Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 107 Maitreya Religion

Five years ago, after the Kingdom of Shu was destroyed by the Song Dynasty, Li Yu completely recognized the precarious reality. Knowing that the building was about to collapse, he simply stopped discussing the way to make the country rich and the army strong. Yi Baishun; on the other hand, he worships Buddhism in China, and it is ridiculous to seek refuge from Buddhism, hoping that the Buddha can bless the Southern Tang Kingdom with peace of mind.And for this, a lot of money was spent, labor was recruited, and a royal temple was built in the palace.

More than a month ago, after the Northern Han Dynasty was overthrown by the Song Dynasty, Li Yu worshiped Zen Master Fayan, the abbot of Qingliang Temple, a famous temple in Jinling, as his teacher, and listened to his suggestion, and issued an edict to help all monks.

Li Yu also took the name of Lianfeng Layman himself, and together with Xiao Zhou, both of them worshiped Buddha devoutly in the royal temple.Wearing Sangha hats and red cassocks, the two worshiped tirelessly.Even Li Yu's forehead was bruised due to prostration for a long time.

Some monks and nuns were immoral and broke the law. Li Yu tried to defend them. Therefore, if they are expelled, it will be just as they wish. For this generation, there is no need to expel their enrolments, each of them will be punished to pay respects to the Buddha a hundred times, and they will be transformed by the Buddha's instincts, and they will be able to correct their evil and return to righteousness."

What's even more absurd is that every fast day, he has to judge the death row prisoners according to the Buddha's will.On this day, Li Yu no longer consulted the case files to understand the case, but only lit a bright lamp in front of the Buddha statue in the palace, called the "Lamp of Life".If the life lamp does not go out all night, the criminal can reduce his sentence and avoid death. If it goes out halfway, he will be executed according to the law.As soon as this incident came out, some criminals bribed the eunuchs in the palace with a lot of money, secretly continued the anointing oil in the middle of the night, and kept the mission lights on to avoid the death penalty. The eunuchs also took the opportunity to make a fortune.

Seeing that Li Yu worshiped Buddhism so much, many civil and military ministers no longer studied how to guard against the sharpening Northern Song Dynasty, but showed themselves extremely in worshiping Buddha.The loyal minister was naturally worried, but after persuasion was useless, he was even more disappointed with Li Yu.

After Shu Kingdom was destroyed by Song Dynasty, in just five or six years, a new sect emerged in the Buddhist circle of Southern Tang Kingdom——Maitreya Sect.The leader of the Maitreya Sect, Lou Yanming, who is known as the Great Ming King, has become a generation of Buddhist masters in the Buddhist circle of the Southern Tang Dynasty in just a few years, second only to Zen Master Fayan, the abbot of Qingliang Temple. Under the leadership of Zen master Fayan, Jie tried his best to resist Maitreya teaching, and even publicly stated that Maitreya teaching is a crooked way. He secretly organized masters to fight against Maitreya teaching several times. One hundred thousand, has completely taken root in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and its influence is getting bigger and bigger.

A few days ago, following the spread of Da Songxiang Fubo, a disciple of a generation of masters and peerless genius doctor Ye Chen, that Wushisan is a medicine for demons, the sales of Wushisan in the Northern Song Dynasty dropped sharply within a few days. Even the news spread to Nantang, which reduced the sales of the five stones in Nantang by nearly half.

And at this time, outside Jinling City, in the Nanshan Mountains, the Great Maitreya Temple, which is also the headquarters of the Maitreya Sect, the leader of the Maitreya Sect, Daming Wang Lou Yanming, came out after three years of retreat.

On the same night, Zen Master Fayan and several eminent monks gathered at Qingliang Temple to conspire at night. Afterwards, it was rumored that they were discussing how to announce to the world that Wushi San was refined by the Maitreya Sect.But when it was dawn, someone discovered that Chan Master Fayan and these eminent monks had passed away strangely.

The local Buddhist circles believed that Maitreya Sect killed five eminent monks by means of despicable means, so they retaliated against Maitreya Sect. Unfortunately, they lost five highly respected eminent monks to lead the overall situation. end.If it were not for the intervention of the Southern Tang court, the definition of local Buddhism would have suffered heavy losses.

After the dispute over Buddhism ended, Shangguan Bingyun, the king of Xiaoming who was second only to the leader of the Maitreya sect, left Jinling and traveled northward to the Great Song Dynasty.

King Wei Zhao Dezhao and his entourage did not stop in Suzhou in the end, but after the governor of Suzhou learned that King Wei and his entourage were passing by with an imperial envoy, he personally brought a large amount of food supplies to the ship.During this period, an official in Suzhou who was in charge of transporting things to the imperial envoy sent Wang Xin and Hu Zhengyi a secret letter while people were not paying attention.

Among them are the two characters 'Chuzhou'.

Therefore, Wang Xin and Hu Zhengyi finally decided to attack Chuzhou.Of course, it is useless for them to decide on this matter, and Wei Wang Zhao Dezhao must agree to it.

After the result of the first meeting and dispute, Zhao Dezhao seldom brought everyone together for a meeting every time he discussed matters, but called people to his room to discuss according to needs.Especially now that the two deputy envoys Ye Chen and Luo Gongming have left the ship, and the remaining Huangfutong, Li You, Wang Xin, and Hu Zhengyi are clearly incompatible. Under such circumstances, Zhao Dezhao does not want the four of them to be too many Face to face controversy.Because in the end of the fight, it is often difficult for him to be caught in the middle.

After the ship left Suzhou, Zhao Dezhao called Huangfutong and Li You from Zhao Pu's family, and Wang Xin and Hu Zhengyi from Zhao Guangyi's family into the room for consultation and discussion.But the result is that Zhao Dezhao and Chen Dongyang are more and more difficult to choose.

"From the results of the censor's investigation, the four prefectures of Luzhou, Taizhou, Sizhou, and Chuzhou can all be used for surgery, but what Huangfutong, Li You, Wang Xin, and Hu Zhengyi said is different. Many of them are different from what Yushi said, and what the Prime Minister's disciples and Nanya said are different from each other. How to judge this?" Zhao Dezhao said with a frown.

Chen Dongyang sighed in his heart. Originally, he wanted King Wei to see clearly the real purpose of the two aides recommended by Zhao Pu and the two subordinate officials sent by Nan Ya, but now it seems that King Wei is still too kind, and he is far from grasping the interests of the people. Not enough.

"Your Highness! Haven't you understood the real purpose of Zhao Pu's recommendation of the two staff members and the two officials sent by Nan Ya?" Chen Dongyang knew that it was time to wake up this confused Highness.

"The real purpose? Aren't they the helpers my father asked Zhao Xianggong and Nanya to pick for me?" Zhao Dezhao asked doubtfully.

"Your Highness still remembers the dispute between Wang Xin, Hu Zhengyi, Huangfutong and Li You during the meeting on the first day after sailing," Chen Dongyang said.

"Remember!" Zhao Dezhao felt that he had grasped something vaguely, but there was still a layer of window paper that hadn't been pierced, and he couldn't see the truth behind the matter clearly, but he already knew that things were not as simple as he thought before.

"The appointment of prefects all over the country is done by the prime minister, and I heard that many prefects in the Jianghuai area have a close relationship with the prime minister. Huangfutong and Li You are the prime minister's staff, so naturally I don't want His Highness to impose a heavy code on any prefect. But just now Huangfutong and Li You praised the three prefects in the investigation results provided by the censor, but the two officials of the Nan Yamen had no good words for the three prefects. The Prime Minister has a close relationship. The two even hinted to His Highness in the name of the Prime Minister to let the prefects of these three states go." Chen Dongyang said.

When Zhao Dezhao heard the words, his face suddenly became ugly. "From Uncle Chen's point of view, the remaining two magistrates in Luzhou and Nanya spoke well, but the two sent by the prime minister were just the opposite, and they all spoke badly. Doesn't it mean that Luzhou belongs to the second uncle? " Zhao Dezhao's talent is not stupid, it's just that he has too little experience, and Chen Dongyang is all for this, so naturally he understands everything.

Chen Dongyang sighed and said, "Exactly!"

Zhao Dezhao's face turned ashen.He has just been crowned king, and has never held a position before. Although he is a prince, he has no power and popularity in the court, and he has no one to depend on locally.Compared with Zhao Pu and Zhao Guangyi, his power is too weak.What's more, he has not been crowned prince yet, even if he is crowned crown prince, under such circumstances, no matter whether it is Zhao Pu or Zhao Guangyi, it is inconvenient for him to offend.With the strength of the two of them, it can completely affect whether he can become the prince.

Judging from the current situation, Zhao Pu will support him, so he can't make enemies with him. Naturally, he can't use his people to kill him.But having said that, just because everyone knew that Zhao Guangyi had a fundamental conflict with him, he had just become a king, and the first time he did something, he took Zhao Guangyi's people under the knife, what would the emperor think?What do the courtiers think?And how will Zhao Guangyi fight back?Can he bear the result of the counterattack with his current power?

Zhao Dezhao's mind was full of thoughts, and for a moment he was a little discouraged, and he was overwhelmed by his impassioned thoughts these days, wanting to do a few great things, and make a few great achievements.

During this process, Chen Dongyang has been watching silently, without saying anything enlightening, he knows that only Zhao Dezhao himself has recognized the reality, experienced the blow, and then regained his strength, so that his will can be tempered to the greatest extent.

I don't know how long it took before Zhao Dezhao regained his strength, took a deep breath, and fighting spirit appeared in his eyes again. He looked at Chen Dongyang and said, "Uncle Chen! Judging from the information provided by Yushi, these four states are just The amount of grain raised is far from reaching the stipulated amount, but this does not mean that the prefects of these four states must collude with the grain gentry for personal gain! Sigh... But the stipulated grain has not been raised, which is itself a dereliction of duty. It still has some influence on these prefects. Hmm! From Uncle Chen’s point of view, how to deal with this matter, should we find another prefect who does not belong to the prime minister and second uncle, or choose one of these four states?"

Chen Dongyang looked at Zhao Dezhao with relief, and said: "Your Highness has also read the information provided by Yushi in detail. Except for these four states, the actions of officials in other states have not reached the level of killing one and others. They rashly attacked him and spread it. It will greatly damage His Highness's reputation, and His Majesty will definitely be dissatisfied. Therefore, it is natural to use the prefects of these four states to act."

(End of this chapter)