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Chapter 16 Opponents who began to assemble (7)

When the fully armed Yuan army lined up in a relatively neat line by the gate of the yamen, the charlatans who were being punished were kneeling at the entrance of the street to show their presence. Listening to the sound of footsteps colliding with weapons, the charlatans recalled the fear of being captured and dominated by the official army, and they couldn't help but shrink their bodies one by one.

The charlatans are more sensitive, and they must have a keen reaction to pay attention to the reaction of the deceived person. Compared with the murderous aura of the officials passing by, the charlatans who had captured them before could be said to have a relaxed and entertaining mood. Therefore, many of the charlatans even began to tremble.

The Yuan army ignored the charlatans who were shackled. They continued to walk forward and soon walked away. Sanli Bridge. The fully armed Yuan army gathered at the entrance of the Cross Church and rushed in. The sound of screams and scolding sounded in the church, and then screamed. As soon as the panicked priest rushed out of the small door, he was directly defeated by the Yuan army outside, and then tied up the ropes.

Not only Sanli Bridge, but also Wudaokou, Guoziyuan, and Yuhe Bridge, except for churches only opened for Mongolian nobles, most of the churches of the Cross were raided. Although the priests who were honestly surrendered were treated roughly, they were still good, and at most they were beaten to the bruises. The Yuan army attacked the priests who tried to escape, and often killed them in the street.

The Yuan army had not been so violent in Dadu for a long time. This time, the clean and neat actions reminded the people of the majority who witnessed it that they were dominant also. No one even dared to discuss the reasons for the Yuan army to deal with the Cross Cult this time in public. The general view is that the Cross Cult was too excessive in the propaganda of the end of the world, which completely angered His Majesty Kublai Khan.

These people were wrong. Kublai Khan himself believed in the strange powers and chaos, and the doomsday propaganda did not anger him. The root cause of the anger of the Khan was a letter written by Borjijin Haorenwanhu.

Hao Ren Wanhu was a disciple of Xunzi with some simple materialist ideas. Before becoming Xunzi with some simple materialist ideas, Borjijin Haoren was first and foremost a human being. Human beings have very low tolerance for threats, and the Mongols have even less tolerance for threats. Even though the priests of the Cross Cult did not dare to attack Borjijin Haoren Wanhu, they attacked his guards. Wanhu still wrote a letter with very strict words to Kublai Khan introduced the attacks of the priests of the Cross Cult attacks him.

Kublai Khan allowed religious freedom, but did not allow religion to have the freedom to attack the Wanhu family of Borjijin. After seeing the letter from Wanhu, Khan immediately ordered the arrest of the priests of the Cross religion for interrogation.

Most religious circles generally responded cautiously to the arrest of almost all the priests of the Cross Cult. Losing a competitor is of course a good thing, but everyone is worried that the Khan would attack all religious people. On the third day after the raid of the Cross Cult church, Taoist Master Mingxin went to visit the prince Zhenjin.

After seeing the prince, Taoist Master Mingxin hurriedly saluted, "Wuliang Tianzun, Mingxin has seen the prince."

Prince Zhenjin asked the Taoist priest to get up, and then smiled and said, "I saw the first version of "The Song of the Ninja Sword" sent by the Taoist priest a few days ago, and I felt it was very good."

When Master Mingxin heard this, a smile immediately appeared on his face. However, he did not dare to express his happiness simply, but instead asked while the iron was hot: "This is just an admonition from our Taoist sect to the current people. I hope the prince can correct it."

"Haha. Taoist priest is too careful." Prince Zhenjin smiled and said, "I have ordered that the matter of burning Taoist treasures mentioned in Buddhism should not be mentioned again a few days ago. But this title of halal still takes some time."

When Master Mingxin heard this, he quickly bowed again, "I will definitely not forget the kindness of the prince."

The so-called burning of Taoist sects is the result of the 20 years of struggle for Buddhism and Taoism. The most important thing is the authenticity of the "Laozi Hua Hu Sutra" in the great debate on Buddhism and Taoism.

"Laozi's Wasting Hu Sutra", during the reign of Emperor Hui of the Western Jin Dynasty (290-306 AD), the Tianshidao sacrificed wine, Wang Fu, every time he competed with the monk Boyuan for evil and righteousness, he wrote a volume of "Hu Sutra" to record Laozi's transformation into Buddha and educate the Hu people. Later generations successively expanded and adapted it into 10 volumes, becoming one of the basis for Taoists to attack Buddhism, thereby increasing Taoism's place above Buddhism. This caused fierce conflicts between Taoism and Buddha. Tang, Song and Ming dynasties and others held an attitude of recognition, and Wu Zetian also issued an order. On June 15, the first year of Tongtian, Wu Zetian's decree was: "Laojun transformed into Hu, and the rules were written, so how could he allow monks to remove it... Knowing that transforming Hu is true, becoming a Buddha is not a mistake, and Tao can facilitate teaching, and Buddha was born because of Taoism.

Based on the official conclusion on the authenticity of the "Laozi Hua Hu Jing", Taoism's dominant position over Buddhism was established.

During the Mongge era, Tibetan Buddhism began to be popular among the Mongols, and Buddhism began to fight back under the guidance of Tibetan Buddhism. When Mongge Khan was alive, he forced the Quanzhen Sect of Taoism to return more than 200 Buddhist temples that had been seized.

As the national master of Tibetan Buddhism began to be ordered to create Mongolian characters, Tibetan Buddhism had an overwhelming advantage. Buddhism took advantage of the situation to ask the court to pursue the Taoist false scriptures that were once forbidden by Mengge, but were still popular in the world. Kublai Khan ordered the monks of the Buddhist sect, the Hanlin Academy's civil servants and the Zhengyi master Zhang Zongyan, Quanzhen's master Qi Zhicheng, and the Dadao master Li Dehe and others to gather together to verify the authenticity of the Taoist scriptures. The debate on the Taoist scriptures lasted for dozens of days, and as a result, except for the "Tao Te Ching", the other Taoist scriptures were judged as false scriptures.

Buddhism urged the court to order the burning of scriptures again. Kublai Khan said: "The Taoist scriptures have been broken for a long time. If you burn it quickly, your disciples may not be convinced. He said that water and fire cannot burn it, so he can try it out. Wait until it is not too late to burn it."

At this time, Kublai Khan had a bit of the style of Ximen Bao. He ordered each Taoist sect to recommend one person wearing a talisman into the fire and "try its own skills". Zhang Zongyan and others panicked and admitted that "this is all a blatant saying. If you enter the fire, you will definitely be ashes. If you don't dare to try it, you just want to burn it to the Taoist sect."

Kublai Khan then ordered that, except for the Tao Te Ching, all other Taoist scriptures were burned and banned from ceremonies and sent envoys to inform the people of the country to follow. In order to humiliate Taoism, Buddhism awarded the title of Taoism to the True God Cult.

Prince Zhenjin likes Taoism more, so when it is executed, he asked Lian Xixian and others to calm down and not to execute so much for the time being. Now that the situation has changed, Zhenren Mingxin is naturally very happy. After saying a few more words, Zhenren Mingxin asked why most people suddenly attacked the Cross Sect.

Although the prince also heard about some things, because he involved Borjijin Haorenwanhu, he just replied: "This matter has nothing to do with Taoism."

The news he wanted to get was already there, so Mingxin Zhenren said goodbye. After returning to the sect, he immediately informed the senior management of the sect, and the senior management also relaxed. Master Zhang Zongyan sighed: "As long as the court does not know about our propaganda defeat, it's fine."

After hearing this, the other Taoist leaders showed some contempt. Religion itself is a cultural concept, but religious activities are commercial activities. Where is the pure little white rabbit engaged in commercial activities? Buddhism almost destroyed Taoism at the beginning of the first year of Zhiyuan, but then a fierce war broke out between the Yuan Dynasty and the Song Dynasty in Zhiyuan.

Emperor Kublai Khan personally led the army, and Emperor Zhao Jiaren of the Song Dynasty personally led the troops. At this time, the battle between the two most powerful countries in the world, the two most powerful people, began on both sides of the Yellow River.

There were 300,000 troops involved in the battle, and the technical content of the battle was unprecedented. The Song army even completed the feat of blocking the river channel of the Yellow River south and leading the Yellow River back north. The people of Dayuan, including Emperor Kublai Khan, were frightened by such feats.

Other religions propagate the world to make money at the end of the world, while Taoism propagates that Buddhism tries to destroy Taoism, which arouses the wrath of heaven. The royal family of the Song Dynasty has always believed in Taoism, so they are blessed by God.

His Majesty Kublai Khan has always been deeply influenced by the strange powers and gods, and Mongolia won every battle. Suddenly, he suffered such a crushing defeat, so he naturally believed that the blessings of Rinpoches before the war were useless, and even believed that Rinpoches were completely useless. After hearing the Buddhist saying that the Taoism caused the wrath of heaven, Kublai Khan ordered that the Taoist treacherous not be burned for the time being.

The Taoist senior officials were very clear about their own affairs. Hearing that the master Zhang Zongyan had the opportunity to give up, Quanzhen's chief sect Qi Zhicheng said angrily: "We need to continue to do our best at this time. Although the Buddhist monk was hit, his intention to destroy Taoism was not shaken at all. A few days ago, Baspa was still discussing the matter. If we don't care, we are afraid that it will be destroyed sooner or later."

"But if we are ordered to tell the story, will Dahan know about it? Dahan is a very smart person." Li Dehe, the head of Dadao, was a little hesitant about the specific operation.

Qi Zhicheng, the head of Quanzhen, looked determined, "It depends on whether the written contents of our company can be as conscientious as possible. Mingxin Zhenren, how are you prepared?"

Zhenren Mingxin gave a command, and not long after, a Confucian scholar dressed in outside came in. He first greeted the leaders of the Taoist sect. He then set up a wooden stand, hung up a picture, and then started to tell the story.

The royal family of the Song Dynasty has always respected the Taoist sect, but during the Jingkang period, the emperor was unrighteous. When he passed by the Nunwa Temple, he saw the great god Nuwa, and became very beautiful, and he mentioned a lewd poem on the wall. After seeing this, the great god Nuwa was furious and calculated the number of heavens. Seeing that the great Song Dynasty was declining, he ordered the nine-tailed foxes of a thousand-year-old came out again. The nine-tailed foxes were under the great god Nuwa, who had turned into Daji, Baosi and other banshees of the country...

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, the Southern Song Dynasty was coming. Comets passed through the sky and were immortal for several months. Originally, the Zhao family declined, but Buddhism flourished and wanted to destroy the Taoist sect. So the fortune of heaven was flowing, and Zhao Jiaren, a monk from Zhao family, came to the world. He had yin and yang eyes since he was a child, and could observe the fortune. When he saw the rays of rays in the sea, he went into the water to search and found three treasure boxes.
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