The sky was dark because of the continuous rain for several days, which made the air gloomy and moist!
There is a faint chill in this gray tide, which is obviously rare in this season! If the weather continues to be clear and clear, the area north of the Yellow River will gradually become cooler!
Bianjing, today's Kaifeng Prefecture, later Tokyo! At this time, it seemed to be shrouded in hazy layers of smoke.
Because it had just been washed by drizzle, and it had rained for several days in a row, the whole world felt a little damp! The capital city originally had very little vegetation, but because of the drizzle, the whole world became a little fresher.
However, this freshness is also mixed with some darkness that cannot be ignored, making people feel a little more desolate out of thin air!
It is because of this baptism that the whole city seems quiet! It doesn't rain much in Tokyo, and every heavy rain should make people happy, but the rain in the past two days has been frustrating!
Because this rain seems to have brought misfortune, everyone feels that the attack of this rain has made people who were originally unknown have many more uneasy factors. Because everyone knows that this kind of piety and persistent pursuit of goals seems to have no direction!
Many people did not go out, because everyone knew that since the emperor returned to the court at the beginning of the month, the entire capital has been covered with a layer of sadness!
The emperor's northern expedition returned without success, and the emperor himself was seriously injured!
I don’t know where this news came from, but even many people knew that the emperor had nothing to do with his early dynasty! On the contrary, no one from the court came out to evade the rumors, which seemed to confirm everyone's suspicions!
And this rumor spread quickly, because Tokyo has been in turmoil since the previous dynasty. With this rumor, whether it's the people's own feelings or the people's instinctive worries, it makes the capital feel a bit uneasy!
Since the change of dynasties in the Central Plains, this stability has only lasted for more than ten years. If we count from the time when Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, in just forty or fifty years, there have been five dynasties from the Later Liang, the Later Tang, the Later Jin, the Later Han, and now the Zhou Kingdom!
In fact, ordinary people are very simple, that is, they just want to live a stable life, but this kind of thing seems to have become a luxury. Dynasty changes are like a revolving door, and the people have lost confidence in this era! Because no one knows who the emperor will be when he opens his eyes tomorrow morning!
Nearly ten years have finally passed. Compared with the stable days, everyone has some expectations and hopes in their hearts. Who knew that the founding emperor would pass away in just a few years.
Now, it was finally hoped that a promising young emperor would be able to send his troops south to the south of the Yangtze River to regain more than ten states, and even captured the four states from central Sichuan to the west. Seeing the emperor's civil and military governance, it really gave people a sense of unifying the Central Plains.
This time the emperor went north to fight against the Khitan. His original intention was to conquer the puppet state of the Northern Han Dynasty. Seeing that it was only a matter of time to unify the Central Plains. Unexpectedly, after a small northern expedition, everything suddenly became unstable, because it was said that the emperor returned seriously ill!
The palace and the court did not come out to avoid the rumors, so the people felt a little panicked. Even though the emperor already had several heirs, because these heirs were too young, the people felt a little uneasy!
Following the state of the palace with the outside world, everyone naturally felt a bit uneasy!
Daxiangguo Temple!
A majestic place of Buddhist beauty in Tokyo!
I don’t know how many dynasties it has gone through, but it can be said that the imperial courts of all dynasties highly respected this place. Even though the emperor strictly controlled the monks in the first two years and even banned many monks who did not pay ultimatum, the Daxiangguo Temple was not affected!
But something seems different today!
At this time, outside the mountain gate, there were heavy troops surrounded! Moreover, this kind of siege is layered one on top of another, completely surrounding the Daxiangguo Temple! !
The soldiers with guns and arrows were all on guard towards the mountain gate, as if something important was going to happen in the temple and it might happen at any time.
Because no one made any sound, there was a strong sense of depression in the air! Everyone stared closely at the mountain gate and the area around Daxiangguo Temple, as if they didn’t even want to let go of a mosquito!
The mountain gate is closed tightly, and the tall courtyard wall blocks the inside and outside. It is quiet outside, and it seems to be extremely quiet inside!
You must know that this was once the dojo of Master Luhu Chengchu. Who in the world did not give Daxiangguo Temple some respect?
The world has always felt that the whereabouts of Master Chengchu is a mystery. Because some people say that he has gone to the Western Paradise, and some people say that he is practicing in hiding in Daxiangguo Temple. But the common people would rather believe that he went to Western Paradise, because that is the best place for an enlightened monk.
However, as an ancient temple that leads Buddhism in the world, Daxiangguo Temple, like the ancient Buddhist ashram "Berlin Temple" in Zhaozhou, is not popular in the Central Plains. Daxiangguo Temple has Luhu Chengchu, and Berlin Temple has Master Yuan, the leader of Buddhism in the Central Plains. However, as the emperor of the Zhou Kingdom, Guo Rong once fought hard against Buddhism for the sake of the people of the Central Plains. Perhaps due to these reasons, Daxiangguo Temple is also particularly low-key at this time.
Although the sky was a little dark at this time, it was not yet noon.
Perhaps feeling that the quietness of the voice was depressing, the soldiers outside the Daxiangguo Temple, at the signal of a general, suddenly moved closer to the temple gate. And the footsteps of these soldiers seem to be even more worrying! Because the place that was originally a pure place for practice suddenly seemed a little unstable because of the siege by these soldiers!
These soldiers were fully armed, and looking at the style of their armor, they should be the Imperial Guards in the palace!
Forbidden army!
No matter what era, these should be the emperor's personal troops!
The emperor's personal troops, even if the emperor no longer dislikes Buddhism, he should not send his own personal guards! But the soldiers who are besieging the Daxiangguo Temple here are really the forbidden army of the Zhou Kingdom!
The emperor's personal troops were actually sent to besiege a famous place of cultivation in the capital. It was really a bit baffling!
A monk could be vaguely seen, setting up a ladder inside, leaning on the wall to peer out. Because no one said anything, everything seemed a little weird!
At this time in the past, the Daxiangguo Temple should be crowded with pilgrims, but due to something happening today, not only was the temple gate closed early, but even some common people who wanted to come were blocked by the soldiers at a distance. Of course, these common people would not be so stupid. They would come over to look for trouble when they saw the Forbidden Army working here, so they couldn't see even half of the common people approaching.
