Chapter 105 What is the True Buddha

Foguang Temple is built on the mountain, covering a vast area, the temple is magnificent, and the eaves and tiles are connected, as if there is no end.

The first impression to Lu Qiang is that "the monk is really rich"

Desp>Despite the hot weather, I knew that there were two monks preaching here, and countless believers came from all directions. No wonder no one was seen on the road. It turned out that they were all concentrated here. After arriving at the temple gate, you can even see many believers step by step.

Lu Qiang remembers that he had heard that devout believers had a hundred steps in his previous life, and even Tibetan believers began to kowtow thousands of miles away, which shows his sincerity.

Lu Qiang has no prejudice against Buddhism, but the practices of these monks make him disagree, just like a common saying, "The scriptures are good, but they are artificially mispronounced"

Far from the temple gate, Lu Qiang was the first to jump off the horse and walked to the temple gate. In fact, in that era, many temples were also grand fairs, and people would come to do some small business, which is often referred to as temple fairs.

Lu Qiang was not interested in his previous life, but in this era, he has been running for a living and has no time to participate in such a market.

The duty of the guards is to protect Lu Qiang. Only Sun Yao looks around happily and stops from time to what she likes and bargains with the seller.

Lu Qiang did not stop her or wait for her, so he walked into the temple.

Lu Qiang's party was very popular. A well-known monk had seen it and knew that there was a big incense guest and hurried to welcome him.

"The benefactor has invited me. I don't know if the benefactor came to listen to my master's scriptures or to return the incense?"

Lu Qiang did not come to smash the scene. He ordered Wang Kai to prepare 50 gold, but in his opinion, the 50 gold greeted him a lot, but in the eyes of the monk, it was nothing.

"Looking like a dog, but stingy"

After putting 50 gold into the merit box, he greeted him unwarmly and found an excuse to leave.

Lu Qiang couldn't help smiling bitterly. I don't know if this is what people often say that Buddha's eyes also look down on people?

After walking inside and passing through the Daxiong Hall, I suddenly opened my eyes and saw a square the size of a football field appear in front of me, but at this time, it is now full of people, but surprisingly there is no noise. There is only an old voice echoing in the square.

Lu Qiang stared and saw a platform in the middle of the square, which was not very high. There were two solemn monks on the stage explaining the scriptures. I don't know how this square was designed, and the voices of the people above clearly spread to everyone's ears.

It's really difficult for the two old monks. Under the scorching sun, they have been sitting like this, and they haven't even seen their saliva drink.

Lu Qiang can be said to be unspeakable about the Buddhist scriptures, but after listening carefully, he understood the story of the old monk telling the Buddha feeding the eagle with his body.

Lu Qiang did not believe in Buddha and did not like such stories. In his previous life, he heard people say that when the Buddha was born, the sky was full of fragrance. He also took seven steps directly. Every time he took a step, a lotus flower appeared on the ground, and then shouted: "I am the only one in heaven and earth."

No wonder he is the Buddha, who is domineering. It is estimated that it is no problem to cut as much meat as he feeds the eagle with his old man's body.

Of course, you can just think about these words. There are so many people! If you talk nonsense, you can't be killed.

"Adult"

Lu Qiang, who was thinking about it, suddenly felt that someone was calling him. Looking back, he couldn't help but be shocked. I don't know when a group of monks in big red coats came behind him. More than a dozen bald heads gathered together, which was spectacular.

I saw an old monk bowing and salute and said, "I don't know that Lord Assassin is coming. Please forgive me. It's noisy here. Please follow the poor monk to the Zen room."

So there are still people who know themselves?

Unexpectedly, he was recognized, and Lu Qiang could no longer disguise himself and nodded with a smile.

"I heard that a senior monk opened the forum to preach the scriptures today, and I came here to forgive and forgive sins"

The old monk is Huiming, the abbot of Foguang Temple, and the two scriptures above are his brothers Huiyong and Huiyuan.

Huiming didn't think much about Lu Qiang's sudden visit. After all, in this era, it is already a very common thing to love Buddhism. Maybe Lord Lu also wants to make a wish and pray for an official to become a knight or something.

If that's the case, his Buddha Light Temple will be developed. Now on the land of Jing and Jiang, is there anyone who doesn't know Lord Lu?

When he came to the abbot's Zen room, Huiming ordered people to serve fragrant tea, and then began to lobby Lu Qiang and let Lu Qiang also set up a long-life card here. Of course, such a card is not for nothing. Why is it meaningful?

Lu Qiang smiled and listened to him, even if he didn't agree or say no.

After a long time, the two old monks who preached the scriptures finally came back. After meeting them, Lu Qiang suddenly asked, "Dare to ask the master, what is the true Buddha?"

The three old monks couldn't help but be stunned. They told others every day, but they really never thought about this problem seriously.

Huiming coughed dryly and said, "Of course, the true Buddha has boundless magic power. I don't know why Lord Assassin has this question?"

"Good words"

Lu Qiang stroked his palm and smiled, and continued: "To be honest, I am here to ask Buddha for Purdue"

The three old monks are a little confused, and they say that there is something wrong with this assassin, right? Go to the temple and ask Buddha for Purdue. How can Buddha do you? Do you become a Buddha? Dreaming, right?

"I often hear that Buddhas walk without hurting the lives of ants and cherishing moths and killing lamps. They all have a Bodhisattva-like heart. Now the battle of Xunyang is at a square break, and hundreds of wastes have withered. It is the time for me to spread the heart of Bodhisattva. Please don't refuse!"

The three old monks were even more puzzled when they heard Lu Qiang's vernacular. Huiyong and Huiyuan are not often in the temple, and they are a little obsessed with the study of Buddhism. They are not very proficient in world affairs, but Huiming's old monk is very shrewd. He has already felt that Lu Qiang is afraid that he has no good intentions, but Lu Qiang hasn't said anything, and he is not easy to interface.

Although Huiyong is not an abbot, he is a big brother. He can't help saying, "I don't know what difficulties adults have encountered. Poor monks and others will definitely help."

Lu Qiang's expression closed and said lightly: "Borrow grain"

In fact, Lu Qiang's idea came out completely suddenly, because the monk was too rich. Looking at the monks one by one, he was full of energy and bright foreheads, and then thinking about the people who had no food and clothing after the war in Xunyang and even many places in Jingzhou, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

Why can these people who only affix the Buddha's logo be favorable and have beautiful clothes and food? Those people who climb in the middle of the night and work hard can't eat enough and wear warm clothes?

So he is no longer going to play any gentle with these people.

Before Huiyong could wait to make a statement, Huiming hurriedly said, "Your excellency, I'm afraid this will disappoint you. My Foguang Temple relies on the support of believers. It's a problem to eat by yourself. Is there any food to borrow? I'm afraid adults have come to the wrong place"

"Oh! It seems that there are rumors that thousands of mu of land around Foguang Temple are private property of Foguang Temple! Later, I will let the government office measure it again. If it is a borderless land, it will be confiscated."

Lu Qiang said plainly, but in Huiming's ears, there is no doubt that the land has been confisped. Can these thousands of people in his temple still live?

The bright forehead sweated in an instant and said, "Road... Lord Lu, please wait and have something to discuss."

In the face of Lu Qiang's aggressiveness, the two senior monks, Huiyong and Huiyuan, quit. At the same time, they stood up and shook their heads: "Amitabha Buddha, is Lord Lu here to bully me?"

"I dare not, Lu just wants to make a living for the people, hehe! Just now, the master was still telling the story of Buddha feeding eagles. Why did I borrow some food from your temple to bully your Buddhism?

"This... There are so many officials and noble families in the city, but adults come to ask us for food. Don't you think it's unfair?

Huiyuan was almost speechless by Lu Qiang's words, so he had to drag the rich family in to talk about things.

These monks have been spoiled by believers and previous incompetent governments, and there are still national laws and common people in their hearts?

Lu Qiang no longer wanted to talk nonsense with them. He stood up and said coldly, "In the future, under the government, no matter the official gentry, they must pay grain and taxes together, and Buddhism is no exception."

Look at me and at you, the three old monks. Their first feeling is that they heard it wrong, but if one person can hear it wrong, will all three people be wrong?

From ancient times to the present, the scholar clan has always been a privileged class. Although the Buddha has not flourished for a long time, the monarch has favored Buddhism. What's more, the disciples of Buddhism have spread all over the world in recent years have become a force that cannot be ignored, which is not touched by a local official at all.

Now, although this young Lord Lu is not a small official, he dares to attack the scholar and Buddhism at the same time. Isn't he enough to be an official?

Huiyong and others did not send the road strong. They closed the door of the Zen room and studied countermeasures.

Lu Qiang also ignored them. It has not been a day or two since he was reborn in this era. Will he know what is dangerous and what should not be done?

If it were other places, Lu Qiang's practices may be very radical, but Jing and Jiangzhou have been dilapidated after the war. It is a good time to break down and stand up. If Lu Qiang still follows other princes and builds his strength on the support of the scholar gate valve, he will certainly be a flash in the end. It will soon be overwhelmed by history.

On the way out of the temple, you can still see the endless stream of believers, who are in high spirits after listening to the scriptures, forming a sharp contrast with the strong and gloomy faces of the same road.

In Lu Qiang, those Taoist monks should be familiar with world affairs and pay attention to the suffering of the people. Now it seems that they are just some magic sticks that have been praised on the altar.

Sima Xiuzhi is also very disapproving of Lu Qiang's actions. He is not a person who has changed his mind like Lu Qiang. In his mind, the government should safeguard the interests of the scholars and lose the support of the scholars, and the regime will not last long.

After leaving the Foguang Temple, after not walking for a long time, Sima Xiuzhi finally couldn't help saying, "Lord Lu, is your approach a little too extreme?"

Lu Qiang knew that he would ask this. He turned his head and looked at him faintly and said, "Does General Xiu know the truth that water can carry and overturn it?"

Sima Xiuzhi shook his head with some incomprehensibleness and said, "What you mean is that the people are the most important, the society is second, and you are the light?"

"Hmm! Almost! I, the Jin Dynasty, have repeatedly been in power. What's the solution? Those powerful ministers controlled the people of our Dajin, but cultivated the land of our Dajin for them. All the harvests belonged to them. In the end, the treasury became increasingly empty, and on the contrary, they accumulated countless wealth for them. Without the support of these wealth, there would be so many powerful ministers who went forward and followed?

"General Hugh, those who win the hearts of the people will win the world!"

In terms of knowledge, ten roads are not necessarily stronger than Sima Xiu, but when it comes to insight, it is beyond Sima Xiu's clapping.

And Lu Qiang's words undoubtedly knocked heavily on Sima Xiuzhi's heart in the morning and evening, as if it had opened a door for him that had never been opened.

Everyone knows the truth, but how many people have really thought about and implemented it?

Looking at Lu Qiang's back, Sima Xiuzhi's eyes finally changed a little. Although Lu Qiang's last sentence was suspected of being uninsensitive, it was ignored by him intentionally or unintentionally.

Lu Qiang and his party returned to the Xunyang mansion, but were told that there were two people waiting for him. Both of them were a little strange, that is, they did not identify themselves or say who sent them, so that Yan Yanzhi had to order people to watch them so as not to have any bad intentions.

However, when Lu Qiang saw the waist card they handed over, he immediately ordered them to meet him. Except for Sun Yao, there was no one left beside him.

The two people are holding a special iron card with only one word "wind" on it. Others don't know, but Lu Qiang knows that this is the unique waist card of Liu's secret spy.

These two people are very ordinary, and they are the kind that can't be found when thrown into the crowd, and even Lu Qiang doesn't realize that they are special.

Only Sun Yao's eyes immediately narrowed after the two came in, because she felt the same breath in the two, and her hand unconsciously pressed on the handle of the knife.

The two are about 30 years old and dressed in ordinary gray cloth gowns. Even on the street, no one will look at them more, because they are too ordinary.

After the two came in, they knelt down and kowtowed directly without even looking at Sun Yao.

"Little man Ding Si, Fan Wu, have met the master"

Lu Qiang calmly accepted their worship and nodded and said, "Get up! How did Commander Liu arrange you?

"To return to the Lord's words, he asked us to come on behalf of the boss, and he asked us to obey the Lord's arrangement"

It turned out to be the person recruited by Dai Qianqiu. In fact, Lu Qiang knew that it was pure luck for Liu Sinu to catch Dai Qianqiu. For people like Dai Qianqiu, there are many capable people, which also proves Liu Sinu's ability on the other hand.

Lu Qiang didn't know what these two people really have. He pondered for a moment before saying, "You have a hard time."

"I dare not say hard work in front of the lord, please give me instructions"

I don't know what method Dai Qianqiu used to make these two people so obedient.

"There is a Buddha Light Temple outside the city. There are many land deeds in a secret place in the temple. I want you to give it to me, but I can't let those monks know. Is there a problem?"

"Lord, don't worry, we'll get it now"

After saying that, the two kowtowed respectfully before getting up and leaving.

Watching the two disappear outside the door, Lu Qiang couldn't help looking at Sun Yao, who had been in a tense state, and said, "What's wrong? Are they better than you?

Sun Yao nodded solemnly and said, "If you don't feel murderous in our industry, you can be called a master. These two are like two sharp blades that have not come out of the sheath. They are definitely masters. If you want to keep them by your side, you must be careful."

Lu Qiang smiled and was in danger that day. If he was afraid of everyone, he would not have to live.