Emperor Taizong's Growth Plan

Chapter 154 Shiyuan Temple

Feng Bao personally led an old man, a young man and a child, and three monks in worn-out robes, to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Along the way, Feng Bao personally explained a few words.

"Masters, see Your Majesty in a while, remember the etiquette explained earlier, don't be rude in front of Your Majesty, that's all!"

The three monks with disheveled faces and shabby clothes had different expressions when they heard Feng Bao's words.

The old monk is the most insipid, as if he doesn't care about everything.The young people are too young, and they still look ignorant.Only that young man, with an anxious look on his face, was the most uneasy.

Not long after, under the leadership of Feng Bao, several people came to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Feng Bao cautiously shouted outside the hall:

"Report to Your Majesty, the eminent monk of Shi Yuanzong, please see me!"

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Xiao Cheng heard Feng Bao's shout, and looked away from the blue card in front of him.

[Blue Zeka, Water Conservancy and Farmland Law

Card effect: After using it, the growth rate of agriculture +30% within one year, and the administrative expenditure of the imperial court +10%
Card description: During the Shenzong period of the Northern Song Dynasty, after Wang Anshi took power, he promulgated the Farmland Water Conservancy Law and sent Changping officials to various places to supervise this matter.Officials and people who can propose land planting methods, point out the advantages and disadvantages of ponds, dikes, and ditches, and they are effective, can be rewarded according to their utility.In addition, the people are rewarded to build water conservancy projects and reclaim wasteland in various places. 】

This card was drawn in a lottery in August, a rare card for increasing national power.

For countries under the ancient feudal background, agricultural output value is the embodiment of national strength, and is closely related to taxation, population, corvee, etc.

This card may not be as effective as the training card and the ti card.But as long as Xiao Cheng makes good use of this card, within a year's time, the national power and background of Yun Kingdom can definitely be raised to a higher level.

With a thought in Xiao Cheng's mind, the blue card instantly turned into dots of brilliance and dissipated.

"Come in!" Xiao Cheng looked outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation and said in a deep voice.

Feng Bao outside the hall immediately responded with a respectful voice.

Immediately, he led the three of them carefully into the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The three people in front of him were Xiao Cheng asked Feng Bao to send people to search all the temples all over the country, only to find them in a small temple named Shiyuan Temple in the western border state of Yunguo.

From the shabby clothes and disheveled faces of the three people, it can be seen that what Shiyuan Temple advocates is not to ask about the world, not to be enshrined, but to strictly abide by the precepts and make offerings by themselves.

Searching through most of Yunguo, Dongchang only found this small temple called Shiyuan Temple, and found these three monks who were practicing asceticism.

Xiao Cheng looked at the three of them with interest.

The old man was in his sixties and seventies, with a thin body and a peaceful and calm demeanor, as if he was not excited about seeing the current emperor.The young one, who looked only six or seven years old this year, looked ignorant.

Only the young monk, as soon as he entered the hall, couldn't wait to kneel down on the ground, saluted, and respectfully said:

"Monk Liuhuai of Shiyuan Temple, pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor!"

The old monk cast a glance at Liu Huai, without any unnecessary expressions and movements, he also brought the young monk to salute, and said in his mouth:
"Monk Wurong (Six Angers) of Shiyuan Temple, pay homage to Your Majesty!"

Xiao Cheng nodded, smiled and said:
"Wu Rong, Liu Huai, haha, it's interesting. Ordinary Buddhist character generations are arranged in the order of 'Fu Huizhi Zijue, the original circle can be enlightened', you, the character generation of Shiyuan Temple, are so unusual!"

The young monk named Liuhuai heard the words and couldn't wait to explain:
"Returning to Your Majesty, I, Shiyuan Temple, has been arranging the character generations in numbers since the third generation of No. 20, and passed them down to my master and apprentice. It happens to be 'five' and 'six' as the character generations, which makes Your Majesty laugh!"

Hearing this, Xiao Cheng waved his hands and said with a smile:

"It's not a joke, it's quite a sense of austerity and simplicity when numbers are used as characters."

The old monk Wurong was silent for a moment when he heard the words, then he opened his mouth and said:

"To tell you the truth, my Shiyuan Temple has been in the remote mountains for a long time, and I don't care about common things. Before that, because of the ancient scriptures hidden in the temple, I had a lot of communication with other temples. But when the 23rd generation abbot was in power, a fire burned out. The Buddhist scriptures are collected in the temple. Since then, there has been little contact with other temples, and they have not been sorted according to the Buddhist characters."

"Oh, so it's like this!" Xiao Cheng looked at him intriguingly.

This old monk seems to be a little uncooperative with what he said inside and outside the meaning!

Xiao Cheng's eyelids moved, and he said straight away:

"You can see why I want you to come to Beijing?"

Monk Liuhuai's face became anxious, and he was about to answer when he was preempted by old monk Wurong.I only heard the old monk speak, saying:
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the poor monk did not understand the reason for the moment. After the fire in Shiyuan Temple, all the scriptures were lost. The existing scriptures are ordinary scriptures copied by the disciples of the past. There are only three monks in the temple. Your Majesty As the Son of Heaven, with just one word, countless eminent monks will preach scriptures for you, and you really shouldn't have invited me here."

Hearing this, Xiao Cheng said in a deep voice:

"I sent someone to look for you, of course I have my intentions... I don't want to hide it from you. Today's Buddhism accepts offerings from the common people, and is enshrined by the royal court. In the past, it did not pay taxes, did not perform military service, and many other things. I am not happy! You, Shiyuan Temple, advocate self-reliance, confidently support the Buddha, and sharpen yourself through penance, which makes me very fond of it!"

Speaking of this, Xiao Cheng glanced at the three of them, and continued:
"You, Shiyuan Temple, have since changed your name to Shiyuanzong. You have become one of the Buddhist sects. You have publicly advocated your own ideas and reversed the unhealthy trends in Buddhism today for me. In addition, I have already decided that the next great master of Buddhism will be From your Shi Yuanzong!"

As soon as these words came out, the old monk Wurong and the young monk Liuhuai were stunned.

Shiyuan Temple has little contact with the outside world, but it is not that it does not have contact with the outside world. Naturally, it understands the status of the Buddhist master.

The old monk Wurong pondered for a moment before he recovered his previous spirit. He immediately bent down to salute, and refused:
"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long En! It's just that my Shiyuan Temple's classics are scattered, and my cultivation level is naturally not as familiar as the disciples of other big temples. The martial arts in my school are also lost. I have no contact with the Buddhist temples. One great master , Germany does not match!"

As soon as the old monk Wurong said this, Liu Huai's eyes, which had just lit up, suddenly dimmed.

When Xiao Cheng heard this, his sword eyebrows stood upright, and he scolded in a low voice:

"What kind of virtue is not worthy! I personally recognize who it is, and whoever is the new great master of Buddhism!"

Seeing that the old man was really unwilling and did not force him, Xiao Cheng turned his head to look at the young monk and said:

"Liu Huai, are you willing to help me?"

A flash of surprise flashed across the face of Monk Liuhuai. When he saw the cold eyes of his master, he froze slightly, and then said:

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you! Whether it's cultivation or martial arts, Liuhuai is not enough to convince Buddhist monks!"

Who asked you to surrender?What I want is to be dissatisfied!Torn apart and dissatisfied with each other, Buddhism can decline!
Xiao Cheng sneered and said:
"I said before, whoever is the next Archmage, he must be!"

(End of this chapter)