Chapter 49: Plans always fail to keep up with changes
The situation is extremely scammed!
After Senior Brother Xuanshuang finished talking about the so-called court recognition, Wukong no longer had the interest in chatting with Senior Brother Xuanshuang, and sent Senior Brother Xuanshuang away with just a few words.
You should go buy your food quickly, as it is not suitable for you if you need to use your brain!
"I knew I should have thought that things would be like this long ago." Wukong was depressed and slammed his little bald head on the table. "There is such an unreliable temple master and such a brainless seat. Even Senior Brother Xuanshuang, who has a smart face, has become like this now. I still have expectations for Senior Brother Hongren. I am really brainless!"
"Junior Brother Wukong, stop hitting me!" Zhixing said gloatingly, "If you hit the table again, it will be broken. Hurry up and think about what to do now."
"What else can I do?" Wukong sighed, "Damn this is a three-no temple. There are a group of three-no monks squatting in the temple. Whether it is a temple or a monk, they are all the targets that the court wants to ban. The foundation of this Huangmei Zhengjue Temple is not as solid as the sand. It is too difficult to rely on building a castle in this thing."
"So what?" Zhixing answered indifferently, "Do you plan to stop doing it if it is more difficult?"
"Yes, no matter how difficult it is, I have to do it!" Wukong rubbed his face with his hands. "We can't control the lives and death of these monks in Zhengjue Temple. At present, we have to move with all our strength and try to get the gift from our Zhengjue Temple first. As long as we have this, everything else will be easy to say."
"It's so easy to say. What do you plan to deal with this gift?"
"I think of a way to get along with Prince Li Jiancheng. I remember that Li Jiancheng is still very supportive of Buddhism." Wukong patted his face with his hands. "Originally, my plan was to wait a few years before the foundation of my Xiusect stabilized, and then use the name of the Youfang to see the current great mountains and rivers of the motherland, but now it seems that this plan must be put forward."
"What are you kidding if you go to Chang'an, who will leave Huangmei's affairs to deal with?" Zhixing said with a stern face, "I'll say first, don't count on me, my senior brother."
, "Who will go if I don't go?" Wukong gave Zhixing a glance, "Can you still rely on you for senior brother? Do you know what poetry is, you don't know how to speak official words? Do you understand what Anuttara Samyaksambodhi is? If someone asks you to explain the Buddhist scriptures and other things, you can say it?"
"But the question is, what if Zhou Shaode comes to demolish Zhengjue Temple after you leave?"
"What should I do? I can only find something for Zhou Shaode when I left." Wukong rubbed his brows with his hands, "I don't know if I don't look at it. The world is so wonderful. Who would have thought that when we were in Jiangzhou, the stall in Zhengjue Temple could be so rotten."
"However, the Zhengjue Temple in Huangmeishan is the first temple that Master Daoxin has practiced since he took over the Zen Buddhism, and it can even be said to be the first temple of my Zen Buddhism." Wukong pondered for a moment, "It would be best if it could be preserved, but if Zhou Shaode really planned to demolish Dalin Temple, you can let him demolish it!"
Wukong sighed helplessly, "As long as you and Senior Brother Daoguang can protect the little novice monks from our Dalin Temple, we can do the rest of the things. We can't control it now, "I don't want to care. After I get the gift back, we can build a Zhengjue Temple here at most."
"Then what to do to find something for Zhou Shaode?" Daoguang continued.
"Of course it's a big deal. Zhou Shaode can temporarily put aside this small problem in Zhengjue Temple and help support the big deal with it wholeheartedly." Wukong chuckled twice, "You will know this after a while, Senior Brother."
"Okay, then when are you going to leave?" Zhixing continued.
"Wait for two more days!" Wukong pondered for a moment, "As the saying goes, you must first settle the homeland when fighting foreign countries. I always have to wait for the guys from Zhengjue Temple to slam and then directly crippled them, so that I can only consider other things."
In the following time, Wukong began to turn his attention to the deeds of these land origin in Zhengjue Temple.
The gift of this article is gone, so now for Zhengjue Temple, the most important thing is the land of origin. Wukong spent a full hour to roughly clear up the current property issues of Zhengjue Temple.
Zhengjue Temple now has more than 1,000 acres of land. Of course, most of them are forests, and the real arable land is less than 100 acres. The production of this 100 acres of land requires more than 100 monks to feed the food and clothing, which is definitely not enough, and the gap is quite large. This is why Wukong has been paying money to Zhengjue Temple in recent years.
However, when the court calculates, it will not calculate this with you. It will calculate it with you based on one thousand acres. According to a thirty acres of public monks, at least there must be more than thirty public monks in Zhengjue Temple to maintain such a large land. But how many public monks in Zhengjue Temple are there now?
Including the ten seals that Wukong took out, there are exactly fifteen!
Wukong picked up the land deeds of more than 100 acres of available arable land in the land deeds of more than 100 acres, put them back into the box, and then threw the remaining hundreds of acres of forest to Zhixing.
"Senior Brother Zhixing, please take these land deeds to Yundu Villa, and then sign a transfer contract with Hong Lei, and say that our Zhengjue Temple gave these forests to the Jiujiang Lu family. Then sign an entrustment agreement, and say that the Jiujiang Lu family is willing to use the production of these forests to worship the monks of Zhengjue Temple."
That's right, this is the way Wukong thought of to protect the land of Zhengjue Temple. First, he sold the land to Lu Chengzu, the young man from the Lu family in Jiujiang, on behalf of Zhengjue Temple, and then he took out the production of these fields and worshipped them back to Zhengjue Temple on behalf of Lu Chengzu. After such a trip, the court had no reason to confiscate the land again.
Nonsense, the land is no longer in the name of the temple, why is it confiscated?
As for whether the land is not in the name of the temple, Wukong is not worried at all. He is joking. The tax collection has been collected by the county magistrate. Don’t you know that our scholars and great masters have never paid taxes to the state?
"Okay!" Zhixing agreed happily, got up and planned to leave.
"Wait, Senior Brother Zhixing!" Wukong pointed at the monk Fayan who was standing aside stupidly, "You take Senior Brother Fayan with you, and then sign the agreement with his name. Senior Brother Zhixing, you have no position in Zhengjue Temple, why should you sell the land in the temple? If these monks in the temple know about it, they will not make a fuss."
"Okay!" After Monk Zhixing agreed, without saying a word, he pulled Monk Fayan, who was standing aside in a daze, out of the door.
There were about 100 acres of land left, and there were five public monks in the temple. Okay, there was no problem at all. Wukong picked up the small box containing the land deeds and placed it in the depths of the Zen room. Then he pulled a piece of paper and began to adjust his plan again.
God can tell you! Wukong found that the plan he made had been adjusted many times before he came to Huangmei.
I was just trying to deal with a few Taoist priests, but after I came, I found out that General Zhou Shaode was also here.
Then I thought I needed to clean up the young general Zhou Shaode, but I found that the monks in Zhengjue Temple were more and more unreliable. Fortunately, they were not reliable, and at most I would replace them all in the future. But at this moment, I actually discovered that Zhengjue Temple was simply a black household without a household registration.
The development of the situation can always refresh your bottom line again and again!
Now that Wukong has made another plan, the plan he had made when he set out from Jiangzhou with full confidence, was far from the plan he had set out from Jiangzhou, no one could recognize that these two plans were actually for one thing.
Zen Buddhism is now full of such strange talents. No wonder in history, Master Daoxin had to tell Senior Brother Hongren that a group of monks will appear among your future disciples, and then my Zen Buddhism will have a flower and five leaves to usher in real prosperity.
As for Senior Brother Hongren’s current performance, I’m afraid that Master Daoxin would not feel that under the leadership of Senior Brother Hongren, Zen will have any great development.
It is no exaggeration to say that it would be good to be able to firmly hold this foundation!
"Oh!" Wukong sighed. Master Daoxin had to be so disappointed with his senior brother Hongren that he could tell him that the future of my Zen Buddhism is in the hands of the disciple, not in the hands of your disciple, you!
Just when Wukong felt depressed, Huineng, who was returning to the secular world, brought that big bag of money and a large piece of cloth to his meditation room, began to pack up his own things, and prepared to go down the mountain to help his parents get along.
This historical representative of the integration of farming and Zen, the layman surnamed Wang, was a farmer from the countryside, and was the poor man who was swinging between the so-called good man and the so-called good man. Huineng's father was considered a good man, but Huineng's uncle was sold to a wealthy family as a servant and maid by Huineng's grandfather when the year was not good.
Huineng himself entered Zhengjue Temple when his family was in chaos in the past few years. He not only saved some of the food and clothing for his family, but also had more or less subsidies for his family. For Huineng, being a monk is not so much for faith, but also making up for his career.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, there were quite a lot of these professional monks. Of course, after the unremitting efforts of His Majesty Li Yuan and Li Shimin, the vast majority of these professional monks have returned to secular life, and of course a small number of them have persisted. For example, in history, Huineng persisted.
"Huineng, you are back!" After seeing Huineng coming in, several people living in the same room with Huineng, Li actually surrounded him, "Didn't you say you plan to go to that small temple to borrow money? How about it, have you borrowed it?"
After a few people pulled each other in a row, they immediately made the honest and honest monk Huineng go crazy, and the cloth bag in his arms also dropped to the ground. With a thrust, two or three scoops of copper coins rolled out of the bag, reflecting a yellow light, which immediately shone the eyes of the monks next to him. To be continued.
Chapter completed!