The next day, in the court.

As soon as Zhao Jun came to the court, he announced that Zhang Tang would be the minister of the Imperial Mission, and he would be in charge of the Ministry of Worship, and he would have full authority to deal with the implementation of the new policy of the imperial court in Nanyang Yiying Buddhist Temple, and personally gave the Qincha Panlong Scepter.

At the same time, the imperial court issued an edict and sent it to the local government in Nanyang, when fully cooperating with Zhang Tang, if there is malicious obstruction of the implementation of the imperial court's policies, Zhang Tang can hold the dragon scepter except for the county guard can be cut first and then played, and act cheaply!

This move instantly caused an uproar in the court, and everyone speculated about who His Majesty would let preside over this matter for so long, but in the end, His Majesty did not look for it in the court, but found a scholar who did not fill the vacancy.

And as soon as he came up, he was given the rank of Rite Lang, and he was in charge of the Ministry of Worship, what is this Department of Worship for?

He is one of the four main departments in charge of the Ministry of Rites, in charge of ancestral ceremonies, sacrifices, astronomy, omissions, national taboos, temple secrets, divination, medicine, monks and nuns, etc.

That is to say, in charge of this department, the temples and monks in the world will be under his control, which is the highest department in charge of monks in the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhang Tang, who holds the post of the Ministry of Worship, will handle the affairs of the temple, which is equivalent to the fact that the modern minister of public security personally went down to check the various entertainment venues.

This is no longer using a cannon to fight mosquitoes, this is using an atomic bomb to fight mosquitoes, but at the same time, others can no longer make trouble for Zhang Tang from any better level, because he is already the highest official here, or the highest official directly managed, and it is all ultra vires for others to meddle, it is not your profession, what do you meddle?

What shocked the hundred officials was not this, what really shocked them was that His Majesty actually gave a fifth-grade official to a newcomer who had just arrived in the officialdom!

How many levels have you even skipped here?

But His Majesty actually told them to listen directly in the form of a notice, which means that the matter has become a foregone conclusion, and even if they oppose it, it will have no effect.

In the end, he had no choice but to say that he knew, and at the same time, he immediately planned to spread the matter to the local area of Nanyang County.

When the local people in Nanyang County learned the news, it instantly caused a lot of fluctuations.

Don't look at the Ministry of Rites Langzhong is just a five-rank official, but this is a Beijing official!

The rules of officialdom have always been that Beijing officials see local officials, the same grade, and Beijing officials are automatically a big one.

That is to say, when you come to the place, the fifth-grade official in this capital is equivalent to the fourth-grade official!

And the county guard of a county is only at the level of a fourth, which is equivalent to an uncle coming to the top for other officials except the county guard, how can they not be shocked.

And after learning the purpose of the imperial court sending this uncle, some officials immediately panicked.

Previously, the north was invaded by the Xiongnu and suffered heavy losses, and there were no officials in ten.

After His Majesty took office, he was urgently transferred from other places, which made up for the officials of Nanyang County.

And their arrival means that the original investment of the local forces has been lost, and they know better than anyone what to do if they want to continue to get asylum, and they act extremely quickly.

No one is perfect, not to mention that they may not be so clean in the first place, so although they have not been here for a long time, they have received a lot of benefits.

Among them, the White Horse Temple, located three miles outside Nanyang City, is the most arrogant, and many people have received their benefits.

At this moment, when they learned that the top was here to inspect the temple, they immediately realized the hidden danger in it, and even sent Langzhong from the Ministry of Rites to carry the Qincha Scepter, what does this mean?

It shows that the imperial court is not making a show this time, but really coming for real!

As a result, the money that had been received was very hot.

Many people have begun to divide with the White Horse Temple, if it was the original officials, it may not be so easy, but they have only been here for a long time, and the connection is not deep, so it is much less difficult to divide.

And these actions of theirs naturally made the White Horse Temple aware of it, and after feeling that something was wrong, the White Horse Temple immediately found out the reason for the matter through their own relationships.

The top is going to come to Qincha, and the one who came to investigate them is still the Ministry of Rites, who is directly in charge of the monks.

This is which of the big Song is the biggest in their department!

Cry wolf!

I'm still going to eat meat!

The fate of the Great Xiangguo Temple some time ago is a lesson from the past!

On the day of receiving the news, a group of high-level officials in the White Horse Temple gathered here, and the head of the head of the affairs of all parties, assisted the abbot in the monitoring, and even took the abbot Master Guangping to sit in a circle here.

There was silence in the hall.

"Amitabha, what do you think about the imperial court sending a messenger to inspect the temples in Nanyang?"

Seeing that no one spoke, they all sat down with a solemn face, and Master Guangping, the abbot, took the lead in opening his mouth.

When the first Guanglu monk of the precept hall heard this, he immediately said: "According to what the poor monk said, in fact, there is nothing serious, and the reason is just because the Great Xiangguo Temple was personally known by the saint, and this is the matter of surveying the Buddhist temples in the world."

That Qin cha estimated that he came to patrol around and catch two typical examples to give the court to His Majesty, just like our White Horse Temple has taken root in Nanyang for thousands of years, and the other party will definitely not dare to provoke it.

At most, it would be good to find two small temples with poor reputations to give this Qin messenger a bad deal.

The reason why those officials will immediately cut off relations with us now is also because they are new to the city, and they are not clear about Nanyang's strength in our White Horse Temple, so they will act like this.

In my opinion, the imperial court may be a good thing for us to send a messenger this time.

When our White Horse Temple succeeds in fooling Naqin away, many officials in Nanyang will definitely be able to connect with us more closely in the future after seeing our strength. ”

When the abbot Master Guangping heard this, he nodded: "What Guanglu said is not bad. ”

And when someone starts, everyone else naturally begins to speak freely.

The monk Guangxiu in the lecture hall immediately retorted:

"This is a bad statement, if it is usual, then Qin sent over to go through the motions as Guanglu said.

However, I heard that the Qincha who came this time was personally selected by His Majesty, not by the court.

Such a person is a dog of His Majesty today, and he must have come with the idea of biting out a blood hole in Nanyang to prove his ability to His Majesty.

He won't take care of such a person so much, everything is only based on meritorious service, if we don't pay attention to it, it will be too late when the scepter in the other party's hand hits us on the head!

In addition, they are not just here to check whether the temple has borrowed money, whether it has taken in lawbreakers, and whether it has annexed land.

In addition to inspecting Buddhist monasteries, the imperial court also limited the number of Buddhist monasteries and the number of monks in various places.

If you follow the policy of the imperial court, the nine-story Buddhist temple in Nanyang County will be bulldozed.

If we don't prepare early, maybe this White Horse Temple thousand-year-old temple will be buried in our hands, at the moment of great changes that Buddhism has not seen for thousands of years, how can we still deal with the old ideas?

It's going to be a slow death! ”

Guangxiu's words can be said to be the last thing that everyone present is willing to face and poke out, yes, the imperial court is not just investigating the law this time.

There is also the restructuring of the world's Buddhist temples!

If it is really according to the will of the imperial court, then a large temple like the White Horse Temple, which has more than 3,000 people, will suffer a heavy blow!

According to the new policy of the imperial court, there can only be one monastery with no more than two hundred people in the capital of a county, and the land owned by it cannot exceed ten hectares!

But now there are more than 3,000 monks in their White Horse Temple alone!

The land owned is a full 5,000 hectares!

If it is really in accordance with the policy of the imperial court, then the scale of the White Horse Temple is afraid that it will be reduced to a small temple today, where can they bear it!

The crowd fell silent again.

The first Guangwu of the Luohan Hall had the hottest temper, and the first one didn't hold back, and slammed his fist on the table and said angrily:

"Impossible! This policy of the imperial court must not be implemented, or we will contact all the temples in the entire Nanyang Mansion to fight together!

Anyway, if we want to be caught, it's impossible!

These lands have been accumulated by our White Horse Temple from generation to generation, why does the court say that it can't be had, anyway, I Guangwu doesn't agree, if the court wants to rob it, my Luohan Hall five hundred warrior monks will fight with the court! ”

The White Horse Temple can afford to raise 500 warrior monks because it has so much land to support, if the land is taken by the imperial court and the monks are dismissed, then can he still exist in the Arhat Hall?

Everyone understands why Guangwu is so excited, why aren't they?

But against the imperial court?

Can it really work?

The crowd fell silent again.

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(End of chapter)