The Spring Festival holiday in Beihai Town is only three days, and the school will not start until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
After the fifth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Xin moved back to the east bank of the Xila River on the grounds that the troops had already started training. Several old people at the education gate understood this and went to the east bank for a few days without saying a word. He followed him loudly.
Shen Xuan and Shen Jingdan have long been accustomed to it. At present, Beihai Town is still in its infancy and ranks first in military preparedness. Although Shen Jingdan's wife, Shen Wu, is a little unhappy, she also knows that Zhao Xin and her man are currently engaged in beheading. It was a business, so I just whispered a few words to Shen Jingdan in private.
On the morning of the next day after Zhao Xin left, two monks, one old and one young, appeared near the military station at the mouth of the Fuljiaha River. The old monk was naturally the master of Wuya Temple, Cheng Cheng, and the young monk was His attendant, novice monk, had a dharma name of self-defeat.
Chengcheng wanted to leave in November, but due to his old age, he caught wind and cold and was ill for a month, so he couldn't make the trip until the twelfth lunar month.
Wuya Temple is not like other temples. People burn incense and worship Buddha every day at the end of the year. Because it is located in a remote place, there are not many pilgrims on weekdays. At the end of the year, there is heavy snow and the road is closed, and there are not many people. Chengche went there to restore the mountain gate, and it was the same. Considering that this is an ancient temple that existed during the Yongle period, I came to this place to educate the world and not just for the incense money.
After setting off, the master and the apprentice walked all the way northeast. After reaching the Fuljiaha River, they followed the river course to the southeast. They walked for nearly twenty days before they saw the gravel road leading directly to Beihai Town.
This gravel road in Beihai Town was built after the first war with Fukang'an. The road width can accommodate four carriages in parallel. There are shoulders and drainage ditches on both sides of the road. In order to facilitate transportation, the road is closed every year after heavy snowfall. Someone is cleaning.
In order to prevent outsiders from entering Beihai Town without permission, there is a military station here, where a company of troops is stationed. There are also six outposts five kilometers north of the military station, each stationed with a squad.
Master Chengche and his apprentice had just stepped onto the gravel road when they heard a loud shout from not far away: "Those two people, stop!"
The shouts from the loudspeaker echoed in the empty mountains. The two monks, one old and one young, were immediately startled and slowly stopped in their tracks.
"Stop and don't move, or we'll shoot!" The two monks looked for the place where the sound came from, and then they discovered a gray-white tower standing hundreds of steps ahead. By the way, the sentry towers in Beihai Town are all the same shape. , the whole body is made of wood and steel pipes, with a height of five meters. The top is a small room that can accommodate two people and a fire pit.
"Master, there is someone up there!" The young novice monk Zhizhuai pointed to the high tower and said to Chengcheng. "This person has such a loud voice, he can actually shout so far!"
"Hmm." Cheng Che put his hand on his forehead and saw two people on the tower in the distance. He was also a little surprised how one person could speak so loudly.
Forget it, it's useless to think blindly, just keep it constant in the face of changes.
After a while, the people on the tower loudly ordered the two of them to move forward. Although master Chengche and his disciples were surprised, they had no choice but to obey the order and move forward. After walking for dozens of steps, three strangely dressed people came around from behind two big trees. come out.
In the eyes of Master and Disciple Cheng Che, these three people were dressed in thick snow-white clothes from head to toe, with thick hats on their heads, and even masks on their faces. However, in Cheng Che's view, although this outfit looked
It's quite warm, but it looks as weird as it gets.
After getting closer, Chengche noticed that the clothes on the other party were not entirely white, but had some unknown gray patchy patterns on them.
I saw that the first person had nothing in his hands, while the two people behind him were holding weapons that looked like muskets.
After the three of them approached, the leader looked at Master and Disciple Chengche carefully for a long time, and then asked: "What are you two doing?"
When Chengche heard the officer's words, he was stunned for a moment, thinking that this man's official words were actually better than mine. Then he clasped his hands together and said, "The poor monk's name is Chengchen, and he comes from Wuya Temple."
"Are you a monk?" The leader paused and then asked, "Where is Wuya Temple?"
"Five miles north of Vladivostok."
"Where is he?" The soldier pointed at the little novice monk next to Chengcheng.
Upon hearing this, Zhengzhuang quickly clasped his hands and said, "Little monk Zhengzhuang, Master Chengcheng is my master."
"Oh. Where are you planning to go?"
"The poor monk heard about the establishment of a town on the other side of the Xila River the year before last. Now I am traveling and want to make a good connection."
"Monk...do you have proof?"
Upon hearing this, Zhizhui quickly took out a piece of paper from the box behind him and handed it to the leader.
"The Mahavira Baoshan decreed to build the Buddhist Precepts Altar in Wuya Temple..." The leader of the group looked away from the paper in confusion and asked, "What is this?"
"It's a precept certificate." Cheng Che explained in a deep voice: "Since the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong, the imperial court has abolished all monks and Taoist certificates. Therefore, the precept certificate is the certificate for us monks to go out."
"Oh." The leader returned the ultimatum to Chengzhui and said, "Come with me."
Master Chengche and his apprentice followed the three men through a forest, and a camp surrounded by wooden walls suddenly appeared in front of them. There was a large empty space outside the camp, and dozens of strong men wearing the same clothes as the previous three were standing.
In an open space, he was shouting rhythmic chants and changing into strange postures from time to time.
The young and curious boy Zhizhuo watched these people making strange movements while walking, and asked Cheng Qing beside him in a low voice: "Master, are they practicing martial arts?"
Chengcheng shook his head and said not to talk too much. However, in his opinion, these people kept changing their postures in response to orders, which was probably a form of fitness and health-preserving exercise.
Several people entered the gate of the military station, turned right, and entered a small room. The leader said: "You just sit here, someone will talk to you later." After that, he opened the door.
He went out, while the two armed soldiers following him guarded the door.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhizhuo and others went out before he started to look around. He felt that everything here was very strange. He had never seen it in Wuya Temple or other places. Only
I saw a single bed, a wooden table, and two chairs in the room.
In the corner, a dark stove was burning something, making the room very warm. From the stove was a white metal pipe thicker than his fist, which went up and out of the roof.
Chengcheng patted the snow on his body, then asked Zhizhuo to put down the box he was carrying, take off his hat and gloves, and the master and apprentice sat down on the chairs.
Not long after, a soldier opened the door and brought two cups of hot water to the master and apprentice, as well as some hot steamed buns. After the soldier went out, he came in again carrying an iron kettle and put it in.
On the stove.
The soldier fiddled with the fire door with fire chopsticks and said to Cheng Che and the others: "You guys should eat and drink some water first. A superior will come to ask questions later."
Cheng Che clasped his hands and said politely: "Thank you so much for this military master."
The soldier chuckled and said, "I'm not a military commander, I'm just an orderly. You can call me Xiaotian."
"Well. Mr. Tian...Xiaotian." Chengche nodded.
Xiaotian finished setting up the stove and put the kettle on, then said: "I heard our company commander said you are monks? Hehe, I have been in Beihai Town for two years and I have never seen a monk."
Seeing Xiaotian's clear eyes and polite words, Chengcheng smiled and said, "Oh. So have you met him before?"
Xiaotian nodded and said, "Yes, they used to be in every village."
Chengchen was a little surprised after hearing this, thinking that there is such a place in the world, and that there is a temple in every village? He felt that Xiaotian's speech was a bit stiff, with an indescribable tone, so he asked: "Xiaotian, where is your hometown?"
Where?"
"Beihai Town, I am from Beihai Town."
Chengche was about to ask again when someone outside the room shouted: Xiaotian! Come out and stop talking!"
Xiaotian then said to Master and Disciple Chengche: "You guys should rest for a while. The commander is coming from Beihai Town and it will take an hour or two to arrive."
"Hour?"
"Well, an hour is half an hour." After saying that, Xiaotian opened the door and went out.
Master Chengche and his apprentice waited for an hour. It was almost noon before the master and apprentice were taken to another large room in the camp. When they entered the door, they saw two white square boxes above their heads exuding milky white.
There was light; a long table was placed in the middle of the room, and there was a curtain hanging on the wall. I don’t know what it was for.
Opposite the long table sat two men. They were completely different from the soldiers outside. They were both wearing black cloaks and fluffy cotton hats on their heads.
"Both of you, please take a seat." The middle-aged man in charge pointed to the opposite side of the table and said to Master Chengche: "Let me introduce myself. I am the person in charge of the Beihai Town Public Security Police. My surname is Pian."
The person who came was none other than Katayama, the head of the Beihai Town security police.
Two hours ago, when the phone call from the military station came to Sheng Haizhou, Sheng Haizhou first called Chen Qingsong.
How could Chen Qingsong know this? I have seen modern monks, but I have no idea what monks were like in ancient times and how to confirm them.
Sheng Haizhou had no choice but to notify Katayama again. Unexpectedly, after asking, he found out that Katayama had actually handled official affairs related to the temple when he was a tongxin in Matsushima Town, and he also knew some Buddhist knowledge.
It is said that because the Tokugawa shogunate outlawed Catholicism, it required all people in the island country to become Buddhists. In the third year of Manji (1660), the shogunate began to require temples in various places to prepare "purpose person accounts", which were divided according to each family.
The name, age, family structure, etc. are recorded. Only by registering it in the target person's separate account can you prove that you are not a Catholic.
The temple will also issue a "temple application certificate" that can be used as proof of identity. When traveling, you must present it together with the pass from each feudal customs office. It will also be used when getting married or moving.
In addition, when someone dies and a declaration is made through the landlord, it is also processed at the temple. The deceased is deleted from the "Principal Person Account" and included in a register that only registers the name of the deceased, called "Oni Register". Therefore, Buddhism in the Edo period
It not only has a religious role, but also plays a role in assisting the government in managing civilians (in modern Japan, when a person dies, it is called "entering the ghost register", which is based on this allusion.)
Well, since the general was selected from the army, Katayama could only rush his ducks and send him to deal with the affairs of Chengcheng and his disciples. But the problem is that Katayama does not understand Daiqing's monk management system, which is completely different from the island country's monk management system!
After reading the ordination certificate provided by Chengcheng, Katayama realized that the inconspicuous old monk opposite him was actually a descendant of the Linji sect. This shocked him!
You must know that the earliest Zen school that the islanders came into contact with was the Rinzai sect, which was introduced from China by the monk Ming'an Rongxi in the Song Dynasty. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, many Chinese Zen monks traveled eastward to Fusang to escape the war.
Zen Buddhism in the island country developed rapidly. It is said that there were twenty-four schools of Zen Buddhism spread to Japan at that time. However, these various branches and sects were actually developed on the two main lines of Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Yin Yuan Longqi, the abbot of Fuyan Temple in Huangbo Mountain in Fujian Province and an eminent monk of the Rinzai Sect, came eastward, breaking the silence of the Zen forests in the island country at that time. Yin Yuan founded Huangbo Mountain Wanfu Temple in Uji and founded the Japanese Huangbo Sect.
, became a major event in the history of Japanese Buddhism. Yingen Longqi had a great influence in Japan. The royal family headed by Emperor Mizuo, the daimyo from various places headed by the Tokugawa shogunate dignitaries, and a large number of businessmen converted to him one after another.
(As a side note, green beans were brought to the island country by Yin Yuan and started to be cultivated. To this day, Kansai people call lentils "Yin Yuan beans".)
Katayama felt that things were getting serious now, a senior monk actually came!
Both Chinese and islanders have always respected Buddhist monks; but for modern people like Chen Qingsong, they also have an attitude of preferring to believe in him.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After Chen Qingsong received the call from the military station, he said that this day has finally come.
In fact, he knew in his heart that no matter how unwilling he was, as long as Beihai Town existed, he would have to face this day. It was better to come early than to come late, as long as it was not the White Lotus Sect.
He had discussed this matter with Zhao Xin before. Zhao Xin's point of view is that due to frequent disasters in Chinese history, whether natural disasters or wars, the people at the bottom are the least safe. Therefore, praying to gods and worshiping Buddha has become a common people
For spiritual sustenance, pray to all kinds of gods to eliminate disasters and avoid disasters.
Chen Qingsong thought about it for a long time, and finally asked Katayama to bring the two monks back for a meeting.
What he considered was that despite the harsh climate in Beihai Town, the people under his rule could have enough food and clothing, and their children could still read and write. This was already a paradise in the eyes of refugees everywhere. Under such circumstances, the role of Buddhism and Taoism was only
It only has a soothing effect on the soul. As long as it is strictly restricted, there is nothing to fear.
If he is really an eminent monk, at least he can be regarded as a cultural person, which is better than those two missionaries.
Ever since Zhao Xin brought back two missionaries from Urupu Island, although these two people were prohibited from preaching in Beihai Town, they would always say "God bless you" when talking to people. As time went by, some people would naturally
Will wonder who "God" is.
Ferapontov has been working on the east coast and has not come into contact with many people; but Markarius works at the Beihai Town Central Hospital and has contact with patients all day long.
After the initial discomfort, Father Ma was quickly shocked by the advanced medical technology in Beihai Town, and eagerly followed Hong Tao to learn medical skills. Since Hong Tao and Liu Siting were too busy, they waited for Father Ma.
He no longer shouted about giving people bloodletting treatments. After he was able to operate the X-ray machine on his own, he asked Father Ma to go to the imaging room to take X-rays for patients.
After Father Ma takes X-rays for people every day, he will often say "God bless you, my child!"
When Zhao Xin heard about this, he was very annoyed. But he couldn't cover his mouth to prevent him from talking! But at this point, because the two priests had come into contact with too many secrets of Beihai Town, they
Zhao Xin could only be like Qianlong and could never let these two people go.