Wang Zezhi looked at the map, the only temples that can be demolished in the south of the city are the South Temple, the upper and lower temples, and the Baiyi Temple.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, in view of the disadvantages of Lamaism in the Yuan Dynasty, they turned to support the traditional Buddhist sects of the Han Dynasty, so Lamaism gradually declined in the interior, while the Chan, Jing, Vinaya, Tiantai, and Xianshou sects gradually resumed their development.

Taizu was born as a monk in his early years, and he deliberately rectified Buddhism.

In the first year of Hongwu, he set up the Shanshi Temple in Nanjing Tianjie Temple, and ordered the monk Hui Tan to lead Buddhism, and also placed the commander, deputy commander, praise the religion, and discipline and other members to take charge of the appointment and dismissal of the abbot of the famous mountain and the temple in the country.

In the third year, he convened monks from all over the country and stipulated that the monasteries should be divided into three categories: Zen, preaching, and teaching (including practicing according to yoga teachings and going to Buddhist services, etc.), and requiring monks to specialize in different professions.

Subsequently, he summoned the famous monks of Jiangnan to Nanjing, started the construction of the "Widely Recommended Dharma Meeting" and the collection of scriptures in the school, and carried out engraving.

For the monks to give the degree of the monks, the free money for the monks sold in the past was abolished, and the Shamen in various places were ordered to give lectures on the three sutras of the Heart Sutra, the Vajra and the Ranga.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the rectification of Buddhism was more active, imitating the Song Dynasty system to set up monks and monks at all levels, and the system set up the monk record department in Beijing, the monk outline department in each prefecture, the monk department in the state, and the monk association department in the county.

The monks and officials of the Sangha Lu Division are appointed by the Ministry of Rites, and have the positions of left and right good world, left and right expounding teachings, left and right preaching, left and right jueyi, etc.

The main task is to supervise the conduct of the monks and supervise the examinations.

From the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, the monks and officials of the monks and officials were given according to their ranks, and the highest month was given ten stones of rice, and the lowest was five stones.

Formulate the color of monks' uniforms, and strictly distinguish between the three categories of Zen, preaching, and teaching.

In the seventeenth year, Zhao Mao, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was adopted, and it was stipulated that the degree should be issued once every three years, and an examination would be added, and those who could not pass the classics would be eliminated.

In the 24th year, it was ordered that each state capital and county should only keep one large temple and temple, and the monks should live in a concentrated manner, and the number of people in each prefecture should not exceed 40, 30 in the prefecture, and 20 in the county.

It is stipulated that men who are not over the age of 40 and women who are not over the age of 50 are not allowed to leave the house.

Circulating the whole country to prevent confusion between monks and laymen, stipulating the amount of monks chanting ceremonies and donors' alms, this is the so-called "Affirming Buddhism List", which is an important document for sorting out Buddhism in the early Ming Dynasty.

He also ordered the monks of various prefectures and counties to investigate the real number of monks in the miscellaneous places and people, and asked them to live in a concentrated manner.

In the following year, the monks at all levels across the country were notified to make a register of monks, and planned to publish and distribute them to each temple so that they could be known to each other, and it was called "Zhou Zhi Ban Book".

After that, it was too troublesome to carry out the procedures, and it was stopped soon.

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the monks and Taoists have been issued free of charge, but the examination restrictions are very strict, and the degree of privacy has surged.

In the second year of Daizong Jingtai, due to the relief of famine in Sichuan and Guizhou, he adopted the advice of the courtiers and implemented a fee-based system.

In the second year of Xianzong's Chenghua, Huaiyang was hungry, and the same method was also used to provide relief.

In the eighth year of Chenghua, Zhang Peng, the governor of Huaiyang, asked for 10,000 ways to buy rice to help the famine, although it was once opposed, but in the following year, the household department issued 100,000 ways to the empty name to help Shandong.

In this way, there is a large increase in the number of monks, and the temple view naturally increases.

According to the statistics of Chenghua 21 years:

Before the seventeenth year of Chenghua (1481), there were as many as 639 government temples inside and outside the capital.

Later, it continued to be added, so that Xishan and other places looked at each other endlessly.

Since the ancient Buddhist temples, there has not been more than this time, and the act of paying fees has continued until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it became a way to avoid paying taxes, and the Ming Dynasty often gave Tian to support the monks for the big temple, so there were many people in the temple to avoid disasters.

The people can't afford to eat, but these guys squat in the temple and don't ask about the world, which is why Wang Zezhi wants to demolish the temple.

"Report, the first monk of Huayan Temple asks to see."

Wang Zezhi raised his eyebrows, he didn't know what the head monk of Huayan Temple was doing when he came to him at this time.

"Yes, please."

After a while, an old man with kind eyes and a pleasant face, who seemed calm because he had no quarrel with the world, was brought in.

Wang Zezhi looked at his bright and wise eyes because of his meditation and Buddhism.

"Amitabha, good, good!"

The old monk recited a Buddha name, and Wang Zezhi saw the passage of time in his eyes.

Then, as if traveling through a time tunnel, Wang Zezhi came to Huayan Temple.

The northern part of the temple is ruined and ruined, and some monks are busy and constantly repairing it.

The scene shifts to a house.

As you can see from the layout of the house, this is where the monks usually live.

In the room, the moans of the monks could be heard from time to time.

"On that day, the Tartars attacked, and the monks of our temple fought bravely to kill the enemy, and most of them were killed and wounded, and here were some people who were seriously injured and were about to die."

The old monk explained.

"In other words, you all stayed that day and killed the enemy together?" Listen to the school bag

"Exactly."

Lin Dan Khan broke through the city of Datong Mansion and occupied the north of Kuixinglou.

However, this does not mean that he did not hit the south of the city, it just means that he has gained a firm foothold north of Kuixing Tower.

Lin Dan Khan still hit the south of the city.

Seeing this, Wang Zezhi felt a little guilty, because of his prejudice, he had never been waiting to see these monks, and even wanted to demolish this place for a while.

"The old man's name is Zhengxian, and the old man will explain the origin of this temple for the donor, and the temple can be regarded as a cultural relic..."

Zhengxian, the head monk of Huayan Temple, slowly introduced.

Huayan Temple is located in the southwest corner of the ancient city of Datong, was founded in the seventh year of Liao Chongxi, and was named after the Buddhist classic "Huayan Sutra".

It has the nature of the royal temple of the Liao State and has a prominent status.

After being destroyed in the war, Jin Tianjun rebuilt it in three years.

The temple sits west to east, and more than 30 single buildings, such as the mountain gate, the Puguang Palace, the Daxiong Treasure Palace, the Bhagavad Tibetan Palace, and the Huayan Pagoda, are arranged on the two main axes of the north and south respectively, and the layout is rigorous.

Huayan Temple covers an area of 66,000 square meters, and is an early and well-preserved Liaojin temple complex.

In the third year of Jin Xizong's reign, Master Tongwu and others rebuilt the main hall, Guanyin Pavilion, mountain gate, bell tower and other halls.

Later, the provincial scholar and Master Cihui planted flowers and trees extensively, collected Tibetan scriptures, and restored the Huayan Temple, but the scale was inferior to that of the Liao Dynasty.

In the sixth year of Jin Dading, Jin Shizong visited here.

During the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Yuan Dynasty, Master Huiming presided over the reconstruction, and the main hall, abbot, kitchen, and hall were renovated, and hundreds of new bathrooms, pharmacies and houses were built.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the war was raging, and Huayan Temple was seriously damaged.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the monastery was confiscated as official property. During the Xuande and Jingtai periods of the Ming Dynasty, it was rebuilt as a Buddhist temple again.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Huayan Temple was divided into two temples, upper and lower.

That is, the current upper and lower temples.

The upper temple is centered on the Daxiong Treasure Palace, divided into two courtyards, there are mountain gates, passing halls, Guanyin Pavilion, Tibetan Pavilion and two compartment corridors, the layout is strict and neat, the height is staggered.

Lower Huayan Temple is located on the southeast side of the upper temple, not far apart, with the Bhagavad Tibetan Hall as the center, there are Liao Dynasty statues, stone scripture buildings, pavilion-style scripture cabinets and heavenly palace pavilions.

The main hall of the lower temple is the Bhagavata Tibetan Hall, which means the Buddhist Sutra Tibetan Hall.

The face is wide and five, four are deep, the single eaves are nine ridges, and the two ends of the main ridge stand up to 3 meters of glazed owls.

The slope of the roof is gentle, the eaves are far-reaching, and the eaves columns are significantly raised.

"God has the virtue of a good life, the ancient Buddha sacrificed his life to feed the eagle, and now the monks of our temple do not forget the Buddha's teachings, and give porridge to cross people."

Zhengxian took him to the rice jar, lifted the lid, and the corn in the jar had bottomed out, and he took Wang Zezhi to the outside of the temple.

The monks at the entrance of the temple are giving porridge, the rice porridge is thick, and the chopsticks do not fall.

The people who came to receive the porridge lined up in a long line.

Finally, Jeonghyun took him to the place where the monks were eating.

I saw that the monks only had sparse rice soup in their bowls, and after drinking a bowl of rice soup, there were no grains of rice.

After drinking the rice soup, several little monks are trying to lick the bottom of the bowl.

Seeing this, Wang Zezhi felt even more guilty.

"The Buddha said that all living beings are equal, the people are all living beings, and the people in my temple are also all living beings, and I also ask my friends to give them a way to live."

Wang Ze's heart was clear, it turned out that Zhengxian came to beg him to give up demolishing the temple.

However, Wang Zezhi wondered, how did Zhengxian know that he was going to demolish the temple?

"Giggle~"

Just when he was puzzled, a rooster crowed, and Wang Zezhi shivered and suddenly woke up.

He stood up and looked around, he hadn't left his room at all.

He crawled on the table and fell asleep.

"Someone."

"The subordinates are here." Luo Cong came in and bowed.

"What day is today? What time?"

"The second year of junior high school, the time of the first month."

Wang Ze's heart was shocked, was everything he had just experienced a dream?