"Old monk ** see Your Majesty!" Seeing Zhao Chen and his party coming, several monks in front of Lingyin Temple had already walked up quickly, and they came to Zhao Chen, and the leading monk saluted.

"I've seen Master Abbot." Zhao Chen also bowed and said.

The leading monk is the abbot of Lingyin Temple**, who is quite famous in Jiangnan Buddhism. He looks to be in his fifties, and his appearance gives people an unusually dignified and calm feeling, and he is obviously a person who has achieved Buddhism and meditated and practiced all year round.

**At this moment, he was also secretly looking at Zhao Chen, in his opinion, Zhao Chen was heroic, his eyes were unusually bright, and there was an indescribable tenacity in his eyes. He had also seen Zhao Gou back then, but Zhao Gou's temperament was far inferior to Zhao Chen.

"Your Majesty, please come in!" **Speak slowly.

Zhao Chen smiled and followed ** and the others into the Lingyin Temple.

Lingyin Temple is famous in later generations, and the legend of Daoji monk is known to everyone, and no one knows it, but now Daoji has not yet been born, and there is no such person in Lingyin Temple. Although the current Lingyin Temple is also quite famous, it is not as good as that of later generations. However, in the vicinity of Lin'an City, this is the first temple.

The architecture of Lingyin Temple is also very different from that of later generations. Historically, Lingyin Temple has also been repaired and rebuilt many times. The Lingyin Temple in later generations was built on the basis of the Lingyin Temple in the late Qing Dynasty, and now it is only the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The current Lingyin Temple looks much more quaint than later generations, and the courtyard area is much larger.

When they entered through the mountain gate, they saw that there were pines and cypresses everywhere on both sides of the mountain gate, and the temple was unusually quiet.

Occasionally, a monk passed by, and when he saw Zhao Chen and others, he hurriedly saluted.

"Let's go to the Heavenly King's Hall and worship the Buddha." Zhao Chen said.

At that moment, ** hurriedly took Zhao Chen to the Tianwang Palace, where the Maitreya Buddha of Buddhism was enshrined.

Zhao Chen entered it and offered incense to the Buddha, not to mention it.

After staying in the Heavenly King's Hall for a while, they went to the Emperor's Hall again. This Huangjue Hall was called the "Mahavira Treasure Hall" in later generations, and it was dedicated to Shakyamuni Buddha.

After coming out of the Huangjue Palace, ** took Zhao Chen and others towards the west of the temple. During the Song Dynasty, there was a large mountain forest with lush greenery and cranes. These cranes are not afraid of people, when they see Zhao Chen and others coming, they don't fly away, and some cranes even come towards people, obviously they are very familiar with people.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Chen couldn't help laughing.

"Your Majesty, the cold spring is ahead." **Road.

Zhao Chen nodded, the cold spring is also a famous scenic spot in Lingyin Temple, and there have always been many people there to enjoy the scenery.

After a few steps forward, a small clear lake appeared in front of me, and this was where the cold spring was located. The spring of the cold spring is in the middle of a small lake. It was not until the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty that the spring of the cold spring was moved to the shore.

The springs here are crystal clear, and even in the middle of summer, they are cold. For more than 1,000 years, the cold spring has been gushing endlessly, and there is a stream flowing down the mountain next to it.

In the Tang Dynasty, someone built five pavilions on the small lake where the cold spring was located, and only two of the five pavilions were left in later generations, but in the Song Dynasty, all five pavilions were there.

Zhao Chen and the others came to the "Cold Spring Pavilion", where he sat down, and then ordered the ministers and monks to sit down as well.

The lake and mountains here are picturesque!

Zhao Chen felt in a very good mood.

Since coming to Jiangnan, Zhao Chen has also been dealing with official business every day, so does he have time to rest.

In just two or three months, Zhao Chen met with more than 100 officials.

These officials are all from all over the world, and Zhao Chen met with them mainly to appease these officials.

In addition to meeting with officials, he also met with countless scholars, countless famous old people in various places, and so on.

In addition, he has traveled to more than ten prefectures and counties around Lin'an, visiting people all over the country, also to appease the people.

During this period of time, Zhao Chen issued more than ten holy decrees, all to calm Jiangnan!

Now the agricultural tax in Jiangnan has been reduced by half, which is the same as that of Guanshan, Hanzhong, and Sichuan! In Dongting Lake, Lianghuai, Henan and other places, because of the catastrophe, there was so much devastation, Zhao Chen has ordered the exemption of taxes in those places for five years, and encouraged the people of Jiangnan to go to Lianghuai, Henan and other places! The people of Jiangnan, as long as someone is willing to go to those places, can get the land distributed by the government! In ancient times, land was the most precious possession, and countless people spent their lives saving two acres of land for future generations! However, the time for the issuance of the holy decree is still short, and for the time being, not many people from Jiangnan have gone to Lianghuai, Henan and other places.

In addition to these, Zhao Chen also ordered commercial tax reform! However, there is some pressure to reform the commercial tax, and it will take longer.

At present, in general, Jiangnan has been stable.

During this time, there has been no turmoil in Jiangnan! The government offices in various places were running smoothly, and both the officials and the common people accepted the fact that the new emperor had arrived. Moreover, with the implementation of some policies to benefit the people, the people have begun to support the new emperor and the new court.

Zhao Chen sat here and pondered, ** had already sent tea and snacks and put them in front of Zhao Chen, and Zhao Chen came back to his senses.

"Your Majesty, there are rumors outside that you want to destroy the Buddha, but is there such a thing?" **At the moment, there is some apprehension.

"Destroy the Buddha? Where does this start? Zhao Chen said.

"Someone outside said that Henan Shaolin Temple sent someone to assassinate His Majesty, so His Majesty hated Shaolin and Buddhism, so he wanted to destroy the Buddha." **Road.

"Destroy the Buddha, I wouldn't do such a thing! I came to Lingyin Temple today to meet the Buddha and offer incense to the Buddha, which is enough to represent my attitude towards Buddhism! Zhao Chen said with a smile.

In ancient China, especially before the Song Dynasty, there were many "extermination of Buddhas"! Basically, every dynasty has one or two kings who "exterminate the Buddha", the most famous of which is the three martial arts and one Buddha extermination incident! Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, etc., all destroyed Buddhism, and more than ten other emperors have carried out restrictive measures on Buddhism.

There were various reasons why these emperors wanted to "exterminate Buddhism" or restrict Buddhism, but one of the most important was economic.

Ancient Buddhist disciples had many privileges, they did not have to serve forced labor, they did not have to pay taxes, so many wealthy families joined Buddhism in order not to pay taxes. It was also common for Buddhist disciples to oppress ordinary people, issuing usurious loans and forcibly seizing land. They tempted the people to donate money, claiming that after the people donated money, they could be exempted from all sins and reincarnated into good families in the next life.

Before the Song Dynasty, Buddhism had a lot of wealth!

When Tang Wuzong destroyed the Buddha, the history books recorded that "the world is very rich, and the Buddha has seven or eight"! Seven tenths and eight-tenths of the world's wealth are occupied by Buddhism! Buddhism "labors manpower in the work of civil engineering, and takes advantage of the ornament of Jinbao; When the bereaved prince is close to the teacher, he violates the precepts of his spouse. Bad laws harm people, and there is no way to go beyond this." When Wuzong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed Buddhism, the world had just experienced a great war at that time, and the population was only more than 20 million, but the number of Buddhist monks exceeded 3 million, and the number of slaves owned by Buddhist monks also exceeded 1 million!

Buddhist monks, who occupy one-tenth or more of the world's population, do not have to work or pay taxes, but only enjoy social wealth.

And ancient populations were an important resource! A tenth or even more of the country's population does not have to serve in the military, it will not reproduce, and in such a situation, the interests of the country will suffer greatly!

It is precisely for these reasons that the kings of the past dynasties have "destroyed the Buddha" many times, and each time they "destroyed the Buddha", they were called "Dharma Difficulties" by the Buddhist disciples of later generations.

Of course, the so-called extermination of Buddhism is not to exterminate Buddhism, but to order most of the monks to return to the laity. At the time of Emperor Wuzong of Zhou, three million monks were forced to return to the laity, one million monastic servants became freed, and all monks under the age of fifty had to join the army to serve the country. At the time of Tang Wuzong, millions of monks were forced to return to the world, and the hundreds of thousands of slaves owned by the monks also became free people again! Also, dismantle temples all over the place! Zhou Wuzong demolished more than 40,000 temples, and later Zhou Shizong demolished 30,336 temples, confiscated a large number of Buddha statues, bells, pans and other magic weapons, minted them into coins, and passed the world. After Zhou Shizong is a generation of male masters, he believes that Buddhism is the world's cancer, great damage to the world, so the determination to destroy the Buddha is very firm, at that time there is a bronze Guanyin Bodhisattva statue in Zhenzhou is abnormal, no one dares to damage, Zhou Shizong heard the news, personally came to the temple, smashed the chest of Guanyin Bodhisattva with an axe.

** Thought that Zhao Chen was going to destroy the Buddha, so he was nervous, and when he heard Zhao Chen's assurance, he relieved himself.

Zhao Chen came to Lingyin Temple this time, of course, because he was too tired these days, so he wanted to rest, and another reason was to appease the hearts of these Buddhist monks! Zhao Chen has also received news that some Shaolin Temple monks have entered Jiangnan and spread rumors to the major temples in Jiangnan, saying that he Zhao Chen wants to destroy the Buddha! Buddhism has a great influence among the people, and there are many people who believe in Buddhism, so Zhao Chen also had to take action.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" **Road.

"The current Buddhism is very different from the previous Buddhism! Buddhism guides the people of the world to be good, and I have no aversion to Buddhism. On the contrary, I will also donate 100,000 taels of silver for the repair of Lingyin Temple. Zhao Chen said.

"Great!" ** smiled with surprise on his face.

Zhao Chen also had a faint smile on his face! He is not afraid that Buddhist temples will damage the economy of the world and harm the interests of the country! The Buddhism of the Song Dynasty has been very different from the previous Buddhism, after many times of exterminating the Buddha, the Buddhism in the extravagant sect has no soil for survival, to now, Zen Buddhism based on asceticism has become the mainstream of Buddhism! Moreover, the Song Dynasty government has learned the lessons of the past and has made great restrictions on the number of fixed properties that temples can have! For example, Lingyin Temple now has more than 10,000 acres of land, and these are still the rewards of many emperors after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, of course, Zhao Chen will not reward land again.

"Your Majesty, how are you going to deal with the Shaolin Temple?" At this time, a monk next to him asked.

"If the Shaolin Temple is willing to submit to the imperial court, I will naturally not do anything to them." Zhao Chen said.

"What if they don't want to?" The monk said again.

"If you don't want to, I'm not going to be polite to them! The disciples of Buddhism are mainly Qing cultivators, but they want to influence the government and meddle in national affairs! Buddhism is not allowed to kill, but they assassinate me! The ancestor of Bodhidharma passed down the Yijin Sutra and the Pulp Washing Sutra back then, which was originally to let Shaolin disciples strengthen their bodies and understand Buddhism, but they developed it into a killing technique! Shaolin Temple, must be rectified! Zhao Chen said.

He can close the heart of Jiangnan Buddhism, for the stability of the world, but for the Shaolin Temple, he will never let go! Before, Shaolin Temple sent someone to assassinate him, and that's all, now he has become the unique king of the Great Song Dynasty, at such a moment, Shaolin Temple even sent people south to demagogue, which has reached the limit of Zhao Chen's tolerance.

After Zhao Chen finished speaking, the monk also had nothing to say.

"By the way, Lingyin Temple should resume its original name!" Zhao Chen said again.

It turned out that in this era, Lingyin Temple was no longer called Lingyin Temple. After Zhao Gou came to Jiangnan, on the one hand, he was content here, unwilling to fight with the Jurchens, unwilling to rescue Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan and others, but on the other hand, he wanted to express his "filial piety", so he renamed Lingyin Temple "Chong'en Xianqin Temple", and Zhao Chen restored this temple to "Lingyin Temple".

"Your Majesty, no!" At this time, Chen Dong said suddenly.

"Why not?" Zhao Chen said.

"Emperor Jianyan changed Lingyin Temple to Chong'en Xianqin Temple, which is also a piece of filial piety! Although he is a traitor, there is nothing wrong with this filial piety, and Your Majesty cannot change the name of this temple! Chen Dongdao.

"Filial piety is not just talking, but relying on practical actions! The Jurchens captured the two emperors, and instead of rescuing the two emperors, he negotiated peace with the Jurchens! The two emperors suffered in the north, but he lived a luxurious life! He is so unfilial, he even wants to get the false name of 'filial piety'! Amusing! Even if he changed the names of all the temples in the world, could he rescue the two emperors? I will return the Lingyin Temple to its original name today, and in the future, I will lead the troops to the north and rescue my father and grandfather, wouldn't it be far better than him. Zhao Chen said coldly.

"Your Majesty is right, filial piety is not only to say, but more importantly to do! This Lingyin Temple is to be changed back to its original name. Huang Qianshan complimented on the side.

Chen Dong's face turned red, but after a while, he still nodded.

He was pedantic, but he had an upright personality. At this moment, he felt that what Zhao Chen said made sense, so he nodded and admitted it immediately.

Zhao Chen sat in the Cold Spring Pavilion, drinking tea and eating snacks, feeling very comfortable.

He said no more, and the people did not dare to say more.

"Your Majesty, the world has changed greatly over the years! The old monk thought that my Great Song Dynasty was about to perish, but who knew that His Majesty was born out of thin air, turning the tide and not being able to turn the tide, so that my Great Song Dynasty could continue! Jiangnan admires His Majesty unusually. After a while, ** spoke.

In fact, he just wanted to compliment Zhao Chen, hoping that Lingyin Temple could get more support from the imperial court.

"My Great Song Dynasty will never perish, and will always stand on the land of China." Zhao Chen said.

"This ......" ** was stunned.

"Your Majesty, is there an immortal dynasty in this world? How prosperous the original Han and Tang dynasties were, didn't they also perish? It takes only a few hundred years for a dynasty to fall from its rise to its decline, and after the fall of the imperial court, another imperial court will appear, and then it will be a few hundred years. Its rise is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden, it is the case in all dynasties, and it is difficult for me to escape this law in the Great Song Dynasty. At this time, an old monk next to him who looked very old was Dao.

"In your opinion, why can't all dynasties escape this law?" Zhao Chen looked at the old monk and said.

"Most of the founding monarchs of the past were sage, and the policies they promulgated were also beneficial to the people. But when the founding monarch was there, his policies were able to be pursued. Once the emperor died, his policies may not be able to continue. The death of people is the reason for the change of dynasties. Even if a Saint Monarch appears in one generation, it will only affect for a few decades. Tang Taizong declared that the rule of Zhenguan was only more than 20 years. No matter how powerful Qin Shi Huang was, none of the six kingdoms was an opponent, but after the death of Qin Shi Huang, Qin II was weak, and the Qin Dynasty only lasted a few decades before perishing. The old monk said.

Zhao Chen nodded slightly.

"This has been the case throughout the ages. Even if Your Majesty is holy, can you guarantee that your children and grandchildren will also be holy? The old monk said.

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