Changsun Sheng led Li Jing to adopt the strategy of supporting the weak and retaining the strong, and successfully forced the Eastern Turkic Dulan Khan to abandon the plan of raising troops to attack the Sui, and the above table continued to bow to the Great Sui, initially stabilizing the situation in northern Xinjiang, while Yang Guang, the king of Jin who was far away in the south of the Fusui River in Guangling, was facing a severe test that he had never encountered before.

Unlike the Jiangling area, which was originally under the Houliang Dynasty guarded by Cui Hongdu, the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, which were originally under the direct control of Nan Chen, did not have a situation in which the landlords and wealthy households besieged the local prefecture and county government offices, but there were even more incidents in which thousands of monks and nuns came to the local government offices one after another.

The Buddha in the south of the Yangtze River has gone through the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen dynasties for hundreds of years, and there are no less than hundreds of thousands of monks and nuns practicing in tens of thousands of Buddhist temples in various states and counties.

At the same time, Pei Yun sent to various parts of the Jiangnan to investigate the silverfish who colluded with officials and bandits to forcibly collect the people's food and silk, and reported that they found out that most of these so-called silverfish were listed as monks, and they usually lived in Buddhist temples as cover, but in fact they were doing some shady things.

Based on this, Yang Guang could basically conclude that the incident of monks and nuns from all over Jiangnan gathering in front of the government office was instigated by these lawless people, so he deliberately ordered the governors and garrisons of various prefectures and counties in Jiangnan to exert ammunition and pressure to quell the incident as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, when Yang Guang convened the civil and military officials in the council hall of the Guangling Governor's Mansion and was about to pass on the order to suppress it, he was strongly opposed by Shi Zhangheng, the head of the palace who had previously presided over the implementation of the Juntian system under his order, and Zhuge Ying, who had recently entered the shogunate.

"Lord, the folk Buddha in Jiangnan has been worshipping Buddha for hundreds of years, if the prince orders the local government offices and garrisons to forcibly suppress it, the officials will think that it is extremely unfavorable to implement the uniform field system in all parts of Jiangnan in the future." Zhang Heng directly raised his objections.

Compared with him, although Zhuge Ying's words were euphemistic, they were more to the point, and Yang Guang was deeply moved: "Lord Wang, I have lived in Jiangnan for a long time, and I know that the tens of thousands of Buddhist temples all over the south of the Yangtze River are supported by the major high gates and landlords in the Nanchen period. For this reason, it is the right way to ask the prince to include the future offerings to the Buddhist temples in various places into the imperial court's policy of implementing the Juntian system in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Yang Guang ignored Zhang Heng, stared at Zhuge Ying with his eyes and asked, "Please teach me, how to solve the problem of offering to the Jiangnan Buddhist Temple?" ”

Zhuge Ying had only recently entered the shogunate of the King of Jin, and Yang Guang was not as free to talk to Zhang Heng and others, and after a little hesitation, he replied after a careful consideration: "According to common sense, Buddhist temples should be supported by believers voluntarily paying for food, but according to the long-standing practice in Jiangnan, the Buddhist temples should be enshrined by the major high gates, landlords pay for food, and now before the implementation of the Juntian system, you might as well first fund the Buddhist temples funded by the local governments, and wait for the future to slowly figure it out, so as not to arouse the dissatisfaction of the Buddhist sect......"

Pei Yun, who had previously suggested that Yang Guang would use bullet pressure to forcibly pacify the rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River, did not wait for Yang Guang to speak, and first refuted Zhuge Ying and said: "As far as I know, since the imperial court raised troops in the ninth year of the emperor's reign, the grain used to pacify the rebellion in various parts of Jiangnan accounted for half of the imperial court rent, and now the government will fund the support of hundreds of thousands of monks and nuns in Jiangnan, which is tantamount to a huge amount of extra expenses for Pingkong, not to mention that this matter has reached Chang'an, it will definitely cause criticism among the courtiers, that is, the governors and county governors in all parts of Jiangnan, Most of them won't approve of it. Moreover, after investigation, it was learned that this rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River Buddhism was obviously instigated by a small number of silverfish living in the Buddhist temple, and if we did not use thunderous means to rectify it, and only blindly appeased and appeased it, it was tantamount to raising tigers and causing trouble, and it was absolutely not feasible. ”

Although Yang Guang felt that Zhuge Ying had explained the root cause of the rebellion in front of him, he did not agree with the countermeasures he proposed, but for a while he couldn't think of a way to quickly quell the chaos in addition to sending troops to suppress it, so he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

However, within two or three days, some Huiji, Jiangzhou, and other places came to report that the monks and nuns gathered in front of the local government offices had begun to forcibly break into the state and county government offices and government treasury and loot money, silk, and grain.

Faced with the rapidly spreading and increasingly severe situation, more than a dozen subordinates led by Pei Yun once again found Yang Guang and suggested to him that they should quickly quell the rebellion of Buddhism by sending troops to suppress it, and take advantage of the situation to find out the black sheep who instigated the rebellion, kill one by one, and remove the obstacles to the implementation of the uniform land system.

Yang Guang couldn't make up his mind to send troops to suppress it because of Zhang Heng and Zhuge Ying's words a few days ago, so after thinking about it repeatedly, he decided to go to Guangling Academy to ask Gu Shi, a Confucian in Jiangnan, who was compiling books here, for advice.

Gu Shi listened to Yang Guang's explanation of his intentions, and when he muttered, he suddenly asked Yang Guangdao: "I heard that the prince intends to hold a thousand monks meeting in Guangling, but I don't know why this matter was not resolved later?" ”

When Yang Guang heard this, his heart moved, and he explained to Gu Shi: "It's just that because of repeated changes later, I haven't taken this matter into account for a while. Mr. means ......"

Gu Shi smiled and didn't answer, and then asked, "But I don't know what the prince's intention is to hold this Thousand Monks Meeting?" ”

Yang Guangcai wanted to answer directly, "Win the hearts of the people in Jiangnan by promoting Buddhism", but suddenly seemed to have an understanding, and asked Gu Shidao: "Sir, don't you think that in today's situation, the Thousand Monks Association can still do it?" ”

Gu Shi shook his head and replied: "Previously, the prince had already thought of a way to gather the people's hearts and gather people's hopes by holding a thousand monks' meeting. Although I am in Confucianism, I also know that among the various sects and sects of Buddhism in the south of the Yangtze River, the Tiantai Sect, which was first opened by Master Zhiqi of Tiantai Mountain in eastern Zhejiang, is the most popular, and I have heard that the prince and Master Zhiqi have had a relationship, so why not ask Master Zhiqi for a solution? ”

Yang Guang was plucked by Gu Shi, suddenly woke up, and then burst out of an amazing idea in his mind, immediately bid farewell to Gu Shi, returned to the Guangling Governor's Mansion, and ordered Pei Yun to send people to rush to all parts of the Jiangnan as soon as possible, and released the news that the King of Jin will soon go to Tiantai Mountain to meet Master Zhiqi, and will convene monks from all over the south of the Yangtze River in Tiantai Temple to jointly study the essence of Buddhism. All of them were cleared out of the Buddhist gate and handed over to the local government for severe punishment.