Chapter 395: Theravada Buddhism II
readx;? The largest painting boat on the Qinhuai River, 'Cuiliufang', is known as the best service in Qinhuai River, the most beautiful girl, the largest wealth, the largest place to eat, drink and have fun, a good place for one-stop living, wearing a purple brocade robe, blowing his nose and staring, standing in front of a big table gambling on Tianjiupai, and gambling with more than a dozen giant merchants in Yingtianfu, it can be seen that his luck is not good, a bunch of silver tickets will be lost in a while, and suddenly wah, wow, wow Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Bastard yolk, you must have a ghost in the cards here, why did I take thirteen hands in a row, ten deflated?...... Damn it, don't let grandpa find out what's wrong with you, or I'll copy your painting boat, and let you all go to the northwest to climb your relatives with those stinky barbarians. Yuan Sheng, whose face was flushed, touched his body angrily for a long time, and suddenly turned around and shouted: "Qinglong gave me silver to grandpa." ā
Qinglong walked over with an ugly face, and muttered in a low voice: "Lord, you have lost more than three million taels today, and it is not appropriate to ask Xu Qing for silver again, right?
Yuan Sheng's eyes were grunting for a long time, and he felt embarrassed to bully Xu Qing again, and was about to think of some crooked ways to get some gold, silver and jewelry, when a plain beauty slowly walked over and laughed softly: "Lord Yuan lost again? You can't go on like this, you can lose a full 20 million taels in half a month." Let's listen to the slave's tunes to dispel the anger. ā
This beauty smiled skillfully and pulled Yuan Sheng away, but it was this 'Cuiliu Fang', the old bustard was afraid that Yuan Sheng would lose miserably and do something that had no royal law, and everyone on this painting boat knew that Yuan Sheng had the background of Jinyiwei, although he didn't know what the relationship between his Jinyiwei leader Lu Feng was, but it looked at the three most ferocious evils in Jinyiwei: Lu Feng and Lin Shi were polite to him everywhere, and they knew that it was best not to provoke him and be angry.
This plain-clothed girl is a red card that Yuan Sheng has been obsessed with recently, and has the title of 'Quyi' on the Qinhuai River, the old bustard saw that Yuan Sheng lost again, and hurriedly called her to appease Yuan Sheng, saving him from doing anything without five laws.
Yuan Sheng's handsome face hesitated for a while, holding the beautiful woman's hand and looking at the dominoes on the table, he suddenly gritted his teeth and roared loudly: "Damn it, I'll leave if I bet ten more hands." He strode back to the table and looked at the dozen or so merchants. He smiled cruelly: "How about this saint who gambles ten more hands if he loses and leaves today?"
Just as the very rich giant merchant in Zhuangdi smiled and said: "Lord Yuan, you still want to continue to gamble, we are welcome, but do you still have silver?" These rich businessmen are very happy that Yuan Sheng's Ming Tombs have lost more than 20 million yuan in a few days, hehe, who can not like who he is, as long as he gives silver? Of course, this person has also lost too outrageously, more than 20 million taels of silver, if this figure is said, I am afraid that even the Hubu Shangshu will be scared to death, and now the total tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty is only 5 million taels a year, right?
Yuan Sheng's face was gloomy and said ruthlessly: "Isn't this silver?" He casually sucked the four treasures of the study from the case next to him, and wrote a few documents casually. laughed and said: "With this party to collect, immediately grant the position of Jinyi Wei Qianhu, a document, the reserve price is one million taels of silver, you can make the price, the one with the highest price will get it...... Jinyi Wei Qianhu, you see, it's very majestic. Don't miss this opportunity. ā
The giant businessmen looked at each other and couldn't say anything unexpected, if they got a real position of Jinyi Wei Qianhu, not to mention one million, even if it was two million or three million, it would be cost-effective, but this Yuan Lord wrote a few documents casually, and it was accurate? This is an open trading official, if this is passed on to the ears of the supervising imperial history, I am afraid that even Lu Feng will have a big obstacle, right?
The earth saint ignored what they were thinking, and casually wrote several more documents, shouting aggressively: "Ah, in addition to the official position of Jinyiwei, here are five thousand households...... Well, there are still official positions in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Cities that can be sold, do you want to be a general or a guerrilla officer?...... Eh, Lu Feng, that guy seems to have a large part of the power in the six departments, well, there is no way to do it, but it is still very easy to engage in the position of Helang. ā
The evil light flashed in his eyes, and Yuan Shengyin said with a smile: "I also met with Chief Manager Lu in the palace a few days ago, well, that little old man is very suitable for my appetite, he also said that as long as I have orders, I will definitely be able to help me handle those things, hmph, do you have any nephews who want to serve in the palace? The generals of the forbidden army are 11 million leaders, the leaders of the guards are 2 million, and the palace stewards and eunuchs are 3 million, how about 3 million?"
The giant businessmen were completely dumbfounded, this is really an open sale of officials! How could the adults in this place dare to be so unkind to Lu Feng and the old eunuch Lu? Well, the official positions of the forbidden army and the forbidden guards are very good, and they may be able to get the moon first, and the benefits of the morning emperor will be boundless, but the position of the superintendent of the solar power supervisor must be that no one wants to go, so that's it.
A giant businessman sitting in the corner of the stage turned slightly pale, and applauded lightly and shouted, "Everyone, we have something to discuss." How about you please avoid suspicion? Today's situation will always be repaid everywhere in the future. The other giant merchants also discussed, and very unceremoniously drove out several other guests at the gambling table in the cabin, Yuan Sheng looked at the actions of these giant merchants with a smile, and kept writing documents one by one, this is all money.
One ridiculous night, Yuan Sheng even asked a few of them to testify in person, forcing them to agree to give the corresponding official positions to those giant businessmen who paid for them, and a few pieces of broken paper in exchange for a huge amount of silver taels that ordinary people could not earn in hundreds of lifetimes, and let Yuan Sheng have a gambling book in his hands.
In the next few days, Di Sheng simply used a little spell on the gambling table, it was really a big kill, and I didn't know how much gold, silver and jewelry he won, but on the fourth day, he gave up the means of cheating, and his hands stinked to death, he was clean and slippery, extremely embarrassed, and escaped from the 'Cuiliu Fang' with the four-phase general, standing on the bank of the Qinhuai River in the thin morning mist, Yuan Sheng** pointed at the 'Cuiliu Fang' with an embarrassed face and scolded: "You must be troublesome in the dice, otherwise how could Ben Sheng lose so much?"
He exercised that he wanted to press the saber on his waist, but when he pressed it empty, he suddenly realized that his saber had already been converted into silver taels last night, and he lost on the gambling table, and the embarrassed Yuan Sheng looked at the four-phase warrior who only had one underwear left on his body, shook his head helplessly, and forced a smile: "Ha, only irregular people have misses, cheating when gambling money, that is the most boring, but my luck is indeed a little worse, Shi Chengjin, you can't blame me, right?"
The four of them, the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird, and the Xuanwu were stunned, and they followed the body of the Yuan Sheng, and the ghost of the line blended into the thin morning mist, and the quiet morning was suddenly shattered by a terrible howl: "The boss of the thief, where should I go, and I can get some silver taels?" This voice was like a wolf howl, which caused the people who got up early to say one by one: "Look at another loser, he has lost all his property, alas, we have to teach our own children to learn well, we can't learn from these gentlemen." ā
As soon as the soldiers of the Tianfu City Defense Army opened the city gate, they saw a cloud of wind shadows rushing in, and these soldiers had not yet figured out the clues, and the wind shadows had already rushed in with a screaming voice: "Monk Daoyan, Monk Daoyan, you get out of this saint...... Silver, silver, silver, ......" Those city guards all looked strange and wondered to the extreme: "Who is this person? ā
On the roof of a restaurant on the side of the road, Shui Yuanzi had a mouthful, a pin, a dog's leg, squinting at Yuansheng and rushing over with a four-phase general. "Hehe, this guy is cultivating magic skills in his bones, but his appearance seems to be a fairy spirit. Sure enough, it's a powerful person...... Eh, isn't Monk Daoyan his dog's leg? Why does he still want Monk Daoyan to ask for money?" Tilting his head and thinking for a long time, Shui Yuanzi jumped up violently, patted his ass with greasy hands, and said lazily: "Okay, what do I care about your affairs? As long as you are not in Yingtianfu, I will not provoke you, otherwise I will hum...... Grandpa, the plotter behind the scenes, I just learned it.
Here, Shui Yuanzi has just turned into a path of water vapor and melted into the morning mist, and a few tall and ruddy-faced white-eyed old monks over there have slowly entered the city gate, and the four old monks are the four old monks who followed Zhang Sanfeng and the dust-free old nun in Qilian Mountain last time. There are also five monks who are the presiding monks of the 'Fangcun Zen Temple', dragons, tigers, leopards, lions, elephants, five old monks, a total of nine old monks, slowly walked into the city gate, looked up emptyly, and glanced towards the place where Shui Yuanzi disappeared: "Amitabha Buddha is so pure and full of fairy spirits, but there are masters in this Ying Tianfu." ā
The lion monk snorted coldly: "Then we don't want to waste time in Ying Tianfu! This is like an innate spirit body, a first-class figure of immortals, with him sitting within a radius of thousands of miles, I am afraid that demons and monsters will not be able to get close, we better go to the remnants of the Blood God Sect first!"
An unknown old monk nodded slowly: "It's okay, but I don't know what progress has been made on the side of the Dust Removal Daoist, this Blood God Sect seems to have completely eradicated the power of the Blood God Sect on the surface, but there seems to be someone manipulating it behind it, I won't be at ease if I don't wait to find out."
The dragon monk nodded, turned around and left: "Then let's go east along the Yangtze River, it seems that the richer the place, the greater the power of the Blood God Sect, which is also a clue...... It turned out that I heard that Dao Yan, a young monk who should be extended in Tianfu, is also a profound Buddhist monk, and a Taoist monk still wants to take the opportunity to find him, and now he can only wait for the next time. Several old monks laughed gently, chanted a Buddha horn in unison, and walked out of the city with a shake of their sleeves, and those city gate officials were so intimidated by their demeanor that they forgot to ask them to collect the gate tax.
At this time, there was a high monk in the mouth of the dragon monk in the Shaobao Mansion, and the monk Dao Yan was lying on the ground with an embarrassed face, and the surviving Yuan Sheng, who was sitting high in the middle of the hall, was sitting on the master's chair in the middle of the hall, and the angry Yuan Sheng listened to Yuan Sheng's continuous scolding: "What? No money? You are the Shao Bao, the Shao Bao of the dynasty, Zhu Di, the emperor's most trusted courtier, the most powerful courtier in Chaoyan, you actually don't have any silver? Hmm? You took a hundred thousand taels of silver out of the ins and outs, and you couldn't call Huazi? Why don't you learn to learn Lu Feng? Look at how good he is, I said I asked for gambling money, Xu Qingzhou, that day, a few little dolls honored this saint tens of millions of taels of silver, why are you so useless?"
Monk Daoyan Qi Festival himself is the young protector of the dynasty, although there are a lot of bribes for collecting land, but most of the silver is spent, so many monks under his own door, they don't need to spend money to eat, drink, Lazar, and go to various places to preach and preach? Especially since he has to buy several other big courtiers, this is also dead money, he is not like Lu Feng, who unscrupulously looted the people's fat and anointed land, his monk Daoyan is indeed not as rich as Lu Feng's net worth.
In desperation, he could only say very sneeringly: "Lord, this Dao Yan is really incompetent, but this matter of silver is no wonder Dao Yan! Dao Yan has no chance to take too many bribes, unlike Lord Na Lu, who casually wiped out a wealthy businessman, that is, the income of millions of taels of silver, and besides, his Jinyi Wei occupies millions of acres of fertile land outside Yingtian City, and his annual income is amazing, he is really a first-class rich man in the dynasty." ā
Yuan Sheng frowned and snorted coldly: "I don't care so much about you, in short, this saint has a face and lives in Yingtian Mansion, is this to help you......, understand? Lu Feng, that kid is very filial and capable, gave me so much silver, but I was embarrassed to ask him for money again, you are my confidant, then you will be responsible for my food, drink and entertainment expenses in the future, I don't care what means you use, even if it is to rob the silver treasury of the household department, in short, I want silver. ā
Monk Daoyan looked at Yuan Sheng dumbfounded, his head buzzing, and he really couldn't tell the truth.
Qinglong saw that the ship of Monk Daoyan looked pitiful, and couldn't help but speak: "Lord, you can't blame Monk Daoyan, he is just a young protector, and now it is not easy to save ten thousand taels of silver...... Well, it's really hard to ask him to pay a sudden amount of money now, so why don't we think about it else?"
Yuan Sheng glanced at Qinglong coldly, and said coldly: "What other ideas?What kind of method?Sell the four of you to the Qinglou and let you laugh and receive customers?Or let the monk Daoyan build a temple by himself and collect incense money?...... How much incense money does the largest temple in Tianfu spend a year?"
Monk Daoyan didn't know his intentions, and hurriedly said carefully: "I'm afraid there are a lot? Those believers are very generous when they make offerings to the Buddha." ā
Yuan Sheng clapped his palms and laughed, jumping up excitedly: "That's it, then let's do it, why can Jinyiwei have so much silver? They have power in their hands, although your monk Daoyan does not have their power to raid the family and exterminate the clan, but after all, you also have your own advantages, you collect more believers among the courtiers and rich merchants, and the large sum of silver that fascinates them in a daze is not like a lake into your purse?
He was so excited that he walked around the hall and said with a smile: "Well, the slogan of Buddhism is to save the people of the world, but the clams can't even save themselves, what else can the people of the world say...... Theravada Buddhism says that it is not good to save yourself, and you only care about yourself, how can those believers be willing to give you the silver?...... Well, Daoyan, you just come to a Theravada Buddhism, and at the same time educate the people of the world and save yourself, but this slogan says: "Well, didn't you preach before, saying that Buddhists can't just take care of Qing cultivation and ignore the affairs of the world, so they took refuge in the Yanwang Mansion? The teachings of Theravada Buddhism that I have brought out to you are exactly in line with what you said before, as long as I am fascinated by a few believers, let them give them silver, if you can make the Manchu Dynasty civil and military capital your disciples, I will give you a great deal of success in the future, understand?" When we have a big event, I won't forget you when we talk about meritorious deeds. ā
Yuan Sheng let out a long smile that shook the sky, waved his sleeves and walked to the door triumphantly, of course, he did not forget to bring the silver ticket of 100,000 taels.
Monk Daoyan knelt on the ground, staring blankly at the back of Yuan Sheng, the ghost fetus full of stomachs, he just knelt on the ground, frowned, and thought: "Is this lord crazy really wants silver taels, or does he have other intentions?...... If I really came up with this Theravada Buddhism, and made the Manchu Dynasty civil and military become my believers, this gold and silver jewelry would be indispensable, but...... Could it be that the real purpose of his old man is not in this silver?"
"Lord Yuan Sheng looks crazy, but he is as gloomy as that Lu Feng, his heart is extremely gloomy, and he can't see through it, this kind of multiplicative Buddhism is just for the silver taels? ā
Monk Daoyan slowly got up, patted his shirt lightly, and suddenly sneered: "That's it, I was originally ready to preach my Buddhist essence in the Heavenly Mansion, but I was afraid that those Taoist people would be embarrassed by me, so I paused, since now the Lord said so...... It's no wonder that I'm going to be embarrassed, and if those offerings are in trouble, I'll ask the Lord to kill them. ā
Shaking his sleeves triumphantly, the monk Daoyan scolded loudly: "Come on, take my post to the six books, and say that tonight I will hold a banquet for the teacher in the mansion to entertain them." ā
The footsteps were tight, and countless black-clothed monks moved quickly......