"Since my father cares so much about the death of my mother and Brother Qiu, why did he let the enemy live to this day?"

Liu Yanchang's mentality of being stabbed by this knife suddenly exploded, and even thought of his still empty lower body, the sense of humiliation in his heart was almost overwhelmed, he shook his body, his face turned pale, glanced at Agarwood indifferently, turned around and left, no longer nostalgic and hesitant.

The son who has been reunited after a long absence, he no longer wants to see it again.

After Agarwood left Liu Yanchang angrily, he also realized that he had said the wrong thing, it was always his father, but he was stubborn and unwilling to admit his mistake.

Instead, he wanted to go to Huashan to save his mother first, at least to find out how his mother was doing now, but he was persuaded by Chu He first.

It is conceivable that once Agarwood sets off for Huashan, there will be many difficulties and obstacles along the way, and these troubles will accumulate and continue to deepen the anger in Agarwood's heart.

When he arrived at Huashan, he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to keep calm, and if he didn't care about it, he would chop it down with an axe.

Not to mention that this is contrary to Chu He's original mission, Chu He's plan to let Jielu go deep into the core of Buddhism has not been completely completed, so it owes so much fire.

Letting Agarwood go to Huashan so quickly would lead to the rapid termination of the dungeon, which was not in line with the interests of Chu He.

Under the persuasion of Chu He, Agarwood finally agreed, staying in Chang'an first, and then borrowing the imperial army to set foot on Huashan after the situation stabilized.

With the passage of time, the imperial court's action to exterminate the Buddha is more and more in full swing, and in March of the fourth year of Huichang, Li Yan's edict is no longer allowed to have temples to worship Buddha's teeth, Buddha bones, relics, etc., Wutai Mountain, Sizhou Puguangwang Temple, Zhongnan Mountain Wutai, Fengxiang Mansion Famen Temple has a temple with Buddha finger joints, and it is also forbidden to place pilgrimages and solicit believers.

On this basis, they then attacked the religious holy places of Buddhism, resulting in a situation where people in the spiritual realms were cut off from coming and going, and there was no one to send offerings to the Buddha statues in the heavens.

On Li Yan's birthday in the fourth year of Huichang, he no longer invited monks to enter the palace, but the treatment of people in the Taoist sect was raised to a higher level, not only wearing purple clothes, but also awarding yellow belts, jade crowns and other things, and at the same time enshrined a total of eight Taoist priests and Taomen Zhenjun, and had the right to supervise the religious affairs of the world.

According to the record of the monk Yuanren of Dongying, after escaping the catastrophe of destroying the Buddha, "Merit is made to the temples, and those who are allowed to violate the bells in the street of monks and nuns, and those who stay overnight in other temples are guilty of violating the edict." In the past, it was forbidden to leave the temple in the afternoon, but now it is not allowed to ring bells. “

The government not only interfered with the daily activities of the temple, but also intended to block the flow of people and communication between the temples. From this point of view, Li Yan and Li Deyu no longer only want to recover the land occupied by the temple, but also have the determination to suppress the Buddhist forces from the root.

When worldly power is mobilized, even the high gods and Buddhas cannot be completely ignored.

In July of the fourth year of Huichang, Li Yan ordered the demolition of the world's mountain houses Lanruo, ordinary Buddhist halls, Yijing villages, etc., which were less than 200 and did not enter the temple, and their monks and nuns were all relegated to the world.

There are more than 300 Buddhist halls in Chang'an Fang, as well as Buddha statues, scripture buildings, etc.

All the world's Buddhist halls, temples, etc., the stone buildings, monk tomb towers, etc., were all demolished.

In October of the fourth year of Huichang, the imperial decree demolished the small temple in the world, moved into the big temple through the Buddha, and sent the Taoist temple to the temple.

The monks and nuns who were demolished and did not follow the precepts, and the monks and nuns who had precepts at a young age, returned to the vulgar and returned to their original roots.

There are still old monks and nuns who have precepts, and they are allowed to match the big temple, and thirty-three small temples have been demolished in Chang'an City alone.

The purpose of this edict is particularly obvious, the purpose of returning the young to the vulgar is to compete with the temple for labor, and as for the old Xu to marry the big temple, it is to avoid increasing the pressure of the local area after the repatriation of the old monks, and transfer the pressure of the old monks' offerings to the big temple. If this increases, the weakening of Buddhism will become even more intense.

Although it is the Buddhist monks who are in charge of the power of Buddhism.

But it is the ordinary monks who stabilize the faith, spread the teachings, and maintain the believers. The decrease in the number of young monks will also lead to the emergence of a young generation of Buddhist monks, and they will gradually fall into a state of lack of success.

Among the Buddhists, the call to kill Li Yan, Li Deyu, Zhao Guizhen, Xian Banfan and others by the most drastic means has become higher and higher, and has even become the mainstream.

Many Buddhist temples that have lost a lot of property and are even forced to retreat into blessed land are also extremely fired.

The Buddhist monks do have the strength to be a thousand or ten thousand, and it is difficult for those ordinary court soldiers to cause real damage to them. However, if there are too many armies in the imperial court and too much killing, even monks who are about to become Buddhas will instantly degenerate into demons and be burned by karmic fire, and the cultivation accumulated in one or even several lifetimes will be in vain.

What's more, there is also the control of the Heavenly Court.

In this battle to destroy the Buddha, it seems that the Heavenly Court and the Daomen have also reached some tacit understanding, since the Taizong period, the Buddhism that has been spreading and flourishing has gradually made the Heavenly Court feel the pressure, taking advantage of this trend, and also chose to suppress the Buddhism.

Buddhism, Taoism, and Heaven are like a three-legged stand, always doing some kind of mutual balance.

In March of the fifth year of Huichang, Li Yan went further, and ordered the number of monasteries and their monks, nuns, slaves and maids, and property to be inspected.

In April of the fifth year of Huichang, reaching a climax, Li Yan directly exterminated the Buddha, stipulating that Xijing Chang'an could only keep four temples, each temple to keep ten monks, only two temples in Luozhou, Tokyo, and the rest of the Jiedu envoys to stay in a total of 34 states to stay in one temple, and other states where the history of the assassin is located are not allowed to stay in the temple. All other temples were destroyed, monks and nuns were ordered to return to the laity, all the bronze Buddha statues and bell chimes of abandoned temples were all sold and cast money, and the iron casts were handed over to Honshu for agricultural tools.

In addition, it also ordered foreign monks and other monks, if there is no servant of the minister, to return to the laity and recursion to their own country.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, more than 4,600 temples have been demolished in the world, 260,500 lay monks and nuns have been returned, more than 40,000 households have been charged with two taxes, more than 40,000 houses have been demolished and Zhaoti and Lanruo have been demolished, tens of millions of hectares of anointed land have been collected, and 150,000 slaves and maids have been collected for two tax households.

As soon as the Buddhist temple economy collapsed, the Tang Dynasty, which had already begun to go downhill, suddenly hit a strong shot, and the national fortunes began to rise against the trend.

The Jutong Temple in Thundering Mountain was also swept by the army of the imperial court, and all the ordinary monks were driven back to the world.

Jutong Temple only had time to transfer some of the precious classics and materials to the small cave of Thundering Mountain.

The rest of the books were burned.

Before the Tibetan scripture building of Jutong Temple was burned, Jielu first put away the scriptures written by the original master Xingdian.

In addition to the normal commentaries on Buddhist scriptures and life philosophies, these sutras also contain a large number of medical classics, records of the world's landforms, scenery, and water veins, as well as some relief measures adapted to the local environment when disasters occur.

These are all written by the master of Xingdian when he was in the prime of life, traveled all over the world, and then he was old and could no longer travel long distances, so he wrote and sorted out the books in the Tibetan scripture building.

It's a pity that it was burned down like this.

Although Li Yan's edict was to only burn the Buddhist scriptures, it would definitely turn bad when it went down to the place.

For the sake of merit, the local bureaucrats, the powerful and the army will not let go as long as the classics are found in the temple, so they have also destroyed many real classics for the benefit of the people, which can also be called a catastrophe of civilization.