Chapter Eighty-Nine: A Strange Landscape
Since then, Feng Xiaobao has become the face of Wu Zetian.
Wu Zetian disliked the name Feng Xiaobao very much, because she felt that this name was a little indecent, and she also disliked that the surname "Feng" was not a famous family, so she ordered Feng Xiaobao to change his surname to Xue and his name to Huaiyi.
Because Princess Taiping's former husband was named Xue Shao, and the Xue family was also a famous family, she wanted Xue Huaiyi and the Xue family to personally order the Xue family to call Xue Huaiyi as an uncle.
In this way, Wu Zetian felt that he could be with Xue Huaiyi justifiably, although he was only a face, but for the big family, the view of the family was very important.
As a result, this Feng Xiaobao has changed from a gangster who sells pills on the ground to Xue Huaiyi, the uncle of the famous Xue family!
From then on, he Xue Huaiyi can be said to have no worries about food and clothing, brocade clothes and jade food, silk and satin, and entered the circle of upper-class nobles, which can really be described as a step to the sky!
During the day, Wu Zetian was busy with political affairs. And Xue Huaiyi wandered around the palace idly, Wu Zetian felt that something was too unreasonable, so he ordered the Ministry of Industry to immediately renovate the White Horse Temple, because the White Horse Temple was in disrepair, some places have been damaged, so let him go there to be a host after the renovation of the White Horse Temple is completed!
White Horse Temple has a long history, it was founded in the Eastern Han Dynasty Yongping 11 years, is the introduction of Buddhism in that year, the first official temple was built, for those devout Buddhists are of great significance, they are known as the first temple in the Tang Dynasty!
Legend has it that the envoy of the Eastern Han Dynasty led a white horse to the west to learn the scriptures, and finally came back, the scriptures and Buddha statues were carried by the white horse, so it was called the White Horse Temple.
Hakubaji Temple has created many firsts!
The first extant Tang Dynasty Chinese translation of the Buddhist scripture "Forty-two Chapters Sutra" was completed in the White Horse Temple.
The first Chinese Buddhist precept of the Tang Dynasty, "Monk's Precepts", was also translated in the White Horse Temple.
In the fifth year of Cao Wei Ganlu, an ordination ceremony was held in the White Horse Temple, which was destined to be deeply engraved in the history of Buddhism, on this day, a monk named Zhu Shixing ascended the ordination altar according to the "Karma Law", knelt in front of the Buddha, and became the first monk in Han to officially receive bhikshu ordination!
The White Horse Temple covers a large area, with many temples and courtyards, and is one of the largest temples in the Tang Dynasty so far.
The whole temple has a regular layout and a simple style. Outside the temple gate, there are new stone archways, release ponds, stone arch bridges in the south of the square in recent years, and the left and right sides of it are green spaces.
No matter which monastery the Buddhists are, the first thing they do when they come to Luoyang City is to visit the White Horse Temple.
In other words, after receiving the order of the Queen of Heaven, the Ministry of Industry did not dare to slack off in the slightest, so it was processed and renovated overnight, and the damaged places in the entire White Horse Temple were repaired in fifteen days.
And when Xue Huaiyi heard that the Queen of Heaven was going to let him go to the White Horse Temple to become a monk and serve as the presiding officer there, he was a little reluctant at first, what kind of joke was he making! After becoming a monk, the precepts were strict, and he could not drink wine, eat meat, or even touch women.
Later, after Wu Zetian's repeated persuasion, he told him: "Actually, you are just making this monk just for show, just to show those ministers, lest they say that you are idle all day long and do not do your job." You are the host of this White Horse Temple, you don't have to abide by any rules and precepts, you don't have to chant sutras every day, you don't need to chant Buddha, you can eat when you should eat, you can drink when you should drink, you just serve as an identity there, this is also a way I came up with, if you want us to go on for a long time, go ahead!"
After Xue Huaiyi heard this, he no longer had any objections, and happily went to the White Horse Temple to take office.
In this way, a new host was stationed in the White Horse Temple, this person was named Xue Huaiyi, and it was said that he was the one who was the queen of heaven.
As a result, the entire upper echelons of Luoyang City and large and small forces spread all over the place.
Xue Huaiyi has never been short of money in his pocket since he fell in love with Wu Zetian, a super noblewoman, so he didn't need to turn into a relationship, and he really became an extremely comfortable wine and meat monk.
Soon after he came to the White Horse Temple, he first bought a white horse, and then recruited some scoundrels who had nothing to do at home, and asked these people to also become monks and become his attendants, and then bought a white horse for each of these people.
During the day, there was nothing to do, and a group of people followed Xue Huaiyi to ride a white horse around the street, going to the best restaurant when drinking, and going to the best restaurant when eating.
For a time, in Luoyang City, a group of bald monks, each holding a whip in their hands, hung a wine gourd in their waists, all riding white horses, wandering around all day long.
They ignore everyone's fingers and fingers, drink when they should drink, eat meat when they should eat meat, and flirt with women when they should molest, none of the official people dare to care about them, because they are not the people of the White Horse Temple, and the one who leads them is the person who is the queen of heaven, and they are impatient, who will run to touch their brows for no reason.
Since then, there has been a group of rogue monks in Luoyang City, they are nondescript, peculiar monk costumes, peculiar behaviors, extremely strange, and have become a strange scenery in Luoyang City.
Although they are a group of rogue monks, they never oppress the good, and sometimes they even flirt with the women of good families, but they are limited to whistling or giggling to say hello, and never do some transgressive actions.
Otherwise, the first person to severely punish them at that time may be Wu Zetian!
The only job that Xue Huaiyi has in mind is to enter the palace every night and sleep with Wu Zetian in his arms, anyway, as long as she is served comfortably, everything will be fine.
Over time, the citizens of Luoyang City also knew that the leading monk who rode a white horse all day long entered the palace every night, and slowly, these citizens also knew what the monk was doing in the palace, and they were very envious of him in their hearts, and some people secretly said in their hearts: "Hey! Why can't such a good thing fall on my head!"
Xue Huaiyi's name is becoming more and more prosperous, except for those first-grade prime ministers who don't like him, second-rank and below, including second-grade officials, have to politely call Master Xue when they see him.
And Xue Huaiyi was even more proud, this feeling of being high made him enjoy it very much, and he became more and more bold, any court official dared to be disrespectful to him, he would raise the horsewhip in his hand.
Therefore, some officials, some officials, saw him, like a mouse and a cat, and they were so frightened that they hid far away.
In addition to being afraid of the queen of heaven behind him, Xue Huaiyi is also an extremely fierce person, and he will whip people if he disagrees.
There is another thing that is strange, maybe Wu Zetian said something in Xue Huaiyi's ear, in short, Xue Huaiyi was extremely enthusiastic every time he saw Dugu Lantai, and there was some flattery and stammering, but it was not obvious, mainly because his attitude was very polite.
Like plum blossom inner guard, please collect: () plum blossom inner guard Jiangsu literature network update speed is the fastest.