Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 545 Go to Ganye Temple to Offer Incense
The next morning, Di Renjie got up early and had breakfast with Wang Pingan. Then he took his luggage and rushed to the small manor outside the city. From today onwards, he will live there.

Wang Ping'an originally planned to go with him and take a look at the small manor by the way, but due to too many things, he was too weak to do so, so he didn't go.

In the morning, Hamiti came with Aydin, and Yin Jiucheng also came after a while. They got together with Wang Pingan and discussed the matter of buying land and building the Tongtian Pagoda. After a while.

For them, the task of building the Tongtian Pagoda is not very strenuous. Seeing that more and more people come to the Inspiration Temple to offer incense, and the worship of Tang Xuanzang is increasing day by day, it is estimated that Tang Xuanzang only needs to raise his arms and recite a few more times. Amitabha, the money for building the pagoda has to pour into the temple like a landslide and a tsunami.

Wang Pingan specially sent someone to invite Tang Xuanzang into the backyard during a gap in his storytelling, to meet with Hamiti and others, and explain the building of the pagoda.

Tang Xuanzang had the demeanor of an eminent monk, waved his hand, and told Wang Ping'an and others straightforwardly that there was no need to find a special person to design the Tongtian Stupa, just leave this task to him.Tang Xuanzang solemnly stated that he was self-taught in the construction of pagodas, and it was enough for him to draw the blueprints.

In history, the earliest Big Wild Goose Pagoda was indeed designed by Tang Xuanzang himself!However, what is regrettable for people today is that the earliest Big Wild Goose Pagoda collapsed not long after it was built.Of course, how the earliest Big Wild Goose Pagoda collapsed, the specific reasons have long been submerged in the long river of history, and future generations cannot verify it.Whether it is because Tang Xuanzang is not professional enough, the design is not strong enough, and there is no way to verify it.Anyway, if the old one doesn’t go away, the new one won’t come, so if it’s down, build it again, if the small one is down, then build a bigger one!

Wang Pingan did not leave the design of Tongtian Pagoda to Tang Xuanzang alone. Tongtian Pagoda was not the earliest Big Wild Goose Pagoda. If it really collapsed within a few years due to unreasonable design, it would be too wasteful. It will also cause casualties. Maybe the Buddhist scriptures and relics brought back by Tang Xuanzang from Tianzhu will be destroyed because it is too late to rescue them. These things must be considered in advance, and we cannot wait for things to happen. , there is no regret medicine to buy in the world.

Wang Pingan personally visited Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, and talked with him about the construction of the Tongtian Pagoda. He asked the Ministry of Industry to send the most powerful officials to help design the Tongtian Pagoda. The direction still needs to be mastered by professionals from the Ministry of Industry.

The Minister of the Ministry of Industry readily agreed, how could he not agree to such a good thing that shows his face and can make a fortune.He even said that when the construction of Tongtian Pagoda starts, he will go to the construction site to see and give more opinions.As a reward, I hope to engrave his name on the top lintel of the Tongtian Stupa.

Regarding this point, Wang Pingan also readily agreed, there is no problem at all, you can engrave your name as you want, even if you engrave it here, it is no problem, others can't, you can engrave it!

After looking for the Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, Wang Pingan went to the Shangshu of the Household Department again. He asked the Shangshu of the Household Department for a favor, and sent officials to Xinchangfang to go door-to-door to talk about the purchase of land. The construction of the Tongtian Pagoda started, and the nearby area became a construction site. If he continued to live here, he might be greatly affected.Now Wang Ping'an is willing to pay and buy all the nearby land.

As for the money to buy the land, Wang Pingan told the Minister of the Household Department that the asking price is one and a half times the current price of the land. If it is opened three times, and it is a special family, Wang Ping'an can buy a vacant lot in another Lifang with money, pay for the cost of building a new house, and ask the people to move out.

Hubu Shangshu was taken aback when he heard this, what else is there to do?In the early Tang Dynasty, if the imperial court said that it wanted to requisition a certain land, it would seldom give compensation. If it was directly requisitioned, officials would be sent to the people’s homes to let the people move away. At most, a piece of land of the same size would be made up elsewhere. The plots are often much worse than the original ones.

As for buying land with cash, that simply doesn't exist.The method of buying land as Wang Ping'an said is simply unheard of.These days, not to mention the big shots wanting to expropriate the land of the common people, even the common people themselves, if they are said to be strong men, they will be dragged to the border to fight. That is a normal phenomenon, who dares to resist!

The Minister of the Household Department told Wang Ping'an that you don't need to spend so much money. Even if you burn too much money, you don't have such a way to spend it. You just need to say that I will send officials. It's like a joke. Who would dare not sell the land?Who dares, let him stand up and speak!
Wang Pingan solemnly replied to the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs that no matter how he bought the land in the past, or who bought the land, whether it was a government government or an individual, he didn't care what others did, but he would not buy it at a low price. Pay some.

The Secretary of the Household Department was very puzzled. Even if he didn’t buy it at a low price, he could still pay the original price, or the current price. Why did he have to pay more? Isn’t this stupid?
Wang Pingan explained to him again, because the emperor planned to give it to a certain princess near the Inspiration Temple, so he thought about buying them all first and then giving them as gifts. Doesn’t this seem more sincere, mainly for this reason.

And if the emperor grants land to a certain princess, it will be land expropriation by the imperial court, and the people will suffer some losses to some extent. He paid a high price, not only to protect the people from losses, but also to benefit them. To thank him, it is inevitable to mention a sentence when praying to God and worshiping Buddha, hoping that God and Buddha will bless him with a long life, and also bless a certain princess with good health and happiness.

The common people praised him well, and the princess felt that he was good, and the emperor thought he handled it well, and everyone was satisfied. Isn't this a great thing, at most he spent a little more money, it doesn't matter!
Hubu Shangshu suddenly realized that of course he knew about Wang Ping'an going to the palace for a New Year's Eve dinner. This is a good thing coming soon!The purpose of buying land at a huge price is to please the princess, and to please the princess is to please the emperor. This flattery is really loud!

Hubu Shangshu smiled and said to Wang Pingan, if you are willing to do this, then I will help you.But then again, the common people have benefited, so the Ministry of Households should also be a little bit, this is a big Chinese New Year, send officials out to do things, no matter what, you have to give some hard money!
Wang Pingan said generously, according to everyone's salary, I will give two months' red envelopes.Hubu Shangshu also readily agreed, and promised to send people out tomorrow. After the Shangyuan Festival, this matter will be done, don't worry!
After the affairs of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry were settled, Wang Ping'an returned to the Inspiration Temple and called Hamidi and others to discuss. He had completed the official affairs, and left the rest of the specific matters to Hamidi and the others. Everyone divides the work and cooperates, and tries their best to do things quickly and well, so as to avoid long nights and dreams, and unexpected complications.

In the next few days, Wang Ping'an was busy with entertainment, he either went to the East Palace to meet Prince Li Zhi, or went to various mansions to pay New Year's greetings, like Yu Chigong and Li Ji, and the mansions of all the important officials in the court. All the favors are gone, all the gifts that should be given are sent out, making friends, establishing relationships, and busy.

On the seventh day of the lunar new year, Wang Ping'an entered the East Palace again to see Li Zhi.

Li Zhi has been quite calm these days, and he doesn't know what evil has caused him. For the first time, he actually started reading books, cultivated his morals, behaved well, neither listened to songs, watched dances, nor drank and had fun, and became a model prince.

Seeing Wang Ping'an coming, Li Zhi said to him: "No disease, these days, Gu has been studying scraping, but to be honest, I haven't done much research, and I don't dare to scrape for my father rashly, I can't do it." To relieve father's illness, I feel really sad, what can you do, give Gu an idea, ask Gu to help father."

Wang Pingan thought: "This is guilt, okay, knowing guilt means that he has learned to care about others, not just talking about it."

He said: "Your Highness, if you want to help the emperor, the best way is to study hard, learn from history, and be a virtuous prince who can share the emperor's worries and help him handle the affairs of the court. Then the emperor will be happy and feel better." Well, the condition can get better."

Li Zhi sighed: "Isn't Gu always helping the father to deal with the government affairs? It's not like you don't know this."

Wang Pingan said: "I mean that you can handle the government affairs independently, and handle one or two important matters alone. You see, the emperor is just arbitrarily ruling the court. You don't have to do everything yourself like his old man, but you can handle one or two things well. Okay!"

The emperor's expectation for the prince is nothing more than the hope that there will be successors to protect the country and the country left by the ancestors. Therefore, as long as the prince can prove that he can do it, no emperor will be unhappy. This is the greatest favor for the emperor. up.

After hearing this, Li Zhi sighed and said, "Gu would like to deal with a few important matters alone, but he has no chance. There are royal father and all the ministers in the court, so it's Gu's turn!"

He picked up the memorial on the table, shook it at Wang Ping'an, and said: "Even the memorials sent here are the least important things. For the slightly more important things, the emperor also gave instructions first. You know better than Gu that there is no disease at all.”

Wang Pingan laughed dryly, thinking: "Your father hasn't passed away yet, of course he should look at important national affairs first."

Li Zhi sighed, and said: "Let's not talk about these troublesome things. I want to go to the temple tomorrow to offer incense, pray for my father, and pray for gods and Buddhas to bless my father's recovery from illness. This is also a favor for my father. Are you right?"

It was only then that Wang Pingan realized, after a long time of messing around, he meant this when he said help!He said: "Pursuing incense can be regarded as helping the emperor. After all, the emperor himself has no time to go to offering incense. Then I will go back and make some preparations, let Master Xuanzang prepare some good allusions?"

Li Zhi waved his hand and said: "Not to Lingling Temple, but to Ganye Temple. Tomorrow, I will accompany the empress in the palace alone and go to Ganye Temple to offer incense."

(End of this chapter)