From Chen Tai, Tianshuihuai to Jinchaigou, Chen Hongjin has been very busy, busy developing water conservancy projects in Quan and Zhangzhou to solve the farmland irrigation problems of the people in Quan and Zhangzhou. Chen Hongjin's hard work has still achieved certain results. The agricultural production in Quan and Zhangzhou has been improved, and the living standards of the people have not declined as a result.

But none of these could make Chen Hongjin have the idea of ​​enjoying comfortably, because looking at the entire external environment, Chen Hongjin found that the trend of Zhao Kuangyin and the Northern Song Dynasty unifying the world was becoming more and more obvious.

In the seventh year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty, in the eighth year when Chen Hongjin served as the governor of the Pinghai Army, Chen Hongjin discovered that the Northern Song Dynasty had annexed most of the south. In November of the second year of Gande, Zhao Kuangyin ordered an attack on the Houshu Dynasty that occupied Sichuan and Shu from the east and north. The powerful Northern Song army defeated the resistance of the Houshu army in just over two months. The Later Shu Emperor Meng Chang surrendered, Houshu was destroyed, and the Northern Song Dynasty expanded its territory to Sichuan and Shu.

In September of the third year of Kaibao, Zhao Kuangyin ordered the Northern Song army to send troops from Hunan to attack the Southern Han Dynasty that occupied Guangdong and Guangxi. In just four months, the Northern Song army penetrated deep into the Southern Tang territory and approached Guangzhou, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty. In February of the fourth year of Kaibao, the Southern Han emperor Kaicheng surrendered to the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Southern Han was destroyed.

The Southern Han was a neighbor of the Ping Navy. Its demise made the Ping Navy border with the Northern Song Dynasty on land. Only the Southern Tang, Wu Yue, Ping Navy, and the Northern Han in the north were still in separatist positions, and the rest of the places have become territory controlled by the Northern Song Dynasty.

This situation made Chen Hongjin very uneasy, but there was no effective solution to this uneasiness. He could only continue and humbly and respectfully pay generous gifts to the Northern Song Dynasty to win Zhao Kuangyin's favor so that he could maintain his rule in the Pinghai Army for a longer time.

However, Zhao Kuanghu was no longer patient. He accelerated his pace of unifying the world and fixed his next goal on the Southern Tang. In September of the seventh year of Kaibao, Zhao Kuangyin appointed the envoy of the Southern Court of Xuanhui and the governor of the Yicheng Army, Cao Bin, as the commander of the Southern Tang Dynasty, to lead a 100,000 Northern Song army to the south and attack various military fortresses along the Yangtze River. At the same time, Zhao Kuangyin also asked the Wu Yue Kingdom in the east of the Southern Tang to send troops to attack Changzhou of the Southern Tang to achieve the goal of attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty.

This war lasted for a year and was the longest time in the war to eliminate southern countries by the Northern Song Dynasty. In November of the eighth year of Kaibao, Cao Bin conquered Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Yu was captured, and the Southern Tang Dynasty was declared destruction!

The Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed. As the former leader of the Pinghai Army and Chen Hongjin, this southern power once had the capital to confront the Central Plains dynasty. Now that it is over, what other small countries can have any ideas? After the Southern Tang Dynasty was destroyed, there were only two separatist regimes of the Pinghai Army of the Wu and Yue Kingdom, plus the Northern Han Dynasty who separatisted the Shanxi area.

The Northern Han Kingdom was attached to the powerful Khitan and also played a buffering role between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Khitan. Zhao Kuangyin must have regarded the Northern Han as the last prey to obtain it. Next, which target will Zhao Kuangyin attack? Is it the Wuyue Kingdom? Or the Pinghai Army?

After the demise of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Chen Hongjin kept thinking about this issue! He had been the emperor of Quan and Zhang for more than ten years, and now it was finally over. Chen Hongjin saw the situation of unification very clearly and thoroughly, and was ready to surrender to the Northern Song Dynasty at the appropriate time. But at that time, Chen Hongjin was still a little reluctant to leave!

The first person to persuade Chen Hongjin to accept land was Xu Changsi, the chief secretary under Chen Hongjin. Xu Changsi was the great-grandson of Xu Yin, a master of Fujian. He was recruited by Chen Hongjin as the chief secretary because of his talent. After Chen Hongjin served as the governor of the Qingyuan Army, Xu Changsi had a vision to predict the ability of the Northern Song Dynasty to unify the world, so he persuaded Chen Hongjin to accept land as soon as possible.

However, at this time, Chen Hongjin had just become the governor, and the Northern Song Dynasty had not been established for a few years, and the situation was not clear. Of course, Chen Hongjin refused to give up the happy life of the local emperor, so he did not obey Xu Changsi's persuasion. Instead, he suspected that Xu Changsi was a spy from the Northern Song Dynasty and was preparing to execute Xu Changsi. After Xu Changsi learned the news, he had to escape to Bianjing and defect to the Northern Song Dynasty. After being killed in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Chen Hongjin regretted his attitude towards Xu Changsi.

Soon, Chen Hongjin learned more amazing news that Qian Chu, the King of Wu Yue, had taken the initiative to go north to Kaifeng and met with Zhao Kuangyin!

Qian Chu had no idea after learning that the Northern Song Dynasty had occupied Jingnan and Hunan. In addition to constantly paying tribute to the Northern Song Dynasty and increasing the specifications and quantity of gifts, he concentrated his spiritual support in Buddhism!

Among the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Wu Yue was the most developed country in Buddhism. The five monarchs who started with Qian Li all highly praised Buddhism, and Wu Yue even won the title of "Southeast Buddhist Kingdom". After Qian Chu ascended the throne, he was no less than his ancestor Qian Li and his father Qian Chuanguan in terms of promoting Buddhism. Deshao, the monk who once made prophecy and suggestions to him, received the due reward and was named the national teacher of Wu Yue.

Qian Chu also invited another Taoist monk, Taoist, to enter the palace and take the precepts for him, making himself a true Buddhist believer. After becoming a Buddhist believer, Qian Chu devoutly studied Buddhist books, which history said that "in his spare time, he kept reciting the books of Buddhists and constantly putting on the scriptures of Buddhists." When he was confused, Qian Chu would take the initiative to humbly and humbly to the national teacher Deshao. Qian Chu also wrote the preface for the "Zongjinglu" by the monk Yanshou and put forward his own views. From this we can see that Qian Chu has actually reached a certain level of attainment in Buddhism.

Over the past ten years of succession, the increasingly severe situation forced Qian Chu to rely on his spirit on Buddha. Since the establishment of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Qian Chu felt that the troubled times in the Central Plains were about to end. Especially the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty completely shocked the countries in the south. Once the Central Plains stabilized, the next day was the end of the southern countries, and the Wu Yue Kingdom, which had occupied Liangzhe for more than 60 years, would also close.

Although Qian Chu adhered to the will of his fathers and was humble and obedient to the Central Plains dynasty. However, no matter how humble or obedient, his own separatist independence was a fact. The Central Plains dynasty naturally could not tolerate such facts. The demise of Wu and Yue was right in front of him. Qian Chu did not have great courage and courage to fight against the Central Plains dynasty, the Northern Han, the Southern Tang, and the Later Shu, and they had stubbornly and unruly confronted the Central Plains dynasty. As a result, they were beaten to a terrible sight. With the strength of the thirteen states of Wu and Yue, they wanted to fight against the powerful Central Plains dynasty with eggs.

Since he has no courage to fight against powerful neighbors and is reluctant to give up the country he has built, he can only find something to support spiritually. Buddhism is a very good choice. He hopes that by converting to Buddhism, believing in Buddhas, seeking blessings from Buddhas, and hopes that the pace of unification of the Northern Song Dynasty can be slower, blessing the fate of Wuyue Kingdom can last longer, and blessing the prosperity and peace of Wuyue Kingdom can continue.

Longer, bless the Qian family to continue to be prosperous and prosperous and have a good end!

Converting to Buddhism and believing in Buddhism is not only reflected in Qian Chu's research on several Buddhist books. Another important measure of Qian Chu was to build temples and pagodas on a large scale in the Wuyue Kingdom! All the kings of Wuyue Kingdom highly praised Buddhism, so building temples and pagodas naturally became a key national project in Wuyue Kingdom.

In the first year of Xiande, Qian Chu began his first Buddhist construction project, building the Huiri Yongming Courtyard in Hangzhou for his master of the precepts, the monk Daoqin. Daoqin was a native of Hezhong. After becoming a monk, he visited the Buddhist Fayan Sect Creation Master Renwenyi, studied the six-phase doctrine and precepts, and built a house in the ancient temple of Quzhou. Later, he was taken to the Western Palace by Qian Chu and became Qian Chu's precepts.

After the completion of Huiri Yongming Courtyard in Hangzhou, it became the Zen Temple where Daoqian lived. Qian Chu gave Daoqian the title of Zen Master Cihua Dinghui. Huiri Yongming Courtyard has been around for more than a thousand years and was later renamed Jingci Temple. It is one of the four ancient temples on the west lake in Hangzhou.

In July of the fifth year of Xiande, Wu Yue ended the war against the Southern Tang Dynasty. Qian Chu appointed his mother's uncle, Duke Zheng Wu Yanfu, as the commander-in-chief of the project, responsible for building a pagoda at Chonghua Temple in Xiaoshan County, Hangzhou. This Chonghua Temple pagoda took a year to complete, and Qian Chu personally nominated it as Xiaoshan Induction Tower.

In the sixth year of Xiande, Qian Chu began to build a pagoda. The place he chose this time was not the capital Hangzhou, but another important town in Wuyue, Suzhou. Huqiu Mountain is located in the western suburbs of Suzhou City. According to legend, King Fuchai of Wu buried his father Helu on the mountain. Three days after the burial, a white tiger appeared on the mountain, so it was named Huqiu Mountain. During the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui once built a wooden pagoda on Huqiu Mountain, which was later destroyed.

Qian Chu decided to rebuild a pagoda based on the log tower. Considering the unfavorable factors of the previous wooden tower, he decided to use brick-concrete structure to build the pagoda. The pagoda on Huqiu Mountain started to be built in the sixth year of Xiande and was completed in the second year of Jianlong. It took three years and was called Huqiu Pagoda.

The Huchu Tower is an octagonal brick-structured pagoda with a total of seven floors, a height of 47.5 meters, and a total weight of more than 6,000 tons. It was the most famous brick tower building in the Yangtze River Basin at that time. Later, the Huchu Tower experienced countless wars and fires, and the wooden eaves on the top were severely damaged. More than 600 years after the Huchu Tower was born, due to the foundation, the tower body gradually tilted to the northwest and was called the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the East.

A project that Qian Chu accidentally led to unexpected results. He could not have expected that the Tiger Hill Tower he built would have survived for more than a thousand years.

With the experience of building Jingci Temple, Xiaoshan Sensing Pagoda and Suzhou Huqiu Pagoda, Qian Chu decided to increase the construction of the temple pagoda, and Hangzhou Lingyin Temple became Qian Chu's next construction target. The reason why Lingyin Temple is famous is because of the legend of Jigong Living Buddha.

Lingyin Temple is located on Wulin Mountain in the northwest of Hangzhou City. It was first built in the third year of Xianhe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is the earliest famous temple in Hangzhou. By the end of the Tang Dynasty, the incident of Emperor Wuzong of Tang Dynasty destroyed Buddhism, and Lingyin Temple was inevitably destroyed. The temple was destroyed and monks were scattered after several restoration, but it was difficult to reach a scale and gradually declined.

In December of the first year of Jianlong, Qian Chu invited the monk Yanshou from Fenghua to Lingyin Temple to be the presided over, and was fully responsible for the renovation of Lingyin Temple. Yanshou was from Yuhang, and his life experience was quite interesting. He, a monk, was forced to become a monk halfway.

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