Facing Yuwen Wen's question, Xianhe was stunned at first, and then replied calmly: "Donor, I have not married and had children."

"Oh... Then does the mage eat meat on weekdays?" Yuwen Wen was unwilling to give up and changed his mind to make trouble.

"Donor, I will eat the 'three clean meat', otherwise when begging for alms, I will never encounter a donor providing vegetarian food."

The provocation was ineffective, and Xianhe didn't think it was an insult to ask questions. This surprised Yuwen Wen and confirmed his previous conjecture, that is, monks of this era did not strictly enforce the ban on meat and marriage.

Monks should eat vegetarian food, abstinence, and not touch women. After becoming a monk, they cannot have children. This is probably the rules and regulations that many people in later generations believe that monks must implement. However, in fact, monks from many other countries are not so rude.

Monks from Japan, Thailand and other countries in later generations could get married and eat meat in big mouthfuls. It is said that in Buddhist scriptures, monks were not explicitly prohibited from eating meat, and monks were not prohibited from getting married.

Yu Wen Wen was not sure whether this statement was true or false, but it was because of the failure of "provoking trouble" that he confirmed his guess: the Buddhism in the Central Plains in this era did not have some of the rules and precepts of later Buddhism.

For example, eating vegetarian food is said to be caused by Emperor Wu of Xiao Yan of Xiao Liang. Before that, Buddhism only required monks to eat "three clean meat", and did not say that meat is not allowed.

Three clean meats are meat that meet three conditions: first, without seeing the eyes, second, without hearing the ears, third, without killing it by oneself.

When monks begging for alms, they are not qualified to be picky about the donor's food, so the provisions of "Three Clean Meats" are in line with reality. It is only when Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, believed that the Buddhist scriptures require "not killing", and then comprehensively promoted monks to eat vegetarian food and not meat, which gave monks in the Central Plains the precept of "not eating meat".

As for the monk's requirement that he is not allowed to get married, after all, "becoming a monk" must be cut off from unnecessary desires. Even this desire cannot be eliminated, but in this era, there are not many monks who get married.

Kumarajiva, a monk from the Eight Sects of Central Plains, got married and had children in the Central Plains. It is said that this eminent monk was forced, but it is true after all.

It was probably the famous monk Tan Wuchen, who came to the Central Plains during the same period. When he was in the Shanshan Kingdom of the Western Regions, he was said to have an affair with the princess. Later, he went east to Northern Liang and taught the art of room to noble women.

This shows that the monks in India are not really pure and have few desires. Of course, this does not damage the reputation of Kumarajiva and Tan Wuchen.

There are many signs that it seems that when Buddhism was in India, there were not as many rules and precepts as the Central Plains, which means...

This means that if the time is right in the future, Yuwen Wen can use this to provoke trouble, allowing a major change in the Buddhist community in the Central Plains, and destroying all the views of good men and women who wish to give up their homes as temples and donate their land to temples.

Just imagine, when everyone thinks that monks should eat vegetarian food, not touch women, and not marry or have children, suddenly, a "study abroad monk" who returned from studying abroad in Tianzhu announced in public that this was wrong. How many people were surprised?

Monks can eat meat (three clean meat), marry and have children, and let their son inherit the temple he presided over. Once such a "truth" is announced, they will ask the good men and women if they are surprised or surprised?

At that time, the high-ranking Buddhism will instantly become "friendly" and everyone will no longer be crazy about Buddhism. They will treat Buddhist temples and monks, just like ordinary families and their members. During festivals or holidays, you can just go to the temple to burn incense, so that you will not lose your money to worship Buddha.

By then, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of kilograms of copper material will no longer be cast into Buddha statues, but will be cast into bronze cannons by craftsmen, installed on sail battleships, forming a fleet of destruction, traversing all over the world, and creating a great voyage...

Yuwen retracted his overly scattered thoughts, calmed down, and began to plan the matter again. In the future, he would package the monk's appearance and master's appearance and have a "pure gold diploma" to study in Nalanda Temple in Tianzhu. After returning to China, he triggered an unprecedented "Central Plains Buddhist Reform".

Let the mysterious Buddhism become a swallow in front of the hall that "fly into the homes of ordinary people", just like the Buddhism in later generations, harmless people and animals.

Not only that, it also needs to be commercialized. For example, on the New Year's Day, temples in various places can hold "New Year's first incense stick" activities (bidding ranking). Those with higher prices will definitely burn the New Year's first incense stick to maintain prosperity.

Let’s make another gimmick, the temple will make the first New Year prayer bell ringing, and ask local parents to ring the big bell in person at midnight, praying for the next year to be in a good mood and the people will live and work in peace and prosperity. Who wouldn’t want to make a name for such a thing?

Of course, there is no charge for asking parents to come and hit the bell. The charging position is a "watching seat" where parents are praying for blessings to the people. This kind of rare appearance in front of parents, opportunities to catch up with them, and a lot of local tyrants are competing for money.

Anyway, after careful planning, the local tyrants have gained face, the temple has income, the parents and officials have gained reputation, and the onlookers can watch the fun. Wouldn’t everyone be happy?

"Why did the donor laugh?"

Xianhe asked a soft question again, which made Yuwen Wen return to reality. He was really embarrassed now. After all, he was happy twice in a row, which means he was alert and relaxed. If Xianhe stabbed him with one knife, he might be done.

"Well, the master wrote first, I will deal with some mundane affairs first."

Xianhe nodded after hearing this, picked up his pen and continued to write. Yuwen Wen got up and turned out of the Zen room. He was about to wash his face and restore his energy, but he saw that there were a few more people in the yard.

It turned out that it was Sima Zhang Dingfa, the royal family, who brought a few subordinates.

The Sima of the Royal Palace is responsible for commanding the Royal Palace Guard. The duty of the Royal Palace Guard is to protect the safety of the Lord and his family. Therefore, the safety of King Yuwen of Xiyang is the first thing Zhang Dingfa considered.

He arrived in Zuocheng today and learned that the King of Xiyang was in Zuoshan Temple, but he saw that the other party had stayed for too long and was afraid of something wrong.

Zhang Dingfa knew that the King of Xiyang did not believe in Buddhism, so he could not talk about Buddhism with the monks in the temple and even forgot to return to the camp; the King of Xiyang did not care about women, so he would never indulge in the temple because of some encounter.

Zhang Dingfa learned in the military camp that King Xiyang had made arrangements in front of Zuoshan Temple and arranged a backup plan. Once the scheduled time was exceeded, the reinforcements would go to Zuoshan Temple to find out.

Although before the scheduled time arrived, the King of Xiyang ordered people to return to the camp to send a message, saying that they would come back one hour later, Zhang Dingfa did not dare to take it lightly, so he personally took people to Zuoshan Temple to find out.

Now that he saw that King Xiyang was safe and sound, Zhang Dingfa and others breathed a sigh of relief.

Yuwen Wen walked to a big tree in the yard, signaled Zhang Dingfa to approach, and then asked: "Can you all arrive safely?"

Zhang Dingfa replied: "Don't worry, my goodbye, everything is fine."

Yuwen Wen had already received a letter from Princess Yuchi Chifan a few days ago, as well as letters from several other female relatives. So he knew the situation in the royal palace and directly explained to Zhang Dingfa: "You may have two days off, and you may have to fight in the future."

"Yes, the king..." Zhang Dingfa finished speaking and reminded: "King, don't you know when to return to the camp?"

"It will take about half an hour. The iron should be hot while the iron is not stopped."

Seeing that there was no one around, Zhang Dingfa whispered: "Master, since you are going to fight again, has the matter done there?"
Chapter completed!