Mo Yan did not rush to the Temple of Dawn to find Kun Qi in Thonburi, but first stayed in the most luxurious hotel in the Siam capital, and then bought a lot of expensive clothes and dressed up as a wealthy merchant from the Qing Dynasty. He carried the precious stones to the city's street, which specialized in gold, silver and jewelry, and was filled with large merchants from the southeastern peninsula and the countries of the South Seas.

He walked into a Sulu business, which had a much more spacious façade and decoration than any other store.

"Guest, do you want to buy gold and silver jewelry or jewelry and jade? The shopkeeper saw a wealthy businessman from the Great Qing Kingdom coming in, and hurriedly greeted him with a smile.

Mo Yan took out the largest ruby in Ayuthaya's crown from his pocket and said slowly, "How much is this gem worth?"

The guy picked up the pigeon-egg-sized ruby and glanced at Mo Yan suspiciously, and said: "Guest officer, such a big pigeon's blood ruby is generally a fake, and it is rare for a natural gem to be the size of a fingernail." ”

Mo Yan smiled slightly: "You take a closer look." ”

The muscles on the man's face gradually stiffened as he shook Ruby, and a trembling voice came out of his mouth: "Palm, shopkeeper"

"What's all the fuss about?" said an obese old man wearing a red silk shirt with a "butong" on his head, coming out of the inner hall.

"This, this. The man handed over the ruby and stammered.

The shopkeeper received a slight reversal of the light in his hand, and six crystal clear lusters shot out of the ruby, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "This is the natural 'pigeon blood red'." ”

Mo Yan asked: "Or the shopkeeper's knowledge, how much is this ruby worth?"

The shopkeeper swallowed and spitted at the mouth, and said, "The currency of the Great Qing Kingdom should not be less than 30,000 taels of silver. ”

"Okay, it's 30,000 taels, I'll sell it. ”

"Really?" The shopkeeper was stunned when he heard this, and then he was ecstatic, the experienced man just deliberately said less than double, it seems that this rich businessman of the Qing Dynasty who combs his hair is a "big water fish".

"Come inside, please, look at the tea. "The shopkeeper respectfully invites Mo to sit down and serve fragrant tea.

"Guest, is your pigeon's blood ruby an ancestral heirloom? I haven't seen it on the market for many years. The shopkeeper asked cautiously.

"Shh," Mo Yan said mysteriously, "I still have some gems here, which I sold for the royal family in the capital, and I came to Siam to avoid people's eyes, do you understand?"

"Understand, understand, the guest officer can rest assured, and keeping his mouth shut is the creed that our store has always adhered to. ”

Mo Yan took out some gemstones, including red sapphire, emerald, gold water bodhi, opal, turquoise and night pearl and so on, and the shopkeeper was dazzled and ecstatic.

In the end, the various gems in the crown of Ayutthaya were sold for a total of 220,000 taels of silver, and the shopkeeper went to several trading houses to get these silver tickets.

"Remember, when it comes to the reputation of the Qing Imperial Family, please keep it a secret. Mo Yan admonished.

"But rest assured, these stores will be transferred back to Sulu soon. ”

"That's very good. Mo Yan put the silver ticket in his arms and swaggered out of the trading house, thinking that this time he had really become a rich man.

In the trading house, the shopkeeper was simply excited, and he had at least doubled the profit from this transaction, and it was the first time in his life that he had done such a big business.

Mo Yan returned to the hotel and quickly checked out and left, and then changed back to his original appearance with his mind, recovering from an old man in his forties and fifties to a young man of sixteen or seventeen, so that no one would recognize him.

He stayed in a humble inn on the edge of the city, paid ten days of rent in advance, and then went out for a full meal. Back in the inn and left the bow and arrow in the room, it was too dazzling in the city.

Mo Yan walked into the Temple of Dawn and asked to meet the abbot, saying that he wanted to donate 20,000 taels of silver to build a pagoda. The welcoming monk hurriedly invited the abbot of the Dawn Temple, Long Ming, who is said to be the second highest in status after the monk king, and there are four Chongdi in all of Siam, all of whom were canonized by the king.

Suddenly, an old monk with gray hair came to him.

"Old man Long is surprised, where does the donor come from?" the old monk asked politely in Chinese.

"Coming from the capital of the Qing Dynasty, he was entrusted by the elders of the clan to donate 20,000 taels of silver to build a pagoda for the Dawn Temple. Mo Yan said, took out 20,000 taels of silver tickets and presented them.

"Dare to ask the elders of the clan how to call them, and our temple is also good to engrave their names. ”

"The first-class loyal Xianggong foreman, the Minister of Military Aircraft, Niu Hulu and Shen. ”

Long Yu couldn't help but be secretly surprised when he heard this, this He Shen was the most powerful person in the court of the Qing Dynasty, and Siam was a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, so it was very important for Siam to have a good relationship with this person. Although the young man in front of him is not very old, as long as he is a member of the Heshen family, he can't be lazy.

"What is the name of the benefactor?" asked Long Yu.

"Niu Hulu Mo Er. "Don't make it up casually.

"Mo Er's donor has come from afar, can you eat and stay in our temple to show the gratitude of the old man. ”

"Well, well, your temple looks pretty clean, so let's stay for a while. Mo Yan immediately agreed.

Dinner is specially set for Mo Chui, because the monks of the Siamese temple have two meals a meal and do not eat after lunch. The dishes on the table are extremely rich, and the abbot Long Chongdi personally accompanies him, and the chicken, duck, fish, meat, mountains and seas should be had, which makes Mo Yu puzzled.

"It seems that only the temples of the Great Qing Kingdom are vegetarians. Mo Mo sighed with emotion.

"What the donor said is very true," Long Yu explained, "that only the monks of the Han Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty are vegetarians in the countries of Buddhism in the world today, and the monks of Tianzhu, Siam, Burma, and Dongying of Goryeo are not restricted to meat food." ”

"Why is that?" this is something that Mo Yan has always been curious about.

In fact, this is just from the Southern Dynasty Liang Wu Emperor Liang Wu of a "Broken Wine and Meat Text", before that, the Han monks did not restrict the diet of meat and vegetables, and let the monks choose freely. Emperor Wu of Liang once issued an edict of "cutting off the sacrifice of the temple", prohibiting the meat sacrifice of the temple, and at the same time, the imperial doctor in the palace was not allowed to use "raw medicine". He announced the various harms of monks eating meat in the form of a law, and set an example of vegetarianism and did not have sex with women for 40 years, so Han Buddhism began to abstain from vegetarian food, and later generations took it as a precept. ”

"In fact, the depth of cultivation should not have much to do with eating vegetarian meat. Mo Yan said.

"Restricting monks from eating meat is actually out of the way of life that the people have become accustomed to, but it makes the Buddha's surname intolerant of the world, and makes all sentient beings regard Buddhism as a fearful path, and they can only respect but not yearn for it. This move not only brought limitations to the development of Buddhism in the Central Plains, but also affected the popularization of Buddhism, which is why Buddhism has many believers in other countries, but only Han China cannot develop the root cause. ”

Yes, like Siam and Burma, almost everyone believes in Buddhism, but the Central Plains can't do it, which has nothing to do with the fact that there are too many rules and precepts in the temples of the Han Dynasty.

"Master Long Yi, can you walk around the temple these days?"

"Of course, the old man will immediately arrange for a little novice who understands Chinese to accompany you on a tour of the temple. ”

"On the way to the Temple of Dawn, someone told me that one of the big sights here is that after dusk, there will be a lot of flying heads coming out to feed, is this really the case?" Mo Yan asked casually.

Master Long Yu's face became extremely unnatural when he heard this, and he looked very embarrassed.

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