At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 476: Anti-Buddhist Movement

Zhang Yong said coldly, "If we hang all these monks, there may be a few innocent people, but most of those who are spared are villains. If we don't kill them all, we will be sorry to the people of India. I don't know how many widows these monks kill every year. These bald monks say they are compassionate, but each one is more vicious than the other."

Buddhism originated in India hundreds of years ago and quickly rose to become the largest religious sect in India. During its rise, Buddhism absorbed the essence of some other sects, but also absorbed a lot of dregs from other sects.

Tianzhu was at the end of the slave system, and many of its cultural customs were similar to those of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of the Han Dynasty, but they were banned by the Han Dynasty. What Zhang Yong couldn't stand the most was the Tianzhu tradition of burning widows. Isn't this the human sacrifice of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period?

Zhang Yong was furious when he learned that the Indians were taking human sacrifices in Anxi City. You must know that the predecessor of the Han Army was the rebel army because the First Emperor wanted to build the imperial mausoleum. In order to keep their mausoleums secret, the nobles of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period would kill all the craftsmen who were building the mausoleums, and even specially killed a group of slaves as human sacrifices. Therefore, what the Han Army hated most was this kind of disregard for human life.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, even before the country was founded, such incidents would be dealt with as soon as they were discovered.

There were weddings of the River God, the Mountain God, and all kinds of weird gods and monsters. The Han army generals could not tolerate these people. The alchemists who presided over the ceremonies and the powerful people who were accomplices of the evil were either burned to death or hanged by the Han soldiers.

It can be said that the number of alchemists who died at the hands of the First Emperor was far less than that of those who died at the hands of the Han army. The Han army almost cut off the roots of these alchemists and charlatans.

This was a time of war, and it was normal for tens of thousands of people to die in a war. The death of a few thousand alchemists in the process would not cause any waves at all.

After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the alchemists who had luckily escaped the disaster no longer dared to resort to human sacrifice and disregard human life. This was how the remnants of slavery that had existed for thousands of years were eliminated.

But the land of India obviously did not experience a revolution like the Han Dynasty, and various remnants of slavery were still surfacing, and burning widows was the worst of them.

Zhang Yong was not polite when faced with such remnants. He would deal with them as soon as he found them. If any monk dared to organize human sacrifices and burn widows to death, Zhang Yong would hang the monk who presided over the ceremony.

When Indian monks burned 32 widows to death in Anxi, Zhang Yong hanged hundreds of monks and local elders who presided over the ceremony until the Indians gave up the tradition.

Jiuma Luo was frightened when he heard Zhang Yong's words, because he knew that the tradition of burning widows that Zhang Yong mentioned was the Sati system. The source of this system was actually a system of burying widows alive with the dead advocated by his Brahmanism.

Women in India have a low status, and women who have lost their husbands have even less status, so they are regarded as religious sacrifices. People who believe in the Sati system firmly believe that widows can convey messages to their husbands in heaven. The widow climbs onto the funeral pyre, places her husband's head on her knees, and then the pyre is lit.

Usually widows were cremated on the same pyre as their husbands. If there were several widows, the format was different. Generally, the most favored one would have this "honor". If the husband died on a distant battlefield, the widow would use his handkerchief or shoes as a symbol of his body and be cremated with her.

This was actually a system that Brahmanism promoted to the kings and nobles of India in order to open up channels to the upper class.

Of course, just as the various schools of thought would plagiarize each other's excellent ideas, the religions in India would also plagiarize the customs accepted by the rulers.

So Brahmanism was promoted, but because Buddhism was powerful in India, it was taken over and promoted by them.

Originally this was a custom of the upper nobility, but it gradually evolved into an act of destroying a family, burning widows to death and taking away their property. When one person's entire family died, the whole village benefited, and so this custom gradually became popular among the lower classes in India.

In sparsely populated areas, this custom was suppressed because of the need for labor, but in densely populated areas like Anxi, it was more prosperous. If it hadn't been for Zhang Yong's strong suppression, this custom would have continued until 2000 years later, when Niu Niu became the master of this continent. Their way of dealing with it was the same as Zhang Yong's. Whoever dared to burn a widow, Niu Niu would hang him.
Hu Hai was surprised and said, "I didn't expect these bald donkeys to be so vicious. General Zhang has collected their evil deeds. Tell us so that we can fight against them together."

Hu Hai did not think that the monks' behavior was evil, it was just a human sacrifice, which noble family had not done such a thing, it was just the new nobles of the Han Dynasty who were surprised by it. But this kind of thing disappeared in the Han Dynasty, which was only a dozen or twenty years ago, not even a generation.

In the past, his ancestors even sacrificed important officials of the country, and now he only burned his wife.

The status of the Brahmins in India was equivalent to that of the nobles in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It was not surprising that they burned their wives as burial objects.

He was just pleasantly surprised to have found an excuse to deal with the Indian monks.

Zhang Yong thought Hu Hai also supported him. He said angrily again: "These bald donkeys say that the four elements are empty and compassionate, but what they do is more dirty than the other. They actually abducted young girls from India to be prostitutes, and said that this is a saint. Why don't they use their own daughters as saints?"

The Indian Holy Maiden originated from an ancient tradition in India. Girls from poor families were forced to sell themselves to temples after entering puberty and became sex slaves of senior Indian monks and Brahmin elders. Therefore, they were called "holy maidens".

Hu Hai thought to himself, "These monks are playing very fancy."

Of course, it is not surprising that Hu Hai changed his name to singer or concubine. You see, the pattern is the same. These are all left over from the nobles. Just look at the history books and you will see that this behavior of changing concubines is very common.

People in later generations are a little confused as to why a man would even change his wives without fear of having an affair. This is comparing the status of women in modern times with that in ancient times.

In ancient times, monogamy was the norm and concubines were not wives. They were originally prostitutes kept by nobles. Their main task was to entertain these nobles, so it was natural for them to change their tastes.

These Indian monks hold the highest power, can they really let them be empty-handed? It's just that it's a bit too much for these monks to take advantage of the name of the gods and get something for free.

But now these monks are Hu Hai's enemies, he can only grit his teeth and say: "These monks really have to be killed to appease the public anger. In the past, we were afraid to kill them, but now these monks have been cut off by us, and they should pay with blood."

"How do you plan to deal with the Buddhist monks?" Jiumalu was a little frightened. He didn't know how Hu Hai and Zhang Yong planned to avenge their blood debt with blood.

Zhang Yong sneered and said, "In our Han Dynasty, we have a complete set of procedures to deal with these charlatans, which will ensure that every one of them can pay for their sins."

Hu Hai smiled and said, "General Zhang knows how to deal with these charlatans. I will assist you in your actions."

Jiumalu didn't know the process of the Han Dynasty's conquest of the world, but Hu Hai read every memorial. He was terrified at the time, but now seeing the Han army using such means to deal with their enemies, he has different thoughts.

After the few people discussed it, Zhang Yong immediately mobilized the Shudra soldiers in Anxi City, suddenly surrounded the monastery in Anxi, and captured and tied up all the monks.

"What are you doing? We are messengers of gods. If you dare to arrest us, we will have offended Buddha and gods. You will go to the Avici Hell after you die." A monk scolded righteously.

The Shudra soldiers around were so scolded that they dared not take any action.

But at this time, the officer leading the Han army didn't care about any gods or Buddhas. He just hit the monk with a stick and knocked him unconscious.

Then he angrily shouted, "Don't say that. They are just bald donkeys. Even if a god really appeared in front of you, you should take out the weapons in your hands and stab them twice to let these gods know how powerful you are. Then no one will dare to bully you."

The Shudra soldiers looked at the Han officers with admiration, they were so domineering.

Then the soldiers moved all the gold and silver statues, pearls and treasures, silk cloth, food and other things in the temple to the open space one by one.

At this time, Buddhist believers around the temple also came out to protect these monks.

"How dare you offend the gods? You will be punished by heaven." The Buddhists around cursed.

When they tried to go further to rescue the monks, they were stopped by soldiers.

The leading officer Wang Peng scolded in Indian dialect: "Are you out of your mind? You can't see that these monks should be punished by God."

"Look at the wealth of food on this stage. This is all accumulated by your hard work. Have any of you starved to death in any year? Has this so-called Buddha ever blessed you? Have these monks ever helped you?" Wang Peng patted the pile of food and said, "Look at this pile of food. Do you think they lack the ability to do so?"

Faced with such stark reality, these Buddhists are speechless.

Wang Peng found a bag of moldy and rotten rice and threw it out, scattering the moldy rice in front of these Buddhists.

He roared, "These monks would rather watch the rice rot than give you a chance to live. Why do you believe in a Buddha who ruthlessly exploits you and does not protect you? The reason you are starving and even starving your relatives to death is all caused by these monks. Your suffering is also caused by this Buddha.

Tell me, why do you believe in this Buddha who brings you suffering!!!"

The atmosphere at the scene was silent. Looking at the moldy grain and then the mountains of grain on the platform, the Buddhists didn't know what to say.

"This is a test from the Buddha. If we can withstand it, we can be reincarnated as a Brahmin in the next life and enjoy wealth and glory."

Wang Peng sneered and said, "Let's not talk about whether there is reincarnation or not. Even if there is, there are not enough places for these Brahmins and Kshatriyas, so how can you get a chance?"

"Think carefully about your life. Is there any good thing that can happen to you? Is there any suffering that you can escape? How can you guarantee that the good things that you cannot enjoy while you are alive will happen to you after you die.

These Brahmins and Kshatriyas, don’t they want to die? Don’t they want to reincarnate again, become nobles, and continue to enjoy wealth and splendor? They are closer to the gods than you are. Why do you think such a good thing can be your turn? "

As soon as these words were spoken, many Buddhists turned pale. This is the simplest logical deduction. In India, a land with a caste system, the descendants of Brahmins are Brahmins and the descendants of Kshatriyas are Kshatriyas. If there is really reincarnation, it is reasonable for them to continue to be Brahmins and Kshatriyas after their death.

That is to say, even if they become ghosts, they are still Vaisyas and Shudras. They will still suffer in the underworld and still have to serve the Brahmins and Kshatriyas.

"It's impossible. Buddha said that good deeds will be rewarded with good, and evil deeds will be punished with evil. We who do good deeds will definitely be reincarnated as nobles."

Wang Peng sneered, "You are stubborn and stubborn. Who told you that this is what Buddha said? And how can you think that what you did was good? You just gave your wealth to these monks. According to this theory, they have done bad things and you have to bear the consequences. After you die, you should go to Avici Hell and reincarnate as animals."

Wang Peng shouted: "If you want to live a good life, take back your own wealth and work hard for it yourself, instead of handing it over to the so-called Buddha, these fat-headed monks."

"Now, anyone who is willing to tell the evil deeds of these monks can get 30 acres of land and two bags of grain. Who is willing to come up?"

These Buddhist believers looked at each other in bewilderment. On the one hand, they did not believe that Wang Peng and others would be so generous, and on the other hand, they did not dare to step forward to expose the evil deeds of these monks.

"Come here!" A middle-aged man came up and said, "I used to be a merchant with a house in Anxi City. I lived a good life, but I borrowed money from a temple during one of my business trips. I couldn't pay it back no matter what I did. In the end, my wife and daughter became theirs, and even I became their slave. I have been their slave for more than a year, and not only have I not repaid the debt, but the money I owe them has become more and more. I will never be able to pay it back in this lifetime. I don't believe in reincarnation. If there is reincarnation, these monks should go to hell."

Wang Peng asked, "What's your name?"

"Korund Modi"

Wang Peng said: "Modi, you can go and look for your IOU. If you find it, throw it into the fire and burn it. Then go and find your wife and daughter. From now on, you are both free men."

Modi first found his wife and daughter, and then the whole family looked for their own IOU among a pile of IOUs. After finding it, Modi excitedly threw the IOU into the fire.

"Who lent you the money at high interest rates?"

Modi pointed at a fat monk and said, "That's him."

Wang Peng said, "Come here, hang this monk."

Soon several soldiers hung the monk on a high platform. He struggled for a while and then became motionless.

Wang Peng sneered and said, "Look, these so-called divine monks only have one life. They will die if they hang themselves. They don't have any magical power at all."

The whole audience looked in amazement at the monk's body swaying in the wind.

Wang Peng took out a gold item and gave it to Modi, saying, "Take this gold and live a good life with your family. If you want land, go to the City Lord's Mansion to apply for it. Your family can get 30 acres of land. If anyone dares not to give it to you, you can come to the military camp outside the city to find me."

Modi and the other two immediately knelt down before Wang Peng and said, "Our whole family will pray to the gods day and night, and ask them to bless you."

Wang Peng said proudly: "The gods of Tianzhu have no control over me."

With a successful example, although they had not seen the 30 acres of land, they could see the golden vessel clearly, which was a considerable fortune.

These are the slaves of the temple. They came out one by one and told their stories. Most of them rented land from the temple, but the harder they worked, the more debts they had. The more land they cultivated, the less they had enough to eat. Their parents, children, and even themselves became slaves of the monks because of their debts.

This is the normal state of these lower-class people in India. This tragic experience easily resonates with them, and for a while, people on and off the stage were weeping.

Whenever the people pointed out that a monk had committed a crime, Wang Peng ordered the soldiers to hang him, and soon rows of corpses were hung on the platform.

Each soldier who came to power was given two bags of rice, the slaves' contracts were burned, and the debts owed by the lower-class people were also burned clean.

It can be said that except for the monks in these temples who suffered losses, everyone benefited.

Wang Peng said: "Those who just reported the monks' crimes, each of you will be given 30 acres of land. Others don't have to worry. As long as you don't have land, you can apply to the City Lord's Mansion, and each household can also get acres of land. Don't worry about not having enough land. These temples have plenty of land, enough for everyone."

"Lord Shiva bless the general!" All Luzon cheered, and the loudest cheers came from the monks' followers. With 20 acres of land, they could live a good life, so what was the need for Buddha?
Such anti-Buddhist actions were carried out in full swing in the Five Cities of Anxi. The Han army had an experienced procedure. They first found slaves to dig out the sins of these monks. The Indian monks were not even feudal landlords, they could only be considered slave owners. Most of the evil deeds committed by India were caused by themselves, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that their crimes were too numerous to list.

During the anti-Buddhist campaign, the Han people distributed land to gain the support of the lower-class Indian people, burned slave contracts to gain the support of these slaves, and burned IOUs to gain the support of Vaishya merchants. As for the Kshatriya class in Anxi, they had disappeared without a trace long ago.

It can be said that in the five cities of Anxi County, Buddhism fell and everyone was full.

Help these monks stand against everyone. Their so-called huge power is nothing more than a castle on the sand dunes, which will disappear in the air with a wave.

The mastermind behind the scenes, Hu Hai, controlled the entire financial system of Anxi.

However, the fate of these monks also made Hu Hai sigh. When he was in Guanzhong, it was difficult for him to understand how the Qin Empire collapsed.

But now seeing these monks being easily destroyed, I finally understand a little bit that no matter how powerful a force is, it cannot stand against everyone, otherwise it will eventually disappear.

(End of this chapter)