The celestial phenomena are impermanent. In the early May, the weather suddenly became loud and the north wind was blowing through the sky, and dark clouds swept across the future. The bottomless darkness enveloped the entire plain. In the outskirts of Yecheng, in Cheng'en Temple, a group of monks were waiting solemnly in front of the door. Countless soldiers and horses poured into the temple and guarded all the places where people could stand.

The horse's hooves were like rain, and the earth seemed to be trembling. A long team revealed the true face of Mount Lu from afar. The imperial guards, covered with iron armor, rode on the tall horses and protected the two horses in the center, surrounding them like iron barrels.

The black sun, the black horse, the black armor, the former drove the war horses, and the later ones only saw the predecessors and could not see them. Suddenly, the knights in the front row held the war horses, and the horses neighed sadly and stopped, and the team behind also stopped. The queue lined directly in front of the temple gate, uncovered the curtain from the inside with one hand, and a young man stepped out of the carriage and stepped on the shoulders of the soldiers and got off the ground.

The wide robe is embroidered with golden cloud patterns on the bottom, and the jade belt around her waist is full of brilliance, so the emperor is undoubtedly here.

The indifferent eyes swept past the monks, who humbly lowered their heads. The host, who was nearly 70 years old, stepped forward and clasped his hands together and said, "I'm here to see Your Majesty..."

Gao Wei raised his hand from afar and said, "Don't give me a favor..."

"Thank you Your Majesty..." The presiding officer retreated behind Liu Taozhi, consciously moved out of the center, and waited for the emperor to enter.

Gao Wei looked behind him and saw that the carriage behind him had no movement at all. The people inside had no intention of stepping out of the carriage. On the side of the carriage, a few eunuchs were so anxious that they said something to the carriage in a quiet voice, but there was no movement for a long time.

Gao Wei frowned slightly: "Baoqing?" After a while, the curtain of the car was finally unveiled. A little girl wearing a cone hat and covered in silk raised her skirt and jumped directly from the car, causing the eunuchs around to let out a depressing exclamation...

She had a cute and white face, shook her eunuch and walked to Gao Wei, angrily, deliberately not looking at him. Gao Wei pretended to be angry, and pinched her little ears like ingots with two fingers, raised her, and said, "It's an important matter later. Don't just mess around. What will you do later, what are you doing, do you understand?"

"Oh, I understand. My sister-in-law told me, you told me again... Don't pinch my ears, you will not grow tall!" Gao Yuanyuan shook her head and covered her ears and prevented Gao Wei from pinching them.

Gao Wei said with a funny look: "Who told you these messy things? You can't grow taller if you touch your head..." Gao Wei put his left hand on the top of her head again, just like touching a puppy. Bao Qing rolled his eyes and stared at his brother. Gao Wei let out his hands, lowered his head and whispered: "Go in and worship the Bodhisattva first, go for a formality, huh?..."

"I understand..." She looked very reluctant. There was a sudden lack of an important person around her, so how could she not notice it? She was having a quarrel with Gao Wei now. Gao Wei asked the queen to play with some princes of the same age in Yecheng and Baoqing, just to avoid Baoqing thinking about this one day and then making trouble for him, but Baoqing still remembered that the queen had been persuaded, coaxing, cheating and educating, which finally made her calm.

However, there is still resentment. Gao Wei has looked at the back of his head these days. A few days ago, she told her that she was not grateful for taking her out of the palace to play. She was so polite that she could hang an oil bottle. She had a bad temper.

The gate of Cheng'en Temple is magnificent, and this storefront alone is of great value. Cheng'en Temple and Baima Temple are not the most famous temples in Yecheng. When Yecheng was in Northern Qi, Yecheng was the center of northern Buddhism in my country. After Gao Yang established Northern Qi, he worshiped Buddhism very much. A large number of temples were built inside and outside Yecheng. There were Miaosheng Temple, Queli Buddha Temple, Daci Temple, Daxingsheng Temple, and other famous temples outside the city. The pomp and appearance were larger than the other, and the decoration was more luxurious. The main halls of some temples were exquisite in craftsmanship, even surpassing the imperial palace.

White Horse Temple and Cheng'en Temple are just one or two of the many temples. Gao Wei chose White Horse Temple and Cheng'en Temple because the abbots of these two temples are both virtuous monks and have a very good reputation in Yecheng.

Buddhism was not passed down in China for a long time, but it was quite legendary. One said that it was in the first year of Emperor Ai of the Yuanshou of the Han Dynasty, Yi Cun, the envoy of the Dayuezhi king, taught the "Futu Sutra" to the Chinese doctoral disciple Jing Lu, and Buddhism began to be introduced into China. History called this Buddhist incident "Yi Cun's teaching of the Sutra". Another said that during the Yongping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Ming of Han dreamed that there was a golden body of a god with light on the top, and flew around the beam in front of the hall. The next day, he asked all the ministers, and Fu Yi, the knowledgeable minister, told him that he was a Buddha. So Emperor Ming of Han sent an envoy to travel west and found two monks. In order to express his welcome, Emperor Ming of Han built a Buddhist temple in Luoyang, called Baima Temple.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties and Sui and Tang Dynasties, Buddhism was the peak of the development of Buddhism. During the Han Dynasty, Buddhism was not introduced for a long time, and the areas where it spread was limited, and there were few Buddhist believers. Later, due to the translation of a large number of Buddhist scriptures, the spread of Buddhism became more and more widespread, and the construction of many temples and the excavation of grottoes was widely spread. Buddhism became the largest religion and developed many loyal believers, including Xiao Liang Emperor Xiao Yan.

In his later years, Xiao Yan suffered a series of blows and began to believe in Buddhism. Not only did he build more than 500 temples in the capital, but he almost became a monk several times. He had something to do with his superiors and some effect. Buddhism in the Southern Dynasty was so prosperous that it even suppressed the Taoist Tianshi Sect.

Not only the Southern Dynasties, but also the royal nobles of the Northern Dynasties were also generally superstitious about Buddhism, even better than those of the Southern Dynasties. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Buddhist temples and carved Buddhist caves were often built, and their luxury was greater than that of the Southern Dynasties.

The main reason why Buddhism can achieve such vigorous development is that the Buddhist thought caters to the thinking of working people in troubled times that they want to passively avoid the world, and the rulers also need a tool to paralyze the people's thoughts and facilitate manipulation.

Today, during the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou periods, there were 10,000 temples in the Northern Zhou territory, and more than 30,000 temples in the Northern Qi territory, and there were nearly 4,000 temples in Yecheng alone. According to the archives recorded by Zhaoxuan Temple, there were more than 2 million monks and nuns in the Northern Qi Dynasty, which is a very terrifying number! At this time, the Northern Qi Dynasty had only a population of more than 20 million, and nearly one-tenth of those who joined the Buddhist temple! At this time, the development of monks was unprecedented.

Of course, the rapid development and growth of Buddhism was also related to policies. At that time, no matter north or south, monks could not have to pay taxes, so the hard-working people who were exploited by heavy taxes and high pressure avoided monks. Moreover, in the Northern Dynasties, monks were a type of people who were free from the law. Often, when people committed serious crimes, they would hide in temples and not be controlled by the law.

Therefore, in this era, the temple has a high status but is transcendent. It has a large number of people and land in its hands but never pays taxes. It is like a giant gold-swalking beast that only enters and does not leave... If one day tens of thousands of temples are included in the control, the court can increase a large amount of taxes. How could Gao Wei let them go?

Gao Wei was respectfully invited by the monks to the temple. What caught his eye was a large-scale hall with a large scale, a vast space and a stack of brackets. With the tower as the center, four corridors, and north and south halls, it was grand and magnificent.

There are many flying patterns on the walls in the inner hall, which are lifelike and elegant, and the wrinkles of clothes are also smooth in lines and are full of rhythm changes. The gods in each classic are described, with bright colors and brightness. I don’t know how much it costs to use this material alone.

"The 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, how many towers are in the mist and rain..." Gao Wei looked around and sighed leisurely. Looking at the mural, he could feel a legacy of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It was the evolution of the times and the accumulation of time... It was just that the extravagance was a little too much!

As he said that, he smiled bitterly and held the corner of his mouth. Regarding the number of temples and the number of monks, Northern Qi was eight or nine times that of the Southern Dynasties, even more than that. He smiled ten steps a hundred steps? He turned his eyes back and stopped looking.

The abbot's ears moved, but there was no expression on his face. He held Baoqing's hand in his hand, looked carefully, and finally said, "Your Highness is destined to be with Buddhism, so why should you enter Buddhism..." Gao Wei directly rejected him. How could he agree to this? Besides, there was no such part of the content he had told them before... What did the host want to do?

Gao Wei couldn't help but become alert. The abbot looked at it and said, "Your Highness's early years of ups and downs, and only then can he grow up safely with His Majesty's care. Time and luck... I saw her palmistry. She should have had a disease before, but now she is safe and sound. This is the blessing of His Majesty's great luck..."

The old monk put his hands together and said to Gao Wei seriously: "Your Highness has had a miserable life, and it has a great ups and downs. He needs to be taken care of, otherwise it will easily die, and she..." The old monk looked at Baoqing deeply, "Yi Ke's people around him..."

"I suggest that she should not leave the house until she is twenty years old. Before she can practice Buddhism, she may cleanse her bad luck..."

"No contact with outsiders?" Gao Wei asked.

"No, no, no, as long as she recites scriptures and practices every day, she will naturally be safe..." the old monk quickly explained.

This is the original track... Although Gao Wei never asked Bao Qing to practice, in general, the result was what he wanted. Then, something went wrong would not make Gao Wei feel uncomfortable.

Gao Wei thanked the abbot and rewarded a string of rosewood beads, asking the old monk to give Baoqing a Dharma name, lit a Huigen, and got into the car and left Cheng'en Temple.

Before leaving, the old monk said a strange thing: "Your Majesty also has great luck. In the world, there are only three people who are as lucky as Your Majesty... One day, Your Majesty will be able to call you the ancestor... and build a great achievement..."

Gao Wei thought to himself that the old monk was really good at speaking polite words, and he smiled. He thanked the old monk for his words. Finally, he heard the old monk sigh and said, "The old monk has nothing to ask for, and what he does is just asking for something for His Majesty..."

Gao Wei paused at his feet and asked what was going on. The old monk:

"I am not for myself, I am not for my life this year... I am for this Buddhist sect in the world...

Over the years, they have done too much. They are no longer Buddhists and have gone astray, but they... are still alive...

Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda... The old monk had to ask His Majesty for grace...

In the future... please don't kill too much...!"

Gao Wei's eyes were firmly nailed to the old monk, and he looked at it and killed his heart, and the old monk was always as humble as a tree and as peaceful as a pool of water, which made Gao Wei unable to get angry at all.

After a long time, I said: "I am not a person who likes to raise butcher knives. As long as the monks and monks follow their duties, they will not be in trouble..."
Chapter completed!