The rule of officials, the family, and Buddhism are the three mountains that every emperor must face in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Li Shimin understands this matter more deeply than ordinary people. has only been in power for half a year, and all kinds of chaos make him hate to mention the three-foot Qingfeng, and the blood will flow like a river. It's a pity that if you want to be a Ming Jun, a Heavenly Khan, or even an emperor through the ages, simple and brutal killing will not work.

Now, this son who was sent by God to assist him has given such a generous gift on a big holiday. If you use it properly, you can do it in all three places!

Li Shimin is becoming more and more satisfied with this son, and when he heard Shi Teng say that he was not in a good mood, he had already gone back to the palace to rest, and hurriedly ordered the imperial doctor to follow him to take a look, don't let this collision cause the injury, then it will be troublesome.

Walking along Suzaku Street, Li Shimin was an eye-opener. After walking all the way, in the courtiers behind him, more than a dozen obedient kneeling on the side of the street and waiting for the fate.

Seeing that Master Fahui, a senior monk of the Great Ci'en Temple, was also standing on the side of the street and chanting, Li Shimin was very surprised, this was a senior monk who had been in the palace to talk about the Tao. Moreover, the Great Mercy and Grace Temple is also a well-known place for penance, there are not many monks, and the poor are often interrupted, and the degree of application is also very poor. But looking at the pile around him, it doesn't look like a poor person at all.

"So much silver, all copied from the Great Mercy and Grace Temple?" Li Shimin had to ask clearly, this senior monk is a figure admired by the emperor, and it would be difficult to explain if he was rumored to gossip back.

"Back to Your Majesty! There are a total of 12 monks in the Great Ci'en Temple, and the food and clothing on weekdays are more shabby than ordinary people. However, there is a secret room under his meditation room, in which more than 24,000 catties of new and old copper coins, more than 8,000 catties of iron coins, and about 6,000 catties of copper ingots and copper mirrors are copied. One hundred and forty horses of fine Shu silk and thirty quintals of raw silk. There are 2,000 acres of high-quality land under its name, and there are 16 shops in the West Market......"

Listening to this long list, Li Shimin and the ministers behind him were all messy, this is the monk who cries poor all day long, shouting that he would rather starve to death than spoil the cultivator? It's so subversive!

Indeed, there are many eminent monks who have made a grand wish, saying that they are frugal and use it to shape the golden body of the Buddha. But what is special, while pretending to be poor and pitiful, you are also opening a shop to collect land rent and money, and you keep saying that monks don't talk about shopping? This is taking everyone for fools!

Even the famous moral monks are in this school, and those others still have to see?

Someone else asked unrelentingly: "Is there no real ascetic monk in this Chang'an City?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen. Eighty-six Buddha properties, every family has hidden property. There are a few places that obviously rely on drinking porridge to get by, and tens of thousands of copper coins and property have been saved in the secret room. ”

Li Shimin flicked his sleeves with hatred: "No wonder Xiao Er said that Buddhism has long been cut off, and the monks in the world are all cannibalistic liars!" Wang Jue, the proposed edict, told the garrisons in various places to immediately confiscate all the Buddha properties in the world. Make all ...... The monks gathered in Shaolin and Baima two temples, and the people who escaped from the house were sent to the division, and the innocent were selected to garrison the two temples after the assessment, and the rest of the people were all returned to the world...... In the territory of Datang, except for these two temples, all the other temples are nationalized......"

The first stick of the first year of Zhenguan was fiercely pumped to the Buddha's door. Those monks in the Tang Dynasty, the Buddha property accumulated over hundreds of years was easily copied into the treasury. At the same time, a large number of officials implicated in Buddhism were also investigated, and they were degraded and exiled.

Another major source of the Buddha extermination incident, the Taiyuan Wang family, was also severely scraped in this incident. These two knives were cut down, so that Zhenguan Junchen, who was originally in extreme financial difficulties, made a windfall. The hands are much looser, and the work is more refreshing.

And all this has little to do with Li Kuan. As early as the eighteenth day of the first month after the Lantern Festival, he quietly set off with Wan Caihong and Changsun Jing and returned to Huashan. Half a month after he left Chang'an, on the auspicious day of February Erlong's head, 150 children of good families selected from all over the country also embarked on the road to study in Huashan.

Corresponding to these joys is the gloom and gloom of Buddhism in various parts of the Tang Dynasty. The monks were forcibly arrested by the garrison in an arrogant manner, screened on the spot and sent to Luoyang.

And the so-called screening is to check whether there is a criminal record. Then ask if you want to go to Luoyang to fight for the thousand places or just return the vulgar. At this time, the number of monks in the Tang Dynasty was between 200,000 and 300,000. In such a huge total, there are only 1,000 in the end, and even if you are lucky, you will have to face comprehensive suppression by the government, and you can foresee what the future will be.

Such a rough and tough method directly made most of the monks who were not firm in their position return the customs on the same day. Using the confiscated money to pay severance pay and settling down on the spot has become a merit of local officials in household registration. It can be described as a benefit without expense, killing multiple birds with one stone.

Shaolin and White Horse Temples were also copied. The little wealth that our ancestors have saved for generations has been filled into the treasury! But they were very fortunate to get 10,000 acres of land, and since then the monks of the two monasteries have obtained food and clothing by their own labor. The local government was instructed to monitor the monks of the two monasteries in all directions in the future, and once it was found that there was a relationship or asked for sesame oil money, they would immediately send it to the official.

The monks and nuns who are sent to the two monasteries from all over the country will conduct a public assessment around the Dragon Boat Festival in May, and finally select 1,000 monks with good conduct to stay and practice, and everyone else will return to the laity.

Because of this, various kinds of rebellions broke out in temples around the country. There are those who copy the knife and do it directly, of course, there is only one possibility of being directly eliminated by the powerful Tang Army. There are also those who show their intentions by means of hunger strikes, self-immolation, etc., and when encountering this, the garrison will give the highest courtesy: pay attention to the salute and send the high monk Xiden Bliss. Wait until all those who want to die are dead, and then arrest all those who don't want to die, and they will not be affected at all.

Puji Temple and the Taiyuan royal family have become the public enemies of Buddhism in the world. It was because of the little bad thing they did that they hit the hands of the King of Chu, which led to this tragic incident of destroying the Buddha. Since Buddhism entered the east, for hundreds of years, the merits and wealth accumulated by countless predecessors have been dispersed. Not only has the Hongfa become difficult since then, but even the survival of the monks themselves has become a problem.

Don't dare to complain about King Chu, after all, no one can let go of the ugly thing of human trafficking. Besides, such a powerful existence, I don't dare to hate it. I had to change the direction and pick a soft persimmon to pinch it. Puji Temple has been arrested by the whole family, and only the Taiyuan royal family is left!

From this time on, the business of the Taiyuan royal family in all parts of the country has been squeezed out in all directions. Many "former" Buddhist disciples used all kinds of jade burning methods to launch suicide attacks on them again and again, causing the Wang family to smoke everywhere.

And all this is only the beginning of the disaster of the Wang family. In addition to the revenge of Buddhism, they also have to face the wrath of the people from all over the country!