With Luo Yi's death, the north quickly settled down, and during this period, the south also surrendered under the persuasion of the Huai'an Wang, and the whole world was basically unified.

Li Shimin, who had just ascended the throne, suffered from huge public opinion pressure because of the murder of his brother and father, coupled with the Turkic invasion and rebellion that followed, if it was not resolved in the shortest possible time, it is difficult to imagine what would happen to the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, after settling down the world, Li Shimin couldn't wait to prove himself.

With the support of Li Shimin, the imperial court began to restrict Buddhism, and the first thing to do was to clear the acres of fields. The imperial court needed to complete the inventory of the acres of land before it could collect taxes from the temple, otherwise these decrees would be empty talk.

There are too many temples near Chang'an City, not to mention those small temples, there are more than a dozen famous temples alone, such as Daci'en Temple, Daxingshan Temple, Da'anguo Temple, Zhuangyan Temple, Dazen Temple and so on.

Because the inspection and restriction of temples was proposed by Wang Xuanjing and strongly supported it, and there are still many officials who believe in Buddhism and Taoism in the imperial court, even now, they oppose it, so Li Shimin can only appoint Wang Xuanjing to preside over the inventory of temples and acres.

After Wang Xuanjing was appointed, he immediately sent someone to investigate the temple, originally Wang Xuanjing was already mentally prepared, but after seeing the documents sent to him, he found that he had calculated less before.

Just a large meditation temple, there are hundreds of monks, cultivated land of about 10,000 acres, and the remaining dozens of temples, less than a dozen people, dozens of acres of land, more than 1,000 people, tens of thousands of acres of fertile land.

After seeing so many acres of land, Wang Xuanjing couldn't sit still at that time, and directly asked Li Shimin for an order, allowing him to use the army in the city to cooperate.

Wang Xuanjing led two hundred soldiers and a large number of officials to the Great Zen Temple, although the Great Zen Temple is not the top in Chang'an, but it can also rank second.

After he came here, he found that the temple hall pavilion, Danbi shining, coupled with the murmuring of Sanskrit, the sandalwood is deep, it is very solemn, and there are many believers who come to burn incense and worship the Buddha. The more solemn this temple is, the more incense is flourishing, the more Wang Xuanjing hates it.

As the Wang family, they have always been concerned about recording the world, in the past, there were powerful and powerful nobles who invaded the fields and oppressed the people, and now in addition to the powerful and nobles, there are also more temples and Taoist temples.

"People in the world often say: the hidden mountain sees the true Buddha." Wang Xuanjing shook his head and said, "In my opinion, there is no real Buddha here. ”

"What Shangguan said is very true, there are few virtuous monks in this temple, but there are countless people who are full of fat intestines." Taishi Ling Fu Yi said beside him.

Fu Yi is one of the few people in the court who agrees with Wang Xuanjing's restriction of Buddhism, and he is even more radical than Wang Xuanjing, bluntly saying that he wants to destroy Buddhism.

Wang Xuanjing said with a smile: "This official is rectifying the temple on behalf of the Son of Heaven this time, so as not to re-establish the rules, lest this group of fake monks take the opportunity to collect money and deceive." ”

Wang Xuanjing took Fu Yi and walked towards the temple, Fu Yi looked at the vast temple in front of him, and couldn't help but say: "Zhongshu Ling, do you know what these monks do every day?" ”

"I don't know." Wang Xuanjing asked, "Does Tai Shiling know?" ”

Fu Yi said with a smile: "They do three things every day, reciting scriptures and memorizing books, doing classes, and cleaning. ”

"What's so strange about these three things?" Wang Xuanjing asked.

Fu Yi said: "The purpose of reciting scriptures is to deceive the ignorant people, and cleaning is to put up tablets purchased by pilgrims, prayer bags, and some tablets for worship, in short, let the people pay for it, and the most important thing is to do things." ”

"There are so many doorways!" Wang Xuanjing nodded slightly, there are really a lot of ways to make money in this Buddhism.

In his opinion, it is better for those people to worship the so-called gods and Buddhas than to worship King Hao.

"Shangguan, there are too many ways to collect money in this Buddha's way, what I said is just the tip of the iceberg, to sum it up in one sentence, I don't cross the poor ghosts." Fu Yi said.

When Wang Xuanjing heard this, he couldn't help but glance at him, this person is really a talent, and he summed up these things about Buddhism and Taoism so accurately.

When the temple found out that a large number of soldiers were coming, it immediately closed its doors, and many monks retreated into it. Fu Yi's eyes were very good, and he vaguely saw many monks holding sticks, and hurriedly said to Wang Xuanjing: "Wang Zhongshu, there are monks and soldiers in this temple." ”

"Really?"

"Nine times out of ten!"

"Looks like this temple is going to be inspected!" A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Wang Xuanjing's eyes.

There are monks and soldiers, this temple is likely to still have a variety of weapons, now the world is decided, the court has not forced the people not to have weapons, but crossbows, armor, lances, a stone bow these are not allowed private ownership.

Now that Wang Xuanjing is coming on behalf of the imperial court, these monks actually shut the temple, and even thought about resisting, and this nature has completely changed.

The lieutenant who led the soldiers immediately ordered someone to come forward and call the door.

"The imperial court has ordered to come, open the door quickly!"

"Presumptuous, if the Buddha dares to use swords so well in front of the door, aren't you afraid that the Buddha will be guilty?"

"Captain, they won't open the door!"

"The monk inside listens, the imperial court sent Zhongshu Ling to come, and the door will be opened in a cup of tea, if not, don't blame me for waiting for it!"

"Didn't you hear clearly! Brothers, speak loud and repeat to the monks! ”

"Yui!"

All the soldiers shouted in unison. These people were all drawn from the Xuanjia Army, and they were all killed from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, and there was no problem with loyalty, and they didn't take those monks in their eyes.

"Host, this time it's Zhongshuling, how is this good, how can Zhongshuling target us?"

"yes, that's good!"

"Why don't you send him some money and give him some land so they can pay for it?"

"Panic what!" Zen Master Hongzhen got up from the futon and said: "Our temple is friendly with many noble and wealthy families, even the royal family has many people, and hundreds of thousands of believers, what are you doing, what are you doing with closing the gate, I don't believe that he dares to mess around in the place where the Buddha droops his eyes!" ”

"Host, there is also that Buddha rebel Fu Yi who came, they must be bad at coming this time!"

"Presiding, this door can't be opened."

"Yes, I can't open it, I've already asked the warrior monks to gather, ready to rely on the gate to resist!"

"Nonsense! Now that Datang has pacified the world, even if there are monks and soldiers, we can't stop the elite of Datang, and when they start to move, we really can't tell it! "Hongzhen never thought of violently resisting, and he knew very well that doing so would only make the court determined to destroy them.

The best way is still to do things by influencing those nobles, royal relatives and relatives.

When the time comes, there will be those nobles, royal relatives and relatives to intercede, and they will hand over some things, and this matter will pass, and Hongzhen will immediately send someone to open the door.

(End of chapter)