In Yidu, Qingzhou, Gaomi Village, the suburb of Dongyang City, several craftsmen were carving a Buddha statue. It took them nearly a month to close the completion of the Buddha statue. After the final completion, they could be sold.

The style of worshipping Buddha in Qingqi is no less than that in Jiangnan. Many people spontaneously form a civil servant (Buddhist club) to create statues in order to save time. Many civil servants often raise money to buy "finished products" in order to save time.

It is precisely because of the strong demand that specializing in the production of Buddha statues and selling them has become a profitable industry. In Qingzhou, many such statue organizations have been summoned by their bosses and make profits every month by making Buddha statues.

In Qingzhou, most of the Buddha statues are fixed in several types, which is very conducive to large-scale production. One of the Buddha statues is the "Maitreya statue".

The birth of Maitreya is derived from the "Maitreya Sutra". According to Buddhist scriptures, the life span of Maitreya in Tushita is 4,000 years, and the time to become a human being is 5.6 billion years. After his death, he will be born in the human being and become a Buddha.

After Maitreya was born, the working people in the world not only lived happily, but also had the opportunity to be liberated. This is very attractive to the people living in the dark world.

Although the Buddhist scriptures clearly stipulate that Maitreya will not be born after 5.6 billion years, the people who suffered from suffering are eager to come soon, so the faith of Maitreya soon replaced the faith of the upper life and became the mainstream of the faith of Maitreya.

A standard-sized statue of Maitreya is expensive to build. A civil servant needs to gather at least hundreds of people to collect the cost of buying a Buddha statue. Of course, if the members of the civil servant are short of money, they can make the statues themselves to save money.

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In Qingzhou, ordinary people work for short-term workers and sell labor, and can earn about 30 cents of hard-working money every day. In order to participate in the statue making and fulfilling their wishes, they have to spend ten days of income.

In other words, these people served ten days of labor for the Yiyi established by the temple.

Even so, the people of Qingzhou are still enthusiastic about participating in statue making. They serve the government and work hard. They are prone to family destruction. But they serve the city and the city can be blessed. Why not do it?

The meaning of the city is not only to create statues, but also to build towers (Floating Pictures), stone scriptures, stone chambers, temples, and stairs. The meaning of the city is at least dozens of people, and most of them are thousands. Most of them are composed of ordinary people, secular bureaucrats, and monks. The meaning of the city is produced for the creation of statues can last for more than ten years.

The Buddha statue will be made of stone tablets, with the names of all members of the city's morality engraved on it so that the Buddha can sense the pious heart of believers.

With the finished Buddha statue, the lifespan of the city from its birth to its end is very short, and it can even make a profit: there is a blank space on the Buddha statue stele, and those believers who have not joined the city for some reason can spend money to engrave their names on the blank space of the stone tablet.

Such believers may not show up in the Yiyi from the establishment to the dissolution, and do not participate in any activities organized by the Yiyi organization, but only spend money to buy a name on the stone tablet. Generally speaking, they are mainly rich officials and wealthy businessmen.

Of course, in order to distinguish it from Yizi, the inscriptions of those who spend money to engrave names will also be different. Generally speaking, their names will be ranked behind Yizi, and the text says, "On a certain year, month and day, I will use some texts to buy a Buddha statue, and so on."

After the establishment of some folk ethics, the number of members changes greatly. For example, when they were first established, there were 100 members, but for various reasons, only 70 people were left, so there would be many blank spaces on the stone tablet.

For merchants selling finished Buddha statues, the production of stone tablets is particular. We must consider that there will be someone who will spend money to buy names outside the members of the city, so we must leave enough blanks to engrave names.

It is also necessary to consider that the number of members of the Yiyi family has reduced the number of inscriptions engraved in advance will be invalidated, and a lot of money will be lost. Therefore, it is very important to contact Yiyi frequently and determine the list.

At this moment, the owner of the statue responsible for the creation of the statue was talking to a monk. The monk was young and thin, wearing a coarse cloth monk's robe and rag shoes, and looked no different from an ordinary monk.

It is even different from those temple masters who are fat and big-headed and greasy.

"Master, this list is no different from the last one."

"What are the questions of the Lord?"

"Uh, I remember, it seems that a few people have left the Duyiyi." The master pointed to several names on the list and said, "The master is the person who is responsible for the lead in creating statues. There is a master in the Duyiyi, and the person who specializes in making Buddha statues for sale is also called the master.

"Ah, these Tan Yue have something to do at home and cannot do their best for the Yi of the People for a while. It's okay, it's okay."

Like the Lord glanced at the other party, hesitated in his heart. This situation was not without it, but it usually caused trouble, because if the names of those who had introduced the etiquette halfway on the monument would be dissatisfied by other members of the etiquette, because it was unfair.

The owner of the Buddha statue business has seen many disputes. Generally speaking, the owner of the town is too easy to talk to and wants to be a good person, but in the end, he has to make a dilemma, so he can only smash the carved stone tablet and carve another piece.

"I have appreciated the good intentions of the Lord. Please carve the name according to the list, and don't worry."

Monks of this era claimed that they used "poor ways" rather than "poor monks". As if the master saw that the other party had decided, he didn't say anything else. The master of the capital was not old, but he was very experienced in presiding over the affairs of the county. He felt that the other party should have a way to calm the criticism of the members of the county.

In the meaning of the city, its leader is the town lord, and the deputy leader is generally Vina. Several town lords can form a larger town, called "Duyi", its leader is the town lord, and the deputy leader is generally Duwei. Those who can become the town lord should have some skills.

The capital lord acts differently from other monks. In other temples, monks will set up immortality warehouses and place "monk's residence millet" that is, usury. The capital lord also set up immortality warehouses, but what is placed is not usury.

In other words, this is a charity database established to help each other and rescue each other.

The people of the country borrowed money and food from the Changshengku, but it doesn't matter if they really can't pay it back. Just come to Yiyi for help more. Unlike the monks in the temples who send some thugs to collect debts every month, which makes it a mess. Where can the monks look like they are indifferent to the world?

The two talked for a while, and the capital master said goodbye. He walked towards the other end of the village, where there was a vegetarian temple where there was a vegetarian in his country, explaining Buddhist scriptures to the people.
Chapter completed!