The Buddhist temple in Zhongzhou is developed, and it is the most in the whole dynasty.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a temple in five miles, and a temple in ten miles.

You must know that more than half of Zhongzhou is mountainous, and there are only a few places left to live, but there are more than 100 temples of all sizes.

Almost half of the people here believe in Buddhism and worship monks. Walking on the street, you can often see the monks who have turned into a relationship, which should be left in the capital, and it is good not to be blown away, but here, most of the people will respectfully fold their hands and put a few copper plates in the monk's bowl.

Wang Quanquan and others have seen this situation many times along the way.

The rest of the people felt new at best, and they were very familiar with the situation of the Buddha in the Central Plains, but they were surprised by the situation in Zhongzhou.

Shijiao came from the Western Red and developed rapidly after being introduced to the Central Plains, reaching its peak in the Tang Dynasty.

Later, when the North broke into the Central Plains, they did not believe in Buddhism, and even killed monks and exterminated monks at every turn, so that Buddhism was almost extinct in the Central Plains for a time.

After the establishment of the dynasty, because the imperial grandmother of the royal authority liked Buddhism, the attitude of the imperial court towards Buddhism was more accepting than resisting, and even many officials in Beijing began to interpret Buddhism, and the Thousand Buddha Hall in the palace was established at that time.

In addition to the capital, the people are also like this, a number of Buddhist temples and pagodas rise from the ground, believers are endless, and the incense is extremely prosperous.

Under such favorable conditions, Shijiao grew wildly in the Central Plains, and its scale once surpassed that of the Tang Dynasty.

In that era when the foundation of the dynasty was not stable and the people were hungry, the temple was a rare place where they could eat enough, and even once formed a scene of people going to the temple to "turn their fortunes".

Later, the Empress Dowager passed away, and an upstart in the court, who had a unique view of the current situation, confronted the explanatory teachings that had always persuaded people to be good, which revealed his true face.

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At the beginning of the establishment of Buddhism, it advocated the equality of all beings, eliminated desires, and persuaded others to do good.

This is a good medicine for the benefit of believers, but if the medicine is used in the wrong place, it is poison.

After being favored by the Western Chi court, it was mixed with many dark schemes, making it a means of controlling the people.

Seeing that the effect was remarkable, Xichi set his sights on the surrounding countries.

After some addition, these interpretations of entrainment of private goods took root in the four clans.

Among them, the most exclusionary is the Northern Turkistan, who believes in the white wolf, which represents the god of nature, and has always resisted foreign interpretation, and even the establishment of temples must be approved by local lords.

The law of Northern Turkism clearly stipulates that for every 100 hectares of territory, there is a maximum of one temple, and for every 1,000 hectares of territory, there is a maximum of one temple.

Even though the law is so strict, there are still a large number of herdsmen who have joined the sect of Buddhism, and the few large temples that are only qualified to exist in the land of thousands of pours are also full of incense, so prosperous that they almost burst into flames.

Among them, the Gandeng Temple in the south is the most famous, and only the incense candles burned in the temple every year are more than ten times the amount of Wan'an Palace in the imperial city.

Northern Turks are still like this, let alone the dynasty that has always ignored this.

The scholar surnamed Zhou, who predicted that the Xichi Tantric Sect would be a great trouble for the dynasty, wrote more than once, hoping that the court would take precautions as soon as possible, but unfortunately it was not taken seriously, but it was ridiculed and suppressed by many pro-Buddhist officials in the court.

Later, even if the annual incense money of the temple had exceeded the dynasty's taxes, the court was still unmoved.

It wasn't until something happened to Qu Xianwei that the dynasty was really alert.

Qu Xianwei is adjacent to Xichi, and compared with the teachings of Buddhism, which has been integrated into the local Taoism and Confucianism of the Central Plains in the deep hinterland, it can be regarded as a personal transmission of Xichi Tantra.

Xichi Tantra pays attention to rank and ****, and Qu Xianwei's small temples have inherited this very well.

However, their "****" is not to the Central Plains Dynasty, but to the Xichi Imperial Court.

Under the secret arrangement of a member of the royal family in Xichi, these temples jointly incited believers, triggering a riot that shook the government and the opposition.

In addition, these temples also transported all the incense money they had saved over the years to Xichi, but fortunately they were borrowed by Wang Zhiru who was guarding the border, so they did not cause greater losses.

As soon as he received the tip, Wang Zhiru suppressed the local riot with iron and blood, and then led a team of light horsemen, ran for fifty miles, and stopped the carriage transporting silver taels.

Although this turmoil was passed without danger, it was a wake-up call for the dynasty that even if Tantra said it was a fanciful statement, it was from a foreign race after all.

After this incident, the lineage tantric sect from Xichi was wiped out in the Central Plains, and those border temples that were close to Xichimei on weekdays ushered in a wave of purging without exception.

The amount of gold and silver found in it was innumerable, and it is said that it filled more than 30 wagons, and the treasury of the dynasty, which was still meagre, was filled at once.

Since then, the dynasty has placed more and more emphasis on Buddhism.

The Bachelor Zhou, who issued the warning, was exceptionally promoted to a first-class university scholar and was in charge of religious affairs.

At the suggestion of the new scholar, the dynasty began to vigorously promote the slightly declining Huang Lao doctrine, and at the same time imitated the Northern Turkistan, the implementation of the thousand tilt one temple system, although it will not destroy the existing temple, but in the temple has been so dense at the moment, it is almost impossible to build a new temple.

In addition, all the monks of the temple must be recorded, but if there is a collaborator and treason, the entire temple will be seated.

At first, the monks didn't care, the previous living examples were there, and they couldn't afford to let go of a good life and touch this bad head.

As a result, in the next few years, every once in a while, there would be news that the monks were collaborating with the enemy, and those monks who ate fasting and chanting Buddha all day couldn't figure out why the temple was sealed the next day, even though it was fine the day before.

In fact, a discerning person can see at a glance that this is the imperial court's intention to control the number of temples.

After that, he really went too far, and was seen to be a rule: every time there is a natural or man-made disaster, there will be a temple that will be sealed, and the incense money saved will naturally become a disaster relief material.

After learning the truth, even if it is a monk, he can't help but scold him for his lack of morality.

Such a lack of virtue and smoke naturally caused a lot of infamy for the upstart Zhou scholar, but the scolding is scolding, and the court has no disrespect for this new first-class master.

With his own efforts, he solved a potential trouble for the dynasty, and returned to the increasingly empty treasury to find a way to make money, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

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Even if Zhou Daxue calculated to such an extent, there were still two places that were not affected: one was the southwest, and the other was Zhongzhou.

The southwest has been influenced by Xichi Zen Buddhism all the year round, and almost everyone believes in Buddhism, and the people are fierce, compared with other places, it is extremely difficult to suppress, unless it is suppressed at the expense of heavy troops.

For this reason, the imperial court had to take a step back and set up monasteries in the local counties and counties, nominally to help the monks, but in fact to monitor and manage.

As for Zhongzhou, it is because the ancestral home of the emperor's grandmother is here, and the Holy Grace Emperor remembers the old feelings, and the temples in Zhongzhou are also interesting, and they must raise funds and raise donations every time there is a natural disaster, so they have not taken this place to fight.

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