Chapter 947 Maitreya comes to the world as King Yaksha
The three parties came to the main hall of Medicine King Temple and worshiped Medicine Master Light King Buddha.
In addition to the Three Saints of the East in the main hall of the Yaowang Temple, there are two side halls, one of which is locked, and even the windows are covered with curtains, making it mysterious.
The other room is where this exchange is held. It is dedicated to an unknown god with a green face and fangs. It is ferocious and terrifying and looks like a yaksha.
Seeing that both the Xuanzhen Sect and the foreigners looked at the statue for a while, Doctor Hua from the Three Emperors Association explained: "This god is related to the origin of this Yaowang Temple, so he is worshiped here as the ancestor!"
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Zhigu is located at the north-south transportation hub, and there are many strange things happening between the south and the north. The Yasha King in Yaowang Temple is one of them.
It is said that Yaowang Temple was originally a Maitreya temple, but the surrounding incense residents gathered together with caring people to hold an incense burning party. Everyone raised funds to hold temple fairs, burn incense, pray for blessings, hold banquets to celebrate, and also used it for some relief purposes.
Later, the incense-burning association grew bigger and bigger, and the Maitreya Temple was built. However, within three years, it was suddenly closed down by the court!
It turns out that the two leaders of the Incense Burning Association are both disciples of the rebellious Hongyang Sect, and they came here to take root.
They learned from the south the methods of raising funds to set up associations, and then used the name of Maitreya Buddha to attract believers.
At first, it was just some Buddhist believers who raised funds to do Buddhist services. Later, the two of them used the excuse that there was a surplus from the Buddhist services, which they could lend out, and the income would be retained for the next practice to accumulate merit.
Then he started lending money to people in the association, and everyone paid interest to compete for the remaining money.
Another disciple of the Hongyang Sect stopped the money at a higher interest rate.
After a month, the money was paid back in full. After going back and forth like this, they gradually gained credibility. People from all over the country were vying to join the association and pay the money. However, the two of them did not refuse anyone who came and accepted them one by one. They were able to pay back the money every time.
Pay back the interest and return the strings of copper coins and silver to the merit box.
On the festival day, everyone uses the money to buy wine and meat, and everyone eats the meat, which is not taboo.
The principal of this money does not remain fixed, and the balance depends entirely on the interest, so that the people in the meeting can eat meat once or twice during the New Year...
As the business grew bigger and bigger, as time went by, some people naturally wondered what kind of business the Hongyang Sect disciples were doing, and how they could earn such huge profits. Some old people in the meeting secretly asked the Hongyang Sect disciples who were hosting the incense-burning meeting.
Disciples, however, were excused by him in various ways and did not tell each other.
One day, two idlers were discussing the incense-burning meeting. The businessman who often stopped the meeting for money must have a unique and good business.
Why don't we steal his business secrets and use our own money to make a living? We won't ruin his business and just earn a couple of bucks to spend...
In Zhigu, when it comes to money, even gods and Buddhas cannot be scared.
At night, the two of them secretly followed the disciples of Hongyang Sect. They saw him turning left and right, and came to a dilapidated small temple. They took out a statue of Maitreya from inside, knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, burned incense and kowtowed, and then took the money they collected.
All the silver and copper coins were thrown from the mouth of the Buddha statue into the big belly.
The silver coins dropped in and jingled loudly, as if they had half filled the belly of the Buddha statue.
Then two disciples of the Hongyang Sect kowtowed in front of the Buddha statue and said, "Maitreya has come to the world, and King Ming has shown himself as a saint. The disciples raised money for blessings from hundreds of families, and knelt down to King Ming to order him to mate and give birth to children!"
Having said that, there was indeed the sound of coins clashing in Maitreya's belly, and soon he saw coins pouring out from under the belly of the Maitreya Buddha statue. Each one looked like a copper coin, but shone with silver light.
Sure enough, silver connected with copper coins and gave birth to silver coins.
The two non-monks and Taoist Hongyang believers talked in front of the Buddha statue: "Why is there so much missing this time?"
"Maitreya was reincarnated and King Ming came to the world to wipe out the demons and raise the red sun in the world. Therefore, everyone is blessed and has endless money to enjoy. So everyone only needs to listen to King Ming and recite the Sutra of Maitreya's Rebirth.
Accumulate blessing money for yourself. We collect their money and put it in this precious Buddha statue. Because more children bring blessings, by consuming everyone's blessings, the money can be exchanged to give birth to small money, and finally return most of the money to everyone.
Continue to accumulate blessings!”
The two Hongyang cultists naturally used a trick to trick people into seeing this scene.
As expected, it turned out that one of the two thieves was frightened by them and did not dare to take action, while the other was deceived and wanted to steal the Buddha statue.
Then let the frightened thief reveal the matter to the believers, gather a group of believers, catch the thief who intended to steal the Buddha statue, beat him to death, and then perform a fortune-breeding performance in front of everyone.
So everyone was convinced, and the Maitreya Society grew to tens of thousands, and the Maitreya Temple was built.
At its peak, everyone burned incense to worship Maitreya and collected a large amount of money to put in the belly of the Buddha statue. On good New Years, the money in Maitreya's belly yielded hundreds of taels of silver.
cents of interest.
When the New Year is bad, the silver coins that are born will be turned back into copper coins after being left overnight.
At this time, the two leaders will say that everyone is not sincere in worshiping Buddha, and the accumulated blessing money is not enough, and they will change from silver to back.
At this time, the devout believers will obey the words of the two leaders and either drive out a certain businessman in Zhigu who does not respect gods and Buddhas, or beat up the officials who want to deal with the incense-burning guild.
Because the incense-burning Maitreya Association gathered tens of thousands of people, no official could afford to offend it. Even a county magistrate who wanted to get rid of the Maitreya Association was driven back.
In the end, the Maitreya Society finally attracted the big shots in the capital. After all, Zhigu was only half a day's journey from the capital, and it was at the feet of the emperor. Tens of thousands of people gathered to burn incense and worship Buddha. It became a thorn in the side of the imperial court's countermeasures, so they sent Qin Tianjian.
The master broke their spell.
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It turns out that the secret is simple. According to legend, there is a secret technique for counterfeit silver in Yunnan, which can be used to refine white copper, which is arsenic-white copper.
Later, people from the Hongyang Sect learned the secret technique of refining nickel-white copper from the West. By combining the two, they could make lifelike fake silver, medicinal silver. So they got this Maitreya Buddha statue that could refine copper coins into medicinal silver, and sent people to
Go out and cheat money to gain momentum.
Both disciples were extraordinary beings in the second step of the alchemy path. Later they were promoted to the third level, and Yao Yin became more and more able to make falsehoods come true.
They used the medicinal silver to spend money. At first, there were some flaws, so they gathered a crowd and drove out the merchants who refused to accept the medicinal silver from Zhigu. Later, the merchants became afraid of them and tolerated accepting the medicinal silver.
And because the secret skills of the Hongyang Sect are really extraordinary and the quality of the medicinal silver is extremely high, they can buy overseas nickel mines from the Foreign Chamber of Commerce in Zhigu, because the merchants dare not not accept the money, and they have to find ways to spend it after they have collected it.
Initially, it was spent in the countryside where people didn't understand it, because many people in the countryside knew about Maitreya's blessing money and were actually happy to accept this kind of money.
The basis of money is credit.
Because this kind of money can be circulated, gradually businessmen recognized it and accepted this kind of silver money to a limited extent. Although it was 40% cheaper than silver, it could actually be spent.
The two Hongyang believers didn't know anything about financial currency. It was just because the place of Zhigu was prosperous in commerce and the pool was extremely deep. They were cautious in distributing money and overcame the initial disbelief. After the currency was discounted, they actually gave money to the bank.
Fake money builds credit.
Later, it was just a plate for issuing coins, which produced tens of thousands of taels of silver a year. And the bank business based on medicinal silver could earn hundreds of thousands of silver.
In the end, this financial institution that issued its own currency actually attracted foreigners to invest in it, and the big businessmen secretly colluded with each other to jointly maintain their reputation and facilitate their own capital turnover.
Otherwise, the imperial court would be so anxious that they would call in experts from the fourth realm to break their spell.
The leader of the Hongyang Sect went north in person, triggering the first major monk fight over financial sovereignty in the Eastern Continent.
In order to break the spell of medicinal silver, the imperial court invited mother coins and molds from the mint, and the Hongyang Sect also had foreigners help. Later, silver and copper were cast together to turn the fake silver into real silver.
In the end, the imperial court asked a great mage worshiped by the royal family to break the spell of medicinal silver and turn all the medicinal silver coins in Zhigu back into copper coins.
It almost caused a merchant riot, but only seven or eight families of the big merchants in Zhigu City were hanged.
It can be called the first financial crisis of the previous dynasty...
After the collapse of the Maitreya Society, the temple here was also demolished by the imperial court!
Thirty years later, an expert from Zhigu City who was proficient in holding back treasures found this place and said that the Maitreya statue had been sacrificed by the Hongyang Society and worshiped by hundreds of thousands of people, and it actually developed spirituality.
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The golden body made of copper was refined into real gold.
And because the two presiding disciples of the Hongyang Society failed to advance to the fourth level, the court's masters wanted to cast spells to kill them, so they hid their souls with the help of the bronze Buddha, and then sank three hundred feet underground with the help of golden energy.
All the strange things that have happened in the abandoned temple in the past thirty years are caused by their spirits, who want to recruit people to worship and turn into evil gods.
And if you want to hang out this golden Buddha, you have to have never cut your hair in your whole life. Until you are fifty years old, you still have the braids of a yellow flower girl.
With the help of a pure yin energy, it is possible to lift the giant golden Buddha that is three hundred feet deep into the ground and is attracted by the gold vapor in the mine. It weighs more than ten thousand pounds.
So the man holding the treasure invited three local masters, and they bet with a young and energetic Taoist priest in Tianhou Palace, and found out that there was a fifty-five-year-old Yunying woman from a nearby village who had never had her hair cut.
But when the treasure was retrieved, the evil spirit in the bronze Buddha still came out to cause trouble and killed two local masters. After they were hung up, there was a breath of copper-smelling gas, killing the treasure and all the villagers who had been bewitched by the golden Buddha.
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In the end, only the fifty-five-year-old yellow flower girl survived.
And something even more bizarre happened later.
The big golden Buddha that was hung up had been violated, and its golden body was patinated and completely destroyed. However, the fifty-five-year-old girl became pregnant when she returned home, and her belly was getting bigger day by day.
The townspeople thought it was an evil thing.
Virgin conception, the faces of those foreigners who understand some Eastern mainland languages ​​changed when they heard this!
"Blasphemy!" A foreign priest interrupted Doctor Hua's words and said angrily: "I will burn this place and burn that witch who blasphemed the sacred!"
Doctor Hua laughed quickly: "It's just a story. It happened hundreds of years ago, during the previous dynasty! Why be nervous? Why care about the words of a foolish village woman?"
But Deacon Jing next to Crow sneered, looked at the group of foreigners, and said, "Let him try!"
Crow also said calmly: "You continue, you keep saying that you want to burn something to sacrifice to the evil god. Our Xuanzhen Sect will also burn it, and the burning will be better and more wonderful. When there was a fight, the leader had not yet joined the religion and led us to investigate.
Xuanzhen in this world! I missed the great show of burning sheep, now it’s okay to do it again!”
Chapter completed!