Chapter 87: The Rebellion of Liantai (7)
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Early the next morning, Masahiro walked out of Hofukuji Temple with his horse, and the lush summer scenery was in full view, and the waves of the Seto Inland Sea could be heard in the distance. (.) The blue sky is white and the grass is overgrown at your feet. The war has been going on for more than 100 years, and although it is unbelievable, in the summer, a few ragged people are still pulling weeds in the fields, hoping for a good harvest in the autumn and not freezing to death in the cold winter, and the people have begun to believe that the war will not disappear from this world. The peace of the Heian Dynasty and the Nara Dynasty can only appear in dreams, and this world is forever full of suffering.
Looking back, Masahiro saw the towering and dilapidated three-storied pagoda in Hofukuji Temple, which is rumored to have been built by Hojo Shiyori, the ruler of the Kamakura shogunate, and is also known as an important cultural property in later generations. Hofukuji Temple is also regarded as a temple of the Tofukuji sect of the Rinzai sect, and the deity hides the Bodhisattva in the void, but now except for those who have found a unique path or relied on the daimyo, or have an inextricable relationship with the imperial family, or are directly rooted in the poor people, most of the temples are not vigorous incense, and Zen Buddhism is a sect that struggles to survive in the troubled times of the Warring States. Although the incense is not abundant, after all, Hofukuji Temple has produced famous temples such as Xueshu and other famous temples of Zen Master Yang, and it is much larger than the Buddha Nature Temple in Karamatsu Village, where Date started out. It's just that no one can see the edge of darkness after more than 100 years of turmoil in the world, and Baofu Temple barely maintains the scale of more than ten monks, old and young, and manages five or six temples, which is one of the few Zen monasteries in the vicinity that can barely survive.
Zhengheng looked at Yoshida Masanari beside him, he rushed from Ghost Body City yesterday afternoon, accompanied by more than ten retainers, usually he was on an errand in Tsurushou City, and the government affairs of Ghost Body City were handed over to his cheap father-in-law, Ueda Yusai, to deal with, but it was also well organized, the territory of 1,200 stone had obviously increased to 1,500 stone, but it was also affected by the Shingon Sect's imperial faction, and the people were panicked and had no intention of farming. Zheng Heng asked in a low voice, "How is the situation in Ghost Body City?" Have the disciples of the Shingon sect of the Imperial Room sect already appeared in the streets of Kibi Shinbei? ”
Yoshida Masanari obviously knew the specific situation from his cheap father-in-law, and he hurriedly investigated, so he told everything he knew: "The situation in Ghost City is not bad. Ueda Yusai didn't hide his secrets, he still has a son left, and his ability is mediocre, and I now arrange him to serve as a security officer under Heshou Castle. Do a good job, because of the anti-ancient mountain, Daping Mountain many Zen temples, although most of them are deserted, the believers still have some foundation, His Royal Highness and Ishikawa Hisataka when the fight is urgent, but also give Jinfeng Temple and Baoman Temple the temple leader of the peace blockage. / Jinfeng Temple is the last temple of the Taimi Tiantai sect to repair the main sect, and Nahomanji Temple is the middle main mountain of the Daitokuji sect of the Rinzai sect. The expansion of the Shingon sect caused strong dissatisfaction among them, but both Kinhoji and Homanji were temples without many monks. Most of the monks in the temple practiced Buddhism, but they still calmed down the feelings of the people and allowed them to farm with peace of mind. ”
The Wa Kingdom is indeed a Buddhist country, compared to the castles that rise between the mountains of various checkpoints, temples are everywhere, often a village has several temples, most of them were built by the Heian Dynasty and the Nara Dynasty where Buddhism was prevalent, and most of the sects of Buddhism were also founded in the same period. After entering the Warring States period, many temples were abandoned, but they still controlled the hearts of many people, once the samurai forces and the Buddhist forces began to collide. Often, it ends up being a head bump that breaks the blood flow. Zheng Heng is unwilling to regard himself as a forbidden Bei China has the right to obey another government, which he does not allow, but he also has no way to eliminate all these temples, as long as he can obey the Date clan on face and don't do anything out of line, in fact, Zheng Heng doesn't want to have a stalemate with the Shingon sect.
As mentioned above, when dealing with one sect, many people often use the power of other sects, and this is the reality of the Wa Kingdom, even if it is as strong as Oda Nobunaga. In his early years, he would often take advantage of the contradictions between sects, and even introduce the Southern Barbarian Sect to divide and disintegrate the energy of the Buddha Kingdom to achieve his own wishes, this is the reality, no one can avoid the reality of the world, even if the ruling faction in the Meiji Restoration wanted to use Shinto to destroy the Buddha in later generations, it did not do it. This sparked strong dissatisfaction with Buddhism, and in the end the two sides reached a compromise.
Zheng Heng has no golden thighs to hold, no golden fingers to use, if he makes the decision to destroy the Buddha in the morning, his head will be sacrificed in front of the Buddha in the evening to repent, and the people who cut off his head may be the loyal retainers around him.
Just as Zhengheng believed in Rinzai Zen Buddhism, most of his retainers were followers of various Buddhism, and almost no one did not believe in Buddhism, and if Zhengheng made an unwise decision, more than half of his retainers would definitely turn against him, and they would often choose Buddha in the face of the choice between the Buddha and the lord. This choice is completely different from choosing to go to Nizi or Ouchi, it is a choice between this life and the next. Is the Buddha important, or is it the balance that matters? Who gives more feared retribution?
Shoyo can deal with the Shingon sect because it has done something out of the ordinary, and the lessons of Kaga Province are vivid, as long as no one does anything out of the ordinary, no one will interfere with Buddhism, but once it touches the interests of the samurai regime, it will become the common enemy of the samurai regime, but it cannot lead the war to all Buddhism, and this is the fundamental. Therefore, on the one hand, he actively dealt with the Shingon sect and the Imperial Sect, but on the other hand, he also wanted to clean up his suspicions and introduce them into other sects, causing the established fact of the riots caused by the problem of faith, so that those who wanted to accuse him did not have any evidence to come forward.
Zheng Heng has made a lot of efforts to investigate the information of the Shingon Sect Imperial Faction, and even investigated the general situation around him, eliminating some obviously exaggerated and distorted information, and the strength of the Shingon Sect Imperial Sect has been basically understood. And since you see the part of the iceberg that is exposed to the sea, the shadow hidden under the water cannot escape the investigation of the discerning person.
The strength of the Shingon Sect's Imperial Sect in China is really not very strong, and it seems that it is expanding very quickly, but it is rootless water and does not have enough time to digest it. On the surface, it seems that the Shingon sect of the Imperial Chamber faction controls the three counties of Bizen Kojima-gun, Bichugo-kuya-gun, and Tou-gun, and the land of the three counties occupies about 50,000 or 60,000 koku of land in Bichu and Bizen, and the manpower they can use seems to be about 10,000 people, but this qiē is all superficial, and their sphere of influence does not mean that they can command the manpower and material resources in it, and there are still many other sects of Sanmen monasteries in the three counties.
Of course, given three or four years of time, it is unknown whether they can build the iron plate of the three counties, and if they learn some experience in how to run from the sect, it may be possible to achieve great things, but of course, this is still under the condition that no one disturbs. Zhengheng does not want to see an uncontrollable Buddhist kingdom appear under his nose, and Mogami Inari, which is rooted in Heyang County, is even more reluctant to see the emergence of sects of different beliefs in his sphere of influence to distribute his followers, especially when the Warring States period is in turmoil.
Zhengheng was full of confidence when he walked out of Baofu Temple, he knew that the things in Liantai Temple had happened, and it was irretrievable, and he could only move forward step by step towards the established goal. Today, the disciple was blessed by the Buddha and was fortunate to live in a place, and asked the master to return a reluctant request to the disciple, and the disciple wanted to move the master to be buried in Hofukuji Temple, and worship in Izumi Town and Ryukawa Valley Town, and rebuild the three-storied pagoda to worship. ”
Zen Baofu Temple has produced a generation of grandmasters, such as Xue Zhou, and other Yang Zen masters are very beautiful in later generations, but now it is the troubled times of the Warring States Period, and eating is a problem, where there are good men and women to learn painting, and if you want to learn painting, you have to go to Kyoto Baoguo Temple, where Xue Zhou and other Yang Zen masters became famous. In the past, there were local tyrants Oda who regularly sent incense money, but as Xuezhou and other Yang Zen masters gradually disappeared, his father's Oda clan also disappeared after a small wave in the torrent of history. The big monasteries control a county, and small temples such as Baofu Temple can only live on the one acre and three points of land they have cultivated.
Master Qingyuan heard that Zhengheng wanted to bury his master and bury him in Baofu Temple, how could he be unhappy, although he didn't know what Meichuan Temple was dry, obviously just a wild monk, but in his heart he still recited the blessing of the Buddha, it must be Xue Zhou and other Yang Zen Master blessings, otherwise why Date Zhengheng chose Baofu Temple alone, instead of other temples, to say that it is famous, Bei China is not a family of Baofu Temple, to say that the largest scale, Baofu Temple is not ranked, so that you can only believe that this is the blessing of the Buddha.
The population of Izumi Town and Ryukawa Valley Town is not large, only one or two hundred people, and the land is not much, only less than 200 stone, but for Hofukuji Temple, which cannot make ends meet, it is already a great drought and nectar, and the most important thing is that since Date Masahiro's master is buried in the temple, then there will be sesame oil money sent every year, and the presiding master can also go in and out of Date House from time to time to develop believers.
In the spring of the following year, Masahiro moved his master to Hofukuji Temple, and rebuilt the three-storied pagoda, which became an important cultural heritage of the Wa Kingdom, but later generations only remembered that the three-storied pagoda was built by the Kamakura shogunate Hojo Tokiyo, but forgot about Date Masahiro's repair. (There will be a lot of historical content in the article, please forgive me, but if there is any similarity in the appearance of Date Zhengheng, it is purely apocryphal.) )
When Zhengheng started again, the bigwigs of Guanlong Temple and Panzhao Temple finally rushed to Liantai Temple and saw the mountain gate like Shura's hell......)