Chapter 342: Great Changes in Tokyo
It's dark!
The air is gloomy and tidal!
There is a faint chill in this kind of tide, but it is obviously rare in this hot summer season!
Tokyo!
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Because it has just been washed away by heavy rain, and it has been raining for two days in a row, the whole world is a little wet!
The capital, which has very little vegetation, has also been baptized by heavy rain, which has made the whole world a little fresher. However, this freshness is also mixed with some gloom that cannot be ignored!
It is because of this baptism that the whole city seems quiet! It didn't rain much in Tokyo, and every heavy rain should be happy, but the rain on the past two days has been depressing!
Because this rain seems to have brought misfortune, everyone feels that because of the attack of this rain, it has added a lot of uneasiness to the people who have been unknown. Because everyone understands that the piety of this faith and the persistent pursuit of the goal seem to have no direction!
Many people didn't go out, because everyone knew that since the emperor's class returned to the court at the beginning of the month, the entire capital was covered with a layer of sadness!
The emperor's northern expedition returned in vain, and the emperor himself was seriously injured!
I don't know where this news came from, but the emperor didn't have anything about the early dynasty, but even many people knew about it! On the contrary, no one from the court came out to avoid the rumors, which seems to verify everyone's suspicions!
And this rumor spread quickly, because Tokyo has been in turmoil since the previous dynasty. With this rumor, whether it is the people's own feelings or the people's instinctive worries, anyway, it makes the capital feel a little noisy!
Since the change of dynasty in the Central Plains, this time the stability has only been more than ten years. If you count from the time Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, in just forty or fifty years, there have been five dynasties in the Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and now the Zhou State!
Ordinary people are actually very simple, that is, to live a stable life, but this kind of thing seems to have become a luxury. Changing the dynasty is like a marquee, and the people have lost confidence in this era! Because no one knows who the emperor will be replaced by when he opens his eyes tomorrow morning!
Finally, nearly ten years have passed, and compared to the stable days, there are some expectations and hopes in everyone's hearts, who knows that the founding emperor will return to heaven in a few years.
Now it is hard to look forward to a promising young emperor, who will go south to the south of the Yangtze River to recover more than ten states, and even take the land of the four states in the west of Shu. Seeing the emperor's civil and military rule, it really gave people a bit of a posture to unify the Central Plains.
This time, the emperor went north to fight against the Khitan, and the original intention was also to subdue the Northern Han puppet state by the way, seeing that the unification of the Central Plains was a matter of time. I didn't expect a small northern expedition, but suddenly everything became unstable, because it is said that the emperor returned with a serious illness!
The palace and the court did not come out to avoid the rumors, so the common people felt a little panicked. Even though the emperor already has several heirs, but because these heirs are too young, the common people feel a little unstable!
Everyone followed the external state of the palace, and naturally felt a little unstable!
Daishokokuji Temple!
A majestic place to visit Buddhism in Tokyo!
I don't know how many dynasties have been experienced, but it can be said that the courts of all dynasties have greatly respected this place. Even if the emperor strictly controlled Shamen in the first two years, and even banned many monks who did not have a degree, Daxiangguo Temple was not affected!
But today it seems to be a little different!
At this time, outside the mountain gate, there are heavy regiments surrounding! And this kind of encirclement is still layer by layer, and it encloses a big Xiangguo Temple!!
The soldiers with loaded guns and arrows were all on guard at this mountain gate, as if there was something important to happen in this temple, and it could happen at any time.
Because everyone didn't make any noise, there was a strong sense of depression in the air! Everyone stared closely at the mountain gate and the surroundings of Daxiangguo Temple, as if they didn't want to let go of even a mosquito!
The mountain gate is closed, and the tall courtyard wall blocks the inside and outside, and the outside is quiet, and the inside seems to be extremely quiet!
You must know that this was once the dojo of Master Luhu Chengchu, who in the world did not give Daxiangguo Temple some face?
The whereabouts of Master Chengchu have always been a mystery to the world. Because some people say that he has gone to the Western Elysium, and some people say that he is hidden in the Great Xiangguo Temple to practice. But the common people prefer to believe that he went to the Western Bliss, because for an enlightened monk, it is the best place to go.
However, as an ancient temple that leads the world's Buddhism, Daxiangguo Temple, like the ancient Buddhist dojo "Berlin Temple" in Zhaozhou, is not welcomed in the Central Plains. Daxiangguo Temple has a law tiger Chengchu, and Berlin Temple has a master of the Central Plains Buddhism, but Guo Rong, as the emperor of the Zhou State, for the sake of the people of the Central Plains, once attacked Buddhism. Probably for these reasons, Daxiangguo Temple is also very low-key at this time.
Although it was a little dark, it was not yet noon.
Perhaps feeling that the silence of the voice was depressing, the soldiers outside the Great Xiangguo Temple, under the signal of a general, suddenly approached the temple gate. And the footsteps of these soldiers seem to be even more anxious! Because of the original pure cultivation place, because of the siege of these soldiers, it suddenly seemed a little unstable!
These soldiers are fully armed, looking at the standard of armor, they should actually be the forbidden army in the palace!
Praetorian Army!
No matter what era it is, this should be the emperor's pro-army!
The emperor's pro-army, even if the emperor is no longer accustomed to Buddhism, he should not send his own personal guards! But now the soldiers besieging the Great Xiangguo Temple here are really the forbidden army of the Zhou State!
The emperor's pro-army was actually sent to besiege the famous cultivation place in the capital, which really made people feel a little inexplicable!
Faintly visible, there are monks in it, leaning on the top of the wall and peeping out. Because everyone didn't say anything, everything seemed a little weird!
In the past, at this time, there should be a lot of pilgrims here in Daxiangguo Temple, but because of something today, not only was the temple gate closed early, but even some people who wanted to come over were blocked by the soldiers from afar. Of course, these people will not be stupid to this extent, obviously seeing that there is a forbidden army doing things here, they will come to look for trouble, so they can't see half of the people approaching.
A tall red warhorse, a young man with a square face, and a bright silver spear in front of him. He was slightly closing his eyes, as if he was feeling something, but he didn't make a sound! But the order just now was issued by him with his eyes closed, and looking at him at the moment seemed to be thinking about something, but it gave people a sense of manipulating everything.
There were two war horses beside him, one on the left and one on the right, the eagle-eyed man on the left, holding a big knife upside down in his right hand, with a feeling of eagerness, from time to time he turned his head to look at the square-faced young man in the middle. Because he saw that the young man didn't open his eyes, there seemed to be some impatience in his eyes, but he couldn't bear to ride forward!
However, the jujube-faced man on the right next to him has two bulging hammers tied to his neck, and it seems that each of them must weigh more than 100 catties! Presumably a person with natural powers! His eyes were blazing, and he kept looking at the closed Daxiangguo Temple from afar, even if he saw those monks who were probing his brain, he didn't make any movement!
The oppressive atmosphere here seems to confirm the oppression of the whole of Tokyo!
"Listen to the monks in Xiangguo Temple!" This young man suddenly spoke, and the voice seemed to penetrate the distance, and it was actually facing the inside of the Great Xiangguo Temple, and the sound actually exploded like a bell!
Instantly shattered the tranquility here!
Because the voice of the youth spread throughout the entire Daxiangguo Temple!
"After finding out that the monks of Xiangguo Temple are bewitching the public, slandering the court and confusing the people, the emperor now orders the abbot of Xiangguo Temple to take Chengshun, Qingfeng, Qingquan, and Qingmin monks to the criminal department for investigation! If you continue to resist and refuse to open the mountain gate, all the soldiers will rush open the mountain gate and regard all the monks of Xiangguo Temple as having ulterior motives! This square-faced young general finally opened his eyes and looked at a few big characters in Xiangguo Temple, but his eyes were calm and amazing.
Hearing this voice and these words, I don't know where there was a sound of discussion, but it buzzed into everyone's ears. Hearing that the imperial court had issued this decree to the monks of Daxiangguo Temple, it naturally exploded for a while.
If you change places, you may feel that it is a fictitious crime imposed by the imperial court on the monks of Daxiangguo Temple. However, since the emperor ascended the throne, he has thought about the people everywhere and set up a 30-year development plan, and the people have greatly supported him.
To say that the faith of the monks, although it is originally an excellent thing, but usually these people are not diligent, and they even jump out of the red dust to get rid of taxes. If you don't need to work all your life, and you just enjoy the offerings, you will naturally be despised by some unbelievers.
At this time, hearing the voice of this young general, the people who were standing from afar and watching the excitement naturally exploded.
Seeing that the temple did not respond, the young man did not give an order immediately, but slowly glanced at the two assistants beside him. Then he continued to squint his eyes and looked coldly at Xiangguo Temple!
"General Chai, these bald donkeys don't seem to be able to eat oil and salt! Do you want us to lead someone to rush in directly? The eagle-eyed man on the left seemed to have a bad temper, maybe he had been holding back for a long time, and when he saw the movement in Xiangguo Temple, he couldn't help but ask for his life to the square-faced young man in the middle.
"General Jiexiao, don't be impatient!" The square-faced young man said calmly: "The eighteen Qingzi disciples under the Law Tiger Seat can be said to be good hands on the rivers and lakes, and some people call them the eighteen Arhats of the New Chapter Sect. Although these people are not necessarily in the temple now, how many lay disciples does Lu Hu have? Your Majesty ordered a certain person to come over, this matter is a bit calculated, let's take preemptive action in the future at this time! ”
What General Chai said is that this new chapter sect adheres to the practice of Buddhism, especially since the self-discipline tiger, and the true qi of King Kong under the door is even more famous in the world. Although we are outnumbered, we don't have much of a head start when it comes to really fighting them! I didn't expect the jujube-faced man with two hammers on the right on the side, but his mind was extremely delicate.
"There is no excuse for the sin that you want to add!" A voice slowly came from the temple!