Pushan Temple is not a famous temple in the north, it is just an ordinary temple in Luochuan County. Because it is supported by believers from surrounding counties and villages, its life is also very nourishing.
The buildings on the slope that Li Tai saw before were only part of the temple, and the large area of mountainous forest land around the temple belonged to the temple's property.
When Li Tai led his troops to arrive here again, the township regiments stationed at the foot of the mountain had withdrawn, and only a hundred county soldiers were patrolling and watching nearby.
“I’m really ashamed that I have to work so hard to lead people to save people before my humble duty is fulfilled!”
In front of the temple on the hillside, Mao Shijian, who looked haggard, came out with several members of his staff to greet him. After seeing Li Tai, he lowered his head in shame and said.
"People safe is good."
Li Tai replied casually and asked as he walked into the temple: "What is the situation here?"
"Because the monks blocked the retreat from the pontoon bridge, I had no choice but to lure people to escape here. The temple was built in danger, and it was well-stored. I also harbored thoughts of revenge. When I entered the temple, because the monks resisted, I killed and injured more than a dozen of them. Settlement
Not long after, another monk crossed the wall to attract the villagers. The slaves came and attacked. Several of them were killed in the night battle. Out of anger at their humble position, they all were killed..."
Mao Shijian didn't dare to hide it, so he lowered his head and said.
"Kill them all? How many people were killed?"
Li Tai was also shocked after hearing this, he paused and asked with eyes wide open.
"Thirty-two ordained ascetics and more than twenty monastery slaves. Plus other scattered ones, there are about seventy people..."
Mao Shijian lowered his head even further and led Li Tai directly into a Buddhist hall with closed windows. In addition to the enshrined sculptures, there were corpses on the ground.
When Li Tai saw this, he couldn't help but gasped and frowned deeply.
Mao Shijian plopped down and knelt at his feet, and said in a deep voice: "I know how serious the killing is, but at that time I had no time to think about it in order to survive. In addition to the evil spirits in this temple, there are also many believers and slaves imprisoned here.
No harm was done.
Some of them were enslaved by the monks because they owed money to the temple, and some were enslaved because their skills were useful. They were not Sramanas. After the death of the evil monk in the temple, they not only had no resentment, but also cooperated with the guards. If it were not for these temple slaves to guard,
It is difficult for a low-ranking person to hold on until he is rescued..."
Seeing that Li Tai was still silent, he took out another volume of documents and presented it: "This volume records the temple's lending and extortion of money from the countryside. It is evidence that the monks here abused the people. The name of the abbot here is Guangshan.
The monk once lived in Chang'an and had many contacts with the powerful families in the capital. He even participated in the Dharma Assembly in the Forbidden City. If he was not killed, he would probably come to the capital to cause trouble and even disturb the affairs of the Capital Water Department. The evil monk is dead, and there are
Only by conclusive evidence of guilt can future troubles be minimized."
Li Tai took the Wenjuan account book and looked through it briefly, his eyebrows raised secretly. He had known that the monks were rich, but after seeing the material entry and exit data recorded in the account book, he couldn't help but sigh that these monks were really rich.
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He had plundered Lei's Manor before and was quite satisfied with the harvest. He felt that he had made a fortune. However, compared with the incoming and outgoing of the temple's industrial materials, the previous harvest pales in comparison.
For such an ordinary temple with little reputation, there are thousands or tens of thousands of grain and silk coming in and out, which makes people jealous just looking at it.
There are more than 300 monk households belonging to the temple. This number alone is not large, but according to what Yang Shao said before, some counties in the north do not have this number of households. If one household has five people, this number is
That’s more than 1,500 temple slaves!
The temple has its own pastoral property, coupled with the selfless donations from believers in the surrounding rich and poor rural households, the savings of thousands of silks and ten thousand stones are really common.
Li Tai lowered his head and glanced at Mao Shijian, who was still kneeling on the ground to plead guilty, and said: "There are more than seventy monks and temple slaves, you are really brave! Killing monks and destroying the Dharma in this way, are you not afraid of the Buddha's wrath and punishment?"
"I am not a stupid believer in the village, and I have seen with my own eyes how these evil monks robbed the villagers. Even if there is no life or death crisis, I will never tolerate such thieves who rely on the Dharma and fools! If the Buddha is really spiritual, he should punish these Buddhist sects.
We should not punish the justice of the world! Since we have done our humble duty, we have no fear of condemnation from gods and Buddhas. Therefore, we will bear the trouble caused by human power and will shoulder the humble duty with all our strength, and will never involve our colleagues who are engaged in Gongdu Shui."
After hearing this, Mao Shijian said again.
"There are more than seventy lives, including a famous moral mage in Beijing. How do you plan to bear it?"
Li Tai sneered again after hearing this.
"I plan to resign from my humble position and go to Taiwan to file a lawsuit with this evidence of crime. Although my family is not a wealthy family, it is a well-to-do family in Kansai. I ask my old friends from my hometown to jointly file a lawsuit..."
When Li Tai heard this, he raised his hand to interrupt Mao Shijian's words, and said unceremoniously: "Killing monks and destroying temples is already a crime. If you collude with local disciples to spread the ugliness of ascetics, you will undoubtedly die, and you will also be implicated.
Clan folks.
Do you know how many believers there are in this sect? Are they all stupidity, but you are the only one who is pure and wise? It is good to uphold the truth, but if you do not know your own abilities, you will be even more stupid than those foolish ascetics, and you will only harm others and yourself!"
When Mao Shijian heard this, his face darkened again. It was precisely because he was worried about this that he did not dare to leave the temple easily and let the county government take over. What he just said was a method that he thought was quite comprehensive after a lot of consideration.
After Tai opened his mouth to deny it, he couldn't help but feel hesitant.
Seeing the melancholy and hesitation on Mao Shijian's face, Li Tai pointed at him and said: "Get up, remember how you feel now, and you need to think twice in the future! There will not be too many people in this world who condone your rashness. Since I am unfortunate enough to be in charge of
If you kill your commander, it won’t be your turn to worry about the subsequent troubles!”
"Although I don't regret what I have done in my... humble position, I know that it is not easy to cover up this matter. I have received very little help since I joined the agency. It is already a difficult job. If you can give me some advice, I will be grateful.
No, there’s really no need to take the trouble..."
Mao Shijian still refused to get up and continued to talk with his head lowered.
"Of course it's your fault that you have so little help. But if I can't protect myself from this disturbance during my operation, what else can I do to show off? Although the task is difficult, no one can accomplish it. You just have to do your job.
Don’t worry about the rest.”
Li Tai replied that it was not to deliberately win people's hearts, but he just felt that this was his obligation. If the boss doesn't have the responsibility and ability to wipe the butt of his subordinates, then he's just messing around!
Although Li Tai did not say how to solve the matter, after hearing his statement, Mao Shijian's fear was greatly reduced, and he paused again: "No matter what the situation will be in the future, I have to do this. I feel humble and grateful for this kindness.
It must be a labor of love!"
After hearing this, Li Tai nodded, and then asked: "How many of the temple slaves are left? How many are left in the temple?"
"There are still more than 130 slaves in the temple, all of whom are not monks and slaves. They are slaves kidnapped from various places. There are more than 2,000 pieces of cloth and silk in the temple, and more than 5,000 stones of rice, flour and other miscellaneous grains are eaten.
They are all scattered in the surrounding temple estates and manors. There are also gold, silver and bronze utensils..."
After listening to Mao Shijian's introduction, Li Tai was in a good mood again, and his eyes towards Mao Shijian became friendly.
He has seen a lot of people who are respectful to Buddhism but disdainful in their hearts, but it is rare that they just do it. Even if Li Tai has an idea in his heart, he has never found the time to do it.
I thought about being overtaken by this kid.
Although he said he was sure of it, he actually had no idea what to do next, so he first ordered his subordinates to do what they should do. Burn the corpses of the monks and pack up the property in the temple.
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Seeing his subordinates busy in the temple, Li Tai sat in front of the temple lobby and thought about his plan.
Although he was not merciless when he killed the local tycoon of the Lei family, he did not dare to openly plunder and massacre the temple. Because the consideration of killing the local tycoon was nothing more than pros and cons, but the temple involved religious beliefs, ideology and other issues, and it was not a simple matter.
Logical thinking can solve the problem by weighing the pros and cons.
Although this Pushan Temple is not a famous temple, it is still a member of Kansai Samana. From the presiding officer to the young novice, everyone was killed, which is really tragic.
Even if Li Tai can provide a logical and rigorous chain of evidence, whether the public can accept it or not is another question.
The fastest thing that the public can accept is labelled, sloganized messages. The audience of a meme is far higher than that of a well-organized paper.
This has nothing to do with people's wisdom, it's just that I don't need to know in such detail. The crimes committed by those monks have nothing to do with me, but the sound of you killing monks and destroying temples makes people feel horrified.
How crazy a person must be to disrespect gods and Buddhas? Is the evidence presented by such a person credible?
If he cannot gain understanding and recognition from public opinion, even if he can persuade Yuwentai to cover it up for him, it will be detrimental to his in-depth development based in Kansai. Can he really be a lonely minister with peace of mind and be a hug to Yuwentai?
Money expert?
The more Li Tai thought about it, the more he felt a headache. He simply stood up and walked into the Buddhist hall to look at the shapes of the enshrined Buddha statues to broaden his mind. After a brief inspection, he found that one of the Buddha statues had a special shape, so he casually asked: "This
What is the name of the Buddha statue? Why is it different from other types?"
There were also Samana followers among his subordinates. One of them stepped forward and after a brief identification, he said: "This is Master Liu, a great and eminent monk more than a hundred years ago..."
Li Tai walked in and found a short biography of the Buddha written on the front of the Buddha statue. It turned out that Master Liu's name was Liu Sahe. He was a native of Lishi in Bingzhou. He was an eminent monk during the Wuhu chaos in China. He was not of Han ethnicity, but a Southerner.
The Huns are also the Jihu people.
Liu Sahe received ordination in the south of the Yangtze River, and later returned to the north to teach the Dharma. Therefore, he had considerable influence in his hometown and the prefectures of northern Shaanxi. In particular, his tribe belonged to the Jihu people, who worshiped him even more.
After learning this, Li Tai's eyes suddenly lit up: If he talks about destroying temples and annihilating Buddhism as a whole, he dares to say it but Yu Wentai doesn't dare to listen. But if a specific belief is labeled as alien, the resistance will be much smaller.
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Jihu is in trouble with bandits in the north, causing harm to more than one party. Since your Dharma, Master Liu, is profound, why don't you teach your tribe to put down their butcher's knives?