Zong Ai listened, what kind of line is this? A few Tianzhu nuns came to preach, and they didn't commit any crimes, and your Emperor His Majesty was unhappy and wanted to arrest people, there is no reason! Don't be afraid of jokes when you say it? He believed in Buddhism, and subconsciously felt that he had to speak for Buddhism.

Zong Ai immediately stood up and bowed down before Su Guli agreed: "Your Majesty, the influence of Buddhism in my Great Wei is too great, if there is no sufficient reason, I am afraid it will cause a strong backlash, Your Majesty is the Ninety-Five, for such a trivial matter, it will inevitably leave a false pretext, and these bhikshunis are Tianzhu people, if Your Majesty wants to arrest them because of this little thing, those surrounding Fanbang barbarians still think that my Great Wei has no bearing, please think twice!" ”

When Zong Ai first started to speak, Tuoba Tao was still very annoyed, and the more he listened to it, the more he felt that it made sense, yes, I can't let those Fanbang barbarians think that I have no bearing in Dawei!

Tuoba Tao then waved his hand to Su Guli: "Let people continue to stare at it!" ”

Su Guli didn't know whether the emperor asked him to send someone to continue to stare at Wan Yutong or those Tianzhu nuns, so he decided to simply monitor them, and he promised: "Obey the order!" ”

"Let's go, go to the court!" After speaking, Tuoba Tao walked forward.

Zong Ai immediately followed behind with the eunuchs, and soon came to the Taiji Palace.

The ministers were already waiting in the Taiji Palace, and when they saw the emperor entering the hall, they bowed down one after another: "The ministers are waiting to see Your Majesty!" ”

Tuoba Tao untied his sword and put it beside him, knelt on the cushion, raised his hand and said, "Zhongqing is flat!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" After thanking the ministers, they got up, and retreated to the opposite sides.

Tuoba Tao suppressed the anger caused just now by the Tianzhu bhikshuni who gave Wan Yutong the ordination, he glanced at the ministers below, and got down to business: "Ladies and gentlemen, the last time this dynasty sent troops to attack the worms was four years ago, right?" In the past few years, they have taken advantage of my attack on Hu Xia to send troops to invade the Seinai three times and twice, killing my strong men, abducting women and livestock, which has really become a big trouble for my dynasty! I plan to send troops to attack Rouran, I don't know what you think? ”

The ministers in the court immediately began to discuss, and many of them whispered to the ministers around them that this matter was too hasty, and I was afraid that they would not be able to win.

At this time, the king of Beiping, Baba Song (that is, the eldest grandson Song), stood up and shook his wide sleeve robe, and bowed his hand and said: "Your Majesty, Liu Song of the Southern Dynasty has been eyeing the south for the past two years, if our dynasty sends troops to attack Rouran this year, I am afraid that it will be attacked by Liu Song, not to mention that the remnants of Hu Xia are still there, and there are Northern Yan in the northeast who are not honest, and the old minister thinks that it is better to postpone the attack on Worm!" ”

Although Ba Ba Song did not explicitly oppose it, he actually expressed his own views and positions, and did not agree to send troops to Rouran.

After Ba Ba Song, several important ministers of the court stood up one after another to clearly express their opposition, and these people were quite influential people in the government and the opposition.

Leping King Tuoba Pi is also ambitious, in recent years, Tuoba Tao has fought everywhere, almost all of them are about to make great achievements, if Tuoba Tao defeated the Rouran people, and obtained the full support of the military, what hope does he, the king of Leping, have to sit on the throne?

He immediately stood up and said: "Your Majesty, my brother also thinks that it is too hasty to send troops to attack the worms now, we do not have sufficient defense against the remnants of Liu Song, Beiyan and Hu Xia, so it is really inappropriate to rashly send troops to Rouran, besides, last year because Xi Jin and others were defeated and captured, tens of thousands of elite soldiers were wiped out, and now they have not recovered!" And Rouran is sparsely populated, and if we want to attack Rouran, it must be an expedition of laborers, which consumes a lot of grain and grass and military resources, and the court can't afford it now! ”

After Tuoba Pi, Shang Shulang Liu Jie also stood up to express his obscure objections, listing a lot of reasons.

Tuobatao's whole face darkened when he heard this, but he was stunned and couldn't refute it.

At this time, Taichangqing Cui Hao stood up, Cui Hao is a person with literary talents, strategy, proficient in astronomy and geography, and he is also handsome, in the words of later generations, he is a proper beautiful man, although he is in his forties, but he can't see his age, and his skin is fairer and smoother than that of women.

"The minister thinks that His Majesty's decision to send troops to fight against Rouran is a shocking move to stabilize the country!"

Tuoba Tao saw that it was Cui Hao, and listened to his words again, and suddenly his heart was overjoyed, and he raised his hand and said, "Cui Qing tell me your opinion!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Cui Hao agreed, and immediately said: "Since Liu Yu's death, the vitality of the Southern Dynasty has not been restored, and it does not pose much of a threat to our dynasty. If Your Majesty wants to get through to the north, you should first attack the powerful Hu Xia and the worm, and now Hu Xia has been crippled by our army, and it is only a matter of time before he perishes! On the other hand, the creep is arrogant and arrogant, often provoking my Great Wei, and the first few times he sent troops did not really hit it hard! Last year, the Rouran people invaded the Sene again, causing heavy losses to our court, at this time they were arrogant, and when we mobilized heavy troops to take advantage of his light enemy, we drove straight in, as long as we did not take it by surprise and attack it unprepared, we will be able to win a big victory! ”

Leping Wang Tuoba Pi saw that Cui Hao said reasonably, his heart was very anxious, and he glanced at Shangshu Ling Liu Jie, Liu Jie saw it, he stretched out his hand to cover his mouth and coughed twice to attract the attention of Taishi Ling Zhang Yuan.

Taishi Ling is in charge of the astronomical calendar, and the ancients advocated using the astrological science to divinate good fortune and evil.

Zhang Yuan looked over and saw Liu Jie glaring at him, he immediately understood, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, this year is the year of the self, belonging to the age of the three yin, Taibai Xing is in the west, so you can't send troops this year, otherwise there will be disaster!" ”

Cui Hao immediately retorted: "In ancient times, people often said that if the heavenly dog swallows the sun, there will be a disaster, and it is not appropriate to start a war, but now in the past few years, there have been many celestial phenomena of the heavenly dog swallowing the moon, and there should be torture and killing!" Worm was originally a vassal of my Great Wei, they rebelled with a vassal, and there was a big crime, and now my Great Wei sent troops to crusade against the guilty country, which is to strengthen the torture! ”

Zhang Yuan was speechless from arguing, and stepped aside.

Another official named Xu Wei stood up and said: "Your Majesty, Rouran is located in the wilderness of the desert north, a land that is resistant to hardships and colds, even if our dynasty gets their land, it cannot be cultivated, even if it captures their subjects, it cannot be driven, and besides, they come and go like the wind, they have no fixed place to live, and their actions are irregular, it is difficult to be completely tamed, please think twice, please think twice!" ”

Cui Hao debated this remark again, "Your Majesty, Zhang Yuan and Xu Wei are the officials in charge of the astronomical calendar, if it is their duty to start astronomy, but if it is talking about this personnel and the current situation, it is not their strength!" Rouran was originally a vassal of our dynasty, but he betrayed it later, and now my dynasty wants to send troops to crusade against the traitors and culprits, take back the land and people that belong to us, and let them be used by our dynasty, how can we say that they are useless? If you can really use the stars to predict good luck and evil, before our dynasty attacked Tongwan City, these two used the stars to say that there were great bad signs, but what about now? ”

At this time, Helian Chang, the former king of Hu Xia Kingdom, was among the military generals, and Zhang Yuan and Xu Wei were ashamed.

Tuoba Tao was very happy when he saw Cui Hao fighting with his tongue and saying that no one in the Manchu Dynasty dared to come forward to refute it, and immediately asked: "When does Cui Qing think it is better to send troops?" ”

Cui Hao arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, April is the time when Mobei warms up, the weeds grow wildly, the worms will definitely scatter and graze everywhere, and the troops cannot be concentrated. ”

Tuoba Tao was overjoyed in his heart, and he immediately issued a majestic and loud order: "I have made up my mind, the Tiger Army, the Zongzi Army, the left and right two compartments, the Guardian Army, and the guerrilla army will go out with me!" During my expedition, the king of Beiping and the Duke of Guangling stayed in the capital! ”

Ba Ba Song and Lou Fu Lian both stood up and hugged their fists and agreed: "The old minister obeys the order!" ”

Tuoba Tao continued to order: "Shangshu ordered Liu Jie to order you to quickly raise grain, grass, ordnance and other materials, and all the secretaries of the Qing family should perform their duties and not slack off." The matter of the expedition must be kept strictly confidential and must not be leaked to the outside world! ”

The ministers stood up and saluted: "The ministers obey the holy commandment!" ”

Tuoba Tao got up and walked out of the hall, Zong Ai shook off the dust and shouted: "Retreat from the dynasty-"

"Congratulations to Your Majesty!"

The ministers withdrew from the hall one after another, and Cui Hao was about to leave, when a little eunuch walked quickly and stood under a pillar to glance at him.

Cui Hao's heart moved, and he deliberately slowed down, waiting for the other ministers to walk away, then turned around and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" ”

The little eunuch looked left and right, and saw that there was no one around, so he said in a low voice: "Gong Cui, just now our family heard something by Your Majesty's side, Your Majesty likes Wan Yutong, the daughter of General Wandugui, but Miss Nawan didn't want to enter the palace to serve Your Majesty, so she went to the Xiaosheng Zen Monastery in Shanwu County to shave her hair and practice, but because she couldn't be ordained before, she was not really a monk!" Recently, more than a dozen bhikshunis came from the Tianzhu Master's country, which was enough to gather the number of bhikshunis who opened the altar to pass the ordination, and Miss Wan was ordained and ordained in the Xiaosheng Monastery, and His Majesty was very angry about this, and wanted to arrest those Tianzhu bhikshunis, but was dissuaded by the sect Cao."

"Oh?" Cui Hao's heart moved when he heard the news, and his mind turned countless times in an instant, and he said to the little eunuch: "Okay, I know about this, you go first!" ”

After Cui Hao left the palace, he did not go home, but let the carriage speed up and chase forward, and soon caught up with the carriage of the national teacher Kou Qianzhi, who was about to return to the Xuandu Altar Taoist Temple.

"National teacher, national teacher!" Cui Hao lifted the curtain of the car and shouted.

One of Kou Qian's ears was Cui Hao, this was his good friend, he was able to gain a foothold in the capital and become a national teacher, Cui Hao played a great role, he immediately called the groom: "Stop!" ”

The two carriages stopped, Cui Hao stepped out of his carriage, and then got into Kou Qianzhi's carriage.

Kou Qianzhi asked, "Bo Yuan, what's wrong with you?" Urgent? ”

Cui Hao smiled and said, "Master Kou, our chance to fight the forces of Buddhism has arrived!" ”

Cui Hao is a faithful believer in Taoism, has always advocated Taoist learning, and is very dissatisfied with the current Buddhism in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and because of this, when he learned that Kou Qianzhi came to Pingcheng, even if he took the initiative to visit, he also took Kou Qianzhi to live in his own home, and asked for advice day and night, and then recommended Kou Qianzhi to the emperor, Tuoba Tao originally didn't care much about Kou Qianzhi, but because it was recommended by Cui Hao, he announced that Kou Qianzhi would enter the palace to meet him, and this saw Tuoba Tao began to like and attach importance to him, Later, because Kou Qianzhi's prediction of military affairs was extremely accurate, Tuoba Tao was more convinced of him, so he canonized him as a national teacher.

Kou Qian was taken aback and immediately asked, "Where do you say this?" ”

Cui Hao immediately whispered in his ear, and the two secretly discussed for a long time before they separated and acted separately.

That night, Cui Hao entered the palace overnight to meet Tuobatao.

Tuoba Tao yawned and asked, "Cui Qing, why did you come to see me so late!" ”

"Your Majesty, in recent years, Buddhism has developed rapidly, and there are more and more Shamen monks, these people are not producing, but also befriending officials and generals, purchasing a large number of fields and houses, and there are folk believers who offer a lot of money and food, and the upper-class monks are poor and extravagant, and there are countless evils and authors, and the harm is very great! This is the evidence of the danger of Shamen to our dynasty collected by Wei Chen, please take a look at it! ”

Tuoba Tao felt that the situation was serious, and immediately took the chapter and looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more shocking he became, and after reading it, he remembered Wan Yutong's matter, and his heart was even more angry. He immediately said angrily: "It's lawless! Cui Qing, you come to draft the decree, from the date of promulgation of the edict, all those under the age of 50, regardless of monks and nuns, will be returned to the laity! From the prince to the concubine, it is forbidden to keep the sand gate privately, and hand over the hidden sand gate within a time limit, and if there is any concealment, the door will be destroyed. ”

"Yes!"

As soon as the edict was promulgated, it immediately caused a huge turmoil, and the government and the opposition discussed it a lot, and even exhorted Tuoba Tao to take back his life in the court.

Zhao Junsheng, who was presiding over the training in Nantianbao, received a letter sent by Zongai, which mentioned that the emperor was preparing to send troops to Rouran, and within a month or two, let Zhao Junsheng prepare and strive to gain some credit in this battle, so that he could speak for Zhao Junsheng in front of the emperor.

In addition, Zong Ai also mentioned in the letter that the emperor's edict to destroy the Buddha was probably caused by Wan Yutong.

Zhao Junsheng was stunned after reading the letter: "I'll wipe it, won't it, the truth behind Tuoba Tao's destruction of the Buddha turned out to be because of a woman?" ”

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