Chapter 184 – This Shari is Big and Round

Huizhen’s temple is the famous Jiming Temple in Nanjing.

Built in the first year of Yongkang of the Western Jin Dynasty, it has a history of 1,000 years, and is one of the oldest Buddhist temples and royal temples in Nanjing, with incense always flourishing.

There are many incense congregations here, and Huizhen has a high status in the temple; after all, as a royal temple, Huizhen is considered one of the earliest group of monks who have been blessed with heavenly peace.

Not to mention that Hui Zhen was already a senior monk even before Zhu Di’s pacification.

Therefore, when the news of the death of Hui Zhen spread, immediately someone to the Monk Records Division of the Honglu Temple reported, and Yao Guangxiao and other monks, greatly grieved, hundreds of monks, went to the Hall of Buddha recited a night of scripture.

The news spread to Nanjing, many good men and women, then also in the next day have flocked to the temple. This chicken temple, very solemn, only the occasional sound of the bell and the rapid sound of wooden fish.

There were more and more good men and women coming, mixed in with a lot of good people.

Because of the traditional rules of Jixing Temple, whenever a senior monk passes away, there is often a ceremony of sitting in a jar.

However, on the Qixia side, someone let out the news that after Hui Zhen passed away, she was directly cremated and burnt to make a relic.

Sheri …… is, in the eyes of almost everyone, the standard by which a monk’s cultivation achievements are judged.

At least in this era, this is the case. The vast majority of monks, who are unable to burn relics, naturally do so because the level is too low.

Ordinary monks, in fact, do not have such troubles, but …… high monks are different.

Because the senior monk is not an ordinary monk, he is the signboard of the temple. If the accomplished monk, with countless disciples, is honored by ten thousand people in his life, but he cannot burn the relics after his death, it makes people a bit embarrassed.

It can be said that the burning of relics is a big test for every monk at the closing stage of his life.

Historically, the people are the most realistic, they only believe in the real thing, to give you add so much incense oil money, you this sherry are not burned, although we are not as reckless as the fans, run to a sentence of RNM, refund, but the heart, after all, there is still some diaphragm.

Up and down the temple, some people mourned, and some people were in a state of uncertainty and were in a state of confusion.

In fact, the best way to deal with this is to find a way to let Hui Zhen sit in the tank, and after a few years, then consider the matter of burning the relics.

But the problem now is that Hui Zhen is a very controversial person, he is a high monk ordained by the royal family, only that many people do not recognize him and think that he is aiding and abetting the evil, so how can this be the work of a high monk?

Although most of the questioning are readers, and not the same group as the real good men and women, but if you just avoid it, it is not a solution.

Plus …… it’s the book readers who get more money for their joss sticks!

Yao Guangxiao had to think about this piece of business.

Yao Guangxiao recited the sutra all night.

To the side hall, but see Zhang Anshi a face of gleeful look, is commanding the monks said: “Hui Zhen Zen Master is really a high monk, unusual people ate my medicine, a day will die, he even stayed up for two days, can see that in the underworld, there really is the blessing of the Buddha, are quick to go to the preparation, Qiu Song, Qiu Song it …… stove! How not yet transported on the mountain?”

Yao Guangxiao folded his hands and said, “Amitabha Buddha.”

Zhang Anshi stepped forward and said, “Master Yao, how are you, it is not too late, I think well, today we will hurry to burn the relics, lest the night is long and dreamy, you are aware of it, I am very busy, if His Majesty knows that I’m not doing my job again, and I don’t know how to scold me. Hurry up and burn it, burn it, everyone is at ease.”

Yao Guangxiao said sadly, “How is the Shi Master …… in such a hurry?”

“Can I not be in a hurry?” Zhang Anshi justified, “Having come all the way here, Master Yao wouldn’t want your master, Zen Master Hui Zhen, to be disappointed.”

Yao Guangxiao revealed a few worries and said, “The poor monk is still worried, what if it doesn’t burn out?”

He sighs, but he can’t blame him, it’s just that it’s so mysterious.

And for Yao Guangxiao’s personal, in fact, he is also very worried, after all, when he and his master followed Zhu Di to pacify, although in the name of Fengtian pacify, but fools know, this is a revolt, do not know how many innocent beings caused by the loss of life.

Yao Guangxiao thinks that Hui Zhen is himself in the mirror. If Hui Zhen can’t burn the relics, he won’t be able to do it either, and he doesn’t have so much merit, you know?

Zhang An Shizi also saw Yao Guangxiao’s uneasiness, so he consoled: “Master Yao don’t worry, I’m here, today I counted, it’s also a good day, October 29, it’s appropriate to close the account, meet friends and relatives, get rich, get rid of clothes, cut clothes, put in a coffin, and become a dress, look, it’s appropriate to get rich, doesn’t it mean that we are going to get rich?”

Yao Guangxiao: “……”

Zhang Anshi looked at him with a sincere face and said, “Does Master Yao not believe me?”

“Poor monks don’t lie.” Yao Guangxiao said, “At first, the poor monk just wanted you to take the blame.”

I was just taking the blame, I didn’t think to believe you, who knew you, Zhang Anshi, were so serious.

Zhang Anshi was unimpressed, said: “It’s okay, I’m used to it, my brother-in-law always said I’m honest, go out and be cheated, I’m already used to it. But right now, we are still burning relics to be important, Master Yao …… you can rest assured that I pack relics, not out of my compensation.”

Yao Guangxiao cried and laughed, at this point he felt as if he had led the wolf into the house.

However, I did not expect Zhang Anshi to actually say, “Then again, what if the relics come out?”

“This ……”

Zhang Anshi said, “After the relics are released, in the future, the incense and oil money in this temple, we have to add two and one to five, and split it in half.”

Yao Guangxiao did not hold back for a moment, immediately tensed his face and burst into a rage, “Zhang Anshi, how dare you even the Buddha’s incense oil money ……”

Zhang Anshi quickly said, “This is said, clearly you monks incense oil money, non to say Buddha. Master Yao, you listen to my words, I am a package of compensation, can not burn …… me in Qixia and then build a temple to you, twice as big …… than this.”

Yao Guangxiao really didn’t want to talk about this when his master had passed away.

But when Zhang Anshi said this, he was slightly moved, and after a half-second pause, he said, “Make a note!”

Zhang Anshi briskly pushed up his sleeves and said, “Fine, fine, fetch the brush and ink.”

Yao Guangxiao obviously didn’t have much faith in Zen Master Hui Zhen’s merits.

After all …… he is following the Zen Master Hui Zhen to learn the Dharma, it can be said that, what virtue he is, Hui Zhen is what virtue …… This can also burn out the relics? This does not make sense ah!

In that case, I had to repair another merit for the Buddha, so I could at least salvage a temple.

The name of the temple, he had thought of, was called the Protectorate Temple, or Daoyan Temple.

At that moment, the two of them made a note.

Zhang Anshi cheerfully said, “In that case, may I burn it?”

“You burn it, you burn it.” Yao Guangxiao said, “Amitabha Buddha, when the master passed away, he also cut his meat and fed it to the eagle, but at last he also did a good deed …… Amitabha Buddha.”

Zhang Anshi got up and said, “Do you say …… that there is a high and a low in this relic?”

Yao Guangxiao raised his eyebrows and said vigilantly, “What does the monk mean?”

Zhang Anshi said, “I mean to say …… this Sherry ……”

“Of course there is, there are sizes of relics, the bigger they are, the bigger the practice.”

“What about color?”

“You’re talking about character?”

“Yes, Pinnacle ……”

“There are certainly distinctions in character, but of course …… it depends on the actual situation.”

Zhang Anshi became complacent: “Good, if we want to burn, let’s burn the best.”

Yao Guangxiao: “……”

Waiting for Zhang Anshi out of the temple, then see in this outside the temple, pressurized all the people, monks out of the nest, do the rituals, for a moment, the smoke, not lively.

Zhang Anshi felt the power of the believers in this age.

I sighed in my heart, the times are like this, people always need a little spiritual solace.

Zhang Anshi had to tearfully find a way to rub a little incense oil money to centralize funds to do great things.

The furnace in Chuson, finally arrived.

A dozen large carts that disassembled the fireplace, which was then sent to the back hall for assembly.

This is a small blast furnace, which was improved and built by Zhang Anshi according to the situation of this era. Compared with the unusual furnaces of this era, this small blast furnace is characterized by high temperature, which can produce high temperature rapidly through the action of catalyst and blower bladder and so on, and it can improve the level of smelting greatly.

Originally Zhang Anshi intended to get a steel workshop, which tossed out such a small blast furnace.

Only this small blast furnace many places have not been perfected, Zhang Anshi hope to improve some, greatly improve the smelting level, and then put into production.

But who knew that it would come in handy right now.

This small blast furnace is certainly not yet perfect, with such and such problems, but burning relics is still enough.

Zhang Anshi commanded Qusong some, Qusong thought about it and said, “I know, big brother …… fire thing, leave it to me just fine.”

Zhang Anshi said cautiously, “Very well, vigorously produce miracles, just give me a desperate effort to heat up the blast furnace. I’ll leave it to you here, burn me to death.”

Qiu Song didn’t say half a word and answered immediately.

On the other side, after the monks performed ceremony after ceremony, Hye Jin’s body was brought in.

Zhang Anshi could not bear to watch such a scene, so he ran to the front hall in a flash.

Inside the temple, the mellifluous sound of bells soon rang out.

Not long after, a monk came out and said, “The auspicious time has come, Zen Master Hui Zhen was cremated …….”

Many of the good men and women were a bit surprised by this statement.

To know, in the past, the monks passed away, are sitting in their coffins in the ceramic jar, and around the body to add full of charcoal, firewood and other items, sealed and placed outdoors, preserved for seven days.

Seven days later, the people opened a small pre-placed hole underneath the clay jar, ignited the firewood and charcoal in the jar, and cremated the body.

But now, before the seven days are up, there’s a rush to cremate?

There is no lack of good people, there are a few spandex Confucian shirts of the readers mixed in the crowd, whispered: “so anxious, I do not know because of what reason, according to my opinion …… they themselves know that this Hui Zhen …… must can not be a positive result, so hurry to burn, so as not to attract everyone’s comments.”

“Yes, if you wait for seven days, I do not know how much discussion to make out of it, this Hui Zhen which has what cultivation, at the time, although Yao Guangxiao instigated the Jingdan, but this Hui Zhen …… is only afraid that there is no less effort.”

The readers were chatting away.

This is actually understandable, although the court repeatedly claimed that the justification for the pacification, but these things, in the people and even among the readers of the community, but no one believes.

The crowds of good men and women were even more reluctant to disperse.

They don’t have such a lot of small minds of the readers, only know that a monk has passed away, specially come to the temple to observe the ceremony, so that the bodhisattva can bless themselves a few more points.

“I’m afraid that when the time comes, the sintering won’t produce a relic …… then it will be ridiculous.”

“The fact that the burning knot does not come out means that he has not cultivated the right fruit; this is a Zen master ordained by His Majesty, and the fact that he has not cultivated the right fruit, does it not just confirm that he has aided and abetted the evil-doers in his day-to-day life, and that the so-called heavenly cycle of retribution is not a bad thing?”

Hearing that Hui Zhen was cremated immediately, it is surprising that this temple is getting more and more people, so much so that it is overcrowded.

There were even a lot of readers, who came to see the fun.

Many people are running to see the joke mentality, even if it is a reader, but also believe that good reward evil retribution reasoning, even if people can not be rewarded in life, but to the death …… of this retribution will eventually come.

So …… million people are looking forward to it.

But these people did not include Yao Guangxiao, who had been frowning and looking worried, as he realized that things had gotten slightly out of hand.

At that moment, he said to Zhang Anshi in the side hall, “Zhang Shi Master, now there are many more incenses, and many readers, hey …… sins ah sins ah.”

Zhang Anshi said in relief, “Master Yao, aren’t you usually always calm? Be at ease, trust me, there is nothing to worry about!”

Yao Guangxiao tiredly slowly settled down, and then sighed quietly, “Being a man is about conscience, not to mention being a monk. The one who is now being laughed at by thousands of people is after all the poor monk’s master ah, how can I bear it in my heart?”

Zhang Anshi saw Yao Guangxiao’s mood getting lower and lower, so he moved away from the topic and said, “How is Empty Sky doing in the temple?”

Yao Guangxiao then said, “He is very peaceful nowadays.”

Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but sigh with emotion, “People, after experiencing great changes, it’s already not easy to be able to do what he did.”

Yao Guangxiao nodded, “He was not a good emperor, but a good monk.”

With that, the two of them drank their own tea, but for a moment they looked a little awkward.

Just at this moment, a small shaman came hurriedly and said, “Master, An Nan Hou, has begun to burn.”

Zhang Anshi nodded his head and suddenly said to Yao Guangxiao, “Now in this temple, how much is the annual incense money?”

“What do you want to do?” Yao Guangxiao looked straight at him, and in his eyes was obvious caution.

Zhang Anshi smiled and said, “Just asking, casually asking.”

Yao Guangxiao said, “It’s actually not much.”

“But you have hundreds of thousands of taels of silver stored up in the money changers, and not only that, but you also purchase fields in large quantities every year.”

Yao Guangxiao’s mouth only recited, “Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha.”

Zhang Anshi, however, did not intend to let him off the hook and continued, “Not to mention the real money and silver, the large amount of land purchased alone is a large amount of expenses every year, this temple property is amazing …… Those people …… are really all as generous as I am, and can’t afford to Give so much incense oil money?”

Yao Guangxiao slightly closed his eyes and continued to chant, “Amitabha Buddha, good, good.”

Zhang Anshi continued to speak as if to himself: “I think carefully …… if one day, I can get half of the shares of this temple, I have to open source and cut costs, take to me contracting words, I first cut half of the monks, stay so many chanting of no use.”

“In addition …… to this temple’s real estate, to repackage and organize, relying solely on the income from renting land, is ultimately too low. Also, both the temple, have to go ancient style, do not move to build the treasure hall, brush gold paint, Buddha in your heart and mine ah ……”

Yao Guangxiao remained unperturbed, nonchalant, nonchalant, nonchalant.

Zhang Anshi didn’t seem to care at all that Yao Guangxiao didn’t respond to his words, then said: ”Also, it’s not good to ask for joss oil money, we need to create IP, IP know? To take some guys who are fed up and only recite sutras daily, and form one monk troupe after another, go to Annam, go to Champa, go to Siam, there are quite a lot of believers in Buddhism there, we need to open up the business, this is called open source.”

Saying that, Zhang Anshi sighed: “Also encourage good men and women, deposit silver into the money bank, especially on the Annan side, the new money bank has just opened, the people of Annan are too bitter, they used to be ruled by the likes of Hu, and now what they need the most is psychological comfort……. They have to be told that the Buddha can’t see any ahjusu material , but if you deposit this ajou thing, that is, gold and silver, into the money bank, and exchange the gold and silver tickets of my money bank, then it will be fine.”

Yao Guangxiao was actually surprisingly good-tempered this day, still not saying a word.

More than two hours had passed.

At this time, another small shaman hurriedly came and said, “Master, Annan Hou, the furnace has been opened.”

Yao Guangxiao listened and immediately stood up, he could no longer stand Zhang Anshi’s endless ramblings.

At that moment, he hastily got up and said, “Good, this will go to open the furnace.”

The opening of the furnace is usually witnessed by the monks along with many important good men and women of the temple.

Then all the monks of the temple gathered in the Mahamudra, and the sound of wooden fish was heard.

Immediately, there was another person who carried the vat, which had long been burned black, the general cremation, are burned with firewood, but this time, Zhang Anshi used a blast furnace, the temperature is extremely high, can reach two thousand degrees.

After it is burned, then have the vat, removed from the blast furnace.

At this time, many people had already gathered here, each eagerly waiting.

Dozens of monks, dozens of incense burners, surrounded the tank at this time, each with a grave expression.

Yao Guangxiao and Zhang Anshi arrived, one of the incense burners, surnamed Zhang Shun, Zhang family in Nanjing is a big family, usually give the temple a lot of money for incense and oil, so the quasi-Zhang family to open the tank, but that Zhang old lady is not good health, so let his son to do it for him.

This is called Zhang Shun, is a scholar, although there is no merit, but this does not think, he muttered in a low voice, I’m afraid that has been burned to ashes, there must be no relics.

Waiting to see Yao Guangxiao and Zhang Anshi came, although he did not dare to make a sound, but under the heart, he laughed coldly, Hui Zhen and these people …… are in collusion, how can it be a positive result?

In his heart, he already thought, later after going back, how to witness the results, tell their friends and relatives, when there is no need to add vinegar, flirting a bit.

Yao Guangxiao, on the other hand, had a grave expression on his face, his heart was already in his throat, and many fine beads of sweat were silently seeping out from his forehead.

“Open the tank.”

Yao Guangxiao said.

“Yes.”

With a drop, several monks didn’t hesitate any longer and first smashed the cylinder.

Once this tank was broken, you could see that the bottom of the tank was black with a layer of ash.

It burned well and basically turned to ash.

Zhang Anshi was relieved.

Just ……

In this thick layer of accumulated ash …… but I don’t know if there are any relics inside ……

Seeing this, that Zhang Shun smiled slightly and couldn’t help but feel a sense of teasing.

Some other incense burners, also opened their eyes, after all, on weekdays gave the temple so much incense money, if the monks here did not get the right result, it is inevitable that there are a few National Football League fans of frustration.

Yao Guangxiao had seen the expressions of the crowd in his eyes, but there was no way back at this time.

He revealed a look of exhaustion and nervousness, took a deep breath, and continued, “Take the Shelly!”

“Yes.”

Only one monk squatted down and began to carefully pick his way through the ashes.

The monk, who had …… put his hand into the ashes, suddenly stiffened his body.

“What’s wrong?” Yao Guangxiao nervously exclaimed

“Master …… Master ……” The monk’s hand is still in the ashes, but his look is very different.

And then his hand began to tremble …… Then, stretching out his other hand, he proceeded to hold out a fist sized orb carefully in both hands.

This one ……

The temple fell silent for a moment.

Yao Guangxiao’s pupils contracted.

What is this?

The incense dwellers were all dumbstruck, their bodies trembling slightly.

The monk who was holding the relics was also startled, and his hands couldn’t help but tremble.

The other ten or so monks, mad as hell, suddenly sat down on their knees, folded their palms together, and recited continuously under their breath, “Amitabha Buddha, Amitabha Buddha.”

I have to say that the thing …… held in the hands of this monk is too big.

The thing about relics is that the greatest possibility is that they are unobtainable, but the vast majority of them, even if they are burned out, are actually no bigger than the size of a finger.

If it had been bigger, it would have almost been necessary to build a pagoda to enshrine it and make it the treasure of the temple.

And this thing in front of me is already surprisingly large.

It’s the size of a fist. Is it a relic?

“Master …… Master ……”

Yao Guangxiao’s eyes widened in disbelief, standing stiffly in place, not moving a muscle, his pupils constantly contracting, even his breath seemed to be gone.

Even that Zhang Shun, the heart is also shocked, this is seen with their own eyes, with their own eyes ……

He looked incredulously at the relics in the monk’s hand, not saying a word, but his eyes seemed to be about to burst out.

Immediately afterward, in full view of everyone, this monk carefully began to pluck away the dust from the relics.

With that …… a color is revealed.

It’s bright red.

And then one finds the azure blue ……

There’s black.

There’s green.

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple ……

Seven variegated colors that sparkle.

Yao Guangxiao only heard that there was once a high priest who burned out colorful relics.

As for the seven colors, it’s simply unimaginable.

“Master …… Master ……,” said the monk holding this relic, his hands trembling terribly.

Yao Guangxiao then snapped out of it, and suddenly, ah ah ah.

“Master ah …… you become Buddha.” In a flash, Yao Guangxiao fell to the ground and kneeled, and said in his mouth, “Cultivating the great positive fruit …… this is the true Buddha also.”

That Zhang Shun also went from being disdainful, to pious in an instant.

The other incense-bearers, one by one, fell into tears and worshipped, chanting under their breath.

Yao Guangxiao was so excited that his hands danced, and stood up again, finally carefully received the relics, saying, “Such relics, never seen in the ancient times, the virtuous monks of all the dynasties are not as good as Zen Master Hui Zhen …… ah …… became a Buddha …… became a Buddha ah ……”

Yao Guangxiao is a person who is used to seeing big scenes, but he has always been calm as Yao Guangxiao, this moment is also like a madman.

“Quickly, quickly, ring the bell, hurry to ring the bell ……” Yao Guangxiao snapped, “Fetch the treasure plate, send this relic into the Maharishi Treasure Hall for the good men and women to worship.”

“Yes, yes ……” The monk wept tears of joy, and then hurried away.

“Haha …… haha ……” Yao Guangxiao was ecstatic.

Hye Jin is him in the mirror it, Master Hye Jin can have such a relic, then he ……

It seems …… that the poor monks did the right thing, did the right thing.

This is in fact understandable, although the success of the Jingdan, but the people of the time on Yao Guangxiao’s behavior much disdain.

One of the times, the heaviest blow to Yao Guangxiao, was after the success of the pacification, he had gone to his hometown to see his sister, but his sister closed the door, so Yao Guangxiao had to visit his old friend Wang Bin. Wang Bin also refused to meet, just let a person pass the message: “Monk mistaken, monk mistaken.”

Not many of the people of the world were willing to understand him, and they all thought that he had plagued the world.

But now …… Hui Zhen also followed the Yasukuni, although not as meritorious as him, but Hui Zhen burned out such a good relic.

What a great merit this must be, and what is it? Isn’t it just to pacify the people in Fengtian?

Zhang Anshi watched the crowd’s reaction from the sidelines and wanted to laugh in his heart.

The so-called relics are actually just stones, and whichever monk has severe stones, when he is cremated, the more powerful the relics will be!

But the people of this age don’t understand this, but consider it proof of cultivation.

Zhang Anshi can burn such an unprecedented large relics, is nothing more than with two methods, one is before the death of the monk Hui Zhen, feed him the medicine on the head, the other is to use the high temperature of the small blast furnace.

In fact, the principle of formation is not complicated, the main components of human bones are composed of calcium oxide, phosphorus oxide and some organic matter. When the bones are cremated, the organic matter will first carbonize and gradually decompose completely, and all the carbon inside will be oxidized into carbon dioxide, and then the bones will become ashes.

The main component of bone ash is calcium hydroxyphosphate, if continue to burn, the temperature is further increased, the ashes will begin to melt, calcium hydroxyphosphate decomposition into tricalcium phosphate. Continuously heated to about 1700 鈩�, tricalcium phosphate will be completely melted, after cooling the formation of a hard ball with a glassy luster, if it is mixed with different elements will form different colors of glassy crystals, that is, sherds!

So, if the temperature is high enough, then the larger the sherds produced.

On the other hand, Zhang Anshi’s so-called medicine was for adding color, and the more elements that were added, the more colors would naturally be added.

In later times, there was also a special patent application for a patent on “Chicken Bones Making Shari”.

This thing …… Zhang Anshi can even be produced in bulk.

Of course …… has to be careful, almost.

And at this time, Yao Guangxiao suddenly woke up something like, hastily said, “Send people, send people, immediately into the palace to report the good news, go to report the good news …… His Majesty, if he knows, will certainly be very happy, haha …… haha … …”

Looking at Yao Guangxiao, who was dancing with his hands, and a monk who was chanting sutras, as well as believers who were reciting words piously, Zhang Anshi grinned and was happy.

Be rich.