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Chapter 278 Showdown

Daihai Temple, Main Hall.

Yang Guang got angry after hearing the news that Yi Feng was attacked in Fox Dian.

Time can change everything. In less than a year, Yang Guang's perception of Yi Feng has completely changed.

At the end of the 18th year of Kaihuang, more than three days of drizzling rain and snow covered Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Henan, Henan. The Bian River had long been frozen, and several rows of willows on the river bank also hung a layer of ice ridges, wrapped in silver, shining and crystal clear. Daihai Temple on the Bian River has been incense since the establishment of the temple in the Northern Wei Dynasty, especially in legend, Guanyin Bodhisattva traveled north and moved to Xingyang. From then on, the Xingyang moat began to rise and fall with the sea tides, which made the temple jungle that worshipped Guanyin a little more mysterious and profound. Countless men and women believed in the incense continued.

The seven-story Thousand Buddha Pagoda, the nine-meter-high golden body of the dripping water, and the magnificent and great temple that has just been completed have made Daihai Temple more and more famous. As the end of the year approaches, many good men and women came to burn incense and worship Buddha from a hundred miles away. Many people even started living next to the temple half a month in advance, preparing to compete for the first incense stick of next year's New Year's Day.

In the twilight rain and fog, the sound of evening drums and bells came from Daihai Temple. In the Hekou grass market at the mouth of the Bian River that relies on the Buddhist temple to prosper, there are all kinds of noisy grass market hawking, the ice-cutting and horse-driving on the ice of the Bian River gradually ceased with the sound of evening drums and bells of this Buddhist temple.

The Grand Palace had just replaced the ambergris candles presented by King Yang Guang of Jin. Dozens of thick ambergris candles were burning, emitting bright red flames. The ambergris mixed in the incense candle spread little by little. The candle fire dispelled the darkness in the hall, reflecting the angry King Yang Guang of Jin who was pressing his anger on the cushion in the hall and the Yangzhou "Zhang Sanlang" with a calm expression on the side.

There was no other person in the hall. King Yang Guang of Jin entered Beijing. When he passed through Zhengzhou, he encountered heavy snow and stayed temporarily. He came to Daihai Temple to worship Guanyin Bodhisattva.

As we all know, today's Buddhist Vajra was born in the Prajna Temple in Fengyi. It was raised by the monks and nuns, and has always worshipped Buddhism. In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Buddhism was prevalent, and Emperor Wu of Zhou destroyed Buddhism and destroyed temples. Buddhism was hit hard, but once Yang Jian ascended the throne, he immediately began to respect Buddhism. Not only did he worship Buddhism with his own rituals, but he also asked the people to copy Buddhist scriptures and the government built Buddhist temples. In the 18th year of Kaihuang, more than 3,000 Buddhist temples were built across the country. The emperor valued Buddhism so much, and the King of Jin was the king of Jin.

Yang Guang was no exception. Yang Guang was in Jiangnan and respected Buddhism very much. In Yangzhou, Yang Guang not only established two temples of Huiri and Fayun, but also invited all respected monks from the Buddhist world in Jiangnan to Yangzhou and gave them generous treatment. He asked them to organize the sutras and study the teachings. In particular, he sent envoys several times to welcome Master Zhiyan, the most famous Buddhist world in Jiangnan to Yangzhou. Zhiyan said three times without coming. Yang Guang was not angry, but instead bowed to others again and again, and finally invited him to Yangzhou.

In the eleventh year, Yang Guang specially set up a meeting of Thousand Monks in Yangzhou to welcome this Buddhist monk. It was at this meeting that Zhiyan received the Bodhisattva precepts for Yang Guang. He took the Dharma name General Guan, and respectfully called General Guan Bodhisattva. Yang Guang was named Master Zhizhe, the Supreme Master Zhizhe.

The Bodhisattva Precepts, also known as the Mahayana Precepts, cover the seven precepts, similar to the eight precepts, but also surpass all precepts.

Therefore, in Buddhism, all Buddhist disciples who develop Bodhicitta can be upheld whether they become monks or stay at home.

After Yang Guang received these Mahayana precepts, he was counted as entering Buddhism and did not have to become a monk. He was considered as a lay Buddhist who practiced at home.

Last year, Yang Guang sent someone to welcome Master Zhizhe to Yangzhou again. Master Zhizhe went there while he was sick, but died on the way. This year, Yang Guang built Tiantai Temple on Tiantai Mountain according to Zhizhe's wish. This time, Yang Guang also came to invite monks from Daihai Temple to recite scriptures for Master Zhizhe. In addition, it was also for the secret meeting with Yi Feng here. Because of Yang Guang's arrival, Daihai Temple, which has always been pilgrims, had to temporarily close the mountain gate and only let Yang Guang and others enter the temple. However, there are exceptions today, and the party of the Zhang Sanlang, a great clan of Yangzhou, was able to quietly enter the temple.

This time, Yang Guang came to Beijing, not only brought his family to Beijing, but also invited the monks and masters gathered in Yangzhou to go north to Beijing to meet the emperor. At this time, there were many monks in Daihai Temple, and famous monks in Jiangnan were Zhituo, Hongzhe, Facheng, Daozhuang, Zhijue, Jizang, Huijue, Huiyue, Huicheng, Fa'an, Fa'an, Fa's name, etc., all of them were famous monks and monks.

However, at this time, there were only Yang Guang and Sanlang in the Main Hall, but this Sanlang was not Zhang Sanlang but Yi Sanlang.

King Yang Guang of Jin was just over thirty years old. He was handsome and handsome, and his eyebrows were full of heroism. He was wearing a yellow robe, and there was no impetuousness of a young king on his face. However, unlike the steady expression of the past, he had a little more anger on his face at this time, and even implicit murderous intent. This murderous intent was naturally not for Yi Feng. Today, Yi Feng finally arrived in Henan and quietly arrived in Zhengzhou to enter Daihai Temple as Zhang Sanlang of Yangzhou to meet Yang Guang. Yi Feng truthfully ambushed hundreds of thieves in Youzhou, and told the whole story that it was obviously manipulated by King Yang Liang of Han.

When Yang Guang heard that the King of Han had sent someone to Huaihuang to ask for money, but was decisively rejected by Yi Feng, he actually secretly sent a horse thief to ambush and intercept him. His expression became severe and implicitly murderous intent.

Half a year ago, when I first met Yi Feng in Jianghuai, although I was a little shocked when I found out that Yi Feng was his illegitimate son, I was mostly shocked. With the memory of the earliest love between Yuan and the Yuan family, I had some protection for this illegitimate son. Although I knew that the other party was a horse thief, I still had the intention to protect him, but I didn't think too much about it. When I was protecting him, I was thinking about how to prevent this sudden illegitimate son from endangering his status. Therefore, in the end, it was not for him to stay by his side, but to send him far away to Huaihuang in northern borders outside the Great Wall. However, this illegitimate son always unexpectedly made him unexpected. In just a short time, the illegitimate son who had made him vaguely avoided was so unignorable.

Now Yi Feng is already the emperor's grandson whom the emperor is concerned about, and the legitimate son of the Eastern Palace. He also controls a large army and a golden and silver Huaihuang. Now Yi Feng is of great help to Yang Guang, especially to those he has planned secretly, which is of great help. He needs Yi Feng's support. It is indispensable.

In fact, the anger and murderous intent on his face just now were three points, whether it was true or seven points, whether it was false. He was very angry that Yang Liang dared to reach out to Huaihuang, because he had already regarded Huaihuang as his territory and his source of money. Especially after Yi Feng had secretly sent two thousand high-level war horses to Jiangnan, and then agreed without hesitation and secretly provided him with five thousand war horses and thousands of sets of armor and weapons, Yang Guang had no idea about Yi Feng, the illegitimate son.

It is lighter than his two legitimate sons. There are 7,000 war horses in total, and you can get more war horses in the future. This is extremely important and rare for Yang Guang, who is in a place where horses are not produced in the Jianghuai River. Especially after the emperor just cleaned up the horses of the pasture on a large scale last year, it was impossible for Yang Guang to reach out from the court's ranch. At this critical moment of fighting for the throne, a force loyal to him is very important, and cavalry is the top priority.

Yang Guang knew that his fifth brother was the youngest son of the Tian family. Unlike their brothers who had already left the town and became a vassal, Yang Liang had always stayed in the palace and was very favored by the two saints. It was precisely because of this favor that Yang Liang had never made any contribution to the Sui Dynasty. However, he easily had the strongest Bingzhou territory that his brothers had never obtained. When the prince fell out of favor, the Qin King was banned, and the Shu King had always had a bad reputation, the only competitors to compete for the position of prince are Yang Guang and Yang Liang.

Yang Guang also had never been prepared for this fifth brother. Yang Liang reached out to Yi Feng, just to challenge him, Yang Guang, which was absolutely unbearable.

However, he felt a little happy again, happy that Yu Yifeng could reject Yang Liang without delay, and even made such a response that was obviously without any room for redirection. Yang Liang sent bandits to ambush Yi Feng as expected, and the relationship between the two could no longer be eased. Yang Guang also felt relieved. Yi Feng's actions made him and Yang Liang no longer have the possibility of easing again. In this way, Yi Feng could only stand firmly on his side.

This meeting was an important moment for the father and son to show off. The young King of Jin, Yang Guang, looked at Yi Feng, his son kneeling in front of Guanyin's golden body, with a wild ambition. He saw Yi Feng's expression was normal, majestic, and quiet and steady. This made Yang Guang admire his son more and more. The more calm he was in the face of major events, and it also slowly let down Yang Guang's worrying heart that had been in his heart for a while. Such Yi Feng was a calm and shocking young man. Yang Guang saw himself from him. But it was this calm Yi Feng that made Yang Guang believe that he must have understood how to choose how to stand.

He thought of his first meeting in Jianghuai nearly a year ago, and Yi Feng took the initiative to meet him. At that time, he was besieged by him in Gaojiazhuang with his sisters, and life and death were hanging on the line.

When they first met, both of them were surprised by their appearance, and were even more shocked by the reunion of father and son. But now, what impressed him most when they first met that day was Yi Feng's intention to fight for the throne and even gave him many rebellious suggestions. Although many of those plans were actually implemented or were preparing to implement them at that time, the knowledge still shocked him. Therefore, he put away his plan to get rid of this extravagant line. Now, so time has passed, and the illegitimate son has proved with practical actions how correct he was to leave him behind.

He is about to enter Beijing. This time, the capital will inevitably have a battle between dragons and tigers. Although Yang Guang already has a lot of bargaining chips, a soldier from the beginning has crossed the river and approached the old coach. In a blink of an eye, Yi Feng's small chess piece became the most important card in his hand. Before entering Beijing, he needed to reach a further stable agreement with him.

After half a year, the father and son met again.

Yang Guang sighed, looking at Yi Feng, who was handsome and handsome in front of him, who was more calm and generous than before, was wearing a purple robe, a folded scarf on his head, a sword on his waist, and even a short beard under his jaw.

"Seven years ago, I held a Thousand Monks Conference in Yangzhou and invited Master Zhizhe, a Buddhist monk from Jiangnan to rub the head and take the precepts for me."

Yi Feng noticed that Yang Guang had something in his words, so he didn't interrupt and listened quietly.

Yang Guang seemed to be in the memory, pondered for a while, and then said for a long time: "Do you know, seven years ago, the year your mother passed away, do you know how she died?"

"People's rumors that Concubine Yuan died suddenly due to a sudden illness." Yi Feng said lightly.

Yang Guang was obviously stunned when he heard this answer. In fact, the death of Princess Yuan was a secret that had been made public. When the Yuan Concubine died suddenly, Queen Dugu quickly found out the truth. Princess Yuan was poisoned by Yun Zhaoxun, and the matter was implicated by the prince. The prince agreed that Yun Zhaoxun planned and then executed it by a doctor. Although Queen Dugu found out the truth, he was already dead. In addition, the prince had no descendants, but Yun gave birth to four sons for the prince. If this matter was really made public, the prince could not escape from the direct line. In the end, the matter was suppressed and the palace issued a ban order and could not be spread. However, there was no airtight wall in the world, and the real cause of Yuan Concubine died was soon spread. However, the matter involved the prince, and in the end it was left alone. Yang Guang happened to return to Beijing, and Dugu personally told Yang Guang about this matter.

Yang Guang believed that with Yi Feng's current ability, he should have known the truth about the death of Princess Yuan. However, he never expected that he would have such a reply.

"She was murdered by the prince and Yun. She put poison in the soup and was directly poisoned. This matter was absolutely true. The queen personally checked it and told me."

Yi Feng sighed: "The king wants to seize the world and be the supreme future of the world. He thought he understood so early that the truth is sometimes not very important, and the evidence doesn't matter. What is the truth, whether there is evidence or not is the most important thing. The most important thing is, what do you do! Always obsessed with the truth and pursue evidence is just a manifestation of the weak. Just like the death of the Yuan Concubine, the queen had already found out the truth and controlled the exact evidence, but what is the result of the fact? It's insolvent! Why is this happening? Because that person is the crown prince, he is the crown prince of the country. As long as he is not abolished for a day, then what if he murders his wife?"

Yang Guang was shocked and his face moved.

"I was shocked and sad when I heard this news from the queen. After returning to Yangzhou, I summoned all the monks, held a meeting of Thousand Monks, and asked Master Zhizhe to take the Bodhisattva precepts for me. In fact, how many people in the world understand that all I did at that time were not because of how I respected Buddhism, nor because I wanted to use Buddhism to appease Jiangnan. In fact, all this I did was just because of your mother. I swear at that time that the prince must pay the price for it."

"The king is wise. If you want to seek justice from the prince, the best way is to take away his position as the prince and make him a useless person. If this is the case, you cannot avenge this." Yi Feng whispered gloomyly.

Yang Guang was silent for a long time and finally felt relieved. Yi Feng was so resentful to the prince, so he no longer had to worry about Yi Feng's position after returning to the capital. He first made a grudge with the King of Han, and then had no choice but to live and die with the prince. Yi Feng could only stand on his own side in the future! (To be continued)

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