Chastity Layman

  Chapter 243 Draw the sword and look around at a loss

  The night was silent.

  Li Shimin is holding his eldest grandson in his arms.

   "Your Majesty can't sleep?"

"Well, after talking with Huailiang today, I have learned a lot. In the past, Taiyuan uprising soldiers fought everywhere. Although there are powerful enemies around, I know who and where the enemy is. Now, I often Feeling bewildered, a feeling of power but nowhere to go."

  He is in charge of the world, but it is not easy to fulfill the words he said to his father in Tai Chi Palace before he ascended the throne. At that time, he thought it was not difficult. After all, he was invincible in all battles, never feared, and never failed. But the longer you sit in this position, the harder it becomes.

  Although Wang Junkuo, Li Yuan, Luo Yi, Li Youliang, Li Xiaochang, Liu Deyu and others conspired against each other and were seized and killed, how many people are still lying in ambush and waiting?

   Li Shimin wants to be an aspiring king, an accomplished king, not just an emperor. But now, he has not even truly unified the world. The Hetao grassland and the land of Monan are still in the hands of the Turks, so how can he achieve hegemony?

He used to look down on Yang Jian and Yang Guang's father and son, thinking that Yang Jian was too cunning and lacked the aura of a king, and that Yang Guang was arrogant, extravagant and licentious, but now that he became the emperor, he realized that the Tang Dynasty is still far away from the Sui Dynasty. There is a huge gap. Only now do I understand how powerful an emperor like Yang Jian is.

   And now he is not even as good as Yang Guang.

  He hasn't even really controlled the empire yet. The Yang family and his son have accumulated a lot of money and food, which can be used for decades, but now he doesn't even have overnight food.

  Qin Lang chatted with him for a long time before.

  Among them, Qin Lang talked about the word goal, saying that no matter if it is the family of the common people, the minister of the court, or the lord of the world, everyone should have a plan and a goal. First have a goal, then make a plan, and then achieve it step by step.

  If a person has no goal, he will not know where to use his strength.

  Qin Lang asked him what his goal was.

  Li Shimin replied almost without thinking that he wanted to restore the celestial dynasty system established by Yang Jian and his son.

   After speaking, he was also stunned.

  It turns out that what I think now is just to follow the old path of others, or even just want to catch up with the predecessors.

  But Qin Lang said that this can only be regarded as a long-term goal, and he asked the emperor about his short-term goal.

  Li Shimin said to destroy the Turks.

  Qin Lang also said that this should be a medium-term goal, and the short-term goal cannot be this. It also proposed the concept of a five-year plan that takes five years as a period to complete a phased goal, so as to maximize the potential of national power.

  Qin Lang firmly opposes governance by doing nothing, although governance by doing nothing can recuperate and let the people live in peace. But this is only a middle policy, not the best policy.

  Datang does not have so much time to do nothing. Datang has to race against time to deal with various challenges, and it is impossible to slack off.

  Li Shimin agrees with these remarks.

   But he was confused and didn't know how to set a five-year goal.

   "Guanyin maidservant, how do you think I should set him a small goal first?"

   "Small goals?"

"It's a five-year plan. Huailiang used an analogy, like an ordinary peasant family. The five-year plan may be to have two children, or to save money for the son to marry a wife, or to buy a decent dowry for the daughter. , and then find a good family, or buy a few more acres of land, or buy a cow, or buy a servant."

  Empress Changsun reached out and kneaded the muscles on the emperor's legs to make him more comfortable.

"These words of Huailiang are the words of the country, but I still feel that Huailiang is a little anxious. The five-year goal is a good idea, but given the current situation, I think it is more important to recuperate. Zuo Zhuan Didn't it ever be recorded in the book that the more you get together after ten years, the more you will learn in ten years, and after twenty years, Wu Qi will be a marsh?"

  This passage actually refers to the Spring and Autumn Period, when King Goujian of Yue was defeated by the King of Wu, and finally retreated to Kuaiji Mountain with five thousand remnant troops, and sent envoys to plead for peace with the King of Wu. At that time, the king of Wu was about to agree to the peace request of the king of Yue, but Wu Yuan, the minister of the state of Wu, persuaded him to take the opportunity to uproot the state of Yue.

But the King of Wu didn't listen, so when Wu Yuan came out, he told people that Yue State spent ten years recuperating and accumulating wealth, and another ten years teaching and training the people. After twenty years, the palace of Wu State might become swamped.

  As a matter of fact, Goujian, the king of Yue, suffered a lot later, and finally defeated the Wu army, and counterattacked and took revenge.

  Li Shimin shook his head.

   “Twenty years is too long, even ten years is too long.”

   "Your Majesty is still so young, twenty years later, he will be less than fifty!"

"Guanyin maidservant, do you know what Huailiang said about Buddhism? He said that compared with Turks and other foreign enemies who are strong and weak, the Shi family, which is extremely inflated, is actually the real confidant. For such a confidant , must be treated early. This is like the Seven Kings Rebellion in the Han Dynasty, the longer it drags on, the greater the disaster. Only by getting rid of these pustules as soon as possible, can the burden be reduced and the pustule will gather quickly."

"Huailiang's concerns are good, but he is too young, so his actions will inevitably be too aggressive and irritable. I am afraid that things will turn into chaos, so it is better to be safe at the moment." Empress Changsun rubbed her husband's legs one by one, reminding him .

  Li Shimin also had some concerns about this, but in the end he was convinced by Qin Lang's excellent performance all the time, or he was unwilling to continue the current situation in his heart.

...

   Early in the morning.

  Qin Lang came to Zhen Fusi with the imperial decree, and Zhang Liang greeted him with a yawn.

   "Your Majesty's decree, the Zhenfu Division accepts the decree!"

  Zhang Liang quickly put away his smiling face and greeted the imperial edict.

  The emperor issued an order, and the Zhenfu Division led the left and right Jinwu Guards to assist the Transshipment Division in handling the case.

   "Please immediately close the Nine Gates of Chang'an, immediately blockade and interrogate all the temples, and start now to fully implement the Shatai Monk Daoist Edict!"

  This imperial edict before the Supreme Emperor’s abdication was taken out by Qin Lang again. Officials from the three provinces above all signed and stamped it. Finally, there was the jade seal of Emperor Li Yuan.

   "Isn't this edict stopped?"

  Qin Lang smiled, "Why Zhang Gong made such a statement, who stopped this edict, is there an official edict?"

  Zhang Liang was stunned for a moment, "Sanlang, tell Uncle Zhang, what is going on? This is an edict issued by the Supreme Emperor before he abdicated, and it has been stopped before."

"Don't talk nonsense about things that don't exist. This is the edict issued by the Supreme Emperor before he abdicated, but it also passed through the ministers of the political affairs hall and the three provinces. Order, this edict is still valid and legal. If it was not implemented before, it is due to the ineffectiveness of the government departments at all levels."

Qin Lang doesn't like Zhang Liang who picks up broken shoes, but he can't say he hates it. Anyway, he came from Wagang, and he was Qin Qiong's brother. At least in the current court, Zhang Liang belongs to Shandong Military Merit The upstarts belong to our own people.

  He whispered to Zhang Liang.

   Zhang Liang suddenly understood.

   "So that's the case. It's easy to say. Naturally, the Zhen Fu Division will fully cooperate."

Although the power of the Transshipment Department is not small, it mainly manages financial power. The Zhenfu Department not only has the right to supervise, but the point is that they are very strong in the security of the capital. There are 15,000 Jinwu Guards, and they also have imperial edicts. Prison and Nine Gates Jinwu Prison.

  The Zhenfu Division was fully mobilized, and Buddhist temples large and small in the capital were surrounded by groups for a while, but the Taoist temple was much better. After all, their power is not as powerful as Buddhism, and this time it is not the focus of attack.

  The monastery was closed and the monastery was closed, and the edict of Shatai monks and Taoists was announced.

The monks from all the temples were gathered together, and they first checked their certificates. Those who did not have certificates were taken away first, and temporarily sent to Jinwu Prison. After these people found out their identities and confirmed that they had no criminal records, they would be sent directly to the border areas to resettle immigrants and cultivate wasteland. If they were lucky, they would Maybe it can be matched with a nun to start a family.

  Even those who have degrees have to take the test, but this time the content of the test is strict. Compared with the casual test of the previous test, this time not only must be able to read through the three classics, but also have a good interpretation of the scriptures.

   Even had to be able to write.

  To be able to master the scriptures, to copy scriptures, to be able to explain scriptures, and to have more than three scriptures, this test requirement will directly knock down a lot of monks.

Those who passed were sent directly to the Fusi Yamen of Pingkangfang Town. These people will be unified and tested again. Finally, a thousand people will be selected and sent to the palace to participate in the Buddhist palace examination hosted by the emperor himself. Finally, three people will be selected. Hundreds of people came to grant cassocks and Zen sticks, and built three temples outside Chang'an City to serve the country, protect the country and defend the country, and lived in the temple to practice.

  All other monks will be forcibly returned to secular life.

  The elders were sent back to their place of origin, and the younger ones immigrated directly to the frontier to cultivate wasteland.

   It was a day of flying dogs and dogs.

   On the second day, one thousand selected eminent monks with cultivation bases were sent to the palace for a test by the Habayashi Army.

These thousand people are all at least fifty years old and older. They were chosen entirely according to Qin Lang's request. Firstly, the elders did have higher cultivation levels, and secondly, it was also to prevent the young and strong from continuing to be monk.

  The palace examination presided over by the emperor himself was actually very simple. There was a policy question, and the topic was how to become a Buddha.

  This question can be said to be simple or complex. Anyway, everyone has their own opinions, and there is no standard answer.

  Each monk makes a one-thousand-word essay.

  In the end, the prime ministers will first select 300 people, and then the emperor will select the three best ones, and grant them the positions of abbots of the three temples of Baoguo, Huguo, and Weiguo, and then this palace test is over.

In fact, all the monks who can participate in the palace examination still have some real skills. No matter what Buddhist scriptures they study, or which sect they belong to, they must have their own comprehension and cultivation, but no matter what the strategy is, only 300 people will be selected in the end .

   So the result is not really important.

   "Decree to Qin Lang that the 300 eminent monks on this list will stay, and the rest of the monks from all the monasteries in Chang'an will return to vulgarity!"

   As for the nuns, none of them were reserved this time, and they were all forced to return to vulgarity. There is no reason, even if they are ordered, Chang'an City will not set up a nunnery for the time being.

  Although there were many monks in Chang'an, the emperor directly mobilized the six armies of the emperor, and the whole city assisted Qin Lang in dealing with these Buddhist monks.

   At this time, the advantage of the emperor's pro-army is reflected. The six armies of the Northern Yamen are extremely loyal to the emperor, and Lei Li is popular in executing orders without delay.

   And Qin Lang also immediately sent invitations to Chang'an's relatives, nobles, high-ranking officials and wealthy families, saying that a large-scale auction will be held in three days, and they are invited to attend.

  All the people who received the invitation knew what was being auctioned this time. It was countless temples, farms, houses, shops, workshops, workshops, slaves, etc. that originally belonged to various temples. They were all good things.

   Now, they are waiting for them to share the food!

  (end of this chapter)