Chapter 51 Collusion with the Locust God
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All the monks in Longquan Temple cursed and scolded someone here, and the others sat in their eyes and their noses, their noses and hearts without moving, without even inserting a word.
In fact, these people now regret coming to Longquan Temple. Originally, Longquan Temple sent someone to invite him. They only said that it was a practice of praying for drought and locust plague, so these talents came happily.
But I didn't expect that the monks in the temple were crazy and cursed and attacked. Although they didn't name them, who didn't know who these monks were talking about?
I felt so regretful for a moment, and I shouldn't have joined the muddy water. Some people even got angry secretly in their hearts. These monks wanted to die, but they must not implicate a certain family.
Do they think this world is still the same as before? When the Great Liao Dynasty worshipped Buddhism? Now Yanyun, no, the whole world is already the territory of the Song Dynasty.
The state religion of the Song Dynasty was Taoism, from the emperor to the people, they were all Taoist believers. Even those monks had to quickly clean themselves and strive to strive for the Buddha to be the Tao. Only by treating themselves as a branch of the Tao can they survive.
These monks who are dying are good. Now they don’t hurry up and make a living with their tails, or just learn from Minzhong Temple and stick them on them. Instead, they dare to criticize Shangfu Tianshi in a big way. This is really a search for death!
If you don’t commit suicide, you won’t die!
I wonder how many people immediately went out after turning their stomachs and told the monks of Longquan Temple that they had thoughts.
Monk Facheng was originally just testing it to see what these Yan Yun’s powerful men were. However, when they were silent, they suddenly felt cold.
They danced so hard, naturally because Master Wen Da was hurting their interests. In fact, many people know this very well.
According to later statistics, the average locust plague in the Qin and Han Dynasties was once every 8.8 years, the Song Dynasty was 3.5 years, the Yuan Dynasty was 1.6 years, and the Ming and Qing dynasties were 2.8 years. The scope of the disaster and the degree of disaster was the highest in the world.
A very important point here is that there are few people in Central China who dare to kill these locusts on a large scale. In the early Tang Dynasty, even Li Shimin, as the emperor, personally ate locusts and demonstrated to the world, did not become popular in this way.
Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were still many farmers in many places who did not dare to kill locusts. They were afraid of committing evil and were sent to the eighteen levels of hell.
In short, a big reason for this consequence is that the power of Buddhism is preventing it.
Of course, the reason is not just what they say about equality of sentient beings. There should be great economic benefits.
In Middle Earth, the more you encounter a deserted year, the happier the powerful families are. It represents the arrival of a new round of feasts, hoarding, buying high and selling low, and these are all heard a lot.
However, these monks who have a large amount of fertile land are even more excessive than these powerful families. They at least cost a little, but these temples are simply empty talk and can deceive a lot of money and land.
Once in the deserted year, there are more believers and pilgrims praying to the temple. There are countless farmers who cannot survive and go directly to the temple and become similar existences of serfs.
This is the biggest reason why Middle-earth has never dared to kill locusts on a large scale for more than two thousand years.
Originally, Longquan Temple had enough food to stock up, but when such a disaster occurred, it was stockpiled and sold at a sky-high price. However, Master Wen personally demonstrated the killing of locusts, so that all prefectures and counties in various places responded. He even helped the victims along the way.
These are all things that cut off people's wealth! Cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents! No wonder these monks are so angry.
But they forgot the most important thing, that is strength. Many times, no matter how angry or unwilling you are, when you encounter absolute strength, it is best to be honest. If you are the dragon, you have to lie on me, and if you are the tiger, you have to lie on me.
But now these monks have not understood this principle, and they still think that when the Liao Kingdom was in the Great Liao Kingdom, they could do whatever they wanted, and the government had no choice but to deal with them...
These people were very excited and knew that Longquan Temple would be in trouble soon. Everyone had the idea of making a first announcement in their hearts, and at least they had to clear their relationship.
Shang's father returned on a tour of Beihai and wanted to provide disaster relief. He must have been a little nervous. He would hurry up and curry favor with Shang's father, donate money and food, and buy peace.
Once the emperor and the ministers are now in the Song Dynasty. Of course, I want to curry favor with Shang’s father!
Looking at the big pilgrims below who originally admired him very much, they were all silent and looked gloomy. This made Monk Facheng feel cold and knew that something was wrong.
He didn't care about grinding his teeth with these people anymore. He just finished talking and asked everyone to go to vegetarian food. All of them refused to have something to do, but they all flew away like flying.
Fa Cheng returned to the inner hall with a gloomy face. The dark inner hall actually enshrines a ferocious Vajra, covered with a circle of black light on his body, and a cloud of auspiciousness under his feet.
However, looking closely, these auspicious clouds and lights actually contain countless locusts gathered together, and the carvings are extremely vivid and lifelike.
Facheng walked to the arhat statue that looked ferocious and angry, lowered his head and muttered a few words, and saw the arhat statue appearing in a blue light. In that circle of light, a shadow that was extremely similar to such a arhat statue could be seen vaguely. However, it became much more vivid.
If you look closely, this shadow is floating and volatile, and seems to be composed of countless tiny things that will change at any time. Those are locusts.
"Wen Fei is coming..." Facheng's cheeks trembled. Every time he saw this arhat, he felt frightened. But he still had to say.
"Wen Fei..." The Arhat's whole body shook a few times, and it was unstable. The tiny locusts that formed the body seemed to make horror at the same time.
"What should we do?" The old monk was also frightened, but now he has boarded the pirate ship, so it is not so easy to get off.
"What are you afraid of? The soldiers come to block the generals, and the water comes to cover the earth." The strange arhat spoke, as if he had been trained into a qi from countless small sounds, turning into a sound, which seemed very strange.
He continued, "Besides, it has always been said that murder and arson are recruited. If there is no big news, how can we be recruited by the court? We are recruited by the Taoist court?"
Hearing the word "Advocate", Facheng's face became strange. It seemed that his great respect and great Buddhist presidency suddenly fell to the point of a bandit.
However, there was also a vague joy in my heart. After all, the situation in the world is now hopeless, and I can't see any way out when confronting Master Wen.
But Facheng and his Longquan Temple had no choice but to fight to the end. However, it would be even better if they could recruit people in the end. Finally, they could not go all the way to the dark.
"We will give the so-called celestial master a few ruthless things. If they can't deal with us, they will have to invite us to wait. At least I will be appointed as the god of the main sacrifice. Then, your Longquan Temple will be changed to a temple to worship this god..."
Facheng was moved again after hearing this, and gritted his teeth and said, "The matter has to be done a little bigger now! But I am afraid that this Heavenly Master will have great supernatural powers and really ask for rain, that would be bad!"
The Locust God sneered in a sneer: "What's the joke? This drought was originally caused by this Heavenly Master. Do you think he has a way to pray for heavy rain? This is a backlash of luck. Originally, the Great Jin Dynasty was about to prosper, and the Great Song Dynasty of Liao Kingdom was about to perish. This is God's will.
Then Master Wen actually reversed the will of heaven with his own strength. Do you think this brilliant way of heaven will not have a backlash?"
The Locust God said with a stern expression and sneered: "At that time, he will die or live, and it will be even less important to ask us for trouble!"
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The Yin Si began to become lively, and gradually the first group of dead people entered the spiritual world. Although due to Master Wen’s very strict hierarchy, these Yin Si were obviously not qualified to enter the Yin Si, but they could see all kinds of Yin Si.
It is enough to make them look up to it and regard it as heaven. These ghosts are all ghosts who have just died recently. They are obviously not very pious about Master Wen’s belief.
Therefore, these ghosts only wander around the underworld with greed and envy. Looking at the city shrouded in white light, they envy their beautiful, rich, carefree life.
For modern people who are extremely developed materials and have poor spirits, they yearn for a place like Pure Land.
For these people who are still very backward in material civilization, the place that is abundant enough to have everything is the real paradise.
For example, many sects promote the wine that can’t be drunk or eaten after death. There are also the 72 beautiful virgins…
Therefore, these things like carving boats and seeking swords, and changing times and changing the world are useful everywhere.
Just like Master Wen Da, in modern time and space, he used the Pure Land of Eternal Happiness to give people a home. In the time and space of the Northern Song Dynasty, especially on this continent, he used the advanced civilization with nakedness and relatively developed material civilization to tempt their conversion.
Everything in the underworld is so beautiful, everything is bright and happy. But in the spiritual world there is another scene, as dark as dusk, bare and nothing.
In the strong contrast, the ghosts had to circumnate around the ghost. Whenever they wanted to enter the ghost, there would always be a kind of soldiers wearing golden armor coming out, using a whip to let them know clearly what it means to hurt their souls.
At this time, a ghost had just been born in this spiritual world. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!