First Minister of Ming Dynasty

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Chu Qi put a seal on the temple gate with his own hands, and looked back to see that more than 500 monks, big and small, had been arrested with smiles all over their faces.

"Brothers and brothers, you are relieved. All sins are attributed to me. You can continue to practice... Come here, send them to the prisoner of war camp and serve hard labor!"

"what?"

These monks simply doubted their ears. Isn't this guy crazy? Either he was possessed by a demon, or he really couldn't explain it.

Not long ago, Senior Brother Chu Qi, who was still gentle, smiling and reluctant to speak aloud, actually sealed the monastery with his own hands and forced them to do hard labor. This man must have let the Demon King steal his mind!

"Chu Qi, you were born in a temple and grew up in front of me. You are ungrateful, aren't you afraid of going down to eighteen levels of hell?"

"Hell?" Chu Qi said with a smile: "It's really hell, but this great Yuan world is the **** of all the people of Li and the people... The emperors of the Yuan Dynasty in all dynasties were all ignorant of Buddhism and Taoism and misbehaving. There are 24,318 monks and nuns with a total of 213,148 monks and nuns. If you include those who have privately shaved outside the official government, I am afraid it will be many times more. All the tenant serfs and servants under the monastery are ten times more expensive!”

"The Four Hundred and Eighty Temples of the Southern Dynasty, this Great Yuan Dynasty temple is much more powerful than the Southern Dynasty!"

Chu Qi said unceremoniously: "The Lord of Yuan stipulated that each monastery should have 200 to 300 people, and he generously rewarded acres of land to support monks..." In the early years of Zhongtong, the two temples of Qingshou and Haiyun were given 500 hectares of land. In the fifth year of Dade, he gave Xingjiao Temple 120 hectares, Shangdu Qianyuan Temple 90 hectares, Wan'an Temple 600 hectares, and Nansi Temple 120 hectares. At the beginning of Huangqing, he gave Dapuqing Temple 80,000 hectares of land, Chongfu Temple 100 hectares in Henan, Shangdu Kaiyuan Temple 200 hectares in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Puqing Temple in Shandong Yidu Tian 70 hectares. In the 12th year of the first year, the Qinghe Dashou Yuanzhongguo Temple was built, and the land of the abandoned temples in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was returned to it... A rough estimate is that the Yuan court alone gave more than 30 million mu of land to each temple, and the privately occupied land is even more. countless! You wait and ask yourself, do you deserve all these fields? You and the others have enjoyed these fields, and have eaten so much that they are fat and fat, but they don't know that outside the temple are all bones lying on the ground, dying of starvation. It is a hundred times better than hell! "

"If you truly cultivate, you will naturally have to hand over your property, and you will help the common people. Your conscience is still intact, but you can be forgiven... If you still stick to your property and don't want to hand it over, then you will be a man-eating demon, a demon who helped Zhou and abused the Yuan Dynasty. ...Chu Qi is not talented, he has the Son of Heaven's killing knife, and he will slaughter all the demons and be merciless!"

"Send them to hard labor! Ordinary prisoners of war for five years, they serve ten years! Work their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skin, and wait until the fat is gone, the hands and feet are covered with calluses, and then they can return to their hometowns. Be a happy little people in the prosperous world!"

"Go!"

When the monks heard this, they were angry, anxious, ashamed and angry, some yelled, some cried, but no matter what they did, it didn't work.

He could only be dragged down by the soldiers and served hard labor honestly.

As for Chu Qi, he just closed his eyes slightly, pondered a little, and said, "Go, go to the next house!"

good guy!

With this knowledgeable person rushing ahead, no temple can be spared... The seizure that should be seized, the seizure that should be confiscated, and the justice that should be handled, naturally, they will not be polite...

Why were the monks of the Yuan Dynasty so rampant?

This incident is of course not for no reason... There was once a monk in Yuanshangdu who forced the people to buy firewood. Beaten up.

Do you think it is absurd for anyone in the court to sue this official?

What's even more absurd is that in your eyes, Master Qingtian, in my eyes, is a fart!

And the crazier thing is still behind. After Li Bi was beaten, he reported the monk to Dadu. As a result, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty just arrested the monk and released him after two days of imprisonment.

What does it mean to stay behind in Shangdu, even a toe of an eminent monk can't compare.

The scary thing is that this kind of thing is not an isolated case, and there are monks arguing with the princess on the street...According to common sense, any monk should be in awe of the dignitaries and take the initiative to step aside, but this monk named Gong Ke didn't care, he actually let his subordinates Drag the princess out and beat her violently in the street.

The princess was so angry that she wanted to sue, but after inquiring, she was scared to death. Because Yuan Wuzong was about to announce a decree just now, for beating monks, his hands should be cut off, and for insulting monks, his tongue should be cut off.

Although the matter is exaggerated, it is not difficult to understand. After the Mongolian iron cavalry has laid down an unprecedented territory, they also need to establish a stable order and a set of propositions to appease the people.

The only three schools of thought that can form a system to help the Mongolians govern are Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

Confucianism is a prominent figure in the Central Plains. Although it can be used, its status is definitely not as good as that of the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Taoism is too born, and only these Buddhist schools are the most suitable. Gu Feng

Temples are widely built, land is generously rewarded, and monks do evil, but they are not held accountable... In such a situation, only good people will become bad, and bad people will become worse.

To be ironic, Chu Qi is talented, reads a lot, and is proficient in asking questions. The elders want to train him to be a monk, make friends with powerful people, talk about important things, and fight for their face.

If you can get the appreciation of Emperor Dayuan, it will be a step to the sky.

It's just that they didn't think about it. The smarter the person, the more knowledge he knew, and the more he knew, the more unexpected results he would have. For example, ordinary monks were unlikely to know how many temples there were in the world and how much land the imperial court rewarded.

But Chu Qi was very clear, but the more he knew about this, the more he understood the value of Zhang Ximeng's proposition of Juntian. Delusional afterlife for what? Why not try to cultivate this life?

To equalize the land and enrich the people, let the people live and work in peace and contentment, Confucianism speaks of great harmony in the world, and Zhang Xiang advocates the principle of the people.

Obviously, Chu Qi has been logically self-consistent, and what is even worse is that he has also found a group of monks. Introduce your ideas to them.

These people had debated the scriptures with Chu Qi, and they were good questions, and they understood some truths. Under Chu Qi's instigation, almost a dozen more monks turned their backs.

This time, the fun is big. Temples in Huguang and other places, even Jiangxi, and even Yingtian have been shaken... For the first time, people are facing the huge temple property and the temple estates. This time, Zhongshu Province has expressed Li Shanchang convened all the ministers, quickly adopted Yao Guangxiao's proposition, and conducted examinations for all monks. The most severe examination, monks who did not have a formal ultimatum, were all dismissed!

Yingtian's news spread to Wuchang again. Zhang Ximeng was not surprised at all. Since the introduction of Buddhism, he has had a fierce confrontation with Confucianism and Taoism in the Central Plains.

Behind the three martial arts and one sect to destroy Buddhism, in addition to the competition for land personnel, it also naturally includes Confucianism and Taoism, dissatisfaction with Buddhism... It's just that the battles of the past dynasties have come and gone, and it turns out that no one can destroy anyone. It became the fate of the three religions.

If it can't be eliminated, just make do with it!

But no one could have imagined that Zhang Ximeng overthrew the sense of heaven and man and advocated the principle of the people. Confucianism could only be regarded as injured, or even to eliminate the rationale, deny Dong Zhongshu's view of Han Confucianism, and then start from the root, under the banner of revival of Confucius and Mencius, once again Let Confucianism flourish.

Anyway, for thousands of years, don't underestimate the new ability of Confucianism.

But when the problem falls to Buddhism, the matter is serious. After all, the human beings are gone that day, and the existence of immortals is not the key point, but the people's livelihood and the reality of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

These things, without exception, are impacting the foundation of Buddhism.

"Our Daming did not destroy the Buddha, but it is more thorough than any other dynasty! From now on, no monks and Taoists will interfere in the government affairs of the court. This is our rule, and no one can change it!"

Lao Zhu spoke loudly to the civil and military officials.

All the ministers present were delighted, like Zhu Sheng and others, they were even more delighted.

"Master, since the end of the Han Dynasty, Buddhist temples have flourished, monks have occupied land and enslaved the people. UU reading www.uukanshu.com does not engage in production, and does not pay taxes... parasitic the state, deceives people's hearts, corrupts the world, and the two Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, how many The country was destroyed because of the monks, even the Yuan court. If it weren't for Chu Qi, the old officials would not know that the Yuan court had given over 33 million mu of land to temples in the past few decades! Half of the province's land. And what the Yuan court rewarded must be fertile soil, far better than ordinary farmland. If you include the land privately occupied by monks, the Central Plains, these provinces, there is actually one province for Serving monks... this, this is simply ridiculous!"

The matter has reached this stage, everyone has already seen it clearly, and it is impossible not to deal with it.

But I'm afraid it's not that simple, so Luo Furen bowed and said, "Your Majesty, this minister dares to say that people from all over the world, especially for festivals and funerals, still cannot do without temples... The imperial court is now strictly testing and controlling the number of monks and nuns, naturally it is right Yes. But if there are too few, someone in the local area will inevitably take the opportunity to impostor. If these temples are sealed again, if the demons of the White Lotus Sect take advantage of the situation, they will have endless troubles."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and snorted coldly, "Luo Furen, all of your words are right, but we don't like to hear them, do you know why?"

Luo Furen was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "My minister, this minister knows, this minister is not just worried, but also has other considerations."

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"I thought that while emigrating to Huguang, every village and town would build a church, house several veterans, and set up a bow and arrow club to replace the old monks and nuns with the church and the veterans. Only in this way can we truly enjoy long-term peace!"

After Luo Furen finished, Zhang Ximeng, who had been sitting next to him, raised his eyelids and showed a smile on his face...Very good, these people finally know how to compete for merit, and they all rolled up, very good!

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