There are 1,200 monks around, all of them look good, knocking bowls and chanting sutras, which is really impressive.
Xuanzang was sitting on the lotus throne on the high platform that had been set up, twisting Buddha beads in his hands, looking like a senior monk.
A full half hour.
The monks just finished chanting sutras.
Xuanzang opened his eyes, glanced around the audience, and saw that the audience was three or four times more than before. He was about to speak out the Dharma he had prepared.
I saw a large crowd of people shouting and falling to their knees.
"Meet His Highness the King of Qin!"
"His Royal Highness King Qin, Xian'an!"
Sounds like these instantly drowned out the knocking sounds of the monk's wooden fish and alms bowl.
Li Tai, in the arms of Jiutian Sunu, kept returning the courtesy to the people around him, asking them to get up.
One thousand two hundred monks, including Xuanzang, couldn't help but look happy when they saw Li Tai attending the ceremony in person.
Who says that eminent monks don’t have greed, anger, or delusion? It’s just that they hide it so well that you can’t see it, or maybe your interests are not enough to impress them.
Li Tai walked past the monk and came directly to Xuanzang.
He didn't say anything, just watched intently.
Xuanzang seemed to have understood something, and quickly stood up and bowed to salute, "I have met His Highness the King of Qin."
"Well! Get up!" Li Tai said expressionlessly, then turned to look at the 1,200 monks.
All the monks seemed to be frightened and didn't know how to salute Li Tai at this time.
The people outside couldn't help but frown.
Li Tai was laughing in his heart, secretly thinking that this was the effect he wanted.
Then he pretended to be angry and shouted towards Nezha: "Come here, arrest all these disrespectful monks."
"ah?"
All the monks reacted instantly as if their mute points had been unlocked.
One by one they knelt on the ground and kowtowed as if pounding garlic.
They said "King Qin spare my life" and wanted Li Tai to let them go.
But Li Tai kept looking at them with a ferocious smile, but did not speak.
Nezha has followed Li Tai for so long and almost knows his character.
After a moment's hesitation, Huntian Ling came out, began to grow infinitely, and then tied up the twelve hundred monks tightly.
Seeing that Li Tai actually arrested the monk, Xuanzang immediately became anxious.
He stepped forward and knelt directly in front of him with his hands clasped together, begging:
"Amitabha! Your Highness the King of Qin, monks are outsiders, the king's method..."
"snort!"
A cold snort!
Li Tai exuded an extremely cold aura, stared at Xuanzang and said:
"The whole world is not the land of the king, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers. Since monks live on the land of the Tang Dynasty and eat the rice, noodles and oil tea of the Tang Dynasty, why do they become outsiders?"
"Xuan Zang, since you can preside over the Water and Land Dharma Assembly, you must be a virtuous monk. Today, you come to tell me that monks do not engage in production, do not respect the king's laws, and harbor treacherous and evil people to help them escape the law.
They hoarded large amounts of land without paying taxes to the court, opened the central gate to welcome pilgrims in good years, and closed the temples in bad years, regardless of the lives of the people.
People who call themselves outsiders have no respect for the royal family and no mercy for the people, but they eat the people's offerings and occupy their land.
Why can't I punish such a Buddhist sect and such a monk?
Is it just because you shaved your head that you are different from others?"
Xuanzang was stunned by Li Taiji's offensive words.
But he was stunned, but it didn't mean that the people were also stunned.
Not only were they not stunned, but they were extremely excited.
Each one of them seemed to have finally figured out the problem that they had not figured out for many years, and once again knelt down to Li Tai on the high platform.
"The King of Qin is wise. I have long felt that there is something wrong with these bald people in Buddhism. Today I finally know what is wrong."
"They say that Amitabha is a great mercy, but in fact he has no compassion at all. Your Highness, King Qin, has the right answer!"
"Woo! Mom, dad, have you seen this? His Highness King Qin has finally exposed these hypocritical bald donkeys. I must seek justice for you."
"Your Highness, King Qin, please make the decision for the common people! It was these bald donkeys the year before last..."
What was originally a good water and land ceremony suddenly turned into a Buddhist denunciation meeting.
The style changed so quickly that the faces of the 1,200 monks and Xuanzang became extremely ugly.
But he would not give in so easily. A monk struggled and shouted at Li Tai:
"Your Highness King Qin, monks have not paid taxes since ancient times and are not subject to royal laws. Where did we go wrong?"
As soon as these words came out, many monks immediately agreed.
But Li Tai seemed to have not heard what they said, a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Haha! Since ancient times?"
"Tell me, which ancient time has it been since ancient times?"
"Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Buddhism has been introduced to China by aristocratic families to help them make money. Is what I said wrong?"
"You, and you! Even if we drag them out and chop them all now, I estimate that not even half of them will be unjust."
"Think about how many sins you have committed on your body. Each of your hands is stained with blood, but you say you are merciful and merciful every day."
"If I were Amitabha, every time you chant the Buddha's name, you will increase your karma."
…
The monks suddenly fell silent. It wasn't that they didn't want to continue to refute, it was just that they really had no way to refute.
After all, only they themselves know that Buddhism is exactly what Li Tai said.
In the beginning, it was indeed a tool introduced by those aristocratic families to make money, and even now many of them are still connected with the aristocratic families.
"What, you have nothing to say?"
Li Tai glanced at the monk with disdain, then turned to look at Xuanzang and said:
"Then now please ask the eminent monk Xuanzang to answer my doubts!"
Xuanzang's face was already ashen at this time, and he couldn't even raise his head to look at Li Tai.
As the abbot of Jinshan Temple, he certainly knows that all this is true.
Ever since he took over Jinshan Temple, he also had a headache on how to change this situation.
It's just that the disadvantages have been accumulated for a long time, and it is not easy to change it for a while.
He also thought that after the Water and Land Dharma Conference, he would start traveling around to convince all the monks to let them practice the true Dharma.
Unexpectedly, this matter was exposed by Li Tai in front of all the people of Chang'an before the water and land ceremony actually started.
"Xuan Zang...Xuan Zang has nothing to say!" Xuanzang said with an extremely ugly face.
After his words fell, there was a roar of applause among the people.
Some people were excited and crowded towards the high platform.
A young man was the first to rush under the high platform, and knelt down directly in front of Li Tai. He kowtowed heavily three times, and then cried:
"His Royal Highness King Qin! Please make the decision for the common people. The father and mother of the common people...my father and mother were killed by these monks..." This chapter has been completed!