That night, Zheng Niangniang, the historical Empress of Xiansu of the Northern Song Dynasty, died of illness.

The amorous Zhao Ji suddenly quit sex and concentrated on cultivating, not only no longer pampered the concubines, became more and more indifferent to all the concubines, and ignored them all, but also showed disgust and disgust when the concubines were flattered and cared for, no longer had the warm care and joy of the merry and talented emperor in the past, and no longer recruited the people's female drafts to enter the palace to add and occupy more new beauties, no longer at least one girl under the age of sixteen every three days to replenish the virgin essence cultivation, and, Zhao Ji actually cleaned up the palace beauty except for the palace maids who had to be used around the concubines and the old palace maids who had no appearance and could only serve as working servants, including the unborn concubines, all of them were cleaned out of the palace, and they didn't even watch their favorite songs and dances. It's so cold and gloomy that people are getting mad and sick...... I know, this is still the solemn and majestic bright and sacred palace of the power center of the Great Song Dynasty, and I don't know that when I come in, I am afraid that I will think that I have entered the Yama Hall of the Netherworld.

Empress Zheng Niangniang did not know the fusion of the emperor's husband, there was nothing to do, she couldn't change all this, and she was also snubbed, the back position was shaken, and her fate was worrying, she was depressed and worried for a long time, and her body was weak. I learned that the princess of the concubine who was incense with her was all finished, and the murderer also took the opportunity to chase her into the palace and shocked the holy car and even almost took the emperor's life......

This queen was plundered to the north by the Jin army with Zhao Ji in history, and was tragically humiliated and abused by too many Jurchen beasts, too many people, and even when Zhao Ji's face was tortured, she died in the desolate northern land in the ice and snow.

If a person really has an afterlife, she will get rid of a plague god husband like Zhao Ji as soon as possible, and she can be reincarnated and reincarnated as soon as she dies.

Her personal female official Yun Gu hugged Zheng Niangniang's cooled corpse and wept bloodily, begging the emperor who came in a hurry to allow her to bury the queen and then blatantly hit the pillar and committed suicide.

In the extremely fierce and dangerous palace palace, as the confidant of the favorite concubine, no one can be good at it, whether it is a eunuch or a palace maid. The same is true for the old palace maid Yungu. As a female official close to the queen, in order to help Zheng Niangniang compete for the queen's position, in order to protect the interests of the queen, she also ruthlessly calculated other concubines, and killed many eunuchs and palace maids who did not deal with or made mistakes.

The death of Empress Zheng, who has been married for more than ten years, is undoubtedly a heavier blow to Zhao Ji, who has already suffered the blow of losing many little wives and daughters. The perverted Zhao Ji didn't feel anything important when Zheng Niangniang was alive, just like his original partner, he only cared about selfishness and indifference, and now that Zheng Niangniang died, he felt heartache and regret, but this time the regret was countless times stronger than the original partner. His mind exploded, and he felt lonely and empty.

This kind of stimulation and fear made him, who was cowardly and reluctant and his mind too easily wavered, completely irritable and furious.

At this point, Zhao Ji is really determined to completely eradicate the Great Song Buddhism.

Regardless of his exhaustion, he was extremely exhausted, and asked the secret spy department overnight about the current situation of the Great Song Buddhism, wanting to grasp the details of the Buddhism before starting.

The old eunuch who replaced Liang Shicheng to take over the secret spy department, and is also the current chief eunuch of the Great Interior, was able to report calmly and thoroughly as soon as he heard the emperor ask this.

In any industry, it is not easy to get ahead. The special profession of a palace eunuch is even more thrilling, complicated and difficult.

This chief manager is obviously a little lucky, but also a very shrewd person with a heart, today while serving the frightened emperor closely, almost unable to leave, at any time to listen to the emotionally unstable emperor's orders, but can still not delay the preparation in this regard, worthy of being a leader in the eunuch line who can enter the emperor's eyes to replace Liang Shicheng.

"Your Majesty, the situation of Buddhism in the world has changed greatly, and I am afraid that the power is very unbearable."

The first thing the old eunuch said when he came up was in the emperor's heart.

Zhao Ji, who was very afraid that Buddhism was too big and difficult to handle, was happy when he heard this, but he was afraid that the old eunuch would fool him in order to cater to him.

The emperor's glaring face is full of murderous unprecedented, and it is also a stern warning, the old eunuch is sincerely afraid to show his loyalty, he is the emperor's domestic slave, the emperor is his heaven, no relatives and no reason, for the emperor's life, he can also do it, swear that what he said is absolutely true, absolutely no trace of selfish adulteration, otherwise the sky will hit five thunders and clouds.

Although it is mainly a work necessary for the survival of the imperial palace, this gesture is to act for the emperor to see, but the loyalty component is real.

Zhao Ji was relieved at this time, and began to believe the words of the old eunuch, and his heart was really happy and relaxed, and he would become more and more happy and relaxed with the specific explanation.

"Your Majesty, now, Jiangnan, well, the Jiangnan that the old slave said is the Buddhism south of the Yangtze River has actually been destroyed."

"Huh?"

Zhao Ji was stunned and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly urged him to make it clear.

"Ahem."

The old eunuch coughed twice and said, "What the old slave said below is only to state the facts. If there is anything unpleasant, please forgive me. ”

He had to worry that the emperor, who was extremely irritable and unstable at the moment, would kill him in anger when he heard the unpleasant statement, so he took a preventive shot first.

"Dogs, I can tell the difference between right and wrong. Don't you want to say it soon? ”

The old eunuch hurriedly laughed a few times, and then it began.

"Your Majesty knows that pirates have become more and more rampant in recent years, and Jiangnan is close to the pirate territory, and it has been the longest, most direct and most serious plague of pirates."

Zhao Ji's eyes narrowed, both hating the pirates and surprised: Could it be that the decline of the Jiangnan Buddhism Gate is the credit of the pirates?

The old eunuch immediately caught the emperor's idea and affirmed, "The decline of the Jiangnan Buddhism Gate is indeed directly affected by the pirates. “

"Those monks in the temple who are not sincere and unwilling to work hard all their lives heard about the benefits of the pirate country, and inevitably had distracting thoughts, and there were many conveniences, so they defected in recent years, and joined the pirate country and asked to marry a wife and have children to live a good life for the so-called layman. The phenomenon of overcrowded monks in the temples and temples of the Jiangnan Buddhism Gate has gradually changed, there are too many betrayals, too few new additions, and the same trend is true for the Northern Buddhism, and the personnel power of the entire Buddhism has plummeted year after year. ”

"Daxiangguo Temple didn't show too much of this sign, that is, it was too rich, and in fact, many monks fled, but there were more monks or believers from all over the world."

Buddhism, which preaches the equality of all beings, is just as hierarchical as the world.

Buddha, Bodhisattva, Wenjue, Arhat or something are cultivation levels, but they are actually status levels, Bodhisattvas have to listen to Buddha, Arhats have to listen to Bodhisattvas..... It is impossible to conversely order the bodhisattva of the Arhat. It is the relationship between the leader and the led, and how can there be any real equality.

The world of gods and Buddhas is still like this, the monks in the world, how can the six roots be really pure, shave off their hair, recite Amitabha, they can't cut off the demand for money and food, and they can't get rid of the worldly desires in their chests. This is the reason why the monks of Daxiangguo Temple are mad. In secular temples, there is even more hierarchy. Abbot, superintendent, monk, west and east two order, front hall, back hall, west hall head, hall master, head, governor...... The many leadership positions are not only the division of labor actually needed to manage and run the temple, but also the clear hierarchy marked by the division of authority and status.

In any economic group, there is always a division between the leader who only talks and the leader who breaks his leg, and there is always a distinction between the respected leader, the powerful middle officer, and the inferior soldier who works and sells coolies. Power and wealth will always be divided according to the 28 theory. The rich and powerful are always in the minority, and the tired but poor and humble are in the majority.

This is not a social law that is shifted by human will.

The vast majority of monks were destitute and desperated, and had no choice but to become monks. The vast majority of the lowly people in the temple are too young, the Buddhist cultivation is insufficient, the Buddha is not so pious and has feelings, young people inevitably still have ideas about secular life, and some are unwilling to live in the temple humbly and suffer this life, feeling that since being a monk is still working hard, suffering and being bullied, living a humiliated and humble life, and having no interest and hope, then where to work hard is not to do? Why do you have to stay in the temple and endure hardships?

If there is no way out, it is enough, and if there is a way out, you will not be tempted.

The case of Daishangkokuji Temple is a special case.

Because it is too rich, it is too easy to come to the money and can recruit and support the formation of a larger upper class, and can also raise more large and small monks, expensive and low, upper and lower, in this temple is not divided according to the proportion of 28, and the superior conditions also cause the Daxiangguo Temple not to mention thousands of senior monks, elders, backbones, civil and military monks, large and small leaders, that is, many ordinary monks with seniority and good eyes are also not working, only chanting scriptures and playing tricks to tell the honest and lower people to work. But it also has to be roughly regular. It is still divided into the rich, the idle and the uncomfortable, and the more tired and miserable, and the hard, and uncomfortable. There are still thousands of lowly monks in the temple who do dirty work such as carrying water, picking dung, planting vegetables, washing and cleaning.

The temple is too big, there are too many monks who enjoy the privilege, and if there are few lowly coolies, they will not be busy.

"Your Majesty, the disaster in the summer harvest season not only harmed the country, but also dealt the heaviest blow to Buddhism, and it is the most fundamental reason why Buddhism has fallen into unbearable."

"In the past, it was only the loss of monks, and there was less work, which affected the operation of the temple but could not hurt the temple at all. And this time, not only more monks fled from the laity, but only those who did not want to leave and pirates were left in the temple, and it directly damaged the huge wealth and power hidden in Buddhism. Under the frenzy of immigration, many temples with insufficient force were even looted, not only money and food, but also large items that could not be moved, such as bronze statues and gilded statues, large tripods, etc., were smashed and robbed of copper or gold, silver and jewelry were extracted from them. ”

"It was not so convenient for northern defectors to take refuge with pirates, and the temple was in good condition. The temples in the south of the Yangtze River are all finished, and after being plagued by the defectors, they are also plagued by the monks who hide evil as the main body of the remaining pirates, all the temples of all sizes have been looted, and now they are all dilapidated and barren, and there are no monks, only lonely souls and wild ghosts to live. ”

"What is hateful is that these evil monks ransacked the temple, had money and food, but did not return the vulgarity, when I was the people of the Great Song Dynasty, married a wife and begged for children, and since then they have lived a life of ordinary people and ordinary people, and honestly worked for the court, and they all went to Huaixi to take refuge in the anti-thief Wang Qing and became a monk and a thief general. What is even more surprising is that even the remaining eminent monks and devout Buddhist monks are willing to join Wang Qing with the evil monks who have harmed them, and they have the strength to contribute, and the wise ones have their wisdom to jointly help Wang Qing's thieves against His Majesty's Great Song Dynasty. ”

"According to the report of Yang Weizhong, the general who is responsible for chasing down Wang Qing for His Majesty, there are indeed more than 100,000 bald soldiers in Wang Qing's army, and many of them are still wearing monk robes, which is obviously monks, which makes Wang Qing, who originally had many subordinates defect with immigrants, suddenly replenish the shortage of soldiers, and the lost weapons have also been replenished by swords."

The old eunuch mentioned Yang Weizhong to increase the credibility of his report, so as not to make the suspicious and now more and more moody emperor suspicious of him or something, which would make him unlucky.

Emperor, if you don't believe what I said, you can check Yang Weizhong's report to prove it.

According to the military intelligence report, it is supervised and controlled by the army and the local government, and it is difficult to cheat, and there is no water to go anywhere, you will not believe it.

"The evil monk is a gangster, and when he tastes the sweetness of murder and evil, he refuses to put down the butcher's knife and rebel and make trouble, and the devout Buddhist monk also rebels, which is really incomprehensible."

In fact, Fang La's Manichaeism chased and killed these monks who had taught and collected money as a high monk, intending to keep secrets, and the pirates didn't want to be supported by all the people to recite the Buddha leisurely.

But Zhao Ji, who was brainwashed by Tao Daxian, heard it and felt that it was another hidden feeling.

He snorted angrily and rightfully rebuked, "What's so hard about this? ”

"Buddhism helps the anti-thieves to spoil the country. The so-called evil monks ruining the temple are just a trick to give those famous and pious monks who are highly respected and have a reasonable excuse to be forced to rebel and help the anti-king. The superficial good and evil are still in the same group, and they are all to deal with me. “

"Bad Buddhism is just a façade. The temple is just a skin, and it can be repaired again after it is broken. The monks are willing to be soldiers for Buddhism and risk their lives on the battlefield, what is the temple? As long as I can break my country, naturally all the efforts are worth it, and if I succeed, the temple can be built bigger and more brilliant in the new dynasty......"

The more Zhao Ji thought about it, the more he talked, the more angry he became, and finally restrained his anger under persuasion.