[Journey to the West] So I am Monk Tang

In such a way that I had never thought of before, I figured out the cause and effect behind the king's seemingly simple and rude behavior of exterminating monks, and I had to lament the historical similarity.

Probably because I have seen too many kings who are either pious or have holes in their heads. At first, although I planned to find out the reason why the French king would do this, in fact, I have already drawn the answer to a general range in my heart. , Even if there is an inside story, if the king tells me that it is because some monks disrespect him that he is arrogant, I will probably believe it.

But I didn't expect that the king would give me such a reliable reason.

That's right, I think this reason is very reliable, or in other words, it is well-founded, with complete causes and consequences, and it is not a snake spirit disease at all.

I just remembered that the same thing had happened twice, and it was more than a hundred years ago.

At that time, there was no Tang Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty had no shadow. The emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty all did this once, and the effect was good. Anyway, none of these two people was considered a fool because they did this. It is not the opinion of people at that time, but the evaluation of later generations. Well, the posthumous title of Emperor Wu is not bad.But I don't have a deep impression of this incident. After all, I grew up in a temple, and no one would explain to me in detail the incident that caused a major blow to my sect.

I can actually understand the helplessness and necessity of the king's doing this. Others dig your corner with a hoe. If you don't care about it, your house will be dug and collapsed. Can you bear it?

In this day and age, there is no concept that everyone is the master. There is only one master in this country, and that is the king standing at the top of the country. Will he watch others constantly erode his own interests?There is no tax, no corvee, and a lot of preferential treatment. Although living here is not controlled, no one is a fool if things go on like this. More and more people will definitely become monks because of this kind of generous treatment, and most of those people They are often the main constituents of the tax corvee—young and strong men.

In this way, how can the country not be weakened? The neighboring countries are not all gentlemen. What's worse, the king at that time probably didn't have any effective means of defense. We can't let women and children come to the battlefield, right?

pity--

I looked at the king, his eyes were bright, resolute and courageous, but he was still old after all, and his heir had been completely brainwashed, even if he didn’t rebel, it would be easy for him to regain his status as a monk once the king died , the situation that the king kills at this time will be overthrown.

"I have only one son with the queen." The king said, "I took him to listen to the government when he was still young. I thought it would make him understand the responsibility to the country and the hardships of governing a country. He has always done a good job. Well, I thought he would inherit my philosophy, but I didn’t expect it, but I thought things too well. Although the monk’s troubles are worrying, I didn’t plan to use such a radical method at the beginning.”

According to the king, he wanted to boil the frog in warm water.However, the monk's definition of warm water was completely different from what he understood. He thought his method was very gentle, but in the monk's view, it was simply too harsh. If this mountain cannot be conquered, then change the target.

As a result, the king was enraged and directly resorted to thunder.

The effect was good, but the father and son were separated directly, causing endless troubles.

"The widow has been thinking about how to break this situation." The king looked at me.

I also looked at him with a standard expression, feeling bad in my heart.

This……

Do you want to push the pot to me?

A person like me who is slow in words but quick in words, has no confidence in breaking that brainwashed brat back.

However, my objection is invalid.

In other words, I disagree or agree, which means little to the king.He is old and refined, and when he looks at me, he is not as obsessed with authority as those who are confused by my halo. He directly discovered my essence from the scripture books that were handed over.

I have been wearing the vest of a virtuous and eminent monk since the Tang Dynasty. I have never been questioned all the way, but when I arrived here, I was lifted.

Ugh.

It feels a bit complicated.

Half a month later, the story of the extermination of France began to circulate up and down the story of Tang Sanzang, a holy monk from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, who angrily denounced the king for destroying the law, which made the king ashamed and issued an imperial edict to sin against himself.

After I heard the news from Bai Jingjing's inquiry, I remained silent for a long time, and I could only say one word of convincing to the script written by the king.

The king was sure that the crown prince would revert to the old routine after his death, so he simply acted preemptively, and when he beat the monks to the west with a big stick, he put on a change of heart and sent some sweet dates. Get the frame right.The advantage of doing this is that the king doesn't have to worry about losing all his previous efforts after his death. Of course, it is not impossible to do this after the arrangement is done now.

The key point of this lies in the next successor of the kingdom - the Crown Prince.

It's up to me.

To be honest, I am not sure. Although I have fooled many people, this is the first time I have encountered a fanatic. As for the effect, I cannot guarantee the effect.

The king also knew how deceitful his son was, so he acted as if it was all my credit for his sudden awakening, which helped me to increase the favorability of the crown prince.

His goal was achieved beyond the standard, and the crown prince looked at me as if he was looking at a god and Buddha in this world.

"Mr. Tang, oh, no, it's a holy monk." When the crown prince met me, the king had already 'woke up'. He was very surprised when he saw me at first, but he quickly reacted and bowed to me, "Thank you The holy monk awakens my father and king, and rescues the suffering monks!"

The feeling in my heart.

I'm ashamed to tell him that I didn't actually do anything, it's all the king's own act.

The crown prince didn't care about the fact that he made an appointment with me to see the horses, but I released the pigeons. In his view, I was the one who worked hard, took risks, and dared to fight for my beliefs under the threat of death. A truly eminent monk with a very high level of morality, he actually awakened his stubborn father.

So the crown prince took me to talk about scriptures every day.

Before the destruction of France, not only the monks were destroyed, but also temples, Buddha statues, scriptures and so on were destroyed together.But the crown prince has a different status after all, not only kept a copy in private, but also has a very good memory, and can write down the scriptures he has read silently.These scriptures were obtained with real gold and silver from the Lingshan Mountain in the Western Heaven. I read them along with them. If we say it objectively and fairly, they are also very exquisite.

"Such scriptures exhorting people to be good almost disappeared in the country." Speaking of the excitement, the crown prince even burst into tears.

"There is nothing wrong with the scriptures, but the evil monks who use the scriptures to satisfy their own selfishness are the ones who are wrong." I can't do that kind of true feelings, so I can only evaluate as objectively and rationally as possible.

When the crown prince got along with me for a longer time and felt closer to me, he also confided a few words of truth, "I also know that my father exterminates monks so that the country will not be dragged down, but after all, the evildoers are A few monks, how innocent are the truly virtuous monks? It’s fine for the evil monks to blaspheme the Dharma, but they can be implicated together with the eminent monks, and teach the people to be good in the future? If no one teaches, how can the people’s conduct be good in the future? It’s still not good for the country. "

I was quite surprised that the crown prince was not as brainless and loyal as I imagined.

Anyway, if you don't act decisively and arbitrarily, then politics will eventually become an art of compromise.The king seems to have awakened, but this does not mean that he will restore the old practice before the extermination of monks, but pushed me out, and asked Buddhist monks all over the country to learn my scriptures.Although the crown prince is close to me, he will not think that the scriptures I compiled will be more wonderful than the authentic scriptures from Lingshan.

This sounds quite reasonable, if my scriptures are so good, why did the emperor of the Tang Dynasty ask me to go to the West to learn scriptures.

Monkey Brother came up with a divine assist this time: "My master is the reincarnation of the second disciple of the Tathagata Buddha of the West Paradise. I don't know how many of the scriptures you retrieved were written by him. If it weren't for my master to practice reincarnation in the lower realm, Where is your turn to see him?"

This status sounded awesome, the king was a little surprised, but the crown prince immediately became fanatical again, looking at me made me feel like I was going to burn.

The next step is to negotiate the status and treatment of monks.

The king wanted monks to pay taxes and pay corvee, even if the amount could be lower because of the relationship between monks, he would not pay a dime; but the crown prince felt that it was unbecoming for monks to spend their money and work hard like ordinary people, so he argued with reason.

When they were at loggerheads, it was my turn to be the referee.

The king is confident, because he knows that I am with him; as it happens, so does the dauphin.

"After all, monks are outsiders. If you pay taxes, serve corvee, and mix monks and laymen..." I shook my head, expressing my disapproval, and then continued, staring at the happy eyes of the crown prince, "However, if you don't pay taxes , then sooner or later this will become a means for greedy people to make money, which is also not good. It is better to change the method and let the temples with property use part of the money to support the widows and lonely people in the nearby villages every year, which can be regarded as doing good deeds and accumulating virtue."

The king pondered for a while, and the crown prince frowned first, "It has never been done like this before."

"So monks are not like monks, and Buddhism has become a place where filth and evil people are hidden." I said firmly, "Monks should not pay too much attention to money. Back then, I started from the Tang Dynasty, and I was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. I only gave me a customs clearance document and a purple gold bowl for alms. Along the way, I have helped many people, many of whom are rich and powerful, princes and nobles, but we only accept some clothes and dry food, gold and silver are not taken The monks who walk like me are like this, so why should those monks who have property be afraid? Besides, it is only a part of the money, and they don’t want them to give it all?”

"Is it so difficult for the holy monk to travel all the way?" the crown prince asked in surprise.

"I've heard about it." The king looked at me. "In the East, there are many kings who are willing to share the country with the holy monk. With a firm mind and a single heart towards the Buddha, I rejected them all."

The crown prince looked at me with little stars of admiration.

I can only show a calm smile.

It's raining heavily in my heart, do you think I don't want it? !