world festival

When Lu Fang heard this, it was as if a bolt of lightning had struck, lighting up his mind brightly, and he immediately grasped that idea. "Yes, that's the feeling. Then Zhu Yanshou must have killed all the soldiers sent by Xuanwu Town to monitor Jiang Congxu. No wonder he came so late to such an important banquet." Then Zhu Yanshou walked in front of Yang Xingmi , bowed and whispered a few words in his ear, Yang Xingmi nodded, very satisfied, and let Zhu Yanshou sit down beside him.Lu Fang casually beckoned Long Twelve over, whispered a few words in his ear, Long Twelve's expression changed drastically immediately, full of shock and grief, he bowed and saluted before getting up and leaving.

After Long Twelve left, the people in Mo Xiedu at the banquet seemed to lose interest, even Lu Xiong, who was usually the most flattering of Lu Fang, stopped talking, just buried his head in eating and drinking, and fell silent for a while.At this moment, Wang Qinian came over, raised his glass and said with a smile, "I never thought that a year ago, one of you and I were bandits, and the other was Huainan Army. Today, you have become the superior of a certain person. It is really rare for you to have such a strange encounter. "

Lu Fang saw that Wang Qinian's face was full of alcohol, and he walked a little swayingly. Maybe he drank a little too much, and the depression in his heart broke out, and he spoke out what he usually had in his heart.Quickly stepped forward to support him, and said with a smile: "Others don't know, and you don't know the details of XX. It's easy to say here on the Huai River. The geography, water and soil are familiar. This time leading troops to go south with General An, there will be no good or bad luck." Clearly, I need to ask brother Ren to give me some advice on how to proceed."

Wang Qinian didn't know whether he was really drunk or not, so he smelt of alcohol and sprayed Lu Fang all over his face: "It's fine if you're not used to geography, as long as you find a good guide and use your troops with caution. If you don't know who your lord is , if you are unfaithful as a minister, you will be decapitated."

Lu Fang covered his face, and when Lu Xiong and Wang Fo'er saw it, they rushed to end Wang Qinian and helped him out, leaving Lu Fang to think to himself, this Wang Qinian's adoptive father is Yang Xingmi's general, and he is also Yang Xingmi's Luzhou In the village, he can be regarded as a confidant in his confidantes. Could it be that these words are here to beat him?But Gao Chong has already been sent to send a secret letter at night, wouldn't it be superfluous, if he has evil intentions, wouldn't it be self-defeating.After thinking about it for a long time, Lu Fang became more and more confused, and finally decided that Wang Qinian was a little bit upset with himself, a latecomer, and saw some signs of it, so he ran over to beat him.Thinking of this, he looked sideways to the left and right, only Fan Niseng was left, and said with a smile: "The left and right have nothing to do, you can finish what you didn't finish just now, so you can pass some time."

That Fan Niseng had a bitter face, and explained his background in detail.It turns out that Huainan Road and Jiangnan Road have been prosperous in Buddhism since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and there are famous temples and ancient temples.Since the founding of our dynasty, in the ninth year of Emperor Wude (626), because of repeated invitations from Taishi Ling Fu Yi, he finally ordered the two religions of Shatai Buddhism and Taoism, and only one temple in each state was allowed to stay. Happened but not implemented.During Taizong's time, Master Xuanzang translated a large number of scriptures, and Buddhism flourished even more.Until the time of Emperor Xuanzong, although monks and nuns were eliminated for a time, the Tantric Buddhism introduced gained the trust of the emperor. Buddhism reached its peak, and the number of monasteries almost increased by half compared with the early Tang Dynasty.Soon, Anshi chaos broke out, Buddhism was destroyed in the north, and its momentum dropped sharply.However, due to the efforts of Shenhui and the help of Shenhui to collect tax money for monks, the Nanzong of Zen thought that the military subsidy would make it more convenient to spread, so it became a unique Zen school and gained a dominant position in the south. status.However, after the civil war at that time, the corvée became more and more serious, and the temple had the privilege of exempting from labor and tax. United, and colluded with local powerful forces to avoid taxation, and in addition to lending usury and setting up mills to make profits. This is especially true in the south, and the Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou is one of the leaders.

When Fan Niseng's father was the abbot, he took advantage of the turmoil, embezzled the land, divided it into various manors, organized monks and soldiers in the manors, and even came forward to control Jiangnan by collecting monk tax money from other temples for Zhou Bao, the then Zhenhai Jiedu envoy. The economy of nearly a thousand temples in Dongdao, Jiangnanxidao, and Huainandao. Their business includes selling food, wood, medicinal materials, pottery, and even salt and iron, which were extremely illegal at that time. It was already the top five in the southeast at that time. Big chaebol.Later, Zhou Bao was defeated by Dong Chang, his father lost his backer and was assassinated by others, and several other illegitimate children were killed by others. Fan Niseng was usually clever and brave enough to escape with his life. The Jiangnan Dongdao and Xidao fled to Huainan and wanted to join the army to find a way out, but they still showed their feet today.Speaking of this, he begged Lu Fang hard to let him stay in the army for the sake of these days, leaving him a way out.

While shaving his teeth, Lu Fang listened to Fan Niseng's narration, and didn't care about Fan Niseng's gloomy eyes constantly peeking at his face, thinking to himself: "I didn't expect that there were such careerists among the monks in our country. I thought it was only North Korean monks." And the bald donkeys in Japan are so restless. The Lingyin Temple is clearly the prototype of the Japanese Ichigo sect, but it is still accumulating economic and military strength, and has not put forward a political slogan similar to the Ichigo sect's "no input, no input" to establish a heaven on earth. It seems that people have the same people, but the Chinese people in ancient times had a relatively high level of knowledge, and they were not as easy to fool as the Japanese. People who practice cults are always unable to make it to the stage. It is obvious that his father will be the fate of a fat sheep who will be slaughtered sooner or later."

Thinking of this, he casually asked a few famous Buddhist fighters he saw on the Internet in his previous life, what kind of heart-moving banners and so on, that Fan Niseng looked at Lu Fang in surprise, he heard from Wang Foer that this commander Originally, he was just a son-in-law of a local tyrant, at most he was just a role of digging mud, he was good at wielding knives and guns, and beating people with sap sticks. I didn't expect to talk about Zen and Buddhism, but there was nothing wrong with the smile on his face. The appearance of the slightest eminent monk and great virtue is indescribably annoying.But at this time, the other party was obviously testing his own knowledge, and when judging whether what he said was the truth, he hurriedly tried his best to use up what he had learned. The cups and plates were messed up, but it looked like an eminent monk.Later, he took out half a piece of suet white jade from his bosom. Fan Niseng said that it was the relic of the sixth patriarch Huineng, and it was a token of the abbot of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou. Before his father was killed, he gave it to him from his confidant. Playing with his hand, there is a word "quiet" inside the jade pendant, which looks like a natural one when viewed through the light.Although Lu Fang doesn't understand this thing, he can also see that it has a great origin and is a rare treasure.

Lu Fang played with it for a while, then casually put the jade pendant into his arms, ignored Fan Niseng's painful eyes, patted him on the shoulder and smiled, "Brother Fan, don't worry too much, it's better to put this jade pendant with you." X here is safe. X will keep it for you, until the day when you get your revenge and return to the abbot's throne, it will be returned to the original owner."

Fan Niseng smiled wryly and said: "Since he escaped with his life, he has lost all hope. It's all right to survive this troubled world. How dare he hope to get revenge and regain the abbot's throne. Captain, you don't know how powerful the two Zhejiang monasteries are. The current abbot of Lingyin Temple, Liao Fan, has raised hundreds of millions of money for Qian Miao, and he has won the trust of Qian Miao. He directly leads more than a thousand monks and soldiers in his hands, and there are groups of assassins. He can command many monasteries in Jiangnan Road and even southern Huainan. The mobilization of wealth is even more astonishing, and it is difficult for you to get rid of it."

"That's not necessarily the case." Lu Fang poured himself a glass of wine and tasted it slowly, "A mere monk, without the protection of the imperial court, with so much money and such great influence, there must be many people who covet him. It would be fine for him to make a fortune quietly behind the scenes, but now he is doing all kinds of business, including annexing land, raising assassins, and training monks and soldiers. I don’t know how many people want him, but there is no reason. Qian Miao is right He is only taking advantage of it temporarily, the Huainan army has long wanted to annex the two Zhejiang provinces, so someone will take advantage of this wind, not to mention one Fan, and ten Fans will be dismissed." Speaking of this, Lu Fang casually threw the wine glass in his hand. , smashed to pieces.That Fan Niseng was also an ambitious and smart man, but he was a little discouraged after repeated setbacks. He chewed Lu Fang's words a few times and heard the beauty of them. He was overjoyed and quickly brought a new wine cup to Lu Fang Filling it up, he put his hands together and said with a smile: "If someone can avenge the murder of his father and regain the throne, it is all given by the general, and the property in the southeast temple is nothing but the general's private property." Speaking of which, The two looked at each other, and there was already a tacit understanding, and they couldn't help but raised their heads and laughed at the same time.