Ji Tang

Chapter 67 Waiting
After Ji Song returned home, he stayed at home and took Rhubarb into the mountains to hunt or teach in the school. During this period, Ji Ming came back with some news.

The house matter that Ji Song was concerned about has finally been settled. After nearly half a year of renovation and rearrangement, it is now ready for move-in.

However, Ji Song has no plans to go to Chang'an for the time being. He will keep this house for future use.

Li Shimin also passed the news several times through the channel of "Anxiang Lai", but Ji Song ignored it.

On the 25th of the first month of the ninth year of Takeori, Li Yuan appointed Zuopushe Pei Ji as Sikong, and sent a Yuanwailang to his mansion on duty every day, in order to express his love and favor for Pei Ji to outsiders.

On the first day of February, Li Yuan appointed Qi King Li Yuanji as Situ.

On the [-]th, Li Yuan issued an edict for the first time since he ascended the throne, allowing prefectures and counties to worship the God of the Earth and Grains. He also ordered the people to set up Earth temples in villages and hold sacrificial activities to pray for a good harvest in the spring and to bring back the gods in the autumn. The fun of the people in the countryside.

On the [-]th, they even offered sacrifices to the God of Land and Grain in person to show their importance to farming.

To Ji Song's surprise, on the 28th, the Turks invaded Yuanzhou, something Ji Song had never known in his previous life.

This lets him know that the events in his memory are only the most prominent events of this era, and they can only ensure that he will not easily fall into the wrong team.

I am not an omniscient and omnipotent God, and I cannot know everything. Therefore, it is better not to rely too much on him in the future.

What reassures Ji Song is that this may be a common thing for the Turks to clear grass and valleys every year. Li Yuan sent the powerful general Yang Mao to attack the Turks, and nothing happened after that.

On the second day of March, Li Yuan came to Kunming Pool to play, but soon returned to the palace.

What happened next made Ji Song know that the Tang Dynasty at this time did not know the prosperous Tang Dynasty when all the nations came to visit.

In March, Tuyuhun and Xiang Dang invaded Minzhou.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, Guo Xingfang, the Minister of Daoxingtai in Yizhou, attacked the Xue people in Meizhou who rebelled against the imperial court, repulsed them and captured five thousand men and women.

On the [-]th, Liang Shidu captured Jingnan Town.

On the 23rd, the Turks invaded Lingzhou.

On the 25th, Nanhai Gong Ouyang Yin was ordered to go on an envoy. He was in the Turks. He led 50 of his subordinates to plan a sudden attack on the Khan's tent. As a result, the incident was leaked and the Turks imprisoned him.This has to make Ji Song admire the boldness of these people.

On the 29th, the Turks invaded Liangzhou, and the governor of Liangzhou, Changle King Li Youliang, repulsed them.

In April, the Tang Dynasty is showing off everywhere. It’s really you who sings and I’ll take the stage.

Ji Song did not dare to be negligent in the slightest. In order to deal with the situation at hand, Ji Song summoned the leaders of the clan and led a hundred and fifty young men from the clan and Jiangjiaao to the mountains to train troops on the pretext that the family leader went to the mountains for hunting.

These people have been training for nearly two years under the leadership of Ji Song's guard commander Ji Lu and according to the "Practical Military Training Strategy" written by Ji Song.

"Practical Training Strategy" is a product of Ji Song's combination of later special forces training strategies and the "New Book of Jixiao" written by Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty.

It includes elements such as military posture, military morale, soldier selection, training, generalship, rewards and punishments, equipment, and shooting techniques.

It can be said to be an encyclopedia of military training, with nearly a million words.

Its language is concise and easy to understand. It changes from the obscurity and incomprehensibility of previous writings on the art of war. Even recruits who are barely literate can understand it.

Ji Song listed it as Ji's top secret, and it was also where Ji's children would settle down in the future.

It's not that Ji Song doesn't want to make it public and benefit everyone.

But now he doesn't dare. Nowadays, anyone who is literate is more or less inextricably linked to the aristocratic family.

After Ji Song announces it, the most likely possibility is that he will be shelved by these wealthy families or become their assets. Maybe the Ji family will also be targeted for this.

After nearly two years of training, coupled with three meals of meat, all of them are strong Guanzhong men.

Ji Song even refined the martial arts taught by Ji's father and passed them on to everyone.

Although the improved martial arts is not as sophisticated as Ji Song's original version, it is more suitable for military officers.

Now that the Ji family has money and food, Ji Song has armed them to the teeth. Except for the armor and crossbows banned by the imperial court, they are not allowed to do anything else even by the imperial army. Everyone rides a strong prairie horse.
Ji Song was sure that Ji's 150 people could defeat 1000 strong soldiers.

This is not because Ji Song is arrogant, but because their background gives Ji Song strong confidence.

This time, in addition to testing their effectiveness over the past few years, Ji Song plans to take them for actual combat exercises.

Although Guanzhong is peaceful at this time, there are still countless robbers and bandits in the Qinling Mountains.

And these people are the whetstones for Ji's soldiers. A soldier who has never seen blood will never be a qualified soldier.

Therefore, Ji Song wanted to take them to see the blood this time.

Ji Song gave an order, and 150 people and more than a hundred war horses roared away!

Ji Song walked away gracefully, but important events in the court continued.

In summer, on the ninth day of April, the Turks invaded Shuozhou.

On the [-]th, the Turks invaded Yuanzhou.On the [-]th, the Turks invaded Jingzhou.

On the [-]th, Li Jing, the governor of Anzhou, and the Turk Jieli Khan fought at Xiashi in Lingzhou. The battle started in the morning and lasted until Shenshi, when the Turks returned and retreated.

In April, Taishi ordered Fu Yi to submit a memorial, requesting the abolition of Buddhism, saying: "Buddha was born in the Western Regions, his words were weird, and he was far away from China, so the Han Dynasty translated Buddhist scriptures and made arbitrary pretexts.

Buddhism allows people who are not loyal to the monarch and do not respect their parents to become monks, so they only bow their hands to the monarch and their parents; it allows people who are lazy and idle and not doing their jobs to wear monks' attire, so that they can escape the burden of taxes.

Buddhism falsely opened up the doctrine of the three evil realms of hell, hungry ghosts, and animals, and mistakenly added humans, gods, and asuras, and expanded it into the theory of six paths of reincarnation, thereby intimidating ignorant men and deceiving mediocre people.

So Buddhism allows people to regret their past sins and plan future blessings out of thin air; it asks people to donate ten thousand dollars, hoping to get ten thousand times the return; it asks people to fast for one day, hoping to get a hundred days of food rations.This makes stupid and confused people pursue meritorious deeds in vain, disregard legal regulations and prohibitions, and recklessly violate rules and regulations.

Some people initially committed great evil and treason, but only after falling into the trap of the law did they worship Buddha in prison in an attempt to absolve themselves of their sins.

Moreover, survival and death, longevity and shortness are governed by the laws of nature, the authority to impose punishments or favors is in the hands of the monarch, and poverty and wealth, nobility and humiliation are caused by the meritorious deeds established by people.

However, the stupid monks used false pretenses to defraud, claiming that the fault was caused by the Buddha.

It can be seen that Buddhism steals the authority of the monarch and monopolizes the power of natural creation and education. Their actions harm the government. This is really sad!
From Fuxi and Shennong down to the Han Dynasty, Buddhism has never existed. However, the monarch is wise, the ministers are loyal, and the country has a long-term destiny and lasts for a long time.

During the reign of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, he began to set up statues of Buddha, the deity of the barbarians, and monks in the Western Regions naturally spread Buddhism.

Before the Western Jin Dynasty, the country had strict laws and regulations that did not allow Chinese people to shave their heads and become monks without permission.

Since the reign of the Fu family in the former Qin Dynasty and the Shi family in the later Zhao Dynasty, the Qiang and Hu people have disrupted the order of China. The monarch has been fatuous, his ministers have been treacherous, the government has been brutal, and the country's fortunes have been short-lived. The fate of Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty and Emperor Wenxiang of the Northern Qi Dynasty is worth learning from. .

Now, the number of monks and nuns in the country exceeds 10. They cut colorful silks, decorate Buddha statues made of clay, and compete to suppress ghosts and ghosts with curses to confuse the people.Please allow monks and nuns to marry each other, and there will be more than [-] households.

They give birth to boys and girls, and after ten years of growth and nurturing, and 12 years of education and training, they can have a sufficient supply of soldiers.

The country will be freed from the disaster of gradual embezzlement of assets, and the people will understand whose hands the power is, and the trend of deceiving the public will naturally be eradicated, and honest and simple customs will rise again.

I have privately seen the seal of Qiu Zituo, the emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, who said: "If there are too many monks and nuns, the country's wealth will be wasted; if we build temples and pagodas lavishly, we will waste gold, silver and cloth." '

Because the monks relied on the prime minister and publicly slandered him in the court, and the nuns relied on the princess and the princess, secretly criticizing and complaining about him, Zhangchou Zituo was actually imprisoned and was killed in the bustling city of the capital.

After Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty pacified the Northern Qi Dynasty, he issued a decree to prepare soil for his tomb.

I feel ashamed of myself, but secretly I admire his behavior. "

Li Yuan was also greatly surprised when he heard this. He did not expect that Buddhism had expanded to such an extent. He then went to the court to ask for everyone's opinions.

Li Yuan issued an edict and asked all officials to discuss the matter. Only the servant Zhang Daoyuan claimed that Fu Yi was reasonable.

Xiao Yu said: "The Buddha is a saint, but Fu Yi wants to criticize the Buddha. Those who criticize a saint are lawless and should be punished for their crimes."

“There is nothing more important for people’s moral integrity than their monarch and their father.

As the eldest son, Buddha betrayed his father, and as a commoner, he refused to carry out the emperor's orders.

Xiao Yu was not born without a father in Kongsang, but he followed the fatherless religion.

Those who criticize filial piety for having no parents are talking about people like Xiao Yu. " Fu Yi said

Xiao Yu was speechless and had no choice but to clasp his hands and say: "This is the person who set up hell!"

Li Yuan also hated monks and Taoists for evading taxes and corvees and not abiding by the precepts of their religion, exactly as Fu Yi said.

In addition, temples, Taoist temples are connected to shops and houses, and are mixed with the Butcher Hotel.

On the 23rd, Li Yuan issued an edict, ordering relevant departments to eliminate monks, nuns and male and female Taoist priests across the country, move those who concentrate on diligent practice to larger monasteries and Taoism, provide them with clothing and food, and do not leave them lacking anything.

For those who are vulgar, crude and ugly, they are ordered to stop practicing and forced to return to their hometowns.

Three temples and two Taoist temples will be retained in the capital, and one temple and Taoist temple will be retained in each state. The remaining temples and Taoist temples will be eliminated.

Fu Yi was cautious and meticulous by nature and knew that royal secrets could not be spread, so he cut off contact with his friends after taking up the post of observing astronomical phenomena.

All the manuscripts of the natural disasters and natural anomalies he reported were burned so that no one could know about them.

The restriction of Buddhism and Taoism has not yet ended, but chaos has begun in the north again.

On the 25th, the Turks invaded Xihui Prefecture.

In the fifth month, Hu Chenglang and others in Qianzhou killed Chang Shi and rebelled back to the capital of Liang Dynasty. The governor Liu pursued and executed him.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, Dangxiang invaded Kuozhou.

On the [-]th, the Turks invaded Qinzhou.

On the [-]th, Lu Nan, a native of Yuezhou, rebelled and killed Ning Daoming, the assassin.

On the [-]th, Tuyuhun and Dangxiang invaded Hezhou.

On the same day, the Turks invaded Lanzhou.

On the 29th, Pingdao General Chai Shao was sent to attack Hu.

After Chai Shao sent troops, the next day, Wei Zheng wrote to Li Yuan, hoping that the imperial court could send a clan general to serve as the garrison of Tongguan on the grounds of guarding against the lands in Guandong.

Li Yuan thought for a long time and knew that the Tang Dynasty was in turmoil at this time, so the Guandong family might have some inappropriate ideas.But after much deliberation, there is still no suitable candidate.

In the end, I don’t know who told Princess Pingyang about this. The next day, she went to the palace to ask for orders and was willing to guard Tongguan.

This made Li Yuan very happy. He still knew what his daughter was capable of. With her guarding Tongguan, he could be said to be as safe as Mount Tai.

However, Li Yuan was a little uneasy about her body.

But after Li Xiuning repeatedly asked for help, Li Yuan agreed.

Although Ji Song is not here, Ji Ming passes on his moral information to Ji Song every day.

After learning that my aunt was dispatched from Chang'an, I felt a little absent-minded all day long.

"Master, when are we going to leave the mountain! We have been in the mountain for several months, how long should we stay?" Just as Ji Song was deep in thought, Ji Lu came to him with Liu Laoer and others and complained. .

After entering the mountain, they realized that there were so many bandits in the mountain.

At first, after they occupied a mountain stronghold with hundreds of people, they did not send out troops to kill them. Instead, they sent people to find out the details of the mountain bandits.

You won’t know if you don’t investigate. Once you investigate, you will be shocked to find that there are no less than a hundred bandits in the Guanzhong section of the Qinling Mountains.

There were dozens of people in the small one, and thousands of people in the big one.

After half a month of preparation, Ji Song led them to clean up the bandits centered on the village where they were located. Everything seemed to go smoothly at first, and no less than [-] villages were wiped out in less than three months.

However, somehow their whereabouts were known to the bandits. Just half a month ago, they were besieged by the remaining bandits. This was a team of no less than 2000 people.

Had it not been for the fact that the head of the family had not captured the thief and captured the king in the end, and captured and killed several of the bandit leaders, causing the bandits to suffer a huge loss, the consequences would be unimaginable.

It was this time that their team suffered casualties, with five people killed and dozens injured.

At least ten of them may no longer be able to fight on the battlefield in the future.

When things got to this point, neither the bandits nor Ji Song planned to continue.

However, what surprised Ji Song was that not long ago, all the bandits in the Qinling section of Guanzhong disappeared for some reason. According to the report of the investigators, all the people in the cottages were empty. The final conclusion was that they ran away. !
That's right, they ran away. When things got to this point, there was nothing they could do if they didn't run away.

You must know that these more than 2000 people are all the people we can gather.

Ji Song and the others still can't be wiped out just like this, and there will be no other way in the future, so if you don't run away now, wait until later!

　This chapter is an excessive chapter, with a lot of historical introduction. This is not intentional by Qiao Mu.
　　
　
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