Chapter 22 The Way of the Buddha Fears the Power of Heaven (1)
Guangyi Hall of Zhongshu Province, formerly the Taixue Hall. After Taixue was closed down by official orders last year, this area was classified as part of Zhongshu Province and was called Jiayiyuan.
The lobby became Guangyi Hall, and the rest were called Jixian Hall and Jianming Hall...
According to the "Zhongshu Provincial Regulations" in the "State Council Code", the Jiayiyuan is a place where military and civilian officials and people from all walks of life are invited to brainstorm before Zhongshu Province formulates laws. The purpose is to listen and understand.
Today, the place is tightly guarded by people from the Royal Guards and the Security Bureau. People from the Police Department are also guarding intersections on the outer streets, diverting the flow of people, and forming the first barrier.
Today, a Buddhist conference to clean up evil and rectify evil will be held here. One hundred and sixty-nine eminent monks from all over the world are invited. It is presided over by Li Gefei, the director of the merit department of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Zhengfu, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Kui, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Dun, the Dazai, and Zhongshu
Provincial Situ Su Zhe, left and right senior officials Zhang Kai, Cai Bian and Han Zhongyan, left and right censors An Tao and He Zhizhong were all present.
I heard that officials will also come in person.
The people of Kaifeng who have always loved to watch the excitement, everyone wanted to rush in to watch the excitement. Early in the morning, tens of thousands of people in Kaifeng City gathered towards Guangyi Hall from all directions, and then they were all stopped by the police who had been deployed all night
Already.
Not just anyone can go in to observe. Only those who have obtained the pass are eligible to go in.
Well-informed people have learned that only the following categories of people can get access to the hearing.
One is the highly respected people in the government and the public. For example, Duke Su brought his disciples, disciples, relatives, and relatives to form a group and occupied forty or fifty seats in one go.
Mr. Yichuan, with his disciples, also occupied more than a dozen seats.
There are also other famous scholars and scholars such as Shuo Xue, Guan Xue, Xining School, Yuanyou Yixue School, etc., all occupying hundreds of seats.
The second is students from Chengjun, Biyong, Fengzhen, Sihui, Shengcheng and other universities and colleges. Their representatives occupied more than a hundred seats.
Third, "correspondents" from newspapers and magazines, including China News Service, also occupied nearly forty or fifty seats.
Fourth, representatives from all over the country were summoned from all over the country to participate in the "Tax Rectification Conference" held in April this year. Representatives from all over the country and all walks of life arrived first. They were of all kinds and occupied more than 300 seats.
The most eye-catching among them is a group of people from the "Mingzhou School" who arrived at the end of last year.
They engaged in verbal battles with other Confucian scholars, including Shu, Luo, Shuo, Guan, and the declining Yuanyou Neo-Confucianism, and became famous in Beijing and Luo.
The rest are experts who have different identities and show their special abilities to attend the hearing from various channels.
Ye Xun hung the auditor's hearing around his neck and walked inside with his companions, following the flow of people.
The security is tight.
The first is the checkpoint at the police station, where documents are checked and all packages, baskets and other personal belongings are stopped. Accompanying servants are also stopped.
Ye Xun saw many people who looked like princes and nobles, and they followed this rule honestly. This made him a little surprised. It seemed that the Gyeonggi Police Department, under the leadership of Cao Liulang and Zhang Yanwang, had already established a prestigious reputation.
The second level is the security bureau level.
There is a sign hundreds of steps away telling you that the blue auditorium goes to entrance A, the yellow auditorium goes to entrance B, and the white auditorium goes to entrance C... The six colors of auditoriums correspond to the six entrances.
At this point, Ye Xun and his companions understood the general purpose of observing the six colors.
Ye Xun and others were in red to attend the hearing and checked in at the Ding entrance.
There, everyone lined up. The officers of the Security Bureau took a list and checked the names in the hearing. Not far away, there were heavily armed officers and soldiers. I heard that they were from the Special Service Battalion of the Security Bureau. They still had in their hands
Leading some hounds.
These hounds were tall and muscular, with long tongues sticking out, staring at the people waiting in line with unkind expressions on their faces. From time to time they barked at someone. Then several officers and soldiers from the special service battalion came up and searched him carefully.
You can always find something.
Ye Xun found a person in front of him, and the hound barked at him several times. He found several pieces of pockmarked sesame cakes from his arms, leaving the people in the security bureau dumbfounded.
"Take a bite of each cake."
"Can I take it in if I bite it?"
"After biting it, wait for a quarter of an hour. When everything is fine, you can take it in."
After Ye Xun entered, he found that the seats surrounding Guangyi Hall were also divided by color. Following the prompts, everyone entered their corresponding seating areas, found empty seats and sat down.
Glancing over, nearly half of the people were already sitting in the seats. In Guangyi Hall, there are two rows of seats in front, which should be for the ministers of the DPRK. There is a large seat in the middle, surrounded by stars, which must be for officials.
Sitting on.
Opposite, one hundred and sixty-nine eminent monks were sitting on futons. Most of them were in their fifties or sixties. There were also more than thirty eminent monks in their seventies or eighties.
It's just that what they were wearing today looked a little strange.
"Oh, today these eminent monks are just wearing ordinary cotton-padded monk robes, which is very different from the resplendent purple scarlet cassocks we saw in Buddhist ceremonies in the past," said a companion.
Everyone suddenly understood.
Ye Xun, a group of scholars from the Mingzhou School, is already famous. Even those who belong to the red seat area would rather sit several seats away from each other than sit close to each other.
"Success, when you say these people, are you secretly calling us heretics heretics?" Xue Bi came over and pointed at those people and whispered.
Ye Xun glanced at him and smiled faintly, "Old man, justice is in the heart of the people. We don't talk about body, mind and life in vain, we discuss the current situation and pay attention to merits. Tao is inseparable from tools, learning is in harmony with Tao, and people are in harmony with morality. Now in the Song Dynasty
, there are too many people who talk nonsense, and too few people who are pragmatic. As the officials say, the unity of knowledge and action, practice is the only way to explore the truth."
Xue Bi and Ye Xun looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing.
Ye Xun is a younger brother of the Ye Shi clan and a native of Dinghai, Mingzhou. Xue Bi is a native of Yongjia, Wenzhou.
The Mingzhou School, with Mingzhou as the center, covers Ming, Taiwan, and Wenzhou where maritime trade is active, and is now expanding to Hangzhou, Xiu, Su, Run and other states where industry and commerce are extremely active.
Ye Xun and Xue Bi were both in their early twenties, both local young talents, and the backbone of the Mingzhou School. It is precisely because of the gathering of these young talents with maritime business backgrounds that the Mingzhou School is like this
Sharp-edged and full of vitality.
It was full, and the seats began to fill up. Seats were limited, and people who came later in the red seat area had no choice but to sit in the empty seats next to Ye Xun and others no matter how unwilling they were.
Soon, Da Su Gong, Mr. Yi Chuan and others arrived. Then Su Che, Zhang Dun and others also arrived one after another.
It seems that as soon as the officials arrive, the Shimen Qingxie Rectification Conference can officially begin.
Just as everyone was whispering, they suddenly heard the clear voice of the Buddha reaching their ears, "This is what I heard. At that time, the Buddha was in the country of Savatthi. He only had a tree in the Solitary Garden. He was with the great monks, 1,250 people...
"
Everyone turned around and saw that it was one hundred and sixty-nine eminent monks sitting in Guangyi Hall, chanting in unison the Sutra of the Prajnaparamita Sutra.
These more than one hundred eminent monks are familiar with Buddhist scriptures, understand the meaning of Buddhism, and have advanced cultivation.
They devoted their whole lives to practicing this Buddhist sutra. They saw the solemn image of the elephant, feeling at ease; the lingering Sanskrit sounds were full of compassion and compassion. By chance, the sun rose up, and the golden sunlight fell from the treetops in the courtyard.
On the heads and bodies of these eminent monks, it seemed as if they were covered with a layer of golden cassocks.
Many people have been influenced by the sound of chanting sutras and were deeply shocked when they saw such a miraculous sight. They all clasped their hands and chanted sutras silently together.
For a time, the Buddhist music in Guangyi Hall merged into a sea of sound, and the former Taixue Xiang Mansion and today's Zhongshu Conference Hall became like a Buddhist kingdom on earth.
Everyone was stunned, including Su Shi, Han Zhongyan and others. Most people inside and outside Guangyi Hall clasped their hands and chanted sutras. Only a few people such as Zhang Dun, Su Che and Cai Bian sat on chairs and watched all this with cold eyes.
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In the auditorium outside Guangyi Hall, there were only Mr. Yichuan and some of his disciples, some disciples of Guan School and people of Mingzhou School, fifty or sixty people. Among the people who put their palms together and chanted sutras, they seemed to stand out from the crowd, and they seemed to be out of place.
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Zhang Dun stroked his beard and sneered in his heart as he looked at the monks who were chanting Buddhist sutras with compassionate expressions on their faces.
You bald guys, you actually want to give the officials a blow? I'm afraid you will be self-defeating, don't let the officials be tempted to kill.
Just as he was thinking about it, there was a noise at the east gate. Zhang Dun and others turned around when they heard the sound, and saw the official just about to cross the threshold of the gate, walking slowly inward.
Officials, these monks have bad intentions and want to coerce public opinion and threaten you! This chapter has been completed!
