Compared with his eldest brother Yang Yong, Yang Guang, the king of Jin who was also driven back to Bingzhou by Yang Jian, had no time to pay attention to other big and small matters in the past two months, because as soon as he returned to Bingzhou, he encountered a very tricky thing in his face. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, Yang Guang left Chang'an and went north, until he arrived in Bingzhou, he still remembered the matter of clearing the customs freely, especially when he walked to the territory of Fenzhou, he received an urgent report from Zhang Xutuo from Chang'an, saying that Xinyi Shitai resolutely refused to accompany Sima Luo to Qizhou, and asked the queen through Xinyan Shitai to send another apprentice Lichen to accompany Sima Luo to settle elsewhere, and the queen had agreed to Xinyi's request.

Two years ago, the queen mother wanted to be promoted to the abbot of Xingshanni Temple in Chang'an's new capital, she refused to leave Wanshanni Temple, this time she was ordered to accompany Sima Luo to leave Chang'an, she pushed back again, could it be that this Wanshanni Temple really hides some ulterior secrets, so that Xinyi dare not leave for a moment? Yang Guang was more suspicious of Xinyi's master than when he was in Chang'an, and immediately sent someone to reply to Zhang Xutuo, leaving him in Chang'an City to continue to be responsible for monitoring Xinyi and reporting her latest movements at any time.

Worried about continuing to follow the clues of the heart, Yang Guang didn't care about visiting the people along the way, and returned straight to Bingzhou with the hussar battalion.

Wang Shao, Li Che, and Zhang Heng led a cadre of Hebei Dao Xingtai to take Yang Guang into the main hall of Jinyang Palace and sat down. ”

"There's nothing unusual about the Turks, is it?" Yang Guangshu was attentive, and did not ask Wang Shao what happened, but first turned to Li Che, who was the commander-in-chief of the Jin Wangfu military, and asked.

Li Che stepped forward, clenched his fists and said: "The tribe of the photo has been hit hard by the Tiele Abba Division, and the vitality has not yet recovered, since the photo returned to Zihe Town more than ten days ago, except for sending people from time to time to urge the imperial court to send troops to help it attack and destroy the Western Turkic Apo tribe, the situation outside the pass is very calm. ”

"That's good." Yang Guang nodded with satisfaction, and then turned to Wang Shao and asked, "The strange thing that Wang Servant said just now, I don't know how to do it?" ”

"In accordance with the imperial edict, the implementation of the Great Suo Xiang Reading among the state capitals, verifying and registering the number of people, it was Zhang Shangshu who was presiding over it, or asked Zhang Shangshu to report to the prince in detail." Wang Shao turned to look at Zhang Heng and said.

"Jianping, then you can talk about it."

"Lord Yu, as Wang Servant said, since the lower officials presided over the implementation of the Dasuo Maung Yue among the nineteen state capitals in Hebei Province, including the Daxingguo Temple in Bingzhou, thirty or forty temples in the state capitals have been full of popularity, and there is an endless stream of men and women who have taken the initiative to ask for ordination, according to the number provided by Master Huilin, in just over two months, there have been about 1340,000 more monks and nuns under the rule of Hebei Province, and until now, this number is still increasing." Zhang Heng stepped out of the train and reported to Yang Guangyu.

Under the rule of Hebei Province, the state governments re-advocated Buddhism and built temples to win people's hearts, which was originally a good governance that Yang Guang adopted An Ruoxi's advice and vigorously promoted and implemented. Until Yang Guang accompanied the photograph to return to the court, under the auspices of Master Huilin, the nineteen state capitals under the rule of Hebei Province have not only built thirty or forty temples, but also the incense in each temple is very vigorous, and the number of monks and nuns who enter the temple to practice is also growing steadily.

At this time, when he heard Zhang Hengyu report that in the more than two months since he returned to Chang'an, the temples had increased by about 130,000 monks and nuns. Where can there be 130,000 or 40,000 monks and nuns in 30 or 40 temples, and most of the monks and nuns go to the temples to recite scriptures and practice during the day, and they still go back to their respective homes at night? ”

"Lord Wang, that's probably it." Zhang Heng replied unexpectedly to Yang Guang, "After receiving a report from the abbots of the temples in various places about the skyrocketing number of monks and nuns in the temple, Master Huilin informed Xingtai in time. Because this matter involves both monks and laymen, the lower officials dare not arbitrarily judge, so they look forward to the prince after returning to the town, and the prince will deal with it personally. ”

"Do you mean that as many as 1340,000 newly ordained monks and nuns did not sincerely enter the monastery to practice, but were instructed by their master to hide in various monasteries to avoid the imperial court's implementation of the Great Suo Maung Yue?" Yang Guang saw that Zhang Heng said solemnly, as if he had reported the wrong number of people, and couldn't help but ask in shock.

"The lower officials thought that this was an expedient measure taken by the wealthy right of the Hebei Prefecture that did not dare to directly oppose and resist the imperial edict." Zhang Heng then explained, "Instructing all the slaves in the family to enter the temple and register as monks and nuns can not only evade the verification of the imperial court and register people, so as to avoid a large number of slaves and customers in the family from leaving their nationality and becoming commoners who pay taxes directly to the imperial court, but also because the temple is too small to accommodate these many monks and nuns to live in the temple for cultivation, in fact, these slaves and customers are still left for the master's family to send and serve, and their calculation is not exquisite!" ”

"The rest of the people are scattered, Wang Servant, Qi Angong, Jianping, the three of you will follow me to Daxingguo Temple now, this king wants to see with his own eyes what the temple is now lively!" Yang Guang took the case and commanded loudly.

Accompanied by Wang Shao, Li Che, and Zhang Heng, Yang Guang immediately rushed to Daxingguo Temple to see what was going on, regardless of the fatigue of the saddle horse. It turned out to be a step too late.

Before Yang Guang and the others turned into the street where the Daxingguo Temple was located, they heard the voices of people in the streets and alleys from a distance. With a little curiosity, Yang Guang personally came to the entrance of the alley to take a look, and couldn't help but gasp: the entire street and alley in front of the mountain gate of Daxingguo Temple was densely packed with monks and nuns who were monks and nuns, and the number of people was less than 10,000, and there were 8,000 people. What made Yang Guang even more ridiculous was that these so-called monks and nuns sitting in the streets and alleys outside the Daxingguo Temple were not chanting sutras and chanting Buddha, but were laughing and chatting about their daily routines, and the solemn Daxingguo Temple had simply become a bazaar in front of the door.

Ignoring the opposition of Wang Shao and others, Yang Guang insisted on squeezing into the crowd gathered at the entrance of the alley, and pretended to be puzzled and asked a bald monk next to him who didn't even have a seat in the alley: "May I ask Master, what scripture is being recited in this Daxingguo Temple today?" ”