Chapter 763: The Sovereign Castle (End)

"I think my third brother is very suitable."

Li Jiancheng pretended to think for a while, then replied that it was impossible to let Li Shimin go anyway. If it was before the outbreak of the Emperor of Cihang Jingzhai, Li Jiancheng would not target Li Shimin so much. After all, as the eldest son of Li Yuan, the natural heir of the Li family, and the future prince, it was impossible for Li Jiancheng to go to such a dangerous place as Luoyang.

After ruling out Li Shimin, there was naturally only Li Yuanji. For the current Li Jiancheng, he would definitely hold Li Shimin down.

"Yuanji?" Li Yuan immediately pondered. Like Li Jiancheng, the current Li Yuan would not let Li Shimin leave Chang'an unless it was necessary, especially to Luoyang.

You must know that the Pure Zen Sect is in Luoyang, plus the White Horse Temple, Guanyin Temple, etc. There are hundreds of large and small temples. Luoyang can be said to be the city with the most temples in this era. The strength of Buddhism can be imagined. In this case, if Li Shimin went to Luoyang, and then joined forces with the forces of Buddhism to occupy Luoyang, and never came back, it would be a lot of fun for the Li family.

Even if Li Yuan didn't think Li Shimin would do this, the Buddhist sect might not take such a big risk to support Li Shimin, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Under this possibility, Li Yuan would naturally not take risks. Unlike Li Jiancheng, Li Yuan's original intention was to protect Li Shimin and avoid fratricide.

"Shimin, what do you think?" After thinking for a while, Li Yuan did not immediately say whether he agreed or disagreed, but asked Li Shimin.

As Li Yuan finished speaking, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's eyes fell on Li Shimin, wanting to see what he would say. It would be better to let him go. In that case, Li Yuan would probably be more afraid of him.

Under the current situation, if Li Shimin dared to say that he wanted to go to Luoyang, Li Yuan would definitely further weaken his power. Without ambition, what are you going to Luoyang for?

That is to say, Li Yuan was too soft-hearted. In Li Shimin's situation, if it were someone else, he would definitely take back all of Li Shimin's rights at the first opportunity and abolish the Tiance Mansion under his command. Whether it was disrupting it or taking it under his command, it would mean that Li Shimin was completely out of the game.

Don't think that the Tiance Mansion in your heart is very loyal to Li Shimin, but as long as Li Yuan takes action, things will be very simple, after all, Li Yuan is the head of the Li family.

"Yuanji is impulsive, it's better to let Xiuning go." Outsiders don't know what Li Shimin thinks in his heart, but he did not agree with Li Jiancheng's opinion, but pushed Li Xiuning out.

"Xiuning?" Hearing Li Shimin mention Li Xiuning, Li Yuan, who had made up his mind, immediately fell silent again. If Li Shimin was talking about someone else, he would definitely refuse without hesitation, but if it was Li Xiuning, it would be different.

"Isn't this too dangerous?" It was Li Xiuning, even if Li Jiancheng couldn't openly oppose it.

"There won't be too much danger. All the major forces in the world will send people there this time. If the other party really dares to do anything, it will definitely offend all the forces in the world." Li Shimin slowly expressed his views. Even if it is a battle for hegemony among the heroes, some rules still need to be followed, such as not killing the messengers when the two armies fight each other, etc.

This time it is Cihang Jingzhai. The Buddhist group invited all the major forces in the world to gather in Luoyang to choose a master for the Heshi Bi. Unless they want to turn against each other completely, even if they really want to do something, they can only do it secretly.

"Yuanji is indeed a little impulsive, but I want to ask Xiuning what she thinks."

Facing Li Yuan's decision, Li Yuanji was very unwilling in his heart, and he couldn't say much, and he couldn't even show his eagerness to go to Luoyang, otherwise it would not only be Li Yuan, I'm afraid Li Jiancheng would doubt him, not only Li Shimin coveted the throne, but Li Yuanji was the same.

"Your Highness, the latest news from Luoyang."

Li Shimin had just returned to the study room of his mansion, where many core members of the Tiance Mansion seemed to have been waiting for a long time. At the same time, someone handed Li Shimin a copy of the Tang Daily and gave him a brief account of the situation in the Tang Daily.

"It's really amazing." After reading the Tang Daily, Li Shimin was full of emotion. If he could achieve the results advertised in the newspaper, he would undoubtedly be able to establish a strong force. At this moment, Li Shimin even had the idea that if he ascended the throne one day, he might adopt this strategy.

No matter who ascended the throne, no matter whether this person was a good person or not, as long as he became the emperor and wanted to sit firmly on the dragon throne, he had to consider governing the world. Just like Zhu Yuyan once said to Xu Ziling, even if the people of the Demon Sect got the emperor, they would not let the world be in chaos. That would not be of any benefit to the Demon Sect. Only Shi Feixuan would say that once the people of the Demon Sect got the world, there would be chaos in the world, but Shuanglong believed it.

"Six Gates? It's a good idea to separate the thief arrest from the army." Li Shimin naturally couldn't implement the separation of military and politics as Shen Fei thought, but even so, as long as the constable system was established, the corresponding military dispatch could be reduced. After all, it was not uncommon to dispatch troops in the name of arresting thieves.

In fact, the Tang Dynasty seemed to have similar positions later, such as the Bad People. Whether it was the constable, the Bad People, or the police, it was just a different name.

"Your Highness, Dugu Ce and others have left." Regarding the Six Gates, neither Li Shimin nor the people of Tiance Mansion said much, after all, it was too far away from them now.

"All left. This means that the Dugu clan is completely determined to stand on his side. It's really strange." After receiving the news that the Dugu clan had surrendered to Shen Fei, Li Shimin immediately asked people to monitor the situation of the Dugu clan.

Not only Li Shimin was surprised, but Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui also felt very strange. For the aristocratic family, inheritance is very important. Logically, even if the Dugu clan in Luoyang surrendered to Shen Fei, they did not call back the people of the Dugu clan in Chang'an. Eggs are never put in one basket. This is one of the mysteries of the enduring of the aristocratic family.

Look at the Three Kingdoms era. It is very normal for people from the same aristocratic family to surrender to different forces. The victorious one will become the head of the family.

This era is the same. Except for the Song clan, the other three major clans have a very close relationship with each other. Even if Yu Wenzhi rebelled, there are still many people from the Yuwen clan in Chang'an, and many of them are in high positions. The same is true for the Dugu clan.

"The situation is very wrong now. Hongfu, when you arrive in Luoyang, go directly to see Master Liaokong of the Jingnian Zen Sect and ask him to find a way to contact the owner of Fanzhai and tell her that there is no time to lose. If you continue to delay, I am afraid that the night will be long and dreams will be many."

Li Shimin is now under the close surveillance of Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng. It is very difficult for him and his Tiance Mansion to leave Chang'an for a long time. Although he can receive information from the Buddhist sect, it is very difficult to discuss some things with the Buddhist sect.

Fortunately, the Luoyang Emperor Selection gave her an opportunity this time. Li Xiuning went to Luoyang and must have enough masters around him. Other Tiance Mansion masters are not easy to send to Li Xiuning, but Hongfu is no problem. First, she is a woman, and second, her martial arts are high enough.

In terms of martial arts, Hongfu is the first in the Tiance Mansion under Li Shimin.

"Yes."

"Before the incident, Li Shimin probably had no chance to come to Luoyang. I wanted to meet him." In the Luoyang Palace, looking at the number of temples displayed on the holographic image in front of him, Shen Fei suddenly thought of Li Shimin.

You don't know until you investigate. Once you investigate, you will be shocked. There are as many as 876 temples in the whole city of Luoyang, and this does not include some small temples located outside the city of Luoyang. If those are counted, there are almost thousands.

The Buddhist culture in Luoyang is very important. For example, the most famous Longmen Grottoes are here.

"Speaking of the bronze temple of the Jingnian Zen Sect, if it is brought to modern society, it can be applied for world cultural heritage." Since he came to Luoyang, the Jingnian Zen Sect is undoubtedly the focus of Shen Fei's attention, especially the bronze temple inside, which has densely packed with tens of thousands of small bronze Buddha statues, and each Buddha statue is exquisitely cast. It is definitely cast by a master. In modern society, it is absolutely easy to auction it for hundreds of billions.

"There are too many of them. Even if we reduce them to single digits, there are still no more than five."

Nearly a thousand temples, even if not all of them are as large as the Jingnian Zen Sect and the White Horse Temple, it means that there are at least 100,000 monks who are not engaged in production. This is only calculated based on 100 people in each temple, but the problem is that most temples have far more than this number.

For example, the Jingnian Zen Sect, which is just pure martial monks, has 800 people. If these 800 martial monks form an army and are equipped with armor and weapons, I am afraid that Li Shimin's black armor soldiers cannot compare.

These are just martial monks. What is a martial monk? It is the kind of monk who does not do anything else except practicing martial arts and chanting scriptures. But the problem is that a temple naturally cannot have all such monks. The number of monks who clean, cook, and do logistics is even greater.

The hierarchy of Buddhism is strict, but it is no worse than the officialdom of feudal society. Didn't you see that Xu Zhu was bullied when he was a child?

"It's a bit of a waste to burn it, but it's too much of an eyesore to keep it."

The construction of the Jingnian Zen Sect was extremely luxurious and covered a very large area. There were hundreds of buildings in the temple, just like a small city. There were seven halls in the middle and a small copper temple with a length and width of three meters and a height of one and a half meters.

Although it is called a small copper temple, it is relative to other buildings in the Jingnian Zen Sect. To be honest, it is not a small copper temple at all. Think about it, there is a small copper temple with a length and width of nearly ten meters and a height of almost five meters? If you use the unit of Zhang, most people will not have any concept, but it is different if it is changed to meters.

But this area is normal, after all, there are more than 10,000 bronze Buddha statues inside.

Except for the copper temple, all other buildings are covered with tri-color glazed tiles, and the color is as new as new. In front of the copper temple, there is a platform square with a length and width of about 100 meters, a ground made of white stone, and a guardrail carved with white stone around it. The size of this square is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, but when you think about the fact that there are nearly 800 monks practicing here every day, it doesn’t feel big.

In the center of the square, there is a bronze statue of Manjusri Bodhisattva riding a golden lion, and there are also three Buddhas such as Medicine Master, Sakyamuni and Amitabha beside the porch. The colorful sculptures and gold ornaments are quite impressive. In addition to the four stone steps, there are evenly distributed Buddha statues of 500 Arhats, all cast in pure gold and copper, and each of them looks lifelike.

In addition, there are 888 pure white marble steps in front of the gate, and guardrails on both sides of the steps are also carved with white marble and white stone.

It can be said that the Luoyang Imperial Palace, although larger in area than the Jingnian Temple, is completely inferior in actual value. At least the statues in the imperial palace, such as lions and dragons, are basically made of stone. None of them are made of bronze, let alone gold.

This is only the wealth in terms of architecture, not counting the wealth hidden in the Jingnian Zen Sect, and the huge land.

"No wonder Xu Ziling and his friends were shocked by the luxury inside the Jingnian Zen Temple when they first went there, and never mentioned it again, because this wealth has far exceeded their imagination."

Even in modern times, ordinary people's impression of rich people is just that they are rich, and they don't have much concept of how rich they are, let alone this era.

"This can completely occupy two pages of the newspaper." Exposing the corruption of Buddhism from numbers is the most intuitive.

"But we don't need this aspect for the time being. Next, we should attack Buddhism from another angle."

"I really didn't expect that Dashi Temple is so rich."

In the Sanhua Tower in Chengdu, Sichuan, when Fat Jia Anlong handed a document to Duan Lang, he licked his lips unconsciously. He thought that Anlong was also a wealthy person in Chengdu, but after really understanding, he found that those who kept calling him poor monk, poor monk, had much more wealth than him.

"Isn't this normal? If your Demon Sect is really capable, you wouldn't be suppressed so badly." Duan Lang looked at the documents in his hand and nodded with satisfaction.

If you want to investigate the local forces in Chengdu, you naturally have to find the local snake. Duan Lang didn't know who to find, but he unexpectedly met An Long, so he went directly to him.

An Long's identity in the Demon Sect is very secretive. He is just a big merchant to the outside world, but this big merchant is not ordinary. He is the sworn brother of Jie Hui of Du Zunbao.

"Brother Duan, are you going to attack Dashi Temple?" The information collected is about Dashi Temple. There is no doubt that Duan Lang, the Qilin Demon who specifically troubles the Buddhist sect, will naturally attack Dashi Temple.

Because of the continuous attacks on the Buddhist sect, plus the possession of the Fire Scale Sword, the title of Qilin Demon was pressed on Duan Lang's head. It has to be said that it is very interesting. Even if it is a different world, Duan Lang still can't escape the title of Qilin Demon.

"Don't worry about Dashi Temple. I'm going to deal with someone now. I think you must be very interested." Shen Fei smiled and looked at An Long.

"Oh, who is it, worthy of your action, brother."

"Judge Jie Hui of Wulin, your sworn brother."

"Jie Hui, he doesn't seem to have any relationship with Buddhism, I don't know how he offended Brother Duan."

"It is said that the Demon Sect is ruthless and righteous, I didn't expect you to care about such a cheap brother, do you want to fulfill your obligation as a sworn brother, and die on the same day of the same month of the same year." Shen Fei looked at An Long with a smile.

"Brother Duan is joking, I'm just curious, curious, and we sworn brothers have never said so." An Long waved his hand hurriedly.

"You will soon know why I will take action against him."

"Jie Hui, Fan Qinghui accompanied you for a few nights before you agreed to go undercover by Song Que's side and take root in Sichuan and Shu for Buddhism, so as to prepare for the future plan of selecting the emperor on behalf of the sky."

Outside the Duzun Castle, Shen Fei shouted directly with a megaphone in his left hand.