Chapter 177: A Rich Man, It's Difficult for a Man Without Money (1)
Xiao Yat is a person who loves life and has a wide range of interests, such as drinking, hunting, beautiful women, and making money...... But the first place is always like to sleep lazy, sleep until the sun rises, sleep until the stars change, and it is best to sleep until the earth is wild......
As long as he does not send troops to fight, Xiao Yi will be hugged and sleep, in order to maintain a quiet environment, in the huge Wuwu Hou Mansion, there is not a single rooster that announces the dawn, and the servants have also developed the habit of raising their legs high, falling lightly, and talking in a low voice!
As for the five-day court meeting, Xiao Yi can't participate in it five times a year, he used to ask for leave due to illness, and then let his eldest son, Xiao Xuan, replace him, and just come back and pass a word!
Later generations of historians have researched that Xiao Yiquan is all over the world and all the people are in the heart, but he is unwilling to ascend the throne and become the emperor in his life, which has nothing to do with the political environment and oaths and promises, in the final analysis, there is one reason: too lazy!
"Brother Xiao Yi is up, husband is getting up quickly...... Get up for me, big lazy worm! ”
"It hurts, it hurts...... Ears are going to be bitten off! ”
In the early morning, Xiao Yi slept with drooling, and was about to fight with Zhou Gong for another 800 rounds, but was ruthlessly woken up by the person next to him, Zhen Mi, who was still gentle like water last night, turned into a little wild cat, scratching, pinching and biting his ears, and dragged him up.
Xiaozhu led a few maids in, helping the couple to clean and wash and dress up, she is Zhen Mi's personal maid, a partner who grew up together since childhood, and also crossed the grassland trade route together, it has reached the year of Huaxin, but she has never married!
This is not surprising, just like Lingling is the shadow of Princess Haiyan, Xiaozhu is also the shadow of Zhen Mi, she was a playmate when she was a child, she grew up to be a maid, and after she got married, she was a maid in the room, and she would never be separated!
Xiao Yi knew this, and he was ready to find a good time to put Xiaozhu in the room, and the resentful eyes in the face of her, as well as the fingers that kept swimming...... If you travel to this era, you should integrate into this era!
Flower robe, rhino belt, cloud brocade boots...... It was Xiao Yi's favorite costume, which was close and compact and easy to move, but today he gave it all up, and even the greedy wolf knife and slashing sword were not hung on his waist.
Instead, he changed into a Jinxian crown, a cicada wing robe, and a red ribbon...... It's completely a civilian attire, and the gold seal of the Great Si Nong is also hung on the belt!
It turned out that Xiao Yi was the respect of the Great Sima and concurrently served as the Great Si Nong, and today was the day he took office, so he changed his civilian official attire, and on the first day of the new official's appointment, he naturally couldn't be late and sleep lazy.
"Concubine body wishes to the husband - step by step, generation of princes!"
"Haha, the man is rampant, the prince is not expensive enough, the king is dominant, and life is drunk!"
After tidying up, Zhen Mi took the maids and Ying Ying to bow and send them off, and she was used to seeing her husband's Jin Ge Iron Horse, and now she has become a humble gentleman, which is really a charm!
Xiao Yi shook his head, feeling sorry for the lost laziness, waved goodbye to his wife, pinched Xiaozhu's tender face again, and walked straight to the gate of the Hou Mansion...... Although it is a harem joke, it reveals great ambition!
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"The students pay homage to Master Xiao - the grace of teaching, and they will never forget it!"
"Today, the new official takes office, everyone play well, don't be nervous, even if the sky falls, there is a promising teacher for you to carry - go!"
"No!"
In the past, when Xiao Yi traveled, he rode horses and held high flags, surrounded by hundreds of iron cavalry, roaring and galloping on the streets, and the officials and people all retreated along the way.
This time it was completely different, there was neither a flag nor a drum and trumpet, only a two-horse driving, a plainly decorated black boxcar, and more than a dozen Hou Mansion guards, which seemed extraordinarily low-key.
In addition, there were more than 50 children of the academy, who followed closely behind the caravan, all of whom had been repeatedly selected and were proficient in taxation, mathematics, and law, and their little faces were tense, and they looked quite nervous.
Today's appointment with Xiao Yat is a huge test for them, if they perform well, they will be prosperous and promoted step by step, if something goes wrong in the middle, not only will they lose the face of the university, but their career will also be dark!
Xiao Yi is a person who has experienced the college entrance examination, so he naturally understands the mood of the students, pats them on the shoulder, and encourages them with words, and then gets into the black canopy and leads the team straight to Taicang......
Taicang, located in the northern district of Xuchang City, was one of the important administrative institutions of the imperial court, in charge of tax collection, treasury cashier, and material allocation...... and many other rights, there are still many warehouses there, storing money, grain, cloth, salt and iron and other important materials!
The team left the Wushou Hou Mansion and crossed Baihu Street and Xuanwu Street...... Seeing that he was about to arrive in Taicang, he suddenly stopped, because he was facing a huge team......
"The Buddha said: a flower is a world, a tree is a floating life, a grass is a paradise, a leaf is as it comes, a sand is a bliss, a pure land on one side, a smile on the dust, a thought on a quiet ......"
"Shenguang Zen Master - compassion for the heart, touch the top and bless!"
"Shenguang Zen Master - the reincarnation of the living Buddha, the mana is boundless!"
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In front of them were dozens of small novices, holding pure white banners, followed by dozens of strong monks, in groups of two carrying trumpets, constantly preaching, and then the ordained monks, holding iron Zen staffs, bronze bells, and purple gold bowls...... All kinds of precious magic weapons!
There is an elephant in the middle of the procession, holding a white lotus-shaped Dharma platform on his back, and a middle-aged monk sitting on it, with upright facial features, white face like jade, wearing a pair of bronzing robes, holding a purple gold demon pestle, really has the posture of the Buddha descending to earth......
The middle-aged monk is explaining the "Huayan Sutra", the voice is extremely loud, it is estimated that he has practiced the lion's roar and the like, there are a large number of people on both sides of the road, some bow down and worship, some contribute money, and some follow along with the recitation, all of them are full of piety!
The Buddhist team was numerous, occupying the center of the street and slowly marching southward, while the team of the Wuwu Hou Mansion happened to go from south to north, and the two sides met head-on......
Xiao Yi, as a big Sima, has always been rampant in travel, and he doesn't have to make way for anyone, because there are only two people in the world who are higher than him:
One is Emperor Liu Xie, who is under house arrest in the imperial city and has not come out for five or six years, so he will never meet him.
The second is Prime Minister Cao Cao, the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Hou Mansion have a close relationship, and they will greet each other when they travel, so for more than ten years, Weng and his son-in-law have never met each other.
The rest of the civil and military officials, the heads of the gate lords, the powerful and the famous, etc., all had to give way obediently when they saw the team of the Marquis Mansion, and some had to come over and bow down to say hello!
"Woo! --Woo! Woo"
"Amitabha - Amitabha!"
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As the saying goes: often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet, the monks on the opposite side are very domineering, while blowing drums and trumpets, while singing Buddha sounds, obviously the meaning of opening the way to avoid......
Xiao Yi sat in the car, thinking about military affairs, lifted the corner of the curtain door, peeked outside, and immediately recognized that the elephant was on the back of the host, the Shenguang monk!
The old host of Tianyi Temple, Zen Master Yixiu, passed away a few years ago, and was succeeded by one of his two great disciples, the Shenguang monk, and the other disciple was unintentional and still spreading the Dharma on the prairie!
Unlike the old monk with a gentle personality and a low-key demeanor, this new presiding monk, Shenguang Monk, is a very active person, not only preaching the scriptures and teachings, often organizing large-scale puja ceremonies, but also wandering around the mansions of powerful people, and has a lot of contacts with civil and military officials.
After the triumphant return of the army, several Dharma ceremonies were held, and Xiao Yi had seen the Shenguang monk a few times, and the other party nodded and looked desperately flattering.
I didn't expect that today's face-to-face encounter, the monks would dare to occupy the road, and what I didn't expect was that in just a dozen years, Buddhism has flourished so much, and it has the flavor of provoking the regime?
Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty - Yongping seven years, there are two high monks of 'body poison' Mo Teng, Zhu Falan to carry the Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues to Luoyang with white horses, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty bowed to greet him, and the edict built a monastery outside the Yongmen Gate in Luoyang, in order to remember the merits of the white horse carrying scriptures, so it was named 'White Horse Temple', so far Buddhism was officially introduced into the Middle Earth.
Buddhism's teachings of reincarnation, suffering in this life and blessings in the next, paralyzing the poor and being willing to accept oppression, were well received by rulers, and Buddhism took root and flourished......
Especially after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the local Taoism collapsed, and the princes fought for hegemony, killing constantly, coupled with various natural disasters, the people were miserable, living a precarious life, had to rely on the protection of God and Buddha, Buddhism took the opportunity to quickly grow.
Up to the officials and dignitaries, down to the common people, have knelt down in front of the Buddha, donated a lot of wealth, as for the abandonment of the red dust, monks and nuns are even more numerous.
Some people have made statistics, only inside and outside Xuchang City, there are five large temples, more than 100 small and medium-sized temples, a total of six or seven thousand monks and nuns, and more than 200,000 acres of fertile land, three or four hundred shops of various kinds, and the rest of the temple property is difficult to estimate!
More importantly, out of respect for the gods and Buddhas, the fields and shops under the name of the temple are not subject to taxes, so some landlords and businessmen are opportunistic and choose the temple to take refuge in order to evade taxes......
Luoyang, Chang'an, Yecheng, Linzi, Shouchun...... There are also a large number of temples in large cities and densely populated places, with about 40,000 or 50,000 registered monks and nuns, and more than one million believers, which can be called a behemoth!
"Living Buddha travels, mortals retreat!"
"If you fight with the Buddha, you will be punished!"
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The two sides are at a stalemate, and dozens of tall monks with iron and iron Zen sticks walked out of the opposite side, chanting the Buddha's name while crowding the carriages and horses, and they wanted to forcibly drive them away......
When did the Hou Mansion have been bullied like this, more than a dozen guards grabbed their blades and prepared to cut off these bald heads, and the students also gathered over and surrounded the caravan.
"Restrain your anger, no one is allowed to do anything, let them go first, the Buddhists say well: I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?"
With an order in the car, the guards and students stopped instantly, let the monks push and shrug and drove the vehicle to the side of the road, but no one resisted, one by one just glared angrily!
Next, the Buddhist team blew and blow, and the shame passed, Xiao Yi never showed up, but sneered, he was worried about money, and he didn't think that there would be a 'fat pig' arch!
The Shenguang monk sat on the back of the elephant and saw the matter of the road fight clearly, but he did not go to his heart, and walked around the mansion of the powerful by himself, and he was clear about the official positions and symbols of civil and military officials!
If it is a top magnate, such as the surname Cao, the surname Xiahou, and the surname Cheng...... The convoy has already moved out of the way, and maybe it will step down from the platform and come forward to greet and salute!
Because the Shenguang monk understands that if the religious power wants to develop, it cannot be separated from the support of the elites, at least for a few decades, the power of Middle-earth is higher than the divine power, but with the increase of Buddhist believers, this situation will gradually reverse, at that time...... I am a real living Buddha!
The convoy that met head-on, there was neither a banner to open the road, nor an iron cavalry guard, not even a clan emblem, and the vehicle was very simple, and the people sitting in it were either sesame petty officials or rich people!
Xuchang is the capital of the Han Dynasty, and there are countless dignitaries and dignitaries, so there are really many generals like dogs, and they are too guarded to walk all over the ground...... A sesame petty official is too inconspicuous, and he doesn't need to be taken seriously, so the monks are so domineering that they directly drive the other party aside!
However, between the staggered teams, the Shenguang monk found a little problem, behind the other party's convoy, there were dozens of young people, all of them were energetic and lofty, it seemed that only the children of the school had such a look!
Zhengming Academy, famous all over the world, the students who come out of it are all top talents, how many powerful people do not hesitate to recruit them and want to take them for their own use, and how many wealthy businessmen want to give their daughters to them as wives and concubines.
But after graduating, the children of the academy either join the student army, or enter the official career, or start their own careers, and can be recruited by the powerful, which is very rare!
Ordinary elite families, if they can recruit one or two children of the academy, that is, they have burned high incense, such as Cheng Shangshu, Mao Fuju, and General Man's subordinates, there are only four or five students, and they still got it through a relationship!
But behind the caravan, there were at least fifty or sixty students, and they were all respectful, who should be sitting in the car, who should have such skills?
Monk Shenguang thought hard, and suddenly thought of a person, a person who has power all over the world and has a deep relationship with the university, a person who has been on expeditions all the year round and rarely returns to Xuchang City, and a person who he can't afford to offend!
"Come on, send a few novices to follow the car, see where the other party is coming from, and return to the seat immediately after figuring it out!"
"If the Buddha blesses, don't be that person sitting in the car, otherwise my Buddha will be in danger!"
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