For those who undermine vested interests, the beneficiaries are often punished quickly.

The Buddhist temple reform measures implemented by Qingning in Qingping Town will naturally cause the common people in other towns to be dissatisfied with the Buddhist temples in the territory.

There is no harm if there is no comparison, they see that the people of Qingping Town are living like fish in water, where can they still hold back their restless hearts?

Under Yifeng's questioning, Qing Ning said: "The people in other towns are red-eyed, and the monks and households of those temples have abandoned their land and stopped farming, and some of them are planning to steal food from the temple, and later they have become more blatant and are ready to rob the temple." Of course, those temples didn't do it, so the two sides started a small-scale fight, and later the government couldn't stand it, so they also got involved with the idea of getting a piece of the pie, which made things more complicated.

"During this time, some of the people in those temples complained and hated the measures I had promoted, and sent men to assassinate me. However, since the promulgation of these measures, my state of mind has become much clearer, my understanding of the Buddha path has also deepened a lot, and my cultivation has improved very quickly, and I have smoothly entered the second realm. In those temples, except for the Great Elders who were hiding behind them, no one else could say that they were my opponents, and it was naturally impossible for me to succeed in assassinating me. ”

Speaking of this, Qing Ning couldn't hide his smugness, Yifeng smiled, and said, "Okay, Senior Brother Qing Ning, go on, what happened later." ”

Qing Ning then continued: "Later, there was a great famine, and there were many victims in the other three counties of Yunzhou, and I heard that there were victims in many prefectures, and these victims abandoned their land, begged everywhere, and some even robbed temples and government offices, which were all large-scale battles of tens of thousands of people.

"When the Buddhist temples in those towns in Mangnan County saw this situation, they were worried that the situation would become worse, and second, they were afraid that the villagers would run away, and the land would not be planted, and they would not be able to harvest anything.

"So they followed my example and returned part of the land to the villagers, and also reduced many taxes to ensure their survival, although these measures were limited, but at least the villagers could survive."

"As long as you can survive, everything is easy to say, and sometimes, people's wishes are so simple. So they worked hard in the midst of the famine, and when the rain was unbalanced, they carried their own water to water the land.

"At that time, I went to the fields to cultivate, and saw that the villagers all over the mountains were working very hard to carry water to the fields, and even children and children of several years old were holding lotus leaves, holding water from the stream and the river and sprinkling it into the ground.

"With such efforts, although the harvest of the people is still not very good, but enough for them to eat, the Buddhist temple in Qingping Town does not charge a penny of tax, and even if other towns have to collect, it is also very satisfying to the survival of the people.

"While thousands of people from villages in Dawu Kingdom went to the empty villages to flee and beg, the people of Mangnan County were able to save their homes through their hard work. ”

Yifeng heard his story, his heart was very moved, this is the real Buddhism in his mind, not only to lead people to goodness, promote Buddhism, at the critical moment, but also to be able to advance and retreat with the people, live and die together, and put all lives in mind, this is the light of Buddhism.

Qing Ning also spoke into his mind, and continued: "This time Emperor Wu launched a war to exterminate the law, I don't know about other places, but the people here feel that it is very unfair to Buddhism, and they have supported us, and the food supplies we consume now, in addition to the collection from Buddhist temples, there are also many of them supplied to us. I am in charge of the food supply and maintaining order here, and I emphasize that we must not hurt the innocent and let more people be harmed in the war to destroy the law. ”

Yifeng nodded and said, "I'll just tell you why this place is orderly, it turns out that you have won the hearts of the people." Well, I see, after the war, I know how to preach the path of rebuilding Buddhism. ”

But Qing Ning shook his head and said, "No, you don't know. There are some things I haven't talked about. When the government saw that we had given the land back to the people for free, they were very angry, and they had already set their sights on their land, but because of the famine and the fear that things would get out of control, they did not collect taxes on them, and once this period of time passed, I am afraid that the people would not be able to escape their clutches. ”

At this time, Yan Yinshan interjected: "Actually, we are not afraid of the imperial court collecting taxes, but the current taxes are really heavy, and the most important thing is that they are exploited at all levels, we should only need to pay five cents of tax, but in the mouth of the township, it has become twenty cents, and we have to pay fifty points in the county government's mansion, how can we deal with such a heavy tax." ”

Yifeng asked: "You were in Anming City before, there were so many disaster victims, and many of them were not monks, but ordinary villagers in various places, their land was managed by the imperial court, and there were such unspoken rules for collecting taxes in various places?"

"I asked them specifically, and the world is as black as a crow. Yan Yinshan said.

Yifeng was silent, he realized that this war of Buddhism and Taoism has added important significance, the Buddhist temple was the big landlord of Tuntian in Dawu Country before, because of the war of extermination, the ownership of the fertile land is ostensibly distributed to the people, but in fact, the taxes on their bodies are not necessarily reduced, but the collection of taxes and miscellaneous taxes has changed one person.

If this war is won, the matter must be presented to the crown prince and asked him to settle it properly, the so-called universal sentient beings are to think of all people, one's own survival is only the foundation, and sowing good karma is the goal of the Buddha's path.

Yan Yinshan seemed to see Yifeng's thoughts, and said: "Yifeng, you can't think too much now, the Confucian officials control the official power of the court, and they are originally in cahoots with those greedy pseudo-Buddhas. Now seeing the wind and making a fortune by exterminating Buddhism, they have always been mercenary. Taking food from them is even more difficult than winning this war, and if you want to do this, you must first make sure that the Buddha path is not destroyed. ”

Yifeng's eyes were blazing, he nodded, and said, "Naturally." However, if you can find an opportunity to accomplish this, it will be a real merit. ”

Qing Ning didn't seem to want to dwell on this issue, and said, "Aren't you going to find the leaders of the Yunzhou Buddhist Sangha, I'll take you to them." ”

The county government is not very far from the city wall, which is convenient for the previous county government to patrol, Yifeng thought of the Ning county lieutenant at this time, Qing Ning smiled: "That county lieutenant, he has run away a long time ago, and now it is estimated that he is in the army outside the city with the county order." ”

The two continued to talk, crossed the courtyard of the county government, and came to the hall where the county magistrate usually sits, and the hall was full of people at this time.

According to the fluctuations of their aura, Yifeng keenly sensed that these people were all monks of the Third Realm Mahayana Realm, and there were at least seventy or eighty of them.

However, there are strong and weak, and there are some breathless and floating, they should be seriously injured, and there are not a few with external injuries, it seems that the previous battle situation was quite tragic.

Seeing Qingning and them coming, the monk at the head stopped talking, and the others also turned their eyes to Qingning.

Although Qingning is only in the Jade Realm, this place is his hometown, and it is also his organization to transport grain and grass and maintain order, and he does it in an orderly manner, so he still has a certain status in the eyes of most people.

"Elder Juechen. Qing Ning stepped forward to salute, and Yifeng and the others also saluted.

Although Juechen has white eyebrows and white beards, his face is majestic, his spirit is strong, his eyes are focused, and he can't see the mediocrity of old age at all.

His gaze swept over Yifeng and the others, and finally stopped on Yifeng's body, his brows furrowed slightly, he walked out of the hall, stood on the steps and asked, "Qingning, who are these people?"

Qing Ning replied: "Elders, this is Senior Brother Yuan Yin of Qingshan Temple, and this is Lord Yan Shi, he had previously commanded 20,000 peasant legions to revolt and captured Anming County, an important post city in northern Yunzhou, and inflicted heavy losses on the Yunzhou legions. Later, due to the order issued by the imperial court to return the fields to the peasants and distribute the food of the Buddhist temple to the victims, they dispersed one after another. Now that this Yan donor has seen the Buddha's troubles, he has come here to help the Buddha's way. ”

Juechen nodded, pointed at Yifeng, and said, "What about this black-robed disciple?

As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar.