People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 294: Murder must be punished! The monks must be disgraced!

It was impossible for Emperor Wanli to directly announce the arrest of these people.

Then just kill them directly.

Emperor Wanli can do it by killing the monks.

Because these people are not important in the first place, but the primary seal and the secondary seal are different.

Although they are not big officials, they must understand what the position of Seng Lusi is?
It governs all the monks in the world.

You can kill them for any reason.

But the price is that the monks all over the world can make up stories at will, saying that His Majesty the Emperor killed innocent people indiscriminately. Anyway, no one has seen it with their own eyes, there are no officials to interrogate, and there is no written information.

At that time, in order to pour dirty water on the emperor, those civil servants can take their own pens and use the Spring and Autumn style of writing. Finally, they can write that it was because of the emperor's personal disgust that the Buddhist Pure Land was destroyed.

The civil servants may not be trying to bring justice to Buddhism, but they are very good at finding angles in order to discredit His Majesty the Emperor.

Because words are dead, but the person who interprets this text is alive, and the final right of interpretation belongs to the literati.

He could explain that there were many monks wandering around the world, so His Majesty the Emperor eradicated those deceptive monk temples in order to prevent the people from being deceived.

But the civil servants could also explain that this emperor was cruel by nature. In order to raise money for his own pleasure, he did not hesitate to defame the temple, so he demolished the temple's bronze statues and smelted them into copper coins.

Such an explanation would become evidence of the emperor's stupidity and incompetence.

This explanation caused harm to many emperors.

For example, Zhu Zhanji, Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, was one of the few emperors in the history of the Ming Dynasty who could chariot and conquer personally. He was capable of both civil and military affairs, but because he, like Zhu Di, paid more attention to military preparation, the civil servants were very unhappy.

So the civil servants made a fuss about Zhu Zhanji's occasional hobby of fighting crickets, and called him the Cricket Emperor.

This kind of written record is very disgusting, and it makes many people who don't have much historical knowledge, when they think of Zhu Zhanji, the image of a playboy who plays chickens and fights dogs emerges in their minds.

This is the lethality of words.

Emperor Wanli knew this very well, so he must not allow civil servants to have such an opportunity.

The little people on the side can be killed, but these two bastards must be put on trial. Chen Han must be interrogated in front of the civil and military officials and the people after he returns to the capital.

So Emperor Wanli announced his order: "Now, all the nine clans of these gentlemen will be arrested and sent to prison without torture and interrogation, lest people say that we were beaten into submission;
Second, arrest all the officials and monks in Senglu Division and interrogate them intensively.

I believe that even the situation in the temples around the capital has become like this. If they are not involved, I will not believe it.

Since we want to make it big, let’s expand this matter greatly.

I want all the monks in the world to know that this time I destroy the Buddha, it is their own fault! "

Hearing Emperor Wanli's words, Li Rubai was actually very excited at this time.

Although he, like Li Rusong, skipped school when he was in school and was unwilling to learn cultural knowledge.

But I understand very well that I am standing at a historical intersection.

He has also heard that many emperors in previous dynasties destroyed Buddhism, so this kind of thing will definitely go down in history.

And after I followed Emperor Wanli in the campaign to destroy Buddhism, when I recorded the incident of His Majesty the Emperor, I would definitely write on the side: His Majesty led the Jinyi Guards to command the minister Li Rubai, and jointly saw through the various scams of the monks, thereby destroying it. A temple group that makes a living by fraud.

It solves the confusion of blinding people and at the same time finds a way for them to live and work in peace and contentment.

From then on, these temples did not dare to easily misappropriate people's land or lend money at usury. Since the people could believe in Buddhism, they would not be deeply affected by the temple's majesty.

Every time in the future, when reading this period of history, ordinary people or literati will see his figure, Li Rubai.

In fact, he has been keeping in touch with his brother Li Rusong. So I often heard how Li Rusong, under the leadership of Liao Duke Chen Han, killed the powerful families who oppressed the people, leaving nothing behind, and how he pretended to be pirates and Japanese pirates.

In the southeastern coastal area, he was very envious of the powerful families who were usually aloof from the killings.

I didn't expect that I would have such an opportunity now. The first and second seals, as well as the officials of the Ministry of Rites, were already paralyzed on the ground with fear. This is called killing and killing people.

If my own people were beaten to death like those temples that were destroyed, and then the temples were demolished, then at least I would still have some glory on my face in the future, and I would not have all the black history dug up and made public.

This is called making your reputation stinky after death, especially the main seal and the secondary seal.

They were once abbots in famous mountains and rivers, and they were once enlightened monks praised by people in Buddhism.

Lead the world with profound Buddhist cultivation.

But now, it will be made public that they are not like this at all.

They enjoy luxury, they defraud, they serve as a shield for loan sharks, and they encourage temples to annex people's land. Not only do they not treat the people who believe in Buddhism as believers, they have become fat sheep for them to take whatever they want.

At that time, they will become the scum of Buddhism, and the cultivation, reputation, and character of the past thirty or forty years will be thrown into the dust along with this incident.

From now on, they will be regarded as Buddhist scum.

Anyone who enters Buddhism practice will remember it in their hearts, and this person will warn themselves not to be like them in the future.

This was what Emperor Wanli wanted.

As for Chen Han, he returned to the capital smoothly.

Chen Han and Emperor Wanli share the same head.

So he didn't need to report anything to Emperor Wanli at all.

And he is a human being, he is not made of iron. He has been traveling around several provinces for more than half a year, and he is very tired.

He can't do anything outside. After all, he has to establish the majesty of these Liao Dukes and imperial envoys.

But when he returned home, there were more than twenty orioles waiting for him.

You can do whatever you want behind closed doors. After two days of indulging, you can finally take a break from the fatigue of the past few months.

Chen Han has no plans to see Emperor Wanli these days.

The entire capital has been prepared to interrogate these monks.

After several officials from the Zhengyin, Deputy Seal and Rites Departments and even officials from the Rites Department were arrested, more people related to this chain of interests were revealed.

On the contrary, it is not that many officials are connecting with the monks, but that many of them are local wealthy people and big landowners.

So after being confessed, a large number of these people were arrested.

The reason is also very simple. Only those who are truly born and raised in the capital will collude with the surrounding temples. Only then will they have more land to be named under the temple's name.

Although high-ranking officials hold high positions and are powerful, their hometown is not here, and they don't have many properties in the capital, so they don't have much energy to interact with the monks.

After waiting for fifteen or six days in a row, after all the evidence and relationships were sorted out, Chen Han officially came forward.

In the past fifteen days, he has said hello to officials from all over the country. I, Chen Han, am back and I will preside over this interrogation meeting.

At the same time, I would also like to report on the results achieved so far.

However, on the day Chen Han went out, an angry Sophia suddenly came to see him...

(End of this chapter)