't eat enough, and they really can't squeeze much oil and water, so why not if Zhiqing can sacrifice the treasure of the temple? He pushed the boat down the river and agreed.

Two days later, Cixi's brigade entered Kaifeng City, and the people of the city knelt down to greet the roadside and said long live. After the prefect of Kaifeng greeted the car, the Queen Mother of the West took eight large sedan chairs and went straight to Xiangguo Temple, and the abbot of Zhiqing wore a red robe and led the monks in the temple to kneel at the mountain gate to greet them. Cixi got off the sedan chair, saw the monks kneeling on the ground to greet her, and hurriedly said: "My own children don't have to pay homage to the world, hurry up and reply!" "Why did Cixi call Zhiqing and the monks her own children? It turned out that she believed in Buddhism and claimed to be the Lafayette who was ordered by heaven, so she thought that going to Xiangguo Temple was equivalent to stringing relatives, and the monks of Buddhism were called their own children.

After Cixi sat down, Zhiqing hurriedly knelt down and chanted a Buddha name, and said: "Today Lafayette came to our temple, it is really full of brilliance, glorious Buddhism, and now the treasure of the town temple is offered, please Lafayette smile." ”

As soon as Cixi heard that Zhiqing was going to offer her a treasure, her wrinkled old face suddenly blossomed. The eunuch Li Lianying walked up to Zhiqing with a wave of dust and said, "The abbot is commendable, and the Queen Mother hereby gives permission, and quickly present the treasure." ”

Zhiqing listened and gestured to a monk beside him. After a while, I saw two sturdy monks carrying a red lacquered wooden barrel in front of the Empress Dowager Xi. Cixi was wondering when she saw that the treasure was so heavy, and saw Zhiqing walk up to Cixi and say: "Our temple has been open for more than 1,000 years, and Buddhism is prosperous. Now I will dedicate this treasure to the Queen Mother, and hope that Lafayette will cherish it. ”

Cixi was very happy when she heard this, and hurriedly said: "They are all disciples of Buddhism, how can I not cherish Lafayette?" Li Lianying said to Zhiqing: "Since it is a treasure dedicated to Lafayette, why not quickly uncover the yellow silk and let Lafayette see it?" Zhiqing stepped forward to uncover the yellow silk with both hands, and everyone looked at it, and it turned out to be a bucket full of loess, and a bunch of ginger buds grew in the soil, and they couldn't help but be dumbfounded. Cixi was immediately furious and shouted: "Zhiqing, what is this? Zhiqing knelt down in front of Cixi unhurriedly and said, "Lafayette! This is a barrel of ginger mountain. ”

The homonym of a bucket of ginger mountain is "to unify the country". Zhiqing offered this thing to Cixi, implying that she was ridiculed for listening to the government, monopolizing power, losing power and humiliating the country, and betraying the country for glory, which made the country shattered and the people miserable. The officials present couldn't imagine that the little abbot Zhiqing would dare to tease the Queen Mother like this, and they all secretly sweated for him. The prefect of Kaifeng was so frightened that his body was not possessed, and his whole body trembled like sifting chaff.

Although Cixi was annoyed in her heart, she forced a smile and said to Zhiqing: "Since the disciples have dedicated this treasure, I will accept it." However, this treasure is too heavy, far away from Beijing, inconvenient to carry, temporarily stay in your temple, and then send someone to transport it back to the capital in the future. Cixi said this, but her teeth squeaked, and Zhiqing saw that Cixi had murderous intent in her eyes but didn't pay attention to it.

Cixi came to the Daxiong Treasure Hall with the support of the left and right, and she looked up and saw a plaque hanging above the door of the main hall, which was inlaid with four gold powder characters of "Ancient Bianming Blue", her eyes lit up, and she thought: What a God-given opportunity! Today, the old lady let your bald donkey die right in front of you. Then he asked, "Where is Abbot Zhiqing?" Zhiqing hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "The poor monk is here, what does Lafayette command?" Cixi lowered her face, pointed to the four big characters on the plaque and asked, "Zhiqing, are you guilty?" As soon as Zhiqing looked at the plaque, he immediately understood what kind of medicine was sold in Cixi's gourd, but he pretended not to know and said: "The poor monk is shallow, please make it clear to Lafayette." Without waiting for Cixi to speak, Li Lianying knew the queen mother's intentions, and immediately stepped forward and shouted: "You bald donkey is so bold, you dare to make a mistake!" Come! Take down this bald donkey and ask Lafayette to send it down. ”

Why do you say that the words on the plaque are wrong? It turns out that the four words of "ancient Bianming Blue" on the plaque are the meaning of "Ancient City Bianliang Famous Temple", and the place where the monks live is called "Jialan" in the Buddhist scriptures, referred to as "Blue". According to the provisions of feudal etiquette, all the emperor's name is not allowed to be used by the people without authorization, and if it is the same as the name, it must be replaced by other words, which is called avoidance. Coincidentally, the word "blue" on the plaque of the Daxiong Treasure Hall is committing the name of Cixi, isn't this a mortal crime? At this time, Cixi walked in front of Zhiqing and said hypocritically: "The disciple is a person in Buddhism, I didn't want to blame you, but unfortunately the national law is intolerable, so the land is a holy place for Buddhism, the palace does not open the killing ring, give you self-determination, there is a release pool in front of the main hall, you can throw it into the pool!" ”

Zhiqing didn't answer, and after bowing to the sky in a whole robe, he walked to the edge of the release pond and jumped into the pool. Cixi saw Zhiqing's self-determination, smiled slightly, and was about to get up, when she suddenly saw a person crawling out of the release pool, Cixi thought it was a monster, and after a closer look, it turned out to be Zhiqing. She couldn't help but be furious and shouted: "Bold and wise, dare to disobey Yi's will!" Someone ...... "Before Cixi finished speaking, Zhiqing had already walked up to Cixi in a drenched manner and said, "How dare the poor monk disobey the order? The poor monk had just walked to the Nai He Bridge and was stopped by a person, but the poor monk had no choice but to return to the yang world. ”

Where did Cixi believe, she sneered and asked, "Who is so bold?" Dare to disobey the order of this palace. ”

Zhiqing replied: "Empress Dowager, this person is the first emperor Emperor Qianlong. The first emperor said that this plaque was written by him and had nothing to do with the poor monks, so the poor monks were called to return to the yang world. ”

Zhiqing said the truth, Cixi was also puzzled in her heart, and she hurriedly asked: "Since it was the question of the first emperor, why didn't the first emperor make the payment?" ”

Zhiqing replied: "I want to think that Qianlong was prosperous, the world was peaceful, the people were happy, and the courtiers obeyed. In order to observe the people's feelings, the first emperor passed through Kaifeng many times to come to the temple to pay incense. He saw that the incense of the temple was vigorous, and all the monks were at ease to chant the Buddha, and they came to the whim, so the royal pen inscribed the plaque. Just because the first emperor is a micro-service visit, it is inconvenient to leave a name. ”

Cixi heard that Zhiqing's words were well-founded, and couldn't help but be skeptical, and asked: "Since the first emperor is a micro-service visit, how can your temple know that it is his imperial pen?" ”

Zhiqing replied: "The temple did not know at first, but later, the first emperor mentioned this matter when he summoned the governor of Henan in the Taihe Palace, and the governor informed the temple and instructed the temple to hang this plaque on the Daxiong Treasure Hall in order to shine for a thousand years." Cixi turned her head and asked the prefect of Kaifeng: "Is this true?" The prefect replied tremblingly: "This plaque is indeed the title of the first emperor, and there is a record in the Kaifeng Mansion Chronicle. ”

Cixi felt bored, waved her hand and said, "No need, stand down!" Li Lianying saw that her master was in a dilemma, and hurriedly relieved the siege and said, "Don't mind, the abbot just now was just a joke on you." ”

Zhiqing continued: "Just now at the bridge, the first emperor also said that I don't know which unworthy descendant actually joked with the old ancestor, and he didn't even know the widow's royal pen. ”

Cixi knew that Zhiqing used the mouth of his ancestors to insult herself, but she didn't answer correctly, and she was embarrassed for a while.

Zhiqing thought to himself: Today, tearing Cixi's face in front of the courtiers and everyone can be regarded as a breath of relief for the people of Kaifeng, and the hatred in their hearts is calmed. Thinking of this, he said to Cixi: "Just now, the first emperor instructed the little monk to let the poor monk tell the old Buddha that it is not easy for the ancestors to start a business, and he gave the word 'blue' to the queen mother, asking you to respond to the mandate of heaven, obey the people's hearts, and unify the country." ”

Cixi knew that Zhiqing had something to say, so she had to go down the steps and said: "This palace will never live up to the hopes of the emperor, and today I will leave the imperial plaque to your temple, and the 'blue' word will be taken away from the palace, and I will always stay by my side to remember the first order." ”

Cixi said this in her mouth, but her heart was churning up and down like eating a fly. She never thought that her majestic queen mother would be teased by a little monk, she knew that this was the case, why bother to visit Bianjing? In this way, because Cixi took away the word "blue" on the plaque of the Daxiong Treasure Hall of Xiangguo Temple, so there are only three words left on the plaque so far.

This article tells the story of the monk Zhiqing who skillfully fought with the Empress Dowager Cixi in the ancient temple Xiangguo Temple, rescued the people and mocked Cixi.

The elder of Kaifeng Xiangguo Temple, who rescued the people, was chivalrous and resourceful, and he skillfully used strategies to help the people of the city, but also satirized the Empress Dowager Cixi, who was angry with the country and rescued himself.

In this story, Zhiqing cleverly uses the homonym of "Jiang" and "Jiang" to make the Empress Dowager Cixi speechless. It also shows us the great power of wisdom.

The Empress Dowager Cixi took advantage of the words "Gu Bian's name blue" to wait for an opportunity to take revenge, and when Zhiqing threw himself into the pool, he showed his wit and humor.

Cixi was so angry that she gritted her teeth, but she couldn't grasp any handles.

This tells us that when fighting against bad forces, we should not use brute force, but use our brains to strike at our opponents and protect ourselves.