Monk Xu is now the imperial guard, with seven products with imperial weapons, and belongs to the Qianniu Wei Mansion.

As an orphan who was abandoned in front of the Shaolin Temple since he was a child, he was adopted by Shaolin when he was a child, and then became a warrior monk. If it weren't for the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, maybe he would have stayed on Songshan Mountain for the rest of his life and become a stick monk.

The emperor entered Luo, and the north was pacified.

Monk Xu originally wanted to return to Shaolin and continue his old days. But the master asked him to stay, so he stayed by the side of Emperor Qin as a guard, and asked him to return to the vulgar, the master said that this was good for him and good for Shaolin, he didn't understand the reason, but he listened to the master's words and stayed.

The days in Luoyang are not much different from those in Shaolin.

Get up early every morning to practice martial arts, and then drive with you on duty. When he was not on duty, he would practice martial arts and read scriptures, and occasionally go to several major temples in Luoyang City to worship the Buddha.

He also has a small courtyard in Luoyang City, which is a reward from the emperor, and even he has a deposit in the Great Qin Kaiyuan Money Village, which has more than 100 yuan, and he usually eats and uses it for Weifu, and there is no additional expense. Therefore, he deposited the money in the bank, just like the rest of his comrades. And the money dealer gave him a slip and paid them interest. The money bank then uses their money to borrow money and collect the interest difference.

This operation method of the money village is actually similar to the quality bank in the temple in the past. There is a pledge warehouse in the temple, and the people can mortgage and borrow, and the temple collects interest.

At the beginning, he was always unaccustomed to it, but he was used to bald head for more than 20 years, and now his hair always makes him feel uncomfortable, but slowly he begins to get used to it.

Today, the emperor summoned.

Monk Xu deliberately changed into a clean and neat silver robe and wore a thousand ox knives given by the emperor.

When the summons of the chamberlain came from the hall, he stood in front of the hall and tidied up his clothes, and then signed up loudly.

"Monk Xu, are you still used to being on an errand in the palace?"

The emperor admired him very much, and did not call him by his name or official position, but called him Monk Xu every time.

"Back to Your Majesty, get used to it."

Luo Cheng stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, "It's good to get used to it, now I have an errand to be handed over to you, and you have to make a hard trip." ”

"It's an honor."

Luo Cheng's task to Monk Xu was to let him go back to Shaolin.

"Shaolin helped me capture Luoyang, and his achievements were not small, and I always remember it."

In fact, after the emperor seized Henan, he quickly rewarded Shaolin with practical actions, not only returned all the original more than 20,000 acres of Shaolin temple property to them, but even rewarded them with a lot of money and grain.

Not long ago, the DPRK and China issued a new policy, that is, to set up a special Buddhist and Taoist management organization to control the development of the Buddhist and Taoist orders and purify the atmosphere of the Buddhist and Taoist orders.

Its main system is to control the number of temples and temples, prohibiting private people from building temples and temples, which must be approved by the imperial court. Second, the establishment of monks and Taoist officials, comprehensively strengthen the management of monks and Taoism, and at the same time stipulate the degree system, monks and Taoist shaves, all need to obtain the degree of the imperial court first, otherwise it is illegal.

The other is to control its economy, strictly limit the number of acres of land it owns, and stipulate that it is forbidden to operate a quality warehouse, lend money, do business, and other economic activities.

It is forbidden for temples to shave their ordination without permission, and it is forbidden for temples to accommodate prisoners.

Buddhism was introduced to China from the Han Dynasty, and Taoism, as a local sect, was born in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

It has a sizable monastic and Taoist order, a large number of believers, a strong temple economy, and social influence that cannot be ignored.

They have a tremendous foundation economically, culturally, and even politically.

On the one hand, Buddhism has a positive side, and the belief in Buddhism is sometimes more important than the normative role of law, which can educate the people and Yin Yi Wang Gang.

But on the other hand, this kind of belief with strong economic and political influence broke through secular norms, and its impact on the imperial court was also quite huge.

From the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the imperial court began to establish laws and regulations to strengthen the management of monks and Taoists, but this period is also a chaotic era when the two factions of Buddhism and Taoism attacked each other, they either borrowed the scholars or with the help of the imperial court, and fought each other, such as Emperor Wu of the Southern Liang Dynasty was extremely worshipful of Buddha, and even refused to return to the court in the temple, and asked the court to pay a huge amount of money to redeem him.

On the other hand, Emperor Wu of the Northern Wei Dynasty destroyed Buddha again.

All this shows their huge influence and the loss of control of the imperial court.

When Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed Buddhism, one-tenth of the population of the Northern Zhou Kingdom at that time were monks and nuns, or attached to the temple, the number of temples reached more than 40,000, and more than 3 million monks and nuns, which was quite amazing, seriously threatened the Northern Zhou court, and finally brought a painful dark age to Buddhism.

Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed Buddhism, but he died of illness in his thirties, and then the Northern Zhou Dynasty soon perished, and Yang Jian usurped the throne and established Sui.

Yang Jian was raised in a nunnery since he was a child, so he said that the emperor respected Buddhism very much, and vigorously developed Buddhist temples, welcomed relics, and held big festivals.

The capital is in great succession, and there are even several big Buddha temples that occupy an entire square area.

The Shaolin Temple near Luoyang, in fact, can only be regarded as a not very famous temple in the Sui period, but it still has more than 20,000 acres of temple property, as well as lending businesses such as quality warehouses, which shows that it has a strong foundation.

Buddhism reached a state of considerable prosperity in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the destruction of Buddha by Wei Wu and Zhou Wu actually had a specific background of the times, that is, their development was too much, and they had touched the bottom line of the imperial court.

It's just that although Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Buddha and destroyed the temple, he did not slaughter the monks and nuns, but only forced the order to return the customs, and the means were still very flexible, but they were too rigid, and the backlash caused was also huge, and the impact was not good.

Now that Daqin almost dominates the world, it is also facing problems in all aspects.

The gate valve of the scholar clan is a problem, and this Buddha path is also a problem.

But Luo Cheng did not engage in a fierce suppression strategy, but hoped to find a more flexible way.

Today's preliminary census, although the monks are not as scary as the Northern Zhou Dynasty, as many as several million, but there are millions of people.

In that year, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Buddha and forced three million monks and nuns to return to the world, but later Yang Jian worshiped the Buddha again, so countless monks and nuns were re-shaved.

Up to now, the number of monks is as high as one million, and there are tens of thousands of temples in the country.

This does not include some other foreign sects, such as Nestorianism, etc., and all kinds of small obscene shrines and wild immortals in other places have not been counted.

From the royal family and nobles to the peddlers and pawns, and the people who believe in Buddhism, simple and rude prohibition will definitely not work.

After all, there are many believers, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and temples are everywhere, and the economic strength should not be underestimated.

Luo Cheng's decision-making center is still control, not banning.

As long as it can be controlled well, it can also be owned by the imperial court and play a positive educational role.