The four hundred and fortieth chapter of the rolled up ministers
Chu Qi put a seal on the temple door with his own hands, then looked back and saw that more than 500 monks, big and small, had been arrested, all with smiles on their faces.
"Brothers and sisters, you are now free. All your sins have been attributed to me. You can continue to practice... Someone, send them to a prisoner-of-war camp to do hard labor!"
"What?"
This group of monks simply doubted their own ears. Wasn't this guy crazy? Or he was possessed by a demon, otherwise there was really no way to explain it.
Not long ago, Senior Brother Chu Qi, who was gentle, smiling, and unwilling to speak loudly, actually sealed the monastery with his own hands and forced them to do hard labor. This man must have let the devil take over his mind!
"Chu Qi, you were born in a temple and grew up before our eyes. You are ungrateful. Aren't you afraid of going to the eighteenth level of hell?"
"Hell?" Chu Qi said with a smile: "It is indeed hell, but this Yuan Dynasty world is the hell of all the people... The emperors of the Yuan Dynasty in the past dynasties all worshiped the Tao and acted recklessly. In the twenty-eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the whole country
There are 24,318 monasteries, and the total number of monks and nuns is 213,148. If those outside the government and those who are ordained privately are included, the number will probably be several times higher. If we calculate again
The cost of tenant peasants and servants in all monasteries is more than ten times higher!"
"There are four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasty. This Yuan Dynasty temple is much more powerful than the Southern Dynasty!"
Chu Qi said unceremoniously: "The Yuan Dynasty stipulated that each temple should have between two and three hundred people, and he also generously rewarded acres of land to support the monks..." In the early years of Zhongtong, the two temples of Haiyun were given 500 hectares of land to celebrate their birthdays. The great virtue
In the fifth year, 120 hectares of land were given to Xingjiao Temple, 90 hectares of Qianyuan Temple in Shangdu, 600 hectares of Wan'an Temple, and 120 hectares of Nansi Temple. At the beginning of Emperor Qing's reign, 80,000 acres of land were given to Dapuqing Temple and Chongfu Temple.
There are 100 hectares of land in Henan, 200 hectares of land in Jiangsu and Zhejiang of Kaiyuan Temple in Shangdu, and 70 hectares of Yidu land in Shandong of Puqing Temple. In the 12th year of Zhengzheng, the Dashouyuan Zhongguo Temple in Qinghe was built, and the land of the abandoned temple in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was returned to it...roughly...
It is estimated that the land granted to various temples by the Yuan Dynasty alone amounts to more than 30 million acres, and the number of acres privately occupied is countless! Ask yourselves, do you deserve all these lands? You have enjoyed these lands.
, Eat to your heart's content and make your body fat, but you don't know that outside the temple there are white bones lying on the ground, dead of starvation. You exchange children for food, everyone kills each other, it is a hundred times worse than hell!"
"If you sincerely practice cultivation, you will naturally hand over your property to help the people. Your conscience is still intact, so you can be forgiven... If you still cling to your property and are unwilling to hand it over, you are a man-eating demon who will help the Yuan Dynasty.
Evil... Chu Qi is not talented and has been given a murderous knife by the emperor. He will kill all the demons without mercy!"
"Send them to hard labor! Ordinary prisoners of war will serve for five years, and they will serve for ten years! They will work their muscles and bones and starve their skin. Only when the fat on their bodies is gone and their hands and feet are covered with calluses can they return to their hometown.
Be a happy citizen in the prosperous Ming Dynasty!"
"Go for it!"
When the monks heard this, they were angry, anxious, ashamed and angry. Some yelled, some cried and begged, but no matter what they did, it didn't work.
He had no choice but to be dragged down by the soldiers and forced to do hard labor.
As for Chu Qi, he just closed his eyes slightly, pondered a little, and then said: "Let's go to the next house!"
Good guy!
With this person who knows everything in front of him, no temple will be spared... Seize what should be seized, confiscate what should be confiscated, and punish what should be punished, naturally they will not be polite...
Why were the monks in the Yuan Dynasty so rampant?
Naturally, this happened for no reason... There was once a monk from Shangdu in Yuan Dynasty who forced people to buy firewood. The people were not convinced and went to complain to Li Bi, who stayed behind. As a result, when the case was being questioned, the monk came directly to the court with a stick and killed Li Bi.
The wall was beaten.
Do you think it is ridiculous for anyone in the hall to sue me?
What’s even more ridiculous is that the Great Master Qingtian in your eyes is just a piece of shit in my eyes!
What was even crazier was what happened later. After Li Bi was beaten, he reported the monk to Dadu. As a result, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty just arrested the monk, imprisoned him for only two days, and then released him.
Staying in Xanadu is nothing, not even a toe of an eminent monk is worth anything.
The scary thing is that this kind of thing is not an isolated case, there are monks fighting with the princess on the street... According to common sense, any monk must respect the dignitaries and take the initiative to get out of the way, but this monk named Gong Ke didn't care, he actually let him go
The men dragged the princess out and beat her violently in the street.
The princess was furious and wanted to file a complaint, but when she inquired about it, she was frightened half to death. Because Yuan Wuzong had just announced a decree that beating a monk would be punishable by having his hands cut off, and insulting a monk would be punished by having his tongue cut out.
Although things are exaggerated, it is not difficult to understand. After the Mongolian cavalry conquered an unprecedented territory, they also needed to establish a stable order and a set of propositions to appease the people.
The only three schools of thought that could form a system to help the Mongols govern were Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
Confucianism is a prominent school in the Central Plains. Although it can be used, its status is definitely not as high as that of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.
Taoism is too worldly, and only these Buddhist schools are most suitable. Gu Feng
Temples are built widely, land is given generously, and monks do evil without being held accountable... In such a situation, good people will only become bad, and bad people will become even worse. If they are purified, they are right.
Ironically, Chu Qi was extremely talented, read a lot, and was proficient in knowledge. The elders wanted to train him to become a high-ranking monk, so that he could make friends with powerful people, discuss important issues, and win face for them.
If he could be appreciated by the Emperor of Yuan Dynasty, wouldn't it be like reaching the sky in one step?
It's just that they didn't think about it. The smarter the person is, the more he learns, and the more things he knows, it will often produce unexpected results... For example, it is unlikely that ordinary monks know how many temples there are in the world and how much land the court rewards.
But Chu Qi knew everything, but the more he knew this, the more he understood the value of Zhang Ximeng's advocacy of equal land. What are you doing thinking about the afterlife? Why not work hard to cultivate this life?
Equalize the land and enrich the people, so that they can live and work in peace and contentment. Confucianism talks about the world of great harmony, and Prime Minister Zhang advocates people-oriented. So why can't I do my best to make the world a peaceful and peaceful pure land where there is no hunger or cold!
It was obvious that Chu Qi had become self-consistent in his logic, and what was even more terrible was that he also found a group of monks and introduced his ideas to them.
These people had debated scriptures with Chu Qi. They were quite knowledgeable and understood some principles. Under Chu Qi's instigation, almost a dozen more monks defected.
Now the fun was getting bigger. Temples in Huguang and other places, even Jiangxi, and even Yingtian were shocked... For the first time, people faced the huge temple property and the temples and estates. This time, Zhongshu Province
The performance was so outstanding that Li Shanchang summoned ministers from various ministries and quickly adopted Yao Guangxiao's suggestion and conducted examinations for all monks. In the most severe examination, all monks who did not have formal ultimatums would be expelled!
The news about Yingtian spread to Wuchang again, and Zhang Ximeng was not surprised at all. Since the introduction of Buddhism, there has been a fierce confrontation with the Confucian and Taoist families in the Central Plains.
Behind the three martial arts and one sect's extermination of Buddhism, in addition to the struggle for land and people, it naturally also included Confucianism and Taoism, and dissatisfaction with Buddhism... It's just that the three parties have been fighting back and forth in the past generations, but in the end no one can destroy the other.
This resulted in the fate of the three religions and one family.
If you can't eliminate it, just make do with your life!
But no one expected that Zhang Ximeng overturned the theory of the connection between heaven and man and advocated people-centeredness. Confucianism could only be regarded as injured. He could even eliminate Neo-Confucianism, deny Dong Zhongshu's Han-Confucian views, and then start from the root, under the banner of reviving Confucius and Mencius.
Let Confucianism flourish again.
Anyway, don’t underestimate the rebirth ability of Confucianism over thousands of years.
But when the problem falls on Buddhism, the matter becomes serious. After all, there is no sense of human beings in the sky. Whether gods exist or not is not the point. What is important is to care about the people's livelihood and the actual basic necessities of life.
These things, without exception, are impacting the foundation of Buddhism.
"Our Ming Dynasty did not destroy Buddhism, but we did it more thoroughly than any other dynasty! From now on, no monks or Taoists are allowed to interfere in the government affairs of the court. This is our rule, and no one is allowed to change it!"
Lao Zhu said loudly to the civil and military ministers.
All the ministers present were delighted, and Zhu Sheng and others were even more delighted.
"Since the end of the Han Dynasty, Buddhist temples have flourished. Monks have occupied land and enslaved the people. They have neither production nor taxes... They have parasitized the dynasty, deceived people's hearts, and corrupted the world. During the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, many countries perished because of the monks.
, the same is true for Yuan Ting. If Chu Qi hadn't told him, the veteran would not have known that the Yuan Ting had awarded more than 33 million acres of land to temples in the past few decades! This is almost half of the province.
Land. Moreover, the reward from the Yuan Dynasty must be fertile soil, which is far better than ordinary farmland. If we also include the land privately occupied by monks, one of these provinces in the Central Plains is used to support monks... This
, this is simply ridiculous!”
Now that the matter has reached this stage, everyone has understood it clearly, and it is impossible not to deal with it.
But I'm afraid it's not that simple. Luo Furen bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I dare to say that people everywhere, especially for festivals and funerals, still cannot do without temples... The imperial court now strictly controls the number of monks and nuns, so naturally it is
That's right. But if there are too few, someone in the local area will inevitably take the opportunity to impersonate you. And if these temples are closed, if the demons of the White Lotus Sect take advantage of the situation and rise up, there will be endless troubles."
Zhu Yuanzhang grimaced and snorted coldly, "Luo Furen, what you said is right, but we don't like to hear it. Do you know why?"
Luo Furen was startled and said hurriedly: "My lord, I know that I am not just worried, I have other considerations as well."
"explain!"
"I believe that while we are migrating to Huguang, we should build a school in each village and town, place a few veterans there, set up bow and arrow societies, and replace the old monks and nuns with schools and veterans. Only in this way can we truly achieve long-term peace and stability!"
After Luo Furen finished speaking, Zhang Ximeng, who had been sitting next to him, raised his eyelids and smiled on his face... Very good, these people finally know how to compete for credit, and they all rolled up, very good!