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Before leaving, she quietly wrote a poem for Tang Seng.

When Tang Seng opened it, he almost cried, and almost wanted to stay.

The content of that poem is: "The front of the old life is tied with a red rope, and the fish and water are in harmony with each other.

Unexpectedly, the mandarin ducks are separated now, when will the phoenix go west and east again.

When the water in the blue bridge rises, it is difficult to accomplish anything, and the Buddhist temple is full of smoke and prosperity.

After a farewell today, when will we meet again? "

He has always believed that his heart is as calm as water, but he never thought that on the way to learn the scriptures, he would encounter two love disasters, fall in love with two women, and even marry one of them.

It can be seen that the word fate is not bound by the rules and regulations.

The white-haired mouse followed quietly, and sent Tang Seng and others out of the Sunkong Mountain and onto the main road, and then reluctantly returned to the bottomless pit.

Since then, he has devoted himself to cultivation, going out to travel from time to time, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue.

A hundred years later, he finally became a true fruit, and was granted immortal status by the Jade Emperor himself, and became a member of the Heavenly Court.

This is not to mention later.

Let’s say that Tang Seng and his party traveled westward all the way. The weather was very hot this day, and Zhu Bajie was too hot. Seeing the shade of willow trees in front of him from a distance, he couldn’t help being overjoyed and ran under the tree to enjoy the coolness.

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Tang Seng was naturally a little tired, so he came to rest under the shade of the willow tree.

Not long after, an old woman came out from the forest, looked at Tang Seng and his party, and couldn't help asking: "You elders, are you going west?"

"Amitabha, the old man, the poor monk and a few disciples are going to the Western Paradise to worship the Buddha and seek scriptures."

"Elder, this old man advises you not to leave, but to turn back as soon as possible. Your journey to the west will be a dead end."

Hearing this, Tang Seng frowned and said: "Old man, the ancients leaped from fish to sea and let birds fly in the sky. Our master and apprentice traveled westward all the way and experienced all kinds of hardships. How can we turn our backs lightly?"

The old woman raised her hand and pointed: "Continuing to go west for a short distance is known as the destruction of France. The king forged a grudge in his previous life and committed crimes for no reason in this life.

Two years ago, I made a great wish to kill 1 monks."

"what?"

Tang Seng was taken aback.

Zhu Bajie couldn't help but said: "1? How is this possible? It's not too far from Lingshan. If he really wants to kill 1 monks, how can Buddha Tathagata just ignore it?"

The old woman sighed: "Human affairs, the world is over, how could the Buddha easily interfere in the affairs of the world?

In short, the king has killed nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-six monks one after another in the past two years, and four more will make up ten thousand.

There are just four monks in your group. If you arrive in the royal city, wouldn't you be in the arms of the king? "

"It's unreasonable. Even if the king wants to kill us, it depends on whether he has the ability!"

Sun Wukong said angrily.

The old woman couldn't help but sighed: "Anyway, the old man has already reminded all the elders, you should decide for yourself what to do."

After finishing speaking, he slowly walked into the willow forest.

"Master, what should we do? How about we go back?"

Zhu Bajie began to retreat.

"Bajie, why do you say such things again?"

Tang Seng said angrily.

"But Master, although we are capable, we still can't fight the king, right? Even Tathagata Buddha doesn't care, so there must be a reason for this."

"This"

Hearing this, Tang Seng couldn't help frowning.

To say that this place is far away from Lingshan Mountain may be far away for the common people, but what is it for a great god like Buddha?

A matter of thought.

Nearly 1 monks were killed, and it is impossible for the Buddha not to know.

But why didn't they intervene?But let the king continue to kill?

What kind of hidden secrets are there in this?

Tang Seng was puzzled.

At this time, Sun Wukong stepped forward and said: "Master, I have a compromise, or we can disguise ourselves and sneak into the city to investigate the situation."

Upon hearing this, Tang Seng hesitated for a while, and finally nodded in agreement.

So, the master and apprentice went into the willow forest and changed their attire, wrapped their headscarves, even stuck their beards on, and then covered their veils. If you didn't look carefully, you might think they were businessmen from afar.

Gu Ming also changed his clothes. After all, he didn't look like a person from Xiniu Hezhou at first glance, so he still dressed up.

After the group of people left, the old woman came out of the forest again, looked at the backs of Tang Seng and others, sighed softly, and then rose into the air

At this time, she just showed her true nature: Master Guanshiyin.

She made a special trip to wait here just to remind Tang Seng and his party.

Of course, her original intention was not to prevent Tang Seng and others from traveling westward, it was also a small test.

If Tang Seng turned around in fright because of such a small incident, wouldn't he be blinded by his previous experience?

After such a reminder, Tang Seng and the others changed their attire anyway, so that there would be no conflicts as soon as they entered the city, and there was still room for maneuver.

Sure enough, not long after walking, the group saw a city.

There are three big words written on the gate tower: Destroy France.

"Humph!"

Zhu Bajie snorted coldly, he couldn't bear to go forward and knock down the gate tower with a nail.

There were quite a lot of people entering and leaving the city, but Tang Seng and his party entered the city without any trouble.

After entering the city, Tang Seng found that the city was a little deserted, not as prosperous as Zhuzi Kingdom, Bhikshu Kingdom, etc. that he had visited before.

The clothes of the people in the city are also shabby, and there are not many people setting up stalls, so they appear to be relatively poor.

After walking not far, the group found an inn to rest temporarily.

After all, they are pretending to be businessmen now, so they can't go to alms for money, stay overnight or something.

"Guest officers, do you want to eat or stay?"

"A"

Tang Seng said habitually, just about to say Amitabha, Gu Ming quickly abducted Tang Seng, then smiled at the shopkeeper: "Eat first, then stay."

"Okay, what are you going to eat?"

"It's like this. My friends need to quit meat in the past few days, so I will serve them some vegetarian food. I don't need to quit. I can have some meat or something."

After the dishes were served, Gu Ming took out another small ingot of broken silver and handed it to Xiao Er.

Xiao Er was overwhelmed with surprise, put away the money without showing any signs of expression, and asked quite politely: "I wonder what news the guest officer wants to inquire about?"

The waiters in these shops are ghosts and ghosts, why do customers give you so much money for no reason?

What's more, Gu Ming and the others looked at the clothes and heard that they were from other places, so they gave him the money to inquire about the news.

"That's right, we came from afar, and we heard faintly in the city that it's not safe to destroy France."

"So that's the case. Don't worry, everyone. If you are not monks, you generally don't have to worry about your safety."

"Oh? Monk? What's going on?"

"Don't all the guests know the origin of the name of France?"

Gu Ming smiled and said, "If I knew, what else would I ask you?"

"This is also true. Our king has vowed to kill 1 monks since two years ago, so he changed the name of the country to Destroy France."

"Kill 1 monks? Why?"

The waiter in the shop subconsciously glanced around, then whispered: "It's a long story, I wonder if you all realized when you entered the city that we are really poor when we destroy France."

Tang Seng couldn't help asking: "What does the extermination of French poverty have to do with monks?"

"The relationship is getting bigger." The waiter sighed: "I heard that France was relatively rich before it was destroyed, but later"

The shop waiter slowly explained the reason.

It turns out that before the destruction of France, it was called Qin France, and both the king and the subjects respected the Buddha.

For a long time, Buddhism has become more and more prosperous in France, and it can be said that everyone worships Buddha.

But as time passed, problems emerged.

Because of the high status of Buddhist disciples in Chin France, more and more people went to become monks.

In addition to high status, there is another advantage: no need to work.

Even many people who violated the law of the king ran to the temple to hide. Once they became monks, they said they would put down the butcher knife and become Buddhas immediately.

This also allows many people to get away with it.

No matter how big a mistake you make, as long as you enter Buddhism, you will not be held accountable by the king's law.

Simply put, in Chin France, Buddhism has become a place outside the law.

Moreover, each temple has a large amount of fertile land, but it does not need to pay grain.On the contrary, the common people would come to donate some sesame oil money from time to time.

As time goes by, the temples are getting richer, but the people are getting poorer and the country is getting poorer.

Some people are too poor to live on, and they simply abandon their wives and children and go to become monks.

In this way, a vicious circle was formed. At its peak, the number of monks in Chin France reached more than 1.

But the entire Chin France has only 5 to [-] people.

What's more, some monks are so domineering because of their status that even the palace guards dare not provoke them.

It is no exaggeration to say that in Chin France at that time, the status of monks had already faintly surpassed the royal power.

After the new king came to power, he saw that the country became poorer, with fewer people, more monks, and weaker royal power.

In a rage, he decided to completely change the status quo.

So, despite the objections of all the ministers, he made an oath to kill [-] monks

Chapter 65 Raiding the Palace

After listening to the waiter in the shop explain the reason, Tang Seng couldn't help but his expression kept changing.

Because, he remembered similar events that happened in the history of the Central Plains.

That was before Datang.

At that time, it was also because the large number of monks threatened the status of the imperial court, so the imperial court began to limit the number of monks and brought temples and monks under the control of the imperial court.

All monks, whether they are monks or Taoists, will be uniformly issued by the government to prove their identity.

In this way, the government can easily control the number of monks and facilitate unified management.

It seems that the destruction of France is following the old path of the Central Plains.

It's no wonder that the new king will kill, and it's no wonder that the Buddha is inconvenient to intervene in this matter.

Zhu Bajie also rarely complained and just ate.

That night.

A group of people gathered in the inn room to discuss the matter.

"Shangxian, how do you think this matter should persuade the king?"

Tang Seng couldn't help but glanced at Gu Ming, wanting him to give him an idea.

Gu Ming sighed: "Elder Tang, in fact, you should be aware of this incident. Such incidents have happened before in history, and the scale is even bigger."

"This"

Tang Seng also sighed.