This witch is a boy

Don't look at my master Yixiu Zongchun, who wears tattered clothes and is always in short supply on weekdays, but he has never lost money to buy wine and drink in brothels.

For example, once a person who was deeply in debt asked Yixiu for help, and the monk Yixiu agreed without saying a word, and only made one request, asking the young girl of the other party's family to marry him.

Thinking of you, Master Yixiu, who is about to know his destiny at an age, and still misses my youngest daughter, but due to debts and helplessness, he had no choice but to agree.

As a result, Master Yixiu sent wedding invitations everywhere, saying that he was getting married, received countless dowry money, and finally gave the dowry money to the other party, and then left.

Showing the demeanor of an eminent monk, of course, for the person who gave the gift money, this behavior of the monk Yixiu is undoubtedly very annoying.

However, Ying Siguang has to admit that his master is an eminent monk, even an eminent monk who lives freely and has a good way of making money.

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Monk Huiming and Monk Minghui are two orphans picked up by Yixiu Zongchun, just as Yixiu Zongchun likes to pick up and adopt children abandoned by their parents. Because of Master Yixiu, the two monks often act as kindergarten principals.

Of course, because Master Ikkyu likes to travel around the world, in order to deal with the robbers on the road, a warrior with high martial arts skills is also a must. Shinmata Kuro is the samurai who guards the monk Ikkyu. According to legend, he is the side of the Muromachi shogunate serving the third generation of general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. A descendant of Shinyuemon.

Of course, the reason why a legend is used is because Shinmata Kuro is said to be a descendant of Shinyuemon. It is a very unreliable thing. It is obviously a samurai sent by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to monitor Ikkyu, the prince of the Northern Dynasty who has the blood of the Southern Dynasty. It happened that Wangnian became a samurai who ran outside with Monk Yixiu, and later became a monk under the influence of Yixiu.

Shinmata Kuro inherited the career of his grandfather Shinyuemon, and continued to monitor Ikkyu for the shogunate, and actually followed the role of the younger brother who ran behind the monk Ikkyu.

"These days are really unbearable. The life of the people is getting more and more difficult. The Eastern Army came to collect food, and the Western Army also came to collect food. This year's collection is fine, but next year's food is also collected. "

Monk Huiming said dissatisfiedly that this was a village near the Shouen Temple where his master Ikyu Zongchun lived. Because it was close to Kyoto, it was hard to imagine being exploited by the Eastern and Western armies.

"Is this asking everyone to forcibly activate Ichiku?"

Monk Huiming said in a deep voice, looking at the villagers in ragged clothes and snatching the last bit of food from the villagers' mouths, the villagers either had to starve to death, or they could only rise up and launch a rebellion.

"The master said he would find a way, you have to trust the master."

Monk Minghui also sighed, looked at the surrounding villagers and said, "I originally wanted to persuade them to leave here and go to other places to seek a living, but they all refused to leave, saying that the land is the foundation of their existence and their coffins. If you die, you will die here."

"Have you heard? Our little junior brother is said to be Yu Luoyin, the general. He can speak from birth. He is the reincarnation of the future Buddha."

Monk Huiming said without giving up, as if he wanted to see his brother's performance and hear his opinion from the words he quietly revealed.

"Junior Brother Guang, he is just an ordinary farmer's child, don't talk nonsense, you know Master hates this kind of talk."

Monk Minghui frowned, he knew very well what his senior brother really thought.

"I want to go to Hongan Temple to practice Buddhism. Master Lianru is a famous eminent monk in the world. Junior brother, you should understand what I mean."

Huiming said bluntly that the world is in chaos now because the light of the Buddha cannot illuminate all living beings. If you want the Buddha to come to the world and create a pure land on earth, you must do it on earth.

This will be a supreme Buddhist kingdom where there is no imperial court, no shogunate, no ministers, no warriors, only Buddhist disciples and thousands of believers living together, no exploitation, no oppression, and everyone is equal.

Lianru of Hongan Temple is the master of Zhongxing of Hongan Temple. He was called a master when he was very young, and at this time he was called a master of Buddhism.

Just like the white-hearted sweetheart in his hometown many years ago, he has become a Bodhisattva in the flesh, and he also wants to establish this unparalleled merit and save sentient beings. It is only today that he expresses his thoughts.

"Sorry, I can't promise you this matter, but every brother has his own ambitions, and I won't stop you."

After monk Minghui finished speaking, he closed his eyes and recited Buddhist scriptures.

"I'm going to my hometown to find the golden body of the former sweetheart Baixin. Only by relying on the power of the Buddha can we end this troubled world. Goodbye, Junior Brother."

After Huiming finished speaking, he turned around and left without any nostalgia for this place. This place is really too small, too small to accommodate his compassionate heart of wanting to save the world.

"Master Minghui, don't you want to stop him?"

Shinmata Kuro looked at the monk Huiming who was going away, and then glanced at his junior brother Minghui and asked.

"No need, those who have to go will always go. It's just that I am a little worried about whether my brother has fallen into evil ways. The power of gods and Buddhas cannot be used indiscriminately like this, Amitabha."

Minghui recited the Buddha's name loudly, and saw an old monk and a six-year-old child coming from a distance. If it was his master, he should have a way to solve his confusion.

He is full of confidence in his master Yixiu Zongchun, just like a believer is in the Buddha.

Chapter 97

"You feel a little uncomfortable?"

Yixiu Zongchun and Ying Siguang were walking on the road together. At this time, Yixiu was no longer wearing the tattered cassock, but a rather beautiful cassock. Wearing it on him, he naturally looked like a dignified monk. Dade image.

"Yeah, it's really miserable for the people to be displaced."

When Ying Siguang saw the hungry people waiting to die on the side of the road, his heart became more and more uncomfortable. He had never seen such a miserable scene in modern times.

"Feel their pain as if you were your own body. This is your compassion. Confucianism also says that compassion is the essence of human beings. The two are not interlinked."

When Ikyu Zongchun said this, Ying Siguang looked at the people nearby and said, "The reason why they seem unwilling to leave their homeland seems to be because there is a monster named 'Sesshomaru' on the road. After we meet the general later, Master, can you drive that monster away?"

"Oh, let me drive away the monsters. Xiaoguang, why do you think I have the ability to drive away the terrible monsters, Master?"

"Oh, because you are an eminent monk, master."

"Even if Xiaoguang praises master as an eminent monk, master will not be happy, because master is just an old monk with no power to restrain chickens, so have you ever seen master use his great magic power to subdue demons?"

"I've never seen this before."

"That's right. Since you have never seen it, why did you say that I have this magic power?"

Ying Siguang was speechless, and could hardly refute his master Yixiu's words. He thought his master was an eminent monk, but is this eminent monk necessarily related to possessing the magic power to subdue demons?

Ying Siguang couldn't speak, facing Ikkyu Zongjun's rhetorical question, he could only speak for a while.

"Buddhism is the knowledge of saving people. However, if the spells cast are no different from yin and yang, then it becomes a trick of struggle. Why do you think that an eminent monk must have the ability to subdue demons? You must know that eminent monks practice to save To save oneself and save sentient beings, is this kind of ability helpful for becoming a Buddha?"

Ikkyu Zongchun's rhetorical question made Ying Siguang thoughtful. In his cognition, eminent monks in Buddhism must possess great magic power, just like modern onmyoji, especially onmyoji at the level of the twelve gods. Everyone has their own understanding of yin and yang.

All of this seemed to be taken for granted. If Ikkyu Zongchun didn't talk about why an eminent monk must have an astonishing cultivation base, he still couldn't understand it, and he couldn't help but think about it when he brought it up.

"The first time Buddhism appeared, it was only when the World Honored One became a Buddha. The demons of the six realms confuse and confuse all living beings and prevent them from becoming enlightened. It is a trick of fighting, as long as the cultivation level of Buddhism is higher and the thoughts of compassion are stronger, the mana power will naturally be higher, but in fact mana power is just an incidental product in the practice."

After Ichixiu Zongchun finished speaking, Ying Siguang nodded with a sudden realization. In fact, Nadeko of Lengquanyuan had also told him this truth.

Takashiko wanted to ask something, and monk Minghui hurried over to greet him with Shinmata Kuro.

"Where's Huiming?" Yixiu Zongchun looked at Huiming in the team and asked, looking at Minghui.

"He's gone." Minghui said so, Ikkyu Zongchun just nodded in response, as if he knew this would happen a long time ago.

"Brother Guang, your hair seems to have grown a bit, do you want me to cut it for you?"

Minghui looked at the child next to Ikkyu Zongchun, squatted down his body, and said with an expression that he thought was gentle, that persuasive appearance made people look full of sincerity, but Ying Siguang seemed to be facing an enemy , covering his hair with his hands.

The head can be broken, the blood can flow, and the hair must not be lost.

Brother Minghui has been thinking about his hair for a long time. Originally, it doesn't matter if his hair grows long.

Although he inexplicably agreed to be Ikkyu Zongchun's apprentice without knowing what was going on, he never thought that he would also become a monk.

Once before, he was ignorant and agreed to help him cut his hair. Who knew that he shaved his head bald in a daze, and turned into a complete little monk.

Since then, Ying Siguang has been wary of this brother Minghui, and this monk always has bad intentions for his hair.

"But if you don't shave your hair, your hair will be as long as a girl's now."

Monk Minghui looked at Ying Siguang's girl-like long hair, and then looked at the girl-like face, not to mention that it was okay, but he really looked like a boy and a girl, and they were very beautiful.

"You don't need to worry about this. I will follow the master to see the general. You two should wait obediently at the gate."

Ying Siguang said loudly that even if he is treated as a girl, it is better than becoming a monk, and his sister still counts on him to inherit the family business.

"That's enough, don't make a fuss, the two of us will go to see the general later, and Minghui will please you."

Yixiu Zongchun smiled, wearing a beautiful cassock this time, it was obvious that he had spent a lot of money.

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Japanese cultural scholar Shichihei Yamamoto once made an intriguing statement: "Although the Kamakura shogunate controlled the land, it was not good at managing currency, and it fell because of this. The subsequent Muromachi shogunate, although it controlled the currency, could not dominate its neighboring countries."

To put it simply, the Kamakura shogunate owns the land, but does not have enough money, so that the Yuan army attacked once and won several battles. As a result, daimyos from all over the world came to Kamakura and asked the shogunate for rewards but took No money was paid to reward the army, which eventually led to the downfall of the Kamakura shogunate.

The subsequent Muromachi shogunate did not go smoothly at the beginning of its establishment. It can be described as twists and turns. In the era of the Kamakura shogunate, following the heroes of the Ashikaga Takashi, the status of the Kamakura shogunate existed on an equal footing. Don't give out a lot of land to reward the royal family who were very powerful before.

The general's direct territory is about one Yamashiro country, and the general of the Western Army Yamana Mochitoyo, who broke out in the Onin Rebellion, owned 11 countries in his heyday, which is about one-sixth of all Japan, so it is also called one-sixth temple.

The general of the Western Army is only one of the three leaders, and the strength of the Hosokawa family, the general of the Eastern Army, is not inferior to that of the famous mountain masters.

The daimyo under his control controlled ten times more territory than his immediate superior general, but this was not a very rare phenomenon, so it was not surprising that the Onin Rebellion broke out in Ying Siguang's view.

Of course, this phenomenon of masters, weak ministers and strong ministers has existed since Ashikaga Takashi. The reason why the turmoil did not occur until the eighth shogun was because the Muromachi shogunate was very rich. authority.

With the help of the joint trade with the Ming Dynasty and the collection of money from both ends of the German government, as a general, the family is naturally very rich.

Of course, according to Master Yixiu, due to the long-term war between the Eastern Army and the Western Army, many daimyos had problems with their military expenditures, so as the general's wife, Tomiko Hino also lent a lot of money to each daimyo so that they could continue fighting.

Of course, all the loan sharks were released, and the big names must not have the guts to dare not pay back the money owed to the general's family.Therefore, if such a wealthy general’s family doesn’t come to ask for alms, should they ask for alms from the emperor who can’t even afford rice cakes during the Chinese New Year?

Inside the Flower Palace.

General Ashikaga Yoshimasa was admiring Sarugaku, when suddenly he heard the notification from the people below, Master Ikkyu asked to see him.

This is a rare visitor. I really don't know what the monk Ikkyu Zongchun's intentions are for coming to him.

"Master General, do you want to see me?"

Ise Shinkuro asked next to him, his job was to introduce people to the general, and he had to arrange for daimyos from all over the world to ask to see the general.

However, Ikkyu Zongjun's identity is really too special. He is the son of Emperor Komatsu. Because his mother has the blood of the Southern Dynasty, he had to be kicked out of the palace. Monks are not allowed to leave offspring, and the surveillance has not been relaxed until now.

"See you, since the master is asking to see you, then I will see you naturally."

Ashikaga Yoshimasa yawned dispiritedly, always feeling bored, the world is in such a mess, it's meaningless to be a general.

Takashimitsu sat respectfully behind his master Ikkyu, he looked at the man who seemed to be unable to raise his spirits, and instantly understood that he was the great general Ashikaga Yoshimasa who ruled the country.

"Master, as the saying goes, if you don't have anything to go to the Three Treasures Palace, what do you want to learn from me today? If you lack food and clothing, you can ask me for it, and you can also help Master raise the expenses for going to the brothel."

Ashikaga Yoshimasa laughed out loud, and this laughter made Takashimitsu a little embarrassed. His master did not abide by the Buddhist rules and regulations at all, as Ashikaga Yoshimasa said.

"Poor monk, you want to make a deal for the general. Is the general who is rich in the world short of treasures?"

Ikkyu Zongjun didn't care about Ashikaga Yoshimasa's smile, and asked calmly.

"Treasures, do I still need this? Minamoto Raimitsu's famous sword for slaying ghosts, Abe Seimei's strategy for determining things, Master Saicheng's hand-copied Buddhist scriptures, in this world, apart from the three divine weapons of the Heavenly Royal Family, I am afraid that there is nothing worth my attention. "

Ashikaga Yoshimasa laughed out loud, thinking it was absurd, you, Ikkyu Munejun, are just a poor monk, how can you compare to the treasures accumulated every day by General Ashikaga's family.

"The tea bowl used by Zhou Guangfang, the straw mat used by Emperor Tianzhi, and the crutch used by Li Er, don't you think these three things the General doesn't like?"

Yixiu Zongchun said loudly, his tone was full of composure and confidence, and even more disdainful, what kind of treasures are these of yours.

Zhou Guangfang is the most famous maker of tea bowls in Japan, none of them. Emperor Tenchi is the sage monarch who led the Taika reform. Each one is not inferior to the treasures mentioned by Ashikaga Yoshimasa, especially the last one, the crutch used by Li Er , placed in China, this is the Taoist sage who completely overwhelmed Confucius.

Even the emperors of the Tang Dynasty had to trace him as their ancestor. If Sakyamuni was the founder of Buddhism, then Lao Tzu was the founder of Taoism.

"Wait a minute, master, you really have these three things."

Ashikaga Yoshimasa stood up in a daze, hearing these three things, even as a general, he couldn't hold himself still.

Ying Siguang was puzzled, his master Yixiu Zongchun was actually a poor monk despite his well-dressed clothes, how could he have these three treasures.

And even if he came across the golden body of the Buddha, he would probably dismantle it directly and exchange it for wine money, so how could he keep it until now.

"Of course there are. Monks don't tell lies."

Monk Ikkyu said confidently, and the general Ashikaga Yoshimasa at the side also calmed down and said, "Master, please make a price. How much do you think I need to pay to buy these three treasures."

Chapter 98 The Palace of Flowers

How much money can buy these three things? It stands to reason that these three things are truly priceless treasures, which cannot be described in terms of money in the human sense, but since they are going to be sold, they can only offer one price.

Yixiu Zongchun stretched out a finger, just like asking Zen in Buddhism, using the legendary one-finger Zen.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa was confused, how much does this finger represent, gold, silver or copper coins, how much does this represent? Before he was confused for a long time, Ichikyu Zongjun put down his finger and quoted the price.

"Not much, not much, the poor monk only needs [-] guan."

Ikkyu Zongchun said calmly, but Takashi Mitsu almost couldn't stabilize his body.

Ten thousand guan, this is not much, you must know that the [-] guan that Master Yixiu refers to must be Yongle Qian's [-] guan.

"Is it ten thousand Yongle money?"

Ashikaga Yoshimasa pondered for a while, ten thousand Yongle money is really not a small amount, and it's not that he can't get it out himself, the premise is to use the treasury of the shogunate, not his own private money.

Yongle Tongbao is the legal currency of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the legal currency of Japan. After the third generation of general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu opened the joint trade with the Ming Dynasty, a large number of beautifully produced Yongle Tongbao became the hard currency of the whole of Japan. The status is more than today. The U.S. dollar, which will depreciate at any time, will be stronger.

In the late Warring States period, the Imagawa family bought the young Takechiyo, who later became Tokugawa Ieyasu, and only spent Yongle Qiankan.

In short, Yongle Tongbao was very valuable in the early Warring States period when there was no large influx of Yongle Tongbao. In terms of a thousand copper plates, it was 1000 million Yongle coins. It's normal to exchange ten for one, which is [-] million yuan.