Wang Xuanjing directly conducted a thorough search of the Meditation Temple, and after some searching, he found that he still underestimated these monks.

The fields in this Zen Temple are not all their own, since the Sui Dynasty, there are many families who have placed the land under the name of the Zen Temple.

For these lands, Wang Xuanjing directly regarded them as not knowing and confiscated them. Since they put these acres of land in the name of the temple, it will be regarded as the confiscation of the temple's property, and even if they make a fuss, it is just to go to the court to fight a lawsuit.

Wang Xuanjing is not afraid of this.

All the monks in the Great Zen Temple were examined and their identities were verified, so as to prevent some Jiangyang thieves or fugitives from being mixed in, and those whose identities were unknown were all kicked out of their monkhood.

At the same time, all the monks were pulled out and let the surrounding people identify, originally these people because of their belief in Buddhism, fearing the punishment of the Buddha, did not dare to identify, but now after the matter of purifying the water and producing the living Buddha, the halo on the bodies of these monks was torn off, and there were no scruples.

These monks did a lot of tricks and robberies, and soon a large number of monks were identified.

Wang Xuanjing handed over these things to Fu Yi for disposal, and at the same time, after layers of screening, the last remaining monks had to undergo a Buddhist assessment.

Only monks who have passed the assessment can be issued degrees and become official monks, while monks who have not passed cannot be regarded as monks, and need to be returned to the customs and re-entered into the household register.

Fu Yi is hostile to the throne of Buddhism, but he is proficient in Buddhist classics, no worse than those Buddhist monks, and the reason why he studied Buddhist classics is to attack those monks.

With this great talent here, these monks don't want to get by.

The speed of raiding the temple was very fast, just from the treasury of this temple, Wang Xuanjing seized more than 300,000 pieces of property, and in addition to these, there were a large number of Buddha statues made of precious metals, ornaments, etc.

In this temple, there is actually a gilded Buddha statue more than one person high cast in copper, which is also inlaid with a large number of precious stones and agate, and the cost of this Buddha statue alone is not less than 100,000 yuan.

The entire temple, in addition to those fields, also has a large number of IOUs for the distribution of Yinzi money, and there are 100,000 yuan on these IOUs.

In addition to money, Wang Xuanjing also found that many monks in this temple even raped women.

Under the pretense of giving children, these monks let many childless couples come to the temple to worship, and then take the opportunity to rape women. Although Wang Xuanjing knew that there was a lot of darkness behind the light of this Buddhism, he didn't expect that these monks could do so many things.

After a quick trial, more than 20,000 acres of land in this large meditation temple were confiscated by the imperial court, and only 300 acres of Buddha fields were left to the temple. Of course, in the end, there were thousands of monks in the Great Meditation Temple, and only more than 50 people passed the assessment in the end.

Just when Wang Xuanjing rectified the Great Zen Temple, many officials wrote to the court after seeing the fate of the Great Zen Temple, saying that Wang Xuanjing's restriction of Buddhism was too harsh and demanded lenient treatment.

In the imperial court, there are many ministers who believe in Buddhism, and even when Li Yuan rebelled, he still said that he was the descendant of Lao Tzu Li Er, and named Li Er the emperor.

Li Shimin saw that there was a lot of discussion between the DPRK and China, and it was not easy to force it to be implemented, so he prepared to discuss it at the court meeting.

After all, even the order to restrict Buddhism and Taoism needs to be implemented by the officials below, but if the officials are resistant, I am afraid that this edict will also become a piece of waste paper.

Soon the court meeting was held, and Shang Shuling was originally the head of the civil officials, but because Li Shimin had served as the first of the civil officials, Shang Shuling was no longer appointed, and Wang Xuanjing was the Zhongshu Order, and the crown prince and Taifu became the head of the civil officials, ranking in the forefront, followed by Shang Shu, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Xiao Yu and others.

Since Li Shimin, Zhongshuling has become the prime minister in the actual sense. Of course, the rights of the Zhongshu Order are still inferior to those of the Prime Minister.

The Tang Dynasty learned from the experience of the Sui Dynasty and restored the three-level system of prefectures, counties and counties during the Great Qian, but the counties were changed to prefectures and the prefectures to provinces, which were essentially the same.

The governor is the assassin, and the Tao is the envoy, but this envoy is not permanent.

Soon Shangshu's left servant shot Xiao Yu and said: "Your Majesty, the minister heard that the king of the emperor inspected the Great Zen Temple, wantonly killed several virtuous monks, slandered the Buddha, plundered the temple property, mistreated the monks to the death of several monks, and even damaged the Buddha statue, the crime is extremely evil. ”

Along with Xiao Yu's appearance, more than a dozen people also came out to impeach Wang Xuanjing. For a while, Wang Xuanjing seemed to have really done something heinous.

"Okay, I know all of this." Li Shimin waved his hand to shut up these people, and then said to Wang Xuanjing: "Wang Qing, so many ministers have impeached you, you can talk about it." ”

Wang Xuanjing came out of the ranks, glanced at those people, with a little contempt and disdain at the corners of his mouth, and then said: "Your Majesty, the ministers have not done the things they said. ”

"Wang Xuanjing, do you dare to do it?" Chen Jianzhi, the imperial historian next to him, said angrily.

"This official didn't do the crime you said in the first place, why should you admit it." Wang Xuanjing said without raising his eyelids: "And this is a big court meeting, how can you be allowed to make a loud noise here?" ”

"The minister was impulsive, and he lost his honor in front of the king, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive me!" Yushi Chen Jianzhi hurriedly bowed and saluted.

"That's it this time, a fine of one month." Li Shimin did not delve into it.

After seeing and disposing of Chen Jian, Wang Xuanjing then wrote: "Your Majesty, this is the matter of the minister's investigation of the Great Meditation Temple during this time, and everything has been written in it. ”

"Bring it in."

Li Shimin opened the thick recital, his eyes quickly rolled over, and the more he looked, the more angry he became.

"Bang!" Li Shimin slapped the table case fiercely and asked angrily: "These are all true?" ”

"The evidence is conclusive, all of them have been placed in the official office, and His Majesty can personally check it." Wang Xuanjing said immediately.

"Your Majesty, don't trust him," Xiao Yu next to him hurriedly said.

"Look, this is what you are talking about embezzling temple property, mistreating monks, slandering the Buddha, and mutilating monks!" Li Shimin said and threw the song on the table, and the chamberlain next to him hurriedly sent the song to Xiao Yu and the others.

"What kind of pure place is this Buddhism, it is completely a place to hide filth and dirt!"

"Chen Yushi, I heard that your son went to the Great Zen Temple to ask for a son?" Wang Xuanjing suddenly spoke.

Chen Jianzhi was slightly stunned, and before he could understand, Wang Xuanjing said again: "This official examined, those monks raped women in the name of sending children. ”

When Chen Jianzhi heard this, his face suddenly turned red, his whole body trembled slightly, and a wave of anger rushed straight to his head, this person actually fainted directly to the ground, and the surrounding officials hurriedly supported him.

Li Shimin hurriedly ordered him to be helped to the side hall to rest, and ordered the imperial doctor to diagnose and treat him.

Others were also surprised by the case involved in this great meditation temple, but after seeing Wang Xuanjing's disposition, they also felt Wang Xuanjing's ruthlessness.

(End of chapter)