The monks of the temple were renovated, but they didn't know it neatly, and they were shocked.

Any privileged social group will deteriorate over time, and will accumulate countless sins.

Religious groups that are self-contained, highly independent from the outside world, and are hardly subject to any coercive oversight, will be no exception.

As the saying goes, there is no unjust ghost in any temple.

Not to mention the bloody and even human life caused by the battles that happened inside the temple itself that are not known to outsiders, only to the outside world.

Let's start with usury, which is an extremely important legal and reasonable means of accumulating wealth for the temple.

In Buddhism, where there are some powerful temples, which one does not lend usury? Which family has not had a case of usury forcing people to die and embezzling people's property?

This kind of thing is usually not done directly by the monks, but by hiring strong gangsters in the society or using the government, but in the final analysis, it is also the sins of the monks who commit murder.

Secondly, in various forms such as curing diseases, subduing demons, eliminating demons, eliminating disasters, and solving problems, they took advantage of people's dangers, cleverly said and bewitched, and coerced the people who came to the door to ask for help to take the initiative to make heavy promises, coax people to be ignorant and grateful, and voluntarily donate a lot of money, and even had to go bankrupt to repay the temple kindness owed, so as not to receive favor but be grateful to the Buddha for his insincerity and be condemned by the Buddha.

On the one hand, the many fields and garden assets occupied by the temple are given by the government, and on the other hand, they are mainly the people's wealth that has been steadily embezzled through the above two means.

As for receiving incense and praying money, reciting sutras for the deceased to send them to the funeral, and giving guidance to pilgrims, including secretly or using mysterious Zen language to implicitly instruct those wicked people who are not short of money and are willing or willing to donate a lot of money to Buddhism how to get rid of their sins and how to take refuge, and so on to get gratitude and voluntarily donate money and food to good fields, this is a normal and ordinary way for the temple to collect money. Not to say that Buddhism does not feel that it is a sin, but a kind of compassionate salvation. Even the society didn't think that Buddhism was inappropriate to do this, or even that it was illegal and criminal.

But it is precisely this kind of cannibalization of gratitude and voluntary donations that has allowed the temple to gradually accumulate a huge amount of belongings, and it has also gained a good reputation for wisdom and compassion.

What has been caused by all these means is that Buddhism is extremely rich and powerful, and it has virtually deprived countless good people of their land and property for survival, while the parasitic society is merciful and glorious.

China is a power-based society with an exceptionally developed feudal dictatorship, and the ruling class has always regarded religion as a spiritual means to assist the rule of the foolish people, and never allows religious theocracy to override the political power, still less does it allow theocracy to influence or even simply control the existence and replacement of dynasties.

The Song Dynasty as a whole was a weak dynasty that pursued reluctance and politics, and to put it mildly, it was politically open-minded, allowing or even indulging Buddhism to expand its independence and live a life of immortals, but if Buddhism or any religious group dared to meddle in political struggles or even try to interfere in the dynastic regime, then the weak regime would immediately turn into a tough butcher's knife.

In a society where the monarchy is supreme, religion wants to do things politically, not to mention the emperor who is the only one, and even the scholars and doctors who regard power as everything will never agree.

Therefore, although the Northern Song Dynasty Buddhism in this world has developed unprecedentedly prosperous and developed a superior foundation that can support more parasites, and its power is amazing in terms of members, financial and material resources, and influence on the people, it still cannot and does not dare to directly compete with the regime.

It was the Wa Kingdom that brought the might of Buddhism into full play.

The monks and temples of the Wa Kingdom not only acted above the regime, but also unscrupulously committed many crimes with the so-called religion of mercy. It is a privilege that is above the privilege of politicians, chanting Buddha on their lips and holding knives in their hands, and groups of people blatantly go around in the name of gods and Buddhas to blackmail people to actively worship and donate, or simply use force to forcibly seize other people's property on the charge of disrespecting the Buddha, killing people is not a matter at all.

Temples have independent jurisdiction exercised in the name of the gods, above the law, and are not subject to the interference of secular powers.

The richest of the Wa kingdoms were not the state, nor the vassals or local warlords, but the monks. The temple has seized huge wealth, has a staggering number of monks, and openly has an armed monk in the name of maintaining the majesty of the gods and Buddhas, not only with sufficient manpower, brave and fierce, but also with sufficient money and food, the most well-equipped, and the elite degree exceeds that of the country's elite army.

The Wa Emperor was a puppet shadow, and the central and local warlord daimyo did not take the emperor seriously, especially the monk temple.

In fact, the Buddhism of the Wa Kingdom has the ability to directly influence who can become and sit as the de facto supreme ruler of the Wa Kingdom. Whoever offends Buddhism, let alone wants to be the boss of the central government, or wants to sit firmly in the local boss, it is impossible. Strong, brutal and greedy like the warlords in various places, although there are soldiers and generals have territory, but the local monks who meet a single travel on the road can not afford to offend, and they have to swallow their anger and take the initiative to retreat honestly, otherwise the local temples will denounce, the local temple power is not good, and the Japanese Buddhism will be crusaded in groups, and the daimyo obediently apologized with a lot of money and even honestly stepped down to make the monks satisfied and forgive him.

Therefore, it is not only the grass people who wantonly extort and extort and exploit the Japanese Buddhism, including the rulers of the Japanese state, but also the interests of the common people, and even the national rights and interests that are eye-catching, such as the gold and silver mining caused by the pirate trade, the temple does not know how many high-quality gold and silver mines have been seized, and the central ministers and local warlord daimyo have to share the mine interests with the temple no matter how reluctant they hate.

The worship of the Wa Kingdom is reproduced to the degree of perversion, the monks do not abstain from sex, in fact, they can rape and plunder the silver, the monks take a fancy to whose property and whose girls and women, in the name of serving the Buddha, they can directly come to the door and rob them, like the Chinese Buddhism did usury and forced people to die and other crimes are too common for the Wa Buddhism.

These evil things done by Song Buddhism are nothing out of faith, social tolerance, and people's willingness.

However, in the raids and siege of temples in various places, many monks and sins were encountered that directly made Chinese society intolerable.

The prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty made Buddhism rich, but not all temples had a good life.

It is natural that those famous temples can live a fairy life leisurely with a transcendent high attitude. The worst thing is that there are some famous temples in the local area that have formed some scales.

Those small temples without prestige have few incense, too little money, and they don't have the power and convincing power to play some embezzlement methods. If you want to deceive the public and be willing to make a wish to donate, you must have a high reputation and influence of famous monks. Even if an unknown monk is really wise, the believers will think that you are a green onion.

In this way, the life of many small temples is miserable, not to mention the fragrant food and spicy drink, even the most common two meals a day of the people may not be guaranteed.

Others live a nourishing, happy and decent life as a monk, and they are also monks, and their lives are not as shabby as the stray dogs on the street, how can this heart be balanced?

Poor, unclothed, not covered by food, dilapidated temples, leaking rain and heat in summer, freezing to death in winter, but no matter how hard it is, I don't want to work hard with my hands to make a living, and I want to take refuge in the big temples where I live a fairy life are also stained with the light of the Buddha and the poor appearance is not accepted, so what should I do?

Rich does not necessarily have a long conscience. But if they are extremely poor, these monks will have evil thoughts.

Most of these temples are in remote places where it is sparsely populated and inconvenient to make incense, otherwise there would not be so little incense, which objectively provides the convenience of doing evil.

As a result, murderous and robbing monks such as the Pig Iron Buddha of the Clay Pot Temple and the Flying Yaksha appeared.

Even if such monks do not have the strong force of the two fierce monks, but the young and strong, at least not old enough, and wearing the cloak of a compassionate Buddhist disciple, it is easy for people to be gullible and lose their vigilance, clever words and coaxing, adding drugs or sneak attacks in the middle of the night or something to rob and kill passers-by The success rate is still very high, and the heart is careful, and the evil can also be well hidden.

This time, the whole country cleared out the Buddhist gates, all the monks were investigated and arrested, and the officials and the army were all for wealth or under the persecution of the officials, and the sins of these temples could not be hidden. After an interrogation, the evil and gore exposed were shocking.

Who would have thought that the auspicious shrine dedicated to the Buddha of Compassion would be a hellish place for souls?

Who would have thought that behind the honest monk who is full of compassion and piety, and full of Amitabha Buddha, will be the most murderous butcher executioner who kills so many innocent lives?

It's outrageous.

In addition, there is a temple dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva, very famous in the local area, there is also a certain scale, at least there are hundreds of monks, the mountain of the Lingxiu dwelling, the scenery is good and the transportation is convenient, there are a lot of pilgrims and visitors to visit and stay overnight, the temple is vast and built to the sacred glory to add the attraction and persuasiveness, but it is a prostitution den that kills people for money.

The presiding officer of the temple is actually a thief, but he avoids the crime of Buddhism, and is accepted by the elders of the temple as the ace of the temple, and after a long time he has the power to kill the host and other serious monks, and he became the abbot, taking advantage of the glorious image of the temple and the convenience of no one to supervise the monks in the temple to do the evil deeds, and smoothly mixed for more than ten years.

Secretly killing people for money doesn't count.

I don't know whether it is sad or ridiculous, the temple is mainly based on the theme of seeking children, and many of the letters who come to this pious incense are asking for more sons and more blessings. And the temple can be more famous for seeking children. After this one-piece raid to clear and interrogate, the local magistrate was so angry and ashamed that he was ashamed of himself.

For no other reason, the eldest lord of Zhizhou was shocked and guessed that the only son he loved was not his species, but the evil seed of this group of evil monks.

More than ten years ago, he was lifted, and the relationship quickly made up for the real gap, and he was appointed here as the magistrate, but he married a wife and took a concubine for many years without children, and he couldn't even give birth to a daughter, but he heard that the local Guanyin Temple asked for a child, as long as the heart was pious enough, most of them could pray for success, so Panzi was eager to donate a large amount of money and food and begged for it in person, and then it didn't work out immediately, and it was not so convenient for official business, so he let his wife and concubine pious and prayed repeatedly, well, well, pious enough, it really worked, and the beautiful concubine had it.

His wife and concubine were first drugged and forced to do it in the temple, and then they were willing to endure humiliation and were repeatedly reincarnated by many monks, most of whom were young and strong, and it was strange that they could not plant seeds after wanton cultivation. didn't let Zhizhou's wife conceive together, and adding more children to this county magistrate is already a miracle that God can't bear and can't allow.

This old man didn't know the inside story, and he was happy to patronize it, and he thanked the temple sincerely at that time.

More than ten years later, he drilled the camp and was transferred to the military regime to grasp the majestic Zhizhou, in the good life hesitated to follow the order to exterminate the temple that sought the son's miracle, and lived up to the conscience of Guanyin Bodhisattva, who had given him great grace, in the end, it was the important power and official career to grit his teeth and clear it, and he was shocked to hear the truth.

It's no wonder that the younger the son gets, the more he doesn't feel like his own species, and he always thought that he was like a family predecessor or a concubine who looked like him.

The abbot of the rivers and lakes thieves of the year is now an old man with a beard and white hair, and the demeanor of the monk is getting taller and taller, but he is still strong, his eyes are bright, and his skills are still powerful.

If you can't get this thief to escape the punishment of the law, you can die in a certain place.

Zhizhou suffered this big loss, or dumb to eat the yellow lotus, there is a bitterness to say, this fire is suffocated, looking at the fierce true face and feel that life is enough, in the face of prison and death is not afraid but in the hall more and more unruly and wild old monk, he hated so much that his teeth were biting out blood, drinking all kinds of cruel punishments in turn, and finally cut the abbot and a number of temple backbone thieves in public, which was not only to relieve his hatred and shame, but also to meet the wishes of the angry people, and did a good deed.

But similar monks are not the only ones who are murderous and evil in this Guanyin Temple.

The whole country investigated and found that the temple that hid Youming was a compassionate monk and was actually a murderous monk is not a few.

The famous temple is no exception.

Because it is more convenient for the famous temple to recruit hidden evil and strong people as thugs and military leaders, it is more controllable and graspy, and there are more, but it is impossible to influence and control such people, and they refuse to repent in their hearts and continue to do evil in secret. He has become a famous and high-ranking backbone monk or even a senior monk in this temple, and he wants to travel and practice, and he wants to make friends with other temples, can you still stop him? As soon as he went out, he left the eyes and supervision of the temple, what were he doing sneaking around elsewhere, could you still see that he could manage it?

These powerful evils were already experienced gangsters earlier, and now the incarnate monks have been infected by Buddhism, and they have a special temperament that is really fierce but seems to be compassionate and majestic, which is more in line with the image of the Buddhist masters who are good at incarnating into angry eyes and subduing demons and eliminating demons in the hearts of the people.

These sins in the temples in China are still in the form of normal social evils.

The crimes of Buddhism seized in the territory of the Western Army made the Western Army even more angry, and also shocked the rulers of the Great Song Dynasty.