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Chapter 290: Put one stone of food and get thirty stone back! These monks are amazing! This is not lending, this is robbery

Emperor Wanli can tell just from the five to six hundred meters long red carpet.
These monks must be very rich and willing to spend money.

Emperor Wanli was very strange. Your Faji Temple is a monk's temple. Why do you have such a pomp?

And it was just a few officials who greeted the main seal, the deputy seal, and the Ministry of Rites.

Even if these officials are directly in charge of your temple's affairs, it won't be such a pomp.

Emperor Wanli looked at these pomps and urged No. 4 and No. 5: "Let's go!"

The four officials from the main seal and deputy seal department began to sweat on their foreheads.

I really shouldn’t have chosen this Faji Temple.

Faji Temple has always liked to create such unrealistic scenes.

why?

Because this host has always wanted to be an official.

He not only wants to be an abbot here, but also wants to be an official in the capital, so he is very good at flattering, he is very good at business, and he is very good at putting on various shows.

If it were placed in the past, this was originally a ceremony that was very popular among the chief seal, deputy seal and officials of the Ministry of Rites.

After all, he is at the foot of the emperor on the edge of the capital, but he can still enjoy this respect. How proud it is.

But now and then.

Now His Majesty the Emperor is watching from the sidelines, and judging from the current situation, a problem has been exposed.

On weekdays, when they come to this temple in the name of inspection, they will definitely receive such hospitality.

If you can entertain people like this just by entering a mountain gate, then when you get inside, you have to have delicacies from the mountains and seas, everything flying in the sky, walking underground, and swimming in the water, otherwise it would be a waste of this red carpet.

There were monks guarding him on both sides.

Dozens of people walked up to the mountain gate like this.

When we arrived at the gate of the mountain, we saw the abbot with a gray beard and cassock greeting us from a distance.

With him as the center, monks of all levels stood in a figure-eight shape on both sides, and everyone had a smile on their face.

After the chief seal, deputy seal and officials from the Ministry of Rites arrived, the abbot came down immediately.

Why is there such a high standard?
This means that the county magistrate is not as good as the current one.

As the leaders of the temples in the world, Zhengyin and Fuyin are the bosses of the monks.

Therefore, even without these four officials from the Ministry of Rites, the monks still had to put on such a formal greeting.

Seeing this, the main seal and the deputy seal were already sweating all over.

Although His Majesty came to see these temples, the interest rates on loans are higher than those on private loan sharks.

But needless to say, such a huge pomp already shows that this temple is not only rich, but also spends money indiscriminately.

Can you explain clearly where your money comes from?

You are a temple, how can you get so much money for extravagance and waste?

The abbot of Faji Temple came to the front of the main seal and the deputy seal and clasped his hands together, "Amitabha, please see the main seal and the deputy seal."

The monks nearby also immediately put their hands together and paid homage.

The Zhengyin and the Deputy Yin were already devastated when they heard Fang Zhan say, "The poor monk has received the news that the two adults are coming, and has prepared a high-quality vegetarian meal in the temple.
Just like your previous taste, everything is properly arranged and there will never be a situation where you were not satisfied with the banquet last year.

All the more than ten cooks who prepared the reception banquet have also been replaced, and now the number has increased to twenty cooks.

The dishes from all over the place are well prepared and you are sure to be satisfied. "

Listening to the abbot's words, both the main seal and the secondary seal are gone.

Damn it, why are you talking about this?
I finally came here, and you actually revealed all the accounts from last year. Don’t you think we will die quickly enough?
Emperor Wanli sneered from behind, "Well done. There are twenty cooks in one temple just for reception meals, so their reception volume must be very large."

The host did not notice the change in the expressions of the two people who were in charge of the first and second place. Instead, he looked at Emperor Wanli who was coming behind him.

Seeing that he was a ten-year-old child, he thought he was the son of one of the officials in the Ministry of Rites.

He smiled: "As a young benefactor, you can rest assured that our temple has a candied haws-along shop. This was the last time when the young master of the Minister of Rites' family said he wanted to eat candied haws-gluts, so we specially found two masters here. Do."

On the one hand, he wanted to show that the Minister of Etiquette had been here last time, and on the other hand, he also wanted to tell us that we were well prepared and could entertain children and the elderly. Zhengyin finally got impatient and said, "Okay, okay, hurry up and go in to make a show?"
We are monks and nothing else. What you are doing is simply extravagant and wasteful. "

The abbot of Faji Temple clasped his hands and said, "Amitabha, Sir, what you taught me is this.

If ordinary officials came in, we wouldn't have such a pomp, but you are the chief seal of the Senglu Division. If we don't know some rules, wouldn't our life be in vain? "

The first and second seals didn't know what to say and hurriedly wanted to go in.

Emperor Wanli said: "Don't go so fast. I also want to know who you usually receive. What are the specifications? My little boy's family is very interested."

When Emperor Wanli asked this question, the necks of the first and second seals stiffened. Li Rubai beside him smiled, "Can't you, my lords, also say this?"

Although it is a question, it is actually an order.

Zhengyin had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "Then you can tell me."

I guess this is also a secret and I can't say more, but since Zhengyin asked the host of Faji Temple to speak, the host immediately started talking, thinking that he wanted to show off.

"You don't know something about this little benefactor. Even though we are just a temple, the reception standards are no smaller than any other yamen.

Apart from other things, the Minister of Rites often likes to come to our small temple to rest for a few days.

We have beautiful mountains and rivers here, and there are so many people to serve us. The arrangements will never be worse than the best inns, and the most important thing is to keep them secret. "

Emperor Wanli asked, "Then I'm very surprised. The money allocated by the court to you every year is just to maintain the construction of temples, and the money for incense is not too much. Even if you still have some property, it won't be so extravagant. With this money, you Where did it come from?”

When it came to this sensitive issue, the abbot of Faji Temple stopped talking and looked at the main seal and the secondary seal.

I guess I'm thinking in my heart, why does this child ask such a sensitive question?

Can this be answered?
Seeing that Zhengyin was silent, Li Rubai said behind his back, "Can't we say this? We are just curious."

Zhengyin's eyes went dark, and he even felt that when Li Rubai was talking to him, he took out a knife with his left hand where no one else could see it and put it against the back of his waist.

He knew it was over.

This guy who spoke so freely couldn't tell that they were very different.

Of course, we can't blame the host. After all, His Majesty the Emperor is only ten years old. How could the host of Faji Temple imagine that this is the emperor who visited privately incognito.

Zhengyin gritted his teeth: "Tell me... tell me, is there anything I can't say?"

When Zhengyin was talking, he didn't forget to wink at the host, which meant, don't talk nonsense.

But the host of Faji Temple misunderstood and thought Zhengyin was blaming himself for not being able to do things.

He felt aggrieved, but he soon understood and said to himself: I am also confused. I can follow these two adults and several adults from the Ministry of Etiquette. Everyone understands that there is something that cannot be said.

It is estimated that several adults also want to hear the real situation. It is better to say it at the gate of the mountain than to say it inside. After all, there are many people in the temple and it is not good for others to listen to it.

At that moment, I admired Zhengyin for his thorough thinking.

Yes, yes, that must be the case.

So he started talking. He thought that they were all his own people anyway. These officials were in charge of his temple. How could they deceive him after receiving so many benefits from them?
Absolutely not.

So he smiled and said: "Little benefactor, you don't know something. Just relying on the money and incense money allocated by the court, as well as the industry of more than 100,000 acres of land, cannot support the daily expenses of a temple as big as ours.

Our biggest one is of course lending.

This is the craftsmanship of temples since ancient times.

For example, if we borrow one stone of grain every year, we will receive six stone in the next year.

After those people returned the food, couldn't he still return the wish?
Give him at least two dan of votive grain every year for ten years.

A single investment can collect about 30 dan. Year after year, continuously, the temple has a lot of income every year. This is the big head. "

After hearing this, Emperor Wanli gave a thumbs up and said, "It's amazing. If you give out a stone of grain, you can actually collect interest for more than ten years. You still know how to do business."

The abbot clasped his hands together and said, "This is all for the Buddha's reward. It's nothing."

The primary and secondary seals were frozen there, and they no longer knew what to say. They already felt that there were cracks in their necks...

Second update! !

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