Chapter 30 Section VI

"Then, let me tell you." Quan Heiwei smiled wryly, and said slowly, "Let's start with the reason why I left Amitabha Temple and engaged in the mundane business of pawn shop. To be honest, I have been in this business for thirty years gone." "That is to say, before the chaos at the Inneng Temple?" Niu Yi asked cautiously. "Yes, no one knows about this. I only confessed to my master when I left the temple. In the pawn shop leaf house, only one confidant knew that I was a monk." Kwonhei puffed out his chest proudly. "During Yuangui years, my hands were stained by this kind of business. The reason for this is also because Nobunaga likes the West and blindly supports Western churches."

There was a hint of sarcasm in his words, but Niu Yi couldn't refute.Although Nobunaga founded Amitabha Temple in the early days of Yongroku as the bodhi temple of the Oda family, he later favored Western churches, and his assistance to the former was limited.This is the truth. "Shortly after its establishment, Amitabha Temple was abandoned by Nobunaga's biggest supporter, and Nobunaga's opponents felt that this was the temple of the Oda family and did not value us. Therefore, Amitabha Temple was forced to stand on its own early. However, , if it’s just like this, we can still deal with it. My master was a boarding student monk of Amitabha Hall, and I was also a student who broke in from the mountains. Both of us have experience and knowledge in planting herbs. You can get quite a lot of income. But the master is a pure person after all. He said that herbs are bestowed by God, and selling them for money is like robbers. He hates exchanging herbs for money. He gives herbs to the poor for free. That's all, even if those wealthy businessmen and military generals ask for it, he will not accept money at all, and he does not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. Some enemy generals forced money to him, saying that they knew that we would not be taken care of by the Oda family, please We must accept it."

"For example, who?" Mentioned the enemy general.Niu Yi became more interested. "To this day, I still have a deep impression of Takenaka Hanbei. At that time, the two sides desperately pushed money back and forth. He liked the herbs of Amitabha Temple very early, and he was a member of Mino Saito's family at that time. " "You're talking about the end of Yonglu period, when Lord Nobunaga attacked Mino, right? How would Master Qingyu answer Master Takenaka?" "At that time they were in the medicinal herb garden, and the master said this: 'If the heart of heaven and earth has no boundaries, then there is no distinction between ourselves and the enemy. If you exchange the herbs given by heaven for money, you are like a thief, so the poor monk refuses to accept money. If you If you still want to pay, then don’t give it to Amitabha Temple, but give it there and here—” He pointed to the sky and the ground.”

"To heaven and earth?" Niu Yi muttered, imagining the scene when you pushed me to send it. "Hearing Master's words, Master Takenaka is also a smart person, and said: 'Really? Then I'm being rude.' He took out the money bag from his arms and threw it into the air. The money bag will naturally fall to the ground Just like that, he left in a hurry." "You really deserve to be the 'half soldier pretending to be deaf and dumb'." The cow laughed.Of course this kind of saying has disappeared now, but in the Yonglu and Yuangui eras, this saying was very popular among samurai.Takenaka Hanbei always ignored Oda Nobunaga's preaching, so he came up with this kind of argument.And Quan Bingwei didn't seem to know.

"Although he was pretending to be stupid, Master still stopped him and said: 'Master Takenaka, the money hasn't been sent to the sky yet. If you want to pay, you can't favor one over the other, and you have to give it to each other.' Later, after I had a deep friendship with Master Takenaka, he once said to him I said something like this: 'At that time, I just felt that my soul was sucked away by Master Qingyu.'” "The soul has been sucked away! What a wonderful word." Niu Yi said softly. "Because of these reasons, the Amitabha Temple hardly has any income. Not only that, the master gave alms and taught the Dharma on the streets of Kyoto, and every time he returned to the temple, he had to kill those who died by the side of the road, abandoned babies, and homeless pregnant women. , Severely ill people are dragged back with a cart. And there is no limit to the number of people, there are dozens or hundreds of people. In order to take in and treat these people, our thirteen small monasteries quickly became free treatment centers. Some people listened to Hearing rumors, he mistakenly thought that Amitabha Temple was an asylum, and ran to the gate of the mountain early in the morning, abandoning his family. This is really troublesome, but I can't stop it. Because Master's growth experience is similar to those abandoned children."

The bizarre birth of Qingyu mentioned by Kwon Hei was widely circulated in Amitabha Temple, which can be traced back to August of the eleventh year of Tianwen (1542).At that time, Suruga's Imagawa army advanced into Mikawa, lined up in seven rows, and set up a battle formation.Oda Nobuhide (Nobunaga's father) personally went to Azukazaka to meet the Imagawa army, known as the "Oda Azuzaka Battle".The Oda side will include Nobuhide's younger brother Nobumitsu and Oda Saburo Goro Nobuhiro, born to Nobuhide and his concubine.Including Nobunaga, the children born to the main house were very young and did not participate in the battle.The total strength of the Oda Army was more than 4,000 cavalry. They left Owari Kiyosu on the 4th, via Narumi, and arrived in Anxiang on the 8th, where they waited for the arrival of General Nobuhide until the 10th.Niu Yi is also aware of the historical facts up to this point, and is still in "Nobunaga Ji?described in the first volume.But the next inside story, if Quan Bingwei didn't tell him today, he wouldn't know.

On the first night after dispatching troops, something happened in Narumi.Xin Guang heard a strange woman crying in the army, so he sent his subordinates to check and found that a pregnant woman was about to give birth and fell on the road.How old is Xinguang at this time?Because the birth records of Brother Nobunaga have been destroyed, so there is no way to know, about twenty years old.He is the child of his father Shin-soo and an unnamed woman.Perhaps he knew that he could not inherit the family business, so he was busy building meritorious service while actively doing good deeds.If the father was present, he would definitely ignore it, but Xinguang was particularly worried about this woman who was struggling on the road. He ordered the army doctor to examine her body and found that if the caesarean section was not performed, both mother and child would be in danger.

"Then, let's have a caesarean section. Don't worry about the mother, just save the child. If it's a girl, don't keep it." Girls will only be played with by men and wither.If it is a boy, it can be raised to be a warrior or a monk.For a moment, Xinguang must have thought—this is a kind deed for the missing biological mother.If he died in this war, the child could be regarded as his own reincarnation. The doctor said that there was no water or cloth in the wilderness, he hesitated, but Xin Guang insisted that they deliver the baby. "It doesn't matter. If there is no woman to help, let the old man go. Use boiling water. Bind the woman's hands and feet, cut open the belly, and take out the boy properly. If everything goes well, I will reward you."

That night, all the doctors and old people were dispatched to perform a caesarean section on the woman.In the end the woman died, and the baby was rescued from the sea of ​​blood on the lower body of the pregnant woman.It was a boy, and he was sent to Weizhou that night. When his father Xinxiu came to the barracks, he heard about this, and of course scolded him: "It's too unlucky to have a baby in the near future!" It was thought to be a fierce battle, but the result was unexpected, and Oda won a big victory. Victory, Xinguang's mistake in delivering the child was also written off.From his father's words, Xin Guang understood the fate of the child after the failure, and took the lead in the battle to kill the enemy bravely.Xinxiu praised Xinguang and rewarded him with the captured Anxiang Temple area.Xinguang became the city lord.Later, the child born that night served as the patron saint of the Oda family, and was carefully raised together with Master Ji, just like his brother.When the child was six years old, Xinxiu followed Xinguang's suggestion, named him Qingyu, and asked him to become a monk.

Qingyu was first fostered at Kennin Temple in Kyoto, then converted to Zen and entered Buddhism, then studied in Amitabha Hall (Fa Xiangzong), and finally became the founder of Amitabha Temple (Pure Land Sect). Listening to Quan Bingwei's narration, Niu Yi couldn't help thinking that the reason why Master Qingyu collected corpses on the streets of Kyoto and sheltered the homeless might have something to do with his life experience. Quan Bingwei continued: "Leaving aside these, in the rumors of Master Qingyu's birth, I find it unbelievable that the pregnant woman who got lost and ran into the military camp by mistake, that is, Master Qingyu's mother, has a lot of confidence. Why do people care so much? Maybe most people know that woman. It is said that she is one of the women who was played by Mr. Nobuhide. She is the daughter of a fallen courtier who wandered from Kyoto. "

"Then, Master Qingyu and Lord Nobunaga are half-brothers?" "Perhaps...afterwards, Master Xinxiu raised him like his own son, didn't he also hint at this? On the eve of leaving Amitabha Temple, during the conversation with Master and Master, he told me for the first time: 'Brother Xinguang Said that I was Nobunaga's half-brother.' However, he also told me that Nobunaga did not tell the truth until the end." "Then why?" Niu Yi didn't understand Xin Guang's thoughts. "I heard that the majority of people are worried that Qingyu's life will be in danger." Niu Yi became even more curious and asked, "Life is in danger?" "It is said that the people of Nobunaga said this--'If Nobunaga knew that you were a brother, Qing Yu, he would kill you. I am in a similar situation to you, so I am very aware of Nobunaga's vicious thoughts. Soon, I will Going to attack Izumozong on Ise Nagashima. During the battle, perhaps bows and arrows and bullets flew from behind instead of from the front. I think this is the last time I see you, so I will tell you the truth.' After finishing speaking, he said I bid farewell to Master Qingyu. As expected, in the battle of Ise Nagashima, Xin Guangda died in battle, and I don’t know who was hit by the bullets..." Having said that, Kwon Hei sighed. Hearing Mr. Nobunaga's dark side, Niu Yi frowned secretly, pointed to Jin Pingtang in front of him and said to Quan Bingwei: "You are tired. If you want, you can try it." "Thank you very much, then I will take the liberty to eat one." "Don't say that, just eat." "No, I heard that when Master was imprisoned, he only ate one a day to satisfy his hunger. As a disciple, if I eat more than him, I will be punished." Quan Bingwei only took one and put it in his mouth Li, closed his eyes, tasted it for a while, and then began to say, "It's a bit off topic, let's get down to business. For these reasons, in order to maintain the Amitabha Temple, I racked my brains at that time. Later, I thought of a plan." Gonbei plans to buy rare herbs from his hometown Tamba.Restricted by geological conditions and climate, Amitabha Temple can only grow general herbs, such as Huhuanglian, Niubian, Wawei, mustard greens, and Lianzao.And those rare herbs that only grow in the deep mountains of Tamba, fennel, and catalpa are rare herbs, and the toad ointment and bear bile produced in Tamba are also very popular.Because these things have to be purchased with money, there is no need to provide them for free as Master Qingyu said.This kind of resale is hugely profitable.If the same rare herbal medicine is imported from China, merchants in Sakai Port will sell it at sky-high prices. Qingru used most of the profits to maintain the daily expenses of Amitabha Temple, and kept the rest for other purposes to engage in pawn business.At first, he opened a store under someone else's name, and soon he ran it independently, calling the store "Yewu".With the opening of Qingru's private business, Yewu Quanbingwei was born. At that time, the pawn shop was also a tavern business, commonly known as the tavern pawn shop. It was a huge profit industry, and the annual profit was close to 70% to 80% of the investment amount.In order to protect the pawns, the owners of the pawn shops will build huge warehouses, and the luxurious life makes the common people disgusted.The business was so lucrative that they became targets of peasant uprisings.In this environment, Yewu only lends money to people who have jobs and believe in Buddhism, and the amount is not large, only for the borrowers to make ends meet.The reason why I didn't lend it to the samurai was to avoid Hideyoshi's search.The annual interest rate is two tenths.Quan Bingwei's pawn shop has achieved rapid development steadily. "Around Tianzheng five years ago, the world still thinks that Amitabha Temple is a temple that can accommodate the homeless, and they come here one after another. However, the asylum and treatment centers are fully equipped, the temple buildings have a new look, and the whole temple is quite prosperous from the inside to the outside. If things go on like this, even without Nobunaga's assistance, Amitabha Temple will be able to survive. At this time, I left the temple for the first time." "The first time? So, Master Gonhei, you have left the Amitabha Temple twice?" "It's embarrassing, I was a Christian at one point." "What? You are a Christian? Why?" "This..." He seemed unable to speak, and after a while, he lowered his head.He explained with a wry smile, "In the beginning, in order to maintain a good monastery and run a pawn shop well, I wanted to learn a new bookkeeping method, and I attended a lecture hosted by Christianity. I just wanted to master better bookkeeping skills, not like Nobunaga likes Western culture that much." Merchants at that time used running accounts, so they couldn't figure out the gains and losses of temples and herbal medicine purchases.Quan Bingwei was very troubled. After all, he was a new businessman who was born as a monk.He asked various merchants how to keep accounts, but he couldn't get the point at all.Just when he was at a loss, he heard that at a Christian lecture in Kyoto, he could learn the Western bookkeeping method-the modern double-entry bookkeeping method.With such an exposure, he was hooked on Christianity. "Because of my leaving, Master Qingyu suffered a lot. No one took care of the account books, and he didn't know the secret purchase channels of rare herbs. He must have been very embarrassed at the time. I only heard later that Master would go homeless every time he went to the streets. The monks gathered to find me. In the Amitabha Temple, when the door panel was blown by the wind in the middle of the night, he would jump up immediately and shout: "Is it Qingru? You're back?" I also feel sorry for him." Quan Bingwei tried his best to hold back his tears, from which it can be seen that he misses Master Qingyu very much. The initial contact between Quanbei and Christianity can be traced back to the fourth year of Tensho.On July 21 of that year, Christians held a church inauguration ceremony in Ubayanagi, near Yakushi Avenue.It happened that Quanhei was away on business that day, so he mingled with the crowd of spectators with a trace of curiosity, witnessed the wonderful ceremony, and heard the wonderful singing.Because the fence has not yet been built, onlookers can walk into the courtyard at will. Looking up, the Christian church has a golden roof and crimson curved eaves. It is a three-story building in the Indian style.At that time, apart from temples, shrines and castle towers, there were no buildings with more than two floors in Japan. People were curious and rushed over to watch the excitement. There were hundreds of people. "It's incredible that a bell with a tongue hangs from the three-story roof of the church." Quan Bingwei recalled the past and seemed quite nostalgic. "I've seen it too. It's not in a Western church, but in Takaki. At that time, there was no bell in the monastery in Azuchi." In the autumn of the tenth year of Tianzheng, the big bell of Azuchi arrived in Japan along with the ships that came to Nagasaki for business.However, just before it arrived in Hong Kong, the change of Honnoji Temple occurred, and as a result, the unowned big clock disappeared.Quan Bingwei's words reminded Niu Yi of these things suddenly. "Indeed, in Takayama Ukon-sama's Koki Monastery, there is also such a big clock. When mentioning clocks before, the Japanese will think of black iron bells. When we see the big golden clock and the peculiar bell tongue, we are naturally surprised. ...and the tone of the big bell...the monk in black came out, and as soon as he shook the rope, the hanging tongue of the bell would touch the inner wall of the big bell, and then it would make a loud noise." "That sound was so disturbing, I found it unsettling." Niu Yi recalled the past and expressed his feelings frankly. "The old people who were present at the time said the same thing, but the young men and women liked it very much. They said that the tone was so beautiful that it was not as gloomy as the bells in Buddhist temples. I still remember that I could only smile wryly when I heard these words. Just as I was about to go back, I was suddenly stopped by a young samurai—"Isn't this Master Qingru?" I've seen him for the first time." "Yoshino Yoshiaki?" Niu Yi was at a loss. "It's the son of Mr. Isano Yuanchang. In the church, he wears a cross on his chest and calls himself Jerick? Liangqiu. Yuanchang joined Oda from Asai's family very early. Because of this credit, this Sawa Yamashiro The lord of the city received a salary of 10,000 to 20,000 shi more than before. However, everyone said behind his back that Yuan Chang was a traitor after all. Perhaps because of this reason, his son's status was insignificant among the lower-level warriors. Later, Liang Qiu told me , he wanted to seek salvation through Christianity. I didn’t know about the church’s lecture until I met Jerry Liangqiu.” "So, the so-called lectures are places for research." "Yes, not only lectures, but also singing, arithmetic, calligraphy, painting, medicine, pharmacy, etc., and a new bookkeeping method. Ota-sama, you know who is most enthusiastic about introducing Western bookkeeping into lectures ?" "I don't know anything about it at all." Niu Yi could only smile wryly.Quanhei showed a slightly smug expression. "It's Mitsuhide Akechi." "Really? You said that Zhiguangxiu is interested in Western accounting methods? I didn't expect that." However, if it is Mitsuhide who is good at arithmetic, it is not impossible to do so. "It is indeed surprising and unbelievable. However, we have deviated from the topic again. So far, we will not talk about the bookkeeping method. The final result is that the Christian Headquarters does not allow the teaching of the new bookkeeping method in the lecture, and ordered it to be suspended. They don’t want to spread the money-making skills to the outside world. However, I went to the High School in Kyoto a few times, and I became a prisoner of Western musical instruments and Priest Urugishi.” Urugishi is the Japanese nickname for the priest. His real name is Orgoncino. He was born in Italy and is a Jesuit priest. He was just in his early forties and had only succeeded Floyd for two years.Among the many missionaries, he was close to the Japanese and was the only one with a nickname.The former Floys was a literati, but he was a man of action. He mastered Japanese very early and gained great trust from Oda Nobunaga and Takayama Ukon. As soon as Urugishi arrived in Japan, he recognized the excellence of the Japanese people and Japanese culture, and he was the first among missionaries.On the other hand, he is also a grim realist, always wondering what is the most effective way to preach in this country.Not long after he started preaching in Kyoto, he sent a letter to China. According to my experience, the most effective way to educate the Japanese is to move them through rituals.If you have an organ and other musical instruments, and the wind of music flourishes, you can convert people in Kyoto and Sakai Port within a year... At that time, he brought his viola to Azuchi City to pay homage to Lord Nobunaga, and played it face-to-face with great effect.Mr. Nobunaga listened tamely, and as soon as the performance was over, he ordered to build a spacious venue under Azuchi Castle that can often play such a wonderful instrument, and the area should be considered.According to this experience, in the seventh year of Tensho, Billignano brought the real organ to Japan. Niu is not interested in Western music at all.He had been invited by the Church of Our Lady of Azuchi with Nobunaga many times to listen to Westerners playing the organ, but he could not be as intoxicated in the music as Nobunaga. "Shakuhachi is suitable for people like you." - He was once laughed at by Nobunaga.In fact, he doesn't like shakuhachi either.He didn't like music very much, and he didn't like the gaffes of music lovers. Therefore, after listening to Gonbei's narration, he asked a little coldly: "Master Gonbei, you, like Nobunaga, were bewitched by the so-called charm of music, so you believed in Christianity?" "No, it's not." Quan Bingwei interrupted Niu Yi, "Indeed, it's hard for me to give up the charm of that musical instrument, but I, Quan Bingwei, am not superficial enough to change my beliefs because of it. There are deeper reasons for this. Continue Come down, I'm going to talk about the remains of Oda Nobunaga, and this reason is related to this. Can I have a cup of tea? I'm really thirsty." "Oh, oh, I was negligent, sorry. Duozhi, bring tea!" Niu Yi said to Nei Li. Hearing Niu Yi's words, Quan Bingwei's face became stiff all of a sudden. "Master Ota, what did you call just now... Tashi?" "That's what I called it. Here, I named Afeng Duozhi, what's wrong?" "Tashi... Isn't that the name of Araki Murashige's wife too?" "Yes, for some reason, I named Afeng this. Is there anything wrong?" "No, I didn't say it was wrong. I didn't expect you to call me Afeng like that, so I couldn't help being surprised." "You're taken aback? Is there any reason? Would you like to have a chat with me?" Niu Yi was also a little tired, so he thought it would not be a bad thing to take a break and chat.However, Gwonhei had a serious face. "Madam Duozhi's matter is not just chatting. It is important to Master and to me." Quan Bingwei replied angrily. "I'm sorry. What's going on?" Niu Yi asked with a straight attitude. "Sir Araki's wife, Mrs. Tashi, first fell in love with my master Kiyotama when she was a girl. The murder of Mrs. Tashi was the reason why I left Amitabha Temple for the first time." Niu Yi and Da Zhi who came in with the tea were dumbstruck, just staring at Quan Bingwei.