"Nani?" Miho Takada was so shocked by Emperor Zhu's words that she even spoke in Japanese. The little girl just looked at Zhu Cixiang stupidly with her big eyes.
"What?" Zhu Cixiang's face darkened, "Am I not qualified to make Monk Jianzhen a successor?"
yes! How could the Emperor of Heaven not be qualified? With so much truth in the hands of the emperor, and the truth that can be used to open flower bombs, how could he not be qualified to consecrate a Japanese monk?
Miho Takada was frightened into a cold sweat by the suddenly serious-faced emperor - although she was 100% willing to sacrifice herself and would do so even if she was ordered to commit seppuku, she was still afraid of death!
"No, no... this slave is wrong!" Takada prostrated on the ground, "Your Majesty, please punish me severely..."
Zhu Cixiang showed a gentle smile again: "There is no need for punishment. Just raise your head and speak."
"Thank you, Your Majesty..." Little Miss Takada breathed a sigh of relief - when she was in Japan, she heard that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was no more powerful than the Emperor of Japan. If he offended him, he would die!
"Your Majesty, who is this Master Jianzhen?" Kong Yinzheng, Duke of Yansheng, asked, "Why do you want to canonize him?"
yes? What does this master do? Why was he canonized?
All the ministers looked at Emperor Zhu, and everyone was confused. No one, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Duke Luo, had never heard of the name of Master Jianzhen.
Zhu Cixiang said: "He is a Japanese monk with both loyalty and filial piety!"
"Is there such a monk?"
"How can a monk be both loyal and filial?"
"Yes, a monk is most loyal to the emperor and patriotic. How can he be filial?"
"Perhaps this monk became a monk after his parents died."
"There are three types of unfilial piety, the worst is not having an heir!"
"Xu gave birth to a son first, and then became a monk..."
The ministers and scholars all started making random guesses, but Zhu Cixiang coughed, and everyone immediately fell silent. He looked at Takada Miho again, "Miho, come and tell everyone who Master Jianzhen is? And why do I say he is a monk with both loyalty and filial piety?"
"Hai..." Miho Takada was a little confused by Emperor Zhu. She didn't know where to start. She was stunned for a while before she stammered, "Master Jianzhen His real name is Hino Noriyen, and he also has the Buddhist name Shinran. He is the founder of the Pure Land Shinshu sect in Japan. He is an ancient man hundreds of years ago. The first Buddhist sect in Japan today is the Pure Land founded by him. The Honganji sect derived from Shinshu.
As for loyalty and filial piety... I really don’t know what to say, slave? "
The little girl is really pitiful. She didn't read much, so she didn't know much about Xinluan, an ancient man from hundreds of years ago. How could she know how this old monk could be both loyal and filial?
Zhu Cixiang reminded: "Then do you know who founded Honganji Temple?"
"It was created by Jinluan's daughter Juexinni."
"The monk still has a daughter?" Kong Yinzheng asked, "Was she born before he became a monk?"
"That shouldn't be the case... The Master seems to have become a monk at a young age, maybe 6 or 7 years old."
"Then this daughter is..."
"The Master was born to him after he suffered a life-and-death crisis and then remarried," Takada said. "The Master not only had a wife, but he also ate meat, and he had a son and a daughter with his wife. His son founded the Yunru Temple. The daughter founded Honganji Temple. Later, Honganji Temple did not grow in size, and Honganji Temple developed into the first sect of Japanese Buddhism. And the successive Dharma Masters of Honganji Temple are all descendants of the Master’s daughter Kyoshinni... "
Zhu Cixiang smiled: "How about it? All the monks in this family are filial sons, right?"
It’s true! If a monk from another family becomes a monk and has no home, he has nothing in his life, no wife and children, he must be unfilial!
The great monk of Honganji Temple is so good. He runs the temple as a family business and has passed it down from generation to generation!
Zhu Cixiang added: "Before the Tokugawa shogunate unified Japan, the Japanese king had no power, and the local lords were unwilling to contribute money. The king had to sit in the palace, even food was a problem, and he did not know how to plant crops. He was doing business on the land and was too embarrassed to beg for food. Fortunately, the great monk of Honganji Temple had a conscience and donated a lot of his incense money to the king of Japan, so that the king of Japan was saved from starving to death. What do you think of this great monk of Honganji Temple? But a loyal minister?"
That’s right!
The ministers of one side of the separatist regime no longer care about the king's food. The monks of Honganji Temple have taken care of the king's food for so many years. If this is not a loyal minister, who is a loyal minister?
Kong Yinzheng nodded and said: "Although these monks of Hongan Temple do not abide by the rules and precepts, they are indeed filial sons and loyal ministers... But is it really necessary to make them successors?"
"Of course it is necessary!" Zhu Cihong said, "Confucianism is weak in Japan, but Buddhism is prosperous. The Honganji sect of Jodo Shinshu is the first Buddhist sect in Japan. This sect does not believe that the four elements are empty, and it does not know how to chant sutras, but it pays attention to loyalty and filial piety. Yongwu is therefore a sect that combines Buddhism and Confucianism, both Buddhism and Confucianism.”
Kong Yinzheng was curious today and asked again: "Your Majesty, you said that Honganji Temple is loyal, filial and brave? Where does this bravery start?"
"This minister knows," Grand Duke Luo took the question, "this Honganji Temple is for raising monks and soldiers. In the troubled times of the Warring States Period in Japan before the Tokugawa Shogunate unified the world, Honganji Temple was also divided into one side. The monks and soldiers in the temple often participated in wars and once stood firm. Ishiyama Honganji Temple for ten years to compete with Oda Nobunaga, Japan’s greatest tycoon.”
Monk soldiers? He also fought with Oda Nobunaga for ten years... What kind of monk is this?
The ministers and scholars present didn't know what to say?
However, these people were surprised, but they immediately understood what Emperor Zhu was thinking.
To confer the title of Successor to the ancestor of the first sect of monks in Japan is to win over this group of violent monks who don’t know how to recite sutras... They don’t recite sutras anyway, so they might as well just use the Confucian Classics!
There is no need to turn the entire Honganji Temple into a "Confucian temple". As long as there is a semi-Confucian temple, the influence of Confucianism in Japan will be greatly increased.
In addition, Emperor Zhu also planned to send some Nagasaki samurai to fight Pattani, and he would keep them to guard after the end of the war. Only by putting them at the forefront can Siam and Ca Mau behind become the hinterland. Only when they become hinterland can they be developed and digested with peace of mind. ah!
However, just having samurai who can kill people is not a guarantee. You also have to have monks from Honganji Temple to do the ideological work... Although those monks can't recite sutras, they are still very good at discussing Taoism!
At this time, Zhu Cixiang said again: "I am canonizing the Heavenly Law. Under the Heavenly Law, there are not only Confucianism, but also Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, and all sects and schools in the world. Everything in the world comes from the Heavenly Law!
Therefore, this Jianzhen monk is just one of the heretic saints that I am planning to posthumously confer. There will be more Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto masters who will be conferred the title. "
When the great Confucians present heard this, they suddenly realized - to confer the senior masters of Buddhism and Taoism as saints is actually to place the principles of heaven above Buddhism and Taoism!
In sectarian disputes, whoever is on top is justified!
"Your Majesty," Kong Yinzheng said, "I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to confer a heretical saint! If you are willing to confer one, others may not be willing to do so..."
Zhu Cixiang smiled and said, "That's why I brought out the real monk to confer it! Miho, do you think Honganji Jiru and Honganji Takuya dare to refuse me to confer the title of their first ancestor?"
The present Hongan-ji Temple is divided into two schools: the Eastern and Western sects. The master of the Western Hongan-ji Temple is Jarago, and the master of the Higashi Hongan-ji Temple is Takuyoshi.
Miho Takada replied: "Don't dare, they will never dare to disobey the Celestial Empire and disobey His Majesty!"
"I knew they didn't dare!" Zhu Cixiang smiled, "I am more powerful than Oda Nobunaga. It didn't take me 10 years to attack Ishiyama Honganji Temple, but I won it in 10 days!"
Zhu Cixiang added: "When Galdan left Wuhan and rushed to the Western Regions a few days ago, I also told him about conferring virtuous virtues on the lamas in Chuhe City... I am afraid they are not qualified to be canonized if they were born. But the name of a virtuous person can still be sealed.
You are born to be a virtuous person, and you die to be a saint! Since there are four levels for becoming a saint after death, namely Taimiao, Zhonglie, Xianliang, and Xianxiang, then there should also be four levels for being a virtuous person by being born as a virtuous person of the country, a loyal person of the country, a virtuous person in the state, and a virtuous person in the countryside. There should be a few of the country's virtuous people in Chuhe City who can enjoy the Imperial Ancestral Temple after their death. "
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