法苑珠林 73.46

73.46

唐封元則。渤海長河人也。至顯慶中為光祿寺太官掌膳。時有西番客于闐王來朝。食料餘羊。凡至數十百口。王並託元則送於僧寺。放作長生。元則乃竊令屠家烹宰。收其錢直。龍朔元年夏六月。雒陽大雨震雷霹靂元則。於宣仁門外大街中殺之。折其項裂血流灑地。觀者盈衢莫不驚愕（右五驗出冥報拾遺錄）。

In the Tang dynasty, Feng Yuanze was a native of Changhe in Bohai. By the Xianqing era, he served as Chief of Provisions in the Court of Imperial Entertainments. At that time, a Western foreign guest, the King of Khotan, came to court. The surplus sheep from his food provisions amounted to several dozens or hundreds of head. The King entrusted them all to Yuanze to send to Buddhist monasteries to be released for longevity. Yuanze, however, secretly ordered butchers to slaughter them and kept the proceeds. In the summer, the sixth month of the first year of the Longshuo era, Luoyang had heavy rain, and a thunderbolt struck Yuanze, killing him in the middle of the great avenue outside the Xuanren Gate. His neck was snapped and severed, his blood spattered on the ground. The spectators who filled the street were all struck with terror. (These five records of resonance are from the Supplement to the Records of Miraculous Retribution [Mingbao shiyi lu].)