Chapter 158: His Majesty’s Killing Intent

The young monk called Empty was thoughtful.

He pondered for a moment and said, “Master, isn’t there enough silver in the temple? Why do you still need to make money?”

Yao Guangxiao looked at Empty Sky and said with hatred, “It is a monk’s duty to make fortunes, just like an official soldier needs to go and catch a thief. Is it possible to give up one’s duty just because one has some silver?”

“If this is the case, it will be the same as the official soldier’s sword and gun, which will be a great misfortune.”

Empty listened and seemed enlightened.

So he said, “Where does the Master plan to go to make a fortune?”

Yao Guangxiao, however, said, “If you were a teacher, where would you go?”

Empty empty raised his eyes to see: “Who silver more, will go to which one, the little monk heard that here …… there is a big family ……”

Yao Guangxiao smiled and said, “I did not expect …… that these are even you know, see this big household …… really name is not small.”

Emptiness said, “The monks in the temple are talking about him, saying that he’s rich as hell and that he gave the temple a lot of joss stick money in the first place.”

Yao Guangxiao sighed and said, “Hey …… let s go.”

“Master, where to?”

“Go and beg for fasting rice.” Yao Guangxiao said, “What do you think of that one?”

He pointed to …… a small store in the far end of the fairgrounds.

Empty was perplexed, “Master doesn’t go to Daido?”

Yao Guangxiao said, “My Buddha is compassionate, to make karma is to make good karma, and the most important thing is the word karma.”

Empty touched his bare brain and still couldn’t figure it out.

Yao Guangxiao said: “Hey, you are so stupid, I do not know how you can inherit the mantle of the poor monk in the future. You see, if we go straight to the big families, how will people look at us? It is not appropriate that we are beggars? We are monks, not beggars.”

Empty seemed to understand.

Yao Guangxiao also said, “But if we first from here ordinary people here to beg for food, no, from here to start to make karma, both see you and I sincere, not to mention this karma two words, wonderful. These things, sooner or later is to be spread to the ears of the big family, this big family …… can sit back and watch?”

Empty Sky finally came to a realization, “Little Monk understands, the essence of fawning lies in karma, we can’t go to him, he has to come to us.”

Yao Guangxiao smiled again, “Amitabha Buddha, you are enlightened.”

Then, Yao Guangxiao led Empty Sky to that small store.

Yao Guangxiao didn’t say anything and only gave Empty a wink.

Empty then went up to the fiat.

The man in the store was not pleased and said, “You monk, bad luck, bad luck,”

Empty blushed and wanted to leave, so he glanced back at Yao Guangxiao behind him, who smiled at him and encouraged him.

Empty had to continue on.

The shopkeeper couldn’t take it anymore, took a few pennies, threw them into the empty wooden bowl, and said in a bored voice, “Go away, go away.”

Empty Sky said with a red face, “Many thanks to the shifu, who is safe and joyful.”

The shopkeeper looked very unhappy.

Yao Guangxiao stepped forward at this time and said, “The monk’s fortune is prosperous.”

Only then did the shopkeeper’s face ease a little, and he said joyfully, “I accept your good advice.”

Yao Guangxiao began to walk the streets with this empty space.

This wooden bowl was then full of copper.

“Master, why hasn’t that big family come to make good karma yet?”

Yao Guangxiao’s face darkened, “This person has blackened his heart and wants money without a face.”

Empty: “……”

After slowing down, Yao Guangxiao regained his composure: “Amitabha Buddha, abstain from anger, abstain from anger. For the master to bring you out, it is not just to ask for silver, just teach you to come out to experience, see the hardships of the people, go, this Qixia is not much fun, let’s go to a faraway place.”

At that moment, he took a boat again and led Empty to Zhenjiang.

Zhenjiang here, but also quite prosperous, after all, is connected to the north and south of the thoroughfare, just at this …… time barefoot and ragged people is a lot of UYA.

Empty showed a few looks of pity and sighed, “Do so many people have no livelihood?”

Yao Guangxiao’s face was calm: “This year, I am afraid that there is no good harvest again, many people, it will be difficult to sustain.”

He said, leading Empty towards a manor.

There seemed to be a lot of people at the mouth of that manor.

But see a head wearing spandex scarf steward-like person, leading a few family members, teaching people to pick the rice.

Immediately there was a huge crowd of people gathered around.

Yao Guangxiao mingled with the crowd and saw the people coming with bamboo baskets to get rice.

And signing something with that steward to his face.

Empty was confused, “What’s this for?”

Yao Guangxiao smiled and said, “You don’t know this either? This year’s harvest is not good, many people are going to be unable to survive, so they came to borrow rice.”

“Borrowing rice?” A puzzled look appeared under Empty’s eyes.

Yao Guangxiao knows the inside story, smiled and said: “Unbelievable, this world there are tens of thousands of people do not have enough to eat, if you do not sue for a loan, you can not get through the end of the year. You see, they borrowed five liters of rice, signed the deed is to borrow eight liters.”

“Borrow five liters and return eight?” Empty marveled, “Wouldn’t that be a huge profit?”

Yao Guangxiao added: “This is only out, when it is time to pay back, there is still interest! I’m afraid to return at least ten liters, or twelve liters.”

Empty marveled again, “Taking two for one, isn’t that a windfall?”

“Who said that the debtors expect these people to pay back?” Yao Guangxiao looked at Empty Sky with strange eyes.

Empty once again wondered, “Do debtors also need to make good karma? After lending out, aren’t they expected to return it?”

Yao Guangxiao said, “Borrow five buckets, can only get ten buckets, although it is profiteering, but if you only want to this little profit, and how can satisfy the greed of people? Really ruthless, only wish these people can not pay back the rice, when …… the last bit of these people’s family thin field also take away.”

“Even if there are no fields in these people’s homes, there will always be some family belongings, and if there are no family belongings, there will always be children, and if there are no children, do they not even have wives? If they do not even have wives, such people cannot borrow rice.”

Empty Sky was appalled, “The national dynasty should rule the world by rites and laws, these people are so unethical, where is the discipline of the country?”

Yao Guangxiao smiled, “Ritual? Guess who’s behind this butler?”

Empty Speech.

Yao Guangxiao said, “Those Confucians …… who followed you in the beginning are the ones behind this housekeeper.”

“How is this possible!” Empty air vehemently denied, “Although they may not all have great powers, their virtues …… little monk is aware of.”

Yao Guangxiao said, “What is virtue?”

Empty: “……”

Yao Guangxiao said, “Having friends from afar is virtuous, being sincere in dealing with friends is virtuous, being loyal to the monarch is also virtuous, and filial piety to your own father and mother is certainly virtuous. But …… why does no one say that occupying a large amount of land is a dereliction of virtue? Does anyone say that storing up a large number of servants and treating them harshly is a breach of virtue? Or …… is it a dereliction of virtue to have women in the clan who violate taboos and have them immersed in pigsties, or to have servants who contradict the head of the family and execute the family servants? Since these are nonetheless not misdemeanors, and can even be said to be harmless, how is it misdemeanor for …… lending out grain in a year of disaster?”

Empty: “……”

Yao Guangxiao sighed: “The morality of people …… is measured by the people who have mouths to speak, just like in that temple, the poor monk is the presiding officer, so how the sutra should be read, it is the poor monk who has the final say, and the poor monk said that your sutra is read wrongly, and you are right but also wrong.”

Empty seemed a bit hard to accept, opening his eyes wide and saying, “If this goes on, isn’t it a brutalization of the people? The people have lost their fields because of a calamity, no children, the family is slaves and servants, how should they live?”

Yao Guangxiao said: “How to live, is their business, as long as someone has gained, then those who have gained, will maintain this program, will give with the article to whitewash it. You see it! But you don’t have to be discouraged, this world has always been like this, since the Confucius Sage, have never changed, so there is nothing wrong. If you have a conscience, don’t look into the details.”

“Not to the finer points?” Empty said, “My Buddha is compassionate, is ……”

Yao Guangxiao smiled and said, “My Buddha is compassionate, but if everyone in this world can really live in peace and happiness, then what is the use of having a Buddha? It is precisely because of these consecutive years of calamities that the people who have lost everything have been left with nothing, and that is why they are hugging the Buddha’s thigh, hoping to borrow him to alleviate the suffering of the common world. It is also why these debtors, who have made a fortune off of this and have a hidden uneasy conscience, are willing to send large sums of silver to the temple as joss oil money, in exchange for a peace of mind.”

“Without the suffering of the world, what is the Buddha, what is the poor monk, and what are you today?”

Empty looked uneasy and terrified, “Then I’m practicing Buddhism wrongly too?”

Yao Guangxiao smiled and said, “The poor monk brought you to see what this world is like, not to smash the poor monk’s rice bowl, how could you be enlightened to the uselessness of cultivating Buddhism? Poor monk just want to tell you, there are too many difficulties in the world, instead of struggling in this mundane world, why don’t you really vanish into the empty door and find a pure land!”

“You have been unsettled in your mind since you entered the temple because of this. If you want to calm yourself, you should do ‘not see,’ ‘not hear,’ ‘not think,’ and ‘not think.’ If not, such a lot of troubles in the world will bring you nothing but endless suffering.”

Empty listened and sighed.

Yao Guangxiao said, “Is the heart clear now?”

Empty shook his head, “No.”

Yao Guangxiao looked at his ghostly gaze, so he asked, “What other earthly matters remain unfinished?”

Empty said, “The heart has a hidden hatred.”

Yao Guangxiao smiled and said, “It’s like this, that’s because you still see less, in fact …… Zhenjiang here, is already a rich place. The poorest people here, but also than the vast majority of the people live much better, this year, although it is considered a disaster year, but compared with the real catastrophe, but still far from it.”

“What you are seeing at this time is not life and death, but just some sadness and joy on earth. No matter, no matter, in the future the poor monk will take you to walk around more, you see more, you will not take it for granted.”

“How is it possible to do so without thinking?” Empty said blankly, “Is …… it impossible to solve these things? You tell me day and night that Fourth Uncle is the Holy Monarch ……”

“He is already a saintly ruler.” Yao Guangxiao said, “These people were even worse off when you were in power.”

Empty: “……”

Yao Guangxiao said, “Go back, go back to the temple, you can’t quiet your mind, you need to slowly settle down.”

After saying that, he took Empty back on the boat the same way he came.

Along the way, Empty wrinkled his brow with a pained look on his face.

When he was almost at the temple, Yao Guangxiao looked at him and smiled, “It seems that you haven’t let go of the matter of things outside of your body.”

Empty but then asked a question: “Master said, the more wealth, do the heartless people, only to give us incense and oil money, our temple …… incense and oil money to give the most people surnamed Zhang, this surnamed Zhang, as the master heard, is not the most heartless?”

“Poor monk forbids you to scold him.” Yao Guangxiao actually said righteously this time.

Immediately, Yao Guangxiao’s face was slightly milder before he added: “He is our breadwinner, how can we scold him?”

Empty sky but bluntly said, “The little monk also heard of a lot of his deeds, they say that he is the most good at enrichment, I’m afraid that he has killed a lot of people.”

Yao Guangxiao said, “Quiet heart, quiet heart, don’t think nonsense, outside the body, what’s more to think about? To learn from Master, everything is empty, no joy, no worry.”

The two had just entered the temple, when a small sandman hurriedly greeted them, “Master, master ……”

Yao Guangxiao said, “What is it?”

“It is not to be, many people under the mountain are saying, go to the money bank to deposit silver, deposited silver …… has two percent interest per year.”

Yao Guangxiao said, “Two percent …… of 10,000 taels of silver, but only a mere four hundred taels, 100,000 taels …… hmm? Four thousand taels?”

Seeing Yao Guangxiao standing still.

Empty said, “Master …… Master ……”

“ah ah ……” Yao Guangxiao said: “150,000 taels is six thousand taels, where can melt so much karma to go, the world can have this good thing, is not that the money changer cheating it.”

“It was the United Chambers that put out the news, and I don’t know anything else.”

Yao Guangxiao said: ”United Money Bank? The one that lent out a lot of silver? That’s right, that Zhang kid made it, that’s a sure thing!”

Yao Guangxiao actually agitated, busy and said, “Come, come, come, you all froze to do what, teach the temple up and down, all put down their hands, do not recite the sutra.”

Yao Guangxiao was very eager: “Do not hurry, will silver are carried out …… pick seventy hand and foot, with the teacher down the mountain.”

Yao Guangxiao was red-faced and in high spirits.

In this era, there is no interest in depositing silver, and there is also the so-called custodial fee, the so-called purpose of depositing silver is more like exchanging bills of exchange, so as to facilitate the withdrawal of exchange after arriving at a foreign place.

Where else in the …… world is this kind of money for nothing such a good thing?

The temple had a lot of incense and oil money, and had accumulated one hundred and fifty-seven thousand three hundred and twenty-nine taels and four cents.

So much silver …… in fact, there is no way to spend out, want to do other camps …… for the temple …… is ultimately not good, it is better to eat interest every year to stabilize.

So Yao Guangxiao the whole person flamboyant, instructed the monks to go to the silver bank to get silver, and also taught the robust monks, take the whistle guard, large and small line of monks, all with Yao Guangxiao down the mountain, voluminous to the nearest money changer to go.

Empty was among them, panting as he carried the silver.

He still couldn’t understand why Master had saved so much silver.

Of course, in his opinion, the Master was inscrutable, so perhaps there was a hidden agenda.

After arriving at the money changer, he found that the place had been renovated.

This money changer more than ten doors of the open room, a few gates, respectively, hung with a sign, there is to take cash, there are silver, there is a loan.

And yao guangxiao this kind of wealth to deposit silver not many people, mostly some unusual small businessman, greedy for these small profits.

The number of people picking up the cash is similarly small.

Instead, there was a long line at the lending place.

Yao Guangxiao sweating very uneasy look, to the empty space said: “Temple, you are the most literate, but also proficient in calculations, you go in and ask, is not two percent of the profit, don’t teach people to cheat.”

Empty nodded, then hurriedly walked in, inquired carefully, and then …… but with an odd look to see Yao Guangxiao.

Yao Guangxiao looked at him and said, “What’s wrong, your heart is not pure again?”

Empty said, “Isn’t Master also disturbed?”

Yao Guangxiao declared a Buddha’s name: “Amitabha Buddha, if I don’t enter hell, who will enter hell! Poor monk is the presiding officer, in charge of the temple up and down the family, poor monk not Ning, is to cut the meat to feed the eagle, hope to let you can live in peace in the temple at ease to disappear into the empty door ah. Well, you asked how it is?”

“It’s two percent.” Empty said, “They say child’s play.”

Yao Guangxiao suddenly raised a smile, rejoiced, “Surname Zhang …… did not talk to the poor monk earlier, causing me to delay I do not know how many days, this guy should be beaten.”

Empty said, “But ……”

Yao Guangxiao paused in his smile, seemingly worried that something had changed, and frowned slightly, “But what?”

Empty said, “But …… they also lend money.”

Yao Guangxiao’s heart suddenly relaxed again and said, “Don’t take it to heart they see money, what does it matter to us?”

Empty said, “They lend out at five percent interest.”

When Yao Guangxiao heard this, his face changed slightly.

He looked at Empty with a strange look, “Five percent?”

“Yes.” Empty Sky said, “It did not occur to the young monk that the interest rate would be ridiculously low, which is tantamount to lending out five buckets of rice, and a year later. It only teaches one to return an extra handful of rice.”

Yao Guangxiao was also shocked, in this era of horrible interest rates, putting out such low interest rates is basically similar to doing good deeds.

Empty once again looked at Yao Guangxiao with a puzzled expression and said, “Didn’t Master say that the surname Zhang is not a good person?”

Yao Guangxiao said in a serious manner, “You can’t look at people from one direction alone.”

Empty air said, “He did this …… is living people ah, how many people are anxious to use the money, to tide over the difficult times! If such a low interest, the people do not have to suffer that kind of exploitation.”

“Poor monk knows, poor monk knows.” Yao Guangxiao laughed, “It seems …… that the master preached Buddhism around him, and he listened to a lot.”

Empty was at this time, however, caught up in a painful struggle: “Why do virtuous people who have read the holy books make exorbitant profits, while people with precisely such an unsavory reputation have such a kind heart?”

Yao Guangxiao said, “Don’t think too much, quickly help the poor monk to line up, the poor monk is old, his legs are not good, he can’t squeeze them.”

Empty face stagnant said, “Those people …… if they all come here to sue for loans, won t they suffer less from exploitation?”

Yao Guangxiao, however, said with a bitter face: “Oops, any later will be finished, I’m afraid that the money bank feel the loss, refused to deposit silver, poor monk’s interest, six thousand taels a year ah.”

Empty but as if he did not hear the words of Yao Guangxiao, muttered under his breath, “rely on this …… many people will be able to get through the year of disaster in peace, no longer have to sell their fields and sell their land, sell their children and sell their daughters, I used to be only in the books of the sages, only seen such a person.”

Yao Guangxiao was so angry that his old face reddened: “You eat from the temple, drink from the temple, raise a monk for a thousand miles, use a monk for a moment, what are you still dawdling here for?”

“I ……” said Empty vaguely, “I caved into the Buddha’s light.”

Yao Guangxiao: “……”

………………

Zhu Jin came to see Zhang Anshi with great joy, and he added fuel to the fire by telling Zhang Anshi about the pomp and circumstance of the money changers.

“Came a lot of people, there is a money bank, from the street queue to the end of the street, today’s deposit of silver at least a million taels, put out the loan …… procedures are cumbersome some, but hundreds of thousands of taels is there, this is really the opening of the door.”

Zhang Anshi cheerfully said, “I had anticipated this, those who have silver hidden in the home of the landowners, heard that there is interest, where else to hold down?”

Zhu Jin admiringly looked at Zhang Anshi and said: “This is also thanks to the marquis has credit, as well as our merchant bank family background is deep. Now our firm has taken advantage of the business opportunities, and financial strength, lending out so much mortgage, as well as shipping, as well as this Qixia’s many camps, at least in the merchants, is reputable. This is mainly due to the marquis your management ah, marquis you are our Ming Lu Buwei ah!”

Zhang Anshi but the face is green: “can not talk nonsense, I’m not Lu Buwei that kills thousands of goods, into your mother, how do you plainly defile people innocence.”

“Ahhhhh ……”

Zhu Jin snapped and fell to his knees, punching himself in the face and said, “I’ll die, I’ll die, I shouldn’t have said that, Marquis, you are Fan Li, Tao Zhu Gong.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Zhang Anshi is Zhang Anshi, what a mess, well, you continue to give me a good stare, this money bank can get up, we this merchant bank water will live.”

Zhu Jin busily nodded his head and swore, “I’m sure I’ll be attentive, and whatever the Marquis commands, I’ll do.”

After a pause, and then said, “But …… Marquis, you said …… that the interest rate of the silver we lend out, is not too low? In this world, where is such a low interest rate ah, this is not letting people take advantage of us?”

Zhang Anshi looked at him contemptuously and said: ”What do you know, you only see the immediate benefits, not the benefits in the future. There are many kinds of buying and selling, some are to earn big profits, some are to rely on the scale to win. Alright, stop nagging, hurry up and do something for me.”

Jujin had to nod, “Yes, yes.”

…………

Kizuna cautiously entered the palace.

These few days. He was more and more careful, especially after the collapse of the Han King, which made him realize …… that His Majesty s mind was unfathomable.

By the time he reached the outside of the Wenlou, he happened to see Yiluoha coming out of the building.

Kizuna then immediately stood still and wordlessly saluted Yiluoha.

He is clear, although Yiluoha is only a eunuch, but the energy in the palace is very big, and even sometimes …… can sway His Majesty s thoughts.

Yilsha said in a pleasant manner, “His Majesty has been waiting for you.”

Ji Gang nodded his head and immediately went into the hall, his footsteps were very light, afraid of disturbing Zhu Di.

Zhu Di is sitting high, a glance at the Ji Gang who came in, and did not wait for him to salute, then said: “I read your report …… You are saying …… that Chen Ji … … is now very honorable and proud?”

Ji Gang busily said, “Yes, since he resigned from his post, he has been lecturing in the capital, and the number of people who come to listen to his lectures is as many as the clouds, and the people admire him and call him Mr. Chen Da.”

Ji Gang then lowered his voice and continued, “Many ministers have befriended him and are vying to be the first to do so.”

Zhu Di’s eyes narrowed slightly as he coldly said, “In that case, I’ve made him whole?”

Ji Gang did not answer, he only reported what happened to Zhu Di, but did not participate in Zhu Di’s judgment.

Zhu Di closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, “Which ministers have befriended him?”

“Mostly imperial and Hanlin.”

Zhu Di nodded and then asked, “What about Xie Jin, how is Xie Jin with him?”

Ji Gang looked up at Zhu Di, for Xie Jin, when in the fight for the crown, between Ji Gang and Xie Jin, there is no good feeling.

After a pause, Kizuna then said, “There was no poking around to see if they were walking.”

Zhu Di supported his hand on the imperial case, “How do you see it?”

As soon as Kizuna heard this, suddenly, he felt something acutely.

Since there was no walk, His Majesty, by definition, would not pursue the matter further.

But there is no walking and still pursuing, then …… obviously His Majesty still wants to know something.

Want to know something about it?

For Ji Gang, the facts didn’t really matter, what mattered was how to say what His Majesty wanted him to say.

Between his eyes inadvertently, he swept through a trace of a different look, and then used an extremely calm voice to say, “Your Majesty …… can still be said to have a clear conscience if he …… walks around, but if he doesn t, there must be something fishy in it. ”

Zhu did not respond, and even the joy and anger on his face was not seen, just staring at Ji Gang, looking at Ji Gang’s heart hairy.

Ji Gang then added: “So I thought …… perhaps among them, there must be hidden information, I will let people …… in this direction, a good probe.”

Zhu Di is light: “You and Xie Jin …… have a grudge, right?”

Ji Gang busily said, “I have no enmity with anyone; whatever Your Majesty likes, I like, and whatever Your Majesty dislikes, I naturally detest.”

Zhu Di actually did not continue to pursue the matter of Xie Jin, but said, “That Chen Ji since the wind is flourishing, so many people scramble to befriend him, what did he say?”

“Said ……,” Ji Gang said, “about the competition with the people for profit, and …… the merchant bank to collect money… …”

Zhu Di raised his head and instantly became interested: “What, the merchant bank has amassed money again? How come I haven’t heard anything before?”

“Said the merchant bank around lending, this year is a disaster year, many people ignorant, have to go to sue borrowing, in the long run, the people debt is entangled, sooner or later …… sooner or later ……”

Zhu Di was furious: “This person must not be kept! Enter the motherfucker!”

Ji Gang said, “Your Majesty rest your anger humble this will be under the driving sticker …… to take people!”

Zhu Di’s face was morose, and his eyes swept over with murderous intent.

His face became colder and colder, and after a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, “Don’t be busy, what’s the hurry? That Chen Ji said these, the rest of the people …… what is the reaction?”

Ji Gang knows in his heart that His Majesty has moved to kill, the more stupid thoughts in his heart, His Majesty will not monkey around.

He murmured, “Thunder of joy!”

Those four words put the final nail in the coffin lid.