Tao Daxian instigated Zhao Ji to destroy the Buddha, not to further aggravate Zhao Ji's rebellion and leave the danger, so that the Great Song Dynasty would be even more turbulent and quickly collapsed.

One of his purposes for dealing with Buddhism was to objectively benefit the Song Dynasty.

The population of the Great Song Dynasty has plummeted from nearly 100 million to about 20 million at present, not only has the financial and material resources been lost to a serious shortage, but the manpower has also suddenly become strained, and it is necessary to raise soldiers, officials, and "scholars of my generation", landlords and gentry, ruffians and gangsters, and even more robbers and thieves who are waiting to be supported. It will only increase the public anger directed at the imperial court, intensify the rebellion and turmoil, and the Great Song Dynasty, which is only a layer of gorgeous skin, will collapse in a blink of an eye.

The Taoist gate is just that, it is squeezed into decline by Buddhism, there are few Taoist priests, and the impact on society is weak. And Buddhism must not be allowed to exist uncontrollably.

If Zhao Ji does not rectify Buddhism in time, the Great Song Dynasty will be eaten and quickly dragged down by this group of monks with the most profound parasitic social wisdom, and they will be destroyed in a daze.

There is also a realistic basis for Zhao Ji to destroy the Buddha, not for Zhao Ji to be hard-headed and do bad things.

After the frenzy of immigrants during the summer harvest season, the Jiangnan Buddhist gate, which has the largest number of temples and monks, is all over. The monks did not flee to Jiangbei to find another place to live, but they all actively participated in the rebellion.

Another monk is relatively rich, peaceful, and Shuzhong is now a monk, and there are almost no monks.

Most of the temples in the places where the Han people live are rich, and the remnants of the local tyrants and thugs who have been harmed by the government are targeted in the grudge and crazy killing, destruction and looting, and they are killed and robbed, and the few temples that are hidden in the minority areas are also deliberately swept and rectified by the robber army led by Chen Xizhen Ma Ling in the process of forcibly relocating the minority tribes, the evil monks were killed, and the pirates who voluntarily returned to the vulgar are needless to say, and the capable monks who just want to enjoy the benefits of not working hard were all arrested and forced to work overseas with the immigration team. The rest of the old pious monks who have no medical skills and other specialties can only chant Buddha and refuse to give up pretending to be Buddha did not move, do not force, but loot the temple completely, not to mention money and food, that is, the vegetables planted in the temple are deliberately eaten all the roots, the empty temple has nothing but broken beds and broken benches, the monks can freely continue to pretend to be a living Buddha in the temple, but there is no subordinate to take care of, and the second is not the ability to hunt and find food in the barren mountains and mountains, nature is like this, people enter, the beast retreats, there are fewer people, and the beast comes, The temple is surrounded by many returning beasts, and the monks want to go out to pick wild vegetables to make a living, and they have to have the consciousness of dying. Three, the surrounding population immigrated to the air, nowhere to turn into a fate, no one is used to them in vain, the monks are known as the boundless Dharma, but they simply can't continue to gain a foothold in the temple, that one has the wisdom of survival, shrewd, while the pirates are still in the beast dare not approach the Amitabha Buddha hurriedly left, thinking of the other populations in Shu to occupy the temple prosperously and continue to be a Buddha leisurely, but there are gangsters everywhere in the out-of-control Shu, and the rest of the government officials and officials are greedy and fierce are red-eyed and hate to take advantage of the chaos to get more, The rest of the population in Shu is not the vast majority of the good people who are willing to give alms, and they have suffered all kinds of looting, the money and food of the family are extremely tight, and the remaining unscrupulous families in the past also have to dig wild vegetables and even consider gnawing tree bark to survive this difficult life, in this turbulent and dangerous period when the future is uncertain, everyone is in danger, worried about their own survival problems, they can't carry the murder weapon to rob others, how can they have the heart and excess money and food to take care of the monks who come to the door?

That is, the monks are slick and worthless, otherwise it is unreasonable to automatically send them to the door.

When material needs become urgent or even fatal, spiritual needs, beliefs, and so on naturally take a back seat.

In this way, no matter how famous you are, no matter how high the monk is, it will not work.

Seeing that they couldn't get along in Shu, they couldn't take care of the image and face of the monks, and they almost starved to death on the way, the monks sighed that people's hearts were not ancient and evil, and all beings in Shu fell into the hell of the devil's path, and they needed Buddhism's compassion to solve the rescue, but there were very few people who were willing to starve to death and sacrifice themselves to be merciful and sacrificed to save them, so they could only escape from Shuzhong in embarrassment.

The Dali country adjacent to Shuzhong, which is a prosperous Buddhist country, has hundreds of thousands of monks, and has lived a decent and calm life.

Unfortunately, Buddhism is divided into factions, and there are fierce regional interest conflicts.

The Buddhism in Shuzhong and the Buddhism in Dali have many disputes over concepts and interests, regard each other as evil and crooked, look down on each other, and have always been very disagreeable, in the final analysis, they are not willing to let the other party get the advantage of the believers in their own region. The monks in Shu suffered but will not get the sympathy of Dali Buddhism, they will only be ridiculed, and if they flee to Dali, they will only be further trampled on. The monks of Dali will never let these monks come to their own territory to be Buddhas to fight for benefits, and if they encounter it, they will not quietly die and will be generous in observing the precepts of compassion.

In this way, the monks could only flee to other places in the Great Song Dynasty to seek an auspicious place to settle, and the Great Xiangguo Temple was the first.

In this way, the monks in Shu disappeared cleanly.

Nowadays, except for the territory of the anti-thief Wang Qing, there are no serious monks in the entire south. If Daojun Zhao Ji wants to destroy the Buddha, the south doesn't have to worry about it.

The area with the second largest number of temples and monks in the Great Song Dynasty is the rich and developed area from the Yangtze River to the Huai River, but it is also a key area where the defection of monks and the frenzy of immigrants swept through. The temple has survived a lot, but the loss of monks and wealth is extremely serious, and it has decayed, and the remaining monks are trying to re-manage and seek a leisurely life.

The thriving place of the third Buddhist gate of the Great Song Dynasty is naturally Gyeonggi headed by Daexiangguo Temple and the nearby state capitals, that is, the area of Henan around the capital.

This area is the least affected by the migration frenzy.

Because there were nearly one million forbidden troops in the capital, the immigrants were afraid of being pursued and intercepted by the imperial army, so they naturally tried their best to avoid this area. Therefore, the temple suffered the lightest, and on the whole it was still a prosperous and prosperous group of sacred and glorious atmosphere. It's just that the monks of the temple also defected a lot, and the floating wealth also suffered varying degrees of losses.

Further north, the situation in Buddhism is serious again.

First of all, the astonishingly large team of rogues who launched the Halal Mountain Copper Mine swept over. Then came the frenzy of immigration, and the immigrant brigade swept over and over again. A large number of monks defected. Many temples and floating wealth were looted.

Fortunately, neither the rogues nor the immigration frenzy were keen on killing, let alone killing monks with the image of compassion, as long as the monks did not resist hard, they hurriedly looted the floating wealth and hurriedly swept away. In the face of such a terrible sweeping force, the monks are not fools, and they will not protect the temple for the sake of their faith and do not stand in the way.

Even if there is a pious and brave warrior monk who tries to defend the Buddha statue and the temple at the cost of his life, there will be an elder who wisely prevents him from losing his temper.

You are a warrior monk with strong force, and you can also be admired and honored at the cost of martyrdom to prevent the looting of Buddhism, but you can kill one person to stop a wave of crazy people, and you can kill thousands of people and I don't know how many waves will come.

Know the current affairs, and be honest with you. If you are willful, you have made a wish for the Buddha, or you can break out of the encirclement and escape by relying on the high force of force, but you can anger the crazy people who are prone to violence, irritability and murder when they are in tension, migration, and escape, and the remaining monks, especially the elders and leaders who can only leisurely chant the Buddha, do not have to live.

The wise elders will never allow their armed forces to come hard. Naturally, the pious warrior monks also listened to the elders.

Where there is life, there is hope. The monks who observe the world understand this better.

If the floating wealth is gone, you can get it again, anyway, Buddhism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it will not fall, and there will always be a large number of believers who donate a lot of money and food. It is extremely heartbreaking and reluctant to bother to lose the money and food that has been scavenged, but as long as the people are still there, everything will be recovered. The elders can still leisurely lead the monks to live a life of high gods.

It's just that after this catastrophe, many of the lowly coolie monks who served the temple leaders were lost, and they fled to the pirate country to divide the fields and work, and they were willing to work hard for themselves, and there were hopes and ways out such as marrying wives and having children. The rest of the monks are devout to worship the Buddha, evil or lazy, and only want to rely on the Buddha to continue to earn without hard work, and do not tolerate the pirate society is unwilling or unable to join the pirates, few of them are working, and there is a shortage of coolies to take care of the temple. The elders' fantasies of believers and large donations were also frustrated by the crazy immigration tide that even the pirate nation and Zhao Yue, the core figures in the planning of the summer harvest plan, had lost too many people. The remaining population of the Great Song Dynasty is mostly unscrupulous or greedy, and they have a premonition that troubled times may come, and money and food are as tight as life, and many people hate to rob others of a few rich and rich, and are willing to take care of Buddhism for nothing.

What's even worse is that the Great Song Dynasty suddenly changed from a large number of people and less land to more people, and labor was extremely scarce, and every family occupied a lot of land in the national disaster, and the bad land was not rare to occupy, and the land owned by their own families could not be planted, and the land of the government was not planted. The large amount of land occupied by the temple is also left untended.

Together, these two items are equivalent to cutting off the source of money and food for Buddhism. Even if the monks are still short of money and food for a while, they will have a hard time in the future.

That is to say, from the Yangtze River to the northern region, the temple has survived a lot, and there are still a large number of monks, but they are also decaying, and their influence among the people is also slight.

Further north, Hejian Fu to Cangzhou to Cangbei is another situation.

This area is a scourge that Liao Kou also robbed and killed, the gangsters of the Great Song Dynasty also scourged, pirates also played, the loss of people and the coastal ratio was more miserable, the military disasters continued, and Buddhism had no room for survival at all, and this Buddhism gradually disbanded and died out earlier. Nowadays, there are not many monks in this area, even those who are self-reliant.

Hebei East Road is like this, and Hebei West Road is not much better.

The only area of the Great Song Dynasty that remained almost unchanged was the area where the Western Army did not experience the impact of the immigration frenzy.

Although the location of the six divisions of the Western Army is bitterly cold, although the war is continuous, and although the livelihood of the people is not easy and lacks the spare strength to support Buddhism, there are still many temples and monks, of course, compared with the grand occasion of Buddhism in the mainland. Gansu, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, such a large area of land has a total of only tens of thousands of monks.

Due to the limited conditions, the number of white eaters who can be offered is naturally not too many, otherwise they can't afford it, and the temple will automatically adjust the acceptance of members.

Buddhism in the northwest remained intact but its power was limited, and it was easy to destroy it in the territory of the powerful Western Army.

Zhao Ji listened to the euphemistic report of the old eunuch in charge, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

It turns out that Buddhism has decayed into such a situation, so it will be easy to clean it up, and it will not be in great danger to eradicate it at once, and it will not cause the people of the world to rise up against the social turmoil of the Buddha. It is no wonder that Tao Tianshi did not bother to answer whether it was dangerous to destroy the Buddha before. Taoism does not play conspiracy and trickery, but only follows the general trend of heaven and Taoism, and Buddhism naturally suffers.

The Sanqing Patriarch is really more powerful than the Buddha of Buddhism, and he is worthy of being an ancient god who attained enlightenment earlier.

Hmph, Buddhism enjoys all the benefits of my Great Song Dynasty, but is deliberately trying to overthrow my throne and destroy the wealth and immortal roots of my country, how can I allow you to be arrogant.

Anger, hatred and eagerness, Zhao Ji ignored the fatigue and urgently summoned the prime minister, privy envoys, servants, captains, honorable military attaches and other core officials of the imperial court into the palace to urgently discuss the best strategy for destroying the Buddha, striving to do the least harm and maximize the profit, and quickly complete the battle safely.

Prime Minister Bai Shizhong, Deputy Minister Zhang Bangchang and others were frightened enough in the mad demon chaos of the monks during the day, and were shocked by the monks' strong fighting power like devils.

Quickly understanding what happened, these high-ranking officials and dignitaries were even more surprised, all of them were shocked, and they also expected the emperor's retaliatory measures, and they were all prepared.

At this time, as soon as he entered the palace, after listening to the emperor's angry roar, he didn't need to further ponder the emperor's intentions to denounce Buddhism with the same hatred and hatred, and some simply shouted to destroy the Buddha. Under the chairmanship of the emperor's satisfaction, he also quickly came up with a plan.

Bai Shizhong is the prime minister, and he has to make a special contribution.

He said: "Since Buddhism is decaying, vulnerable, and sinful, it is unpopular, and it is easy to perish. It's just that how to mobilize the participation of all regions is the key. According to the minister, the first thing is to act secretly, and strive to achieve a game of chess in the whole country, and do it together, so that the Buddhists in various places do not have time to react and escape or fight in tandem. Catch him off guard. ”

"Second, the military must be used. In order to mobilize the active participation of the garrisons in various places, and in order to try to block those officials who are friendly with Buddhism or sympathize with Buddhism from secretly ventilating and reporting information, His Majesty and the minister suggested that the court should not collect a penny from the income of the extermination of Buddhism, and all of it should be returned to the local government and the army participating in the war. Only by driving it with profit can we achieve things more securely. ”