Chapter 827 Dingyuan Pavilion
Dingyuan Pavilion was originally the residence of the clergymangu, the Tenmangu, a member of the House of Parliament, and member of the House of Parliament.
After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Takasuke Ono wrote a letter to the base camp, demanding that the Dingyuan be dismantled. After obtaining approval, Takasuke Ono spent a year dismantling part of the wreckage of the Dingyuan that was blown up by the Beiyang Navy, transported it back to Japan, and built the Dingyuan Pavilion on his mansion.
The Dingyuan Pavilion has become the place where the most relics of the Dingyuan number are preserved today.
After the completion of Dingyuan Pavilion, due to the special nature of this villa, many Japanese military figures visited here, including Japanese Navy General Shimada Shintaro, who had presented souvenirs.
However, Takasuke Ono did not live in this villa for much time. After his death, his family did not live here much, but used it as a guest room, and later handed it over to the Tazaifu Tenman Palace for management. The reason is said to be that the ghosts of the Beiyang Navy often wander here.
According to the article "The Complete Records of the Dingyuan Pavilion" published by Akiyama, director of the Japanese Ship Model Society, in 1961, after the Dingyuan Pavilion was completed, someone went there to stay, but in the middle of the night, he vaguely saw figures walking around, all wearing Chinese sailor uniforms. When a thief entered here, he heard a majestic questioning. This question was pronounced as "tax", which was exactly the voice of "who" in Chinese Jiaodong dialect.
"The ghost of the Beiyang Navy has been wandering here." This is the words recorded by the Red Leaf of Akiyama in the text.
The descendants of Takasuke Ono set up a spiritual seat in Dingyuan Pavilion, saying that "they fired fire for the officers and soldiers who were loyal and brave in the country even though they were enemies, and prayed for the blessings of the loyal and brave officers and soldiers of the country." They donated the villa to the Tenmangu Shrine, believing that only the shrine could suppress these vengeful spirits.
However, it is said that the local priest went to Dingyuan Pavilion to pick up things at night, and once collided with people wearing Chinese sailor uniforms, and was frightened on the spot.
After a hundred years and years have changed, Dingyuan Pavilion was not known, but as time goes by, the smoke of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 has passed two hundred years ago. China held a grand commemoration for this, and the Dingyuan Pavilion faraway in Japan has once again become the focus of the world's eyes.
China really wants to welcome the relics of the Dingyuan Cabinet in Dingyuan Museum back to China and let the Dingyuan Cabinet return to its hometown.
However, there is an undercurrent hidden in the dark in Japan that has been preventing this matter. First, the property rights of the house suddenly changed ownership, and from the Tenmangu Shrine to the personal property. Then, there was a surprising demolition and renovation incident. It turned out that a large amount of wood on the house was demolished and replaced with new imitation components...
A large number of antiques left by the Dingyuan were demolished and turned into so-called new materials. The Dingyuan Pavilion is now rented by a toy collector. The villa, once built by the wreckage of the Beiyang Navy flagship, is filled with Showa-era toys, and is covered with dense ship nail hole bulkheads and decks. The poster of Teresa Teng is pasted...
The Tenmangu Shrine next to Dingyuan Pavilion has been a must-see attraction for Chinese cruise tours to Fukuoka in recent years. You can often see bustling Chinese tourists, but almost no one noticed that just over ten meters away, there is a courtyard called Dingyuan Pavilion, which has been quietly sleeping here for 120 years.
Now, the two demigods have come thousands of miles away and are about to awaken this sleeping veteran for a hundred years.
"We are here, so what are you going to do if you don't?" Standing at the entrance of Dingyuan Pavilion and looking at the two gates made of armor with mottled bullet marks from Dingyuan, Monk Xinyuan asked Chen Yu with some emotion.
When Monk Xinyuan was young, he had seen the Dingyuan and the Beiyang Navy go to war with his own eyes, and he had not even become a monk at that time.
Now, after 120 years, when I saw the giant ship in my childhood memory again, Monk Xinyuan couldn't help but feel excited.
Chen Yu turned his head and looked at Tianman Palace, which was quite crowded with people, thought for a while and said, "The summoning ceremony requires outlining runes and magic circles. We will wait until the night is over before taking action. At that time, the mage will need to protect my Dharma and block the possible people."
"This matter is easy to deal with. With my monk here, no one will go beyond the line." Monk Xinyuan seemed confident about what Chen Yu had entrusted. With his demigod ability to protect Chen Yu, even if Sugawara Daoshi, who was worshipped in Tianman Palace, appeared in person, it would not be impossible to stop him.
"I'm sure I'm relieved with the mage here." Chen Yu nodded, naturally feeling relieved by Monk Xinyuan's strength.
It was still early at this time. Chen Yu looked at the Dingyuan Pavilion in front of him, thought for a while and said to Monk Xinyuan: "Master, why don't we go in and see how?"
"I really want to ask for it." Monk Xinyuan clasped his hands together, recited the Buddha's name and said, "If I have time, I still want to save the heroes of the former Beiyang Navy. I wonder if I can?"
"This is a matter of course. I wonder what preparations are needed for the mage to save the dead souls?" Chen Yu looked at Monk Xinyuan, and he was quite determined to do his best.
As a necromancer, if he does this, it will be no more salvation.
"I am not doing rituals. I just recite the mantra of rebirth for these heroes of the Beiyang navy in the past several times. It doesn't require any preparation." Monk Xinyuan shook his head. Although it would be more effective to do rituals and to be better at the water and land temple again, as an ascetic monk, he is not good at these. Before he became a demigod, his master did not teach him. After he became a demigod, others could not afford a demigod to do rituals.
Fortunately, as a demigod, he already has great power. Even a simple chanting of scriptures is more useful than an ordinary monk holding a water and land temple more than a dozen times.
When Chen Yu heard Monk Xinyuan say this, he didn't say anything else, just asked: "Did the master start chanting scriptures now?"
"Natural." Monk Xinyuan nodded, then sat cross-legged on the ground, facing Dingyuan Hall, clasped his hands together, and recited the mantra of rebirth.
Monk Xinyuan was only wearing a shabby monk's robe, without a cassock or a magic crown, but looking at the ascetic monk in front of him, Chen Yu sincerely felt the solemnity of the treasure.
Standing beside Monk Xinyuan, Chen Yu also silently lowered his head slightly towards the Dingyuan Pavilion, and stood silently for the Beiyang Navy officers and soldiers who died in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.
Just as Monk Xinyuan started chanting scriptures, there seemed to be a sense of emotion in the dark. Suddenly, a few dark clouds floated in the sky, and drizzled down, as if the heroes of the Beiyang Navy who died a hundred and twenty years ago were responding to all this...
Chapter completed!