Great Wei Nengchen

What is different is that other school captains wear swords or knives, but he is holding a stack of ledgers and an abacus on his waist, which jingles as he walks!

Followed by a large number of soldiers, in addition to knives, guns, swords and halberds, they also held crowbars, poles, ropes, scrapers... They stared at the Buddha statues, big bells, and bronzes in the temple!

"Amitabha, it turned out that Captain Wu came to visit. The poor monk was unable to go on a long journey. I hope you will forgive me and sit down inside to drink tea!"

"You don't need to drink tea, please settle the debt, master!"

"Well, the monastery has spent all it has on the purchase of glazed Buddha statues. Recently, the incense money has not been strong, and the matter of repaying the debt is weak. Can we delay for a few days and let the little monk raise money again?"

"It's a matter of course to repay debts. Tianyi Temple is rich and can't come up with mere decimals. The master is deliberately evading it. Could it be that he is colluding with the Buddhist kingdom in the Western Regions to prevent the army from marching west?"

"Don't dare! Don't dare! --The poor monk absolutely dare not, but he really has no money!"

………………

Seeing that the debt collector came to the door, all the high-level officials retreated one after another. No one dared to touch this brow, so the monk Shenguang had no choice but to come forward in person, serving tea and begging the guests with kind words, hoping to give him some time!

Who knows that Wu's oil and salt will not enter, but he just refuses to be flexible, and wants the monks to pay back the money, and even puts on the big label of "colluding with foreign enemies and obstructing the Western Expedition", which is severely buckled!

This frightened the monks. They could repay their debts, and if they had no money, they could take things to cover their debts. At least their lives were not in danger. Once they were charged with colluding with foreign enemies, their bald heads would be lost!

"Hehe, I have a predestined relationship with Buddhism, so I don't want to force it too much. Since the eminent monks are inconvenient, they can extend it for three to five days, but the interest must be repaid first, so that the officials can also deal with errands!"

"Well, the interest is more than 8000 taels of gold. The small temple really has nowhere to raise it. Can you give it a little grace?"

"Your temple is full of treasures, raising money is a trivial matter. Since the masters are unwilling to do it, the lower officials are willing to do it for you—do it!"

Wu Zhi was no longer showing mercy, and waved his hands violently one after another. The soldiers immediately swarmed up and attacked the resplendent temple, smashing Buddha statues, lifting copper bells, smashing gates, scraping golden paint... really scraping the ground three feet , do everything you can!

"After three days, the principal will be paid off, otherwise the officials will not be so polite!"

"Is that considered polite?"

Chapter 1406 Rolling interest, turning over the account

"Report to the host: Wu Zhi led people to ransack the Daxiong Palace, and all the gold, silver, and copper Buddha statues were removed!"

"Wu Zhi ransacked the Palace of Heavenly Kings again, and removed all the incense burners, tripods, candle holders, copper chimes, candlesticks... and several thousand catties of lamp oil!"

"It's not good, the second floor of the bell and drum is also finished. The bronze bell, bronze drum, bronze plaque... and more than a dozen little novice monks, all of them were taken away!"

"Buddha, Tianyi Temple is over—woo woo!"

…………

Looking at the dilapidated temple, the monks stamped their feet, beat their chests, and wailed loudly. Finally, they understood the meaning of "the sky is three feet high".

For all precious metals, not to mention large Buddha statues, bells and drums, and furnace tripods, small wind chimes, door bolts, door knockers, copper locks, lamp hooks... and even copper plates, bowls, and chopsticks for eating are not spared. .

There are some Buddha statues and Bodhisattvas with gold foil on their bodies. These people actually used a scraper to remove the gold foil piece by piece, leaving only ugly clay bodies. Today's Tianyi Temple is called "Wujin Temple" even more appropriate.

"Immediately ring the bronze bell and summon all the monks in the temple to come, and let's all fight the catastrophe together!"

"But the copper bells have been moved away, and the little monk has not been hit!"

"Then go shout, call everyone!"

…………

After a while, all the monks had gathered, but the number of monks was much smaller. Some young monks were snatched away by Wu Zhi, saying that they had sold them to pay off the debt, and some monks saw that the situation was not good, so they slipped away with oil on their feet. up!

The rest are also sad, ready to pack up and leave at any time, saying that when a monk hits the clock one day, now that the bronze bell has been removed, can the monk continue to be a monk?

"In the past, the Buddha gave up his throne, went to the deep mountains to practice hard, endured wind, frost, rain and snow, and went through untold hardships. After sitting under a pippala tree, he sat in lotus position, meditated and meditated, and finally became a Buddha!

What we are going through today is also a great test. Only those who are determined to live with the temple and die together can achieve the right fruit, ascend to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, and escape the suffering of samsara! "

"Amitabha!--Amitabha!"

First preached the Dharma for a while to stabilize the hearts of the monks, big and small, and let them perform their duties to restore the damaged temple as much as possible, and then called a group of eminent monks to continue to discuss countermeasures!

Monk Shenguang is not an idiot, on the contrary he is very smart, it's just that he has been a 'living Buddha' for too long, and he is worshiped by people every day, so his head is fumigated and he made a series of mistakes!

What happened today was like a slap in the face, it woke him up in pain, and he saw through many problems. Wu Zhi dared to be so arrogant because he had a big backer - Xiao Yi, or the Han court, That's the crux of the matter!

Years of melee in the Central Plains caused the people to live in dire straits. In order to appease the hearts of the people and maintain the rule of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court vigorously supported the Buddhist school. This is the reason for the prosperity of the Buddhist school!

The power of the Buddhist school is expanding, constantly occupying land, population, and wealth, harming the interests of the country, and causing dissatisfaction among the rulers, so Buddhism has been suppressed!

Therefore, what the monks really have to deal with is not Wu Zhi or Xiao Yi, but the decision-makers of the Han court. If the fundamental problem is not solved, the Buddhist school will never have peace, but how to deal with the court?

The first way is to rebel, gather all the monks and believers, rise up, cut trees into soldiers, just like the Taiping Tao, fight the court to the death, and establish a political religion...

As soon as this idea flashed, it was thrown out of the blue by the monk Shenguang. Regardless of the expansion of the Buddhist power, which claims to have tens of thousands of monks and millions of believers, if you really want to rebel, there is no chance of winning!

First of all, Buddhism is divided internally. There are hundreds of temples, big and small, fighting each other. Without a unified leader, there is no way they will work together to rebel!

Secondly, Cao Cao and Xiao Yi governed the country well, with a very solid ruling foundation, and won the hearts of the people in the Central Plains, and the powerful fighting power of Cao Jun is even more daunting!

If there is a rebellion, I am afraid that within an hour, the hundreds of bald heads in the whole temple will be chopped off by the officers and soldiers and hung at the gate of the city to show the public, right?

Since he was powerless to resist, he had no choice but to show weakness. After some consideration, the monk Shenguang started the plan to save the temple, which was divided into three steps:

Step [-]: The four head monks come forward to lobby the dignitaries who have a good relationship with Buddhism, hoping that they will say a few words to the Xiangfu and Houfu to stop the imperial court's plan to destroy Buddhism, and at least let Tianyi Temple go. There must be rewards!

Step [-]: Send people to the temples, and use the principle of cold lips and teeth to persuade the abbots and abbots of the temples to come to discuss major issues. As long as the Buddhist sects are united, even if they can't fight back, they can at least protect themselves, right?

The third step: Let the confidant disciples visit the big businessmen, the rich, the big landlords... and all the rich people inside and outside Xuchang, and try their best to borrow some money so that they can repay the loan from Wushou Bank. This vicious dog is too vicious, if he is allowed to visit again, there will be no tile left in Tianyi Temple.

..........................................

"Reporting to the host: The gates of the dignitaries are closed, and they don't want to see us at all, and there are words that say that you have offended someone who shouldn't be offended, and they can't do anything, they can only ask the Buddha to bless you!

Reply to the host: All the major temples received invitations, but they were all reluctant to come, saying that the threshold of our Tianyi Temple is too high, they can't climb high, and they are afraid of breaking their ankles! "

…………

The two groups of people came back one after another, and the monks were all sad. Tianyi Temple was too domineering and ostentatious before, which offended many people. Now seeing them in trouble, no one offered a helping hand, but prepared Add insult to injury!

In the evening, the third group of monks also came back, but they brought back two pieces of news, one bad and one good: the bad news was that no money was borrowed, and all the merchants and landlords in Xuchang went all over the house, but no one was willing to borrow money. It was full of sarcasm, saying that apart from a group of bald monks, what else could be mortgaged in Tianyi Temple?

The good news is that in Xuchang-Dongfang City area, several new banks have opened, such as Dayuan Bank, Erci Bank, Sanjiang Bank, Sihai Bank...all of them have strong financial resources and are willing to borrow from Tianyi Temple, but the interest is high A little bit!

"The minimum interest rate is [-]%, and the cycle is only in October. Is this opening a bank? It's simply lending usury!"

"At this point, the usury has to be borrowed, otherwise Wu Zhi will come again and Tianyi Temple will be reduced to ruins!"

"Drink poison to quench thirst!--Drink poison to quench thirst!"