The martial arts start saved the little dragon girl

Chapter 83 Leaving the Temple
out of the temple?

Yang Guo led Qu Feiyan out of the guest room with Zen Master Duheng, he was very surprised.

Zen Master Du Heng's intention to leave the temple should be to leave the city.

Is the situation really so dangerous that Yang Guo and Qu Feiyan want to flee immediately?
Yang Guo couldn't help asking: "Zen Master, why didn't you let me go to see Abbot Hongye, but asked us to go out of the temple?
I have a letter to give to Abbot Hongye. If he reads the letter, he might protect us, and he is not so dangerous that he has to leave immediately. "

Zen Master Du Heng walked forward quickly, and said to Yang Guo: "Benefactor Yang, I didn't tell you clearly a few days ago—this matter involves the secrets of our temple, so I can't tell you—I haven't seen Abbot Hongye for several months. gone."

"Ah?" Yang Guo and Qu Feiyan exclaimed at the same time.

Chan Master Du Heng said: "Since I want to send the two of you out now, it's okay to tell you clearly. In fact, I already explained it to you, Benefactor Yang, yesterday...

You are a smart person, you should probably guess that there are some differences among the monks in our Southern Shaolin Temple.

Since the outside of the temple was built and expanded, the temple has been divided into several factions on how to govern such a city that is comparable to a small country.

Conservative monks feel that our South Shaolin Temple is a place of pious worship to Buddha, and should not be involved in secular affairs, except for the most basic maintenance of the operation of the temple, everything else should be ignored.

Another group of people think that Buddhism pays attention to crossing people, and many people who come to live outside our temple also have a predestined relationship with Buddha.

Regardless of whether they come to become monks or not, we should take the Southern Shaolin Temple as the foundation and manage this place well, so as to prevent these people from being displaced and being bullied outside.

The two factions had good intentions at first, and there was no conflict of interests in essence, so there was not too much conflict in the beginning.

And our abbot Hongye is a man of great wisdom, he did not express his position, nor did he take sides.

So over the years, our temple's strategy has been considered a compromise. It has not restrained the residents of the city too much and regarded itself as the master of the city.

But he didn't ignore it at all, at least he trained monks and soldiers to stabilize the law and order, and ordered everyone to build walls and forts to ensure the stability of this place. "

Hearing this, Yang Guo interjected: "It's very good. Abbot Hongye is in the middle to coordinate, so that the city can develop peacefully - we all saw it when we came in."

Qu Feiyan said: "But Zen Master, why does your tone sound like something has changed recently? You haven't seen Abbot Hongye for several months. Where did he go?"

Both Yang Guo and Qu Feiyan were extremely curious about this question, and while they were on their way, they listened quietly to Zen Master Du Heng's answer.

Chan Master Du Heng pondered for a while, and then said:

"If, as the benefactor said, everything stays at that time, everyone gets along peacefully, and the city is stable and peaceful, that would be great..."

Yang Guo wondered, "Could it be that some major event happened on the way, which caused changes in the city and made it difficult to continue?"

Chan Master Du Heng replied: "Benefactor Yang said exactly the four words 'unsustainable', but missed the previous one.

Not only did nothing unusual happen in the city, on the contrary, for many years, the weather has been smooth, and there have been no droughts and locust plagues. Everyone is living very well. "

"Then why is it unsustainable?" Yang Guo asked although he probably guessed the reason.

"Hey, because there are no disasters in the city, more and more people came to settle down. Our monk and soldier team reached 2 at the most.

Although the extra people also worked hard, including the monks and soldiers, they also took turns to guard and train, and they usually farmed and worked.

But at the foot of this mountain, although it is blessed by nature, the territory is limited. Even if all the open land is built and cultivated, how can it be possible to support more and more people?

What's more, the city has been built for more than [-] years, and there are newborn children one after another. When they all grow up, they will marry each other and give birth. How will their children live in the foreseeable future?

Can't we drive people out?Abbot Hongye can do anything, but he can't stop this law of human relations. "

Yang Guo knew this truth, but Qu Feiyan was quite naive about it, subconsciously said:
"When there are too many people, the big guys just move outside. When we came, we saw that many places were sparsely populated."

Chan Master Du Heng heard what she said, nodded and replied: "The words of the female benefactor happen to be the biggest debate in our temple today.

Many eminent monks in the temple also have the same idea as you: our South Shaolin Temple has this opportunity and has accumulated a considerable amount of strength...

It coincides with Fang's general chaos today, and all parts of the south have broken away from the control of the Lin'an court. Why not expand outward, and can protect more innocent people outside the temple?
But as soon as this remark came out, it was immediately opposed by the original conservative faction:

The conservative party was already very dissatisfied with the establishment of a city outside the Southern Shaolin Temple under the jurisdiction of our monks, and believed that this move violated the duty of monks.

Now that they propose to expand outward, how can they agree?

Among them, the one who holds the biggest objection is my fourth junior brother, Du Zhen. "

Hearing Duzhen's name, Qu Feiyan suddenly thought of the fat monk who was punched in the head by the evil monk Kongxiang that day, and couldn't help but let out another soft ah.

Yang Guo asked again: "Then what is Zen Master Hongye's opinion on this?"

Zen Master Du Heng said: "At the beginning, Abbot Hongye was still the same as before, he didn't express his position, he didn't take sides, and he wanted to continue to deal with the dispute between the two factions coldly.

But as mentioned earlier, the problem is becoming more and more acute, and it is time to make a decision on the direction of our temple.

The [-] monks and soldiers in my monastery have been reduced to [-] to save expenses, but they still cannot make ends meet.

Half of the output of the residents in the city will be handed over to our temple, and our temple will exchange the silk, ironware, ceramics, etc. outside for money and purchase food, so that most of the population will be able to fill their stomachs.

But since then, the daily necessities of many people in the city cannot be satisfied, which makes people who are used to living a comfortable life gradually complain.

In particular, the monks and soldiers had to drill and farm and work, but they couldn't even change their weapons if they were rusty, or change their clothes if they had holes. "

Yang Guo is not the kind of person who hears what he hears. He knows that the real situation must be more complicated than what Chan Master Du Heng said.

In addition to the increasing population and lack of supplies, I am afraid that there are more reasons for conflicts in the city.

Probably because no matter how selfless South Shaolin Temple is and how wise Abbot Hongye is, it is impossible to be completely fair in the city.

——At least these days when Yang Guo and Qu Feiyan lived in the upper room, the vegetarian food was enough, and the things in the room were not luxurious, but they were definitely not shabby.

The people in the city are used to living a hard life, as long as they still have a bite to eat, as Yang Guo and Qu Feiyan saw, they always have a happy smile on their faces.

But if this continues, there will inevitably be some huge problems.As Chan Master Du Heng said, things may have come to a time when Zen Master Hongye had to make a decision to make a change.

Master Duheng continued: "But in this situation...a few months ago, we suddenly couldn't find Abbot Hongye."

(End of this chapter)