Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

At the end of the court meeting that day, Zhao Yiyi watched Kou Zhun and Liu E both with dark faces, and announced their withdrawal from the court.

Yan Shu single-handedly drew the hatred between the pros and cons, Zhao Yiyi could only respond with a smile to this fearless spirit of ridicule.

The two parties, Kou and Liu, have probably blacklisted Yan Shu by now. Since they don't want it, Zhao Yiyi decided to pick it up.

It would be a pity not to recruit such a ready-made royalist seedling.

It just so happened that Yan Shu and Fan Zhongyan had a special sympathy between outstanding literati, so Zhao Yiyi sent Fan Zhongyan to get close to Yan Shu.

Pulling people into the party cannot be done clearly, unless the other party is as morally loyal and patriotic as Bao Zheng.

Fan Zhongyan first went to the frustrated Yan Shu's house for a few meals, expressing his friend's concern, and at the same time enlightening Yan Shu, where there is no grass in the end of the world, why bother to love two flowers alone, a good bird chooses a tree to live in, and a loyal minister chooses a wise master ,Although you won't be able to become a privy envoy in a short time, Old Yan, you have a bright future ahead, believe me, a bright future is waiting for you...

Yan Shu murmured, seeming to have listened.

Just when Fan Zhongyan was planning to take Yan Shu to meet the little emperor in two days, Yan Shu did this for him.

It was beyond everyone's expectations and caught everyone off guard.

He actually beat his attendant unilaterally while accompanying him!

On that day, Zhao Yiyi and Liu E went to the Yuqing Palace to pay homage to the Buddha.

Yuqing Palace is a luxurious palace built in Song Zhenzong's reign. Its level of extravagance even Zhang Qi, who once pimped him, couldn't bear it. , is not something you, the emperor, should do.

Now that the whole country is destroying Buddhas and making money, the Yuqing Palace is the first to bear the brunt.

Of course, all the Buddha statues enshrined in it were taken away to make money, and the remaining gold and silver ritual vessels and precious decorative ornaments were also removed, leaving only some necessary furniture.

The current Yuqing Palace is as cool and cool as the model houses that Zhao Yiyi had seen in the sales office in his previous life.

If there is anything missing, it is not lacking, and if there is anything, it is not there.

That's the case.

There are two reasons why Zhao Yiyi and Liu E have to come here to worship the Buddha. The official reason is to pray for Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng who has ascended to heaven long ago. blame.

Zong. Religion is actually a need. Buddhism has been deeply rooted in the land of China for 1000 years since it was introduced to the Central Plains at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

After Emperor Wudi of Liang practiced Buddhism, Master Sanzang went to Tianzhu to seek scriptures in Tang Dynasty. Buddhism became more and more influential in the Central Plains, and even had a faint tendency to surpass Taoism.

After all, Buddhism pays attention to the reincarnation of cause and effect, and good people will be rewarded with good things, and bad people will go to hell. This caters to the spiritual needs of the working people.

People are willing to worship Buddha and believe in Buddha.Now the imperial court suddenly wants to destroy the Buddha statue and use it to mint money, which angered the majority of Buddhists.

What is money? Money is a thing, the most mundane thing, but Buddha is pure and transcendent. Destroying Buddha statues and making money is something that Buddhists cannot accept anyway.

However, the rule of the Song Dynasty was so consolidated that it has to be said that there was no room for these Buddhists who did not use knives or guns to resist the court.

As for whether there are Buddhist believers in the army——

A group of punks, Xin is also Master Xinguan.What do you do if you believe in the Buddha, the Buddha doesn't care about paying the army.

As for the new army trained by Kou Zhun, he was exhausted from training every day, and his own mother might not remember what he looked like. What is a Buddha?

No matter how angry Buddhists are, they can only curse the court in their hearts, and at the same time, they are preparing to write a note in the Buddhist classics after the death of the emperor and empress dowager.

Did you see that these two people were punished for destroying the Buddha!

As for Zhao Yiyi and Liu E, what should they do if they didn't die unexpectedly?

How is this possible!

Didn't you see that the three martial arts and one sect exterminated Buddha, did the three martial arts and one sect all die early?Today's empress dowager destroys the Buddha, how will the end be better?

Although these Buddhists could not rebel after all, the imperial court still could not turn a blind eye to such boiling and widespread public grievances.

There are simply too many Buddhists.

The old lady in a remote mountain village may not know who the emperor is, but she will definitely recite the Buddha's name twice.

Om Mani Padme Hum can’t say it, but Namo Amitabha still talks about it.

The imperial court destroyed the Buddha statue, and when her family got a serious illness that could not be cured, where should she go with two baskets of eggs to ask for the blessing of the Buddha?

So Liu E decided to lead the little emperor to stand up and quell public grievances.

She wants the world to know that what she destroys is not a Buddha, but a Buddha statue built with countless people's fat and anointing.

What the court destroyed was not the real Buddha, but a false Buddha.Only by destroying the false Buddha can the real Buddha appear.

Don't you think that the court destroyed the Buddha statues, leaving you nowhere to worship Buddha?

Then I and the emperor will show you how to worship the Buddha without the Buddha statue.

Just in time for a day when Song Zhenzong liked to run a Taoist temple, Liu E decided to take the little emperor to Yuqing Palace to worship the Buddha on this day, and also prayed for Song Zhenzong.

In order to improve the credibility of this royal worship ceremony in the religious circle, Liu E specially sent someone to invite the abbot of Daxiangguo Temple and several eminent monks into the palace, and let them preside over the worship.

The monks of Daxiangguo Temple did not worship the Buddha without a Buddha statue, but they had no choice but to accept the Queen Mother's rude request, so they rushed to work overnight to designate a worship process without a Buddha statue.

First, the empress dowager led the officials to wait at the gate of the palace, and the monks greeted them outside the gate, and walked into the main hall together with the accompaniment of Buddhist music.

The main hall used to enshrine Buddha statues, but now it is empty, just enough to place futons, and everyone can sit around and listen to monks preaching scriptures.

After the scriptures are finished, you can sit in meditation and realize the Buddha in your heart.

If you feel that the Buddha is in your heart, then you will be enlightened.

Now that you have enlightened, it is enough to keep the Buddha in your heart, why do you need to look for fish, you must have a Buddha statue outside your body?

If you haven’t enlightened yet, it means that the fate has not arrived, and it’s useless to have a Buddha statue, you have to continue to enlighten.

Before the Emperor Dowager came to Yuqing Palace, the monks of Daxiangguo Temple had already tested the process in Yuqing Palace, and all the monks in the congregation expressed their enlightenment.

So the host of Daxiangguo Temple decided to go through this process for the emperor and queen mother tomorrow.

If the emperor and the empress dowager are also enlightened, they will promote this method throughout the country, and let temples all over the country implement this method of worshiping without Buddha statues.

The original plan was good. Without Yan Shu, this must have been a perfect experience of worshiping Buddha.

But Yan Shu decided to make trouble during the process of worshiping Buddha.

Yan Shu is the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, a very high-ranking official.

Even if he is accompanied by the Buddha, he should hold the wat board in his hand.

But I don't know why, that day, he didn't hold the wat board in his hand.

As an official, you have to pay attention to your appearance.Everyone else is holding wat boards, but if you don't, it looks so weird and uncoordinated.

However, his official rank is still high, and he happens to be standing not far from Liu E and Zhao Yiyi.

This is more conspicuous.

If the officials are not well-groomed, the ceremony cannot be carried out.

Hundreds of officials were waiting for Yan Shu's entourage to bring him the wat board.

Looking at Yan Shu's calm expression, Zhao Yiyi had a vague premonition.

Sure enough, his premonition came true.

Yan Shu's entourage finally brought his wat board, Yan Shu took the wat board, rounded his arms, and slapped the entourage's face fiercely.

"Idiot! I almost missed a big deal because of you!"

There was an uproar, and all civil and military officials retreated one after another, distanced themselves from Yan Shu.The imperial guards accompanying the emperor stepped forward to restrain Yan Shu, preventing him from violently attacking the emperor.

Zhao Yiyi glanced at Yan Shu's power value of 86 on the panel again: "Come here, send a doctor over here!"

Judging by the situation, I'm afraid there will be blood.

After a while the doctor arrived, looked at the attendant's swollen face as high as a steamed bun, opened his mouth, and took out half of his teeth.

"The tooth is broken."

The deputy privy envoy broke the teeth of his entourage in front of the emperor and the queen mother, which cannot be said to be a trivial matter.

But no matter how big the matter is, it is not as big as visiting the Yuqing Palace without Buddha statues.

Yan Shu was put into the dungeon for the time being, and the unlucky attendant was carried back home. The solemn Buddhist music sounded again, and the emperor and empress dowager stepped into the gate of Yuqing Palace in harmony with all civil and military officials.

After entering the main hall, the emperor and the queen mother sat in the middle, the abbot of Daxiangguo Temple sat opposite them, and the rest of the officials sat around these three people.

After the abbot finished a volume of scriptures, he guided everyone to meditate and realize the Buddha in their hearts.

In the silence, everyone present realized the true meaning of Buddha.

The first visit to Yuqing Palace without a Buddha statue ended successfully.

After worshiping the Buddha, Liu E led Zhao Yiyi back to Fengchen Palace.

As soon as he sat down, Liu E said bitterly: "You are so bold!"

Zhao Yiyi hurriedly persuaded: "Aniang calm down, be careful not to get angry for a minister and hurt the body of the phoenix."

Liu E sighed: "The emperor is still considerate."

"Why is this Yan Shu so fearless, actually..."

Zhao Yiyi secretly said: What else is going on, take revenge on the society.

Like Kou Zhun, Yan Shu was born as a child prodigy.

He is even more divine than Kou Zhun.

Kou Zhun was a Jinshi at the age of 19 and was reused by Song Taizong.Yan Shu was famous far and wide since he was a child, and he alarmed the magistrate, who recommended him to the emperor. The emperor took a test and immediately reused him.

This year, Yan Shu was 13 years old.

If a person has been a prodigy since he was a child and has been sought after by others since he was a child, it seems understandable that he should have higher self-esteem and be more glass-hearted.

Yan Shu is now serving as the Deputy Privy Envoy, and his immediate boss is Kou Zhun.Although he admired Kou Zhun as a senior, he didn't have the heart of "he can replace him".

But reality hit him hard.

Even if Kou Zhun is not a privy envoy, this position is not his turn.The queen mother would rather give this position to a pimp than let Yan Shu be the privy envoy.

This negligence made Yan Shu at a loss.

What is even more at a loss is that it seems that Duke Lai doesn't appreciate him as much as before.

Yan Shu was not stupid, he knew clearly the change in Kou Zhun's attitude towards him.

Neither side can be relied on, and it seems that his career is hopeless.

It's not that Yan Shu has no temper. You don't want to reuse me, and I don't want to play with you anymore.

Broken pot, goodbye to you!

So there was a scene in front of Yuqing Palace.

Zhao benefited because he understood what he was thinking, which made him even more troubled.

How can this obviously blackened courtier be brought back?