My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 161 Have you seen the real hell?
In the Jinyiwei prison, Daoyan sat cross-legged on the thatch, silently reciting Buddhist scriptures.

The imperial prison is not a good place. It is dark and damp, with all kinds of mosquitoes lingering around your ears from time to time, and even rats nesting there in groups.

It is sweltering in the summer and freezing in the winter, and the screams of prisoners are endless. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is the Avici Hell.

However, Daoyan never took these things to heart. He was still able to eat, drink and sleep. Such a harsh environment only tempered his character.

Time flies and almost a year has passed since he was arrested and imprisoned by Mao Xiang. If it were someone else, he might have gone crazy long ago, but for him, it was just a change of place to chant sutras.

He didn't know when it started, perhaps as early as he could remember, but he felt extremely dissatisfied with this world. Why did some people wear silk and satin and eat delicacies from the land and the sea, while some people didn't even have warm clothes or food to fill their stomachs?

Why is it that some people don't have to work all year round and yet can live a life of luxury, while others work hard but can't even support their family?

Why is all this happening?
Later he realized that this world is unfair!
But he had no idea how to change this unfair world, so he began to study hard, but found that what was said in the books could not change anything.

So he ignored his family's opposition and resolutely shaved his head to become a monk. Buddha said that all beings are equal, and he tried to find the answer in Buddhism.

However, he found that Buddhism could not give him the answer, so he studied Taoism, Yin-Yang School, Mohism, Legalism, and so on, until he had mastered them all and was well-versed in them. Then he realized that the reason injustice exists is because no one is trying to break it.

Then, let him break all the injustice in this world!

Zhu Yuanzhang did not know him, but he remembered Your Majesty. In the eighth year of Hongwu, Your Majesty ordered monks who were proficient in Confucian books to take the exam in the Ministry of Rites. He was summoned to the capital by Your Majesty as a Confucian monk. At that time, he also tried to persuade Your Majesty to establish a world of great harmony where everyone works for the public.

However, His Majesty did not appoint him as a Buddhist official, but only gave him monk's robes.

However, there were so many monks at that time that His Majesty was not impressed by him.

But he remembered one person, the fourth prince Zhu Di!

He was proficient in the art of yin and yang. Although Zhu Di was young at that time, he could tell from his appearance that this boy would be extraordinary in the future. Therefore, Zhu Di became an important candidate for him to realize his ideal.

He kept this matter in his heart and never told anyone.

When he met the Jinyiwei, he had already made up his mind why he was arrested.

As the Minister of Taichang Temple, Yuan Gong would not fail to tell Zhu Yuanzhang after looking at his face.

No matter which dynasty the emperor was from, when he learned that someone had rebellious intentions, he would rather kill the person innocently than let him go, let alone the current Majesty.

What he couldn't understand was why after he was arrested and sent to prison, he was only detained here without being tortured or interrogated, let alone beheaded.

Now that the vision in his heart cannot be realized, he can only spend his days in this small prison, chanting Buddha's name. Unable to realize the vision in his heart, the only way is death. Once he dies, all his obsessions will disappear, and he can become a Buddha and achieve the right result.

"Then monk, please come out quickly!"

A familiar voice interrupted his thoughts. He knew without looking that it was Mao Xiang.

Is your time coming?
Daoyan was not only not afraid, but he even felt calm and willing to die. If he could not realize his wish, he would just go to paradise as soon as possible.

When he saw Zhu Yuanzhang again, he was stunned, because he found that His Majesty's expression was very different from the last time he came to see him.

It became much more profound, and he even saw a trace of compassion in His Majesty's eyes.

Could it be that he was about to die and His Majesty felt pity for him? How absurd and ridiculous! His Majesty was extremely hypocritical!
Your Majesty is like this, and the people of the world are even more like this. Everyone is hypocritical, yet pretends to be noble. When will there be justice in this world?

He thought he saw through everything, so he raised his head and straightened his chest in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Hey, you monk, you are so arrogant. Why don't you show respect to His Majesty?"

Mao Xiang got angry every time he saw Daoyan, but there was nothing he could do. This bald donkey had no manners at all and was stubborn. As the saying goes, he was like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.

This time, His Majesty came with a computer and a projector. He was naturally familiar with these gadgets, as he had seen them in Shaoxing Prefecture.

Everyone knows that the projector can play moving pictures, and in the pictures, there are beautiful women with long legs!
That's what the Industry Department and the Craftsman Academy said.
Does Your Majesty want that monk Daoyan to see long-legged women and then break his vow of chastity?
That’s right. After breaking the taboo of chastity, no matter what Daoyan says, his obsession with “all under heaven as one” is worth a penny.

Your Majesty is trying to fight poison with poison. That's brilliant, really brilliant!
"Mao Xiang, it's okay."

Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry, as he had already seen Daoyan's temper.

"Master Daoyan, you are a great monk who has attained enlightenment. Buddhists often talk about the eighteen levels of hell. I would like to ask you, have you ever really seen hell?"

Mao Xiang was stunned for a moment. Your Majesty, what are you talking about? We are all living people, who has ever seen hell?
Daoyan looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with some confusion, and then he was relieved. That’s right, if he was going to chop off his own head, wouldn’t that just mean sending himself to hell?
"Your Majesty, this world is hell to me. I have already seen hell!"

"I am not trying to play tricks on you. What I am talking about is the real hell!"

Daoyan was stunned, then looked at Zhu Yuanzhang carefully and found that his expression was extremely serious and he did not seem to be joking with him.

"No." Daoyan answered honestly, but he was a little curious in his heart why the Majesty asked him whether he had seen hell.

"Then I will show you what real hell is!"

Real hell?
Daoyan's face, which had never been calm, finally showed a hint of surprise. He found that His Majesty was serious!

But who has ever seen the real hell except the dead?
Could it be that His Majesty wants to scare me with his supernatural tricks in front of me so that I will surrender?

Although Your Majesty used the Ming Cult's tricks to build up your own power when you started the rebellion, Your Majesty himself is not a person who plays tricks.

Otherwise, after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he would not have ruthlessly suppressed forces such as the Ming Cult and the White Lotus Sect.

Mao Xiang's face was also filled with shock. Could it be that there were pictures about hell in the computer?

He couldn't help but shudder. Although he didn't talk about strange things and he would curse others to go to hell, he couldn't help but shudder at the thought of seeing the real hell.

But the curiosity in my heart is growing.

With doubts, Daoyan followed Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang out of the prison and came to the yamen of the imperial prison.

In the yamen, the attendants were hanging up curtains and plugging in electrical wires. Daoyan looked at everything in front of him in a daze, not knowing what the emperor was going to do.

After tinkering with it, when Zhu Yuanzhang turned on the computer, Daoyan was stunned. What on earth was this?
That square box can actually glow and send out pictures!
However, what shocked him was not just that. He saw a beam of colorful light shoot out, and a horrifying scene suddenly appeared on the white curtain.

The people in the pictures can move and talk!
His unchanging heart was now filled with waves, sweeping up like a tsunami!

Your Majesty, this is not playing tricks, this is releasing a miracle!
(End of this chapter)