Fahai travels through Tang Sanzang

Chapter 429 The magnificence of history, can it really be pretended like this?
Along the way, I always heard Master talk about various things in the Central Plains. Now that I have come to Chang'an in person, I know what the truth is.Although it is not too long since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the culture of the Central Plains has a long history and has never been cut off.

Perhaps the Three Emperors and Five Emperors have become legends in the Central Plains.

The stories of the pre-Qin countries and the hundreds of schools of thought are still popular today.

The great sage, who was born in Huaguoshan Mountain, Aolai Country, Dongsheng Shenzhou, calculated on the way to the west that when he was born, it was about the Spring and Autumn Period of the Central Plains. on stage.

It is said that at that time, the Taiqing sage incarnated Lao Tzu to descend to the realm and founded a Taoist school in the world, but he failed to win the first place.

Although there are indeed many masters of Taoism, everyone has learned to live in seclusion in the mountains, old forests, and cultivated immortals, and they have never paid much attention to worldly things.

On the contrary, those Taoists who pay attention to worldly fame and wealth must not have profound knowledge of their own. It is even more difficult to compete with those who are in the world.That is to say, all the masters of Taoism have a high level of cultivation. Otherwise, if they only talk about academics, they will die out if one goes up and down.

On the way to the royal garden.

The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty continued to introduce the architectural styles of the palace to the Dasheng brothers who came to the Central Plains for the first time, and even saw some decorative foils on the road, so they could tell a story about the origin.

Each has its own origin and meaning, and they are genuine human treasures.

Especially when passing by the Hongwen Hall, I saw a group of younger brothers, princes and yamen who were leaving school, maybe Li Shimin counted the time to pass by here, so he greeted them all and went to the imperial garden together.

Li Shimin naturally told the Dasheng and others about the origin of the Hongwen Museum. Although it is a government office under the Menxia Province, his younger brother and sons, some of the royal relatives and the children of the high-ranking officials in the capital, will be sent to him before they reach adulthood. Come here to learn.

It can be described as Datang's talent training center.

Seeing that it was the Hongwen Library, Fa Hai couldn't help asking: "Brother Emperor, I heard that there are more than [-] volumes of books in this place. My stupid brother is not talented, I wonder if I can read the books here?"

"Hahaha——" Li Shimin laughed loudly and said, "There is no place in the Tang Dynasty that Yudi can't go to."

After all, Li Shimin paused, and said again: "There is no evidence for what you say, and tomorrow I will let the craftsman make a special token. With this order, Yudi will come as if I came in person. But I also have a small ask--"

Fa Hai didn't wait for Li Shimin to open his mouth, and said, "I don't know if Your Majesty wants the original version of the Buddhist scriptures, or the ones annotated by the monk after reading them?"

Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "I want both."

"Amitabha." Fa Hai was not surprised, but just smiled and said, "If you only want the original scriptures, I can take them out and put them in the Hongwen Museum, but if your majesty wants them all, your majesty will have to wait for some time."

"It's not urgent." Li Shimin said with a smile: "After all, if there is no translation and commentary by Yudi, these [-] volumes of scriptures are like waste paper."

"Prince."

"Father." His Highness the Crown Prince hurried forward.

"How is the construction of the Temple of Mercy?"

His Royal Highness crowned his hands and responded: "Report to Father, it has been built."

"And build a pagoda in the temple."

"Yes." His Royal Highness knew the purpose of this tower without asking too much.

But Li Shimin still took the initiative to explain: "The abbot of the Ci'en Temple is none other than Yudi. In addition, this pagoda is dedicated to the scriptures that Yudi brought from Tianzhu. As for the Chongwen Museum, keep a copy of the original text." The original version of the scriptures should be left in the temple, and it is more appropriate for Yudi to keep it in person."

Fa Hai's original intention was that it was enough for him to keep the scriptures without words; the scriptures with words were originally taken for the Tang Dynasty, so there is nothing wrong with putting them in the Hongwen Museum.

But at this moment, after listening to His Majesty's words, he did not refuse.

Of course, it is most appropriate to place the scriptures in Buddhist temples. If these scriptures are placed in the Hongwen Museum, I am afraid that no one will care about them in the end.

"In fact, these scrolls are the real wealth left to future generations." Li Shimin sighed with emotion, and said to the prince and the students who came out of Hongwen Hall: "Even if we old men, no matter how big the territory is, if we build a large territory, The future generations will be unfilial, and sooner or later there will be a clean day. There are many lessons from history. Only these—”

Li Shimin pointed to the Hongwen Museum, "We have inherited the wisdom of our predecessors, which is why we have today's Tang Dynasty; and if we want to ensure that China will always prosper, what we have to do is to carry forward the wisdom of our predecessors and always pass them on. Go on. Until then, even if the Tang Dynasty is gone, China will still be there."

At this moment, the Great Sage seemed to understand what Master said in the past, the reason why people are not afraid of death is because the spiritual inheritance lasts forever.

The Great Sage was just feeling emotional, but the little white dragon on the side suddenly felt ashamed for some reason. Perhaps it was because their dragon race had a long lifespan, and they were gifted with the wisdom of heaven and earth. They were born with the ability to call wind and rain, so they were arrogant by nature. Having said that, the glory left by their ancestors is about to be lost.

He felt for a moment that even the many rare treasures in the Dragon Palace's treasure house were not even as precious as the books of this human race.

Li Shimin didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly asked Master Sanzang: "Yudi, you said that after I die, how will the history books record my life's merits and demerits?"

He didn't wait for Master Sanzang to speak, it was more like asking and answering himself: "When I look through the classics left over from the previous dynasties, I can summarize a person's life in just a few words, and record the rise and fall of a dynasty in just a few pages. The magnificence of history, can it really be pretended like this?"

Even Fa Hai couldn't answer these words.

Because that's what it is.

Everyone knows that Emperor Taizong has three mirrors, one of which is "history", which shows the rise and fall.

The reason why the Tang Dynasty can be as prosperous as it is today is absolutely indispensable for Emperor Taizong to learn from history.

"Almost forgot." Seeing that the atmosphere was a little heavy, Fa Hai took a step forward and took out the customs clearance document from his sleeve, and presented it to Li Shimin, "This is the customs clearance document that His Majesty sent to his younger brother when he left Chang'an. Only this thing can make the ministers and brothers travel smoothly in the countries of the Western Continent."

Li Shimin took it very solemnly, and remembered that it was the 13th year of Zhenguan, so he sighed and said, "It's been a long time since I've worked so far, and now it's been 27 years in Zhenguan."

After reading it a little, I saw that there were seals of Baoxiang, Wuji, Chechi, Xiliangnu, Jisai, Zhuzi, Biqiu, and Mie France on the letter; there was also the seal of Fengxian County. , Yuhua Prefecture Seal, Jinping Mansion Seal and Tianzhu State Seal.

In my heart, I made a general review of the story of Yudi's journey to the west, and then I put the document in my sleeve, and said in my heart: When I am buried for a hundred years, this thing will be buried next to me.

After a while, we arrived at the Royal Garden.

The Empress Changsun greeted her long ago, "My concubine welcomes Your Majesty, and I have seen Master Sanzang and all the elders."

"I've seen the Empress—"

Except for Li Shimin, everyone saluted the empress together.

Although according to Fahai's knowledge, the empress died young, she should have died of illness in the tenth year of Zhenguan, but she is still alive now, but Fahai didn't make a fuss about it.

After all, Li Shimin, who was supposed to die in Zhenguan 23 years ago, is still alive and well now?
Besides, the most outrageous thing is clearly on him.

Even so, Fa Hai still operated his Dharma Eye, searched for Empress Changsun's energy channels, and found that there was indeed a phenomenon of qi and blood vacuity, presumably after a serious illness, the body gradually weakened, and it has not recovered until now.

After a ceremony, everyone took their seats.

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After exchanging a few pleasantries, they began to fast.

Because it is to entertain Master Sanzang to return to court, so today is all a vegetarian feast.

"Several elders are just outside Xinjiang. Now that you are in Datang, you might as well taste my Datang delicacies."

Li Shimin's words seemed to be aimed at several disciples of Master Sanzang, but Bajie always felt that he was looking at him. But as the dishes became more and more complete, Bajie had long since ignored other things and only focused his eyes on him. On top of the delicacies in front of you.

If he hadn't remembered the etiquette, he would have already started feasting.

Look at the rich fragrance and the freshness of the rare products - amber cups, glass cups, inlaid with gold and emerald greens; gold plates, white jade bowls, inlaid with brocade and flowers.

The first thing that comes up is an appetizing melon and fruit, such as walnut persimmon cake, longan and lychee.Xuanzhou cocoon chestnut Shandong jujube and Jiangnan ginkgo rabbit head pear are dazzling.

After the melons and fruits are served, there is a vegetarian meal, such as rotten boiled turnips and sweetened yams.The mushrooms are sweet and the sea vegetables are strange.Toon leaves with gluten, tofu skin with fungus.Shihuaxiancai, dried fern powder.Boiled radish with pepper, shredded melon mixed with mustard, etc., there are so many tricks, it is even more overwhelming.

At the end, it is written that steamed crispy honey food and delicacies are accompanied by delicious wine and fragrant tea.

"Please--!"

With an order, Bajie has already started!
After the meal was full, Li Shimin asked Bajie, "What does Elder Zhu think?"

Bajie was still not satisfied, he got up and bowed, and said seriously: "These delicacies are all top-grade, my great country of China is really different from Xiyi."

Before I realized it was getting late, the Thanksgiving banquet was over.

Li Shimin originally wanted to keep Sanzang to stay in the palace, but he heard that Sanzang had promised the monks of Hongfu Temple to meet him later. Li Shimin didn't force him to stay, but he had already made up his mind, and he would go to Hongfu Temple to visit the monks tomorrow morning See.

And when Fahai returned to Hongfu Temple, he saw that although it was late, all the monks and monks in the temple were still awake, and they were all waiting here.
When they saw Master Sanzang coming back, without waiting for Master Sanzang to speak first, they kowtowed first to greet him and took a step forward, helped the old abbot up, and all the monks behind him also stood up together.

Dharma Master Sanzang is the head of all the monks who were conferred by the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty personally, and he is actually the head of all the monks. When they see them, they should kneel down and greet them.

Even the abbot of a temple is no exception.

Fahai told them not to kneel when they saw him in the future, but the monks were terrified and uneasy.

Seeing that they couldn't change a few words, Fa Hai didn't rush it for a while, and just corrected it slowly in the future.

After all, even when the ministers faced the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, they would sit and discuss matters with themselves as ordinary monks, even if they had received the post of the world's great explanatory capital monks, they didn't have to be like this.

Then I thought about it, these monks knelt down to worship the Buddha every day. Perhaps after kneeling for a long time, it became a habit. It may be really difficult to get them to stand up again.

After entering the temple, his old disciple said: "Master, the head of this tree suddenly turned east this morning. We remembered what Master said, so we went out of the city to pick it up, and it really arrived!"

"I'm still no match for Your Majesty." Another disciple said, "Your Majesty will spend a period of time in the Sutra Watching Building outside the city at this time every year, waiting for Master to return. It's a pity that the Sutra Watching Building is full of forbidden troops. Even monks like me are not allowed to trespass.”

Since ancient times, emperors have never traveled lightly.

Unless it was the emperor himself who made a private visit and sneaked out of the palace.

But generally speaking, the vast majority of emperors find it difficult to leave the palace when they are free.

The more wise or in other words, the more the emperor wants to be a good emperor, he will be more or less bound by the position under his buttocks.

Even Li Shimin is no exception. If it weren't for the prince to share the state affairs now, he might not be so willful. The daily memorials are enough for him to have a headache.

After entering the main hall, there was naturally another round of greetings.

Fahai's master and disciples were not sleepy, but the monks were still gradually showing signs of fatigue, so Fahai sent them to disperse separately. If there was anything to say, we can talk about it tomorrow morning, but the monks refused to follow, so Fahai explained the capital with the world. Ordered in the name of Seng Gang, the monks reluctantly dispersed.

After all, Master Sanzang lived here for a period of time, and his meditation room was always empty, and someone cleaned it from time to time. Even if he came back after 14 years of walking, he could move in immediately.

What's more, during the daytime today, the monks cleaned and tidied up again, and even prepared the rooms for the four disciples, which are on the left and right of Master Sanzang's meditation room.

The four disciples were all in Master Tripitaka's meditation room, and the evening class had become a habit, and everyone was conscious of it.

Perhaps they have finally felt the worry of the elder brother before, knowing that there are really only a few days left for the reunion of master and apprentice.

One night of practice, no gossip——

The next morning.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince received a summons, saying that his father left the palace before dawn, and he still asked him to sort out this morning.

Li Zhi suddenly became big by head and two, and said to himself: Presumably those princes who have fought for this position throughout the ages have no idea of ​​the hardship of this position, right?

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince admired his father more and more. He used to be so diligent in governing the country. He had only been supervising the country under the guidance of his father for a few years, and he already felt a little bit like picking someone up.

Big Brother, Fourth Brother... It's because of your failure to live up to expectations that you let this hard work fall on the younger brother's head.

His Royal Highness went to court.

Li Shimin naturally came outside Hongfu Temple.

Fa Hai had already sensed it, so he naturally greeted him in advance. But besides a group of imperial guards, there was a middle-aged man beside Li Shimin.

After looking at him for a while, I saw that although his complexion was pale, and his eyebrows and eyes were even a bit feminine, it seemed that there was a mass of anger in his heart that had nowhere to vent.

What's more, the opponent is [-]% similar to Li Shimin.

"I've met the emperor." Fa Hai withdrew his gaze and didn't ask the other party's identity.

He knew that Li Shimin would take the initiative to say it. After all, the person was brought by the other party, so he naturally had his intentions.

(End of this chapter)