Chapter 395: Middle-Chief Buddhism (Part 2)

The largest pleasure boat on the Qinhuai River, "Cui Liufang", is known as the best service in the Qinhuai River, the most beautiful girl, and the largest one-stop place for eating, drinking and having fun. Yuan Sheng disheveled his hair, wearing a purple brocade robe, and stared at a big table for gambling Tianjiu cards, and betting with more than a dozen giant merchants in Yingtian Mansion. It can be seen that he is not lucky, and a bunch of silver bills lost in a short while, and he suddenly started to scream and scold again.

"Bastard, there must be ghosts in your cards here. Why did I take thirteen consecutive hands and ten?... Damn, don't let grandpa find out your fault, otherwise I will copy your pleasure boat and let all of you bloom. They all go to the northwest to guard the border and go to the in-laws with those stinky barbarians." Yuan Sheng, who had a flushed face, touched his body for a long time, and suddenly turned around and shouted: "Qinglong, send me silver to grandpa."

Qinglong walked over with a ugly face and muttered in a low voice: "Master, you have lost more than three million taels today. I'm afraid it's not appropriate to ask Xu Qing for money, right? I didn't see that he forced him to spit out 500,000 taels of silver today, and he seemed to be dead?" Qinglong smiled bitterly. It's not a solution to lose like this. Even if the Jinyiwei makes more money, Yuan Sheng has not won a lot in the past half month. If he loses like this, he is afraid that the Jinyiwei will be bankrupt by him.

Yuan Sheng's eyes were wandering around for a long time, and he felt embarrassed to bully Xu Qing again. He was about to think of some evil ways to get some gold, silver and jewelry. At this moment, a beauty in plain clothes slowly came over and chuckled softly: "Has Mr. Yuan lost again? You can't continue like this. In half a month, you lost more than 20 million taels. Just go and listen to my family's songs to relieve your anger."

The beauty smiled and pulled Yuan Sheng away, but the madam of the "Cui Liu Fang" was afraid that Yuan Sheng would lose badly and did something without a king's law. Everyone on the boat knew that Yuan Sheng had the background of the Jinyiwei. Although she didn't know what his relationship was with Lu Feng, the commander of the Jinyiwei, just look at the three most vicious evils in the Jinyiwei: Zhou Chu, Lu An, and Lin Shi, who were all polite to him, they knew that it would be better not to make him angry.

This girl in a simple clothes is a red card that Yuan Sheng has been addicted to recently. She has the title of "Quyi" on the Qinhuai River. The madam saw that Yuan Sheng lost all her strength and quickly asked her to comfort Yuan Sheng, so that he could not do anything without a king's law.

Yuan Sheng's handsome face hesitated for a while, holding the beautiful hand, then looking at the domino on the table, suddenly gritted his teeth, and shouted loudly: "Damn it, I'll leave if I bet ten more hands." He strode back to the gambling table, looked at the dozen or so big merchants, and smiled grimly: "I gamble ten more hands. If I lose, I will leave today, what if I leave?"

The very rich businessman in the banker smiled and said, "Mr. Yuan, you have to continue betting. We welcome it, but do you still have any money?" These wealthy businessmen were very happy about Yuan Sheng losing more than 20 million in the past ten days. Haha, no matter who he is, who can dislike him as long as he gives away the money? Of course, this person lost too much, more than 20 million taels of silver. If this number is said, even the Minister of Revenue will be scared to death. How much is the total annual tax income in the Ming Dynasty? It is only about 5 million taels?

Yuan Sheng said with a gloomy face, "Silver, isn't this silver?" He sucked the four treasures of the study from the next table, and wrote a few documents casually "brushing" and laughed: "With this document, I will immediately be given the position of the Jinyiwei Qianhu. The minimum price of a document is one million taels of silver. You can offer it, the higher the price will be... Jinyiwei Qianhu, look at it, but it is very majestic, don't miss this opportunity."

The giant merchants looked at each other and couldn't speak. If they got a real position as a thousand households of Jinyiwei, not to mention one million, even two million, three million would be worth it. However, can the few documents written by Lord Yuan be accurate? This is a public transaction of official titles. If this is passed to the ears of the Censor, even Lu Feng would probably have a big obstacle?

Yuan Sheng ignored what they thought, wrote several more documents casually, and shouted carelessly: "Ah, in addition to the official position of the Jinyiwei, there are five thousand households here... Well, there are also official positions in the Governor's Office of the Five Cities that can be sold. Do you want to participate in the general or guerrilla official title?... Hey, that guy Lu Feng seems to have a large part of the power among the six ministries. Well, there is nothing he can do about the minister, but it is still very easy to engage in the position of a doctor."

With evil light flashing in his eyes, Yuan Sheng smiled and said with a silence: "I met General Manager Lu in the palace a few days ago. Well, that little old man is very suitable for my taste. He also said that as long as I have instructions, I can definitely help me with those things. Well, do you have any nephews who want to work in the palace? The generals of the imperial guards are one million; the leader of the imperial guards are two million; the eunuch in the palace is three million, how about it?"

The giant merchants were completely stunned. This is really a public sale of official positions! How could Lord Yuan dare to be so rude to Lu Feng and the old eunuch Lu? Well, the official positions of the imperial guards and the imperial guards are very good. You can get the moon first, and you may be able to curry favor with the emperor, which will be endless. But the position of the eunuch in charge of the eunuch must be no one who wants to go to, so that's fine.

A giant merchant sitting in the corner of the Taiwan area changed slightly, and he clapped a few times, shouted: "Everyone, I have something to discuss, so how about you please avoid suspicion? Today's affection will always be rewarded in the future." The other giant merchants also stood up and drove out the other guests at the gambling tables in the cabin without hesitation. Yuan Sheng looked at the actions of these giant merchants with a smile, and his hands kept writing hard, desperately, all of which were money.

For a ridiculous night, Yuan Sheng asked Zhou Chu and others to testify in person, forcing them to agree to give the corresponding official positions to the giant merchants who paid the money. A few pieces of broken paper were exchanged for a huge amount of silver that ordinary families could not earn in hundreds of lives, and gave Yuan Sheng a gambling bank.

In the next few days, Yuan Sheng simply used a little spell on the gambling table. It was really a big killer. I don’t know how much gold, silver and jewelry he won. But on the fourth day, after he gave up the cheating method, he was so stinky that he was clean and clean. He escaped from the "Cui Liu Fang" with the four generals in a very embarrassing way. Standing on the bank of the Qinhuai River with a thin morning mist, Yuan Sheng pointed at "Cui Liu Fang" with a embarrassed face and scolded: "You must have been making trouble in the dice, otherwise how could this saint lose so much?"

He habitually wanted to press the sword on his waist, but he pressed it for a moment. He suddenly realized that his sword had already been converted into silver last night and lost to the gambling table. The embarrassing Yuan Sheng looked at the four-phase warrior who was only left with underwear, shook his head helplessly, and forced a smile: "Haha, this person has made a mistake. It is the most boring thing to cheat when gambling. However, my luck is indeed a little worse. Can't I blame me, right?"

The four people, Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Xuanwu, looked dull and followed Yuan Sheng in a daze, as if five ghosts had merged into the thin morning mist. The quiet morning was suddenly shattered by a shrill howl: "Damn God, where can I get more silver?" This voice was like a wolf howling, which caused the early people to whisper: "Look, another prodigal son has lost all his property. Alas, we must teach our children to learn well, and we cannot learn from these playboys."

As soon as the soldiers of the Yingtian Prefecture City Defense Army opened the city gate, they saw a ball of wind shadows rushing in. Before these soldiers could figure it out, the ball of wind shadows rushed in with a harsh scream: "Meng Daoyan, Monk Daoyan, get out of this saint... silver, silver, silver..." The city defense troops all looked extremely strange, thinking: "Who is this person? It is indeed amazing to dare to ask Lord Monk Daoyan for debt."

On the roof of a restaurant on the side of the road, Shui Yuanzi chewed a dog leg in one bite, squinted his eyes and looked at Yuan Sheng and rushed over with the four-phase warrior. "Hehe, this guy is practicing magic skills in his bones, but the external minister is just a fairy spirit. He is indeed a powerful person... Hey, isn't Monk Daoyan his dog leg? Why did he ask Monk Daoyan for money?" After tilting his head and thinking for a long time, Shui Yuanzi jumped up suddenly, patted his butt with greasy hands, and said lazily: "Forget it, what do I care about your business? As long as you are not in Yingtian Mansion, I will not mess with you, otherwise, hum... I'm plotting behind my back, grandpa, I've just learned it."

Here, Shui Yuanzi had just turned into a ray of water vapor and merged into the morning mist. Several tall and rosy old monks over there had already walked into the city gate slowly. The four old monks were the four old monks who followed Zhang Sanfeng and Tuchen in the Qilian Mountains last time, and five were the five old monks of the host of the "Fangcun Zen Temple". A total of nine old monks walked into the city gate slowly, and suddenly looked up at the place where Shui Yuanzi disappeared: "Amitabha, what a pure and profound immortal spirit energy. There are experts in Yingtian Mansion to take charge."

The lion monk snorted coldly: "Then we shouldn't waste time in Yingtian Mansion! This person seems to be a kind of innate spiritual body, a first-class immortal figure. With him in charge, he will be within a radius of thousands of miles, and even monsters cannot get close to him. Let's go to find the remnants of the Blood God Sect first!"

An unknown old monk nodded slowly: "It's good, but I don't know what progress has been made on the side of Dao Chen. This time, the power of the Blood God Sect seems to have been completely eradicated by us, but there seems to be someone behind it. If I don't check it clearly, I will still not feel at ease."

The dragon monk nodded, turned around and left: "Then, let's go east along the Yangtze River. It seems that the richer the place, the greater the power of the Blood God Cult. This is also a clue... I originally heard that the young monk Daoyan, the court's young guard in Yingtian Mansion, was also a Taoist monk with profound Buddhist teachings. He wanted to take the opportunity to find him, Pan Hengyi, and now he can only wait for the next time." Several old monks smiled gently, chanted the Buddha's name in the same voice, trembled his sleeves, and walked out of the city again. The city gate officials were frightened by their demeanor, and they even forgot to ask them to collect taxes.

At this time, in the Shaobao Mansion, the dragon monk Daoyan was lying on the ground with a embarrassed face, looking at the Yuansheng who was sitting high on the chair in the middle of the lobby, full of anger. He heard Yuansheng constantly scolding: "What? No money? You are Shaobao, the Shaobao of the dynasty, the most trusted minister of the emperor, the most powerful minister in the court, you don't have much money? Well? You took out a hundred thousand taels of silver, can you send a beggar? Why don't you learn to learn from Lu Feng? Look at how good he is, I said I'm going to be gambling, Xu Qing and Zhou Chu's little kids have filial piety to this saint for tens of millions of taels of silver. Why are you so useless?"

Monk and Taoist Yan were honest and were the youngest guards of the current dynasty. Although he received a lot of bribes, most of the money was spent. He had so many monks under his rank, and they didn’t have to spend money on food, drink, defecation, and preaching in various places? In particular, he had to buy several other ministers, which was all dead. He was not like Lu Feng, who was unscrupulous in plundering the wealth of the people. His monk and Taoist Yan were indeed not as rich as Lu Feng.

In desperation, he could only say stutter: "Master, this, Daoyan is really incompetent. But this silver matter is no wonder Daoyan! Daoyan didn't have any chance to receive too many bribes. Unlike Lord Lu, who casually killed a wealthy businessman, that would be an income of millions of taels of silver. Moreover, his Jinyiwei occupied millions of acres of fertile land outside Yingtian City, and his annual income was amazing. He was really the first-class monument in the dynasty."

Yuan Sheng frowned and snorted coldly: "I don't care about you so much. In short, I'm proud of myself and live in Yingtian Mansion. I'm here to help you. Do you understand? Ordinary people ask me to live in his house, but I don't care about him... Lu Feng is very filial and capable. He gave me so much money to spend, but I'm embarrassed to ask him for money again. You are my trusted subordinate, so you will be responsible for my expenses for food, drink and entertainment in the future. I don't care what methods you use, even if you rob the Ministry of Revenue's bank treasury, I want the money."

Monk Daoyan looked at Yuan Sheng in a daze, his head buzzing, and he couldn't speak anymore.

Qinglong saw that Monk Daoyan looked so pitiful, and couldn't help but speak: "Master, you can't blame Monk Daoyan. He is just a young security guard. It's not easy to save 100,000 taels of silver with his power... Well, it's really difficult to ask him to pay a large sum of silver suddenly. Why don't we think of another way?"

Yuan Sheng looked at Qinglong coldly and said coldly: "Is there another way? What kind of way? Selling you four to brothels to make you laugh and pick up customers? Or can you ask monk Daoyan to build a temple by himself and collect incense money?... Hey, incense money? How much is the largest temple in Yingtian Mansion in a year?"

Monk Daoyan didn't know his intention, so he quickly said carefully: "I'm afraid there are a lot? Those believers offer sacrifices to the Buddha, and that's very generous."

Yuan Sheng laughed and jumped up excitedly: "Forget it, forgot, then let's do it like this. Why can the Jinyiwei have so much money? They have power. Although your monk Daoyan does not have the power of scouting and extermination of family members and levying bribes, they have their own strengths after all. You have more believers among the rich and wealthy courtiers, and they are confused. Isn't that big money still enters your purse like a tide? Then you can use the silver to honor the saint, wouldn't it be nice?"

He was so excited that he smiled around the hall, "Well, the slogan of Mahayana Buddhism is to save people, but they can't even save themselves, so why do they say the world? This is too empty... Hinayana Buddhism says that it is to save people, and it's not good. I just care about myself. How could those believers be willing to give you the money?... Well, Daoyan, you can just come to a middle-class Buddhism, use yourself to help others, practice Taoism to save yourself, and then educate the people of the world and others. These slogans are the most loved by ordinary people."

"Well, didn't you just preach that Buddhists should not just focus on the cultivation of the Qing Dynasty and ignore the world, so they defect to the Yan Palace? The teachings of the Middle-Chief Buddhism I summarized for you are just in line with your previous statement. As long as you become more obsessed with a few believers, let them give them money. If you can turn all the civil and military officials of the court into your believers, I will give you a great achievement in the future. Do you understand? When we get our great things and reward our merits, I will not forget you."

Yuan Sheng let out a long and shocking smile, waved his sleeves, and walked towards the door proudly. Of course, he did not forget to bring the silver note of 100,000 taels.

Monk Daoyan knelt on the ground, staring at Yuan Sheng's back as he was gone, full of ghost ulterior motives. He knelt on the ground, frowned and thought: "Is this lord crazy, really want silver or have other intentions?... If I really made this Zhongcheng Buddhism and made all the civil and military officials of the court my believers, gold, silver and jewelry would be indispensable, but... Could it be that his real purpose is not on this silver?"

"Lord Yuan Sheng looks crazy, but he is like that of Lu Feng, and his heart is extremely gloomy and cannot be seen through. Is this Buddhism just for silver? It's outrageous. If that's all, what's the big thing he said? Alas, it's unfathomable and unfathomable."

The monk Daoyan slowly climbed up, gently patted his clothes, and suddenly sneered: "Forget it, I was originally going to promote my Buddhist essence in Yingtian Mansion, but I was afraid that those Taoists would make things difficult for me, so I paused. Since the Lord said this now, then... I can't blame me. Humph! If those worshipers come out to make things difficult, please ask the Lord to kill them."

He shook his sleeves proudly, and the monk Daoyan shouted loudly: "Come here, please use my post to the six ministers, and say that this will be a banquet for the teacher in the mansion to entertain them."
Chapter completed!