Chapter Fifty-Seven: Religious Management (Seeking Acceptance, Seeking Push!) )
Tao and Buddha are the two most widely spread religions in China.
In Su Qi's heart, the Tao is superior to the Buddha, after all, it is a religion native to China, not to mention that Su Qi does not like some of the rhetoric of Buddhism.
When he was in Ruyin, Su Qi thought that he would definitely have to deal with religious issues in the future, but at that time, the family was small and the business was small, and some problems could be mitigated. But now that there are four more counties, the religious issue has jumped out on its own initiative and must be dealt with.
The cause of the incident stemmed from the fact that after Su Qishuai's army captured Zhongli County, the Renjiao army was ordered to capture the Sui army who fled in the county.
Among them, there was a group of Sui soldiers who were chased by the Sect Army team in order to hide their whereabouts, and they actually killed all the villagers after looting a village.
But when they were about to catch up, they saw this group of Sui soldiers enter a temple.
When the others taught the army to enter the temple to arrest him, he was stopped by the monks of the temple, saying, "This is a pure place for Buddhism, and it must not be disturbed." ”
After the team of the People's Sect Army and the monks explained the situation and came up with evidence, this group of monks did not talk about the sins caused by this group of Sui soldiers, but said, "There are no Sui soldiers in our temple, only a group of people from outside the party." "As soon as you enter the gate of my temple, you are already an outsider, and in the past, it was not cause and effect, and it was all empty." "Guys, please, there's no one you're looking for."
This is a blatant lie!
Fortunately, the officer who led the team was a human sect, and there was reason, so he held back his anger and ordered the temple gate to be guarded, and immediately sent someone back to ask for instructions.
But where can they hold on to the Sui army and not let that group of Sui troops escape? Taking advantage of this effort, the Sui army had already run away from other places, and even if they went in later, they would definitely not be able to catch anyone in the temple.
This problem was reported, and many people were very angry at what these monks had done, but they couldn't make up their minds, because it was not a trivial matter, it involved religion, and it was a very widespread Buddhism, and if it was not handled well, it would be a big deal!
In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Zhou was to destroy the Buddha (in fact, Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty was the Buddha and the Tao together), but after Emperor Wen of Sui succeeded to the throne, he immediately abolished the policy of destroying Buddhism in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and issued an edict to build a temple, reorganize the statue of the scriptures, set up "five people" and "twenty-five people" to preach Buddhist doctrines, and took Daxingshan Temple as the center of translating the scriptures, counting his life to devote himself to the promotion of Buddhism, the monks and nuns reached more than 500,000 people, built more than 3,000 temples, erected 110 pagodas, wrote 130,000 volumes of scriptures, and the grand occasion of Buddhism in the era of Emperor Wen of Sui can be seen.
When Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he also followed the policy of Emperor Wen of Sui's "Buddhism governing the country", which made Buddhism flourish and flourished, and its development far exceeded that of Taoism (note: the content is mostly excerpted from Baidu).
At this time, Buddhism was the largest and most prosperous religion in China!
It's a very large monster, how can you not think twice if you want to do something to it?
And this is still a prosperous world of martial arts, who knows how many hidden masters there are in Buddhism?
Su Qi received the uploaded news, and after thinking about it carefully, he ordered to arrest the Sui army with all his might, but after catching the people, he must not be killed immediately, but interrogate these people, let them spit out the fact that the monks of the temple are covering them, and then collect other evidence of the temple, look for victims and conclusive evidence (if you really can't find other evidence, you can concoct it yourself), and finally hold a public trial meeting in front of the people to publicly judge the group of Sui soldiers and the monks of the temple.
Su Qi did this completely to kill people!
There are also deep reasons why he did this: first, Buddhism is very powerful, and if this matter is handled casually, the impact will be great; Buddhism has always been an image of purity, truth, goodness and beauty in the minds of the majority of the people, and if the monks of the temple are directly judged, I am afraid that it will cause the masses to misunderstand, and the people and religions will manage the religion later, and this image must be destroyed first.
In Su Qi's thoughts, it is absolutely impossible for the Renjiao to allow a very influential religion like Buddhism and Taoism to own a large amount of land, and it is also exempt from taxes, and it is also called a "person outside the party", isn't this just a soil emperor who is not restricted by the government?
Under the teachings of man, this kind of existence must never be allowed, and it must be managed!
The people of the people are also very dissatisfied with the fact that Buddhism and Taoism occupy a large amount of land, especially Buddhism!
Some of the ideas of Buddhism, in the eyes of the people, are simply unreasonable, like what "put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground", according to this, after a criminal who is full of evil has done evil, as long as he hides in which temple, shaves his head, and puts on a robe, he will become a Buddha? Can it be as if nothing happened?
If you can let it go so easily, why do you need the law to do anything?
There should be no "outside the world"!
When the conference talked about the administration of religion, one person made a radical statement: "These people do not produce all day long, but occupy a lot of land, and let the believers donate to it, and if they really want to live on their own feet, they should live in such a big house, and they should be served by others, and they should cultivate the Tao and Buddha." I think that all the Taoist temples in the temple should be confiscated, so that the monks in the temple and the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple should all be returned to the world! ”
This view is clearly too radical, and there is a humane: "This is not advisable. Buddhism and Taoism have existed for a long time and have a huge influence, if we do this, we will inevitably be hostile to both Buddhism and Taoism, which is not good! ”
Another humanitarian: "Not to mention whether we have the ability to eliminate Buddhism and Taoism, even if there is no Buddhism and Taoism, there will be this kind of religion and that kind of teaching, there are always people in this world who want to escape the world, you can't stop it, you can't stop it!" Compared with some cults, Buddhism and Taoism are quite good. ”
"Everybody is different, and we can't all be like us, unless we can control their minds, but can we do that? Can't do it. Therefore, it is necessary for the existence of Buddhism and Taoism to provide spiritual comfort to these people. So we have to find a way to manage and restrict them, not eliminate them. ”
Everyone knows that Buddhism and Taoism need to be restricted, but how to restrict, people teach people to think and meditate, and there is no perfect way.
It is really too powerful for Buddhism and Taoism, and it has been deeply rooted in the land of China, and it is too tricky, like the Demon Gate can exist for hundreds of years, and the water of Buddhism and Taoism will only be deeper, not shallower, unless one day, the human religion will completely control the world.
But I can't do it at the moment!
The final decision is: the human religion will review and screen the temples and Taoist temples within the control area, register the monks and Taoists, and those who are guilty will wait for the collection of evidence before launching a public trial and then deal with them, and there are other relevant policies to restrict Buddhism and Taoism!
Although this will still cause dissatisfaction between Buddhism and Taoism, it is much better than directly shouting to destroy Buddhism and destroy the Tao.
As soon as the policy on the management of religion was promulgated, it caused a sensation all over the world, and many Buddhists came forward to accuse the religion of practicing "evil and foreign ways," and they should be "corrected" in a timely manner, otherwise they would bring about their own destruction. But there are also monks who recognize the move of human teaching, the development and expansion of Buddhism is too prosperous, and it has long been mixed (even Shi Zhixuan has been mixed into Buddhist monks), and some temples have long become a place to hide filth and dirt, on the surface the Buddha is full of light, it is a moral monk, but behind it is a male thief and a female prostitute.
The Taoist side reacted mediocrely, and only a few kittens jumped out to accuse.
These religious management policies of the human religion have aroused the interest of the Demon Gate!