Late Tang

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"Shopkeeper, what's going on?" The young man in white who came down the stairs saw the crowd in front of the cabinet, his brows were slightly frowned, and he asked in a calm voice.Li Jing stepped forward, but before he got close to the young man in white, the two attendants behind him had already blocked him, "Shut up!"

Two soft reprimands with a soft female voice, only then did Li Jing smell a faint fragrance.He looked up intently, only to realize that the two guards standing in front of him were actually two young women.Looking at the young man in white behind them, he turned out to be a fresh and refined beauty.

Li Jing paused for a moment, and was lamenting in his heart that Datang was really open-minded, and he could meet women in men's clothing everywhere, so his eyes couldn't help staying on the woman in white for a while.The woman in white was a little annoyed by Li Jing's gaze, and glared fiercely at Li Jing with her pretty eyes.The two maids who protect the lord have even made a coquettish sound, and their hands have been pressed to the hilt of the sword.

Conscious of being impolite, Li Jing quickly looked away, cupped his hands and said: "Li Jing met this young master in Xiaqingning Township, I was rude just now, please forgive me."

Hearing this, the young lady's expression improved slightly, she turned around with a soft snort, and stopped looking at Li Jing, and signaled the maid to continue downstairs.Li Jing stood in front and refused to let go, and then cupped his hands and said: "It's getting late now, I missed other mansions. Right now, this is the only one here. I heard that the whole room is booked by the young master. It seems that there are only a few people watching the young master. I don't know if I can accept the other vacant rooms and warehouses as a favor. I am willing to bear all the expenses."

The woman seemed to be in a hurry and she didn't want to get entangled with Li Jing, so she nodded and said in a cold tone: "Shopkeeper, arrange a building for them."

"One building is not enough. This general has more than 100 troops and dozens of carts." The shopkeeper was stuck between the two, and he was also a little embarrassed.The young man in white took over the entire mansion as soon as he made a move, which shows that he is not an ordinary person.And the later one was even more difficult, with more than a hundred people directly beside him, with sharp swords and sharp guns.

Hearing that the shopkeeper called Li Jing a general, and he brought hundreds of troops with him, the woman's gaze froze for a moment.The next moment, her attitude changed slightly, and she also clasped her fists to Li Jing and bowed: "I don't know that a general came, and the shopkeeper left us the Tianzilou where we live, and took the rest to this The general and his subordinates will live separately. This general, I have something to do first, so I will leave!" After speaking, he smiled slightly at Li Jing, walked past Li Jing with two maids, and left the mansion directly.

Li Jing frowned slightly as he looked at his back, and then called the shopkeeper to settle the team down.In his heart, Li Jing was still a little curious about this woman in white. Only three people actually took over the entire mansion.Didian is not an ordinary inn. In the early Tang Dynasty, Didian and Dian were operated separately. "Di" originally refers to the warehouse where goods are stacked, and "shop" originally refers to the place where goods are sold.

After the early Tang Dynasty, apart from storing goods, the mansion shop also began to accommodate merchants.After the merchants brought their goods into the Didian, the owner of the Didian and Yaren acted as middlemen for the merchants, selling the goods or buying them again.In this way, the mansion store has developed into a place for merchants to trade, and has multiple properties such as warehouses, hotels, and shops.The mansion store charges mansion value and warehouse rent.Due to the huge profits, after the mid-Tang Dynasty, aristocratic bureaucrats and temples also opened mansions one after another, so a large number of mansions sprung up. Around the markets of big cities such as Chang'an and Luoyang, there were at least a hundred or as many as three or four hundred. .In the late Tang Dynasty, there were mansions even in the countryside.Some Jiedu envoys even set up mansions and shops in the main passes and imposed taxes on merchants.

Generally speaking, Didian is a large hotel integrating warehouses, shops, hotels and restaurants.It is not a simple person who can open a mansion, and it is even more difficult for a person who only has three people to live in the whole mansion in one go.

Li Jing has just arranged the accommodation for the following team with the shopkeeper, but Li Huier and Yu Youniang, two happy guys who didn't know where to play just now, appeared again, and when they saw Li Jing, they wanted to drag him there Fahua Temple.

"Sanlang, I heard that Fahua Temple is the largest temple in Dengzhou. When we are at the foot of Fomen Mountain, how can we not go up the mountain to worship Buddha. You grew up here, so you have to take us up the mountain to worship Buddha yourself." Li Huier was always in such a hurry, In him, Li Jing has never seen the royal demeanor of a princess in his impression.But when he saw Yu Youniang's expectant eyes next to him, he couldn't say the words of rejection.When Yu Yu left, he had asked him to take care of Yu Youniang, especially after Li Jing knew about Yu Youniang's bad marriage, she couldn't help feeling a little more sympathetic towards this junior sister.

"Okay, it's not dark yet, so I'll take you up the mountain, but it's agreed, let's go back quickly." Li Jing remembered that the Han family had asked him to go to Fahua Temple to buy sesame oil and make a wish. It's just that he didn't have the chance to go up the mountain after he had an accident in Chishan Town.Although Li Jing didn't believe in gods and Buddhas in his heart, but remembering what he had promised to the Han family, he planned to go up the mountain to accompany the two aunts and grandmas.

Chishan Fahua Temple belongs to the Tiantai sect and recites the Lotus Sutra.This temple is the largest Buddhist temple in Dengzhou, but this temple has only been built for 50 years, and this temple was built by Zhang Baogao, a man from Silla. Luo monks, as well as a small number of Japanese monks from Tang Dynasty who lived here.

A temple built by Silla people, a group of Silla monks and Japanese monks chanted scriptures, but the incense of Fahua Temple was very strong.However, 30 years ago, Tang Wuzong ordered the extermination of Buddhism. With the instigation of Taoist Zhao Guizhen and the support of Prime Minister Li Deyu, in April of the fifth year of Huichang, he ordered an inventory of the number of monasteries and monks in the world.In May, they ordered Chang'an and Luoyang left and right streets to keep two temples each, with 30 monks in each temple.There is one temple in each county in the world, and the temples are divided into three classes. There are 20 people in the upper temple, ten people in the middle temple, and five people in the lower temple.In August, all temples in the world were ordered to be demolished within a time limit; including more than [-] temples in the world, and [-] Lanruo (private monk residences).

This time when the Buddha was exterminated, most of the Fahuayuan was also destroyed, including the golden statues and bronze statues, and even several halls were demolished.However, after Wuzong died, his uncle Xuanzong succeeded to the throne. Before Xuanzong came to the throne, he had escaped from the palace, lived among the people and even became a monk. Therefore, in the two generations of Xuanzong and Yizong, he started to worship Buddha again.Especially during Tang Yizong's time, he himself indulged in it, built Buddhist temples and statues, and donated countless money.Under Yizong's advocacy, large-scale Dharma conferences and ashrams flourished unprecedentedly, and the sutras and Buddha's chant in Chang'an Buddhist Temple began to resound once again, praising the real Bodhisattva.Before his death, he also held another large-scale worship activity after Xianzong, and went to Famen Temple to welcome the Buddha bone.

The bones of the Buddha have just entered the gate, and the dragon has wept in the wilderness.

However, as soon as Tang Yizong welcomed the Buddha bone into the door, the funeral car carrying his coffin had already arrived at the cemetery accompanied by everyone's weeping.However, it is precisely because of Xuanzong and Yizong's father and son's reverence for Buddhism again that Buddhism in various parts of the Tang Dynasty flourished again.Because Fahuayuan has many good men and women, especially because Fahuayuan was built by Silla people, and the monks are also from Silla, so the Silla immigrants and Silla businessmen on the coast of Dengzhou made great donations. Up to now, Fahuayuan The size of the courtyard is only comparable to the original one.

Walking all the way to the mountain gate, although it is already dusk, there are still a lot of pilgrims going up the mountain to worship Buddha.There are actually no fewer people going up the mountain than going down.Not only the Silla immigrants from Silla Square in the nearby Silla villages came here, but also the people from the nearby Tang Dynasty came in an endless stream.There are even many people like Li Jing and the others riding horses, and there are many people with luxurious clothes and dignified status.

Following the stream of pilgrims up the mountain, Li Jing led Li Huier and the two of them into the Daxiong Hall.The Daxiong Hall is dedicated to the giant Buddha statue of Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism. On both sides are his big disciple Dajiaye and his second disciple Ananda; the back wall is the statue of Manjushri Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra; It is the eighteen arhats, giving people a sense of solemnity and majesty.

Li Jing bought a hundred catties of sesame oil as a donation from the Zhike monk. The monk's smile became more cordial to Li Jing, and he even claimed that Li Jing was a predestined person in the Buddhist family.He smiled in his heart, this sesame oil was just donated on behalf of the Han family, if he himself, he would never give money to the monks, let alone a group of Silla monks.Seeing Li Jing's generosity, the monk also saw that the two people around Li Jing were female guests dressed in men's clothes. Seeing their extraordinary bearing and luxurious clothes, the monk encouraged them to draw lots with a smile and kindness.

Naturally, there must be donations for drawing lots to solve the lottery. Li Jing is not interested in this kind of statement that claims to be able to see through the fate of others.He himself is a traveler, and he has known the world for thousands of years, so why does he need others to see through the fog for him?But Li Huier and Yu Youniang are very eager and interested in this.Li Jing didn't want to listen to those nonsense, so she let the two of them follow to draw lots, and she simply took a tour of the Chishan Buddhist Temple by herself with the sunset, treating it as a trip.

Li Jing believed in the rein alone, and just wandered around alone. He didn't go to the crowded hall, but walked to the quiet place.Under the corridor in the forest, it is also very comfortable.After strolling around for a while, I came to a quiet courtyard wing room. Li Jing was a little tired after walking, and wanted to go forward to ask for some water.As soon as he knocked on the door, he found that the door was only ajar. He patted lightly, and the door opened silently.

The courtyard was so silent that Li Jing could even hear the leaves falling on the ground.Looking left and right, Li Jing walked towards the wing with the seven-foot sword at his waist, leaving a line of shallow footprints on the ground.

Arriving in front of the chamber hall, Li Jing looked up, and it turned out that this was the Dragon Girl Hall, the golden boy and jade girl beside Guanshiyin Bodhisattva.

As soon as the door was pushed open, the first thing that entered was not Dragon Girl, but a familiar figure.I saw one of the two waitresses of the young man in white that I had just met at the Shanxia mansion, covered in blood, with a blood-stained sword point protruding from the left chest under the collarbone, vomiting blood from his mouth, his face was as white as paper, obviously he had died. Very badly hurt.In a blink of an eye, Li Jing quickly scanned the hall, only to see the woman dressed in men's clothes and another waitress whom she had seen before, surrounded by four or five swordsmen in black.