Chapter 27 The troubles of sentient beings are infinite and boundless

Fang Xuanling, the right prime minister of the Shangshu, sat in the public room, looked at Gao Shilian with a bleak face in front of him, and slowly said, "Gao Shilian, you'd better not resent Your Majesty!"

Gao Shilian said lightly: "What if you hate, so what if you don't hate?"

Fang Xuanling put a blank appointment document in front of Gao Shilian and slowly wrote the eight big words "Gao Shilian's Left Minister of the Ministry of Personnel".

Gao Shilian looked at Fang Xuanling with shock, and suspicion gradually arose.

Gao Shilian is different from Fang Xuanling. Fang Xuanling is just a minister of Li Shimin, but Gao Shilian is the uncle of Changsun Wugui and Changsun Wuji. Therefore, from beginning to end, Gao Shilian was both core members of the direct line under Li Shimin.

In history, during the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Gao Shilian was responsible for recruiting prisoners, refugees, settlements and rangers from Chang'an City. He recruited more than 13,000 people and armed these people into an army, stabilizing the situation in Chang'an in a very short time. Therefore, Gao Shilian ranked sixth among the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, ranking sixth before Yuchi Gong, Li Jing, Qu Tutong and others.

It is not because Gao Shilian is Li Shimin's wife and uncle, but because of real achievements.

Fang Xuanling looked at Gao Shilian's face and his eyes became deep.

Gao Shilian slowly lowered his head.

Fang Xuanling sighed and said, "Your Majesty appointed you as the Left Minister of the Ministry of Personnel to assist Wei Zheng and me, and to be fully in charge of the reduction of official posts. You are also from the Northern Qi royal family, and you are used to ups and downs, so be more open-minded!"

Gao Shilian smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty's heart is so big!"

"Of course!" Fang Xuanling said seriously: "Your Majesty's mind is not something you can imagine!"

Gao Shilian murmured: "This is to put me on the fire and roast me!"

Fang Xuanling said: "Others want to bake it but there is no chance!"

...

On Pei Ji's mansion, Pei Ji sat down without saying a word.

Lawyer Pei looked at Pei Ji in surprise and said, "Gao Shilian was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel? Why is this?"

Li Xiaochang shook his head.

Pei Ji raised his head and said slowly: "Gao Shilian's uncle and Fang Xuanling, who deposed the Princess of Qin, are both old people from the Qin Palace. Your Majesty uses them to take charge of the abolition of officials, which shows that this time, Your Majesty has indeed made up his mind to attack the old ministers of Wude, the Li Tang royal family, and the heroes of the Eastern Palace...."

Li Xiaochang sighed and said helplessly: "The Prince of Huai'an also hit a nail, and others are even more speechless."

Pei Ji smiled and shook his head and said, "Your Majesty can't make sense, Chen Ying...is not sure."

"Chen Ying?" Li Xiaochang said suspiciously: "He usually doesn't care about anything, right?"

"It is precisely because he doesn't care about the matter that his words work!" Pei Ji's eyes drooped and he said angrily: "This time, many Guanzhong clans and all the scholars in the world have been dismissed, but there are two exceptions!"

"Who?" asked Lawyer Pei.

Li Xiaoguang asked suspiciously: "Yang Gongren?"

Pei Ji nodded and said, "The Supreme Emperor's Six Prime Ministers, I was first promoted and surrendered to the secret. Now Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda have also been dismissed from the prime minister. The Six Prime Ministers of Wude, and the Third of the Six, it will be a matter of time before Yu Wenshi and Feng Lun are both successful. Only Yang Gongren can remain as moving as a mountain!"

Lawyer Pei asked again: "Who is there another person?"

Pei Ji said lightly: "Secretary of the Ministry of Works, Duke Ying Guowu Shishi, he is Chen Ying's cousin's brother-in-law. This time he is abolition, he is not among the Ying's sack!"

Lawyer Pei said with anger: "Why is he a merchant? Yang Gongren was born in the Hongnong Yang family, a scholar, farmer, industry and commerce, and is the first of the four dimensions. It is not impossible to live in the temple. But the warrior is a merchant, the end of the four people. What is a scholar? Scholars are the roots and bones of the world. Scholars are the temples, scholars are the courts, and scholars are the foundation of the world. If a merchant has a few silver and money in his hands, he can steal to the temple, which is the disorder of the rules and regulations, the world is inverted, and the rituals and music are broken."

Li Xiaochang's eyes were cold and he didn't say a word.

At this moment, Si Chang came to report, "Report to Sikong that a monk came to visit!"

Lawyer Pei looked at Pei Ji with some confusion. Pei Ji believed in saying that he had never liked Buddhism. How could a monk come to visit?

Pei Ji waved his hand and said, "I won't see you!"

Si Yan seemed to know that Pei Ji was unwilling to meet him, and then took out a prayer letter, and saw the gold-burned cloud pattern of King Qi. Pei Ji knew that the monk was recommended by King Qi Li Yuanji. If it were the past, Pei Ji would not give it to Li Yuanji. Now he has lost power. As the saying goes, the phoenix that loses power is not as good as a chicken. Now Pei Ji is not the first prime minister of the dynasty in the past.

Pei Ji thought for a while and said, "Please come!"

Not long after, a kind-hearted monk came slowly.

Pei Ji stood up and bowed to him and said, "I don't know what the master calls him!"

The monk bowed and returned, saying, "I am a monk who strictly controls the law!"

Pei Ji asked Zen Master Yan Fa to sit down. Yan Fa closed his eyes, pinched the Dharma beads in his hand, and counted them one by one.

If Chen Ying was here, he would have been surprised to find that Yan Fa was actually one of Xuanzang's many masters. Yan Fa once taught Xuanzang the "Taoka Mahayana Treatise" for six years.

Pei Ji had a good time to drink tea while preparing the floor.

Li Xiaochangru said with a slight slut, "Old Prime Minister, what should we do?"

Pei Ji looked at Yan Fa and said, "Master... what do you mean!"

Yan Fa opened his eyes and stared at Li Xiaochang with a sharp look, saying, "There are rumors that reveal that the current emperor is a mean and ungrateful tyrant who forces his father to kill his brother, and is cruel and unkind. He is not only an enemy of the Li family, but also an enemy of the Guanlong gentry and the scholars in the world."

Li Xiaochang was stunned and said, "How can this method scare Li Jiancheng? He was a murderer without blinking. Why should he care about rumors in the market?"

Pei Ji nodded and said, "Although this plan cannot hurt the foundation of the present, it can make him suspicious and turn his suspicion back to the remaining parties of the Qin Palace. In this way, it may be possible to alienate his relationship with the old ministers of the Qin Palace. Especially Fang Xuanling, as long as Fang Xuanling is driven out of the court, he will be demoted to the royal family and streamlined officials this time, and he will end in vain."

Li Xiaochang suddenly realized.

Yan Fa said: "This is to treat the symptoms, but not the root cause. If it is to treat the root cause, you still need to ask the Supreme Emperor!"

Li Xiaochang said aii: "The Supreme Emperor... is unmoved!"

Yan Fa looked at Pei Ji and said, "Pei Xiang took me to see the Supreme Emperor, I will definitely be able to persuade the Supreme Emperor!"

Pei Ji nodded and said, "Yes!"

...

Pei Ji's carriage slowly left Pei's mansion and walked towards the Ganlu Hall of Tai Chi Palace. In front of Tai Chi Palace, the soldiers guarding the imperial guards stopped Pei Ji's carriage and saw that there was only one monk in Pei Ji's carriage, but they didn't care and let it go directly.

In the Ganlu Hall, Li Yuan looked bored at the pile of ants on the ground. At this time, Li Yuan was holding a jar of honey and dripping it on the ground, allowing the ants to chew around the honey.

Pei Ji took Yan Fa to Li Yuan and said, "Your Majesty, Master Yan Fa is here!"

Li Yuan looked up and down at Faya.

Yan Fa bowed to Li Yuan with his hands and recited the Buddha's name with his mouth.

Li Yuan asked lightly: "I don't know which temple Master Yan Fa is now placing an order?"

Yan Fa nodded and said, "I used to hold orders at the Pure Land Temple in Luoyang, but now I am in the Real Temple in Chang'an."

Li Yuan nodded and said, "I have also heard that Master Yan Fa and the monks in the Jing Temple debated Buddhism. After three days and three nights, birds circled continuously."

Yan Fa said proudly: "That is a folk rumor."

Li Yuan waved his hand and said, "See the seat!"

The eunuch brought a brocade stool.

Li Yuan said again: "Master, what is the function of Buddhism? To cure diseases and eliminate disasters? Or to predict good and bad luck?"

Yan Fa smiled and said lightly: "If the donor does not believe in Buddhism, he will not be able to cure diseases and eliminate disasters and predict good and bad luck. If he believes in Buddhism, then the Dharma will be boundless..."

Li Yuan said solemnly: "I have been depressed recently, and the imperial physician has not been able to treat it properly. I wonder what the master has to do with his superiority?"

Yan Fa smiled gently and said, "The Supreme Emperor is a heart disease. The troubles of sentient beings are infinite, so there are countless ways to cure diseases. If the troubles are summarized into 84,000 kinds, then there are 84,000 kinds of methods to cure them. But the different paths are the same, and tracing the root causes are actually six ways."

Li Yuan was immediately interested and said, "I would like to ask the master, please give me advice!"

Yan Fa stood up and stood slowly.

Yan Fa walked to the window, a breeze blew, Yan Fa's monk's robes up. At this time, Yan Fa had a solemn appearance and a demeanor of a worldly master.

The strict law uses a sound that is neither fast nor slow, and slowly said: "First, visualizing impurity, visualizing the phenomenon of impurity in the state of mind can cure greed;"

Li Yuan nodded.

The Sing Dharma then said: "Second, compassion, visualizing the suffering of all sentient beings, can calm our hatred; third, the view of cause and condition, and observe the cause and effect of life. For example, because there was ignorance in the past, we will be reincarnated in this life. Now we have greed and attachment, so we will have birth, old age, sickness and death in the future. Observing causes and conditions can eliminate ignorance; fourth, counting breaths, pay attention to counting your breaths, counting from one to ten, and repeating them over and over again, and only counting the outbreak or incoming breaths, and not counting the incoming breaths at the same time. This practice can cure our distracted mind; fifth, reciting the Buddha's name, wisdom, merit and solemn body can eliminate our karma; sixth, emptiness: observing all things are the combination of causes and conditions, and without self, we can break our attachment and despair.

Li Yuan asked thoughtfully: "Which master thinks, which one should I use?"

Yan Fa smiled and said, "The view of cause and condition."

Li Yuan asked in surprise: "Why is this?"

Yan Fa said: "The knot of the Supreme Emperor's heart is Your Majesty, your son. He replaced the Supreme Emperor and ascended the throne to the great treasure, and the Supreme Emperor has become greedy and obsessed. I think that since the celestial phenomena have shown that your son should ascend the throne to the great treasure, the Supreme Emperor should let go of his obsession."

Li Yuan's face suddenly turned cold, and he picked up the tea and started drinking it.

Yan Fa and Pei Ji looked at each other.

Pei Ji stepped forward and advised, "The Supreme Emperor, the Master is also full of Buddha's heart..."

Li Yuan said dissatisfiedly: "From the master, I will not worry about my private affairs."

The eunuch standing beside him listened quietly to everyone's answers.

Pei Ji and Li Yuan both observed the little eunuch with the light of their eyes.

Li Yuan's eyes flashed with murderous aura.

...

In Xiande Hall, Li Jiancheng looked at the little eunuch who was coming to report with confusion and said, "Monk? When did Dad start to believe in Buddhism?"

The eunuch reported all the conversation between Li Yuan and Yan Fa to Li Jiancheng without revealing it.
To be continued...