Master Zhixuan, who was dressed in a luxurious and gorgeous robe and had a gloomy face, was followed by six old monks who also had a bitter gourd face, and these seven top leaders of Fuying Zen Monastery were looking at Yu Wenyong with a look of disgruntle, because they all felt that this time they were ruthlessly calculated by the emperor in front of them!

The year-end sacrifice of the ancient royal family is usually held in the Taimiao in the palace, presided over by the chief of the Spring Palace, Dazong Boqing, and some religious elements will be added according to the emperor's beliefs!

For example, this Yuwen Yong actually believes in Taoism, so in the royal year-end sacrifice in previous years, Taoism will be added, and there will be a Taoist chief to assist Dazong Boqing to organize this year-end sacrifice together!

And the Taoist who helped organize the festival was named Wei Yuansong, and he was a Taoist priest with a lot of stories, because he had been a monk before!

Right! That's right! This Wei Yuansong used to be a monk! He switched from a Buddhist novice to Taoism and became a Taoist! And after becoming a Taoist priest, he wrote several books on the yin and yang art of divination and astrology, which was appreciated and favored by Emperor Yu Wenyong, so the status of this Wei Yuansong and Taoism rose rapidly!

However, even with the emperor behind him, Taoism still could not shake the status of Buddhism as the number one religion in the world! So this Wei Yuansong united with another Taoist priest named Zhang Bin, together with Yuwen Yong, said that in ancient times, those countries without Buddhism, like Yao Shunyu, the country was relatively stable, but now after Buddhism prevails, the country is in turmoil, such as the Qi State and Liang State in the south, which led to the demise of the country because of excessive belief in Buddhism, which shows that this Buddhism is not a good thing and should be eliminated! As long as our national policy benefits the country and the people, in fact, it is the same with or without Buddhism!

Therefore, it is strongly recommended that Yu Wenyong take action against Buddhism, exterminate Buddhism, and make every effort to crack down on and suppress the development of Buddhism!

The reasons for destroying the Buddha listed in this suggestion are full of mistakes and omissions, and they are very far-fetched and absurd, but they are still accepted by Yu Wenyong, and they attach great importance to it!

Maybe Wei Yuansong's suggestion to destroy the Buddha was out of selfishness, out of jealousy of the monopoly of Buddhism and more prevalent than Taoism, but this proposal to destroy the Buddha coincided with the ambition in Yu Wenyong's heart, although he was still a puppet emperor, he already had the ambition to enhance the strength of the Zhou State, defeat the Qi State, and dominate the world!

In Yu Wenyong's plan, if you want to defeat the Qi State, you must enrich the country and strengthen the army! If you want to expand your army, you must first have enough money to feed the army, and you must also have a large enough population to recruit a large number of soldiers from it!

And the two most important things, money and population, are the most abundant in the temple!

Because Buddhism in this period, the purpose it propagated was that people have an afterlife, suffer in this life, enjoy happiness in the next life, endure the oppression and suffering in front of them, and be liberated after death!

Therefore, the ruling class vigorously propagated Buddhism, and used the ideas of Buddhism to make the people endure injustice, oppression, and war, and then the social order would be much more stable, and the rule of the country would be more solid!

Therefore, in order to make everyone believe in Buddhism, the ruling class continued to increase the propaganda and investment in Buddhism, all kinds of policies of exemption from taxation and forced labor, as well as all kinds of rewards, gold, silver and jewelry, and beautiful houses, which made Buddhism flourish all at once!

And at this time, the common people are also very willing to believe in Buddhism, after all, in this war-torn and chaotic world, there are wars everywhere, corrupt officials everywhere, and the exploitation and oppression of wealthy families everywhere, and the lives of ordinary people are simply inferior to pigs and dogs!

And after believing in Buddhism, not only was he spiritually comforted, suffering in this life and enjoying happiness in the next life, but also materially satisfied, the living conditions in the temple were very good, there was food to eat, there were monks' robes to wear, and he didn't even have to pay taxes or become soldiers!

Such a temptation has made many poor people, and even some rich people, run to become monks!

In this way, temples quickly spread across the land of various countries, one temple in five steps, and one temple in ten steps! Finally, the contradiction between the state and Buddhism has become more and more acute! After all, everyone runs to be a monk, so who will farm the land and pay taxes, and who will be a soldier to fight?

Therefore, the ambitious Yu Wenyong decided to put his goal on Buddhism: You monks, not only have more property than me, the emperor, but now even have more subordinates than me, maybe a rebellion can take away my throne at any time, it's really unbearable, since there are rich people in your temple, then I will snatch them all and use them for my use!

In order to attack the prestige of Buddhism, Yu Wenyong also deliberately held several major debates between Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, in an attempt to use the debate conference to lower the prestige of Buddhism. It's a pity that it backfired, and Buddhism won several debates! It is because of this Zhixuan monk with bronze teeth and iron teeth that his argument is unhindered, and he has made Zhang Bin of Taoism speechless several times and fled in the wilderness! Although this delayed Yu Wenyong's attack on Buddhism, it made Yu Wenyong's dislike of Buddhism deeper! And Shun

So, this time, when Yu Wenyong heard that Yu Wenmin was broken face in public by this Zhixuan monk, he casually found a reason and immediately attacked this Fuying Monastery, which has an important position in Buddhism!

Zhixuan, who had a loyal and unyielding face, took a step forward and said to Yuwen Yongshili: "Your Majesty, our Fuying Zen Academy really shouldn't have rejected this Sanzang master's request to place an order yesterday, but we didn't know at the time that he was the life-saving benefactor of the princess of Henan, and we will sincerely apologize to the master and the princess!" But the emperor doesn't have to work so hard to mobilize the crowd, send the forbidden army to surround our Fuying Zen Temple, and also detain all the disciples in our Zen Temple, this is really too humiliating for our Fuying Zen Temple! ”

Monk Zhixuan thought that this time Fuying Zen Monastery was suddenly surrounded by the emperor with troops, and Xingshi asked for guilt, the reason was because he offended Yuwen Min, this emperor in order to please Yuwen Hu, so he found Fuying Zen Monastery for Yu Wenmin to vent his anger!

"Hehe, Master Zhixuan has misunderstood! This time, I personally led the troops to Fuying Zen Monastery to ask you for your guilt, not for the princess of Henan or Master Sanzang, but for the sake of our year-end sacrifice ceremony of the Great Zhou Dynasty to be held as scheduled, so I came here to supervise the process of your preparations! Yu Wenyong looked like I was invincible and reasonable, and said righteously.

"Emperor Mingjian, the year-end worship ceremony of the Zhou State has never been organized by our Fuying Zen Academy, but this time the court suddenly issued a holy decree, requiring our Zen Academy to take over the order to prepare, although we have little experience in preparing for these royal festivals, and the second is that time is so urgent, but we are already doing our best to prepare in time! But now, not many days have passed since our Fuying Monastery received the holy decree, and the emperor said that we were not prepared well and were furious, and we were indeed wronged! ”

"Hehe, wronged? Today is the first day of the lunar month, and Chinese New Year's Eve is just one month away! However, when I look at the progress of your preparations, we are still in the stage of purchasing supplies, and many sacrifices have not yet been prepared! Do you think I'm going to be furious! Yu Wenyong looked at Monk Zhixuan with a smile and said coldly.

"Your Majesty, you also said that there is still a month before the year-end festival, so it is normal that some materials have not been purchased, like some fresh fruits, which are prepared too early, and they will not be fresh when it comes to the festival! And some of the festival process, because we really don't have the experience of organizing the festival, we are still discussing with the previous experienced masters, please give us some time, we will definitely complete all the preparatory tasks before the sacrifice ceremony! Monk Zhixuan said with a look of arguing with reason, although he also saw that this time it was Yuwen Yong's unreasonable troubles against their Fuying Zen Temple!

"You old monk, you have been here to say that you have no experience in preparation! Are you suggesting that I was wrong to give you the task of preparing the festival to Fuying Monastery? Should I still hand over the Xuanzhen View to Daoist Wei Yuansong as in previous years? Do you think I would like to entrust such an important ritual to your inexperienced Fuying Monastery? It's not because of you, the famous, eloquent Master Jixuan! Who made you overwhelm the crowd in several debate meetings of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, and made the other two defenses speechless, so that everyone thinks that your Buddhism is the number one religion in the world! If I don't let Master Zhixuan's Fuying Zen Monastery be responsible for organizing this year's sacrificial ceremony, how will the people of the world view our Yuwen royal family? They will think that as the Son of Heaven of the Great Zhou, they cannot order your Buddhism to work for me, and think that our Yuwen royal family is not worthy of your Buddhism to hold a sacrifice ceremony for us! Yu Wenyong accidentally said the fundamental reason why he was so resentful of Buddhism, that is, Buddhism is getting more and more powerful, but it has not been able to be controlled by Yu Wenyong!

Sure enough, hearing the root cause of the emperor's anger, Zhixuan was also speechless in surprise: Just because you think that you, Yu Wenyong, as the emperor, can't control Buddhism, so you take action against our Buddhism and embarrass us everywhere, which is too shameless!

But the monk Zhixuan could not refute the emperor in public, so he could only submit and say: "The emperor is angry, Lao Gu did not make preparations before, it is Lao Gu's dereliction of duty, please ask the emperor to give us another chance to Fuying Zen Temple, we will definitely be able to carefully prepare for the festival, and ensure that on Chinese New Year's Eve, all the preparations will be completed as scheduled, and a grand year-end sacrifice ceremony will be held for the emperor!" ”

"Humph! No need! Since Master Zhixuan has been saying that he has no experience, then I don't have much confidence in you! In order to make the sacrificial ceremony go smoothly, I still leave the preparations to the Great Sect Boqing and the Chief Wei Dao to be responsible for the preparations! Yu Wenyong said helplessly, it seemed that the reason why he wanted to change the organizer was completely forced and helpless.

Monk Zhixuan was also stunned by Yu Wenyong's brazen behavior and thief shouting to be a thief: how can Yu Wenyong, who is the emperor, be so scoundrel and unreasonable!

At the beginning, it was you Yu Wenyong who suddenly issued an order and forcibly asked us Fuying Zen Monastery to take over the preparation of this year-end sacrifice ceremony! It's only been a few days now, and it's you Yu Wenyong again, who casually deducted a hat for us that was not properly prepared, and changed this festival to someone else's preparation, what does this mean? Is it a pastime for us to be in Fuying Zen Temple? So all our hard work in the past few days has been in vain? We've already spent a lot of money on this preparation!

Monk Zhixuan, who had never seen such a brazen person, was so angry that he was so angry that he could only grit his teeth and endure it in front of the emperor, making the final fight, and said in a low voice: "Please think twice!" This time, our Fuying Zen Monastery is responsible for organizing the year-end sacrificial ceremony is already known to the world, if it is replaced halfway, it doesn't matter if the reputation of our Zen Monastery is damaged, but it may even affect the emperor and be criticized! And we've already purchased a lot of materials to prepare for the festival, and it would be a big waste if we didn't hold any more festivals! Please let the emperor let us continue to organize the festival in Fuying Zen Temple, the old man promises that there will never be these improper preparation mistakes, and the old man will listen to the emperor's orders, and will sincerely apologize to the princess and Master Sanzang, and treat both of them as guests of our Zen Academy, and they will come and go freely! If there is anything that dissatisfies the emperor, the emperor can immediately ask my head to the ground! ”

Yu Wenyong never thought that he would let Fuying Zen Academy organize this year-end sacrifice ceremony, and suddenly ordered them to organize it in order to trap them, even if there was no rejection of Xiao Yao, Yu Wenyong would find another reason to challenge Monk Zhixuan, and then take back the right to organize the festival! So now Yu Wenyong completely ignored Zhixuan's plea, and even saw that after spending a lot of energy and financial resources on Fuying Zen Temple, it was in vain, and felt a little proud, so he still said coldly: "I have made up my mind, you don't need to say more, do you know that the year-end sacrifice ceremony is a major event of our Zhou country, and there must be no mistakes!" If something goes wrong, even if you cut off your head, it won't help! ”

"And this time you Fuying Zen Monastery made such a mistake in improper preparation, do you think I will let you go like this?" Yu Wenyong suddenly showed a fierce light in his eyes, looked at Monk Zhixuan and sneered.

What the? It's not over after the revocation of our right to organize the festival, and now you want to let us go? Yu Wenyong's words scared Zhixuan and the six old monks behind him stupidly on the spot!

We all know that your emperor has a lot of opinions about Buddhism, but you can't just attack us so unfounded, right? In fact, we didn't make any mistakes at all, this so-called crime of improper preparation was also imposed on our Fuying Monastery by you, just because you are the emperor, you are right, let us gnaw this dead cat, waste a lot of our manpower and material resources, not only do you want to take action against us, what do you make us into before you give up?

"Dare to ask the emperor, what mistakes did we make, why did you humiliate us so much? Is it because we didn't let this Sanzang monk go to our Fuying Zen Monastery to settle down and place an order, offended the princess of Henan, and the emperor wanted to be angry for the princess and not let go of our Fuying Monastery? In that case, where is the reason of heaven? An old monk finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart and asked Yu Wenyong loudly.

"Bold! You old bald donkey, you dare to speak to the emperor with such an attitude, and be so disrespectful to the emperor! It seems that Master Sanzang is right, you monks are uneven, you monks are dressed in Buddhist robes on the outside, and Amitabha Buddha looks like she is talking about it, but inside you are still a heinous and vulgar person! Your Majesty, Weichen feels that it is necessary to investigate and assess these monks now to see if they are still qualified to be monks! Yuwen Zhi shouted!