I studied in modern times

Chapter 585 Forced donation (2)

That night, monks gathered in the court.

Dozens of eminent monks with fat heads, big ears, and fair hair gathered together.

President Jin's order-bearer sent the copied edict to these people.

"All hosts and leaders, please take a look."

The group of monks looked at the text of the edict that was sent to them, and they all bowed their heads and praised: "How good! How good! My Buddha is merciful!"

But no one took the initiative to say that they would donate money.

When President Jin saw it, he didn't say much. He just said: "After the decree was issued, all parties in Beijing are enthusiastically making donations."

"Lao Na also met the Nestorian monk Tusha at Xuandemen and made a charity donation of five thousand guan."

After speaking, he remained silent.

Hearing President Jin's eyebrows twitching wildly, he could only remind these people: "Presidents, first of all..."

Only then did the monks finally let go.

If you don't put some pressure on them, they won't know how to be powerful.

"Amitabha!" Another fat and white monk bowed his head: "I, Jinghui Temple, are also willing to donate thousands of dollars in charity."

Because although the size of Jinghui Temple is only comparable to that of Fayun Temple, its influence is not the same.

Jinghui Yuan was the former residence of Li Yu in the Southern Tang Dynasty. After Li Yu's death, it was transformed into a temple. There are many authentic remains of Li Yu in the temple.

But they are afraid!
Yes, afraid!
I am afraid that if I donate too much, the government will find out about my wealth, and I will come to them for alms in the future.

"Waiting for Jue Yuan, donating thousands of dollars to charity..."

Other temples remain unchanged.

After hearing Shi Deyi's reply, Zhao Xu sneered and waved to Shi Deyi.

"Chongxia Temple is also willing to donate thousands of dollars..."

The abbots of the larger and wealthier temples have just expressed their willingness to donate 2,000 or 3,000 guan.

I can only bow my head and say: "How good! How good!"

Send beggars away?

Shi Deyi's expression suddenly became strange.

Just after returning to Funing Hall, Shi Deyi came to report.

"I, as a monk, have dozens of temples in Beijing, all of which were built under the orders of successive officials, but I only donated a thousand guan."

Seeing this, President Jin felt helpless, knowing that he could not persuade him anymore.

"There are also temples built by wild monks and wandering monks, hiding in the market, waiting for opportunities."

Everyone kept their mouths shut and didn't speak.

"Amitabha, it is my duty as a monk to help those who are suffering. We at Fayun Temple are willing to donate a thousand guan to the Huainan." A monk with a big belly said.

"promise!"

The scale is not large in Bianjing, so donating one thousand guan is considered appropriate.

President Kim had no choice but to remind them again: "The temple in Beijing is not the only temple built by our decree."

The amount of donations is almost the same.

As soon as Shi De came up to him, Zhao Xu whispered a few words in his ear.

Therefore, it was sought after by literati and its incense was also very prosperous.

Gengyin (the fifth day of the lunar month) in the eighth month of the first year of Yuanyou.

The great monks in Bianjing are so disrespectful.

Zhao Xu slept in Baoci Palace last night, so he woke up early in the morning and accompanied the Queen Mother to finish breakfast, then went to Qingshou Palace to say hello, and then returned to Funing Palace to prepare for today's visit to Kaifeng Palace.

"Go ahead and do it." Zhao Xu waved his hand: "It's best to report to the newspaper this evening."

A thousand strings? Two thousand strings? Three thousand strings?

It’s not that they’re not smart enough, and it’s not that they’re all misers.

The presiding officer of each temple spoke first.

Fayun Temple is a temple outside Jinshui Gate.

"Nestorianism is just one temple, and they donated five thousand coins."

President Jin's face twitched as he listened.

One after another, the host and monk leaders spoke out.

What can he do?
Are these people forced to pay?
……

President Jin glanced at him and said nothing. He just folded his hands and said, "That's good! That's good!"

"If word gets out, what will people in the world think of my Buddhist sect?"

……

Kaifeng Mansion, Mansion Office.

The emperor's imperial chariot, surrounded by Yu Longzhi, arrived here.

Cai Jing led the officials from Kaifeng Mansion to wait in front of the government office early.

Seeing the imperial chariot arriving, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "I respectfully welcome your majesty. I am glad to come to Kaifeng Mansion to compliment my majesty, the emperor, and wish you all the best."

With the support of Feng Jing, Zhao Xu stepped out of the chariot.

Yan Chen, who was in charge of his security today, came to him and reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, I met Master Xitian Sanzang in front of the government office. The Master begged to see Your Majesty..."

Zhao Xu looked at Yan Chen and kept smiling.

Yan Chen quickly lowered his head: "My father suffered from wind paralysis and asked for medicine from a mage. After getting the mage's secret recipe, he got better..."

Zhao Xu just said oh.

Fengbi is rheumatism, which is a disease that is difficult to cure in modern times.

But in ancient times, there were always some weird prescriptions that could cure diseases inexplicably.

It's amazing!

The eminent monks of today are basically famous doctors.

It is not unusual for a monk like Mr. Kim who has traveled thousands of miles to have a few secret recipes at the bottom of a box.

So, Zhao Xu asked: "Is the medicine used in his prescription considered expensive?"

Yan Chen shook his head: "I don't know."

Zhao Xu thought for a while and then said to Yan Chen: "Go and inform the mage and ask him to present the prescription to Taiping Huimin Pharmacy."

"promise!"

Now Yan Chen, under the control of the inner palace, was appointed by Zhao Xu to promote Taiping Huimin Shu Pharmacy and preside over the work of Taiping Huimin Shu Pharmacy.

Mainly responsible for setting up medical clinics and pharmacies throughout the city of Bianjing for the military doctors who were enlisted and the low-level medical officers of the Imperial Medical Bureau.

Provide basic medical services to the lower class people at relatively cheap prices.

The Huimin Shu Pharmacy Bureau and the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau were both products of the Xining Reform.

Its predecessor was the Medical Clinic founded in the Imperial Medical Bureau in the seventh year of Xining.

The Medical Clinic is a welfare-oriented organization.

The main responsibility is to provide relatively cheap and effective prepared medicine preparations to civilians.

Zhao Xu issued an edict last month to change it to Taiping Huimin Shu Pharmacy, and became independent from the Imperial Medical Bureau, turning it into a separate organization, and appointed Yan Chen, who returned to the court, to take charge.

In the future, it is planned to set up 17 affordable medicine clinics and consultation clinics in Bianjing.

Its purpose is to provide basic medical services at the most affordable prices possible.

This organization does not pursue profit.

What is pursued is reputation, medical experience and skill accumulation.

It can be regarded as the original version of a public hospital, but its ultimate purpose is to serve himself.

Bianjing's population of one million is enough for those young doctors to develop sufficient skills and experience and accumulate deep case knowledge.

There is no way, in this era, if you want to save your life, you must have an experienced medical team.

If you want to have such a team, you can only rely on a large number of cases to gain experience.

Therefore, Yanchen is very busy now.

He was busy choosing a site, purchasing medicinal materials, hiring workers, and preparing utensils.

Therefore, he would only lead the team to do security work when Zhao Xu left the palace.

After Yanda left, Zhao Xu, surrounded by Cai Jing and others, entered the yamen of Kaifeng Mansion.

Then, reports from all parties were listened to as usual. Cai Jing reported that business disputes in Kaifeng Prefecture are increasing recently.

Therefore, I begged the Kaifeng Prefecture to publicly test a group of new legal officials to enrich the manpower.

Zhao Xu naturally agreed.

Kaifeng Mansion is currently slowly, bit by bit, replacing subordinate staff at the executive level through examinations.

This is established policy.

Then Li Shiliang, the judge of Kaifeng Prefecture, and Jia Zhongmin of the Street Department reported on the construction of Bianjing Academy.

Now, the demolition work of Jing'anfang has been completely completed.

There is just a lot of construction waste after demolition.

If it relies entirely on manpower, livestock and traditional vehicle transportation.

I'm afraid the cost will be a bit high and may cost tens of thousands of dollars.

After hearing the report, Zhao Xu laughed and said, "I will let Shen Kuo's Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau handle this matter."

The Bianjing Academy in Jing'anfang is not just a money-making project.

Or an incubator.

Many new technologies and new equipment will be tested, matured and mass-produced through this project.

At the same time, it can also give birth to an industrial chain.

After Li Shiliang and Jia Zhongmin, there is Yang Wenyuan of the Department of Records.

Yang Wenyuan is now the person most vocal in taking over the position of official in Kaifeng Prefecture.

Therefore, his work enthusiasm is particularly high.

As soon as they met, they gave Zhao Xu a detailed report on the trial process and judgment basis of the case of Yuan Cheng Monk.

Then he reported on the current trial status of the Juezhao Temple case.

Zhao Xu just listened and did not express his opinion. After he finished speaking, he said: "Please keep the file. I will look back and look at it carefully before talking."

"promise!"

It was almost noon when Yang Wenyuan was sent away.

Feng Jing led others to bring meals, and at the same time took the opportunity to report to Zhao Xu: "Everyone, the Empress Dowager just now ordered Liang Weijian to send a few memorials for today."

With that said, he asked people to present the memorials to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu didn't look at it immediately, he just put it aside and asked: "Where is Master Tripitaka of the West?"

Feng Jing replied: "Yan Chengzhi arranged for him to wait in the official mansion next to the Plum Blossom Hall."

"how is he?"

"The master just meditated and chanted sutras, and did not do any other actions. I ordered people to deliver tea several times, but the officials of Kaifeng Prefecture reported that the master did not drink it."

Zhao Xu nodded, thought for a while, and said: "When I take a nap, I will send someone to have a look. If the mage continues to be like this, bring him to see me."

Zhao Xu is now very dissatisfied with the attitude of the great monks.

Starting from Zhao Xu's grandfather, the three generations of Zhao Guan family treated these great monks with utmost benevolence and kindness.

But how did they repay the favor?
When things come to an end, I dig and search one by one.

But they have forgotten that without the grace of the Zhao officials, where would their happy life be?
How ungrateful!

……

Mr. Jin was sitting cross-legged, banging wooden fish and reciting scriptures.

dong dong dong.

The sound of wooden fish echoed in this wing.

"Master, please have some vegetarian food."

An official from Kaifeng Prefecture respectfully brought the vegetarian meal and placed it in front of him.

He turned a deaf ear and just chanted sutras and knocked on the wooden fish.

When the official saw this, he bowed together and quietly withdrew.

At the door, there was a small yellow door. I quietly observed it for a while before tiptoeing away.

Mr. Jin turned a blind eye to all this and continued to knock the wooden fish and recite scriptures.

He is a true monk.

In order to spread the Dharma and spread the Dharma, he traveled thousands of miles and traveled thousands of mountains to come here.

His will has long been sharpened during his journey of thousands of miles.

……

In the imperial bedroom specially prepared for Zhao Xu behind the Plum Blossom Hall, after a nap, Zhao Xu woke up with full blood.

Feng Jing quickly led someone to help him wash up.

After washing up, Zhao Xu picked up the memorial sent to the Queen Mother and read it.

At the same time, he asked Feng Jing: "How is President Jin?"

"Still chanting sutras and meditating."

"Oh!" Zhao Xu nodded: "Go and bring him to see me." Zhao Xu did not raise his head, just looked at the contents of the memorial and gave instructions casually.

These memorials sent to the Queen Mother are quite interesting.

For example, the copy Zhao Xu is holding is a bullet from Su Che.

In July, Su Che was promoted to supervising the imperial censor Li Xing, and was promoted to the post of official in Jixian Yuan.

At the same time, Su Shi was also promoted.

He promoted Su Shi's salary officer from the seventh rank of Chaofeng Lang to the sixth rank of Chaofeng Dafu and added the post of Secret Pavilion to compile the document. At the same time, he was invited from Su Shi and appointed as the "Ambassador for the Preparation of the Dengzhou Ship Division" and gave it to him. Within one year, we will complete the site selection and port opening work of the Municipal Shipping Department, and establish relevant regulations.

As a result, these two brothers were happy and their horses were hoofed.

Then, both brothers started falling into old habits at the same time.

Su Shi seemed to be discussing government affairs again in Dengzhou.

This bearded man’s mouth really stinks!
When he was in Xuzhou, even Zhao Xu's father dared to do something strange - you used your limited talents to start a battle that was impossible to succeed, drive out innocent people and put them in a place where they must die, and waste a lot of money, but you can still make up for it. And the people who have died cannot be resurrected!

So I wrote a poem "Jiangchengzi Farewell to Xuzhou" with a splash of ink.

On the surface, he was criticizing Wang Anshi.

But in fact, everyone knows who is being scolded!
That’s why Su Shi was so miserably punished in the Wutai Poetry Case!

This bearded mouth is hopeless.

Now, he has grown stronger and started cursing again.

This time it was Feng Jing who fell under Su Shi's gun. Zhao Xu heard that Su Shi wrote three poems and poems in Dengzhou.

He made a personal attack on the veteran Feng Jing - of course, he used a pseudonym and a false pretense.

But any fool knows who he is talking about?

It’s just very embarrassing!

I heard that Feng Jingdu was so angry that he went to Zhang Fangping to argue.

As a result, the two elders Feng and Zhang had a complete falling out in early August.

In the future, the Feng and Zhang families may never interact with each other.

The elder brother took the lead in the charge, and the younger brother was not bad either.

Su Che also started to use all his firepower. The person he impeached was Zhang Jie, the transfer envoy of Guangnan East Road and Zhilong Tuge.

In his writings, Zhang Jie was scolded so badly that he was simply unworthy of being a human being, let alone an important minister of the Song Dynasty - Jie was guessing, dangerous, evil, sycophantic, cunning, perverse, secretive and engraving. He possessed these eight virtues. Nothing is long!
Originally, the bullets used by crows to bite ministers were rarely seen by the Empress Dowager Zhao Xu anymore.

Because there are too many!
There is only one reason why Su Che's bullet was sent to Zhao Xu - Su Che labeled Zhang Jie as a member of Wang Gui's party: Jie's family was rich, and they used bribery to advance, and their hometown was close. Chen and brocade have many rare sands. They are often offered to the former prime minister Wang Gui. Gui shows his left and right words and says: This is what Jie offers.

Therefore, he blamed all the reasons why Zhang Jie had a corrupt character and low morals but was promoted all the way to Wang Gui - it was because of the treacherous ministers like Wang Gui who protected villains like Zhang Jie that he could continue to do things for him. Officials harm the people.

Zhao Xu's eyes widened as he read this article.

"A member of Wang Gui's party?"

"Have you ever bribed Wang Gui?"

"This Zhang Aiqing is very rich."

"We have to check it out!"

Zhang Jie has long served as the transshipment envoy of Guangnan East Road and promoted the Guangzhou Shipping Department.

Who would believe that there is no money to be made?
I just thought that Zhang Jie might use the money from the Shipping Department to bribe Wang Gui.

Zhao Xu felt a little palpitated.

My money! It would be fine if you didn't give it to me, but you actually gave it to that treacherous minister Wang Gui?!
Unforgivable!
(End of this chapter)