Tao Weiran went to King You's fiefdom and couldn't come back for a month.
Liao Wenzhi led his people to repair the temple, which was in full swing.
Tao Ruolin stayed in Tao Mansion, Qiu Wanshan went to work every day and fished, and he didn't mention anything about King You.
Seeing that the renovation of Dapu Temple was completed, Chu Qing checked out like a bastard and couldn't stand it anymore.
He didn't dare to go during the day, so he went to the south of the city with Fu San and Zhao Baodan in an extremely low-key manner at night.
The weather has turned warm, and the snow and slush outside the city are miserable.
Chu Qing didn't even ride a horse, but came to the outside of Dapu Temple wearing a Confucian robe.
In just a few days, Dapu Temple was restored to its original state. The knocked down Buddha statues were erected, the vermilion walls were repaired, and the steps were covered with green bricks. Chu Qing even suspected that these green bricks were made by unruly people from the southern suburbs. Plucked out of Zhuangzi.
The old monk Shangshan stood at the entrance of the temple. He put on a worn-out cassock, lowered his head and lowered his eyes. His skinny figure stood in the wind and snow, and there was an endless stream of people offering incense.
Chu Qing had been observing, and Ertong ran over and told the news about the inquiry.
"Sir, Dapu Temple will no longer charge money for incense in the future. Everyone from high-ranking officials to traffickers and commoners can enter the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha."
Chu Qing's pupils shrank sharply: "Are you sure you won't accept the incense money?"
"Yes, some people wanted to donate money for incense, but the monks in the temple refused. Even the merit box is gone."
"Where did the monk come from?"
"They have all come here in the past few days. Monks from various temples gathered at Dapu Temple, about fifty people."
"Where are the Youwang people?"
"Inside the temple."
Chu Qing took a deep breath, with an expression rarely shown on his face.
Originally, he was angry and disappointed.
But for some reason, after knowing that the temple no longer accepted money for incense, the anger and disappointment faded a bit.
The temple was indirectly destroyed by him, but now it has been repaired and remains intact.
If time could go back, if the monks of Dapu Temple said at that time that they would not accept incense money, loan usury, or suck the blood of the people, Chu Qing would definitely not interfere.
This is what Dapu Temple does now. It is impossible to make loan sharks, and they don’t even accept money for incense. People who want to offer incense can just go there without any threshold.
"Go to Jingzhao Mansion and tell Mr. Ma that recently, no ultimatums and ordination orders are allowed to be issued. Even King You can't go there in person. If there is an application, please notify Qianqi Camp and inform me as soon as possible."
"only."
Glancing again at the old monk standing in the wind and snow at the entrance of the temple, Chu Qing looked confused, sighed silently, turned around and left.
Chu Qing was still thinking about a question.
What on earth do you want to do?
In the past, Chu Qing was thinking about what King You wanted to do.
But now for some unknown reason, Chu Qing became more and more certain that all of this was led by the Supreme Being, and King You was just a cover.
The best thing to do is to be a monk or a monk. What else can you do? It must be to prosper Buddhism.
But Chu Qing didn't think so. He always felt that Shangshan had other purposes.
As he walked with confused thoughts, he saw people passing by who were going to Dapu Temple to offer incense. Many of them were coming from Zhuangzi in the southern suburbs. The more Chu Qing looked at it, the more panicked he became.
"Master." Fu San called softly, "It's King You."
Chu Qing turned his head and saw Prince You, a young prince with a sickly pale face.
Stopping and turning around, Chu Qing looked calm.
"The Commander-in-Chief of Chu."
There was only one King You, who was like a frail and emaciated young master. He saluted with a smile on his face, as if he had seen a friend for many years, as if he had never been thrown into the cold river.
"Master Shangshan said that you will come here within three days. I have been waiting for three days. Today is the third day, and the commander-in-chief is here as expected."
Chu Qing's face was filled with surprise: "Wow, he's so awesome. He actually expected me to come. Then if I come tomorrow, you would say that Master Shangshan predicted that I will arrive within four days."
Chang Chengshun: “…”
"Are you waiting for me?"
"yes."
"Why are you waiting for me? If you have any questions, let the old monk tell me in person."
Chang Chengshun showed a faint smile: "Master Shangshan did not want me to tell you something. He just said that you would come. I don't want to say anything, I just want to ask something."
Chu Qing turned around and continued walking forward, passing by many people.
Chang Chengshun quickly caught up and walked side by side with Chu Qing: "Aren't you curious what this king wants to ask?"
"No."
"But I am curious about what you will look like after asking this question."
"I said before, I hate other people's pretentiousness. I can throw you into the river, or I can press you in the mud now and break your dog legs."
"Okay, then I have a lot to look forward to. In that case, I will ask."
Chang Chengshun's smile grew stronger and he softly uttered a sentence: "Are you disappointed?"
"What are you disappointed about?"
"There is an endless stream of farmers from your southern suburbs heading to Dapu Temple."
Chu Qing's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of needle points, and his eyes twitched.
"Chang Chengshun!" Chu Qing gritted his teeth and whispered: "You are playing with fire, and you will definitely burn yourself while playing with fire."
"You helped the refugees, and the refugees became villagers. Because of the villagers, you destroyed Dapu Temple. But now, the refugees you helped built Dapu Temple. Are you disappointed?"
"What the hell..."
Chu Qing finally couldn't suppress his anger and raised his arm to make a move, but the other arm held him back.
Not the third brother, but Feng Taoist.
Zhao Baodan shook his head slightly: "If you hit him, you will do what he wants."
Chu Qing's chest was heaving and his eyes were red.
Chang Chengshun was still smiling and said to himself: "You are disappointed and angry. What is angry is that the villagers are not as good as you want. The villagers are all refugees. The refugees you rescued, but you Why is it that the relief of the refugees is not as good as you want..."
At this point, Chang Chengshun stopped smiling, and his face showed the same look of contempt and disdain he had on the flower boat.
"You have spent money, effort, and brainpower, claiming to be for the people, but after all, you just want to dominate them. If you want them to do what you want, if they don't do what you want, you will be angry and disappointed. , but you also said that you are for the good of the people, and you will not force the people to do anything, but you...are still disappointed, and still angry, Commander Chu, why are you...so hypocritical?"
Chu Qing's teeth clenched, but his remaining sense made him clenched his fists tightly and did not make any movement.
"Great Commander, Great Commander, what's the difference between you and those aristocratic families that you copied? Aristocratic families let the people work like cattle and horses, but you don't do the same, but you just give a little more than aristocratic families. Aristocratic families, you want To enslave the people, don't you also want to enslave the people, but what the family wants to enslave is the people's bodies, and you... you are very smart, what you enslave is the people's hearts, what I said, right?"
Chang Chengshun pointed at the people who were paying attention and laughed and said: "People always want to resist something. The smarter they are, the more they want to resist something. But resisting is just because you become one of them. If the oppressed common people become merchants, they will oppress the common people; if the oppressed merchants become merchants, they will oppress small merchants; if the merchants of the merchants who are bullied by the courtiers become courtiers, they will oppress the merchants of the chamber of commerce..."
After a pause, Chang Chengshun stared at Chu Qing: "Just like the man who fought to the death with Zhang Songling without hesitation back then, now he is just like Zhang Songling, no, even worse than Zhang Songling. Zhang Songling is just in charge. The stone business, and you want to be in charge of all merchants, all businesses related to merchants, but you are smarter because you want to make the rules, so what is the difference between you and Zhang Songling?"
After finishing speaking, Chang Chengshun looked at Chu Qing with a smile, and even stretched out his head, as if he was eager for Chu Qing to punch his face.
King You was disappointed because the commander of Qianqi Camp also smiled.
"Go on, why don't you say anything?"
A trace of astonishment flashed across Chang Chengshun's eyes: "You sympathize with the troops and feel sorry for them, but you are the one who led the troops on overseas expeditions and died in a foreign country with them. You came back victorious and were praised by the whole court, but you didn't think about those things. The soldiers who died in the battle, where are their loyal bones buried? Commander Chu, you... are sympathetic to the soldiers and cry out for them, is it just... just to make them trust you and follow you... to die? "
After finishing speaking, Chang Chengshun took a step back and saluted Chu Qing with a look of admiration on his face.
"Commander Chu took Junwu's body into the door of Junwu's relatives, and threw down a handful of silver notes. I think those relatives were grateful. I admire him, I admire him very much. Where did I get this banknote... from? It's not that it's easy to get. Just a word from you and you established the rules for merchants and you have a lot of money. I admire you, I admire you, I admire you to the core. The commander-in-chief is the most hypocritical and smartest person in the world."
"The old Taoist will kill you!"
This time, it was not Chu Qing who was angry, but Zhao Baodan, who drew out the long sword behind him.
But this time it was Chu Qing who stopped Zhao Baodan.
Chu Qing grinned and smiled a little shyly: "You have seen through it. You are such a clever little kid. Please don't tell others."
After saying that, Chu Qing put down the arm that was holding Zhao Baodan, turned around and walked towards the city gate.
Only Fu San noticed that Chu Qing's nails dug deeply into his palms.
