After Chongzhen and Liu Jingting discussed the matter of the ethnic and religious affairs office in detail, they thought about it for a few minutes before continuing to say to Liu Jingting: "Since Luosang Qujie still wants to continue to wait and see, it is not interesting to keep his envoy.

Wang Chengen, you have prepared a batch of gifts for me to give to the Fifth Generation* and Luosang Qujie, and as for Mr. Liu, you will go and talk to the envoy of Luosang Qujie on my behalf, and ask him to pass on a few words to Luosang Qujie on my behalf.

So he said to him, since the master thinks that the time has not yet come* to go north, then I can continue to wait until the time he thinks is appropriate.

But I want him to remember that Tibet has been part of China since the Tang Dynasty. The Tibetan and Chinese ethnic groups are of the same origin, and no matter which sect is in power in Tibet, safeguarding national unity should be a basic principle that must be observed.

As long as he can abide by this basic principle, I will be patient enough to wait for him to go north to the capital. In addition, you should choose a day to feast on the leaders of the Mongol tribes, as well as the envoys and disciples of Lobsang Qujie, and you will be present in person when I fall.

After the banquet was over, except for a few Mongolian leaders who were left to serve in Beijing, everyone else could send someone to escort them back.

As for the disciple of Luosang Qujie, you consult with the officials of the Ministry of Rites, give him a title, and then accompany him to Wutai Mountain**. ”

"Wutai Mountain?" Liu Jingting asked with some confusion.

Zhu Youzhen nodded at him and said: "Wutai Mountain is a holy place of Tibetan Buddhism with a high status in the hearts of the people of both Tibetan and Mongolian ethnic groups, and it is also the first mountain of Buddhism in the north.

Since the beginning of Emperor Yongle, Wutai Mountain has also been deeply implicated in our royal family. There are no less than 20 monasteries given by the emperors of previous dynasties, and there are eight temple presiding officers who have been appointed as the protectors of the emperor, and there are as many as 14 other members of the royal family.

There are not a few monks in Wutai Mountain who reward monks, and the same number of titles as Dharma kings, national teachers, Buddhas, and Zen masters is considerable. The mere dedication to these monks every year is a considerable amount of wealth.

It is said that Wutai Mountain was once a sacred place of Lingshan Mountain with dense forests and gurgling streams. As a result, the mountain is now destroyed to build a temple, but it has become a barren and barren mountain where only the temple is seen and no trees are seen, and no more than 20% of the trees on the mountain remain. There are also some unscrupulous people who are extremely bold and reckless, and even recruit displaced people to open mines in Wutai Mountain.

What is even more worrying is that the various departments of Mongolia outside the Guanxi often go on a pilgrimage to Mount Wutai as a sign to get a glimpse of the reality of our Ming Dynasty customs defense. The monks on Wutai Mountain are uneven, and there may not be no collusion with our Ming foreign enemies.

So I want you to accompany this disciple of Luosang Qujie to Wutai Mountain**, and clean up this famous Buddhist mountain.

The first pair of temples on the mountain were registered and registered, and the population of the monks was checked. All small temples that do not belong to the main temple, according to the conduct of the monks in the temple, those who do not conform to the precepts of Buddhism will be expelled from the mountain.

Second, the property of each temple is inspected, the scale is limited, and all the land that exceeds the limit will be unofficial. The monks of each temple are limited to the number of members, and the redundant people and the monks who do not abide by the rules will all go down the mountain and return to the world.

Third, after rectifying the monks of the temple, the local gentry and each temple on the mountain were ordered to nominate a number of personnel to set up the Wutai Mountain Management Committee, which was responsible for the construction of roads, the planting of trees, and the management of public security during the incense season.

A pass is set up at the key intersection at the foot of the mountain, and the local mountain people and monks can enter and exit for free, half price for the people in the county, and free for the believers over 50 and under 15 years old, and others will pay the maintenance fee for the famous mountain according to the price negotiated by the committee.

One percent of these expenses will be used for the remuneration of the relevant personnel of the committee, three percent for the construction of roads and environmental improvement on Mount Wutai, two percent for the maintenance of temples on the mountain, two percent for the daily expenses of the garrison under the mountain, and two percent for the construction of local road facilities..."

A few days after the Lantern Festival, Fan Yongdou, who had finally completed all the affairs of the capital, personally took a small caravan out of the east gate of the capital and went to Tongzhou along the road of ice and snow that had not yet melted.

Fan Wencheng disguised himself as an ordinary bookkeeper and went out of Beijing in this caravan. After leaving Chaoyang Gate for a distance, he sat on the mule cart and subconsciously lifted the curtain to look behind.

The towering city gate tower continued to shrink as the caravan advanced, and Fan Wencheng silently looked out of the car, except for the rather old city gate tower, there was the gray-white sky behind the city gate.

From this point of view, the city looks like an uninhabited monument, but Fan Wencheng remembers very well in his heart how vibrant it is within the walls.

The current city of Beijing is neither the city he saw in the book nor the city he heard of from the mouth of a businessman, but it is somewhat similar to the Shenyang in which he lives.

This is a strange idea that only came to mind after he immediately left the capital. If those Ming people knew about it, they might definitely scoff at it.

But Fan Wencheng did have such a strange feeling, when Shenyang was in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, although it was a heroic city, it was a major defensive town in Liaodong with decadent military discipline. Although Shenyang was prosperous at that time, it exuded a smell of decay.

The wealthy merchants, bureaucrats and gentry in the city continue to drink and feast every day, but the civilians on the streets and the soldiers defending the city have dishes on their faces, and they can hardly see the smiling faces of the people in the city.

After Nurhachi seized Shenyang, he not only built a large number of buildings, but also moved the Jurchen tribes to this place, and regarded Shenyang as the capital of Houjin. Shenyang, which was originally a military fortress in Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, became the most important city in the Later Jin Dynasty.

Although the Jurchens have lived together with the Han people for a long time, the recklessness on their bodies has not yet been expelled. Soon after the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, the vices of the Ming Dynasty officialdom had not yet spread to the Jurchen relatives and nobles, so the residents of Shenyang City looked more vigorous than the residents in the Ming Kingdom.

Of course, this vigor was limited to the Jurchens, Mongols, and other ethnic groups in Liaodong. For the Han people of Liaodong, they have not yet recovered from the slaughter of Nurhachi in his later years.

Huang Taiji, who inherited the throne of Khan, was obviously better at governing the place than his father Nurhachi. Therefore, Liaodong, which had fallen into depression, has now begun to slowly recover its vitality.

For Fan Wencheng, this vitality that emerged in Shenyang City was also the best excuse for him to betray the Ming Dynasty and pledge allegiance to Huang Taiji.

Although the Jianzhou Jurchen has no background, as a savage tribe with no origin, it needs to cling to the reputation of the former Liaodong Jurchen clan to gather the hearts of all ethnic groups in Liaodong. However, as a new country, the vigor and sharpness that erupted in the early days of the founding of the Later Jin Dynasty were naturally not comparable to those of the Ming Dynasty in the twilight period.

Whatever you want to do, no matter how difficult it seems before you do it, you can do it all in the end. To outsiders, it is like God's help, which is the most attractive Chaorui spirit.

Compared with the mutual tilting between the officials of the Ming Dynasty, it is clear that they can play a stinky ending in the end with a good hand, which completely makes the Ming Dynasty look like an old man who is about to die, and a local gentry like Fan Wencheng will naturally think that the Mandate of Heaven has begun to circulate.

However, this trip to Guannai made Fan Wencheng see a city that is incompatible with the current Daming. He didn't understand how a twilight dynasty that was helpless against the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty could emerge in a city as full of infinite vitality as Beijing.

In this capital of the Ming Dynasty, he has almost never encountered the rumored arrogant and arrogant nobles and nobles, as well as the soldiers of the Beijing camp who look like servants.

Although the capital is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the people of the capital walking on the streets, with a look of relief without warning, are really something that Fan Wencheng has never seen in various places inside and outside the Guan.

Even in Shenyang, where the public security is much better than before, the people in the city must always listen to all directions, so as not to accidentally bump into a nobleman.

The Jurchen relatives who go out are in the army, and those who enter are the people, and it is normal for the ordinary people who have collided with them to be rewarded with a horsewhip.

If you really want to distinguish it carefully, Shenyang's vitality is more like a wild and untamed life, a disorderly and chaotic life of frontier residents. Beijing's dynamism, on the other hand, is entirely an orderly life under constraints.

In addition to the vitality seen in daily life, what surprised Fan Wencheng even more was the ideological activity of the capital.

Yenching University is undoubtedly a place that he hates and haunts, and during his more than a month in the capital, he will basically go to the university to listen to those strange theories whenever he has time.

Although every time he heard these remarks, he would feel impetuous, his chest would be tight, and he would like to go up and argue with these students. However, limited to his current status, he finally endured himself.

Every time he returned to his residence from the university, he thought viciously that he would not go to the university campus again and listen to these nonsense remarks.

But every time he was free, he unconsciously walked to the university campus, listening to those theories and thoughts that were completely different from the words of Confucius and Mencius.

This fierce collision of Eastern and Western cultures in academic thought made Fan Wencheng feel that his knowledge seemed to be increasing day by day.

It's a pity that a large number of students from Yenching University left the capital a few years ago, which made the debate on campus in the later period much inferior, which made Fan Wencheng quite regretful.

Different from Fan Wencheng's feelings about the capital, Fan Yongdou was a little worried when he walked out of the capital. Although thanks to his efforts, a batch of ginseng and fur was finally sold, but the price was mediocre.

The remaining batch of goods can only be taken to the south by his trusted shopkeeper for sale, and he has to accompany Fan Wencheng to understand the road from Tongzhou to Shanhaiguan.

If the business of fur and ginseng could not bring huge profits to the Fan family's business, he was a little hesitant to take such a big risk to spy on the intelligence of the Daming border pass for Houjin. After all, inquiring about this information is not only extremely risky, but also not a small amount of money.