Chapter 1151: Coercing the Son of Heaven to Order the Princes
Chapter 1151: Coercing the Son of Heaven to Order the Princes
After Qin Hao's order to withdraw his troops was issued, as soon as Tan Daoji received the news from the flying pigeon, the 5,000 Buddha extermination army immediately withdrew overnight.
The extermination of Buddhism lasted for nearly two months, and the Buddhist temples in Sizhou and Jingbei under Qin Hao's command were almost destroyed at one time.
Later, after statistics, a total of more than 140 large and small Buddhist temples were destroyed, and more than 6,000 warrior monks were killed and captured, while the Qin army only paid less than 1,000 casualties.
It can be seen from this that although the forces on the rivers and lakes are strong, they are still vulnerable in the face of the regular army of the princes.
In addition, the Qin army also liberated more than 50,000 people, seized a total of 40 million yuan in money, 20 million yuan worth of antique treasures, seized nearly 500,000 stones of grain and grass, and seized a large number of fertile land and real estate.
I have to say that the Buddhist family is really rich, and Qin Hao's capture of the Buddha this time, regardless of others, is just grain and grass, which is enough to support the Qin army to fight a medium-sized battle.
It's no wonder that the Buddhists can't wait to reconcile, this is to minimize the loss, otherwise even if they take the initiative to send "protection money" to the princes, the princes around the country may not be willing to accept it, after all, there must be more to grab.
In addition to the loss of money and food, the biggest loss of Buddhism is talent.
As soon as he learned that the Qin army was about to destroy the Buddha, many eminent monks gathered in Si Jing to stop the Qin army's efforts to destroy the Buddha.
As for the final result, it naturally did not play a role, in the face of the Qin army's sharp knife array and crossbow array, countless monks died under the Qin army's butcher's knife.
This includes four grandmasters, three half-step grandmasters, eight super-first-class masters, twenty-eight first-class masters, and more than 100 second-rate masters.
As for the high-ranking monk of the half-step Great Grandmaster realm, except for one who was killed by Gao Pet at the beginning, another one appeared later, and he was also killed by Gao Pet and Pei Yuanqing.
The half-step grand master is a mainstay for any school, but the Buddhists have lost two of them at one time, which is already a broken muscle, and it may not be able to recover in another ten years.
In this battle to destroy the Buddha, the endless lineup of masters of the Buddhist family also made all the sons and hundreds of schools of thought shocked.
It turns out that unconsciously, the foreign Buddhism has grown to this point, and among the hundreds of schools, only Taoism can stabilize the Buddhism.
Buddhism has aroused the jealousy of other hundred schools, but even such a strong Buddhist family still can't stop the army of five thousand princes, which also makes the hundred schools realize their strengths and weaknesses again.
The strength of Baijia is that it has more than half of the talents in the world, and it can directly or indirectly influence the princes with the help of its own talents, or the princes supported by its own family.
But if you confront the princes head-on, it will undoubtedly be hitting the stone with an egg, and the master who is not in the realm of the great grandmaster, no matter how strong he is, he can't stand the siege of the army, but there are only a few great grandmasters in the hundred schools?
After realizing this, the high-level leaders of the hundreds of schools of thought are all complicated, when they are no longer in the world where they were allowed to roam at will, the princes of various places are the real controllers of this world.
The sons of the hundred schools can use the yellow scarf to destroy the foundation of the Han family, but they can't do anything about the princes who divide one side, this is really the evil people have their own evil people to grind!
Qin Hao's battle to exterminate the Buddha this time, although it was mainly aimed at the Buddhists, also played a role in knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, which greatly shocked the hundreds of schools.
And this also indirectly caused a period of time after that, Baijia's style of acting suddenly changed, and it was no longer as domineering as before.
This was a surprise for all the princes of the world.
The benefits of destroying the Buddha are many, in addition to deterring the hundreds of schools of thought, it also frightens all the sects under the hundred schools and on the rivers and lakes.
After all, the princes even dare to destroy the Buddhist family, and it is too simple to destroy a sect.
After this battle, all the major sects in Qin Hao's territory acted cautiously with their tails clamped for a long time afterward, not daring to easily violate the laws formulated by the Qin army, which also greatly improved the security in Qin Hao's territory.
In the second year of the first peace (191 A.D.), April.
On the fourth day of Qin Hao's return to Luoyang, under the support of Qin Hao and many other civil and military ministers, the Han Emperor Liu Xie ascended the throne again in Luoyang Taimiao and changed the Yuan to Jian'an.
Since then, under the impetus of Qin Hao's butterfly, 191 AD has become the first year of Jian'an, which is five years earlier than the first year of Jian'an in 196 AD in the original history.
From the beginning of Liu Yu's succession to Yizhou Mu in February and his alliance with Liu Ji to resist the Chiyou invasion, to the re-enthronement of Liu Xie in Luoyang in April, too many major events have happened in this short period of two months.
First, thirteen stick monks rescued Li Shimin, and Shakyamuni broke the rules once, but it attracted Qin Hao's large-scale destruction of Buddha.
Later, Su Lie defeated Wang Mang, forcing Wang Mang to retreat to Hanoi, trying all kinds of ways to strengthen his power, and finally even held a martial arts conference.
In order to avoid the pressure of the hundred schools joining forces, Qin Hao led the Seven Swords to chase Li Shimin to the Tongfu Inn in Seven Heroes Town, and after the Seven Swords combined to kill the Great Grandmaster Dugu Yuyun, he reached a cooperation with Li Shimin to deal with Yang Jian.
It was also after the cooperation with Li Shimin was reached that Zhou Yu and Li Cunxiao attacked and broke through Hangu Pass, blocked a large amount of grain in Yewang City Yanglin, and attracted Yang Guang and Yang Jian's 70,000 troops to attack.
After letting Li Shimin go, Qin Hao personally went to the Wulin army with the intention of killing Wang Mang, but accidentally broke the conspiracy of Yuanmeng, and issued a warning to the Northern Jin army in advance, so that the Jin army was prepared in the face of Murong Ke's attack, and the Northern also set off a Jin-Yuan war.
In the end, Qin Hao personally led people to destroy the base of the Hanging Mirror Division, captured Zhao Min, the princess of Yuanmeng, and led everyone to return to Luoyang under the siege of Wang Mang's army.
In just two months, Qin Hao ran almost half of Sizhou, experienced a series of thrilling events, and now finally returned to Luoyang to help the emperor ascend the throne, thus opening the way to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes.
Because Liu Xie escaped from Chang'an alone with the help of Jia Xu, and there was no other Hanchen around him, so after re-ascending the throne, Qin Hao naturally became the only person Liu Xie could rely on when all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty were Qin officials.
The first thing Liu Xie did after re-ascending the throne was to make a big vassal, of course, the premise must have been approved by Qin Hao.
In this canonization, all the ministers loyal to Qin Hao's civil and military forces were promoted, and the cohesion of the ministers under his command was greatly improved.
As for Qin Hao himself, Liu Xie originally wanted to crown Qin Hao as a general and king of Qin, but Qin Hao took the initiative to refuse the canonization on the grounds of 'lack of qualifications', and finally only accepted the position of the second-level hussar general and the Duke of Qin, fiefdom Nanyang County.
And Qin Wen, the father of Qin Hao, who was far away in Jinyang, was named a general and the king of Jin by Liu Xie, and his fief was Taiyuan County.
Except for Qin Hao and Qin Wen, the other princes have not been canonized for the time being, after all, the other princes have neither sent envoys to Luoyang for pilgrimage, nor have they recognized the legitimacy of Liu Xiehan's family.
Today's Sizhou is still in the midst of war, and when Qin Hao unifies Sizhou and unites the forces of the Qin and Jin armies, its overall strength will naturally become the overlord of the princes.
At that time, the princes in various places were intimidated by Qin Hao's huge military might, and could only go to Luoyang to recognize Liu Xie's orthodox status, so that Qin Hao's plan to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes could naturally be implemented smoothly.
Therefore, the canonization of other princes can only be carried out after Qin Hao unifies Sizhou.