"From the escalation of legal difficulties to the destruction of Buddha, it seems that there is not much time left for him..."
Huiji, who vaguely guessed something, was slightly stunned, and then said to herself thoughtfully.
"Do you know about destroying the Buddha?"
This time it was Chi Hu's turn to widen her eyes in surprise. She never expected that Hui Ji knew about this in advance.
"It's not strange that the current Holy One hates monks and Buddhist temples. The Buddhist's 'faith difficulties' have never stopped since the day he ascended the throne..."
In Huiji's impression, the legal tribulations had already begun five years ago.
At that time, Huiji was only seventeen years old. She was still cultivating at He'an Temple and quietly being a monk.
Unexpectedly, in that year, Emperor Wenzong, who initiated the "Nanlu Rebellion", died in depression. Ying Wang Li Yan was embraced by a group of eunuchs as the emperor's younger brother and became the new Nine-Five Supreme Emperor.
Unlike his brother Tang Wenzong Li Ang, the new emperor made it clear that he favored Taoism and rejected Buddhism as soon as he came to power.
In addition, he himself has great ambitions and ambitions. From the moment he came to power, he has been weakening the power of eunuchs, feudal towns, monks and landlords.
It can be said that the current world can maintain this short-term peace because of the hard work of the new emperor.
To be honest, although she was born in a temple, Huiji never thought there was anything wrong with weakening the power of religion, eunuchs, and vassal towns.
In Pei Wende's words, it is really abnormal for the emperor to tolerate the expansion of religious forces when supernatural individuals such as "practitioners" really exist.
Don't look at the current emperor who rejects Buddhism and favors Taoism.
But that was based on the premise that Taoism had been weakened by previous emperors and was much less threatening than Buddhism.
Huiji has no doubt that once the power of Buddhism declines, the next one to be unlucky will definitely be Taoism, which is now very popular.
"According to you, the 'Death to Exterminate Buddha' law started five years ago?"
Keenly aware that things might be different from what he imagined, Red Fox asked in confusion.
"The Dharma is difficult, and the destruction of the Buddha is the destruction of the Buddha. The two cannot be compared."
Staring deeply ahead, Huiji recalled at this moment the desolate people and chaotic people's livelihood that she had seen along the way when she left He'an Temple.
Just a "legal tribulation" left countless ordinary people hungry and homeless, while the rich and powerful gentry used this to amass wealth and land.
Huiji simply couldn't imagine what kind of waves it would cause once this "Edict to Destroy the Buddha" spreads to other places.
Years of ills can never be changed with just one order or policy.
That is an innovation that requires years of helming and correction by those in power.
Without considerable determination and understanding, today's Holy Father's attempt to destroy the old and innovate with just a decree will only lead to more serious consequences.
"Once the 'Buddhist Destruction Act' spreads, not only will all existing Buddhist temples and statues be destroyed, but even Buddhist monks will be forced to return to secular life."
Hearing this, even Red Fox, who had a very superficial understanding of human beings, understood the seriousness of this incident.
If we say that the original "Dharma Difficulty" only weakened the influence of Buddhism in the country.
So the current "extermination of Buddha" is undoubtedly to completely cut off this belief from its roots.
"Is your emperor crazy? Can he do such a thing so recklessly?!"
If it were simply to weaken the number of monks and strictly control the number of registered monks, Red Fox might also understand that Buddhism was too powerful and had affected the stability of secular imperial power.
However, this kind of forcing monks to return to secular life and destroying Buddhist statues in Buddhist temples can no longer be simply understood as concentrating imperial power.
This clearly hopes that Buddhist beliefs and culture will completely disappear from this land.
The most important thing is that this "Buddhist Extermination Decree" is equivalent to giving the local rich and powerful gentry an official talisman, allowing them to unscrupulously occupy the land originally occupied by Buddhist temples.
As for the land that has been reclaimed from the central government, will it be redistributed to local refugees?
And can the taxes on these lands be reclaimed from the treasury by the current Holy Emperor as he wishes?
That is completely unknown.
At the very least, Huiji was not optimistic about this simple and crude approach, and even felt that it was likely to lead to a new round of "chaos in the feudal towns."
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When Pei Wende returned to Tongqing Temple, he immediately learned about the "Death to Destroy the Buddha" from Hui Ji.
"The law to destroy the Buddha?"
Looking at Hui Ji with a serious expression in confusion, Pei Wende couldn't tell for a moment whether the other party was joking with him or not.
In Pei Wende's impression, all rulers at home and abroad in ancient and modern times who dared to do such things as "destroy people's faith" seemed to have a good end.
Even in a nation like China, where no one believes in ghosts and gods, or a utilitarian belief in ghosts and gods, this is an extremely exaggerated thing.
[Three martial arts and one sect destroyed Buddhism? 】
In a daze, Pei Wende suddenly remembered the events he had seen in some textbooks and books in his previous life.
In the 21st century where Pei Wende lived in his previous life, the four large-scale campaigns to exterminate Buddhism in Chinese history were collectively referred to as the "Three Martial Arts and One Sect Extermination of Buddhism Incident".
Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty destroyed the Buddha, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Buddha, Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Buddha...
Since the posthumous names or temple names of these rulers all contained the character "武", and they also suppressed the development of Buddhism, later generations of scholars collectively referred to them as "Three Martial Arts to Destroy the Buddha."
Coupled with the incident of extermination of Buddhism during the reign of Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, this became the famous "Three Martial Arts and One Sect Extermination of Buddhism" in history.
[It turns out that the era I am living in now is the period of Emperor Wuzong of Tang Dynasty after the "Ganlu Incident"? 】
It was only at this time that Pei Wende had a general impression of his current Tang Dynasty era.
After all, although Pei Wende knew through some details that he was currently in the Tang Dynasty in the late "Anshi Rebellion", he also knew that the Tang Dynasty in this era had begun to turn from prosperity to decline.
But he didn't know much about what happened after the "Anshi Rebellion" and which emperors succeeded him.
[Unfortunately, I am not the protagonist in those histories...]
[I don’t intend to hug the lap of the future emperor. Knowing these detailed dates has no meaning at all. 】
He shook his head regretfully. Pei Wende only wanted to practice cultivation now and had no interest in what happened in the court.
"Speaking of this, it seems that I have to thank my cheap sister."
"If she hadn't helped us register with the government in advance, our Tongqing Temple would have really become one of the targets of the 'Destroy the Buddha Act'."
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