"Bullying monks, smashing the temple gate, throwing feces on the temple walls, smearing ink on the main hall... Haha, Zhu Ping'an is really so powerful. He has just entered the officialdom for a short time, but he has learned the bad habits of this bureaucrat who bullies others by taking advantage of his power and has surpassed his master. He has made such a peaceful Buddhist place into such a mess, as if he doesn't take the court laws into consideration at all." Censor Wang sneered, shook his head, and slammed the table with his hand to express his indignation and disappointment at Zhu Ping'an's behavior of taking advantage of his power to bully Baiyun Temple.
"Amitabha, Lord Wang is absolutely right. Zhu Ping'an has gone too far." A deacon of Baiyun Temple nodded vigorously, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
"Those minions of Zhu Ping'an are so ferocious. I tried to persuade them to lay down their butcher knives and become Buddhas right away, but they pushed me to the ground instead... It doesn't matter if I am seriously injured. It is those good men and women who are scared by them... Alas, it's hard to put it into words..." Another deacon of Baiyun Temple sighed, looking frustrated as if he was being bullied but had no way to stop it.
"Haha, masters, please rest assured. In broad daylight, Zhu Ping'an bullied others by taking advantage of his power. We are responsible for supervising all officials. Since we know about this, how can we sit back and do nothing?" Wang Yushi smiled and comforted the monks of Baiyun Temple. Like a wise man who planned and won a battle thousands of miles away, he said softly, "After Brother Liu heard about this this afternoon, he was filled with righteous indignation and immediately wrote an impeachment letter. I also signed it and it has just been submitted to the West Garden. I believe it has now reached the emperor's case."
Hearing this, the two monks in charge of Baiyun Temple were delighted and looked at Censor Liu opposite them with surprise.
Even the abbot of Baiyun Temple, Master Manjusri, who looked like a great and enlightened monk, raised his eyebrows and smiled slightly like the Buddha holding a flower and looking at Censor Liu opposite him.
Liu Yushi, who was in the center of the sight, smiled and nodded, then picked up the teacup calmly, scraped the teacup twice, took a sip, closed his eyes to savor it, opened his eyes, and said softly, "Good tea."
He has the demeanor of a famous scholar and exudes an air of elegance and refinement.
"Amitabha, find good tea for tea drinkers, and find tea drinkers for good tea... This tea does not disappoint Lord Liu, and Lord Liu does not disappoint this tea." The abbot of Baiyun Temple chanted a Buddhist name and praised in a Zen-like tone.
"Oh, Master, may I ask what is so particular about this tea?" Censor Liu put down his teacup and asked humbly.
"This tea is produced in Wuyi Mountain. Wuyi Mountain covers an area of one hundred miles, with thirty-six peaks and ninety-nine famous rocks. There are rocks on every peak and tea on every rock. The tea is named after the rocks, and the rocks are famous for the tea. In The Classic of Tea, Lu, the Tea Saint, divided the soil for the growth of tea trees into three types: upper, middle and lower. The upper one grows rotten rocks, the middle one grows gravel soil and the lower one grows loess. This tea is produced on the rotten rocks on the cliffs of the highest peak of Wuyi Mountain, and is called West Wind Rotten Stone Tea." The abbot of Baiyun Temple said slowly.
"Oh, it's so extraordinary." Censor Liu smiled slightly.
"No, no, this is not the special feature of this tea." The abbot of Baiyun Temple clasped his hands together, smiled slightly and shook his head slowly.
"Master, please help me solve this problem." Censor Liu bowed.
"Lord Liu, you don't know that the extraordinary thing about this tea is the water used to brew it. As the saying goes, tea gives birth to water, and water gives birth to tea. The water used to brew this tea is the water of the Prajna spring. At the foot of the cool holy land of Wutai Mountain, there is a clear spring named Prajna. The water of the spring is sweet and clear, cool and refreshing, and it flows endlessly. It is the famous holy water of our Buddhist sect. Take the Prajna spring water, chant scriptures in the main hall, and then you can get this tea." The abbot of Baiyun Temple replied with a smile.
"It's really good tea." Censor Liu praised it highly.
"Good, good..." After hearing the origin of Zhuoshan tea, the eminent monk Manjusri couldn't help but nod in praise.
"The tea is good, and the people are even better." The abbot of Baiyun Temple smiled and put his hands together.
"Haha, I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it." Everyone present said modestly that they didn't deserve it, but there were smiles on their faces.
In fact, it was more than just tea. In order to entertain Censor Liu and Censor Wang, Baiyun Temple put in a lot of effort. Any vegetarian meal on the table was as good as the tea.
This vegetarian meal is called “A Bright Lamp, All Vegetarian Food”, and it is indeed all vegetarian, but every ingredient is not simple, and all of them are taken from famous mountains and rivers. Even the seemingly inconspicuous mushrooms on the table are not simple at all. They are moss mushrooms grown on the five peaks of Mount Wutai, a treasure among mushrooms, picked by local mushroom pickers who risk their lives to climb rocks. Its special fragrance is unparalleled in the world, and the locals say, “One family drinks its soup, and ten families smell its fragrance.”
A vegetarian meal called Yi Zhan Ming Deng is also known as "Four Fours to the End", which means that the table includes four main dishes, four cold dishes, four stir-fried dishes, and four large dishes, for a total of sixteen dishes.
The value is not much worse than the Manchu Han Banquet.
So, Baiyun Temple has put a lot of effort into it.
However, the harvest was fruitful.
The efforts made at Baiyun Temple were not in vain, as they received a memorial from Censor Liu, which was sent to Xiyuan before the curfew.
The censors had the power to directly impeach officials who violated laws and discipline and were incompetent to the emperor. Their memorials could be submitted directly to the emperor for his review without going through the Yintai Tongzhengsi.
Censor Liu and Censor Wang had the power and naturally would not waste it. They had sent a joint memorial impeaching Zhu Ping'an to Xiyuan before the curfew.
The tea was good, the banquet was good, and the atmosphere was good.
Both the host and the guests enjoyed themselves at the banquet.
At the request of the deacon of Baiyun Temple, Censor Liu circulated the draft of the memorial he wrote to impeach Zhu Ping'an to the people of Baiyun Temple for reading.
Censor Liu's writing was excellent and meaningful. After reading it, the people at Baiyun Temple were full of praise.
For example, in his impeachment memorial, Censor Liu said that Zhu Ping'an's "talent is acceptable, but his knowledge is biased", saying that Zhu Ping'an's knowledge might be okay, but his character is not good. This satirized Zhu Ping'an for having talent but no morals, which made the monks of Baiyun Temple agree with this.
It is also said that Zhu Ping'an "kept silent at home, causing the moral principles to be lost, making hens crow at dawn and lions roar in the east. Shameless people cling to branches and leaves, rely on gates and walls, and echo each other. They are robbed by the accumulated power, ignore the king's law, smash temples, paint temple walls with ink, disturb the people, and destroy the pure land... Zhu Ping'an's deeds are full of evil deeds, which are clearly seen by everyone. It is difficult to list them all. If he is not punished, it will not be enough to correct the country's laws, and if he is not punished, it will not be enough to calm the people's hearts... "
One listed Zhu Ping'an's many serious crimes in the memorial, such as bad character, inability to control his wife, recruiting shameless people, bullying people by taking advantage of his power, ignoring the law, smashing temples, harassing the people, etc., saying that Zhu Ping'an was a dog official who had committed many evil deeds...
Everything in the memorial touched the hearts of the people in Baiyun Temple, and they praised it endlessly as they read it.
Just when everyone in Baiyun Temple had finished reading the draft memorial and returned it to Censor Liu, someone came in in a panic.
This man was an attendant of Censor Liu, and Censor Liu had just asked him to go to Xiyuan to deliver the memorial impeaching Zhu Ping'an.
The attendant trotted in in a panic, breaking the cheerful atmosphere of the banquet.
"What's wrong?" Censor Liu asked with a somewhat unhappy look on his face.
"Sir...Sir, just now after I delivered the memorial to Xiyuan, I heard something..." the attendant replied stutteringly.
"What's the matter? Take a breath and tell me. The sky is not going to fall." Censor Liu said in a deep voice, with the courage to remain calm even if Mount Tai collapsed in front of him.
"Yes, sir." Liu Yushi's calmness made his followers calm down slowly, and he said slowly, "Just now, after I sent the memorial to Xiyuan, I was about to return when I heard a piece of news. It was said that when Zhu Ping'an was counting the silver vault in Taicang this afternoon, in order to prove his innocence and stop the slander of his political enemies, he took off his clothes in front of everyone, walked into the silver vault naked, and counted the gold and silver in the vault, and in one fell swoop, he found out the country's pest..."
"What?"
It was like a bolt from the blue. Censor Liu was horrified when he heard the words. He stood up suddenly and took two or three steps back uncontrollably. His face was pale at first, and soon turned extremely red.
His chest heaved violently.
It turned out that when I impeached Zhu Ping'an for not keeping his house in order and bullying others, Zhu Ping'an was inspecting the silver vault in Taicang with his bare bottom... ...
If you think with your butt, you will know the consequences!
Censor Liu silently tore to pieces the impeachment memorial in his hand that stated that "Zhu Ping'an abuses his power to bully others and should be severely punished."
but
It's too late.