Hearing the prince's categorical refusal, Master Zhiran and the others immediately took a breath of cold air.

Yifeng's face did not change, and he asked: "What does the prince mean by this? You should know that now that the Buddha Dao is swollen, only by dredging and sweeping away the turbidity can we save all the people from fire and water, and can we uphold the Buddha Dao and get on the right track." ”

Wei Huang said: "Your strategy may be correct, but now that the time has not come, it may be counterproductive to rashly admonish." ”

Yifeng said: "Prince Yu, the disciples have also heard a little about this matter, but the victims really can't wait. Listening to Elder Juesong of Baoxiang Temple, the imperial court household Shangshu is also like a clever woman who is difficult to cook without rice, it is impossible to solve these major problems such as famine, and now every time it passes, I don't know how many victims have fallen and died, the prince, the disciple is really anxious!"

Wei Huang shook his head and said lightly: "This matter is far more simple than you can know. ”

In fact, Wei Huang also has unspeakable hardships in his heart, now the prince of the Dawu royal family, the second prince and the third prince are stationed at the border, the fourth prince is dying, and the fifth prince and the sixth prince are wandering among the court officials, all grabbing benefits in Buddhism.

Wei Huang really knew that this would destroy the purity of Buddhism, but as soon as Wei Huang asked, the two brothers said that they supported Buddhism for the sake of the prince, and they supported the prince, and Wei Huang really had no steps to go down.

Forget about his two younger brothers, and the most important thing in front of him is that the Queen Mother is seriously ill.

Since she believes in Buddhism, in fact, she is just like the five princes and six princes, just floating on the surface of Buddhism, but Emperor Wu shows filial piety for the world and aspires to become a 'prince of benevolence and filial piety'.

These, tightly is a microcosm of the entanglement between the Dawu royal family and Buddhism, as well as the court officials and Buddhism are also deeply involved, the entire Dawu country's court, once it begins to reform the Buddhism, it will hurt the muscles and bones, it will be bloody, including the crown prince, the Dawu royal family will also set off a storm.

Originally, Emperor Wu couldn't make up his mind, and right now, it was not the right time.

Yifeng said: "But those victims—"

Wei Huang stopped and said, "To be honest, maybe this prince has not reached the realm of practicing Buddhism, or maybe my responsibilities are different from yours. I only know that since ancient times, there has been sacrifice in changing the law.

"I am also very sad about the deaths and injuries of the victims now, but the change is to pull a thread and move the whole body, and if it is not handled properly, I am afraid that not only these victims in front of me will be killed or injured, I am afraid that more people will die.

"Yifeng, what you see is only in front of you, and I, I have to see the future, and I have to estimate the consequences. This is a difference in status, and the realm of seeing is also different. So, we can only wait, we have to wait. ”

Yifeng wanted to say something more, but Master Ran secretly shook his head, and Yifeng saw it and immediately swallowed the words in his chest.

Immediately, Wei Huang gave up and let Master Ran lead Yifeng and the others to rest, and immediately a government official respectfully came over to lead the way.

Master Ran let out a long sigh, even if Yifeng was anxious, but in the face of the current situation, it was difficult to make progress except for what he had done today.

I'm afraid it will take a bang to break through this situation.

The next day, after Wei Huang's early dynasty, he returned to the prince's mansion, and still met with Master Ran and Yifeng and others in yesterday's hall, only the fire monkey and Xiugu officially met with the prince for the first time today.

During the salute, Xiu Gu's eyes had nowhere to place, and she seemed to be in a disordered mood.

And Shuli has not yet returned.

Wei Huang's expression was heavy, and he slowly spoke: "In the early days of this day, the imperial historian gave advice, wept bitterly, and made it clear that he wanted the Buddha to change the law, and even to die to make his will clear. But he was scolded and reprimanded by his father in court, and was fined for three years in court. ”

Master Ran shook his head slightly, as if he had foreseen such a situation.

At this moment, someone came to report, and he whispered in Wei Huang's ear for a while, and Wei Huang's face became even more gloomy.

Waiting for the next person to leave, Wei Huang said in a deep voice: "I don't know why, when the Queen Mother knew that the Imperial Doctor was admonishing, she was very angry, saying that this move was to make her not die well, and let her father punish the Imperial Doctor severely, so the father degraded the Imperial Doctor to Liangzhou, and he was not allowed to enter Beijing without a call." ”

The wind was awe-inspiring, and he thought to himself, it is really not so simple to urge the imperial court to carry out Buddhist changes.

But I heard Wei Huang say: "This matter is not over yet, those officials who claim to be upright will be indignant when they see this, and they will definitely sign a joint letter, I am afraid that there will be disasters." These old guys who don't know how to be flexible are clearly making it impossible for their father to come to the stage!"

Before noon, news came: more than a dozen ministers jointly issued a letter, asking for pardon for the imperial doctor, and at the same time issued a golden dragon decree to let all Buddhist temples open warehouses and release grain to help the victims.

But Emperor Wu didn't listen to them, so he ordered them to be beaten by eighty boards, fined them for three years, and bluntly said that if there were any more admonitions, they would be stripped of their officials and exiled to the border!

It didn't take long for news to arrive: more than a dozen other ministers, led by a minister surnamed Han, knelt down in front of the three "Taiwu Bridges" south of Yuntai where officials passed.

And they don't know where to gather hundreds of disaster victims, wailing and weeping in front of the Dawu Emperor's Palace, a chaos, has caused a sensation in Junzhou City, more and more people are watching the excitement, and more people are involved, kneeling behind the victims.

Immediately, a bunch of eunuchs came out of the palace of Emperor Dawu, with hundreds of Yulin army, read out the edict, and the dozen or so ministers present were stripped of their official positions, and the whole family was exiled to Liangzhou, Mizhou, Hanzhou and other places, never to return to Beijing, and in the future they will face the suffering of exile and the torture of an endless desolate life.

But as soon as the Yulin army pulled those ministers down, another official made up for it, and more people gathered around, and after listening to the cries of those victims, they knelt behind one after another.

When those eunuchs saw this, they angrily returned to Emperor Dawu's palace to listen to Emperor Dawu's new will.

After hearing this, the crown prince and Master Zhiran and others became more and more uneasy, they did not expect that the advice of the imperial historian seemed to have caused a storm, once the Great Martial Emperor was really angry, the scene would get out of control, and these officials and the victims would die.

Yifeng was even more dazed, as if he felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what he had done wrong.

This was the first time he shook his confident belief, and it was the first time that idealism hit a wall in the face of reality.

On a tall building next to the Yuntai, Xiao Ji and Yu Luo stood side by side, looking at the officials and ministers kneeling in the south and hundreds of victims, Yu Luo said: "It looks like Emperor Wu is about to lose control of the scene." ”

Xiao Ji shook his head and smiled: "Say that you only know how to fight and kill, sometimes you are a little smart, say you are smart, sometimes you have a white head." ”

Yu Luo sneered: "As long as you can, I already knew that the Buddha went to Cui Ming yesterday, and it was the result today." ”

Xiao Ji said: "You can see it too simply, even if the Buddha didn't go to Cui Ming yesterday, today is the same." ”

Yu Luo was puzzled, "What do you say?"

Xiao Ji stared at the Dawu Emperor's Palace on the cloud platform, and said contemplatively: "This is the tacit understanding between the Dawu Emperor and Cui Ming. The situation is changing rapidly, and Cui Ming is the best at judging the situation. He had long wanted to incite the Imperial Doctor and some ministers who had no brains to admonish, so as to test how much Emperor Wu was interested in defending Buddhism, so as to speculate on the advance and retreat. ”

Yu Luo was a little unconvinced: "Really?"

Xiao Ji sneered: "And Emperor Wu is taking this opportunity to test the public opinion at both ends of the government and the opposition, and secretly speculate about the current situation of the government and the opposition towards Buddhism, whether it can make him make up his mind to implement the Buddhist Dao reform."

In addition, Emperor Wu suppressed them so much, there are two purposes, one is to show filial piety, and there is also an explanation to the Queen Mother, which can highlight the benevolence of filial piety in the world, and the other is to establish prestige and give a wake-up call to those who think that they can coerce morality to force the imperial power.

"This is a tacit political show by two old foxes, and every time they make a scene, people without brains will blindly break into this quagmire. ”

Yu Luo said: "Is it really so complicated? Then when I was exiled by him, was there something involved, why can't I remember?" he said and snorted coldly, "These two old foxes, play Lao Tzu as a monkey, wait, there is a time for them to see." By the way, there's no end to today's scene?"

Xiao Ji said: "You wait, someone will soon send the ladder to the two old foxes to take off the stage." ”

At this moment, under the tall building where the two were standing, a commotion sounded.

The two listened carefully, it turned out that someone was talking about yesterday's big pillar country opened the middle door to welcome the monks, and a colorful auspicious cloud suddenly floated over the palace today, casting divine light on the middle gate, and the middle gate was shrouded in Buddha light, at this time everyone knew that yesterday was the Buddha, the reincarnation of the god and Buddha of the Buddha country in the heavenly realm, and it was the heart of the great pillar country that respected the Buddha, so there was this miracle and good reward!

Xiao Ji smiled: "Did you hear it, the ladder is here." ”