Probably these monks were also fed up with this kind of torment, so soon after Li Tai summoned the two old monks, those virtuous monks wrote letters one after another, hoping that the imperial court could clean up the situation of Shamen hiding dirt and dirt.

Of course, Li Tai would not turn a blind eye to such a voice of justice, and even ordered Wang Songnian, the secretary of the Ministry of Worship who had just completed the repair of the family temple for the Tang Duke and returned to Chang'an, to discuss with these monks and draw up a plan to rectify the Shamen, so as to use it as a standard to sanction and manage the various current conditions of the Shamen.

The monks were anxious to get out of the predicament, and Li Tai already had a complete set of control plans here, and now he was going to try out some of the terms according to the ability of these monks to bear it, so it was natural that a consensus would be reached soon.

After a few days of discussion, a "Ritual Protector Style" was drawn up for the management of temples and nunnery. There are four types of legal provisions in the form of legal decrees, which are the rules and standards of the imperial court departments in dealing with specific personnel, and this standard can be added, deleted and adjusted with the development of the times, which is the most flexible kind of rules and regulations.

Of course, considering that there was no precedent for the imperial court to directly manage the personnel of the Shamen temple before this, the management of the affairs of the Shamen was not directly realized through administrative power, but through the Protector Hall of the Ministry of Worship.

And in this Dharma Protector Hall, in addition to the court officials sent by the Ministry of Worship, there are also great monks awarded by the imperial court. In other words, it is not only the administrative forces that manage the development of the Buddhist industry, but also the leading figures in their industry. The drafting of the provisions of the "Dharma Protector Style" is also the result of joint consultations.

The reason why Li Tai retains a certain right to speak for these virtuous monks is that the first is that only the elites in the industry know how to engage talents most effectively, and the second is that those who are engaged also need to have a specific goal or a group of people who are most emotionally vented.

After the Dharma protector was written with the signatures of the great monks and monks, the hegemonic army held these articles and spread out in all directions with Chang'an as the center, and began to check whether the temples of all sides met the provisions of the Dharma protector style.

According to the rules of the Dharma Protector Style, the temple is roughly divided into four levels.

The lowest level is the small temple hall that is privately enshrined, and this level of temple is not qualified to teach the Dharma, nor can it be openly worshipped, and there are strict regulations on what can be done. If you want to try to relax the restrictions, you have to go to a higher temple and invite the master to live in the temple and practice.

A higher level of the temple is the sutra master as the abbot, and the sutra master must pass the assessment of the ritual examination, and the assessment of the person is indeed proficient in a certain Buddhist scriptures, will be awarded the qualification of the sutra master, and the abbot of a temple. Temples at this level can have a scripture pavilion and can preach the Dharma, accept offerings from believers, and hold some Buddhist ceremonies.

A higher level of temple needs to be led by a Dharma Master, who does not pass the examination of the Ministry of Worship, but has to learn Buddhism from a great monk and obtain the recommendation of three great monks, and then obtain the certification of the Ministry of Worship before obtaining this status.

The highest level of the temple, that is, naturally there must be a great monk in charge. However, there will be all kinds of restrictions and rules in the temple where there is no great virtue and high monks, and only the great and virtuous monks can avoid many troubles, which also directly raises the transcendent status of the great and virtuous monks from the administrative level.

Buddhism, as a kind of Tibetan religion, has been flowing into China for a long time, and has grown savagely for many years, and there have been many attempts to localize, and its size and influence are already not to be underestimated.

Such a behemoth, it is difficult to kill from the outside, and it has also experienced the blow of three martial arts and one sect to destroy the Buddha in history, but it often will soon resurge, and the development is better than before, compared with the destruction of violence, its internal improvement and self-correction can be more long-term.

Li Tai is not trying to completely wipe out Buddhism now, but to use the head effect of these so-called great monks to tame the entire Shamen, even if it cannot be tamed in a short time, but also to gradually release the social resources it holds through its internal shocks.

With the official implementation of the "Dharma Protector Style", the temples around Gyeonggi will bear the brunt

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Buddhism in Guanzhong is also relatively prosperous, especially with the gradual stabilization of society in recent years, there are many years of abundance, and many small people's homes also have thin savings. As a result, there was no shortage of Shamen monks who took the opportunity to preach that the good weather was the result of the Buddha's blessing, and called on the people to worship the Buddha more sincerely in exchange for the Buddha's continued protection.

According to the preliminary statistics of the government, there are nearly a thousand temples and nunnery in Jingzhao County alone! Although nearly half of them are private temples that do not attract believers, some clans have built a temple in order to increase internal cohesion and facilitate the worship of the Buddha.

However, before the implementation of the "Ritual Protector Style", there was no clear boundary and regulation on whether these temples were profitable or not, and the so-called inability to make a profit was only the lack of the ability of the temple operators themselves to make profits.

After all, there are so many sickles that suddenly appear in the faith market, and they are all sharpened, but there are only so many leeks, and whoever can cut them depends on their skills.

Even after deducting this part of the dismal temples, there are more than half, that is, more than 500 temples with profitability and considerable scale. Among them, there are many large temples with several Buddhist halls, hundreds of monks, and hundreds of monks and supporters. Temples of this size often have more power to suck the people's power and money than the local government.

Mingde Temple is located in the southern suburbs of Chang'an, in Jingzhao County among the temples belong to the medium scale, the temple building itself is several heavy, there are hundreds of Buddhist houses, nearly 100 monks in the temple, and there are hundreds of people in the novice temple slaves, and there are several grange industries, including weaving mills, kilns, carbon kilns and so on.

This temple was originally in the Datong years, there was a monk from Longyou, once into the medicine once healed the emperor at that time Yuan Bao torch, so the emperor gave the Jingnan temple a temple and the surrounding ten hectares of fields to support the monk.

As a result, the monks became famous, and more and more local monks gradually attached to them, making the temple grow larger and larger, and it has the scale it has today.

The abbot of Mingde Temple, Monk Jingming, is also the number one person in the religious circle of Jinai, and he has been very concerned about the Buddhist debate in Beijing recently, and he will enter the city almost every day to pay attention to the progress of the debate.

During this period of time, seeing that the great monks are becoming more and more empty, this pure monk is also in a very bad mood, and occasionally when he can't control his temper, he will even scold these so-called monks in the temple for being really incompetent, and the dogs raised in the temple may be more powerful when they go up and bark.

The Jingming monk is also an old monk who has held the precepts for many years, and they all began to be angry and corrupt and did not cultivate their morals, which was really anxious. In addition to the fear that Shamen might suffer a blow because of this, it was also because he was a sponsor behind a certain virtuous monk who participated in the debate, and he scraped together a full few thousand grains of rice and other gold and copper materials to bring that high monk to the stage, but the other party's performance was so poor, can he not be resentful in his heart?

Because of his resentment, the senior monk summoned people several times, but the monk was too lazy to see him. But he didn't know that his willfulness would bring him a catastrophe that he would regret for the rest of his life!

On this day, suddenly a group of soldiers poured into the Mingde Temple, the monks and soldiers who were offered in the temple were waiting to be blocked before entering, and they were slashed to the ground by the soldiers head-on, and the other monks saw this and fled in panic, and the commander who led the team into the temple shouted loudly: "According to the order of Jingzhao Mansion, enter here to arrest the demon monk Jingming and his followers, and you will be captured as soon as possible, if you want to resist, you will be killed!"

Monk Jingming recently couldn't sleep with depression, he ate a few more glasses of wine last night, and before he woke up, he was shocked to realize that he had become a demon monk when he heard Shami's confession, and he rushed out of the Buddha house and shouted, "Wronged, wronged! The old monk is dedicated to the Buddha and obeys the law, how can he be a demon monk who is chaotic and law-abiding? Master Faming and Master Faming of Guangye Temple can testify, please ...... general."

"The demon monk is still quibbling? Your sins have been exposed by Master Fa Ming, and you can't catch them quickly!"

Hearing this soldier's answer, the pure monk was dumbfounded, you must know that this Dharma Ming Master is a high monk who is sponsored by him, why is he now exposing his sins to the government?

Soon Mingdeji one

All the monks were arrested, and all other people and things in the temple were sealed down. However, due to the large number of buildings in this temple, it was inevitable that two thin novices escaped through the dog hole, and there was nowhere to go after some discussion, so they simply went straight to Jingzhao Mansion to file a complaint against Master Faming for oppressing the good in order to steal their temple property!

With the picketing of the Yin worship of a number of temples in Jingzhao County, all kinds of complaints that were consciously wronged also poured into Jingzhao Mansion, because there were too many similar cases, and Zheng Daoyong, who served as Jingzhao Yin, did not dare to make a decision on this, so he could only report the relevant situation to the Tyrant Mansion.

Such a situation is naturally within Li Tai's expectations, and many so-called insiders who are secretive to outsiders are often open secrets in the industry. is still the same sentence, if some things are not weighed, then there are no four or two, and if they are called, they can crush people to death.

However, at the moment, Li Tai was weighing something else, so naturally it was impossible to interrupt halfway, so he ordered Jingzhao Mansion to properly arrange the complaining personnel first, provide food and clothing, and keep the relevant material and criminal evidence in separate files, and do not omit them, so as to be used in case of time!

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