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——【Foreword·】 ——»
Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, a generation of male masters, created a prosperous era of "Zhenguan rule". He is famous for his martial arts and martial arts.
However, such a great king has been in the underworld for a while. What's going on here?
Although he went to the underworld, the ghosts there were polite to him, and even the ten halls of Yama saluted him, why is this?
——【Xuanwumen's Change·】——»
The story starts with Li Shimin's early experience. Li Shimin was not born with supreme power. As the second son of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, his initial destiny was not destined to inherit the throne.
However, Li Shimin had great ambitions and a martial strategy, and made great achievements in the process of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty. In stark contrast, his elder brother, the crown prince Li Jiancheng, appears mediocre and incompetent.
As Li Shimin's prestige grew, the crown prince Li Jiancheng felt a deep threat. He began to find ways to suppress Li Shimin, and even wanted to put him to death.
Faced with his brother's pressing step by step, Li Shimin had to fight back. In the end, a bloody palace coup - the "Xuanwumen Change" broke out.
In this life-and-death power struggle, Li Shimin showed amazing decisiveness and ruthlessness. He killed the crown prince Li Jiancheng, forced his father Li Yuan to abdicate, and ascended the throne himself.
This coup d'état completely changed Li Shimin's fate and laid the groundwork for his trip to the underworld.
Although Li Shimin finally won the victory, deep down in his heart, he has never been able to get rid of the shadow of "killing his brother and forcing his father".
He knew that he had committed an unpardonable sin for the sake of power. This guilt, like a maggot attached to the bone, tormented his heart day and night, making it difficult for him to sleep.
——【Li Shimin is haunted by a nightmare·】——»
Just when Li Shimin's heart was tormented, an unexpected thing happened.
Li Shimin has had a headache recently, not a national event, but a nightmare every night.
In the dream, a hideous-looking dragon head roared and demanded his life, and the terrifying sight woke him up from his sleep in a cold sweat. This dragon head is none other than the Jinghe Dragon King who was ordered to be executed.
It all started with a gamble between the Dragon King of Jinghe and Yuan Shoucheng. Who is Yuan Shoucheng? As a national teacher, it is said that he can pinch and calculate, and his magical powers are vast.
The Dragon King of Jinghe didn't know the height of the sky, so he had to make a bet with Yuan Shoucheng, and the bet was the time and point of the rain that day. As a result, the Dragon King lost completely.
It turned out that the gamble was a trap from the start. Yuan Shoucheng was instructed by others to deliberately lure the Dragon King to violate the rules of heaven. The desperate Dragon King could only ask Li Shimin for help, hoping that he would intervene.
Li Shimin saw that he was also a "ruling class" and decided to help the Dragon King. He called Wei Zheng to play chess, trying to delay time and let the Dragon King escape.
Who knew that Wei Zheng's chess strength was not good, and he fell asleep at a critical moment. What's even more weird is that after he woke up, he told Li Shimin that he had beheaded the Dragon King of Jinghe in a dream.
It didn't take long for a bloody dragon head to appear on the cross street of Chang'an City, which was the Dragon King of Jinghe! Only then did Li Shimin realize the seriousness of the matter, and he was also involved in this supernatural incident.
After the death of the Dragon King, the soul of the wrongs did not disperse, and he came to ask Li Shimin for his life every night. Li Shimin was tossed so hard that he couldn't sleep and couldn't sleep, and he was about to be played.
At this time, Wei Zheng jumped out again and said that he had a way to send Li Shimin away "temporarily" to avoid the limelight.
The method he said was to let Li Shimin "fake his death", and then through his friend, Judge Cui of the prefecture, to get Li Shimin's soul back.
Li Shimin was also forced to be in a hurry, and even agreed to this plan that sounded outrageous. So, under Wei Zheng's operation, Li Shimin "died" at the age of thirty.
This sudden news of death made the people of the government and the opposition panic. Wei Zheng calmly blocked the news, claiming that Li Shimin was just sick and needed to recuperate, and could not go to court for the time being.
——【·Please enter the urn·】——»
Is all this really just a coincidence? Of course not. All of this is a game set up by the Buddha.
What do you think, after Li Yuan and Li Shimin, father and son, established the Tang Dynasty, in order to consolidate their rule, they engaged in a play of "recognizing their ancestors and returning to their ancestors", insisting that they were descendants of Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, and also enshrined Taoism as the state religion.
This offended Buddhism, after all, in China at that time, Buddhism and Taoism were "competing" relations.
In order to reverse the situation, the top level of Buddhism decided to make a big news, that is, to learn scriptures from the west.
The project is run by the Buddha himself, with the goal of spreading the ideas of Buddhism to the world and making Buddhism known. In order to ensure the success of the project, Rulai also recruited the Jade Emperor to participate.
The lineup of the scripture learning team is also quite luxurious: Tang Seng is the reincarnation of the golden cicada, Sun Wukong is a natural stone monkey, as well as Tianpeng Marshal Zhu Bajie and the curtain general Sha Seng, plus the little white dragon, it is simply a "fairy fight".
However, for such a big project, there must be a reasonable reason, right? We can't say that we want to travel to the West and invite us back by the way, right?
As a result, Li Shimin became the target of the Buddha. In order to pull Li Shimin into this game, Rulai carefully planned this "Dragon King Asking for Life" incident.
Li Shimin was "sent" to the underworld, which was actually part of the plan to learn scriptures from the West. There he will be put to the test and paved the way for his learning.
It can be said that Li Shimin's "journey to the underworld" is closely related to learning scriptures from the west.
Li Shimin's "Journey to the Difu" has officially begun, and this journey is full of unknowns and challenges.
——【Ten Halls of Yama Salute】——»
After Li Shimin's death, his soul came to the underworld. Along the way, Judge Cui, who was in charge of leading the way, was very respectful to him, and even the king of Hades treated him with courtesy.
What's even more surprising is that when Li Shimin met the former emperor Li Yuan and his brothers Jiancheng and Yuanji, the ghosts did not hesitate to rebuke them, but they were respectful to Li Shimin.
Li Yuangui was the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin's two brothers were also princes, why is there such a disparity in treatment? There must be something else hidden in this.
Judge Cui took Li Shimin all the way, passing through the Lechuan River and Nai He Bridge, and the eerie and terrifying atmosphere made people shudder.
Along the way, Li Shimin saw all kinds of lonely ghosts and ghosts, and also saw many scenes that he had never seen in his life, which gave him a deeper understanding of life and death.
When the king of the ten halls saw Li Shimin, they all bowed respectfully and bowed. Li Shimin didn't know why and asked why. The Hades looked at each other, speechless.
At this time, Judge Cui brought the book of life and death and turned to the page of Li Shimin's name.
I saw that it was written: "Li Shimin, the son of Tang Tianzi, his longevity is over, and he should die today." Only then did Li Shimin realize that he had died and had come to the underworld.
——【·Extraordinary Origin·】——»
At this time, Li Shimin remembered that Wei Zheng had given him a letter.
He handed over the letter to Judge Cui, which Wei Zheng had entrusted him to pass on before his death.
In the letter, Wei Zheng expressed his deep friendship with Li Shimin, and also hinted at the difficulties and dangers on the road to return to Yang, and he needed his help to deal with them.
It turned out that the reason why Li Shimin enjoyed special treatment in the underworld was not because he was the emperor of the world, but because he was the Ziwei Emperor in the sky in his previous life.
Emperor Ziwei has a high and powerful position, is in charge of the heavens and the earth, and rules the capital, and his status is extremely noble, even the king of Hades wants to give him three points.
Purple microstar has a special place in ancient culture, regarded as the "emperor star", symbolizing the fate of the emperor. The ancients believed that the light of the purple microstar could shine in all directions, bless the stability of the country, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.
In his previous life, as Emperor Ziwei, Li Shimin naturally possessed extraordinary divine power and prestige, which also explained why the ghosts of the underworld were so in awe of him.
However, Li Shimin's road to return to the sun was not all smooth sailing. On the way to reincarnation, he came to the city of vain death.
The city is home to countless unjustly killed souls, who are tormented and resentful all day long. When they learned that Li Shimin was the emperor of the world, they attacked him in groups, wanting to ask for his life.
Li Shimin was taken aback by this sudden change and hurriedly asked Judge Cui for help.
Judge Cui told him that the reason why these unjust souls stayed here was because they died unjustly, there was no one to pay tribute to, and they were not entangled on the road, so they could only linger in the city of vain death forever, unable to live beyond their lives.
Judge Cui suggested that Li Shimin give money to help these unjust souls tide over the difficulties. Li Shimin followed his advice and borrowed a huge sum of money from the underworld and distributed it to the unjust souls of the dead city.
In order to express their gratitude, the unjust souls promised to let Li Shimin go.
Before leaving the city of vain death, Judge Cui told Li Shimin that when he returned to the yang world, he would hold a water and land conference to surpass these unjust souls who died in vain and help them get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible.
Li Shimin promised and said that he would definitely keep his promise.
After returning to the yang world, Li Shimin really did not forget his promise. He ordered the temple to be repaired, the monks were recruited, and the water and land conference was prepared, preparing to overtake the unjust souls of the dead city.
At this moment, Guanyin Bodhisattva suddenly descended on the Tang Dynasty, and she told Li Shimin that only Mahayana Buddhism can truly transcend the soul of the dead and purify all sentient beings.
The true scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism are in the far west, and people need to be sent to learn the scriptures.
In this way, Li Shimin embarked on the road to learn scriptures in the west, and this also opened the prelude to the story of "Journey to the West".
——【·Summary·】——»
The story of Li Shimin's resurrection of the underworld is full of legend and thought-provoking. In his previous life, he was the Emperor Ziwei, but he was reincarnated as a human because of fate, experienced the glory and wealth of the world, and also experienced the pain of life and death.
In the end, he chose a path of redemption full of thorns and sought liberation for all peoples.
This fantastic experience not only reveals the secrets of Li Shimin's past and present lives, but also shows the Buddhist idea of reincarnation of cause and effect and compassion, which is endlessly evocative.
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