Chapter 390: Destroy the Buddha! Rectify the Buddhist temple and Taoist temple!
Zhang Gui looked at the group of bureaucrats and eunuchs in front of him, and couldn't help but purse his lips and smile.
He didn't laugh, but applauded his speculation, secretly thinking that after he had made his words clear, these bureaucratic eunuchs who looked like them would soon be willing to continue to work hard for the people.
Zhang Gui wants to complete his own transformation, and then let Daming follow the transformation, he still needs the cooperation of the entire bureaucracy.
Therefore, he carefully negotiated with Yuan Keli and Chen Zizhuang in the Planning Department, instead of relying on the emperor's favor, and directly drove Wenchen like a dog like Wei Zhongxian, the person in power in the original history.
After all, even the immediate rectification of Buddhist temples and Taoist temples requires the entire bureaucratic class to carry out it.
Not to mention that Zhang Gui is just a favored minister, even the emperor himself, it is impossible to set aside the entire bureaucratic class and realize the rectification of Buddhist temples and Taoist temples.
From the governors of the provinces to the officials under the prefectures and counties, as well as the momentum in public opinion, they all had to be carried out by bureaucrats and doctors such as Yuan Keli and Chen Zizhuang.
Unless Zhang Gui just wants to make money and doesn't want to do the right thing, in that case, he can do it with a random bureaucrat.
Because as long as it is an individual, once he has the right, he will naturally have the motivation to make money, and he will even be self-taught.
Bureaucrats who are willing to do the right thing are not so easy to find.
It just so happens that now Yuan Keli and Chen Zizhuang are all bureaucrats who are willing to change the law and do things.
Therefore, it is impossible for Zhang Gui to replace them, and they need to cooperate and let them use their people to achieve Zhang Gui's purpose.
Yuan Keli, Chen Zizhuang, Wei Zhongxian and others are also on Zhang Gui's thief ship now, and from the moment they decided that they were willing to preside over the change, they had to follow Zhang Gui to continue.
Therefore, after Zhang Gui explained the reason, these people all agreed to Zhang Gui's proposal.
So, soon after, the edict to rectify the Taoist temples in the world was officially issued, and Chen Zizhuang, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, was also specially ordered to supervise the affairs of the evil ways of the Yin Temple in the world, and went to inspect the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in the world.
At the same time, all the governors and inspectors in the world have also received the edict to rectify the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in the world.
It is now the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, and it has been nearly ten years since the reform of the Ming Dynasty.
At present, the entire bureaucratic system, from the central court to the local government, has long been replaced by people who support the reform of the law and those who do not oppose it.
In addition, the implementation of the examination law has been carried out for nearly ten years, and the number of mediocre and lazy officials has also been greatly reduced, and the delay in government affairs has been seriously reduced.
Moreover, the reform of the administration of officials over the years has not only not eliminated officials, but also increased many officials, so it can be said that the Ming court has further strengthened its control over the grassroots and broken the situation that the imperial power does not go to the countryside.
In addition, the recent restructuring has also given officials the opportunity to become officials after passing the examination.
Therefore, the motivation of the low-level officials to implement the policy is also much greater.
Therefore, after the edict on the rectification of Buddhist temples is issued, there will be no poor implementation of the policy at all, and there will only be excessive implementation and layer by layer.
However, this rectification is a rectification of Buddhist temples, not aimed at the common people, so even if it is carried out excessively, it will not cause too serious damage to the internal people's feelings.
Soon after receiving the edict and receiving instructions from his superiors, Yan Yingyuan, the governor of Qingping, gathered his county government and all the officials and began to reorganize the Buddhist temples throughout the county.
Yan Yingyuan also personally came to Chongyu Temple, the largest temple in his county, and passed on Master Zhiqing, the abbot of the temple, and immediately announced an edict to him, asking him to retire from the land to the people.
This Master Zhiqing was both angry and aggrieved, and without waiting for Yan Yingyuan to call him up, he got up and asked Yan Yingyuan, "Yuan Liqing, why are they willing to give up?!" Cleared the acres of land, spread the Ding tax into the acres, and came to an official gentry to pay grain as an errand, this is not over, in the south of the Yangtze River, it is directly divided into fields, and then the system of imperial examinations and ceremonies was changed! Because of this, our Confucian students are no longer willing to serve the officials, gentry and the people, and have hid in this ancient temple in the deep mountains, why don't they let us go! In the name of rectifying the Buddhist temple, let us have no place to stand! Why don't they just send troops and slaughter us disciples of science?!"
This master Zhiqing was actually a Zhishi official before becoming a monk, a local gentry, because he was dissatisfied with the new policy, and also continued to live a life of enslaving Han people in order to evade taxes, so he donated the field to this temple, and became the new abbot of this temple, and in fact, this temple was his family's family temple, and his family was a wealthy family in the local area, so it was naturally not difficult to raise a temple.
For example, in the dream of the Red Mansion, the Jia family has a family temple, an iron threshold temple, and a variety of nunnery.
Therefore, this master Zhiqing can completely change from a gentry who admires Confucianism and science to the abbot of a Buddhist temple in an instant, but he has just changed his identity, but he is still a landlord in essence.
It is precisely because of this that this Master Zhiqing also scolded Yuan Keli directly, obviously he must have been an old acquaintance with Yuan Keli, who was also a child of the scholar clan, but the two took different paths.
"The master must have misunderstood, this has nothing to do with science, maybe it has something to do with Buddhism. As Chen Ge Lao said, the Buddha crosses the common people, not exploits the common people, so how can the Buddhist temple have a household? As long as you cooperate, the Buddhist temple will naturally stay, and those who have a degree can still live here and recite the Buddha."
Yan Yingyuan said.
Master Zhiqing snorted coldly and said, "Unless I die! Otherwise, you don't want to destroy my Buddha Sect?!"
This Master Zhiqing is naturally unwilling.
Because although the property of Terada Temple in this area is Chongyu Temple, it is actually his own family's field industry, but he donated it to the temple and became the Temple of Terada, and even the novice monks in the Buddhist temple and even the nuns attached to the nunnery are the original servants and maids of his family, and now they are just changing their identities, and he can continue to live the life of the old man.
That's why Master Zhiqing said this.
"That's good! Since you have disobeyed your will, this official, as the parent of this county, naturally cannot help but make decisions for the people and exercise power for the Son of Heaven!"
After Yan Yingyuan finished speaking, he pulled out his knife and directly slammed a snow-white sharp knife into the abdomen of this Zhiqing master.
Poof!
Master Zhiqing glanced at Yan Yingyuan in astonishment, and spat blood from his mouth: "You are so willing to work for them!"
"Huanghuang Heavenly Grace, how can you not give up your life for the country?!"
Yan Yingyuan asked, then pulled out the knife, pointed at the monks who were already frozen in place, and shouted, "Immediately confiscate this Buddhist temple!" Everyone, lock them up first! Let's get things straight!"
"Yes!"
The officials under Yan Yingyuan's command, as well as the police cadets of the county police academy who were temporarily transferred, also replied.
It turned out that after the establishment of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the Ming Dynasty, it was ready to use the hundreds of millions of taels of silver obtained as a special fund for the benefit of the people, and considering that the most important thing for the people in the world now is to have a livelihood occupation, he simply ordered the establishment of police schools in all states and counties in the world to train the villagers to be police officers and be responsible for local security.
Therefore, there are now a number of people in Qingping County who have become police cadets, and are ready to officially become paid police officers after the completion of the training.
After Yan Yingyuan's order, these officials and police cadets rushed into the temple and tied up all the monks.
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