Chapter 106: Journey to the West Begins
However, it is said that thirteen years after Li Shimin ascended the throne, the Tang Dynasty became more and more prosperous, and the wind and rain in the territory were smooth.
The prestige of the Tang Dynasty in the East is not only throughout the entire Southern Ganbu Prefecture, but also those small countries in Xiniuhe Prefecture have also heard that the Tang Dynasty can be called prestigious, and every year there are envoys from all small countries who come to the Tang Dynasty to meet the Tang Emperor Li Shimin.
Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, has also become a world-famous holy city, and every day merchants from other countries come to look for business opportunities and sell items that the Tang Dynasty did not have.
But it is said that on the West Gate Street of Chang'an City, there is a Taoist priest named Yuan Shoucheng, who is the uncle of Yuan Tiangang, the Qin Heavenly Supervisor, who is proficient in divination, and sets up a stall there every day to earn some silver taels.
From time to time, there is a fisherman surnamed Zhang who goes to the Jing River to fish every day, and there must be a bumper harvest every day, because he has to find this Yuan Shoucheng every day to tell the hexagram, and calculate where to fish will be a bumper harvest.
When the Dragon King of Jinghe learned about it, he was furious and said secretly: According to his calculations, no matter how many water tribes there are in my river, there are not enough for those fishermen to catch, and this fortune teller is really hateful.
So he disguised himself as a scribe and went to smash Yuan Shoucheng's field, and he came to Yuan Shoucheng's hexagram booth to ask Yuan Shoucheng to tell the fortune and ask him to tell if there would be rain tomorrow, and if so, how much rain would it take?
And made a bet with Yuan Shoucheng, if Yuan Shoucheng was right, the Dragon King would offer fifty taels of gold, if it was not right, he was not allowed to set up a stall to tell the hexagram.
Yuan Shoucheng calculated that there would be rain tomorrow, and he would get a total of three feet three inches and forty-eight points of rain.
The Dragon King of Jinghe didn't believe it, but soon after returning to the Dragon Palace, a messenger from the Heavenly Court came to announce that it would rain tomorrow, and the size of the rain was the same as Yuan Shoucheng's calculation.
The Dragon King of Jinghe was afraid of losing the bet, so he changed the points of rain without authorization.
After the rain the next day, he went to Yuan Shoucheng to settle accounts, but Yuan Shoucheng revealed his identity as the Dragon King of Jinghe, and told him that he had changed the amount of rain stipulated by the holy decree without authorization, and had violated the rules of heaven, and a catastrophe was about to come.
The Dragon King of Jinghe was frightened, and immediately respectfully asked Yuan Shoucheng for advice on how to save his life.
Yuan Shoucheng pointed out that the supervisor who beheaded the Dragon King of Jinghe was Cao Weizheng, and asked the Dragon King of Jinghe to ask for help from Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty.
The Dragon King of Jinghe went as he said, and sure enough, he got Li Shimin's promise.
The next day, the Dragon King of Jinghe was escorted to the Dragon Cutting Platform by the Heavenly Soldiers, and the Heavenly Court ordered Wei Zheng to be beheaded, and Li Shimin was playing chess with Wei Zheng, wanting to drag Wei Zheng down.
But he didn't want Wei Zheng to fall asleep, and in his sleep, his soul traveled and beheaded the Dragon King of Jinghe.
The Dragon King of Jinghe got Li Shimin's promise, and thought that he could escape with his life, but he still died, and the Dragon King of Jinghe, who was resentful in his heart, entangled Li Shimin day and night, looking for him to ask for his life.
Li Shimin was frightened by the Dragon King of Jinghe, and his soul flew into the underworld.
was fooled by the judge of the underworld, the king of Hades, and even coaxed and frightened, making him believe that he had a deep karma, believed in karma, and only by doing good deeds and respecting Buddhism could he eliminate disasters, surpass the soul, and protect the peace of the Tang Dynasty.
After his resurrection, Li Shimin immediately granted amnesty to the world, freed many prisoners and elderly women in the palace, and let them return home to reunite with their families.
He also came out of the emperor's list, convened virtuous monks, and held a water and land conference, wanting to surpass the soul and keep the peace of the Tang Dynasty.
Master Xuanzang was elected, his name was Chen Xuanzang, his grandfather was Yin Kaishan, the prime minister of the dynasty, and his father Chen Guangrui was once the champion, and the official worshiped Wenyuange University Scholar. He did not love glory and wealth, he devoted himself to practicing Buddhism, and grew up in the temple since he was a child.
Tang Taizong was very happy when he learned about the Tao, and ordered him to be recruited into Chang'an to preside over the water and land conference.
Xia Bing, who has been monitoring the entire Chang'an, knows that Buddhism has staged many funny scenes after a series of plans, and finally leads to their ultimate goal, and Guanyin must be on the way to Chang'an.
Master Xuanzang, after receiving the decree, went to Chang'an Huasheng Temple, gathered many monks, selected a total of 1,200 monks, selected the auspicious day of the zodiac, and prepared for the 49th day of the water and land conference.
On the night when Master Xuanzang, the reincarnation of the golden cicada, had just stayed in the Huasheng Temple, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, Xia Bing came.
Directly punched the twenty-four Ten Thousand Puppet God Nails into Xuanzang's sea of knowledge.
I thought that this Chen Xuanzang's physical body was mortal, and he had no cultivation at all, but he was just a Buddha qi, which should be easy to control.
Who knew that when Xia Bing's Ten Thousand Puppet Divine Nails invaded Chen Xuanzang's sea of knowledge, it caused strong resistance, and Xia Bing directly entered Xuanzang's sea of knowledge with supreme divine thoughts, only to see a six-winged golden cicada flapping its wings viciously, knocking back one by one ten thousand puppet god nails.
This six-winged golden cicada is the original body of the golden cicada, worship in Duobao Rulai sat down, as a second apprentice, although the body of the Buddha is full of light but can not hide its ferocity.
After all, the six-winged golden cicada is an ancient ferocious insect, extremely vicious, although it has been influenced by Buddhism for many years, but it is still fierce and untamable, this golden cicada already has the cultivation of Da Luo Jin Xian, has been sleeping in Xuanzang Zhihai, waiting for the arrival of the westward journey, at this time Xia Bing's ten thousand puppet gods nailed into the sea of knowledge, so that he felt the crisis of life and death, and naturally tried his best to resist.
Although the resistance of the golden cicada surprised Xia Bing a little, this resistance was still futile, ignoring the roar made by the golden cicada, Xia Bing directly imprisoned the vicious six-winged golden cicada with supreme divine thoughts, and the twenty-four ten thousand puppet god nails directly submerged into its body, completely controlling him.
Since then, the four of them have completely fallen into the hands of Xia Bing and become the living puppets of Xia Bing.
On the auspicious day of the zodiac, the water and land conference was held for one day, and Tang Emperor Li Shimin saw that Xuanzang's robe was just an ordinary robe, and there was no tin staff, so he wanted to give Master Xuanzang a set of robes and tin staff, but there was no such treasure in the palace.
At this time, on the street outside the square where the land and water conference was held, there was a loud shouting of selling, and it was the robes and tin rods that were sold.
I saw two monks, one old and one young, selling robes outside the door, these two monks were the Guanyin of Nasao Bao and her little white-faced disciple Muzha.
Prime Minister Xiao Xing stepped forward and asked, "The monk, how much is your robe?"
Guanyin replied, "Five thousand taels for a robe and two thousand taels for a tin staff." ”
Prime Minister Xiao Xing said angrily: "You monk, Hugh is talking nonsense, what kind of treasure is your robe, you can still live forever when you wear it, and you dare to sell it at such a high price?"
Tang Emperor Li Shimin, who was watching from the side, also looked at the old monk Guanyin with great curiosity, wanting to hear what he said, Guanyin was not afraid of the Tang Emperor and the guards.
He replied with his head held high: "There are advantages and disadvantages to my robe, there are places where money is needed, and there are places where money is not needed." ”
Xiao Xing said: "What's the benefit? What's not good?"
Guanyin said: "If you wear my robe, you will not sink into hell, you will not suffer from vicious suffering, and you will not encounter the den of tigers and wolves, it will be good; if you are a foolish monk who is greedy for lust and pleasure, a monk who does not fast or fast, and an ordinary man who slanders the scriptures and slanders the Buddha, it is difficult to see the face of my robe, this is not good." ”
Xiao Xing asked again: "What do you want money? What do you want money?"
Guanyin replied: "If you don't follow the Dharma, don't respect the Three Jewels, and forcibly buy a robe and a tin staff, you will definitely sell him for 7,000 taels, and this is asking for money; if you respect the Three Jewels, rejoice in the goodness, take refuge in my Buddha, and can afford it, I will give him the robe and tin rod, and make a good relationship with me, this is not money." ”
After hearing this, Tang Emperor Li Shimin said to Master Xuanzang beside him: "Master, wait for me to buy this robe and tin staff and give them to the Master." ”
After speaking, without waiting for Xuanzang to excuse himself, he said to the old monk who Guanyin had turned into: "The old mage seems to be a virtuous monk, and I want to buy this robe and tin staff, give it to this master Xuanzang, and ask the old master to complete it." ”
Seeing this, the old monk of Guanyin said: "This monk is indeed a great virtue of my Buddhism, and he can naturally enjoy my Buddha treasure, and the poor monk will give you this robe and tin staff." ”
After speaking, he stuffed the robe and tin staff to Xuanzang, and without waiting for Xuanzang to excuse himself, he said: "Monk, what you just talked about on the high platform is Hinayana Buddhism, can you talk about Mahayana Buddhism?"
Xuanzang heard this and hurriedly asked, "Old Master, the disciples are all learning Hinayana Buddhism, but they don't know how Mahayana Buddhism is?"
Guanyin said: "Your Hinayana teachings cannot exalt the dead, but only the vulgar and light. I have the Mahayana Buddhism Sanzang, which can transcend the deceased and ascend to heaven, overcome the suffering of others, cultivate immeasurable longevity, and be able to do nothing and come and go. ”
Xuanzang heard this and hurriedly bowed down and said, "I also asked the old master to teach his disciples Mahayana Buddhism." ”
Guanyin shook his head and said, "Mahayana Buddhism is no longer here. ”
Li Shimin, who was on the side, hurriedly asked, "Where is that?"
Guanyin smiled and said: "In the Daxi Tianzhu National Da Lei Yin Temple, where my Buddha came, I can solve the knot of a hundred grievances and eliminate the disaster without reason." ”
After speaking, Guanyin showed his true body, only to see the air glow ten thousand ways, Rui Qi strips, Guanyin sat on the white lotus platform in white, holding the jade bottle, but inside was a Bodhi branch, full of sacredness, Saobao, Mu Zha stood proudly aside, bullish and angry.
The Xuanfu Master and Li Shimin and other civil and military officials below all knelt on the ground and shouted: "Nan Wu Guanyin Bodhisattva!"
That Guanyin said to Li Shimin below very profoundly: "The Tang Dynasty is the ceremony, and there is a wonderful text in the West." The journey is 108,000 miles, and the Mahayana is diligent. This scripture returns to the kingdom and can surpass the ghosts. If there are those who are willing to go, seek the golden body of righteousness. ”
Then she waved the Bodhi branch in the net bottle lightly, and suddenly the sky began to snow, originally if she used her original willow branch to wave like this, it would be more sassy and more sassy, but now it is replaced by a Bodhi branch, which looks a little nondescript.
Fortunately, the civil and military officials and many monks below did not notice this.
Tang Emperor Li Shimin asked Wu Daozi to paint Guanyin, hang it in the palace, and visit it every day.
After that, he had to send someone to the West Heaven Da Lei Yin Temple to seek the three Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism, at this time Master Xuanzang took the initiative to ask for his life, Li Shimin saw the great joy, took Master Xuanzang and worshipped the handle, gave Chen Xuanzang the name of a royal brother, and named him Master Sanzang, also called Tang Sanzang.
When he practiced for Tang Sanzang in the end, he also added a little dust to Tang Sanzang's wine glass, and said to Tang Sanzang: "Brother Yu drank this wine, remember that he would rather love his hometown and not love his hometown with ten thousand taels of gold." ”
Tang Sanzang understood what Li Shimin meant, burst into tears of excitement, and led a group of servants to embark on the road of learning scriptures under Li Shimin's silent gaze.
Seeing this, Xia Bing knew that everything was fine, as long as he made sure that he was not discovered by those saints and learned from the ten thousand puppet gods of the four people, and that they could successfully reach the West Heaven and retrieve the true scriptures back to the eastern soil.