Chapter 823: Knowing the Son Mo Ruo's Father

By the Huangqu River, Li Xiu and Ma Ye sat firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, and did not seem to lose their interest in fishing because of Li Jin's trouble, although burning the Inspiration Temple was a big disaster, but this Inspiration Temple turned out to be a place to hide dirt and dirt, and usually bullying people and forcing them to buy and sell are not less, with Li Xiu's understanding of his son, I am afraid that it is likely that the Inspiration Temple was doing some illegal things, and they happened to be bumped into by Li Jin, and as a result, these hot-tempered little guys ran to the Inspiration Temple in a rage to make trouble.

If the Inspiration Temple was just a clean Buddhist temple, Li Xiu would probably feel guilty, and even at this time he would have stood up to make amends, but since the other party was not a good stubble, then he would not have any psychological burden, and even he was thinking that with the expansion of Buddhism's power, it would sooner or later affect the rule of the imperial court.

In fact, more than a hundred years later, the national strength of the Tang Dynasty had weakened, but when Tang Wuzong succeeded to the throne, he still launched a large-scale extermination of the Buddha and became one of the "three martial arts to destroy the Buddha", because at that time the Buddhism held a lot of land and property, and the overhaul of the temple wasted countless money, which has shaken the foundation of the Tang Dynasty's rule, so if the Buddha is not destroyed, I am afraid that the Buddha will destroy the Tang Dynasty.

Tang Wuzong's method of destroying Buddha is also very rough, countless Buddhist temples were demolished, the property of the temple was returned to the treasury, hundreds of thousands of monks and nuns were forcibly returned to the world, and many people in Buddhism were killed, because this extermination of Buddha reached a climax in Huichang five years, so it was called "Huichang Fa difficult" by Buddhism, as a result, this time the Buddha was destroyed, which caused an extremely serious blow to Buddhism, and it was not able to slow down for decades, and then finally recovered some vitality, and then encountered the destruction of Buddha by Zhou Shizong, coupled with the strict management of monks and Taoists in the Northern Song Dynasty, As a result, the divine power of the Central Plains was completely trampled under the feet of the imperial power, and there was no possibility of turning over.

Although Li Xiu is not very clear about the history of the destruction of Buddhism, he also knows some, at this time thinking of the impact that Buddhism may have on the imperial court, he is also thinking about the solution to Buddhism, speaking of which when Xuanzang left, he also wanted to strengthen Buddhism, although Li Xiu admired his courage and wisdom, but the two sides have different positions, in this kind of major matter related to the country and the nation, he will definitely not show favoritism!

Just when Li Xiu was pondering, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and then saw Li Jin riding a tall horse trotting forward, don't look at others small, but he likes to ride a high-headed horse, but he never rides the pony prepared for the child, of course, he has been learning to ride and shoot with Princess Pingyang or the guards in the palace since he was a child, and Ma Ye also occasionally pointed him out, and now he worships Xue Rengui as a teacher, and the riding and archery aspect is far from being comparable to ordinary people.

However, today Li Jin rode a horse but was a little sluggish, at first he still let the horse jog, but when he saw Li Xiu and Ma Ye by the river, he tightened the reins, controlled the horse to move forward step by step, and his little face was also full of apprehension, speaking of which, Li Jin was just nine years old this year, if it was calculated as a virtual age according to Datang, he should already be ten years old, which in Datang's eyes can no longer be regarded as a child, and can even barely be called a teenager.

Li Jin has been strong since he was a child, and he has not even been sick, and as the son of Li Xiu and Princess Pingyang, he has eaten well since he was a child, and he naturally looks taller than ordinary children, although he is not as good as his eldest brother Ping'anlang, but now it has reached Li Xiu's chin, and it is estimated that he is likely to surpass Li Xiu in size in the future, and his appearance has also inherited the advantages of his parents.

"If you want to come over, hurry up, what will it look like?" Ma Ye saw Li Jin in the distance and didn't dare to approach, his eyes glared angrily at the moment, he always thought that men should have the appearance of men, and they should dare to do things, so they were naturally a little angry at Li Jin for being so timid and entangled.

Seeing that Ma Ye was angry, Li Jin immediately jumped down, and then trotted to Ma Ye, and then cheekily hugged Ma Ye's arm and said coquettishly: "Grandpa Ma, my grandson has caused a big disaster this time, but I know that Grandpa Ma loves me the most, and I will definitely not blame my grandson!" ”

Li Jin knew that he didn't ask Li Xiu, and Ma Ye had always liked him the most, and he would ask him for everything, so he was the first to ask Ma Ye for help, as long as Ma Ye nodded, even if the father next to him wanted to punish himself, he would be dissuaded by Ma Ye.

"Hmph, stinky boy, it's useless for you to save anyone this time, you actually learned to set fire to others with others, do you want to kill people next time?" Li Xiu reprimanded with a glaring of eyes at this time, although Li Jin burned down the Inspiration Temple this time to eliminate harm for the people, but arson is not a good thing after all, and the court law also stipulates that arson is a serious crime, so Li Xiu does not want his son to do this kind of thing again.

"Father, I was wronged, if it weren't for the monks of the Inspiration Temple who were too deceitful, we wouldn't have set fire to their temple!" Li Jin saw that his father was angry, and immediately felt wronged for himself.

"What the hell is going on, that Inspiration Temple can't be bullying you, right?" Ma Ye also interjected at this time and asked, he had already proposed to Li Shimin to resign and retire, but Li Shimin had not agreed for the time being, so Fei Nu Si was still nominally in charge of him, and if he wanted, he could collect a batch of evil deeds that the Inspiration Temple had done before.

"Grandpa Ma, you don't know, the bald donkeys in the Inspiration Temple don't have a good thing, there are almost no things they don't do, and the people in Chang'an City are also deeply affected, this morning when I was playing in Chang'an City with a few brothers, I happened to meet a few scoundrels who went to collect debts from a widow, and we saw that the widow was pitiful, so we drove away the pike and asked the reason."

When Li Jin said this, his little face also showed an angry expression, and then he spoke again: "Later, we learned that this woman had to borrow the immortal library of the Inspiration Temple because her husband was sick before, but her husband finally died of illness, and he had to pull a pair of children from a woman's family, so he was naturally unable to repay the loan, and the monks in the temple instigated these pranksters to collect debts every day, and even snatched her children away and sold them to pay off the debts, we didn't expect that there would be such an evil monk at the feet of the Son of Heaven, In a fit of rage, he broke into the Temple of Inspiration and set fire to their temple! ”

"Good burn!" Ma Ye also slapped his thigh and praised when he heard this, which made Li Jin's eyes light up immediately, and he felt that he had finally found a backer.

"Uncle Ma, don't be deceived by this kid, he definitely didn't tell the truth!" is the so-called "knowing the son Mo Ruo's father", although Li Jin's reason is very vivid and reasonable, Li Xiu keenly found that Li Jin definitely did not tell the truth, at least not the real reason!