Chastity Layman

  Chapter 285 Keep Chengqian

  Cicadas were singing on the trees in the courtyard.

  Sitting there, Qin Lang felt a little dazed, as if he had returned to the time when he first came here.

"gentlemen?"

Prince Chengqian called him back in his ear, Qin Lang turned his head to look at Chengqian, this child is growing up rapidly, his face is not as plump and round as before, his face is thinner and longer, and he is getting more and more mature. Looks a bit like an emperor.

   Tourists drunk by the warm wind.

  The summer breeze is breezy, and the cool breeze blowing in the hall really makes people doze off.

   "What did His Highness say?"

  Absent during class, this is the privilege of being a teacher. If you are a student, you must be punished to stand or copy books, Cheng Qian secretly slandered.

   "Sir, my mother has been feeling unwell recently. I would like to ask His Majesty's permission to save people to become monks, build Buddhist temples, and pray for my mother."

  Qin Lang looked at the young Cheng Qian, he was very sincere when he said this, indeed he was full of filial piety, but he frowned after hearing this.

  Nowadays, the imperial court implements a policy of suppressing Buddhism, and monks and Taoists are being eliminated everywhere, but the prince says that he wants to save people to become monks.

   Maybe someone is deliberately inducing someone here, maybe it is a person who worships Buddhism, or simply the monks want to use the prince to change the national policy of the court.

   "Your Highness, the Empress is not feeling well, she should ask the doctor for help, why bother to ask for a fish?"

   "Then can I donate money, silk, fields, sesame oil and money to the Buddhist temple to repair the statue of Buddha in the temple with gold plating, so that the monks can pray for the queen?" The prince asked again.

  The queen was very ill this time, the prince had to visit and accompany her every day, and even served soup and medicine himself. Every time before serving the medicine to the queen, he had to try it himself.

  Qin Lang criticized Chengqian's behavior of testing medicine after knowing it, because the medicine is three-point poisonous, and the medicine is symptomatic and curative, and it is harmful and not beneficial for people who are not sick.

  Chengqian looks like this now, full of filial piety and sincerity, but a little sick and rushed to the doctor.

"Your Highness, Buddha Sakyamuni's Dharma at the beginning did not establish words or statues. Many Buddhist sects today have actually violated the original intention of the Buddha. What is Dharma and what does it mean to become a Buddha? The Buddha said, Dependent origination, conditioned cessation, impermanence, no-self, and Nirvana."

"Buddha is a kind of belief, a kind of thought, and becoming a Buddha is a kind of awareness. As long as there is a Buddha in your heart, it doesn't depend on those superficial forms. Meditation, meditation, eating fast and chanting Buddha, and worshiping idols are all wrong and go astray. , is also opposed by Sakyamuni, which is putting the cart before the horse.”

   "The queen's phoenix body is against harmony. When she asks for medicine, her highness will accompany and take care of her more, instead of going to save people and become a monk, paying money to build a Buddha."

  For Qin Lang, he respects other people's beliefs, but you can't deceive people under the banner of belief.

You can believe that there is a pure land world, you can believe that you can become a Buddha and go to the Land of Ultimate Bliss if you practice Buddhism and do good deeds in the future, but you can’t become a parasite because of this. If you practice your Buddha, it should not affect your work life, or even marry a wife and have children That's right.

  This should be the same as the hundreds of schools of thought in the pre-Qin period. This is just the blooming of various philosophical and humanistic thoughts.

   There is no need to exalt or suppress too much. It is understandable for true devout practitioners, but you don’t have to be polite to those fake monks.

  As the crown prince, the crown prince of a country, Chengqian certainly cannot deviate from the mainstream thinking of the emperor and the court, otherwise the consequences will be serious.

   "Your Highness, why don't you spend money to organize doctors to collect and organize the prescriptions and medical books left by the doctors of the past dynasties, and compile them into books after re-diagnosing and compiling a medical book, which is also a great contribution to the hundreds of millions of people in the world."

  Qin Lang gave Cheng Qian an idea.

  The development of TCM in China has been handed down in one continuous line, but after thousands of years, it is still relatively chaotic. Even doctors have a serious idea of ​​self-preservation, so it is also somewhat harmful to the progress of medicine. On the other hand, many intractable diseases and symptomatic prescriptions are also being continuously accumulated and improved, and many prescriptions have been verified as inapplicable, which requires an authority to set a new standard.

  It will be beneficial if this matter is done.

   Not only is it a great help to medicine, but it also greatly improves Chengqian's reputation.

Just like Chengqian and their poverty alleviation practice class before, it spontaneously expanded, and after Qin Lang became the prince's teacher again, he immediately raised the subject. He not only applied for special funds, but also started a comprehensive public opinion publicity, which made people More people joined in poverty alleviation, and on the other hand, it was natural to give the prince a name of benevolence.

  During this time, Qin Lang has done two things. One is to engage in this poverty alleviation project, and the other is to engage in the polo league. I have to say that although it takes a lot of energy, the effect is still good.

  Prince Chengqian, who is only nine years old now, has rapidly spread his reputation inside and outside the country, and has won unanimous praise from the common people. The activity of helping poor families get rid of poverty originated in Chongxian Hall, spread rapidly, and now Hongwen Hall and Guozijian have also begun to keep up. Even the emperor personally praised this move, and the prime ministers and princes also followed up.

  Now the central government, three provinces, six ministries, nine monasteries, five prisons, twelve guards, etc. are also promoting learning and poverty alleviation activities one after another. Although it must be a bit of formalism, and even provoked private dissatisfaction among some officials, but in any case, this matter is extremely well received by the people.

   After all, the imperial court has included fixed-point poverty alleviation in the assessment items of officials, so everyone is still working hard. As a prince or nobleman or an official in the court, there are still good conditions to help one or two poor families.

So since the activity was launched, it has indeed achieved good results. The figures are quite astonishing. Chengqian personally helped ten pairs of people, and all of them have been lifted out of poverty. well-off.

   And Qin Lang is not the kind of person who only does things.

With his full efforts to promote the publicity, now Chengqian's reputation is getting higher and higher day by day, just as dazzling as the rising sun in the morning. like.

  The bell rang.

Qin Lang got up, he, the young master of the prince, was not actually the teacher of the Chongxian Hall, but because he was the first to initiate this poverty alleviation activity, and the effect was so good, after Li Gang was indeed completely unable to actually manage the Chongxian Hall, Li Shimin Then Qin Lang was again appointed as a scholar of Chongxian Hall.

  As a bachelor, Qin Lang would occasionally give a class or two to the students in the library, instead of teaching specific subjects.

  He speaks as he pleases in class, but he is well received by the students.

  When the bell rang, Qin Lang didn't have the habit of procrastinating, so he dismissed get out of class immediately.

  The students stood up and bowed together to say goodbye to the teacher.

   Walking out of the classroom, Qin Lang met Li Gang.

   Li Gang, who was in his eighties, could no longer walk. The emperor gave special approval to allow him to sit in a sedan chair. This is a very high honor. You know, in the Tang Dynasty, even the prime ministers either rode a horse or a carriage, but no one sat in a sedan chair. There are strict grade restrictions on the sedan chairs carried by humans. Only the emperor and empress are eligible to sit on them, or the elderly prime ministers and ministers specially grant qualifications to sit on them.

  Li Na is no longer concurrently a scholar of the Chongxian Hall, but he is still Prince Shaobao and Prince Zhan Shi, nominally the top bureaucrats of the Eastern Palace. It's just that this one rarely comes to the East Palace once a month or two.

  Today, I came to the Chongxian Hall in a sedan chair.

"The old man knows that time is not long. This life has gone through the Northern Wei Dynasty, Western Wei Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, and Tang Dynasty. From prosperity to war chaos, from chaos to order, from order to chaos, and then back to order, in eighty years, There is a cycle of chaos and chaos, but it is the people of the dawn of the world who suffer."

  Grey-haired Li Gang looked at the young man in front of him, leaning on a dragon head stick.

"What you said about Buddhism in class just now is very reasonable. I'm leaving. I still have some concerns about the prince. I have taught three princes in my life. In addition, the prince who taught, I can preach to people all my life, but none of them has good results, I often doubt myself, and now I can hear the people in the suburbs of Chang'an praising the benevolent name of Prince Chengqian, and I feel very relieved."

   "The troubled times are over, and the prosperous times are coming. Mr. Li, we now have a good emperor and a good prince. The Tang Dynasty will restart the prosperous China!" Qin Lang said.

"It's a pity that I won't see that day, but I can imagine it." Li Gang stretched out his hand, and Qin Lang hurried forward to help him, "Sanlang, the prince has a pure character, so you must teach him well. There are upright people such as Yu Zhining in the East Palace. Not much, it's just that although they are upright, sometimes they are almost pedantic. The old man used to be the same as Yu Zhining and the others now, thinking that there should be more admonitions and rules for the prince, but now I understand that just admonishing is not enough, the East Palace still needs you Such young and energetic people can assist and complement each other."

  Li Gang has been upright all his life. He has assisted several princes and princes, but none of them ended well. Of course, he didn't think there was anything wrong with him before.

   He even thinks that the princes he taught, such as Yang Yong and Li Jiancheng, are very good, but they are dying, but they see many things thoroughly.

   Now he has to admit that the students he taught are still a little worse after all.

   "I didn't understand one thing before. What I taught was the prince, the prince of the country, and the future emperor, so I made many mistakes and took many detours. Being an emperor is not a saint. I was wrong."

   "Old Li is also right, the emperor is the king of a country, if the king's moral character is not good, it will be a disaster for the world."

"Things have the right to do things, and there is Taoism in learning. It's not okay to only pay attention to Taoism and not art. I can't be partial. I used to ignore art and only teach Taoism. That's why my first two prince students were all in the end. The tragic ending of being taken away to death is my teacher who harmed them."

   "In the East Palace from now on, Yu Zhining and the others will teach the Way of Chengqian, and you will teach the way of inheriting Qian, with both Taoism and skill, so there is no need to worry about the position of Chengqian."

After Li Gang finished speaking, he left a few boxes of books for Qin Lang, "These are the books of sages and sages, the classic way, I know you are not good at learning, but you should read more books when you have time. Otherwise, the road will be long and difficult.”

   "Chengqian will be handed over to you. To keep Chengqian is to keep Datang, remember!"

   After speaking, the octogenarian turned around and left.

  (end of this chapter)