The wealth of Buddhism, Zhao Ji knows, only those gold, silver and bronze statues are huge wealth, and when he hears that the court does not accept any benefits, he can't help but be displeased.

But after thinking about it, he figured it out: almost all the armies around the country are newly formed strongmen, their hearts are undecided, and their obedience must be very poor without thinking about it, just look at the bad status quo of the newly formed forbidden army in the capital, and the well-paid forbidden army is still like this, not to mention the local chaotic army, which cannot be called an army, only obedience with heavy profits.

As for local officials, the same must be true.

The Great Song Dynasty had just experienced a heavy blow, and the prestige of the imperial court had plummeted, and in the hearts of those local officials who were far away from the emperor, it was unknown how much they could revere the authority of the central government, and they wanted the local princes to actively cooperate with the orders of the central government, and it would be difficult to attract them without paying huge profits. There is no need to ventilate the news, and a single passive sabotage can ruin the plan.

He agreed with Bai Shizhong's suggestion and praised it a few words.

With a more complete strategy for destroying Buddhas, how to deal with the aftermath is a big problem.

How many monks are there in the Great Song Dynasty today?

Millions?

No way. But hundreds of thousands of people are afraid that there will always be.

It is impossible for so many monks, in other words, to be killed in questioning. What to do with the many monks who surrendered honestly?

Nowadays, there is an extreme shortage of labor, not to mention the ordinary landlords and gentry, but even the countless fertile fields of these powerful tycoons are extremely short of people to cultivate, and the country's mines and fields are not even more worked. The ministers really wanted to take so many monks as ready-made criminal labor or sell them into slavery, and their own families were also discredited by the way, but when they thought about the terrifying religious fanaticism and influence on the hearts of the people that the monks had staged today, if they were scattered to serve as hard labor, it would be a hidden danger and a great disaster, and once the hearts of the people in various places were instigated, it would be a catastrophe, and the Song Dynasty could not protect the country.

Zhang Bangchang saw that Bai Shizhong had shown a good strategy, and he had to show it, otherwise he would lose points in the eyes of the emperor at this major event, and vaguely guessed from Zhao Ji's words that the emperor was afraid that Zhao Gonglian would not die and wanted to use this matter to implicate him, so he suggested with a righteous face: "Your Majesty, the captured monks and thieves must not be placed in various places for local use, otherwise it will be a big disaster." Cangbei is now empty and almost uninhabited, and it is a key border defense, and it is in urgent need of population filling and supporting the border pass. According to the minister's opinion, it is better to escort all the monks and prisoners except for the ground of the Western Army to Cangbei to serve hard labor. The Western Army and the Cangbei Army had monks and prisoners to cultivate and work, which also saved the imperial court a lot of trouble in transferring grain and grass for thousands of miles. ”

Zhao Ji was stunned for a while when he heard this, and when he figured out the trick, he suddenly glanced at Zhang Bangchang with joy and satisfaction, and nodded slightly: "Yes, this strategy is wonderful." Zhang Bangchang, you are old enough to seek the country, and you deserve to be the minister of Zaifu. Good, good, good......"

His original intention was to let these core members work together to think of a good way, and attributed how to skillfully attributed this earth-shattering Buddha destruction to Zhao Gonglian, so that the world's Buddhism first hated Zhao Gonglian, the vicious person who provoked trouble, rather than his emperor Zhao Ji, and also made too many good believers in the world believe in and sympathize with Buddhism hate the culprit Zhao Gonglian the most, rather than targeting the court first.

In this way, Zhao Gonglian and the Cangzhao family have borne the hatred and anger all over the world, and the tall and compassionate image erected by this family in more than ten years will inevitably be greatly damaged, and the murderous force will promote the poisonous and compassionate Buddhism, this evil will definitely be greatly disappointed, and Zhao Gonglian will have charisma and prestige.

Zhao Gonglian, who has lost his prestige, is like a divine tiger who has lost his divine protection and cut off his wings with divine light, no matter how capable he is, he will fall into the dust and become mortal, there is nothing to fear, at that time, even if the court turns its face and kills its full door, it will no longer cause an uproar in the world. Maybe you deserve it. The imperial court is a great evil, Shengming.

Losing the last reliance on the aura of fame, what can Zhao Gonglian be arrogant about?

What else does he have to play tricks with the court?

He wants to live, his family wants to survive, there is nowhere to go, there is no way to go, he can only honestly obey all the instructions of the court, and can only honestly serve the court with all his strength to win the protection of the court, otherwise he will perish in the blink of an eye in the hatred and hatred of the world, and he will die in great shame and bear eternal infamy......

That is to say, as long as you play this hand well, from now on, the court can manipulate Zhao Gonglian as much as it wants, and I am not afraid that he will not bow his head honestly.

At present, the Great Song Dynasty is in danger, the country is unstable, and the situation in Cangbei is special, and Zhao Gonglian needs to sit there and serve the country with outstanding talents. After surviving this difficult period, the imperial court is ready to adapt and adjust, and finds a suitable replacement, so that Zhao Gonglian can be decisively taken down, and it is reasonable and reasonable to get rid of Zhao Gonglian......

No one will care whether Zhao Gonglian died unjustly anymore, and no one will forget all the kindness that the Cangzhao family brought to the Great Song Dynasty. Even the history books and future generations will scold Cangzhao for advocating the sin of destroying Buddha, and ignore the great exploits established by Cangzhao, and no future generations will be grateful to this glorious family that once changed China's economic and cultural history.

Confucianism has cultivated rulers who are best at not only destroying you physically, but also completely stinking you in terms of reputation, so that you will never be able to turn over.

The imperial court wants to put the blame on Zhao Gonglian, which is not difficult.

What do the lowly and ignorant people know? Know what?

What the people know is what the court and the local government want them to know and know. What the ruler wants the people to know, the people can know and believe.

The court said that the decision to destroy the Buddha was actually advocated by Zhao Gonglian, an important minister who could influence the decision-making of the imperial court, and then the people of the world would believe that this was the case.

The question is, how can Zhao Gonglian bear the notoriety of advocating the destruction of Buddhism, but also not force Zhao Gonglian and the Cangzhao family, who attach the most importance to reputation, to be anxious to go out and rebel desperately to wash away the notoriety. At present, there is really no shortage of Zhao Gonglian to work for the court, he can't take him down and kill him, let alone force him to rebel blatantly.

Zhao Ji was worried about this, and summoned the ministers overnight, mainly to let the shrewd and spicy ministers use their brains together to come up with a clever plan in this regard.

Now it's okay, Zhang Bangchang really lives up to my expectations, and this suggestion is simply amazing.

In this way, there is no need for the imperial court to deliberately bother to secretly spread rumors, as long as all the monks in the world are in Cangbei, mainly in Qingzhou, where they are tortured, there is no need for the imperial court to deliberately spread hints, and people of insight in the world can immediately analyze that it is Zhao Gonglian, a bright and powerful minister, who is strongly advocating and promoting behind the destruction of the Buddha.

In order to strengthen the belief of the people in the world that this is so, the imperial court does not need to reveal that Zhao Gonglian is the culprit, and only needs to spread the past grievances between the Cangzhao family and Buddhism. Buddhism has no good impression of the Cangzhao family, who has always been a monk in the temple, and under the hint and guidance of the Buddha of the upper realm, he opposes me, the Taoist monarch, and hates Zhao Gonglian, the genius who helped me to strengthen the country and stabilize the throne, and even wants to destroy the tenth generation of merit for Buddhism, the most critical of the ninth great benevolent man, and the monks who are escorted away will definitely hate Zhao Gonglian extremely much.

As soon as all these factors converge, the result is guaranteed to make Zhao Gonglian die on the infamy of destroying the Buddha, and he can't get rid of it......

In this way, the evil deeds done by Buddhism can also become great good deeds that kill two birds with one stone.

The emperor's vicious intentions were completely revealed, Zhao Gonglian was unlucky, and now Tong Guan, the great eunuch who has been suspended as a privy envoy and stayed in the capital to enjoy the blessings, saw that Zhang Bangchang had a great fortune and won the sacred heart, how could he let Zhang Bangchang get his mind alone, and he immediately stood up to show his hand.

He didn't have a better idea than the yin Zhang Bangchang, so he analyzed it for the emperor from a realistic military perspective and further improved Zhang's proposition, which also made the emperor more at ease. The emperor was relieved and satisfied, and his impression of Tong Guan was naturally there, even if he didn't win the first prize, he wouldn't end up in waste and useless to disappoint the emperor.

"Your Majesty, Lord Zhang's suggestion is indeed a brilliant idea."

He first held Zhang Bangchang a hand, showing favor to Zhang Bangchang, who was in power, and also made the emperor willing to listen to him more.

"That's what the minister thinks. Gathering a group of monks and prisoners in Cangbei for detention and use is indeed not only to avoid scattering all parts of the country to cause trouble, but also to achieve the goal of punishing and serving the country and the people. There is the sea to the east, and there is no way out. It is said that pirates also hated Buddhism that wasted money and food on what they said. Think about it too. Pirates take pride in plundering everywhere for a living, and how can they allow themselves to spend their lives and money and food on the extremely dangerous seas with all kinds of adventures and toils? Monks and pirates don't want it, even if they are willing to ask for it, they must be caught as slaves, rather than allowing monks to continue to build temples and chant scriptures and be mortal immortals. The monks must have known about this, and even if they lived close to the sea and defected, they would not only dare not take the initiative to collude with pirates to take refuge, but would try their best to avoid them. If the pirates come ashore and arrest them, the monks will not be tortured to death as slaves, and they will fight desperately. If this were not the case, these monks would not have firmly chosen to stay in my Great Song Dynasty under the threat of the mob's butcher's knife in the previous defection. ”

Zhao Ji nodded, "That makes sense." ”

The ministers also applauded.

As traitors and officials, only by holding each other can they gain a firm foothold in the court, strengthen friendship, better and more tacitly collude with the emperor to fool the emperor and hold on to power.

Tong Guan won recognition and support, and said solemnly: "East Road is a dead end." Monks are not allowed to go. The same is true for the north and west of Cangbei. ”

"Those two sides of the country are Liao. Although the Liao State also believed in Buddhism. But this time is special. The successful rebellion against the Bohai Sea in eastern Liaodong forced countless Liao people to abandon their money, grain and materials in a hurry and flee from Liaodong and migrate to Yanyun to live. Yan Yun suddenly squeezed in this population with more food and clothing, and did not grab the expected amount of money and food from our country in the summer looting to alleviate the difficulties, Yanshan Mansion not only did not get cheap, but also suffered from the ferocious looting and massacre of pirates, and was also robbed by our Cangbei army's counterattack, so Yan Yun's situation became more and more difficult. I heard that those Khitan nobles who went south were dissatisfied with the resettlement and were making a lot of trouble. Yan Wang Yeluchun and the others had a headache. The Khitan's own people, and even the fallen court and tribal nobles are short of food and clothing, and they are living a shabby and annoyed life, how can Yanshan Mansion have the spare strength to receive and take care of the monks who defected from Cangbei? ”

"Even if the Liao State wants to use the evil means to use the monk incident to harm our Cangbei border defense, they will never dare to let out a rumor to accept the monk prisoner. Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of men fled into the Liao State at once, killed, killed, and could not be killed, even if they were captured as slaves, they could not afford to use them. Where did the food feed so many mouths that skyrocketed? The Khitans themselves haven't eaten yet. ”

"The monks and prisoners are not stupid, and they will not work together to defect to the Liao State to seek a way out because they are happy with our country and unwilling to serve as coolies. There is no shortage of wise people in Buddhism. Those eminent monks and elders are all shrewd, knowing the plight of the Liao State, and they will know that even if they can break through the border pass and escape, they will not end well, and they will not be reduced to slaves, and it is the most ideal result to be ignored by the Liao State and let its hundreds of thousands of monks starve and die of hunger and cold in the wilderness, and freeze to death in the cold winter that will soon come. ”

Therefore, they will never join together to defect to the Liao State. Those high-ranking monks and elders with appeal will first rationally veto or even take the lead in preventing the surrender of Liao. lest I go to Liao and not find a way out, let alone a way out, and also add the fact of sin, which further angers our Great Song Dynasty, and is ruthlessly encircled and slaughtered by the fierce border army. “

"Well said. It's really insightful. Zhang Bangchang also praised Tong Guan with his support, "Master Tong is worthy of being a pillar of the country who has been trained in leading troops in the northwest for many years. ”

Suddenly, a bunch of people who were in line with the welcome praised Master Tong for his insight.

Tong Guan was proud in his heart, but not so superficial, with a few humble words on his lips, his face was still serious and solemn, and he said in a deep voice under the emperor's more and more satisfied and expectant gaze: "There are dead ends in the east, west, and north. Then the remaining south is the way out that the monks who are certainly not willing to be willing to work as coolies want to seek. ”

"These evil monks and criminals who tried in vain to oppose my Great Song Dynasty and His Majesty Shengming had to surrender honestly under the severe encirclement and suppression of the armies in various places, but after gathering Cangbei, there are many people and people who are afraid that they will try to make trouble or even rebel blatantly under the bewitchment of some high-ranking monks or under a certain obsession. In order to prevent this, first of all, in the process of exterminating the Buddha, it is necessary to demand that the local government must resolutely kill all the evil monks who dare to resist in the process of arrest, and then in the process of the strict relay escort of the troops in various places, gradually identify those who are temporarily superficially submissive, but are actually unruly and dishonest, and resolutely eliminate them, no matter how famous and compassionate and high-ranking monks are, so as to minimize the hidden danger of inciting rebellion. “

"Secondly, in order to prevent the monks from brazenly going south to invade our hinterland and incite the hearts of the people and even the military to cause chaos in the hinterland, stir up trouble and set off a catastrophe. Monks must be confined to the north of Cangbei. The Qianning Army, which was guarding the northern and southern borders of Cangbei, must strengthen its vigilance and firmly block the passage for monks and criminals to flee south. This is not enough. Now the total remaining strength of the entire Cangbei Fourth Army Prefecture is less than 20,000, and it is already difficult to prevent the Liaokou from hunting and robbing in the autumn of the Liaokou in the blink of an eye, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to divide the troops to guard the monks and prisoners to work in Cangbei honestly. It is necessary to order the Gaoyang Pass Road Observation Envoy Su Taiwei to transfer tens of thousands of border troops from Hejian Prefecture to assist Cangbei in receiving and detaining monk prisoners, and work with the Cangzhou army to guard the southward exit route of monk prisoners. “