The heavens start with letting the bullets fly

Chapter 1169 The Darkness Under the Lights

In the hearts of everyone, he is worthy of the reputation of Genghis Khan.

You know, Genghis Khan means the Khan who is as strong as the ocean.

Chen Zhao lived up to his name.

While everyone was talking and laughing, a burst of drums suddenly sounded from the top of the mountain.

Chen Zhao's heart moved, and he raised his eyes to look up the mountain, and saw a monk standing on a big rock in the open space on the top of the mountain, with a big belly, bare chest and belly, smiling, condescending, looking down at Chen Zhao. Come.

When he saw Chen Zhao looking up, he smiled at Chen Zhao and bowed his palms together, then turned around, took a step forward, and disappeared from Chen Zhao's field of vision.

Chen Zhaowei pondered for a while, ordered the officials to wait at the foot of the mountain, and drove forward alone. When he reached the top of the mountain, he let his body fall, and he had already landed on the top of the tree.

After a few drum beats, melodious bells sounded, and a leisurely and calm charm was naturally brought out from the rich bells.

Chen Zhao's steps on the top of the tree were like flying, as if he was riding the wind. If Guanyin Bodhisattva saw him, he would probably be filled with emotion and feel inferior.

But it is a pity that no one has a chance to see it on the top of this tree.

When he reached a big tree, he stopped suddenly.

Standing on the top of the tree and looking at it, the whole temple appeared in Chen Zhao's field of vision.

When looking at the temple from the bottom of the mountain, I didn't see how big it was. Now standing on the big tree at the gate of the temple and looking at the whole situation, I realized that the scale of this temple is rare in the world.

There are hundreds of buildings in the temple, big and small, just like a small city, and the tall tower dedicated to the relics is like a cloud supporting the moon, standing proudly in it, and under the sunshine, it is even more resplendent and magnificent. It is seen by all parties and all nations shine together.

Not to mention the imperial palace in Zhuzi City, even the imperial palace in Chang'an City is quite inferior compared to it.

Chen Zhao frowned slightly, a trace of dissatisfaction arose in his heart.

He is a quasi-sage, so it can be said that he knows the things of the sky, and knows the things of the sky, but he never thought that one day he would encounter the dark under the lamp.

In just ten years, this Jinghuang Temple has developed to such a scale.

How much people's fat and oil have been taken up by this!

Could it be that these moths are getting bigger and bigger as Ming Dynasty grows stronger and stronger?

My majestic Ming emperor, Genghis Khan, ended up being a pioneer for the eminent monks of the temple?

Chen Zhao took a step and landed lightly on the ground, before arriving at the exquisitely carved bluestone archway on the mountain road.

There are three big characters engraved on the archway, which means: Jinghuang Temple.

Walking forward slowly along the stone ladder, the towering pagoda in the temple approached him inch by inch. Chen Zhao could see the images of Buddha and goddess carved on the four walls of the pagoda. The crisp sound of the copper bell was mixed with the sound of the floating bell, full of an indescribable serenity.

The stone ladder is at the second mountain gate and has come to an end.

There is a pair of couplets engraved on the stone strips on both sides of the gate.

Shanglian: All dharmas return to the sea of ​​nature.

The second couplet: Spotless to prove Zen mind.

The horizontal inscription above the square forehead is engraved: Seeing the nature is Zen.

After reading it for a long time, Chen Zhao said with a smile, "The couplets are pretty good, but if there are no common people to offer them, and the nobles donate, how can it be used as an egg?"

The gate had already been opened at this time, and Chen Zhao stood there without moving. After a while, the sweaty horse came from behind, and Chen Zhaofei got on the horse and walked straight into the compound.

He is the great emperor who opened up the territory, and the sage monks can put on airs and pretend to be cold, but when ordinary novice monks see him, their legs will naturally weaken and their hearts will tremble with fear.

After a while, forty or fifty monks knelt down on the ground.

Naturally, Chen Zhao didn't have the same knowledge as them, he just sat on the horse and watched the temple.

Although he has never been to this monastery once, nor was he ordered to build it, but it was built because of his achievements in destroying the country, so it can be said that it has a great relationship with him.

On the central axis of the huge Baishi Square, facing Chen Zhao was a hall with a width of seven rooms. The hall was brightly lit at this time, and the smell of sandalwood slowly radiated from it, making it peaceful and quiet.

Chen Zhao still didn't get off his horse, but urged the horse into the hall, and went straight in.

There were a few old monks in the hall sitting upright with their eyes closed. They seemed to have been waiting for a long time. After hearing the sound of horseshoes in the hall, several old monks opened their eyes at the same time, and they all showed surprise.

But the look of surprise flashed by, and everyone thought of the great names of Emperor Hongwu and Genghis Khan. Even though the holy monk came to earth and instilled courage in them, they still did not dare to boast.

So the four of them hurriedly stood up, as if they didn't care about the people he urged the horse into the Buddhist hall at all, they all bowed tremblingly together.

Chen Zhaoli ignored them and just looked at the hall.

The gold-clad Buddha enshrined in the main hall has a solemn appearance. On both sides of the Buddha statue are dozens of Buddhist arhats performing various actions. The one is slightly larger than the real person, but is roughly the same height as Chen Zhao.

Chen Zhao finished scanning the statues of Arhats on both sides, and turned his gaze back to the big Buddha with three legs and two ears with burning incense in front of him.

A monk tremblingly said: "Your Majesty, every time the Supreme King enters the temple, he is very devout, burns incense and worships the Buddha, pays homage to the Tathagata, and is deeply loved by all the Buddhas."

Chen Zhao chuckled, and suddenly stretched out his hand, the golden Buddha suddenly flew up, and then hit Chen Zhao's horse with a "bang".

There was a sound of "ding dong dong", and all the gold foil on the Buddha statue was shaken away, revealing that it was a wooden Buddha inside.

Several old monks were startled, and the monk who stepped forward to talk staggered and almost fell to the ground.

Chen Zhao said calmly, "I heard that after the Buddha passed away, a relic will be born. If I split this Buddha, then I can get a relic, right?"

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, this is a wooden Buddha. How can you... take out the relics?"

A monk spoke with trepidation.

"Since you can't take out the relic, it must not be a real Buddha. Since it's not a real Buddha, what's the use of keeping it!"

Chen Zhao flicked his sleeves lightly, the strong wind blew past and shattered the wooden Buddha,

Seeing the wooden Buddha broken into pieces, Chen Zhao chuckled, urged his horse to pass through the hall, walked to the backyard, and walked towards the tall tower in the middle.

That pagoda enshrines relics.

There are thousands of rays of light and thousands of auspicious auras on the top of the pagoda. Although the whole pagoda is in daytime, it is also shining and brilliant.

The smiling monk with a big belly and a bare chest is in the pagoda.

This pagoda is really towering and leaning against the Han, abruptly volleying in the sky.It is called to be a copper-cast glazed pagoda, a thousand-gold relic peak.The ladder turns like going through a cave, and the door opens like coming out of a cage.The aquarius alludes to the moon in the sky, and the sound of Jin Duo spreads the wind on the sea.But seeing the empty eaves arching the buckets, the clouds are left behind.Empty eaves and arched buckets are made into clever stones piercing flowers and phoenixes; clouds are left on the top to make pagodas surrounded by fog and dragons.Looking thousands of miles away, Gordon seems to be in the sky.There are glazed lamps on the doors, and white jade railings in front of the eaves.

To put it simply, this pagoda is made of copper. Not only does it require a lot of gold and copper, but it also requires truly skilled craftsmen.

This pagoda has the highest status in the whole temple, with all the halls surrounding it, there is a hidden tendency of stars arching the moon.

Except for the copper pagoda, all the buildings are covered with three-color glazed tiles, the color is as new, but it is not known whether it is because the monks in the temple are diligent in cleaning, or the quality of the tiles is so good.Especially the peacock blue among the three colors is the most dazzling.You can imagine the brilliant scene under the sunlight.

In front of the copper hall is a reception hall, which is made of white marble, twenty feet wide and four feet high. On the left and right walls, there are 8 solemn, solemn and holy bluestone sitting statues of gods and Buddhas symmetrically inlaid. In front of the hall, stone lions dominate around the hall, 24 large pillars embrace the hall; the base of the hall is protected by bluestone railings, and 96 witty little lions surround and line up.

Next to the "Jieying Hall" is the "Inspiration Hall". , The "white jade Buddha statue" of Sakyamuni enshrined in the main hall is a seven-year-old statue of the Buddha, carved from a whole piece of white jade, beautiful and dignified, crystal clear and bright.

As for the outer edges of the copper pagoda, except for the entrances and exits of the four stone steps, there are five hundred arhats on average, all made of gold and copper, each with a different look and posture, but no matter whether they open their eyes and protrude from their foreheads, or lower their eyes and keep them inward, They are all lifelike, no different from living people.

The other buildings are based on the main hall on the axis as a whole, distributed in all directions in an orderly manner, separated by trees and roads, and have a solemn and sacred atmosphere.

There is a large incense burner in front of the main entrance of the copper pagoda, and the burning sandalwood is sending out a lot of fragrance, which permeates the whole space, making people's mind calm down and infecting the atmosphere of being born.

If other people, even emperors, generals and ministers came here, they would be frightened, speechless and wary of such a solemn scene.

But what Chen Zhao saw here was a heart of extravagance and extreme desire, and what Chen Zhao smelled was the sour smell of copper in the courtyard.

There are hundreds of houses in this Jinghuang Temple, and there are at least a few thousand monks. These monks are not engaged in production, but they have to be dedicated to offering sacrifices, lending money and collecting rent.

For so many years, he has either governed the country and developed the people's livelihood, or led the army to fight, destroy the country and kill the generals. He is busy with worldly affairs, but he has collected the hearts of the people.

He originally planned to establish Taoism and absorb the beliefs of all people after he introduced the Tang culture.

But after returning to Zhuzi City this time, he heard that a holy monk who looked like Maitreya Buddha was coming from the west, and he placed an order at Jinghuang Temple, so he ordered Jin Yiwei to investigate the temple.

It was only then that he was surprised to find that Jinghuang Temple had many monks and vast real estate. [-]% of the fields outside Zhuzi City were under the name of Jinghuang Temple.

The key is that according to the customs since ancient times, Buddhist temples are the places where monks live and do not need to pay taxes, so in just ten years, Jinghuang Temple is really rich, how can Chen Zhao not be angry?
With Chen Zhao's style, within his scope, how can he allow others to hold the land and not pay taxes?
After all, this trend of mergers can easily lead to the poor life of the people, which in turn leads to problems in people's livelihood.

So he came here specially this time, first to meet the holy monk, and second to deal with the taxation and land issues of Jinghuang Temple.

Although the door had not been opened at this time, Chen Zhao clearly knew that the fat monk who attracted him was inside.

He galloped on his horse and slowly approached the copper tower.

As the horse moved forward, the bronze door in front of him began to open slowly. By the time one person and one horse heard the door, the bronze door had already opened to its maximum.

Chen Zhao sneered, got off his horse, and walked into the copper tower.

The entire bronze hall is made of gold and bronze. Entering it at this time, it immediately gives people the feeling of a bird in a cage and a golden bell covering the body.

The body of the tower is covered with patterned bricks, with more than fifty kinds of patterns including flying apsaras, unicorns, bodhisattvas, musicians, lions, etc.

(End of this chapter)